00:00:00:00	00:10:59:00	YOU AND UH UH UH UH UH UH UH UH
00:10:59:00	00:11:00:00	GOOD AFTERNOON.
00:11:00:00	00:11:03:00	I CALLED TO ORDER TODAY'S
00:11:03:00	00:11:04:00	MEETING OF THE BOSTON CITY
00:11:04:00	00:11:04:00	COUNCIL.
00:11:04:00	00:11:05:00	VIEWERS CAN WATCH THE
00:11:05:00	00:11:08:00	COUNCIL MEETING LIVE ON YOUTUBE
00:11:08:00	00:11:09:00	AT BOSTON DOG GO FORWARD SLASH
00:11:09:00	00:11:11:00	CITY DASH COUNCIL DASH TV.
00:11:11:00	00:11:12:00	AT THIS TIME I ASK MY
00:11:12:00	00:11:12:00	COLLEAGUES AND THOSE IN THE
00:11:12:00	00:11:14:00	AUDIENCE TO PLEASE SILENCE
00:11:14:00	00:11:15:00	THEIR CELLPHONES AND ELECTRONIC
00:11:15:00	00:11:15:00	DEVICES.
00:11:15:00	00:11:18:00	ALSO PURSUANT TO RULE 42 I
00:11:18:00	00:11:18:00	REMIND ALL IN THIS CHAMBER
00:11:18:00	00:11:21:00	THERE IS NO DEMONSTRATION OR
00:11:21:00	00:11:22:00	PROOF OF APPROVAL OR
00:11:22:00	00:11:22:00	DISAPPROVAL FROM MEMBERS OF THE
00:11:22:00	00:11:25:00	PUBLIC ARE PERMITTED.
00:11:25:00	00:11:26:00	THANK YOU.
00:11:26:00	00:11:26:00	MR. CLERK, WILL YOU PLEASE CALL
00:11:26:00	00:11:27:00	THE ROLL TO ASCERTAIN THE
00:11:27:00	00:11:31:00	PRESENCE OF A QUORUM?
00:11:31:00	00:11:31:00	COUNCILOR BRAYDON, YOU'RE
00:11:31:00	00:11:33:00	COUNCILOR COLORED AS A PART
00:11:33:00	00:11:33:00	OF COUNCILOR DURKAN.
00:11:33:00	00:11:34:00	COUNCILOR FOR ANANDA SANDERSON.
00:11:34:00	00:11:37:00	COUNCILOR FITZGERALD.
00:11:37:00	00:11:40:00	COUNCIL FLYNN
00:11:40:00	00:11:41:00	COUNCILOR LOUIJEUNE HERE.
00:11:41:00	00:11:41:00	CONCILOR MEJIA HERE.
00:11:41:00	00:11:45:00	COUNCILOR MURPHY.
00:11:45:00	00:11:45:00	COUNCILOR PIPPIN.
00:11:45:00	00:11:46:00	COUNCILOR SANTANA.
00:11:46:00	00:11:46:00	YEAH.
00:11:46:00	00:11:49:00	COUNCILOR WHETHER YOU'RE IN
00:11:49:00	00:11:50:00	COUNCILOR WORRELL QUORUM IS
00:11:50:00	00:11:52:00	CORRECT.
00:11:52:00	00:11:53:00	THANK YOU.
00:11:53:00	00:11:53:00	I'VE BEEN INFORMED BY THE CLERK
00:11:53:00	00:11:56:00	THAT A QUORUM IS PRESENT.
00:11:56:00	00:11:57:00	NOW IT IS MY PLEASURE TO
00:11:57:00	00:11:58:00	INTRODUCE THIS WEEK'S CLERGY.
00:11:58:00	00:12:00:00	REVEREND HEATHER KINCANNON FROM
00:12:00:00	00:12:01:00	THEODORE PARKER CHURCH IN WEST
00:12:01:00	00:12:03:00	ROXBURY INVITED BY
00:12:03:00	00:12:04:00	COUNCILOR WEBER.
00:12:04:00	00:12:04:00	COUNCILOR WEBER, YOU HAVE THE
00:12:04:00	00:12:05:00	FLOOR.
00:12:05:00	00:12:07:00	AFTER THE INVOCATION WILL
00:12:07:00	00:12:10:00	RECITE THE PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE
00:12:10:00	00:12:22:00	TO BRING THE THANK YOU.
00:12:22:00	00:12:26:00	MADAM PRESIDENT, I AM SO GLAD
00:12:26:00	00:12:26:00	TO INTRODUCE REVEREND HEATHER
00:12:26:00	00:12:27:00	HEATHER CONCANNON FOR THIS
00:12:27:00	00:12:29:00	WEEK'S INVOCATION.
00:12:29:00	00:12:30:00	REVEREND CONCANNON HAS LIVED IN
00:12:30:00	00:12:33:00	BOSTON SINCE 2006 AND SERVES AS
00:12:33:00	00:12:36:00	THE MINISTER AT THE THEODORE
00:12:36:00	00:12:37:00	PARKER UNITARIAN UNIVERSALIST
00:12:37:00	00:12:40:00	CHURCH IN WEST ROXBURY.
00:12:40:00	00:12:43:00	PRIOR TO THEODORE PARKER
00:12:43:00	00:12:44:00	CHURCH, REVEREND KINCANNON
00:12:44:00	00:12:47:00	SERVED FOR NEARLY A DECADE AS
00:12:47:00	00:12:50:00	THE MINISTER OF FAITH FORMATION
00:12:50:00	00:12:51:00	AT THE UNITARIAN UNIVERSALIST
00:12:51:00	00:12:51:00	AREA CHURCH IN SHERBORNE,
00:12:51:00	00:12:55:00	MASSACHUSETTS.
00:12:55:00	00:12:55:00	I HAD THE RIGHT BEFORE THAT SHE
00:12:55:00	00:12:58:00	EARNED HER MASTER'S OF DIVINITY
00:12:58:00	00:12:59:00	DEGREE FROM ANDOVER NEWTON
00:12:59:00	00:13:02:00	THEOLOGICAL SCHOOL, AN
00:13:02:00	00:13:03:00	UNDERGRADUATE DEGREE IN WOMEN
00:13:03:00	00:13:06:00	AND GENDER STUDIES AT SIMMONS
00:13:06:00	00:13:07:00	COLLEGE HERE IN BOSTON.
00:13:07:00	00:13:09:00	AS REVEREND KINCANNON HAS A
00:13:09:00	00:13:10:00	CERTIFICATE IN PASTORAL CARE
00:13:10:00	00:13:13:00	AND COUNSELING AND BRINGS WITH
00:13:13:00	00:13:14:00	HER A PASSION FOR SOCIAL
00:13:14:00	00:13:17:00	JUSTICE RELATIONSHIP BUILDING
00:13:17:00	00:13:20:00	MEANING MAKING FOR ALL AGES AS
00:13:20:00	00:13:21:00	WELL AS A PASSION FOR RITUAL
00:13:21:00	00:13:21:00	AND WORSHIP.
00:13:21:00	00:13:25:00	THROUGH HER MINISTRY, REVEREND
00:13:25:00	00:13:26:00	KINCANNON IS COMMITTED TO
00:13:26:00	00:13:29:00	CREATING SPACES WHERE PEOPLE
00:13:29:00	00:13:30:00	OF ALL AGES CAN GROW IN THEIR
00:13:30:00	00:13:30:00	FAITH.
00:13:30:00	00:13:33:00	AS A LIFELONG UNITARIAN
00:13:33:00	00:13:33:00	UNIVERSALIST, SHE KNOWS
00:13:33:00	00:13:34:00	FIRSTHAND THE POWER OF THIS
00:13:34:00	00:13:37:00	TRADITION TO SHAPE LIVES AND
00:13:37:00	00:13:37:00	BUILD BELOVED COMMUNITIES.
00:13:37:00	00:13:38:00	OUTSIDE OF CHURCH, REVEREND
00:13:38:00	00:13:41:00	KINCANNON ENJOYS POTTERY
00:13:41:00	00:13:45:00	DIGGING IN THE GARDEN, GETTING
00:13:45:00	00:13:46:00	OUTSIDE, PLAYING BOARD GAMES.
00:13:46:00	00:13:46:00	I DON'T KNOW.
00:13:46:00	00:13:48:00	ONE IN PARTICULAR.
00:13:48:00	00:13:48:00	OKAY.
00:13:48:00	00:13:52:00	I AM IN NEED SOME SUGGESTIONS
00:13:52:00	00:13:53:00	FOR MY KIDS BUT AND ALSO AND
00:13:53:00	00:13:55:00	SINGING.
00:13:55:00	00:13:56:00	SHE LIVES IN ROSLINDALE SO A
00:13:56:00	00:13:59:00	CONSTITUENT OF CANCER EPIPENS
00:13:59:00	00:14:02:00	WITH HER PARTNER JUST IN THEIR
00:14:02:00	00:14:06:00	THREE KIDS, TWO CATS AND A
00:14:06:00	00:14:06:00	HOUSEMATE FAMILY THEY SHARE
00:14:06:00	00:14:10:00	THEY SHARE THE HOUSE WITH.
00:14:10:00	00:14:14:00	AND BY HER OWN ADMISSION AN
00:14:14:00	00:14:14:00	EXCESSIVE NUMBER
00:14:14:00	00:14:14:00	OF HOUSEPLANTS.
00:14:14:00	00:14:17:00	SO IT'S MY PLEASURE TO WELCOME
00:14:17:00	00:14:21:00	REVEREND REVEREND HEATHER TODAY
00:14:21:00	00:14:22:00	AND NOW LEAVE IT TO YOU.
00:14:22:00	00:14:24:00	THANK YOU.
00:14:24:00	00:14:28:00	GOOD AFTERNOON.
00:14:28:00	00:14:29:00	THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THE
00:14:29:00	00:14:31:00	INTRODUCTION AND THE INVITATION
00:14:31:00	00:14:32:00	.
00:14:32:00	00:14:32:00	COUNCILOR RUBBER AND AS
00:14:32:00	00:14:33:00	COUNCILOR RUBBER MENTIONED I
00:14:33:00	00:14:35:00	HAVE BEEN A BOSTON RESIDENT
00:14:35:00	00:14:38:00	SINCE 2006 AND I LOVE THIS CITY
00:14:38:00	00:14:39:00	.
00:14:39:00	00:14:40:00	IT'S AN HONOR TO BE WITH YOU
00:14:40:00	00:14:41:00	ALL TODAY AND I THANK YOU FOR
00:14:41:00	00:14:43:00	YOUR SERVICE TO OUR CITY.
00:14:43:00	00:14:47:00	I AM AS COUNCILOR WEBER
00:14:47:00	00:14:47:00	MENTIONED, A UNITARIAN
00:14:47:00	00:14:48:00	UNIVERSALIST MINISTER AND IN
00:14:48:00	00:14:51:00	OUR TRADITION ONE OF OUR CORE
00:14:51:00	00:14:51:00	VALUES IS THAT
00:14:51:00	00:14:52:00	OF INTERDEPENDENCE.
00:14:52:00	00:14:55:00	WE KNOW THAT OUR LIVES AND OUR
00:14:55:00	00:14:55:00	SURVIVAL AND OUR WELL-BEING IS
00:14:55:00	00:14:59:00	FUNDAMENTALLY AND INEXTRICABLY
00:14:59:00	00:14:59:00	LINKED WITH ONE ANOTHER AND
00:14:59:00	00:15:02:00	WITH OUR EARTH AND THAT WHAT
00:15:02:00	00:15:03:00	AFFECTS ONE OF US AFFECTS THE
00:15:03:00	00:15:06:00	WHOLE ECOSYSTEM.
00:15:06:00	00:15:07:00	WE KNOW THAT THE VERY AIR WE
00:15:07:00	00:15:10:00	BREATHE HAS CIRCULATED
00:15:10:00	00:15:10:00	THROUGHOUT OUR PLANET FOR
00:15:10:00	00:15:11:00	MILLENNIA HAS BEEN CREATED BY
00:15:11:00	00:15:14:00	THE PLANT LIFE AROUND US AND BY
00:15:14:00	00:15:17:00	THE OCEANS ORGANISMS.
00:15:17:00	00:15:18:00	AND WE KNOW TOO THAT THE FOOD
00:15:18:00	00:15:20:00	THAT WE EAT DEPENDS ON THE BEES
00:15:20:00	00:15:21:00	AND THE BUTTERFLIES THAT GO
00:15:21:00	00:15:21:00	FROM BLOSSOM TO BLOSSOM
00:15:21:00	00:15:24:00	POLLINATING EACH PLANT THAT OUR
00:15:24:00	00:15:25:00	FOOD IS GROWN AND HARVESTED AND
00:15:25:00	00:15:28:00	TRANSPORTED TO OUR CITY BY
00:15:28:00	00:15:29:00	PEOPLE WE WILL LIKELY NEVER
00:15:29:00	00:15:32:00	MEET AND WE KNOW THAT HARM DONE
00:15:32:00	00:15:33:00	TO ONE AREA RIPPLES OUT AND
00:15:33:00	00:15:36:00	EXTENDS FAR BEYOND THE INITIAL
00:15:36:00	00:15:37:00	INJURY AND THAT CARETAKING IN
00:15:37:00	00:15:40:00	ANY AREA AND OF REPAIR AND
00:15:40:00	00:15:43:00	HEALING IN ANY AREA BENEFITS
00:15:43:00	00:15:44:00	THE WHOLE PARKER PALMER, A
00:15:44:00	00:15:48:00	QUAKER TEACHER AND WRITER, SAYS
00:15:48:00	00:15:48:00	THAT POLITICS IS THE ESSENTIAL
00:15:48:00	00:15:51:00	AND ETERNAL HUMAN EFFORT TO
00:15:51:00	00:15:52:00	CRAFT THE COMMON LIFE ON WHICH
00:15:52:00	00:15:55:00	WE ALL DEPEND.
00:15:55:00	00:15:56:00	AND I THINK SOMETIMES IN OUR
00:15:56:00	00:15:59:00	WORLD WE FORGET THIS.
00:15:59:00	00:15:59:00	WE FORGET OUR INTERDEPENDENCE
00:15:59:00	00:16:03:00	THAT WE ARE HERE FOR EACH OTHER
00:16:03:00	00:16:04:00	AND WE ARE HERE IN THIS ROOM
00:16:04:00	00:16:06:00	WHERE DECISIONS ARE MADE IN AN
00:16:06:00	00:16:07:00	EFFORT TO CRAFT THAT COMMON
00:16:07:00	00:16:10:00	LIFE HERE IN OUR CITY, THAT
00:16:10:00	00:16:11:00	COMMON LIFE ON WHICH WE ALL
00:16:11:00	00:16:13:00	DEPEND.
00:16:13:00	00:16:14:00	SO I INVITE US TO JOIN IN A
00:16:14:00	00:16:17:00	SPIRIT OF REFLECTION AND PRAYER
00:16:17:00	00:16:18:00	AND I INVITE US TO START BY
00:16:18:00	00:16:27:00	TAKING A BREATH TOGETHER SPIRIT
00:16:27:00	00:16:31:00	OF LIFE DIVINE SPARK THAT FLOWS
00:16:31:00	00:16:35:00	THROUGH ALL OF HUMANITY KNOWN
00:16:35:00	00:16:38:00	BY MANY NAMES AND ACROSS MANY
00:16:38:00	00:16:39:00	TRADITIONS.
00:16:39:00	00:16:42:00	TODAY WE TAKE A MOMENT TO PAUSE
00:16:42:00	00:16:43:00	AND TO REMEMBER OUR
00:16:43:00	00:16:46:00	INTERCONNECTEDNESS.
00:16:46:00	00:16:47:00	WE REMEMBER THAT WE ARE NOT
00:16:47:00	00:16:50:00	ISOLATED BEINGS THAT WE HAVE
00:16:50:00	00:16:50:00	NOT COME TO THIS MOMENT SOLELY
00:16:50:00	00:16:54:00	AS INDIVIDUALS BUT THAT WE ARE
00:16:54:00	00:16:54:00	PART ALWAYS OF LARGER
00:16:54:00	00:16:57:00	ECOSYSTEMS FAMILIES,
00:16:57:00	00:17:02:00	COMMUNITIES, NEIGHBORHOODS,
00:17:02:00	00:17:06:00	CITIES, SPIRIT OF LIFE HELP US
00:17:06:00	00:17:08:00	TO REMEMBER THAT WE DEPEND ON
00:17:08:00	00:17:08:00	ONE ANOTHER, THAT THE DECISIONS
00:17:08:00	00:17:12:00	WE MAKE AFFECT THE WHOLE AND
00:17:12:00	00:17:13:00	THAT WE HAVE A RESPONSIBILITY
00:17:13:00	00:17:15:00	TO HELP ONE ANOTHER THRIVE.
00:17:15:00	00:17:19:00	HELP US TO TURN TOWARD
00:17:19:00	00:17:19:00	COMPASSION INSTEAD
00:17:19:00	00:17:22:00	OF COMPETITION TOWARDS
00:17:22:00	00:17:26:00	COOPERATION INSTEAD OF CONFLICT
00:17:26:00	00:17:26:00	.
00:17:26:00	00:17:27:00	HELP US TO REMEMBER THAT WE ARE
00:17:27:00	00:17:30:00	INTERCONNECTED IN MORE WAYS
00:17:30:00	00:17:31:00	THAN WE CAN KNOW AND THAT THAT
00:17:31:00	00:17:37:00	IS BOTH A MYSTERY AND A MIRACLE
00:17:37:00	00:17:37:00	SPIRIT OF LIFE.
00:17:37:00	00:17:41:00	MAY OUR ELECTED LEADERS SERVE
00:17:41:00	00:17:41:00	AS STEWARDS OF OUR
00:17:41:00	00:17:42:00	INTERDEPENDENCE.
00:17:42:00	00:17:45:00	MAY OUR ELECTED LEADERS HELP US
00:17:45:00	00:17:46:00	TO CRAFT A COMMON LIFE THAT
00:17:46:00	00:17:49:00	SERVES THE WHOLE AND MAY THEY
00:17:49:00	00:17:50:00	SEEK TO BUILD A WORLD AND A
00:17:50:00	00:17:53:00	CITY THAT HONORS OUR
00:17:53:00	00:17:54:00	INTERDEPENDENCE A WORLD WHERE
00:17:54:00	00:17:57:00	WE TAKE CARE OF ONE ANOTHER, A
00:17:57:00	00:17:58:00	PLACE WHERE ALL ARE HELD WITH
00:17:58:00	00:18:01:00	DIGNITY, COMPASSION AND IN
00:18:01:00	00:18:02:00	COMMUNITY A CITY WHERE ALL
00:18:02:00	00:18:05:00	MIGHT THRIVE.
00:18:05:00	00:18:08:00	MAY IT BE SO AND AMEN.
00:18:08:00	00:18:11:00	WE WILL NOW RECITE THE PLEDGE
00:18:11:00	00:18:12:00	OF ALLEGIANCE ALLEGIANCE TO THE
00:18:12:00	00:18:16:00	FLAG OF AMERICA AND TO THE
00:18:16:00	00:18:19:00	REPUBLIC FOR WHICH IT STANDS
00:18:19:00	00:18:20:00	ONE NATION UNDER GOD,
00:18:20:00	00:18:23:00	INDIVISIBLE WITH LIBERTY AND
00:18:23:00	00:18:34:00	JUSTICE FOR ALL.
00:18:34:00	00:18:37:00	THANK YOU SO MUCH, REVEREND
00:18:37:00	00:18:38:00	PARKER, FOR THAT FOR REVEREND
00:18:38:00	00:18:39:00	KINCANNON, FOR THAT BEAUTIFUL
00:18:39:00	00:18:41:00	INVOCATION AND THANK YOU,
00:18:41:00	00:18:42:00	COUNCILOR WEBER FOR INVITING
00:18:42:00	00:18:45:00	HER.
00:18:45:00	00:18:48:00	IT IS TODAY WE HAVE TWO
00:18:48:00	00:18:49:00	PRESENTATIONS ONE FROM
00:18:49:00	00:18:49:00	CANCER PREP N RECOGNIZING OUR
00:18:49:00	00:18:53:00	SCHOOL BUS DRIVERS AND ONE FROM
00:18:53:00	00:18:53:00	COUNCILOR WEBER RECOGNIZING
00:18:53:00	00:18:56:00	DANIELLE JOHNSON COUNSELOR BUT
00:18:56:00	00:18:59:00	THEN YOU HAVE THE FLOOR AND 5
00:18:59:00	00:19:17:00	MINUTES COME ON, IT'S YOUR DAY.
00:19:17:00	00:19:19:00	IT'S HERITAGE.
00:19:19:00	00:19:35:00	IT'S THE NEXT GRADE.
00:19:35:00	00:19:55:00	YOU'RE GOING THAT'S HOW TO
00:19:55:00	00:19:58:00	BECAUSE YOU'RE IN THE FRONT IN
00:19:58:00	00:20:09:00	THE FRONT.
00:20:09:00	00:20:13:00	OKAY.
00:20:13:00	00:20:16:00	ALL RIGHT, ALL RIGHT, ALL RIGHT
00:20:16:00	00:20:16:00	, ALL RIGHT.
00:20:16:00	00:20:17:00	GOOD AFTERNOON EVERYONE.
00:20:17:00	00:20:20:00	IT IS WITH GREAT HONOR TO
00:20:20:00	00:20:20:00	CELEBRATE A GROUP OF UNSUNG
00:20:20:00	00:20:24:00	HEROES OUR DEDICATED SCHOOL BUS
00:20:24:00	00:20:24:00	DRIVERS IN HONOR OF NATIONAL
00:20:24:00	00:20:27:00	SCHOOL BUS DRIVER APPRECIATION
00:20:27:00	00:20:30:00	DAY WHICH WILL BE NEXT WEEK ON
00:20:30:00	00:20:31:00	APRIL 22ND TO ALL OF THE SCHOOL
00:20:31:00	00:20:31:00	BUS DRIVERS HERE IN BOSTON.
00:20:31:00	00:20:34:00	I WANT TO SAY THIS FROM THE
00:20:34:00	00:20:35:00	BOTTOM OF MY HEART THANK YOU.
00:20:35:00	00:20:38:00	EVERY MORNING BEFORE THE SUN
00:20:38:00	00:20:38:00	RISES YOU START YOUR DAY WITH A
00:20:38:00	00:20:42:00	MISSION TO SAFELY TRANSPORT OUR
00:20:42:00	00:20:43:00	MOST PRECIOUS CARGO OUR
00:20:43:00	00:20:46:00	CHILDREN IN EVERY AFTERNOON
00:20:46:00	00:20:47:00	AFTER A LONG DAY YOU MAKE SURE
00:20:47:00	00:20:50:00	THEY RETURN HOME JUST AS
00:20:50:00	00:20:50:00	SAFELY.
00:20:50:00	00:20:52:00	YOU ARE THE FIRST FRIENDLY FACE
00:20:52:00	00:20:53:00	OUR STUDENTS SEE IN THE MORNING
00:20:53:00	00:20:54:00	AND THE LAST ONE THEY SEE
00:20:54:00	00:20:56:00	BEFORE HEADED HOME RAIN OR
00:20:56:00	00:20:57:00	SHINE THROUGH TRAFFIC SNOW
00:20:57:00	00:21:00:00	STORMS AND EARLY MORNINGS YOU
00:21:00:00	00:21:04:00	SHOW UP YOU DO SO WITH PATIENCE
00:21:04:00	00:21:04:00	, WITH PROFESSIONALISM AND WITH
00:21:04:00	00:21:07:00	A DEEP SENSE OF RESPONSIBILITY
00:21:07:00	00:21:07:00	.
00:21:07:00	00:21:08:00	WHAT YOU DO IS NOT EASY AND YET
00:21:08:00	00:21:12:00	YOU DO IT WITH GRACE, WITH CARE
00:21:12:00	00:21:12:00	AND WITH UNWAVERING DEDICATION
00:21:12:00	00:21:15:00	AND A CITY LIKE BOSTON WHERE
00:21:15:00	00:21:16:00	NEIGHBORHOODS ARE DIVERSE AND
00:21:16:00	00:21:19:00	SPREAD OUT AND COMPLICATED
00:21:19:00	00:21:19:00	STREETS, YOUR ROLE IS EVEN MORE
00:21:19:00	00:21:20:00	VITAL.
00:21:20:00	00:21:22:00	YOU ARE THE CONNECTION THAT
00:21:22:00	00:21:23:00	HELPS BRIDGE FAMILIES TO
00:21:23:00	00:21:26:00	SCHOOLS THAT SUPPORTS WORK AND
00:21:26:00	00:21:26:00	PARENTS AND THAT GIVES OUR
00:21:26:00	00:21:27:00	STUDENTS A STABLE AND TRUSTED
00:21:27:00	00:21:30:00	ROUTINE EACH DAY YOU ARE MORE
00:21:30:00	00:21:33:00	THAN JUST DRIVERS AS WELL YOU
00:21:33:00	00:21:34:00	ARE PROTECTORS MENTORS
00:21:34:00	00:21:38:00	SOMETIMES EVEN COUNSELORS.
00:21:38:00	00:21:39:00	YOU KEEP A WATCHFUL EYE.
00:21:39:00	00:21:41:00	YOU OFFER A KIND WORD AND
00:21:41:00	00:21:42:00	PROVIDE A SAFE SPACE DURING THE
00:21:42:00	00:21:45:00	QUIET MINUTES BEFORE AND AFTER
00:21:45:00	00:21:46:00	SCHOOL I PERSONALLY TOOK THE
00:21:46:00	00:21:49:00	BUS FOR SIX YEARS FROM
00:21:49:00	00:21:52:00	KINDERGARTEN TO FIFTH GRADE AND
00:21:52:00	00:21:56:00	I REMEMBER MR SIMPSON ON 95 HE
00:21:56:00	00:21:56:00	WOULD ASK ME EVERY DAY IF I HAD
00:21:56:00	00:21:59:00	A GOOD DAY AT SCHOOL AND IF MY
00:21:59:00	00:22:00:00	MOM WASN'T AT THE CORNER OF MY
00:22:00:00	00:22:03:00	BUS STOP HE WOULD GO OUT OF HIS
00:22:03:00	00:22:04:00	WAY TO DROP ME OFF IN FRONT
00:22:04:00	00:22:06:00	OF MY BUILDING.
00:22:06:00	00:22:06:00	SO THANK YOU MR SIMPSON.
00:22:06:00	00:22:10:00	WE DON'T THANK YOU ENOUGH.
00:22:10:00	00:22:11:00	SO TODAY WE'RE PAUSING TO MAKE
00:22:11:00	00:22:13:00	IT CLEAR WE SEE YOU.
00:22:13:00	00:22:14:00	WE APPRECIATE YOU.
00:22:14:00	00:22:17:00	WE VALUE MORE THAN WORDS CAN
00:22:17:00	00:22:18:00	EXPRESS ON BEHALF OF THE ENTIRE
00:22:18:00	00:22:21:00	BOSTON COMMUNITY OUR SCHOOLS,
00:22:21:00	00:22:21:00	OUR FAMILIES AND ESPECIALLY OUR
00:22:21:00	00:22:25:00	BOSTON CITY COUNCIL.
00:22:25:00	00:22:25:00	THANK YOU FOR THE WORK YOU DO,
00:22:25:00	00:22:26:00	THE MILES YOU DRIVE, THE EARLY
00:22:26:00	00:22:29:00	ALARMS YOU SET AND THE CARE YOU
00:22:29:00	00:22:30:00	GIVE YOU ARE AN ESSENTIAL PART
00:22:30:00	00:22:33:00	OF WHAT MAKES THIS CITY MOVE
00:22:33:00	00:22:33:00	AND WE ARE GRATEFUL EVERY
00:22:33:00	00:22:36:00	SINGLE DAY HAPPY NATIONAL BUS
00:22:36:00	00:22:37:00	DRIVER APPRECIATION DAY
00:22:37:00	00:22:48:00	CONGRATULATIONS.
00:22:48:00	00:22:51:00	GOOD AFTERNOON EVERYONE.
00:22:51:00	00:22:52:00	MY NAME IS AMANDA MARCELLUS.
00:22:52:00	00:22:53:00	I'M THE PRESIDENT OF THE SCHOOL
00:22:53:00	00:22:55:00	BUS DRIVERS UNION AND THANK
00:22:55:00	00:22:58:00	YOU, MADAM PRESIDENT.
00:22:58:00	00:22:59:00	THANK YOU TO THIS BODY.
00:22:59:00	00:23:00:00	A SPECIAL THANKS TO YOU
00:23:00:00	00:23:02:00	MR PEPEN, FOR THIS GREAT HONOR.
00:23:02:00	00:23:06:00	WE ARE PLEASED HONORED TO BE
00:23:06:00	00:23:07:00	HERE ON BEHALF OF THE DRIVER
00:23:07:00	00:23:10:00	STANDING BY ME AND THOSE 800
00:23:10:00	00:23:11:00	PLUS MORE WE CANNOT MAKE IT
00:23:11:00	00:23:13:00	HERE.
00:23:13:00	00:23:14:00	WE APPRECIATE THIS.
00:23:14:00	00:23:18:00	YOU ALWAYS GOT YOUR BACK AND
00:23:18:00	00:23:18:00	STEPPED UP AND WE APPRECIATE
00:23:18:00	00:23:19:00	YOU FOR THIS AGAIN, WE ARE
00:23:19:00	00:23:21:00	HONORED WE LIKE YOU SAID WE
00:23:21:00	00:23:22:00	TRANSPORT THE MOST PRECIOUS
00:23:22:00	00:23:25:00	CARGO AND THOSE ARE OUR KIDS ON
00:23:25:00	00:23:26:00	THOSE BUSSES AND WE VALUE WHAT
00:23:26:00	00:23:28:00	WE DO VERY, VERY MUCH FOR THANK
00:23:28:00	00:23:36:00	YOU FOR THE HONOR.
00:23:36:00	00:23:39:00	SO ON BEHALF OF COUNCIL
00:23:39:00	00:23:40:00	PRESIDENT RICHARD LOUIJEUNE AND
00:23:40:00	00:23:43:00	MYSELF WE WANT TO PRESENT THEM
00:23:43:00	00:23:44:00	WITH A RESOLUTION DECLARING
00:23:44:00	00:23:47:00	APRIL 22ND, 2025 AS SCHOOL BUS
00:23:47:00	00:23:48:00	DRIVER APPRECIATION DAY IN THE
00:23:48:00	00:23:48:00	CITY OF BOSTON.
00:23:48:00	00:24:02:00	CONGRATULATIONS ON THE PICTURE.
00:24:02:00	00:24:03:00	OH HOW CAN I CALL ON MY
00:24:03:00	00:24:05:00	COLLEAGUES AS WELL?
00:24:05:00	00:24:13:00	COMPLETELY FORGOT THAT PART.
00:24:13:00	00:24:14:00	I KNOW IT'S REALLY LUCKY EACH
00:24:14:00	00:24:20:00	OTHER BECAUSE YOU GOT GUYS GUYS
00:24:20:00	00:24:21:00	PINNED DOWN IN FRONT.
00:24:21:00	00:24:56:00	YEAH IT WAS VERY LUCK FOR US.
00:24:56:00	00:25:06:00	THANK YOU.
00:25:06:00	00:25:10:00	YEAH.
00:25:10:00	00:25:18:00	AND IT OH, WE'RE GOT TO GET TO
00:25:18:00	00:25:18:00	IT TOO.
00:25:18:00	00:25:19:00	OKAY MISS YOU HAVE BEEN MISS
00:25:19:00	00:25:21:00	GOING TO WELL, THANK YOU FOR
00:25:21:00	00:25:22:00	COMING.
00:25:22:00	00:25:43:00	MAKE YOUR OH OPEN SURE TO PASS
00:25:43:00	00:25:51:00	THANK YOU PHONE OKAY NOT BY A
00:25:51:00	00:25:51:00	LITTLE BIT.
00:25:51:00	00:25:52:00	THAT'S OKAY I LIKE A THAT AND I
00:25:52:00	00:25:53:00	WON'T BE BACK VERY.
00:25:53:00	00:25:54:00	I APPRECIATE IT.
00:25:54:00	00:26:15:00	THANK I THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR
00:26:15:00	00:26:15:00	BEING WITH US SO THE BUS DRIVER
00:26:15:00	00:26:16:00	IS AND FILM GOING MP LATINOS 18
00:26:16:00	00:26:17:00	A YEAR SO THANK YOU SO MUCH MS.
00:26:17:00	00:26:36:00	OLA YES I WILL MISS YOU IN MORE
00:26:36:00	00:26:40:00	PLACES.
00:26:40:00	00:26:41:00	OKAY?
00:26:41:00	00:26:44:00	OKAY.
00:26:44:00	00:26:45:00	WE ARE NOW MOVING ON TO OUR
00:26:45:00	00:26:45:00	NEXT PRESENTATION AND IT WILL
00:26:45:00	00:26:48:00	BE DONE BY COUNCILOR WEBER FOR
00:26:48:00	00:26:49:00	THE ONE AND ONLY DANIELLE
00:26:49:00	00:26:59:00	JOHNSON.
00:26:59:00	00:27:02:00	OKAY.
00:27:02:00	00:27:03:00	OKAY.
00:27:03:00	00:27:03:00	THANK YOU TO OUR BUS DRIVERS
00:27:03:00	00:27:07:00	FOR EVERYTHING THEY'RE DOING.
00:27:07:00	00:27:07:00	THANK YOU GUYS.
00:27:07:00	00:27:08:00	HAVE A GOOD DAY.
00:27:08:00	00:27:09:00	THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
00:27:09:00	00:27:10:00	GREAT JOB.
00:27:10:00	00:27:13:00	COUNCILOR PEPEN.
00:27:13:00	00:27:14:00	OKAY, SO SO SO I'M UP HERE TO
00:27:14:00	00:27:17:00	RECOGNIZE DANIELLE JOHNSON WHO
00:27:17:00	00:27:20:00	WE ALL KNOW AND ARE LUCKY TO
00:27:20:00	00:27:21:00	HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO WORK
00:27:21:00	00:27:24:00	WITH FIRST I GUESS THIS IS
00:27:24:00	00:27:28:00	DANIELLE'S BIRTHDAY MONTH SO
00:27:28:00	00:27:32:00	HAPPY BIRTHDAY.
00:27:32:00	00:27:32:00	YEAH.
00:27:32:00	00:27:35:00	YEAH.
00:27:35:00	00:27:36:00	SHE DIDN'T HAVE A WHOLE LOT TO
00:27:36:00	00:27:36:00	DO WITH THAT.
00:27:36:00	00:27:38:00	SHE GOT BORN BUT THE YOU WERE
00:27:38:00	00:27:39:00	HERE TO CONGRATULATE HER FOR
00:27:39:00	00:27:40:00	THE WORK THAT SHE HAS DONE
00:27:40:00	00:27:43:00	WHICH RESULTED IN MASS LAWYERS
00:27:43:00	00:27:46:00	WEEKLY RECOGNIZING HER AS AN UP
00:27:46:00	00:27:49:00	AND COMING LAWYER YOU KNOW IN
00:27:49:00	00:27:50:00	THE AREA FOR HER WORK AS THE
00:27:50:00	00:27:50:00	DIRECTOR OF THE OFFICE
00:27:50:00	00:27:54:00	OF HOUSING STABILITY THE UP AND
00:27:54:00	00:27:55:00	COMING LAWYERS LIST HIGHLIGHTS
00:27:55:00	00:27:58:00	ATTORNEYS WHO HAVE BEEN MEMBERS
00:27:58:00	00:27:59:00	OF THE BAR FOR TEN YEARS OR
00:27:59:00	00:28:02:00	LESS AND WHO HAVE ALREADY
00:28:02:00	00:28:02:00	DISTINGUISHED THEMSELVES.
00:28:02:00	00:28:03:00	MASSACHUSETTS LAWYERS WEEKLY
00:28:03:00	00:28:06:00	ALSO RECOGNIZES EXCELLENCE IN
00:28:06:00	00:28:10:00	PRO BONO WORK IN IT AND IN
00:28:10:00	00:28:10:00	OTHER THINGS.
00:28:10:00	00:28:11:00	BUT YOU KNOW THE FACT THAT THEY
00:28:11:00	00:28:13:00	HAVE CHOSEN TO RECOGNIZE
00:28:13:00	00:28:17:00	DANIELLE IS IS A REMARKABLE
00:28:17:00	00:28:17:00	ACCOMPLISHMENT FOR FOR SOMEONE
00:28:17:00	00:28:20:00	WHOSE HASN'T HASN'T BEEN
00:28:20:00	00:28:21:00	PRACTICING THAT LONG BECAUSE
00:28:21:00	00:28:24:00	FROM MY PERSPECTIVE AS SOMEBODY
00:28:24:00	00:28:25:00	WHO'S PRACTICE FOR 18 YEARS,
00:28:25:00	00:28:26:00	YOU KNOW, I JUST WANT TO TAKE A
00:28:26:00	00:28:31:00	MOMENT TO READ WHAT YOU YOU
00:28:31:00	00:28:35:00	KNOW WHAT DANIELLE SAID WHEN
00:28:35:00	00:28:36:00	THEY WHEN THEY ASKED HER ABOUT
00:28:36:00	00:28:39:00	HER WORK OR SORRY WHAT THEY
00:28:39:00	00:28:42:00	WROTE THEY MASSACHUSETTS
00:28:42:00	00:28:43:00	LAWYERS WEEKLY WROTE THAT AS AN
00:28:43:00	00:28:47:00	ADVOCATE, ATTORNEY AND EDUCATOR
00:28:47:00	00:28:47:00	COMMITTED TO EXPANDING ACCESS
00:28:47:00	00:28:50:00	TO JUSTICE DANIELLE JOHNSON'S
00:28:50:00	00:28:51:00	WORK FOCUSES ON PREVENTING
00:28:51:00	00:28:54:00	DISPLACEMENT, ENSURING LEGAL
00:28:54:00	00:28:54:00	REPRESENTATION AND SHAPING
00:28:54:00	00:28:58:00	POLICY THAT PROTECTS VULNERABLE
00:28:58:00	00:28:58:00	COMMUNITIES.
00:28:58:00	00:28:59:00	YOU KNOW, ONE OF THE THINGS
00:28:59:00	00:29:02:00	DANIELLE SPOKE ABOUT IN IN HER
00:29:02:00	00:29:06:00	PROFILE IN MARCELLUS WEEKLY IS
00:29:06:00	00:29:06:00	SOMETHING I'VE GOTTEN TO SEE
00:29:06:00	00:29:10:00	HOW SHE SHINES IN THIS ROLE
00:29:10:00	00:29:14:00	WORKING ON ACCESS TO
00:29:14:00	00:29:14:00	COUNCILOR HERE IN THE CITY.
00:29:14:00	00:29:18:00	YOU KNOW, I FOUND NOT ONLY AN
00:29:18:00	00:29:18:00	ADVOCATE FOR THE PROGRAM BUT
00:29:18:00	00:29:22:00	SOMEBODY WHO KNEW HOW TO GET
00:29:22:00	00:29:22:00	THINGS DONE AND WHOSE
00:29:22:00	00:29:23:00	PRIORITIES WERE IN THE PLACE
00:29:23:00	00:29:25:00	WHERE SHE WANTED TO DO AS MUCH
00:29:25:00	00:29:26:00	AS SHE COULD TO PROTECT
00:29:26:00	00:29:29:00	VULNERABLE FOLKS IN BOSTON.
00:29:29:00	00:29:30:00	AND YOU KNOW, I WAS SO
00:29:30:00	00:29:33:00	IMPRESSED WITH DANIELLE'S
00:29:33:00	00:29:34:00	ABILITY TO SORT OF BRING THAT
00:29:34:00	00:29:37:00	PROGRAM TO TO BEING AND SO, YOU
00:29:37:00	00:29:41:00	KNOW, I, I, I THINK HER ACTIONS
00:29:41:00	00:29:44:00	SPEAK FOR THEMSELVES AND I KNOW
00:29:44:00	00:29:48:00	WE'VE ALL BENEFITED HAVING SUCH
00:29:48:00	00:29:48:00	A CAPABLE DIRECTOR OF THE
00:29:48:00	00:29:49:00	OFFICE OF HOUSING STABILITY AND
00:29:49:00	00:29:52:00	NOT JUST US ON THE COUNCIL.
00:29:52:00	00:29:53:00	I THINK EVERYONE IN BOSTON HAS
00:29:53:00	00:29:55:00	BENEFITED FROM THE GREAT WORK
00:29:55:00	00:29:59:00	THAT DANIELLE HAS DONE SO I
00:29:59:00	00:30:00:00	JUST WANT TO THANK HER.
00:30:00:00	00:30:03:00	I HAVE A RECOGNITION FOR HER
00:30:03:00	00:30:04:00	BUT BEFORE THAT I THINK I'D
00:30:04:00	00:30:07:00	LIKE TO CEDE THE FLOOR TO
00:30:07:00	00:30:10:00	DANIELLE AND I JUST WANT TO
00:30:10:00	00:30:10:00	THANK HER FOR EVERYTHING SHE'S
00:30:10:00	00:30:14:00	DONE FOR US WHATSOEVER.
00:30:14:00	00:30:18:00	THANK YOU, COUNCILOR.
00:30:18:00	00:30:18:00	MADAM PRESIDENT LOUIJEUNE
00:30:18:00	00:30:21:00	COUNCILOR WEBER AND OTTO,
00:30:21:00	00:30:21:00	HONORABLE MEMBERS OF THE CITY
00:30:21:00	00:30:25:00	COUNCIL, THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR
00:30:25:00	00:30:25:00	THIS RECOGNITION.
00:30:25:00	00:30:26:00	IT MEANS A GREAT DEAL TO ME.
00:30:26:00	00:30:29:00	THANK YOU TO MY PARTNER EMERSON
00:30:29:00	00:30:30:00	PENA WHO IS HERE IN THE STANDS
00:30:30:00	00:30:32:00	AND I BELIEVE MY MOM IS
00:30:32:00	00:30:33:00	WATCHING VIRTUALLY AS WELL SO I
00:30:33:00	00:30:36:00	WANT TO GIVE THEM A SHOUT OUT A
00:30:36:00	00:30:36:00	DEEP APPRECIATION TO THE
00:30:36:00	00:30:37:00	COUNCIL FOR THE WORK THAT YOU
00:30:37:00	00:30:37:00	ALL DO.
00:30:37:00	00:30:40:00	YOU ALL EXEMPLIFY LEADERSHIP
00:30:40:00	00:30:43:00	COMMITMENT AND WHAT IT MEANS TO
00:30:43:00	00:30:44:00	BE A TRUE PUBLIC SERVANT.
00:30:44:00	00:30:45:00	SO FOR THAT I THANK YOU.
00:30:45:00	00:30:47:00	IT'S NOT EASY WORK BUT IT'S
00:30:47:00	00:30:48:00	NECESSARY IN YOU ALL DAY TO DAY
00:30:48:00	00:30:51:00	SHOW JUST WHAT GOOD LEADERSHIP
00:30:51:00	00:30:51:00	LOOKS LIKE.
00:30:51:00	00:30:52:00	TO MY COLLEAGUES AT THE MAYOR'S
00:30:52:00	00:30:55:00	OFFICE OF HOUSING OF COURSE.
00:30:55:00	00:30:56:00	THANK YOU.
00:30:56:00	00:30:56:00	SOME OF THE HARDEST WORKING
00:30:56:00	00:30:58:00	PEOPLE I KNOW.
00:30:58:00	00:30:59:00	A SPECIAL THANK YOU TO CHIEF
00:30:59:00	00:31:03:00	SHEILA DILLON WHOSE LEADERSHIP
00:31:03:00	00:31:03:00	CONTINUES TO INSPIRE AND PUSH
00:31:03:00	00:31:03:00	ME FORWARD.
00:31:03:00	00:31:07:00	THANK YOU TO THE CITY
00:31:07:00	00:31:07:00	OF BOSTON.
00:31:07:00	00:31:08:00	I'M A TRANSPLANT BUT LIKE SO
00:31:08:00	00:31:11:00	MANY OTHERS, I'VE GROWN TO LOVE
00:31:11:00	00:31:11:00	THIS CITY DEEPLY.
00:31:11:00	00:31:12:00	I'M PROUD TO SERVE IT TO FIGHT
00:31:12:00	00:31:14:00	FOR HOUSING STABILITY AND CALL
00:31:14:00	00:31:14:00	IT HOME.
00:31:14:00	00:31:15:00	OF COURSE AGAIN, A SPECIAL
00:31:15:00	00:31:17:00	THANKS TO PRESIDENT LOUIJEUNE
00:31:17:00	00:31:18:00	WHO KNOWS THE FIGHT IN THE
00:31:18:00	00:31:18:00	HOUSING COURT.
00:31:18:00	00:31:21:00	WELL AND CONTINUES TO ELEVATE
00:31:21:00	00:31:25:00	HOUSING INEQUITIES AND
00:31:25:00	00:31:25:00	OF COURSE TO MY COUNSELOR
00:31:25:00	00:31:26:00	COUNSELOR WEBER TEAM WEST
00:31:26:00	00:31:26:00	ROXBURY.
00:31:26:00	00:31:31:00	I APPRECIATE YOUR YOUR TIRELESS
00:31:31:00	00:31:32:00	WORK AND YES, I'LL BE CALLING
00:31:32:00	00:31:36:00	ON ALL OF YOU TO JUST A HEADS
00:31:36:00	00:31:36:00	UP.
00:31:36:00	00:31:36:00	I TEACH ACCESS TO JUSTICE SO I
00:31:36:00	00:31:37:00	WILL BE ASKING YOU ALL TO TO
00:31:37:00	00:31:39:00	GUEST LECTURE AT SOME POINT.
00:31:39:00	00:31:40:00	COUNSELOR LOUIJEUNE HAS ALREADY
00:31:40:00	00:31:43:00	ALREADY DONE SO SO TO HER I SAY
00:31:43:00	00:31:44:00	THANK YOU BUT THANK YOU AGAIN
00:31:44:00	00:31:45:00	FOR YOUR BELIEF IN ME AND MORE
00:31:45:00	00:31:47:00	IMPORTANTLY FOR ALL THE FOR ALL
00:31:47:00	00:31:48:00	THE GREAT WORK THAT YOU DO AND
00:31:48:00	00:31:48:00	WILL KEEP WORKING.
00:31:48:00	00:31:53:00	SO APPRECIATE THE HONOR.
00:31:53:00	00:31:54:00	I'D LIKE TO INVITE ALL MY
00:31:54:00	00:32:06:00	COLLEAGUES UP FOR A PHOTO.
00:32:06:00	00:32:10:00	IT WAS EMERSON.
00:32:10:00	00:32:20:00	I KNOW ALWAYS RIGHT TO COLLEGE
00:32:20:00	00:32:43:00	ANY DAY NOW I'M SITTING AT THIS
00:32:43:00	00:32:48:00	POST.
00:32:48:00	00:32:53:00	THANK YOU.
00:32:53:00	00:32:53:00	CREATE PICTURES IMAGES.
00:32:53:00	00:32:54:00	THANK YOU.
00:32:54:00	00:32:55:00	THANK YOU.
00:32:55:00	00:33:21:00	YES, YES.
00:33:21:00	00:33:31:00	DO WE HAVE THANK YOU COUNSELOR
00:33:31:00	00:33:35:00	WEBER FOR THAT PRESENTATION WE
00:33:35:00	00:33:36:00	ARE NOW ON TO THE FIRST ORDER
00:33:36:00	00:33:37:00	OF BUSINESS WHICH IS THE
00:33:37:00	00:33:39:00	APPROVAL OF THE OF THE MINUTES
00:33:39:00	00:33:39:00	FROM THE MEETING OF APRIL NINE,
00:33:39:00	00:33:39:00	2025.
00:33:39:00	00:33:42:00	ALL IN FAVOR SAY I.
00:33:42:00	00:33:46:00	I OPPOSE ANY THE AYES HAVE IT
00:33:46:00	00:33:49:00	THE MINUTES OF THE APRIL NINTH
00:33:49:00	00:33:54:00	MEETING ARE APPROVED BUT.
00:33:54:00	00:33:56:00	OKAY.
00:33:56:00	00:33:57:00	UH, MR. CLERK, COULD YOU PLEASE
00:33:57:00	00:33:58:00	UPDATE THE RECORD TO REFLECT
00:33:58:00	00:34:00:00	THAT COUNCIL ORAL IS NOW
00:34:00:00	00:34:04:00	PRESENT AND WITH US.
00:34:04:00	00:34:05:00	THANK YOU.
00:34:05:00	00:34:05:00	AND THAT COUNCILOR CLAUDIA
00:34:05:00	00:34:07:00	ZAPATA IS NOW PRESIDENT WITH
00:34:07:00	00:34:07:00	US.
00:34:07:00	00:34:10:00	THANK YOU.
00:34:10:00	00:34:11:00	WE ARE NOW ON TO COMMUNICATIONS
00:34:11:00	00:34:14:00	FROM OUR HONOR THE MAYOR.
00:34:14:00	00:34:15:00	MR. CLERK, WOULD YOU PLEASE
00:34:15:00	00:34:17:00	READ DOCKETS NUMBER 0880885 AND
00:34:17:00	00:34:17:00	0886.
00:34:17:00	00:34:21:00	I CAN NUMBER 0885 MESSAGING ON
00:34:21:00	00:34:21:00	AUTHORIZING THE CITY OF BOSTON
00:34:21:00	00:34:27:00	TO ACCEPT AND EXPEND THE AMOUNT
00:34:27:00	00:34:28:00	OF $18 MILLION IN APPLYING FOR
00:34:28:00	00:34:28:00	GRANT FOR THE FEDERAL FISCAL
00:34:28:00	00:34:30:00	YEAR 25 COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT
00:34:30:00	00:34:31:00	BLOCK GRANT AWARDED BY THE
00:34:31:00	00:34:34:00	UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT
00:34:34:00	00:34:34:00	OF HOUSING AND URBAN
00:34:34:00	00:34:35:00	DEVELOPMENT TO BE ADMINISTERED
00:34:35:00	00:34:37:00	BY THE MAYOR'S OFFICE
00:34:37:00	00:34:38:00	OF HOUSING.
00:34:38:00	00:34:38:00	THE GRANT WILL FUND HOUSING
00:34:38:00	00:34:42:00	ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND SOCIAL
00:34:42:00	00:34:42:00	SERVICES PROGRAM.
00:34:42:00	00:34:46:00	THE AWARD AMOUNT IS ESTIMATED
00:34:46:00	00:34:49:00	FROM PRIOR YEAR'S DOCKET NUMBER
00:34:49:00	00:34:49:00	0886.
00:34:49:00	00:34:52:00	MESSAGE IN AUTHORIZING THE CITY
00:34:52:00	00:34:53:00	OF BOSTON TO ACCEPT AND EXPEND
00:34:53:00	00:34:55:00	THE AMOUNT OF $6 MILLION IN THE
00:34:55:00	00:34:58:00	FORM OF A GRANT FOR THE FEDERAL
00:34:58:00	00:34:59:00	FISCAL YEAR 25 HOME INVESTMENT
00:34:59:00	00:35:02:00	PARTNERSHIPS PROGRAM GRANT
00:35:02:00	00:35:03:00	AWARDED BY THE UNITED STATES
00:35:03:00	00:35:04:00	DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN
00:35:04:00	00:35:06:00	DEVELOPMENT TO BE ADMINISTERED
00:35:06:00	00:35:07:00	BY THE MAYOR'S OFFICE
00:35:07:00	00:35:07:00	OF HOUSING.
00:35:07:00	00:35:10:00	THE GRANT WILL FUND THE
00:35:10:00	00:35:10:00	PRODUCTION OF NEW AFFORDABLE
00:35:10:00	00:35:13:00	RENTAL AND HOMEOWNERSHIP
00:35:13:00	00:35:14:00	HOUSING AND ALSO PROVIDE
00:35:14:00	00:35:18:00	OPERATING SUPPORT FOR COMMUNITY
00:35:18:00	00:35:18:00	DEVELOPMENT CORPORATIONS.
00:35:18:00	00:35:19:00	THE AWARD AMOUNT IS ESTIMATED
00:35:19:00	00:35:22:00	FROM PRIOR YEAR'S THANK YOU
00:35:22:00	00:35:25:00	DOCKETS NUMBER 0885 AND 0886
00:35:25:00	00:35:25:00	WILL BE REFERRED TO THE
00:35:25:00	00:35:28:00	COMMITTEE ON HOUSING AND
00:35:28:00	00:35:28:00	COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT.
00:35:28:00	00:35:31:00	MR. CLERK WOULD YOU PLEASE READ
00:35:31:00	00:35:34:00	DOCKET NUMBER 08870887 MESSAGE
00:35:34:00	00:35:34:00	IN ON AUTHORIZING THE CITY
00:35:34:00	00:35:37:00	OF BOSTON TO ACCEPT AND EXPEND
00:35:37:00	00:35:40:00	THE AMOUNT OF $4,149,200 IN THE
00:35:40:00	00:35:44:00	FORM OF A GRANT FOR THE USE
00:35:44:00	00:35:45:00	WORKS GRANT AWARDED BY THE MASS
00:35:45:00	00:35:48:00	EXECUTIVE OFFICE OF LABOR AND
00:35:48:00	00:35:48:00	WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT TO BE
00:35:48:00	00:35:49:00	ADMINISTERED BY THE OFFICE
00:35:49:00	00:35:52:00	OF WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT.
00:35:52:00	00:35:52:00	THE GRANT WILL FUND A SUMMER
00:35:52:00	00:35:55:00	AND SCHOOL YEAR JOBS PROGRAM
00:35:55:00	00:35:56:00	THAT WILL PROVIDE LEADERSHIP
00:35:56:00	00:35:59:00	DEVELOPMENT SKILLS TRAINING AND
00:35:59:00	00:36:00:00	CAREER EXPLORATION FOR LOW
00:36:00:00	00:36:04:00	INCOME AT RISK YOUTH AGES 14 TO
00:36:04:00	00:36:04:00	25.
00:36:04:00	00:36:07:00	THANK YOU.
00:36:07:00	00:36:08:00	DOCKET NUMBER 0887 WILL BE
00:36:08:00	00:36:08:00	REFERRED TO THE COMMITTEE ON
00:36:08:00	00:36:11:00	STRONG WOMEN FAMILIES AND
00:36:11:00	00:36:11:00	COMMUNITIES.
00:36:11:00	00:36:12:00	MR CLERK, WOULD YOU PLEASE READ
00:36:12:00	00:36:17:00	DOCKET NUMBER 08880889 DUNCAN
00:36:17:00	00:36:17:00	NUMBER 0888 MESSAGE AN ORDER
00:36:17:00	00:36:20:00	AUTHORIZING THE CITY OF BOSTON
00:36:20:00	00:36:21:00	TO ACCEPT AN EXPANDING AMOUNT
00:36:21:00	00:36:22:00	OF $4 MILLION IN THE FORM OF A
00:36:22:00	00:36:24:00	GRANT FOR THE FEDERAL FISCAL
00:36:24:00	00:36:28:00	YEAR 25 HOUSING FOR PERSONS
00:36:28:00	00:36:29:00	WITH AIDS AWARDED BY THE UNITED
00:36:29:00	00:36:29:00	STATES DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING
00:36:29:00	00:36:32:00	AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT TO BE
00:36:32:00	00:36:33:00	ADMINISTERED BY THE MAYOR'S
00:36:33:00	00:36:33:00	OFFICE OF HOUSING.
00:36:33:00	00:36:36:00	THE GRANT WILL FUND SERVICES
00:36:36:00	00:36:37:00	FOR INCOME ELIGIBLE INDIVIDUALS
00:36:37:00	00:36:40:00	AND FAMILIES AFFECTED BY AIDS.
00:36:40:00	00:36:44:00	THE AMOUNT THE AWARD AMOUNT IS
00:36:44:00	00:36:46:00	ESTIMATED FROM PRIOR YEAR'S
00:36:46:00	00:36:47:00	DOCKET NUMBER 0889.
00:36:47:00	00:36:50:00	MR GENNARO AUTHORIZING THE CITY
00:36:50:00	00:36:51:00	OF BOSTON TO ACCEPT AND EXPEND
00:36:51:00	00:36:53:00	THE AMOUNT OF $2 MILLION IN THE
00:36:53:00	00:36:55:00	FORM OF A GRANT FOR THE FEDERAL
00:36:55:00	00:36:55:00	FISCAL YEAR 25 EMERGENCY
00:36:55:00	00:36:59:00	SOLUTIONS GRANT AWARDED BY THE
00:36:59:00	00:36:59:00	UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT
00:36:59:00	00:37:00:00	OF HOUSING AND URBAN
00:37:00:00	00:37:03:00	DEVELOPMENT TO BE ADMINISTERED
00:37:03:00	00:37:03:00	BY THE MAYOR'S OFFICE
00:37:03:00	00:37:04:00	OF HOUSING.
00:37:04:00	00:37:05:00	THE GRANT WILL FUND THE STREET
00:37:05:00	00:37:07:00	OUTREACH EMERGENCY SHELTER,
00:37:07:00	00:37:11:00	HOMELESSNESS PREVENTION, RAPID
00:37:11:00	00:37:12:00	REHOUSING ASSISTANCE AND
00:37:12:00	00:37:12:00	SHELTER SERVICES.
00:37:12:00	00:37:15:00	THE AWARD AMOUNT IS ESTIMATED
00:37:15:00	00:37:16:00	FROM PRIOR YEARS.
00:37:16:00	00:37:19:00	THANK YOU.
00:37:19:00	00:37:20:00	THESE DOCKETS WILL BE REFERRED
00:37:20:00	00:37:21:00	TO THE COMMITTEE ON HOUSING AND
00:37:21:00	00:37:23:00	COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT.
00:37:23:00	00:37:24:00	MR. CLERK, WOULD YOU PLEASE
00:37:24:00	00:37:26:00	READ DOCKET NUMBER 208900890
00:37:26:00	00:37:28:00	MESSAGE AN ORDER AUTHORIZING
00:37:28:00	00:37:29:00	THE CITY OF BOSTON TO ACCEPT
00:37:29:00	00:37:32:00	AND EXPEND THE AMOUNT
00:37:32:00	00:37:32:00	OF $200,000 IN THE FORM OF A
00:37:32:00	00:37:35:00	GRANT FOR THE IMMIGRANT
00:37:35:00	00:37:36:00	ADVANCEMENT FUND GRANT AWARDED
00:37:36:00	00:37:39:00	BY THE BOSTON FOUNDATION TO BE
00:37:39:00	00:37:40:00	ADMINISTERED BY THE OFFICE
00:37:40:00	00:37:40:00	OF IMMIGRANT ADVANCEMENT.
00:37:40:00	00:37:43:00	THE GRANT WILL FUND PROGRAMS,
00:37:43:00	00:37:43:00	INITIATIVES, EVENTS AND SMALL
00:37:43:00	00:37:46:00	GRANTS THAT ENABLE IMMIGRANTS
00:37:46:00	00:37:47:00	TO PLAY AN ACTIVE ROLE IN THE
00:37:47:00	00:37:50:00	ECONOMIC, CIVIC, SOCIAL AND
00:37:50:00	00:37:51:00	CULTURAL LIFE OF THE CITY
00:37:51:00	00:37:54:00	OF BOSTON.
00:37:54:00	00:37:54:00	THANK YOU.
00:37:54:00	00:37:56:00	DOCKET NUMBER 0890 WILL BE
00:37:56:00	00:37:57:00	REFERRED TO THE COMMITTEE ON
00:37:57:00	00:38:00:00	CIVIL RIGHTS RACIAL EQUITY AND
00:38:00:00	00:38:01:00	IMMIGRANT ADVANCEMENT.
00:38:01:00	00:38:04:00	MR. CLERK THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES
00:38:04:00	00:38:04:00	COUNCILOR WEBER.
00:38:04:00	00:38:05:00	COUNCILOR WEBER, YOU HAVE THE
00:38:05:00	00:38:05:00	FLOOR.
00:38:05:00	00:38:08:00	I APOLOGIZE.
00:38:08:00	00:38:09:00	I'M NOT SURE THIS IS THE RIGHT
00:38:09:00	00:38:10:00	TIME OR NOT.
00:38:10:00	00:38:11:00	THE DOCKET 887.
00:38:11:00	00:38:11:00	YES.
00:38:11:00	00:38:15:00	UM, I.
00:38:15:00	00:38:19:00	I THOUGHT THAT WOULD BE
00:38:19:00	00:38:19:00	ASSIGNED TO TO THE COMMITTEE ON
00:38:19:00	00:38:20:00	WORKFORCE LABOR WORKFORCE IN
00:38:20:00	00:38:23:00	THE CONTEXT DEVELOPMENT BUT I
00:38:23:00	00:38:24:00	THINK YOU SAYING IT TO ANOTHER
00:38:24:00	00:38:24:00	COMMITTEE.
00:38:24:00	00:38:27:00	YES IT WAS ASSIGNED TO THE
00:38:27:00	00:38:27:00	STRONG WOMEN FAMILIES AND
00:38:27:00	00:38:27:00	COMMUNITIES.
00:38:27:00	00:38:30:00	I THIS GRANT IS ONE THAT HAS
00:38:30:00	00:38:34:00	HISTORICALLY GONE TO THAT
00:38:34:00	00:38:34:00	COMMITTEE.
00:38:34:00	00:38:37:00	I THINK THE OFFICE THAT IT HAS
00:38:37:00	00:38:38:00	THROUGH HAS CHANGED IT BEFORE
00:38:38:00	00:38:42:00	IT WAS A DIFFERENT OFFICE AND
00:38:42:00	00:38:45:00	THIS YEAR IT WAS PLACE IN THE
00:38:45:00	00:38:46:00	IN THE LABOR AND WORKFORCE
00:38:46:00	00:38:49:00	DEVELOPMENT OFFICE BUT THE
00:38:49:00	00:38:49:00	CONTENT OF THE GRANT IS THE
00:38:49:00	00:38:52:00	SAME WHICH IS WHY THE DECISION
00:38:52:00	00:38:53:00	WAS MADE TO KEEP IT IN THAT IN
00:38:53:00	00:38:54:00	THE STRONG WOMEN FAMILIES AND
00:38:54:00	00:38:56:00	COMMUNITIES.
00:38:56:00	00:38:57:00	YEAH I MEAN THAT'S FINE I GUESS
00:38:57:00	00:39:01:00	TO THE CHAIR I DID RESERVE UH I
00:39:01:00	00:39:04:00	THINK SOME A HEARING FOR NEXT
00:39:04:00	00:39:05:00	WEEK TOO BUT WHICH WHICH WHICH
00:39:05:00	00:39:08:00	CAN BE I CAN PASS THAT OFF SO
00:39:08:00	00:39:11:00	WE'LL COORDINATE ON THAT.
00:39:11:00	00:39:12:00	THANK YOU FOR THE EXPLANATION.
00:39:12:00	00:39:15:00	OKAY THANK YOU.
00:39:15:00	00:39:15:00	OKAY.
00:39:15:00	00:39:18:00	DOCKET NUMBER ZERO BUT THANK
00:39:18:00	00:39:18:00	YOU.
00:39:18:00	00:39:19:00	IT IS IT WAS A IT WAS A
00:39:19:00	00:39:22:00	DISCUSSION POINT BECAUSE OF THE
00:39:22:00	00:39:22:00	VERY REASONS THAT YOU THAT YOU
00:39:22:00	00:39:25:00	RAISED AND BUT I APPRECIATE
00:39:25:00	00:39:26:00	THAT.
00:39:26:00	00:39:26:00	COUNCILOR WEBER.
00:39:26:00	00:39:29:00	MR. CLERK, ARE WE ON DOCKET
00:39:29:00	00:39:30:00	NUMBER 0891?
00:39:30:00	00:39:30:00	YES.
00:39:30:00	00:39:30:00	OKAY.
00:39:30:00	00:39:33:00	MR. CLERK, WOULD YOU PLEASE BE
00:39:33:00	00:39:34:00	DOCKET NUMBER 20891 DARK AND
00:39:34:00	00:39:36:00	NUMBER 0891 MESSAGE YOU'RE NOT
00:39:36:00	00:39:36:00	AUTHORIZING THE CITY OF BOSTON
00:39:36:00	00:39:39:00	TO ACCEPT AND EXPEND THE AMOUNT
00:39:39:00	00:39:42:00	OF $180,000 IN THE FORM OF A
00:39:42:00	00:39:42:00	GRANT FOR THE HAZARDOUS
00:39:42:00	00:39:43:00	MITIGATION PLAN.
00:39:43:00	00:39:46:00	UPDATE 2026 FOR A GRANT AWARDED
00:39:46:00	00:39:50:00	BY THE FEDERAL MANAGEMENT
00:39:50:00	00:39:50:00	AGENCY PASS THROUGH THE
00:39:50:00	00:39:53:00	MASSACHUSETTS EMERGENCY
00:39:53:00	00:39:54:00	MANAGEMENT AGENCY TO BE
00:39:54:00	00:39:55:00	ADMINISTERED BY EMERGENCY
00:39:55:00	00:39:57:00	PREPAREDNESS.
00:39:57:00	00:39:58:00	THE GRANT WILL FUND A SUSTAINED
00:39:58:00	00:40:01:00	PRE-DISASTER NATURAL HAZARD
00:40:01:00	00:40:01:00	MITIGATION PROGRAM TO REDUCE
00:40:01:00	00:40:05:00	OVERALL RISK TO THE POPULATION
00:40:05:00	00:40:06:00	AND STRUCTURES WHILE ALSO
00:40:06:00	00:40:08:00	REDUCING RELIANCE ON FUNDING
00:40:08:00	00:40:09:00	FROM ACTUAL DISASTER
00:40:09:00	00:40:13:00	DECLARATIONS.
00:40:13:00	00:40:13:00	THANK YOU.
00:40:13:00	00:40:14:00	DOCKET NUMBER 0891 WILL BE
00:40:14:00	00:40:15:00	REFERRED TO THE COMMITTEE ON
00:40:15:00	00:40:17:00	PUBLIC SAFETY AND CRIMINAL
00:40:17:00	00:40:17:00	JUSTICE.
00:40:17:00	00:40:19:00	MR CLERK, WOULD YOU PLEASE READ
00:40:19:00	00:40:22:00	DOCKET NUMBER 08920892 ON
00:40:22:00	00:40:22:00	MESSAGE IN NOT AUTHORIZING THE
00:40:22:00	00:40:25:00	CITY OF BOSTON TO ACCEPT AND
00:40:25:00	00:40:28:00	EXPEND THE AMOUNT OF $137,753
00:40:28:00	00:40:32:00	IN THE FORM OF A GRANT FOR THE
00:40:32:00	00:40:34:00	FISCAL YEAR 25 FISCAL YEAR 26
00:40:34:00	00:40:35:00	RETIRED SENIOR VOLUNTEER
00:40:35:00	00:40:38:00	PROGRAM GRANT AWARDED BY THE
00:40:38:00	00:40:39:00	CORPORATION FOR NATIONAL AND
00:40:39:00	00:40:42:00	COMMUNITY SERVICE TO BE
00:40:42:00	00:40:43:00	ADMINISTERED BY THE EIGHT
00:40:43:00	00:40:43:00	STRONG COMMISSION.
00:40:43:00	00:40:46:00	THE GRANT WILL FUND
00:40:46:00	00:40:46:00	ADMINISTRATION FOR SENIOR
00:40:46:00	00:40:50:00	COMMUNITY SERVICE VOLUNTEER
00:40:50:00	00:40:50:00	INCLUDING REASONABLE
00:40:50:00	00:40:53:00	REIMBURSEMENT FOR MEALS AND
00:40:53:00	00:40:54:00	TRAVEL EXPENSES.
00:40:54:00	00:40:54:00	THANK YOU.
00:40:54:00	00:40:58:00	THIS DOCKET WILL BE REFERRED TO
00:40:58:00	00:40:58:00	THE COMMITTEE ON STRONG WOMEN
00:40:58:00	00:40:59:00	FAMILIES AND COMMUNITIES.
00:40:59:00	00:41:01:00	MR COOPER, WOULD YOU PLEASE BE
00:41:01:00	00:41:02:00	DOCKET NUMBER 0893 DARK IN
00:41:02:00	00:41:04:00	NUMBER 0893 MESSAGE IN ORDER
00:41:04:00	00:41:05:00	AUTHORIZING THE CITY OF BOSTON
00:41:05:00	00:41:08:00	TO ACCEPT EXPEND THE AMOUNT
00:41:08:00	00:41:11:00	OF $120,000 IN FORM OF GRANT
00:41:11:00	00:41:12:00	FOR THE CJP COMMUNITY SECURITY
00:41:12:00	00:41:15:00	INITIATIVE AWARDED BY THE
00:41:15:00	00:41:15:00	COMBINED JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES
00:41:15:00	00:41:19:00	TO BE ADMINISTERED BY THE
00:41:19:00	00:41:19:00	POLICE DEPARTMENT.
00:41:19:00	00:41:20:00	THE GRANT WILL FUND THE
00:41:20:00	00:41:22:00	INSTALLATION OF CCTV CAMERAS
00:41:22:00	00:41:26:00	OUTSIDE THE JEWISH INSTITUTIONS
00:41:26:00	00:41:26:00	TO BE MONITORED BY THE POLICE
00:41:26:00	00:41:27:00	DEPARTMENT IN HOPES
00:41:27:00	00:41:30:00	OF PROTECTING FAITH BASED
00:41:30:00	00:41:30:00	INSTITUTIONS.
00:41:30:00	00:41:31:00	THANK YOU.
00:41:31:00	00:41:33:00	DOCKET NUMBER 0893 WILL BE
00:41:33:00	00:41:34:00	REFERRED TO THE COMMITTEE ON
00:41:34:00	00:41:35:00	PUBLIC SAFETY AND CRIMINAL
00:41:35:00	00:41:37:00	JUSTICE.
00:41:37:00	00:41:37:00	MR. CLERK, WOULD YOU PLEASE
00:41:37:00	00:41:38:00	RECORD THIS NUMBER?
00:41:38:00	00:41:40:00	089490895.
00:41:40:00	00:41:43:00	DUNCAN NUMBER 80894A MESSAGE
00:41:43:00	00:41:43:00	TRANSMITTING CERTAIN
00:41:43:00	00:41:47:00	INFORMATION UNDER SECTION 17
00:41:47:00	00:41:47:00	OF.
00:41:47:00	00:41:51:00	REGARDING T AND C RIGHT TO
00:41:51:00	00:41:53:00	ARREST FILE ON DOCKET NUMBER
00:41:53:00	00:41:54:00	0617 PASSED BY THE CITY
00:41:54:00	00:41:57:00	COUNCIL ON MARCH 2025 AND
00:41:57:00	00:42:00:00	DOCKET NUMBER 0895.
00:42:00:00	00:42:01:00	MESSAGE TRANSMITTING CERTAIN
00:42:01:00	00:42:03:00	INFORMATION IN THIS SECTION 17
00:42:03:00	00:42:04:00	OF REGARDING STUDENTS WITH
00:42:04:00	00:42:08:00	DISABILITIES FILE ON DOCKET
00:42:08:00	00:42:11:00	NUMBER 0775 PASSED BY THE CITY
00:42:11:00	00:42:14:00	COUNCIL ON APRIL 2ND 2025 THANK
00:42:14:00	00:42:14:00	YOU DOCKETS NUMBER 08940895
00:42:14:00	00:42:18:00	WILL BE PLACED ON FILE.
00:42:18:00	00:42:19:00	WE ARE NOW ON TO REPORTS
00:42:19:00	00:42:19:00	OF PUBLIC OFFICES IN OTHERS BUT
00:42:19:00	00:42:21:00	I DID WANT TO PAUSE.
00:42:21:00	00:42:22:00	I KNOW WE HAD FOLKS HERE FROM
00:42:22:00	00:42:23:00	TEXAS FOR HOUSING SO WE JUST
00:42:23:00	00:42:25:00	WANTED TO UPLIFT THEM AND
00:42:25:00	00:42:26:00	EARLIER WE HAD KIDS HERE FROM
00:42:26:00	00:42:29:00	THE GREW FROM THE MAD HUNT IN
00:42:29:00	00:42:30:00	FROM THE GREENWOOD AND SO I
00:42:30:00	00:42:32:00	JUST WANTED TO HIGHLIGHT THEM
00:42:32:00	00:42:33:00	AND THEIR VISIT TO CITY HALL.
00:42:33:00	00:42:34:00	OKAY.
00:42:34:00	00:42:34:00	MR. CLERK, WE ARE NOW ON TO
00:42:34:00	00:42:37:00	REPORTS OF PUBLIC OFFICERS AND
00:42:37:00	00:42:37:00	OTHERS.
00:42:37:00	00:42:39:00	WOULD YOU PLEASE BE DOCKET
00:42:39:00	00:42:39:00	NUMBER 089620898.
00:42:39:00	00:42:43:00	TALK TO THEM A0896 AND TO SEE
00:42:43:00	00:42:44:00	FROM THE MAYOR OF THE
00:42:44:00	00:42:47:00	APPOINTMENT OF JESSICA BULKLEY
00:42:47:00	00:42:48:00	AS CHAIRPERSON OF THE BUILDING
00:42:48:00	00:42:50:00	EMISSIONS REDUCTION AND
00:42:50:00	00:42:51:00	DISCLOSURE ORDINANCE REVIEW
00:42:51:00	00:42:54:00	BOARD FOR A TERM EXPIRING ON
00:42:54:00	00:42:57:00	APRIL 24TH 2026 TALKING NUMBERS
00:42:57:00	00:42:57:00	0897 COMMUNICATION WAS RECEIVED
00:42:57:00	00:43:02:00	FROM COUNCILOR FOR AN END AND
00:43:02:00	00:43:03:00	SAYING SOME GETTING NEWS TO A
00:43:03:00	00:43:04:00	COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT
00:43:04:00	00:43:05:00	CORPORATION AND LEADERSHIP AND
00:43:05:00	00:43:07:00	DOCKET NUMBER ZERO 890 NOTICE
00:43:07:00	00:43:10:00	RECEIVED FROM THE CITY CLERK
00:43:10:00	00:43:11:00	ACCORDANCE WITH CHAPTER SIX
00:43:11:00	00:43:14:00	OF THE ORDINANCES OF 1979
00:43:14:00	00:43:14:00	REGARDING ACTION TAKEN BY THE
00:43:14:00	00:43:17:00	MAYOR AND PAPERS ACTED UPON BY
00:43:17:00	00:43:18:00	THE CITY COUNCIL AT ITS MEETING
00:43:18:00	00:43:21:00	OF APRIL SECOND, 2025 THANK YOU
00:43:21:00	00:43:25:00	THESE DOCKETS WILL BE PLACED ON
00:43:25:00	00:43:26:00	FILE.
00:43:26:00	00:43:27:00	WE ARE NOW ON TO THE MATTERS
00:43:27:00	00:43:29:00	RECENTLY HEARD FOR POSSIBLE
00:43:29:00	00:43:30:00	ACTION.
00:43:30:00	00:43:30:00	MR CLERK WHEN YOU PLEASE READ
00:43:30:00	00:43:37:00	THIS NUMBER 082220845 DUNCAN
00:43:37:00	00:43:38:00	MEMBERS 082220824 ORDERS FOR
00:43:38:00	00:43:40:00	THE FISCAL YEAR 26 OPERATING
00:43:40:00	00:43:41:00	BUDGET INCLUDING ANNUAL
00:43:41:00	00:43:43:00	APPROPRIATIONS FOR DEPARTMENT
00:43:43:00	00:43:44:00	DEPARTMENTAL OPERATIONS FOR THE
00:43:44:00	00:43:48:00	SCHOOL DEPARTMENT AND FOR OTHER
00:43:48:00	00:43:49:00	POST-EMPLOYMENT BENEFITS.
00:43:49:00	00:43:54:00	DOCKET NUMBERS 0082520827
00:43:54:00	00:43:55:00	ORDERS FOR CAPITAL FUND CREDIT
00:43:55:00	00:44:01:00	APPROPRIATIONS DOCKET NUMBER
00:44:01:00	00:44:02:00	082820830 ORDERS FOR THE
00:44:02:00	00:44:05:00	CAPITAL BUDGET INCLUDING LOAN
00:44:05:00	00:44:06:00	ORDERS AND LEASE PURCHASE
00:44:06:00	00:44:09:00	AGREEMENTS AND DOCKET NUMBERS
00:44:09:00	00:44:14:00	0831 THROUGH DOCKETS 0845
00:44:14:00	00:44:15:00	ORDERS AUTHORIZING LIMITS FOR
00:44:15:00	00:44:19:00	DEPARTAMENTO REVOLVING FUNDS
00:44:19:00	00:44:19:00	INCLUDING LAW, TOURISM, ARTS
00:44:19:00	00:44:23:00	AND CULTURE AND AND PERSONS
00:44:23:00	00:44:23:00	CENTERS FOR YOUTH AND FAMILIES,
00:44:23:00	00:44:26:00	SCHOOLS AND POLICE AND OTHER
00:44:26:00	00:44:26:00	BUDGET RELATED DOCKETS.
00:44:26:00	00:44:27:00	THANK YOU.
00:44:27:00	00:44:31:00	THE CHAIR ORGANIZES COUNCIL OUR
00:44:31:00	00:44:31:00	OTHER CHAIR THE COMMITTEE ON
00:44:31:00	00:44:32:00	WAYS AND MEANS YOU HAVE THE
00:44:32:00	00:44:34:00	FLOOR.
00:44:34:00	00:44:37:00	THANK YOU, MADAM PRESIDENT.
00:44:37:00	00:44:41:00	THE COMMITTEE ON WAYS AND MEANS
00:44:41:00	00:44:42:00	OFFICIALLY LAUNCHED FY 26
00:44:42:00	00:44:44:00	BUDGET SEASON WITH A SERIES
00:44:44:00	00:44:45:00	OF FOUR HEARINGS ON BOSTON
00:44:45:00	00:44:47:00	PUBLIC SCHOOLS HELD ACROSS
00:44:47:00	00:44:48:00	APRIL 14TH AND APRIL 15.
00:44:48:00	00:44:50:00	THESE SESSIONS TIED TO DOCKETS
00:44:50:00	00:44:51:00	NUMBER 082230833 OFFERED A DEEP
00:44:51:00	00:44:55:00	DIVE INTO THE INVESTMENTS
00:44:55:00	00:44:55:00	CHALLENGES AND EQUITY GOALS
00:44:55:00	00:44:56:00	SHAPING THE EDUCATIONAL
00:44:56:00	00:44:59:00	EXPERIENCE OF BOSTON'S YOUTH.
00:44:59:00	00:45:00:00	FOR THE ADMINISTRATION WE HAD
00:45:00:00	00:45:03:00	SUPERINTENDENT MARY SKIPPER,
00:45:03:00	00:45:04:00	CFO DAVID BLOOM, DR. LINDA
00:45:04:00	00:45:08:00	CHEN, DR. SANDY PINA AND GOT TO
00:45:08:00	00:45:09:00	THE END OF TOMORROW'S HEARING
00:45:09:00	00:45:12:00	ONE ON DOCKET NUMBER
00:45:12:00	00:45:13:00	822308320830 HOLD ON MONDAY
00:45:13:00	00:45:15:00	APRIL 14 AT 10 A.M. THE
00:45:15:00	00:45:17:00	COUNCIL DISCUSSED KEY FY 26
00:45:17:00	00:45:18:00	BUDGET PRIORITIES INCLUDING
00:45:18:00	00:45:21:00	INCLUSION MULTILINGUAL LEARNERS
00:45:21:00	00:45:21:00	, BETTER EDUCATION SERVICES
00:45:21:00	00:45:24:00	CURRICULUM AND POSTSECONDARY
00:45:24:00	00:45:25:00	OUTCOMES.
00:45:25:00	00:45:28:00	COUNSELORS PRESENT INCLUDED
00:45:28:00	00:45:29:00	VICE CHAIR OF THE COUNCIL I
00:45:29:00	00:45:30:00	MEAN VICE CHAIR OF THE
00:45:30:00	00:45:30:00	COMMITTEE.
00:45:30:00	00:45:32:00	VICE CHAIR PEPEN CASAS BRAYDEN
00:45:32:00	00:45:36:00	FLYNN WEBER FITZGERALD SANTANA
00:45:36:00	00:45:37:00	MURPHY HERE AND
00:45:37:00	00:45:37:00	COUNCIL PRESIDENT LOUIJEUNE.
00:45:37:00	00:45:41:00	WE RECEIVED A LETTER BASKET
00:45:41:00	00:45:41:00	FROM COUNCILOR DURKIN, KANSAS
00:45:41:00	00:45:44:00	WHICH RAISED CONCERNS ABOUT THE
00:45:44:00	00:45:46:00	EIGHT EIGHT $8 MILLION
00:45:46:00	00:45:47:00	BILINGUAL FUNDING CUT WHICH WE
00:45:47:00	00:45:51:00	WERE TOLD WAS BECAUSE OF STAFF
00:45:51:00	00:45:51:00	RECORDING AND SOUGHT FLAHERTY
00:45:51:00	00:45:54:00	ON THE $10 MILLION ADEQUATE
00:45:54:00	00:45:56:00	INCLUSIVE EDUCATION AND $4.5
00:45:56:00	00:45:56:00	MILLION FOR MULTILINGUAL
00:45:56:00	00:45:59:00	LEARNER SUPPORT THE
00:45:59:00	00:45:59:00	ADMINISTRATION EMPHASIZED THAT
00:45:59:00	00:46:00:00	MULTILINGUAL SERVICES WILL
00:46:00:00	00:46:03:00	CONTINUE THROUGH CERTIFIED
00:46:03:00	00:46:03:00	TEACHERS AND HIGHLIGHTED THE
00:46:03:00	00:46:06:00	ROLLOUT OF NEW DUAL LANGUAGE
00:46:06:00	00:46:07:00	PROGRAMS INCLUDING CAPE VERDEAN
00:46:07:00	00:46:11:00	AND SPANISH AT THE BLACKSTONE.
00:46:11:00	00:46:11:00	COUNCILORS ALSO PRESSED FOR
00:46:11:00	00:46:14:00	MORE NATIVE LANGUAGE SUPPORTS
00:46:14:00	00:46:14:00	EQUITABLE ACCESS TO UPPER
00:46:14:00	00:46:15:00	SCHOOL BILINGUAL PROGRAM AND
00:46:15:00	00:46:18:00	METRICS TO INCLUSION SUCCESS
00:46:18:00	00:46:22:00	EARLY INDICATORS SHOWED
00:46:22:00	00:46:22:00	INCREASE K12K2 INCLUSION WITH
00:46:22:00	00:46:26:00	STAFF TAILORED TO STUDENT NEEDS
00:46:26:00	00:46:26:00	RATHER THAN A UNIVERSAL MOTTO.
00:46:26:00	00:46:29:00	THE HEARING ALSO
00:46:29:00	00:46:29:00	COVERED CURRICULUM INVESTMENTS
00:46:29:00	00:46:30:00	LIKE STUDY SYNC AND
00:46:30:00	00:46:33:00	ILLUSTRATIVE MAP.
00:46:33:00	00:46:34:00	NEW POST-SECONDARY TRACKING
00:46:34:00	00:46:34:00	EFFORTS EXPANDED FINANCIAL
00:46:34:00	00:46:37:00	LITERACY OFFICE OFFERINGS AND
00:46:37:00	00:46:38:00	CONTINUE FUNDING FOR PARENT ESL
00:46:38:00	00:46:41:00	WORLD CLASSES.
00:46:41:00	00:46:41:00	CASAS UNDERSCORED THE
00:46:41:00	00:46:41:00	IMPORTANCE OF CULTURAL
00:46:41:00	00:46:45:00	COMPETENCE SITE COUNSELORS AND
00:46:45:00	00:46:45:00	SUSTAINED SUPPORTS FOR STUDENTS
00:46:45:00	00:46:48:00	EXITING ESL WELL SERVICES FOR
00:46:48:00	00:46:51:00	HAVING TO ON DOCKET NUMBER
00:46:51:00	00:46:52:00	082220830 WHICH IS HELD ON
00:46:52:00	00:46:54:00	MONDAY APRIL 14TH AT 2 P.M. THE
00:46:54:00	00:46:55:00	COUNTIES DISCUSSED KEY
00:46:55:00	00:46:58:00	WRAPAROUND SERVICES IN BOSTON
00:46:58:00	00:46:58:00	PUBLIC SCHOOLS INCLUDED ARTS,
00:46:58:00	00:47:02:00	MUSIC, HEALTH AND WELLNESS
00:47:02:00	00:47:02:00	SCHOOLS, MEALS, ATHLETICS AND
00:47:02:00	00:47:03:00	PROGRAM FOR UNHOUSED AND AT
00:47:03:00	00:47:05:00	RISK STUDENTS.
00:47:05:00	00:47:06:00	COUNTIES IN TENNIS INCLUDED
00:47:06:00	00:47:09:00	VICE CHAIR PEPEN, KANSAS FLYNN
00:47:09:00	00:47:09:00	SANTANA MURPHY.
00:47:09:00	00:47:13:00	DUNCAN MEJIA CASA PRESIDENT
00:47:13:00	00:47:13:00	LOUIJEUNE CARR COUNSELOR
00:47:13:00	00:47:16:00	FITZGERALD AND WEBER COUNCILOR.
00:47:16:00	00:47:17:00	BREADON SUBMITTED A LETTER
00:47:17:00	00:47:20:00	OF ABSENCE AT THE HEARING.
00:47:20:00	00:47:20:00	WE DISCUSSED THE IMPORTANCE
00:47:20:00	00:47:21:00	OF SERVICES THAT SUPPORT
00:47:21:00	00:47:24:00	STUDENTS BEYOND ACADEMICS WITH
00:47:24:00	00:47:24:00	WELLNESS, SAFETY AND COMMUNITY
00:47:24:00	00:47:28:00	CONNECTION AS CORE TO STUDENT
00:47:28:00	00:47:28:00	SUCCESS.
00:47:28:00	00:47:28:00	COUNSELORS RAISED CONCERNS
00:47:28:00	00:47:31:00	ABOUT FOOD WASTE, THE QUALITY
00:47:31:00	00:47:32:00	OF SCHOOL MEALS AND ACCESS TO
00:47:32:00	00:47:35:00	LOCALLY SOURCED PRODUCE.
00:47:35:00	00:47:36:00	IN LIGHT OF RECENT FEDERAL
00:47:36:00	00:47:36:00	CUTS.
00:47:36:00	00:47:37:00	BP HAS CONFIRMED PLANS TO
00:47:37:00	00:47:39:00	EXPAND IN-HOUSE FOOD PRODUCTION
00:47:39:00	00:47:40:00	TO A PHASED OUT BUILDOUT OF THE
00:47:40:00	00:47:42:00	CENTRAL KITCHEN.
00:47:42:00	00:47:43:00	THE COUNCIL ALSO EXAMINED
00:47:43:00	00:47:43:00	STAFFING LEVEL FOR NURSES AND
00:47:43:00	00:47:47:00	PSYCHOLOGISTS, THE AVAILABILITY
00:47:47:00	00:47:48:00	OF AIDES AND EFFORTS TO SUPPORT
00:47:48:00	00:47:51:00	STUDENT EXPERIENCE
00:47:51:00	00:47:51:00	HOMELESSNESS.
00:47:51:00	00:47:52:00	BP HAS AFFIRMED THAT ALL
00:47:52:00	00:47:55:00	SCHOOLS ARE STAFFED WITH A FULL
00:47:55:00	00:47:56:00	TIME NURSE AND CONTINUE TO
00:47:56:00	00:47:59:00	TRIAGE FAMILY NEEDS THROUGH
00:47:59:00	00:48:00:00	STUDENT SUPPORT TEAMS UPDATES
00:48:00:00	00:48:03:00	AND PROVIDING RESTORATIVE
00:48:03:00	00:48:03:00	JUSTICE PROGRAM ACCESS TO
00:48:03:00	00:48:03:00	SCHOOL LIBRARIES, EXPANSION
00:48:03:00	00:48:07:00	OF ARTS AND MUSIC INSTRUCTION
00:48:07:00	00:48:07:00	AND SUMMER AND WEEKEND
00:48:07:00	00:48:08:00	ENRICHMENT OPPORTUNITIES
00:48:08:00	00:48:11:00	COUNSELORS EMPHASIZED THE NEED
00:48:11:00	00:48:11:00	TO TRACK STUDENT PARTICIPATION
00:48:11:00	00:48:14:00	IN AFTER SCHOOL PROGRAMS AND TO
00:48:14:00	00:48:15:00	PRESERVE IMPACTFUL
00:48:15:00	00:48:15:00	PARTNERSHIPS.
00:48:15:00	00:48:19:00	PARTNERSHIPS ARE AMID BUDGET
00:48:19:00	00:48:21:00	CONSTRAINTS FOR HEARING NUMBER
00:48:21:00	00:48:24:00	THREE ON DOCKET NUMBER
00:48:24:00	00:48:25:00	08222083232 HELD ON TUESDAY
00:48:25:00	00:48:27:00	APRIL 15 AT 10 A.M. THE
00:48:27:00	00:48:27:00	COUNCIL EXAMINED BOSTON PUBLIC
00:48:27:00	00:48:30:00	SCHOOLS LONG TERM FACILITIES
00:48:30:00	00:48:31:00	PLAN FOCUSING ON EMERGING
00:48:31:00	00:48:31:00	TECHNOLOGIES HUBS, SCHOOL
00:48:31:00	00:48:34:00	EXPANSION, TRANSPORTATION AND
00:48:34:00	00:48:35:00	SUPPORT FOR NEW ARRIVALS AND ON
00:48:35:00	00:48:36:00	HOW STUDENTS COUNSELORS IN
00:48:36:00	00:48:39:00	TENNIS INCLUDED VICE CHAIR PEP
00:48:39:00	00:48:39:00	IN CALIBRATING CALIBRATING
00:48:39:00	00:48:43:00	CLASSIC FLYNN WEBER FITZGERALD
00:48:43:00	00:48:44:00	SANTANA MURPHY COLLETTE IS A
00:48:44:00	00:48:47:00	PARTNER HERE AND
00:48:47:00	00:48:47:00	COUNCIL PRESIDENT LOUIJEUNE.
00:48:47:00	00:48:48:00	WE ALSO RECEIVED A LETTER
00:48:48:00	00:48:50:00	OF ABSENCE FROM COUNCIL DURKAN
00:48:50:00	00:48:51:00	.
00:48:51:00	00:48:51:00	QUESTIONS WERE RAISED AROUND
00:48:51:00	00:48:54:00	THE USE OF MBA FUNDING EQUITY
00:48:54:00	00:48:54:00	EQUITY IN SCHOOL CONSOLIDATION
00:48:54:00	00:48:55:00	AND THE COMMUNITY IMPACT
00:48:55:00	00:48:58:00	OF CLOSURES.
00:48:58:00	00:49:01:00	BP'S REPORTED $21 MILLION IN
00:49:01:00	00:49:01:00	SAVINGS FROM RECENT AND
00:49:01:00	00:49:02:00	UPCOMING CONSOLIDATIONS.
00:49:02:00	00:49:05:00	5200 STUDENTS EXPERIENCING
00:49:05:00	00:49:05:00	HOMELESSNESS.
00:49:05:00	00:49:06:00	AND EXPLAIN HOW THE RACIAL
00:49:06:00	00:49:09:00	EQUITY PLAYING INTO A
00:49:09:00	00:49:10:00	MULTI-LINGUAL ENGAGEMENT SHAPE
00:49:10:00	00:49:13:00	TRANSITIONS BRAIN HIGH WAS
00:49:13:00	00:49:13:00	PRAISED AS A RISING REGIONAL
00:49:13:00	00:49:17:00	MODEL WITH INVESTMENTS IN
00:49:17:00	00:49:17:00	SCIENCE LAB SCIENCE LABS, ARTS
00:49:17:00	00:49:20:00	AND ATHLETICS WHILE COUNSELORS
00:49:20:00	00:49:21:00	ADVOCATED FOR MORE COMMUNITY
00:49:21:00	00:49:24:00	USE OF SCHOOL FACILITIES AND
00:49:24:00	00:49:24:00	COORDINATION WITH PARK
00:49:24:00	00:49:24:00	FULFILLED READINESS.
00:49:24:00	00:49:27:00	THE DISTRICT CONFIRMED $20
00:49:27:00	00:49:28:00	MILLION PLACEHOLDER IN THE
00:49:28:00	00:49:28:00	CAPITAL BUDGET FOR THE
00:49:28:00	00:49:31:00	BLACKSTONE SCHOOL WHICH
00:49:31:00	00:49:32:00	REQUIRES A FULL REBUILD AND
00:49:32:00	00:49:32:00	HIGHLIGHTED SHORT TERM REPAIRS
00:49:32:00	00:49:35:00	AND NEW LEADERSHIP IN PLACE TO
00:49:35:00	00:49:35:00	MAINTAIN TO MAINTAIN LEARNING
00:49:35:00	00:49:36:00	CONDITIONS.
00:49:36:00	00:49:39:00	THE WEST THE WEST ROXBURY
00:49:39:00	00:49:40:00	COMPLEX REMAINS VACANT AND IS
00:49:40:00	00:49:42:00	BEING MAINTAINED FOR POTENTIAL
00:49:42:00	00:49:42:00	FUTURE USE.
00:49:42:00	00:49:43:00	HOWEVER, THERE ARE NO IMMEDIATE
00:49:43:00	00:49:46:00	PLANS FOR IT FOR IT BECAUSE
00:49:46:00	00:49:46:00	OF CAPITAL CONSTRAINTS.
00:49:46:00	00:49:46:00	COUNCIL HAS EMPHASIZED THE
00:49:46:00	00:49:49:00	IMPORTANCE OF CONSISTENT
00:49:49:00	00:49:50:00	UPDATES AND STUDENT CENTERED
00:49:50:00	00:49:50:00	PLANNING THROUGHOUT ALL
00:49:50:00	00:49:54:00	FACILITY CHANGES.
00:49:54:00	00:49:54:00	UPDATES WERE ALSO SHARED ON
00:49:54:00	00:49:58:00	IMPROVE ATHLETIC TRANSPORTATION
00:49:58:00	00:49:58:00	WITH 100% COVERAGE SINCE
00:49:58:00	00:49:59:00	FEBRUARY.
00:49:59:00	00:50:02:00	ONGOING AND FUTURE SAVINGS FROM
00:50:02:00	00:50:02:00	THIS FROM THE ZOOM APP AND
00:50:02:00	00:50:03:00	EXPLORATION OF BUS CAMERA
00:50:03:00	00:50:05:00	PARTNERSHIPS.
00:50:05:00	00:50:06:00	COUNCIL REQUESTED MORE
00:50:06:00	00:50:06:00	TRANSPARENCY ON STUDENT IMPACTS
00:50:06:00	00:50:09:00	AND STAFF TRANSITIONS RELATED
00:50:09:00	00:50:10:00	TO CLOSURES AND MERGERS.
00:50:10:00	00:50:12:00	WE'RE HEARING NUMBER FOUR AND
00:50:12:00	00:50:13:00	DOCKET NUMBER 082230833.
00:50:13:00	00:50:16:00	THE COMMITTEE HELD A HEARING ON
00:50:16:00	00:50:17:00	TUESDAY APRIL 15 AT 2 P.M. TO
00:50:17:00	00:50:19:00	REVIEW THE BOSTON PUBLIC
00:50:19:00	00:50:20:00	SCHOOL'S FY 26 BUDGET RELATED
00:50:20:00	00:50:23:00	TO PARTNERSHIPS EXTERNAL FUNDS
00:50:23:00	00:50:24:00	, CENTRAL OFFICE OPERATIONS,
00:50:24:00	00:50:25:00	CONTRACT AND STAFFING AND THE
00:50:25:00	00:50:28:00	BPA TECHNOLOGY REVOLVING FUND
00:50:28:00	00:50:29:00	CAUSES IN ATTENDANCE INCLUDED
00:50:29:00	00:50:32:00	COUNCILORS FLYNN SANTANA,
00:50:32:00	00:50:32:00	MURPHY DURKAN HERE
00:50:32:00	00:50:32:00	COUNCIL PRESIDENT LOUIJEUNE
00:50:32:00	00:50:37:00	CASA FITZGERALD WEBER PRESIDENT
00:50:37:00	00:50:40:00	AND VICE CHAIR PEPEN WHO THAT
00:50:40:00	00:50:40:00	THE END OF THE MEETING IN MY
00:50:40:00	00:50:41:00	ABSENCE THIS HEARING SHIFTED
00:50:41:00	00:50:44:00	THE CONVERSATION THAT DISTRICT
00:50:44:00	00:50:44:00	WIDE OPERATIONS AND LONG TERM
00:50:44:00	00:50:48:00	FINANCIAL PLANNING COST
00:50:48:00	00:50:50:00	COUNCIL HAS EXAMINED HOW BP HAS
00:50:50:00	00:50:50:00	LEVERAGED MORE THAN 700
00:50:50:00	00:50:51:00	PARTNERSHIPS FROM GRASSROOTS
00:50:51:00	00:50:54:00	ORGANIZATIONS TO NONPROFITS TO
00:50:54:00	00:50:56:00	PROVIDE STUDENT INVESTMENT
00:50:56:00	00:50:57:00	INCLUDING THE $5.7 MILLION
00:50:57:00	00:51:00:00	PARTNERSHIP FUND AND THAT'S HOW
00:51:00:00	00:51:01:00	IMPACT IS TRACK EQUITABLY
00:51:01:00	00:51:04:00	DISTRIBUTED DISTRIBUTED.
00:51:04:00	00:51:05:00	THE ADMINISTRATION ALSO
00:51:05:00	00:51:05:00	DISCUSSED REDUCTIONS TO CENTRAL
00:51:05:00	00:51:08:00	OFFICE ROLES AND CONTRACTS
00:51:08:00	00:51:09:00	WHILE ADDING 37 NEW SCHOOL
00:51:09:00	00:51:09:00	BASED TEACHING POSITIONS TO A
00:51:09:00	00:51:12:00	SPORT TO SUPPORT INCLUSIVE AND
00:51:12:00	00:51:12:00	MULTILINGUAL LEARNING.
00:51:12:00	00:51:15:00	THE HEARING INCLUDED UPDATES ON
00:51:15:00	00:51:16:00	THE TECH TECHNOLOGY REVOLVING
00:51:16:00	00:51:19:00	FUND WHICH RECYCLES OLD DEVICES
00:51:19:00	00:51:20:00	TO FIND NEW STUDENT LAPTOPS AND
00:51:20:00	00:51:23:00	PLANS TO MITIGATE FEDERAL
00:51:23:00	00:51:24:00	FUNDING LOSSES POST ESSER CASES
00:51:24:00	00:51:27:00	RAISE CONCERNS ABOUT CONTRACT
00:51:27:00	00:51:28:00	COSTS EQUITY IN AND OUT
00:51:28:00	00:51:31:00	OF DISTRICT PLACEMENTS WHICH
00:51:31:00	00:51:31:00	TOTAL UP TO $50 MILLION
00:51:31:00	00:51:31:00	ANNUALLY.
00:51:31:00	00:51:35:00	TEACHER RETENTION AND SCHOOL
00:51:35:00	00:51:35:00	SAFETY AGREEMENTS WITH PPD
00:51:35:00	00:51:39:00	SUPERINTENDENT, SKIPPER AND CFO
00:51:39:00	00:51:39:00	BLOOM EMPHASIZED THE CONTINUED
00:51:39:00	00:51:40:00	FOCUS ON REALLOCATING RESOURCES
00:51:40:00	00:51:43:00	TOWARDS STUDENT FACING
00:51:43:00	00:51:43:00	SUPPORTS, DEEPENING COMMUNITY
00:51:43:00	00:51:46:00	ENGAGEMENT, ENSURING FISCAL
00:51:46:00	00:51:47:00	FISCAL SUSTAINABILITY ACROSS
00:51:47:00	00:51:47:00	THE DISTRICT.
00:51:47:00	00:51:50:00	SUMMARY OF QUESTIONS IN
00:51:50:00	00:51:50:00	HORRIFIES.
00:51:50:00	00:51:54:00	WE STARTED HEARINGS ON BP'S IN
00:51:54:00	00:51:55:00	NOVEMBER HAVE SEPARATE WORKING
00:51:55:00	00:51:56:00	SESSION BEFORE THIS WEEK'S
00:51:56:00	00:51:58:00	SERIES OF APPEARANCE.
00:51:58:00	00:51:58:00	DURING THAT PROCESS
00:51:58:00	00:51:59:00	COUNCILOR SUBMITTED DOZENS
00:51:59:00	00:52:02:00	OF OUR FILES.
00:52:02:00	00:52:02:00	THESE INCLUDED REQUESTS FOR
00:52:02:00	00:52:03:00	DATA ON INCLUSION INVESTMENTS,
00:52:03:00	00:52:05:00	MULTILINGUAL AND IEP
00:52:05:00	00:52:06:00	DEMOGRAPHICS, POST-SECONDARY
00:52:06:00	00:52:09:00	OUTCOME METRICS AND AFTER
00:52:09:00	00:52:10:00	SCHOOL PARTICIPATION IN SCHOOL
00:52:10:00	00:52:13:00	AT SCHOOL LIBRARY READINESS.
00:52:13:00	00:52:14:00	NOW ALL OF THESE ANSWERS ARE IN
00:52:14:00	00:52:15:00	YOUR BUDGET FOLDERS ALONG WITH
00:52:15:00	00:52:17:00	THE BUDGET BOOK.
00:52:17:00	00:52:17:00	THEY WERE VERY USEFUL DURING
00:52:17:00	00:52:20:00	ALL THESE HEARINGS AND I HOPE
00:52:20:00	00:52:21:00	ALL MY COUNCIL COLLEAGUES HAVE
00:52:21:00	00:52:21:00	UTILIZED UTILIZE THEM.
00:52:21:00	00:52:23:00	AND NEXT UP IN THE BUDGET
00:52:23:00	00:52:24:00	PROCESS WE HAVE OVERVIEWS
00:52:24:00	00:52:25:00	OF THE OPERATING BUDGET IN THE
00:52:25:00	00:52:28:00	CAPITAL PLAN ON THURSDAY AND
00:52:28:00	00:52:28:00	VIRTUAL TESTIMONY ON TUESDAY
00:52:28:00	00:52:29:00	NIGHT.
00:52:29:00	00:52:29:00	AND AS CHAIR OF THE COMMITTEE
00:52:29:00	00:52:31:00	ON WAYS AND MEANS I RECOMMEND
00:52:31:00	00:52:32:00	THAT THESE DOCKETS REMAIN IN
00:52:32:00	00:52:32:00	COMMITTEE.
00:52:32:00	00:52:32:00	THANK YOU.
00:52:32:00	00:52:36:00	THANK YOU COUNCILOR AROUND
00:52:36:00	00:52:36:00	THESE DOCKETS WILL REMAIN IN
00:52:36:00	00:52:36:00	COMMITTEE.
00:52:36:00	00:52:39:00	WE ARE NOW ON TWO MOTIONS,
00:52:39:00	00:52:39:00	ORDERS AND RESOLUTIONS.
00:52:39:00	00:52:40:00	MR CLERK, WOULD YOU PLEASE
00:52:40:00	00:52:43:00	ME DOCKET NUMBER 08990899
00:52:43:00	00:52:46:00	COUNCIL OF S.A. FOR THE
00:52:46:00	00:52:47:00	FOLLOWING ORDINANCE
00:52:47:00	00:52:51:00	ESTABLISHING THE OFFICE OF LGBT
00:52:51:00	00:52:52:00	Q A TO AS PLUS ADVANCEMENT THE
00:52:52:00	00:52:55:00	JARGON AS IS COUNCIL'S INTENT
00:52:55:00	00:52:56:00	AND YOU HAVE THE FLOOR.
00:52:56:00	00:52:58:00	THANK YOU MADAM PRESIDENT.
00:52:58:00	00:53:02:00	BOSTON HAS LONG BEEN A CITY
00:53:02:00	00:53:02:00	THAT LEADS WITH COMPASSION,
00:53:02:00	00:53:03:00	PROGRESS AND JUSTICE.
00:53:03:00	00:53:06:00	BUT WE KNOW THAT TRUE EQUITY
00:53:06:00	00:53:06:00	REQUIRES MORE THAN A SYMBOLIC
00:53:06:00	00:53:07:00	SUPPORT.
00:53:07:00	00:53:09:00	IT REQUIRES STRUCTURE,
00:53:09:00	00:53:09:00	RESOURCES AND DEDICATED
00:53:09:00	00:53:13:00	LEADERSHIP TO MEET THE UNIQUE
00:53:13:00	00:53:13:00	NEEDS OF OUR LGBTQ.
00:53:13:00	00:53:16:00	IA2 PLUS COMMUNITIES ESPECIALLY
00:53:16:00	00:53:19:00	OUR BLACK AND BROWN IMMIGRANTS
00:53:19:00	00:53:22:00	TRANS AND NON-BINARY NEIGHBORS
00:53:22:00	00:53:23:00	WHO CONTINUE TO FACE SYSTEMATIC
00:53:23:00	00:53:26:00	SYSTEMATIC DISPARITIES IN
00:53:26:00	00:53:26:00	HEALTH CARE, HOUSING,
00:53:26:00	00:53:30:00	EMPLOYMENT AND SAFETY.
00:53:30:00	00:53:31:00	SO I SAY THAT I ALSO SAY THAT I
00:53:31:00	00:53:34:00	WILL ALSO BE WITHDRAWING THIS
00:53:34:00	00:53:34:00	ORDINANCE TODAY FROM THE CITY
00:53:34:00	00:53:38:00	COUNCIL AND I WILL BE REFILING
00:53:38:00	00:53:41:00	AND AT THE NEXT COUNCIL MEETING
00:53:41:00	00:53:41:00	.
00:53:41:00	00:53:42:00	I JUST WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT I
00:53:42:00	00:53:45:00	AM COMMUNICATING WITH MY CITY
00:53:45:00	00:53:46:00	COUNCIL COLLEAGUES.
00:53:46:00	00:53:46:00	I ALSO WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT
00:53:46:00	00:53:47:00	I'M COMMUNICATING WITH THE
00:53:47:00	00:53:49:00	OFFICE OF LGBTQ ADVANCEMENT AND
00:53:49:00	00:53:52:00	THEN WE'RE ALSO THE COMMUNITY
00:53:52:00	00:53:53:00	MEMBERS.
00:53:53:00	00:53:53:00	SO I WILL BE FOLLOWING THIS AND
00:53:53:00	00:53:54:00	WE'LL BE WITHDRAWING TODAY.
00:53:54:00	00:53:57:00	THANK YOU MADAM PRESIDENT.
00:53:57:00	00:53:57:00	THANK YOU, COUNCILOR SANTANA.
00:53:57:00	00:53:58:00	THIS DOCKET HAS BEEN WITHDRAWN.
00:53:58:00	00:54:01:00	MR CLAIR, COULD YOU PLEASE
00:54:01:00	00:54:04:00	REDACT THE NUMBER 09000900
00:54:04:00	00:54:04:00	COUNCIL ON MEJIA FOR THE
00:54:04:00	00:54:07:00	FOLLOWING ORDINANCE CREATING A
00:54:07:00	00:54:07:00	MUNICIPAL IDENTIFICATION CARD
00:54:07:00	00:54:11:00	IN THE CITY OF BOSTON.
00:54:11:00	00:54:12:00	THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES
00:54:12:00	00:54:12:00	COUNCILOR MEJIA YOU HAVE THE
00:54:12:00	00:54:12:00	FLOOR.
00:54:12:00	00:54:14:00	THANK YOU, MADAM PRESIDENT.
00:54:14:00	00:54:15:00	AND I WANT TO THANK MY
00:54:15:00	00:54:17:00	COLLEAGUE COUNCILOR SANTANA FOR
00:54:17:00	00:54:18:00	HIS WORK IN THIS SPACE AND
00:54:18:00	00:54:21:00	BASED ON OUR THAT WE HAD
00:54:21:00	00:54:25:00	PREVIOUSLY REGARDING THE UM THE
00:54:25:00	00:54:26:00	ORDINANCE THAT WAS JUST READ
00:54:26:00	00:54:29:00	INTO THE RECORD I BELIEVE
00:54:29:00	00:54:33:00	COUNCILOR ANDERSON WHO IS NOT
00:54:33:00	00:54:33:00	HERE TODAY HAS BEEN LEADING IN
00:54:33:00	00:54:34:00	THAT SPACE.
00:54:34:00	00:54:37:00	SO I'M HAPPY TO HEAR THAT.
00:54:37:00	00:54:40:00	WE'RE GOING TO BE PAUSING AND
00:54:40:00	00:54:41:00	MAKING SURE THAT THERE IS SOME
00:54:41:00	00:54:45:00	RECOGNITION AND SOME SUPPORT
00:54:45:00	00:54:45:00	AROUND SOME OF THE FOLKS THAT
00:54:45:00	00:54:46:00	HAVE BEEN DOING THIS.
00:54:46:00	00:54:48:00	SO THANK YOU,
00:54:48:00	00:54:48:00	COUNCILOR SANTANA.
00:54:48:00	00:54:52:00	SO I AM PROUD TO INTRODUCE THIS
00:54:52:00	00:54:56:00	ORDINANCE TO CREATE A MUNICIPAL
00:54:56:00	00:54:56:00	I.D. PROGRAM IN BOSTON.
00:54:56:00	00:54:57:00	IT WAS SHAPED IN PARTNERSHIP
00:54:57:00	00:55:03:00	WITH OVER 45 LGBTQ IA2 PLUS
00:55:03:00	00:55:03:00	ADVOCATES AND ROOTED IN THE
00:55:03:00	00:55:06:00	LEADERSHIP OF THE TRANS LATINA
00:55:06:00	00:55:07:00	MANY OF US WHO ARE HERE TODAY
00:55:07:00	00:55:10:00	WITH US FACING ONGOING SYSTEMIC
00:55:10:00	00:55:11:00	BARRIERS ESPECIALLY UNDER THE
00:55:11:00	00:55:14:00	CURRENT FEDERAL CLIMATE.
00:55:14:00	00:55:15:00	THEY CALLED FOR A CITY I.D. AND
00:55:15:00	00:55:18:00	WE SAW CLEAR OPPORTUNITY TO
00:55:18:00	00:55:19:00	BUILD UPON THEN FIRST OF ALL,
00:55:19:00	00:55:22:00	OUR CURRENT MAYOR WHO WHO WAS A
00:55:22:00	00:55:25:00	CITY COUNCILOR AT THE TIME WHEN
00:55:25:00	00:55:26:00	SHE FIRST INTRODUCED IT.
00:55:26:00	00:55:28:00	AND THEN COUNCILOR ARROYO
00:55:28:00	00:55:32:00	PICKED UP THE BATON IN 2022
00:55:32:00	00:55:32:00	WITH FEDERAL RESTRICTIONS
00:55:32:00	00:55:36:00	TARGETING TRANS AND IMMIGRANT
00:55:36:00	00:55:36:00	COMMUNITIES.
00:55:36:00	00:55:36:00	AND ALTHOUGH WE UNDERSTAND THAT
00:55:36:00	00:55:40:00	THE COMMONWEALTH HAS ALREADY
00:55:40:00	00:55:40:00	TAKEN IMPORTANT STEPS WITH THE
00:55:40:00	00:55:43:00	FAMILY MOBILITY ACT, A STATE
00:55:43:00	00:55:44:00	LEVEL PROGRESS STILL REMAINS
00:55:44:00	00:55:44:00	INCOMPLETE.
00:55:44:00	00:55:47:00	THE CITY HAS BOTH THE
00:55:47:00	00:55:48:00	OPPORTUNITY AND RESPONSIBILITY
00:55:48:00	00:55:51:00	TO STEP IN AND CLOSE THE GAP.
00:55:51:00	00:55:52:00	BEYOND EXPANDING ACCESS AND
00:55:52:00	00:55:52:00	DIGNITY.
00:55:52:00	00:55:55:00	WE'RE ACTIVELY EXPLORING HOW A
00:55:55:00	00:55:59:00	MUNICIPAL ID CAN SERVE MULTIPLE
00:55:59:00	00:55:59:00	FUNCTIONS BY WORKING ACROSS
00:55:59:00	00:55:59:00	CITY DEPARTMENTS.
00:55:59:00	00:56:03:00	WE'RE IN CONVERSATION WITH
00:56:03:00	00:56:03:00	PARTNERS LIKE MOLA AND LOOKING
00:56:03:00	00:56:04:00	TO ENGAGE THE OFFICE
00:56:04:00	00:56:07:00	OF RETURNING CITIZENS TO
00:56:07:00	00:56:08:00	IDENTIFY HOW THIS ID COULD
00:56:08:00	00:56:10:00	SUPPORT BROADER ACCESS TO
00:56:10:00	00:56:11:00	SERVICES INCLUDING FOR OUR OUR
00:56:11:00	00:56:14:00	AND HOUSED RESIDENTS AND
00:56:14:00	00:56:15:00	PROMOTE FINANCIAL INCLUSION BY
00:56:15:00	00:56:18:00	ENCOURAGING ACCEPTANCE AT BANKS
00:56:18:00	00:56:21:00	SHELTERS AND HEALTH CENTERS AS
00:56:21:00	00:56:22:00	WE EXPAND THE SCOPE OF WHAT THE
00:56:22:00	00:56:22:00	CITY CAN DO.
00:56:22:00	00:56:25:00	WE'RE ALSO PRIORITIZING
00:56:25:00	00:56:25:00	COMMUNITY TRUST BY ENSURING
00:56:25:00	00:56:28:00	DATA PRIVACY AND PROTECTIONS
00:56:28:00	00:56:29:00	ARE BUILT INTO THE DESIGN FROM
00:56:29:00	00:56:29:00	THE START.
00:56:29:00	00:56:33:00	AND JUST FOR THOSE WHO MAY NOT
00:56:33:00	00:56:33:00	KNOW MUNICIPAL ID PROGRAMS IN
00:56:33:00	00:56:36:00	NEW YORK, CHICAGO.
00:56:36:00	00:56:36:00	OAKLAND.
00:56:36:00	00:56:37:00	LOS ANGELES.
00:56:37:00	00:56:37:00	TRENTON.
00:56:37:00	00:56:41:00	WASHINGTON, D.C. PRINCETON, SAN
00:56:41:00	00:56:41:00	FRANCISCO.
00:56:41:00	00:56:44:00	NEW HAVEN AMONG OTHERS HAVE ALL
00:56:44:00	00:56:48:00	SEEN WIDESPREAD SUCCESS.
00:56:48:00	00:56:49:00	THE CITY OF BOSTON CAN CHOOSE
00:56:49:00	00:56:52:00	TO FILL THIS GAP AND MAKING
00:56:52:00	00:56:53:00	SURE THAT WE ARE MEETING THE
00:56:53:00	00:56:56:00	MOMENT ESPECIALLY FOR OUR TRANS
00:56:56:00	00:56:56:00	AND IMMIGRANT COMMUNITIES
00:56:56:00	00:56:57:00	BECAUSE AT THE INTERSECTION
00:56:57:00	00:57:00:00	OF BOTH THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT
00:57:00:00	00:57:03:00	IS MAKING SURE THAT THEY DO IN
00:57:03:00	00:57:04:00	THEIR POWER TO CREATE CHAOS AND
00:57:04:00	00:57:04:00	FEAR.
00:57:04:00	00:57:07:00	SO THIS IS AN OPPORTUNITY FOR
00:57:07:00	00:57:11:00	US HERE ON THE MUNICIPAL LEVEL
00:57:11:00	00:57:11:00	TO PROVIDE A SENSE OF SECURITY
00:57:11:00	00:57:12:00	TO THOSE THAT WE LOVE.
00:57:12:00	00:57:15:00	THANK YOU.
00:57:15:00	00:57:15:00	THANK YOU.
00:57:15:00	00:57:16:00	COUNCILOR MEJIA IS ANYONE ELSE
00:57:16:00	00:57:18:00	LOOKING TO SPEAK ON THIS
00:57:18:00	00:57:18:00	MATTER?
00:57:18:00	00:57:19:00	WOULD ANYONE ELSE LIKE TO ADD
00:57:19:00	00:57:22:00	THEIR NAME?
00:57:22:00	00:57:22:00	MR. CLERK PLEASE ADD COUNCILORS
00:57:22:00	00:57:25:00	BREADON FITZGERALD.
00:57:25:00	00:57:30:00	SORRY.
00:57:30:00	00:57:30:00	PLEASE ADD COUNCILORS BREADON
00:57:30:00	00:57:33:00	CLAUDIA ZAPATA FITZGERALD.
00:57:33:00	00:57:33:00	PIPPIN SANTANA.
00:57:33:00	00:57:33:00	WEBER WORLD.
00:57:33:00	00:57:36:00	PLEASE ADD THE CHAIR THIS
00:57:36:00	00:57:39:00	DOCKET DOCKET NUMBER 0900 WILL
00:57:39:00	00:57:40:00	BE REFERRED TO THE COMMITTEE ON
00:57:40:00	00:57:40:00	GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS.
00:57:40:00	00:57:44:00	MR. CLERK YOU PLEASE READ
00:57:44:00	00:57:49:00	DOCKET NUMBER 09010901
00:57:49:00	00:57:49:00	COUNCIL'S LOUIJEUNE AND BREADON
00:57:49:00	00:57:53:00	FOR THE FOLLOWING PETITION FOR
00:57:53:00	00:57:56:00	A SPECIAL LAW RELATIVE TO ENACT
00:57:56:00	00:57:57:00	WELL TO THE OFFICE OF DISTRICT
00:57:57:00	00:58:00:00	COUNCILOR IN THE CITY BOSTON.
00:58:00:00	00:58:00:00	THANK YOU.
00:58:00:00	00:58:01:00	THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES
00:58:01:00	00:58:04:00	COUNCIL PRESIDENT LOUIJEUNE.
00:58:04:00	00:58:05:00	MADAM PRESIDENT, YOU HAVE THE
00:58:05:00	00:58:05:00	FLOOR.
00:58:05:00	00:58:08:00	THANK YOU, MR CHAIR.
00:58:08:00	00:58:08:00	AND THANK YOU TO MY COLLEAGUES
00:58:08:00	00:58:12:00	AND TO EVERYONE I WANT TO THANK
00:58:12:00	00:58:15:00	COMMUNITY FOR THEIR WORK AND
00:58:15:00	00:58:16:00	SHEPHERDING US TO GET THIS
00:58:16:00	00:58:16:00	DONE.
00:58:16:00	00:58:19:00	I AM SEEKING SUSPENDING PASSAGE
00:58:19:00	00:58:24:00	FOR THIS ORDINANCE.
00:58:24:00	00:58:25:00	I'M GOING TO EXPLAIN WHY IT FOR
00:58:25:00	00:58:25:00	THIS  PETITION.
00:58:25:00	00:58:28:00	THIS ONE MORE PETITION DOES TWO
00:58:28:00	00:58:28:00	THINGS.
00:58:28:00	00:58:31:00	IT WOULD WAIVE THE SPECIAL
00:58:31:00	00:58:32:00	ELECTION IN THE EVENT THAT
00:58:32:00	00:58:35:00	THERE IS A VACANCY IN THE
00:58:35:00	00:58:38:00	DISTRICT COUNCIL SEAT IN
00:58:38:00	00:58:39:00	DISTRICT SEVEN AND TWO IT WOULD
00:58:39:00	00:58:42:00	ENSURE THAT WHOEVER IS ELECTED
00:58:42:00	00:58:43:00	TO THE DISTRICT SEVEN SEAT IN
00:58:43:00	00:58:46:00	NOVEMBER IS SEATED AS
00:58:46:00	00:58:49:00	EXPEDITIOUSLY AS POSSIBLE UPON
00:58:49:00	00:58:50:00	CERTIFICATION OF ELECTION
00:58:50:00	00:58:53:00	RESULTS IN NOVEMBER.
00:58:53:00	00:58:54:00	THIS HOMER PETITION MAY BE A
00:58:54:00	00:58:57:00	MOOT POINT AS SOME OF YOU MAY
00:58:57:00	00:58:58:00	EXPLAIN BECAUSE AT THIS MOMENT
00:58:58:00	00:59:01:00	THERE IS NOT A VACANCY IN THE
00:59:01:00	00:59:04:00	DISTRICT SEVEN COUNCIL SEAT AND
00:59:04:00	00:59:07:00	THERE MAY NOT BE ONE BY THE
00:59:07:00	00:59:07:00	DEADLINE OF MAY EIGHT.
00:59:07:00	00:59:11:00	BUT THIS IS US BEING PROACTIVE
00:59:11:00	00:59:15:00	AND PROVIDING CERTAINTY TO THE
00:59:15:00	00:59:15:00	RESIDENTS OF DISTRICT SEVEN AND
00:59:15:00	00:59:19:00	TO EVERYONE INVOLVED ABOUT WHAT
00:59:19:00	00:59:19:00	THE TIMELINE FOR ELECTIONS
00:59:19:00	00:59:22:00	WOULD BE.
00:59:22:00	00:59:23:00	WE ARE MOVING WANT TO MOVE
00:59:23:00	00:59:26:00	QUICKLY ON THIS HRP SO THAT WE
00:59:26:00	00:59:27:00	CAN ACTUALLY GIVE THE RESIDENTS
00:59:27:00	00:59:31:00	OF D7 TIME AND MAKING SURE THAT
00:59:31:00	00:59:31:00	THEY'RE ABLE TO THAT AND ELECT
00:59:31:00	00:59:32:00	THE CANDIDATE OF THEIR CHOICE
00:59:32:00	00:59:35:00	AND I WANT TO THANK RECLAIM
00:59:35:00	00:59:35:00	ROXBURY.
00:59:35:00	00:59:38:00	I WANT TO THANK SO MANY IN THE
00:59:38:00	00:59:38:00	ROXBURY COMMUNITY.
00:59:38:00	00:59:39:00	I WANT TO THANK OUR MASS VOTE
00:59:39:00	00:59:42:00	PEOPLE ARE USED TO DOING THE
00:59:42:00	00:59:43:00	WORK OF EMPOWERING BLACK AND
00:59:43:00	00:59:46:00	BROWN COMMUNITIES WHO HAVE
00:59:46:00	00:59:49:00	ASKED US TO PUSH THIS FORWARD.
00:59:49:00	00:59:50:00	I HOPE WE CAN TAKE A VOTE TODAY
00:59:50:00	00:59:51:00	IF WE'RE NOT ABLE TO.
00:59:51:00	00:59:53:00	THERE'S TIME ON THE CALENDAR
00:59:53:00	00:59:54:00	FRIDAY FOR US TO CONVENE AND
00:59:54:00	00:59:57:00	MEET ON THIS MATTER.
00:59:57:00	00:59:57:00	IT'S IMPORTANT THAT TO NOTE
00:59:57:00	00:59:58:00	THAT WE'VE HAD CONVERSATIONS
00:59:58:00	01:00:01:00	WITH COLLEAGUES WITH ELECTED IN
01:00:01:00	01:00:04:00	OUR STATE LEGISLATURE STATE
01:00:04:00	01:00:05:00	REPRESENTATIVE CHINA TYLER
01:00:05:00	01:00:08:00	STATE SENATOR LUIS MIRANDA,
01:00:08:00	01:00:09:00	STATE REP JOHN MORAN, STATE REP
01:00:09:00	01:00:12:00	CHRIS LAUREL AND ALL IN
01:00:12:00	01:00:12:00	ALIGNMENT IN AGREEMENT WITH THE
01:00:12:00	01:00:13:00	COMMUNITY GROUPS THAT HAVE
01:00:13:00	01:00:16:00	ASKED US TO REALLY PUSH THIS
01:00:16:00	01:00:16:00	FORWARD TO GIVE CERTAINTY TO
01:00:16:00	01:00:19:00	ROXBURY RESIDENTS AND TO ALL
01:00:19:00	01:00:19:00	THE RESIDENTS OF 87 THAT
01:00:19:00	01:00:20:00	INCLUDES THE SOUTH END THAT
01:00:20:00	01:00:22:00	INCLUDE INCLUDES PARTS
01:00:22:00	01:00:22:00	OF FENWAY.
01:00:22:00	01:00:23:00	I WAS IN ROXBURY LAST NIGHT.
01:00:23:00	01:00:25:00	I WAS IN ROXBURY ON SUNDAY AND
01:00:25:00	01:00:26:00	TALKING TO COMMUNITY MEMBERS
01:00:26:00	01:00:26:00	AND THE GENERAL OVERALL FEELING
01:00:26:00	01:00:30:00	AND SENSE WAS A SPECIAL
01:00:30:00	01:00:30:00	ELECTION WOULD NOT BE IN THE
01:00:30:00	01:00:34:00	INTEREST OF THE RESIDENTS
01:00:34:00	01:00:34:00	OF DISTRICT SEVEN.
01:00:34:00	01:00:35:00	IF YOU LOOK AT THE HOME
01:00:35:00	01:00:37:00	OF PETITION THERE ARE TWO
01:00:37:00	01:00:38:00	TABLES AND TWO COUNT THAT I PUT
01:00:38:00	01:00:41:00	THAT SHOWS YOU WHAT THE
01:00:41:00	01:00:41:00	CALENDAR WOULD LOOK LIKE ON THE
01:00:41:00	01:00:44:00	MOST EXPEDITIOUS CALENDAR
01:00:44:00	01:00:45:00	POSSIBLE IF FOR EXAMPLE TODAY
01:00:45:00	01:00:49:00	WE GOT NOTICE OF A VACANCY IN
01:00:49:00	01:00:50:00	DISTRICT SEVEN AND EVEN WITH US
01:00:50:00	01:00:53:00	MOVING AS QUICKLY AS POSSIBLE
01:00:53:00	01:00:53:00	AS QUICKLY AS ALLOWED UNDER THE
01:00:53:00	01:00:56:00	CHARTER, THAT WOULD STILL MEAN
01:00:56:00	01:00:57:00	THAT THE PERSON WHO WOULD WIN A
01:00:57:00	01:01:00:00	SPECIAL ELECTION WOULD NOT GET
01:01:00:00	01:01:04:00	INTO THE C PRIOR TO EARLY TO
01:01:04:00	01:01:04:00	MID AUGUST AND THEN THEY WOULD
01:01:04:00	01:01:08:00	BE RUNNING FOR REELECTION AND
01:01:08:00	01:01:09:00	THEY WOULD BE RUNNING IN A
01:01:09:00	01:01:10:00	GENERAL PRELIMINARY SEPTEMBER
01:01:10:00	01:01:11:00	9TH AND IN THE GENERAL NOVEMBER
01:01:11:00	01:01:11:00	4TH.
01:01:11:00	01:01:14:00	THAT IS UNNECESSARY FOR
01:01:14:00	01:01:15:00	DISTRICT SEVEN AT THIS POINT.
01:01:15:00	01:01:18:00	WE KNOW THAT COMMUNITY IN
01:01:18:00	01:01:21:00	DISTRICT SEVEN THEY ALREADY
01:01:21:00	01:01:22:00	EXPERIENCED A LOW VOTER TURNOUT
01:01:22:00	01:01:24:00	AND THAT IT BECOMES MORE
01:01:24:00	01:01:25:00	EXPONENTIAL DURING A SPECIAL
01:01:25:00	01:01:25:00	ELECTION.
01:01:25:00	01:01:28:00	AND I WANT AND I UNDERSTAND
01:01:28:00	01:01:29:00	THAT THERE ARE ARGUMENTS ON
01:01:29:00	01:01:30:00	BOTH SIDES HERE BUT I THINK
01:01:30:00	01:01:32:00	THAT THE BEST THING FOR US TO
01:01:32:00	01:01:33:00	DO TO SHOW LEADERSHIP FOR THE
01:01:33:00	01:01:36:00	CITY TO GIVE CERTAINTY TO THE
01:01:36:00	01:01:37:00	RESIDENTS OF DISTRICT SEVEN TO
01:01:37:00	01:01:37:00	BE WORKING IN PARTNERSHIP WITH
01:01:37:00	01:01:40:00	WITH COMMUNITY IS TO MAKE SURE
01:01:40:00	01:01:41:00	THAT WE CAN GIVE PEOPLE
01:01:41:00	01:01:43:00	ASSURANCE ON WHAT THE ELECTION
01:01:43:00	01:01:44:00	SCHEDULE WOULD BE.
01:01:44:00	01:01:47:00	MY HEART LITERALLY DROPS WHEN
01:01:47:00	01:01:48:00	HEAR FROM RESIDENTS WHO SAY I
01:01:48:00	01:01:48:00	HAD NO IDEA THERE WAS AN
01:01:48:00	01:01:48:00	ELECTION.
01:01:48:00	01:01:51:00	I DIDN'T VOTE BECAUSE I DIDN'T
01:01:51:00	01:01:52:00	KNOW THAT HAPPENS EVEN MORE SO
01:01:52:00	01:01:54:00	WHEN YOU HAVE A SPECIAL
01:01:54:00	01:01:55:00	ELECTION AND I CAN TELL YOU
01:01:55:00	01:01:56:00	THAT AS SOMEONE WHO HAS WORKED
01:01:56:00	01:01:58:00	IN VOTING RIGHTS WHO CARES
01:01:58:00	01:01:58:00	DEEPLY ABOUT PROMOTING
01:01:58:00	01:02:01:00	DEMOCRACY, WHO WAS A STUDENT
01:02:01:00	01:02:02:00	OF DEMOCRACY AND NOW AS AN
01:02:02:00	01:02:03:00	ELECTED A PRACTITIONER
01:02:03:00	01:02:05:00	OF DEMOCRACY, THIS IS ALL ABOUT
01:02:05:00	01:02:06:00	HOW WE ARE BRINGING THE PEOPLE
01:02:06:00	01:02:10:00	CLOSER TO DEMOCRACY.
01:02:10:00	01:02:10:00	AND I UNDERSTAND THE QUESTIONS
01:02:10:00	01:02:11:00	OF REPRESENTATION WHICH IS WHY
01:02:11:00	01:02:13:00	THIS FORMAL PETITION GOES OUT
01:02:13:00	01:02:14:00	OF ITS WAY TO ENSURE THAT
01:02:14:00	01:02:17:00	WHOEVER WINS IN NOVEMBER WOULD
01:02:17:00	01:02:17:00	ALSO BE SEATED.
01:02:17:00	01:02:18:00	SO I'M ASKING MY COLLEAGUES TO
01:02:18:00	01:02:21:00	SUPPORT THIS AND I THANK YOU
01:02:21:00	01:02:21:00	FOR THE TIME.
01:02:21:00	01:02:22:00	THANK YOU.
01:02:22:00	01:02:22:00	THANK YOU.
01:02:22:00	01:02:25:00	THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES
01:02:25:00	01:02:25:00	COUNCILOR BREADON CASTLE, YOU
01:02:25:00	01:02:26:00	HAVE THE FLOOR.
01:02:26:00	01:02:28:00	THANK YOU, MR CHAIR.
01:02:28:00	01:02:32:00	AND I RISE TO ALSO THANK MY
01:02:32:00	01:02:32:00	COLLEAGUE AND MADAM PRESIDENT
01:02:32:00	01:02:35:00	LOUIJEUNE FOR BRINGING THIS
01:02:35:00	01:02:36:00	PETITION FORWARD.
01:02:36:00	01:02:39:00	I THINK IT'S REALLY IMPORTANT
01:02:39:00	01:02:40:00	TO TO DO THIS.
01:02:40:00	01:02:43:00	AS SHE SAID, THIS TAKES AWAY A
01:02:43:00	01:02:44:00	LOT OF THE UNCERTAINTY AROUND
01:02:44:00	01:02:47:00	TIMELINES, ETC. AND WHEN YOU
01:02:47:00	01:02:47:00	LOOK AT THE STATISTICS FOR
01:02:47:00	01:02:51:00	TURNOUT IN SPECIAL ELECTIONS IN
01:02:51:00	01:02:54:00	OFF YEARS WHEN THERE ISN'T A
01:02:54:00	01:02:55:00	MAYORAL RACE, IT'S VERY, VERY
01:02:55:00	01:02:58:00	LOW AND EVEN IN A MAYORAL
01:02:58:00	01:03:01:00	ELECTION CYCLE IF THERE'S A IF
01:03:01:00	01:03:04:00	THERE'S A MAYORAL REELECTION AS
01:03:04:00	01:03:05:00	WE HAVE THIS YEAR, THE TURNOUT
01:03:05:00	01:03:08:00	IN DISTRICT SEVEN IS USUALLY
01:03:08:00	01:03:08:00	33%.
01:03:08:00	01:03:11:00	BUT IF IT'S NOT IF IT'S A
01:03:11:00	01:03:12:00	SPECIAL ELECTION, THE TURNOUT
01:03:12:00	01:03:16:00	IN THAT SCENARIO DROPS DOWN TO
01:03:16:00	01:03:19:00	IS THERE NO 8%.
01:03:19:00	01:03:20:00	IT'S A DRAMATIC DROP.
01:03:20:00	01:03:23:00	SO IT'S REALLY IMPORTANT THAT
01:03:23:00	01:03:24:00	FIRST OF ALL THERE'S NO VACANCY
01:03:24:00	01:03:27:00	AS A AS OF TODAY WE HAVE NO
01:03:27:00	01:03:27:00	VACANCY.
01:03:27:00	01:03:28:00	THERE'S A LARGE FIELD
01:03:28:00	01:03:30:00	OF CANDIDATES RUNNING FOR
01:03:30:00	01:03:31:00	DISTRICT SEVEN AND THE
01:03:31:00	01:03:35:00	COMMUNITY AS
01:03:35:00	01:03:35:00	COUNCILOR PRESIDENT LOUIJEUNE
01:03:35:00	01:03:38:00	HAS ALREADY MENTIONED HAS
01:03:38:00	01:03:39:00	EXPRESSED THE INTEREST AND THE
01:03:39:00	01:03:42:00	IMPORTANCE OF MAKING SURE THAT
01:03:42:00	01:03:45:00	WE PROVIDE THE DISTRICT SEVEN
01:03:45:00	01:03:49:00	COMMUNITY WITH AN ADEQUATE TIME
01:03:49:00	01:03:50:00	TO MEET AND MEET THEIR
01:03:50:00	01:03:53:00	CANDIDATES A LARGE FIELD AND
01:03:53:00	01:03:53:00	MAKE THE BEST DECISION FOR
01:03:53:00	01:03:54:00	DISTRICT SEVEN.
01:03:54:00	01:03:57:00	I THINK THERE'S NO BENEFIT
01:03:57:00	01:03:58:00	OF SPEAKING PERSONALLY.
01:03:58:00	01:04:01:00	I THINK THAT I AM DOING
01:04:01:00	01:04:05:00	SKIPPING OR NOT HAVING A
01:04:05:00	01:04:05:00	SPECIAL ELECTION ALLOWS THE
01:04:05:00	01:04:06:00	CANDIDATES AND THE RESIDENTS TO
01:04:06:00	01:04:09:00	REALLY GET TO KNOW EACH OTHER
01:04:09:00	01:04:09:00	AS THEY PROBABLY DO ALREADY BUT
01:04:09:00	01:04:13:00	TO REALLY GET INTO THE DETAILS
01:04:13:00	01:04:13:00	OF WHAT THEIR VISION IS FOR THE
01:04:13:00	01:04:19:00	DISTRICT AND COME UP WITH THEIR
01:04:19:00	01:04:20:00	CHOICE OF THE BEST CANDIDATE TO
01:04:20:00	01:04:22:00	REPRESENT THE DISTRICT SO I
01:04:22:00	01:04:23:00	URGE MY COLLEAGUES TO VOTE TO
01:04:23:00	01:04:27:00	IN SUPPORT OF SUSPENDING THE
01:04:27:00	01:04:27:00	POWERS OF THIS HOME RULE
01:04:27:00	01:04:27:00	PETITION TODAY.
01:04:27:00	01:04:28:00	THANK YOU.
01:04:28:00	01:04:31:00	THANK YOU.
01:04:31:00	01:04:32:00	THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES CASSIUS
01:04:32:00	01:04:32:00	CLAY AS A PATRICK CASSIDY
01:04:32:00	01:04:36:00	OF THE FLOOR.
01:04:36:00	01:04:37:00	THANK YOU SO MUCH COUNCIL FOR
01:04:37:00	01:04:40:00	ALL AND I BELIEVE I WAS AFTER
01:04:40:00	01:04:41:00	COUNCILOR MEJIA SO I WANT TO
01:04:41:00	01:04:42:00	SEE MY TIME BE COUNCILOR MEJIA
01:04:42:00	01:04:44:00	AS OKAY.
01:04:44:00	01:04:44:00	I'M SORRY.
01:04:44:00	01:04:52:00	I LOVE THE ARIC AS A COLLEAGUE,
01:04:52:00	01:04:56:00	AS A PARTNER TO WHOEVER I WAS.
01:04:56:00	01:04:56:00	OKAY.
01:04:56:00	01:04:58:00	I JUST WANT TO BE COGNIZANT
01:04:58:00	01:04:59:00	OF FAIRNESS HERE.
01:04:59:00	01:05:00:00	SO I AM IN FAVOR OF THIS FORM
01:05:00:00	01:05:02:00	PETITION.
01:05:02:00	01:05:02:00	UH, I THINK THE STRONGEST
01:05:02:00	01:05:05:00	ARGUMENT FOR ME IN CANCELING
01:05:05:00	01:05:06:00	THE SPECIAL ELECTION AND
01:05:06:00	01:05:06:00	ALIGNING WITH THE REGULAR
01:05:06:00	01:05:10:00	ELECTION CYCLE IS ROOTED IN OUR
01:05:10:00	01:05:10:00	UNDERSTANDING OF WHAT DEMOCRACY
01:05:10:00	01:05:13:00	TRULY REQUIRES.
01:05:13:00	01:05:13:00	IT ISN'T JUST ABOUT CASTING
01:05:13:00	01:05:14:00	BALLOTS.
01:05:14:00	01:05:14:00	IT'S ABOUT PEOPLE COMING
01:05:14:00	01:05:17:00	TOGETHER IN CONVERSATION IN
01:05:17:00	01:05:18:00	COMMUNITY WITH A SHARED VISION.
01:05:18:00	01:05:21:00	IT'S ABOUT NEIGHBORS TALKING TO
01:05:21:00	01:05:21:00	NEIGHBORS HAVING THE TIME TO
01:05:21:00	01:05:24:00	MEET CANDIDATES AND FULLY
01:05:24:00	01:05:25:00	ENGAGE IN A FULL AND THOUGHTFUL
01:05:25:00	01:05:28:00	DISCUSSION ABOUT THE FUTURE
01:05:28:00	01:05:28:00	OF OUR CITY.
01:05:28:00	01:05:32:00	BOSTON HAS ALWAYS BEEN A CITY
01:05:32:00	01:05:33:00	THAT HAS A EXTREMELY DEEP CIVIC
01:05:33:00	01:05:35:00	CULTURE.
01:05:35:00	01:05:36:00	YOU REALLY HAVE TO SHOW UP AND
01:05:36:00	01:05:40:00	WIN THE TRUST OF VOTERS.
01:05:40:00	01:05:41:00	YOU HAVE TO EARN IT AND
01:05:41:00	01:05:44:00	CANDIDATES NEED TO SHOW UP IN
01:05:44:00	01:05:45:00	EVERY NEIGHBORHOOD, SPEAK EVERY
01:05:45:00	01:05:48:00	SINGLE LANGUAGE AND BUILD REAL
01:05:48:00	01:05:48:00	GRASSROOTS SUPPORT.
01:05:48:00	01:05:52:00	WE DID THIS IN 2021.
01:05:52:00	01:05:53:00	MEMBERS OF THIS BODY VOTED FOR
01:05:53:00	01:05:55:00	THAT.
01:05:55:00	01:05:58:00	WE DID IT IN 2021 WITH THE
01:05:58:00	01:06:02:00	MAYORAL ELECTION AND HAD THIS
01:06:02:00	01:06:03:00	BEEN PRODUCED IN 2023.
01:06:03:00	01:06:06:00	I WOULD HAVE VOTED FOR IT AND
01:06:06:00	01:06:06:00	WE HAD THIS IN FRONT OF US
01:06:06:00	01:06:09:00	TODAY AND I THINK THAT IT IS
01:06:09:00	01:06:10:00	THE RIGHT THING TO DO.
01:06:10:00	01:06:12:00	THERE ARE BROADER CONVERSATIONS
01:06:12:00	01:06:13:00	THAT WE HAVE TO HAVE AS A
01:06:13:00	01:06:14:00	COUNCIL ABOUT POTENTIALLY
01:06:14:00	01:06:17:00	CHANGING THIS LAW AND I AM ALL
01:06:17:00	01:06:18:00	HERE FOR THAT.
01:06:18:00	01:06:21:00	IF THAT GETS PRODUCED AND PUT
01:06:21:00	01:06:22:00	IN MY COMMITTEE I WILL HAPPILY
01:06:22:00	01:06:23:00	CO-SPONSOR IT AND PASS IT
01:06:23:00	01:06:25:00	EXPEDITIOUSLY BUT IT JUST
01:06:25:00	01:06:26:00	SIMPLY DOES NOT MAKE SENSE TO
01:06:26:00	01:06:32:00	HAVE FOUR ELECTIONS IN ONE YEAR
01:06:32:00	01:06:32:00	POSTPONING THIS DECISION TO THE
01:06:32:00	01:06:36:00	REGULAR ELECTION ALLOWS FOR A
01:06:36:00	01:06:37:00	FULLER, FAIRER DEMOCRATIC
01:06:37:00	01:06:40:00	PROCESS AND SO THAT'S WHY I
01:06:40:00	01:06:41:00	SUPPORT THE SUMMER PETITION AND
01:06:41:00	01:06:43:00	WANT TO THANK THE ORIGINAL
01:06:43:00	01:06:44:00	CO-SPONSORS FOR PUTTING
01:06:44:00	01:06:44:00	FORWARD.
01:06:44:00	01:06:44:00	THANK YOU.
01:06:44:00	01:06:48:00	THANK YOU.
01:06:48:00	01:06:49:00	THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES
01:06:49:00	01:06:49:00	COUNCILOR MEJIA.
01:06:49:00	01:06:50:00	COUNCILOR, YOU HAVE THE FLOOR.
01:06:50:00	01:06:52:00	THANK YOU, MR CHAIR.
01:06:52:00	01:06:52:00	AND I WANT TO THANK MY
01:06:52:00	01:06:53:00	COLLEAGUES FOR THEIR LEADERSHIP
01:06:53:00	01:06:56:00	IN THIS SPACE AND REALLY
01:06:56:00	01:06:56:00	UNDERSTANDING WHAT THIS MOMENT
01:06:56:00	01:06:57:00	IS ALL ABOUT.
01:06:57:00	01:07:00:00	I JUST WANT TO GO ON THE RECORD
01:07:00:00	01:07:01:00	IN RISING IN SUPPORT OF THIS
01:07:01:00	01:07:03:00	HOME RULE PETITION BECAUSE THE
01:07:03:00	01:07:03:00	VOTERS OF DISTRICT SEVEN
01:07:03:00	01:07:06:00	DESERVE A FAIR AND TRANSPARENT
01:07:06:00	01:07:07:00	PROCESS TO CHOOSE WHO WILL
01:07:07:00	01:07:07:00	REPRESENT THEM.
01:07:07:00	01:07:10:00	RIGHT NOW WHAT DISTRICT SEVEN
01:07:10:00	01:07:11:00	NEEDS IS MORE STABILITY.
01:07:11:00	01:07:14:00	WE MUST NOT ACT PREMATURELY OR
01:07:14:00	01:07:14:00	UNDERMINE THE COMMUNITY'S RIGHT
01:07:14:00	01:07:18:00	TO BE A PART OF THIS DECISION.
01:07:18:00	01:07:18:00	THIS PETITION ENSURES THE
01:07:18:00	01:07:19:00	INTEGRITY OF THE PROCESS AND
01:07:19:00	01:07:22:00	RESPECTS THE VOICES OF THE
01:07:22:00	01:07:22:00	PEOPLE.
01:07:22:00	01:07:23:00	AND I'LL JUST SAY THAT, YOU
01:07:23:00	01:07:26:00	KNOW, AS SOMEONE WHO WON BY ONE
01:07:26:00	01:07:27:00	VOTE, I UNDERSTAND HOW HARD IT
01:07:27:00	01:07:29:00	IS TO MOBILIZE COMMUNITIES,
01:07:29:00	01:07:29:00	PARTICULARLY COMMUNITIES
01:07:29:00	01:07:33:00	OF COLOR TO DO ANYTHING.
01:07:33:00	01:07:34:00	AND THE IDEA THAT WE'RE GOING
01:07:34:00	01:07:37:00	TO EVEN THINK THAT WE CAN
01:07:37:00	01:07:40:00	COMPARE DISTRICT EIGHT TO
01:07:40:00	01:07:41:00	DISTRICT SEVEN UNDER THESE
01:07:41:00	01:07:44:00	CIRCUMSTANCES IS TO ME I FEEL
01:07:44:00	01:07:47:00	LIKE MORE OF A POLITICAL
01:07:47:00	01:07:48:00	PLAYBOOK HERE AND I THINK I'M
01:07:48:00	01:07:49:00	GOING TO PUSH BACK ON THIS
01:07:49:00	01:07:52:00	WHOLE NOTION BECAUSE HERE ON
01:07:52:00	01:07:55:00	THIS BODY I'VE BEEN CONSISTENT
01:07:55:00	01:07:56:00	IN SUPPORTING WAIVING SPECIAL
01:07:56:00	01:07:59:00	ELECTIONS BECAUSE SPECIAL
01:07:59:00	01:08:00:00	ELECTIONS ONLY FAVOR SPECIAL
01:08:00:00	01:08:03:00	INTERESTS AND PEOPLE WHO HAVE
01:08:03:00	01:08:04:00	POWER AND POLITICAL POWER
01:08:04:00	01:08:07:00	BROKERS BEHIND THEM.
01:08:07:00	01:08:10:00	AND RIGHT NOW WE HAVE NOT EVEN
01:08:10:00	01:08:11:00	WE DON'T EVEN KNOW WHAT'S GOING
01:08:11:00	01:08:12:00	TO HAPPEN WITH WHETHER OR NOT
01:08:12:00	01:08:14:00	OUR COUNCIL COLLEAGUE IS GOING
01:08:14:00	01:08:15:00	TO VACATE.
01:08:15:00	01:08:16:00	SO I THINK EVERYBODY NEEDS TO
01:08:16:00	01:08:18:00	JUST PAUSE AND ALLOW DEMOCRACY
01:08:18:00	01:08:22:00	TO PLAY OUT AND GIVE THE VOTERS
01:08:22:00	01:08:23:00	OF ROXBURY AN OPPORTUNITY TO
01:08:23:00	01:08:26:00	FULLY VET THOSE FOLKS WHO ARE
01:08:26:00	01:08:27:00	RUNNING RIGHT NOW.
01:08:27:00	01:08:27:00	PEOPLE ARE POPPING OFF THE
01:08:27:00	01:08:30:00	WOODWORKS IN THIS MOMENT TO
01:08:30:00	01:08:31:00	RUSH THIS ELECTION IS TO
01:08:31:00	01:08:33:00	FURTHER DISENFRANCHIZE DISTRICT
01:08:33:00	01:08:34:00	SEVEN.
01:08:34:00	01:08:37:00	SO I AM GOING TO SAY FOR THE
01:08:37:00	01:08:38:00	RECORD IF PEOPLE WANT TO BE
01:08:38:00	01:08:41:00	ABOUT THE PEOPLE THIS IS THE
01:08:41:00	01:08:42:00	OPPORTUNITY TO SHOW UP FOR THE
01:08:42:00	01:08:45:00	PEOPLE AND NOT TAKE AWAY
01:08:45:00	01:08:49:00	DISTRICT SEVEN'S ABILITY TO
01:08:49:00	01:08:50:00	FULLY VET SOMEONE WHO IS GOING
01:08:50:00	01:08:53:00	TO REPRESENT THEM IN THE
01:08:53:00	01:08:53:00	FUTURE.
01:08:53:00	01:08:56:00	WE CANNOT COMPARE BEACON HILL
01:08:56:00	01:08:57:00	TO FORT HILL.
01:08:57:00	01:09:00:00	WE CAN'T NOT IN THIS MOMENT.
01:09:00:00	01:09:01:00	AND SO IT'S REALLY IMPORTANT
01:09:01:00	01:09:04:00	FOR US TO BE RESPONSIBLE AND
01:09:04:00	01:09:05:00	FOR ALL OF US HERE AS
01:09:05:00	01:09:07:00	COLLEAGUES THERE'S 13 CITY
01:09:07:00	01:09:08:00	COUNCILORS AND I KNOW YOU ALL
01:09:08:00	01:09:10:00	HAVE YOUR OWN DISTRICTS TO
01:09:10:00	01:09:11:00	REPRESENT BUT WE HAVE FOUR AT
01:09:11:00	01:09:14:00	LARGE CITY COUNCILORS, RIGHT?
01:09:14:00	01:09:15:00	WE CAN STAND IN THAT GAP
01:09:15:00	01:09:17:00	BECAUSE WE'VE DONE IT IN THE
01:09:17:00	01:09:18:00	PAST AND BECAUSE WE KNOW THAT
01:09:18:00	01:09:18:00	WE COULD DO IT.
01:09:18:00	01:09:21:00	WE HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY TO STEP
01:09:21:00	01:09:24:00	UP FOR ROXBURY IN A BIG WAY AND
01:09:24:00	01:09:25:00	THAT IS THROUGH CONSTITUENT
01:09:25:00	01:09:26:00	SERVICES THAT IS MAKING SURE
01:09:26:00	01:09:29:00	THAT WHATEVER VOTES WE'RE GOING
01:09:29:00	01:09:30:00	TO TAKE AROUND THE BUDGET IF WE
01:09:30:00	01:09:31:00	GET TO THAT POINT THAT WE ARE
01:09:31:00	01:09:32:00	ENGAGING DISTRICT SEVEN.
01:09:32:00	01:09:33:00	BUT WHAT WE'RE NOT GOING TO DO
01:09:33:00	01:09:36:00	IS PLAY THE THE THE RACE CARD
01:09:36:00	01:09:41:00	AROUND THE VOTERS WHEN YOU CAN
01:09:41:00	01:09:42:00	DO THIS TO WHITE VOTERS AND YOU
01:09:42:00	01:09:43:00	CAN DO IT TO BLACK VOTERS AND
01:09:43:00	01:09:44:00	VICE VERSA, IT'S NOT ABOUT THAT
01:09:44:00	01:09:47:00	HISTORICALLY WE KNOW THAT
01:09:47:00	01:09:48:00	PEOPLE OF COLOR HAVE A HARD
01:09:48:00	01:09:51:00	TIME MOBILIZING TO GET OUT THE
01:09:51:00	01:09:51:00	VOTE.
01:09:51:00	01:09:52:00	THAT'S VERY DIFFERENT IN
01:09:52:00	01:09:52:00	DISTRICT EIGHT.
01:09:52:00	01:09:55:00	AND SO IT IS NOT ABOUT POLICY.
01:09:55:00	01:09:59:00	IT IS ABOUT DEMOCRACY.
01:09:59:00	01:09:59:00	THANK YOU.
01:09:59:00	01:10:00:00	THANK YOU.
01:10:00:00	01:10:00:00	THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES
01:10:00:00	01:10:00:00	COUNCILOR PEPEN.
01:10:00:00	01:10:02:00	COUNCILOR, YOU HAVE THE FLOOR.
01:10:02:00	01:10:06:00	THANK YOU, MR CHAIR.
01:10:06:00	01:10:07:00	I BEGIN BY SAYING THIS THAT I
01:10:07:00	01:10:08:00	DEEPLY RESPECT AND VALUE THE
01:10:08:00	01:10:10:00	COMMUNITY OF ROXBURY AND THE
01:10:10:00	01:10:10:00	ENTIRETY OF DISTRICT SEVEN.
01:10:10:00	01:10:14:00	I KNOW HOW STRONG, VIBRANT AND
01:10:14:00	01:10:14:00	RESILIENT THIS COMMUNITY IS
01:10:14:00	01:10:15:00	BECAUSE I'VE SEEN FIRSTHAND THE
01:10:15:00	01:10:18:00	LEADERSHIP AND CARE.
01:10:18:00	01:10:19:00	WHEN I WORKED FOR TWO YEARS FOR
01:10:19:00	01:10:21:00	FORMER DISTRICT SEVEN CITY
01:10:21:00	01:10:21:00	COUNCILOR TITO JACKSON WHO WAS
01:10:21:00	01:10:24:00	ACTUALLY A PRODUCT OF A SPECIAL
01:10:24:00	01:10:25:00	ACTION.
01:10:25:00	01:10:25:00	ROXBURY DESERVES REPRESENTATION
01:10:25:00	01:10:29:00	NOT JUST ANY REPRESENTATION BUT
01:10:29:00	01:10:29:00	BOLD, DEDICATED AND CONSISTENT
01:10:29:00	01:10:32:00	LEADERSHIP THAT SPEAKS TO THE
01:10:32:00	01:10:33:00	NEEDS OF THE PEOPLE EVERY
01:10:33:00	01:10:33:00	SINGLE DAY.
01:10:33:00	01:10:36:00	THAT IS WHY THIS DECISION TO
01:10:36:00	01:10:37:00	HAVE A SPECIAL ELECTION OR NOT
01:10:37:00	01:10:40:00	IS NOT EASY.
01:10:40:00	01:10:41:00	SPECIAL ELECTION BY DESIGN IS
01:10:41:00	01:10:43:00	MEANT TO FILL A VACANCY QUICKLY
01:10:43:00	01:10:44:00	AND ENSURES THAT COMMUNITIES
01:10:44:00	01:10:47:00	AREN'T LEFT WITHOUT A VOICE.
01:10:47:00	01:10:48:00	ON PAPER THAT SOUNDS LIKE THE
01:10:48:00	01:10:51:00	RIGHT THING TO DO AND OFTEN IT
01:10:51:00	01:10:51:00	IS.
01:10:51:00	01:10:54:00	BUT IN THIS CASE THE TIMING
01:10:54:00	01:10:55:00	MATTERS.
01:10:55:00	01:10:55:00	IF THERE WERE IF THERE WERE TO
01:10:55:00	01:10:59:00	BE A SPECIAL ELECTION THERE
01:10:59:00	01:11:00:00	WOULD BE MORE THAN LIKELY TO BE
01:11:00:00	01:11:00:00	A SPECIAL ELECTION SOMETIME IN
01:11:00:00	01:11:03:00	ABOUT LATE JULY OR AUGUST TO
01:11:03:00	01:11:03:00	THEN HAVE THE CANDIDATES RUN
01:11:03:00	01:11:04:00	AGAIN FOR THE SEPTEMBER
01:11:04:00	01:11:07:00	PRELIMINARY ELECTION OR THE
01:11:07:00	01:11:07:00	NOVEMBER GENERAL ELECTION.
01:11:07:00	01:11:08:00	THE PROMISE OF A SPECIAL
01:11:08:00	01:11:10:00	ELECTION IT WOULD PROVIDE A
01:11:10:00	01:11:14:00	DISTRICT SEVEN A VOICE SOONER.
01:11:14:00	01:11:15:00	IT SENDS A MESSAGE THAT WE
01:11:15:00	01:11:16:00	DON'T WE WON'T ALLOW ANY
01:11:16:00	01:11:18:00	COMMUNITY TO GO UNREPRESENTED.
01:11:18:00	01:11:18:00	BUT THE CONS ARE THAT THE
01:11:18:00	01:11:21:00	TIMELINE WOULD CREATE A
01:11:21:00	01:11:21:00	SITUATION WHERE A CANDIDATE
01:11:21:00	01:11:22:00	MIGHT SERVE FOR JUST A FEW
01:11:22:00	01:11:25:00	WEEKS BEFORE HAVING TO CAMPAIGN
01:11:25:00	01:11:26:00	AGAIN REDUCING THEIR ABILITY TO
01:11:26:00	01:11:27:00	MEANINGFULLY SERVE DURING THAT
01:11:27:00	01:11:29:00	TIME.
01:11:29:00	01:11:30:00	MOST IMPORTANTLY, IT RISK
01:11:30:00	01:11:30:00	CREATING VOTER FATIGUE AND
01:11:30:00	01:11:33:00	CONFUSION PARTICULARLY IN A
01:11:33:00	01:11:34:00	DISTRICT THAT RIGHT NOW
01:11:34:00	01:11:36:00	DESERVES FLAHERTY AND FULL
01:11:36:00	01:11:37:00	ENGAGEMENT IN THEIR LEADERSHIP
01:11:37:00	01:11:37:00	PROCESS.
01:11:37:00	01:11:41:00	I'VE BEEN WEIGHING THE PROS AND
01:11:41:00	01:11:42:00	CONS FOR HOW TO VOTE ON THIS.
01:11:42:00	01:11:45:00	THE HOMER PETITION PUT FORTH
01:11:45:00	01:11:46:00	THEY WOULD ALLOW THE CANDIDATE
01:11:46:00	01:11:46:00	WHO WINS THE ELECTION IN
01:11:46:00	01:11:48:00	NOVEMBER TO TAKE THEIR SEAT
01:11:48:00	01:11:49:00	SOONER RATHER THAN LATER AND
01:11:49:00	01:11:52:00	NOT WAIT UNTIL JANUARY AS
01:11:52:00	01:11:53:00	USUAL, SOMETHING WE SHOULD ALSO
01:11:53:00	01:11:54:00	CONSIDER IS TO MAKE SURE THAT
01:11:54:00	01:11:57:00	WE ARE ALL STEPPING UP TO THE
01:11:57:00	01:11:57:00	PLATE HERE.
01:11:57:00	01:11:58:00	THERE'S FOUR AT LARGE CITY
01:11:58:00	01:12:01:00	COUNCILORS AND EVEN I I YES I
01:12:01:00	01:12:01:00	REPRESENT DISTRICT FIVE.
01:12:01:00	01:12:04:00	I CAN SHOW UP TO THE ROXBURY AS
01:12:04:00	01:12:05:00	WELL AND ALL OF US WE CAN DO
01:12:05:00	01:12:05:00	THAT IN THIS TIME.
01:12:05:00	01:12:08:00	MY DECISION TO NOT SUPPORT A
01:12:08:00	01:12:09:00	SPECIAL ELECTION DOES NOT COME
01:12:09:00	01:12:09:00	FROM A PLACE OF APATHY.
01:12:09:00	01:12:11:00	IT COMES FROM A PLACE
01:12:11:00	01:12:12:00	OF STRATEGY AND CARE.
01:12:12:00	01:12:13:00	I WANT TO SEE THE RESIDENTS
01:12:13:00	01:12:15:00	OF ROXBURY LET SOMEONE WHO IS
01:12:15:00	01:12:16:00	READY AND ABLE TO SERVE A LONG
01:12:16:00	01:12:19:00	TERM SOMEONE CHOSEN THROUGH A
01:12:19:00	01:12:20:00	CLEAR, ROBUST AND FAIR PROCESS
01:12:20:00	01:12:23:00	NOT A RUSHED ONE.
01:12:23:00	01:12:25:00	SO TO THE PEOPLE OF DISTRICT
01:12:25:00	01:12:26:00	OF DISTRICT SEVEN I HEAR YOU.
01:12:26:00	01:12:29:00	I SUPPORT YOU AND I WILL
01:12:29:00	01:12:30:00	CONTINUE TO WORK WITH MY
01:12:30:00	01:12:30:00	COLLEAGUES TO AND ADVOCATES FOR
01:12:30:00	01:12:33:00	THE RESOURCES POLICIES AND
01:12:33:00	01:12:34:00	ATTENTION YOU DESERVE.
01:12:34:00	01:12:34:00	WE WANT TO ENSURE YOUR CONCERNS
01:12:34:00	01:12:37:00	ARE LIFTED AND ADDRESSED EVEN
01:12:37:00	01:12:38:00	WHILE THIS SEAT IS IN QUESTION.
01:12:38:00	01:12:41:00	THANK YOU.
01:12:41:00	01:12:41:00	THANK YOU.
01:12:41:00	01:12:42:00	THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES
01:12:42:00	01:12:42:00	COUNCILOR MURPHY.
01:12:42:00	01:12:43:00	COUNCILOR, YOU HAVE THE FLOOR.
01:12:43:00	01:12:45:00	THANK YOU.
01:12:45:00	01:12:45:00	THANK YOU.
01:12:45:00	01:12:46:00	AND I THINK ALL OF US OR MOST
01:12:46:00	01:12:48:00	OF US PUTTING OUR LIGHTS ON
01:12:48:00	01:12:52:00	SPEAK TO THE IMPORTANCE
01:12:52:00	01:12:53:00	OF PUTTING THIS IN COMMITTEE SO
01:12:53:00	01:12:53:00	THAT WE CAN HAVE A HEARING IN
01:12:53:00	01:12:56:00	THE GOVERNMENT OFFICE AND WE
01:12:56:00	01:12:57:00	KNOW THAT THERE ARE TIMES OPEN
01:12:57:00	01:13:00:00	TO DO THAT.
01:13:00:00	01:13:00:00	SO RUSHING TO JUST HAVE ANOTHER
01:13:00:00	01:13:03:00	SPECIAL COUNCIL MEETING WHICH
01:13:03:00	01:13:04:00	WOULD I ASSUME CIRCUMVENT THE
01:13:04:00	01:13:07:00	NEED FOR ALL OF US TO BE ON
01:13:07:00	01:13:08:00	BOARD TODAY.
01:13:08:00	01:13:09:00	I THINK IT SPEAKS TO US NOT
01:13:09:00	01:13:11:00	BEING ABLE TO REALLY TALK
01:13:11:00	01:13:11:00	THROUGH IT.
01:13:11:00	01:13:15:00	I THINK IT ALSO BRINGS UP THE
01:13:15:00	01:13:15:00	POINT WHICH I'VE THOUGHT ABOUT
01:13:15:00	01:13:15:00	A LOT.
01:13:15:00	01:13:18:00	I WAS SWORN IN BECAUSE OF A
01:13:18:00	01:13:21:00	VOTE ON THE COUNCIL BACK THEN
01:13:21:00	01:13:22:00	IN 21 WHERE THEY KNEW WHEN
01:13:22:00	01:13:25:00	BECAUSE THERE WAS LOTS
01:13:25:00	01:13:26:00	OF CONVERSATION ABOUT WHETHER
01:13:26:00	01:13:28:00	OR NOT MAYOR WALSH WOULD LEAVE
01:13:28:00	01:13:29:00	BEFORE THAT MAGICAL 180 DAY AND
01:13:29:00	01:13:33:00	MANY OF THOSE CONVERSATIONS ON
01:13:33:00	01:13:33:00	THE COUNCIL WERE SIMILAR TO
01:13:33:00	01:13:36:00	WHAT WE'RE FEELING NOW.
01:13:36:00	01:13:37:00	WILL IT BE RUSHED?
01:13:37:00	01:13:40:00	SHOULD WE HAVE THE CURRENT
01:13:40:00	01:13:41:00	COUNCIL PRESIDENT WHO WAS THE
01:13:41:00	01:13:41:00	ACTING MAYOR?
01:13:41:00	01:13:44:00	LIKE THERE WAS LOTS
01:13:44:00	01:13:45:00	OF CONVERSATIONS.
01:13:45:00	01:13:47:00	PEOPLE HAD LOTS OF GOOD STRONG
01:13:47:00	01:13:48:00	COMPELLING ARGUMENTS ON BOTH
01:13:48:00	01:13:49:00	SIDES BUT AS WE SAW THAT
01:13:49:00	01:13:51:00	HAPPENED THEN THE MAYOR DIDN'T
01:13:51:00	01:13:55:00	LEAVE EARLY ENOUGH SO THE
01:13:55:00	01:13:56:00	DEBATE OVER WHETHER OR NOT
01:13:56:00	01:13:58:00	THERE WOULD BE A SPECIAL FOR
01:13:58:00	01:13:59:00	THAT MAYORAL TIME WAS MOOT AND
01:13:59:00	01:14:00:00	IT MAY BE LIKE IT'S ALREADY
01:14:00:00	01:14:03:00	BEEN BROUGHT UP HERE SOMETHING
01:14:03:00	01:14:04:00	WE DON'T EVEN NEED TO DEAL
01:14:04:00	01:14:04:00	WITH.
01:14:04:00	01:14:06:00	IF THE COUNCIL FROM DISTRICT
01:14:06:00	01:14:09:00	SEVEN DOES NOT RESIGN BEFORE
01:14:09:00	01:14:09:00	MAY 8TH AND IT'S MY
01:14:09:00	01:14:10:00	UNDERSTANDING IT COULD THE
01:14:10:00	01:14:14:00	SOONEST IT COULD HAPPEN IS THE
01:14:14:00	01:14:14:00	FIFTH.
01:14:14:00	01:14:14:00	SO THERE IS A SMALL WINDOW
01:14:14:00	01:14:17:00	OF WHEN HER RESIGNATION MAY
01:14:17:00	01:14:18:00	HAPPEN BEFORE THAT DEADLINE.
01:14:18:00	01:14:22:00	BUT I DO ALSO WANT TO SAY I
01:14:22:00	01:14:22:00	RESPECTFULLY DISAGREE AND I'LL
01:14:22:00	01:14:25:00	SHARE THE REASONS WHY I DO
01:14:25:00	01:14:25:00	DISAGREE.
01:14:25:00	01:14:29:00	AS AN AT LARGE CITY COUNCILOR I
01:14:29:00	01:14:30:00	AM COMPELLED TO ADDRESS THIS
01:14:30:00	01:14:33:00	RECENT HOME RULE PETITION WHICH
01:14:33:00	01:14:33:00	SEEKS TO CANCEL A SPECIAL
01:14:33:00	01:14:36:00	ELECTION IN DISTRICT SEVEN TO
01:14:36:00	01:14:36:00	ME.
01:14:36:00	01:14:37:00	I BELIEVE THAT THIS MOVE WOULD
01:14:37:00	01:14:40:00	DENY RESIDENTS OF ROXBURY,
01:14:40:00	01:14:40:00	DORCHESTER, FENWAY AND THE
01:14:40:00	01:14:43:00	SOUTH END THEIR RIGHTFUL
01:14:43:00	01:14:44:00	REPRESENTATION AT CITY HALL
01:14:44:00	01:14:47:00	DISTRICT SEVEN BOSTON'S LARGEST
01:14:47:00	01:14:47:00	BLACK COMMUNITY HAS
01:14:47:00	01:14:51:00	HISTORICALLY FACED UNDER
01:14:51:00	01:14:51:00	REPRESENTATION AND ECONOMIC
01:14:51:00	01:14:54:00	CHALLENGES, DENYING THEM A
01:14:54:00	01:14:55:00	VOICE NOW ONLY PERPETUATES THIS
01:14:55:00	01:14:58:00	INJUSTICE.
01:14:58:00	01:14:59:00	TWO YEARS AGO WHEN
01:14:59:00	01:14:59:00	COUNCILOR KENZIE BOURQUE
01:14:59:00	01:15:03:00	RESIGNED, WE PROMPTLY HELD A
01:15:03:00	01:15:03:00	SPECIAL ELECTION IN DISTRICT
01:15:03:00	01:15:03:00	EIGHT.
01:15:03:00	01:15:07:00	THERE WERE TWO CANDIDATES AND
01:15:07:00	01:15:10:00	VOTERS IN BACK BAY BEACON HILL
01:15:10:00	01:15:10:00	, FENWAY, KENMORE WEST END IN
01:15:10:00	01:15:11:00	THE MISSION HILL HAD THEIR
01:15:11:00	01:15:14:00	VOICES HEARD THAT TIMELINE AS
01:15:14:00	01:15:18:00	WE KNOW MANY OF US WERE HERE.
01:15:18:00	01:15:19:00	THE LETTER WENT TO THE CLERK IN
01:15:19:00	01:15:22:00	THE BEGINNING OF APRIL AND HER
01:15:22:00	01:15:23:00	RESIGNATION WAS IN THE AT THE
01:15:23:00	01:15:25:00	END OF APRIL.
01:15:25:00	01:15:26:00	THE WINNER WHO IS OUR COLLEAGUE
01:15:26:00	01:15:29:00	NOW WAS SWORN IN AT THE END
01:15:29:00	01:15:29:00	OF JULY.
01:15:29:00	01:15:33:00	THAT'S FOUR MONTHS SOONER THAN
01:15:33:00	01:15:34:00	WHAT A CANCELED SPECIAL
01:15:34:00	01:15:34:00	ELECTION IF THERE IS NECESSARY.
01:15:34:00	01:15:38:00	WHAT WOULD HAPPEN BECAUSE I DO
01:15:38:00	01:15:38:00	AGREE THAT IF THE SPECIAL
01:15:38:00	01:15:41:00	ELECTION IS CANCELED OR SHE
01:15:41:00	01:15:42:00	LEAVES AFTER THE DATE WHEN WE
01:15:42:00	01:15:45:00	CAN HOLD ONE MAKING SURE THAT
01:15:45:00	01:15:48:00	WHOEVER WINS THE SPECIAL
01:15:48:00	01:15:49:00	ELECTION IS ALLOWED TO GET
01:15:49:00	01:15:53:00	SWORN IN SOONER AFTER THE VOTES
01:15:53:00	01:15:53:00	ARE CERTIFIED.
01:15:53:00	01:15:54:00	CONCERNS ABOUT THE COST AND
01:15:54:00	01:15:57:00	VOTER FATIGUE ARE VALID BUT NOT
01:15:57:00	01:15:57:00	INSURMOUNTABLE.
01:15:57:00	01:15:58:00	THEY ARE VERY SURMOUNTABLE.
01:15:58:00	01:16:00:00	THE VALUE OF ENSURING THAT ALL
01:16:00:00	01:16:01:00	RESIDENTS HAVE REPRESENTATION
01:16:01:00	01:16:04:00	IN CITY GOVERNMENT OUTWEIGHS
01:16:04:00	01:16:04:00	THESE EXPENSES.
01:16:04:00	01:16:08:00	THE TIMELINE OUTLINED BY MY
01:16:08:00	01:16:08:00	COLLEAGUES ASSUMES VOTER
01:16:08:00	01:16:11:00	CONFUSION AND ADMINISTRATIVE
01:16:11:00	01:16:11:00	STRAIN.
01:16:11:00	01:16:14:00	BUT WHAT I HEAR FROM DISTRICT
01:16:14:00	01:16:14:00	SEVEN IS DIFFERENT.
01:16:14:00	01:16:15:00	THEY WANT THEIR VOICES AT THE
01:16:15:00	01:16:18:00	TABLE NOW.
01:16:18:00	01:16:19:00	THEY DON'T WANT TO WAIT AND I
01:16:19:00	01:16:21:00	DO JUST WANT TO SHARE THE MANY
01:16:21:00	01:16:25:00	HISTORICAL PRESIDENCIES WHEN
01:16:25:00	01:16:25:00	OUR ELECTION DEPARTMENT WHOSE
01:16:25:00	01:16:29:00	JOB IS TO NOT ONLY HOLD THE
01:16:29:00	01:16:33:00	GENERAL AND REGULAR ELECTIONS
01:16:33:00	01:16:34:00	EVERY YEAR BUT TO ALSO WHEN A
01:16:34:00	01:16:35:00	NEED FOR A SPECIAL ELECTION
01:16:35:00	01:16:37:00	HAPPENS THAT WE DO THAT TOO.
01:16:37:00	01:16:40:00	DAN CULLINANE WAS ELECTED IN
01:16:40:00	01:16:41:00	2013 UNDER A SPECIAL ELECTION
01:16:41:00	01:16:44:00	TO THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
01:16:44:00	01:16:44:00	FOLLOWING THE RESIGNATION
01:16:44:00	01:16:45:00	OF REPRESENTATIVE LINDA
01:16:45:00	01:16:48:00	JOSEPHINE, A FOURIE DAN HUNT
01:16:48:00	01:16:51:00	WON HIS SPECIAL ELECTION IN
01:16:51:00	01:16:54:00	2014 IN THE 13TH SUFFOLK
01:16:54:00	01:16:54:00	DISTRICT AFTER THEN
01:16:54:00	01:16:54:00	REPRESENTATIVE MARTIN J.
01:16:54:00	01:16:58:00	WALSH RESIGNED TO BECOME THE
01:16:58:00	01:16:58:00	MAYOR OF BOSTON.
01:16:58:00	01:17:01:00	ADRIAN MORROW, ELECTED IN A
01:17:01:00	01:17:03:00	2015 SPECIAL ELECTION FOR THE
01:17:03:00	01:17:04:00	FIRST SUFFOLK DISTRICT
01:17:04:00	01:17:04:00	SUCCEEDING REPRESENTATIVE CARLO
01:17:04:00	01:17:08:00	BASIL WHO RESIGNED TO SERVE AS
01:17:08:00	01:17:08:00	CHIEF SECRETARY AND GOVERNOR
01:17:08:00	01:17:11:00	CHARLIE BAKER AS ADMINISTRATOR
01:17:11:00	01:17:11:00	.
01:17:11:00	01:17:15:00	JOHN MORAN SECURED THE NINTH
01:17:15:00	01:17:15:00	SUFFOLK DISTRICT SEAT IN 2000.
01:17:15:00	01:17:17:00	IN A 2023 SPECIAL ELECTION
01:17:17:00	01:17:20:00	FOLLOWING THE RESIGNATION
01:17:20:00	01:17:21:00	OF REPRESENTATIVE JOHN SANTIAGO
01:17:21:00	01:17:25:00	WHO WENT ON TO HEAD THE NEWLY
01:17:25:00	01:17:25:00	FORMED VETERANS OF THE STATE
01:17:25:00	01:17:29:00	BILL MCGREGOR WON THE 10TH
01:17:29:00	01:17:29:00	SUFFOLK DISTRICT SEAT IN A 2023
01:17:29:00	01:17:32:00	SPECIAL ELECTION AFTER
01:17:32:00	01:17:32:00	REPRESENTATIVE ED COPPINGER
01:17:32:00	01:17:33:00	RESIGNED.
01:17:33:00	01:17:39:00	LINDA ZERO FOUR WAS ELECTED IN
01:17:39:00	01:17:40:00	A 2013 SPECIAL ELECTION TO THE
01:17:40:00	01:17:43:00	STATE SENATE SERVING FIRST
01:17:43:00	01:17:43:00	SUFFOLK DISTRICT SUCCEEDING
01:17:43:00	01:17:47:00	SENATOR JACK HARTE.
01:17:47:00	01:17:50:00	NICK COLLINS WON A 2018 SPECIAL
01:17:50:00	01:17:50:00	ELECTION FOR THE FIRST SUFFOLK
01:17:50:00	01:17:53:00	DISTRICT SENATE SEAT AFTER
01:17:53:00	01:17:54:00	LINDA DORSEY BEFORE HE
01:17:54:00	01:17:54:00	RESIGNED.
01:17:54:00	01:17:57:00	I LIVE IN THAT DISTRICT.
01:17:57:00	01:17:58:00	WAS THERE A LOT OF ELECTIONS?
01:17:58:00	01:18:01:00	YES.
01:18:01:00	01:18:02:00	DID IT STOP THE VOTERS AND THE
01:18:02:00	01:18:05:00	CANDIDATES TO GET THEIR VOICES
01:18:05:00	01:18:05:00	OUT?
01:18:05:00	01:18:06:00	NO, I DON'T BELIEVE IT DID.
01:18:06:00	01:18:09:00	LYDIA EDWARDS WAS ELECTED
01:18:09:00	01:18:09:00	ELECTED IN A 2022 SPECIAL
01:18:09:00	01:18:12:00	ELECTION TO THE STATE SENATE
01:18:12:00	01:18:13:00	FOR SUFFOLK AND MIDDLESEX
01:18:13:00	01:18:13:00	DISTRICT FOLLOWING SENATOR
01:18:13:00	01:18:17:00	JOSEPH COREY'S RESIGNATION.
01:18:17:00	01:18:21:00	NOW I'LL SPEAK TO THE SPECIAL
01:18:21:00	01:18:22:00	ELECTIONS THAT HAVE HAPPENED IN
01:18:22:00	01:18:22:00	RECENT YEARS HERE ON THE
01:18:22:00	01:18:22:00	COUNCIL.
01:18:22:00	01:18:25:00	STEPHEN J.
01:18:25:00	01:18:26:00	MURPHY WAS ELECTED AT LARGE IN
01:18:26:00	01:18:28:00	A 1993 SPECIAL ELECTION
01:18:28:00	01:18:28:00	FOLLOWING THE PASSING
01:18:28:00	01:18:31:00	OF CHRISTOPHER ION ELA.
01:18:31:00	01:18:32:00	JOHN TOBIN WON A 2001 SPECIAL
01:18:32:00	01:18:36:00	ELECTION IN DISTRICT SIX AFTER
01:18:36:00	01:18:36:00	COUNCILOR TAMARA HENNIGAN
01:18:36:00	01:18:39:00	VACATED THE SEAT.
01:18:39:00	01:18:42:00	MATT O'MALLEY WAS ELECTED IN
01:18:42:00	01:18:43:00	2010 TO A SPECIAL ELECTION TO
01:18:43:00	01:18:43:00	REPRESENT DISTRICT SIX.
01:18:43:00	01:18:46:00	AFTER TOBIN'S RESIGNATION, TITO
01:18:46:00	01:18:50:00	JACKSON SECURE THE DISTRICT
01:18:50:00	01:18:51:00	SEVEN SEAT IN A 2011 SPECIAL
01:18:51:00	01:18:54:00	ELECTION FOLLOWING THE
01:18:54:00	01:18:54:00	EXPULSION OF COUNCILOR CHUCK
01:18:54:00	01:18:57:00	TURNER.
01:18:57:00	01:18:58:00	IT WAS OKAY FOR THE EXACT SAME
01:18:58:00	01:19:01:00	DISTRICT THEN GABRIELLA COLETTA
01:19:01:00	01:19:02:00	ELECTED IN 2022.
01:19:02:00	01:19:05:00	SPECIAL ELECTION FOR DISTRICT
01:19:05:00	01:19:06:00	ONE AFTER COUNCIL LYDIA EDWARDS
01:19:06:00	01:19:09:00	MOVED ON TO THE STATE SENATE.
01:19:09:00	01:19:13:00	SHARON DURKIN IT WAS AN OFF
01:19:13:00	01:19:13:00	YEAR YOU'RE RIGHT.
01:19:13:00	01:19:14:00	BUT IT WAS A SPECIAL ELECTION.
01:19:14:00	01:19:16:00	IT ABSOLUTELY WAS AN OFF YEAR
01:19:16:00	01:19:20:00	AND IT DIDN'T BACK UP.
01:19:20:00	01:19:23:00	BUT WHEN COLLEAGUES INTERRUPT
01:19:23:00	01:19:24:00	OR SPEAK OUT I JUST WANT TO
01:19:24:00	01:19:25:00	BECAUSE I KNOW THAT IT WAS AN
01:19:25:00	01:19:27:00	OFF YEAR BECAUSE 2022, RIGHT?
01:19:27:00	01:19:27:00	YEAH.
01:19:27:00	01:19:31:00	SHARON DURKIN AS WE KNOW AND I
01:19:31:00	01:19:32:00	DO WANT TO SAY TOO AND I DID
01:19:32:00	01:19:36:00	REACH OUT BUT COULDN'T SPEAK TO
01:19:36:00	01:19:39:00	OUR COLLEAGUE WE'RE SPEAKING
01:19:39:00	01:19:40:00	ABOUT US EACH OTHER COLLEAGUES
01:19:40:00	01:19:43:00	AND SO TO SPEAK WITH THE NAMES
01:19:43:00	01:19:44:00	IT IS I MEAN IT'S WHAT WE HAVE
01:19:44:00	01:19:46:00	TO DO BUT IT DOES SEEM A LITTLE
01:19:46:00	01:19:50:00	NOT AS PERSONAL AS NEEDED TO
01:19:50:00	01:19:51:00	BUT I'M JUST SHARING FACTS.
01:19:51:00	01:19:54:00	IT'S NOT ABOUT.
01:19:54:00	01:19:57:00	SO SHARON DURKIN WHO WON ON
01:19:57:00	01:19:57:00	JULY 25TH, 2023, THE SPECIAL
01:19:57:00	01:20:01:00	ELECTION IN DISTRICT EIGHT
01:20:01:00	01:20:01:00	FOLLOWING COUNCILOR CANDICE
01:20:01:00	01:20:04:00	BARKER RESIGNATION RESIGNATION.
01:20:04:00	01:20:08:00	SO WE HAVE A LONG HISTORY.
01:20:08:00	01:20:09:00	AND IT'S THE JOB OF OUR
01:20:09:00	01:20:12:00	ELECTION DEPARTMENT TO DEAL
01:20:12:00	01:20:16:00	WITH AND ADMINISTER SPECIAL
01:20:16:00	01:20:16:00	ELECTIONS.
01:20:16:00	01:20:20:00	IT'S ALSO TRUE BECAUSE OF MANY
01:20:20:00	01:20:20:00	DIFFERENT REASONS.
01:20:20:00	01:20:24:00	THERE IS A LONG LIST MANY HAVE
01:20:24:00	01:20:25:00	I'VE SPOKE WITH MET WITH AND
01:20:25:00	01:20:28:00	HAVE WATCHED THEM CAMPAIGN.
01:20:28:00	01:20:29:00	THERE ARE ALREADY A LOT OF GOOD
01:20:29:00	01:20:32:00	STRONG CANDIDATES WHO HAVE PUT
01:20:32:00	01:20:33:00	THEIR NAME OUT THERE AND TODAY
01:20:33:00	01:20:37:00	AS WE KNOW PUT THEIR ACTUAL
01:20:37:00	01:20:37:00	NAME ON THE BALLOT FOR THE
01:20:37:00	01:20:40:00	ELECTION COMING UP IN THE FALL.
01:20:40:00	01:20:43:00	SO WE IT'S NOT AS THOUGH
01:20:43:00	01:20:43:00	DISTRICT SEVEN IS CAUGHT OFF
01:20:43:00	01:20:43:00	GUARD.
01:20:43:00	01:20:46:00	MANY PEOPLE IN THIS DISTRICT
01:20:46:00	01:20:47:00	HAVE ALREADY SHOWN THAT THEY'RE
01:20:47:00	01:20:51:00	ABLE AND WILLING TO REPRESENT
01:20:51:00	01:20:51:00	DISTRICT SEVEN.
01:20:51:00	01:20:54:00	I HAVE FILED A RESOLUTION WHICH
01:20:54:00	01:20:54:00	WILL COME UP LATER.
01:20:54:00	01:20:56:00	SO IF YOU READ THAT YOU KNOW, I
01:20:56:00	01:20:58:00	DO DISAGREE WITH RUSHING THIS
01:20:58:00	01:20:59:00	SO I DO WANT TO BLOCK A
01:20:59:00	01:21:02:00	SUSPENDED PATH BECAUSE I FEEL
01:21:02:00	01:21:03:00	AS THOUGH WE NEED TO HAVE A
01:21:03:00	01:21:03:00	CONVERSATION.
01:21:03:00	01:21:06:00	BUT I ALSO WANT TO ASK IF I CAN
01:21:06:00	01:21:07:00	THROUGH THE CHAIR TO THE
01:21:07:00	01:21:10:00	COUNCIL PRESIDENT WHO FILED
01:21:10:00	01:21:11:00	THIS WHY WE'RE SCHEDULING A
01:21:11:00	01:21:14:00	SPECIAL COUNCIL MEETING AND NOT
01:21:14:00	01:21:18:00	A HEARING TO DISCUSS IT MORE IN
01:21:18:00	01:21:18:00	THE GOVERNMENT OPS COMMITTEE
01:21:18:00	01:21:19:00	WHERE I ASSUME THIS WOULD HAVE
01:21:19:00	01:21:22:00	GONE THROUGH THE CHAIR.
01:21:22:00	01:21:25:00	COUNCIL PRESIDENT LOUIJEUNE IF
01:21:25:00	01:21:26:00	YOU WISH TO RESPOND.
01:21:26:00	01:21:26:00	YES.
01:21:26:00	01:21:30:00	THE FLOOR IS YOURS.
01:21:30:00	01:21:30:00	REP SORRY.
01:21:30:00	01:21:31:00	THANK YOU.
01:21:31:00	01:21:32:00	AND I WOULD ALSO LIKE TO SAY
01:21:32:00	01:21:33:00	THAT NO ONE HERE IS ARGUING
01:21:33:00	01:21:34:00	THAT SPECIAL ELECTIONS ARE
01:21:34:00	01:21:38:00	EXCUSE ME THAT HAVE BEEN
01:21:38:00	01:21:38:00	COUNCIL MURPHY
01:21:38:00	01:21:40:00	COUNCIL PRESIDENT NO ONE WHO IS
01:21:40:00	01:21:40:00	ARGUING THAT SPECIAL ELECTIONS
01:21:40:00	01:21:41:00	ARE A THING.
01:21:41:00	01:21:43:00	IT'S THE TIMING OF IT.
01:21:43:00	01:21:44:00	RIGHT.
01:21:44:00	01:21:47:00	SO IF COUNCIL HAD RESIGNED AT A
01:21:47:00	01:21:47:00	PRIOR DATE IN DECEMBER.
01:21:47:00	01:21:48:00	I DON'T THINK ANYONE WOULD BE
01:21:48:00	01:21:51:00	QUESTIONING OR IN JANUARY AND
01:21:51:00	01:21:52:00	WOULD BE QUESTIONING HAVING
01:21:52:00	01:21:55:00	IT'S THE TIMING HERE AND THE
01:21:55:00	01:21:56:00	RESOURCES AND WHAT BLACK AND
01:21:56:00	01:21:59:00	BROWN MEMBERS OF THE COMMUNITY
01:21:59:00	01:21:59:00	HAVE BEEN SAYING AND WHAT
01:21:59:00	01:22:02:00	MEMBERS OF THIS BODY WHO HAVE
01:22:02:00	01:22:03:00	WORKED DEEPLY IN BLACK AND
01:22:03:00	01:22:06:00	BROWN COMMUNITIES OFTEN BECAUSE
01:22:06:00	01:22:06:00	WE ARE BLACK AND BROWN
01:22:06:00	01:22:07:00	OURSELVES ARE SAYING ABOUT WHAT
01:22:07:00	01:22:10:00	THIS TIME WOULD MEAN.
01:22:10:00	01:22:10:00	AND BECAUSE LIKE I STATED AND
01:22:10:00	01:22:13:00	THIS IS GOOD WORDING THAT I GOT
01:22:13:00	01:22:14:00	FROM MY COLLEAGUE
01:22:14:00	01:22:14:00	COUNCILOR BREADON WE ARE TRYING
01:22:14:00	01:22:17:00	TO WORK QUICKLY HERE SO THAT WE
01:22:17:00	01:22:18:00	CAN SLOW DOWN THE PROCESS AND
01:22:18:00	01:22:21:00	THAT IS WHY I SCHEDULED A
01:22:21:00	01:22:24:00	MEETING FOR FRIDAY.
01:22:24:00	01:22:25:00	THANK YOU.
01:22:25:00	01:22:25:00	COUNCILOR MURPHY, THE FLOOR IS
01:22:25:00	01:22:26:00	YOURS.
01:22:26:00	01:22:29:00	THANK YOU.
01:22:29:00	01:22:30:00	AND MY POINT ABOUT IT WAS JUST
01:22:30:00	01:22:32:00	I WAS HOPING THAT WHICH YOU DID
01:22:32:00	01:22:33:00	GET TO THANK YOU THAT SHE WAS
01:22:33:00	01:22:35:00	SPEAKING TO THE QUESTION THAT I
01:22:35:00	01:22:36:00	HAD ABOUT WHY ARE WE RUSHING TO
01:22:36:00	01:22:39:00	VOTE AND NOT JUST HAVING THE
01:22:39:00	01:22:40:00	CONVERSATIONS THAT I BELIEVE
01:22:40:00	01:22:43:00	JUST LIKE WE DON'T WANT TO RUSH
01:22:43:00	01:22:43:00	A POSSIBLE ELECTION.
01:22:43:00	01:22:44:00	WE SHOULDN'T RUSH THIS BODY
01:22:44:00	01:22:47:00	INTO DRAWING LINES THAT I DON'T
01:22:47:00	01:22:48:00	BELIEVE NEED TO BE DRAWN AND
01:22:48:00	01:22:51:00	THE TIMING ABSOLUTELY LIKE
01:22:51:00	01:22:54:00	ALMOST TO THE DAY IF IT HAPPENS
01:22:54:00	01:22:55:00	MATCHES WHAT WE DID ON THIS
01:22:55:00	01:22:58:00	BODY TWO YEARS AGO AND I DO
01:22:58:00	01:22:59:00	BELIEVE THAT THE RESIDENTS IN
01:22:59:00	01:23:00:00	DISTRICT SEVEN I BELIEVE THE
01:23:00:00	01:23:03:00	RESIDENTS IN THE ENTIRE ALL
01:23:03:00	01:23:03:00	OF THE CITY OF BOSTON CAN
01:23:03:00	01:23:06:00	DEFINITELY DO THIS AND THEY
01:23:06:00	01:23:06:00	DESERVE THAT.
01:23:06:00	01:23:10:00	AND I ALSO AGREE THAT AS AN AT
01:23:10:00	01:23:10:00	LARGE COUNCILOR AND ALL OF US
01:23:10:00	01:23:14:00	WILLING AND ABLE BUT WE'RE I
01:23:14:00	01:23:14:00	BELIEVE WE'RE ALWAYS WILLING
01:23:14:00	01:23:15:00	AND ABLE TO STEP UP AND SUPPORT
01:23:15:00	01:23:18:00	ALL THE RESIDENTS ACROSS THE
01:23:18:00	01:23:18:00	CITY OF BOSTON WHICH IS
01:23:18:00	01:23:19:00	SOMETHING I'VE ALWAYS DONE.
01:23:19:00	01:23:22:00	I'LL CONTINUE TO DO BUT IN THIS
01:23:22:00	01:23:25:00	CASE I'M NOT IN FAVOR
01:23:25:00	01:23:25:00	OF SUSPENDING OUR SPENDING AND
01:23:25:00	01:23:26:00	PASS THIS TODAY.
01:23:26:00	01:23:28:00	THANK YOU.
01:23:28:00	01:23:33:00	THANK YOU.
01:23:33:00	01:23:36:00	WAS WAS THAT NIGHT I SHOULD SAY
01:23:36:00	01:23:40:00	I SHOULD GO TO COMMUNITY.
01:23:40:00	01:23:43:00	ALL RIGHT.
01:23:43:00	01:23:46:00	I'M COUNCILOR MURPHY HAS
01:23:46:00	01:23:47:00	OBJECTED TO THE HOME RULE
01:23:47:00	01:23:53:00	PETITION SO SO I ADD SOMETHING
01:23:53:00	01:23:53:00	.
01:23:53:00	01:23:54:00	WHAT I WOULD LIKE TO DO,
01:23:54:00	01:23:58:00	COUNCILOR MURPHY, IS GO TO THE
01:23:58:00	01:23:59:00	COUNCIL AND SAY THAT
01:23:59:00	01:23:59:00	OPPORTUNITY TO SPEAK AT THE
01:23:59:00	01:24:02:00	COUNCIL MURPHY, YOU HAVE THE
01:24:02:00	01:24:02:00	FLOOR.
01:24:02:00	01:24:03:00	I DON'T PEOPLE SAY YOU SHOULD
01:24:03:00	01:24:03:00	LET US VOTE, YOU SHOULDN'T.
01:24:03:00	01:24:05:00	I ALSO THINK WE SHOULD HAVE LET
01:24:05:00	01:24:06:00	A HEARING ORDER THAT
01:24:06:00	01:24:09:00	COUNCILOR FLYNN AND I FILED TWO
01:24:09:00	01:24:10:00	MONTHS AGO TO HAVE THE ELECTION
01:24:10:00	01:24:13:00	DEPARTMENT COME IN AND TALK TO
01:24:13:00	01:24:13:00	US ABOUT WHAT DOES RECEIVERSHIP
01:24:13:00	01:24:14:00	MEAN?
01:24:14:00	01:24:16:00	WHAT ARE THESE SHORTCOMINGS?
01:24:16:00	01:24:17:00	HOW DO WE SUPPORT YOU?
01:24:17:00	01:24:18:00	SOMETHING THAT I KNOW THAT
01:24:18:00	01:24:21:00	SECRETARY GALVIN IS SAYING HE
01:24:21:00	01:24:21:00	DOESN'T THINK WE CAN HANDLE A
01:24:21:00	01:24:24:00	SPECIAL ELECTION.
01:24:24:00	01:24:24:00	THAT HEARING ISN'T HAPPENING.
01:24:24:00	01:24:28:00	THE ADMINISTRATION IS REFUSING
01:24:28:00	01:24:29:00	TO SEND PEOPLE TO ANSWER WHAT I
01:24:29:00	01:24:32:00	WOULD HOPE ALL OF US ON THIS
01:24:32:00	01:24:33:00	BODY WANT TO HEAR FROM THE
01:24:33:00	01:24:35:00	ELECTION DEPARTMENT AND THOSE
01:24:35:00	01:24:36:00	IN CHARGE OF RECEIVERSHIP.
01:24:36:00	01:24:39:00	SO I DO I WAS JUST GOING TO
01:24:39:00	01:24:40:00	STAND TO SAY BECAUSE I THINK
01:24:40:00	01:24:43:00	THERE SHOULD BE AN A HEARING
01:24:43:00	01:24:43:00	AND EVERYONE HAS A RIGHT TO
01:24:43:00	01:24:47:00	THEIR VOICE BUT IT ALSO BREAKS
01:24:47:00	01:24:47:00	THE PROTOCOL OF ONCE SOMEONE
01:24:47:00	01:24:48:00	BLOCKS IT DOES GET STOPPED.
01:24:48:00	01:24:51:00	BUT I WAS STANDING TO ASK I
01:24:51:00	01:24:52:00	WILL WAIT TO BLOCK IT IF NEEDED
01:24:52:00	01:24:54:00	AGAIN BECAUSE I DO WANT
01:24:54:00	01:24:55:00	EVERYONE VOICES TO BE HEARD.
01:24:55:00	01:24:58:00	SO IF YOU'RE OKAY WITH
01:24:58:00	01:24:58:00	ME HOLDING THAT OR WITHDRAWING
01:24:58:00	01:25:01:00	IT SO WE CAN FORMALLY THEN I
01:25:01:00	01:25:02:00	WILL PUT IT BACK ON THE FLOOR.
01:25:02:00	01:25:03:00	BUT I DO WANT MY COLLEAGUES TO
01:25:03:00	01:25:03:00	BE ABLE TO SPEAK.
01:25:03:00	01:25:06:00	THANK YOU.
01:25:06:00	01:25:06:00	THANK YOU.
01:25:06:00	01:25:07:00	COUNCILOR MURPHY, THE CHAIR
01:25:07:00	01:25:08:00	RECOGNIZES COUNCILOR SANTANA
01:25:08:00	01:25:09:00	SAID YOU HAVE THE FLOOR.
01:25:09:00	01:25:10:00	THANK YOU, MR CHAIR.
01:25:10:00	01:25:13:00	AND REALLY WANT TO THANK
01:25:13:00	01:25:14:00	COUNCIL PRESIDENT LOUIJEUNE AND
01:25:14:00	01:25:16:00	COUNCILOR BRENNAN FOR PUTTING
01:25:16:00	01:25:17:00	THIS FORWARD.
01:25:17:00	01:25:24:00	I AGREE WITH COUNCIL PRESIDENT
01:25:24:00	01:25:24:00	COUNCILOR BREADON AND
01:25:24:00	01:25:25:00	PARTICULARLY COUNCILOR MCGHEE.
01:25:25:00	01:25:28:00	I'LL JUST SENTIMENTS I GREW UP
01:25:28:00	01:25:29:00	IN DISTRICT SEVEN, I GREW UP IN
01:25:29:00	01:25:31:00	ALICE TAYLOR VALE APARTMENTS IN
01:25:31:00	01:25:32:00	MISSION HILL AND I JUST
01:25:32:00	01:25:36:00	RECENTLY MOVED BACK TO DISTRICT
01:25:36:00	01:25:36:00	SEVEN.
01:25:36:00	01:25:39:00	SO I AM I AM A CONSTITUENT IN
01:25:39:00	01:25:40:00	THE NEIGHBORHOOD AND I AM A
01:25:40:00	01:25:40:00	SUPPORTER.
01:25:40:00	01:25:43:00	I AM IN SUPPORT OF THIS
01:25:43:00	01:25:43:00	OF WHAT'S BEING PUT FORWARD.
01:25:43:00	01:25:47:00	I BELIEVE THAT ROXBURY AND
01:25:47:00	01:25:47:00	DISTRICT SEVEN AND OTHER
01:25:47:00	01:25:50:00	SURROUNDING NEIGHBORHOODS AND
01:25:50:00	01:25:51:00	THAT DISTRICT DESERVE TO BE
01:25:51:00	01:25:54:00	ABLE TO HAVE THAT THEIR
01:25:54:00	01:25:55:00	CANDIDATES WE HAVE AS HOUSE OUR
01:25:55:00	01:25:57:00	MURPHY MENTIONED THERE'S A LOT
01:25:57:00	01:25:58:00	OF CANDIDATES ALREADY IN THE
01:25:58:00	01:26:01:00	FIELD AND I THINK THAT DISTRICT
01:26:01:00	01:26:02:00	SEVEN DESERVES TO BE ABLE TO
01:26:02:00	01:26:05:00	HAVE THE TIME AND THE
01:26:05:00	01:26:06:00	THOUGHTFULNESS TO BE ABLE TO
01:26:06:00	01:26:09:00	GET TO KNOW THEIR CANDIDATES
01:26:09:00	01:26:12:00	AND BE ABLE TO ELECT A
01:26:12:00	01:26:12:00	COUNCILOR IF IF NECESSARY AND
01:26:12:00	01:26:15:00	WHEN THE TIME COMES.
01:26:15:00	01:26:16:00	I ALREADY KNOW THAT MY AT-LARGE
01:26:16:00	01:26:19:00	COUNCILORS HAVE STATED THIS BUT
01:26:19:00	01:26:19:00	I BELIEVE THAT THIS IS AN
01:26:19:00	01:26:20:00	OPPORTUNITY FOR PARTICULARLY
01:26:20:00	01:26:24:00	THE AT-LARGE COUNCILORS TO STEP
01:26:24:00	01:26:24:00	UP IN PARTICULAR WITH
01:26:24:00	01:26:28:00	CONSTITUENT SERVICES.
01:26:28:00	01:26:28:00	AGAIN, AS A RESIDENT
01:26:28:00	01:26:29:00	OF DISTRICT SEVEN I KNOW MY
01:26:29:00	01:26:31:00	OFFICE WILL BE PART OF WHAT
01:26:31:00	01:26:32:00	MAKE SURE THAT IS A PRIORITY
01:26:32:00	01:26:35:00	FOR US MAKING SURE THAT
01:26:35:00	01:26:36:00	DISTRICT SEVEN RESIDENTS HAVE
01:26:36:00	01:26:38:00	AN OFFICE THAT THEY CAN COME TO
01:26:38:00	01:26:39:00	AND GET RESOURCES FROM AND BE
01:26:39:00	01:26:42:00	REPRESENTED SO I AM IN FAVOR
01:26:42:00	01:26:42:00	OF THIS.
01:26:42:00	01:26:43:00	I UNDERSTAND THAT THERE WILL BE
01:26:43:00	01:26:46:00	A BLOCK OF THIS AND YOU KNOW,
01:26:46:00	01:26:47:00	WE'LL CONTINUE MOVING FORWARD
01:26:47:00	01:26:47:00	WITH THAT.
01:26:47:00	01:26:50:00	BUT I DO BELIEVE THAT WITHIN TO
01:26:50:00	01:26:52:00	PAUSE THE SPECIAL ELECTION AND
01:26:52:00	01:26:52:00	GET DISTRICT SEVEN THE VOICE
01:26:52:00	01:26:53:00	THAT THEY DESERVE AND THAT'S
01:26:53:00	01:26:56:00	WHY I WILL BE VOTING WHEN THE
01:26:56:00	01:26:57:00	TIME COMES IN SUPPORT OF THIS.
01:26:57:00	01:26:57:00	THANK YOU, MR CHAIR.
01:26:57:00	01:26:58:00	THANK YOU.
01:26:58:00	01:27:00:00	THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES
01:27:00:00	01:27:00:00	COUNCILOR FLYNN.
01:27:00:00	01:27:01:00	COUNCILOR, YOU HAVE THE FLOOR.
01:27:01:00	01:27:03:00	THANK YOU, MR CHAIR.
01:27:03:00	01:27:04:00	MR VICE CHAIR.
01:27:04:00	01:27:07:00	I'M NOT GOING TO HIGHLIGHT WHAT
01:27:07:00	01:27:08:00	I WANTED TO SPEAK ABOUT.
01:27:08:00	01:27:12:00	I DO UNDERSTAND THAT A
01:27:12:00	01:27:13:00	OBJECTION HAS BEEN MADE SO I
01:27:13:00	01:27:16:00	WANT TO RESPECT THE RULES.
01:27:16:00	01:27:19:00	I WOULD ADD ONE BRIEF POINT IS
01:27:19:00	01:27:23:00	I REPRESENT A LARGE PORTION
01:27:23:00	01:27:26:00	OF THE SOUTH AND ALONG WITH
01:27:26:00	01:27:27:00	SEAN FITZGERALD AND I KNOW BOTH
01:27:27:00	01:27:31:00	MYSELF AND JOHN DO A TREMENDOUS
01:27:31:00	01:27:34:00	AMOUNT OF WORK IN THE SOUTH END
01:27:34:00	01:27:35:00	AND WE WILL CONTINUE THAT
01:27:35:00	01:27:38:00	ADVOCACY IN THE SOUTH END AND
01:27:38:00	01:27:42:00	ROXBURY AS WELL.
01:27:42:00	01:27:43:00	I DON'T WANT TO SPEAK ON
01:27:43:00	01:27:45:00	EXACTLY WHAT MY POINTS ARE
01:27:45:00	01:27:46:00	BECAUSE THERE'S A THERE'S BEEN
01:27:46:00	01:27:49:00	AN OBJECTION AND WHEN THERE'S
01:27:49:00	01:27:50:00	AN OBJECTION MADE THE RULES
01:27:50:00	01:27:53:00	STATE THAT BASICALLY THE
01:27:53:00	01:27:54:00	CONVERSATION IS THANK YOU,
01:27:54:00	01:27:54:00	MR CHAIR.
01:27:54:00	01:27:56:00	THANK YOU.
01:27:56:00	01:27:57:00	AND FOR THE RECORD.
01:27:57:00	01:27:58:00	COUNCILOR MURPHY WITHDREW THE
01:27:58:00	01:28:01:00	OBJECTION AND ALLOWED FOR
01:28:01:00	01:28:02:00	FURTHER CONVERSATION ON THE
01:28:02:00	01:28:02:00	MATTER.
01:28:02:00	01:28:05:00	COUNCILOR FITZGERALD, THE FLOOR
01:28:05:00	01:28:08:00	IS YOURS.
01:28:08:00	01:28:09:00	THANK YOU.
01:28:09:00	01:28:12:00	COUNCIL WILL LOOK IS FOR
01:28:12:00	01:28:13:00	ELECTIONS IN THIS TIME FRAME
01:28:13:00	01:28:15:00	COMING UP OVERKILL.
01:28:15:00	01:28:18:00	IT PROBABLY IS RIGHT.
01:28:18:00	01:28:19:00	DOES IT COST MONEY TO RUN THIS
01:28:19:00	01:28:20:00	SPECIAL ELECTION WHEN WE'RE ON
01:28:20:00	01:28:23:00	A FISCALLY TIGHT BUDGET THIS
01:28:23:00	01:28:23:00	YEAR AND THAT COULD BE MONEY
01:28:23:00	01:28:23:00	SAVED?
01:28:23:00	01:28:27:00	YES, PROBABLY.
01:28:27:00	01:28:27:00	BUT I'VE GOT TO SAY I'VE HEARD
01:28:27:00	01:28:31:00	THINGS PEOPLE SAY THINGS LIKE
01:28:31:00	01:28:31:00	LET DEMOCRACY PLAY OUT AND IF
01:28:31:00	01:28:34:00	WE'RE GOING TO LET DEMOCRACY
01:28:34:00	01:28:35:00	PLAY OUT THAT WOULD BE ACTUALLY
01:28:35:00	01:28:35:00	FOLLOWING THE LETTER OF THE LAW
01:28:35:00	01:28:38:00	WHICH WOULD WHICH WE SHOULD LET
01:28:38:00	01:28:39:00	PLAY OUT.
01:28:39:00	01:28:42:00	I ALSO WANT TO REMIND PEOPLE
01:28:42:00	01:28:45:00	IT'S NOT THE RESIDENTS JOBS TO
01:28:45:00	01:28:45:00	VET THE CANDIDATES BUT RATHER
01:28:45:00	01:28:49:00	IT'S THE CANDIDATES JOB TO VET
01:28:49:00	01:28:49:00	THE COMMUNITY SO WE SHOULDN'T
01:28:49:00	01:28:53:00	BE AFRAID TO LET THE HARDEST
01:28:53:00	01:28:53:00	WORKING CANDIDATES SEPARATE
01:28:53:00	01:28:56:00	THEMSELVES DURING THIS PROCESS
01:28:56:00	01:29:00:00	TO GAIN THE COMMUNITY'S TRUST
01:29:00:00	01:29:00:00	AND THEIR VOTE.
01:29:00:00	01:29:01:00	AND SO WHILE IT SEEMS LIKE A
01:29:01:00	01:29:04:00	LOT AND ALMOST SOME UNNECESSARY
01:29:04:00	01:29:05:00	FREE STUFF GIVEN THE TIME
01:29:05:00	01:29:06:00	FRAME, IT'S STILL THE TIME
01:29:06:00	01:29:08:00	FRAME ON THE BOOKS WE MAY GET
01:29:08:00	01:29:09:00	THE RESULT THAT WE PROBABLY ALL
01:29:09:00	01:29:12:00	PERSONALLY WANT WHICH IS SAY NO
01:29:12:00	01:29:12:00	SPECIAL ELECTION JUST GIVEN HOW
01:29:12:00	01:29:15:00	THIS PLAYS OUT NATURALLY.
01:29:15:00	01:29:16:00	BUT I'VE ALSO HEARD THINGS THAT
01:29:16:00	01:29:17:00	SAY PEOPLE SAY WELL IT'S
01:29:17:00	01:29:20:00	POLITICALLY ADVANTAGEOUS JUST
01:29:20:00	01:29:21:00	TO HAVE THIS TO HAVE A SPECIAL
01:29:21:00	01:29:23:00	ELECTION BUT I THINK CONVERSELY
01:29:23:00	01:29:24:00	IT'S ALSO POLITICALLY
01:29:24:00	01:29:27:00	ADVANTAGEOUS TO SOMEBODY I
01:29:27:00	01:29:28:00	DON'T KNOW WHO I DON'T CARE BUT
01:29:28:00	01:29:28:00	IT'S POLITICALLY ADVANTAGEOUS
01:29:28:00	01:29:31:00	ADVANTAGEOUS TO SOMEBODY TO NOT
01:29:31:00	01:29:32:00	HAVE A SPECIAL ELECTION AS
01:29:32:00	01:29:32:00	WELL.
01:29:32:00	01:29:35:00	THE POINT BEING IS WE HAVE
01:29:35:00	01:29:36:00	RULES ON THE BOOKS.
01:29:36:00	01:29:39:00	WE SHOULD LET THEM PLAY OUT.
01:29:39:00	01:29:40:00	IT MAY BE MOST LIKELY THAT IT'S
01:29:40:00	01:29:42:00	GOING TO BE PASSED MAY 8TH
01:29:42:00	01:29:42:00	ANYWAY AND THERE WON'T BE A
01:29:42:00	01:29:43:00	SPECIAL BUT THE FACT THAT WE'RE
01:29:43:00	01:29:46:00	INSERTING OURSELVES INTO THIS
01:29:46:00	01:29:47:00	SEEMS TO HAVE SORT OF SOME
01:29:47:00	01:29:50:00	POLITICAL ADVENT ADVANTAGE TO
01:29:50:00	01:29:50:00	SOMEBODY SOMEWHERE AND AGAIN I
01:29:50:00	01:29:54:00	HAVEN'T DONE THE MATH.
01:29:54:00	01:29:54:00	I DON'T I DON'T KNOW BUT WE
01:29:54:00	01:29:55:00	SHOULD JUST FOLLOW THE RULES ON
01:29:55:00	01:29:57:00	THE BOOKS AND I THINK LASTLY
01:29:57:00	01:29:58:00	IT'S IMPORTANT TO HAVE MORE
01:29:58:00	01:30:01:00	FAITH IN THE PEOPLE OF ROXBORO
01:30:01:00	01:30:02:00	IN DISTRICT SEVEN TO ALLOW THEM
01:30:02:00	01:30:06:00	TO DO THESE ELECTIONS.
01:30:06:00	01:30:07:00	AND I FEEL LIKE BY TAKING IT
01:30:07:00	01:30:07:00	AWAY AND SAYING IT'S A DOWN
01:30:07:00	01:30:10:00	YEAR AND PEOPLE DON'T COME OUT
01:30:10:00	01:30:11:00	THAT IS NOT THAT IS UP FOR EACH
01:30:11:00	01:30:13:00	DISTRICT AND EACH CONSTITUENT
01:30:13:00	01:30:14:00	TO MAKE THEIR OWN DECISION IF
01:30:14:00	01:30:15:00	THEY WANT TO COME OUT DURING
01:30:15:00	01:30:17:00	THAT.
01:30:17:00	01:30:18:00	OUR JOB HERE IS TO PUT FORTH
01:30:18:00	01:30:21:00	THE PROCESS THAT IS LAID OUT.
01:30:21:00	01:30:22:00	SO I THINK WE SHOULD ASK THE
01:30:22:00	01:30:22:00	BERRY WHAT THEY WANT TO DO.
01:30:22:00	01:30:25:00	WE'RE HEARING FROM BOTH SIDES
01:30:25:00	01:30:26:00	REALLY WHAT WHAT THEY'VE HEARD
01:30:26:00	01:30:26:00	SOME PEOPLE SAY WE DON'T WANT
01:30:26:00	01:30:29:00	IT SOME PEOPLE SAY WE DO WHEN
01:30:29:00	01:30:29:00	THERE'S A CONFLICT LIKE THAT WE
01:30:29:00	01:30:32:00	GO TO THE BOOKS AND WE FOLLOW
01:30:32:00	01:30:33:00	THE LETTER OF THE LAW AND I
01:30:33:00	01:30:36:00	THINK WE LET IT PLAY OUT AND AS
01:30:36:00	01:30:37:00	IT AS A NEIGHBOR, AS AN ABIDING
01:30:37:00	01:30:37:00	ALSO ALWAYS HERE TO HELP AT ANY
01:30:37:00	01:30:40:00	POINT WHERE THERE IS AN EMPTY
01:30:40:00	01:30:41:00	SEAT AS AN ABIDING DISTRICT OUR
01:30:41:00	01:30:44:00	OFFICE IS ALWAYS HERE TO HELP
01:30:44:00	01:30:44:00	WITH FOLKS IN THAT DISTRICT AS
01:30:44:00	01:30:44:00	WELL.
01:30:44:00	01:30:45:00	THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
01:30:45:00	01:30:48:00	THANK YOU, COUNCILOR MEJIA THE
01:30:48:00	01:30:48:00	CHAIR RECOGNIZES
01:30:48:00	01:30:49:00	COUNCIL MEMBER.
01:30:49:00	01:30:51:00	COUNCIL WE HAVE THE FLOOR TO
01:30:51:00	01:30:52:00	CHAIR AND I WANT TO THANK MY
01:30:52:00	01:30:55:00	COLLEAGUES FOR THEIR FEEDBACK
01:30:55:00	01:30:56:00	THUS FAR AND I JUST WANT TO
01:30:56:00	01:30:59:00	KNOW FOR THE RECORD THAT MY
01:30:59:00	01:31:02:00	COUNCIL COLLEAGUE WAS NAMING
01:31:02:00	01:31:02:00	ALL OF THE SPECIAL ELECTIONS
01:31:02:00	01:31:06:00	THAT WE'VE HAD AND I JUST WANT
01:31:06:00	01:31:07:00	TO NOTE A PATTERN THAT THE
01:31:07:00	01:31:10:00	MAJORITY OF THE PEOPLE THAT
01:31:10:00	01:31:11:00	HAVE WON THOSE ELECTIONS HAVE
01:31:11:00	01:31:13:00	BEEN WHITE AND OR MALE.
01:31:13:00	01:31:14:00	AND SO FURTHER PROVING MY POINT
01:31:14:00	01:31:18:00	THAT OFTENTIMES, YOU KNOW,
01:31:18:00	01:31:19:00	PEOPLE OF COLOR USUALLY ARE THE
01:31:19:00	01:31:22:00	DISADVANTAGE.
01:31:22:00	01:31:23:00	AND SO I JUST WANT TO BE CLEAR
01:31:23:00	01:31:25:00	THAT FOR ME, YOU KNOW, IT'S
01:31:25:00	01:31:26:00	REALLY IMPORTANT FOR US TO
01:31:26:00	01:31:29:00	RECOGNIZE WHO IS TO BE MOST AT
01:31:29:00	01:31:30:00	HOME IN REGARDS TO THIS
01:31:30:00	01:31:33:00	PARTICULAR RACE.
01:31:33:00	01:31:34:00	WHILE I DO APPRECIATE THERE'S
01:31:34:00	01:31:34:00	BEEN HUNDREDS OF CANDIDATES
01:31:34:00	01:31:37:00	THAT HAVE STEPPED UP TO THE
01:31:37:00	01:31:40:00	PLATE, WE DON'T KNOW WHO NOW IS
01:31:40:00	01:31:41:00	LURKING IN THE BEHIND THE
01:31:41:00	01:31:41:00	SCENES READY THAT I COME
01:31:41:00	01:31:44:00	THROUGH AT THIS LAST MOMENT
01:31:44:00	01:31:47:00	WITH MUCH WITH MANY MORE
01:31:47:00	01:31:51:00	RESOURCES AND OR YOU KNOW, JUST
01:31:51:00	01:31:52:00	FAR MORE WELL-RESOURCED AND
01:31:52:00	01:31:55:00	POLITICALLY CONNECTED AT THIS
01:31:55:00	01:31:55:00	POINT.
01:31:55:00	01:31:58:00	SO I JUST WANT TO NAME THAT
01:31:58:00	01:31:59:00	THAT USUALLY THE PEOPLE WHO
01:31:59:00	01:32:03:00	TEND TO BENEFIT THE MOST FROM
01:32:03:00	01:32:03:00	THESE ARE PEOPLE WHO ARE WELL
01:32:03:00	01:32:04:00	RESOURCED, WELL CONNECTED AND
01:32:04:00	01:32:06:00	READY TO GO.
01:32:06:00	01:32:09:00	AND AS SOMEONE WHO ONLY WON BY
01:32:09:00	01:32:10:00	ONE VOTE, I WORKED VERY HARD
01:32:10:00	01:32:11:00	FOR THAT VOTE AND I KNOW HOW
01:32:11:00	01:32:14:00	DIFFICULT IT WAS FOR ME TO RUN
01:32:14:00	01:32:15:00	ACROSS THE ENTIRE CITY AND THAT
01:32:15:00	01:32:17:00	COMMUNITY AND HAVE MY VOICE
01:32:17:00	01:32:18:00	HEARD SO I UNDERSTAND AND
01:32:18:00	01:32:21:00	APPRECIATE THE POWER OF WORKING
01:32:21:00	01:32:22:00	HARD TO EARN THOSE VOTES.
01:32:22:00	01:32:25:00	SO I DO APPRECIATE
01:32:25:00	01:32:25:00	COUNCILOR FITZGERALD'S POINT
01:32:25:00	01:32:26:00	AROUND THE WORK THAT THE
01:32:26:00	01:32:29:00	CANDIDATE NEEDS TO DO SO THANK
01:32:29:00	01:32:29:00	YOU FOR THAT.
01:32:29:00	01:32:33:00	AND I WILL REITERATE AGAIN THAT
01:32:33:00	01:32:34:00	THIS IS AN OPPORTUNITY FOR US
01:32:34:00	01:32:40:00	TO REALLY STEP TO THE SIDE AND
01:32:40:00	01:32:43:00	LET DISTRICT SEVEN LEAD AND
01:32:43:00	01:32:47:00	FROM WHAT I UNDERSTAND THERE
01:32:47:00	01:32:47:00	HAVE BEEN LOTS OF FOLKS FROM
01:32:47:00	01:32:50:00	DISTRICT SEVEN WHO HAVE ASKED
01:32:50:00	01:32:50:00	US TO DO JUST THAT.
01:32:50:00	01:32:54:00	THANK YOU.
01:32:54:00	01:32:54:00	THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES
01:32:54:00	01:32:55:00	COUNCIL PRESIDENT LOUIJEUNE
01:32:55:00	01:32:57:00	COUNCILOR YOU HAVE THE FLOOR.
01:32:57:00	01:32:58:00	THANK YOU.
01:32:58:00	01:32:58:00	I WANTED TO RESPOND TO A FEW
01:32:58:00	01:32:59:00	POINTS THAT WERE MADE AS A
01:32:59:00	01:33:02:00	PERSON WHO SPONSORED THIS AND
01:33:02:00	01:33:02:00	THE PERSON WHO SPONSORED THIS
01:33:02:00	01:33:05:00	IN PARTNERSHIP WITH COMMUNITY.
01:33:05:00	01:33:06:00	IT IS YOU TO WORK IN
01:33:06:00	01:33:09:00	COMMUNITIES OF COLOR AND TO
01:33:09:00	01:33:13:00	UNDERSTAND WHAT IT MEANS FOR
01:33:13:00	01:33:13:00	PEOPLE WHO ARE BALANCING
01:33:13:00	01:33:16:00	MULTIPLE JOBS, MULTIPLE THINGS
01:33:16:00	01:33:17:00	TO KNOW WHEN ELECTIONS ARE
01:33:17:00	01:33:21:00	HAPPENING A SPECIAL ELECTION AT
01:33:21:00	01:33:22:00	THAT THAT IS OFF KILTER THAT IS
01:33:22:00	01:33:27:00	IN THE SUMMER THAT IS HARD WORK
01:33:27:00	01:33:28:00	AND IT IS IMPORTANT THAT WE ARE
01:33:28:00	01:33:31:00	DOING EVERYTHING WE CAN TO
01:33:31:00	01:33:32:00	BRING VOTERS INTO THE
01:33:32:00	01:33:35:00	DEMOCRATIC PROCESS.
01:33:35:00	01:33:35:00	OUR JOB IS TO BRING DEMOCRACY
01:33:35:00	01:33:39:00	TO PEOPLE AND TO DO EVERYTHING
01:33:39:00	01:33:40:00	WE CAN TO BE SUPPORTING THAT
01:33:40:00	01:33:40:00	WORK.
01:33:40:00	01:33:43:00	THAT IS WHAT THIS IS ABOUT.
01:33:43:00	01:33:44:00	IT'S NOT LOOKING AT ANY
01:33:44:00	01:33:44:00	POLITICAL CARDS TO SEE WHAT
01:33:44:00	01:33:46:00	WILL NOT HAPPEN.
01:33:46:00	01:33:47:00	IT'S HOW DO WE MAKE SURE THAT
01:33:47:00	01:33:50:00	WE ARE ENGAGING THE VOTERS
01:33:50:00	01:33:50:00	OF DISTRICT SEVEN WHO DESERVE
01:33:50:00	01:33:54:00	THE BEST REPRESENT ADDITIVE AND
01:33:54:00	01:33:55:00	WE KNOW BECAUSE OF THE ROLE
01:33:55:00	01:33:58:00	OF MONEY IN POLITICS AND WE
01:33:58:00	01:33:59:00	KNOW BECAUSE OF THINGS OUTLINED
01:33:59:00	01:34:02:00	BY MY FELLOW AT-LARGE COLLEAGUE
01:34:02:00	01:34:02:00	COUNCILOR MAKIYA THAT THERE ARE
01:34:02:00	01:34:05:00	OTHER FACTORS THAT OFTEN GO IN
01:34:05:00	01:34:09:00	TO WHO WINS IN A SPECIAL AND SO
01:34:09:00	01:34:10:00	MY OTHER COLLEAGUES HAVE ALSO
01:34:10:00	01:34:11:00	STATED VERY CLEARLY THAT
01:34:11:00	01:34:14:00	PERHAPS THERE IS AN ISSUE WITH
01:34:14:00	01:34:18:00	THE TIME FRAME OF THIS LAW THAT
01:34:18:00	01:34:19:00	WE GET THIS CUT OFF A LOT
01:34:19:00	01:34:21:00	OF THE SPECIALS OH THE SPECIAL
01:34:21:00	01:34:22:00	ELECTION THAT EXISTED FOR THIS
01:34:22:00	01:34:25:00	SEAT THE PERSON WAS IN THE SEAT
01:34:25:00	01:34:26:00	THE DISTRICT SEVEN COUNCIL WAS
01:34:26:00	01:34:29:00	IN THE SEAT BY MARCH SO THAT
01:34:29:00	01:34:30:00	THEY COULD HAVE AN IMPACT ON
01:34:30:00	01:34:32:00	THE BUDGET.
01:34:32:00	01:34:36:00	WHATEVER HAPPENS HERE SPECIAL
01:34:36:00	01:34:37:00	OR VACANCY OR WHATEVER A
01:34:37:00	01:34:40:00	SPECIAL WOULD NOT PUT SOMEBODY
01:34:40:00	01:34:41:00	IN THAT SEAT FOR THE BUDGET AND
01:34:41:00	01:34:44:00	WE ARE NOT ACTING LIKE THERE IS
01:34:44:00	01:34:45:00	NO PRECEDENT FOR THIS.
01:34:45:00	01:34:48:00	IT HAS HAPPENED OFF WITH I
01:34:48:00	01:34:49:00	THINK IT WAS A 12 TO 0 VOTE
01:34:49:00	01:34:52:00	OF THIS COUNCIL IN 2021 TO
01:34:52:00	01:34:55:00	WAIVE THE SPECIAL ELECTION
01:34:55:00	01:34:56:00	BECAUSE OF TIMING BECAUSE WE
01:34:56:00	01:34:59:00	ARE PEOPLE WHO UNDERSTAND THAT
01:34:59:00	01:35:00:00	A SPECIAL ELECTION THAT WOULD
01:35:00:00	01:35:04:00	HAPPEN AT THE END OF JULY AT
01:35:04:00	01:35:08:00	THE EARLIEST POSSIBLE SCHEDULED
01:35:08:00	01:35:08:00	THE EARLIEST, EARLIEST AND WE
01:35:08:00	01:35:11:00	ARE ALREADY PAST THAT BECAUSE
01:35:11:00	01:35:12:00	WE DON'T HAVE A VACANCY LEFT
01:35:12:00	01:35:15:00	TODAY THAT THAT IS A DISSERVICE
01:35:15:00	01:35:16:00	TO COMMUNITIES THAT HAVE TOO
01:35:16:00	01:35:19:00	OFTEN BEEN SERVICED.
01:35:19:00	01:35:19:00	THE ONLY THING THAT I CARE
01:35:19:00	01:35:23:00	ABOUT HERE IS HOW WE ENGAGE
01:35:23:00	01:35:23:00	VOTERS IN DISTRICT SEVEN.
01:35:23:00	01:35:26:00	I DON'T CARE ABOUT ANYTHING
01:35:26:00	01:35:26:00	ELSE.
01:35:26:00	01:35:27:00	IT IS A DISTRICT THAT DESERVES
01:35:27:00	01:35:30:00	THE MOST ZEALOUS REPRESENTATION
01:35:30:00	01:35:34:00	THAT DESERVES THE BEST DISTRICT
01:35:34:00	01:35:34:00	COUNCILOR THAT THEY COULD
01:35:34:00	01:35:35:00	POSSIBLY GET AND WHAT GETS THEM
01:35:35:00	01:35:38:00	THERE IS NOT A SPECIAL ACTION
01:35:38:00	01:35:39:00	AND I AM SAYING THAT NOT
01:35:39:00	01:35:39:00	BECAUSE THAT IS MY OPINION BUT
01:35:39:00	01:35:42:00	THAT IS THE OPINION THAT I HAVE
01:35:42:00	01:35:42:00	HEARD FROM MEMBERS OF COMMUNITY
01:35:42:00	01:35:46:00	BECAUSE I AM IN ROXBURY WAS
01:35:46:00	01:35:46:00	THERE LAST NIGHT AGAIN WAS
01:35:46:00	01:35:50:00	THERE ALL WEEKEND ALONG WITH
01:35:50:00	01:35:50:00	CONCILOR MEJIA HERE LISTENING
01:35:50:00	01:35:53:00	TO WHAT COMMUNITY WANTED THIS
01:35:53:00	01:35:54:00	IS NOT MY IDEA.
01:35:54:00	01:35:55:00	THIS IS NOT COUNCILOR BRADEN'S
01:35:55:00	01:35:58:00	IDEA.
01:35:58:00	01:35:59:00	THIS IS AN IDEA IN COMMUNITY
01:35:59:00	01:36:01:00	BECAUSE THIS IS WHAT IS BEST
01:36:01:00	01:36:02:00	FOR A COMMUNITY THAT IS TOO
01:36:02:00	01:36:05:00	OFTEN FORGOTTEN BY THIS CITY
01:36:05:00	01:36:06:00	AND BY THE POWERS THAT BE.
01:36:06:00	01:36:10:00	THAT IS THE ONLY REASON BEHIND
01:36:10:00	01:36:10:00	THIS  PETITION.
01:36:10:00	01:36:11:00	AND SO TO OTHERS WHO HAVE SAID
01:36:11:00	01:36:12:00	I THINK HAS BEEN HERE DID A
01:36:12:00	01:36:14:00	GOOD JOB JUST IN DESCRIBING WHY
01:36:14:00	01:36:17:00	THIS IS DISSIMILAR FROM 2000 TO
01:36:17:00	01:36:17:00	2023.
01:36:17:00	01:36:20:00	BUT I AM ALSO VERY OPEN TO
01:36:20:00	01:36:20:00	HAVING DISCUSSIONS ABOUT WHAT
01:36:20:00	01:36:22:00	WOULD IT LOOK LIKE TO SAY THAT
01:36:22:00	01:36:23:00	180 DAY CUT OFF DOESN'T MAKE
01:36:23:00	01:36:26:00	SENSE.
01:36:26:00	01:36:27:00	THE SECRETARY OF STATE YES HE
01:36:27:00	01:36:27:00	HAS WEIGHED IN BUT WHAT MATTERS
01:36:27:00	01:36:30:00	MOST TO ME HE HAS WEIGHED IN IN
01:36:30:00	01:36:33:00	OPPOSING THIS JUST AS A MATTER
01:36:33:00	01:36:34:00	OF RESOURCES AND OVERLAP IN THE
01:36:34:00	01:36:34:00	TIME SCHEDULE.
01:36:34:00	01:36:37:00	BUT WHAT MATTERS TO ME AT THE
01:36:37:00	01:36:38:00	END OF THE DAY IS THE RESIDENTS
01:36:38:00	01:36:41:00	OF DISTRICT SEVEN GETTING THE
01:36:41:00	01:36:41:00	BEST POSSIBLE CANDIDATE THAT
01:36:41:00	01:36:45:00	THEY CAN GET AND THAT DOES NOT
01:36:45:00	01:36:48:00	HAPPEN WITH A SPECIAL ELECTION
01:36:48:00	01:36:49:00	AGAIN, THIS MAY BE MOOT.
01:36:49:00	01:36:52:00	THE PURPOSE OF THIS  PETITION
01:36:52:00	01:36:53:00	AS LEADERSHIP FOR OUR CITY
01:36:53:00	01:36:53:00	LEADERSHIP FOR ALL OF THOSE
01:36:53:00	01:36:56:00	INVOLVED TO KNOW WHAT THE
01:36:56:00	01:36:57:00	ELECTION SCHEDULE WOULD BE.
01:36:57:00	01:37:00:00	SO TAKE THAT UNCERTAINTY AWAY
01:37:00:00	01:37:01:00	WHICH IS WHY WE ARE ACTING
01:37:01:00	01:37:05:00	AGAIN EXPEDITIOUSLY TO GET
01:37:05:00	01:37:05:00	CERTAINTY IN WHAT THE SCHEDULE
01:37:05:00	01:37:09:00	WILL BE ACTING TO SLOW IT DOWN
01:37:09:00	01:37:11:00	A BIT FOR THE RESIDENTS
01:37:11:00	01:37:11:00	OF DISTRICT SEVEN THANK YOU.
01:37:11:00	01:37:12:00	THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES
01:37:12:00	01:37:15:00	COUNCILOR DUNCAN.
01:37:15:00	01:37:16:00	COUNCILOR, YOU HAVE THE FLOOR.
01:37:16:00	01:37:18:00	THANK YOU ALL SO MUCH FOR
01:37:18:00	01:37:19:00	MENTIONING MY ELECTION SO MANY
01:37:19:00	01:37:19:00	TIMES.
01:37:19:00	01:37:22:00	I REALLY I REALLY WAS PROUD TO
01:37:22:00	01:37:23:00	HAVE GOTTEN ELECTED IN THAT
01:37:23:00	01:37:23:00	SPECIAL ELECTION.
01:37:23:00	01:37:27:00	I, I DO WANT TO SAY THERE ARE A
01:37:27:00	01:37:28:00	COUPLE DIFFERENCES THIS YEAR
01:37:28:00	01:37:29:00	THAN TWO YEARS AGO.
01:37:29:00	01:37:32:00	ONE IS THAT THIS IS A MAYORAL
01:37:32:00	01:37:35:00	YEAR SO WE EXPECTED THIS
01:37:35:00	01:37:38:00	ELECTION TO HAVE A LOT THIS
01:37:38:00	01:37:39:00	FALL ELECTION TO HAVE A LOT
01:37:39:00	01:37:42:00	HIGHER TURNOUT AND THEN TO
01:37:42:00	01:37:43:00	OBVIOUSLY I THINK A LOT
01:37:43:00	01:37:46:00	OF PEOPLE ARE TALKING ABOUT
01:37:46:00	01:37:47:00	DEMOGRAPHICS AND HOW MY
01:37:47:00	01:37:50:00	DISTRICT MAY BE DIFFERENT FROM
01:37:50:00	01:37:50:00	DISTRICT SEVEN.
01:37:50:00	01:37:54:00	I DON'T REALLY THINK THAT'S
01:37:54:00	01:37:55:00	WHAT WE SHOULD FOCUS ON TODAY.
01:37:55:00	01:37:55:00	I THINK THAT WE SHOULD WHAT WE
01:37:55:00	01:37:58:00	SHOULD FOCUS ON IS I BELIEVE I
01:37:58:00	01:38:02:00	WAS VERY MUCH ELECTED IN A
01:38:02:00	01:38:02:00	LEGITIMATE FASHION ONE THAT IS
01:38:02:00	01:38:06:00	OFFERED BY THE CITY CHARTER.
01:38:06:00	01:38:06:00	I ALSO BELIEVE THAT THIS THAT
01:38:06:00	01:38:09:00	THIS CITY COUNCIL HAS A
01:38:09:00	01:38:10:00	DECISION TO MAKE SHOULD THERE
01:38:10:00	01:38:12:00	BE A SPECIAL ELECTION IN
01:38:12:00	01:38:13:00	DISTRICT SEVEN GIVEN EVERYTHING
01:38:13:00	01:38:15:00	THAT'S BEEN GOING ON MANY
01:38:15:00	01:38:16:00	PEOPLE HAVE SUSPECTED THAT THIS
01:38:16:00	01:38:20:00	SEAT WOULD BECOME OPEN, MANY
01:38:20:00	01:38:20:00	PEOPLE THERE WAS ENERGY.
01:38:20:00	01:38:23:00	THERE ARE PEOPLE RUNNING.
01:38:23:00	01:38:24:00	I DON'T THINK THIS IS REALLY
01:38:24:00	01:38:25:00	ABOUT POLITICS.
01:38:25:00	01:38:28:00	I REALLY THINK THIS IS ABOUT
01:38:28:00	01:38:30:00	WHAT'S BEST FOR ROXBURY AND
01:38:30:00	01:38:30:00	DISTRICT SEVEN.
01:38:30:00	01:38:31:00	SO WHEN I HEAR COLLEAGUES LIKE
01:38:31:00	01:38:35:00	SENATOR WAS MIRANDA SAY THAT
01:38:35:00	01:38:36:00	THEY DON'T WANT THERE TO BE A
01:38:36:00	01:38:38:00	SPECIAL ELECTION TURNER TYLER
01:38:38:00	01:38:39:00	DOESN'T WANT THERE TO BE A
01:38:39:00	01:38:42:00	SPECIAL ELECTION
01:38:42:00	01:38:42:00	COUNCIL PRESIDENT LOUIJEUNE
01:38:42:00	01:38:43:00	DOES NOT WANT THERE TO BE A
01:38:43:00	01:38:46:00	SPECIAL ELECTION CONCILOR MEJIA
01:38:46:00	01:38:46:00	HERE DOES NOT WANT THERE TO BE
01:38:46:00	01:38:47:00	A SPECIAL ELECTION WHEN
01:38:47:00	01:38:50:00	COUNCILOR SANTANA DOES NOT WANT
01:38:50:00	01:38:50:00	THERE TO BE A SPECIAL ELECTION.
01:38:50:00	01:38:53:00	WHEN I GO THROUGH THIS LIST AND
01:38:53:00	01:38:54:00	I LOOK AT THE LEADERS WHO ARE
01:38:54:00	01:38:57:00	SAYING THIS MIGHT NOT BE RIGHT
01:38:57:00	01:38:57:00	FOR ROXBURY AND THIS MIGHT NOT
01:38:57:00	01:38:58:00	BE RIGHT FOR DISTRICT SEVEN,
01:38:58:00	01:39:01:00	THOSE ARE PEOPLE I TRUST.
01:39:01:00	01:39:02:00	THOSE ARE PEOPLE THAT I VALUE
01:39:02:00	01:39:05:00	THEIR OPINION AND SO I
01:39:05:00	01:39:06:00	UNDERSTAND PEOPLE WANTING TO
01:39:06:00	01:39:09:00	MAKE A COMPARISON BETWEEN THE
01:39:09:00	01:39:10:00	RACE THAT I RAN IN WHICH I
01:39:10:00	01:39:12:00	OBVIOUSLY WORKED REALLY HARD.
01:39:12:00	01:39:13:00	I KNOW A LOT OF YOU SAW
01:39:13:00	01:39:15:00	ME RUNNING AROUND THE CITY.
01:39:15:00	01:39:16:00	MY DISTRICT IS VERY DIFFERENT
01:39:16:00	01:39:19:00	THAN DISTRICT SEVEN BUT I NEED
01:39:19:00	01:39:20:00	TO REMIND YOU ALL THAT WE SHARE
01:39:20:00	01:39:22:00	THE ROXBURY STATION.
01:39:22:00	01:39:23:00	I WORK REALLY HARD UP UNTIL THE
01:39:23:00	01:39:26:00	LINE TO MAKE SURE THAT ALL
01:39:26:00	01:39:27:00	OF THE RESIDENTS OF ROXBURY
01:39:27:00	01:39:30:00	CROSSING GET WHAT THEY NEED AND
01:39:30:00	01:39:30:00	I AM IN A BETTER TO THIS
01:39:30:00	01:39:31:00	DISTRICT.
01:39:31:00	01:39:33:00	SO THAT'S WHY WHEN I HEAR REP
01:39:33:00	01:39:34:00	TRYING TO TAILOR AND REP AND
01:39:34:00	01:39:35:00	SENATOR WAS MIRANDA SAY
01:39:35:00	01:39:38:00	SOMETHING I WORK WITH THAT
01:39:38:00	01:39:38:00	IMPRESSION HOW THERE ARE PEOPLE
01:39:38:00	01:39:39:00	I LIKE THERE ARE PEOPLE THAT I
01:39:39:00	01:39:42:00	TRUST AND SO I JUST WANT TO
01:39:42:00	01:39:45:00	TAKE YOU KNOW I JUST BECAUSE MY
01:39:45:00	01:39:46:00	MY ELECTION HAS BEEN MENTIONED
01:39:46:00	01:39:47:00	SO MANY TIMES I JUST WANT TO
01:39:47:00	01:39:49:00	TAKE THIS MOMENT AND SAY WE
01:39:49:00	01:39:52:00	HAVE A DECISION TO MAKE TODAY.
01:39:52:00	01:39:53:00	IF I HAD BEEN ON THE
01:39:53:00	01:39:53:00	COUNCIL TWO YEARS AGO I DON'T
01:39:53:00	01:39:56:00	KNOW WHAT DECISION I WOULD HAVE
01:39:56:00	01:39:56:00	MADE ABOUT MY RACE.
01:39:56:00	01:39:57:00	ALL I KNOW IS THAT THE SEAT WAS
01:39:57:00	01:40:00:00	OPEN AND I WAS INTERESTED TO
01:40:00:00	01:40:01:00	SERVE SO I STEPPED FORWARD TO
01:40:01:00	01:40:03:00	SERVE IN THAT SEAT AND I'M
01:40:03:00	01:40:04:00	REALLY HONORED TO SERVE
01:40:04:00	01:40:04:00	DISTRICT EIGHT AND I'M REALLY
01:40:04:00	01:40:07:00	HONORED TO SERVE ALONGSIDE ALL
01:40:07:00	01:40:08:00	OF YOU.
01:40:08:00	01:40:08:00	BUT I DON'T THINK THIS HAS TO
01:40:08:00	01:40:11:00	BE A FRAUGHT DECISION.
01:40:11:00	01:40:11:00	I THINK WE JUST NEED TO ASK
01:40:11:00	01:40:12:00	OURSELF IN OUR HEART OF HEARTS
01:40:12:00	01:40:14:00	WHETHER WE THINK IT'S A GOOD
01:40:14:00	01:40:15:00	DECISION IN AN INCREDIBLY HIGH
01:40:15:00	01:40:17:00	TURNOUT ELECTION THIS FALL
01:40:17:00	01:40:18:00	WHETHER ROXBURY WOULD BE SERVED
01:40:18:00	01:40:22:00	BETTER BY A LOWER TURNOUT
01:40:22:00	01:40:22:00	ELECTION OR A HIGHER TURNOUT
01:40:22:00	01:40:25:00	ELECTION AND WHETHER ROXBURY
01:40:25:00	01:40:26:00	WOULD BE SERVED BETTER BY
01:40:26:00	01:40:27:00	GETTING THE TURNOUT OF A
01:40:27:00	01:40:30:00	MAYORAL YEAR IN AND I I THINK
01:40:30:00	01:40:33:00	OBVIOUSLY IT'S A DECISION THAT
01:40:33:00	01:40:34:00	WE HAVE TO WEIGH.
01:40:34:00	01:40:37:00	IT'S ONE THAT I HAVE WEIGHED
01:40:37:00	01:40:37:00	WITH THE COUNCIL PRESIDENT
01:40:37:00	01:40:37:00	PERSONALLY.
01:40:37:00	01:40:41:00	I KNEW THAT LIKE THERE WOULD BE
01:40:41:00	01:40:42:00	EYES ON ME IN THIS CONVERSATION
01:40:42:00	01:40:44:00	BECAUSE OF HOW I WAS ELECTED
01:40:44:00	01:40:45:00	AND I JUST WANT TO SAY IF I HAD
01:40:45:00	01:40:48:00	HAD TO RUN IN THE FALL I WOULD
01:40:48:00	01:40:49:00	HAVE DONE THE SAME THING.
01:40:49:00	01:40:52:00	I WOULD HAVE AND WORKED AND
01:40:52:00	01:40:56:00	WORKED TO EARN THE SUPPORT
01:40:56:00	01:40:56:00	OF THE PEOPLE IN MY DISTRICT
01:40:56:00	01:40:57:00	AND I THINK WHOEVER RUNS IN
01:40:57:00	01:41:00:00	THIS IS GOING TO HAVE TO WORK
01:41:00:00	01:41:00:00	AND WORK AND WORK TO EARN THE
01:41:00:00	01:41:01:00	SUPPORT OF THEIR DISTRICT.
01:41:01:00	01:41:03:00	WHETHER THAT IS IN A SPECIAL
01:41:03:00	01:41:04:00	ELECTION OR THE FALL.
01:41:04:00	01:41:05:00	AND SO I'LL JUST SAY THAT I AM
01:41:05:00	01:41:08:00	WITH THE COUNCIL PRESIDENT, I
01:41:08:00	01:41:09:00	AM WITH SENATOR LIZ MIRANDA, I
01:41:09:00	01:41:12:00	AM WITH REP TURNER TYLER I AM
01:41:12:00	01:41:12:00	WITH COUNCILOR MCKEE AND WITH
01:41:12:00	01:41:15:00	HENRY SANTANA IN IN SAYING IF
01:41:15:00	01:41:16:00	THOSE FOLKS ARE SAYING NO
01:41:16:00	01:41:19:00	SPECIAL ELECTION I WILL BE
01:41:19:00	01:41:23:00	SUPPORTING THEIR RECOMMENDATION
01:41:23:00	01:41:24:00	.
01:41:24:00	01:41:24:00	THANK YOU.
01:41:24:00	01:41:24:00	THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES
01:41:24:00	01:41:25:00	COUNCIL WEBER COUNCILOR YOU GOT
01:41:25:00	01:41:29:00	THE FLOOR.
01:41:29:00	01:41:29:00	THANK YOU.
01:41:29:00	01:41:30:00	I JUST I'M RAISING IN SUPPORT
01:41:30:00	01:41:32:00	OF THE HOME RULE PETITION.
01:41:32:00	01:41:36:00	YOU KNOW, I WANT TO APPLAUD
01:41:36:00	01:41:37:00	COUNCIL PRESIDENT LOUIJEUNE
01:41:37:00	01:41:37:00	COUNCILWOMAN HERE,
01:41:37:00	01:41:40:00	COUNCILOR BREADON FOR THE
01:41:40:00	01:41:40:00	COMMUNITY SUPPORT FOR THIS.
01:41:40:00	01:41:44:00	I THINK THIS IS THE KIND
01:41:44:00	01:41:44:00	OF HARD WORK THAT, YOU KNOW,
01:41:44:00	01:41:47:00	WE'RE CALLED UPON IN THIS JOB.
01:41:47:00	01:41:48:00	YOU KNOW, THEY KNEW THERE WAS A
01:41:48:00	01:41:49:00	TAGLINE OUT THERE.
01:41:49:00	01:41:52:00	YOU KNOW, WE NEED TO HAVE TREAT
01:41:52:00	01:41:52:00	BEACON HILL THE SAME AS FORT
01:41:52:00	01:41:55:00	HILL OR FORT HILL THE SAME AS
01:41:55:00	01:41:56:00	BEACON HILL BUT YOU KNOW, I
01:41:56:00	01:41:59:00	THINK THAT'S EMPTY RHETORIC
01:41:59:00	01:41:59:00	HERE.
01:41:59:00	01:42:00:00	WE HAVE TO DO WHAT'S RIGHT FOR
01:42:00:00	01:42:02:00	THE FOLKS OF DISTRICT SEVEN.
01:42:02:00	01:42:03:00	I THINK WE'VE SEEN BY THE
01:42:03:00	01:42:06:00	SUPPORT OF COMMUNITY LEADERS IN
01:42:06:00	01:42:06:00	THE COMMUNITY THAT THIS HOME
01:42:06:00	01:42:10:00	RULE PETITION DOES THAT ALSO
01:42:10:00	01:42:11:00	YOU KNOW, I WANT TO PUSH BACK
01:42:11:00	01:42:13:00	ON SUGGESTION THAT WE'RE SORT
01:42:13:00	01:42:14:00	OF SKIRTING THE RULES BY DOING
01:42:14:00	01:42:14:00	THIS.
01:42:14:00	01:42:17:00	THE CHARTER ALLOWS CALLS FOR A
01:42:17:00	01:42:18:00	SPECIAL ELECTION BUT CLEARLY
01:42:18:00	01:42:21:00	YOU KNOW, AS PAST PRACTICE
01:42:21:00	01:42:22:00	INDICATES AND HIS HOME RULE
01:42:22:00	01:42:24:00	INDICATES WE HAVE THIS TOOL AT
01:42:24:00	01:42:25:00	OUR DISPOSAL AND I DON'T THINK
01:42:25:00	01:42:26:00	WE WOULD BE DOING OUR DUTY IF
01:42:26:00	01:42:29:00	WE JUST IGNORED, YOU KNOW, THAT
01:42:29:00	01:42:30:00	POSSIBILITY AND ALLOWED
01:42:30:00	01:42:33:00	SOMETHING THAT ISN'T GOING TO
01:42:33:00	01:42:34:00	BE IN THE BEST INTERESTS
01:42:34:00	01:42:35:00	OF DISTRICT SEVEN RESIDENTS
01:42:35:00	01:42:36:00	WON'T BE THE BEST INTERESTS
01:42:36:00	01:42:40:00	OF THE CITY, MAY HURT THE
01:42:40:00	01:42:40:00	ELECTIONS DEPARTMENT AND ALL
01:42:40:00	01:42:41:00	THE OTHER REASONS WHY WE'VE
01:42:41:00	01:42:43:00	HEARD.
01:42:43:00	01:42:44:00	SO YOU KNOW, I JUST WANT TO
01:42:44:00	01:42:47:00	THANK THE FILERS FOR FOR GOING
01:42:47:00	01:42:47:00	THROUGH THIS DIFFICULT PROCESS
01:42:47:00	01:42:48:00	AND DOING THE WORK AND BRINGING
01:42:48:00	01:42:50:00	THIS BEFORE US WHICH I SUPPORT
01:42:50:00	01:42:51:00	THE HOME RULE.
01:42:51:00	01:42:51:00	THANK YOU.
01:42:51:00	01:42:54:00	THANK YOU.
01:42:54:00	01:42:55:00	I'M GOING TO TAKE A TIME TO
01:42:55:00	01:42:58:00	PROVIDE SOME REMARKS I WANT TO
01:42:58:00	01:42:59:00	DO THANK COUNCIL PRESIDENT
01:42:59:00	01:43:02:00	LOUIJEUNE AND ALSO
01:43:02:00	01:43:02:00	COUNCIL OF COUNCIL BRADING FOR
01:43:02:00	01:43:03:00	WORKING WITH COMMUNITY ON THIS
01:43:03:00	01:43:06:00	HONORABLE PETITION AND I
01:43:06:00	01:43:06:00	COMPLETELY UNDERSTAND THE
01:43:06:00	01:43:06:00	INTENT.
01:43:06:00	01:43:09:00	I DO WANT TO ALSO MAKE THE
01:43:09:00	01:43:10:00	DISTINCTION THAT IN 2023 WE
01:43:10:00	01:43:13:00	KNEW WHEN COUNCILS BOUGHT
01:43:13:00	01:43:14:00	RESIGNATION WAS TAKING PLACE.
01:43:14:00	01:43:17:00	IN THIS CASE WE DON'T KNOW.
01:43:17:00	01:43:18:00	WE DO KNOW THAT WE HAVE A
01:43:18:00	01:43:20:00	HANDFUL OF CANDIDATES HAVE
01:43:20:00	01:43:21:00	ALREADY BEEN WORKING WITH THE
01:43:21:00	01:43:24:00	SEPTEMBER AND NOVEMBER
01:43:24:00	01:43:25:00	ELECTIONS IN MIND.
01:43:25:00	01:43:26:00	THAT WASN'T THE CASE THE LAST
01:43:26:00	01:43:28:00	TIME.
01:43:28:00	01:43:29:00	I THINK WE ALL AGREE THAT IN
01:43:29:00	01:43:30:00	PRINCIPLE THAT THE WAY THAT
01:43:30:00	01:43:32:00	THIS WAS DONE FOR DISTRICT
01:43:32:00	01:43:32:00	COUNCIL VACANCIES IS PROBABLY
01:43:32:00	01:43:35:00	NOT THE IDEAL WAY.
01:43:35:00	01:43:38:00	WE'RE TALKING ABOUT FOUR
01:43:38:00	01:43:38:00	ELECTIONS IN FIVE MONTHS AND
01:43:38:00	01:43:39:00	ALL THE DISTRICT COUNCILS HERE
01:43:39:00	01:43:42:00	KNOW THE RESPONSIBILITY THAT WE
01:43:42:00	01:43:45:00	HAVE IT'S CONSTITUENTS WHO
01:43:45:00	01:43:46:00	WON'T HAVE A DISTRICT
01:43:46:00	01:43:49:00	COUNCIL FOR THE START OF SCHOOL
01:43:49:00	01:43:49:00	.
01:43:49:00	01:43:50:00	THEY WON'T HAVE ANYONE TO
01:43:50:00	01:43:50:00	REPRESENT THEM AT DEVELOPMENT
01:43:50:00	01:43:53:00	HEARINGS, LICENSING HEARINGS
01:43:53:00	01:43:53:00	AND MORE.
01:43:53:00	01:43:56:00	AND I THINK THAT WHAT I'VE
01:43:56:00	01:43:57:00	HEARD FROM RESIDENTS THAT THERE
01:43:57:00	01:44:00:00	NEEDS TO BE A PLAN THAT NEEDS
01:44:00:00	01:44:00:00	TO BE CLEARLY COMMUNICATED TO
01:44:00:00	01:44:03:00	THE RESIDENTS OF DISTRICT SEVEN
01:44:03:00	01:44:04:00	ON HOW THE COUNCIL WILL TAKE ON
01:44:04:00	01:44:07:00	THOSE TAX.
01:44:07:00	01:44:08:00	BUT I LIKE TOO FOR WHATEVER
01:44:08:00	01:44:11:00	CHOICE WE MAKE TO BE STANDARD
01:44:11:00	01:44:12:00	GOING FORWARD.
01:44:12:00	01:44:12:00	RIGHT?
01:44:12:00	01:44:14:00	I DON'T I WANT MORE CONSISTENCY
01:44:14:00	01:44:15:00	IN THE DECISIONS THAT WE MAKE
01:44:15:00	01:44:16:00	AND I THINK THAT GOES INTO
01:44:16:00	01:44:19:00	LOOKING TO CHANGING THIS
01:44:19:00	01:44:19:00	CHARTER AND MAYBE IF SOMEONE IS
01:44:19:00	01:44:22:00	APPOINTED IF A VACANCY HAPPENS
01:44:22:00	01:44:23:00	MAYBE IT'S A SPECIAL ELECTION
01:44:23:00	01:44:26:00	WITHOUT A PRELIMINARY BUT IT'S
01:44:26:00	01:44:27:00	A RANKED CHOICE VOTE OR IT'S
01:44:27:00	01:44:29:00	JUST INCREASING, YOU KNOW, 180
01:44:29:00	01:44:32:00	DAYS TO 200 225 WHATEVER WE
01:44:32:00	01:44:33:00	AGREE ON.
01:44:33:00	01:44:33:00	BUT I DON'T THINK WHAT WE
01:44:33:00	01:44:36:00	SHOULD DO IS CONTINUE KEEP
01:44:36:00	01:44:37:00	CHANGING THE STANDARDS WITH ONE
01:44:37:00	01:44:37:00	OFFS.
01:44:37:00	01:44:40:00	I THINK WE JUST TO FIND A TIME
01:44:40:00	01:44:43:00	AND A PLACE TO FIX THAT CHARTER
01:44:43:00	01:44:43:00	AMENDMENT FOR GOOD.
01:44:43:00	01:44:44:00	SO WE'RE NOT COMING BACK TO THE
01:44:44:00	01:44:45:00	COUNCILORS COUNCIL HAVING THIS
01:44:45:00	01:44:48:00	CONVERSATION.
01:44:48:00	01:44:48:00	THOSE ARE MY REMARKS CALIBRATED
01:44:48:00	01:44:51:00	THE FLOOR IS NOW YOURS AND
01:44:51:00	01:44:51:00	THANK YOU MR CHAIR.
01:44:51:00	01:44:52:00	I THINK IT'S REALLY VALUABLE TO
01:44:52:00	01:44:55:00	JUST TAKE A QUICK LOOK AT THE
01:44:55:00	01:44:56:00	TIMELINE FOR A REGULAR FAIR
01:44:56:00	01:44:59:00	ELECTION SCHEDULE AS OF NOW AS
01:44:59:00	01:44:59:00	OF TODAY WE DO NOT HAVE A
01:44:59:00	01:45:03:00	VACANCY SO THIS SORT OF WE'RE
01:45:03:00	01:45:03:00	TALKING HYPOTHETICALLY HERE BUT
01:45:03:00	01:45:07:00	THE LAST DAY THAT WOULD TRIGGER
01:45:07:00	01:45:07:00	A SPECIAL ELECTION IS MAY 8TH.
01:45:07:00	01:45:10:00	SO IF OUR COLLEAGUE RESIGNED ON
01:45:10:00	01:45:15:00	MAY 7TH AND WE HAD THE DEADLINE
01:45:15:00	01:45:18:00	FOR VOTE ON THE DEADLINE FOR
01:45:18:00	01:45:19:00	APPLICATIONS FOR NOMINATION
01:45:19:00	01:45:21:00	WOULD BE MAY 23RD, THE DEADLINE
01:45:21:00	01:45:25:00	FOR FILING NOMINATION PAPERS
01:45:25:00	01:45:26:00	WOULD BE MAY 29TH.
01:45:26:00	01:45:27:00	THIS THIS IS APART FROM THE
01:45:27:00	01:45:29:00	FACT THAT MANY OF THE
01:45:29:00	01:45:29:00	CANDIDATES ARE ALREADY SIGNING
01:45:29:00	01:45:33:00	AND DOING THIS PROCESS FOR THE
01:45:33:00	01:45:33:00	NOVEMBER ELECTION AND THEN THE
01:45:33:00	01:45:37:00	DEADLINE FOR CLASSIFICATION
01:45:37:00	01:45:39:00	OF CERTIFICATION OF SIGNATURES
01:45:39:00	01:45:39:00	IS JUNE 12TH.
01:45:39:00	01:45:43:00	THE DEADLINE FOR WITHDRAWS OR
01:45:43:00	01:45:43:00	OBJECTIONS IS JUNE 17 AND THEN
01:45:43:00	01:45:44:00	THE SPECIAL PRELIMINARY
01:45:44:00	01:45:47:00	ELECTION BECAUSE WE'D HAVE TO
01:45:47:00	01:45:50:00	HAVE TWO WOULD BE THREE DATES,
01:45:50:00	01:45:50:00	THREE POSSIBLE DATES.
01:45:50:00	01:45:52:00	WE'RE WORKING THE CALENDAR JULY
01:45:52:00	01:45:53:00	15TH, JULY 22ND TO JULY 29TH
01:45:53:00	01:45:56:00	AND THEN THE SPECIAL MUNICIPAL
01:45:56:00	01:45:57:00	ELECTION THE FINAL ELECTION
01:45:57:00	01:46:00:00	COULD BE AUGUST 12TH AUGUST 19
01:46:00:00	01:46:02:00	THROUGH AUGUST 26.
01:46:02:00	01:46:04:00	WE'RE TALKING ABOUT HAVING FOUR
01:46:04:00	01:46:06:00	ELECTIONS IN THE SPACE OF ABOUT
01:46:06:00	01:46:13:00	12 WEEKS AT A COST OF $200,000
01:46:13:00	01:46:13:00	.
01:46:13:00	01:46:18:00	AND I I THINK THAT THE
01:46:18:00	01:46:18:00	POSITIONS ESPECIALLY THE
01:46:18:00	01:46:21:00	POSITION OF SKIPPING OR NOT
01:46:21:00	01:46:24:00	HAVING A SPECIAL ELECTION IS
01:46:24:00	01:46:25:00	SUPPORTED BY THE SECRETARY
01:46:25:00	01:46:28:00	OF STATE BILL GALVIN AND HE'S
01:46:28:00	01:46:29:00	CALLED THE PROSPECT OF A
01:46:29:00	01:46:29:00	SPECIAL ELECTION A WASTE
01:46:29:00	01:46:32:00	OF TIME AS WELL AS $200,000 AND
01:46:32:00	01:46:36:00	AN INEFFECTIVE MOVE AT A TIME
01:46:36:00	01:46:37:00	WHEN OUR ELECTIONS DEPARTMENT
01:46:37:00	01:46:40:00	IS UNDER OPERATIONAL REVIEW BY
01:46:40:00	01:46:44:00	THE SECRETARY OF STATE'S DEPART
01:46:44:00	01:46:44:00	OFFICE.
01:46:44:00	01:46:48:00	SO IF SAY WE HAD THE FINAL
01:46:48:00	01:46:50:00	ELECTION ON AUGUST 26TH THOSE
01:46:50:00	01:46:54:00	SAME CANDIDATES WOULD BE ON THE
01:46:54:00	01:46:57:00	PRELIMINARY ELECTION ON
01:46:57:00	01:47:00:00	SEPTEMBER 9TH LIKE A WEEK OR
01:47:00:00	01:47:01:00	TWO LATER AND THEN THE FINAL
01:47:01:00	01:47:03:00	ELECTION WOULD BE MAY MAY OR
01:47:03:00	01:47:03:00	NOVEMBER 4TH.
01:47:03:00	01:47:07:00	IT JUST SEEMS LIKE THIS IS THE
01:47:07:00	01:47:08:00	MOST LOGICAL AND SENSIBLE WAY
01:47:08:00	01:47:09:00	TO HANDLE THE SITUATION RIGHT
01:47:09:00	01:47:11:00	NOW.
01:47:11:00	01:47:12:00	AND I THINK ALL OUR ALL OUR
01:47:12:00	01:47:14:00	CONVERSATIONS ABOUT HOW
01:47:14:00	01:47:15:00	IMPORTANT IT IS FOR THE
01:47:15:00	01:47:18:00	RESIDENTS OF DISTRICTS TO HAVE
01:47:18:00	01:47:19:00	THE OPPORTUNITY TO HAVE SOME
01:47:19:00	01:47:23:00	CERTAINTY IN THE TIMETABLE OR
01:47:23:00	01:47:24:00	SOME FLAHERTY LIKE THE NOTION
01:47:24:00	01:47:27:00	THAT THE PERSON WHO TAKES
01:47:27:00	01:47:31:00	OFFICE ON 26TH OF AUGUST WILL
01:47:31:00	01:47:35:00	ACTUALLY BE AN EFFECTIVE CITY
01:47:35:00	01:47:35:00	COUNCILOR IN THOSE FOUR IN
01:47:35:00	01:47:38:00	THOSE TWO MONTHS BETWEEN YOU
01:47:38:00	01:47:39:00	KNOW, WHEN THERE'S A
01:47:39:00	01:47:42:00	PRELIMINARY CITY
01:47:42:00	01:47:43:00	COUNCIL ELECTION AND THE FINAL
01:47:43:00	01:47:44:00	GENERAL ELECTION IN NOVEMBER
01:47:44:00	01:47:47:00	AND THEN THE CERTIFICATION
01:47:47:00	01:47:47:00	PROCESS, THEY WOULD BE THEY
01:47:47:00	01:47:48:00	WOULD BE SWORN EXPEDITED,
01:47:48:00	01:47:50:00	THERE'S TWO SWEARING IN IN
01:47:50:00	01:47:51:00	NOVEMBER AND WE WOULD HAVE A
01:47:51:00	01:47:54:00	SEATED CITY COUNCIL, A
01:47:54:00	01:47:58:00	COUNCILOR FOR DISTRICT SEVEN IN
01:47:58:00	01:47:58:00	AN EXPEDITED FASHION.
01:47:58:00	01:48:01:00	SO I STILL URGE MY COLLEAGUES
01:48:01:00	01:48:02:00	TO VOTE IN THE AFFIRMATIVE IN
01:48:02:00	01:48:05:00	SUPPORT OF THIS FORMAL PETITION
01:48:05:00	01:48:05:00	.
01:48:05:00	01:48:05:00	THANK YOU.
01:48:05:00	01:48:06:00	THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES
01:48:06:00	01:48:08:00	COUNCILOR MURPHY.
01:48:08:00	01:48:15:00	COUNCILOR, YOU HAVE THE FLOOR
01:48:15:00	01:48:16:00	OF THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES
01:48:16:00	01:48:16:00	COUNCILOR FLYNN.
01:48:16:00	01:48:17:00	COUNCILOR, YOU HAVE THE FLOOR.
01:48:17:00	01:48:19:00	THANK YOU, MR CHAIR.
01:48:19:00	01:48:20:00	I DIDN'T OFFER MY OPINION YET
01:48:20:00	01:48:20:00	AND I'M NOT GOING TO DO THAT.
01:48:20:00	01:48:23:00	I STILL THINK THE RIGHT PLACE
01:48:23:00	01:48:24:00	TO DO THAT IS AN INFORMAL
01:48:24:00	01:48:25:00	HEARING.
01:48:25:00	01:48:30:00	COUNCILOR MURPHY ASKED TO PLACE
01:48:30:00	01:48:30:00	THIS IN COMMITTEE.
01:48:30:00	01:48:34:00	I THINK EVERYONE HAD THEIR
01:48:34:00	01:48:38:00	OPPORTUNITY TO HAVE THEIR SAY.
01:48:38:00	01:48:38:00	MR CHAIR, CAN WE GO GO FORWARD
01:48:38:00	01:48:42:00	WITH WHAT THE MEETING AND AND
01:48:42:00	01:48:46:00	THE DEBATE IF COUNCIL IF
01:48:46:00	01:48:46:00	COUNCILOR MURPHY ALREADY ASKED
01:48:46:00	01:48:47:00	FOR A SUSPENDED POWERS AND
01:48:47:00	01:48:49:00	DEBATE SHE HAD TO SAY IT RIGHT
01:48:49:00	01:48:49:00	.
01:48:49:00	01:48:50:00	THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES
01:48:50:00	01:48:53:00	COUNCILOR MURPHY AND THANK YOU
01:48:53:00	01:48:53:00	COUNCILOR FLYNN FOR WORDING IT
01:48:53:00	01:48:54:00	THE WAY IT IS.
01:48:54:00	01:48:55:00	IT'S NOT THAT I'M TRYING TO
01:48:55:00	01:48:58:00	BLOCK THE DEBATE IT'S THAT I'M
01:48:58:00	01:48:58:00	ASKING THAT IT PROPERLY GOES
01:48:58:00	01:49:01:00	INTO THE PROPER COMMITTEE AND
01:49:01:00	01:49:04:00	THAT WE HOLD A HEARING SO THAT
01:49:04:00	01:49:04:00	THIS CONVERSATION CONTINUES AND
01:49:04:00	01:49:08:00	THAT WE AS COLLEAGUES HAVE THE
01:49:08:00	01:49:09:00	TIME TO TALK THAT THROUGH.
01:49:09:00	01:49:12:00	SO I AM BLOCKING A SUSPENDED
01:49:12:00	01:49:13:00	PASS OF THIS AND HOPING THAT WE
01:49:13:00	01:49:16:00	CAN GET THE HEARING SCHEDULED
01:49:16:00	01:49:16:00	SOON.
01:49:16:00	01:49:16:00	THANK YOU.
01:49:16:00	01:49:17:00	THANK YOU.
01:49:17:00	01:49:19:00	DUNCAN NUMBER 0901 REFER TO THE
01:49:19:00	01:49:20:00	COMMITTEE ON GOVERNMENT
01:49:20:00	01:49:22:00	OPERATIONS.
01:49:22:00	01:49:23:00	MR. CLERK CAN YOU PLEASE READ
01:49:23:00	01:49:26:00	DUNCAN NUMBER 0902 DUNCAN
01:49:26:00	01:49:28:00	NUMBER 0902 COUNCIL OF THE
01:49:28:00	01:49:29:00	PANEL FOR THE FOLLOWING ORDER
01:49:29:00	01:49:32:00	TO ADOPT CHAPTER 270 OF THE
01:49:32:00	01:49:35:00	ACTS OF 2024 REGARDING LOCAL
01:49:35:00	01:49:35:00	LAW ENFORCEMENT CONTINUITY
01:49:35:00	01:49:39:00	BETWEEN THE CITY OF BOSTON AND
01:49:39:00	01:49:39:00	THE TOWN.
01:49:39:00	01:49:40:00	THANK YOU.
01:49:40:00	01:49:42:00	THIS DOCKET HAS BEEN WITHDRAWN
01:49:42:00	01:49:43:00	.
01:49:43:00	01:49:44:00	MR CLERK, COULD YOU PLEASE READ
01:49:44:00	01:49:49:00	DOCKET NUMBER 0903 DUNCAN
01:49:49:00	01:49:49:00	NUMBER 0903 COUNCIL S.A. FOR
01:49:49:00	01:49:52:00	THE FOLLOWING ORDER FOR THE
01:49:52:00	01:49:53:00	BOSTON CITY COUNCIL HOLD A
01:49:53:00	01:49:56:00	POLICY BRIEFING ON THE PUBLIC
01:49:56:00	01:49:56:00	SAFETY AND CRIMINAL JUSTICE
01:49:56:00	01:50:00:00	IMPLEMENTATION IN IMPACTS IN
01:50:00:00	01:50:00:00	THE CITY OF BOSTON OF THE
01:50:00:00	01:50:03:00	SHIELD LAW IN THE FALL KNOWN
01:50:03:00	01:50:04:00	FORMALLY AS A MASSACHUSETTS ACT
01:50:04:00	01:50:07:00	EXPANDING PROTECTIONS FOR
01:50:07:00	01:50:07:00	REPRODUCTIVE AND GENDER
01:50:07:00	01:50:11:00	AFFIRMING CARE.
01:50:11:00	01:50:11:00	THANK YOU.
01:50:11:00	01:50:12:00	THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES COUNSELOR
01:50:12:00	01:50:13:00	SANTANA COUNSELORS AND ANY
01:50:13:00	01:50:14:00	OTHER FLOOR.
01:50:14:00	01:50:15:00	THANK YOU, MADAM PRESIDENT.
01:50:15:00	01:50:18:00	TODAY I RISE TO INTRODUCE A
01:50:18:00	01:50:18:00	HEARING ORDER CALLING FOR A
01:50:18:00	01:50:19:00	POLICY BRIEFING ON THE
01:50:19:00	01:50:22:00	IMPLEMENTATION AND IMPACTS
01:50:22:00	01:50:22:00	OF THE MASSACHUSETTS SHIELD LAW
01:50:22:00	01:50:25:00	HERE IN THE CITY OF BOSTON
01:50:25:00	01:50:25:00	FORMALLY TITLED AN ACT
01:50:25:00	01:50:26:00	EXPANDING PROTECTIONS FOR
01:50:26:00	01:50:30:00	REPRODUCTIVE AND GENDER
01:50:30:00	01:50:30:00	AFFIRMING CARE.
01:50:30:00	01:50:34:00	THIS LAW PASSED IN 2020 TO WAS
01:50:34:00	01:50:34:00	A BOLD AND NECESSARY STEP IN
01:50:34:00	01:50:37:00	THE FACE OF NATIONAL ATTACKS ON
01:50:37:00	01:50:37:00	OUR RIGHTS.
01:50:37:00	01:50:41:00	IT PROTECTS PROVIDERS, PATIENTS
01:50:41:00	01:50:42:00	AND ANYONE ASSISTING WITH
01:50:42:00	01:50:45:00	ACCESS TO CARE FROM CIVIL AND
01:50:45:00	01:50:45:00	CRIMINAL LIABILITY WHEN THAT
01:50:45:00	01:50:48:00	CARE IS LEGAL IN MASSACHUSETTS.
01:50:48:00	01:50:49:00	AS THE LARGEST CITY IN THE
01:50:49:00	01:50:52:00	COMMONWEALTH AND HOME TO THE
01:50:52:00	01:50:56:00	WORLD OVER KNOWN HEALTH CARE
01:50:56:00	01:50:56:00	INSTITUTIONS, BOSTON HAS A
01:50:56:00	01:50:57:00	SPECIAL RESPONSIBILITY TO
01:50:57:00	01:50:59:00	ENSURE OUR PUBLIC SAFETY AND
01:50:59:00	01:51:00:00	CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEMS ARE
01:51:00:00	01:51:03:00	UPHOLDING THIS LAW.
01:51:03:00	01:51:04:00	THAT INCLUDES MAKING SURE OUR
01:51:04:00	01:51:07:00	DEPARTMENTS FROM LAW
01:51:07:00	01:51:07:00	ENFORCEMENT TO LICENSING BODIES
01:51:07:00	01:51:11:00	ARE ALIGNED WITH A SHIELD LAW
01:51:11:00	01:51:11:00	PROTECTIONS.
01:51:11:00	01:51:12:00	THIS POLICY BRIEFING WILL GIVE
01:51:12:00	01:51:14:00	US A CLEARER UNDERSTANDING
01:51:14:00	01:51:15:00	OF HOW THE SHIELD LAW IS
01:51:15:00	01:51:18:00	WORKING ON THE GROUND HERE IN
01:51:18:00	01:51:18:00	BOSTON.
01:51:18:00	01:51:18:00	WHAT'S WORKING WELL?
01:51:18:00	01:51:22:00	WHERE CAN WE IMPROVE AND HOW WE
01:51:22:00	01:51:22:00	CAN CONTINUE TO LIVE IN
01:51:22:00	01:51:23:00	PROTECTING BOTH REPRODUCTIVE
01:51:23:00	01:51:25:00	AND GENDER GENDER AFFIRMING
01:51:25:00	01:51:25:00	CARE?
01:51:25:00	01:51:26:00	I RESPECTFULLY ASK FOR MY
01:51:26:00	01:51:29:00	COLLEAGUES SUPPORT AND I LOOK
01:51:29:00	01:51:30:00	FORWARD TO A ROBUST
01:51:30:00	01:51:30:00	CONVERSATION.
01:51:30:00	01:51:33:00	THANK YOU.
01:51:33:00	01:51:33:00	THANK YOU.
01:51:33:00	01:51:34:00	IS ANYONE ELSE LOOKING TO SPEAK
01:51:34:00	01:51:37:00	ON THIS MATTER?
01:51:37:00	01:51:38:00	THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES COME WHERE
01:51:38:00	01:51:38:00	YOU HAVE THE FLOOR.
01:51:38:00	01:51:40:00	THANK YOU.
01:51:40:00	01:51:41:00	MADAM PRESIDENT, I ALSO WANT TO
01:51:41:00	01:51:41:00	THANK COUNCILOR SANTANA FOR
01:51:41:00	01:51:44:00	BRINGING THIS IDEA FOR A POLICY
01:51:44:00	01:51:45:00	BRIEF OR FORWARD FOR AN
01:51:45:00	01:51:45:00	UNFORTUNATELY TIMELY TABLET
01:51:45:00	01:51:48:00	TOPIC AS MANY OF OUR OF OUR
01:51:48:00	01:51:49:00	COMMUNITY MEMBERS NEAR AND FAR
01:51:49:00	01:51:51:00	CONTINUE TO BE SCRUTINIZED AND
01:51:51:00	01:51:52:00	ATTACKED FOR WHO THEY ARE OR
01:51:52:00	01:51:56:00	THE KIND OF HEALTH CARE THEY
01:51:56:00	01:51:56:00	NEED FROM GENDER AFFIRMING CARE
01:51:56:00	01:51:57:00	TO OUR LIST OF REPRODUCTIVE
01:51:57:00	01:51:59:00	HEALTH CARE BOTH WHICH ARE
01:51:59:00	01:51:59:00	OFTEN LIFESAVING.
01:51:59:00	01:52:03:00	OUR RIGHT TO PRIVACY GOES IN
01:52:03:00	01:52:04:00	TANDEM WITH OUR RIGHT TO HEALTH
01:52:04:00	01:52:04:00	CARE ACCESS.
01:52:04:00	01:52:07:00	THIS BILL IS AN IMPORTANT STEP
01:52:07:00	01:52:08:00	IN PROTECTING BOTH AND I THINK
01:52:08:00	01:52:09:00	IT'S FITTING TALK FOR A PLUG IN
01:52:09:00	01:52:14:00	UPLIFTING H 86 AND 197 OR THE
01:52:14:00	01:52:14:00	MASSACHUSETTS LOCATION SHIELD
01:52:14:00	01:52:18:00	ACT IN THE SAME BREATH.
01:52:18:00	01:52:18:00	THIS ACT SIMILARLY CENTERS
01:52:18:00	01:52:21:00	AROUND PROTECTING PEOPLE'S DATA
01:52:21:00	01:52:22:00	PRIVACY AND WILL PREVENT THE
01:52:22:00	01:52:25:00	ACCESS AND SALE OF PERSONAL
01:52:25:00	01:52:25:00	LOCATION DATA AND PRIVATE
01:52:25:00	01:52:28:00	HEALTH CARE INFORMATION BY
01:52:28:00	01:52:28:00	THIRD PARTIES WITHOUT CONSENT.
01:52:28:00	01:52:29:00	THE LONGER WE GO WITHOUT
01:52:29:00	01:52:32:00	EXPLICIT PROTECTIONS AGAINST
01:52:32:00	01:52:33:00	THIS BEHAVIOR IN OUR STATE, THE
01:52:33:00	01:52:35:00	MORE MALICIOUS ACTORS WITH THE
01:52:35:00	01:52:36:00	INTENT TO HARM WILL CONTINUE TO
01:52:36:00	01:52:37:00	HAVE UNOBSTRUCTED AND DANGEROUS
01:52:37:00	01:52:39:00	ACCESS TO PATIENT LOCATION DATA
01:52:39:00	01:52:43:00	INCLUDING THE KNOWLEDGE OF WHEN
01:52:43:00	01:52:43:00	, WHERE OR WHY SOMEONE WILL
01:52:43:00	01:52:46:00	MAKE AN APPOINTMENT AT A CLINIC
01:52:46:00	01:52:47:00	.
01:52:47:00	01:52:47:00	NO ONE SHOULD BE ALLOWED THIS
01:52:47:00	01:52:48:00	KIND OF UNADOPTED ACCESS TO
01:52:48:00	01:52:51:00	ANOTHER HUMAN'S BEING PRIVACY.
01:52:51:00	01:52:51:00	I SEE.
01:52:51:00	01:52:54:00	I SEE THAT I THESE AS
01:52:54:00	01:52:55:00	INHERENTLY TIED PIECES
01:52:55:00	01:52:55:00	OF LEGISLATION FOR THE GREATER
01:52:55:00	01:52:59:00	GOOD OF BOSTON AND FOR ALL
01:52:59:00	01:52:59:00	PEOPLE SEEKING GENDER AFFIRMING
01:52:59:00	01:53:02:00	AND INCLUSIVE HEALTH CARE AND
01:53:02:00	01:53:03:00	SECURITY IN OUR STATE WHEN THEY
01:53:03:00	01:53:05:00	CANNOT ACCESS IT OTHERWISE WHEN
01:53:05:00	01:53:06:00	PEOPLE HAVE THE ABILITY TO MAKE
01:53:06:00	01:53:07:00	THEIR OWN HEALTH CARE CHOICES
01:53:07:00	01:53:10:00	WHEN THEY CAN PRIVATELY FREELY
01:53:10:00	01:53:10:00	MAKE THE DECISION THEY NEED TO
01:53:10:00	01:53:13:00	MAKE TO KEEP THEMSELVES HEALTHY
01:53:13:00	01:53:14:00	, WHEN THEY FEEL SAFE IN THEIR
01:53:14:00	01:53:15:00	DOCTOR'S OFFICE, WHEN THEY FEEL
01:53:15:00	01:53:17:00	RESPECTED IN A FIRM FOR WHO
01:53:17:00	01:53:18:00	THEY ARE IN-PERSON AND ONLINE
01:53:18:00	01:53:21:00	AND WE RAISE OUR CHILDREN TO
01:53:21:00	01:53:22:00	UNDERSTAND AND RESPECT THESE
01:53:22:00	01:53:23:00	RIGHTS AS INTRINSIC TO ALL
01:53:23:00	01:53:25:00	PEOPLE, WE ARE ALL BETTER FOR
01:53:25:00	01:53:25:00	IT.
01:53:25:00	01:53:26:00	I LOOK FORWARD TO THIS
01:53:26:00	01:53:27:00	CONVERSATION AND SEEING HOW WE
01:53:27:00	01:53:28:00	CAN WORK TO EXPAND AND ENHANCE
01:53:28:00	01:53:29:00	THESE PROTECTIONS.
01:53:29:00	01:53:32:00	THANK YOU.
01:53:32:00	01:53:32:00	THANK YOU.
01:53:32:00	01:53:33:00	IS ANYONE ELSE LOOKING TO SPEAK
01:53:33:00	01:53:34:00	ON THIS MATTER BUT ANYONE ELSE
01:53:34:00	01:53:36:00	LIKE TO ADD THEIR NAME?
01:53:36:00	01:53:36:00	MR. CLERK PLEASE ADD
01:53:36:00	01:53:37:00	COUNSELORS.
01:53:37:00	01:53:40:00	OH, YOU WOULD LIKE TO SPEAK ON
01:53:40:00	01:53:40:00	THIS MATTER.
01:53:40:00	01:53:41:00	OKAY.
01:53:41:00	01:53:41:00	THANK YOU.
01:53:41:00	01:53:43:00	THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES COUNSELOR
01:53:43:00	01:53:44:00	SANTANA.
01:53:44:00	01:53:44:00	THANK YOU, MADAM PRESIDENT.
01:53:44:00	01:53:45:00	I'M SORRY ABOUT THAT.
01:53:45:00	01:53:48:00	CAN I JUST ADD HOWSOEVER I
01:53:48:00	01:53:48:00	SUSPECTED AN ORIGINAL
01:53:48:00	01:53:49:00	CO-SPONSOR COUNCILOR WERE ALSO
01:53:49:00	01:53:49:00	ADDED.
01:53:49:00	01:53:51:00	THANK YOU.
01:53:51:00	01:53:51:00	OKAY, WE'LL GO BACK TO ADDING
01:53:51:00	01:53:52:00	NAMES.
01:53:52:00	01:53:55:00	MR. CLERK, PLEASE.
01:53:55:00	01:53:56:00	COUNCILORS BREADON CLAUDIA
01:53:56:00	01:53:56:00	ZAPATA.
01:53:56:00	01:53:56:00	DURKIN FITZGERALD.
01:53:56:00	01:53:59:00	MURPHY.
01:53:59:00	01:53:59:00	BEN WEBER.
01:53:59:00	01:54:00:00	PLEASE ADD THE CHAIR PLEASE
01:54:00:00	01:54:05:00	THAT COUNCILOR FLYNN.
01:54:05:00	01:54:05:00	THIS DOCKET WILL BE REFERRED TO
01:54:05:00	01:54:06:00	THE COMMITTEE ON PUBLIC SAFETY
01:54:06:00	01:54:08:00	AND CRIMINAL JUSTICE.
01:54:08:00	01:54:09:00	MR. CLERK COULD YOU PLEASE ME?
01:54:09:00	01:54:11:00	DOCKET NUMBER 0904090 FOR
01:54:11:00	01:54:12:00	COUNCILOR PLAYING OFF OF THE
01:54:12:00	01:54:14:00	FOLLOWING ORDER FOR A HEARING
01:54:14:00	01:54:15:00	TO DISCUSS CREATING AN
01:54:15:00	01:54:18:00	OVERSIGHT COMMITTEE ON
01:54:18:00	01:54:19:00	ACCOUNTABILITY AND COMPLIANCE
01:54:19:00	01:54:22:00	ON THE BOSSIER CITY COUNCIL.
01:54:22:00	01:54:22:00	THANK YOU.
01:54:22:00	01:54:23:00	THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES
01:54:23:00	01:54:23:00	COMFORTABLY NEAR THE FLOOR.
01:54:23:00	01:54:25:00	THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.
01:54:25:00	01:54:26:00	I AM FILING A HEARING ORDER
01:54:26:00	01:54:29:00	TODAY TO DISCUSS THE CREATION
01:54:29:00	01:54:29:00	OF AN OVERSIGHT COMMITTEE ON
01:54:29:00	01:54:33:00	COMPLIANCE AND ACCOUNTABILITY
01:54:33:00	01:54:36:00	TO THE BOSTON CITY
01:54:36:00	01:54:37:00	COUNCIL WHILE BOSTON CITY
01:54:37:00	01:54:37:00	COUNCILORS AND STAFF ARE
01:54:37:00	01:54:40:00	CURRENTLY REQUIRED TO COMPLETE
01:54:40:00	01:54:41:00	MANDATORY CONFLICT OF INTEREST
01:54:41:00	01:54:44:00	TRAINING ANNUALLY BY THE
01:54:44:00	01:54:45:00	MASSACHUSETTS STATE ETHICS
01:54:45:00	01:54:47:00	COMMISSION.
01:54:47:00	01:54:48:00	THERE HAVE BEEN A SERIES
01:54:48:00	01:54:51:00	OF LEGAL AND ETHICAL LAPSES
01:54:51:00	01:54:52:00	OVER THE LAST SEVERAL YEARS BY
01:54:52:00	01:54:55:00	MEMBERS OF THE COUNCIL WHICH
01:54:55:00	01:54:56:00	HAVE UNDERMINED THE CREDIBILITY
01:54:56:00	01:55:01:00	OF THE BODY.
01:55:01:00	01:55:01:00	I HAVE ALSO ADVOCATED FOR
01:55:01:00	01:55:04:00	TRANSPARENCY AND PUBLIC
01:55:04:00	01:55:05:00	DISCLOSURE WHEN IT COMES TO
01:55:05:00	01:55:07:00	RELEASING FIVE YEARS OF STATE
01:55:07:00	01:55:10:00	AND FEDERAL TAX RETURNS FOR ALL
01:55:10:00	01:55:11:00	COUNCILS AS WELL AS THE
01:55:11:00	01:55:14:00	STATEMENT OF INTEREST FINANCIAL
01:55:14:00	01:55:18:00	INTEREST SUBMITTED ANNUALLY BY
01:55:18:00	01:55:19:00	CITY COUNCILORS TO THE CITY
01:55:19:00	01:55:19:00	CLERK'S OFFICE.
01:55:19:00	01:55:22:00	THIS SHOULD ALSO BE SENT TO THE
01:55:22:00	01:55:25:00	MASSACHUSETTS STATE ETHICS
01:55:25:00	01:55:29:00	COMMISSION AS WELL AS CITY
01:55:29:00	01:55:32:00	COUNCIL AS WE ARE PLACED IN
01:55:32:00	01:55:33:00	POSITIONS OF PUBLIC TRUST AND
01:55:33:00	01:55:34:00	SHOULD DEMONSTRATE THE HIGHEST
01:55:34:00	01:55:37:00	LEVEL OF ETHICAL STANDARDS AND
01:55:37:00	01:55:37:00	INTEGRITY.
01:55:37:00	01:55:40:00	THE LAST SEVERAL YEARS HAVE
01:55:40:00	01:55:41:00	HIGHLIGHTED THE NEED FOR AN
01:55:41:00	01:55:44:00	OUTSIDE OVERSIGHT COMMITTEE
01:55:44:00	01:55:45:00	COMPOSED OF NONAFFILIATED AND
01:55:45:00	01:55:48:00	RELEVANT EXPERTS THAT WILL
01:55:48:00	01:55:49:00	REVIEW COUNCIL MATTERS TO
01:55:49:00	01:55:52:00	RESTORE PUBLIC FAITH IN OUR
01:55:52:00	01:55:53:00	GOVERNMENT AND CITY GOVERNMENT.
01:55:53:00	01:55:56:00	THIS OVERSIGHT BOARD MAY
01:55:56:00	01:55:59:00	POSSIBLY MEET QUARTERLY.
01:55:59:00	01:56:00:00	IT INCLUDE A NUMBER
01:56:00:00	01:56:03:00	OF FUNCTIONS SUCH AS ENSURING
01:56:03:00	01:56:04:00	MEMBERS ARE IN COMPLIANCE WITH
01:56:04:00	01:56:07:00	ALL RELEVANT RULES AND
01:56:07:00	01:56:08:00	REGULATIONS REVIEWING CONFLICT
01:56:08:00	01:56:11:00	OF INTEREST MATTERS,
01:56:11:00	01:56:15:00	IDENTIFYING AND INVESTIGATING
01:56:15:00	01:56:16:00	ANY ALLEGED VIOLATIONS AND
01:56:16:00	01:56:19:00	PROPOSING REFORMS TO PREVENT
01:56:19:00	01:56:19:00	FURTHER OFFENSES.
01:56:19:00	01:56:23:00	THE OF THE BOARD MAY
01:56:23:00	01:56:24:00	POTENTIALLY INCLUDE THE CITY
01:56:24:00	01:56:27:00	COUNCIL PRESIDENT OR A RETIRED
01:56:27:00	01:56:31:00	MASSACHUSETTS OR FEDERAL JUDGE
01:56:31:00	01:56:31:00	.
01:56:31:00	01:56:32:00	A REPRESENTATIVE FROM MAY BE
01:56:32:00	01:56:35:00	FROM THE BOSTON MUNICIPAL
01:56:35:00	01:56:35:00	RESEARCH BUREAU, A COLLEGE OR
01:56:35:00	01:56:38:00	UNIVERSITY ADMINISTRATOR.
01:56:38:00	01:56:41:00	A BOSTON RESIDENT.
01:56:41:00	01:56:42:00	ALTHOUGH THE CITY COUNCIL VOTED
01:56:42:00	01:56:43:00	AGAINST ETHICS REFORM IN
01:56:43:00	01:56:46:00	JANUARY, IT IS CRITICAL THAT WE
01:56:46:00	01:56:49:00	REVISIT THIS CONVERSATION AND
01:56:49:00	01:56:50:00	DISCUSS THE CREATION OF AN
01:56:50:00	01:56:53:00	OVERSIGHT BOARD AGAIN MADE UP
01:56:53:00	01:56:54:00	OF NONAFFILIATED, RELEVANT AND
01:56:54:00	01:56:57:00	OUTSIDE EXPERTS TO HELP RESTORE
01:56:57:00	01:57:00:00	CREDIBILITY WITH THE PEOPLE
01:57:00:00	01:57:00:00	OF BOSTON.
01:57:00:00	01:57:01:00	THIS PARTY HAS LOST ITS
01:57:01:00	01:57:04:00	CREDIBILITY.
01:57:04:00	01:57:07:00	WE MUST ACKNOWLEDGE THAT THE
01:57:07:00	01:57:08:00	PUBLIC HAS LOST FAITH IN THE
01:57:08:00	01:57:11:00	BOSTON CITY COUNCIL AND WE MUST
01:57:11:00	01:57:12:00	ACT ACCORDINGLY.
01:57:12:00	01:57:12:00	THE STATUS QUO.
01:57:12:00	01:57:16:00	MY FRIENDS, IS NO LONGER AN
01:57:16:00	01:57:16:00	OPTION.
01:57:16:00	01:57:16:00	THANK YOU.
01:57:16:00	01:57:17:00	THANK YOU.
01:57:17:00	01:57:19:00	WOULD ANYONE ELSE LIKE TO SPEAK
01:57:19:00	01:57:20:00	ON THIS MATTER?
01:57:20:00	01:57:21:00	WOULD ANYONE ELSE LIKE TO ADD
01:57:21:00	01:57:21:00	THEIR NAME?
01:57:21:00	01:57:24:00	MR. CLERK, ADD
01:57:24:00	01:57:25:00	COUNCILOR MURPHY.
01:57:25:00	01:57:25:00	PLEASE.
01:57:25:00	01:57:25:00	THAT HAS TO BE JERROLD.
01:57:25:00	01:57:28:00	THIS DOCKET WILL BE REFERRED TO
01:57:28:00	01:57:28:00	THE COMMITTEE ON RULES
01:57:28:00	01:57:29:00	ADMINISTRATION.
01:57:29:00	01:57:29:00	MR. CLERK, WOULD YOU PLEASE
01:57:29:00	01:57:34:00	READ DOCKET NUMBER 09050905
01:57:34:00	01:57:35:00	COUNCILOR WEBER OFF FOR THE
01:57:35:00	01:57:36:00	FOLLOWING ORDER FOR A HEARING
01:57:36:00	01:57:38:00	TO DISCUSS THE IMPACTS
01:57:38:00	01:57:38:00	OF SOCIAL MEDIA ON BOSTON
01:57:38:00	01:57:42:00	PUBLIC SCHOOL STUDENTS.
01:57:42:00	01:57:42:00	THANK YOU.
01:57:42:00	01:57:43:00	THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES
01:57:43:00	01:57:43:00	COUNCILOR WEBER.
01:57:43:00	01:57:44:00	COUNCILOR WEBER, YOU HAVE THE
01:57:44:00	01:57:45:00	FLOOR.
01:57:45:00	01:57:46:00	THANK YOU, MADAM PRESIDENT.
01:57:46:00	01:57:50:00	I WOULD LIKE TO ADD
01:57:50:00	01:57:50:00	COUNCILOR PEPEN AS AN ORIGINAL
01:57:50:00	01:57:50:00	CO-SPONSOR
01:57:50:00	01:57:54:00	COUNCILOR PREPAREDNESS SO ADDED
01:57:54:00	01:57:54:00	COUNCILOR WEBER, YOU ON THE
01:57:54:00	01:57:54:00	FLOOR.
01:57:54:00	01:57:55:00	OKAY.
01:57:55:00	01:57:57:00	AS COUNCILOR DURKIN IS
01:57:57:00	01:58:00:00	WATCHING, PLEASE COME BACK BUT
01:58:00:00	01:58:05:00	I MAY ADD HERS A CO-SPONSOR
01:58:05:00	01:58:05:00	OF THE POSSIBILITY OPENING
01:58:05:00	01:58:06:00	OF SOME OTHER PEOPLE TO SUPPORT
01:58:06:00	01:58:08:00	THIS.
01:58:08:00	01:58:12:00	UM BUT SO I YEAH I'VE GOT TWO
01:58:12:00	01:58:16:00	TEENAGERS AT HOME AND I KNOW
01:58:16:00	01:58:16:00	TOO WELL THE EXPERIENCE
01:58:16:00	01:58:19:00	OF LOOKING UP AT THE DINNER
01:58:19:00	01:58:19:00	TABLE AND TALKING TO SOMEONE
01:58:19:00	01:58:20:00	WHOSE HEAD IS BURIED IN THEIR
01:58:20:00	01:58:23:00	CELL PHONE.
01:58:23:00	01:58:23:00	IT'S WHY I THOUGHT IT WAS
01:58:23:00	01:58:27:00	INTERESTING A MONTH OR SO AGO I
01:58:27:00	01:58:28:00	TOOK A TOUR OF ENGLISH HIGH
01:58:28:00	01:58:30:00	SCHOOL WITH
01:58:30:00	01:58:31:00	SUPERINTENDENT SKIPPER AND
01:58:31:00	01:58:34:00	PRINCIPAL CAITLIN MURPHY SAID
01:58:34:00	01:58:35:00	TO YOU DO YOU SEE ANYTHING
01:58:35:00	01:58:35:00	INTERESTING HERE?
01:58:35:00	01:58:37:00	AND IT WAS LOOKING DOWN THE
01:58:37:00	01:58:38:00	HALLWAY AND I DID NOTICE KIDS
01:58:38:00	01:58:42:00	WERE TALKING TO EACH OTHER AND
01:58:42:00	01:58:42:00	SHE SAID YEAH, WE WE'VE BANNED
01:58:42:00	01:58:45:00	CELL PHONES IN THE SCHOOL AND
01:58:45:00	01:58:46:00	IT HAS REALLY THIS YEAR YOU
01:58:46:00	01:58:47:00	KNOW, WE WE WE FINALLY GOT THE
01:58:47:00	01:58:50:00	KIDS TO KIND OF BUY INTO IT AND
01:58:50:00	01:58:53:00	AS A RESULT THERE'S MORE SOCIAL
01:58:53:00	01:58:53:00	INTERACTION WITH PEOPLE AND
01:58:53:00	01:58:56:00	IT'S OVERALL HAD A GOOD IMPACT
01:58:56:00	01:58:57:00	ON THE SCHOOL.
01:58:57:00	01:59:01:00	SO YOU KNOW MY OFFICE AND I WE
01:59:01:00	01:59:02:00	LOOKED AT YOU KNOW, CELL PHONE
01:59:02:00	01:59:04:00	POLICIES AND SOCIAL MEDIA AND
01:59:04:00	01:59:05:00	YOU KNOW, WE FOUND SOME
01:59:05:00	01:59:09:00	DISTURBING TRENDS.
01:59:09:00	01:59:09:00	PEOPLE HAVE FOUND THAT
01:59:09:00	01:59:12:00	INCREASED USE OF SOCIAL MEDIA
01:59:12:00	01:59:12:00	TEENAGERS INCREASES ANXIETY,
01:59:12:00	01:59:17:00	DEPRESSION INCREASED INCIDENCES
01:59:17:00	01:59:17:00	OF EATING DISORDERS AND IN
01:59:17:00	01:59:20:00	SCHOOLS USE OF CELL PHONES HAVE
01:59:20:00	01:59:21:00	BEEN LINKED WITH LOWER
01:59:21:00	01:59:21:00	PERFORMANCE AND CYBERBULLYING.
01:59:21:00	01:59:25:00	UM THE THE LONDON SCHOOL
01:59:25:00	01:59:28:00	OF ECONOMICS DID A STUDY AND
01:59:28:00	01:59:32:00	FOUND THAT REMOVING CELL PHONES
01:59:32:00	01:59:33:00	OR OR BANNING THEIR USE IN
01:59:33:00	01:59:36:00	SCHOOLS RESULTED IN IMPROVED
01:59:36:00	01:59:39:00	TEST SCORES ESPECIALLY FOR
01:59:39:00	01:59:40:00	DISADVANTAGED AND LOWER SCORING
01:59:40:00	01:59:44:00	STUDENTS RECENTLY THE LOS
01:59:44:00	01:59:45:00	ANGELES SCHOOL DISTRICT BANNED
01:59:45:00	01:59:48:00	CELL PHONES THE STATE
01:59:48:00	01:59:50:00	OF CALIFORNIA AS OF JULY 1ST,
01:59:50:00	01:59:54:00	2026 WILL BE REQUIRING THAT ALL
01:59:54:00	01:59:55:00	CELL PHONES BE PLACED IN
01:59:55:00	01:59:56:00	STORAGE CONTAINERS SO THAT THEY
01:59:56:00	01:59:58:00	CAN BE WHILE THEY CAN BE USED
01:59:58:00	01:59:59:00	IN EMERGENCIES THEY ARE NOT
01:59:59:00	02:00:03:00	GOING TO BE ABLE TO BE USED
02:00:03:00	02:00:03:00	JUST IN THE DAILY COURSE
02:00:03:00	02:00:05:00	OF EVENTS.
02:00:05:00	02:00:09:00	AND SO, YOU KNOW, I THINK WE'VE
02:00:09:00	02:00:10:00	ALL SEEN HOW SOCIAL MEDIA
02:00:10:00	02:00:13:00	IMPACTS PROBABLY OUR LIVES BUT
02:00:13:00	02:00:14:00	IT IMPACTS OUR KIDS EVEN MORE.
02:00:14:00	02:00:16:00	UM, I KNOW WE HEARD FROM
02:00:16:00	02:00:17:00	SUPERINTENDENT SKIPPER AT A
02:00:17:00	02:00:17:00	HEARING A COUPLE OF DAYS AGO
02:00:17:00	02:00:20:00	ABOUT HOW YOU KNOW THE DISTRICT
02:00:20:00	02:00:21:00	IS INTERESTED IN IN WORKING
02:00:21:00	02:00:24:00	WITH EACH SCHOOL INDIVIDUALLY
02:00:24:00	02:00:25:00	TO FIND OUT WHAT'S THE SOLUTION
02:00:25:00	02:00:28:00	THAT WORKS AT THAT SCHOOL.
02:00:28:00	02:00:31:00	I KNOW IN THIS SPACE I THINK
02:00:31:00	02:00:32:00	COUNCILOR DURKIN HAS ALREADY
02:00:32:00	02:00:32:00	DONE SOME WORK.
02:00:32:00	02:00:35:00	COUNCILOR SANTANA
02:00:35:00	02:00:36:00	CONCILOR MEJIA HERE SO SAY THAT
02:00:36:00	02:00:40:00	LATINA IN LOOKING AT THE IMPACT
02:00:40:00	02:00:40:00	USE OF CELL PHONES IN OUR
02:00:40:00	02:00:40:00	SCHOOLS.
02:00:40:00	02:00:43:00	SO I THINK IT'S IT'S IT'S IT
02:00:43:00	02:00:44:00	WOULD BE A GOOD THING FOR THIS
02:00:44:00	02:00:47:00	BODY TO HAVE A HEARING SEE WHAT
02:00:47:00	02:00:48:00	IMPACT SOCIAL MEDIA IS HAVING
02:00:48:00	02:00:51:00	ON OUR KIDS IN SCHOOL.
02:00:51:00	02:00:52:00	AND I WOULD LIKE TO ADD,
02:00:52:00	02:00:55:00	COUNCILOR DURKIN, AS A THIRD
02:00:55:00	02:00:58:00	CO-SPONSOR UM I DON'T KNOW IF I
02:00:58:00	02:00:59:00	WHATEVER HAS TO HAPPEN FOR THAT
02:00:59:00	02:01:02:00	TO HAPPEN BE GREAT.
02:01:02:00	02:01:02:00	SO THANK YOU.
02:01:02:00	02:01:03:00	I LOOK FORWARD TO HAVING A
02:01:03:00	02:01:07:00	HEARING ON THIS IMPORTANT THANK
02:01:07:00	02:01:08:00	YOU CASA OBVIOUSLY THIS HAS
02:01:08:00	02:01:08:00	BEEN THE RULES AND
02:01:08:00	02:01:10:00	COUNCIL DIRECTIVE THAT THERE IS
02:01:10:00	02:01:10:00	NO CO-SPONSOR SEEING AND
02:01:10:00	02:01:11:00	HEARING NO OBJECTIONS.
02:01:11:00	02:01:13:00	COUNCILOR DURKIN IS SO ADDED
02:01:13:00	02:01:14:00	I'M GOING TO THE SECOND
02:01:14:00	02:01:18:00	CO-SPONSOR WAS COUNCILOR PIPPIN
02:01:18:00	02:01:18:00	.
02:01:18:00	02:01:19:00	SO THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES
02:01:19:00	02:01:19:00	COUNCILOR PEN.
02:01:19:00	02:01:20:00	YOU GOT THE FLOOR.
02:01:20:00	02:01:21:00	THANK YOU, MADAM PRESIDENT.
02:01:21:00	02:01:22:00	AND I WANT TO THANK
02:01:22:00	02:01:22:00	COUNCILOR WEBER FOR BRINGING
02:01:22:00	02:01:25:00	ATTENTION TO AN URGENT ISSUE
02:01:25:00	02:01:25:00	AFFECTING OUR STUDENTS AND
02:01:25:00	02:01:26:00	FAMILIES ACROSS BOSTON ALL OVER
02:01:26:00	02:01:29:00	THE CITY I'VE HEARD FROM
02:01:29:00	02:01:30:00	EDUCATORS AND PARENTS CONCERNED
02:01:30:00	02:01:30:00	ABOUT HOW SOCIAL MEDIA IS
02:01:30:00	02:01:32:00	SHAPING OUR KIDS MENTAL
02:01:32:00	02:01:33:00	ACADEMIC FOCUS AND SENSE
02:01:33:00	02:01:36:00	OF SELF-WORTH.
02:01:36:00	02:01:37:00	AS A PARENT ESPECIALLY, WE NEED
02:01:37:00	02:01:40:00	TO DO BETTER UNDERSTANDING BOTH
02:01:40:00	02:01:40:00	THE HARMS AND THE POTENTIAL
02:01:40:00	02:01:41:00	BENEFITS OF THIS TECHNOLOGY AND
02:01:41:00	02:01:44:00	MOST IMPORTANTLY WE MUST CENTER
02:01:44:00	02:01:45:00	STUDENT VOICES IN THEIR
02:01:45:00	02:01:47:00	CONVERSATIONS.
02:01:47:00	02:01:48:00	THIS HEARING IS AN OPPORTUNITY
02:01:48:00	02:01:51:00	FOR US TO LISTEN, TO LEARN TO
02:01:51:00	02:01:51:00	EXPLORE WAYS TO SUPPORT OUR
02:01:51:00	02:01:52:00	YOUNG PEOPLE IN THE DIGITAL
02:01:52:00	02:01:55:00	WORLD THAT WASN'T DESIGNED WITH
02:01:55:00	02:01:55:00	THEM IN MIND.
02:01:55:00	02:01:56:00	I ALSO THINK THAT THIS IS GOING
02:01:56:00	02:01:59:00	TO BE A GREAT OPPORTUNITY AS
02:01:59:00	02:02:00:00	WELL TO BRING IN BEEPS BECAUSE
02:02:00:00	02:02:03:00	I KNOW THAT SITTING IN A
02:02:03:00	02:02:03:00	MEETING LIKE THIS
02:02:03:00	02:02:04:00	COUNCILOR MAGILL,
02:02:04:00	02:02:07:00	COUNCILOR WEBER AND MYSELF WE
02:02:07:00	02:02:07:00	HAVE RECEIVED TEXT MESSAGES
02:02:07:00	02:02:10:00	FROM OUR FROM SMART OUR
02:02:10:00	02:02:11:00	CHILDREN IN OUR INNER EAR, IN
02:02:11:00	02:02:14:00	OUR SIBLINGS SAYING THAT
02:02:14:00	02:02:14:00	SCHOOLS ARE LOCKDOWN AND THE
02:02:14:00	02:02:15:00	ONLY WAY WE THE ONLY REASON WE
02:02:15:00	02:02:17:00	FOUND OUT ABOUT THAT WAS
02:02:17:00	02:02:18:00	BECAUSE THEY HAD TEXTS.
02:02:18:00	02:02:21:00	SO I THINK THAT WE HAVE TO ALSO
02:02:21:00	02:02:22:00	ASK TO COME UP WITH A BETTER
02:02:22:00	02:02:25:00	SOLUTION TO ALERTING PARENTS,
02:02:25:00	02:02:25:00	ALERTING GUARDIANS OF WHAT'S
02:02:25:00	02:02:29:00	HAPPENING BECAUSE SOMETIMES
02:02:29:00	02:02:29:00	THOSE CELL PHONES ARE USEFUL IN
02:02:29:00	02:02:29:00	CERTAIN SITUATIONS.
02:02:29:00	02:02:32:00	SO I JUST WANT TO MAKE SURE
02:02:32:00	02:02:33:00	THAT WE ARE BRINGING ALL THOSE
02:02:33:00	02:02:34:00	CONVERSATIONS INTO THE TABLE
02:02:34:00	02:02:36:00	BECAUSE WE HAVE LOOK AT THIS
02:02:36:00	02:02:37:00	HOLISTICALLY AND MAKE SURE THAT
02:02:37:00	02:02:41:00	YOU KNOW, THE LEAST DISTRACTION
02:02:41:00	02:02:41:00	AS POSSIBLE IS HAPPENING IN A
02:02:41:00	02:02:42:00	CLASSROOM BUT ALSO THE PROPER
02:02:42:00	02:02:44:00	COMMUNICATION IS HAPPENING WITH
02:02:44:00	02:02:45:00	GUARDIANS AND PARENTS.
02:02:45:00	02:02:45:00	THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR HAVING
02:02:45:00	02:02:46:00	ME TODAY AS I LOOK FORWARD TO
02:02:46:00	02:02:46:00	THE HEARING.
02:02:46:00	02:02:50:00	THANK YOU.
02:02:50:00	02:02:50:00	THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES
02:02:50:00	02:02:51:00	COUNCILOR DURKAN AS RETURNING
02:02:51:00	02:02:52:00	TO THE FLOOR.
02:02:52:00	02:02:53:00	THANK YOU SO MUCH CHAIR AND I
02:02:53:00	02:02:56:00	WAS SO EXCITED TO SEE
02:02:56:00	02:02:56:00	COUNCILOR WEBER FILE THIS AND
02:02:56:00	02:02:58:00	THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR INCLUDING
02:02:58:00	02:02:59:00	ME AS A THIRD CO-SPONSOR
02:02:59:00	02:03:03:00	SOCIEDAD LATINA AND MY DISTRICT
02:03:03:00	02:03:03:00	AND THE SHAW FOUNDATION WHICH
02:03:03:00	02:03:04:00	ARE BOTH LOCATED IN DISTRICT D
02:03:04:00	02:03:07:00	HAD WORKED ON A TOOLKIT WITH
02:03:07:00	02:03:10:00	THE ATTORNEY GENERAL ON SOCIAL
02:03:10:00	02:03:11:00	MEDIA POLICY AND JUST DRIVING
02:03:11:00	02:03:14:00	SORT OF YOUTH ENGAGEMENT AND
02:03:14:00	02:03:15:00	HOW WE SHOULD DEAL WITH SOCIAL
02:03:15:00	02:03:18:00	MEDIA POLICY AND ALSO WHAT
02:03:18:00	02:03:19:00	IMPACTS DOES IT HAVE ON STUDENT
02:03:19:00	02:03:21:00	WELLNESS.
02:03:21:00	02:03:22:00	SO SO EXCITED TO HAVE THIS
02:03:22:00	02:03:23:00	CONVERSATION AT THE CITY
02:03:23:00	02:03:25:00	COUNCIL AND GRATEFUL TO
02:03:25:00	02:03:26:00	COUNSELORS WEBER AND PEPEN FOR
02:03:26:00	02:03:28:00	THEIR LEADERSHIP HERE?
02:03:28:00	02:03:32:00	I THINK FOR ME I THINK WE'VE
02:03:32:00	02:03:36:00	ALL SEEN SOCIAL MEDIA AND HOW
02:03:36:00	02:03:36:00	OBTRUSIVE IT CAN BE ALSO HOW
02:03:36:00	02:03:40:00	CELL PHONE USAGE AND THE IMPACT
02:03:40:00	02:03:41:00	IT HAS ON KIDS.
02:03:41:00	02:03:44:00	I KNOW OFTEN WHEN YOU HAVE A
02:03:44:00	02:03:45:00	TINY CHILD THEY SORT OF TELL
02:03:45:00	02:03:48:00	YOU OH ONLY THIS MUCH SCREEN
02:03:48:00	02:03:48:00	TIME.
02:03:48:00	02:03:49:00	OBVIOUSLY PARENTS HAVE TROUBLE
02:03:49:00	02:03:52:00	DOING THAT BUT BUT AS WE GET TO
02:03:52:00	02:03:55:00	HIGH SCHOOL AND MIDDLE SCHOOL I
02:03:55:00	02:03:56:00	THINK IT'S REALLY IMPORTANT
02:03:56:00	02:03:59:00	THAT OUR OUR SCHOOLS HAVE RULES
02:03:59:00	02:04:00:00	AND THAT WE HAVE SORT OF SOME
02:04:00:00	02:04:03:00	SORT OF WAY IN WHICH WE ARE
02:04:03:00	02:04:03:00	PRIORITIZING THEIR MENTAL
02:04:03:00	02:04:04:00	HEALTH AND AND EVERYTHING THAT
02:04:04:00	02:04:07:00	THEY NEED TO SURVIVE AND
02:04:07:00	02:04:07:00	THRIVE.
02:04:07:00	02:04:08:00	SO HAVING TOURED A COUPLE
02:04:08:00	02:04:11:00	OF SCHOOLS THERE'S SO MANY
02:04:11:00	02:04:11:00	DIFFERENT POLICIES THERE'S NOT
02:04:11:00	02:04:12:00	ONE POLICY.
02:04:12:00	02:04:15:00	SO I THINK IT IS A REALLY
02:04:15:00	02:04:16:00	IMPORTANT CONVERSATION FOR US
02:04:16:00	02:04:17:00	TO HAVE AT THE CITY COUNCIL.
02:04:17:00	02:04:18:00	SO FOR US TO HAVE AT THE CITY
02:04:18:00	02:04:18:00	COUNCIL.
02:04:18:00	02:04:18:00	SO THANK YOU COUNSELOR WEBER
02:04:18:00	02:04:22:00	THANK YOU PAVAN AND WE WILL BE
02:04:22:00	02:04:22:00	HAVING A CONVERSATION SOON.
02:04:22:00	02:04:22:00	THANK YOU.
02:04:22:00	02:04:25:00	THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES COUNSELOR
02:04:25:00	02:04:26:00	MURPHY ON THE FLOOR.
02:04:26:00	02:04:28:00	THANK YOU, MADAM PRESIDENT.
02:04:28:00	02:04:29:00	THANK YOU FOR BRINGING THIS
02:04:29:00	02:04:29:00	FORWARD AN IMPORTANT
02:04:29:00	02:04:30:00	CONVERSATION.
02:04:30:00	02:04:32:00	I'M LOOKING FORWARD TO HAVING.
02:04:32:00	02:04:36:00	I MYSELF ALSO GET TEXT MESSAGES
02:04:36:00	02:04:39:00	FROM TEACHERS, PARENTS AND
02:04:39:00	02:04:43:00	STUDENTS WHEN SOME THINGS ARE
02:04:43:00	02:04:44:00	HAPPENING AT THEIR SCHOOL AND I
02:04:44:00	02:04:46:00	DO JUST WANT TO UPLIFT THEN
02:04:46:00	02:04:47:00	REPRESENTATIVE ED COPPINGER WHO
02:04:47:00	02:04:50:00	I KNOW WAS WORKING ON SOMETHING
02:04:50:00	02:04:51:00	AT THE STATE HOUSE BECAUSE HE
02:04:51:00	02:04:54:00	ALSO WAS FRUSTRATED ALONG WITH
02:04:54:00	02:04:55:00	MANY OF HIS COLLEAGUES UP AT
02:04:55:00	02:04:58:00	THE STATE HOUSE THAT YOU WOULD
02:04:58:00	02:04:58:00	HEAR IT FROM THE MEDIA OR YOU
02:04:58:00	02:05:01:00	WOULD HEAR IT SOMEONE TWEETS
02:05:01:00	02:05:02:00	OUT, YOU KNOW, THAT CERTAIN
02:05:02:00	02:05:03:00	SCHOOLS ARE LOCKED DOWN OR
02:05:03:00	02:05:03:00	THERE IS AN INCIDENT.
02:05:03:00	02:05:06:00	BUT BEING A PARENT AT THE SAME
02:05:06:00	02:05:08:00	SCHOOL YOU'RE HEARING MAYBE A
02:05:08:00	02:05:09:00	DAY OR TWO LATER AND IT MAY NOT
02:05:09:00	02:05:10:00	EVEN MATCH WHAT THE POLICE
02:05:10:00	02:05:12:00	REPORT STATED.
02:05:12:00	02:05:13:00	SO I DO THINK IT'S IMPORTANT
02:05:13:00	02:05:17:00	THAT STUDENTS AND TEACHERS HAVE
02:05:17:00	02:05:17:00	THE ABILITY TO REACH OUT TO
02:05:17:00	02:05:20:00	LOVED ONES BUT AT THE SAME TIME
02:05:20:00	02:05:21:00	HOW DO WE BALANCE THAT WITH THE
02:05:21:00	02:05:24:00	NEED FOR OUR STUDENTS TO BE
02:05:24:00	02:05:25:00	FOCUSED AND GETTING THE BEST
02:05:25:00	02:05:28:00	EDUCATOR THAT THEY CAN GET?
02:05:28:00	02:05:29:00	SO LOOKING FORWARD TO
02:05:29:00	02:05:32:00	PARTICIPATING AND ALSO TALKING
02:05:32:00	02:05:35:00	WITH REPRESENTATIVE COPPINGER
02:05:35:00	02:05:35:00	AND FINDING OUT WHERE THAT WENT
02:05:35:00	02:05:36:00	AT THE STATEHOUSE AND HOW WE
02:05:36:00	02:05:39:00	CAN MAKE SURE WE'RE MAKING THIS
02:05:39:00	02:05:40:00	CONVERSATION AND THIS POLICY AS
02:05:40:00	02:05:40:00	STRONG AS WE CAN.
02:05:40:00	02:05:45:00	THANK YOU.
02:05:45:00	02:05:45:00	THANK YOU.
02:05:45:00	02:05:46:00	THE CHEROKEE NATION HAS
02:05:46:00	02:05:46:00	CANCELED MEJIA BECAUSE OF ME
02:05:46:00	02:05:47:00	HERE YOU HAVE THE FLOOR.
02:05:47:00	02:05:50:00	WHAT I DON'T I WASN'T DID I GET
02:05:50:00	02:05:50:00	THE ORDER ON IT?
02:05:50:00	02:05:54:00	YEAH, BUT JUST IN CASE.
02:05:54:00	02:05:54:00	OKAY, ALL RISE.
02:05:54:00	02:05:57:00	THANK YOU, MADAM PRESIDENT.
02:05:57:00	02:05:58:00	AND THANK YOU TO THE SPONSORS.
02:05:58:00	02:06:00:00	AND I WAS ONE OF THOSE I WISH I
02:06:00:00	02:06:01:00	WAS ONE OF YOUR ORIGINAL
02:06:01:00	02:06:04:00	CO-SPONSORS, BUT I'LL RIDE YOUR
02:06:04:00	02:06:04:00	COATTAILS.
02:06:04:00	02:06:05:00	I'LL SHOW UP TO THE HEARING AND
02:06:05:00	02:06:07:00	I'LL BE THERE.
02:06:07:00	02:06:10:00	AND SO, YOU KNOW, I JUST WANTED
02:06:10:00	02:06:14:00	TO JUST MY DAUGHTER IS
02:06:14:00	02:06:15:00	CONSTANTLY ON SOCIAL MEDIA AND
02:06:15:00	02:06:16:00	I THINK THAT THERE IS A LOT TO
02:06:16:00	02:06:18:00	BE SAID THAT EVEN THE FACT THAT
02:06:18:00	02:06:22:00	SHE'S NOT SUPPOSED TO BE ON
02:06:22:00	02:06:22:00	SOCIAL MEDIA WHILE SHE'S IN
02:06:22:00	02:06:26:00	SCHOOL YOU WROTE THIS HEARING
02:06:26:00	02:06:26:00	ORDER WITH MY DAUGHTER IN MIND
02:06:26:00	02:06:30:00	BECAUSE THE LACK OF ATTENTION
02:06:30:00	02:06:33:00	THAT SHE IS PUTTING IN WHILE
02:06:33:00	02:06:34:00	SHE'S IN CLASS REALLY IS COULD
02:06:34:00	02:06:37:00	HAVE AN IMPACT ON HER
02:06:37:00	02:06:37:00	ACADEMICS.
02:06:37:00	02:06:38:00	AND SO I ALSO WANT TO JUST
02:06:38:00	02:06:41:00	UPLIFT TO THAT.
02:06:41:00	02:06:41:00	IT'S NOT JUST ALSO THE THE
02:06:41:00	02:06:42:00	MENTAL HEALTH AND ALL OF THOSE
02:06:42:00	02:06:45:00	OTHER ISSUES.
02:06:45:00	02:06:45:00	THERE'S ALSO KNOW VIOLENCE AND
02:06:45:00	02:06:48:00	ISSUES THAT SPILL OUT THAT'S
02:06:48:00	02:06:48:00	HAPPENING ON SOCIAL MEDIA THAT
02:06:48:00	02:06:52:00	BRINGS INTO THE CLASSROOM AND
02:06:52:00	02:06:52:00	AND SPIRALS OUT OF CONTROL.
02:06:52:00	02:06:55:00	AND THEN I JUST THINK THAT WE
02:06:55:00	02:06:56:00	ARE LIVING IN A VERY DIFFERENT
02:06:56:00	02:06:59:00	AGE AND I THINK THAT WHATEVER
02:06:59:00	02:07:00:00	WE NEED TO DO TO BOTH HAVE
02:07:00:00	02:07:03:00	ACCESS TO INFORMATION IN A
02:07:03:00	02:07:04:00	TIMELY FASHION WHILE ALSO
02:07:04:00	02:07:04:00	MAKING SURE THAT WE'RE
02:07:04:00	02:07:07:00	PROTECTING OUR KIDS IS A GOOD
02:07:07:00	02:07:07:00	CONVERSATION TO HAVE.
02:07:07:00	02:07:10:00	SO I WANT TO THANK MY MY
02:07:10:00	02:07:11:00	COLLEAGUES AND ESPECIALLY THE
02:07:11:00	02:07:14:00	LEAD SPONSOR FOR BRINGING THIS
02:07:14:00	02:07:15:00	TO THE CHAMBER AND I LOOK
02:07:15:00	02:07:15:00	FORWARD TO HAVING THE
02:07:15:00	02:07:18:00	CONVERSATION AND I WILL ASK
02:07:18:00	02:07:21:00	SINCE I'M NOT THE ONE INVOLVED
02:07:21:00	02:07:24:00	IN THE SCHEDULING OF THIS THAT
02:07:24:00	02:07:24:00	WE DO INVITE SOME YOUNG PEOPLE
02:07:24:00	02:07:28:00	TO BE PART OF THE PANEL.
02:07:28:00	02:07:28:00	I THINK THAT OFTENTIMES WE'RE
02:07:28:00	02:07:31:00	TALKING ABOUT PEOPLE AND THIS
02:07:31:00	02:07:32:00	WILL BE AN OPPORTUNITY TO HEAR
02:07:32:00	02:07:33:00	DIRECTLY FROM YOUNG PEOPLE WHO
02:07:33:00	02:07:35:00	ARE ALSO OUT HERE, YOU KNOW,
02:07:35:00	02:07:39:00	HAVING THEIR SOCIAL MEDIA
02:07:39:00	02:07:39:00	SITUATION.
02:07:39:00	02:07:42:00	AND SO I WOULD LOVE TO WORK
02:07:42:00	02:07:43:00	ALONGSIDE YOU ALL TO HELP YOU
02:07:43:00	02:07:44:00	BRING SOME YOUNG PEOPLE INTO
02:07:44:00	02:07:47:00	THE MIX.
02:07:47:00	02:07:47:00	THANK YOU.
02:07:47:00	02:07:48:00	THANK YOU.
02:07:48:00	02:07:49:00	THE CHAIR AND I JUST CAME TO
02:07:49:00	02:07:50:00	PLENTY OF THE FLOOR.
02:07:50:00	02:07:51:00	THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.
02:07:51:00	02:07:51:00	I LOOK FORWARD TO THIS
02:07:51:00	02:07:54:00	CONVERSATION.
02:07:54:00	02:07:54:00	PLEASE ADD MY NAME.
02:07:54:00	02:07:58:00	I ALSO WANTED TO HIGHLIGHT I
02:07:58:00	02:07:58:00	THINK IT'S AN IMPORTANT
02:07:58:00	02:07:58:00	DISCUSSION.
02:07:58:00	02:08:01:00	I ALSO WANTED TO HIGHLIGHT I
02:08:01:00	02:08:01:00	THINK ONE OF MY COLLEAGUES HAVE
02:08:01:00	02:08:02:00	MENTIONED IT AS WELL.
02:08:02:00	02:08:05:00	IT'S A BALANCING AND BALANCING
02:08:05:00	02:08:08:00	BETWEEN YOU KNOW, SUPPORTING
02:08:08:00	02:08:09:00	OUR STUDENTS BUT ALSO ENSURING
02:08:09:00	02:08:12:00	OUR PARENTS OR THE GUARDIAN
02:08:12:00	02:08:13:00	ALSO IS AWARE OF WHAT IS
02:08:13:00	02:08:16:00	HAPPENING AS COUNCILOR PEPEN
02:08:16:00	02:08:17:00	MENTIONED ABOUT AN INCIDENT.
02:08:17:00	02:08:20:00	BUT I, I THOUGHT ABOUT PARENTS
02:08:20:00	02:08:23:00	OR A GUARDIAN THAT MAY NOT HAVE
02:08:23:00	02:08:24:00	ACCESS DURING THEIR JOB TO A
02:08:24:00	02:08:27:00	CELL PHONE AND YOU KNOW, THE
02:08:27:00	02:08:27:00	FORTUNATE FAMILIES DO HAVE
02:08:27:00	02:08:31:00	ACCESS TO A CELL PHONE AND HAVE
02:08:31:00	02:08:32:00	ACCESS TO THAT CELL PHONE AT
02:08:32:00	02:08:34:00	THEIR PARTICULAR JOB DURING THE
02:08:34:00	02:08:35:00	DAY.
02:08:35:00	02:08:38:00	WELL, SOME OF MY CONSTITUENTS
02:08:38:00	02:08:39:00	DON'T HAVE THAT LUXURY TO HAVE
02:08:39:00	02:08:42:00	THEIR CELL PHONE ON THEM DURING
02:08:42:00	02:08:43:00	THE DAY AND OR TO CHECK IT THE
02:08:43:00	02:08:46:00	ENTIRE DAY.
02:08:46:00	02:08:46:00	THEY HAVE TO PUT IT PUT IT
02:08:46:00	02:08:47:00	AWAY.
02:08:47:00	02:08:49:00	SO I JUST WANT TO ENSURE THAT
02:08:49:00	02:08:50:00	THOSE FAMILIES OR GUARDIAN
02:08:50:00	02:08:53:00	THEIR VOICES ARE ALSO HEARD IN
02:08:53:00	02:08:54:00	ENSURING THAT THERE HAS TO BE A
02:08:54:00	02:08:58:00	WAY FOR THEM TO RECEIVE THE
02:08:58:00	02:09:02:00	APPROPRIATE INFORMATION
02:09:02:00	02:09:02:00	RELEVANT INFORMATION THAT OTHER
02:09:02:00	02:09:05:00	PARENTS THAT HAVE ACCESS TO A
02:09:05:00	02:09:06:00	CELL PHONE AS WELL.
02:09:06:00	02:09:06:00	THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.
02:09:06:00	02:09:09:00	THANK YOU.
02:09:09:00	02:09:10:00	THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES COUNCILOR,
02:09:10:00	02:09:10:00	WHERE ARE YOU?
02:09:10:00	02:09:10:00	ON THE FLOOR.
02:09:10:00	02:09:13:00	THANK YOU, MADAM PRESIDENT AND
02:09:13:00	02:09:14:00	THANK YOU TO COUNCILOR WEBER
02:09:14:00	02:09:15:00	FOR INTRODUCING THIS HERE IN
02:09:15:00	02:09:17:00	ORDER OUR STUDENTS ARE GROWING
02:09:17:00	02:09:18:00	UP IN A WORLD WHERE IT'S NEARLY
02:09:18:00	02:09:20:00	IMPOSSIBLE TO UNPLUG IN MANY
02:09:20:00	02:09:21:00	OF MY CATS COLLEAGUES HAVE
02:09:21:00	02:09:24:00	MENTIONED THIS ALREADY FROM
02:09:24:00	02:09:24:00	FOCUS IN DISTRACTION AND ALSO
02:09:24:00	02:09:28:00	CYBERBULLYING AND SOME OF OUR
02:09:28:00	02:09:29:00	INCIDENTS WITH OUR YOUNG PEOPLE
02:09:29:00	02:09:32:00	ALSO ARISE FROM SOCIAL MEDIA.
02:09:32:00	02:09:32:00	I JUST ALSO WANT TO JUST THINK
02:09:32:00	02:09:36:00	CASTLE WEBER FOR PRESENTING AND
02:09:36:00	02:09:37:00	TALKING ABOUT THE DATA AND THE
02:09:37:00	02:09:39:00	STUDIES THAT SPEAK TO WHY WE
02:09:39:00	02:09:40:00	NEED TO HAVE THESE
02:09:40:00	02:09:40:00	CONVERSATIONS NOW.
02:09:40:00	02:09:43:00	BUT I ALSO WANT TO JUST
02:09:43:00	02:09:44:00	ACKNOWLEDGE THE WORK OF MY
02:09:44:00	02:09:47:00	PREDECESSOR ATTORNEY GENERAL
02:09:47:00	02:09:48:00	ANDREA CAMPBELL WHO'S BEEN
02:09:48:00	02:09:48:00	LEADING IMPORTANT WORK IN THIS
02:09:48:00	02:09:51:00	AT THE STATEHOUSE TIBET TO
02:09:51:00	02:09:52:00	UNDERSTAND AND RESPOND TO THESE
02:09:52:00	02:09:53:00	ISSUES TO THE STUDY THAT HER
02:09:53:00	02:09:55:00	LEADERSHIP HAS HELPED ELEVATE
02:09:55:00	02:09:56:00	THE CONVERSATION STATEWIDE
02:09:56:00	02:09:59:00	ABOUT HOW WE PROTECT STUDENTS
02:09:59:00	02:10:00:00	MENTAL HEALTH AND ENSURE OUR
02:10:00:00	02:10:00:00	SCHOOLS ARE PLACE FOR FOCUS,
02:10:00:00	02:10:03:00	SAFETY AND SUPPORT.
02:10:03:00	02:10:03:00	SO LOOKING FORWARD TO THIS
02:10:03:00	02:10:06:00	CONVERSATION AND THANK YOU.
02:10:06:00	02:10:07:00	THANK YOU.
02:10:07:00	02:10:07:00	THE CHAIR RECOGNIZED YOU.
02:10:07:00	02:10:10:00	THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES COUNSELOR
02:10:10:00	02:10:11:00	SANTANA COVERS ANY OF THE
02:10:11:00	02:10:11:00	FLOOR.
02:10:11:00	02:10:14:00	THANK YOU, MADAM PRESIDENT.
02:10:14:00	02:10:15:00	I ALSO WANT TO THANK THE LEAD
02:10:15:00	02:10:15:00	SPONSOR COUNSELOR WEBER FOR
02:10:15:00	02:10:18:00	FIGHTING THIS AND THE AND THE
02:10:18:00	02:10:18:00	CO-SPONSORS AS WELL.
02:10:18:00	02:10:21:00	YOU KNOW, AS MANY OF YOU KNOW,
02:10:21:00	02:10:22:00	MY NUMBER ONE PRIORITY HAS BEEN
02:10:22:00	02:10:23:00	OUR YOUTH HERE IN THE CITY
02:10:23:00	02:10:26:00	OF BOSTON AND I'M VERY GLAD TO
02:10:26:00	02:10:26:00	SEE THIS FILING JUST A FEW
02:10:26:00	02:10:29:00	WEEKS AGO MY OFFICE LAUNCHED
02:10:29:00	02:10:33:00	WHAT WE CALL SANTANA'S YOUTH
02:10:33:00	02:10:36:00	FORCE AND IT'S A 13 PERSON BODY
02:10:36:00	02:10:37:00	OF YOUTH ACROSS THE CITY
02:10:37:00	02:10:37:00	OF BOSTON WHO ARE COMING
02:10:37:00	02:10:40:00	TOGETHER TO INFORM OUR OFFICE
02:10:40:00	02:10:41:00	ON YOUTH PRIORITIES AND IT'S
02:10:41:00	02:10:42:00	BEING LED BY THREE OF OUR YOUTH
02:10:42:00	02:10:45:00	AMBASSADORS AND THIS IS IN
02:10:45:00	02:10:47:00	PARTNERSHIP WITH 40 LATINA AND
02:10:47:00	02:10:48:00	DISTRICT GAY AND MISSION
02:10:48:00	02:10:48:00	HEALTH.
02:10:48:00	02:10:51:00	WE'VE BEEN IN COMMUNICATION
02:10:51:00	02:10:51:00	ABOUT THIS VERY THIS VERY TOPIC
02:10:51:00	02:10:54:00	AND THE IMPACT THAT SOCIAL
02:10:54:00	02:10:55:00	MEDIA HAS ON OUR STUDENTS AND
02:10:55:00	02:10:59:00	HAS ON THE MENTAL HEALTH.
02:10:59:00	02:11:00:00	SO I'M LOOKING FORWARD TO THIS
02:11:00:00	02:11:04:00	HEARING AND I WANT TO JUST ECHO
02:11:04:00	02:11:05:00	WHAT COMES FROM RIGHT HERE THAT
02:11:05:00	02:11:07:00	I THINK HAVING YOUTH BE PART
02:11:07:00	02:11:08:00	OF THIS CONVERSATION I THINK
02:11:08:00	02:11:10:00	WILL BE CRITICAL AND CRUCIAL
02:11:10:00	02:11:11:00	AND I LOOK FORWARD TO
02:11:11:00	02:11:11:00	PARTNERING WITH YOUR OFFICE
02:11:11:00	02:11:15:00	HOWEVER, TO DO JUST THAT.
02:11:15:00	02:11:15:00	THANK YOU, MADAM PRESIDENT.
02:11:15:00	02:11:16:00	THANK YOU.
02:11:16:00	02:11:18:00	THE CHAIR AGAIN AS IS
02:11:18:00	02:11:19:00	COUNCILOR WEBER, YOU HAVE THE
02:11:19:00	02:11:19:00	FLOOR.
02:11:19:00	02:11:20:00	THANK YOU, MADAM PRESIDENT.
02:11:20:00	02:11:22:00	JUST TO FOLLOW UP AND THANK YOU
02:11:22:00	02:11:22:00	TO MY COLLEAGUES FOR THEIR
02:11:22:00	02:11:25:00	THOUGHTFUL COMMENTS AND THEIR
02:11:25:00	02:11:26:00	THAT THIS IS A BALANCING ACT.
02:11:26:00	02:11:29:00	I THINK WHEN THIS WAS DEBATED
02:11:29:00	02:11:29:00	IN LOS ANGELES AND IN
02:11:29:00	02:11:33:00	CALIFORNIA, YOU KNOW ON THE THE
02:11:33:00	02:11:37:00	OTHER SIDE OF OF OF BANS PEOPLE
02:11:37:00	02:11:38:00	ARGUED THAT YOU KNOW AS SOON AS
02:11:38:00	02:11:41:00	THESE CELL PHONES TO ENSURE
02:11:41:00	02:11:42:00	PUBLIC SAFETY THAT THAT IF THEY
02:11:42:00	02:11:45:00	DIDN'T HAVE ACCESS TO
02:11:45:00	02:11:46:00	TECHNOLOGY LIKE LAPTOPS AND
02:11:46:00	02:11:49:00	THINGS THAT CELL PHONES
02:11:49:00	02:11:49:00	PROVIDED AN EDUCATIONAL AID
02:11:49:00	02:11:52:00	THAT AND SOME STUDIES HAVE
02:11:52:00	02:11:53:00	SHOWN THAT ESPECIALLY FOLKS IN
02:11:53:00	02:11:57:00	MARGINALIZED GROUPS, LGBTQ
02:11:57:00	02:11:57:00	STUDENTS IN PARTICULAR
02:11:57:00	02:12:00:00	BENEFITED FROM ACCESS TO SOCIAL
02:12:00:00	02:12:01:00	MEDIA AND POSITIVE
02:12:01:00	02:12:03:00	REINFORCEMENT.
02:12:03:00	02:12:04:00	SO YOU KNOW, I THINK IT'S PART
02:12:04:00	02:12:07:00	OF THE DISCUSSION WE WILL HAVE
02:12:07:00	02:12:08:00	TO DO THAT, YOU KNOW, SORT
02:12:08:00	02:12:11:00	OF WAY WAY YOU KNOW, ALL SIDES
02:12:11:00	02:12:12:00	OF THIS DEBATE AND I, I LOOK
02:12:12:00	02:12:15:00	FORWARD TO THE DISCUSSION AND
02:12:15:00	02:12:15:00	AND FIGURING OUT WHAT WE CAN DO
02:12:15:00	02:12:19:00	THAT'S BEST FOR OUR KIDS.
02:12:19:00	02:12:19:00	THANK YOU.
02:12:19:00	02:12:20:00	AWESOME.
02:12:20:00	02:12:22:00	I WANT TO THANK MY COLLEAGUES
02:12:22:00	02:12:23:00	FOR THIS FILING AND FOR MY
02:12:23:00	02:12:23:00	COLLEAGUES WHO HAVE MADE
02:12:23:00	02:12:23:00	STATEMENTS.
02:12:23:00	02:12:26:00	I THINK THAT IS INCREDIBLY
02:12:26:00	02:12:26:00	IMPORTANT ESPECIALLY AS WE
02:12:26:00	02:12:27:00	THINK ABOUT MENTAL HEALTH
02:12:27:00	02:12:30:00	ISSUES, ABOUT SOCIAL MEDIA USE.
02:12:30:00	02:12:31:00	SO I LOOK FORWARD TO THIS
02:12:31:00	02:12:32:00	CONVERSATION AS WELL AS ANYONE
02:12:32:00	02:12:34:00	ELSE LOOKING TO SPEAK ON THIS
02:12:34:00	02:12:35:00	MATTER BUT ANYONE ELSE LIKE TO
02:12:35:00	02:12:39:00	ADD THEIR NAME MR CASAS BREADON
02:12:39:00	02:12:39:00	AND CLAUDIA ZAPATA FITZGERALD
02:12:39:00	02:12:41:00	FLYNN MEJIA MURPHY SANTANA
02:12:41:00	02:12:44:00	WUERL PLEASE ADD THE CHAIR THIS
02:12:44:00	02:12:48:00	DOCKET DOCKET NUMBER 0905 WILL
02:12:48:00	02:12:49:00	BE REFERRED TO THE COMMITTEE ON
02:12:49:00	02:12:51:00	EDUCATION.
02:12:51:00	02:12:52:00	MR. CLERK, COULD YOU PLEASE
02:12:52:00	02:12:54:00	READ DOCKET NUMBER 0906 STUCK
02:12:54:00	02:12:57:00	IN NUMBER 0906 COUNCILOR AS
02:12:57:00	02:12:58:00	MURPHY AND FLYNN OFFERED THE
02:12:58:00	02:13:01:00	FOLLOWING ORDER REQUESTING
02:13:01:00	02:13:01:00	CERTAIN INFORMATION UNDER 17 F
02:13:01:00	02:13:04:00	REGARDING STATE RECEIVERSHIP
02:13:04:00	02:13:05:00	OF BOSTON'S ELECTION
02:13:05:00	02:13:05:00	COMMISSION.
02:13:05:00	02:13:05:00	THANK YOU.
02:13:05:00	02:13:09:00	THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES COUNSELOR
02:13:09:00	02:13:09:00	MURPHY TO THE FLOOR.
02:13:09:00	02:13:12:00	THANK YOU, MADAM PRESIDENT.
02:13:12:00	02:13:13:00	I BELIEVE THAT THE CONVERSATION
02:13:13:00	02:13:16:00	THE LONG CONVERSATION WE HAD
02:13:16:00	02:13:19:00	EARLIER SPEAKS TO THE NEED FOR
02:13:19:00	02:13:20:00	ANSWERS THAT WE DESERVE ON THIS
02:13:20:00	02:13:20:00	BODY.
02:13:20:00	02:13:24:00	I FILED SEVERAL WEEKS BACK AND
02:13:24:00	02:13:25:00	TWO MONTHS AGO A HEARING ORDER
02:13:25:00	02:13:27:00	ALONG WITH COUNSELOR FLYNN TO
02:13:27:00	02:13:28:00	CALL IN THE ELECTION DEPARTMENT
02:13:28:00	02:13:31:00	AND ANY OTHER BODIES THE LEGAL
02:13:31:00	02:13:35:00	DEPARTMENT AND OTHERS FROM THE
02:13:35:00	02:13:35:00	ADMINISTRATION TO REALLY GIVE
02:13:35:00	02:13:39:00	US A FULL UNDERSTANDING OF WHAT
02:13:39:00	02:13:42:00	IT MEANT WHEN THE SECRETARY
02:13:42:00	02:13:46:00	GALVIN MADE HIS DECISION AFTER
02:13:46:00	02:13:47:00	AUDITING OUR ELECTION
02:13:47:00	02:13:47:00	DEPARTMENT WHAT IT REALLY MEANT
02:13:47:00	02:13:50:00	THAT WE WERE PUT INTO
02:13:50:00	02:13:50:00	RECEIVERSHIP OR A RECEIVER WAS
02:13:50:00	02:13:53:00	ASSIGNED TO US.
02:13:53:00	02:13:55:00	SO WHEN I HEAR OTHERS SAY THAT
02:13:55:00	02:13:57:00	WE ARE MAKING ILL INFORMED
02:13:57:00	02:14:01:00	DECISIONS I AGREE WITH THEM
02:14:01:00	02:14:01:00	BECAUSE NONE OF US REALLY DO
02:14:01:00	02:14:04:00	KNOW EXACTLY WHAT THE ELECTION
02:14:04:00	02:14:08:00	DEPARTMENT IS UNDER
02:14:08:00	02:14:09:00	RECEIVERSHIP EXACTLY FAR AND
02:14:09:00	02:14:12:00	WHAT STRUCTURES HAVE BEEN PUT
02:14:12:00	02:14:13:00	INTO PLACE BECAUSE OF THAT AND
02:14:13:00	02:14:17:00	WE DID FINALLY GET A HEARING
02:14:17:00	02:14:17:00	ORDER SCHEDULE.
02:14:17:00	02:14:20:00	IT WAS PUT IN TO THE COMMITTEE
02:14:20:00	02:14:20:00	OF THE WHOLE.
02:14:20:00	02:14:23:00	IT SEEMED AS THOUGH VACATION
02:14:23:00	02:14:24:00	WEEK NEXT WEEK MANY HEARING
02:14:24:00	02:14:27:00	ORDER TIME SLOTS WERE OPEN.
02:14:27:00	02:14:28:00	SO THIS WAS SCHEDULED FOR
02:14:28:00	02:14:34:00	WEDNESDAY APRIL 23RD AT 10 A.M.
02:14:34:00	02:14:34:00	COUNCIL FLYNN AND I SENT
02:14:34:00	02:14:38:00	SEVERAL LETTERS TO THE
02:14:38:00	02:14:39:00	COMMITTEE CHAIR BUT ALSO SENT A
02:14:39:00	02:14:42:00	DIRECT LETTER TO THE
02:14:42:00	02:14:43:00	COMMISSIONER AND OTHERS IN THE
02:14:43:00	02:14:45:00	ELECTION DEPARTMENT TELLING
02:14:45:00	02:14:46:00	THEM HOW WE WERE LOOKING
02:14:46:00	02:14:47:00	FORWARD TO THE UPCOMING HEARING
02:14:47:00	02:14:50:00	AND INCLUDED QUESTIONS SO THAT
02:14:50:00	02:14:51:00	THEY WERE AWARE OF WHAT WE WERE
02:14:51:00	02:14:54:00	LOOKING FOR AND JUST FOUND OUT
02:14:54:00	02:14:57:00	RECENTLY THAT NO ONE FROM THE
02:14:57:00	02:14:57:00	ADMINISTRATION IS AVAILABLE SO
02:14:57:00	02:14:58:00	THERE WON'T BE ANYONE AT THE
02:14:58:00	02:15:01:00	APRIL 23RD MEETING AT 10 A.M..
02:15:01:00	02:15:02:00	TO ME THAT'S UNFORTUNATE.
02:15:02:00	02:15:05:00	IT ALSO IS A PATTERN THAT THE
02:15:05:00	02:15:06:00	ADMINISTRATION FOR CERTAIN
02:15:06:00	02:15:09:00	COUNSELORS DOESN'T DON'T ATTEND
02:15:09:00	02:15:12:00	HEARINGS OR DON'T SEND THE
02:15:12:00	02:15:13:00	PEOPLE WE WANT.
02:15:13:00	02:15:17:00	SO PEOPLE OBVIOUSLY HAVE LIVES
02:15:17:00	02:15:17:00	, THEY HAVE SCHEDULES BUT WHEN
02:15:17:00	02:15:19:00	THE CITY COUNCIL ALL WE NEED IS
02:15:19:00	02:15:20:00	A 48 HOUR PERIOD TO INFORM THE
02:15:20:00	02:15:24:00	CITY DEPARTMENTS WHEN WE'D LIKE
02:15:24:00	02:15:24:00	THEM TO COME INTO THE CHAMBER
02:15:24:00	02:15:27:00	TO SPEAK WE GAVE THEM WEEKS TO
02:15:27:00	02:15:28:00	BE AVAILABLE AND BE HERE TO
02:15:28:00	02:15:31:00	ANSWER.
02:15:31:00	02:15:32:00	SO I'M HOPING THAT WE STILL
02:15:32:00	02:15:33:00	HAVE THAT HEARING KNOWING IT
02:15:33:00	02:15:36:00	WAS ALSO IMPORTANT TO ME TO
02:15:36:00	02:15:39:00	HOLD THAT HEARING BEFORE TODAY
02:15:39:00	02:15:40:00	WHEN THE ELECTION SEASON HAS
02:15:40:00	02:15:41:00	STARTED AND IN LIGHT OF THE
02:15:41:00	02:15:43:00	FACT THAT THERE IS A
02:15:43:00	02:15:44:00	POSSIBILITY OF OR NOT A SPECIAL
02:15:44:00	02:15:47:00	ELECTION COMING UP THIS YEAR.
02:15:47:00	02:15:47:00	SO THE QUESTIONS THAT I'M
02:15:47:00	02:15:50:00	HOPING TO ASK UNDER THIS ARE
02:15:50:00	02:15:51:00	LISTED HERE.
02:15:51:00	02:15:51:00	IT ALSO HIGHLIGHTS SOME OF THE
02:15:51:00	02:15:54:00	THINGS THAT I DID FIND OUT BUT
02:15:54:00	02:15:57:00	DON'T HAVE REAL REASONS WHY.
02:15:57:00	02:15:58:00	ONE OF THEM IS THE GOVERNANCE
02:15:58:00	02:15:58:00	STRUCTURE.
02:15:58:00	02:16:00:00	THE ELECTIONS DEPARTMENT HAS
02:16:00:00	02:16:01:00	ALWAYS BEEN UNDER THE LAW
02:16:01:00	02:16:01:00	DEPARTMENT AND IT SEEMS AS
02:16:01:00	02:16:05:00	THOUGH NOW IT FALLS UNDER THE
02:16:05:00	02:16:05:00	HUMAN RESOURCES DEPARTMENT.
02:16:05:00	02:16:08:00	I STATE RECEIVERSHIP DETAILS
02:16:08:00	02:16:11:00	OPERATIONAL FAILURES SO I DON'T
02:16:11:00	02:16:12:00	NEED TO READ THROUGH ALL
02:16:12:00	02:16:12:00	OF THEM.
02:16:12:00	02:16:13:00	BUT I DO THINK IT'S IMPORTANT
02:16:13:00	02:16:16:00	THAT WE GET THESE ANSWERS AS
02:16:16:00	02:16:17:00	SOON AS POSSIBLE BUT THAT WE
02:16:17:00	02:16:20:00	ALSO HOLD A HEARING AND HAVE
02:16:20:00	02:16:21:00	THE ADMINISTRATION SHOW UP WHEN
02:16:21:00	02:16:21:00	WE ASK THEM.
02:16:21:00	02:16:22:00	THANK YOU AGAIN.
02:16:22:00	02:16:25:00	I JUST LEANING NEAR THE FLOOR.
02:16:25:00	02:16:27:00	THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.
02:16:27:00	02:16:28:00	I WOULD RESPECTFULLY ASK IF
02:16:28:00	02:16:31:00	WE'RE ABLE TO HOLD THIS HEARING
02:16:31:00	02:16:32:00	BEFORE WE HOLD THE HEARING ON
02:16:32:00	02:16:36:00	THE HOME RULE PETITION THAT WAS
02:16:36:00	02:16:36:00	PLACED INTO COMMITTEE TODAY
02:16:36:00	02:16:39:00	THAT IT'S IMPORTANT FOR US TO
02:16:39:00	02:16:40:00	HAVE A GOOD IDEA OF EXACTLY
02:16:40:00	02:16:43:00	WHAT IS HAPPENING HAPPENING AT
02:16:43:00	02:16:43:00	THE ELECTION DEPARTMENT.
02:16:43:00	02:16:47:00	SO IT PREPARES US TO WHAT
02:16:47:00	02:16:47:00	THOROUGHLY INFORMED ABOUT
02:16:47:00	02:16:50:00	EXACTLY WHAT'S HAPPENING AT THE
02:16:50:00	02:16:51:00	ELECTION DEPARTMENT.
02:16:51:00	02:16:54:00	IT'S CRITICAL FOR CITY
02:16:54:00	02:16:54:00	COUNCILORS AND CANDIDATES BUT
02:16:54:00	02:16:55:00	ESPECIALLY TO RESIDENTS
02:16:55:00	02:16:58:00	OF BOSTON TO HAVE FAITH AND
02:16:58:00	02:16:59:00	CONFIDENCE IN THE ELECTION
02:16:59:00	02:17:01:00	DEPARTMENT.
02:17:01:00	02:17:02:00	SECRETARY GALVIN WAS VERY CLEAR
02:17:02:00	02:17:06:00	IN MY OPINION THAT HE DOESN'T
02:17:06:00	02:17:09:00	THINK THAT A SPECIAL ELECTION
02:17:09:00	02:17:13:00	COULD TAKE PLACE IN BOSTON FOR
02:17:13:00	02:17:14:00	THIS 87 SEAT BECAUSE HE DOESN'T
02:17:14:00	02:17:16:00	BELIEVE THE CITY OF BOSTON
02:17:16:00	02:17:17:00	ELECTION DEPARTMENT IS
02:17:17:00	02:17:21:00	EFFECTIVELY ABLE TO ADMINISTER
02:17:21:00	02:17:22:00	VOTING ON THAT DAY.
02:17:22:00	02:17:25:00	I DON'T DISAGREE WITH THEM BUT
02:17:25:00	02:17:25:00	I THINK IT'S IMPORTANT FOR US
02:17:25:00	02:17:26:00	AS CITY COUNCILORS ESPECIALLY
02:17:26:00	02:17:29:00	DISTRICT CITY COUNCILORS WHO
02:17:29:00	02:17:30:00	UNDERSTAND THE IMPORTANCE
02:17:30:00	02:17:33:00	OF BASIC CITY SERVICES TO KNOW
02:17:33:00	02:17:37:00	EXACTLY WHAT IS HAPPENING IN A
02:17:37:00	02:17:37:00	PARTICULAR DEPARTMENT.
02:17:37:00	02:17:41:00	I THINK WE ALL WANT TO FIND OUT
02:17:41:00	02:17:42:00	WE ALL WANT TO HAVE A HEARING.
02:17:42:00	02:17:44:00	WE NEED TO KNOW EXACTLY WHAT IS
02:17:44:00	02:17:45:00	HAPPENING AT THE ELECTION
02:17:45:00	02:17:45:00	DEPARTMENT.
02:17:45:00	02:17:48:00	AND MADAM CHAIR, I WOULD ASK IF
02:17:48:00	02:17:49:00	THIS HEARING WOULD GO BEFORE
02:17:49:00	02:17:49:00	THE HOME RULE PETITION.
02:17:49:00	02:17:53:00	THANK YOU COUNCILORS MURPHY AND
02:17:53:00	02:17:54:00	FLYNN TO EXPANSION OF THE ROLE
02:17:54:00	02:17:57:00	AND COST OF THIS DOCKET ALL
02:17:57:00	02:17:57:00	OBVIOUSLY I.
02:17:57:00	02:18:00:00	I JUST I COULD HAVE PASSED
02:18:00:00	02:18:00:00	MR. CLERK COULD YOU PLEASE
02:18:00:00	02:18:02:00	ME DOCKET NUMBER 09070907
02:18:02:00	02:18:03:00	COUNCIL ON MEJIA FOR THE
02:18:03:00	02:18:06:00	FOLLOWING RESOLUTION IN SUPPORT
02:18:06:00	02:18:08:00	OF HOUSE BILL NUMBER 148 AN ACT
02:18:08:00	02:18:09:00	ESTABLISHING A LIVABLE HOME
02:18:09:00	02:18:13:00	MODIFICATION GRANT PROGRAM.
02:18:13:00	02:18:14:00	THANK YOU.
02:18:14:00	02:18:14:00	THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES
02:18:14:00	02:18:15:00	COUNCILOR MEJIA YOU HAVE THE
02:18:15:00	02:18:17:00	FLOOR UNTIL LATER MATTERS,
02:18:17:00	02:18:17:00	MADAM.
02:18:17:00	02:18:21:00	THANKS.
02:18:21:00	02:18:21:00	SO TODAY I RISE IN STRONG
02:18:21:00	02:18:25:00	SUPPORT OF HOUSE BILL NUMBER
02:18:25:00	02:18:25:00	148 AN ACT ESTABLISHING A
02:18:25:00	02:18:29:00	LIVABLE HOME MODIFICATION GRANT
02:18:29:00	02:18:29:00	PROGRAM FOR SO MANY OF OUR
02:18:29:00	02:18:33:00	RESIDENTS SENIORS, PEOPLE WITH
02:18:33:00	02:18:33:00	DISABILITIES AND THOSE LIVING
02:18:33:00	02:18:34:00	WITH CHRONIC HEALTH CONDITIONS.
02:18:34:00	02:18:36:00	HOME SHOULD BE A PLACE
02:18:36:00	02:18:37:00	OF SAFETY, DIGNITY AND
02:18:37:00	02:18:37:00	INDEPENDENCE BUT WITHOUT THE
02:18:37:00	02:18:40:00	RIGHT INFRASTRUCTURE THAT GOAL
02:18:40:00	02:18:41:00	REMAINS OUT OF REACH.
02:18:41:00	02:18:44:00	THIS BILL PROPOSES A GRANT
02:18:44:00	02:18:47:00	OF UP TO $5,000 TO SUPPORT AND
02:18:47:00	02:18:48:00	COVER ESSENTIAL HOME
02:18:48:00	02:18:48:00	MODIFICATIONS LIKE ZERO STEP
02:18:48:00	02:18:52:00	ENTRANCES, WIDER DOORWAYS,
02:18:52:00	02:18:52:00	ACCESSIBLE BATHROOMS AND
02:18:52:00	02:18:56:00	KITCHENS AND BACKUP GENERATORS.
02:18:56:00	02:18:57:00	IT ALSO SUPPORTS INDIVIDUALS
02:18:57:00	02:19:00:00	EARNING UP TO 120% OF THE AREA
02:19:00:00	02:19:03:00	MEDIAN INCOME AND INCLUDES
02:19:03:00	02:19:04:00	AUTOMATIC ELIGIBILITY FOR THOSE
02:19:04:00	02:19:07:00	WHO DON'T FILE FEDERAL TAXES
02:19:07:00	02:19:07:00	AND AREN'T COVERED BY OTHER
02:19:07:00	02:19:07:00	PROGRAMS.
02:19:07:00	02:19:11:00	IN BOSTON WE HEAR FROM
02:19:11:00	02:19:11:00	RESIDENTS EVERY DAY WHO ARE
02:19:11:00	02:19:12:00	DOING THEIR BEST TO CARE FOR
02:19:12:00	02:19:15:00	AGING PARENTS, DISABLED FAMILY
02:19:15:00	02:19:18:00	MEMBERS OR THEMSELVES OFTEN
02:19:18:00	02:19:19:00	WITHOUT THE FINANCIAL MEANS TO
02:19:19:00	02:19:19:00	MAKE THEIR HOMES LIVABLE AND
02:19:19:00	02:19:19:00	ACCESSIBLE.
02:19:19:00	02:19:23:00	THIS PROGRAM WOULD BE A
02:19:23:00	02:19:23:00	LIFELINE.
02:19:23:00	02:19:24:00	LET US SAY A STRONG MESSAGE TO
02:19:24:00	02:19:27:00	THE STATE HOUSE THAT WE HERE IN
02:19:27:00	02:19:27:00	BOSTON ARE READY TO BACK UP
02:19:27:00	02:19:28:00	POLICIES THAT HELP OUR
02:19:28:00	02:19:30:00	RESIDENTS REMAIN SAFE,
02:19:30:00	02:19:31:00	SUPPORTED AND AT HOME.
02:19:31:00	02:19:31:00	THANK YOU.
02:19:31:00	02:19:35:00	THANK YOU, COUNCILWOMAN HERE.
02:19:35:00	02:19:35:00	THE JARGON OF THIS KIND
02:19:35:00	02:19:37:00	OF LINEA THE FLOOR.
02:19:37:00	02:19:37:00	YEAH.
02:19:37:00	02:19:38:00	THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.
02:19:38:00	02:19:41:00	MADAM CHAIR, MAY I ASK THE
02:19:41:00	02:19:42:00	LAWMAKER A QUESTION ABOUT THIS
02:19:42:00	02:19:42:00	RESOLUTION TO THE CHAIR?
02:19:42:00	02:19:46:00	YOU MAY KNOW YOU MAY NOT DO THE
02:19:46:00	02:19:46:00	CHAIR.
02:19:46:00	02:19:49:00	YOU MAY LIKE MADAM CHAIR.
02:19:49:00	02:19:52:00	I KNOW IT'S A GRANT THAT WOULD
02:19:52:00	02:19:55:00	BE PAID FOR BY FOR THE STATE
02:19:55:00	02:19:56:00	OF THE COMMONWEALTH
02:19:56:00	02:19:56:00	OF MASSACHUSETTS.
02:19:56:00	02:20:00:00	BUT DO WE KNOW HOW MUCH THIS
02:20:00:00	02:20:03:00	WILL COST TAXPAYERS?
02:20:03:00	02:20:07:00	AND WHAT WILL WHAT WILL BE THE
02:20:07:00	02:20:11:00	IMPACT ON TAXPAYERS ON THIS
02:20:11:00	02:20:11:00	PARTICULAR PROGRAM?
02:20:11:00	02:20:15:00	AND I REALLY WANT TO KNOW IF
02:20:15:00	02:20:18:00	THE STATE CAN'T AFFORD CAN
02:20:18:00	02:20:19:00	AFFORD THIS PROBLEM, IF THE
02:20:19:00	02:20:22:00	STATE CAN AFFORD IT THEN THEN I
02:20:22:00	02:20:22:00	WOULD SUPPORT IT.
02:20:22:00	02:20:23:00	BUT IF THE STATE IS HAVING
02:20:23:00	02:20:26:00	TROUBLE WITH THEIR WITH VARIOUS
02:20:26:00	02:20:29:00	ISSUES, I WOULD LIKE TO KNOW
02:20:29:00	02:20:33:00	THAT AS WELL.
02:20:33:00	02:20:34:00	DO THE CHAIR BECAUSE OF ME IF
02:20:34:00	02:20:35:00	YOU WOULD LIKE TO RESPOND YOU
02:20:35:00	02:20:36:00	MAY.
02:20:36:00	02:20:36:00	THANK YOU.
02:20:36:00	02:20:40:00	MADAM PRESIDENT, I THINK WE
02:20:40:00	02:20:41:00	CAN'T AFFORD NOT TO SUPPORT
02:20:41:00	02:20:41:00	THIS COUNCILOR.
02:20:41:00	02:20:44:00	I THINK THAT WHEN WE'RE LOOKING
02:20:44:00	02:20:49:00	AT THE GRAND SCHEME OF THINGS
02:20:49:00	02:20:50:00	IN THE STATE AND IT WAS CAROL
02:20:50:00	02:20:53:00	REPRESENTATIVE CAROL DOHERTY
02:20:53:00	02:20:53:00	WHO CO-SPONSORED THIS BILL
02:20:53:00	02:20:57:00	ALONGSIDE OTHER LEGISLATORS AND
02:20:57:00	02:21:01:00	I AM I AM GOING TO A JUST OFFER
02:21:01:00	02:21:02:00	FOR CONSIDERATION IS THAT THE
02:21:02:00	02:21:06:00	PROPOSAL PROGRAM WOULD ALLOW
02:21:06:00	02:21:06:00	ELIGIBLE INDIVIDUALS OR
02:21:06:00	02:21:09:00	CAREGIVERS TO RECEIVE GRANTS UP
02:21:09:00	02:21:12:00	TO 50 EXCUSE ME 5000 COVERING
02:21:12:00	02:21:15:00	UP TO 50% OF RETROFIT COSTS.
02:21:15:00	02:21:16:00	AND IN TERMS OF THE DOLLAR
02:21:16:00	02:21:20:00	AMOUNTS OF WHAT IT WOULD COST
02:21:20:00	02:21:24:00	TO DO THIS, I CAN'T COMFORTABLY
02:21:24:00	02:21:25:00	STATE TO YOU WHAT THAT WOULD
02:21:25:00	02:21:28:00	LOOK LIKE.
02:21:28:00	02:21:29:00	THIS IS A RESOLUTION AND I
02:21:29:00	02:21:29:00	THINK THE LEGISLATIVE INTENT
02:21:29:00	02:21:32:00	OF THIS IS TO GO ON THE RECORD
02:21:32:00	02:21:36:00	THAT WE ARE HERE TO SUPPORT OUR
02:21:36:00	02:21:37:00	SENIORS, THOSE FOLKS WHO ARE
02:21:37:00	02:21:39:00	LIVING WITH DISABILITIES AND OR
02:21:39:00	02:21:40:00	OTHER CHRONIC HEALTH CONDITIONS
02:21:40:00	02:21:44:00	AND OUR HOPE HERE IS THAT WE
02:21:44:00	02:21:45:00	ARE SUPPORTING AN INITIATIVE
02:21:45:00	02:21:48:00	THAT WILL HELP CREATE FINANCIAL
02:21:48:00	02:21:51:00	RELIEF TO THOSE FOLKS WHO ARE
02:21:51:00	02:21:52:00	VULNERABLE AND THAT IS THOUGH
02:21:52:00	02:21:55:00	THE RESOLUTION THAT I'M PUTTING
02:21:55:00	02:21:58:00	FORTH WITH THAT INTENTION AND
02:21:58:00	02:22:03:00	NOT A BE THE QUESTION IN
02:22:03:00	02:22:06:00	REGARDS TO THE TAXPAYERS AND
02:22:06:00	02:22:07:00	HOW MUCH THIS IS GOING TO COST
02:22:07:00	02:22:10:00	US IS UP FOR THE DEBATE RIGHT
02:22:10:00	02:22:11:00	NOW AT THE STATE HOUSE AND I'M
02:22:11:00	02:22:13:00	JUST RISING IN SUPPORT OF THE
02:22:13:00	02:22:14:00	FOLKS THAT WE ARE TRYING TO
02:22:14:00	02:22:18:00	SUPPORT THAT WILL BE THE
02:22:18:00	02:22:18:00	BENEFICIARIES OF SUCH A GRANT.
02:22:18:00	02:22:24:00	I HOPE THAT IT IS HELPFUL.
02:22:24:00	02:22:25:00	THANK YOU COUNCILOR MEJIA THE
02:22:25:00	02:22:25:00	CHAIR RECOGNIZES
02:22:25:00	02:22:26:00	COUNCILOR BREADON AND YOU HAVE
02:22:26:00	02:22:27:00	THE FLOOR.
02:22:27:00	02:22:28:00	THANK YOU, MADAM PRESIDENT.
02:22:28:00	02:22:29:00	AND THANK YOU FROM HERE FOR
02:22:29:00	02:22:31:00	BRINGING THIS FORWARD.
02:22:31:00	02:22:32:00	I'M A PHYSICAL THERAPIST BY
02:22:32:00	02:22:35:00	PROFESSION, A RETIRED ONE AT
02:22:35:00	02:22:36:00	THIS POINT.
02:22:36:00	02:22:39:00	BUT THIS IS AN INCREDIBLE,
02:22:39:00	02:22:39:00	INCREDIBLY IMPORTANT
02:22:39:00	02:22:42:00	LEGISLATION AT THE STATE HOUSE
02:22:42:00	02:22:43:00	.
02:22:43:00	02:22:43:00	IT IS VITALLY IMPORTANT AS WE
02:22:43:00	02:22:46:00	HAVE AN AGING POPULATION THAT
02:22:46:00	02:22:47:00	FOLKS WHO CHOOSE TO LIVE AT
02:22:47:00	02:22:50:00	HOME IN THEIR HOME AND AGE AND
02:22:50:00	02:22:54:00	PLACE THAT THEIR HOMES ARE ABLE
02:22:54:00	02:22:54:00	TO BE RETROFITTED AND MADE MORE
02:22:54:00	02:22:57:00	ACCESSIBLE WITH GRAB BARS AND
02:22:57:00	02:23:01:00	RAMPS AND CHAIRLIFTS OR
02:23:01:00	02:23:01:00	WHATEVER THEY NEED SO THAT THEY
02:23:01:00	02:23:05:00	CAN CONTINUE TO LIVE IN THEIR
02:23:05:00	02:23:05:00	HOMES AND ALSO FOR THOSE WHO
02:23:05:00	02:23:09:00	ARE CARETAKERS TO MAKE THEIR
02:23:09:00	02:23:09:00	LIFE EASIER AS WELL.
02:23:09:00	02:23:10:00	SO THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR
02:23:10:00	02:23:12:00	BRINGING THIS FORWARD AND I
02:23:12:00	02:23:13:00	WILL BE VOTING IN THE
02:23:13:00	02:23:13:00	AFFIRMATIVE.
02:23:13:00	02:23:13:00	THANK YOU.
02:23:13:00	02:23:16:00	THANK YOU, COUNCILOR BREADON.
02:23:16:00	02:23:17:00	AND WOULD ANYONE ELSE LIKE TO
02:23:17:00	02:23:17:00	SPEAK ON THIS MATTER?
02:23:17:00	02:23:18:00	WHAT ANYONE ELSE LIKE TO ADD
02:23:18:00	02:23:21:00	THEIR NAME?
02:23:21:00	02:23:22:00	MR CLERK, PRESENT COUNCILOR IS
02:23:22:00	02:23:22:00	GREAT IN COURT AS A PARTNER
02:23:22:00	02:23:24:00	DURKIN FITZGERALD, SANTANA
02:23:24:00	02:23:28:00	WEBER WERE ALL PLEAS OF THE
02:23:28:00	02:23:29:00	CHAIR CASIMIR MCKEE AS
02:23:29:00	02:23:30:00	EXPANSION OF THE RULES AND
02:23:30:00	02:23:31:00	ADOPTION OF DOCKET NUMBER 0907
02:23:31:00	02:23:35:00	ALL IN FAVOR SAY I I MR WILL
02:23:35:00	02:23:38:00	PLEASE CONDUCT A ROLL CALL VOTE
02:23:38:00	02:23:42:00	ROLL CALL VOTE AND I CAN MEMBER
02:23:42:00	02:23:42:00	0907 COUNCILOR BREADON YES.
02:23:42:00	02:23:46:00	COUNCILOR BREADON YES.
02:23:46:00	02:23:47:00	COUNCILOR COLLETTE AS A PILOT
02:23:47:00	02:23:48:00	COUNCILOR CLOSE PARTNER YES.
02:23:48:00	02:23:49:00	COUNCILOR DURKIN YES.
02:23:49:00	02:23:49:00	COUNCILOR DURKAN YES.
02:23:49:00	02:23:53:00	COUNCIL FINANCE ANDERSON
02:23:53:00	02:23:53:00	COUNCILOR FITZGERALD YES.
02:23:53:00	02:23:56:00	COUNCILOR FITZGERALD YES.
02:23:56:00	02:23:57:00	COUNCILOR FLYNN YES.
02:23:57:00	02:23:57:00	COUNCILOR FLYNN YES.
02:23:57:00	02:24:01:00	COUNCILOR LOUIJEUNE YES.
02:24:01:00	02:24:01:00	COUNCILOR LOUIJEUNE YES.
02:24:01:00	02:24:01:00	CONCILOR MEJIA HERE.
02:24:01:00	02:24:04:00	CONCILOR MEJIA HERE YES.
02:24:04:00	02:24:04:00	COUNCILOR MURPHY
02:24:04:00	02:24:05:00	COUNCILOR MURPHY YES.
02:24:05:00	02:24:07:00	COUNCILOR PIPPIN
02:24:07:00	02:24:08:00	COUNCILOR SANTANA YES.
02:24:08:00	02:24:11:00	COUNCILOR SANTANA YES.
02:24:11:00	02:24:11:00	COUNCILOR WEBER YES.
02:24:11:00	02:24:12:00	COUNCILOR WEBER YES.
02:24:12:00	02:24:15:00	AND COUNCILOR WU YES
02:24:15:00	02:24:15:00	COUNCILOR WU YES.
02:24:15:00	02:24:20:00	TALKING OF 0907 AS WE SEE 11
02:24:20:00	02:24:21:00	VOTES IN THE AFFIRMATIVE THANK
02:24:21:00	02:24:21:00	YOU.
02:24:21:00	02:24:24:00	DOCKET NUMBER 0907 HAS BEEN
02:24:24:00	02:24:24:00	ADOPTED.
02:24:24:00	02:24:25:00	MR CLERK, COULD YOU PLEASE READ
02:24:25:00	02:24:27:00	DOCKET NUMBER 0908 DOCKET
02:24:27:00	02:24:29:00	NUMBERS 0908 COUNCILOR MORELLO
02:24:29:00	02:24:30:00	FOR THE FOLLOWING RESOLUTIONS
02:24:30:00	02:24:33:00	SUPPORTING THE MUSEUM
02:24:33:00	02:24:33:00	OF AFRICAN-AMERICAN HISTORY IN
02:24:33:00	02:24:37:00	BOSTON.
02:24:37:00	02:24:37:00	THANK YOU.
02:24:37:00	02:24:38:00	THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES THIS
02:24:38:00	02:24:38:00	COUNCIL.
02:24:38:00	02:24:39:00	YOU HAVE THE FLOOR.
02:24:39:00	02:24:41:00	THANK YOU, MADAM PRESIDENT.
02:24:41:00	02:24:41:00	I WANT A MOTION TO SUBSTITUTE
02:24:41:00	02:24:42:00	THE RESOLUTION.
02:24:42:00	02:24:44:00	IT'S A MINOR CHANGE TWEAKING
02:24:44:00	02:24:46:00	SOME LANGUAGE IN THE FIFTH
02:24:46:00	02:24:50:00	WHEREAS IS THAT MOTION SECONDED
02:24:50:00	02:24:50:00	ALL IN FAVOR?
02:24:50:00	02:24:51:00	SAY I I'LL POST YOUR NAME GUYS
02:24:51:00	02:24:54:00	HAVE IT.
02:24:54:00	02:24:55:00	SUBSTITUTION IS ALLOWED.
02:24:55:00	02:24:56:00	NEW DOCKET IS IN FRONT
02:24:56:00	02:24:56:00	OF COLLEAGUES.
02:24:56:00	02:24:58:00	THANK YOU.
02:24:58:00	02:24:59:00	I LIKE TO ADD COUNCIL PRESIDENT
02:24:59:00	02:25:00:00	LOUIJEUNE AS A ORIGINAL
02:25:00:00	02:25:03:00	CO-SPONSOR I'M SO ADDED YOU
02:25:03:00	02:25:04:00	HAVE THE FLOOR AND I LIKE TO
02:25:04:00	02:25:04:00	SPEND THE RULES AND AD COUNTS
02:25:04:00	02:25:07:00	OF DURKAN AS A THIRD ORIGINAL
02:25:07:00	02:25:07:00	CO-SPONSOR CATTERALL SEEKS TO
02:25:07:00	02:25:10:00	SPEND THE ROSE THAT COMES WITH
02:25:10:00	02:25:11:00	DURKAN AS A THIRD ORIGINAL
02:25:11:00	02:25:11:00	CO-SPONSOR SEEING AND HEARING
02:25:11:00	02:25:11:00	NO OBJECTIONS.
02:25:11:00	02:25:12:00	COUNCILOR DURKAN SO ADDED
02:25:12:00	02:25:13:00	COUNCIL ARE YOU ON THE FLOOR?
02:25:13:00	02:25:14:00	THE MUSEUM OF AFRICAN-AMERICAN
02:25:14:00	02:25:16:00	HISTORY IS A VITAL PART
02:25:16:00	02:25:16:00	OF BOSTON STORY.
02:25:16:00	02:25:19:00	IT SITS ON BEACON HILL AND
02:25:19:00	02:25:20:00	STANDS AS A REMINDER OF THE
02:25:20:00	02:25:23:00	CONTRIBUTIONS BLACK BOSTONIANS
02:25:23:00	02:25:24:00	HAVE MADE TO OUR CITY FROM THE
02:25:24:00	02:25:25:00	FIGHT TO END SLAVERY TO THE
02:25:25:00	02:25:28:00	ONGOING STRUGGLE FOR EQUITY AND
02:25:28:00	02:25:28:00	JUSTICE.
02:25:28:00	02:25:31:00	FOR MORE THAN SIX DECADES IT'S
02:25:31:00	02:25:31:00	PRESERVED THE LEGACIES
02:25:31:00	02:25:34:00	OF ABOLITIONIST EDUCATORS,
02:25:34:00	02:25:35:00	ENTREPRENEURS AND EVERYDAY
02:25:35:00	02:25:39:00	PEOPLE WHO SHAPED BOSTON'S SOUL
02:25:39:00	02:25:42:00	FROM FREDERICK DOUGLASS TO THE
02:25:42:00	02:25:43:00	STUDENTS WHO ONCE SAT INSIDE
02:25:43:00	02:25:43:00	THE ABLE SMITH SCHOOL.
02:25:43:00	02:25:46:00	THIS PLACE IS SACRED AND NOW
02:25:46:00	02:25:49:00	IT'S UNDER ATTACK.
02:25:49:00	02:25:50:00	EARLIER THIS MONTH THE MUSEUM
02:25:50:00	02:25:53:00	WAS TOLD IT NO LONGER SERVES
02:25:53:00	02:25:54:00	THE INTEREST OF THE UNITED
02:25:54:00	02:26:00:00	STATES AND NEARLY $500,000 IN
02:26:00:00	02:26:03:00	FEDERAL FUNDING WAS STRIPPED
02:26:03:00	02:26:04:00	ALMOST ONE SIXTH OF ITS TOTAL
02:26:04:00	02:26:07:00	BUDGET AT A TIME WHEN OUR
02:26:07:00	02:26:07:00	COUNTRY IS CONTINUING TO
02:26:07:00	02:26:08:00	NAVIGATE HOW WE ENGAGE WITH OUR
02:26:08:00	02:26:11:00	PAST.
02:26:11:00	02:26:11:00	THIS DECISION FEELS LIKE MORE
02:26:11:00	02:26:15:00	THAN JUST A BUDGET CUT.
02:26:15:00	02:26:15:00	IT SENDS A MESSAGE.
02:26:15:00	02:26:19:00	BUT HERE IN BOSTON WE KNOW
02:26:19:00	02:26:19:00	BETTER.
02:26:19:00	02:26:22:00	A COUNTRY THAT DOESN'T
02:26:22:00	02:26:22:00	ACKNOWLEDGE ITS HARM.
02:26:22:00	02:26:26:00	CHURCHES KEEP IN BLACK MEN AND
02:26:26:00	02:26:26:00	WOMEN CHAINED AND OPPRESSED.
02:26:26:00	02:26:30:00	CAN'T FIND THE HELP IT NEEDS TO
02:26:30:00	02:26:32:00	OVERCOME THE EFFECTS THAT HARM
02:26:32:00	02:26:33:00	PEOPLE WHO DON'T KNOW THEIR
02:26:33:00	02:26:37:00	PAST POWER CAN'T SEE THE HOPE
02:26:37:00	02:26:41:00	THEY MIGHT NEED TO SUMMON ONCE
02:26:41:00	02:26:41:00	AGAIN.
02:26:41:00	02:26:44:00	SURE THIS IS ABOUT FUNDING BUT
02:26:44:00	02:26:45:00	IT'S ALSO ABOUT PRESERVING
02:26:45:00	02:26:48:00	HISTORY SO WE CAN LEARN FROM
02:26:48:00	02:26:48:00	IT.
02:26:48:00	02:26:49:00	WE KNOW THAT PRESERVING BLACK
02:26:49:00	02:26:52:00	HISTORY IS PRESERVING AMERICAN
02:26:52:00	02:26:52:00	HISTORY.
02:26:52:00	02:26:53:00	WE KNOW OUR KIDS DESERVE TO
02:26:53:00	02:26:56:00	LEARN SPACES THAT TELL THE FULL
02:26:56:00	02:26:56:00	TRUTH.
02:26:56:00	02:27:00:00	WE WON'T STAND BY WHILE
02:27:00:00	02:27:00:00	INSTITUTIONS DOING THAT WORK
02:27:00:00	02:27:03:00	ARE UNDERMINED.
02:27:03:00	02:27:07:00	THIS MUSEUM IS DOING THE WORK
02:27:07:00	02:27:07:00	WITH EXHIBITS LIKE THE UPCOMING
02:27:07:00	02:27:08:00	ONE AND THE EMANCIPATION
02:27:08:00	02:27:11:00	PROCLAMATION AND PROGRAMING
02:27:11:00	02:27:12:00	THAT BRINGS THOUSANDS
02:27:12:00	02:27:12:00	OF FAMILIES AND STUDENTS
02:27:12:00	02:27:15:00	THROUGH ITS DOORS EVERY YEAR.
02:27:15:00	02:27:18:00	IT CONTINUES TO TEACH INSPIRE
02:27:18:00	02:27:19:00	AND CHALLENGE US.
02:27:19:00	02:27:19:00	THIS RESOLUTION REFLECTS OUR
02:27:19:00	02:27:23:00	SHARED BELIEF IN THE IMPORTANCE
02:27:23:00	02:27:23:00	OF PRESERVING THIS HISTORY AND
02:27:23:00	02:27:26:00	SUPPORTING THOSE WHO SAFEGUARD
02:27:26:00	02:27:27:00	IT.
02:27:27:00	02:27:27:00	I RESPECT RESPECTFULLY ASK FOR
02:27:27:00	02:27:30:00	MY COLLEAGUES TO SUSPEND THE
02:27:30:00	02:27:31:00	RULES AND PASS THIS RESOLUTION
02:27:31:00	02:27:34:00	IN FULL SUPPORT OF THE MUSEUM
02:27:34:00	02:27:38:00	OF AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY AND
02:27:38:00	02:27:39:00	I LOOK FORWARD TO WORKING WITH
02:27:39:00	02:27:39:00	OUR PARTNERS AT THE STATE HOUSE
02:27:39:00	02:27:41:00	AND ANY CHARITABLE FOUNDATIONS
02:27:41:00	02:27:42:00	THAT WANT TO STEP FORWARD TO
02:27:42:00	02:27:45:00	ENSURE THAT THIS INSTITUTION
02:27:45:00	02:27:46:00	CONTINUES TO THRIVE FOR
02:27:46:00	02:27:46:00	GENERATIONS TO COME.
02:27:46:00	02:27:49:00	THANK YOU.
02:27:49:00	02:27:50:00	THANK YOU.
02:27:50:00	02:27:54:00	AND I JUST WANT TO SAY THAT IT
02:27:54:00	02:27:57:00	IS EGREGIOUS THE FUNDING CUTS
02:27:57:00	02:27:58:00	THAT THIS MUSEUM IS FACING.
02:27:58:00	02:28:01:00	IT IS EGREGIOUS WHAT THIS
02:28:01:00	02:28:01:00	ADMINISTRATION IS DOING
02:28:01:00	02:28:05:00	STRIPPING OUR HISTORY BLACK
02:28:05:00	02:28:05:00	HISTORY WHICH IS AMERICAN
02:28:05:00	02:28:06:00	HISTORY FROM WEBSITES STORIES
02:28:06:00	02:28:09:00	ABOUT WHO HARRIET TUBMAN IS
02:28:09:00	02:28:10:00	ABOUT SURGING TO TRUTH.
02:28:10:00	02:28:13:00	IT IS UNACCEPTABLE AND IT IS
02:28:13:00	02:28:13:00	UNACCEPTABLE.
02:28:13:00	02:28:14:00	THE FUNDING CUTS THAT THE
02:28:14:00	02:28:17:00	MUSEUM THAT WAS ALREADY DOING
02:28:17:00	02:28:17:00	SO MUCH ON A SHOESTRING BUDGET
02:28:17:00	02:28:18:00	IS FACING.
02:28:18:00	02:28:21:00	SO I WANT TO UPLIFT THE WORK
02:28:21:00	02:28:21:00	OF DR. NOELLE TRENT AT THE
02:28:21:00	02:28:24:00	MUSEUM AND ALL THE INCREDIBLE
02:28:24:00	02:28:25:00	WORK THAT SHE DOES.
02:28:25:00	02:28:28:00	OUR PARK RANGERS FEDERAL
02:28:28:00	02:28:29:00	EMPLOYEES WHO DO THE WORK
02:28:29:00	02:28:32:00	OF SHARING THE TRAIL WITH
02:28:32:00	02:28:33:00	RESIDENTS, WITH TOURISTS, WITH
02:28:33:00	02:28:36:00	EVERYONE WHO COMES WITH PEOPLE
02:28:36:00	02:28:36:00	WITHOUT A HISTORY HAVE NOTHING.
02:28:36:00	02:28:39:00	AND THAT MUSEUM IS SO IMPORTANT
02:28:39:00	02:28:40:00	TO THE HISTORY AND TO THE
02:28:40:00	02:28:43:00	FABRIC OF THIS CITY TO LETTING
02:28:43:00	02:28:43:00	BLACK PEOPLE KNOW THAT THEY
02:28:43:00	02:28:46:00	HAVE A PLACE AND A HISTORY IN
02:28:46:00	02:28:47:00	BEACON HILL.
02:28:47:00	02:28:50:00	LAST TERM MY OFFICE ALONGSIDE
02:28:50:00	02:28:51:00	COUNCILOR BUT THEN
02:28:51:00	02:28:51:00	COUNCILOR BOK WHICH IS
02:28:51:00	02:28:52:00	SERENDIPITOUS WE MET HER
02:28:52:00	02:28:54:00	BECAUSE SHE LIVES IN BEACON
02:28:54:00	02:28:55:00	HILL, DID A FANTASTIC WALKING
02:28:55:00	02:28:58:00	TOUR OF THE AFRICAN-AMERICAN
02:28:58:00	02:29:02:00	TRAIL IN BEACON HILL AND JUST
02:29:02:00	02:29:04:00	LAST MONTH IN FEBRUARY WHERE IN
02:29:04:00	02:29:05:00	APRIL TWO MONTHS AGO WE DID A
02:29:05:00	02:29:08:00	PARTNERSHIP WE DID A PROGRAM IN
02:29:08:00	02:29:09:00	PARTNERSHIP WITH THE MUSEUM FOR
02:29:09:00	02:29:12:00	BLACK HISTORY MONTH THAT WAS
02:29:12:00	02:29:12:00	BEAUTIFULLY ATTENDED AND I WILL
02:29:12:00	02:29:15:00	NEVER FORGET A WOMAN FROM
02:29:15:00	02:29:16:00	DORCHESTER WHO STOOD UP AND
02:29:16:00	02:29:19:00	SAID WITH TEARS IN HER EYES I
02:29:19:00	02:29:19:00	DIDN'T KNOW THAT BLACK PEOPLE
02:29:19:00	02:29:23:00	HAD A HISTORY OR A PLACE HERE
02:29:23:00	02:29:23:00	IN BEACON HILL.
02:29:23:00	02:29:27:00	AND SO THE MUSEUM IS DOING A
02:29:27:00	02:29:27:00	GREAT JOB OF BRINGING PEOPLE
02:29:27:00	02:29:28:00	FROM OUR DIFFERENT
02:29:28:00	02:29:31:00	NEIGHBORHOODS TO BEACON HILL.
02:29:31:00	02:29:32:00	SHARING THE RICH, RICH, RICH
02:29:32:00	02:29:35:00	AFRICAN-AMERICAN HISTORY ON THE
02:29:35:00	02:29:35:00	HILL.
02:29:35:00	02:29:36:00	AND SO IT IS IMPORTANT THAT WE
02:29:36:00	02:29:39:00	STAND WITH THE MUSEUM AND MAKE
02:29:39:00	02:29:40:00	SURE THAT THEY HAVE THE FUNDING
02:29:40:00	02:29:42:00	AND SUPPORT THAT THEY NEED AND
02:29:42:00	02:29:43:00	THAT WE STAND STAUNCHLY AGAINST
02:29:43:00	02:29:44:00	THESE CUTS AND THAT WE SUPPORT
02:29:44:00	02:29:46:00	OUR PARK RANGERS AND THE
02:29:46:00	02:29:47:00	INCREDIBLE WORK.
02:29:47:00	02:29:47:00	I LOOK FORWARD TO THE CONTINUED
02:29:47:00	02:29:50:00	WORK THAT I'LL BE DOING WITH
02:29:50:00	02:29:51:00	DR. NOELLE TRENT TO MAKE SURE
02:29:51:00	02:29:53:00	THAT WE ARE DOING EVERYTHING WE
02:29:53:00	02:29:54:00	CAN TO PROTECT THE IMPORTANT
02:29:54:00	02:29:55:00	HISTORY THAT THAT MUSEUM HOLDS.
02:29:55:00	02:29:58:00	THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES
02:29:58:00	02:29:59:00	COUNCILOR DURKAN YOU HAVE THE
02:29:59:00	02:29:59:00	FLOOR.
02:29:59:00	02:30:01:00	THANK YOU SO MUCH, CHAIR AND I
02:30:01:00	02:30:02:00	THINK BOTH OF YOU SAID IT
02:30:02:00	02:30:03:00	BEAUTIFULLY BUT IT'S WITH A
02:30:03:00	02:30:05:00	HEAVY HEART THAT WE EVEN HAVE
02:30:05:00	02:30:06:00	TO HAVE THIS CONVERSATION.
02:30:06:00	02:30:09:00	WE HAVE AN ADMINISTRATION THAT
02:30:09:00	02:30:10:00	DOESN'T UNDERSTAND OR DOESN'T
02:30:10:00	02:30:13:00	CARE THAT BLACK BOSTONIANS
02:30:13:00	02:30:17:00	BUILT BOSTON THAT THEY THAT ARE
02:30:17:00	02:30:21:00	THAT BLACK HISTORY IS ETCHED IN
02:30:21:00	02:30:22:00	OUR NEIGHBORHOODS BRICK BY
02:30:22:00	02:30:22:00	BRICK.
02:30:22:00	02:30:25:00	THIS MUSEUM IS THE CORNERSTONE
02:30:25:00	02:30:25:00	OF THAT LEGACY.
02:30:25:00	02:30:26:00	IT TELLS THE STORIES OF BLACK
02:30:26:00	02:30:29:00	BOSTONIANS WHO HAVE SHAPED OUR
02:30:29:00	02:30:29:00	CITY AND OUR COUNTRY AND
02:30:29:00	02:30:30:00	INVITES ALL TO RECKON WITH
02:30:30:00	02:30:30:00	THAT.
02:30:30:00	02:30:33:00	THAT IS TRUTH AND BEAUTY AND
02:30:33:00	02:30:33:00	HORROR OF THAT HISTORY.
02:30:33:00	02:30:37:00	BUT IT'S MORE THAN A FUNDING
02:30:37:00	02:30:37:00	CUT.
02:30:37:00	02:30:38:00	IT'S A FAILURE TO UPHOLD OUR
02:30:38:00	02:30:40:00	RESPONSIBILITY TO THE MEMORY
02:30:40:00	02:30:40:00	OF BOSTON.
02:30:40:00	02:30:44:00	AND I'M I'M SICK THAT I MEAN
02:30:44:00	02:30:47:00	SEEING THE UPDATE.
02:30:47:00	02:30:48:00	IT REMINDED ME OF THE DAY AFTER
02:30:48:00	02:30:51:00	SEEING THE TUSKEGEE AIRMEN
02:30:51:00	02:30:51:00	BEING REMOVED FROM TRAINING
02:30:51:00	02:30:52:00	MATERIALS.
02:30:52:00	02:30:56:00	IT'S JUST THIS DISGUSTING
02:30:56:00	02:30:56:00	FEELING AND I HAVE TO SAY THAT
02:30:56:00	02:30:59:00	WOODY WOODHOUSE, GENERAL ENOCH
02:30:59:00	02:31:00:00	WOODY WOODHOUSE WHO WE HONORED
02:31:00:00	02:31:03:00	FOR BLACK HISTORY MONTH OR
02:31:03:00	02:31:04:00	ACTUALLY BEFORE BLACK HISTORY
02:31:04:00	02:31:04:00	MONTH.
02:31:04:00	02:31:08:00	HE WAS A FOUNDING MEMBER OF THE
02:31:08:00	02:31:08:00	BOARD OF A BLACK HERITAGE
02:31:08:00	02:31:08:00	TRAIL.
02:31:08:00	02:31:11:00	SO IT JUST SHOWS YOU SORT
02:31:11:00	02:31:11:00	OF EVERY SINGLE PIECE AND EVERY
02:31:11:00	02:31:15:00	SINGLE PERSON WHO HAS POURED
02:31:15:00	02:31:15:00	THEMSELVES INTO THIS OVER TIME.
02:31:15:00	02:31:19:00	BUT I LIVE LESS THAN A BLOCK
02:31:19:00	02:31:22:00	AWAY FROM THE BLACK HISTORY
02:31:22:00	02:31:23:00	TRAIL AND THERE'S SO MUCH GOING
02:31:23:00	02:31:27:00	ON IN BEACON HILL AROUND THE
02:31:27:00	02:31:27:00	250TH.
02:31:27:00	02:31:30:00	SO JUST TO HAVE THIS IS HAVE
02:31:30:00	02:31:31:00	THIS HAPPEN RIGHT NOW IS SO
02:31:31:00	02:31:34:00	GUTTING AND WE NEED TO DO
02:31:34:00	02:31:35:00	EVERYTHING WE CAN TO SUPPORT
02:31:35:00	02:31:35:00	THEM.
02:31:35:00	02:31:38:00	SO I KNOW THERE ARE SOME
02:31:38:00	02:31:42:00	FUNDRAISING THAT'S GOING ON TO
02:31:42:00	02:31:42:00	TO BACK UP THE MUSEUM.
02:31:42:00	02:31:46:00	SO WHAT AND I THINK WE CAN ALL
02:31:46:00	02:31:47:00	SHARE THAT AND FIGURE OUT WAYS
02:31:47:00	02:31:49:00	TO SUPPORT THEM.
02:31:49:00	02:31:50:00	BUT THERE IS GOING TO BE A HUGE
02:31:50:00	02:31:51:00	GAP AND WE DO NEED TO FIGURE
02:31:51:00	02:31:53:00	OUT HOW WE CAN STEP UP.
02:31:53:00	02:31:54:00	SO THANK YOU.
02:31:54:00	02:31:54:00	THANK YOU.
02:31:54:00	02:31:55:00	CONSIDER AGAIN THE CHAIR
02:31:55:00	02:31:56:00	RECOGNIZES KENDRA FLYNN.
02:31:56:00	02:32:00:00	YOU HAVE THE FLOOR.
02:32:00:00	02:32:03:00	THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR, FOR FOR
02:32:03:00	02:32:04:00	SIX YEARS I WAS I WAS PROUD TO
02:32:04:00	02:32:07:00	REPRESENT THIS MUSEUM IN MY
02:32:07:00	02:32:07:00	DISTRICT.
02:32:07:00	02:32:11:00	I REPRESENTED A GREAT PORTION
02:32:11:00	02:32:14:00	OF BEACON HILL AND LEARNED A
02:32:14:00	02:32:15:00	TREMENDOUS AMOUNT FROM THIS
02:32:15:00	02:32:19:00	MUSEUM ABOUT THE INCREDIBLE
02:32:19:00	02:32:19:00	CONTRIBUTIONS AND SACRIFICES
02:32:19:00	02:32:22:00	AFRICAN-AMERICANS HAVE MADE TO
02:32:22:00	02:32:23:00	OUR CITY AND COUNTRY.
02:32:23:00	02:32:26:00	WHEN I HEARD ABOUT THIS ISSUE I
02:32:26:00	02:32:30:00	SENT A LETTER IMMEDIATELY TO
02:32:30:00	02:32:31:00	SENATOR WARREN AND TO SENATOR
02:32:31:00	02:32:34:00	MARKEY AND I SENT IT TO THE AND
02:32:34:00	02:32:35:00	IT WAS ABOUT THE SAVING OUR
02:32:35:00	02:32:38:00	INSTITUTE OF MUSEUMS AND
02:32:38:00	02:32:38:00	LIBRARY SERVICES.
02:32:38:00	02:32:42:00	AND I JUST WANTED TO READ A
02:32:42:00	02:32:42:00	LITTLE BIT TO YOU.
02:32:42:00	02:32:45:00	I AM WRITING TODAY TO
02:32:45:00	02:32:46:00	RESPECTFULLY ASK YOU TO VOICE
02:32:46:00	02:32:49:00	YOUR OPPOSITION TO THE MARCH
02:32:49:00	02:32:50:00	14TH EXECUTIVE OFFICE
02:32:50:00	02:32:53:00	OF EXECUTIVE ORDER TARGETING
02:32:53:00	02:32:54:00	THE INSTITUTE OF MUSEUMS AND
02:32:54:00	02:32:56:00	LIBRARY SERVICES.
02:32:56:00	02:32:57:00	THIS EXECUTIVE ORDER INTENDS TO
02:32:57:00	02:33:00:00	DISMANTLE THIS IMPORTANT AGENCY
02:33:00:00	02:33:01:00	AND I URGE YOU TO SPEAK UP TO
02:33:01:00	02:33:04:00	THE CURRENT WHITE HOUSE
02:33:04:00	02:33:04:00	ADMINISTRATION AGAINST THE
02:33:04:00	02:33:07:00	HARMFUL APPROACH THAT THIS WILL
02:33:07:00	02:33:08:00	HURT OUR TREASURED MUSEUMS AND
02:33:08:00	02:33:11:00	LIBRARIES.
02:33:11:00	02:33:11:00	IT IS OF THE UTMOST IMPORTANCE
02:33:11:00	02:33:14:00	THAT WE CONTINUE TO SUPPORT
02:33:14:00	02:33:17:00	THESE INSTITUTIONS THAT ARE
02:33:17:00	02:33:18:00	VITAL TO THE CULTURE AND
02:33:18:00	02:33:22:00	KNOWLEDGE OF OUR NATION.
02:33:22:00	02:33:22:00	MUSEUMS AND LIBRARIES PLAY A
02:33:22:00	02:33:25:00	UNIQUE ROLE IN OUR COUNTRY.
02:33:25:00	02:33:29:00	THEY ARE PLACES WHERE IDEAS ARE
02:33:29:00	02:33:29:00	EXCHANGED AND CULTURES ARE
02:33:29:00	02:33:29:00	SHARED.
02:33:29:00	02:33:33:00	THIS EXECUTIVE ORDER THREATENS
02:33:33:00	02:33:33:00	THE INVALUABLE ROLE MUSEUMS AND
02:33:33:00	02:33:34:00	LIBRARIES PLAY ACROSS THE
02:33:34:00	02:33:37:00	NATION AND IN BOSTON.
02:33:37:00	02:33:41:00	HERE IN BOSTON WE ARE FORTUNATE
02:33:41:00	02:33:41:00	TO BE A MAJOR HUB OF HISTORY
02:33:41:00	02:33:42:00	AND CULTURE IN ARTS AND
02:33:42:00	02:33:44:00	SCIENCES.
02:33:44:00	02:33:45:00	WE HAVE THE CHERISHED BOSTON
02:33:45:00	02:33:48:00	PUBLIC LIBRARY.
02:33:48:00	02:33:52:00	WE ALSO HAVE INCREDIBLE DIGITAL
02:33:52:00	02:33:52:00	PROGRAMS DIGITAL COMMONWEALTH
02:33:52:00	02:33:56:00	PROGRAMS FOR ENGLISH AS A
02:33:56:00	02:34:00:00	SECOND LANGUAGE AND OUTREACH TO
02:34:00:00	02:34:03:00	OUR IMMIGRANT COMMUNITIES
02:34:03:00	02:34:04:00	ESPECIALLY ON LIBRARY SERVICES.
02:34:04:00	02:34:07:00	OUR WELL-LOVED INSTITUTIONS
02:34:07:00	02:34:08:00	SUCH AS THE BOSTON CHILDREN'S
02:34:08:00	02:34:10:00	MUSEUM, MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS,
02:34:10:00	02:34:14:00	THE MUSEUM OF SCIENCE HAVE ALSO
02:34:14:00	02:34:17:00	RECEIVED GRANTS IN THE PAST TO
02:34:17:00	02:34:18:00	KEEP OUR RESIDENTS INFORMED
02:34:18:00	02:34:21:00	FAMILIES AND STUDENTS ENGAGED
02:34:21:00	02:34:25:00	DEVELOP A THIRST FOR KNOWLEDGE
02:34:25:00	02:34:25:00	.
02:34:25:00	02:34:26:00	I JOIN THESE INSTITUTIONS
02:34:26:00	02:34:28:00	RESIDENTS OF MY CITY STATE AND
02:34:28:00	02:34:29:00	FEDERAL COLLEAGUES TO OPPOSE
02:34:29:00	02:34:32:00	THESE ATTACKS AND TO
02:34:32:00	02:34:33:00	RESPECTFULLY ASK YOU TO URGE
02:34:33:00	02:34:34:00	THE WHITE HOUSE TO FULLY
02:34:34:00	02:34:36:00	RESTORE AND PROTECT FUNDING FOR
02:34:36:00	02:34:37:00	OUR MUSEUMS AND LIBRARIES HERE
02:34:37:00	02:34:40:00	IN BOSTON AND ACROSS THE NATION
02:34:40:00	02:34:44:00	CAN'T CONTINUE TO THRIVE.
02:34:44:00	02:34:45:00	I THOUGHT IT WAS IMPORTANT TO
02:34:45:00	02:34:47:00	SHARE THAT BECAUSE THIS IS THE
02:34:47:00	02:34:48:00	AGENCY THE INSTITUTE OF MUSEUMS
02:34:48:00	02:34:52:00	AND LIBRARY SERVICES THAT
02:34:52:00	02:34:52:00	ACTUALLY MADE THE CUT TO THE
02:34:52:00	02:34:55:00	AFRICAN AMERICAN MUSEUM UP IN
02:34:55:00	02:34:56:00	BEACON HILL A PLACE AS I
02:34:56:00	02:34:59:00	MENTIONED THAT I REPRESENTED
02:34:59:00	02:34:59:00	FOR SIX YEARS.
02:34:59:00	02:35:00:00	AND WHEN I WAS CITY
02:35:00:00	02:35:03:00	COUNCIL PRESIDENT I ALSO HAD A
02:35:03:00	02:35:04:00	UM I ALSO BROUGHT CITY
02:35:04:00	02:35:09:00	COUNCIL AND UM CITY
02:35:09:00	02:35:09:00	COUNCIL CENTRAL STAFF TO THE
02:35:09:00	02:35:13:00	MUSEUM FOR A TOUR AND A LUNCH
02:35:13:00	02:35:13:00	AS WELL.
02:35:13:00	02:35:14:00	SO GRATEFUL FOR THE MUSEUM THE
02:35:14:00	02:35:16:00	INCREDIBLE ROLE THEY PLAYED NOT
02:35:16:00	02:35:17:00	JUST IN OUR CITY BUT ACROSS OUR
02:35:17:00	02:35:21:00	COUNTRY AS WELL.
02:35:21:00	02:35:21:00	THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.
02:35:21:00	02:35:22:00	THANK YOU.
02:35:22:00	02:35:22:00	THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES
02:35:22:00	02:35:24:00	COUNCILOR MURPHY ON THE FLOOR.
02:35:24:00	02:35:24:00	THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.
02:35:24:00	02:35:28:00	THANK YOU TO THE SPONSORS FOR
02:35:28:00	02:35:28:00	PUTTING THIS FORWARD.
02:35:28:00	02:35:29:00	IT'S IMPORTANT THAT WE UPLIFT
02:35:29:00	02:35:31:00	THIS MUSEUM.
02:35:31:00	02:35:34:00	I DO A PERSONAL STORY.
02:35:34:00	02:35:35:00	BACK IN 2005 MY SON WAS A
02:35:35:00	02:35:39:00	SOPHOMORE IN HIGH SCHOOL AND HE
02:35:39:00	02:35:40:00	NEEDED TO DO A REPORT ON THE
02:35:40:00	02:35:42:00	BLACK HISTORY TRAIL WHICH
02:35:42:00	02:35:43:00	STARTED AT THE MUSEUM.
02:35:43:00	02:35:45:00	BUT BACK IN 2005 THERE WERE NO
02:35:45:00	02:35:46:00	SUCH THINGS AS SMARTPHONES.
02:35:46:00	02:35:49:00	IF YOU HAD A PHONE IT WAS A
02:35:49:00	02:35:50:00	FLIP PHONE OR NO SOCIAL MEDIA.
02:35:50:00	02:35:53:00	SO HE NEEDED IN THAT CASE HIS
02:35:53:00	02:35:56:00	MOM CAME ALONG WITH HIM AND
02:35:56:00	02:35:57:00	TOOK PICTURES AT EACH STOP AND
02:35:57:00	02:35:57:00	THEN WROTE ABOUT IT.
02:35:57:00	02:36:01:00	SO FOR ME IT WAS VERY EYE
02:36:01:00	02:36:01:00	OPENING.
02:36:01:00	02:36:01:00	ONE THING YOU KNOW, KNOWING
02:36:01:00	02:36:04:00	THAT I HAD LIVED IN THIS CITY
02:36:04:00	02:36:08:00	ALL THIS TIME AND KNOWN IT WAS
02:36:08:00	02:36:09:00	THERE I GUESS BUT HAD NEVER
02:36:09:00	02:36:12:00	REALLY TAKEN PART IN THE
02:36:12:00	02:36:12:00	ENORMOUS IMPACT IT HAS AND THE
02:36:12:00	02:36:15:00	INFORMATION THAT IT SHARES THAT
02:36:15:00	02:36:16:00	I THINK IS IMPORTANT.
02:36:16:00	02:36:17:00	SO KNOWING THAT THERE IS A
02:36:17:00	02:36:19:00	CHANCE THAT THIS COULD BE SHUT
02:36:19:00	02:36:20:00	DOWN IN ANY WAY.
02:36:20:00	02:36:23:00	IF ANYTHING WE SHOULD BE MAKING
02:36:23:00	02:36:24:00	SURE THAT WE'RE EXPANDING IT SO
02:36:24:00	02:36:27:00	LOOKING FORWARD TO SUPPORTING
02:36:27:00	02:36:27:00	THIS.
02:36:27:00	02:36:27:00	THANK YOU.
02:36:27:00	02:36:28:00	THANK YOU.
02:36:28:00	02:36:28:00	IS ANYONE LOOKING IS ANYONE
02:36:28:00	02:36:31:00	ELSE LOOKING TO SPEAK ON THIS
02:36:31:00	02:36:31:00	MATTER?
02:36:31:00	02:36:32:00	WHAT ANYONE ELSE LIKE TO ADD
02:36:32:00	02:36:32:00	THEIR NAME?
02:36:32:00	02:36:33:00	MR. CLERK, COULD YOU PLEASE ADD
02:36:33:00	02:36:35:00	COUNCILORS BREADON ZAPATA
02:36:35:00	02:36:38:00	FITZGERALD, FLYNN MCGUIRE.
02:36:38:00	02:36:41:00	MURPHY SANTANA WEBER COUNCILORS
02:36:41:00	02:36:42:00	WORL LOUIJEUNE AND DURKIN'S
02:36:42:00	02:36:46:00	EXPANSION OF THE RULES AND
02:36:46:00	02:36:46:00	PASSAGE OF DOCKET NUMBER ZERO
02:36:46:00	02:36:49:00	NINE IN ADOPTION OF DOCKET 0908
02:36:49:00	02:36:53:00	ALL THOSE IN FAVOR SAY I I
02:36:53:00	02:36:54:00	MR. CLERK COULD YOU PLEASE
02:36:54:00	02:36:57:00	CONDUCT A ROLL CALL VOTE ROLL
02:36:57:00	02:37:00:00	CALL VOTE ON DOCKET NUMBER 0908
02:37:00:00	02:37:03:00	COUNCIL BRIEF YES
02:37:03:00	02:37:04:00	COUNCILOR BREADON YES.
02:37:04:00	02:37:05:00	COUNCILOR COLETTE AS A PARTNER
02:37:05:00	02:37:07:00	COUNCILOR COLLETTE IS A YES.
02:37:07:00	02:37:08:00	COUNCILOR DURKAN
02:37:08:00	02:37:08:00	COUNCILOR DURKAN YES.
02:37:08:00	02:37:11:00	COUNCILOR FERNANDA SANDERSON
02:37:11:00	02:37:11:00	COUNCILOR FITZGERALD.
02:37:11:00	02:37:14:00	COUNCILOR FITZGERALD YES.
02:37:14:00	02:37:15:00	COUNCILOR FLYNN.
02:37:15:00	02:37:15:00	COUNCILOR FLYNN YES.
02:37:15:00	02:37:19:00	COUNCILOR LOUIJEUNE YES.
02:37:19:00	02:37:20:00	COUNCILOR LOUIJEUNE YES.
02:37:20:00	02:37:20:00	CONCILOR MEJIA HERE CALLED
02:37:20:00	02:37:21:00	MEJIA YES.
02:37:21:00	02:37:22:00	COUNCIL MURPHY.
02:37:22:00	02:37:23:00	COUNCILOR MURPHY.
02:37:23:00	02:37:23:00	YES.
02:37:23:00	02:37:23:00	COUNCILOR PIPPIN.
02:37:23:00	02:37:24:00	YES.
02:37:24:00	02:37:27:00	COUNCILOR THE YES.
02:37:27:00	02:37:27:00	COUNCILOR SANTANA.
02:37:27:00	02:37:27:00	YES.
02:37:27:00	02:37:28:00	COUNCILOR SANTANA.
02:37:28:00	02:37:30:00	YES.
02:37:30:00	02:37:30:00	COUNCILOR WEBER YES.
02:37:30:00	02:37:31:00	COUNCILOR WEBER YES.
02:37:31:00	02:37:34:00	AND COUNCILOR WORRELL YES.
02:37:34:00	02:37:35:00	COUNCILOR OH YES.
02:37:35:00	02:37:36:00	LUCKY NUMBER 0908 HAS RECEIVED
02:37:36:00	02:37:37:00	12 VOTES IN THE AFFIRMATIVE.
02:37:37:00	02:37:40:00	THANK YOU, MR. CLERK.
02:37:40:00	02:37:41:00	THIS DOCKET HAS BEEN ADOPTED.
02:37:41:00	02:37:42:00	CAN WE ALSO PLEASE ADD
02:37:42:00	02:37:44:00	COUNCILOR PIPPEN'S NAME TO THAT
02:37:44:00	02:37:44:00	DOCKET?
02:37:44:00	02:37:44:00	YES.
02:37:44:00	02:37:44:00	OKAY.
02:37:44:00	02:37:45:00	THANK YOU.
02:37:45:00	02:37:47:00	AND I ALSO WOULD BE REMISS NOT
02:37:47:00	02:37:48:00	TO MENTION DAN DELANEY WHO'S
02:37:48:00	02:37:48:00	HERE.
02:37:48:00	02:37:49:00	HE DOES A LOT OF INCREDIBLE
02:37:49:00	02:37:51:00	WORK WITH THE MUSEUM AND THANK
02:37:51:00	02:37:52:00	YOU FOR YOUR ADVOCACY FOR THE
02:37:52:00	02:37:52:00	MUSEUM.
02:37:52:00	02:37:55:00	IT'S REALLY APPRECIATED AND
02:37:55:00	02:37:55:00	NOTED.
02:37:55:00	02:37:57:00	MR. CLERK COULD YOU PLEASE READ
02:37:57:00	02:38:01:00	THE NUMBER 09090909
02:38:01:00	02:38:01:00	COUNCILOR COLETTE AS A PARTNER
02:38:01:00	02:38:04:00	FOR THE FOLLOWING RESOLUTION IN
02:38:04:00	02:38:05:00	HONOR OF EARTH DAY, THE CHAIR
02:38:05:00	02:38:08:00	RECOGNIZES COUNCILOR COLETTE AS
02:38:08:00	02:38:09:00	A PARTY ON THE FLOOR.
02:38:09:00	02:38:09:00	THANK YOU, MADAM PRESIDENT.
02:38:09:00	02:38:12:00	AND I'D LIKE TO ADD
02:38:12:00	02:38:13:00	COUNCILOR BURTON AS AN ORIGINAL
02:38:13:00	02:38:13:00	CO-SPONSOR COUNCILOR BRADING
02:38:13:00	02:38:16:00	AND SO ADDED COUNCILOR COLETTE
02:38:16:00	02:38:16:00	AS A PARTY OF THE FLOOR.
02:38:16:00	02:38:17:00	THANK YOU SO MUCH.
02:38:17:00	02:38:19:00	I RISE TODAY TO PRODUCE THIS OR
02:38:19:00	02:38:20:00	PRESENT THIS RESOLUTION IN
02:38:20:00	02:38:20:00	HONOR OF EARTH DAY.
02:38:20:00	02:38:24:00	MY COMMUNITY GOVERNANCE OF EAST
02:38:24:00	02:38:25:00	BOSTON OR IN MY COMMUNITY
02:38:25:00	02:38:27:00	OF EAST BOSTON ENVIRONMENTAL
02:38:27:00	02:38:28:00	PROTECTION IS NOT AN ABSTRACT
02:38:28:00	02:38:31:00	CONCEPT AND THIS IS NOT
02:38:31:00	02:38:31:00	HYPERBOLE IN 2025 IT IS A
02:38:31:00	02:38:35:00	MATTER OF SURVIVAL IS BOSTON IS
02:38:35:00	02:38:35:00	ON THE FRONT LINES OF THE
02:38:35:00	02:38:38:00	CLIMATE CRISIS.
02:38:38:00	02:38:38:00	OUR RESIDENTS BREATHE IN
02:38:38:00	02:38:42:00	CUMULATIVE IMPACTS FROM LOGAN
02:38:42:00	02:38:42:00	AIRPORT.
02:38:42:00	02:38:45:00	WE HAVE TUNNELS AND MAJOR
02:38:45:00	02:38:49:00	THROUGH WAYS MAJOR ROADWAYS AND
02:38:49:00	02:38:49:00	THE RESIDENTS LIVE IN FLOOD
02:38:49:00	02:38:53:00	PRONE AREAS WITH LIMITED GREEN
02:38:53:00	02:38:54:00	SPACE AND AGING INFRASTRUCTURE.
02:38:54:00	02:38:56:00	FOR US CLIMATE CHANGE ISN'T A
02:38:56:00	02:38:57:00	FAR OFF THREAT IT IS THE NEXT
02:38:57:00	02:38:58:00	STORM, THE NEXT FLOOD AND THE
02:38:58:00	02:39:01:00	NEXT AS THE ATTACK.
02:39:01:00	02:39:01:00	THAT'S WHY EARTH DAY IS MORE
02:39:01:00	02:39:04:00	THAN JUST A SYMBOL IT IS A
02:39:04:00	02:39:05:00	CHANCE TO REAFFIRM OUR
02:39:05:00	02:39:05:00	COMMITMENT TO ENVIRONMENTAL
02:39:05:00	02:39:08:00	JUSTICE AND IT'S A REMINDER
02:39:08:00	02:39:09:00	THAT OUR POLICIES MUST BE
02:39:09:00	02:39:12:00	GUIDED BY EQUITY AND THAT THE
02:39:12:00	02:39:12:00	VOICES OF HISTORICALLY
02:39:12:00	02:39:12:00	MARGINALIZED COMMUNITIES MUST
02:39:12:00	02:39:15:00	BE FRONT AND CENTER IN EVERY
02:39:15:00	02:39:15:00	CLIMATE CONVERSATION.
02:39:15:00	02:39:16:00	BUT I ALSO WANT TO ISSUE A
02:39:16:00	02:39:19:00	CLEAR WARNING TODAY AS WE WORK
02:39:19:00	02:39:23:00	LOCALLY TO BUILD A SUSTAINABLE
02:39:23:00	02:39:24:00	AND JUST FUTURE WE ARE FACING
02:39:24:00	02:39:25:00	AN ALARMING ROLLBACK
02:39:25:00	02:39:27:00	OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTIONS AT
02:39:27:00	02:39:28:00	THE NATIONAL LEVEL.
02:39:28:00	02:39:31:00	THE DEREGULATORY PUSH SIMILAR
02:39:31:00	02:39:32:00	TO WHAT WE SAW IN THE 1980S
02:39:32:00	02:39:34:00	UNDER PRESIDENT RONALD REAGAN
02:39:34:00	02:39:35:00	AND WHAT WE'RE SEEING TODAY
02:39:35:00	02:39:38:00	THREATENS TO UNDO DECADES
02:39:38:00	02:39:38:00	OF PROGRESS GUTTING CLEAN AIR
02:39:38:00	02:39:42:00	AND WATER RULES, WEAKENING
02:39:42:00	02:39:42:00	CLIMATE ACTION AND ONCE AGAIN
02:39:42:00	02:39:45:00	PLACING PROFITS OVER PEOPLE IS
02:39:45:00	02:39:45:00	UNACCEPTABLE.
02:39:45:00	02:39:46:00	DEREGULATION MEANS MORE
02:39:46:00	02:39:50:00	POPULATION IN NEIGHBORHOODS
02:39:50:00	02:39:50:00	LIKE MINE.
02:39:50:00	02:39:51:00	IT MEANS MORE EXTREME WEATHER,
02:39:51:00	02:39:54:00	MORE DISPLACEMENT AND MORE
02:39:54:00	02:39:54:00	HEALTH DISPARITIES.
02:39:54:00	02:39:57:00	IT'S NOT JUST RECKLESS, IT IS
02:39:57:00	02:39:57:00	IMMORAL.
02:39:57:00	02:40:00:00	BOSTON MUST CONTINUE TO LEAD.
02:40:00:00	02:40:01:00	WE MUST DOUBLE DOWN ON
02:40:01:00	02:40:02:00	RESILIENCE, EQUITY AND
02:40:02:00	02:40:04:00	COMMUNITY SOLUTIONS.
02:40:04:00	02:40:06:00	EARTH DAY IS NOT JUST A
02:40:06:00	02:40:09:00	CELEBRATION IT IS A CALL TO
02:40:09:00	02:40:10:00	ACTION AND EAST BOSTON AND
02:40:10:00	02:40:12:00	EVERY ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE
02:40:12:00	02:40:13:00	NEIGHBORHOOD IN THE CITY IS
02:40:13:00	02:40:14:00	COUNTING ON US TO ANSWER.
02:40:14:00	02:40:15:00	THANK YOU.
02:40:15:00	02:40:19:00	THANK YOU.
02:40:19:00	02:40:20:00	THE CHAIR CAN I JUST
02:40:20:00	02:40:20:00	CONCENTRATE ON YOU HAVE THE
02:40:20:00	02:40:21:00	FLOOR.
02:40:21:00	02:40:23:00	THANK YOU MADAM PRESIDENT AND
02:40:23:00	02:40:24:00	THANK YOU COUNCILORS CARLOTA
02:40:24:00	02:40:26:00	ZAPATA FOR INCLUDING ME IN THIS
02:40:26:00	02:40:30:00	RESOLUTION RECOGNIZING EARTH
02:40:30:00	02:40:34:00	DAY I THINK I THINK WE ARE ALL
02:40:34:00	02:40:36:00	OF A SUDDEN REALIZING JUST HOW
02:40:36:00	02:40:37:00	PRECARIOUS LIFE IS ON THIS
02:40:37:00	02:40:40:00	PLANET ESPECIALLY IN TIMES
02:40:40:00	02:40:41:00	OF GREAT POLITICAL UPHEAVAL
02:40:41:00	02:40:44:00	WHEN OUR LEADERS AT THE
02:40:44:00	02:40:48:00	NATIONAL LEVEL AND IN IN
02:40:48:00	02:40:48:00	CONGRESS SEEM TO JUST TURN
02:40:48:00	02:40:49:00	THEIR BACK ON ALL ALSO ANY
02:40:49:00	02:40:51:00	SENSE OF RESPONSIBILITY FOR
02:40:51:00	02:40:55:00	THEIR OUR DUTY TO STEWARDS, OUR
02:40:55:00	02:40:59:00	BEAUTIFUL SMALL PLANET WE HAVE
02:40:59:00	02:40:59:00	MANY, MANY FRAGILE ECOSYSTEMS
02:40:59:00	02:41:02:00	AS COUNTRIES THAT ARE PART
02:41:02:00	02:41:03:00	OF ALREADY MENTIONED CLIMATE
02:41:03:00	02:41:03:00	CHANGES IS UPON US.
02:41:03:00	02:41:07:00	IT'S NOT SOMETHING WE ARE IN
02:41:07:00	02:41:08:00	THE FUTURE WE USED TO TALK
02:41:08:00	02:41:08:00	ABOUT WE NEEDED THESE GOALS
02:41:08:00	02:41:10:00	THAT TO BE HIT BY 2030 WELL
02:41:10:00	02:41:13:00	2035 YEARS AWAY AND IT'S COMING
02:41:13:00	02:41:14:00	FAST.
02:41:14:00	02:41:17:00	RISING SEA LEVELS ARE A REALITY
02:41:17:00	02:41:17:00	.
02:41:17:00	02:41:18:00	COASTAL COMMUNITIES ARE BEING
02:41:18:00	02:41:19:00	DISPLACED ALL AROUND THE WORLD.
02:41:19:00	02:41:22:00	SOME SMALL ISLAND NATIONS ARE
02:41:22:00	02:41:23:00	GOING TO DISAPPEAR OFF THE MAP
02:41:23:00	02:41:25:00	COMPLETELY.
02:41:25:00	02:41:26:00	WE'RE LOSING HABITAT AND WE ARE
02:41:26:00	02:41:27:00	SEEING THE EXTINCTION OF MANY,
02:41:27:00	02:41:29:00	MANY SPECIES OF ANIMALS.
02:41:29:00	02:41:32:00	THIS IS OUR EARTHLY HOME AND WE
02:41:32:00	02:41:33:00	HAVE A HUGE RESPONSIBILITY TO
02:41:33:00	02:41:33:00	PROTECT IT AND PRESERVE IT.
02:41:33:00	02:41:37:00	IT IRONIC THAT THERE ARE TRIPS
02:41:37:00	02:41:40:00	THAT A CERTAIN VERY RICH MAN IN
02:41:40:00	02:41:43:00	WASHINGTON AT THE MOMENT WHO
02:41:43:00	02:41:44:00	WANTS TO GO TO MARS TO SEARCH
02:41:44:00	02:41:44:00	FOR WATER.
02:41:44:00	02:41:47:00	WE HAVE OUR OUR LOVELY PLANET
02:41:47:00	02:41:51:00	IS 90% WATER AND WE'RE
02:41:51:00	02:41:51:00	DESTROYING IT.
02:41:51:00	02:41:52:00	WE'RE POLLUTING IT.
02:41:52:00	02:41:52:00	WE'RE DUMPING TRASH INTO THE
02:41:52:00	02:41:55:00	OCEANS AND WE'RE NOT TAKING
02:41:55:00	02:41:56:00	CARE OF THE BEAUTIFUL TREASURE
02:41:56:00	02:41:58:00	THAT WE HAVE.
02:41:58:00	02:41:59:00	IT'S A VERY GRAVE CONCERN THAT
02:41:59:00	02:42:03:00	OUR DEPARTMENT IN GOVERNMENT
02:42:03:00	02:42:03:00	SUCH AS NORWAY ARE BEING
02:42:03:00	02:42:07:00	DEFUNDED AND THE RESEARCH
02:42:07:00	02:42:08:00	CLIMATE RESEARCH HAS BEEN
02:42:08:00	02:42:10:00	DEFUNDED AND INVESTMENT IN
02:42:10:00	02:42:11:00	ALTERNATIVE RENEWABLE ENERGY IS
02:42:11:00	02:42:14:00	BEING DEFUNDED.
02:42:14:00	02:42:15:00	AND I REALLY FEEL AS A MEMBER
02:42:15:00	02:42:19:00	AS A PERSON WHO HAS MEMBERS
02:42:19:00	02:42:19:00	OF THEIR FAMILY LOST THEIR HOME
02:42:19:00	02:42:22:00	IN KATRINA WHEN IT HIT NEW
02:42:22:00	02:42:25:00	ORLEANS.
02:42:25:00	02:42:26:00	YOU KNOW, WE'RE ALL IN A VERY
02:42:26:00	02:42:27:00	PRECARIOUS STATE AND WE ALL
02:42:27:00	02:42:30:00	HAVE A HUGE RESPONSIBILITY TO
02:42:30:00	02:42:33:00	TRY AND ADDRESS CLIMATE CHANGE
02:42:33:00	02:42:34:00	AND SUPPORT OURSELVES BUT ALSO
02:42:34:00	02:42:37:00	BE MINDFUL OF WHAT HAPPENS
02:42:37:00	02:42:37:00	HERE.
02:42:37:00	02:42:40:00	THIS IS A GLOBAL CHALLENGE THAT
02:42:40:00	02:42:41:00	WE ALL HAVE TO WORK TO ADDRESS
02:42:41:00	02:42:45:00	GLOBALLY AS WELL AS LOCALLY.
02:42:45:00	02:42:45:00	THANK YOU.
02:42:45:00	02:42:46:00	THANK YOU.
02:42:46:00	02:42:48:00	KELLY CELEBRATED WHAT ANYONE
02:42:48:00	02:42:49:00	LIKE TO SPEAK ON THIS MATTER.
02:42:49:00	02:42:52:00	I JUST WANT TO SAY THANK YOU TO
02:42:52:00	02:42:53:00	MY COLLEAGUES FOR FILING.
02:42:53:00	02:42:53:00	IT'S INCREDIBLY IMPORTANT THAT
02:42:53:00	02:42:56:00	WE ACKNOWLEDGE OUR DUTY TO BE
02:42:56:00	02:42:57:00	GOOD STEWARDS HERE WHILE WE
02:42:57:00	02:43:00:00	HERE ON THIS EARTH AND HOW
02:43:00:00	02:43:01:00	THERE'S A DISPROPORTIONATE
02:43:01:00	02:43:04:00	BURDEN ON OUR BLACK AND BROWN
02:43:04:00	02:43:04:00	COMMUNITIES AND OUR
02:43:04:00	02:43:04:00	COMMUNITIES.
02:43:04:00	02:43:05:00	AND I WANT TO THANK BOTH OF YOU
02:43:05:00	02:43:08:00	FOR YOUR FOR YOUR WORK.
02:43:08:00	02:43:08:00	THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES
02:43:08:00	02:43:09:00	COUNCILOR FLYNN.
02:43:09:00	02:43:11:00	YOU HAVE THE FLOOR THANK YOU.
02:43:11:00	02:43:12:00	THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.
02:43:12:00	02:43:15:00	I ALSO AND I WANT TO THANK THE
02:43:15:00	02:43:16:00	MAKERS FOR BRINGING THIS
02:43:16:00	02:43:16:00	FORWARD.
02:43:16:00	02:43:18:00	I ALSO WANT TO MENTION THE
02:43:18:00	02:43:22:00	DISTRICT I REPRESENT ESPECIALLY
02:43:22:00	02:43:23:00	IN CHINATOWN HAS ONE OF THE
02:43:23:00	02:43:26:00	HIGHEST ASTHMA RATES IN IN NEW
02:43:26:00	02:43:27:00	ENGLAND REALLY AND FOR VARIOUS
02:43:27:00	02:43:29:00	REASONS.
02:43:29:00	02:43:31:00	BUT PART OF IT IS BECAUSE IT'S
02:43:31:00	02:43:36:00	LOCATED IT'S LOCATED OFF OF THE
02:43:36:00	02:43:40:00	HIGHWAY 9395 AND MASS PIKE BUT
02:43:40:00	02:43:41:00	ALSO THE BUS TERMINAL OF A
02:43:41:00	02:43:44:00	SOUTH STATION AND THE TRAIN
02:43:44:00	02:43:44:00	TERMINAL TRAIN STATION AS WELL.
02:43:44:00	02:43:48:00	BUT I LIKE THOSE FACTS BECAUSE
02:43:48:00	02:43:51:00	WE WANT TO ENSURE THAT WE
02:43:51:00	02:43:52:00	ADDRESS THE PUBLIC HEALTH
02:43:52:00	02:43:55:00	ISSUES IMPACTING COMMUNITIES
02:43:55:00	02:43:59:00	OF COLOR IN THE IMPACT IT HAS
02:43:59:00	02:44:00:00	ON THEIR QUALITY OF LIFE, ON
02:44:00:00	02:44:03:00	THEIR HEALTH.
02:44:03:00	02:44:04:00	BUT WE NEED TO DO MORE TO
02:44:04:00	02:44:06:00	ENSURE THAT WE PROVIDE EVERY
02:44:06:00	02:44:07:00	OPPORTUNITY TO PROTECT PROTECT
02:44:07:00	02:44:10:00	OUR RESIDENTS WITH CLEAN AIR,
02:44:10:00	02:44:14:00	WITH SAFE AND HEALTHY
02:44:14:00	02:44:14:00	NEIGHBORHOODS.
02:44:14:00	02:44:17:00	AND PART OF THAT IS ADDRESSING
02:44:17:00	02:44:18:00	THE ONGOING ENVIRONMENTAL
02:44:18:00	02:44:21:00	CHALLENGES MANY COMMUNITIES
02:44:21:00	02:44:22:00	OF COLOR HAVE ACROSS THE CITY.
02:44:22:00	02:44:25:00	THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.
02:44:25:00	02:44:26:00	WOULD ANYONE ELSE LIKE TO SPEAK
02:44:26:00	02:44:26:00	ON THIS MATTER?
02:44:26:00	02:44:29:00	WHAT ANYONE ELSE LIKE TO ADD
02:44:29:00	02:44:30:00	THEIR NAME?
02:44:30:00	02:44:30:00	MR. CLERK PLEASE ADD COUNCILORS
02:44:30:00	02:44:33:00	DURKIN FITZGERALD.
02:44:33:00	02:44:33:00	FLYNN MCKIM.
02:44:33:00	02:44:33:00	MURPHY.
02:44:33:00	02:44:33:00	PATTON.
02:44:33:00	02:44:34:00	SANTANA.
02:44:34:00	02:44:36:00	WEBER WORRELL PLEASE HAVE A
02:44:36:00	02:44:36:00	CHAIR.
02:44:36:00	02:44:40:00	THAT WAS MY ATTEMPT TO SLOW
02:44:40:00	02:44:40:00	DOWN MR. CLERK BECAUSE I
02:44:40:00	02:44:41:00	REALIZE I WAS GOING A LITTLE
02:44:41:00	02:44:44:00	TOO FAST.
02:44:44:00	02:44:44:00	OKAY COUNCILORS COLETTE ZAPATA
02:44:44:00	02:44:48:00	AND BRAYDON SUSPENSION OF THE
02:44:48:00	02:44:50:00	RULES AND PASSAGE OF DOCKET
02:44:50:00	02:44:50:00	NUMBER 0909 ALTHOUGH AN
02:44:50:00	02:44:53:00	ADOPTION OF DOCKET NUMBER 0909
02:44:53:00	02:44:57:00	ALL THOSE IN FAVOR SAY I I AT
02:44:57:00	02:44:58:00	ALL OPPOSING AID THE AYES HAVE
02:44:58:00	02:44:58:00	IT.
02:44:58:00	02:45:01:00	THIS DOCKET HAS BEEN ADOPTED.
02:45:01:00	02:45:02:00	MR CLERK, COULD YOU PLEASE READ
02:45:02:00	02:45:05:00	DOCKET NUMBER 09100910
02:45:05:00	02:45:05:00	COUNCILOR COLETTE AS A PART
02:45:05:00	02:45:08:00	OF THE FOLLOWING RESOLUTION
02:45:08:00	02:45:11:00	COMMEMORATING THE 250TH
02:45:11:00	02:45:11:00	ANNIVERSARY OF PAUL REVERE'S
02:45:11:00	02:45:12:00	MIDNIGHT RIDE, THE CHAIR
02:45:12:00	02:45:16:00	RECOGNIZES KATHERINE COLETTE AS
02:45:16:00	02:45:16:00	A PATTY.
02:45:16:00	02:45:17:00	YOU HAD THE FLOOR.
02:45:17:00	02:45:19:00	THANK YOU, MADAM PRESIDENT.
02:45:19:00	02:45:20:00	IF YOU WERE ASKING YOURSELF IS
02:45:20:00	02:45:22:00	SHE GOING TO RECITE THE POEM,
02:45:22:00	02:45:23:00	CONSIDER THIS YOUR ANSWER.
02:45:23:00	02:45:24:00	LISTEN MY CHILDREN AND YOU
02:45:24:00	02:45:26:00	SHALL HEAR OF THE MIDNIGHT RIDE
02:45:26:00	02:45:29:00	OF PAUL REVERE ON THE 18TH
02:45:29:00	02:45:29:00	OF APRIL IN 75.
02:45:29:00	02:45:32:00	HARDLY A MAN IS NOW ALIVE
02:45:32:00	02:45:33:00	REMEMBERS THAT FAMOUS DAY IN
02:45:33:00	02:45:36:00	YEAR I WILL SPARE MY COLLEAGUES
02:45:36:00	02:45:38:00	FROM RECITING THE OTHER 135
02:45:38:00	02:45:39:00	LINES OF HENRY WADSWORTH
02:45:39:00	02:45:43:00	LONGFELLOW SAME POEM BUT I DO
02:45:43:00	02:45:43:00	JUST WANT TO SPEAK MY SEVENTH
02:45:43:00	02:45:46:00	GRADE HISTORY TEACHER'S NAME
02:45:46:00	02:45:50:00	MR EDWARD SUTTON WHO MADE ALL
02:45:50:00	02:45:51:00	OF RECITE 138 LINES OF THIS
02:45:51:00	02:45:51:00	POEM.
02:45:51:00	02:45:52:00	SO I JUST WANT TO GIVE HIM A
02:45:52:00	02:45:54:00	SHOUT OUT TODAY I RISE TO HONOR
02:45:54:00	02:45:58:00	A REVOLUTIONARY MOMENT THAT
02:45:58:00	02:45:59:00	ECHOES ACROSS TWO AND A HALF
02:45:59:00	02:46:02:00	CENTURIES A RIDE THAT BEGAN IN
02:46:02:00	02:46:02:00	BOSTON'S HISTORIC NORTH END
02:46:02:00	02:46:05:00	CROSSED THE DARKENED CHARLES TO
02:46:05:00	02:46:06:00	BOSTON'S FIRST NEIGHBORHOOD
02:46:06:00	02:46:09:00	OF CHARLESTOWN.
02:46:09:00	02:46:10:00	THE MOMENT AND THE SUBSEQUENT
02:46:10:00	02:46:13:00	POEM IS WOVEN LIKE I SAID, INTO
02:46:13:00	02:46:14:00	EVERY CURRICULUM IN EVERY
02:46:14:00	02:46:16:00	SEVENTH GRADE HISTORY CLASS.
02:46:16:00	02:46:17:00	AND I KNOW THAT EVERYBODY KNOWS
02:46:17:00	02:46:18:00	WHAT HAPPENS OR WHAT HAD
02:46:18:00	02:46:20:00	HAPPENED.
02:46:20:00	02:46:21:00	THERE ARE VARIATIONS OF HISTORY
02:46:21:00	02:46:22:00	HERE BUT ULTIMATELY WHAT WE ARE
02:46:22:00	02:46:25:00	TRYING TO DO ON FRIDAY IS JUST
02:46:25:00	02:46:28:00	CELEBRATE THIS REVOLUTIONARY
02:46:28:00	02:46:28:00	MOMENT AND WHAT IT MEANT FOR
02:46:28:00	02:46:29:00	OUR HISTORY.
02:46:29:00	02:46:32:00	HIS MIDNIGHT RIDE ON APRIL 18TH
02:46:32:00	02:46:33:00	, 70 1775 WAS NOT A SOLITARY
02:46:33:00	02:46:36:00	ACT OF HEROISM BUT A
02:46:36:00	02:46:36:00	COORDINATED WARNING CRY A CALL
02:46:36:00	02:46:40:00	TO ARMS THAT SET THE COLONIES
02:46:40:00	02:46:41:00	ON A PATH TOWARDS REVOLUTION.
02:46:41:00	02:46:44:00	HIS LANTERNS IN OLD NORTH
02:46:44:00	02:46:45:00	CHURCH HIS LANDING IN
02:46:45:00	02:46:47:00	CHARLESTOWN.
02:46:47:00	02:46:48:00	HIS ALERT TO THE MILITIAS IN
02:46:48:00	02:46:51:00	ALL OF THE CHARLESTOWN TAVERNS
02:46:51:00	02:46:51:00	ALL WERE ACTS ROOTED IN
02:46:51:00	02:46:55:00	RESISTANCE AND CAN ACT AS AN
02:46:55:00	02:46:55:00	INSPIRATION FOR ALL OF US TODAY
02:46:55:00	02:46:58:00	HIS JOURNEY BEGAN ON OUR
02:46:58:00	02:46:59:00	COBBLESTONES DRIVEN BY URGENCY
02:46:59:00	02:47:02:00	AND AS BOSTON FACES MODERN
02:47:02:00	02:47:03:00	STRUGGLES IN THE NATION
02:47:03:00	02:47:06:00	STRUGGLES FOR JUSTICE EQUITY
02:47:06:00	02:47:07:00	PAUL REVERE STORY REMINDS US
02:47:07:00	02:47:10:00	THAT ORDINARY PEOPLE CAN STEP
02:47:10:00	02:47:10:00	FORWARD IN EXTRAORDINARY TIMES.
02:47:10:00	02:47:14:00	BUT 250TH ANNIVERSARY THIS WEEK
02:47:14:00	02:47:15:00	IS MORE THAN JUST A
02:47:15:00	02:47:17:00	COMMEMORATION.
02:47:17:00	02:47:18:00	IT IS A RECOMMITMENT TO
02:47:18:00	02:47:20:00	LIBERTY, TO CIVIC DUTY AND
02:47:20:00	02:47:21:00	REMEMBERING THAT DEMOCRACY IS
02:47:21:00	02:47:22:00	NOT BUILT BY JUST THOSE IN
02:47:22:00	02:47:24:00	POWER BUT BY THOSE WILLING TO
02:47:24:00	02:47:25:00	ACT BOLDLY IN MOMENTS
02:47:25:00	02:47:28:00	OF UNCERTAINTY.
02:47:28:00	02:47:29:00	SO THE EVENTS THIS WEEK AND
02:47:29:00	02:47:32:00	THIS RESOLUTION CAN ACT AS A
02:47:32:00	02:47:32:00	REMINDER THAT BOSTON'S IDENTITY
02:47:32:00	02:47:35:00	AND THE NATION'S IDENTITY AS
02:47:35:00	02:47:36:00	THE CRADLE OF LIBERTY IS NOT
02:47:36:00	02:47:36:00	INHERITED.
02:47:36:00	02:47:40:00	IT'S EARNED AGAIN AND AGAIN.
02:47:40:00	02:47:41:00	THANK YOU ALL SO MUCH.
02:47:41:00	02:47:42:00	I HOPE TO SEE YOU ALL AT THE
02:47:42:00	02:47:44:00	MANY EVENTS THAT ARE TAKING
02:47:44:00	02:47:45:00	PLACE ON FRIDAY AND SATURDAY.
02:47:45:00	02:47:45:00	THANK YOU.
02:47:45:00	02:47:45:00	THANK YOU.
02:47:45:00	02:47:46:00	CASTRO THAT IS A PART OF THE
02:47:46:00	02:47:47:00	CHAIR RECOGNIZES
02:47:47:00	02:47:50:00	COUNCILOR BREADON.
02:47:50:00	02:47:54:00	I FEEL LIKE I'M A SURFER HERE.
02:47:54:00	02:47:54:00	I DIDN'T WASN'T TAUGHT AMERICAN
02:47:54:00	02:47:57:00	HISTORY BUT I HAVE I AM A
02:47:57:00	02:47:58:00	MEMBER OF THE AUSTIN BRIGHTON
02:47:58:00	02:48:01:00	HISTORICAL SOCIETY AND I WANT
02:48:01:00	02:48:02:00	TO GIVE A SHOUT OUT TO THE
02:48:02:00	02:48:02:00	OTHER GUY POOR WILLIAM DAWES
02:48:02:00	02:48:05:00	JUNIOR ALL GOT TO NO GLORY AS
02:48:05:00	02:48:08:00	IT SAYS PAUL REVERE WENT ONE
02:48:08:00	02:48:08:00	WAY.
02:48:08:00	02:48:12:00	HE WENT ACROSS TO CHARLESTON
02:48:12:00	02:48:13:00	BUT THE OTHER GUY THAT SET OFF
02:48:13:00	02:48:19:00	ON MIDNIGHT RIDE WAS ON APRIL
02:48:19:00	02:48:19:00	18TH 1775.
02:48:19:00	02:48:22:00	DR. JOSEPH WARREN LEARNED
02:48:22:00	02:48:23:00	THROUGH THE AMERICAS BRITAIN,
02:48:23:00	02:48:23:00	BOSTON'S REVOLUTIONARY
02:48:23:00	02:48:26:00	UNDERGROUND THAT BRITISH TROOPS
02:48:26:00	02:48:27:00	WERE PREPARING TO CROSS THE
02:48:27:00	02:48:28:00	CHARLES RIVER AND MARCHED TO
02:48:28:00	02:48:30:00	LEXINGTON AND FEARING AN
02:48:30:00	02:48:34:00	INTERCEPT BY THE BRITISH,
02:48:34:00	02:48:34:00	WARREN HAD DEVISED A REDUNDANCY
02:48:34:00	02:48:38:00	PLAN TO WARN HANCOCK, HANCOCK
02:48:38:00	02:48:40:00	AND ADAMS HE WOULD SEND TO ONE
02:48:40:00	02:48:41:00	RIDER BY LAND AND ONE BY SEA.
02:48:41:00	02:48:44:00	AND SO REVERE, I SUSPECT WENT
02:48:44:00	02:48:49:00	BY SEA AND THE GUY DAWES WAS 30
02:48:49:00	02:48:49:00	YEAR OLD MILITIA MAN AND A
02:48:49:00	02:48:53:00	LOYAL PATRIOT BUT UNLIKE UNLIKE
02:48:53:00	02:48:57:00	REVERE HE WAS KNOWN AS A RABBLE
02:48:57:00	02:48:59:00	ROUSER AND HIS WORK AS A TANNER
02:48:59:00	02:49:00:00	FREQUENTLY TOOK HIM OUT
02:49:00:00	02:49:03:00	OF BOSTON SO HE WOULD BE SO HE
02:49:03:00	02:49:07:00	WOULD BE A FAMILIAR FACE TO THE
02:49:07:00	02:49:08:00	BRITISH MANNING THE CHECKPOINTS
02:49:08:00	02:49:11:00	THE RECKONED HE BECAUSE THE
02:49:11:00	02:49:11:00	BACK BAY WAS LITERALLY AT BAY
02:49:11:00	02:49:14:00	HE HAD TO GO THROUGH ROXBURY
02:49:14:00	02:49:15:00	BROOKLINE AND TO BRIGHTON AND
02:49:15:00	02:49:18:00	ACROSS AND OUT TO LEXINGTON BY
02:49:18:00	02:49:22:00	THE INLAND ROUTE AND HE DID
02:49:22:00	02:49:23:00	THERE HE MANAGED TO GET THERE A
02:49:23:00	02:49:24:00	HALF AN HOUR AFTER REVERE
02:49:24:00	02:49:26:00	ARRIVED AND IN LEXINGTON.
02:49:26:00	02:49:30:00	SO WE WILL BE HONORING DAWES ON
02:49:30:00	02:49:35:00	ON MONDAY MORNING ABOUT 1030 AT
02:49:35:00	02:49:38:00	THE HILLS MEMORIAL THE FORMER
02:49:38:00	02:49:42:00	HILL MEMORIAL CHURCH ON HARVARD
02:49:42:00	02:49:42:00	OF IN ALLSTON ACROSS THE STREET
02:49:42:00	02:49:45:00	FROM THE HONAN BRANCH LIBRARY
02:49:45:00	02:49:46:00	JUST GIVE A SHOUT OUT TO THE
02:49:46:00	02:49:47:00	GUY THAT NOBODY TALKS ABOUT
02:49:47:00	02:49:47:00	ANYMORE.
02:49:47:00	02:49:50:00	THANK YOU THANK YOU COUNT
02:49:50:00	02:49:51:00	CELEBRATE IN THE CHAIR
02:49:51:00	02:49:51:00	RECOGNIZES COUNCIL WHERE YOU
02:49:51:00	02:49:54:00	HAVE THE FLOOR THANK YOU AS
02:49:54:00	02:49:54:00	LONG AS WE'RE RECOGNIZING
02:49:54:00	02:49:57:00	TEACHERS I'D JUST LIKE TO
02:49:57:00	02:49:58:00	RECOGNIZE MY A PROFESSOR
02:49:58:00	02:49:58:00	OF MINE AT BRANDEIS DAVID
02:49:58:00	02:50:01:00	HACKETT FISHER WROTE A BOOK
02:50:01:00	02:50:01:00	CALLED PAUL REVERE'S RIDE.
02:50:01:00	02:50:04:00	IT'S VERY GOOD IT RECOMMENDED
02:50:04:00	02:50:05:00	IT SHOWS HOW IMPORTANT PAUL
02:50:05:00	02:50:08:00	REVERE WASN'T JUST A GUY ON A
02:50:08:00	02:50:09:00	HORSE WHO'S SOMEBODY WHO WAS AN
02:50:09:00	02:50:11:00	INTEGRAL PART OF OF OF LIFE
02:50:11:00	02:50:12:00	HERE IN BOSTON AT THE TIME.
02:50:12:00	02:50:13:00	AND I DO REMEMBER DURING THE
02:50:13:00	02:50:15:00	CLASS THEY WERE TALKING ABOUT
02:50:15:00	02:50:15:00	CASTING DECISIONS.
02:50:15:00	02:50:16:00	THEY APPARENTLY ARNOLD
02:50:16:00	02:50:20:00	SCHWARZENEGGER UP TO PLAY PAUL
02:50:20:00	02:50:21:00	REVERE AT SOME POINT BUT THAT
02:50:21:00	02:50:23:00	MOVIE NEVER GOT MADE PROBABLY
02:50:23:00	02:50:24:00	YOU KNOW, FOR THE BEST.
02:50:24:00	02:50:25:00	BUT YOU KNOW, FOR ANYONE WHO
02:50:25:00	02:50:27:00	WANTS TO DIVE A LITTLE DEEPER,
02:50:27:00	02:50:28:00	I RECOMMEND PROFESSOR FISHER'S
02:50:28:00	02:50:28:00	BOOK.
02:50:28:00	02:50:32:00	I THINK THANK YOU LOT A LOT
02:50:32:00	02:50:32:00	OF HISTORY LESSONS HERE.
02:50:32:00	02:50:35:00	THANK YOU.
02:50:35:00	02:50:36:00	WOULD ANYONE ELSE LIKE TO SPEAK
02:50:36:00	02:50:36:00	ON THIS MATTER?
02:50:36:00	02:50:37:00	WHAT ANYONE ELSE LIKE TO ADD
02:50:37:00	02:50:39:00	THEIR NAME?
02:50:39:00	02:50:40:00	MR. CLERK, COULD YOU PLEASE ADD
02:50:40:00	02:50:41:00	COUNSELORS BRAEDEN DURKIN
02:50:41:00	02:50:44:00	FITZGERALD, FLYNN MARIA MURPHY,
02:50:44:00	02:50:47:00	PAT SANTANA WEBER WORLD PLEASE
02:50:47:00	02:50:47:00	ADD THE CHAIR COUNSELOR
02:50:47:00	02:50:51:00	COLLETTE ZAPATA SUSPENSION
02:50:51:00	02:50:52:00	OF THE ROSE AND PAT AND
02:50:52:00	02:50:54:00	ADOPTION OF DOCKET NUMBER 0910
02:50:54:00	02:50:55:00	ALL THOSE IN FAVOR SAY I I WILL
02:50:55:00	02:50:58:00	SAY THE AYES HAVE IT.
02:50:58:00	02:50:59:00	THIS DOCKET HAS BEEN ADOPTED.
02:50:59:00	02:51:00:00	MR. CLERK COULD YOU PLEASE
02:51:00:00	02:51:03:00	REPORT THE NUMBER 0911 DUGAN
02:51:03:00	02:51:04:00	NUMBER 0911 COUNCILOR MURPHY
02:51:04:00	02:51:06:00	OFFER THE FOLLOWING RESOLUTION
02:51:06:00	02:51:07:00	CALLING FOR THE PROMPT
02:51:07:00	02:51:07:00	SCHEDULING OF A SPECIAL
02:51:07:00	02:51:11:00	ELECTION TO FILL THE VACANCY IN
02:51:11:00	02:51:11:00	DISTRICT SEVEN.
02:51:11:00	02:51:12:00	THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES
02:51:12:00	02:51:12:00	COUNCILOR MURPHY.
02:51:12:00	02:51:14:00	YOU HAVE THE FLOOR.
02:51:14:00	02:51:14:00	THANK YOU.
02:51:14:00	02:51:15:00	I KNOW MANY OF THE
02:51:15:00	02:51:18:00	CONVERSATIONS HAVE ALREADY
02:51:18:00	02:51:18:00	HAPPENED.
02:51:18:00	02:51:19:00	THE CONTENT IS SIMILAR TO THE
02:51:19:00	02:51:20:00	HOME RULE PETITION THAT WAS
02:51:20:00	02:51:22:00	FILED EARLIER BUT I AM CALLING
02:51:22:00	02:51:26:00	FOR A RESOLUTION TO SCHEDULE
02:51:26:00	02:51:30:00	AND BE PREPARED FOR A SPECIAL
02:51:30:00	02:51:31:00	ELECTION IN THE SEVEN SEAT AS
02:51:31:00	02:51:34:00	WE KNOW THE DISTRICT SEVEN
02:51:34:00	02:51:34:00	COUNCILOR HAS PLEADED GUILTY
02:51:34:00	02:51:37:00	AND HAS PUBLICLY ANNOUNCED HER
02:51:37:00	02:51:38:00	INTENTION TO RESIGN FROM THE
02:51:38:00	02:51:41:00	POSITION THE RESIDENTS OF D
02:51:41:00	02:51:42:00	SEVEN DESERVE TIMELY AND
02:51:42:00	02:51:43:00	EFFECTIVE REPRESENTATION TO
02:51:43:00	02:51:45:00	ADDRESS THEIR NEEDS.
02:51:45:00	02:51:46:00	WHILE THERE WILL BE AN INTERIM
02:51:46:00	02:51:48:00	PERIOD BEFORE A SPECIAL
02:51:48:00	02:51:49:00	ELECTION CAN BE CONDUCTED, I
02:51:49:00	02:51:52:00	FEEL IT'S IMPERATIVE THAT WE
02:51:52:00	02:51:53:00	PREPARE FOR THAT AND SUPPORT
02:51:53:00	02:51:56:00	OUR ELECTION DEPARTMENT.
02:51:56:00	02:51:59:00	WE ALSO KNOW SINCE I FIRST
02:51:59:00	02:52:00:00	FILED THIS THAT THERE WILL BE A
02:52:00:00	02:52:03:00	HEARING THE RULE 11 HEARING WAS
02:52:03:00	02:52:04:00	SCHEDULED BY THE JUDGE SO THERE
02:52:04:00	02:52:07:00	IS A HEARING ON MAY 5TH AND
02:52:07:00	02:52:11:00	THAT IS THE DAY IT IS BELIEVED
02:52:11:00	02:52:11:00	THAT A GUILTY PLEA WILL BE
02:52:11:00	02:52:12:00	ENTERED.
02:52:12:00	02:52:14:00	SO I DO BELIEVE AT THAT POINT
02:52:14:00	02:52:15:00	WE COULD MOVE FORWARD AND
02:52:15:00	02:52:18:00	SCHEDULE A SPECIAL ELECTION.
02:52:18:00	02:52:19:00	I DON'T NEED TO GO INTO ALL THE
02:52:19:00	02:52:19:00	DETAILS.
02:52:19:00	02:52:20:00	I KNOW WE'VE ALREADY TALKED
02:52:20:00	02:52:22:00	ABOUT.
02:52:22:00	02:52:23:00	I'M ALSO LOOKING FORWARD TO THE
02:52:23:00	02:52:25:00	HOME RULE PETITION THAT HAS
02:52:25:00	02:52:26:00	BEEN PLACED INTO THE GOVERNMENT
02:52:26:00	02:52:27:00	OPS COMMITTEE SO WE CAN
02:52:27:00	02:52:30:00	CONTINUE THIS CONVERSATION AT
02:52:30:00	02:52:30:00	THOSE HEARINGS IN THAT
02:52:30:00	02:52:33:00	COMMITTEE BUT I'M ASKING FOR A
02:52:33:00	02:52:34:00	SUSPENSION AND PASS NOW.
02:52:34:00	02:52:40:00	THANK YOU.
02:52:40:00	02:52:40:00	THANK YOU.
02:52:40:00	02:52:44:00	JUST JUST WANT TO STATE THAT
02:52:44:00	02:52:45:00	BECAUSE THE CLERK AND I HAVE
02:52:45:00	02:52:45:00	TALKED ABOUT THIS QUITE A BIT
02:52:45:00	02:52:48:00	IN ORDER TO CALL A SPECIAL
02:52:48:00	02:52:50:00	ELECTION AS IS CLEAR TO SECTION
02:52:50:00	02:52:51:00	15 EIGHT OF THE CHARTER, YOU
02:52:51:00	02:52:52:00	HAVE TO HAVE A NOTICE
02:52:52:00	02:52:54:00	OF VACANCY.
02:52:54:00	02:52:55:00	THAT'S WHAT TRIGGERS A SPECIAL
02:52:55:00	02:52:56:00	ELECTION JUST SO THAT EVERYONE
02:52:56:00	02:52:59:00	KNOWS THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES
02:52:59:00	02:52:59:00	COUNCILOR WEBER.
02:52:59:00	02:53:00:00	COUNCILOR WEBER, YOU HAVE THE
02:53:00:00	02:53:01:00	FLOOR.
02:53:01:00	02:53:01:00	YEAH.
02:53:01:00	02:53:05:00	MY UNDERSTANDING IS THAT AFTER
02:53:05:00	02:53:09:00	A GUILTY PLEA IS ENTERED ON THE
02:53:09:00	02:53:10:00	FIFTH FLOOR TO SAY THAT HAPPENS
02:53:10:00	02:53:13:00	THAT WOULD NOT CREATE A VACANCY
02:53:13:00	02:53:13:00	.
02:53:13:00	02:53:14:00	CORRECT ME IF I'M WRONG AND
02:53:14:00	02:53:14:00	EVERYONE FEEL FREE.
02:53:14:00	02:53:17:00	MY UNDERSTANDING OF THE FROM
02:53:17:00	02:53:17:00	READING THE CHUCK TURNER
02:53:17:00	02:53:20:00	DECISION IS HE CONVICTED AND
02:53:20:00	02:53:24:00	THE COUNCIL VOTED IT WAS LIKE
02:53:24:00	02:53:25:00	11 TO 1 OR 12 TO 1 TO REMOVE
02:53:25:00	02:53:28:00	HIM AND THEY SAID THAT WAS TOO
02:53:28:00	02:53:29:00	EARLY.
02:53:29:00	02:53:29:00	HE COULDN'T EITHER UNDER STATE
02:53:29:00	02:53:32:00	LAW THE VACANCY IS IN
02:53:32:00	02:53:32:00	CREATED UNTIL THE SENTENCING.
02:53:32:00	02:53:35:00	I THINK THERE IS A DIFFERENCE.
02:53:35:00	02:53:36:00	I DON'T BELIEVE THE SENTENCING
02:53:36:00	02:53:36:00	WILL OCCUR ON MAY 5TH.
02:53:36:00	02:53:40:00	I THINK THAT MAY BE AS MUCH AS
02:53:40:00	02:53:40:00	THREE MONTHS LATER.
02:53:40:00	02:53:43:00	SO I JUST I JUST THAT'S MY
02:53:43:00	02:53:44:00	UNDERSTANDING OF IT.
02:53:44:00	02:53:44:00	IF SOMEBODY ELSE HAS A
02:53:44:00	02:53:47:00	DIFFERENT UNDERSTANDING THEY
02:53:47:00	02:53:47:00	MAY BE RIGHT.
02:53:47:00	02:53:48:00	I'M JUST THAT WHEN I WHEN I'M
02:53:48:00	02:53:51:00	THINKING OF IT MAYBE THAT'S A
02:53:51:00	02:53:55:00	QUESTION TO THE FILER BUT MY MY
02:53:55:00	02:53:58:00	FEELING IS STATE LAW SORT
02:53:58:00	02:53:59:00	OF KICKS SOMEONE OFF THE
02:53:59:00	02:53:59:00	COUNCIL WHEN THEY'RE SENTENCED
02:53:59:00	02:54:03:00	AND THAT IN THE TURNER CASE
02:54:03:00	02:54:03:00	THEY HAVE THE COUNCIL ACTED TOO
02:54:03:00	02:54:05:00	SOON BECAUSE THEY ACTED RIGHT
02:54:05:00	02:54:06:00	AFTER THE CONVICTION.
02:54:06:00	02:54:07:00	THE VACANCY ISN'T EFFECTIVE
02:54:07:00	02:54:10:00	UNTIL THE SENTENCING HAPPENS
02:54:10:00	02:54:11:00	AND I THINK THAT'S A SEPARATE
02:54:11:00	02:54:13:00	PROCEEDING USUALLY THREE MONTHS
02:54:13:00	02:54:14:00	LATER.
02:54:14:00	02:54:14:00	OKAY.
02:54:14:00	02:54:14:00	THANK YOU.
02:54:14:00	02:54:14:00	THANK YOU.
02:54:14:00	02:54:17:00	THE CHAIR IGNITES CONCENTRATED
02:54:17:00	02:54:17:00	NEAR THE FLOOR.
02:54:17:00	02:54:18:00	MADAM CHAIR, I WE'VE HAD A
02:54:18:00	02:54:20:00	VERY, VERY EXTENSIVE
02:54:20:00	02:54:21:00	CONVERSATION ABOUT THIS ISSUE
02:54:21:00	02:54:24:00	ALREADY THIS AFTERNOON.
02:54:24:00	02:54:26:00	I TEND TO AGREE WITH
02:54:26:00	02:54:27:00	COUNCILOR WEBER.
02:54:27:00	02:54:31:00	YOU KNOW THE THERE'S A LOT
02:54:31:00	02:54:32:00	OF SPECULATION HAPPENING HERE
02:54:32:00	02:54:35:00	AND EVEN AT THE EARLIEST DATE
02:54:35:00	02:54:36:00	AS I SAID THE EARLIEST DATE IF
02:54:36:00	02:54:41:00	THE SENTENCING THE JUDGMENT IS
02:54:41:00	02:54:41:00	IS GIVEN.
02:54:41:00	02:54:42:00	I'M NOT A LAWYER.
02:54:42:00	02:54:44:00	THANK YOU.
02:54:44:00	02:54:44:00	PARDON.
02:54:44:00	02:54:48:00	BUT MAY 5TH IF IF IF AT ALL.
02:54:48:00	02:54:50:00	MAY 5TH IS THE THE DATE AND
02:54:50:00	02:54:51:00	THEN THERE HAS TO BE A
02:54:51:00	02:54:55:00	SENTENCING PROCEDURE THAT KICKS
02:54:55:00	02:54:56:00	IT PAST THE THE DAY THAT
02:54:56:00	02:54:59:00	TRIGGERS THE NEED FOR A SPECIAL
02:54:59:00	02:54:59:00	ELECTION.
02:54:59:00	02:55:02:00	SO I THINK THIS IS A MOOT THIS
02:55:02:00	02:55:03:00	ISSUE IS MOOT AT THIS POINT AND
02:55:03:00	02:55:06:00	I I THINK THIS IS I OBJECT.
02:55:06:00	02:55:07:00	THANK YOU.
02:55:07:00	02:55:07:00	OKAY.
02:55:07:00	02:55:10:00	THANK YOU.
02:55:10:00	02:55:10:00	THIS DOCKET.
02:55:10:00	02:55:11:00	DOCKET NUMBER 0911 WILL BE
02:55:11:00	02:55:12:00	REFERRED TO THE COMMITTEE ON
02:55:12:00	02:55:14:00	THE WHOLE MATTER.
02:55:14:00	02:55:15:00	MR CLERK, WE ARE NOW THERE'S AN
02:55:15:00	02:55:17:00	OBJECTION.
02:55:17:00	02:55:17:00	IT'S SENT TO COMMITTEE.
02:55:17:00	02:55:19:00	MR CLERK, COULD YOU PLEASE WE
02:55:19:00	02:55:23:00	ARE NOW ON TO.
02:55:23:00	02:55:24:00	COUNCILOR MURPHY, WHAT IS YOUR
02:55:24:00	02:55:27:00	POINT OF ORDER WITH RESPECT TO
02:55:27:00	02:55:27:00	ACTED AND WE SET A PRECEDENT
02:55:27:00	02:55:31:00	FOR THIS COUNCIL MEETING, THIS
02:55:31:00	02:55:31:00	IMPORTANT ISSUE THAT'S BEING
02:55:31:00	02:55:35:00	BROUGHT BEFORE US THAT EVEN
02:55:35:00	02:55:35:00	THOUGH COUNCILOR BREADON IS
02:55:35:00	02:55:38:00	WANTING TO OBJECT TO GET A VOTE
02:55:38:00	02:55:39:00	THAT WE STILL LET PEOPLE'S
02:55:39:00	02:55:39:00	VOICES BE HEARD.
02:55:39:00	02:55:42:00	SO I'M ASKING FOR THE SAME
02:55:42:00	02:55:43:00	GRACE THAT I GAVE WHEN YOUR
02:55:43:00	02:55:46:00	HOME PETITION WAS PUT BEFORE
02:55:46:00	02:55:47:00	HERE BECAUSE I COULD HAVE
02:55:47:00	02:55:47:00	STOPPED THE CONVERSATION AND I
02:55:47:00	02:55:50:00	THINK IT WAS IMPORTANT THAT
02:55:50:00	02:55:50:00	EVERYONE WAS ABLE TO SPEAK.
02:55:50:00	02:55:54:00	SO I'M ALLOWED PEOPLE TO SPEAK
02:55:54:00	02:55:54:00	ON THIS MATTER.
02:55:54:00	02:55:54:00	THANK YOU.
02:55:54:00	02:55:58:00	YOU WITHDREW YOUR OBJECTION.
02:55:58:00	02:55:58:00	THERE'S BEEN NO WITHDRAWAL
02:55:58:00	02:55:59:00	OF THE OBJECTION HERE.
02:55:59:00	02:55:59:00	THANK YOU, MR CLERK.
02:55:59:00	02:56:01:00	WE ARE NOW MOVING ON TO
02:56:01:00	02:56:02:00	PERSONNEL ORDERS.
02:56:02:00	02:56:05:00	BUT BEFORE WE GET TO PERSONNEL
02:56:05:00	02:56:05:00	ORDERS, IF ANYBODY WOULD LIKE
02:56:05:00	02:56:06:00	TO ADD THEIR NAME TO A DOCKET
02:56:06:00	02:56:10:00	OR TO OR A VOTE WHILE THEY WERE
02:56:10:00	02:56:11:00	OUT OF CHAMBERS, NOW IS THE
02:56:11:00	02:56:13:00	TIME TO DO SO.
02:56:13:00	02:56:17:00	THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES.
02:56:17:00	02:56:18:00	IS THAT A.
02:56:18:00	02:56:18:00	IS THAT A MAYBE?
02:56:18:00	02:56:19:00	YEP.
02:56:19:00	02:56:21:00	THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES COUNCIL.
02:56:21:00	02:56:22:00	THE BAN COMES WITH ANY OTHER
02:56:22:00	02:56:22:00	FLOOR.
02:56:22:00	02:56:22:00	THANK YOU.
02:56:22:00	02:56:23:00	MAY I ADD MY NAME TO DOCKET
02:56:23:00	02:56:27:00	NUMBER 0907?
02:56:27:00	02:56:28:00	MR CLERK, DO YOU HAVE THAT
02:56:28:00	02:56:28:00	DOCKET NUMBER 0907?
02:56:28:00	02:56:33:00	YES.
02:56:33:00	02:56:33:00	OKAY.
02:56:33:00	02:56:33:00	COUNCILMAN WITH YOUR NAME HAS
02:56:33:00	02:56:35:00	BEEN ADDED TO DOCKET NUMBER
02:56:35:00	02:56:35:00	0907.
02:56:35:00	02:56:36:00	ANYONE ELSE WOULD LIKE TO ADD
02:56:36:00	02:56:36:00	THEIR NAME TO A DOCKET OR
02:56:36:00	02:56:39:00	CHANGE A VOTE NOW?
02:56:39:00	02:56:39:00	OKAY.
02:56:39:00	02:56:39:00	OKAY.
02:56:39:00	02:56:40:00	SO WE ARE NOW ON TO PERSONNEL
02:56:40:00	02:56:48:00	ORDERS.
02:56:48:00	02:56:49:00	MR CLERK, COULD YOU PLEASE READ
02:56:49:00	02:56:52:00	THE PERSONNEL ORDERS?
02:56:52:00	02:56:56:00	PERSONNEL ORDERS DOCKING NUMBER
02:56:56:00	02:56:57:00	0912 COUNCIL OF LOUIJEUNE FOR
02:56:57:00	02:56:58:00	COUNCIL PEPEN DOCKET NUMBER
02:56:58:00	02:56:59:00	0913 COUNCIL LOUIJEUNE FOR
02:56:59:00	02:57:02:00	CENTRAL STAFF AND COUNCILOR IN
02:57:02:00	02:57:05:00	DOCKET NUMBER 0914
02:57:05:00	02:57:05:00	COUNCIL LOUIJEUNE FOR CENTRAL
02:57:05:00	02:57:06:00	STAFF.
02:57:06:00	02:57:08:00	THANK YOU.
02:57:08:00	02:57:09:00	THE CHAIRMANSHIP PASSAGE
02:57:09:00	02:57:11:00	OF DOCKETS NUMBER 091220914 ALL
02:57:11:00	02:57:16:00	THOSE IN FAVOR SAY I I I'LL
02:57:16:00	02:57:16:00	CLOSE IN A THANK YOU.
02:57:16:00	02:57:17:00	THE PERSONNEL ORDERS HAVE
02:57:17:00	02:57:17:00	PASSED.
02:57:17:00	02:57:19:00	WE'RE NOW MOVING ON TO GREEN
02:57:19:00	02:57:19:00	SHEETS ALSO THANK YOU FOR
02:57:19:00	02:57:20:00	LETTING CENTRAL STAFF KNOW IN
02:57:20:00	02:57:23:00	ADVANCE BUT I DON'T BELIEVE
02:57:23:00	02:57:24:00	ANYONE HAS ANY GREEN SHEETS
02:57:24:00	02:57:27:00	BOTH NOW.
02:57:27:00	02:57:31:00	OKAY WE'RE NOW MOVING ON TO
02:57:31:00	02:57:31:00	LEAD FILES.
02:57:31:00	02:57:32:00	I HAVE BEEN INFORMED BY THE
02:57:32:00	02:57:35:00	CLERK THAT THERE ARE TWO TWO
02:57:35:00	02:57:35:00	LATE FILE MATTERS.
02:57:35:00	02:57:38:00	I HAVE THREE.
02:57:38:00	02:57:38:00	OH, YOU DO HAVE A GREEN.
02:57:38:00	02:57:41:00	OKAY, LET'S PAUSE ON MOVING TO
02:57:41:00	02:57:44:00	LEAD FILES.
02:57:44:00	02:57:48:00	THERE IS A GREEN SHEETS PULL.
02:57:48:00	02:57:52:00	I DON'T HAVE THE NUMBER.
02:57:52:00	02:57:52:00	COUNCILOR FLYNN, COULD YOU
02:57:52:00	02:57:56:00	PLEASE READ THE DOCKET OR TELL
02:57:56:00	02:57:56:00	US MR QUICK, DO YOU HAVE THE
02:57:56:00	02:57:57:00	DOCKET NUMBER?
02:57:57:00	02:58:00:00	OKAY.
02:58:00:00	02:58:01:00	HE DOES NOT HAVE THE DOCKET
02:58:01:00	02:58:01:00	NUMBER COVER FLYNN, IF YOU
02:58:01:00	02:58:03:00	COULD PLEASE READ THE DOCKET.
02:58:03:00	02:58:04:00	THANK YOU.
02:58:04:00	02:58:04:00	I APOLOGIZE FOR NOT BEING READY
02:58:04:00	02:58:06:00	AT THAT TIME.
02:58:06:00	02:58:09:00	0687 PLEASE.
02:58:09:00	02:58:12:00	06871 TEN ARTS CULTURE
02:58:12:00	02:58:17:00	ENTERTAINMENT IT'S IN THE ARTS
02:58:17:00	02:58:17:00	CULTURE AND ENTERTAINMENT
02:58:17:00	02:58:17:00	COMMITTEE.
02:58:17:00	02:58:20:00	MR. CLERK LET'S GIVE THE CLERK
02:58:20:00	02:58:21:00	SOME TIME TO FIND THAT DOCKET
02:58:21:00	02:58:25:00	DOCKET NUMBER 0687 IT'S ON PAGE
02:58:25:00	02:58:26:00	ONE OF THE GREEN SHEET.
02:58:26:00	02:58:26:00	THANK YOU.
02:58:26:00	02:58:29:00	DO YOU HAVE IT, MR. CLERK?
02:58:29:00	02:58:29:00	MR. CLERK, COULD YOU PLEASE
02:58:29:00	02:58:30:00	READ IT INTO THE RECORD FROM
02:58:30:00	02:58:33:00	THE COMMITTEE OF ARTS CULTURE,
02:58:33:00	02:58:34:00	ENTERTAINMENT, TOURISM AND
02:58:34:00	02:58:35:00	SPECIAL EVENTS DUNCAN AMBER
02:58:35:00	02:58:36:00	0687 MESSAGE IN ORDER
02:58:36:00	02:58:39:00	AUTHORIZING THE CITY OF BOSTON
02:58:39:00	02:58:42:00	TO ACCEPT AND EXPAND THE AMOUNT
02:58:42:00	02:58:42:00	OF $350,000 A FORM OF GRANT FOR
02:58:42:00	02:58:46:00	THE RED SOX AND PARKS PROGRAM
02:58:46:00	02:58:46:00	GRANT AWARDED BY THE BOSTON RED
02:58:46:00	02:58:50:00	SOX TO BE ADMINISTERED BY THE
02:58:50:00	02:58:50:00	MAYOR'S OFFICE.
02:58:50:00	02:58:53:00	THE GRANT WILL FUND ARTS
02:58:53:00	02:58:54:00	PROGRAMING, COMMUNITY EVENTS
02:58:54:00	02:58:54:00	AND PARKS OPERATIONS ACROSS
02:58:54:00	02:58:57:00	BOSTON.
02:58:57:00	02:58:58:00	THANK YOU.
02:58:58:00	02:59:05:00	ABSENT OBJECTION TO THE MOTION
02:59:05:00	02:59:05:00	OF THE COMMITTEE CHAIRS
02:59:05:00	02:59:06:00	ACCEPTED IN THE DOCKET IS
02:59:06:00	02:59:06:00	PROPERLY BEFORE THE BODY
02:59:06:00	02:59:08:00	COUNCILOR FLYNN YOU HAVE THE
02:59:08:00	02:59:08:00	FLOOR.
02:59:08:00	02:59:09:00	THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.
02:59:09:00	02:59:12:00	I MADE A COMMITMENT TO
02:59:12:00	02:59:13:00	COUNCILOR DURKIN THAT I WOULD
02:59:13:00	02:59:14:00	BRING THIS FORWARD THIS MORNING
02:59:14:00	02:59:16:00	SO I WANT TO KEEP MY WORD ON
02:59:16:00	02:59:16:00	THAT.
02:59:16:00	02:59:20:00	BUT BEFORE I BEGIN,
02:59:20:00	02:59:20:00	COUNCILOR DURKIN, DO YOU WANT
02:59:20:00	02:59:21:00	TO START OR DO YOU WANT ME TO
02:59:21:00	02:59:24:00	START OKAY.
02:59:24:00	02:59:24:00	OKAY.
02:59:24:00	02:59:25:00	THANK YOU, COUNSELOR FLYNN THE
02:59:25:00	02:59:27:00	CHAIR RECOGNIZES
02:59:27:00	02:59:28:00	COUNCILOR DURKIN YOU HAVE THE
02:59:28:00	02:59:28:00	FLOOR.
02:59:28:00	02:59:28:00	THANK YOU SO MUCH.
02:59:28:00	02:59:31:00	CHAIR AND I WANT TO THANK THE
02:59:31:00	02:59:33:00	CHAIR OF ARTS AND CULTURE
02:59:33:00	02:59:34:00	COUNSELOR FLYNN FOR HIS FIRST
02:59:34:00	02:59:35:00	ACTION PULLING THIS FROM THE
02:59:35:00	02:59:37:00	GREEN SHEETS.
02:59:37:00	02:59:38:00	SO I THINK WE'VE HAD EXTENSIVE
02:59:38:00	02:59:41:00	DISCUSSION ABOUT THIS GRANT ON
02:59:41:00	02:59:41:00	THE COUNCIL FLOOR.
02:59:41:00	02:59:44:00	THIS IS A 350,000 GRANT THAT
02:59:44:00	02:59:45:00	WILL FUND ARTS PROGRAMING AND
02:59:45:00	02:59:46:00	COMMUNITY EVENTS AND PARK
02:59:46:00	02:59:48:00	OPERATIONS.
02:59:48:00	02:59:49:00	AS WE'VE TALKED ABOUT, WE'VE
02:59:49:00	02:59:52:00	GOTTEN A LITTLE MORE
02:59:52:00	02:59:52:00	INFORMATION.
02:59:52:00	02:59:53:00	I DO WANT TO SHARE THAT WE'VE
02:59:53:00	02:59:55:00	GOTTEN A COUPLE OF LETTERS THAT
02:59:55:00	02:59:58:00	WERE ORIGINALLY ADDRESSED TO
02:59:58:00	02:59:59:00	THE FORMER CHAIR OF THIS
02:59:59:00	03:00:03:00	COMMITTEE AND.
03:00:03:00	03:00:03:00	I JUST WANT TO READ SOME OF THE
03:00:03:00	03:00:04:00	QUOTES FROM THE COMMUNITY
03:00:04:00	03:00:06:00	MEMBERS.
03:00:06:00	03:00:10:00	THIS IS FROM I BELIEVE THE SO
03:00:10:00	03:00:14:00	WE'VE GOTTEN SUPPORT LETTERS
03:00:14:00	03:00:14:00	FROM THE FENWAY ALLIANCE WHICH
03:00:14:00	03:00:15:00	IS THE DOES A LOT OF THE
03:00:15:00	03:00:18:00	BUSINESS ORGANIZATION STUFF AND
03:00:18:00	03:00:22:00	THEN DOES A GREAT JOB AND ALSO
03:00:22:00	03:00:25:00	THE FENWAY CIVIC ASSOCIATION SO
03:00:25:00	03:00:26:00	ONE OF THE QUOTES IS WE BELIEVE
03:00:26:00	03:00:29:00	IT TO BE A FAIR COMPENSATION
03:00:29:00	03:00:29:00	CONTRIBUTION AND COMMUNITY
03:00:29:00	03:00:30:00	BENEFIT FOR FENWAY RESIDENTS
03:00:30:00	03:00:33:00	TOLERANCE OF SIGNIFICANT ISSUES
03:00:33:00	03:00:33:00	THAT ARISE FROM BEING THE
03:00:33:00	03:00:36:00	NEIGHBOR HOST TO 81 RED SOX
03:00:36:00	03:00:36:00	GAMES AND 12 MAJOR CONCERTS PER
03:00:36:00	03:00:37:00	YEAR.
03:00:37:00	03:00:39:00	THESE EVENTS BRING WITH THEM
03:00:39:00	03:00:40:00	SIGNIFICANT TRAFFIC NOISE,
03:00:40:00	03:00:40:00	TRASH AND PEDESTRIAN
03:00:40:00	03:00:43:00	CONGESTIONS DURING THE SPRING,
03:00:43:00	03:00:44:00	SUMMER AND FALL SEASONS.
03:00:44:00	03:00:47:00	MOREOVER, THIS GRANT REPLACES
03:00:47:00	03:00:48:00	FUNDING OUR COMMUNITY HAS BEEN
03:00:48:00	03:00:48:00	RECEIVING AS MITIGATION FOR THE
03:00:48:00	03:00:51:00	FENWAY PARK DEMONSTRATE AND
03:00:51:00	03:00:52:00	PROJECT GRANT THE SOURCE OF THE
03:00:52:00	03:00:52:00	FUNDING WAS USED FOR
03:00:52:00	03:00:55:00	BEAUTIFICATION EFFORTS FOR OVER
03:00:55:00	03:00:56:00	TEN YEARS IN THE FENWAY
03:00:56:00	03:00:58:00	NEIGHBORHOOD BUT IT ENDED IN
03:00:58:00	03:00:58:00	2024 FOR A NEIGHBORHOOD WITH
03:00:58:00	03:01:01:00	LIMITED AVENUES FOR SUPPORTS
03:01:01:00	03:01:02:00	FOR THE ARTS NO MAIN STREETS
03:01:02:00	03:01:03:00	ORGANIZATION, NO LIBRARIES OR
03:01:03:00	03:01:05:00	ABC.
03:01:05:00	03:01:06:00	WE HAVE CENTERS, SUPPORT AND
03:01:06:00	03:01:06:00	COMMUNITY ACTIVITIES THESE
03:01:06:00	03:01:09:00	DEDICATED FUNDS FUND A
03:01:09:00	03:01:09:00	NECESSARY RESOURCE FOR OUR
03:01:09:00	03:01:13:00	HIGHLY IMPACTED COMMUNITIES AND
03:01:13:00	03:01:14:00	I JUST WANT TO SHARE BECAUSE I
03:01:14:00	03:01:14:00	KNOW THERE WERE SOME QUESTIONS
03:01:14:00	03:01:17:00	THE GRANT LAST YEAR VALUED AT
03:01:17:00	03:01:21:00	325,000 WAS OBLIGATED AS
03:01:21:00	03:01:21:00	FOLLOWS AND COULD BE A ROUGH
03:01:21:00	03:01:22:00	FRAMEWORK FOR THE SPEND DOWN
03:01:22:00	03:01:25:00	FOR THIS YEAR'S GRANT AS WELL.
03:01:25:00	03:01:29:00	100 WAS GIVEN TO PARKS AND THAT
03:01:29:00	03:01:29:00	PARKS MONEY WAS SPECIFICALLY
03:01:29:00	03:01:33:00	EARMARKED FOR THE BACK BAY
03:01:33:00	03:01:34:00	FUNDS 100 K FOR ARTS AND
03:01:34:00	03:01:37:00	CULTURE AND THAT WAS FOR GRANT
03:01:37:00	03:01:40:00	MONEY FOR THE FENWAY THAT AND
03:01:40:00	03:01:44:00	THEN OR SORRY YEAH 100 K THEY
03:01:44:00	03:01:47:00	THEY DIDN'T SPEND $10 OF THAT
03:01:47:00	03:01:50:00	BUT THEY SPENT 9 TO $9990 AND
03:01:50:00	03:01:53:00	THEN 100,000 TO THE COMMUNITY
03:01:53:00	03:01:55:00	LIKE I HAD PREVIOUSLY SAID
03:01:55:00	03:01:56:00	40,000 OF THAT WAS SPENT ON
03:01:56:00	03:01:59:00	LOVE YOUR BLOCK AND US WAS THE
03:01:59:00	03:02:03:00	RECIPIENT OF THAT AND THEY PAID
03:02:03:00	03:02:04:00	FOR THE TOOLS FOR THIS YEAR'S
03:02:04:00	03:02:07:00	LOVE YOUR BOX CITYWIDE THEY MAY
03:02:07:00	03:02:08:00	STILL HAVE SOME FUNDS LEFT FROM
03:02:08:00	03:02:08:00	THAT THAT THEY'RE USING THIS
03:02:08:00	03:02:10:00	YEAR AND I'LL JUST SHARE THE 60
03:02:10:00	03:02:11:00	K THAT WAS GIVEN TO THE FENWAY
03:02:11:00	03:02:14:00	NEIGHBORHOOD IMPACT GRANT THAT
03:02:14:00	03:02:18:00	WAS PART OF THE COMMUNITY MONEY
03:02:18:00	03:02:18:00	.
03:02:18:00	03:02:19:00	I SERVED ON THE COMMITTEE THAT
03:02:19:00	03:02:19:00	DECIDED WHERE THOSE FUNDS WERE
03:02:19:00	03:02:22:00	PUT AND FENWAY KENMORE
03:02:22:00	03:02:26:00	NEIGHBORHOOD IMPACT GRANT GAVE
03:02:26:00	03:02:28:00	TO MUDDY WATER INITIATIVE
03:02:28:00	03:02:29:00	$10,000 CHARLES SKATE ALLIANCE
03:02:29:00	03:02:32:00	$5,000 FENWAY CIVIC ASSOCIATION
03:02:32:00	03:02:33:00	FOR FENWAY CARES WHICH FUNDS
03:02:33:00	03:02:36:00	THE FOOD INSECURE AND THE
03:02:36:00	03:02:36:00	FENWAY NEIGHBORHOOD IN BOTH THE
03:02:36:00	03:02:39:00	EAST FENWAY AND THE WEST FENWAY
03:02:39:00	03:02:42:00	$35,000 AND THE KENMORE
03:02:42:00	03:02:42:00	ASSOCIATION $10,000.
03:02:42:00	03:02:43:00	MOST OF THESE ENDED UP BEING
03:02:43:00	03:02:46:00	PARKS RELATED AND OUR COMMUNITY
03:02:46:00	03:02:50:00	WE HAVE A LOT OF GREAT PARKS
03:02:50:00	03:02:50:00	ORGANIZATIONS WITHIN THE
03:02:50:00	03:02:50:00	FENWAY.
03:02:50:00	03:02:53:00	SO I THINK THAT SORT OF ANSWERS
03:02:53:00	03:02:54:00	ALL THE QUESTIONS FROM THE LAST
03:02:54:00	03:02:55:00	TIME THIS WAS PULLED AND I JUST
03:02:55:00	03:02:58:00	WANT TO THANK COUNCILOR MURPHY
03:02:58:00	03:02:59:00	AND COUNCILOR MICKEY WE BOTH
03:02:59:00	03:03:01:00	HAD GREAT CONVERSATIONS ABOUT
03:03:01:00	03:03:02:00	THIS THESE RESOURCES AND I JUST
03:03:02:00	03:03:05:00	WANT TO THANK THEM FOR FOR
03:03:05:00	03:03:06:00	THEIR LEADERSHIP AND TALKING TO
03:03:06:00	03:03:09:00	ME ABOUT HOW YOU KNOW, HOW THIS
03:03:09:00	03:03:09:00	WAS ALL YOU KNOW, HOW THEY
03:03:09:00	03:03:10:00	NEEDED MORE INFORMATION.
03:03:10:00	03:03:13:00	I THINK THEY GOT THAT
03:03:13:00	03:03:13:00	INFORMATION AND ALSO AGAIN
03:03:13:00	03:03:14:00	THANK YOU TO THE CHAIR
03:03:14:00	03:03:17:00	COUNCILOR FLYNN FOR PULLING
03:03:17:00	03:03:17:00	THIS.
03:03:17:00	03:03:17:00	THANK YOU.
03:03:17:00	03:03:18:00	THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES
03:03:18:00	03:03:18:00	COUNCILOR FLYNN.
03:03:18:00	03:03:19:00	COUNCILOR FLYNN, YOU HAVE THE
03:03:19:00	03:03:20:00	FLOOR.
03:03:20:00	03:03:21:00	THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.
03:03:21:00	03:03:22:00	THANK YOU, COUNCILOR DURKAN FOR
03:03:22:00	03:03:24:00	THAT UPDATE.
03:03:24:00	03:03:25:00	I ALSO WANT TO SAY THANK YOU TO
03:03:25:00	03:03:25:00	CONCILOR MEJIA HERE
03:03:25:00	03:03:32:00	COUNCILOR MURPHY AS WELL.
03:03:32:00	03:03:32:00	COUNCILOR DURKAN MENTIONED WHAT
03:03:32:00	03:03:36:00	THE FUNDS WOULD BE USED FOR.
03:03:36:00	03:03:37:00	I DO WANT TO GIVE A LITTLE BIT
03:03:37:00	03:03:39:00	OTHER INFORMATION MAYBE IT
03:03:39:00	03:03:40:00	WASN'T COVERED.
03:03:40:00	03:03:42:00	SOME OF IT WAS ACTUALLY THOUGH
03:03:42:00	03:03:43:00	BUT I ALSO WANT TO RECOGNIZE
03:03:43:00	03:03:44:00	VANESSA FROM MY TEAM THAT
03:03:44:00	03:03:47:00	HELPED ME DO SOME RESEARCH ON
03:03:47:00	03:03:49:00	THIS AND SHE WORKED WITH
03:03:49:00	03:03:53:00	COUNCILOR DURKIN'S OFFICE.
03:03:53:00	03:03:56:00	THIS IS A AS WE KNOW A $350,000
03:03:56:00	03:03:57:00	GRANT FROM THE RED SOX ARTS AND
03:03:57:00	03:03:59:00	PARKS PROGRAM THAT AS
03:03:59:00	03:04:00:00	COUNCILOR DURKAN MENTIONED
03:04:00:00	03:04:03:00	WE'LL FUND ARTS PROGRAMS,
03:04:03:00	03:04:04:00	COMMUNITY EVENTS, PARKS
03:04:04:00	03:04:08:00	OPERATION WITH A SPECIFIC FOCUS
03:04:08:00	03:04:08:00	IN THE FENWAY FENWAY CAMERA
03:04:08:00	03:04:11:00	AREA.
03:04:11:00	03:04:12:00	IT'S THE SECOND YEAR OF THIS
03:04:12:00	03:04:15:00	GRANT HAS COME BEFORE THIS LAST
03:04:15:00	03:04:17:00	YEAR THE SAME GRANT FOR 325,000
03:04:17:00	03:04:18:00	CAME BEFORE THE COUNCIL AND WAS
03:04:18:00	03:04:21:00	PASSED AS WELL.
03:04:21:00	03:04:25:00	THE COMMUNITY COMMUNITY AS
03:04:25:00	03:04:26:00	COUNCILOR DURKAN HAS MENTIONED
03:04:26:00	03:04:26:00	THEY EXPRESSED STRONG SUPPORT
03:04:26:00	03:04:29:00	FOR THIS GRANT.
03:04:29:00	03:04:29:00	THE FENWAY ALLIANCE ALLIANCE
03:04:29:00	03:04:32:00	WHICH REPRESENTS 22
03:04:32:00	03:04:32:00	INSTITUTIONS IN THE AREA AS
03:04:32:00	03:04:33:00	WELL AS THE FENWAY CIVIC
03:04:33:00	03:04:36:00	ASSOCIATION HAVE PROVIDED
03:04:36:00	03:04:37:00	LETTERS OF SUPPORT.
03:04:37:00	03:04:40:00	FENWAY IS A WONDERFUL
03:04:40:00	03:04:40:00	NEIGHBORHOOD.
03:04:40:00	03:04:43:00	IT HAS A POPULATION OF CLOSE TO
03:04:43:00	03:04:45:00	40,000 RESIDENTS IN AN AREA
03:04:45:00	03:04:50:00	OF 1.25 MILES AND IT'S HOME TO
03:04:50:00	03:04:50:00	THE FENWAY PARK.
03:04:50:00	03:04:51:00	THE NEIGHBORHOOD FACES UNDUE
03:04:51:00	03:04:56:00	IMPACTS FROM 81 HOME GAMES AND
03:04:56:00	03:04:56:00	12 MAJOR CONCERTS.
03:04:56:00	03:04:57:00	RESIDENTS DEAL WITH QUALITY
03:04:57:00	03:05:00:00	LIFE ISSUES TRAFFIC NOISE,
03:05:00:00	03:05:04:00	TRASH, PEDESTRIAN CONGESTION
03:05:04:00	03:05:05:00	DURING THE SPRING, SUMMER AND
03:05:05:00	03:05:05:00	FALL.
03:05:05:00	03:05:08:00	THIS GRANT WILL GO TOWARDS
03:05:08:00	03:05:08:00	COMMUNITY BENEFITS FOR FENWAY
03:05:08:00	03:05:12:00	RESIDENTS INCLUDING REPLACING
03:05:12:00	03:05:12:00	THE FUNDING THE FENWAY HAS BEEN
03:05:12:00	03:05:15:00	RECEIVING AS A MITIGATION FOR
03:05:15:00	03:05:16:00	THE FENWAY PARK DEVELOPMENT
03:05:16:00	03:05:16:00	PROJECT.
03:05:16:00	03:05:19:00	THAT SOURCE OF FUNDING WAS USED
03:05:19:00	03:05:22:00	FOR THE BEAUTIFICATION EFFORTS
03:05:22:00	03:05:23:00	OVER THE PAST TEN YEARS IN THE
03:05:23:00	03:05:26:00	FENWAY NEIGHBORHOOD.
03:05:26:00	03:05:26:00	HOWEVER, THAT ENDED IN 2024.
03:05:26:00	03:05:29:00	AS COUNCILOR DEREK MENTIONED,
03:05:29:00	03:05:29:00	FOR NEIGHBORHOOD WITH LIMITED
03:05:29:00	03:05:33:00	AVENUES FOR SUPPORT FOR THE
03:05:33:00	03:05:33:00	ARTS.
03:05:33:00	03:05:36:00	NO MAINSTREAM ORGANIZATION, NO
03:05:36:00	03:05:36:00	LIBRARIES.
03:05:36:00	03:05:37:00	BASICALLY I HAVE CENTERS.
03:05:37:00	03:05:40:00	THESE DEDICATED FUNDS WILL
03:05:40:00	03:05:40:00	PROVIDE A NECESSARY RESOURCE
03:05:40:00	03:05:44:00	FOR A FENWAY AND HIGHLY
03:05:44:00	03:05:44:00	IMPACTED COMMUNITY.
03:05:44:00	03:05:45:00	FOR THESE REASONS MY
03:05:45:00	03:05:48:00	RECOMMENDATION IS AND ALONG
03:05:48:00	03:05:49:00	WITH COUNCIL DURKAN IS FOR OUR
03:05:49:00	03:05:50:00	COLLEAGUES TO PASS THIS GRANT
03:05:50:00	03:05:52:00	TO SUPPORT THE NEIGHBORHOOD
03:05:52:00	03:05:53:00	OF FENWAY IN CANMORE.
03:05:53:00	03:05:55:00	THANK YOU MADAM CHAIR.
03:05:55:00	03:05:56:00	THANK YOU.
03:05:56:00	03:05:59:00	WHEN I WOULD LIKE TO SPEAK ON
03:05:59:00	03:05:59:00	THIS MATTER.
03:05:59:00	03:06:03:00	OKAY, SO COUNCILOR FLYNN SEEKS
03:06:03:00	03:06:07:00	PASSAGE OF DOCKET NUMBER.
03:06:07:00	03:06:12:00	I WROTE IT DOWN 068 OF DOCKET
03:06:12:00	03:06:13:00	NUMBER 0687.
03:06:13:00	03:06:16:00	ALL THOSE IN FAVOR SAY I I ALL
03:06:16:00	03:06:16:00	OPPOSING.
03:06:16:00	03:06:17:00	MR. CLERK, COULD YOU PLEASE
03:06:17:00	03:06:19:00	CONDUCT A ROLL CALL VOTE ROLL
03:06:19:00	03:06:24:00	CALL VOTE AND DOCKET NUMBER
03:06:24:00	03:06:29:00	0687 COUNCILOR BREADON
03:06:29:00	03:06:30:00	COUNCILOR BREADON YES
03:06:30:00	03:06:30:00	COUNCIL CALL IT AS A VOTE
03:06:30:00	03:06:31:00	COUNCILOR COLOR AS A PARTY YES.
03:06:31:00	03:06:31:00	COUNCILOR DURKAN
03:06:31:00	03:06:32:00	COUNCILOR DURKAN YES.
03:06:32:00	03:06:35:00	COUNCILOR FERNANDES ANDERSON.
03:06:35:00	03:06:35:00	COUNCILOR FITZGERALD YES.
03:06:35:00	03:06:39:00	COUNCILOR FITZGERALD YES.
03:06:39:00	03:06:39:00	COUNCILOR FLYNN YES.
03:06:39:00	03:06:39:00	COUNCILOR SAYING YES.
03:06:39:00	03:06:43:00	COUNCILOR LOUIJEUNE YES.
03:06:43:00	03:06:43:00	COUNCIL LOUIJEUNE YES.
03:06:43:00	03:06:44:00	CONCILOR MEJIA HERE.
03:06:44:00	03:06:44:00	CONCILOR MEJIA HERE YES.
03:06:44:00	03:06:47:00	COUNCILOR MURPHY.
03:06:47:00	03:06:47:00	COUNCILOR MURPHY YES
03:06:47:00	03:06:50:00	COUNCILOR BUT THEN
03:06:50:00	03:06:50:00	COUNCILOR PIPPIN YES.
03:06:50:00	03:06:50:00	COUNCILOR SANTANA.
03:06:50:00	03:06:54:00	COUNCILOR SANTANA YES.
03:06:54:00	03:06:54:00	COUNCILOR WEBER YES.
03:06:54:00	03:06:55:00	COUNCIL YES.
03:06:55:00	03:06:58:00	AND COUNCILOR WORRELL YES.
03:06:58:00	03:06:58:00	COUNCILOR WU YES.
03:06:58:00	03:07:00:00	TALKING NUMBERS 0687 AS
03:07:00:00	03:07:01:00	RECEIVED 12 VOTES IN THE
03:07:01:00	03:07:01:00	AFFIRMATIVE.
03:07:01:00	03:07:04:00	THANK YOU.
03:07:04:00	03:07:05:00	THIS DOCKET HAS PASSED.
03:07:05:00	03:07:05:00	ARE THERE ANY MORE POLLS FROM
03:07:05:00	03:07:08:00	THE GREEN SHEET?
03:07:08:00	03:07:09:00	NO.
03:07:09:00	03:07:12:00	WE ARE NOW MOVING ON TO LATE
03:07:12:00	03:07:12:00	FILES.
03:07:12:00	03:07:13:00	I'M INFORMED BY THE COURT THAT
03:07:13:00	03:07:16:00	THERE ARE TWO LATE FILE MATTERS
03:07:16:00	03:07:17:00	AND THEY ARE TWO ONE ABSENCE
03:07:17:00	03:07:20:00	LETTERS AND THE ME.
03:07:20:00	03:07:22:00	MR. CLERK, COULD YOU PLEASE
03:07:22:00	03:07:23:00	READ THE TWO LATE FILE MATTERS
03:07:23:00	03:07:23:00	INTO THE RECORD?
03:07:23:00	03:07:24:00	FIRSTLY, FOUL MOUTHED
03:07:24:00	03:07:26:00	COMMUNICATION FROM
03:07:26:00	03:07:27:00	COUNCILOR FERNANDES HANDS AND I
03:07:27:00	03:07:31:00	HOPE THIS MESSAGE FIND YOU
03:07:31:00	03:07:31:00	WELL.
03:07:31:00	03:07:32:00	I REGRET TO INFORM YOU THAT WE
03:07:32:00	03:07:34:00	ARE UNABLE TO ATTEND TODAY'S
03:07:34:00	03:07:34:00	COUNCIL MEETING.
03:07:34:00	03:07:34:00	SINCERELY, COUNCILOR FERNANDO
03:07:34:00	03:07:38:00	SANDERSON.
03:07:38:00	03:07:39:00	AND THE SECOND IS A
03:07:39:00	03:07:42:00	COMMUNICATION FROM COUNCIL AH
03:07:42:00	03:07:43:00	MURPHY AND COUNCILOR FLYNN.
03:07:43:00	03:07:45:00	EMERGENCY REQUEST A RESCHEDULE
03:07:45:00	03:07:46:00	SPECIAL CITY COUNCIL MEETING
03:07:46:00	03:07:49:00	THE COUNCIL PRESIDENT LOUIJEUNE
03:07:49:00	03:07:50:00	WE ARE WRITING TO EXPRESS OUR
03:07:50:00	03:07:53:00	GRAVE CONCERN REGARDING THE
03:07:53:00	03:07:53:00	SCHEDULING OF THE SPECIAL CITY
03:07:53:00	03:07:57:00	COUNCIL MEETING OF FRIDAY APRIL
03:07:57:00	03:07:58:00	18, 2025, WHICH COINCIDES WITH
03:07:58:00	03:08:01:00	GOOD FRIDAY SOLEMN AND
03:08:01:00	03:08:01:00	SIGNIFICANT DAY FOR CHRISTIANS
03:08:01:00	03:08:02:00	WORLDWIDE.
03:08:02:00	03:08:06:00	SINCERELY COUNCIL OF PLANNING
03:08:06:00	03:08:06:00	COUNCILOR MURPHY.
03:08:06:00	03:08:07:00	THANK YOU.
03:08:07:00	03:08:09:00	BOTH DOCKETS WILL BE PLACED ON
03:08:09:00	03:08:10:00	FILE BUT AS THAT LAST ONE WAS
03:08:10:00	03:08:11:00	ADDRESSED TO ME I'LL JUST STATE
03:08:11:00	03:08:13:00	THAT I AS A CHRISTIAN ALSO
03:08:13:00	03:08:14:00	OBSERVE GOOD FRIDAY AND IT'S AN
03:08:14:00	03:08:17:00	IMPORTANT SOLEMN DAY FOR ME AND
03:08:17:00	03:08:17:00	MY FAMILY.
03:08:17:00	03:08:20:00	WE ALSO HAVE A TIMELINE NEXT
03:08:20:00	03:08:24:00	WEEK IS AN EVEN BUSIER AND
03:08:24:00	03:08:27:00	HARDER SCHEDULE FOR ALL OF FOR
03:08:27:00	03:08:28:00	EVERYONE GIVEN THAT IT IS
03:08:28:00	03:08:28:00	SCHOOL VACATION WEEK.
03:08:28:00	03:08:31:00	I ON FRIDAY WE HAVE THE BJP
03:08:31:00	03:08:34:00	FILING THAT I'M ON WITH
03:08:34:00	03:08:35:00	COUNCILOR WEBER WHO HAS BEEN
03:08:35:00	03:08:35:00	OBSERVING PASSOVER.
03:08:35:00	03:08:38:00	SO WE IT IS A WORKING DAY FOR
03:08:38:00	03:08:42:00	US ON THE COUNCIL AND ALSO ON
03:08:42:00	03:08:43:00	THE DOCKET ON THE HORMEL
03:08:43:00	03:08:43:00	PETITION.
03:08:43:00	03:08:47:00	WE DID HEAR FROM OUR COLLEAGUES
03:08:47:00	03:08:47:00	AND IT SEEMS LIKE, YOU KNOW,
03:08:47:00	03:08:51:00	FOLKS KNOW WHERE THEY ARE ON
03:08:51:00	03:08:54:00	THIS MATTER AND SO IF PEOPLE
03:08:54:00	03:08:55:00	DID NOT WANT TO COME IN ON
03:08:55:00	03:08:58:00	FRIDAY, THERE IS AN ABILITY TO
03:08:58:00	03:09:02:00	WITHDRAW YOUR OBJECTION AND
03:09:02:00	03:09:02:00	JUST ALLOW FOR THE VOTE.
03:09:02:00	03:09:06:00	IF NOT, WE MEET ON FRIDAY.
03:09:06:00	03:09:07:00	WE HAVE A HEARING ON FRIDAY TO
03:09:07:00	03:09:10:00	DO THE WORK OF THE COUNCIL AND
03:09:10:00	03:09:13:00	SO THAT I TAKE THE LETTER AND I
03:09:13:00	03:09:14:00	KNOW THAT WE HAVE IMPORTANT
03:09:14:00	03:09:17:00	WORK AND THAT THE SCHEDULE GETS
03:09:17:00	03:09:18:00	EVEN CRAZIER NEXT WEEK WITH
03:09:18:00	03:09:20:00	PEOPLE AND SCHOOL VACATION AND
03:09:20:00	03:09:21:00	WE DON'T HAVE A
03:09:21:00	03:09:21:00	COUNCIL MEETING.
03:09:21:00	03:09:24:00	I THIS IS A COMMUNICATION.
03:09:24:00	03:09:25:00	I AM GOING TO ASK MY COLLEAGUES
03:09:25:00	03:09:28:00	TO KEEP IT BRIEF AND I BUT I
03:09:28:00	03:09:29:00	WILL RECOGNIZE YOU THE CHAIR
03:09:29:00	03:09:32:00	RECOGNIZES COUNCILOR MURPHY YOU
03:09:32:00	03:09:33:00	HAVE THE FLOOR.
03:09:33:00	03:09:33:00	THANK YOU.
03:09:33:00	03:09:36:00	JUST TO SET THE RECORD STRAIGHT
03:09:36:00	03:09:38:00	NEXT WEEK I THINK THERE'S SIX
03:09:38:00	03:09:39:00	OPENINGS FOR HEARINGS TO BE
03:09:39:00	03:09:43:00	SCHEDULED.
03:09:43:00	03:09:44:00	MONDAY IS A HOLIDAY SO THERE IS
03:09:44:00	03:09:46:00	PLENTY OF TIME NEXT WEEK.
03:09:46:00	03:09:47:00	AND ALSO MY OBJECTION MEANT
03:09:47:00	03:09:50:00	THAT IT WAS PLACED INTO THE
03:09:50:00	03:09:54:00	GOVERNMENT OPS COMMITTEE AND IT
03:09:54:00	03:09:55:00	SEEMS AS THOUGH THE INTENTION
03:09:55:00	03:09:58:00	FOR THE SPECIAL
03:09:58:00	03:09:59:00	COUNCILOR MEETING ON FRIDAY IS
03:09:59:00	03:10:02:00	TO CIRCUMVENT THE NEED TODAY.
03:10:02:00	03:10:03:00	CORRECT ME IF I'M WRONG BUT
03:10:03:00	03:10:07:00	WHAT I GET FROM WHAT YOU JUST
03:10:07:00	03:10:07:00	SAID IS THERE IS NO INTENTION
03:10:07:00	03:10:11:00	TO HOLD A HEARING IN GOVERNMENT
03:10:11:00	03:10:11:00	OFFICE THAT YOU HOPE TO VOTE ON
03:10:11:00	03:10:14:00	FRIDAY MORNING TO PASS THIS AND
03:10:14:00	03:10:17:00	THAT THE INTENT TO ACTUALLY
03:10:17:00	03:10:18:00	HAVE A CONVERSATION IN THE
03:10:18:00	03:10:19:00	CORRECT COMMITTEE IS NOT GOING
03:10:19:00	03:10:21:00	TO HAPPEN BECAUSE TODAY YOU
03:10:21:00	03:10:22:00	WOULD NEED UNANIMOUS CONSENT ON
03:10:22:00	03:10:24:00	THE FIRST DAY THAT SOMETHING'S
03:10:24:00	03:10:25:00	BROUGHT IN FRONT OF THE BODY.
03:10:25:00	03:10:28:00	BUT ON FRIDAY IT WON'T BE THE
03:10:28:00	03:10:28:00	FIRST DAY.
03:10:28:00	03:10:29:00	SO IF YOU COULD PLEASE EXPLAIN
03:10:29:00	03:10:32:00	THAT SO WE'RE CLEAR ON WHAT THE
03:10:32:00	03:10:32:00	INTENT OF THE MEETING ON FRIDAY
03:10:32:00	03:10:33:00	IS.
03:10:33:00	03:10:35:00	YOU DID A GREAT JOB COMES ON
03:10:35:00	03:10:36:00	MURPHY THAT THAT'S IT.
03:10:36:00	03:10:36:00	THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES
03:10:36:00	03:10:37:00	COUNCILOR FLYNN.
03:10:37:00	03:10:39:00	YOU HAVE THE FLOOR BUT
03:10:39:00	03:10:40:00	COUNCILOR FLYNN YOU HAVE THE
03:10:40:00	03:10:42:00	FLOOR.
03:10:42:00	03:10:42:00	THANK YOU.
03:10:42:00	03:10:47:00	THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.
03:10:47:00	03:10:50:00	I AM AT RESPECTFULLY ASKING MY
03:10:50:00	03:10:54:00	COLLEAGUES IN THE CLERK AS WELL
03:10:54:00	03:10:55:00	NOT TO SCHEDULE SOMETHING ON
03:10:55:00	03:10:58:00	GOOD FRIDAY AND PASSOVER AS
03:10:58:00	03:11:02:00	WELL.
03:11:02:00	03:11:02:00	A LOT OF PEOPLE HAVE FAMILY
03:11:02:00	03:11:05:00	OBLIGATIONS THAT THEY ALREADY
03:11:05:00	03:11:06:00	HAVE MADE PLANS WITH THEIR
03:11:06:00	03:11:09:00	FAMILY FOR.
03:11:09:00	03:11:09:00	THEY'VE ASKED ME TO MENTION
03:11:09:00	03:11:13:00	THIS TO THE TO THE BODY.
03:11:13:00	03:11:16:00	IT'S ALSO A DAY FOR QUESTIONS
03:11:16:00	03:11:20:00	REALLY TO NOT DO ANYTHING OTHER
03:11:20:00	03:11:24:00	THAN BE WITH THEIR FAMILY IN
03:11:24:00	03:11:24:00	AND ATTEND STATIONS OF THE
03:11:24:00	03:11:27:00	CROSS.
03:11:27:00	03:11:28:00	AND IT'S A IT'S A DAY REALLY
03:11:28:00	03:11:31:00	NOT FOR POLITICS IN MY OPINION.
03:11:31:00	03:11:35:00	I WILL BE HERE BUT IT'S IT'S
03:11:35:00	03:11:39:00	HIGHLY INAPPROPRIATE FOR ME TO
03:11:39:00	03:11:40:00	BE HERE TO ENGAGE IN IN
03:11:40:00	03:11:43:00	POLITICS AT THAT TIME.
03:11:43:00	03:11:44:00	I JUST WANT TO BE HONEST AND
03:11:44:00	03:11:44:00	UPFRONT WITH PEOPLE THAT IT'S
03:11:44:00	03:11:47:00	NOT THE APPROPRIATE DAY FOR
03:11:47:00	03:11:50:00	ME TO BE ENGAGED IN POLITICS
03:11:50:00	03:11:51:00	WHEN I SHOULD BE DOING STATIONS
03:11:51:00	03:11:54:00	OF THE CROSS WITH MY WITH MY
03:11:54:00	03:11:58:00	COMMUNITY IN THE SOUTH AND AS
03:11:58:00	03:11:59:00	YOU PROBABLY KNOW I HAVEN'T
03:11:59:00	03:12:04:00	MISSED A DAY AT THE CITY
03:12:04:00	03:12:05:00	COUNCIL IN SEVEN SEVEN YEARS
03:12:05:00	03:12:05:00	ALMOST EIGHT YEARS.
03:12:05:00	03:12:08:00	I HAVEN'T MISSED A MEETING BUT
03:12:08:00	03:12:09:00	AND AGAIN I WON'T MISS THE
03:12:09:00	03:12:12:00	MEETING ON FRIDAY BUT I WOULD
03:12:12:00	03:12:15:00	RESPECTFULLY ASK FOR PEOPLE
03:12:15:00	03:12:16:00	THAT DO WANT TO PRACTICE THEIR
03:12:16:00	03:12:20:00	RELIGIOUS FAITH AND TO BE WITH
03:12:20:00	03:12:20:00	THEIR FAMILY.
03:12:20:00	03:12:24:00	IF WE CAN HAVE ANOTHER DAY I
03:12:24:00	03:12:27:00	THINK THAT'S INAPPROPRIATE AND
03:12:27:00	03:12:28:00	RESPECTFUL REQUEST FROM A
03:12:28:00	03:12:31:00	COLLEAGUE THAT'S BEEN HERE
03:12:31:00	03:12:31:00	EIGHT YEARS.
03:12:31:00	03:12:32:00	THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.
03:12:32:00	03:12:32:00	THANK YOU, GENERAL FLYNN AND I
03:12:32:00	03:12:35:00	REALLY DO RESPECT YOU AND I
03:12:35:00	03:12:35:00	RESPECT YOUR REQUEST.
03:12:35:00	03:12:35:00	THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES
03:12:35:00	03:12:37:00	COUNCILOR MURPHY ON THE FLOOR.
03:12:37:00	03:12:38:00	THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.
03:12:38:00	03:12:41:00	I AM REQUESTING THAT WE HOLD
03:12:41:00	03:12:42:00	THE HEARING HYBRID.
03:12:42:00	03:12:45:00	THE LANGUAGE HAS BEEN REMOVED
03:12:45:00	03:12:45:00	FROM OUR RULES THAT IT'S EITHER
03:12:45:00	03:12:49:00	ALL VIRTUAL OR ALL IN PERSON.
03:12:49:00	03:12:50:00	SO I AM REQUESTING SO IF SOME
03:12:50:00	03:12:53:00	PEOPLE ARE IN A DIFFERENT SPACE
03:12:53:00	03:12:53:00	NOT ABLE TO PHYSICALLY BE HERE
03:12:53:00	03:12:57:00	BUT FEEL AS THOUGH IT'S MORE
03:12:57:00	03:12:57:00	APPROPRIATE TO ZOOM IN IF YOU
03:12:57:00	03:13:01:00	COULD LET ME KNOW IF THAT'S AN
03:13:01:00	03:13:01:00	OPTION FOR US ON FRIDAY MORNING
03:13:01:00	03:13:02:00	I WILL CONSIDER THAT REQUEST
03:13:02:00	03:13:05:00	AND WHEN WILL WE KNOW BECAUSE
03:13:05:00	03:13:05:00	TODAY'S WEDNESDAY SO WE DO NEED
03:13:05:00	03:13:06:00	TO KNOW I WILL CONSIDER THAT
03:13:06:00	03:13:09:00	REQUEST AND I WILL I WILL LET
03:13:09:00	03:13:09:00	YOU KNOW AS SOON AS I HAVE
03:13:09:00	03:13:12:00	THOUGHT ABOUT WHAT MAKES THE
03:13:12:00	03:13:12:00	MOST SENSE.
03:13:12:00	03:13:13:00	BUT I DO JUST WANT TO MAKE SURE
03:13:13:00	03:13:15:00	MY COLLEAGUES ARE AWARE THAT WE
03:13:15:00	03:13:19:00	CAN IT IS APPROPRIATE FOR US TO
03:13:19:00	03:13:20:00	HOLD A COUNCIL MEETING HYBRID
03:13:20:00	03:13:20:00	MODEL OKAY.
03:13:20:00	03:13:23:00	THANK YOU COUNCILOR MURPHY.
03:13:23:00	03:13:23:00	THE CHAIR AGONIZES
03:13:23:00	03:13:24:00	CONCILOR MEJIA HERE YOU HAVE
03:13:24:00	03:13:26:00	THE FLOOR.
03:13:26:00	03:13:30:00	THANK YOU, MADAM PRESIDENT.
03:13:30:00	03:13:33:00	OH, MY LORD.
03:13:33:00	03:13:37:00	I JUST I DON'T KNOW WHAT TO SAY
03:13:37:00	03:13:37:00	AT THIS POINT.
03:13:37:00	03:13:40:00	I JUST FEEL LIKE I DID MY FIRST
03:13:40:00	03:13:44:00	COMMUNION SO GOD BE WITH ME.
03:13:44:00	03:13:47:00	I AND I'M ALSO A SINGLE MOM AND
03:13:47:00	03:13:48:00	THERE'S NO SCHOOL INVITED.
03:13:48:00	03:13:51:00	SO LIKE WE ALL GOT TO MAKE DO
03:13:51:00	03:13:54:00	WITH WHAT WE HAVE AND I WILL BE
03:13:54:00	03:13:55:00	SHOWING UP WHEREVER I NEED TO
03:13:55:00	03:13:59:00	BE BECAUSE THAT'S MY JOB.
03:13:59:00	03:13:59:00	HOWEVER, I WILL SAY FOR THE
03:13:59:00	03:14:02:00	RECORD THAT I AM REALLY HAPPY
03:14:02:00	03:14:03:00	TO HEAR THAT WE HAVE THE HYBRID
03:14:03:00	03:14:06:00	MODEL OPTION SO I WANT TO KNOW
03:14:06:00	03:14:09:00	THAT I IF THAT IS AVAILABLE I
03:14:09:00	03:14:17:00	WILL TAKE THAT OFFER AND I JUST
03:14:17:00	03:14:18:00	WISH THAT WE CAN REALLY
03:14:18:00	03:14:21:00	UNDERSTAND THAT TO WE EVERYONE
03:14:21:00	03:14:25:00	IS WATCHING US SO WE HAVE TO BE
03:14:25:00	03:14:25:00	REALLY SUPER MINDFUL IN TERMS
03:14:25:00	03:14:28:00	OF HOW WE PLAY WITH POLITICS
03:14:28:00	03:14:29:00	ESPECIALLY WHEN IT COMES TO THE
03:14:29:00	03:14:29:00	MAN UP ABOVE.
03:14:29:00	03:14:32:00	I'M SURE HE'S NOT HAPPY WITH US
03:14:32:00	03:14:36:00	RIGHT NOW AND I JUST THINK THAT
03:14:36:00	03:14:37:00	GOOD FRIDAY IS A GOOD FRIDAY
03:14:37:00	03:14:40:00	AND OFTENTIMES I LISTEN IN THE
03:14:40:00	03:14:44:00	LATINO COMMUNITY ON GOOD
03:14:44:00	03:14:44:00	FRIDAYS WE'RE NOT EVEN SUPPOSED
03:14:44:00	03:14:47:00	TO HAVE BAD TEMPERS OR OR SPEAK
03:14:47:00	03:14:52:00	OUT OF YOU KNOW, ANGER OR EAT
03:14:52:00	03:14:55:00	ANYTHING BUT FISH.
03:14:55:00	03:14:56:00	SO THERE'S A LOT OF THINGS THAT
03:14:56:00	03:14:58:00	HAPPEN ON GOOD FRIDAY AND I
03:14:58:00	03:14:59:00	THINK THAT THIS IS A GOOD
03:14:59:00	03:15:03:00	FRIDAY FOR US TO SHOW OUR MOST
03:15:03:00	03:15:06:00	HUMBLE SELVES HOW TO SHOW UP
03:15:06:00	03:15:10:00	FOR EACH OTHER AND DEMONSTRATE
03:15:10:00	03:15:11:00	THAT WE CAN WORK TOGETHER AS A
03:15:11:00	03:15:14:00	BODY DESPITE OUR POLITICAL AND
03:15:14:00	03:15:17:00	IDEOLOGICAL DIFFERENCES.
03:15:17:00	03:15:18:00	SO I AM HOPING THAT IF
03:15:18:00	03:15:21:00	PRESIDENT COUNCIL DECIDES TO DO
03:15:21:00	03:15:24:00	HYBRID I'LL BE SHOWING UP BUT
03:15:24:00	03:15:25:00	IF IT'S IN PERSON I'LL BE
03:15:25:00	03:15:26:00	SHOWING UP EITHER WAY BECAUSE
03:15:26:00	03:15:28:00	THAT'S MY JOB.
03:15:28:00	03:15:29:00	THANK YOU.
03:15:29:00	03:15:29:00	THANK YOU COUNSELOR.
03:15:29:00	03:15:29:00	MEJIA.
03:15:29:00	03:15:33:00	OKAY.
03:15:33:00	03:15:35:00	NO MORE FILES WAS A LITTLE
03:15:35:00	03:15:35:00	JOURNEY.
03:15:35:00	03:15:36:00	OKAY.
03:15:36:00	03:15:37:00	WE ARE NOW MOVING ON TO THE
03:15:37:00	03:15:39:00	CONSENT AGENDA.
03:15:39:00	03:15:40:00	I HAVE BEEN INFORMED BY THE
03:15:40:00	03:15:40:00	CLERK THAT THERE ARE THERE IS
03:15:40:00	03:15:41:00	ONE ADDITION TO THE CONSENT
03:15:41:00	03:15:43:00	AGENDA.
03:15:43:00	03:15:43:00	THE QUESTION NOW COMES ON
03:15:43:00	03:15:44:00	APPROVAL OF THE VARIOUS MATTERS
03:15:44:00	03:15:46:00	CONTAINED WITHIN THE CONTENT
03:15:46:00	03:15:47:00	AGENDA.
03:15:47:00	03:15:47:00	ALL THOSE IN FAVOR SAY I.
03:15:47:00	03:15:50:00	I THINK THE CONSENT AGENDA HAS
03:15:50:00	03:15:51:00	BEEN ADOPTED.
03:15:51:00	03:15:52:00	WE ARE NOW ON TO ANNOUNCEMENTS.
03:15:52:00	03:15:54:00	PLEASE REMEMBER THESE ARE FOR
03:15:54:00	03:15:54:00	UPCOMING DATES AND EVENTS.
03:15:54:00	03:15:55:00	WE HAVE A LOT OF BIRTHDAYS
03:15:55:00	03:15:57:00	COMING UP.
03:15:57:00	03:15:58:00	CANDACE HAPPY BIRTHDAY NEXT
03:15:58:00	03:16:01:00	WEEK OUR VERY OWN CANDACE ON
03:16:01:00	03:16:06:00	CENTRAL STAFF MELISSA AND
03:16:06:00	03:16:06:00	COUNCILOR WEBBER'S OFFICE TOO
03:16:06:00	03:16:07:00	AND COUNCILOR WEBBER'S OFFICE
03:16:07:00	03:16:09:00	ON THE SAME DAY.
03:16:09:00	03:16:10:00	HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO MELISSA AND
03:16:10:00	03:16:13:00	TO BONNIE.
03:16:13:00	03:16:14:00	OH AND ALSO IN MY OFFICE THAT
03:16:14:00	03:16:16:00	SAME DAY FOR LEON.
03:16:16:00	03:16:17:00	HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO HIM AND TO
03:16:17:00	03:16:20:00	OUR NEWEST ATTORNEY ON CENTRAL
03:16:20:00	03:16:23:00	STAFF MEGHAN HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO
03:16:23:00	03:16:24:00	YOU.
03:16:24:00	03:16:24:00	A LOT OF APRIL BIRTHDAYS I KNOW
03:16:24:00	03:16:29:00	THAT IT'S PASSOVER SO I WANT TO
03:16:29:00	03:16:30:00	SAY HOG PESACH.
03:16:30:00	03:16:30:00	SAMAK IS THAT RIGHT?
03:16:30:00	03:16:32:00	COUNCILOR WEBER KIND OF OC
03:16:32:00	03:16:35:00	WISHING PEACE AND JOY TO OUR
03:16:35:00	03:16:36:00	JEWISH NEIGHBORS CELEBRATING
03:16:36:00	03:16:39:00	PASSOVER I HOPE YOUR SEDERS
03:16:39:00	03:16:39:00	WERE FILLED WITH TRADITION,
03:16:39:00	03:16:40:00	DELICIOUS FOOD AND THE BLESSING
03:16:40:00	03:16:43:00	OF BEING WITH FAMILY AND
03:16:43:00	03:16:43:00	FRIENDS.
03:16:43:00	03:16:44:00	WE ARE IN HOLY WEEK THAT
03:16:44:00	03:16:47:00	STARTED ON SUNDAY WITH PALM
03:16:47:00	03:16:48:00	SUNDAY.
03:16:48:00	03:16:49:00	I SAW SOME FOLKS IN THEIR PALMS
03:16:49:00	03:16:51:00	AND THIS FRIDAY IS GOOD FRIDAY
03:16:51:00	03:16:52:00	WITH EASTER BEING ON SUNDAY I
03:16:52:00	03:16:55:00	HOPE ALL WHO OBSERVE HAVE A
03:16:55:00	03:16:56:00	GREAT CELEBRATION WITH FAMILIES
03:16:56:00	03:16:56:00	WITH THEIR FAMILIES.
03:16:56:00	03:16:59:00	EASTER IS BY FAR MY FAVORITE
03:16:59:00	03:17:02:00	HOLIDAY AND THIS SATURDAY WE
03:17:02:00	03:17:03:00	HAVE THE 26 POINT TRUE MARATHON
03:17:03:00	03:17:06:00	BEING RUN BY THE PIONEERS.
03:17:06:00	03:17:08:00	SO IF ANYBODY WANTS TO WAKE UP
03:17:08:00	03:17:09:00	WITH ME AT 6:30 A.M. TO CHEER
03:17:09:00	03:17:12:00	ON THE PIONEERS FOR THEIR THEIR
03:17:12:00	03:17:13:00	MARATHON BEFORE THE MARATHON
03:17:13:00	03:17:16:00	YOU CAN DO THAT PATRIOTS DAY IS
03:17:16:00	03:17:17:00	ON MONDAY AND IT'S ALSO A
03:17:17:00	03:17:20:00	MARATHON MONDAY.
03:17:20:00	03:17:21:00	SO WE WISH A GOOD LUCK TO ALL
03:17:21:00	03:17:22:00	OUR MARATHONERS WHILE WE
03:17:22:00	03:17:25:00	REMEMBER THE VERY SOLEMN DAY 12
03:17:25:00	03:17:27:00	YEARS AGO WHEN THIS CITY WAS
03:17:27:00	03:17:28:00	UNDER ATTACK AND WHEN WE BECAME
03:17:28:00	03:17:31:00	BOSTON STRONG AND JUST WANT TO
03:17:31:00	03:17:32:00	JUST LIFT UP THE FAMILIES WHO
03:17:32:00	03:17:34:00	LOST LOVED ONES IN THAT TIME
03:17:34:00	03:17:38:00	THE GREEK INDEPENDENCE DAY
03:17:38:00	03:17:39:00	PARADE OUR VERY OWN MR. CLERK
03:17:39:00	03:17:42:00	WILL BE THERE IS ON APRIL 27TH
03:17:42:00	03:17:43:00	WHICH IS A SUNDAY AND I
03:17:43:00	03:17:43:00	ENCOURAGE EVERYONE TO GO A
03:17:43:00	03:17:46:00	LITTLE FUN FACT THIS YEAR AT
03:17:46:00	03:17:47:00	THE GREEK INDEPENDENCE DAY THEY
03:17:47:00	03:17:47:00	WILL BE HONORING HAITI BECAUSE
03:17:47:00	03:17:53:00	HAITI WAS THE FIRST COUNTRY TO
03:17:53:00	03:17:54:00	BE ALONGSIDE THE GREEKS AS THEY
03:17:54:00	03:17:57:00	FOUGHT THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE FOR
03:17:57:00	03:17:57:00	THEIR INDEPENDENCE AND HAITI
03:17:57:00	03:18:01:00	WAS ALSO THE FIRST COUNTRY TO
03:18:01:00	03:18:01:00	RECOGNIZE GREECE'S INDEPENDENCE
03:18:01:00	03:18:02:00	FROM THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE.
03:18:02:00	03:18:05:00	SO I WILL BE THERE JOYOUSLY AND
03:18:05:00	03:18:06:00	JOYFULLY AS THEY HONOR THAT
03:18:06:00	03:18:09:00	HISTORY.
03:18:09:00	03:18:10:00	I SEE SOME RED LIGHTS ON THEM
03:18:10:00	03:18:10:00	AND GO TO MY COLLEAGUES NOW FOR
03:18:10:00	03:18:11:00	ANY ANNOUNCEMENTS I SEE
03:18:11:00	03:18:13:00	COMMISSIONER MACKEY FROM THE
03:18:13:00	03:18:14:00	BLACK MEN AND BOYS COMMISSION
03:18:14:00	03:18:14:00	IN THE HOUSE.
03:18:14:00	03:18:14:00	THANKS FOR BEING HERE.
03:18:14:00	03:18:17:00	THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES COUNTRY
03:18:17:00	03:18:18:00	CLUB AS A PARTY ON THE FLOOR.
03:18:18:00	03:18:18:00	THANK YOU MADAM PRESIDENT.
03:18:18:00	03:18:20:00	I'VE ALREADY ALLUDED TO THIS
03:18:20:00	03:18:21:00	EARLIER BUT ON FRIDAY NIGHT
03:18:21:00	03:18:23:00	STARTING AT 5 P.M. IS THE
03:18:23:00	03:18:27:00	REVOLUTION FROM REVOLUTION TO
03:18:27:00	03:18:29:00	REVOLUTIONARY EVENING WHERE WE
03:18:29:00	03:18:30:00	COMMEMORATE THE 250TH
03:18:30:00	03:18:30:00	ANNIVERSARY OF PAUL REVERE'S
03:18:30:00	03:18:34:00	RIDE THAT STARTS AT FIVE.
03:18:34:00	03:18:35:00	SO IF YOU HAVE ANY KIDS PLEASE
03:18:35:00	03:18:36:00	FEEL FREE TO BRING THEM AT THAT
03:18:36:00	03:18:38:00	TIME.
03:18:38:00	03:18:38:00	ALTHOUGH THE OFFICIAL SPEAKING
03:18:38:00	03:18:40:00	PROGRAM STARTS AT 730 MR REVERE
03:18:40:00	03:18:44:00	WILL BE GETTING ON A BOAT AND
03:18:44:00	03:18:45:00	ROWING ACROSS THE CHARLES RIVER
03:18:45:00	03:18:45:00	TO CHARLESTOWN.
03:18:45:00	03:18:48:00	HE'S GOING TO GO INTO CITY CITY
03:18:48:00	03:18:49:00	SQUARE AT THAT MOMENT IN TIME
03:18:49:00	03:18:51:00	THERE'S GOING TO BE ANOTHER
03:18:51:00	03:18:52:00	SPEAKING PROGRAM IN CHARLESTOWN
03:18:52:00	03:18:53:00	AND THEN AFTER THAT HE'S
03:18:53:00	03:18:55:00	GETTING ON HIS HORSE AND RIDING
03:18:55:00	03:18:58:00	ALL THE WAY DOWN MAIN STREET
03:18:58:00	03:18:59:00	GOING INTO VARIOUS TAVERNS AND
03:18:59:00	03:18:59:00	SAYING THE BRITISH IS COMING.
03:18:59:00	03:19:00:00	IT'S GOING TO BE A REALLY
03:19:00:00	03:19:03:00	BEAUTIFUL, WONDERFUL EVENT AND
03:19:03:00	03:19:04:00	I LOOK FORWARD TO IT AND
03:19:04:00	03:19:08:00	WELCOME EVERYBODY TO JOIN US IN
03:19:08:00	03:19:08:00	BOTH THE NORTH AND IN
03:19:08:00	03:19:08:00	CHARLESTOWN.
03:19:08:00	03:19:09:00	THANK YOU.
03:19:09:00	03:19:09:00	THANK YOU.
03:19:09:00	03:19:10:00	COUNCILOR CUT IS A PART OF THE
03:19:10:00	03:19:11:00	CHAIR RECOGNIZES
03:19:11:00	03:19:11:00	COUNCILOR DURKIN YOU HAVE THE
03:19:11:00	03:19:11:00	FLOOR.
03:19:11:00	03:19:13:00	THANK YOU SO MUCH CHAIR I JUST
03:19:13:00	03:19:14:00	WANTED TO ANNOUNCE AGAIN WE ARE
03:19:14:00	03:19:17:00	DOING A BLOCK PARTY IN KENMORE
03:19:17:00	03:19:18:00	SQUARE THIS YEAR ON MARATHON
03:19:18:00	03:19:21:00	MONDAY I DID SEND OUT PERSONAL
03:19:21:00	03:19:21:00	INVITES TO ALL OF MY COLLEAGUES
03:19:21:00	03:19:25:00	BUT ANYONE PLEASE JOIN US IN
03:19:25:00	03:19:26:00	KENMORE SQUARE IF YOU'RE A
03:19:26:00	03:19:26:00	COLLEAGUE THAT'S JOINING IN
03:19:26:00	03:19:29:00	KENMORE SQUARE, PLEASE LET
03:19:29:00	03:19:30:00	ME KNOW AND I'LL MAKE SURE THAT
03:19:30:00	03:19:31:00	YOU GUYS HAVE ALL THE
03:19:31:00	03:19:33:00	CREDENTIALS TO GO EVERYWHERE
03:19:33:00	03:19:33:00	AND KENMORE SQUARE THAT YOU
03:19:33:00	03:19:34:00	WANT TO GO.
03:19:34:00	03:19:36:00	SO IT'S GOING TO BE REALLY FUN.
03:19:36:00	03:19:40:00	THE THE BLOCK PARTY IS GETTING
03:19:40:00	03:19:41:00	BIGGER AND BETTER THAN IT EVEN
03:19:41:00	03:19:45:00	WAS LAST YEAR SO IT SHOULD BE
03:19:45:00	03:19:45:00	REALLY, REALLY FUN AND I HOPE
03:19:45:00	03:19:46:00	TO SEE ALL OF YOU THERE.
03:19:46:00	03:19:47:00	THANK YOU GUYS FOR THERE WAS A
03:19:47:00	03:19:50:00	GREAT TIME LAST YEAR SO LOOKING
03:19:50:00	03:19:50:00	FORWARD TO IT.
03:19:50:00	03:19:50:00	THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES
03:19:50:00	03:19:51:00	COUNCIL WHEREVER YOU HAVE THE
03:19:51:00	03:19:53:00	FLOOR TO THANK YOU A LITTLE
03:19:53:00	03:19:56:00	LESS WELL KNOWN MARATHON
03:19:56:00	03:19:59:00	TOMORROW AT THE JAMAICA POND AT
03:19:59:00	03:20:00:00	530 IS THE HALF HALF HALF HALF
03:20:00:00	03:20:04:00	HALF MARATHON IT'S LESS THAN A
03:20:04:00	03:20:07:00	MILE I RAN LAST YEAR AND I
03:20:07:00	03:20:11:00	PROUDLY DEFEATED ALL KIDS UNDER
03:20:11:00	03:20:11:00	SIX YEARS OLD.
03:20:11:00	03:20:14:00	SO I'M HOPING TO MAINTAIN MY
03:20:14:00	03:20:17:00	STREAK THIS YEAR.
03:20:17:00	03:20:18:00	SO TOMORROW 530 AT THE POND AND
03:20:18:00	03:20:22:00	I KNOW ON SATURDAY MORNING AT
03:20:22:00	03:20:25:00	WEST ROXBURY HIGH AT 11:00 IS
03:20:25:00	03:20:26:00	PARKWAY IN MOTION'S EASTER EGG
03:20:26:00	03:20:28:00	HUNT.
03:20:28:00	03:20:29:00	I WAS THERE LAST YEAR.
03:20:29:00	03:20:30:00	IT'S A HUGE GATHERING.
03:20:30:00	03:20:33:00	ANYBODY ANY KIDS OR ADULTS WANT
03:20:33:00	03:20:33:00	TO HUNT SOME EASTER EGGS?
03:20:33:00	03:20:34:00	THAT'S A GREAT PLACE TO BE.
03:20:34:00	03:20:36:00	11:00 AT THE WEST ROXBURY HIGH
03:20:36:00	03:20:40:00	MILLENNIUM PARK IN WEST
03:20:40:00	03:20:40:00	ROXBURY.
03:20:40:00	03:20:40:00	THANKS.
03:20:40:00	03:20:40:00	THANK YOU.
03:20:40:00	03:20:41:00	COUNCILOR WEBER ANY MORE
03:20:41:00	03:20:44:00	ANNOUNCEMENTS?
03:20:44:00	03:20:48:00	NO, IT'S ONLY ONLY FAMILY.
03:20:48:00	03:20:49:00	ONLY COUNSELORS CAN SPEAK
03:20:49:00	03:20:51:00	DURING BUT AFTER THIS.
03:20:51:00	03:20:51:00	OKAY.
03:20:51:00	03:20:52:00	WE ARE NOW MOVING ON TO
03:20:52:00	03:20:52:00	MEMORIALS.
03:20:52:00	03:20:55:00	WOULD ANYONE LIKE TO SPEAK ON
03:20:55:00	03:20:56:00	BEHALF OF ANYONE ON BEHALF
03:20:56:00	03:21:02:00	OF ANYONE WHO HAS PASSED OKAY.
03:21:02:00	03:21:03:00	TODAY WE WILL ADJOURN TODAY'S
03:21:03:00	03:21:06:00	MEETING ON BEHALF OF COUNCILOR
03:21:06:00	03:21:09:00	DURKIN, BILL DE CROCE ON BEHALF
03:21:09:00	03:21:13:00	OF MYSELF JOHN DONALD
03:21:13:00	03:21:13:00	MCLAUGHLIN ON BEHALF OF OUR
03:21:13:00	03:21:16:00	CLERK CLERK JUSTICE A MOMENT
03:21:16:00	03:21:20:00	OF SILENCE.
03:21:20:00	03:21:25:00	THE CHAIR MOVES THAT WHEN THE
03:21:25:00	03:21:26:00	COUNCIL ADJOURNED TODAY IT DOES
03:21:26:00	03:21:26:00	SO IN MEMORY OF THE
03:21:26:00	03:21:28:00	AFOREMENTIONED INDIVIDUALS THE
03:21:28:00	03:21:29:00	COUNCIL IS SCHEDULED TO MEET
03:21:29:00	03:21:32:00	AGAIN ON IN DIANELLA CHAMBER ON
03:21:32:00	03:21:33:00	FRIDAY APRIL 18 THIS FRIDAY AT
03:21:33:00	03:21:33:00	9 A.M..
03:21:33:00	03:21:36:00	THANK YOU TO MY COLLEAGUES,
03:21:36:00	03:21:37:00	CENTRAL STAFF, THE CLERK AND
03:21:37:00	03:21:38:00	THE CLERK'S OFFICE AND THE
03:21:38:00	03:21:41:00	COUNCIL STENOGRAPHER AND HER
03:21:41:00	03:21:41:00	COOKIES ALL IN FAVOR
03:21:41:00	03:21:41:00	OF ADJOURNMENT.
03:21:41:00	03:21:43:00	PLEASE SAY I I THE COUNCIL IS