WHEN I CALLED TO ORDER TODAY'S MEETING OF THE BOSTON CITY COUNCIL . VIEWERS CAN WATCH THE COUNCIL MEETING LIVE ON YOUTUBE AT BOSTON.COM FORGE CITY COUNCIL , DASH TV.  AT THIS TIME I ASK MY COLLEAGUES AND THOSE IN THE AUDIENCE TO PLEASE SILENCE THEIR CELL PHONES AND ELECTRONIC DEVICES. THANK YOU MR. CLERK.  WILL YOU PLEASE CALL THE ROLL TO ASCERTAIN THE PRESENCE OF A QUORUM? COUNCILOR BREADON. COUNCILOR COLETTA. COUNCILOR DURKIN.  COUNCILOR FOR ANANDA SANDERSON. COUNCILOR FITZGERALD. YES.  COUNCILOR FLYNN. YEAH. COUNCILOR LOUIJEUNE HERE.  CONCILOR MEJIA HERE. COUNCILOR MURPHY. COUNCILOR IF THE PENDING COUNCILOR SAID TANNER COUNCILOR WEBER AND COUNCILOR WORRELL OF COURSE.  BUT THANK YOU. I'VE BEEN INFORMED BY THE CLERK THAT A QUORUM IS PRESENT. NOW IT IS MY PLEASURE TO INTRODUCE THIS DISTRICT CLERGY PASTOR KIKI JEFF OFFLOADED PASTOR GEOFFREY JEAN FRASER AFFECTIONATELY KNOWN AS PASTOR KIKI IS A PROFOUND FIGURE WITHIN THE HAITIAN COMMUNITY AND BEYOND.  BORN IN HAITI, HE MOVED TO THE USA AT THE AGE OF 20 AS AN UNDOCUMENTED IMMIGRANT OVERCOMING SIGNIFICANT CHALLENGES INCLUDING HOMELESSNESS IN BROOKLYN, NEW YORK. HIS EARLY EXPERIENCES SHAPED HIS COMMITMENT TO ADVOCACY, LEADING HIM TO ESTABLISH THE COMMITTEE FOR THE DEFENSE OF IMMIGRANTS IN 1993 WHICH MOBILIZED SUPPORT FOR HAITIAN RIGHTS IN THE UNITED STATES.  A GRADUATE OF BUNKER HILL COMMUNITY COLLEGE AND GORDON COLLEGE PASTOR KIKI FURTHERED HIS THEOLOGICAL EDUCATION AT GORDON CONWELL THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY, EARNING BOTH A MASTER OF DIVINITY AND A MASTER OF THEOLOGY. HE'S CURRENTLY PURSUING A DOCTOR OF MINISTRY. PASTOR KIKI LEADERSHIP EXTENDS ACROSS MULTIPLE FRONTS. HE'S A PRESIDENT OF THE TRUE ALLIANCE CENTER CHAIR OF HAITIAN AMERICANS UNITED INC. AND AN EXECUTIVE TEAM MEMBER OF GREATER BOSTON INTERFAITH ORGANIZATION. HIS DEDICATION, SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC ISSUES IS ALSO EVIDENT THROUGHOUT THROUGH HIS ROLES WITH VARIOUS COMMUNITY ORGANIZATIONS INCLUDING THE GREATER BOSTON NAZARENE COMPASSION CENTER AND MATTAPAN SQUARE MAIN STREETS AND HIS MINISTRY PASTOR KIKI IS DEEPLY COMMITTED TO MISSIONARY WORK REGULARLY TRAVELING TO PLACES LIKE THE BAHAMAS AND HAITI TO TEACH AND INSPIRE. AT HOME HE IMPACTS LIVES THROUGH HIS RADIO AND TELEVISION PROGRAM DISCUSSING SPIRITUAL SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC TOPICS. HIS PROFESSIONAL JOURNEY AND PROFESSIONAL ENDEAVORS EPITOMIZE HIS LIFELONG COMMITMENT TO SERVICE LEADERSHIP AND EMPOWERMENT OF IMMIGRANT COMMUNITIES.  I AM VERY LUCKY TO COUNT PASTOR KIKI AS A FRIEND A SECOND FATHER IN ADDITION TO MY ACTUAL FATHER WHO IS ALSO HERE AS A SPIRITUAL MENTOR AND ALL THAT YOU DO IN HAITIAN HERITAGE MONTH WHICH WE ARE NOW RECOGNIZING ALL THE TIME. PASTOR KIKI, THANK YOU. AND YOU NOW HAVE THE FLOOR.  THANK YOU SO VERY MUCH. THE COUNCIL A REGION SO GRATEFUL FOR YOUR LEADERSHIP AND THANK YOU FOR HAVING ME AND GOOD AFTERNOON TO ALL DISTINGUISHED MEMBERS OF THE CITY COUNCIL AND ALL OF THE AUDIENCE HERE TO DAY AND I JUST WANT TO WISH YOU A HAPPY HAITIAN HERITAGE MONTH AND HOPE TO SEE YOU AT ALL OF THE INCOMING EVENTS. NOW LET US PRAY WOULD YOU PLEASE STAND WITH ME AS WE ARE ABOUT TO PRAY AND ASK GOD TO CONTINUE TO GUIDE AND TO LEAD US?  HEAVENLY FATHER, AS WE GATHER IN THIS HALLOWED CHAMBER A PLACE OF GREAT SIGNIFICANCE WE ACKNOWLEDGE YOUR DIVINE PRESENCE.  WE SEEK YOUR GUIDANCE AS WE EMBARK ON THE DIFFERENT TASK THAT LORD BLESSED THIS ASSEMBLY WITH IT WISDOM AND COMPASSION THAT TRANSCENDS ALL UNDERSTANDING AS YOUR WORDS SAY AS IN PHILIPPIANS FOUR VERSE SIX AND SEVEN. MAY YOUR PEACE GUARD OUR HEARTS AND OUR TAUGHT GREAT OUR LEADERS THAT THE STRENGTH TO GOVERN WITH INTEGRITY AND THE COURAGE TO MAKE TRUST AND RIGHTEOUS DECISION IN YOUR SIGHT MAY THEIR LEAD NOT BY MIGHT NOT BY POWER BUT BY YOUR SPIRIT FOSTERING UNITY AND PEACE AMONG THEM AS THE GOD OF TO DISCUSS THE BUDGET AND NAVIGATE THROUGH PERIODS OF FINANCIAL CONSTRAINT.  WE PRAY THAT YOU EMPOWER THEM WITH DISCERNMENT AND THE FORESIGHT TO MAKE DECISIONS THAT SERVE THE BEST INTERESTS OF YOUR COMMUNITIES. LORD WE ACKNOWLEDGE THAT ALL GOOD THINGS COME FROM YOU AND WE DEPEND ON YOUR PROVISION IN TIMES OF PLENTY AND IN TIMES OF NEED.  GREAT OUR LEADERS THE COURAGE TO PRIORITIZE WISELY THE HUMILITY TO SEEK COUNCILOR AND THE INTEGRITY TO GOVERN WITH TRANSPARENCY AND JUSTICE IN THIS TIME OF UNCERTAINTY AND LIMITED RESOURCES FILLED DISCUSSIONS WITH A SPIRIT OF CORPORATE AMBITION AND MUTUAL RESPECT. PLEASE HELP THEM TO SEE BEYOND THE IMMEDIACY OF FINANCIAL CHALLENGES AND TO ENVISION FUTURE THAT ENSURES THE WELL-BEING AND PROSPERITY OF OUR CITIZENS. STRENGTHEN THEM FURTHER WITH LOVE LORD AND REMIND THEM THAT THEY CAN FIND ABUNDANCE AND HOPE. IN YOUR MADE DECISIONS REFLECT YOUR COMPASSION AND LEAD THEM FARTHER TOWARD EXCELLENCE,  STABILITY AND PEACE. FATHER, WE THANK YOU FOR BEING WITH THEM EVERY STEP ALL THE WAY AND LET US LET THEM DRAW INSPIRATION FROM YOU AND LET THEM PCV A FATHER IN UNITY AS WELL AS WHEN THEY FACE ADVERSITY.  BLESS OUR PRESIDENTS TODAY SO THAT THEY MAY BRING PROGRESS AND PROSPERITY TO OUR CITY. PROTECT AND PROSPER OUR COMMUNITIES AND HELP US TO BE AGENTS OF CHANGE AND AMBASSADORS OF HOPE IN EVERY ENCOUNTER AS MANY PEOPLE ADDRESS YOU BY MANY NAMES. I PRAY THROUGH OUR PRECIOUS SUN. JESUS CHRIST. AMEN. THANK YOU.  WE WILL NOW RECITE THE PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE AND PLEDGE ALLEGIANCE TO THE FLAG OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AND TO THE REPUBLIC FOR WHICH IT STANDS ONE NATION UNDER GOD, INDIVISIBLE WITH LIBERTY AND JUSTICE FOR ALL.  THANK YOU SO MUCH, PASTOR KIKI FOR THAT INVOCATION. BUT I DO MISS YOUNG PATRIOTS ALPHA COMMUNITIES AND I AM MISSY. THANK YOU SO.  OKAY. MR. CLERK, WOULD YOU PLEASE AMEND THE ATTENDANCE TO REFLECT THAT COUNCILORS DURKIN, FERNANDA ANDERSON SANTANA AND WORRELL ARE NOW PRESENT. THANK YOU, MR. CLERK.  WE WILL NOW HAVE COUNCILOR MURPHY HOSTING A PRESENTATION HONORING THE BOSTON POLICE FOR NATIONAL POLICE WEEK.  COUNCILOR MURPHY, YOU HAVE THE FLOOR AND 5 MINUTES.  THANK YOU AND COUNCIL OF FLYNN IS GOING TO JOIN ME IN IF I COULD THE POLICE COME AND JOIN US HERE UP AT THE PODIUM PLEASE BEFORE WE START. YEAH, COME.  WELL, I'LL FIT. YOU CAN ALL COME UP HERE.  WE HAVE OUR UNION LEADERS BUT ALSO POLICE OFFICERS FROM THE DISTRICT HERE.  THANK YOU ALL.  OKAY, COME ON UP.  JUST YOU CAN FIT.  OKAY, SO WE DID WANT TO PRESENT YOU WITH AN OFFICIAL RESOLUTION THIS WEEK.  POLICE WEEK BEGAN IN 1962 WHEN PRESIDENT JOHN F KENNEDY SIGNED A PROCLAMATION DESIGNATING MAY 15TH AS PEACE OFFICER'S MEMORIAL DAY IN THE WEEK IN WHICH IT FALLS AS NATIONAL POLICE POLICE WEEK.  THIS WEEK OFFERS HONOR AND REMEMBRANCE AS WE PAY HOMAGE TO THOSE WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES IN THE LINE OF DUTY. THE BOSTON POLICE DEPARTMENT HAS BEEN ACKNOWLEDGED ON THE NATIONAL LEVEL FOR THEIR EXEMPLARY COMMUNITY POLICING EFFORTS. WE HAVE MANY OF OUR COMMUNITY POLICE WITH US HERE TODAY. THE DEPARTMENT'S COMMITMENT TO BUILDING STRONG RELATIONSHIPS WITH THE COMMUNITY IN PRIORITIZING COLLABORATION IN TRUST HAS NOT GONE UNNOTICED. THIS IS A TESTAMENT TO THE DEDICATION AND HARD WORK OF THE BOSTON POLICE OFFICERS IN FOSTERING A SAFE AND INCLUSIVE ENVIRONMENT FOR ALL OF OUR RESIDENTS.  SO AS WE HONOR AND REMEMBER OUR LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS THIS WEEK, LET US ALSO RECOGNIZE THE SACRIFICES, THE BRAVE MEN AND WOMEN OF THE BOSTON POLICE DEPARTMENT MAKE ON OUR BEHALF EVERY DAY.  AND I ALSO WANT TO RECOGNIZE THEIR FAMILIES. WE KNOW THAT WHEN YOU SERVE YOUR FAMILY SERVES ALSO AND WE JUST TODAY WILL BE VOTING ON A THIRD AND FINAL CONTRACT.  SO THANK YOU FOR ALL THE HARD WORK THE UNION LEADERS HAVE PUT IN TO MAKE SURE THAT WE HAVE FAIR CONTRACTS FOR OUR POLICE OFFICERS ACROSS THE CITY. SO THE BOSTON CITY COUNCIL RECOGNIZES MAY 12TH THROUGH THE 18TH AS NATIONAL POLICE WEEK AND THE CITY OF BOSTON. AND WE THANK THE MEMBERS OF THE BOSTON POLICE. EACH OF YOU HAVE YOUR OWN CITATION SO THE SUPERIOR OFFICERS FEDERATION, THE PATROLMEN AND ALSO THE BENEVOLENT DETECTIVES. AND I'LL LET COUNSELOR FLYNN SAY A FEW WORDS TO THAT. THANK YOU, COUNCILOR MURPHY AND HONORED TO BE HERE WITH THE MEN AND WOMEN OF THE BOSTON POLICE DEPARTMENT. WAS CELEBRATING THE IMPORTANT ROLE THEY PLAY IN OUR CITY AND IN OUR COUNTRY. BUT WE ALSO RECOGNIZE IS AS COUNCILOR MURPHY HIGHLIGHTED THE INCREDIBLE SACRIFICE AS WELL OF POLICE OFFICERS AND THEIR FAMILIES.  THEIR FAMILIES HAVE BEEN THROUGH A LOT OVER THE YEARS BUT THE FAMILIES AND THE POLICE OFFICERS HAVE ALWAYS BEEN THERE FOR THE RESIDENTS OF THE CITY DURING GOOD TIMES AND BAD TIMES. WE WANT TO SAY THANK YOU TO THE MEN AND WOMEN OF THE BOSTON POLICE DEPARTMENT FOR THEIR INCREDIBLE SACRIFICE AND PROFESSIONALISM TO THE RESIDENTS OF BOSTON. THANK YOU.  THANK YOU. AND IF MY COLLEAGUES COULD JOIN US FOR A PICTURE AND I WILL MAKE SURE THAT YOU'RE NOT EITHER COMING AND I SEE YOU'RE NOT TAKING THE FLOOR. THANK YOU SO MUCH.  THANK YOU, EVERYBODY. THEY ARE DOING REAL GOOD.  I KNOW THEY LIKE IT AND IT'S SO THANK YOU FOR.  I'M SORRY TO DEBATE THIS WAY THAT WE'RE NOT HERE TODAY TO THANK YOU BECAUSE WE ARE NOW ON TO THE FIRST ORDER OF BUSINESS WHICH IS THE APPROVAL OF THE MINUTES FROM THE MEETING ON MAY EIGHT, 2024. ALL IN FAVOR SAY I ALEPPO SAY NAY. THE AYES HAVE IT THE MINUTES OF THE LAST MINUTE THE MINUTES OF THE LAST MEETING ARE WE ARE NOW ON TO REPORTS OF PUBLIC OFFICERS AND OTHERS. MR CLERK, WOULD YOU PLEASE READ DOCKETS NUMBER 08360837 DOCKING NUMBER 0836922 AS WE SEE FROM THE MAYOR FOR ABSENCE FROM THE CITY ON THURSDAY MAY 9TH, 2024 AT 11:15 A.M. RETURNING SATURDAY, MAY 11, 2024 AT 12 P.M. DOCKING NUMBER 0837 NO THAT'S WHAT YOU SEE FROM THE CITY CLERK IN ACCORDANCE WITH CHAPTER SIX OF THE ORDINANCES OF 1979 RELATIVE TO AN ACTION TAKEN BY THE MAYOR AND PAPERS ACTED UPON BY THE CITY COUNCIL AT ITS MEETING ON MAY 1ST, 2024. THANK YOU. DOCKET NUMBER 083690837 WILL BE PLACED ON FILE.  MR CLERK, WOULD YOU PLEASE READ DOCKET NUMBER 08320838 MEMBER 0838 THE CONSTABLE BOND FOR ROSALINA TORRES HAVE HAVEN'T BEEN DULY APPROVED BY THE COLLECTOR TREASURER WAS RECEIVED.  THANK YOU DOCKET NUMBER 0838 IS APPROVED UNDER THE USUAL TERMS AND CONDITIONS. WE'RE NOW ON TO MATTERS RECENTLY HEARD FOR POSSIBLE ACTION. MR CLERK PLEASE READ DOCKETS NUMBER 0744 AND 074 OR FIVE DOCKET NUMBER 0744A MESSAGE IN ORDER FOR YOUR APPROVAL IN ORDER TO REDUCE FISCAL YEAR 24 APPROPRIATION FOR THE RESERVE FOR COLLECTIVE BARGAINING BY $7,754,649 TO PROVIDE FUNDING FOR THE BOSTON POLICE DEPARTMENT FOR FISCAL 24 INCREASES CONTAINED WITHIN THE COLLECTIVE BARGAINING AGREEMENTS BETWEEN THE CITY OF BOSTON AND THE BOSTON POLICE SUPERIOR OFFICERS FEDERATION FILED IN THE OFFICE OF THE CITY CLERK ON APRIL 29, 2024.  THANK YOU. THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES THE CHAIR OF THE COMMITTEE ON WAYS AND MEANS COUNCIL . OH, APOLOGIES TO YOU, MR. CLERK . 0745 MR GENARO FOR A SUPPLEMENTAL APPROPRIATION FOR THE BOSTON POLICE DEPARTMENT FOR FISCAL YEAR 24 IN THE AMOUNT OF SEVEN $7,754,649 TO COVER THE FISCAL YEAR 2014 COSTS CONTAINED WITHIN THE COLLECTIVE BARGAINING AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE CITY OF BOSTON AND THE BOSTON SUPERIOR OFFICERS FEDERATION.  THE TERMS OF THE CONTRACT ARE JULY 1ST, 2022 JUNE 30TH, 2025. THE MAJOR PROVISIONS OF THE CONTRACT INCLUDE BASE WAGE INCREASES OF 2% 1.5%, 2% 1% AND 2.5% TO BE GIVEN IN JULY OF EACH FISCAL YEAR OF THE CONTRACT TERM AS WELL AS THE ADDITION OF THE TRANSITIONAL CAREER AWARD PROGRAM IN JULY 2023. THE CONTRACT ALSO CONTAINS REFORMS RELATING TO DISCIPLINE OFFICE RETURN TO DUTY PAY DETAILS SYSTEM AND UNION RELEASE.  THANK YOU. THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES COUNCILOR EARLE, THE CHAIR OF THE COMMITTEE ON WAYS AND MEANS. COUNCILOR EARLE, YOU HAVE THE FLOOR.  THANK YOU. COUNCIL PRESIDENT LOUIJEUNE. AND HAPPY POLICE WEEK AND I WANT TO GIVE A SHOUT OUT TO OUR UNION REPRESENTATIVE IN ATTENDANCE.  THE COMMITTEE ON WAYS AND MEANS HELD A HEARING ON MONDAY TO DISCUSS DOCKET NUMBER 0443045. THE COMMITTEE WAS JOINED BY JAMES WILKERSON BUDGET DIRECTOR FOR THE CITY OF BOSTON. RENE BUCCI, DIRECTOR OF LABOR FOR THE CITY OF BOSTON AND JENNIFER BENNETT KONISHI DIRECTOR OF STRATEGIC INITIATIVES AND POLICIES WHO PROVIDE A TESTIMONY ON BEHALF OF THE ADMINISTRATION. THE COUNCIL IS IN ATTENDANCE FOR THE HEARING WHERE COUNCILORS MURPHY SANTANA COLETTA FINANCE ANDERSON FITZGERALD, FLYNN, MEJIA, WEBER AND VICE CHAIR PEPEN AND COUNCIL PRESIDENT LOUIJEUNE DEREK DE WILLIAMSON EXPLAINED THAT THE DOCKET NUMBER 04430745 WILL ALLOCATE $7,754,649 FROM THE RESERVE FOR COLLECTIVE BARGAINING TO THE BOSTON POLICE DEPARTMENT FOR COSTS RELATED TO THE COLLECTIVE BARGAINING AGREEMENT WITH THE BOSTON POLICE SUPERIOR OFFICERS FEDERATION. HE ALSO NOTED THAT THE FBI 25 FY 24 BUDGET INITIALLY INCLUDED 76.2 MILLION FOR COLLECTIVE BARGAINING WITH 59.5 MILLION ALREADY APPROPRIATED TO 13 SUPPLEMENTAL APPROPRIATIONS SINCE JULY 2023, LEAVING 8.9 MILLION IN THE RESERVE.  MISS BUCCI DETAILED THAT THE AGREEMENT REFLECTS SIMILAR POLICE REFORMS FOUND IN RECENT PPD AGREEMENTS INCLUDING ADJUSTMENTS IN DISCIPLINE, DUTY RETURNS IN UNION RELEASE TIMES AND THE DETAIL SYSTEM.  IT ALSO ENHANCES THE POLICE COMMISSIONERS AUTHORITY OVER THE OPERATION DIVISION SUPERVISION COUNCIL TO DISCUSS SEVERAL ISSUES INCLUDING THE OPERATIONS DIVISIONS DIVISION SUPERVISION OFFICER FITNESS DETERMINATIONS, DISCIPLINARY REFORMS, PAY INCREASES, CENTRAL BOOKING AND OVERTIME FINDING. AS CHAIR OF THE COMMITTEE ON WAYS AND MEANS I RECOMMEND THAT THESE DOCKETS OUGHT TO PASS. THANK YOU. THANK YOU.  THANK YOU. COUNCILOR ARO THE CHAIR OF THE COMMITTEE ON WAYS AND MEANS EXCEPT EXCEPTIONS OF THE COMMITTEE REPORT AND PASSAGE OF DOCKET NUMBER 0744. ALL THOSE IN FAVOR SAY I ALEPPO S.A. MR . MR . MR CLERK, WILL YOU PLEASE DO A CONDUCT A ROLL CALL VOTE ROLL CALL VOTE ON DOCKET NUMBER 0744. COUNCILOR BREADON.  COUNCILOR BREADON YES. COUNCILOR COLETTA YES. COUNCILOR COLETTA YES.  COUNCILOR DURKAN. COUNCILOR DURKAN YES. COUNCILOR FERNANDES SANDERSON.  COUNCILOR FERNANDES SANDERSON YES. COUNCILOR FITZGERALD.  COUNCILOR FITZGERALD YES. COUNCILOR FLYNN. COUNCILOR FLYNN. YES.  COUNCILOR LOUIJEUNE YES. COUNCILOR LOUIJEUNE YES. CONCILOR MEJIA HERE.  CONCILOR MEJIA HERE. YES. COUNCILOR MURPHY. COUNCILOR MURPHY YES.  COUNCILOR PIPPIN.  COUNCILOR SANTANA. YES.  COUNCILOR SANTANA. YES. COUNCILOR WEBER AND COUNCILOR WU YES.  COUNCILOR WU YES.  THANK YOU. THE COMMITTEE REPORT ON 11 VOTES IN THE AFFIRMATIVE. THANK YOU. THE COMMITTEE REPORT ON DOCKET NUMBER 0744 HAS PASSED THE CHAIR OF THE COMMITTEE ON WAYS AND MEANS ITS ACCEPTANCE OF THE COMMITTEE REPORT AND PASSAGE OF DOCKET NUMBER 074 OR FIVE. ALL THOSE IN FAVOR SAY I AM OPPOSED.  NAY. MR. CLERK, WILL YOU PLEASE CONDUCT A ROLL CALL VOTE ROLL CALL VOTE ON DOCKET NUMBER 0745. COUNCILOR BREADON YES. COUNCILOR BREADON YES. COUNCILOR COLETTA YES. COUNCILOR COLETTA YES.  COUNCILOR DURKAN. COUNCILOR DURKAN YES. COUNCILOR FERNANDES SANDERSON.  COUNCILOR FERNANDES ANDERSON YES. COUNCILOR FITZGERALD YES.  COUNCILOR FITZGERALD YES. COUNCILOR FLYNN YES. COUNCIL FLYNN YES.  COUNCILOR LOUIJEUNE YES. COUNCILOR LOUIJEUNE YES. CONCILOR MEJIA HERE. CONCILOR MEJIA HERE. YES. COUNCILOR MURPHY. COUNCILOR MURPHY YES.  COUNCILOR PIPPIN. COUNCILOR SANTANA. YES. COUNCILOR SANTANA.  YES. COUNCILOR WEBER. COUNCILOR WORRELL YES. COUNCILOR OH YES.  DOCKET NUMBER 0745 HAS RECEIVED 11 VOTES IN THE AFFIRMATIVE. THANK YOU. THE COMMITTEE REPORT ON A NUMBER 074 OR FIVE HAS PASSED. MR. CLERK, CAN YOU PLEASE READ DOCKETS NUMBER 067030678 DUNCAN MEMBERS 067030672 IS FOR THE FISCAL YEAR 25 OPERATING BUDGET INCLUDING ANNUAL APPROPRIATIONS FOR DEPARTMENTAL OPERATIONS FOR THE SCHOOL DEPARTMENT AND FOR OTHER POST-EMPLOYMENT BENEFITS ALSO KNOWN AS OPEB I CAN NUMBERS 067320675 ORDERS FOR CAPITAL GRANT FUND CREDIT AND APPROPRIATIONS AND DOCKETS 067630678 ORDERS FOR THE CAPITAL BUDGET INCLUDING LOAN ORDERS AND LEASE PURCHASE AGREEMENTS. THANK YOU.  THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES COUNCILOR ARO THE CHAIR OF THE COMMITTEE OF THE CHAIR OF THE COMMITTEE ON WAYS AND MEANS. COUNCILOR YOU HAVE THE FLOOR. THANK YOU COUNCILOR PRESIDENT AS CHAIR OF THE WAYS AND MEANS COMMITTEE WE HOSTED 5FY 25 BUDGET HEARINGS THIS PAST WEEK TO GIVE A BRIEF OVERVIEW ON MAY 9TH WE HAD A HEARING AT 10 A.M. TO GO OVER THE BUDGET FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF INNOVATION AND TECHNOLOGY AND RELATED REVOLVING FUNDS FROM THE ADMINISTRATION. WE HAD CHIEF INFORMATION OFFICER CRISIS CHIEF OF STAFF KERRY JORDAN AND DIRECTOR OF OPERATIONS SHEILA LEE. COUNCIL ATTENDANCE INCLUDED COUNCILORS MURPHY WEBER, COLETTA BREADON FLYNN SANTANA FERNANDES ANDERSON DURKAN COUNCIL PRESIDENT LOUIJEUNE.  AT THE HEARING WE DISCUSSED THE DEPARTMENT OF INNOVATION AND TECHNOLOGY AFTER 25 BUDGET WHICH INCLUDES A 53.1 MILLION OPERATIONAL BUDGET AND 8.5 MILLION FOR CAPITAL INVESTMENTS AIMED AT ENHANCING TECHNOLOGY SERVICES ACROSS VARIOUS CITY DEPARTMENTS. THE FOCUS WAS ON MODERATE MODERNIZING THE CITY'S PERMITTING AND LICENSING SYSTEM AND SIGNIFICANT TECHNOLOGY AND SECURITY UPGRADES LIKE A NEW STREET DATA MANAGEMENT SYSTEM TO IMPROVE CITY OPERATIONS AND EMERGENCY RESPONSES. WE ALSO TALKED ABOUT THE ENHANCEMENT OF INTERNET ACCESS FOR PUBLIC HOUSING RESIDENTS AND OTHER VULNERABLE GROUPS.  CHALLENGES INCLUDING THE UNCERTAIN FUTURE OF FEDERAL FUNDING CRUCIAL FOR MAINTAINING DIGITAL ACCESS FOR LOW INCOME HOUSEHOLDS. ON MAY 13 WE HAD A HEARING AT 10 A.M. TO GO OVER THE API 25 BUDGET FOR THE BOSTON POLICE DEPARTMENT AROUND MENTAL HEALTH AND SUBSTANCE ABUSE RESPONSE FIREARMS HOMICIDE SURVEILLANCE EQUIPMENT AND COURT CASES. FROM THE ADMINISTRATION WE HAD COMMISSIONER COX,  SUPERINTENDENT CHIEF GREG LONG, CHIEF OF STAFF NICOLE TOP BUREAU CHIEF ADMINISTRATION AND TECHNOLOGY LISA O'BRIEN DEPUTY SUPERINTENDENT DAN HUMPHREYS, SUPERINTENDENT PHILIPPE COLOGNE ALL COUNCILORS WERE IN ATTENDANCE INCLUDING COUNCILORS MURPHY FITZGERALD RATING COLETTA PEPEN, WEBER SANTANA, FERNANDA ANDERSON FLYNN HE HAD DURKAN AND COUNCIL PRESIDENT LOUIJEUNE. WE DISCUSSED THE PRACTICAL EFFECTIVENESS AND RELIABILITY OF SHOTSPOTTER SPOTTER TECHNOLOGY IN CRIME DETECTION INCLUDING THE FACT THAT THE NEW THREE YEAR CONTRACT MIGHT BE SIGNED BEFORE THE COUNCIL REVIEWS DATA BY THE MAYOR BY THE MAY 31ST REPORTING DEADLINE. WE ALSO DISCUSS ISSUES WITH THE CRIME LAB INCLUDING THE LACK OF A DIRECTOR TO LEAD AND SEXUAL ASSAULT KITS AND NO WHITE TESTING. THE COMMISSION EXPLAINED THE 500 547 VACANCIES IN THE DEPARTMENT WHICH INCLUDE 253 SWORN OFFICERS AND 294 CIVILIAN POSITIONS. CHIEF O'BRIEN DETAILED THAT IN THE PAST THREE YEARS THE ANNUAL AVERAGE OF OFFICERS WHO LEAD THE FORCE IS 131 AND THE ANNUAL AVERAGE OF NEW OFFICERS IS 108 WHO ARE NOT KEEPING UP WITH ATTRITION. ADDITIONALLY, THE DEPARTMENT DETAILED PLANS FOR A NEW PROMOTION EXAM. COUNCILORS POINTED OUT THE CURRENT PROMOTION SYSTEM WAS HEAVILY FAVORED BY WHITE MEN IN THE RANKS OF SERGEANTS, LIEUTENANTS AND CAPTAINS.  LATER ON MONDAY WE HELD A HEARING AT 3:30 P.M. TO GO OVER THE BUDGET FOR THE BOSTON POLICE DEPARTMENT AROUND OVERTIME DETAIL SYSTEM OFFICER MENTAL HEALTH AND CENTRAL BOOKING. BUT THE ADMINISTRATION WE HAD COMMISSIONER COX, SUPERINTENDENT CHIEF GREG LONG, CHIEF OF STAFF NICOLE TOP BUREAU BUREAU CHIEF ADMINISTRATING TECHNOLOGY LIZ O'BRIEN DEPUTY SUPERINTENDENT DAN HUMPHREY SUPERINTENDENT PHILIPPE CULLEN FROM THE BOSTON CITY COUNCIL . WE HAD COUNCIL OPINIONS ANDERSON MURPHY, SANTANA, COLETTA FITZGERALD, FLYNN PEPEN, MICKEY WEBER DURKAN AND COUNCIL PRESIDENT LOUIJEUNE.  THE DISCUSSION CENTERED CENTERED ON THE EFFECTIVENESS AND ALLOCATION OF OVER TIME WHICH THE THREE MAIN DRIVERS OF EXTENDED TOURS REPLACED MISSED SHIFTS AND SPECIAL EVENTS. THE COUNCIL ALSO HEARD ABOUT THE STATUS OF THE DETAILED CHANGES AGREED UPON IN RECENT POLICE CONTRACTS. ADDITIONALLY, COMMISSIONER COX DESCRIBED THE USE OF CENTRAL BOOKING AS A WAY TO CUT COSTS AND PROVIDE IT PROVIDE CARE FOR SOME OF THOSE DETAINED NEAR MASS AND CAST IN REGARDS TO MENTAL HEALTH. THE COUNCILORS RECOUNTED THE TOLL THAT OFFICERS HAVE SAID WORKING DOUBLE SHIFTS CAN HAVE ON THEIR PHYSICAL AND MENTAL HEALTH. THE COMMISSIONER COX DESCRIBED THE MENTAL SUPPORTS NOW IN PLACE. YESTERDAY MAY 14TH WE HAD THE HEARING AT 10 A.M. TO GO OVER THE BUDGET FOR THE BOSTON PUBLIC HEALTH COMMISSION INCLUDING TOPICS SUCH AS INFECTIOUS DISEASE CHILD AND ADOLESCENT FAMILY HEALTH VIOLENCE PREVENTION AND BEHAVIORAL HEALTH AND WELLNESS . FROM THE ADMINISTRATION WE HAD DR. PASO OJUKWU TO COMMISSIONER PUBLIC HEALTH AND EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR TO BPC AND WE ALSO HAD TIMOTHY HARRINGTON, DIRECTOR OF ADMINISTRATION AND FINANCE THE BPC AND THE BOSTON CITY COUNCIL . WE HAD COUNCIL FINANCE ANDERSON FLYNN, BREADON AND MEJIA FITZGERALD WEBER, MURPHY, DURKIN AND SANTANA.  DISCUSSING THE DISCUSSIONS INCLUDED PRIORITIZING MENTAL HEALTH AND VIOLENCE PREVENTION AND AGING STUDY AND HEALTH OUTCOMES MORE FUNDING FOR THE BEST TEAM STAFFING FOR TUBERCULOSIS CLINICS THE CREATION OF A DOMESTIC VIOLENCE AND SEXUAL ASSAULT BUREAU, THE RESIDENCY REQUIRED FOR BPC NURSES YOUTH MENTAL HELP LOW THRESHOLD SITES FOR MASS AND COST AND ADDRESSING DISPARITIES IN INFANT AND MATERNAL HEALTH.  THERE WAS A PUSH FOR INCREASED FUNDING TO SUPPORT UNSHELTERED RESIDENTS AND THIS IS INITIATIVES LIKE THE FETAL INFANT MORTALITY REVIEW TO ROOT TO REDUCE INFANT MORTALITY RATES AND THE EXPANSION OF HOME VISITING SERVICES TO ASSIST AT RISK FAMILIES. CONCERNS WERE RAISED ABOUT EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS AND THE POTENTIAL IMPACTS OF HOSPITAL CLOSURES. UNDERLYING THE NECESSITY NECESSITY FOR ROBUST SUPPORT IN MENTAL AND PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICES. PUBLIC TESTIMONY INCLUDED A PUSH FOR MORE SUPPORT FOR NURSE PRACTITIONERS AT SCHOOL BASED PUBLIC HEALTH CENTERS AND FINANCIAL SUPPORT FOR PILOT AT OTHER MENTAL HEALTH CRISIS RESPONSE MODELS. AND LASTLY YESTERDAY WE MET AGAIN AT 2 P.M. TO GO OVER THE BUDGET FOR THE BOSTON PUBLIC HEALTH COMMISSION AND THOSE TOPICS INCLUDED BOSTON EMS RECOVERY SERVICES AND HOMELESS SERVICES.  FROM THE ADMINISTRATION WE GOT DR. BISSELL URGE Q2 COMMISSIONER PUBLIC HELP AND EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR FOR BPC TIMOTHY HERRINGTON, DIRECTOR OF ADMINISTRATION AND FINANCE AT BPC AND JAMES HOOLEY, CHIEF OF BOSTON EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES. WE WERE JOINED BY VICE CHAIR PEPEN AND FLYNN BREADON MEJIA SANTANA, WEBER, MURPHY COLLETTE, FINANCE ANDERSON AND COUNCIL PRESIDENT LOUIJEUNE.  THE DISCUSSIONS FOCUSED ON EMS AND THE PLANS AND NEEDS FOR CAPITAL IMPROVEMENTS AND NEW FACILITIES IN ALLSTON, BRIGHTON, CHARLESTOWN IN EAST BOSTON RESPONSE TIMES AND THE COSTS OF ADDING 12 MORE INVESTIGATIONS WERE DISCUSSED AS A STAFF WILL MOVE FROM 428 44 1440 IN FISCAL FISCAL YEAR 2025. ELSEWHERE BPC DIRECTOR HERRINGTON NOTED THERE ARE 150 JOB VACANCIES.  ADDITIONALLY EXPAND AND OVERDOSE TRAINING AND ACCESSIBILITY USING SETTLEMENT FUNDS FOR COMMUNITY BASED ORGANIZATION AND TRAINING. BRINGING LONG ISLAND RECOVERY SERVICES BACK ONLINE WILL DISCUSS.  THE COUNCIL ALSO HEARD ABOUT THESE EFFORTS ENFORCING THE NOISE ORDINANCE AND THE COORDINATION WITH DO IT. EACH HEARING HAS PROVIDED IMPORTANT INSIGHT FOR IMPROVING CITY GOVERNANCE. FOR MORE INFORMATION PLEASE CHECK OUT THE LATEST COUNCIL NEWSLETTER THAT WAS SENT TODAY. I WANT TO THANK ALL THE COUNCILORS FOR COLLABORATING IN THE BUDGET PROCESS AND I WANT TO GIVE YOU JUST A BIG SHOUT OUT TO ESSENTIAL STAFF SAYING KARISHMA ETHAN THE WHOLE TEAM FOR ALL THEIR GOOD WORK. A REMINDER THAT WE'RE AT DELILAH FOR TOMORROW NIGHT AT SIX FOR OUR HEARING ON A STRONG AND YOUTH JOBS. AND THESE ORDERS WILL REMAIN IN COMMITTEE. THANK YOU.  THANK YOU, CASTRO. AND TO ADD ON TO THE PEOPLE YOU WERE. THANK YOU. WANT TO CONTINUE. THANK YOU. AS YOU SHEPHERD US THROUGH THIS BUDGET PROCESS SO THANK YOU. DOCKETS NUMBER 80670206784 WE REMAIN IN COMMITTEE.  WE'RE NOW ON TO MOTIONS, ORDERS AND RESOLUTIONS. MR CLERK WOULD YOU PLEASE READ DOCKET NUMBER 0839.0839 COUNCIL WHERE L OFF OF THE FOLLOWING PETITIONS FOR A SPECIAL LAW AND ACT DIRECTING THE CITY OF BOSTON POLICE DEPARTMENT TO WAIVE THE MAXIMUM AGE REQUIREMENT FOR POLICE OFFICERS FOR LC BARBOSA. THANK YOU MR. CLERK COUNCILOR RL YOU HAVE THE FLOOR. THANK YOU. COUNCIL PRESIDENT LOUIJEUNE AND THIS IS JUST AN AIDS WAIVER FOR ELSIE BARBOSA WHO HAS LIVED IN DORCHESTER FOR OUR ENTIRE LIFE AND HAS BOTH STRONG CONNECTION THROUGHOUT THE CITY FOR MUCH OF HER LIFE.  SO THIS LOOKING FORWARD TO THE HEARING SO WE CAN HEAR A LITTLE BIT MORE ABOUT ELSIE AND LOOKING FORWARD TO PASSING THIS IN THE NEAR FUTURE. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. IS ANYONE ELSE LOOKING TO SPEAK ON THIS MATTER? THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES COUNCILMAN FERNANDO AND HIS ENCAMPMENT IN VENICE AND YOU HAVE THE FLOOR. THANK YOU, MADAM PRESIDENT. ELSIE IS AMAZING AND AMAZING MOTHER AN EXEMPLARY CONSTITUENT . YOUR PIECE IS NOT MINE BUT EXEMPLARY CITIZEN SOMEONE WHO'S DEDICATED HER LIFE TO COMMUNITY SERVICE TO WORKING IN THE CITY OF BOSTON AND TO DEDICATING HERSELF TO ADVOCACY AND ACTIVISM.  SO I AM JUST RISING TO GO IN SUPPORT OF THIS AND I GUESS WE'RE GOING TO A HEARING LOOK FORWARD TO THAT CONVERSATION IN ADVOCATING FOR ELSIE SHE DESERVES IT AND I HOPE THAT ALL MY COLLEAGUES WILL FEEL THE SAME AT THE END OF THE HEARING. THANK YOU.  THANK YOU. IS ANYONE ELSE LOOKING TO SPEAK ON THIS MATTER?  WOULD ANYONE ELSE LIKE TO ADD THEIR NAME? MR CLERK PLEASE? THAT COUNCILOR IS BREADON DURKIN, FERNANDA ANDERSON FITZGERALD FLYNN, MIRIAM MURPHY, BEN SANTANA AND PLEASE ADD THE CHAIR DOCKET NUMBER 060839 WILL BE REFERRED TO THE COMMITTEE ON GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS.  MR CLERK, WOULD YOU PLEASE READ THE NUMBER 0840 DUNCAN AND MS. 0840 COUNCILOR IS PREPARED AND WORE OFF FOR THE FOLLOWING QUARTER FOR A HEARING TO DISCUSS THE CREATION OF A SMALL BUSINESS VANDALISM RELIEF FUND . THANK YOU. THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES COUNCILOR BUT THEN COMES WITH A PEN. YOU HAVE THE FLOOR. THANK YOU, MADAM PRESIDENT.  THIS IDEA WAS CREATED IN MY OFFICE DUE TO RECENT ACTIVITIES THAT HAPPENED IN MY DISTRICT. I JUST WANT TO HIGHLIGHT EFFIE'S KITCHEN ROSSI BOUND AND A FEW OTHER BUSINESSES THAT HAVE BEEN RECENT JUST THE FRUIT THEY'VE EXPERIENCED RECENT VANDALISM. THEY'VE HAD EXPERIENCE ROWS BROKEN WINDOWS AND GRAFFITI ON THEIR STOREFRONTS AND I FEEL FOR THEM BECAUSE IN MY DISTRICT I HAVE THREE MAIN STREET CORRIDORS MATTAPAN SQUARE, CLEARY SQUARE AND ROSSIO SQUARE AND ALL OF THEM ARE FILLED WITH AMAZING SMALL BUSINESSES. MOST OF THEM MOM AND POP SHOPS THAT THEY LIVE IN THE COMMUNITY THEY OWN THEIR BUSINESSES AND THEY EMPLOY LOCAL LOCAL RESIDENTS AND JUST TO FIX A WINDOW WE WERE ABLE TO FIND OUT THAT IT COSTS ANYWHERE BETWEEN $500 TO $5000 FOR ANY BUSINESS OWNER AND FOR THOSE KIND OF BUSINESSES IT'S NOT VERY OFTEN THAT THEY CASUALLY JUST HAVE $5,000 SET ASIDE FOR THESE KIND OF INCIDENTS AND SOME OF THEM UNFORTUNATELY DON'T EVEN HAVE THE RIGHT INSURANCE FOR THIS. SO WE DID A BIT OF RESEARCH. WE FOUND OUT THAT CITIES LIKE SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA AND JACKSONVILLE, FLORIDA HAVE ESTABLISHED A VERY GOOD PROGRAM TO PROVIDE GRANTS TO LOCAL BUSINESSES LIKE THESE THAT IF THEY EXPERIENCE A EXPERIENCE ANY TYPE OF VANDALISM OR ANY JUST DAMAGE TO THEIR STOREFRONTS THE CITY IN THIS CASE THE CITY OF BOSTON WILL STEP UP AND PROVIDE A GRANT. IT COULD BE A SMALL DOLLAR AMOUNT OF A FEW THOUSAND DOLLARS TO HELP THE BUSINESSES AND I THINK THAT THIS COULD GO A LONG WAY. I THINK THAT WE ARE IN THE RIGHT TIME TO HAVE THIS CONVERSATION WITH THE BUDGET CONVERSATION HAPPENING AT THE MOMENT AND I BELIEVE THAT HELPING THE RESIDENT, HELPING THE BUSINESS OWNERS IN OUR COMMUNITIES WOULD JUST BE GOOD NOT ONLY FOR THOSE BUSINESS OWNERS BUT ALSO FOR THE COMMUNITIES BECAUSE MANY TIMES IF WHEN YOU WALK IN YOUR IN YOUR SQUARE IN THIS CASE RATHER THAN SQUARE CLEAVER SQUARE AND MATTAPAN SQUARE IF YOUR BUSINESSES DON'T LOOK GOOD THE RESIDENTS WON'T FEEL GOOD AND IT TAKES AWAY BUSINESS FROM THOSE COMMUNITIES. SO I JUST WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT OUR SMALL BUSINESS OWNERS FEEL SUPPORTED. I WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT CITY OF BOSTON IS DOING SOMETHING ABOUT IT AND I AM HONORED TO TO JUST BRING THIS TO THE TO THE FLOOR AND HOPEFULLY MY COLLEAGUES AND COUNCIL ARE ABLE TO SUPPORT THIS BECAUSE I KNOW THAT OUR ENTIRE ENTIRE CITY OF BOSTON HAS GREAT BUSINESS OWNERS AND GREAT BUSINESSES THAT WOULD BENEFIT FROM THIS FROM THIS PROGRAM THAT'S I YIELD THE REST OF MY TIME. CHAIR THANK YOU, COUNCILOR BUT BEND THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES COUNCILOR I'LL COME TOMORROW. YOU HAVE THE FLOOR.  THANK YOU. COUNCIL PRESIDENT AND THANK YOU COUNCILOR PEPEN FOR HAVING ME AS AN ORIGINAL CO-SPONSOR. VANDALISM NOT ONLY IMPACTS THE PHYSICAL SPACES OF OUR SMALL BUSINESSES BUT PLACES A FINANCIAL STRAIN ON THEM. AS COUNCILOR PEPPER HAS OUTLINED THE AVERAGE COST OF VANDALISM IS SIGNIFICANT YET THE IMPACT EXTENDS BEYOND JUST YOU KNOW, JUST $2. IT AFFECTS COMMUNITY MORALE AND THE VIBRANCY OF OUR NEIGHBORHOODS. AS WE DISCUSSED DURING THE OFFICE OF ECONOMIC AND INCLUSION OPPORTUNITY BUDGET HEARING EXPANDING SERVICES FOR THE GRAFFITI BUSTERS SERVICES AND GREATER COVER MORE TYPES OF VANDALISM RELATED DAMAGES IS ESSENTIAL. WE OWE IT TO OUR SMALL BUSINESSES TO EXPLORE ALL AVENUES TO HELP THEM MITIGATE THESE CHALLENGES.  AND THIS HEARING WE'RE LOOKING TO SEE WHAT WE CAN DO AS A CITY TO MAKE SURE THAT WE'RE PROVIDING AS MUCH SUPPORT TO OUR SMALL BUSINESSES. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. CATCH ORAL IS ANYONE ELSE LOOKING TO SPEAK ON THIS MATTER? WOULD ANYONE ELSE LIKE TO ADD THEIR NAME? MR CLERK PLEASE ADD COUNCILORS BREADON COLETTA DURKIN, FERNANDA ANDERSON, GERALD MCGUIRE. MURPHY PIPPEN. SANTANA WEBER PLEASE OTHER CHAIR DOCKET NUMBER 0840 WILL BE REFERRED TO THE COMMITTEE ON SMALL BUSINESS AND PROFESSIONAL LICENSURE. MR CLERK, WOULD YOU PLEASE READ DOCKET NUMBER 0841 JUST WANTED TO MAKE SURE MR CLERK HEARD ONE MOMENT OR TWO I JUST WANT TO HAVE THAT GO SO IS THAT A 4.74 OR FIVE OC MAKING A MOTION FOR RECONSIDERATION TO ADD COUNCILOR PEPEN TO YOUR VOTE TO WHICH 0744 AND 074 OR FIVE OKAY. ABSENT ANY OBJECTION FROM THE COUNCIL , MR CLERK, CAN YOU PLEASE ADD COUNCILOR BEDPAN TO THOSE DOCKETS AND VOTING IN THE AFFIRMATIVE?  COUNCILOR WEBER, WOULD YOU ALSO LIKE TO RECONSIDER? YES, I WOULD LIKE TO ALSO ADD WE FIRST HAVE TO RECOGNIZE YOU AS BEING PRESENT. SO MR CLERK, CAN YOU PLEASE AMEND THE RECORD TO ADD TO NOTE THAT COUNCILOR WEBER HAS NOW JOINED US AND IS PRESENT. THANK YOU. AND NOW WE CAN HONOR YOUR REQUEST.  THANK YOU. I'D ALSO LIKE TO ADD MY NAME IN SUPPORT OF DOCKET NUMBERS 744 AND SEVEN FOUR OR FIVE. THANK YOU. ABSENT OBJECTION FROM ANY MEMBER OF THE COUNCIL THAT MOTION IS ALLOWED AND MR QUOTE CAN YOU PLEASE ADD COUNCILOR WEBER TO THOSE DOCKET NUMBERS? THANK YOU.  MR CLERK, WOULD YOU PLEASE READ DOCKET NUMBER 0841.0841 COUNCILORS DURKIN AND BREADON OFFER THE FOLLOWING ORDER FOR A HEARING TO DISCUSS ENFORCEMENT OF SHORT TERM RENTAL VIOLATIONS IN BOSTON. THANK YOU. THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES COUNCILOR DURKIN. COUNCILOR DURKIN, YOU HAVE THE FLOOR. THANK YOU SO MUCH. COUNCIL PRESIDENT.  THE CITY OF BOSTON COVERS 48 SQUARE MILES WITH MORE THAN 650,000 RESIDENTS AND WE HAVE OVER 23 NEIGHBORHOODS EACH WITH THEIR OWN STYLE AND PERSONALITY MAKING THE CITY A PREMIER TOURIST DESTINATION THAT WELCOMES OVER 18 MILLION VISITORS EACH YEAR. AS SUCH, BOSTON HAS SEEN RAPID EXPANSION OF SHORT TERM RENTAL INDUSTRY FACILITY AIDED BY ONLINE HOME SHARING PLATFORMS WHICH HAS HAD A BOUT OF THE BAD EFFECT OF REMOVING ALREADY LIMITED HOUSING FOR RESIDENTS. AN ORDINANCE FROM 2018 BY THE CITY COUNCIL REPRESENTS A SHARED GOAL OF PROVIDING ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY FOR RESIDENTS AND UNIQUE ACCOMMODATIONS FOR VISITORS WHILE PRESERVING BOSTON'S HOUSING STOCK. THE SHORT TERM RENTAL ORDINANCE ESTABLISHES GUIDELINES AND REGULATIONS TO BETTER TRACK AND REGULATE SHORT TERM RENTALS IN THE CITY. THE NEW REGULATIONS AIM TO CAPTURE BOSTON'S GROWING HOME SHARE INDUSTRY VIA A REGISTRY WHICH INCLUDES DETERRENTS TO PREVENT OPERATORS FROM MONOPOLIZING BOSTON'S HOUSING MARKET WITH SHORT TERM RENTALS. IN ADDITION, THE REGULATIONS PROVIDE A STANDARDIZED FRAMEWORK FOR REGULATING THESE UNITS THAT BOTH MEET THE EVOLVING NEEDS OF THE INDUSTRY, PROVIDE PROTECTIONS FOR OCCUPANTS AND MINIMIZE THE IMPACT ON SURROUNDING NEIGHBORS OF THESE UNITS. UNFORTUNATELY, WE ARE NOT SEEING THIS ORDINANCE BEAR THE FRUIT THAT WE ONCE HOPED THE CITY OF BOSTON HAS TO OVERSEE OVER A THOUSAND SHORT TERM RENTAL PROPERTIES AND DATA FROM ANALYZED BOSTON REVEALS THAT MANY OF THESE PROPERTIES ARE REPEAT REPEAT OFFENDERS FOR CODE VIOLATIONS INCLUDING IMPROPER TRASH STORAGE. CODE VIOLATIONS OFTEN GO UNPAID AND RARELY IMPACT A PROPERTY'S ABILITY TO RENEW THEIR LICENSE . AS A RESIDENT OF ANDERSON STREET WALKING AROUND BEACON HILL, I SEE CODE ENFORCEMENT VIOLATIONS ASSOCIATED WITH THE SAME PROPERTIES OVER AND OVER AND OVER AGAIN AS I'M EAGER TO INVITE REPRESENTATIVES FOR MY CITY. THE PROBLEM PROPERTY IS TASK FORCE PUBLIC WORKS ASSESSING WE NEED ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS LIKE IS OUR SHORT TERM RENTAL ORDINANCE BEING ENFORCED?  HOW CAN THE SYSTEM BE UPDATED AND SHARE INFORMATION WITH ASSESSING THE TAX DEPARTMENT? HOW DO APPLICATIONS GET APPROVED AND ARE APPLICATIONS BEING DOLED OUT A LICENSE NUMBER WITHOUT ANY WITHOUT ANY PROCESS FOR IF A LICENSE SHOULD BE SUSPENDED? OR IS THERE EVEN A WAY FOR US TO DO THAT? HOW CAN CODE ENFORCEMENT AND THE SHORT TERM RENTALS SHARE INFORMATION TO AUTOMATICALLY TRIGGER SUSPENSIONS AND WHERE IS APPLICANT CONTACT INFORMATION BEING STORED?  THE DETAILS OF ALL THE ORDINANCES WE PASSED IN THE CITY COUNCIL AND THE DETAILS OF THEIR ENFORCEMENT IS REALLY IMPORTANT. I MEAN ALL THE WORK THAT WE DO HERE AND ALL THE TIME THAT GETS SPENT TO PASS LEGISLATION ON AND THEN TO SEE POTENTIALLY IT YOU KNOW, NOT REALLY BEARING OUT AND NOT REALLY CREATING THE BENEFITS THAT WE HOPED FOR THE COMMUNITY AGAIN AS DISTRICT EIGHT CITY COUNCILOR AS A COUNCILOR , TOO MANY DIVERSE NEIGHBORHOODS THAT ARE FACING A LOT OF ISSUES.  I I THIS IS A REALLY IMPORTANT CONVERSATION TO BE HAVING HAPPENING AND I WANT TO THANK COUNCILOR LIZ BRAYTON FOR BEING MY SECOND CO-SPONSOR AND I'M SORRY I DIDN'T DO THIS EARLIER BUT I'D LIKE TO SUSPEND THE RULES AND ADD COUNCILOR SANTANA AS THE THIRD CO-SPONSOR. THANK YOU. COUNCILOR DURKAN COUNCILOR DURKIN'S SUSPENSION OF THE RULES TO ADD COUNCILOR SANTANA AS A THIRD ORIGINAL CO-SPONSOR SEEING AND HEARING NO OBJECTIONS COUNCILOR SANTANA IS SO ADDED COUNCILOR DURKIN DO YOU HAVE ANYTHING? YOU'RE ALL SET. OKAY. THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES COUNCILOR BREADON. COUNCILOR BREADON, YOU HAVE THE FLOOR. THANK YOU, MADAM PRESIDENT. AND THANK YOU TO CONSTRUCTION FOR INCLUDING ME AS AN ORIGINAL CO-SPONSOR ON THIS HEARING ORDER. THE ORDINANCE REGULATING SHORT TERM RENTALS WAS PASSED ON CHAPTER FIVE OF THE ORDINANCE IS A 2018 AND WAS CODIFIED IN THE CITY CODE AND CHAPTER NINE SECTION 14 THE REGISTRATION OF SHORT TERM RENTALS OPENED ON JANUARY 1ST, 2019 AND THE DEPARTMENT OF INNOVATION AND TECHNOLOGY DO IT PUBLISHED A SHORT TERM RENTAL ELIGIBILITY DATA SET TO HELP RESIDENTS, PROPERTY OWNERS AND CITY OFFICIALS DETERMINE WHETHER A PROPERTY IS ELIGIBLE TO BE REGISTERED. THE ORDINANCE AS IT EXISTS TAKES A THREE TIERED APPROACH TO CLASSIFYING UNITS LIMITED SHARE UNITS AS A PRIVATE BEDROOM OR SHARED SPACE IN AN OWNER OCCUPIED PRIVATE RESIDENCE, PRIMARY RESIDENCE AND THE OPERATORS PRESENT DURING THE RENTAL. THE HOME SHARE UNIT IS A WHOLE UNIT AND THE PRIMARY RESIDENCE OF AN OWNER OCCUPIER AND THE UNIT IN WHICH THE OPERATOR RESIDES FOR NINE MONTHS A YEAR AND THE OWNER ADJACENT UNIT IS AN OWNER OCCUPIED TWO OR THREE FAMILY BUILDINGS IN A IN WHICH THE OWNER LISTS AS A SINGLE SECOND UNIT AS A SHORT TERM RENTAL.  ANY PROPERTY WITH AN OUTSTANDING VIOLATION OF THE SHORT TERM RENTAL ORDINANCE OR THE HOUSING SANITARY BUILDING FIRE OR ZONING CODE IS PROHIBITED.  SO TO CONSIDER DURKIN'S POINT EARLIER WE SEE A LOT OF CODE VIOLATIONS. THOSE CODE VIOLATIONS IF THEY'RE PERSISTENT I IN MY OPINION SHOULD TRIGGER A REVIEW OF THEIR REGISTRATION AND HAVE THEM BE PROHIBITED FROM OPERATING AS A SHORT TERM RENTAL IN MY HUMBLE OPINION. BUT THAT'S FOR US FOR A HEARING TO DISCUSS IN THE FALL OF 2018. THE CITY AN RFP FOR A VENDOR TO ASSIST WITH THE MONITORING OPERATING SOLUTION TO AID IMPLEMENTATION. THE VENDOR WAS TO MONITOR LISTINGS ACROSS PLATFORMS AND PROVIDE A TARGETED OF LIKELY VIOLATIONS.  THE STUDY STATED THAT IT WOULD BUILD A LICENSE APPLICATION IN-HOUSE AND WAS NOT SEEKING A LICENSE, REGISTRATION OR RENEWAL AND WAS NOT SEEKING A LICENSE OR REGISTRATION AND RENEWAL APPLICATION SYSTEM BUT ACTUALLY MORE A SYSTEM FOR MONITORING BEHAVIOR WITHIN THE SHORT TERM RENTAL REGULATIONS HAVE NOW BEEN IN EFFECT FOR FIVE AND A HALF YEARS. WE HEAR WE HEAR STORIES OF OF FOLKS WHO ARE NOT GOOD ACTORS WHO ARE BREAKING THE CODE CITY CODE , SANITARY CODE VIOLATIONS, ETC.. NOISE ORDINANCES ARE BEING BROKEN. THERE'S A LOT OF THINGS TO REVIEW.  SO I REALLY WELCOME THIS THIS HEARING.  IT'S A TIMELY DISCUSSION TO ENFORCE ON ENFORCEMENT PERFORMANCE AND ENHANCEMENTS THAT WE MAY NEED TO ADD TO THE EXISTING SHORT TERM RENTAL ORDINANCE AND I LOOK FORWARD TO THE CONVERSATION. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. COUNCILOR BREADON.  THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES COUNCILOR SANTANA. COUNCILOR SANTANA, YOU HAVE THE FLOOR.  THANK YOU, MADAM PRESIDENT. AND THANK YOU TO COUNCILOR FOR SPONSORING THIS HEARING ORDER AND INCLUDING ME AS A CO-SPONSOR AND THANKS TO COUNCILOR BREEDING FOR JOINING AS A CO-SPONSOR AS WELL.  COUNCILOR DURKAN AND BREEDEN HAVE COVERED THE PURPOSE AND IMPORTANCE OF THIS HEARING ORDER. SO I'LL BE BRIEF. I'D JUST LIKE TO EMPHASIZE ONE MAIN POINT SHORT TERM RENTALS ARE A VALUABLE OPTION FOR BOSTON VISITORS AND CAN PROVIDE USEFUL ALTERNATIVES TO HOTELS AND OTHER OPTIONS BUT THAT CAN ALSO COME AT A COST OF DISPLACING HOUSING FOR OUR LONG TERM RESIDENTS AND WITHOUT THOUGHTFUL POLICIES IN PLACE,  SHORT TERM RENTALS CAN DISTORT OUR HOUSING MARKET DRIVING UP RENTS EVEN MORE WHEN WE ALREADY HAVE A HOUSING AFFORDABILITY CRISIS.  BOSTON HAS ACTUALLY DONE GOOD WORK ON THIS PUT IN REGULATION ON SHORT TERM RENTALS IN PLACE IN 2018 TO HELP ENSURE.  WE DON'T END UP WITH BAD SIDE EFFECTS FOR HOUSING AFFORDABILITY.  BUT THOSE REGULATIONS ARE ONLY EFFECTIVE AT THEY'RE ENFORCED AND IF WE ENSURE WE DON'T HAVE LOOPHOLES WITH YEARS OF EXPERIENCE AND DATA IN HAND, WE'RE IN GOOD POSITION NOW TO ASSESS HOW THE CITY IS HANDLING ENFORCEMENT AND ANY IMPACTS OF SHORT TERM RENTALS THAT SHOULD BE ADDRESSED.  I'M LOOKING FORWARD TO THIS DISCUSSION AND I HOPE MANY OF MY COUNCIL COLLEAGUES WOULD JOIN THE HEARING ORDER TO WORK ON THIS TOGETHER. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. CARLOS SANTANA CHAIR RECOGNIZES COUNCILOR FLYNN CAPITAL FLYNN, YOU HAVE THE FLOOR. THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.  I'D LIKE TO THANK THE BAKER FOR THIS IMPORTANT HEARING. AS SOMEONE WHO VOTED FOR THE CITY'S SHORT TERM RENTAL ORDINANCE, IT WAS A STRONG ADVOCATE FOR NO INVESTING UNITS IN THAT PROCESS. I KNOW HOW IMPORTANT THIS DISCUSSION IS TO RESIDENTS ACROSS THE CITY. WE ALL KNOW ABOUT BOSTON'S HOUSING CRISIS. THE LAST THING WE NEED TO DO IS ALLOW FOR LARGE MULTINATIONAL CORPORATIONS TO BUY UP OUR HOUSING STOCK, OPERATE THESE UNREGULATED DE FACTO HOTELS. THEY DRIVE UP THE HOUSING MARKET, CREATE QUALITY OF LIFE CONCERNS WITH ONGOING PARTIES ACROSS MANY NEIGHBORHOODS,  ESPECIALLY IN THE WEEKENDS. PROBLEMS WITH TRASH REMOVAL,  PEST CONTROL BLOCKING DRIVEWAYS WITH THE CARS I SHOULD KNOW I HAVE AN AIRBNB DIRECTLY NEXT TO ME IN SOUTH BOSTON AND 2019 AND 2021. I WORK DIRECTLY WITH COLLEAGUES LIKE THEN CITY COUNCILOR LYDIA EDWARDS, NOW STATE SENATOR AND CITY COUNCILOR AT-LARGE MICHELLE WU NOW MAYOR WILL WANT HEARINGS ON THE IMPORTANT IMPLEMENTATION ON THE SHORT TERM RENT ORDINANCE WAS IT WAS A PERFECT NO BUT WE HAD TO ADDRESS IT. MY FOCUS HAS REMAINED ON POTENTIAL ISSUES LOOPHOLES THAT MAY EXIST AS WELL AS CONCERNS REGARDING THE ELIGIBILITY OF REQUIREMENT REQUIRED FOR ENFORCEMENT OF THIS ORDINANCE.  MY COLLEAGUES MENTIONED THE IMPORTANT WORK BY ESTY AND I KNOW THAT ESTY HAD ONLY REQUIRED TWO OF THE FOLLOWING AS PRIMARY RESIDENTS EVIDENCE THAT HE HAD BEEN B NEEDED TO SHOW PROOF OF RESIDENTIAL EXEMPTION A UTILITY BILL, A VOTER REGISTRATION, A MOTOR VEHICLE REGISTRATION, A DEED, DRIVER'S LICENSE OR A STATE ISSUED ID. I THINK WE NEED TO REQUIRE MORE PROOF AND STEPS TO PROVE TO PROVE THAT PEOPLE DO LIVE THERE FULL TIME. MANY OF THEM ARE CLAIMING THAT THEY LIVED THEY LIVE THERE AND IT'S NOT ACCURATE.  RESIDENTS REMAIN CONCERNED ABOUT PEOPLE STILL OPERATING AIRBNB IN NOT BEING OWNER OCCUPIED LIKE THEY'RE SUPPOSED TO BE. I HAVE NOTIFIED THE CITY ABOUT A CASE RECENTLY ON E STREET IN SOUTH BOSTON WHERE NEIGHBORS INSIST THE PERSON IS NOT LIVING THERE AND THIS HAS BEEN GOING ON FOR A LONG PERIOD OF TIME.  I HAVE OPPOSED EVERY PROPOSAL FOR EXECUTIVE SUITES AS WELL THAT HAVE COME TO THE ZBA BECAUSE I DON'T WANT TO SEE THESE LARGE MULTINATIONAL CORPORATIONS PLAY GAMES WITH THE SPIRIT OF THE ORDINANCE. I KNOW THE ZONING BOARD OF APPEALS DID APPROVE THE CONVERSION OF RESIDENTIAL UNITS INTO EXECUTIVE SUITES IN THE CITY FROM A CORPORATE OPERATOR IN THE PAST WHICH I OPPOSED RECENTLY ON STANHOPE STREET AND THE AREA OF THE BACK BAY THAT I REPRESENT A RESIDENTIAL BUILDING WAS BOUGHT BY A CORPORATE OPERATOR WITH THE INTENTION TO CONVERT THAT BUILDING INTO EXECUTIVE SUITES OR MEDICAL STAYS.  WE NEED TO BE 100% CERTAIN THAT THIS WILL NOT BE EXPLOITED AS A LOOPHOLE AND IF IT IS INDEED THE CARVE OUT FOR AND BUSINESS STAYS OTHERWISE IT SHOULD BE DENIED.  WELL WE HAVE A SHORT TERM RENTAL ORDINANCE IN PLACE. WE NEED CONTINUE WORKING TOGETHER TO FINE TUNE ANY POTENTIAL LOOPHOLES PROVIDING PROOF OF EVIDENCE THAT PROPERTIES ARE OWNER OCCUPIED. ENFORCEMENT IS CRITICAL IN THE CITY. THANK YOU.  THANK YOU. GENERAL FLYNN. THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES COUNCILOR CARLOTTA CASTRO. CARLOTTA, YOU HAVE THE FLOOR. THANK YOU SO MUCH, MADAM PRESIDENT. I RISE TO THANK THE SPONSORS I REACHED OUT TO BE A FOURTH OR FIFTH CO-SPONSOR. I DON'T KNOW HOW MANY PEOPLE REACHED OUT BUT THIS IS INCREDIBLY WELCOME THAT WE'VE HAD SIGNIFICANT ISSUES IN THE NORTH END BEFORE THIS ORDINANCE WAS WAS PUT IN PLACE AND THEN AFTER THE ORDINANCE WAS PUT IN PLACE WE FOUND OUT THAT THERE WAS A TON OF SHORT TERM RENTALS ON MASSPORT LAND IN EAST BOSTON. SO TRYING TO FIGURE OUT WHAT THE JURISDICTIONAL ISSUES WERE THERE AND WHAT ENFORCEMENT LOOKED LIKE. BUT I'VE BEEN WORKING WITH MANY FOLKS THOSE AS PART OF ATCO TO DEAL WITH THIS OF EXECUTIVE SUITES AND WE'VE BEEN TRYING TO TO FIGURE OUT WHAT TO DO IF IF THAT'S A REGULATORY CHANGE AND I HOPE THAT SOME OF THE CONVERSATIONS WILL FOCUS ON THAT AS COUNCILOR FLYNN MENTIONED IN OCTOBER 2022 I HAD COME OUT AND ASKED FOR A DEFERRAL OF A PROJECT THAT WAS IN THE NORTH END BECAUSE OF THIS EXECUTIVE SUITE LOOPHOLE AND THE NEED TO FIGURE OUT WHAT TO DO WITH BUT WE DO NEED TO DEFINE IT ONLY BECAUSE IT IS LEFT UP TO THE ZONING BOARD OF APPEALS AND SO IT PRODUCES THIS AD HOC REGULATORY SYSTEM LEFT TO THE DISCRETION OF THAT BOARD.  THAT EXISTING LOOPHOLE ALLOWS THE SUITES TO OPERATE WITH THE SAME NIGHTLY MINIMUMS AS HOTELS WITHOUT COMPARABLE LICENSING PROCESSES, SAFETY PROCEDURES OR COMMUNITY OVERSIGHT.  MOREOVER, ESD HAS LIMITED ENFORCEMENT MECHANISMS WHEN CONDITIONS ARE GRANTED BY THE TVA AND ARE WEAKER THAN THOSE PROVIDED UNDER THE 2018 SHORT TERM RENTAL ORDINANCE EXCEPT EXECUTIVE SUITES WE'RE TALKING ABOUT AFFORDABLE HOUSING AND WAYS TO GET REVENUE FOR AFFORDABLE HOUSING. EXECUTIVE SUITES ARE NOT SUBJECTED TO A COMMUNITY IMPACT FEE THAT WAS ESTABLISHED BY THE ORDINANCE AND IMPOSED BY THE CITY. THIS FEE WAS CREATED TO PROTECT BOSTON'S EXISTING HOUSING STOCK AND ASSIST WITH THE CREATION OF AFFORDABLE HOUSING IN OUR NEIGHBORHOODS THE OPERATION OF EXECUTIVE SUITES WITHOUT FINANCIAL OBLIGATION TO THIS FEE IS ANTITHETICAL TO THE SPIRIT OF THIS ORDINANCE AS THEY TAKE UNITS OFF THE MARKET WHICH COULD ASSIST WITH OVERALL AFFORDABLE HOUSING GOALS. SO AGAIN JUST THANK YOU TO THE MAKERS. I REALLY LOOK FORWARD TO THIS CONVERSATION AND HOPEFULLY PRODUCING SOME QUICK FIXES TO THE EXISTING ORDINANCE.  THANK YOU. THANK YOU. COUNCILOR COLETTE IS ANYONE ELSE LOOKING TO SPEAK ON THIS MATTER?  I WANT TO THANK THE MAKERS AND AS WELL LOOKING FORWARD TO THIS CONVERSATION. I WANT TO THANK YOU ALL FOR YOUR WORK AND IT'S IMPORTANT THAT GET THIS RIGHT. WOULD ANYONE ELSE LIKE TO ADD THEIR NAME?  MR. CLERK WOULD YOU PLEASE ADD COUNCILORS COLETTA FERNANDO ANDERSON FITZGERALD FLYNN MARIA MURPHY PEPEN WEBER, LAUREL AND PLEASE ADD THE CHAIR. THANK YOU DOCTOR NUMBER ZERO EIGHT FOR A ONE WILL BE REFERRED TO THE COMMITTEE ON HOUSING AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT. MR. CLERK WOULD YOU PLEASE READ DOCKET NUMBER 0842 DUNCAN NUMBER 0842 COUNCIL LOUIJEUNE OFFERED THE FOLLOWING RESOLUTION RECOGNIZING MAY IS HAITIAN HERITAGE MONTH AND MAY 18TH IS HAITIAN FLAG DAY.  THANK YOU. THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES COUNCIL PRESIDENT LOUIJEUNE THE FLOOR IS YOURS.  THANK YOU SO MUCH, MR CHAIR.  MAY AS MANY OF YOU KNOW AS I OPENED THE MONTH OF MAY STATING MAY IS HAITIAN HERITAGE MONTH AND IT IS A MONTH THAT MEANS A LOT TO ME AND TO MY FAMILY.  BOSTON HAS THE SECOND LARGEST PER CAPITA HAITIAN DIASPORA IN THE UNITED STATES AND IT IS ONE THAT HAS BEEN HERE SINCE THE SIXTIES. WE ARE RAISING THE HAITIAN FLAG AT CITY HALL THIS FRIDAY AT NOON AND I WELCOME EVERYONE TO COME. I WANT TO HONOR THE FIRST HAITIAN FLAG RAISING WAS DONE IN THE LATE NINETIES HERE AT CITY HALL BY POLICE OFFICER DAN BRAVO WHO ACTUALLY WAS KILLED THE BROTHER OF JESSIE BRAVO, RESIDENT OF MATTAPAN AND WE HAVE BEEN CONTINUING HIS LEGACY AND HIS WORK EVER SINCE THEN. I DON'T THINK THAT THERE'S ENOUGH TIME FOR ME TO DESCRIBE THE IMPORTANCE OF THIS MONTH OR THE IMPORTANCE OF MY HERITAGE TO WHO I AM. I AM FOREVER GRATEFUL YOU KNOW MY DAD CAN BE VERY MUCH DOES ANNOYING BAD THINGS BUT ONE THING THAT MY DAD ALWAYS DID RIGHT FOR ME AND MY SISTERS WAS MAKING SURE THAT WE KNEW WHO WE WERE AND THAT WE WERE GROUNDED IN OUR IDENTITY.  I WOULD YOU KNOW MY FATHER JUST CENTERED EDUCATION IN EVERYTHING THAT WE DID AND WE HAD WEEKLY MEETINGS AFTER HE WOULD COME HOME FROM WORKING CRAZY SHIFTS DOWN THE STREET AT STORE 24 AND WE'D HAVE WEEKLY MEETINGS WHERE WE WOULD READ THIS BOOK IN CREOLE CALLED TAMALES AND IT'S THAT WAY EVEN THOUGH I WAS BORN HERE PEOPLE ARE SOMETIMES SURPRISED THAT I SPEAK CREOLE BUT IT'S BECAUSE OF MY FATHER AND READING THOSE LITTLE T MARLEY'S BOOKS THAT I CAN READ CREOLE RIGHT CREOLE AND SPEAK IT EVEN THERE'S A SAYING IN CROWD THAT EVEN WHEN YOUR TONGUE IS HEAVY YOUR TONGUE IS THERE AND I SPEAK CREOLE WITH AN AMERICAN ACCENT BUT I STILL SPEAK IT AND SO I'M JUST INCREDIBLY GRATEFUL AND PROUD OF WHO I AM AND WHERE I COME FROM AND MY PARENTS FOR TAKING SUCH TALK AND TEACHING ME THAT WHEN I HAD NOTHING ELSE I HAD WHO I AM AND THAT'S MY IDENTITY AS SOMEONE WHO HAILS FROM THE ONLY COUNTRY IN THE WORLD FOUNDED FROM A SLAVE REVOLT THE FIRST FREE BLACK REPUBLIC IN THE WESTERN HEMISPHERE AND THE SECOND FREE NATION IN THE WESTERN HEMISPHERE. THE COUNTRY THAT HELPED THE UNITED STATES DURING ITS OWN REVOLUTION BEFORE ITS OWN PEOPLE COULD BE FREE. SO THIS FLAG MEANS A LOT TO ME . IT MEANS A LOT TO THE HAITIAN PEOPLE OF BOSTON. IT STARTED YOU KNOW, HAITI WERE KNOWN AS KISKI AND THE ENTIRE ISLAND WAS UNDER FRENCH RULE AND IT WAS ORIGINALLY THE FRENCH TRICOLOR FLAG OF RED,  WHITE AND BLUE. AND IN 1803 THE THEN WHERE THEY WERE CALLED MULATTOS AND THEN SLAVE BLACK FOLKS CAME TOGETHER AND DECIDED THAT THEY WERE GOING TO FIGHT TOGETHER AGAINST THE FRENCH FOR THEIR INDEPENDENCE AND SO THEY RIPPED THE WHITE PART OUT OF THE TRICOLOR FLAG AND PUT IT TOGETHER AND THERE WAS A RED AND THE BLUE FLAG AND IT HAS EVOLVED SINCE THEN. IT WAS THIS FLAG IN THE LATE 1800S AND THEN THERE WERE DIFFERENT VERSIONS THAT CAME OUT AND THEN IN 1986 WE GOT THE YEAR I WAS BORN WE GOT THIS FLAG THAT THERE IS TREMENDOUS PRIDE AND AND WHO WE ARE AND THERE'S A TREMENDOUS PAIN IN WHAT'S HAPPENING RIGHT NOW ON THE ISLAND TO SAFETY AND SECURITY OF SO MANY PEOPLE. I AM OFTEN AT A LOSS OF WORDS TO DESCRIBE HOW HEAVY IT IS AND MYSELF I WASN'T EVEN BORN THERE. I'M AMERICAN AND OF HAITIAN DESCENT. BUT FOR MY PARENTS WHO WOULD LOVE TO GO AND VISIT THEIR NATIVE LAND FOR SO MANY IT'S A REALLY HEAVY TIME RIGHT NOW. BUT I ALWAYS SAY AND I SAID THIS I WROTE AN OP ED IN THE GLOBE ABOUT HAITI A FEW WEEKS AGO THAT HOPE IS THE ONLY THING THAT WE HAVE AND IT'S SOMETHING THAT I WILL NEVER LET GO OF . I OPERATE WITH A SUSTAINED HOPE THAT HAITI WILL RISE IN ITS GLORY AND WILL TAKE ITS PLACE IN HISTORY. AND SO I WANT TO THANK EVERYONE WHO CELEBRATES THE HAITIAN COMMUNITY BUT NOT ONLY CELEBRATES IT'S NOT JUST ABOUT CELEBRATION, IT'S ABOUT BEING A TRUE PARTNER AND A TRUE ADVOCATE AND THE NEEDS THAT THE HAITIAN COMMUNITY FACES IN THE CITY OF BOSTON AND IN THE ENTIRE I'VE SAID THIS IN EVERY MEETING AT EVERY LEVEL WHETHER WITH, YOU KNOW, FEDERAL LAWMAKERS, STATE LAWMAKERS, US HERE ON THE CITY COUNCIL IT'S NOT JUST ABOUT THE CELEBRATION THAT I HOPE EVERYONE WILL BE AT ON FRIDAY.  IT'S ABOUT MAKING SURE THAT WE ARE A PARTNER IN THE WORK THAT WE ARE STANDING WITH THE HAITIAN COMMUNITY WHEN WE FACE ANTI-BLACKNESS, WHEN WE FACE ANTI-IMMIGRANT SENTIMENT, WHEN WE FACE XENOPHOBIA, WHEN OUR KIDS NEEDS RESOURCES AND LEARNING IN SCHOOL, WHEN FOLKS FACE VERY BARRIERS IN AT THE WORKPLACE WHETHER AS SECURITY WORKERS, AS OUR CLEANERS, AS OUR WORKERS AT OUR LOCAL UNIVERSITIES WE NEED AND WE CALL ON YOUR SUPPORT. SO I THINK THE ANCESTORS I THINK CATHERINE FLON FOR GIVING US THIS FOR STARTING THE HAITIAN FLAG AND FOR ALL THE PEOPLE WHO TOILED TO MAKE IT WHAT IT IS. I THINK MY PARENTS I THINK PASTOR KIKI FOR ALL THE INCREDIBLE WORK THAT YOU DO IN THE ASIAN COMMUNITY AND I JUST WANT TO JUST CONTINUE TO ASK FOR YOUR SOLIDARITY AND YOUR SUPPORT ON FLAG DAY, WHICH IS OUR BIGGEST HOLIDAY. IT'S ACTUALLY NOT INDEPENDENCE DAY ON MAY 18TH. IT'S OUR FLAG DAY WHERE WE CELEBRATE THIS FLAG AND THE MEANING IT HAS WHICH IS INCREDIBLY SPECIAL. IT IS IT IS IT IS A MOMENT OF JOY AND SO WILL THERE WILL ALSO BE A PARADE ON ON SUNDAY AT 12 4512 3245 THAT STARTS AT MADISON SQUARE AND GOES ALL THE WAY TO AROUND BAY PARK IN DORCHESTER LED BY THE HAITIAN AMERICANS UNITED.  AND SO YES, THANK YOU. HAPPY HAITIAN FLAG DAY AND JUST BRIEFLY MY VLADIMIR SEATTLE AND PESQUET WHERE WHERE WITH SO I SEE I MAKE EVERY SIP I'M GOING TO KISS MORE WITH YOU PAPA MESSY LITTLE ALI TWO JULY I LOVE TO DO IT YOU CAN IT BE SEBASTIAN APPROVE IT IS OPEN TO CELEBRATE WE MAY SUPPORT THE FESTIVAL OF ACCOMMODATION A COYOTE COMMUNITY SO LITTLE BOSTON CAN CATCH WHEN ED I SUPPORT CANNABIS WE'RE PASTIRMA LIVE AT THAT DEPOT AMISH I MY DEEP TUMOR I SAY THANK YOU TO EVERYONE AND THANK YOU AGAIN TO MY FATHER WHO IS IN SO MANY WAYS MY EVERYTHING IN WHO IS HERE EVEN ON THE DAYS WHERE HE IS BEING VERY MUCH A FATHER. THANK YOU. THANK YOU.  COUNCILOR PEPEN THE FLOOR IS YOURS.  THANK YOU, MR VICE PRESIDENT.  I JUST WANT TO STAND IN SUPPORT AND IN PARTNERSHIP WITH OUR COUNCIL PRESIDENT.  MADAM LOUIJEUNE, I JUST WANT TO HONOR HER AND SAY JUST HOW PROUD I AM OF HER LEADERSHIP. SO I KNOW WHAT I KNOW THE WORK THAT SHE DOES IN THE COMMUNITY. I WAS ABLE TO JOIN HER AT THE MARATHON FOR THE KICKOFF OF THE HAITIAN HERITAGE MONTH AND JUST AS THE DISTRICT COUNCIL FOR DISTRICT FIVE ONTO WHAT I BELIEVE IS THE BIGGEST HAITIAN DIASPORA IN THE CITY OF BOSTON ,I'M HONORED TO REPRESENT THAT COMMUNITY BECAUSE WE HAVE AMAZING BUSINESSES ORGANIZATIONS LIKE WE HAVE AMAZING COMMUNITY LEADERS AND I'M VERY THAT WE ARE HOME TO THE FIRST EVER SCHOOL THAT IS DUAL LANGUAGE, DUAL LINGUAL AND HAITIAN CREOLE WHICH IS THE MATTER OF ELEMENTARY SCHOOL AND I THINK THAT'S SOMETHING THAT I'M OBVIOUSLY VERY PROUD OF BUT THAT WE AS A CITY SHOULD BE PROUD OF AND I KNOW THAT THAT GOES UNNOTICED AND TO THE TO THE COMMUNITY I JUST WANT TO SHOW THAT I JUST WANT TO CELEBRATE WITH YOU AND JUST KNOW THAT YOU HAVE AN ADVOCATE IN ME AND I'M WILLING TO WORK WITH I'M GOING TO WORK WITH OUR COUNCIL PRESIDENT LOUIJEUNE NOT ONLY IN THIS MONTH BUT THROUGHOUT MY TENURE. SO CONGRATULATIONS.  I LOOK FORWARD TO SEEING YOU AT THE FLAG RAISING AND NOT THE PARADE ON SUNDAY. THANK YOU.  CHAIR RECOGNIZES COUNCILOR PHINEAS ANDERSON.  THANK YOU, MR CHAIR. THANK YOU. MADAM FOR FILING AND TO MY HONORABLE COLLEAGUES, I JUST WANT TO SHARE THIS. THIS IS I HAD TO WRITE THIS AT LEAST THREE TIMES. THIS IS NOT THE FIRST VERSION I THOUGHT YOU KNOW, KEEPING IT IN THE SPIRIT OF CELEBRATION.  I WANTED TO SHARE A LITTLE BIT OF WHAT I RISE IN SUPPORT FOR THIS DAY.  I STAND BEFORE YOU TODAY TO ADVOCATE FOR CELEBRATION OF HAITIAN FLAG DAY IN THE CITY OF BOSTON. THIS IS NOT MERELY A SYMBOLIC GESTURE. RATHER IT IS A RECOGNITION OF THE RICH HISTORY STRUGGLES AND OF THE HAITIAN PEOPLE BOTH IN HOMELAND IN THE DIASPORA COMMUNITIES LIKE THE ONE WE HAVE HERE IN BOSTON.  A QUICK THING THAT I THOUGHT I WANTED TO HIGHLIGHT.  ON APRIL 17, 1825 THE FRENCH KING CHARLES THE 10TH ISSUED A DECREE DEMANDING AN EIGHT X EXORBITANT INDEMNITY FROM HAITI IN EXCHANGE FOR RECOGNIZING ITS INDEPENDENCE. THIS DEMAND KNOWN AS THE INDEPENDENCE DEBT AMOUNTED TO 150 MILLION FRANCS TEN TIMES THE AMOUNT THE UNITED STATES PAID FOR THE LOUISIANA TERRITORY.  THIS UNJUST BURDEN CRIPPLED HAITI'S AND HINDERED IS DEVELOPMENT FOR GENERATIONS TO COME.  IT DIRECTLY CONTRIBUTED TO THE UNDERFUNDING OF CRUCIAL SECTORS SUCH AS EDUCATION, HEALTH CARE AND INFRASTRUCTURE PERPETUATE AIDING POVERTY AND INSTABILITY IN THE NATION. TODAY POVERTY REMAINS A PERVASIVE ISSUE IN HAITI AFFECTING THE DAILY LIVES OF ITS RESIDENTS AND DRIVING MANY TO SEEK OPPORTUNITIES ABROAD. RECENT MONTHS HAVE SEEN A SURGE IN HAITIAN MIGRANTS FLEEING VIOLENCE, POLITICAL INSTABILITY ,ECONOMIC HARDSHIP AND NATURAL DISASTERS ALSO FROM INTERNATIONAL COUNTRIES COMMODITIES IN THIS LAND FOR THEIR OWN GAIN. THIS NEW WAVE OF IMMIGRANT IMMIGRATION REFLECTS A DEEP SEEDED DESPERATION AND A LOSS OF HOPE IN THE PROSPECTS FOR A BETTER FUTURE IN HAITI. AS DESTINATION COUNTRIES GRAPPLE WITH THE INFLUX OF MIGRANTS, IT IS INCUMBENT UPON US TO RECOGNIZE AND ADDRESS THE ROOT CAUSES OF THIS MIGRATION. WE CANNOT THE ROLE THAT HAS HISTORICAL INJUSTICES, POLITICAL TURMOIL AND ECONOMIC DEPRIVATION HAVE PLAYED IN DRIVING HAITIANS FROM THEIR HOMELAND TO MOST OF IT NO FAULT OF THEIR OWN. INSTEAD WE MUST STAND IN SOLIDARITY WITH THE HAITIAN PEOPLE AND ADVOCATE FOR THE MEANINGFUL CHANGE BOTH DOMESTICALLY AND INTERNATIONALLY. THE HAITIAN COMMUNITY IS BOSTON'S IN BOSTON CONTRIBUTES IMMENSELY TO OUR CITY'S CULTURAL VIBRANCY, ECONOMIC VITALITY AND SOCIAL FABRIC.  BY CELEBRATING HAITIAN FLAG DAY WE HONOR THEIR HERITAGE AND RECOGNIZE THEIR CONTRIBUTIONS AND REAFFIRM OUR COMMITMENT TO JUSTICE, EQUITY AND INCLUSION FOR ALL. FURTHERMORE, AS REPRESENTATIVES OF THE PEOPLE WE HAVE A RESPONSIBILITY TO RAISE AWARENESS ABOUT THE PLIGHT OF OUR HAITIAN BROTHERS AND SISTERS AND TO ADVOCATE FOR POLICIES THAT SUPPORT THEIR RIGHTS AND DIGNITY RIGHT HERE IN BOSTON. THIS INCLUDES CONDEMNING FOREIGN INTERVENTIONS AND SUPPORTING EFFORTS TO ADDRESS THE ROOT CAUSES OF MIGRATION THROUGH DIPLOMACY, AID AND DEVELOPMENT ASSISTANCE.  I URGE MY FELLOW COUNCIL MEMBERS TO JOIN OUR SISTER IN SERVICE. MADAM PRESIDENT RUTHE LOUIJEUNE ,THE FIRST HAITIAN-AMERICAN CITY COUNCILOR IN COMMEMORATING HAITIAN FLAG DAY AND STANDING IN SOLIDARITY WITH THE HAITIAN COMMUNITY IN BOSTON AND BEYOND. LET US SEND A POWERFUL MESSAGE TO SUPPORT EMPATHY AND UNITY REAFFIRMING OUR SHARED COMMITMENT TO JUSTICE, HUMAN RIGHTS AND INTERNATIONAL SOLIDARITY AND ON SOME DECISIONS WE DON'T LISTEN TO WHAT COUNCIL PRESIDENT LOUIJEUNE SAYS. I'M HAITIAN ON SUNDAY I'M COMING MY PUBLISHER. I LOVE YOU AND OF COURSE IN SOLIDARITY. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. IF ANYONE ELSE LOOKING TO SPEAK ON THIS MATTER AS A DISTRICT FOR BOSTON CITY COUNCILOR I HAVE THE HONOR TO BE SERVING A LARGE HAITIAN COMMUNITY AND GETTING TO KNOW A LOT OF THE HAITIAN COMMUNITY LEADERS. I ALSO WANTED TO THANK COUNCIL PRESIDENT LOUIJEUNE FOR ALL YOUR ADVOCACY THAT YOU DO IN THIS SPACE AND FOR YOUR COMMUNITY. ALSO JUST WANT TO JUST RECOGNIZE THAT THE FLAG EMBODIES, YOU KNOW, STRENGTH AND RESILIENCE IN THE HAITI COMMUNITY HERE IN BOSTON. IT'S GOING TO BE ON FULL DISPLAY. HE'S GOING TO SHOW US WHERE THERE'S UNITY. THERE IS STRENGTH.  COUNCILOR LOUIJEUNE SEEKS SUSPENSION OF THE RULES.  OH, WOULD ANYONE LIKE TO ADD THEIR NAME PLEASE? PLEASE, DAD . COUNCILOR BRADING COUNCIL LEADER COUNCILOR DURKIN CUT TO ANDERSON COUNCILOR FITZGERALD COUNCILOR FLYNN CAST MEJIA. COUNCILOR MURPHY PEPEN COUNCILOR SANTANA COUNCILOR WEBER AND PLEASE THAT COUNCIL AROUND COUNCILOR LOUIJEUNE SUSPENSION OF THE RULES AND PASSAGE OF DOCKET NUMBER 084 TO ALL THOSE IN FAVOR OF SAY.  THE AYES HAVE IT THE DOCKET NUMBER 0842 HAS BEEN ADOPTED. THANK YOU.  THANK YOU, MR CHAIR.  MR. CLERK, WILL YOU PLEASE READ DOCKET NUMBER 0843 DUNCAN NUMBER 043 COUNCILORS FLYNN AND MURPHY ARE FOR THE FOLLOWING RESOLUTION AND CALLING ON THE MASSACHUSETTS LEGISLATURE TO PASS ENACTING STEP ESTABLISHING PROTECTIONS AND ACCOUNTABILITY FOR T AND C AND D AND CITY WORKERS. THANK YOU. THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES COUNCILOR FLYNN. COUNCILOR FLYNN, YOU HAVE THE FLOOR. THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR. MADAM CHAIR, MAY I SUSPEND RULE 12 AND ADD COUNCILOR FITZGERALD ,PLEASE? COUNCILOR FLYNN'S EXPANSION OF THE RULES TO ADD COUNCILOR FITZGERALD AS A THIRD ORIGINAL CO-SPONSOR SEEING AND HEARING NO OBJECTIONS COUNCILOR FITZGERALD IS SO ADDED COUNCILOR FLYNN, YOU HAVE THE FLOOR. THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR. MADAM CHAIR, THIS IS A RESOLUTION IN SUPPORT OF STATE LEGISLATION THAT WILL PROTECT OUR TRANSPORTATION NETWORK COMPANIES TNC, TNC AND DELIVERY NETWORK COMPANIES THEIR WORKERS WHO ARE OUR UBER AND BUS DRIVERS OUR DELIVERY DRIVERS FROM DOORDASH WHO PLAY A CRITICAL PART IN OUR ECONOMY AND DELIVERY OF SERVICES.  CURRENTLY COMPANIES SUCH AS UBER, LYFT, DOORDASH AND OTHERS AND OTHER APP BASED COMPANIES HAVE MISCLASSIFIED THEIR DRIVERS AS INDEPENDENT CONTRACTORS.  BUT THESE DRIVERS SHOULD BE CLASSIFIED AS EMPLOYEES ENTITLED TO FAIR WAGES AND BENEFITS.  IN FACT, MASSACHUSETTS ATTORNEY GENERAL FILED THE LAWSUIT FOR WAGE THEFT IN MISCLASSIFICATION BECAUSE THE DRIVERS ARE EMPLOYEES IN 2020.  IN THIS LAWSUIT GOING TO TRIAL ON YESTERDAY BY MISCLASSIFYING THEIR EMPLOYEES AS INDEPENDENT CONTRACTORS TNC AND DNC COMPANIES AVOIDED PAYING MILLIONS OF DOLLARS IN WORKER COMPENSATION FROM PAID FAMILY MEDICAL LEAVE WHICH ARE FUNDED BY OTHER COMPANIES. THE REPORT ON THE FINANCIAL ASSESSMENT OF TNC EVALUATED A PERIOD OF TEN YEARS. THEY FOUND THAT DURING THIS THIS TEN YEAR SPAN MORE THAN $105 MILLION WAS LOST IN WORK A COMPENSATION.  ALMOST 125 MILLION WAS LOST IN UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE.  MORE THAN 36 MILLION WAS LOST IN PAID AND FAMILY MEDICAL LEAVE.  THIS TOTALS MORE THAN 266 MILLION OWED TO THE MASSACHUSETTS TO MASSACHUSETTS ITS BENEFIT PROGRAMS FROM THE PERIOD OF 2013 TO 2023.  THIS PROPOSED LEGISLATION HAS 627 SENATE HOUSE 1158 AN ACT ESTABLISHING PROTECTION AND ACCOUNTABILITY FOR TNC AND DNC WORKERS.  SPONSORED BY OUR FORMER CITY COUNCIL COLLEAGUE SENATOR HILLARY EDWARDS WILL PREVENT PRICE GOUGING REQUIRES PANIC BUTTONS FOR BOTH DRIVER AND PASSENGER.  PROVIDES A PATHWAY TO COLLECTIVE BARGAINING,  COLLECTIVE BARGAINING UNIONIZATION ALL THE WHILE MAINTAINING EMPLOYEE STATUS FOR DRIVERS.  IT ALSO ALLOWS LOCAL CONTROL AND FLEXIBILITY WITH REGARD TO THE IMPACT OF TNC AND DNC AND 2023 ALONE. UBER AND LYFT EARNED 1.4 BILLION BUT CONTRIBUTE NOTHING TO MASSACHUSETTS BENEFIT PROGRAMS OWING THE COMMONWEALTH $47 MILLION. THIS IS ABOUT FAIRNESS.  THIS IS ABOUT TREATING OUR WORKERS WITH RESPECT AND DIGNITY. THEY HAVE EARNED IT. I HOPE WE CAN SUSPEND AND PASS THIS RESOLUTION TODAY AND SUPPORT OF THIS MASSACHUSETTS STATE LEGISLATION. THANK YOU.  THANK YOU. THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES COUNCILOR MURPHY. COUNCILOR MURPHY, YOU HAVE THE FLOOR. THANK YOU, MADAM PRESIDENT PRESIDENT.  THANK YOU, COUNCILOR FLYNN. I'LL JUST ADD THAT I DO BELIEVE THAT PROTECTING OUR WORKERS AND EASING PATHWAYS FOR EMPLOYEES ACROSS THE CITY TO JOIN UNIONS IS IMPORTANT FOR MYSELF TO DO AND ALSO THAT THE DRIVERS THAT I'M COMFORTABLE OF FLYNN STATED A LOT OF THE FACTS ALREADY BUT IF THEY'RE GIVEN FULL STATUS AS EMPLOYEES IT'S PROTECTING MAKING SURE THEY HAVE MINIMUM WAGE PROTECTIONS, APPEAL PROTECTIONS FOR WORKER TERMINATION REIMBURSEMENT ON GAS MILEAGE WE ALL KNOW HOW EXPENSIVE GAS IS AND LIABILITY INSURANCE THINGS THAT I KNOW THEY NEED. I DO KNOW THAT ALL OF THE UNIONS AGREE THAT ALLOWING OUR WORKERS TO UNIONIZE IS IMPORTANT. WE MAY HAVE DIFFERENCES OF OPINION ON THE LANGUAGE BUT I DO THINK IT'S IMPORTANT THAT WE PROTECT AND SUPPORT THIS BILL. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES COUNCILOR GERALD CASSIDY GERARDI ON THE FLOOR. THANK YOU, MADAM PRESIDENT. THE WAY I SEE THIS BREAK DOWN IS THIS REALLY COMES DOWN TO THERE ARE TWO BILLS SUPPORTING THIS. I THINK EVERYONE'S AGREEMENT WE NEED TO HAVE A UNIONIZATION AROUND THESE JOBS BUT THE BILL THAT THAT THAT COUNCIL FLYNN MENTIONED THE HOUSE 1158 IT'S REALLY ABOUT FLEXIBILITY VERSUS THE EMPLOYEE EMPLOYER EMPLOYEE STATUS AND THE WORRY THAT YOU MIGHT LOSE FLEXIBILITY WITH THAT STATUS I DON'T FEEL THAT IS THE CASE. WE HAVE TO THINK ABOUT THIS AS HAVING THE STATUS AND WHAT IF WE ALLOW THE BENEFITS TO GO BUT REMAIN THE CONTRACT STATUS?  WE HAVE TO THINK OF THE EFFECT THAT IT'S HAD ON ALL LABOR ACROSS AND WHAT THAT MEANS IN OTHER DEPARTMENTS AS WELL.  THIS BILL IS FOR ALL DRIVERS INCLUDING THE FOOD DELIVERY DRIVERS AS WELL NOT JUST FOR OUR TRANSPORTATION DRIVERS. AND SO I DO THINK THAT WE SHOULD SUPPORT THIS BILL GOING FORWARD AS IT GIVES FOLKS THE BEST PROTECTIONS STAYS WITHIN WHAT THE LABOR ALLOWS AND SHOULD MOVE FORWARD WITH. AND I BELIEVE THE FLEXIBILITY IS STILL THERE WITH THE STATUS NEEDED TO MAKE THE UNIONIZATION HAPPEN. SO THANK YOU VERY MUCH. THANK YOU. THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES COUNCILOR DURKAN CONSIDER CAN YOU HAVE THE FLOOR?  THANK YOU SO MUCH. I FEEL REALLY BRAVE GETTING UP HERE AND SAYING THIS BUT I'M GOING TO OBJECT TO A VOTE TODAY ON THIS.  I BELIEVE WE NEED TO LET LABOR LEAD THE DISCUSSIONS THAT WE'RE HAVING WITHIN THIS BODY AND LABOR HERE IS IN DISAGREEMENT. THERE'S I'VE HEARD FROM MULTIPLE UNION LEADERS THERE ISN'T CONSENSUS RIGHT NOW AROUND THIS BILL. IF I WAS A REPRESENTATIVE AT THE STATE HOUSE I WOULD PROBABLY VOTE IN SUPPORT OF THIS BILL IF IT WAS BROUGHT TO MY DESK. BUT WE ARE WEIGHING IN I THINK ON A LABOR CONVERSATION PRIOR TO THAT LABOR CONFERENCE ACTION HAPPENING. BUT I REALLY WANT TO THANK COUNCILOR FLYNN. I WANT TO THANK COUNCILOR MURPHY ON I THINK COUNCILOR FITZGERALD. I THINK IT'S REALLY IMPORTANT THAT WE REMAIN CIVIL AND LIKE THIS DISCUSSION.  BUT FOR ME WHEN I HAVEN'T I DON'T HAVE A SINGLE EMAIL IN MY EMAIL ASKING ME TO SUPPORT THIS RESOLUTION BUT I GOT OVER FOUR PHONE CALLS ABOUT ABOUT THIS PARTICULAR THING OF JUST QUESTIONING US WEIGHING IN ON UNION STRATEGY PRIOR TO YOU KNOW, BEING AND WE ARE A CITY COUNCIL BODY AND I KNOW THAT WE PASS RESOLUTIONS AND WE PASS RESOLUTIONS IN SUPPORT OF BILLS AND I SO STAND WITH WORKERS. I STAND WITH INCREASING THEIR BENEFITS.  I STAND WITH LABOR. BUT HERE STANDING WITH LABOR ISN'T SO CLEAR AND I THINK WE NEED TO TAKE A BEAT AND I THINK THIS NEEDS TO BE SENT TO COMMITTEE FOR FURTHER CONVERSATION. THANK YOU SO MUCH.  THANK YOU, SERGEANT.  THANK YOU, COUNCILOR DURKIN. SO YOU'RE YOU'RE OBJECTING TO THE SUSPENSION OF THE RULES. OKAY. THANK YOU. THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES COUNCILOR WEBER. COUNCILOR WEBER, YOU HAVE THE FLOOR AND I GUESS THE CLERK IS THERE ANY POINT TO DISCUSSING THIS FURTHER WITH BECAUSE OF THE OBJECTION WE WILL BE SENDING IT TO COMMITTEE. SO IF YOU DON'T WANT TO SPEAK ON THIS MATTER YOU DON'T HAVE TO BUT IT'S I MEAN I'M HAPPY TO SPEAK JUST BRIEFLY. YOU KNOW I MY THE FIRST CASE I HAD THAT I I ACTUALLY DEALT WITH AS A AS A FIRST YEAR LAW STUDENT CLERK DEALT WITH, YOU KNOW, THE ISSUE OF WHETHER WORKERS AT A BANQUET HALL WOULD BE COVERED BY THE STATE TIPS LAW WHETHER THEY WERE INDEPENDENT CONTRACTORS IN THIS LARGE BANQUET HALL.  THEY HAD EMPLOYED THEIR OWN SERVERS WITH THEM. THEY HIRED ADDITIONAL SERVERS THROUGH A TEMP COMPANY AND THEY DIDN'T FEEL LIKE THEY HAD TO SHARE THE TIPS WITH THOSE SERVERS BECAUSE THEY SAID THEY DIDN'T EMPLOY THEM AND WE ENDED UP LOSING THAT CASE AND THE NEW YORK SUPREME COURT IS CALLED NEW YORK COURT OF APPEALS BUT ILLUSTRATES HOW IMPORTANT IT IS TO BE WHETHER YOU'RE AN INDEPENDENT CONTRACTOR OR YOUR EMPLOYEE. AND I SPENT 18 YEARS AS AN ATTORNEY DEALING WITH THAT ISSUE AND A COLLEAGUE OF MINE SAID IF THERE'S ANY EXPLOITATIVE WORKPLACE PRACTICE IT STARTED ON A FARM AND ONE OF THOSE PRACTICES YOU SEE ON A FARM IS WHERE WORKERS ARE PAID BY THE PIECE RATE. THEY GET PAID BY THE THE POUND OF BLUEBERRIES THEY PICK AND WHAT HAPPENS ON THOSE FARMS IS THERE'S NO INCENTIVE TO REDUCE KEEP THE AMOUNT OF WORKERS YOU KNOW, LIMITED ON THEIR ON THEIR FARM SO THEY HAVE AS MANY PEOPLE AS THEY CAN SHOW UP AND THEN THEY ALL FIGHT FOR A SHARE OF WHAT THEY CAN PICK AND WHETHER THEY GET PAID IS WHAT THEY GET PAID HERE WE'VE GOT A SIMILAR PRACTICE WITH UBER AND LYFT IN THESE COMPANIES. THEY WANT AN UNLIMITED SUPPLY OF LABOR.  THEY WANT WHEN YOU LOOK AT YOUR PHONE THEY WANT YOU TO SEE 100 DIFFERENT CARS YOU KNOW THAT YOU CAN CHOOSE FROM AND SO THEY THEY WANT THAT LABOR BUT THEY DON'T WANT THE RESPONSIBILITY OF TREATING THOSE WORKERS RIGHT. YOU KNOW, I THINK WE'VE GOT A CASE RIGHT NOW GOING FORWARD IN THE SUPERIOR COURT HERE ON WHETHER UBER DRIVERS, YOU KNOW, ARE EMPLOYEES OR NOT. I THINK THE ATTORNEY GENERAL HAD A RIGHT WHEN THEY SAID WHEN WHEN SHE SAID THEY KNOW THEY'RE GOING TO LOSE THIS CASE AND THAT'S WHY THEY'RE TRYING TO YOU KNOW, GO FORWARD WITH A BALLOT MEASURE. I THINK WE HAVE TO BE VIGILANT. WE HAVE TO PROTECT THESE GROUPS OF WORKERS. WE HAVE TO COMBAT MISINFORMATION THAT WE'RE GOING TO HEAR A LOT OF , YOU KNOW, THROUGH THIS BALLOT INITIATIVE PROCESS.  AND SO, YOU KNOW, I HOPE WE CAN SUPPORT I THINK ALL OF OUR LABOR LEADERS AROUND MASSACHUSETTS SUPPORT TREATING OUR YOU KNOW, ON DEMAND WORKERS FAIRLY AND THIS IS PART OF THAT . SO YOU KNOW, IT LOOKS LIKE WE'RE GOING TO BE VOTING TODAY BUT YOU KNOW, I HOPE WE CAN ALL JOIN TOGETHER WITH OUR WITH OUR ADVOCATES AND SUPPORT, YOU KNOW, WORKERS WHO NEED IT THE MOST WHICH ARE THESE UBER LYFT DRIVERS, DOORDASH WORKERS. YOU KNOW, WE'RE BEING TAKEN ADVANTAGE OF . THANK YOU. THANK YOU FOR THE JOURNEYS, COUNCILOR . BUT I'M LISA. THANKS.  THANK YOU. THAT NOT JUST OKAY IF ANYONE ELSE FOLLOW YOU JUST BECAUSE MATTER WHAT ANYONE ELSE LIKE TO ADD THERE IS A THIRD PARTY AND IT'S GREAT IN A LOT OF VERY GOOD FOR YOU TO UNDERSTAND YEAH WHATEVER.  PLEASE ADD THE CHAIR DOCKET NUMBER 4843 WILL BE SENT TO THE COMMITTEE ON LABOR AND WORKFORCE AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT. MR CLERK, WHEN YOU PLEASE READ DOCKET NUMBER 08440001 WHAT WAS THE QUESTION? WHAT WERE WE ADDING OUR NAME TO JUST ADD TO THE RESOLUTION. SO JUST FOR FLAHERTY BECAUSE THERE WAS AN OBJECTION WE'RE NOT VOTING ON THE RESOLUTION SO IT WILL NOW THE RESOLUTION INSTEAD OF BEING VOTED ON WILL BE SENT TO COMMITTEE AND SO JUST AS JUST IN THE SAME WAY THAT YOU ADD YOUR NAME TO A DOCKET THAT COMES OFF, YOU KNOW, REALLY THE WEIGHT OF IT IS WHAT IT MEANS. BUT IT WILL BE SENT TO COMMITTEE FOR HEARINGS OR FOR FOR FURTHER WORK.  OKAY. MR CLERK, WOULD YOU PLEASE READ DOCKET NUMBERS ARE 844084 I WAS VERY WELL COUNCILOR FOR AN END TO SEEING THE SEND OFF OF THE FOLLOWING RESOLUTION RECOGNIZING MALCOLM X'S BIRTHDAY MAY 19TH AS THE BOSTON MUNICIPAL HOLIDAY AND HONORING MALCOLM X'S LEGACY BY ESTABLISHING AND INCLUDING MALCOLM X IN BOSTON'S BLACK HERITAGE TRAIL.  THANK YOU THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES COUNCILOR FOR AN INJURY ANDERSON CAVS FOR AN INJURY. ANDERSON YOU HAVE THE FLOOR.  MADAM CHAIR, IF IT'S OKAY I JUST WANTED TO QUICK COMMENT ABOUT THE PREVIOUS DOCKET. I MEAN I THINK THAT IF FOLKS ARE NOT PREPARED TO TAKE A VOTE THEY COULD JUST VOTE PRESENT. THINK ABOUT NO, THEY COULD VOTE A LOT OF THINGS BUT GOING TO COMMITTEE I LOOK FORWARD TO THE CONVERSATION AND UNDERSTANDING EXACTLY WHAT MY COUNCIL COLLEAGUES ARE POINTS OR THE UNION SAID HAVE EXPRESSED CONCERN BUT OF COURSE IN SUPPORT OF THE UNION MEMBERS HERE TODAY. THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR BEING HERE AND FOR THE FIGHT. LOOK FORWARD TO THE CONVERSATION.  THANK YOU MADAM PRESIDENT FOR OCCASIONAL LEE A GIANT WALKS AMONG THE AMONG US AND THEIR BRILLIANCE, BOLDNESS AND BRAVERY IS A SIGHT TO BEHOLD AND THEIR GREATNESS LIES IN THEIR ABILITY TO CONNECT WITH THE COMMUNITIES THAT CREATED THEM. THEY WORK BOTH FOR US AND WITH US. THEIR END GOALS ARE NEVER INDIVIDUAL THEY SEEK NOT FAME OR FORTUNE AND FORTUNE BUT RATHER THE COLLECTIVE LIBERATION OF ALL PEOPLE FROM OPPRESSION, MARGINALIZATION AND DISENFRANCHISEMENT. ABOVE ALL THEY ARE COURAGEOUS AND CONTINUE TO GROW THROUGHOUT THE COURSE OF THEIR LIVES.  SUCH A MAN MY FRIENDS WAS MALCOLM X ON MAY 19, 1925 THE DENVER MALCOLM LITTLE WAS BORN A CHILD OF GARVEY HEIGHTS.  HIS PARENTS WERE PROUD RACE FOLKS OUR RACE FOLKS AS THOSE WITH BLACK PRIDE WOULD KNOW AT THE TIME AND BECAUSE THEY WERE BLACK AND FOUGHT FOR THEIR RIGHTS UNDER THE BANNER OF THE MARCUS GARVEY MOVEMENT THEY WERE PERSECUTED BY THE POWERFUL POWERFUL FORCES OF RACIST REACTION.  THE KKK BURNED THEIR HOUSE AND QUITE POSSIBLY MURDERED MALCOLM X FATHER ONCE THE FATHER WAS OUT OF THE WAY THE SYSTEM THEN BROKE UP THEIR FAMILY. MALCOLM'S MOTHER WAS COMMITTED TO A MENTAL HOSPITAL.  HE AND HIS SIBLINGS SEPARATED. HIS MOTHER WOULD NEVER QUITE RECOVER FROM THEIR HEINOUS AND HORRIFIC HISTORY.  THIS UPBRINGING AND BACKGROUND WOULD BURN IN THE BRAIN OF MALCOLM FOR THE REST OF HIS LIFE. WHEN YOU ARE TOLD EACH AND EVERY DAY OF YOUR LIFE THAT THE DOORS OF OPPORTUNITY ARE CLOSED TO YOU AND ENTERPRISING AMONG US DECIDE THAT WE ARE GOING TO PRY THAT DOOR OPEN ONE WAY OR ANOTHER. SO MALCOLM TURNED TO CRIME RIGHT HERE IN BOSTON IN FACT WHERE HE LIVED ON DALE STREET IN ROXBURY FOR SEVERAL YEARS WITH HIS OLDER SISTER ELLA COLLINS MALCOLM AS THEY USED TO SAY MADE THE SCENE. HE WORKED AT THE ABC SET SAVOY BALLROOM ON MASS OF MAT BILLIE HOLIDAY AT HIGH HAT AND MADE FRIENDS WITH PEOPLE IN A VARIETY OF FIELDS SOME OF THESE FIELDS WERE OF WAR OF OF OF THE ILLEGAL KIND IN THE BLACK EXPERIENCE PARTICULARLY FOR MEN PRISON IS OFTEN AN IMPORTANT PART OF THE STORY. MANY OF OUR BROTHERS ARE THERE FOR REASONS SIMILAR TO MALCOLM MEANING THEY WERE MET WITH SYSTEMIC AND STRUCTURAL OPPRESSION THAT LEFT THEM WITH LITTLE IN THE WAY OF LEGAL MECHANISMS TO ADVANCE IN THE FACE OF SUCH OPPRESSION WHEN OFTEN NEEDS A FORCE THAT TRANSCENDS THE IMMEDIATE AND IT IS WHEN WE ARE AT OUR LOWEST DOES SUCH A FORCE OFTEN REACHES US? MALCOLM HAD COURAGE AND THE GROWTH MINDSET TO BE INTERESTED IN WORLD AFFAIRS AND WHERE ANYONE WAS COLONIZED AND OPPRESSED. HE LOOKED AND SUPPORTED THEM, SUPPORTED THOSE WHO COMBATED THAT OPPRESSION BY ANY MEANS NECESSARY BUT MALCOLM FOUGHT ON HE REDOUBLED HIS EFFORTS WITH TRUE AS HIS ONLY WEAPON WITH TRUTH AS HIS ONLY WEAPON TO HE CONTINUED THE FIGHT FOR THE FREEDOM OF HIS PEOPLE. HE WENT FROM THE NATION OF ISLAM FINDING SOLACE AND FAITH AND STRENGTH IN HIS FAITH. HE WENT FROM BEING A BLACK NATIONALIST TO A PAN-AFRICAN REVOLUTIONARY.  HE VISITED MECCA. HE PERFORMED HAJJ.  HE TRAVELED FOUR MONTHS IN AFRICA CONVENING WITH SUCH LEGENDARY AFRICAN LEADERS AS NASSER OF EGYPT, NKRUMAH OF GHANA AND SECRETARY OF GUINEA. HE SPOKE OF BLACK AMERICA AS PART OF THE WORLDWIDE AFRICAN DIASPORA FIGHTING FOR ITS FREEDOM AGAINST THE FORCES OF RACISM, IMPERIALISM AND CAPITALISM.  HE EVEN BEGAN TO HAVE SOME HOPE FOR HIS WHITE BROTHERS AND SISTERS. HE AS MISERABLY AS THEIR SYSTEMS OF OPPRESSION HAD DEVALUED OUR PEOPLE. HE SAW HOPE IN THE POWER OF ISLAM TO BRING PEOPLE TOGETHER FOR IN HIS SOJOURN IN THE MIDDLE EAST AND NORTHERN AFRICA HE SAW MUSLIMS OF ALL COLORS. HE SAW DOPE HOPE IN YOUTH WHO WERE SEEKING ANSWERS OUTSIDE OF THE MAINSTREAM POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC PARADIGMS HE SAW HOPE IN POLITICAL RADICALS OF ALL COLORS WHO WERE THROWING OFF THEIR STATE SUPPORT FOR A STATUS QUO AND RATIONALIZE WAR AND RACISM. HE CHALLENGED US TO USE OUR VOTING POWER WISELY, CAUTIONING US AGAINST BLINDLY SUPPORTING EITHER OF THE TWO MAJOR POLITICAL PARTIES SAYING THAT THE REPUBLICANS WERE WOLVES AND THE DEMOCRATS WERE FOXES AND THAT IF YOU WEREN'T CAREFUL BOTH OF THEM WOULD EAT YOU ALIVE AT THE SAME TIME AT THE TIME OF HIS DEATH HE WAS WORKING TOWARD BRINGING THE UNITED STATES UP ON CHARGES AT THE UNITED NATIONS FOR CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY. HE SPOKE OF HUMAN RIGHTS NOT CIVIL RIGHTS. HE WAS WILLING TO FOLLOW THE TRUTH WHEREVER IT LED IN THE SERVICE OF HIS PEOPLE AND FOR ALL HUMANITY. AND ON FEBRUARY 21ST, 1965, AT THE AGE OF 39, THEY TOOK HIS BODY FROM THIS EARTH FOR AT TIMES A GIANT WALKS TO EARTH MAYBE THEY THOUGHT WE'D FORGET BUT OUR MEMORY WHEN IT COMES TO BROTHER MALCOLM IS ETERNAL AND WE WILL NOT LET HIM BE EITHER FORGOTTEN OR WATERED DOWN. SO LET US BEGIN AND IT IS UP TO US TO THE REST OF US TO PUT OUR FEET IN THE TRACKS THEY LEAVE BEHIND AND CARRY THE STRUGGLE AT THIS TIME I WOULD LIKE TO ASK YOU MY DEAR COLLEAGUES TO SUSPEND AND PASS THE RULES OF PASS THIS RESOLUTION. THANK YOU.  THANK YOU, COUNCILOR FOR AN INJURY ANDERSON IS ANYONE ELSE LOOKING TO SPEAK ON THIS MATTER? JUST WANT TO LIFT UP HOW IMPORTANT MALCOLM X WAS TO BOSTON'S BLACK HISTORY AND BOSTON'S HISTORY AND HOW IMPORTANT HE IS. AND YOU KNOW, WE MY OFFICE IN YOUR OFFICE HAS BEEN USE AND HAVE BEEN WORKING ON THE BLACK HERITAGE TRAIL. AND SO I THINK IT'S I THINK IT'S REALLY IMPORTANT THAT WE KNOW OUR LOCAL HISTORY AND THAT WE KNOW THE IMPORTANT ROLE THAT BOSTON PLAYED IN MALCOLM X'S LIFE AND THE ROLE THAT MALCOLM X PLAYED IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF BLACK FOLKS HERE IN THE CITY OF BOSTON. SO THANK YOU FOR OFFERING THIS. THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES COUNCILOR CATTERALL, YOU'RE ON THE FLOOR. THANK YOU.  COUNCILOR PRESIDENT LOUIJEUNE AND THANK YOU COUNCILOR FEENEY A.S. FOR CONTINUING TO RECOGNIZE BLACK EXCELLENCE AND LEADERSHIP IN THE CITY OF BOSTON.  MALCOLM X LAID THE GROUNDWORK FOR BLACK LIBERATION FOR MUCH OF THAT WORK STARTING RIGHT HERE IN BOSTON. HIS TEACHINGS EMPOWER MIT SELF RESPECT AND COMMUNITY CONTINUE TO RESONATE WITH GENERATIONS OF ACTIVISTS INSPIRING MANY TO DISMANTLE SYSTEMS OF OPPRESSION AND WORK TO BUILD A TRULY EQUITABLE SOCIETY OUR CITY BUILT ITSELF AS A LEADER IN LAYING THE FOUNDATIONS OF A NEW NATION BASED ON FREEDOM AND EQUALITY FOR ALL. UNFORTUNATE UNFORTUNATELY WE ALL HAVE TO FORGET THAT THIS PROMISE WAS DENIED TO OUR BLACK RESIDENTS EVEN HERE IN BOSTON AND DO NOT PAY DUE RESPECT TO OUR BLACK RESIDENTS WITHOUT US TO THOSE PROMISES WORKING TIRELESSLY TO PUSH OUR CITY AND OUR NATION FORWARD, LET US TAKE THIS OPPORTUNITY TO CELEBRATE MALCOLM X LIFE AND LEGACY AND CONTINUE THIS WORK. THANK YOU.  THANK YOU COUNCILOR . RL WOULD ANYONE ELSE LIKE TO ADD THEIR NAME MR. CLERK PLEASE? THAT WAS BREADON CALATA DURKIN FITZGERALD MCGUIRE MURPHY THE BAND SANTANA WEBER WORLD PLEASE ADD THE CHAIR KASRA NAJI ANDERSON'S EXPANSION OF THE RULES AND PASSENGER DOCKET NUMBER 800844 ALL IN FAVOR SAY I. I ALL OPPOSE ANY THANK YOU DOCKING NUMBER 0844 HAS BEEN ADOPTED.  WE ARE NOW MOVING ON TO PERSONNEL ORDERS. MR. CLERK, WOULD YOU PLEASE BE THE PERSON THAT ORDERS DUNCAN NUMBER 0845 COUNCILOR LOUIJEUNE FOR COUNCILOR DIRK AND DUNCAN NUMBER 0846 CONSOLE LOUIJEUNE FOR COUNCILOR AND MURPHY AND DUNCAN NUMBER 80847 COUNCILOR LOUIJEUNE FOR COUNCILOR LET ME HEAR THE CHAIRMAN WAS A PASSENGER DOCK HIS NUMBERS ARE 84520847 ALL THOSE IN FAVOR SAY I ALL THE POLLS SAY NAY THANK YOU.  THE PERSONNEL ORDERS HAVE BEEN PASSED. WE ARE NOW MOVING ON TO GREEN SHEETS. IS ANYONE LOOKING TO PULL ANYTHING FROM THE GREEN SHEETS? THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES COUNSELOR CLAUDIA CASTRO CASUALTY. YOU HAVE THE FLOOR. THANK YOU SO MUCH, MADAM CHAIR. I'M LOOKING TO PULL DOCKET 0529 FROM GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS 0505292980 THE PAGE OKAY, MR CLERK, WILL YOU PLEASE READ DOCKET 20529 INTO THE RECORD AND IF YOU HAVE THE PAGE REFERENCE PAGE NUMBER FIVE THANK YOU FROM THE COMMITTEE ON GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS DOCKET NUMBER 0529 MESSAGE UNITED FOR YOUR APPROVAL A HOME RULE PETITION TO THE GENERAL COURT ENTITLED TO PETITION FOR A SPECIAL LAW ENACTED RELATIVE TO THE CREATION OF A BRANCH OF THE BOSTON PUBLIC LIBRARY WITHIN AN AFFORDABLE HOUSING DEVELOPMENT IN THE DOWNTOWN SECTION OF THE CITY OF BOSTON FILED IN THE OFFICE OF THE CITY CLERK ON MARCH 18TH, 2024. THANK YOU THAT THE DOCKET IS ABSENT OBJECTION THE DOCKET IS PROPERLY BEFORE THE BODY CAMERA COLETTA, YOU HAVE THE FLOOR. THANK YOU SO MUCH AGAIN. MADAM PRESIDENT, THIS IS FOR THE WEST END LIBRARY PROJECT WHICH IS A JOINT INITIATIVE OF THE OFFICE OF HOUSING, THE BOSTON PUBLIC LIBRARY, THE BPA, THE PUBLIC FACILITIES DEPARTMENT TO REDEVELOP THE CURRENT WEST END BRANCH LIBRARY INTO A MIXED USE BUILDING THAT WILL INCLUDE A NEW STATE OF THE ART LIBRARY BRANCH ALONG WITH OVER 100 UNITS OF AFFORDABLE HOUSING ABOVE THE BRANCH. THE PROCESS OF ENVISIONING THIS REDEVELOPMENT HAS BEEN LED BY MULTIPLE CITY AGENCIES IN CLOSE PARTNERSHIP WITH COMMUNITY STAKEHOLDERS OVERSIGHT OVER SEVERAL YEARS OF PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT THE 110 UNITS OF ALL AFFORDABLE HOUSING ABOVE A BRAND NEW TWO STORY LIBRARY BRANCH THAT WILL GREATLY EXPAND AND IMPROVE SERVICE SERVICES FOR THE NEIGHBORHOOD BECAUSE THIS IS A MIXED USE PROJECT WITH A PUBLIC COMPONENT TO THE LIBRARY BRANCH AND A PRIVATE COMPONENT THE AFFORDABLE HOUSING LEGISLATIVE RELIEF IS REQUIRED FROM THE STATE LEGISLATURE TO FOR THE PROVISIONS LISTED IN THE HOME RULE PETITION. I WENT BACK AND LOOKED AT WHEN WE HAVE DONE THIS BEFORE WE DID IT JUST A YEAR AND A HALF AGO. DOCKET 0505 FOR THE CHINATOWN LIBRARY WAS CALLED FOR THE GREEN SHOOTS AS WELL DOCKET 017 TO THE UPTON'S CORNER LIBRARY WAS SUSPENDED AND PASSED THE SAME DAY AND DOCKET 0594 WHICH WAS AN AFFORDABLE HOUSING PROJECT I THINK ON CUSHING AV. I THINK THAT'S ROCHESTER. SO IF ANYBODY HAS TWO QUESTIONS HAVE BEEN ANSWERED THEM BUT I WOULD LOVE TO PROVIDE AN OPPORTUNITY FOR THE DISTRICT CITY COUNCILOR TO PROVIDE COMMENTS IF YOU ALLOW MADAM PRESIDENT THANK YOU. COUNCILOR CARLOTTA THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES CONSIDER CAN CONSIDER. CAN YOU HAVE THE FLOOR? THANK YOU SO MUCH CHAIR CLARA AND THANK YOU SO MUCH COUNCIL PRESIDENT LOUIJEUNE THE REDEVELOPMENT OF THE WEST END LIBRARY PROVIDES AN EXCITING OPPORTUNITY TO UTILIZE PUBLIC LAND TO MEET PUBLIC NEEDS NOT ONLY DOES THE CITY HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO UPDATE A COMMUNITY RESOURCE AND ACCOMPLISH AFFORDABLE HOUSING NEEDS IN A DENSE DOWNTOWN NEIGHBORHOOD BUT THIS DEVELOPMENT WILL SERVE AS AN IMPORTANT MODEL FOR FUTURE DEVELOPMENT OF HOUSING ON PUBLIC LAND. AS NOTED BY COUNCIL PRESIDENT LOUIJEUNE RECENT HEARING ORDER THERE'S A LOT OF INTEREST IN THIS BODY FOR PUBLIC LAND PUT TO PUBLIC USE SO I'M EXCITED ABOUT THE WESTERN LIBRARY REDEVELOPMENT PROJECT WHICH GIVES US AN OPPORTUNITY TO MEET BOSTON'S IMMEDIATE NEEDS AND SET AN INNOVATIVE PRECEDENT FOR EQUITABLE HOUSING AND AND DEVELOPMENT IN OUR CITY. THIS PROJECT WILL SECURE AFFORDABLE HOUSING FOR HUNDREDS OF BOSTON'S RESIDENTS IN DISTRICT EIGHT, WHICH WILL BECOME INCREASINGLY INACCESSIBLE DUE TO CLIMBING HOUSING COST AND A LACK OF CONSISTENT AFFORDABILITY AFFORDABLE HOUSING THAT CENTERS COMMUNITY SUSTAINABILITY AND CULTURE IN THE WEST END WILL BE FUNDAMENTAL TO THE FUTURE OF BOTH THE WEST END AND BEACON HILL NEIGHBORHOODS. AS YOU ALL KNOW THERE WAS AN INCREDIBLE PROCESS AN RFP THAT WAS PUT OUT AND POWER THE PRESERVATION OF AFFORDABLE HOUSING AND CAST CAPITAL.  THEIR PROJECT WAS CHOSEN FOR THIS PROJECT AND IT'S INCREDIBLY EXCITING.  WE ARE STARTING THAT AND AS WE MOVE FORWARD WITH THIS EXCITING PROCESS PARTICULAR ATTENTION AS YOU'VE HEARD ME SAY IN THIS BODY SHOULD BE PAID TO ENSURING THE WEST END LIBRARY HAS SERVICE WHEN THIS PROJECT IS BEING CONSTRUCTED. BUT THAT'S A CONVERSATION FOR ANOTHER DAY AND THANK YOU SO MUCH AGAIN TO CHAIR CLARA FOR BRINGING THIS FORWARD. I URGE MY COLLEAGUES TO VOTE IN SUPPORT OF THIS.  THE START OF THIS PROCESS IS INCREDIBLY IMPORTANT GIVEN THAT WE AND THAT GIVEN THAT THE DEVELOPER HAS ALREADY BEEN CHOSEN AND WE NEED TO MOVE FORWARD WITH GETTING THIS DONE AT THE STATE HOUSE IN ORDER TO ENSURE THAT THIS PROJECT STAYS ON TRACK. THANK YOU.  THANK YOU. THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES COUNCILOR FLYNN THATCHER FLYNN YOU HAVE THE FLOOR.  THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR. EYEBROWS MADAM CHAIR TO SUPPORT THIS PROPOSAL AND AS THE CITY COUNCIL THAT PREVIOUSLY REPRESENTED PARTS OF THE BEACON HILL AREA PRIOR TO REDISTRICTING ON IT TO SEE THIS PROJECT GO FORWARD, I WANT TO SAY THANK YOU TO COUNCILOR DURKAN. I ALSO WANT TO RECOGNIZE COUNCILOR KENZIE BOURQUE AS WELL FOR HER WORK ON THIS ON THIS LONG TERM PROJECT AND IT'S GOING TO BENEFIT SO MANY PEOPLE IN THE WEST AND IN THE BEACON HILL BACK BAY AREA.  BUT RESIDENTS OF BOSTON SO HONORED TO BE PART OF IT AND TO SUPPORT IT AS WELL. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. IS ANYONE ELSE LOOKING TO SPEAK ON THIS MATTER? COUNCILOR DURKIN, THE CHAIR COUNCILOR COLETTA THE CHAIR OF THE COMMITTEE ON GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS. MR PASSAGE OF DOCKET NUMBER 0529 ALL THOSE IN FAVOR SAY I AM OPPOSING IT. I HAVE IT.  THIS DOCKET HAS PASSED. WE'RE NOW MOVING ON TO LATE FILES.  I'M INFORMED. OH, COUNCILOR DURKIN IS THERE.  YES, I HAVE. SORRY OTHER YOU HAVE A GREEN SHEET POLL?  YES. OKAY. APOLOGIES. SORRY . IT'S MORE OF A POINT OF INFORMATION.  0114 AND 0109 ARE BOTH DOCKETS THAT WE HAVE CONFIRMED THROUGH MY COMMITTEE AND I'VE TRIED TO RAISE THIS A COUPLE OF WEEKS BEHIND THE SCENES BUT I JUST WANT TO MAKE SURE TO FLAG IT FOR THE CLERK THAT OH 114 AND 0109 ARE TYPOS AND SHOULD BE REMOVED FROM THE GREEN SHEETS. THANK YOU.  THANK YOU. WE WILL.  MR. CLERK HAS THAT NOTE AND IF WE NEED TO DO ANYTHING NEXT MEETING WE WILL.  BUT I THINK YOU CONSIDER AGAIN WE'RE NOW MOVING ON TO LEAVE FILES. I'M IN I AM INFORMED BY THE COURT THAT THERE ARE TWO LATE FILE MATTERS PERSONNEL ORDER ONE PERSONNEL OC, ONE PERSONNEL ORDER AND ONE LETTER OF ABSENCE . WE WILL TAKE A VOTE TO ADD THESE MATTERS TO THE AGENDA.  ALL THOSE IN FAVOR OF ADDING THE LATE FILE MATTERS SAY I I'LL OPPOSING IT THANK THE LABOR MATTERS HAVE BEEN ADDED TO THE AGENDA. MR CLERK PLEASE BE THE FIRST TO FILE MATTER INTO THE RECORD FIRSTLY FROM A LETTER FROM THE OFFICE OF THE MAYOR PLEASE NOTE THAT I WILL BE OUT OF TOWN ON MONDAY MAY 13, 2024 FROM 5 P.M. RETURNING MONDAY MAY 20TH 2024 AT 1:40 P.M.. SINCERELY MICHELLE WU MAYOR OF BOSTON.  THANK YOU MR QUICK PREVIEW THE SECOND LEE FILE MATTER INTO THE RECORD. SECONDLY FILE MATTERS A PERSONNEL ORDER FOR COUNCILOR LOUIJEUNE FOR COUNCILOR FOR ANANDA SANDERSON THANK YOU THE CHAIRMAN TO PASSAGE OF THESE THEY FOUND THAT ALL THOSE IN FAVOR SAY I ALSO SAY THE PRESIDENT NOW THE PERSONNEL ORDER HAS BEEN ADOPTED.  WE ARE NOW MOVING ON TO THE OH AND THE MAYOR'S LETTER SHALL BE PLACED ON FILE. WE ARE NOW MOVING ON TO THE CONSENT AGENDA. I HAVE BEEN INFORMED BY THE CLERK THAT THERE ARE FOUR ADDITIONS TO THE CONSENT AGENDA. THE QUESTION NOW COMES ON APPROVAL OF THE VARIOUS MATTERS CONTAINED WITHIN THE CONSENT AGENDA.  ALL THOSE IN FAVOR SAY I POINT OUT SO I JUST WANTED TO BEND THE RULES AND ADD THE FIVE SEVEN MOTION THAT WE ALREADY PRESENTED AT THE BEGINNING AND I DID WANT TO SUSPEND AND PASS THE RESOLUTION RECOGNIZE THE POLICE EARLIER. WELL IT'S BECAUSE ON THE CONSENT AGENDA WE ARE GOING TO PASS IT AS A ENTIRETY. I DID WANT TO HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO ADD CONSTABLE FLYNN THAT'S WHY KNOW MR GRAY CAN YOU PLEASE ADD COUNCILOR FLYNN 0857 YES, YES. YEP.  OKAY. THE QUESTION NOW COMES ON APPROVAL OF THE VARIOUS MATTERS CONTAINED WITHIN THE CONSENT AGENDA. ALL THOSE IN FAVOR SAY I THANK YOU THE CONSENT AGENDA HAS BEEN ADOPTED. WE'RE NOW MOVING ON TO ANNOUNCEMENTS. PLEASE REMEMBER THAT THESE ARE FOR UPCOMING DATES AND EVENTS. WE HAVE SOME UPCOMING BIRTHDAYS . WE HAVE PRISCILLA TO GO. MEGHAN CAVANAUGH,  COUNCILOR MURPHY AND JOSEPH THE LAST LAST NAME JOSEPH MAKE MEGATRON SO HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO OUR MAY BIRTHDAYS WE ALSO HAVE A LUNCHEON LEARN HOSTED BY COUNCIL RL TODAY AT WHAT TIME 3 P.M. IN THE CROWLEY ROOM WITH INTERNATIONAL PURE WATER WITH FOOD FROM AS I MENTIONED IT'S HAITIAN FLAG DAY WE'RE RECOGNIZED FOR GLAD DAY ON FRIDAY WE'LL BE RAISING THE FLAG AT NOON AND HAITIAN PARADE ON SUNDAY AT 1245 IN MATTAPAN SQUARE. COUNCILOR MURPHY, DID YOU HAVE AN ANNOUNCEMENT? NO. OKAY CONCILOR MEJIA HERE YOU HAVE THE FLOOR.  THANK YOU, MADAM PRESIDENT. I JUST WANT TO ACKNOWLEDGE THAT TODAY BOTH TWO NONPROFIT ORGANIZATIONS THAT I HAVE BEEN IN DEEP PARTNERSHIP WITH ARE CELEBRATING THEIR ANNUAL FUNDRAISERS. ONE IS TEN EMPOWERMENT AND HIGHBURY HALL THIS EVENING TEEN EMPOWERMENT HAS BEEN AROUND FOR ALMOST THREE DECADES. WE'RE REALLY WORKING ON BALANCE PREVENTION AND I JUST WANT TO UPLIFT THEM AND THEIR WORK AND THEN 30 YEAR OLD FOLKS DON'T KNOW CHARLIE ROSE WAS ONE OF THE LONG SERVING MEMBERS OF CITY YEAR ALSO USED TO BE THE OWNER OF BELLA LUNA. I USED TO WAIT TABLES FOR HIM BACK IN THE NINETIES AND SO I KNOW HE HAS BEEN DEEPLY ROOTED IN ALL THINGS I DEAL WITH CITY HERE SO I WANT TO RISE IN CONGRATULATE MONICA ROBERTS WHO IS NOW THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR FOR CITY YEARS. SO TONIGHT THEY'RE GOING TO BE ALSO CELEBRATING AT ARTISTS FOR HUMANITY SO TO UPLIFT THESE TWO VERY IMPORTANT NONPROFIT ORGANIZATIONS HERE IN THE CITY OF BOSTON. THANK YOU. THANK YOU, COUNCILOR MEJIA THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES COUNCILOR FRIEND ANDREA ANDERSON, CATHERINE AND JONATHAN, YOU HAVE THE FLOOR. THANK YOU, MADAM PRESIDENT.  I THINK LAST WEEK I SAID THAT IT WAS ALISA'S BIRTHDAY. YES, ACTUALLY TOMORROW OR NO IT'S I THINK IT'S THE 16TH. OH YEAH. TOMORROW. YEAH. SO IT'S TOMORROW BUT HIS PARTY IS SATURDAY AND SATURDAY ALSO MALCOLM X BREAKFAST AT THE REGGIE LEWIS CENTER IN DC SEVEN SO MAKE SURE YOU GOT YOUR TICKETS. IT'S NOT THAT EXPENSIVE.  AND FRANKLIN CUMMINGS TECH COMMENCEMENT CEREMONY IS ALSO HAPPENING THIS SATURDAY. ALSO A GRADUATE TUFTS CO HERE GRADUATION CEREMONY ALSO HAPPENING AND I'LL BE THERE THE BOSTON PEOPLES REPARATIONS COMMISSION AT THE BOWLING'S BUILDING AND THE FRANKLIN PARK KITE FESTIVAL IN D SEVEN AS WELL BE THERE OR B SQUARE LEWIS ALISA'S BIRTHDAY PARTY AT THE THELMA BURNS AT 7 P.M. YOU DON'T WANT TO MISS THAT AND THEN ON SUNDAY WITH MY HAITIAN PEOPLE AS I SAID TO CELEBRATE THE UNITY PARADE SO I'LL BE THERE. OH YEAH THAT'S THAT'S YOUR PEOPLE. OKAY SO AND THE ACTUAL PARADE ON SUNDAY THEY DO KATHERINE AND VENUS IN THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES COUNCILOR BREADON COUNCILOR BREADON AND YOU HAVE THE FLOOR.  THANK YOU. MADAM PRESIDENT, I ALSO WANT TO GIVE A SHOUT OUT TO WHERE WE HAVE A RESOLUTION IN THE CONSENT AGENDA. CONGRATULATING SISTER PAT ANDREWS AS A SISTER OF ST JOSEPH IN BRIGHTON UNDER HER THE ORGANIZATION THAT SHE HAS LED FOR SOME TIME THE ELECTRICITY CONNECTION.  IT'S A GROUP THAT HAS PROVIDED A OUR IMMIGRANT NEIGHBORS WITH ESL AND CITIZENSHIP CLASSES OVER 38 YEARS SO IT WILL BE A CELEBRATION OF ALL THAT WORK ON SUNDAY. BUT I JUST WANTED TO GIVE A PUBLIC ACKNOWLEDGMENT OF ALL THE GREAT WORK AND AND SO MANY HUNDREDS OF OUR IMMIGRANT NEIGHBORS AND FRIENDS WHO WERE ABLE TO BENEFIT FROM THAT PROGRAM. THANK YOU. THANK YOU CAN'T DO IT IN THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES COUNCILOR FLYNN. WHEN YOU HAVE THE FLOOR.  THANK YOU. THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.  I RISE TO RECOGNIZE SOMEONE WHO HAS DONE AN EXCEPTIONAL JOB FOR THE RESIDENTS OF THE CITY AND THAT IS SOMEONE THAT'S GRADUATING WITH THEIR MASTER'S DEGREE THIS WEEKEND FROM BOSTON UNIVERSITY. ARTICLE THERE ON AND I AND I JUST WANT TO HIGHLIGHT ALONG WITH COUNCILOR SANTANA I JUST WANT TO HIGHLIGHT THE INCREDIBLE HARD WORK DETERMINATION AND DISCIPLINE OF AN OUTSTANDING CITY EMPLOYEE . AND SHE WORKED WITH ME IN MY OFFICE AS A HIGH SCHOOL GRADUATE AND SHE WENT ON TO GET HER BACHELOR'S DEGREE FROM BOSTON FROM THE UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS AND THEN SHE WORKED HARD AND GOT INTO THE BOSTON UNIVERSITY MASTER'S PROGRAM. SHE LIVED IN SOUTH BOSTON PUBLIC HOUSING AND JUST A WONDERFUL, WONDERFUL PERSON. CONGRATULATIONS ON THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES COUNCILOR DURKIN AND ALSO CONGRATULATIONS ON. THANK YOU. THANK YOU SO MUCH. COUNCIL PRESIDENT. I WANTED TO ANNOUNCE THAT THE WEST END MUSEUM IS OPENING AFTER A LONG RENOVATION THIS WEDNESDAY AT 5 P.M.. THIS IS A SPECIAL INVITATION FOR CITY COUNCILORS TO ATTEND. AS YOU ALL MAY KNOW, THEY DEALT WITH FLOODING AND OTHER CHALLENGES TO GETTING OPEN.  AND I'M REALLY HONORED THAT THE MOST RECENT ARTIFACT IN THE WESTERN MUSEUM IS ACTUALLY SOME LITERATURE FOR MY CAMPAIGN. SO IT'S GREAT. THEY ARE AN INCREDIBLE GROUP THAT REALLY SHARES THE HISTORY OF THE WEST END AND I KNOW WE'VE ALL TALKED A LOT ABOUT THE WEST END HISTORY THROUGH URBAN RENEWAL AND OTHERWISE SO IT MIGHT BE A GREAT OPPORTUNITY FOR THE COUNCIL TO ALL COME TOGETHER. SO IT'S THIS WEDNESDAY AT 5 P.M.. I HOPE TO SEE YOU THERE. THANK.  THANK YOU SO MUCH. COUNCILOR DURKIN, THE CHAIR AMAZON'S COUNCIL . WEBER COUNCIL WHERE WE HAVE THE FLOOR. THANK YOU. I BELIEVE FRIDAY MAY 17TH IS NATIONAL TWO WORK DAY. I HOPE PEOPLE WILL BE JOINING ME ESPECIALLY COUNCILOR FITZGERALD WHO'S NODDING HIS HEAD YES, I KNOW COUNCILOR DURKIN WHO?  YEAH. SO I THINK THERE IS EVENTS ACROSS THE CITY I JUST SO FRIDAY MORNING HOPE TO HOPE TO MEET UP HERE ON OUR BIKES AND THEN ON SATURDAY, MAY 18TH. MOTHER'S OUT FRONT IS IS HOSTING AN EVENT LEADING TOURS THROUGHOUT JAMAICA PLAIN FROM 1 TO 3 YOU SHOULD MEET AT CURTIS HALL AND THEY CAN HELP SHOW WHAT PEOPLE ARE DOING IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD TO FIGHT CLIMATE CHANGE YOU KNOW, IN THEIR HOMES. SO I HOPE PEOPLE CAN JOIN ME FOR THAT ON SATURDAY. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. COUNCILOR WEBER, I ALSO JUST WANTED TO SHOUT OUT MY INTERN IN MY OFFICE.  ALICE SCULLIN WILL BE GRADUATING FROM BOSTON UNIVERSITY THIS WEEKEND AS WELL FORMERLY AN INTERN AND CONTROL BOX OFFICE. ALICE HAS DONE A TREMENDOUS WORK IN OFFICE AND I JUST WANTED TO CONGRATULATE HER AND KNOW THAT THERE ARE GREAT THINGS TO COME IN HER FUTURE.  WE ARE NOW MOVING ON TO MEMORIALS IF ANY OF MY COLLEAGUES WOULD LIKE TO SPEAK ON ANYONE WHO'S PASSED PLEASE TURN YOUR LIGHT ON. I HAVE A FEW THAT I WANT TO JUST TALK ABOUT BRIEFLY DEJA NICOLE JENKINS MINE AS SHE PASSED AWAY IN 2021.  BUT ON THE CONSENT AGENDA THERE'S A DECLARATION DECLARING MAY 13TH AS MAY DAY A MAY WAS HER NICKNAME EMILY.  SHE WAS BORN ON FEBRUARY 15, 1999 AND SHE TRAGICALLY PASSED AWAY IN NOVEMBER 2021 AS A VICTIM OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE THIS PAST WEEKEND THERE WAS AN EVENT BRINGING TOGETHER A LOT OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE SURVIVORS AND THE FAMILIES OF THE VICTIMS WHERE WE UPLIFTED DEJA MAE NICOLE JENKINS MINE IS HER HER MEMORY HER MOTHER FATHER AND HER DAUGHTER WHO WAS PRESENT AT THE TIME OF HER DEATH WERE ALL PRESENT.  AND SO DURING HER LIFE TOMMY WAS DEEPLY INVOLVED IN COMMUNITY EDUCATION AND WAS AN HONOR SCHOOL STUDENT, AN HONOR SCHOLAR AND A GRADUATE OF THE BURKE HIGH SCHOOL AND JUST WANT TO UPLIFT HER MEMORY AND THOSE WHO HAVE FALLEN VICTIM TO DOMESTIC VIOLENCE ALSO WANT TO REVEREND DR. FLORENCE KING WHO WAS SERVING A TERM AS THE VICE CHAIR OF THE ABCD BOARD OF DIRECTORS AND SHE WAS A MEMBER OF THE ABI'S ABCD ELDERS SERVICES COMMITTEE AND SHE PROVIDED INCREDIBLE LEADERSHIP AS A AS A CLERGY MEMBER OF AMERICAN BAPTIST CHURCHES OF THE USA AND LASTLY A CECILY P O'BRIEN. SHE WAS BORN IN BARBADOS AND A LONG TIME BOSTON RESIDENT A DEVOTED WIFE, MOTHER AND COMMUNITY MEMBER AS A WIFE OF THE LATE BOSTON SCHOOL COMMITTEE MEMBER JOHN DEW O'BRIEN SHE SUPPORTED HER HUSBAND'S POLITICAL CAREER AND DEEPLY INVOLVED IN CIVIC AFFAIRS SO THEY CONTRIBUTED SIGNIFICANTLY TO THE ROXBURY COMPREHENSIVE HEALTH CENTER AND THE METCO PROGRAM AND HELD VARIOUS LEADERSHIP ROLES AT ST MARK'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH. SHE PASSED AWAY AT AGE 91, LEAVING BEHIND A LEGACY OF DEDICATION TO HER FAMILY AND COMMUNITY. SO I WANT TO JUST UPLIFT HER SONS AND HER AND HER GRANDCHILDREN AS WE REMEMBER HER PASSING AS ANY OF MY OR ANY OF MY COLLEAGUES LOOKING TO SPEAK ON ANYONE. WE ARE GOING TO ADJOURN TODAY'S MEETING IN MEMORY ON BEHALF OF COUNCILORS BREADON NICHOLAS FUND US CAROL CAMPBELL ON BEHALF OF COUNCILOR COLETTA ANTHONY DE CHICO ANTHONY TONY ALBANO ON BEHALF OF CANCER LOUIJEUNE AND THE BOSTON CITY COUNCIL JASPER WHITE, A RENOWNED CHEF AND PIONEERING BOSTON RESTAURATEUR DEJA NICOLE JENKINS MINUS REVEREND DR. FLORENCE KING AND CECILY P O'BRIEN.  THE CHAIR MOVED THAT WHEN THE COUNCIL ADJOURNED TODAY IT DOES SO IN MEMORY OF THE AFOREMENTIONED INDIVIDUALS. A MOMENT OF SILENCE.  THE COUNCIL IS SCHEDULED TO MEET AGAIN IN THE IRON CHAMBER ON WEDNESDAY MAY 22ND AT NOON. THANK YOU TO MY COLLEAGUES CENTRAL STAFF ALAN THANK YOU. WELCOME BACK. THE CLERK AND THE CLERK'S OFFICE AND OUR STENOGRAPHER ALL IN FAVOR OF ADJOURNMENT SAY I.  THE CASTLE'S ADJOURNED. THANK YOU