GOOD AFTERNOON EVERYONE. I CALLED TO ORDER TODAY'S MEETING OF THE BOSTON CITY COUNCIL . VIEWERS CAN WATCH THE COUNCIL MEETING LIVE ON YOUTUBE AT BOSTON DOT GOV FORD SLASH CITY DASH 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 ROSE ASCERTAIN THE PRESENCE OF A QUORUM? COUNCILOR BREEN YOUR COUNCIL KALALA COUNCILOR DURKAN COUNCILOR FOR ANANDA SANDERSON COUNCILOR FITZGERALD YEAH.  COUNCIL FLYNN COUNCILOR LOUIJEUNE HERE. CONCILOR MEJIA HERE. COUNCILOR MURPHY COUNCIL DEPEND . COUNCILOR SANTANA. COUNCILOR WEBER YEAH.  COUNCILOR WORRELL AND COUNCILOR PUPPET A QUORUM IS PRESENT. THANK YOU.  I'VE BEEN INFORMED BY THE CLERK THAT A QUORUM IS PRESENT. NOW IT IS MY PLEASURE TO INTRODUCE THIS WEEK'S CLERGY BISHOP WILLIAM DICKERSON. BISHOP DICKERSON. THE SECOND IS A DEEPLY RESPECTED SPIRITUAL LEADER AND COMMUNITY ADVOCATE. WHY I'M SO HAPPY THAT I GET TO CALL HIM TODAY TO BE OUR CLERGY. ALTHOUGH BORN IN VIRGINIA, HE WAS IN BOSTON AND IS A GRADUATE OF THE BOSTON LATIN SCHOOL. I THINK GRADUATED A FEW YEARS BEFORE I DID. HE'S EARNED DEGREES IN BUSINESS MANAGEMENT EDUCATION FROM CAMBRIDGE COLLEGE AND URBAN MINISTRY FROM GORDON CORNWELL THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY. DICKERSON'S EARLY LIFE WAS MARKED BY HIS DEDICATION TO COMMUNITY SERVICE INSPIRED BY HIS PARENTS WILLIAM SENIOR AND EVANGELIST ALMA DICKERSON. DICKERSON'S MINISTRY BEGAN FORMALLY IN 1981 AT GOOD SHEPHERD CHURCH OF GOD IN CHRIST IN ROXBURY, MASSACHUSETTS, WHERE HE WAS ORDAINED AS AN ELDER BY 1985. HE'S THE FOUNDER OF GREATER LOVE TABERNACLE IN DORCHESTER WHERE HE HAS NURTURED A ROBUST COMMUNITY OUTREACH ENVIRONMENT THAT EXTENDS TO HEALTH, EDUCATION AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT.  HIS CIVIC INVOLVEMENT INCLUDES ROLES ON VARIOUS BOARDS AND ADVISORY COUNCILS SIGNIFICANTLY INFLUENCING PUBLIC POLICY AND COMMUNITY WELFARE IN BOSTON. HIS RECOGNITIONS FOR COMMUNITY AND SPIRITUAL LEADERSHIP INCLUDE AWARD FAMILY IN A PARK THE BOSTON CELTICS AND OTHER COMMUNITY ORGANIZATIONS.  HIS CONTRIBUTION TO COMMUNITY AND SPIRITUAL LIFE IN BOSTON HAVE PROVED HIM TO BE AN INDISPENSABLE ASSET TO THE CITY OF BOSTON. DURING MY FIRST TERM WHEN WE WERE HAVING ISSUES AND WE WERE HAVING DISCUSSIONS AROUND COMMUNITY SAFETY WHERE DID WE MEET? WE MADE A GROUP WE MET AT GREAT LOVE TABERNACLE BECAUSE IT WAS A CENTER REALLY DEALING AND ADDRESSING THOSE ISSUES. BISHOP DICKERSON I THANK YOU FOR YOUR LEADERSHIP. IT'S NOT IT DOESN'T STOP WITH YOU. IT GOES ON TO YOUR SON WHO IS A CITY EMPLOYEE.  SO I'M JUST SO GRATEFUL THAT WE GET TO HAVE YOU WITH US TO US AND INVOCATION. THANK YOU. AND AFTER HE GIVES US INVOCATION, I WILL BE RECITING THE PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE. BISHOP DICKERSON, YOU HAVE THE FLOOR. THANK YOU, COUNCILOR . I WOULD SEE MCCAIN AND FORMER COUNCILOR FLYNN INTO ALL OF THE CAUSES THAT ARE HERE AND TO GET TO MY COUNCILOR OF BRIAN WELL AND EVERYONE THAT'S HERE WITH RESPECTS TO OUR FAITH TRADITION THIS IS BY OUR HEADS ETERNAL GOD, OUR FATHER. WE THANK YOU FOR ALLOWING US TO COME TOGETHER FOR THE OPEN UP THIS SESSION OF THE BOSTON CITY COUNCIL AS THEY CONDUCT THE BUSINESS OF THE CITY. WE PRAY, HEAVENLY FATHER, THAT YOU WOULD STRENGTH AND LORD GOD OUR PRESIDENT OF THIS COUNCIL LORD WE PRAY THAT YOU WILL GUIDE HER LORD THROUGHOUT THE CHALLENGES THAT SHE FACES THE LORD AHEAD AND I PRAY TO GOD FOR UNITY. I PRAY THAT UNITY WILL EXIST ON THIS COUNCIL LIKE NEVER BEFORE . I PRAY THAT PEACE WILL PREVAIL. AS THE PROPHET JEREMIAH STATED ,SEEK THE PEACE OF THE CITY FOR AS IT PROSPERS SO WILL YOU. I PRAY FOR PEACE. LORD TO GO THROUGHOUT THE CITY OF BOSTON AND BEYOND. I PRAY, HEAVENLY FATHER THAT YOU WILL BE DONE IN THIS COUNCIL . BLESS THIS SESSION AND BLESS ALL THE WORK THAT THE COUNCILORS DO FROM DAY TO DAY.  LET YOU PEACE BE WITH THEM. WITH RESPECT TO ALL FAITH TRADITIONS RESPECTS TO ALL FAITH TRADITIONS IN JESUS NAME THANK GOD. AMEN.  AMEN. NOW RECITE THE PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE.  PLEDGE ALLEGIANCE TO THE FLAG OF THE UNITED STANDS ONE NATION UNDER GOD, INDIVISIBLE WITH LIBERTY AND JUSTICE FOR ALL.  THANK YOU SO MUCH, BISHOP DICKERSON, AGAIN FOR ALL THAT YOU DO FOR OUR CITY.  OKAY. MR. CLERK, WOULD YOU PLEASE NOTE FOR THE RECORD THAT COUNCIL ORAL HAS JOINED US AND IS PRESENT? ANYONE ELSE? OKAY, GREAT.  WE ARE NOW ON TO PRESENTATIONS THAT COUNSELORS WHO WILL BE DOING THE PRESENTATION IS NOT YET WITH US. I DO WANT TO THANK FOR GOOD FOR BEING HERE WITH US. BARB BARNEY, EVERYONE. STATE REPRESENTATIVE JOHN MORAN FROM THE NINTH SUFFOLK DISTRICT. I THANK YOU FOR BEING WITH US. I KNOW THAT YOU'RE DOING THIS PRESENTATION ALONGSIDE COUNSELOR FERNANDO ANDERSON.  WE WE HONOR YOUR PRESENCE AND WE THANK YOU GUYS FOR GOOD FOR BEING AND FOR ALL YOU DO FOR OUR CITY. SO THANK YOU. WE'LL BE MOVING ON. MR. CLERK, WOULD YOU WE'VE AMENDED THE ATTENDANCE TO REFLECT THAT COUNCIL OR OTHERS PRESENT. WE ARE NOW ON TO THE FIRST ORDER OF BUSINESS WHICH IS APPROVAL OF THE MINUTES FROM THE MEETING OF MAY 1ST, 2024. ALL IN FAVOR SAY I ALEPPO SAY NAY. THE AYES HAVE IT. THE MINUTES OF THE LAST MEETING ARE APPROVED.  WE ARE NOW ON TO COMMUNICATIONS FROM OUR HONOR THE MAYOR. MR. CLERK, WOULD YOU PLEASE READ DOCKET NUMBER 0815.0815 MESSAGING ON AUTHORIZING THE CITY OF BOSTON TO ACCEPT AND EXPAND THE AMOUNT OF $100,000 IN THE FORM OF A GRANT FOR CHINATOWN CHILD CARE SERVICES AWARDED BY THE BOSTON PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT AGENCY TO BE ADMINISTERED BY THE OFFICE OF EARLY CHILDHOOD. THE GRANT WILL FUND THE SUPPORT TO SUPPORT THE CREATION AND SUSTAINABILITY OF FAMILY CHILD CARE INCENTIVE BASED PROGRAMS.  THANK YOU DOCTOR. NUMBER 0815 WILL BE REFERRED TO THE COMMITTEE ON STRONG WOMEN FAMILIES AND COMMUNITIES.  WE ARE NOW ON TO REPORTS OF PUBLIC OFFICERS AND OTHERS. MR CLERK, WOULD YOU PLEASE READ DOCKETS NUMBER 081620818 DUGAN NUMBER 0816 COMMUNICATION WAS RECEIVED FROM COUNCILOR FLYNN REGARDING THE BOSTON POLICE CRIME LABORATORY DOCKET NUMBER 0817. NOTE ALSO RECEIVED FROM THE MAYOR FOR ABSENCE FROM THE CITY ON THURSDAY MAY 2ND, 2024 AT 11:45 A.M. RETURNING THIS SAME DAY AT 12:15 A.M. DUCK NUMBER 0818 COMMUNICATION WAS RECEIVED FROM GBI CONSULTANTS INC. REGARDING A RELEASE NOTIFICATION FORM AND IMMEDIATE RESPONSE ACTION PLAN AND THANK YOU DOCKETS NUMBER 081620818 WILL BE PLACED ON FILE.  WE ARE NOW ON TO REPORTS OF COMMITTEES. MR. CLERK WOULD YOU PLEASE READ DOCKET NUMBER 02630263 THE COMMITTEE ON GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS TO WHICH WAS REFERRED ON JANUARY 31ST, 2024 DR. NUMBER 0263 PETITION FOR A SPECIAL LAW RELATIVE TO ENACT REGARDING THE DISABILITY PENSION FOR BRYAN MCPHERSON SUPPORTS SUBMITS A REPORT RECOMMENDING THAT THE DOCKET OUGHT TO PASS IN AN AMENDED DRAFT THANK YOU. THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES COUNCILOR COLETTA. COUNCILOR COLETTA YOU NOW HAVE THE FLOOR.  THANK YOU SO MUCH, MADAM CHAIR. THE COMMITTEE HELD A HEARING ON APRIL 18TH, 2024. I WAS JOINED BY COUNCILORS LOUIJEUNE FLYNN AND MURPHY. THE COMMITTEE HEARD TESTIMONY FROM THE PETITIONER BRIAN MACPHERSON WHO TESTIFIED AS THE INCIDENT THAT LED TO HIS INJURY. HIS EFFORTS TO RECOVER AND RETURN TO WORK.  HIS EVENTUAL APPLICATION FOR DISABILITY RETIREMENT BENEFITS IN 2009 WHICH WAS APPROVED RETROACTIVELY IN 2011 AND THE RESULTING FINANCIAL IMPACT WHICH HAS MOTIVATED HIM TO SEEK THE REQUEST INCREASE DESCRIBED IN DOCKET 0263 WHILE THE PERFORMANCE OF HIS DUTIES ON MAY 13TH 2008. MCPHERSON SUSTAINED SERIOUS INJURIES AND TESTIFIED THAT HE WAS FORCED TO RETIRE AT AGE 37. MCPHERSON EXPLAINED THAT HE HAD A SUCCESSFUL CAREER IN THE SUFFOLK COUNTY SHERIFF'S DEPARTMENT HOLDING VARIOUS POSITIONS. HOWEVER, IN 2008, WHILE RESPONDING TO FIGHTS BETWEEN INMATES, HE STATED HE WAS VIOLENTLY ATTACKED AND SUFFERED PERMANENT INJURIES.  AS A RESULT HE WAS MEDICALLY DISCHARGED AND STATED THAT MEDICALLY HE WAS FORCED TO RETIRE AS PHYSICIANS ADVISED HIM THAT THE INJURIES HE SUSTAINED WERE PERMANENT. MCPHERSON EMPHASIZED THE FINANCIAL IMPACT THIS HAS HAD AS HIS CAP SALARY HAS LED HIS LED TO THE LOSS OF OVERTIME PAY AND THE INABILITY TO WORK PART TIME JOBS.  HE ALSO MENTIONED THE STRAIN ON HIS CHILDREN WHO HAVE WITNESSED HIS MEDICAL STRUGGLES AND FINANCIAL CHALLENGES. THE FAMILIES CONTINUE TO FACE.  WITH REGARD TO THE REQUEST FOR AN INCREASE TO 100% OF HIS YEARLY ANNUAL PENSION ALLOWANCE, THE COMMITTEE DISCUSSED POTENTIALLY INCLUDING LANGUAGE THAT ALLOWED FOR FLEXIBILITY IN THE PERCENTAGE INCREASE.  THE COMMITTEE EXPRESSED SUPPORT FOR LEARNING ON LANGUAGE THAT WOULD ENSURE THIS HOME RULE PETITION ALIGNS WITH THE GOALS OF PROVIDING MCPHERSON WITH A FAIR AND ADEQUATE DISABILITY PENSION. AND SO I DO RECOMMEND TO ALL TO PASS AN AMENDED DRAFT AND JUST THE SUMMARY OF THE AMENDMENT IS TRYING TO BE COMPLIANT WITH MASH GENERAL LAW SPECIFICALLY CHAPTER 32 SUBSECTION FIVE TO SEE WHICH LIMITS THE MAXIMUM PENSION PAYABLE TO 80% RATHER THAN 100% WHICH WAS ASKED FOR OF THE MEMBER'S FINAL SALARY.  THE THE AVERAGE OF THREE CONSECUTIVE YEARS OF THE MEMBER'S HIGHEST ANNUAL SALARY. AND SO THEREFORE I RECOMMEND THE FOLLOWING AN AMENDMENT AND SECTION ONE D UPON ATTAINING THE MANDATORY RETIREMENT AGE FOR LIEUTENANT DEPUTY SHERIFF ON THE SUFFOLK COUNTY SHERIFF'S DEPARTMENT BRIAN MCPHERSON SHALL RECEIVE A PENSION PURSUANT TO SECTION SEVEN OF SAID CHAPTER 32 A YEARLY AMOUNT OF PENSION EQUAL TO RATHER THAN 100% SAYING 80% OF THE ANNUAL RATE OF COMPENSATION HE WAS RECEIVING ON THE DAY BEFORE HE REACHES THE MANDATORY RETIREMENT AGE FOR LIEUTENANT DEPUTY SHERIFF OF THE SUFFOLK COUNTY SHERIFF'S DEPARTMENT. AND SO AGAIN, I'M RECOMMENDING THAT THIS TARGET OUGHT TO PASS AN AMENDED DRAFT. I WOULD LOVE TO TURN IT OVER TO THE LEAD SPONSOR IF HE HAS ANY REMARKS.  THANK YOU, JAKE. A LETTER THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES CASTRO. FLYNN, CASTRO, FLYNN YOU NOW HAVE THE FLOOR.  THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR. MADAM CHAIR, I FIRST I WANT TO SAY THANK YOU TO THE CHAIR OF THE COMMITTEE, COUNCILOR CARTER FOR CONDUCTING A VERY FAIR, OPEN, TRANSPARENT ,INFORMATIVE HEARING WHERE WE HEARD TESTIMONY FROM MR MCPHERSON AND IN THE IMPACT THIS ASSAULT REALLY HAD ON HIM FINANCIALLY AND HIS FAMILY INCLUDING SIGNIFICANT MEDICAL RELATED ISSUES. I I SUPPORT THE RECOMMENDATION MADE BY COUNCILOR LETTER AND I JUST WANT TO ACKNOWLEDGE AND THANK HER FOR HAVING THE HEARING AND FOR TREATING THE TREATING MR MCPHERSON IN HIS FAMILY WITH RESPECT. SO I JUST WANTED TO HIGHLIGHT THAT. THANK YOU MADAM CHAIR. THANK YOU, COUNSELOR FLYNN. IS ANYONE ELSE LOOKING TO SPEAK ON THIS MATTER?  I ALSO WANT TO THANK THE CHAIR FOR HOSTING THIS HEARING. I LEARNED THAT BRIAN MCPHERSON'S NIECE IS ACTUALLY A CLASSMATE OF MINE IN THIS PAST WEEKEND.  SHE THANKED US FOR HOLDING THIS HEARING. SO THANK YOU AGAIN. TO CAPTURE FLYNN. THANK YOU AGAIN CHAIR COLETTA FOR HOSTING THE HEARING.  CHAIR COLETTA THE CHAIR OF THE COMMITTEE ON GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS ACCEPTANCE OF THE COMMITTEE REPORT AND PASSAGE OF DOCKET NUMBER 0263 ALL THOSE IN FAVOR SAY I ALL THE POSEY NAME. MR. CLERK, CAN YOU PLEASE DO A ROLL CALL VOTE ROLL CALL VOTE ON DOCKET NUMBER 0263.  COUNCILOR BREADON. YES. COUNCILOR BREADON. YES.  COUNCILOR COLETTA. COUNCILOR COLETTA YES. COUNCILOR DURKIN. 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. COUNCILOR MURPHY COUNCIL OF THE PEN COUNCILOR AND YES. COUNCILOR SANTANA YES. COUNCIL SANTANA YES. COUNCILOR WEBER YES. COUNCILOR WEBER YES. AND COUNCILOR WU YES. COUNCILOR WU YES. DUCK NUMBERS 0263 HAS RECEIVED 11 VOTES IN THE AFFIRMATIVE. THANK YOU. DOCKET NUMBER 0263 HAS PASSED. MR. CLERK, WOULD YOU PLEASE REMEMBER THE ATTENDANCE REFLECT THAT COUNCILOR FERNANDO ANDERSON IS PRESENT.  THANK YOU. WE ARE NOW ON TO A MATTER ORIGINALLY HEARD FOR POSSIBLE ACTION. MR. CLERK, WILL YOU PLEASE READ THIS NUMBER 067020678 DOCKET NUMBER 067030672 ORDERS 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 OPEN DOCKET NUMBERS ALL 6732675 ORDERS FOR CAPITAL GRANT FUND CREDIT IN APPROPRIATIONS IN DOCKET NUMBERS 067630678 ORDERS FOR THE CAPITAL BUDGET INCLUDING LOAN ORDERS AND LEASE PURCHASE AGREEMENTS.  THANK YOU. THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES COUNCILOR WAR OUTCOMES FROM EARLIER AND I HAVE THE FLOOR. THANK YOU COUNCIL PRESIDENT. AS CHAIR OF THE WAYS AND MEANS COMMITTEE WE HOSTED 6FY 25 BUDGET HEARINGS AND ONE BUDGET AMENDMENT WORKING SESSION THIS PAST WEEK. WE HELD A HEARING ON MAY 2ND FOR THE THE FIRE DEPARTMENT FROM THE ADMINISTRATION COMMISSIONER BURKE ROBERT J. CALABRESE CHIEF OPERATING AND FIELD SERVICES. RODNEY MARSHALL CHIEF OF OPERATIONS AND SUPPORT SERVICES. KEVIN COYNE DEPUTY COMMISSIONER OF ADMINISTRATION, DEPUTY COMMISSIONER OF ADMINISTRATION AND FINANCE. AND MICHAEL GASKIN DIVERSE RECRUIT DIVERSITY RECRUITMENT OFFICER WERE PRESENT TO TESTIFY FOR THE HEARING. COUNSELORS FLYNN AND ANDERSON PéPIN FITZGERALD MURPHY SANTANA, DURKIN, COLETTA WEBER AND COUNCIL PRESIDENT LOUIJEUNE WERE INTENDED FOR THIS HEARING. DISCUSSIONS FOCUSED ON ENHANCING DIVERSITY WITHIN THE FIRE SERVICE PARTICULARLY THROUGH THE CADET PROGRAM DESIGNED TO INCREASE THE REPRESENTATION OF WOMEN AND PEOPLE OF COLOR. THE HIGH COST OF OVERTIME WAS DISCUSSED AS WAS THE NEED FOR MAJOR IMPROVEMENTS AT FOUR FIREHOUSES AS WELL AS A NEW FIREHOUSE IN DISTRICT NINE. ON THURSDAY MAY 2ND WE MET TO GO OVER THE BUDGET FOR THE OFFICE OF HUMAN SERVICES,  OFFICE OF WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT AND YOUTH EMPLOYMENT AND OPPORTUNITY.  FROM THE ADMINISTRATION WE HAD ASHLEY MONTGOMERY, CHIEF OF STAFF, CHIEF OF STAFF OFFICE OF THE RETURN OF CITIZENS CHRISTIAN MCSWAIN, SENIOR ADVISOR FOR EARLY CHILDHOOD AND DIRECTOR OF THE OFFICE OF EARLY CHILDHOOD AND JOSE MAZO CHIEF OF HUMAN SERVICES WERE PRESENT TO TESTIFY FOR THIS HEARING FROM THE CITY COUNCIL COUNCILORS FLYNN FERNANDEZ, ANDERSON MURPHY, SANTANA, PEPEN, WEBERN DURKIN AND COUNCIL PRESIDENT LOUIJEUNE WERE IN ATTENDANCE. DURING THIS SESSION THE COUNCIL REVIEWED THE FBI 25 BUDGET EMPHASIZING COMMUNITY SUPPORT ENHANCEMENT FROM CHILD CARE TO HOUSING FOR RETURNING CITIZENS WITH A FOCUS ON FINDING AND COMMUNITY INPUT IN DECISIONS. THE SESSIONS INCLUDING CONVERTING FROM OUR SCHOOLS INTO EARLY LEARNING CENTERS AND AFFORDABLE HOUSING, REDUCING CHILD CARE COSTS AND IMPROVING SUPPORT FOR RETURNING CITIZENS. ON FRIDAY MAY 3RD AT 10 A.M. WE HOPE TO WORK IN SESSION TO DISCUSS THE BUDGET AMENDMENTS IN ATTENDANCE WERE COUNCILOR PEPEN, COUNCIL PRESIDENT LOUIJEUNE COUNCIL CALATA FLYNN, FITZGERALD, WEBER, BREADON AND SANTANA.  TOPICS DISCUSSED INCLUDING THE PROCESS FOR PROPOSING AMENDMENTS TO THE CHAIR AS PART OF THE OMNIBUS PACKAGE. THE NEEDS TO LOOK AT HISTORICALLY UNDERSPENT PROGRAMS WHEN MAKING CUTS HOW THERE'S NO ROLL OVER ON FISCAL FUNDS FROM ONE YEAR TO NEXT AND THE COUNCIL'S ABILITY TO PUT THE CAPITAL BUDGET ON A DIFFERENT TIMELINE IN THE FUTURE. ADDITIONALLY, THE RULES AROUND REJECTING OR APPROVING THE BUDGET WERE DISCUSSED WITH A DESIRE TO GET MORE ANSWERS FROM THE IFIS AND MORE INFORMATION ON THE CENTRAL OFFICE BEFORE ANY ACTION IS TAKEN BY THE COUNCIL ON MONDAY, MAY SIX AT 10 A.M. WE HELD A HEARING TO GO OVER THE BUDGET FOR FOR CONSUMER AFFAIRS AND LICENSING ,TOURISM, SPORTS AND ENTERTAINMENT AND RELATED INVOLVEMENT FUNDS FOCUSING ON SEVERAL KEY AREAS. THE PANEL INCLUDED JOHN BOYD AS THE FOURTH DIRECTOR OF TOURISM SPORTS AND ENTERTAINMENT. DANNY GREEN BOYD MANAGER OF CONSUMER AFFAIRS AND LICENSING GRANT IDAHO CHIEF OF ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY INCLUSION AND DONALD WRIGHT DEPUTY CHIEF OF MAYOR'S OFFICE OF ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY INCLUSION AND ATTENDANCE FROM THE BOSSIER CITY COUNCIL WHERE COUNCILOR KANSAS COLLIDED MEJIA WEBER FINANCE ANDERSON PEPEN COUNCIL PRESIDENT LOUIJEUNE CASA BLAINE FITZGERALD DURKIN AND SANTANA WE DISCUSSED SUPPORTING MINORITY OWNED CANNABIS BUSINESSES,  STREAMLINING LICENSING PROCESSES AND IMPROVEMENT CONSUMER AFFAIRS OPERATIONS.  OVERALL OVERALL THE HEARING HIGHLIGHTED EFFORTS TO ENHANCE EQUITY, STREAMLINE CITY OPERATIONS AND INVOLVE THE COMMUNITY AND ECONOMIC AND PUBLIC SAFETY INITIATIVES. ON MONDAY, MAY SIX AT 2 P.M. WE HELD A HEARING TO GO OVER THE BUDGET FOR THE OFFICE OF ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY INCLUDING SUPPLY DIVERSITY AND LABOR COMPLIANCE AND WORKER PROTECTIONS. TESTIFYING FOR THE TESTIFYING FOR THE HEARING WE'RE GOING TO DO CHIEF OF ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY INCLUSION.  DEPUTY DONALD WRIGHT DEPUTY CHIEF OF ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY INCLUSION TRIN AND EUGENE CHIEF OF WORKING PERMIT. ANDRE LIMA DIRECTOR OF SUPPLY DIVERSITY.  JODY SUGARMAN BRAZIL DEPUTY CHIEF OF WORK EMPOWERMENT.  CHRISTOPHER BROWN SENIOR PROGRAM MANAGER FOR LIVING WAGE AND WASTE APP AND WENDY MITCHELL BJP MANAGER AND ATTENDANT FROM THE CITY COUNCIL WERE COUNCILORS FLYNN HERE BREADON WEBER FITZGERALD COUNTY PRESIDENT LOUIJEUNE PEPEN SANTANA AND WE RECEIVED A LETTER OF SUPPORT FROM FERNANDA AND CALIFORNIA ANDERSON.  THIS HEARING FOCUSED ON PROCUREMENT STRATEGY ENHANCEMENTS INTRODUCED IN MINORITY AND WOMEN LED FIRMS TO CITY SIDE DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS AND SUPPORT OF SMALL BUSINESSES AND DEVELOPMENT AREAS.  THE SKETCHES ALSO INCLUDED PLANS TO EXPAND CULTURAL DISTRICTS AND PROVIDE SUPPORT FOR SMALL BUSINESSES AFFECTED BY VANDALISM.  ON TUESDAY, MAY 7TH AT 10 A.M. WE HELD A HEARING TO GO LIVE TO GO OVER THE F 25 BUDGET FOR THE BUS. BOSTON CENTER FOR YOUTH AND FAMILIES, BOSTON PUBLIC LIBRARY AND RELATED DEVELOPMENT FUNDS. THE PANEL INCLUDED DAVID LEONARD, PRESIDENT OF BOSTON PUBLIC LIBRARY.  EMILY CHOZICK, CFO OF BOSTON PUBLIC LIBRARY. MICHAEL CRAWFORD DIRECTOR OF LIBRARY SERVICES.  MARTA RIVERA COMMISSIONER IAP EDDIE MCGUIRE DIRECTOR OF OPERATIONS FOR BCA BOSSIER CITY COUNCIL'S IN ATTENDANCE WERE FILLING IN FOR NANCY ANDERSON MURPHY PEP AND DURKIN FITZGERALD COLETTA AND COUNCIL PRESIDENT LOUIJEUNE IMAN AND CASA SANTANA.  KEY TOPICS DISCUSSED WERE BOSTON PUBLIC LIBRARY'S INITIATIVES, INDIGENOUS DIGITAL, RELIGIOUS LITERACY, CULTURAL HERITAGE AND COMMUNITY SUPPORT WITH PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO UNHOUSED PATRONS AND NON-ENGLISH SPEAKERS.  B.C. YFC ENHANCEMENT IN YOUTH AND FAMILY SERVICES FOCUS ON EXPANDING RECREATIONAL AND PROGRAMMATIC OFFERINGS FOR SENIORS YOUTH AND IMPROVED FACILITIES CITYWIDE WAS ALSO DISCUSSED IN DETAIL.  OTHER ISSUES INCLUDED TECHNOLOGY, TECHNOLOGY UPGRADES AT THE NORTH END LIBRARY DIVERSITY AND STAFFING AND THE IMPORTANCE OF MAINTAINING COMMUNITY ORIENTED SERVICES LIKE CHILD CARE AND PUBLIC ACCESS PROGRAMS.  YESTERDAY AT 2 P.M. WE HELD A HEARING TO GROW WITH API 25 BUDGET FOR THE PLANNING DEPARTMENT FROM THE ADMINISTRATION OF THE JAMISON CHIEF OF PLANNING AND DIRECTOR OF BPA. DAVENPORT DEPUTY CHIEF FOR INFORMATION AND DEVELOPMENT AND TIM MATHIS DIRECTOR OF FINANCE . COUNCIL MEMBERS IN ATTENDANCE INCLUDE NICOLETTA SANTANA, FITZGERALD PEPEN, DURKIN BREADON AND COUNCIL PRESIDENT LOUIJEUNE BERNARD ANDERSON WEBER AND FLYNN.  THE HEARING FOCUSED ON THE PLANNING DEPARTMENT'S MISSION TO ENHANCE CLIMATE RESILIENCY AFFORDABILITY EQUITY THROUGH THOUGHTFUL URBAN DESIGN AND INCLUSIVE PLANNING STRATEGY STRATEGIES DISCUSSIONS COVERED RESTRUCTURE EFFORTS TO PRIORITIZE URBAN PLANNING COMPREHENSIVE ZONING REFORMS AND ESTABLISH A CITYWIDE DESIGN VISION MODERNIZATION TO STREAMLINE THE DEVELOPMENT REVIEW PROCESS. HIGHLIGHTS INCLUDE TRANSPARENCY THE DEPARTMENT'S INITIATIVES TO BOOST COASTAL RESILIENCE AND INTEGRATE PUBLIC FEEDBACK. FEEDBACK WILL ALSO DISCUSS AIMING FOR INCLUSIVE GROWTH THAT BENEFITS ALL RESIDENTS TO ADDRESS THE IMPACT COMPLEX ZONING LAWS ON HOUSING DEVELOPMENT PARTICULARLY IN MATTAPAN AND EFFORTS TO ENGAGE LOCAL COMMUNITIES AND BUSINESSES. OTHER KEY POINTS INCLUDING CONCERNS ABOUT DISPLACEMENT AND THE EFFECTIVE MANAGEMENT OF DEVELOPMENT FUNDS WITH THE COUNCIL EXPLORING HOW TO ALIGN ZONING AND DEVELOPMENT WITH COMMUNITY NEEDS. SUSTAINABLE GROWTH AND PROTECTION OF RESIDENTS. EACH HEARING IS PROVIDING IMPORTANT INSIGHT FOR AND IMPROVING CITY GOVERNANCE AND I THINK ALL COUNCILORS FOR THE COLLABORATION IN THE BUDGET PROCESS ALSO WANT TO GIVE A BIG SHOUT OUT TO ESSENTIAL STAFF SAYING CHARISMA FOR THEIR HARD WORK AND JUST LOOKING FORWARD TO CONTINUING THESE CONVERSATIONS.  THANK YOU. THANK YOU CASSEROLE AND THANK YOU AGAIN FOR YOUR CONTINUED STEWARDSHIP.  I THINK JUST EVEN THAT SUMMARY SHOWS HOW MUCH WORK GOES INTO SHEPHERDING US THROUGH THE BUDGET PROCESS AND REALLY GRATEFUL FOR YOUR LEADERSHIP. MR. CLERK CAN YOU PLEASE REFLECT THE UPDATE THE ATTENDANCE RECORD TO REFLECT THAT COUNCILOR AARON MURPHY HAS NOW JOINED US. THANK YOU. WE'RE NOW ON TO MOTIONS, ORDERS AND RESOLUTIONS. MR. CLERK, IF WE COULD PLEASE TAKE DOCKET NUMBER ZERO EIGHT. OH, OKAY. DOCKET WAS IN ADDITION TO CONTINUING TO SUPPORT IT ASSURED STEWARDESS ORAL WILL CONTINUE TO SUPPORT US IN DOCKETS NUMBER 067020678 WILL REMAIN IN COMMITTEE.  MR. CLERK WE ARE NOW ON TO MOTIONS ORDERS AND RESOLUTIONS. WE WILL PLEASE TAKE DOCKET NUMBER 0825 OUT OF ORDER SO THAT COUNCILOR FERNANDO ANDERSON CAN COME UP HERE AND MAKE A PRESENTATION FOR GAGE FOR GOOD ALONGSIDE STATE REPRESENTATIVE JOHN MORAN. KATRINA ANDREW ANDERSON YOU NOW HAVE THE FLOOR.  YES. MR. CLERK CAN YOU PLEASE READ IT INTO THE RECORD DOCKING NUMBER 0825 COUNCILOR FERNANDEZ SAYS ANDERSON OFFERED THE FOLLOWING RESOLUTION RECOGNIZING GAY FOR GOOD.  GOOD MORNING OR GOOD AFTERNOON . MY NAME IS TANIA FOR ANDERSON AND THANK YOU MADAM PRESIDENT. I AM PLEASED TO STAND HERE WITH REPRESENTATIVE JOHN MORAN ALSO A CONSTITUENT IN DISTRICT SEVEN AND MEMBERS OF GAY FOR GOOD BOSTON. I'D LIKE TO INVITE YOU TO COME OVER TO RECEIVE THIS RESOLUTION OR CITATION RATHER BOB KNOW PLEASE JOIN ME . YOU OF COURSE.  THANK YOU. OC YES.  FOR THOSE OF YOU WHO DON'T KNOW. GAY FOR GOOD MOBILIZES LGBTQ PLUS AND ALLY VOLUNTEERS TO PROMOTE DIVERSITY FOSTERING COLLUSION AND STRENGTHEN TIES TO THE BROADER COMMUNITY NATIONWIDE.  THEY HAVE VOLUNTEERED WITH NEARLY 800 NONPROFITS AND CONTRIBUTED OVER $3 MILLION WORTH OF VOLUNTEER HOURS. LOCALLY THEIR VOLUNTEERS CAN BE FOUND SUPPORTING ORGANIZATIONS LIKE THE GREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK. BIKES NOT BOMBS BAGLEY FENWAY HEALTH TRANSIT ASSISTANCE AND THEATER OFFENSIVE SORRY OF COURSE THAT'S MY FAVORITE GAME FOR GOOD'S MISSION IS CREATING A PIPELINE FOR VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITIES REFLECTS THE SPIRIT OF COMMUNITY SERVICE THAT MAKES BOSTON'S LGBTQ PLUS COMMUNITY SO SPECIAL. I'VE MENTIONED BEFORE THAT I WAS RAISED BY A GAY MAN PROUDLY AND I LEARNED A LOT FROM HIM DIRECTLY ABOUT WHAT IT MEANS TO GIVE BACK TO YOUR COMMUNITY, TO BE PATRIARCH OF YOUR FAMILY, TO GIVE UNCONDITIONALLY YOUR HEART, YOUR SWEAT, YOUR TEARS AND YOUR PASSION. IT WAS WITH HIM IN MIND THAT I HELPED CREATE THEATRICAL PRODUCTIONS FASHION SHOWS AND OTHER COMMUNITY GATHERINGS THAT CELEBRATE THE VIBRANCY, BEAUTY AND CREATIVITY OF THE LGBTQ COMMUNITY BRINGING AND HIGHLIGHTING WOMEN OF ALL INFLUENCE TO THE STAGE. THAT IS ALSO WHY AS COUNCILOR I HAVE BEEN DETERMINED TO ADVOCATE FOR LGBTQ COMMUNITY PARTICULARLY UPLIFTING BLACK TRANS MEN AND WOMEN WHO LIVE AT THE INTERSECTIONS OF OUR SOCIETY'S DEEPLY INADEQUATE SYSTEMS.  I HOPE THAT BY PASSING THIS RESOLUTION TODAY WE TAKE A MOMENT TO REFLECT ON THE HARD WORK BEING DONE EVERY DAY BY ORGANIZATIONS LIKE GAY FOR GOOD BUT ALSO TO REMIND OURSELVES HOW OFTEN WE HAVE TO RELY ON THE TIME AND EFFORT OF VOLUNTEERS JUST TO MAKE OUR SYSTEMS FUNCTION. I WANT TO TAKE A MOMENT TO STEP BACK AND LET REPRESENTATIVE GRAM SPEAK AND BEFORE GIVING A MOMENT FOR FOLKS FROM GAY FOR GOOD TO OFFER BRIEF REMARKS SHOULD THEY CHOOSE SO.  THANK YOU. THANK YOU COUNCILOR AND THANK YOU MADAM PRESIDENT AND MY TEAM TO COLLEAGUES IN THE IN THE HERE AT CITY HALL AND COUNCILORS. I JUST WANT TO ALSO JUST ECHO THE WORDS OF OF COUNCILOR TANYA FERNANDEZ AND FERNANDEZ ANDERSON. THE WORK THAT GAY GAY FOR GOOD DOES IS REALLY IMPORTANT AND I, I STARTED THINKING ABOUT THIS THIS MORNING A LITTLE BIT AND IN SOME WAYS I'M WONDERING IT'S ALL EMOTION MOTION. I'M WONDERING IF I'D ACTUALLY BE HERE STANDING AS YOUR STATE REPRESENTATIVE FOR THE NINTH SUFFOLK DISTRICT IF GAY FOR GOOD HADN'T FOR DECADES GONE OUT AND YES, THEY'VE RAKED LEAVES AND GONE TO THEATER OFFENSIVE AND DONE ALL THAT IMPORTANT WORK BUT MORE IMPORTANTLY THEY'VE CERTAINLY SHARED THEIR STORIES AND BY SHARING THOSE STORIES THERE'S BECOME BOTH IN THE CITY OF BOSTON AND THE STATE OF MASSACHUSETTS SINCE THE COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS OVER THE LAST COUPLE OF DECADES MORE OF AN UNDERSTANDING.  AND AND BUILDING THOSE BRIDGES OF DIVERSITY INCLUSION IS A KEY PART OF WHAT GAY FOR GOOD DOES AS. ALONG WITH THE GREAT WORK THAT THEY DO. SO I JUST REALLY WANT TO CONGRATULATE ALL OF YOU FOR ALL THE HARD WORK YOU DO AND WE HAVE SOME RESOLUTIONS BUT WE'LL DO ONE MORE TO PRESENT MY RESOLUTION FIRST. OH WELL DOES ANYONE BOSTON WHO'S A SPOKESPERSON FOR THE ELECTED PARENTS I JUST WANTED TO SAY ON BEHALF OF THE BOSTON CHAPTER OF GAY FOR GOOD, WE ARE TRULY HUMBLED AND SO HONORED FOR THIS RECOGNITION BY THE CITY OF BOSTON.  OUR MISSION IS TO DO GOOD AND OPEN THINGS UP FOR EVERYONE AND JUST IN A SMALL WAY THIS MAY HELP MORE PEOPLE TO GET TO KNOW WHO WE ARE AND WHAT WE DO AND ENCOURAGE THEM TO JOIN US. SO THANK YOU AGAIN. WE REALLY APPRECIATE IT. THANK YOU SO MUCH.  ALL RIGHT. GREAT. AND SO I'M ON BEHALF OF THE COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS,  I WANT TO PRESENT A TICKET FOR GABE GAY, FOR GOOD, FOR YOUR DEDICATION TO THE COMMUNITY WITH YOUR SELFLESS SERVICE AND THE PROFOUND POSITIVE IMPACT YOU'VE HAD ON THE LGBTQ PLUS COMMUNITY THE CITY OF BOSTON IN THE COMMONWEALTH THE ENTIRE MEMBERSHIP OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES EXTENDS ITS VERY BEST WISHES AND EXPRESSES THE HOPE FOR THE FUTURE FOR GOOD FORTUNE AND CONTINUED SUCCESS AND ALL ENDEAVORS SIGNED HOUSE SPEAKER RONALD MARIANO AND MYSELF JOHN MORAN, STATE REPRESENTATIVE FOR THE NINTH SUFFOLK DISTRICT. SO THANK YOU VERY, VERY MUCH FOR ALL YOU DO YOU GUYS YOUR BUSINESS. WOULD ANY OF MY COLLEAGUES LIKE TO SPEAK ON THIS MATTER? WOULD ANYONE ELSE LIKE TO ADD THEIR NAME? MR. CLERK OKAY I'LL ADD THAT MR. CLERK PLEASE ADD COUNCILORS BREADON COLETTA DURKIN FITZGERALD FLYNN MURPHY BUT BEN SANTANA WEBER WUERL PLEASE ADD THE CHAIR COMES TO BRING ANDERSON ANDERSON'S SEAT EXPANSION OF THE RULES AND PATH FOR PASSAGE AND ADOPTION OF DOCKET NUMBER 0825 ALL THOSE IN FAVOR SAY AYE. ALL THOSE OPPOSING THE AYES HAVE IT. THIS RESOLUTION HAS BEEN ADOPTED OF IF MY COLLEAGUES CAN COME UP FOR A PHOTO YES, YOU SHOULD IF YOU WANT IT. YES. OKAY. ALL RIGHT.  SO COUNCILOR FERNANDA ANDERSON PRESENTS AN OFFICIAL RESOLUTION FROM THE BOSTON CITY COUNCIL IF IF YOU WANT THIS. ARE YOU GUYS LIKE IT? YES.  OFFICIAL RESOLUTION OFFERED BY BOSTON CITY COUNCILOR TONYA FERNANDA ANDERSON BE RESOLVED THAT THE BOSTON CITY COUNCIL EXTENDS ITS CONGRATULATIONS TO GAY FOR GOOD IN RECOGNITION OF YOUR TIRELESS EFFORTS AND UNWAVERING DEDICATION TOWARDS PROMOTING DIVERSITY, INCLUSION AND COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT FOR THEIR COLLABORATION WITH LOCAL ORGANIZATIONS AND NONPROFITS IN BOSTON TO ADDRESS PRESSING SOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES AND FOR YOUR SIGNIFICANT POSITIVE IMPACT ON THE LGBTQ COMMUNITY AND THE ENTIRE CITY OF BOSTON INSPIRING INDIVIDUALS TO COME TOGETHER IN SERVICE OF A MORE INCLUSIVE AND EQUITABLE SOCIETY AND BE A FURTHER RESOLVE THAT THE BOSTON CITY COUNCIL ALL OF US EXTEND OUR BEST WISHES FOR CONTINUED SUCCESS AT THIS RESOLUTION BE DULY SIGNED BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE BOSTON CITY COUNCIL AND ATTESTED TO IN A COPY THEREOF TRANSMITTED BY THE CLERK OF THE CITY OF BOSTON IF FOR GOOD THINGS FOR ALL THE GOOD YOU DO YOU QUICK SHOUT OUT JUST A QUICK SHOUT OUT TO BOB BARNEY I LOVE YOU WHEN I COME IN TO VOTE ON YOUR RECORD. OKAY SO RECORD I DON'T WANT TO HEAR HIM WORDS NOT YEAH YEAH WE ALL OKAY AWESOME BIG IT WAS AMAZING.  THANK YOU SO MUCH THANK YOU.  THANK YOU. JUST TO LET YOU KNOW THANK YOU . YEAH. EVERYONE MAKES EVERY THE OLD SCHOOL EVERYBODY WHO WAS HERE GAY FOR GOOD ALSO LEFT A FLIER WITH US ABOUT VOLUNTEERING WITH THEM IN THE CITY OF BOSTON. THERE'S A VERY ACTIVE INSTAGRAM PAGE SO IF YOU WANT TO LEARN MORE ABOUT VOLUNTEERING WITH GAY FOR GOOD, CHECK OUT THE INSTAGRAM PAGE AND I'M SURE THEY'RE HAPPY TO TALK TO ALL OF YOU. SO THANK YOU AGAIN.  MR. CLERK COULD YOU PLEASE READ DOCKET NUMBER 0819 DOCKING NUMBER 0819 COUNCIL OF PLAYING OFF OF THE FOLLOWING ORDER FOR A HEARING TO DISCUSS EXPANDING THE URBAN TREE CANOPY IN DISTRICT TWO. THANK YOU. THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES COUNCILOR FLYNN CASTRO FLYNN YOU HAVE THE FLOOR.  THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIRMAN.  MADAM CHAIR, THIS IS A HEARING TO DISCUSS STRATEGIES FOR EXPANDING THE URBAN TREE CANOPY IN DISTRICT TWO AND THROUGHOUT THE CITY DISTRICT TO WEST AS WE AS MANY PEOPLE KNOW INCLUDES SOME OF THE AREAS WITH THE LEAST TREE COVERS SUCH AS SOUTH BOSTON, CHINATOWN, DOWNTOWN BOSTON WE ALL KNOW THAT HAVING A HEALTHY URBAN TREE CANOPY IS IMPORTANT TO OUR ENVIRONMENT.  TREES NOT ONLY PROVIDE BEAUTIFICATION BUT THEY ALSO PROVIDE FILTERS FOR POLLUTANTS ,ABSORB EXCESS STORMWATER RUNOFF, PROVIDE SHADE DURING HOT SUMMERS AND OTHER ENVIRONMENTAL AND PUBLIC HEALTH BENEFITS.  I WOULD ALSO ACKNOWLEDGE THAT TREES ARE CRITICALLY IMPORTANT TO OUR QUALITY OF LIFE, OUR WELL-BEING AND MENTAL HEALTH. IT DOES NOT MATTER WHAT NEIGHBORHOOD OR POLITICAL BACKGROUND SOMEONE HAS WHEN TREES COME DOWN DUE TO A BAD STORM WHEN THEY CUT DOWN ON PRIVATE PROPERTY OR BY A DEVELOPER ELECTED OFFICIALS HEAR ABOUT IT RESIDENTS ARE NOT HAPPY THE CITY RELEASED ITS URBAN FOREST PLAN IN SEPTEMBER 2022 WHICH LAYS OUT STRATEGIES FOR THE PRESERVATION EXPANSION OF OUR URBAN CANOPY. THE CITY COUNCIL PASSED THE TREE PROTECTION ORDINANCE LATE IN 2023 WHICH REGULATES THE PROCESS OF TREE REMOVALS,  TRIMMING AND MAINTENANCE OF NOTE THE URBAN FOREST PLAN FINDS THAT NEIGHBORHOODS IN THE SOUTH AND WEST PARTS OF THE CITY HAVE MORE TREES WHILE NEIGHBORING NEIGHBORHOODS IN THE NORTH AND EAST PARTS OF THE CITY SUCH AS SOUTH BOSTON HAVE THE LEAST TREE COVERAGE.  AS OF 2019, SOUTH BOSTON ONLY HAD 8% TREE COVERAGE AND A CONSENSUS TRACK AND CHINATOWN ONLY HAD 7% WHILE THE CITY AVERAGE WAS 27%. THIS HAS A SIGNIFICANT IMPACT WHEN IT COMES TO HOT DAYS IN THE SUMMERTIME CLIMATE CHANGE HEAT ISLAND EFFECT WITH A SERIOUS LITTLE LACK OF TREE COVERAGE IN THE NEIGHBORHOODS THROUGHOUT DISTRICT TWO MY OFFICE IN I RECENTLY HELD A MEETING WITH COUNCILOR MURPHY GLORIA POLASKI FROM THE MAYOR'S OFFICE OF NEIGHBORHOOD SERVICES AND NEIGHBORS FROM THE FRIENDS OF NORTH, THE BROADWAY CIVIC GROUP ON THIS ISSUE AFTER GOALS EVERSOURCE CUT DOWN TREES THAT WILL EVENTUALLY BE REPLACED FOR A SECURITY FENCE UPGRADE THE SOUTH BOSTON MARKET AT OFFICIALS AND I CONTINUE TO WORK CLOSELY WITH MAYOR WILL AND COMMISSIONER RYAN WOODS FROM THE PARKS DEPARTMENT IN OUR ATTEMPTS TO PRESERVE SISTER MARY VERONICA PARK IN THE FIVE MATURE TREES ON THAT PARTICULAR SITE ON THE CORNER OF F STREET AND WEST EIGHTH STREET IN SOUTH BOSTON I KNOW THE AREA VERY WELL. I HAVE SEVERAL BLOCKS AWAY BUT THERE ARE A LOT OF ELDERLY PEOPLE PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES THAT PARTICULARLY RELY ON THAT PARK FOR PLACES SO THAT THEY CAN MEET RESIDENTS ACROSS DISTRICT TWO IN CHINATOWN DOWNTOWN BOSTON AND THE SOUTH END ALSO CONTINUE TO ADVOCATE FOR MORE TREE PLANTING IN THE NEIGHBORHOODS, INCREASING OUR URBAN TREE CANOPY SHOULD BE A PRIORITY FOR OUR CONTINUED EFFORTS TO COMBAT HEAT ISLAND EFFECT ESPECIALLY WITH SUCH LOW COVERAGE IN DISTRICT TWO. I LOOK FORWARD TO THIS HEARING. THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR. THANK YOU. COUNCILOR FLYNN, 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 FITZGERALD MURPHY, BABETTE AND SANTANA WEBER WORLD PLEASE ADD THE CHAIR THANK YOU.  DOCKET NUMBER 0819 WILL BE REFERRED TO THE COMMITTEE ON ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE, RESILIENCY AND PARKS. MR. CLERK, WOULD YOU PLEASE READ DOCKET NUMBER 08200820 COUNCILOR OF WEBER OFFER THE FOLLOWING RESOLUTION AND IN SUPPORT OF SENATE 1165 ENACT ACT TO PROTECT INJURED WORKERS. THANK YOU. THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES COUNCILOR WEBER COUNCILOR WEBER ,YOU HAVE THE FLOOR. THANK YOU, MADAM PRESIDENT. THE WORKERS COMPENSATION SYSTEM IS SUPPOSED TO REPRESENT A COMPROMISE WHERE WORKERS GIVE UP WHEN THEY'RE INJURED IN THE WORKPLACE. THEY GIVE UP THE ABILITY TO SUE THEIR EMPLOYER FOR FOR A TORT LIKE YOU WOULD IF YOU'RE IN A CAR ACCIDENT. BLESS YOU, COUNCILOR DURKIN.  AND IN EXCHANGE FOR GIVING UP THAT ABILITY, THEY'RE SUPPOSED TO BE GUARANTEED SOME INCOME, SOME COMPENSATION FOR INJURIES THAT THEY SUFFERED IN THE WORKPLACE THROUGH THE WORKER'S COMP SYSTEM IN A WAY THAT THEY ARE GIVEN THOSE BENEFITS IN A VERY QUICK MANNER TO ADDRESS THE INJURY AND THAT THERE'S NOT SUPPOSED TO BE AN OPPOSITION TO IT BY THE EMPLOYER BECAUSE THEY'VE GIVEN UP THEIR RIGHT TO SUE THEM IN TORT. IN REALITY WHAT HAPPENS IS A VERY LONG DRAWN OUT PROCESS WHERE WORKERS FILE FOR CLAIMS AND THEY'RE OFTEN FACE AN UPHILL BATTLE TO EVEN GET THE BENEFITS THAT ARE SUPPOSEDLY GUARANTEED BY THE SYSTEM.  AND THEY ALSO FACE RETALIATION JUST FOR FILING THESE CLAIMS. SO WHAT HAPPENS AS A RESULT IS ONLY ABOUT 40% OF WORKERS WHO HAVE AN INJURY THAT'S SUPPOSED TO BE COVERED BY THE WORKER'S COMPENSATION SYSTEM ACTUALLY FILE FOR THEIR CLAIMS AND EVEN THE ONES THAT DO FACE HARSH RETALIATION WITHOUT THE BENEFIT OF AN ATTORNEY BECAUSE MOST ATTORNEYS WILL NOT TAKE A WORKER'S COMP RETALIATION CASE THEY'RE DIFFICULT TO PROVE AND THE WORKER ISN'T WORKING. SO THAT'S HARD TO EVEN PAY FOR AN ATTORNEY. THAT'S WHY I BROUGHT THIS RESOLUTION IN SUPPORT OF A BILL. IT'S CALLED AN ACT TO PROTECT INJURED WORKERS WHICH WAS FILED BY SENATOR JANEY ELDRIDGE. AND WHAT THIS ACT WILL DO IS ALLOW THE ATTORNEY GENERAL'S OFFICE TO ENFORCE COMPLAINTS OF MISCONDUCT AND RETALIATION IN RELATION TO WORKER'S COMP CLAIMS.  SO YOU KNOW, I THINK THIS WILL ADDRESS, YOU KNOW, A MAJOR PROBLEM WITH THE SYSTEM. WE KNOW THAT THE ISSUE OF DENYING WORKERS COMPENSATION IS PERVASIVE ACROSS BOSTON AND THROUGHOUT THE COMMONWEALTH AND THAT'S WHY I'M ASKING THAT WE SUSPEND THE RULES AND ADOPT THIS RESOLUTION IN SUPPORT OF SENATE BILL 1165 AND ACT TO PROTECT INJURED WORKERS.  THANK YOU, MADAM PRESIDENT. THANK YOU, COUNCILOR WEBER, IS ANYONE ELSE LOOKING TO SPEAK ON THIS MATTER?  WOULD ANYONE ELSE LIKE TO ADD THEIR NAME? MR. CLERK PLEASE ADD COUNCILORS COLETTA DURKIN, FERNANDA ANDERSON FITZGERALD FLYNN MURPHY BUT BENSON TANA WORRELL PLEASE ADD THE CHAIR CASTLE WEBER SIXERS YOU KNOW THE RULES AND PASSENGER DOCKET NUMBER 0820 ALL THOSE IN FAVOR SAY I ALL THE POLLS SAY NAY.  MR. CLERK, WILL YOU PLEASE CONDUCT A ROLL CALL VOTE ROLL CALL VOTE ON DOCKET NUMBERS 0820 COUNCILOR BREEN COUNCILOR BREADON YES. COUNCILOR COLETTA COUNCILOR COLETTA YES. COUNCILOR DURKIN COUNCILOR DURKIN YES. COUNCILOR FERNANDES ANDERSON COUNCIL FINANCE SENSE AND YES.  COUNCILOR FITZGERALD YES. COUNCILOR FITZGERALD YES. COUNCILOR FLYNN YES.  COUNCILOR FLYNN YES. COUNCILOR LOUIJEUNE YES. COUNCILOR LOUIJEUNE YES.  CONCILOR MEJIA HERE COUNCILOR MURPHY. COUNCILOR MURPHY YES. COUNCILOR PIPPIN COUNCILOR 15 YES. COUNCILOR S.A. COUNCILOR SANTANA YES. COUNCILOR WEBER YES. COUNCILOR WEBER YES. AND COUNCILOR WORRELL YES. COUNCILOR OH YES DUCK IN NUMBER 0820 HAS RECEIVED 12 VOTES IN THE AFFIRMATIVE. THANK YOU.  NUMBER 0820 HAS BEEN ADOPTED. MR CLERK, WOULD YOU PLEASE READ DOCKET NUMBER 0821 DUGAN NUMBER 0821 COUNCILORS WEBER AND LOUIJEUNE OFFER THE FOLLOWING RESOLUTION RECOGNIZING JEWISH AMERICAN HERITAGE MONTH. THANK YOU. THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES COUNCILOR WEBER.  COUNCILOR WEBER, YOU HAVE THE FLOOR. THANK YOU, MADAM PRESIDENT.  UM, I DO NOT THINK I COULD SUMMARIZE THE JEWISH AMERICAN EXPERIENCE IN A SHORT SPEECH HERE ON THE FLOOR. BUT YOU KNOW, KNOWING THAT I'M ABOUT TO FAIL IS NEVER STOP ME BEFORE.  SO I'LL DO MY BEST. OKAY. ON OCTOBER 18TH, 1790, GEORGE WASHINGTON VISITED THE TORAH SYNAGOGUE IN NEWPORT, RHODE ISLAND AND DELIVERED A LETTER TO THE CONGREGATION THAT PROMISED MORE THAN JUST MERE RELIGIOUS TOLERANCE.  THE LETTER STATED IT IS NOW NO MORE THAN TALLER IS NOW NO MORE. THE TOLERATION IS SPOKEN AS IF IT WERE THE INDULGENCE OF ONE CLASS OF PEOPLE THAT ANOTHER ENJOYED THE EXERCISE OF THEIR INHERENT NATURAL RIGHTS AND THE IDEA THAT JEWS COULD BE PART OF THE AMERICAN FABRIC IN 1790 WHILE NOT ALWAYS EMBRACED IN FACT JEWS WERE NOT GRANTED FULL CITIZENSHIP IN THE COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS UNTIL 1821 SHOWS THAT THIS COUNTRY HAS BEEN SHOWS WHY THIS COUNTRY HAS BEEN THE HOME OF SO MANY JEWS AND WHY MANY OF THOSE JEWS HAVE DEEP ROOTS IN BOSTON.  IT IS NOT HARD TO FIND THE POSITIVE IMPACTS JEWS HAVE HAD ON OUR SOCIETY FROM PHILOSOPHY TO PHYSICS, FROM LITERATURE TO THE LAW THERE HAVE BEEN JEWISH AMERICANS OFTEN LEADING THE WAY TOWARD PROGRESS. LOUIS BRANDEIS FIRST PRACTICED LAW IN BOSTON, WENT ON TO BECOME THE PEOPLE'S LAWYER AND THE FIRST JEWISH SUPREME COURT JUSTICE. IF YOU LIKE MUSIC LOOK NO FURTHER THAN BOSTON LATIN SCHOOL ALUM LEONARD BERNSTEIN. IF YOU LIKE MOVIES, JEWS HELPED PIONEER THAT INDUSTRY.  IF YOU LIKE STAR TREK BOSTON'S NATIVE SON AND WEST END RESIDENT LEONARD NIMOY BROUGHT THE HAND GESTURE OF HIS RABBI WHICH WAS ALSO USED IN MY SYNAGOGUE TO PRAY FOR HIS MISBEGOTTEN HUMAN COLLEAGUES TO LIVE LONG AND PROSPER. IF YOU LIKE STAND UP COMEDY SKETCH COMEDY, IMPROV COMEDY, VAUDEVILLE SATIRE OF THE SPOOF YOU CAN THANK JEWISH AMERICANS IN WE PRODUCED SANDY KOUFAX, KEVIN YOUKILIS, JULIAN EDELMAN AND I'M SURE THERE'S ONE OR TWO MORE. YOU KNOW, TWO FAMOUS JEWISH ATHLETES INCLUDE SAM STOLLER, MARTY GLICKMAN.  THEY WERE BOTH ON THE U.S. FOUR BY 100 METER RELAY TEAM IN THE 1936 OLYMPICS AND WERE KEPT FROM COMPETING IN THE OLYMPIC FINAL SUPPOSEDLY AS A TWO TO NOT OFFEND. THE HEAD OF THOSE GAMES, ADOLF HITLER.  BUT YOU KNOW, IT'S BAD WHEN MAYBE THE TWO MOST FAMOUS JEWISH ATHLETES ARE FAMOUS FOR NOT BEING ALLOWED TO COMPETE. JEWISH AMERICANS HAVE ALWAYS HAD ALSO HAVE ALSO HAD A STRONG COMMITMENT TO CIVIL RIGHTS. IT'S NO COINCIDENCE THAT WHEN JAMES CHANEY WHO WAS BLACK WAS MURDERED IN PHILADELPHIA, MISSISSIPPI IN JUNE 1964 FOR TRYING TO REGISTER PEOPLE TO VOTE, HE WAS WITH TWO JEWS FROM NEW YORK. ANDREW GOODMAN AND MICHAEL SCHWERNER WERE ALSO MURDERED. THIS COUNCIL HAS ALSO BENEFITED FROM THE SERVICE OF TWO JEWISH AMERICANS RECENTLY AND MIKE ROSS AND JOSH SEACOM.  BUT WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO BE A JEWISH AMERICAN TODAY?  MY ANSWER IS HOW SHOULD I KNOW? IF YOU THINK THAT YOU KNOW, I THINK YOU CAN SEE THAT JEWS HAVE BEEN DEEPLY AFFECTED BY THE ATTACK ON OCTOBER 7TH AND ITS TERRIBLE AFTERMATH IN GREAT NUMBERS. JEWS HAVE DEMONSTRATED FOR ISRAEL AND THE RETURN OF HOSTAGES. MANY HAVE ALSO JOINED ENCAMPMENTS AND MARCHES IN PROTEST CALLING FOR AN IMMEDIATE CEASE FIRE AND CALLS FOR AN END TO THE OCCUPATION BY THE ISRAELI GOVERNMENT. WHAT I BELIEVE WAS IN THE PASSOVER PRAYER I READ HERE LAST WEEK THAT WE MUST DO OUR BEST TO HOLD OUR IN OUR HEARTS THE SUFFERING OF JEWS AND PALESTINIANS BOTH IN ISRAEL, GAZA, THE WEST BANK AND IN BOSTON.  BUT THAT INCLUDES A RIGHT TO RECOGNIZE THE PAIN OF JEWS WHO WATCHED THE ATTACK BY HAMAS ON OCTOBER 7TH IN HORROR. PRESIDENT BIDEN IN A SPEECH YESTERDAY TALKED ABOUT SEEING AMERICAN JEWS FEAR. I FOR ONE HAVE NO DOUBT THAT THE ATTACK BY HAMAS ON OCTOBER SEVENTH HAS BROUGHT ABOUT A RISE IN ANTI-SEMITISM. THAT IS NOT TO SAY THAT CRITICISMS OF THE ISRAELI GOVERNMENT ARE PER SE ANTI SEMITIC BECAUSE THEY ARE NOT. WE KNOW THAT ANTI-SEMITISM FOR THOUSANDS OF YEARS IS ALWAYS HOVERING RIGHT UNDER THE SURFACE. WHETHER WE WERE TALKING ABOUT THE SPANISH INQUISITION, THE HOLOCAUST OR MORE RECENTLY CHARLOTTE'S FILLED WITH GROUPS MARCHING AND CHANTING JEWS WILL NOT REPLACE US.  NEO-NAZI GROUPS DEMONSTRATING RIGHT HERE IN BOSTON WHERE PEOPLE TODAY SUGGESTING THAT THE VICTIMS OF OCTOBER 7TH DESERVE TO BE KILLED.  WE HAVE TO BE VIGILANT. WE VOTED FOR A CEASE FIRE OF RETURN OF ALL THE HOSTAGES AND RESUMPTION OF HUMANITARIAN AID LAST WEEK BECAUSE THIS BODY IS ABLE TO HOLD IN ITS HEART THE SUFFERING OF THE INNOCENT PEOPLE WHO ARE BEING KILLED IN THE MIDDLE EAST. THIS IS ANOTHER OPPORTUNITY TO RECOGNIZE THAT PAIN AND DO WE CAN FOR THE PEOPLE OF BOSTON BY NOT ONLY CALLING FOR PEACE BUT CALLING OUT HATE. SO I HOPE YOU'LL SUPPORT ME IN THIS RESOLUTION RECOGNIZING JEWISH AMERICAN HERITAGE MONTH BY MONTH AND THANK YOU PRESIDENT.  THANK YOU SO MUCH, COUNCILOR WEBER.  I THANK YOU FOR ADDING ME AS A CO-SPONSOR. THERE'S NO WAY THAT I CAN OH YES. OKAY. THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES COUNCILOR WEBER.  I APOLOGIZE. I WOULD LIKE TO SUSPEND THE RULES AND ADD COUNCILOR DURKIN AS AS A THIRD COUNCILOR WEBER SUSPENSION OF THE RULES TO ADD COUNCILOR DURKIN AS AN ORIGINAL THIRD CO-SPONSOR. SEEING AND HEARING NO OBJECTIONS.  COUNCILOR DURKIN ALSO ADDED. COUNCILOR WEBER I'D LIKE TO JUST THANK YOU FOR HAVING ME . THERE IS NO WAY THAT WHATEVER I CAN SAY HOLDS MORE WEIGHT THAN WHAT YOU EXPERIENCE AND WHO YOU ARE AND HOW YOU COME TO THE TABLE AS A JEWISH AMERICAN AND THE JOY AND THE FIRST THAT YOU HAVE AND THE FEARS THAT YOU HAVE AS WELL AND THE RISE OF ANTI-ISLAMIC AGEISM AND DENOUNCING THAT. SO I JUST THANK YOU THANK YOU FOR ADDING ME . I'M GRATEFUL FOR THE MANY CONTRIBUTIONS OF OUR JEWISH RESIDENTS IN THE CITY OF BOSTON AND FOR MYSELF AS MY FIRST REAL INTRODUCTION WAS WHEN I TURNED IN MY DORM FORMALLY FRESHMAN YEAR AT COLUMBIA AND WAS ON THE JEWISH ORTHODOX FOR AND I LEARNED A LOT AND FROM THERE WHEN I DECIDED ABROAD IN SENEGAL TRAVELING WITH JEWISH FRIENDS WHO ARE CONSERVATIVE OBSERVE CONSERVATIVE CONSERVATIVE TRADITION. AND ON SHABBAT ON FRIDAY NIGHT UNTIL SUNDOWN ON SATURDAY HAVING TO NOT USE ELECTRICITY.  TRAVELING THROUGH SENEGAL AND MALI AND LEARNING SO MUCH MORE ABOUT THE DEPTH OF JEWISH CULTURE AND IDENTITY. AND THEN AS A LAW SCHOOL STUDENT AT HARVARD LAW SCHOOL STARTING THE FREEDOM SEDER AS AN EXECUTIVE MEMBER OF THE BLACK LAW STUDENTS ASSOCIATION IN PARTNERSHIP WITH THE JEWISH LAW STUDENTS ASSOCIATION COME TOGETHER TO COMMEMORATE THE FIRST FREEDOMS DATA THAT HAPPENED THE YEAR AFTER MLK DIED IN 1969 TO TALK ABOUT OUR SHARED STORIES OF STRUGGLE,  OF ENSLAVEMENT, OF LIBERATION AND OPPRESSION AND ALSO IDENTIFYING OUR OWN BLINDSPOTS AND IN SO DOING INVITING OTHER AFFINITY GROUPS INVITING SEVENTH DAY ADVENTIST, INVITING THE ASIAN LAW, THE ASIAN LAW STUDENTS ASSOCIATION AND INVITING THE ALIANZA INVITING MUSLIM LAW STUDENTS ASSOCIATION, INVITING EVERYONE TO SHARE OUR STORIES OF OPPRESSION AND OF CONTINUED STRUGGLE. AND SO I THANK YOU FOR BRINGING THIS RESOLUTION TO THE TABLE. I THANK YOU FOR SHARING YOUR LIVED EXPERIENCE AND I THANK FOR FOR ALL YOU DO IN THIS CITY AND I AND IT IS IMPORTANT THAT WE GUARD AGAINST AND DENOUNCE RISING ANTISEMITISM AS AS WE DO IN THIS RESOLUTION AND OFTENTIMES IT IS THE SAME GROUPS THAT ARE COMMITTING ANTI-SEMITIC ATTACKS THAT ARE ALSO ENGAGED IN ANTI-IMMIGRANT BEHAVIOR, THAT ARE ENGAGED IN ANTI-BLACK BEHAVIOR, THAT ARE ENGAGED IN RACISM. AND SO IT'S IMPORTANT THAT WE CALL THAT OUT. AND SO I THANK YOU FOR INTRODUCING THIS RESOLUTION AND I WILL ALSO ASK MY COLLEAGUES TO TO VOTE IN FAVOR.  THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES COUNCILOR DEREK AND COUNCILOR DURKAN. YOU HAVE THE FLOOR.  THANK YOU SO MUCH COUNCILOR WEBER AND THANK YOU SO MUCH. COUNCIL PRESIDENT LOUIJEUNE TODAY AND THIS MONTH IS ABOUT CELEBRATING THE JEWISH COMMUNITY BUT IT'S HARD TO ACKNOWLEDGE THAT FULLY WITHOUT UNDERSTANDING THAT TWO DAYS AGO ON MAY SIX WAS HOLOCAUST REMEMBRANCE DAY TO COMMEMORATE THE VICTIMS OF THE HOLOCAUST AND COMMIT TO ENSURING THE SAFETY OF THE JEWISH COMMUNITY . 214 DAYS AGO ON OCTOBER 7TH MARKED THE DEADLIEST DAY FOR THE JEWISH PEOPLE SINCE THE HOLOCAUST. FOLLOWERS OF THE JEWISH FAITH POINT TO PERSECUTION AND EVERY MILLENNIA FOLLOWERS OF THE JEWISH FAITH CAN SIMILARLY POINT TO RESILIENCE IN EVERY MILLENNIA. I'M NOT AN OBSERVER OF THE JEWISH FAITH TRADITION SO I RECOGNIZE THE WAYS IN WHICH MY UNDERSTANDING OF THEIR CONCEPTS OF FAITH AND MY UNDERSTANDING MAY BE SIMPLISTIC BUT THE CONCEPT IN JUDAISM OF TIKKUN OR THE IMPERATIVE TO REPAIR THE WORLD KEPT COMING INTO MY MIND AND I WAS ALWAYS THINKING ABOUT HOW I COULD CELEBRATE JEWISH AMERICAN HERITAGE MONTH. TO ME IS AN IMPERATIVE TO CARE FOR ALL BUT PARTICULARLY THE MOST VULNERABLE AT THIS COMPLICATED MOMENT. I THINK IT'S IMPORTANT ALL THE MORE IMPORTANT TO UPLIFT SIMPLE UNDERSTANDINGS THAT IT'S NOT COMPLICATED TO STAND UP FOR THE PERSECUTED. IT'S NOT COMPLICATED TO STAND UP FOR THE VULNERABLE AND IT'S NOT COMPLICATED TO RECOGNIZE THAT MEMBERS OF THE JEWISH COMMUNITY WHO HAVE HERALDED THESE CALLS THROUGHOUT HISTORY. JEWISH PEOPLE HAVE SHAPED THE HISTORY OF DISTRICT EIGHT AND I CAN POINT TO CULTURAL INSTITUTIONS LIKE TEMPLE ISRAEL, THE VILNA SHOW AND THE BOSTON SYNAGOGUE OF AS POWERFUL REMINDERS OF THAT AND I THINK MY I WOULD THANK MY COLLEAGUES FOR JOINING ME IN VOTING IN SUPPORT OF CELEBRATING JEWISH AMERICANS IN OUR IN OUR CITY TODAY.  THANK YOU THANK YOU CONSIDER DURKAN THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES CELEBRATE INCOMES ARE GREAT AND YOU HAVE THE FLOOR THANK YOU MADAM PRESIDENT I RISE TO ALSO PUT ANOTHER NAME ON THE LIST AS WE REMEMBER JEWISH HERITAGE MONTH AND IN AUSTIN BRIGHTON WE HAD A RESIDENT IN OUR NEIGHBORHOOD GINNY LIGHTMAN BARON SHE LIVED FROM 1891 TO 1969. SHE WAS THE FIRST WOMAN TO SERVE FULL TIME AS A FULL TIME AND MASSACHUSETTS JUDGE IN THE MASSACHUSETTS MUNICIPAL COURT AND SHE LATER BECAME THE FIRST WOMAN ASSOCIATE JUSTICE APPOINTED TO THE MASSACHUSETTS SUPERIOR COURT.  SHE WAS ONE OF FOUR DAUGHTERS BORN TO RUSSIAN-JEWISH IMMIGRANT PARENTS WHO LIVED IN THE WEST END OF BOSTON AND BEGINNING OF HER REMARKABLE CAREER AS SHE IS SHE TRACED AND SHE GRADUATED FROM BOSTON GIRLS HIGH AT THE AGE OF 15 AS THE VALEDICTORIAN OF HER CLASS AND WENT ON TO VERY GREAT THINGS. SHE AS AS A LAWYER AND AS A VERY INTERESTED IN WOMEN'S SUFFRAGE AND WOMEN'S RIGHTS AFTER THE PASSAGE OF THE 19TH AMENDMENT GRANTING WOMEN THE RIGHT TO VOTE, WOMEN WERE ABLE TO SERVE ON JURIES IN 21 STATES BUT NOT IN MASSACHUSETTS.  IN 1924 JEAN WROTE A PAMPHLET JURY SERVICE FOR WOMEN PUBLISHED BY THE NATIONAL LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS IN MASSACHUSETTS AND AND IN MASS IN WASHINGTON DC. SHE QUIPPED HOW WOULD A MAN LIKE TO BE JUDGED BY A JURY OF ALL WOMEN IS IT FAIR TO THE WOMEN WOMAN VICTIM WHO HAS SUFFERED AT THE HANDS OF SO OF SOME MEN TO HAVE A CASE TO TRIED BY A JURY COMPOSED ONLY OF MEN? SHE ALSO WAS THE FIRST WOMAN A MOTHER. SHE WAS THE FIRST MOTHER ELECTED TO THE BOSTON SCHOOL COMMITTEE AND SHE JUST HAD AN INCREDIBLE CAREER DEDICATED TO JUSTICE AND FREEDOM AND IN AN INDEPENDENCE DAY IN 1960 AT THE INVITATION OF MARY COLLINS, SHE BECAME THE THIRD WOMAN IN 184 YEARS TO ADDRESS THE PUBLIC AT BOSTON'S ANNUAL EVENT AT FANEUIL HALL.  SPEAKING ABOUT WHAT THE DAY MEANT TO HER AS A FIRST GENERATION IN HER FAMILY BORN IN THE UNITED STATES AND WORDS ARE STILL RELEVANT TO US TODAY MORE THAN ONCE, MORE SO MUCH LATER IN TIME. DO YOU UNDERSTAND THEN WHY TODAY COMMEMORATING THE BIRTHDAY OF FREEDOM I AM DEEPLY TOUCHED WE LEARNED THAT IN AMERICA IT MADE NO DIFFERENCE WHERE YOUR CRADLE OR YOUR MOTHER'S CRADLE WAS WRAPPED IN RUSSIA, ITALY, IRELAND,  PORTUGAL OR ON THE MAYFLOWER IN ORDER TO SAFEGUARD THE HERITAGE OF FREEDOM WE MUST ALWAYS REMEMBER THAT OUR GOVERNMENT IS A GOVERNMENT OF LAWS AND NOT MEN AND WE HAVE A WOMEN'S HISTORY TRAIL AND ALSO IN BRIGHTON IF YOU GO CHECK OUT THE HERITAGE BUS, THE AWESOME BRIGHTON HERITAGE MUSEUM YOU CAN FOLLOW THE TRAIL AND VISIT THE FORMER HOME OF JUDGE JEANIE LIGHTMAN BARRON AN INCREDIBLE WOMAN THANK YOU COUNCILOR BREADON FOR SHARING THAT INCREDIBLE HISTORY.  I ALSO SHARED ON HOW IT ENTERING RAMADAN. I WANT TO SHUT UP MY STAFFER JESSE PURVIS DURING A JEWISH AMERICAN HERITAGE MONTH AND HIS FAMILY THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES CASTRO FOR AN INDIAN IS IN COUNCIL OPENING DAY. ANDERSON YOU GOT THE FLOOR.  THANK YOU, MADAM PRESIDENT. AND THANK YOU TO THE LEE SPONSORS AND CO-SPONSORS FOR INTRODUCING THIS RESOLUTION.  COUNCILOR WEBER I RISE IN FULL SUPPORT I WHICH I LOOK FORWARD TO VOTING IN FAVOR OF ONE THING THAT I THINK IS SO SPECIAL ABOUT YOUR RESOLUTION IS THAT IT UPLIFTS THE SPIRIT OF ADVOCACY AND SOLIDARITY THAT IS ALIVE AND WELL TODAY IN THE JEWISH COMMUNITY.  WHEN PROTESTS BROKE OUT FOR EXAMPLE IN 2017 IN RESPONSE TO PRESIDENT TRUMP'S PROPOSED MUSLIM BAN, IT WAS THE JEWISH COMMUNITY LEADERS, RABBIS AND PASSIONATE JEWISH PEOPLE ACROSS THE CITY WHO JOINED HANDS WITH THEIR MUSLIM BROTHERS AND SISTERS AND TO STAND UP FOR THEIR CIVIL RIGHTS. AND AS THE RESOLUTION NOTES, OUR JEWISH BROTHERS AND SISTERS HAVE BEEN ON THE FRONT LINES ADVOCATING FOR CIVIL RIGHTS WORKERS RIGHTS, WOMEN'S RIGHTS, RACIAL EQUALITY, LGBTQ PLUS RIGHTS, ANTI WAR PROTESTS, THE SIMPLE FACTS OF HUMAN KINDNESS EXTENDED TO OTHERS IS CALLED MITZVAH IN HEBREW AND IS AN INTEGRAL PART OF JEWISH OF THE JEWISH FAITH IN ISLAM WE CALL THAT SCIATICA AND AS A COUNSELOR I MAKE IT A HABIT TO ATTEND RELIGIOUS SERVICES THROUGHOUT MY DISTRICT ON THE WEEKENDS AND SO AS YOU GUYS KNOW A FEW WEEKS AGO WE HAVE A TRADITION IN THE CAPE VERDE COMMUNITY WHERE THE JEWISH AND CAPE VERDE COMMUNITY GET TOGETHER.  AND SO IF YOU HAVE LINEAGE OR A BLOODLINE OF JEWISH HERITAGE I'VE MENTIONED SEVERAL TIMES THAT MY GRANDMOTHER IS FROM ROSENGARD FROM POLISH POLISH SHE'S HALF POLISH. SO WE GO TO THE JEWISH STATE AND WE EAT TOGETHER AND GO THROUGH BOTH TRADITIONS CAPE VERDEAN AND JEWISH CEDAR.  AND THERE I OBSERVED THIS RABBIS SPEAK ON JUSTICE.  I COULD HAVE SWORN IT WAS SOME SORT OF LIKE SPIRITUAL LIKE SHAKESPEARE. IT HAD ME IN TEARS. HE SPOKE OF DIGNITY, CARE FOR OTHERS AND THE THINGS THAT BRING US TOGETHER AS PEOPLE AND I THINK NATURALLY PEOPLE ARE GOOD. I THINK WHEN PEOPLE WHEN WE DON'T KNOW ANY BETTER THEN WE MAKE MISTAKES OR WE DO WRONG. BUT NATURALLY I THINK PEOPLE MEAN WELL AND PEOPLE WANT TO COME TOGETHER IN LOVE AND PASSION.  IT WAS DEEPLY INSPIRING EXPERIENCE AND I HOPE THAT I WOULD HOPE TO INVITE THAT RABBI THE RABBI HERE BEFORE THE COUNCIL I WON'T SPOIL IT AND GIVE YOU A WAY TO NAME ONE DAY AND SHARE HIS WISDOM WITH YOU.  I AM GRATEFUL FOR YOU TO SPONSOR AND I AM HUMBLED TO STAND HERE IN SUPPORT OF YOU MY JEWISH BROTHER AND AGAIN WE'LL VOTE FAVOR TO THIS RESOLUTION. THANK YOU. THANK YOU CASTRO FOR AN INGENIOUS AND THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES CASTRO. FLYNN, CASTRO FLYNN YOU HAVE THE FLOOR.  THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.  MADAM CHAIR, AS WE RECOGNIZE AND CELEBRATE JEWISH AMERICAN HERITAGE MONTH, I ALSO THINK IT'S CRITICALLY IMPORTANT THAT WE RECOGNIZE AND EMPHASIZE THE ALARMING RISE OF ANTI-SEMITISM THAT IS TAKING PLACE HERE IN MASSACHUSETTS AND ACROSS THE COUNTRY.  ANTI-SEMITISM OFTEN REFERRED TO AS THE WORLD'S OLDEST FORM OF HATE HAS EXISTED FOR CENTURIES AND CONTINUES TO THIS DAY AS A SYSTEM OF MARGINALIZED AND OPPRESSION PEOPLE JEWISH PEOPLE ACROSS THE CITY, ACROSS THIS COUNTRY BASED ON STEREOTYPES, MYTHS, CONSPIRACY THEORIES, DISINFORMATION ABOUT THE JEWISH PEOPLE WE HAVE SEEN IT DISTURBING RISE IN ANTI-SEMITISM, NEO-NAZI ISM, WHITE NATIONALISM AND HATE CRIMES IN BOSTON IN ACROSS THE COUNTRY FOR THE PAST SEVERAL YEARS BUT ESPECIALLY AFTER THE HORRIFIC TERRORIST ATTACK BY HAMAS ON OCTOBER 7TH ACCORDING TO THE MOST RECENT REPORT FROM THE ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE NEW ENGLAND SORRY DRAMATIC INCREASE IN ANTI-SEMITIC INCIDENTS AFTER THE OCTOBER SEVENTH ATTACK WITH 623 REPORTED INCIDENTS OF ASSAULT, HARASSMENT, VANDALISM WHICH REPRESENTS A 200% INCREASE PRIOR TO THE OCTOBER 7TH ATTACK, THEY HAVE SOUNDED THE ALARM FOR SEVERAL YEARS ON THE BRAZENLY OPEN ACTS OF ANTI-SEMITISM IN NEO-NAZI ACTIVITIES IN OUR CITIES, STATE AND COUNTRY NEO-NAZI GROUPS LIKE AND A SEVEN IN THE PATRIOT FRONT HAVE BECOME INVOLVED IN THEIR ACTIVITIES AND HAVE INCREASED THEIR ACTIVITIES HERE IN BOSTON THROUGHOUT AND THROUGHOUT NEW ENGLAND WITH ENGAGING HATEFUL PROPAGANDA AND AGGRESSIVE DEMONSTRATIONS EVEN PHYSICAL INTIMIDATION LIKE WE SAW IN DOWNTOWN BOSTON ON JULY 4TH A FEW YEARS AGO MARCHING THROUGH THE STREETS OF BOSTON TO AN ASIAN COMMUNITY TO A COMMUNITY WITH A LARGE LGBTQ COMMUNITY AS WELL. WE ALSO HAVE SEEN SEVERAL YEARS AGO A HORRIFIC VIOLENT STABBING OF A RABBI IN ALLSTON BRIGHTON . JUST YESTERDAY PRESIDENT BIDEN DELIVERED A KEYNOTE SPEECH AT THE HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL ANNUAL DAY OF REMEMBRANCE.  HE NOTED THAT THERE WAS A SURGE OF ANTI-ISIS CITIZENS IN THE UNITED STATES AND THAT WE HAVE TO STAND UP TO ATTACKS ON OUR JEWISH NEIGHBORS NOW MORE THAN EVER IT IS CRITICAL THAT WE CONTINUE TO ALWAYS STAND WITH OUR JEWISH NEIGHBORS IN THIS CITY IN ORDER TO STOP THE RISE OF ANTI-SEMITISM ALL FORMS OF HATE THAT WE WITNESS IN OUR COUNTRY.  WE ALSO MUST CONTINUE TO RECOGNIZE THE CONTRIBUTIONS OF THE JEWISH COMMUNITY,  SUPPORT THEM AND SHOW SHOW UP FOR THEM.  I WOULD ALSO LIKE TO NOTE THAT THEY HAD FILED A SEPARATE RESOLUTION ON FRIDAY SPECIFICALLY AIMED AT DENOUNCING ACTS OF ANTISEMITISM FOR THIS BODY TO REVIEW.  I UNDERSTAND THAT IT WILL NOT BE EITHER AND WILL NOT BE PART OF THE OFFICIAL RESOLUTION.  I WANT TO SAY THAT I APPRECIATE THE AUTHOR'S RESOLUTION ON JEWISH AMERICAN HISTORY MONTH AND HIS LEADERSHIP AND TO HONOR THE CONTRIBUTION OF THE JEWISH PEOPLE HERE IN BOSTON AND ACROSS THE COUNTRY.  I BELIEVE THE RISE OF ANTISEMITISM THAT WE ARE SEEING LOCALLY, NATIONALLY, INTERNATIONALLY IS SEPARATE AND DISTINCT AND IT HAS AN IMPACT ON WHAT WE'RE DOING HERE TODAY BUT IT SHOULD ALSO BE ITS OWN DISCUSSION IN MY OPINION IN MY OPINION WHAT OUR JEWISH NEIGHBORS ARE EXPERIENCING IN OUR COMMUNITIES IN ON CAMPUSES DESERVES ITS OWN CONVERSATION AS WELL. AND THAT'S WHY I FILED A SEPARATE RESOLUTION.  AGAIN, MY MY RESOLUTION SPECIFICALLY ADDRESSES THE RISE OF ANTI SEMITISM AND HOW WE SHOULD STAND UP AND CONDEMN ACTS OF ANTISEMITISM. I BELIEVE THAT THAT TOPIC IS DIFFERENT AND DISTINCT FROM THIS THIS RESOLUTION OBVIOUSLY I SUPPORT IT.  I UNDERSTAND THAT MY RESOLUTION WILL BE WITHDRAWN.  UNFORTUNATELY.  BUT I WOULD LIKE TO GO ON RECORD TO STATE THAT I BELIEVE MY RESOLUTION DENOUNCING DICER SEMITISM SHOULD BE ON THE AGENDA FOR A VOTE.  THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR. THANK YOU. THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES THAT CONCERN. A LOT OF YOU HAVE THE FLOOR. THANK YOU COUNCIL PRESIDENT LOUIJEUNE I RISE TO THANK THE MAKERS FOR BRINGING THIS RESOLUTION FORWARD AND PLEASE ADD MY NAME MY DISTRICT. THIS MAY COME AS A SURPRISE TO SOME FOLKS HERE. MY DISTRICT HAS A LONG OF WELCOMING EASTERN EUROPEANS INCLUDING THOSE WITH THE JEWISH AFFILIATION.  ESTY IS HOME TO TEMPLE OHIO. OH HI B I APOLOGIZE IF I SAID THAT WRONG TEMPLE OR HEIDI SHALOM CEMETERY A HISTORIC CEMETERY AND THE FIRST IN THE COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS. I'M TO REPRESENT INDIVIDUALS WHO IDENTIFY WITH THE JEWISH FAITHS AND STAND WITH THEM AGAINST INCREASING AND DEPLORABLE ACTS OF ANTI-SEMITISM.  AND MY UNDERSTANDING IS THAT THIS RESOLUTION ALSO HAS THE WORD ANTI-SEMITISM IN THERE AND DISCUSSES IT. AND JUST LAST WEEK I SPOKE ON THE FLOOR WHERE I DENOUNCED ACTS OF ANTI-SEMITISM IN THE STRONGEST OF TERMS AND I'VE HAD THE PRIVILEGE OF MEETING WITH VARIOUS AFFINITY GROUPS AND COME TO FULLY UNDERSTAND HOW INTEGRAL THE JEWISH COMMUNITY HAS BEEN TO OUR LOCAL AND NATIONAL CONVERSATION, DIALOG AND MOVEMENTS AS COUNCILOR MY COUNCIL COLLEAGUE FROM DISTRICT SEVEN HAS MENTIONED THEY'VE BEEN AT THE FOREFRONT AND ALLIES IN THE FIGHT FOR RACIAL, SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC JUSTICE, IMMIGRANT JUSTICE AND RECENTLY FOUND OUT THAT SOME OF THEM NOT EVERYBODY BECAUSE WE KNOW NO PARTICULAR GROUP IS A MONOLITH BUT SOME OF THEM HAVE BEEN STRONG ALLIES IN THE FIGHT FOR BODILY AUTONOMY AND REPRODUCTIVE FREEDOM.  AND SO IN THESE CONVERSATIONS I PROMISE TO STAND WITH THEM AND I'M DOING SO AGAIN HERE TODAY TO STAND WITH THE JEWISH COMMUNITY AND DENOUNCING ACTS OF ANTISEMITISM THAT OCCUR NOT JUST IN MY DISTRICT BUT IN THE CITY AND NATIONALLY AS WELL. AND SO AGAIN, JUST THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR HIGHLIGHTING THIS RESOLUTION AND BRINGING THIS FORWARD AND I WANT TO THANK MY COUNCIL COLLEAGUE FROM DISTRICT TWO FOR HIS FILING AS WELL. THANK YOU.  THANK YOU, CAROL CLOUD OF THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES COUNCILOR WEBER. COUNCILOR WEBER, YOU HAVE THE FLOOR. THANK YOU, MADAM PRESIDENT. I JUST WANT TO THANK MADAM PRESIDENT AND COUNCILOR DURKAN FOR CO-SPONSORING AND I WANT TO THANK ALL MY COLLEAGUES WHO HAVE SPOKEN SO ELOQUENTLY ABOUT THIS ABOUT THIS RESOLUTION AND I THINK THIS IS OBVIOUSLY SOMETHING THAT, YOU KNOW, I DON'T THINK ANY OF US, YOU KNOW, WERE ELECTED TO TO DEAL WITH ON A DAILY BASIS. BUT IT'S SOMETHING THAT WE HAVE TO CONFRONT AND THE EVENTS GOING ON IN THE WORLD AND AROUND HERE, YOU KNOW, IN IN OUR CITY AND YOU KNOW, I THANK YOU FOR HANDLING THIS IN A WAY THAT SHOWS THAT WE CAN COME TOGETHER AND UH YOU KNOW, WE CAN EXPRESS EMPATHY FOR FOR OUR CONSTITUENTS AND SHOW A WAY FORWARD THAT, YOU KNOW, HOPEFULLY BRINGS A RESOLUTION TO WHAT'S HAPPENING IN THE WORLD RIGHT NOW. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. WOULD ANYONE ELSE LIKE TO SPEAK ON THIS MATTER?  WOULD ANYONE ELSE LIKE TO ADD THEIR NAME? MR. CLERK PLEASE ADD COUNCILORS BREADON COLETTA FERNANDA ANDERSON FITZGERALD.  MURPHY BARNES SANTANA WEBER WORLD COUNCILORS WEBER LOUIJEUNE AND DURKIN TO SUSPENSION ON THE RULES AND ADOPTION OF DOCKET NUMBER 0821 AND ALL THOSE IN FAVOR SAY I ALL OPPOSE ANY MR. CLERK CAN YOU PLEASE CONDUCT A ROLL CALL VOTE ROLL CALL VOTE ON DOCKET NUMBER 0821 COUNCILOR YES. COUNCILOR BREADON YES. COUNCILOR COLETTA YES. COUNCILOR COLETTA YES. COUNCILOR DURKAN COUNCILOR DURKAN YES. COUNCILOR FERNANDES SANDERSON COUNCIL TO AN END TO AND YES.  COUNCILOR FITZGERALD YES. COUNCILOR FITZGERALD YES. COUNCILOR FLYNN COUNCILOR FLYNN YES. COUNCILOR LOUIJEUNE YES.  COUNCILOR LOUIJEUNE YES. CONCILOR MEJIA HERE. COUNCILOR MURPHY COUNCILOR MURPHY YES. COUNCILOR PIPPIN. COUNCILOR PIPPIN YES.  COUNCILOR SANTANA YES. COUNCILOR WEBER. COUNCILOR WEBER YES. AND COUNCILOR WORRELL. COUNCILOR WU YES. DUCK TALKING NUMBER 0821 HAS RECEIVED 12 VOTES IN THE AFFIRMATIVE.  THANK YOU. DOCKET NUMBER 0821 HAS BEEN ADOPTED. DOCKET NUMBER 0822 PURSUANT TO THE CLERK PURSUANT TO RULE 15 HAS BEEN WITHDRAWN.  COUNCILOR FLYNN, YOU HAVE THE FLOOR.  THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR. I WANT TO BE BE RESPECTFUL TO YOU AND TO THE BODY. I'D LIKE TO GO ON RECORD AND STATE ONCE AGAIN THAT I THINK MY HEARING RESOLUTION IS DISTINCT AND DIFFERENT FROM FROM COUNCILOR WEBBER'S RESOLUTION MIND FOCUSES ON THE ANTI-SEMITISM THAT'S PREVALENT THROUGHOUT THE CITY THROUGHOUT THE COUNTRY. I THINK WE SHOULD ALSO VOTE ON THAT SPECIFICALLY. THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR. THANK YOU, MR. CLERK.  BASED ON RULE 15 OF THE CITY COUNCIL RULES IN THE EVENT AN ORDINANCE ORDER RESOLUTION PETITION AMENDMENT AUTHORIZATION AGREEMENT A MOTION CONCERNING THE SAME AND SIMILAR SUBJECTS OF FIRE WITH THE CLERK FOR CONSIDERATION BY THE COUNCIL THE CLERK WITH CONSULTATION WITH THE COUNCIL PRESIDENT SHALL CAUSE WE HAVE ENTERED ON THE AGENDA ONLY THE RESOLUTION ORDER WHICH WAS FIRST FILED IN THIS CASE COUNCILOR WEBBER'S RESOLUTION WAS FIRST FILED AND HAVING REVIEWED BOTH THE RESOLUTION THEY SEEM TO HAVE A DISTINCT COMMON THEME AND SOME OF THE WORDING ON THE RESOLUTIONS ARE EXACTLY THE SAME. SO BASED ON THOSE TWO OBSERVATIONS WE USE RULE 15 FOR THIS SITUATION. THANK YOU.  COUNCILOR FLYNN, IS THERE SOMETHING YOU'D LIKE TO ADD? YOU MAY.  THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR. AND A LOT OF THE WORDING IN MY DOCUMENT IS BASED ON THE EXPERIENCE I'VE HAD OVER THE LAST SEVEN YEARS OF DOCUMENTING AND WRITING AND BEING ENGAGED IN THE HARASSMENT THAT WHITE SUPREMACISTS HAVE TAKEN AGAINST MANY PEOPLE ACROSS THIS CITY,  INCLUDING IN MY DISTRICT. THE WORDING THAT I HAVE HAD IN MY RESOLUTION FOCUSES ON WHITE SUPREMACY BECAUSE I'VE FOCUSED ON THAT ISSUE FOR A LONG PERIOD OF TIME INTERACTING WITH THE CITY OF BOSTON HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION DOCUMENT EVERY INCIDENT OF HATE OR HATE CRIMES THAT HAVE TAKEN PLACE IN THIS CITY AND I TAKE THOSE ISSUES VERY SERIOUSLY LIKE MY COLLEAGUES DO. THAT'S WHY I THINK THIS ISSUE OF ANTI-SEMITISM AND HATE CRIMES IS DISTINCT FROM CELEBRATING THE ENORMOUS CONTRIBUTIONS AND SACRIFICES OF THE JEWISH COMMUNITY. I UNDERSTAND YOU'RE NOT GOING TO GO FORWARD WITHOUT WITHOUT MY RESOLUTION, BUT I JUST WANTED TO GO ON RECORD AS SAYING I DISAGREE. THANK YOU, SPENCER GLENN. RESPECTFULLY DISAGREE. THANK YOU, COUNCILOR FLYNN. THERE IS A LOT OF COUNCIL WHERE YOU HAVE THE FLOOR.  THANK YOU. MADAM PRESIDENT, I JUST I.  I WOULD LIKE TO SAY I DID FIND THE WORDING OF THE RESOLUTIONS VERY SIMILAR. THE RESOLUTION I FILED ALSO CALLS FOR YOU KNOW, FOR US TO CALL OUT ANTI-SEMITISM AND INCLUDED RECENT EVENTS HERE IN BOSTON. I DO THINK YOU KNOW, THEY SAW TOO AND I THINK COUNCILOR FLYNN'S RESOLUTION MENTIONS JEWISH AMERICAN HERITAGE MONTH, YOU KNOW, SORT OF A REASON WHY TO BRING THIS UP NOW. SO I THINK JUST BY SOME HAPPENSTANCE I FILED BEFORE COUNCILOR FLYNN OR MY OFFICE DID AND UM YOU KNOW, I THINK MINE WOULD HAVE BEEN RULE 15 IF IT HAD BEEN FILED AFTER WHAT HAVE YOU. THANK YOU. THAT'S ACTUALLY A GOOD POINT. IT PROBABLY WOULD HAVE BEEN. THE CLERK ALSO HAS A SIDE BY SIDE SHOWING BOTH RESOLUTIONS THAT BOTH START OUT TALKING ABOUT JEWISH AMERICAN HERITAGE MONTH AND DENOUNCE ANTISEMITISM. SO THANK YOU. MR. CLERK, CAN YOU PLEASE READ DOCKET NUMBER 0823 DUGAN NUMBER 0823 COUNCILORS FERNANDA SANDS AND MEJIA OFFER THE FOLLOWING RESOLUTION RECOGNIZING MAY 12TH AS MOTHER'S DAY IN THE CITY OF BOSTON. THANK YOU. THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES COUNSELOR FERNANDA ANDERSON COUNCILOR FERNANDA ANDERSON YOU HAVE THE FLOOR.  THANK YOU, MADAM PRESIDENT.  I'D LIKE TO SUSPEND THE RULES. WELL, IN THIS CASE I'D LIKE TO ADD COUNCILOR MURPHY AS THE ORIGINAL CO-SPONSOR SINCE CUSTOMER HERE IS NOT HERE SO PURSUANT TO THE COUNCILOR HERE CAN STAY ON IF YOU WOULD LIKE AND I CAN ADD COUNCILOR MURPHY AS A THIRD ORIGINAL CO-SPONSOR BARRING ANY OBJECTIONS. THANK YOU. OKAY.  CASTRO FERNANDO ANDERSON'S EXPANSION OF THE RULES TO ADD COUNCILOR MURPHY AS A THIRD ORIGINAL CO-SPONSOR SEEING AND HEARING NO OBJECTIONS COUNCILOR MURPHY SO ADDED CATCH FOR AN ENTRY. ANDERSON YOU HAVE THE FLOOR. THANK YOU. MADAM PRESIDENT, WITH MOTHER'S DAY COMING UP THIS SUNDAY, I WANTED ALL OF US TO TAKE A MOMENT TO CELEBRATE THE MOTHERS IN OUR LIVES WHO HAVE NURTURED US ENCOURAGED US CHAMPION US AND WHO HAVE HELPED US BECOME THE PEOPLE WE ARE TODAY. I AM PROUD TO BE SPONSORING THIS RESOLUTION ALONGSIDE MY TWO MOTHERS ON THE COUNCIL WHO DEMONSTRATE IN THEIR OWN WAYS THE IMMENSE STRENGTH AND COURAGE IT TAKES TO BE A MOM. COUNCIL ME HERE AS A SINGLE MOM RAISING AN AMAZING DAUGHTER TO BE AS CARING AND OUTSPOKEN AS SHE IS A MATHLETE AND AN ASTUTE STUDENT. I AND I THINK THAT COUNCIL OUR VIEW SHOWS THAT THE JOB OF BEING A MOTHER DOESN'T END WHEN YOUR KIDS TURN 18 AND THE RELENTLESS SPIRIT THAT SHE HAS SHOWN IN HER JOURNEY AS A MOTHER. I ALWAYS ENJOY HEARING ABOUT HER CHILDREN'S VARIOUS PROFESSIONAL AND PERSONAL ASPIRATIONS IN HER HEARINGS AND COUNCIL SPEECHES. I MYSELF HAVE BEEN A FOSTER MOM TO 17 CHILDREN AND I AM A PROUD AND CONTINUE TO UPLIFT THE WORK THAT FOSTER FOSTER PARENTS ACROSS THE CITY PUT IN EVERY DAY TO CREATE LOVING HOME ENVIRONMENT FOR THEIR FOUND FAMILIES.  AND I'D BE REMISS IF I DIDN'T SPEAK ABOUT HOW PROUD I AM TO BE A MOTHER OF TWO VERY AMAZING ,WONDERFUL, FABULOUS, PERFECT. NO, I'M KIDDING.  SONS. MOTHERHOOD MEANS DIFFERENT THINGS TO DIFFERENT PEOPLE. AND IN THAT SPIRIT I ALSO WANT TO HOLD SPACE FOR EXPECTING MOTHERS THE MOTHERS IN OUR LIVES THAT ARE NOT RELATED BY BLOOD MOTHERS WHO MAY NOT HAVE BEEN WHO HAVE BEEN NOT BEING ABLE TO CONCEIVE AND ACKNOWLEDGE THE MOTHERS IN OUR LIVES THAT WE SADLY HAVE LOST AND MOTHERS OF ALL INFLUENCE PEOPLE OF ALL BACKGROUNDS THAT SEE THEMSELVES AS MOTHERS NOT NECESSARILY JUST WOMEN TO THIS DAY. SO TO STAY THERE AND THIS RESOLUTION IS FOR THEM AS WELL . I WANT TO GIVE AN OPPORTUNITY FOR MIKE'S CO-SPONSOR OF COURSE TO SPEAK AND I JUST WANTED TO WRAP UP WITH THIS THAT IT'S JUST BEING BEING A MOTHER TRANSFORM YOUR LIFE IN YOUR YOUR LIFE AND IT'S SOMETHING THAT IS EVOLUTIONARY. YOU ARE ONE PERSON AND YOU THINK YOU KNOW A THING AND YOU THINK YOU UNDERSTAND WHAT LOVE IS OR WHAT LIFE IS. AND WHEN YOU LEARN WHEN YOU LOOK AT YOUR CHILD'S FACE FOR THE VERY FIRST TIME WHEN YOU GO THROUGH THAT WHETHER ADOPTED OR CONCEIVED YOU LEARN TO LOVE ALL OVER AGAIN FOR THE VERY FIRST TIME AND JUST THE ACT OF HAVING A BABY IN YOUR YOU ARE READY PROTECTIVE AND NURTURING AND YOU'RE WATCHING OUT FOR THE BUMP SO THAT YOU DON'T BUMP YOUR STOMACH INTO SOMETHING YOU'RE ALREADY THINKING ABOUT WHAT YOU EAT. YOU ARE THINKING ABOUT HOW YOU SPEAK OR THE ENERGY OF THE PEOPLE AROUND YOU AND THERE YOU BECOME A NATURAL NURTURE AND THEN WHEN YOU CONCEIVE IT'S JUST AN AMAZING THING THAT I THINK THAT NO WORDS CAN EXPLAIN THE EXPERIENCE OR THE MAGNITUDE OF THE STRENGTH THAT IT TAKES. SO TO ALL THE MOTHERS, TO EVERY BLACK WOMAN IN ROXBURY THAT PROTECTED ME AND HAS LOVED ME AND HAS CARRIED ME THROUGH MY LIFE TO MY OWN MOTHER, MY GRANDMOTHER, MY GRANDMA, MY GRANDMOTHERS AND TO YOUR MOTHERS. I WISH YOU A VERY HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY. THANK YOU AND THANK YOU FOR THIS KIND OF BEST DAY YOU GUYS JUST BRING INTERVIEWING IS AND I AGREE WITH YOU. YOUR TWO SONS ARE PRETTY EXEMPLARY.  THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES COUNSELOR MURPHY. COUSIN MURPHY, YOU HAVE THE FLOOR. THANK YOU AND THANK YOU FOR ADDING ME . COUNSELOR FERNANDEZ SANDERSON MOMS ARE OUR FIRST CHEERLEADERS WHO SHOWER US WITH UNCONDITIONAL LOVE. MINE IS STRONG AND FIERCELY LOYAL AND I'M ALSO FORTUNATE TO HAVE AUNTS WHO I DEFINITELY CONSIDER SECOND MOTHERS TO ME . I WAS JUST VISITING MY AUNTIE KAY EARLIER TODAY AS SHE WORKS HARD TO GET HOME SOON HOPEFULLY SO.  I'M ALSO THE MOTHER OF FOUR AMAZING CHILDREN DEFINITELY HAS BEEN A COMPLETE HONOR AND THE PROUDEST JOB I'VE HAD FOR THE LAST 35 YEARS. AND COUNSELOR FERNANDEZ ANDERSON AMIHERE AND I ARE THE MOTHERS ON THE COUNCIL AND SEVEN CHILDREN AMONG US AND I WOULD SAY ALSO MANY MORE COUNSELOR FERNANDEZ SANDERSON YOU MENTIONED THE FOSTER CHILDREN YOU RAISED AND CARED FOR. I DEFINITELY THOUGHT OF MY STUDENTS SO I HAD HUNDREDS OF CHILDREN AS A TEACHER THAT DEFINITELY WERE LIKE CHILDREN TO ME . SO ANY CHANCE I BELIEVE WE HAVE TO UPLIFT OUR MOTHERS. SO TODAY WE SHOULD.  IT'S IMPORTANT THAT WE DO SO I DO WANT TO WISH ALL THE MOTHERS OUT THERE HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY.  ALSO TO THE FIVE DADS HERE ON THE COUNCIL YOU HAVE AMAZING WIVES PARTNERS WHO ARE RAISING AMAZING CHILDREN AND I JUST WANT TO SHOUT OUT THAT WE HAVE 17 CHILDREN HERE ON THE COUNCIL THAT I KNOW LOOK UP TO US AS MOTHERS BUT YOU AS DADS ALSO WHO ARE DOING WONDERFUL THINGS SO HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY AND SOMETIMES FOR MANY IT'S A SAD DAY. SO IF YOU'RE MISSING YOUR MOM OR AN AUNT OR GRANDMA I JUST WANT TO SAY I LOVE THESE HOLIDAYS ARE HARD FOR MANY FAMILIES ARE DIFFICULT, THEY'RE CHALLENGING AND JUST SENDING LOVE TO ALL THE MOMS OUT THERE AND THANK YOU FOR ALL YOU DO. THANK YOU.  HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY, COUNCILMAN MURPHY. THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES COUNSELOR FITZGERALD.  THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR. I'D BE REMISS IF I DIDN'T TAKE THIS OPPORTUNITY TO SHED SOME LIGHT ON MY AND SAY THANK YOU TO MY OWN MOM AND THE MOTHER OF MY CHILDREN FOR OBVIOUSLY BEEN GUIDING LIGHTS FOR ME AND I WOULDN'T BE WHO I AM TODAY. THIS IS ALSO GOING TO KEEP ME OUT OF THE DOGHOUSE AND A REMINDER TO FOLKS THAT THIS IS FOR THE DADS AND THE SONS OUT THERE. IT MOTHER'S DAY IS THIS WEEKEND SO IF YOU I KNOW YOU LIKE ME AND YOU HAVE IT YET GET GET ON IT. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES CATCH UP PEN COMES WITH A PEN. YOU HAVE THE FLOOR. THANK YOU. MADAM PRESIDENT, I DO WANT TO THANK THE CREATORS OF THIS RESOLUTION AND ALSO JUST MAKE SURE THAT I SAY HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY TO MY TO MY BEAUTIFUL WIFE, MOTHER OF TWO BEAUTIFUL KIDS.  SHE'S A SUPERHERO. ALL MOMS ARE SUPERHEROES. MY MOM'S A SUPERHERO AND I JUST WANT TO SAY HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY TO ALL THE BEAUTIFUL MOMS OF DISTRICT FIVE AS WELL. MY TIME MY DISTRICT HAS SO MANY AMAZING FAMILIES THAT ALWAYS SHOW UP AND THOSE MOMS ARE THERE EVERY SINGLE DAY. SO SURE, I'LL TELL YOU ALL AS WELL. HAPPY MOTHER'S TO EVERYONE. THANK YOU. THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES COUNCILOR ELLIOTT FOR.  THANK YOU, MADAM PRESIDENT. THANK YOU FOR THE REMINDER.  COUNCILOR FITZGERALD, APPRECIATE THAT. HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY TO ALL THE MOMS IN THE CITY OF BOSTON TO THE MOTHERS ON THIS COUNCIL . ALSO HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY TO THE MOTHERS FIGURES IN MY LIFE THE CHURCH MOMS, THEY TAUGHT ME THE POWER A PRAYER, THE POWER OF FAITH.  MY AUNT HAS ALWAYS BEEN THERE FOR ME WHEN MY PARENTS WERE WORKING 2 TO 3 JOBS MAKING SURE I GOT TO SCHOOL, HAD SOMETHING TO EAT.  MY SISTER WHO'S SOMEBODY WHO I ALWAYS LOOKED UP TO EVEN WHEN I WAS YOUNGER. AND EVEN AS A PARENT NOW SHE'S AN SHINING EXAMPLE OF A PARENT . MY MOTHER WHO IS MY BIGGEST CHEERLEADER AS OF YOU GUYS SAW IN THE FIRST INAUGURATION AND THE SECOND. BUT MY MOTHER ALSO HAD SACRIFICED SO MUCH FOR FOR FOR HER CHILDREN AND ALSO HAS GIVEN ME THE GREATEST GIFT IN ALWAYS BELIEVING IN ME . YOU KNOW, NO MATTER THE SITUATION OR YOU KNOW, WHERE I WAS AT IN LIFE AND ALSO TO MY MOTHER, MY CHILD, MY PARTNER CHELSEA WHO IS A YOUNG AMAZING MOM THIS IS A SECOND MOTHER'S DAY AND THE AMOUNT OF LOVE AND CARE THAT YOU POUR IS IMPORTANT TO OUR SON.  I'M JUST I'M JUST SO GRATEFUL FOR. AND ALSO I JUST NEED A SHOUT OUT MY SISTER IN LAW.  MY BROTHER JUST HAD HIS THIRD CHILD TODAY. SO HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY TO MY SISTER IN LAW SUZETTE WHO HAS TAUGHT ME THAT YOU CAN BE STILL FIERCE BUT GENTLE AS A LAMB. BUT ALSO MY SON CONSTANTLY SERVES AS A REMINDER TO ME EVERY DAY SOMETHING THAT I'VE KNOWN THROUGHOUT MY WHOLE LIFE THAT JUST NO OTHER LOVE LIKE A MOTHER'S LOVE. HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY. THANK YOU AND CONGRATULATIONS TO YOUR SISTER IN LAW AND YOUR BROTHER. ANYONE ELSE LOOKING TO SPEAK ON THIS MATTER? I JUST ALSO WANT TO JOIN IN SAYING HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY TO ALL THE MOTHERS.  MY MOM IS LIKE A LOT OF MOMS IS PRETTY INCREDIBLE.  AND FOR HER THIS IS HER SECOND MOTHER'S DAY WITHOUT HER MOM, MY GRANDMOTHER. I MEAN I KNOW THAT IT IS A JOYOUS TIME FOR A LOT OF PEOPLE BUT IT CAN BE REALLY PAINFUL FOR THOSE WHO HAVE DIFFICULT MATERNAL RELATIONSHIPS. AND SO I JUST WANT TO LIFT THAT UP AND HOLD SPACE FOR FOR FOR PEOPLE WHO TODAY THIS SUNDAY WILL BE A RATHER DIFFICULT ONE. I KNOW THAT MANY OF US WILL BE DOING THE MOTHER'S DAY WALK FOR PEACE ON SUNDAY AND WE'LL BE HOLDING UP ALL OF THE WOMAN IN OUR CITY, ALL THE MOTHERS IN OUR CITY WHO HAVE LOST THEIR CHILDREN TO VIOLENCE. SO I JUST WANT TO THANK EVERYONE AND EVERYONE'S MOTHERS AND ALL THE CHILDREN SO HOPEFULLY THOSE FOLKS ARE ABLE TO CELEBRATE AND THAT WE'RE ABLE TO HOLD SPACE FOR THOSE WHO WILL BE MOURNING OR REFLECTING ON SUNDAY.  WOULD ANYONE ELSE LIKE TO ADD THEIR NAME? MR. CLERK, PLEASE. THAT COUNCILORS BRAEDEN COLETTA, DURKIN FITZGERALD, FLYNN ABEND, SANTANA WEBER WORLD PEACE OTHER CHAIR COUNCILORS FERNANDO ANDERSON MAKIYA AND MURPHY'S EXPANSION OF THE RULES AND ADOPTION OF DOCKET NUMBER 00820823 ALL THOSE IN FAVOR SAY I I SAY NAY. MR QUIGLEY, PLEASE ROLL CALL VOTE ROLL CALL VOTE ON DOCKET NUMBERS 0823 COUNCILOR BREADON YES. COUNCILOR BREADON YES. COUNCILOR COLETTE YES.  COUNCILOR COLETTA YES. COUNCILOR DURKIN COUNCILOR DURKAN YES.  COUNCIL FINANCING. COUNCILOR FERNANDA SANSONE YES . COUNCILOR FITZGERALD YES. COUNCILOR FITZGERALD YES. COUNCILOR FLYNN.  COUNCILOR FLYNN YES. COUNCILOR LOUIJEUNE YES.  COUNCILOR LOUIJEUNE YES. CONCILOR MEJIA HERE. COUNCILOR MURPHY. COUNCILOR MURPHY YES. COUNCILOR PIPPIN COUNCILOR 15 YEARS COUNCIL S.A. COUNCILOR SPENT TEN YEARS COUNCIL LABOR COUNCILOR WEBER YES AND COUNCILOR WORRELL.  COUNCILOR WU YES. TOKEN NUMBER 0823 HAS RECEIVED 12 VOTES IN THE AFFIRMATIVE.  THANK YOU. DOCKET NUMBER 0823 HAS BEEN ADOPTED. MR. CLERK, WOULD YOU PLEASE RE DUCK A NUMBER, SIR? 824 0824.  COUNCILOR FLYNN OFFERED THE FOLLOWING RESOLUTION RECOGNIZING ASIAN AMERICAN AND PACIFIC ISLANDER AAPI HERITAGE MONTH. THANK YOU. THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES CONTRE FLYNN CONTRE FLYNN, YOU HAVE THE FLOOR. THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.  I REPRESENT A LARGE AAPI COMMUNITY IN DISTRICT TWO.  CHINATOWN IS THE THIRD LARGEST CHINATOWN IN THE COUNTRY.  I HAVE AAPI COMMUNITIES IN THE SOUTH AND BAY VILLAGE IN SOUTH BOSTON AS WELL.  OUTSIDE OF MY DISTRICT THERE IS A LARGE VIETNAMESE COMMUNITY IN DORCHESTER, A KOREAN COMMUNITY AND ALLSTON AND BRIGHTON A LARGE CAMBODIAN COMMUNITY IN LOWELL WHERE MY WIFE IS FROM AS WELL AS OTHER AAPI COMMUNITIES THROUGHOUT THE STATE.  THE AAPI COMMUNITY HAS HELPED BUILD THIS NATION ONE OF THE MOST PROMINENT EXAMPLES BEING THE CHINESE IMMIGRANTS HELPING TO BUILD THE TRANSCONTINENTAL RAILROAD LAST YEAR WAS ACTUALLY THE 150TH YEAR OF THE COMPLETION OF THIS RAILROAD AS THEY HAD THE RIBBON CUTTING CEREMONY OUTSIDE OF SALT LAKE CITY CONNECTING THE EAST COAST AND THE WEST COAST WAS A FAMOUS PHOTO OF THE WORKERS THAT HELPED BUILD THIS RAILROAD AND IT WAS HUNDREDS AND HUNDREDS OF PEOPLE IN THIS LARGE FAMOUS PHOTO. BUT IN THE FINAL IN THE PHOTO THERE WAS A ONE ASIAN AND THEY PRACTICALLY BUILT THE RAILROAD JAPANESE AND FILIPINO IMMIGRANTS WERE A HUGE WORKFORCE IN PLACES LIKE HAWAII . WE ALSO HAVE TO ACKNOWLEDGE THAT DURING WORLD WAR TWO THE UNITED STATES IMPRISONED JAPANESE AMERICANS IMPRISONED THEM ESPECIALLY ON THE WEST COAST.  THERE WERE THERE WAS AS AMERICAN AS AS WE ARE THEY WERE BORN HERE. WE PLACE THEM IN IN PRISON IN JAIL BECAUSE OF THEIR ETHNICITY AND AT THE SAME TIME JAPANESE AMERICANS WERE FIGHTING FOR THE UNITED STATES DURING WORLD WAR TWO.  WE HAVE A LOT OF AAPI VETERANS ACROSS THIS CITY ACROSS THIS STATE IN BOSTON'S CHINATOWN. WE HAVE THE AMERICAN LEGION POST THAT I KNOW MANY OF MY COLLEAGUES SEE THEM AT DIFFERENT PARADES AND FESTIVALS THIS YEAR THEY'RE MARKING THEIR 75TH YEAR OF SERVICE TO THE CHINATOWN OF VETERANS COMMUNITY. THE POST IS MADE UP OF VETERANS WHO SERVED AS FAR BACK AS WORLD WAR TWO.  LAST OCTOBER VETERANS COMMISSIONER SANTIAGO AND I TOOK PART IN US ARMY PRIVATE WING HOME HEROES SQUARE DEDICATION IN CHINATOWN IN PRIVATE HARM WAS AMONG 20,000 CHINESE AMERICANS WHO SERVED DURING WORLD WAR I CHO WHO WAS KILLED IN ACTION WHEN HE WAS 20 YEARS OLD WHOSE BODY WAS RECENTLY RECENTLY IDENTIFIED AND RECOVERED IN ITALY.  THE SQUARE NOW SITS IN FRONT OF HIS HOME ON BEACH STREET WHERE HE LIVED MORE THAN 80 YEARS AGO. IT IS IMPORTANT THAT WE RECOGNIZE THE CONTRIBUTIONS OF AAPI RESIDENTS IN BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS ACROSS THE COUNTRY RECOGNIZE THEIR EXPERIENCE, THEIR CONTRIBUTION, HELPING BUILD THIS GREAT CITY, OUR GREAT COUNTRY.  THIS DIVERSITY MAKES US STRONGER AND ALSO ACKNOWLEDGE I'D LIKE TO THANK THE CITY'S FIRST ASIAN AMERICAN MAYOR MAYOR WOLF, THE AAPI COMMUNITY FACE DISCRIMINATION AND RACISM IN THE PAST LIKE THE CHINESE EXCLUSION ACT I MENTIONED THE JAPANESE-AMERICANS DURING WORLD WAR CHO AND MY FINAL POINT IS AS WE LOOK BACK ON THE PANDEMIC AND THE IMPACT IT HAD ON THIS COUNTRY, THE FIRST PUBLIC MEETING ON THE PANDEMIC ACTUALLY WE HAD IT IT WAS A QUINCY HIGH SCHOOL I'M SORRY TO SAY QUINCY GRAMMAR SCHOOL AND I WAS LISTENING TO CONCERNS FROM MY ASSISTANT SOPHIA TALKING ABOUT COVID 19, THE IMPACT IT WAS HAVING OVER IN CHINA AND THAT IT WAS ONLY A MATTER OF TIME THAT IT WAS GOING TO BE BROAD, IT WAS GOING TO BE COMING TO THE UNITED STATES IN AT THIS MEETING THERE WAS A YOUNG HIGH SCHOOL STUDENT FROM BOSTON LATIN AN ASIAN AMERICAN HIGH SCHOOL STUDENT. SHE GOT ON THE TRAIN ON WASHINGTON STREET AND SHE GOT ON THE TRAIN AND AS SHE GOT ON THE TRAIN MOST OF THE PEOPLE ON THE TRAIN MOSTLY WHITE THEY GOT OFF THE TRAIN BECAUSE THEY ASSOCIATE IT.  THIS YOUNG ASIAN AMERICAN WOMAN, HIGH SCHOOL STUDENT WITH COVID 19.  AND WHAT DID WE SEE AFTER THAT INCIDENT OR AFTER THE SURGE OF THE PANDEMIC HERE IN THE COUNTRY AND THE HATEFUL SPEECH BY THE UNITED STATES PRESIDENT AGAINST THE ASIAN COMMUNITY? WELL, WE SAW HATE CRIMES GO UP AGAINST ASIAN AMERICANS HERE IN BOSTON, THE MOST PROGRESSIVE CITY IN THE COUNTRY AS WELL AND OTHER CITIES CHICAGO, NEW YORK, LOS ANGELES, SAN FRANCISCO, SAN JOSE.  BUT I THINK I THINK ABOUT THESE ASIAN-AMERICANS THAT WERE ASSAULTED THAT WERE VICTIMS OF HATE CRIME OR JUST PEOPLE YELLING STUFF OUT THEM ASSOCIATED WITH COVID 19. BUT I ALSO THINK OF THEIR GRANDKIDS THAT I SERVED WITH IN THE MILITARY ASIAN-AMERICANS AND HERE THEIR GRANDKIDS ARE THAT THERE ARE THEIR THEIR CHILDREN ARE SERVING OUR COUNTRY WHETHER THEY'RE IN THE NAVY, THEY'RE IN THE MARINES, THE ARMY. THEY'RE PUTTING THEIR LIFE ON THE LINE FOR OUR COUNTRY WILLING TO DIE FOR THEIR COUNTRY AND BACK HOME IN THESE GREAT AMERICAN CITIES THEY ARE OLDER PARENTS OR THEY ARE OLDER GRANDPARENTS OR THEY HAVE SIBLINGS ARE BEING DISCRIMINATED AGAINST BECAUSE THE RAGE AND THE BEING ASSAULTED BECAUSE THEY'RE ASIAN. BUT THE AS I MENTIONED ABOUT OTHER OTHER ETHNIC GROUPS BUT THE ASIAN-AMERICANS HAVE CONTRIBUTED GREATLY TO THIS COUNTRY, TO THIS CITY. I'M PROUD TO REPRESENT THEM AND I JUST WANT TO CONTINUE TO ACKNOWLEDGE THAT THEY'VE MADE SIGNIFICANT CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE CITY AND TO THIS COUNTRY AND AT THE SAME TIME THEY ARE NOT TREATED WITH THE SAME LEVEL OF RESPECT THAT THEY'VE EARNED AND DESERVE. THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR. THANK YOU, CONSTABLE.  AND AS ANYONE I WAS LOOKING TO SPEAK ON THIS MATTER THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES COUNCILOR FERNANDA ANDERSON COMES FROM INDIGENOUS INDIA ON THE FLOOR. THANK YOU COUNCILOR FLYNN FOR FILING THIS. JUST SHOUT OUT TO ALL OF OUR STAFF MY STAFF? YOUR STAFF, COUNCIL RATE AND STAFF WHO ARE ALSO ASIAN AND TO MONIQUE AND TRAN HAVE THE DELIGHT PLEASURE TO WORK WITH THEM AND THEY ARE AMAZING.  I SECOND YOUR THOUGHTS OR COMMENTS ABOUT PEOPLE JUST NOT BEING SEEN AND BEING VIEWED AS JUST A MUSCLE OR MACHINE OR PEOPLE THAT CAN JUST PRODUCE FAST AND NOT BEING HUMANIZED SO UPLIFTING THAT WE NEED TO DO MORE TO JUST DISMANTLE THESE TYPES OF BIASES AND STEREOTYPES AND RACISM. I HAD A FRIEND FROM NEPAL PERSONALLY AROUND COVID TIME WHO THIS MAN JUST ATTACKED HER ON THE TRAIN AND JUST KICKED HER ON HER BACK AND THEN THERE WAS NO REASON THERE WAS NO THEFT JUST ATTACKED HER AND KICKED HER DOWN AND WE HAD TO GO THROUGH THE WHOLE POLICE PROCESS AND I CAN REMEMBER I REMEMBER A SHE THEN HAD TO GO THROUGH A LOT OF THERAPY TO GOALS TO GET OVER THAT ONE INCIDENT SO IT'S NOT OKAY AND ALSO HERE IN THE CITY AS WELL VERY HAPPY FOR OUR MAYOR, A MAYOR WHO AS YOU KNOW IN MY TIME WITH WAYS AND MEANS I'VE LOOKED A LOT INTO DEMOGRAPHICS AND FAIR WAGES AND PAY IN TERMS OF HIGHER DIVERSITY AND SUPPLY DIVERSITY AND WE ARE NOT WHERE WE ARE WHERE WE NEED TO BE IN TERMS OF OUR HIRING ASIANS OR PEOPLE FROM ASIAN COMMUNITY AS WELL OR PACIFIC ISLANDER. SO I RISE IN SUPPORT AND LOOK FORWARD TO VOTE ON THIS.  THANK YOU. THANK YOU KATHRYN ENGINEERS AND IS ANYONE ELSE LOOKING TO SPEAK ON THIS MATTER?  I JUST WANT TO HIGHLIGHT AGAIN LAST WEEK OUR INVOCATION FROM GENTLEMAN TALKED A LOT ABOUT THOSE STEREOTYPES AND A LOT ABOUT THE BAMBOO CEILING AND THE LIMITATIONS EVEN AND DEBUNKING THE MOTTO MINORITY MYTH. SO I WANT TO UPLIFT HER REALLY I THINK IN IMPACTFUL WORDS AS WE REFLECT ON NATIVE AMERICAN NATIVE NATIVE HAWAIIAN ASIAN-AMERICAN PACIFIC ISLANDER HERITAGE MONTH AS ANYONE ELSE LOOKING TO ADD THEIR NAME IS A CLICK PLEASE THAT COMES FIRST BREADON COLETTA DURKIN, FERNANDA ANDERSON FITZGERALD MURPHY THE BAND SANTANA WEBER WORLD PLEASE ADD THE CHAIR COMES YOUR FLINTY SUSPENSION OF THE RULES AND PASSAGE OF DOCKET NUMBER 0824 ALL THOSE IN FAVOR SAY I CALL OPPOSING A MR. CLERK. WILL YOU PLEASE CONDUCT A ROLL CALL VOTE ROLL CALL VOTE ON THE NUMBER 0824 COUNCILOR BREADON YES. COUNCILOR BREADON YES.  COUNCILOR COLETTA YES. COUNCILOR COLETTA YES. COUNCILOR DURKIN COUNCILOR DURKIN YES. COUNCILOR FOR ANANDA SANDERSON. COUNCILOR FERNANDES ANDERSON YES. COUNCILOR FITZGERALD YES. COUNCILOR FITZGERALD YES. COUNCILOR FLYNN COUNCILOR FLYNN YES. COUNCILOR LOUIJEUNE YES.  COUNCILOR LOUIJEUNE YES. CONCILOR MEJIA HERE COUNCILOR MURPHY. COUNCILMEMBER FIT YES.  COUNCILOR THE PEN COUNCILOR OF A PEN YES. COUNCIL S.A. YES.  COUNCILOR SANTANA YES. COUNCILOR WEBER YES. COUNCIL MEMBER YES.  AND COUNCILOR WORRELL YES. COUNCILOR WORRELL YES. TALKING NUMBERS 0 TO 4 HAS RECEIVED 12 VOTES IN THE AFFIRMATIVE. THANK YOU. DOCKET NUMBER 0824 HAS BEEN ADOPTED. WE ARE NOW MOVING ON TO PERSONNEL ORDERS.  MR. CLERK, WOULD YOU PLEASE READ THE PERSONNEL ORDERS?  PERSONNEL ORDERS? DOCKET NUMBER 0826 COUNCILOR LOUIJEUNE FOR CONCILOR MEJIA HERE TALKING NUMBERS 0827 COUNCILOR LOUIJEUNE FOR CONCILOR MEJIA HERE IN COUNCIL AND NUMBERS 0828 COUNCILOR LOUIJEUNE FOR CENTRAL STAFF APPOINTMENT THANK YOU. THE CHAIR MOVES A PASSAGE OF DOCKETS NUMBER 082620828 ALL THOSE IN FAVOR SAY I ALL THOSE OPPOSED NAY. THANK YOU. THE PERSONAL ORDERS HAVE BEEN PASSED.  WE ARE NOW MOVING ONTO GREEN CHEESE. IS ANYONE LOOKING TO PULL ANYTHING FROM THE GREEN SHEETS? THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES COUNCILOR DURKIN. PATRICK DURKIN YOU NOW HAVE THE FLOOR. THANK YOU SO MUCH. COUNCIL PRESIDENT I WILL BE PULLING 0104 FROM THE GREEN SHEETS AND FOR MY COLLEAGUES I HAVE A RESUME FOR NIKITA BURNS ON ON YOUR DESKS IN EARLY JUNE I WILL HAVE ANOTHER HEARING REGARDING APPOINTMENTS FOR THE PLANNING DEVELOPMENT AND TRANSPORTATION COMMITTEE CASPER DURKAN ONE MOMENT THE HEARTBEATS READ IT INTO THE RECORD. GO AHEAD WILL YOU PLEASE READ THE NUMBER 0104 INTO THE RECORD FROM THE COMMITTEE ON PLANNING DEVELOPMENT AND TRANSPORTATION I CAN REMEMBER 0104 MESSAGE IN ORDER CONFIRMING THE APPOINTMENT OF NIKITA BURNS TO THE ZONING COMMISSION AS A RESIDENTIAL ORGANIZATION MEMBER FOR THE TERM FOR A TERM EXPIRING TOBER 26 2026 THANK YOU APS IN OBJECTION DOCKET NUMBER 0104 IS PROPERLY BEFORE THE BODY COUNCIL DURKAN THE FLOOR IS NOW YOURS. THANK YOU SO MUCH.  AS I WAS SAYING EARLY EARLY JUNE I WILL HAVE ANOTHER APPOINTMENT HEARING THE REASON FOR PULLING THIS SPECIFIC APPOINTMENT BEFORE BEFORE THE BODY AND I'M LOOKING TO VOTE ON THIS TODAY THE REASON FOR PULLING THIS BEFORE THE BODY IS BECAUSE THEY ARE HAVING QUORUM ISSUES AND I WANT TO MAKE SURE OUR UNFORTUNATELY THIS APPOINTMENT SLIPPED THROUGH THE CRACKS WAS AN APPOINTMENT FROM LAST YEAR A HOLDOVER WHEN ANOTHER PERSON WAS IN THE CHAIR FOR THIS COMMITTEE. SO JUST WANT TO STATE SOME OF HER ACCOMPLISHMENTS. I DID HAVE A CALL WITH HER THIS MORNING.  NIKITA BURNS IS THE LEGISLATIVE DIRECTOR FOR THE OFFICE OF MAJORITY LEADER MIKE MORAN IN THE 18TH SUFFOLK DISTRICT HAS RECENTLY WORKED FOR THE MASSACHUSETTS HOUSE MAP ILLUSTRATOR ON THE SPECIAL JOINT COMMITTEE ON REDISTRICTING.  SHE'S THE CURRENT CHAIR OF THE ABERDEEN ARCHITECTURAL CONSERVATION DISTRICT COMMISSION FOR THE CITY OF BOSTON. THE CHAIR OF BOSTON'S WARD 21 DEMOCRATIC COMMITTEE AND A MEMBER OF THE MASSACHUSETTS WOMEN'S POLITICAL CAUCUS BOARD OF DIRECTORS. IN 2020 NIKITA WON THE OUTSTANDING CAPSTONE AWARD FOR HER RESEARCH ON COLLABORATIVE COLLABORATIVE GOVERNANCE AND REDISTRICTING.  NIKITA WAS BORN IN CHARLESTOWN AND AFTER HER MOTHER BECAME ONE OF THE FIRST AFRICAN-AMERICANS TO RACIALLY INTEGRATE THE BUNKER HILL HOUSING DEVELOPMENT IN 1985. SHE HOLDS A B.A. IN SOCIOLOGY AND JAPANESE FROM THE UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS BOSTON AND A MASTER'S DEGREE IN PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION FROM THE MCCORMICK GRADUATE SCHOOL OF POLICY AND GLOBAL STUDIES.  YOU KNOW, UPON READING HER BIO YOU CAN TELL SHE'S EXTREMELY QUALIFIED AND THIS WILL NOT BE A REGULAR OCCURRENCE IN THIS COMMITTEE. THIS IS A QUORUM ISSUE THAT WE NEED TO SOLVE SO I ASKED THAT MY COLLEAGUES VOTE TO SUPPORT THIS EXTREMELY QUALIFIED CANDIDATE AND WE WILL BE HAVING ANOTHER APPOINTMENTS HEARING AGAIN IN EARLY JUNE AND I HOPE MY COLLEAGUES WILL BE ABLE TO ATTEND. WE HAVE SOME OTHER FOLKS THAT ARE SITTING IN GREEN SHEETS SO THANK YOU SO MUCH. THANK YOU. THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES COUNCILOR BREADON KAISER BREADON YOU HAVE THE FLOOR.  THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR. I APPRECIATE COUNCILOR DOCKETS BRINGING THIS EXPEDITING THIS APPOINTMENT BECAUSE OF QUORUM ISSUES. I KNOW NIKITA PERSONALLY. SHE'S THE HAS WORKED WITH COUNCILMAN REPRESENTATIVE MORAN'S TEAM FOR MANY YEARS SO I KNOW HER AND MY INTERACTIONS IS THAT AT THE LOCAL LEVEL IN AUSTIN BRIGHTON SHE'S AN INCREDIBLY ACCOMPLISHED LEADER IN THE COMMUNITY AND DEFINITELY WOULD BE AN ASSET TO THIS COMMITTEE. SO I AM JUST STANDING IN SUPPORT OF MOVING THIS TODAY AND EXPEDITING THIS APPOINTMENT THIS CONFIRMATION.  THANK YOU. THANK YOU. COUNCILOR WADE IN THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES COUNCILOR CARLOTTA CASTRO. COLLETTI, YOU HAVE THE FLOOR. THANK YOU SO MUCH, MADAM PRESIDENT. I RISE ENTHUSIASTICALLY TO ENCOURAGE MY COLLEAGUES TO VOTE IN FAVOR. NIKITA BURNS AND I HAVE WORKED PROFESSIONALLY ON THE MASSACHUSETTS WOMEN'S POLITICAL CAUCUS BOARD AND I CAN TELL THAT SHE IS A PROFESSIONAL THROUGH AND THROUGH AND I BELIEVE THAT SHE WILL BRING HER YEARS OF EXPERIENCE PUBLIC SERVICE TO THE ROLE OF THE BOSTON WATER COMMISSION. SO I JUST WANTED TO RISE TO ADD TO THE CHORUS OF POSITIVE REVIEWS FOR NIKITA. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. IS ANYONE ELSE LOOKING TO SPEAK ON THIS MATTER? SHE SOUNDS INCREDIBLE. SO COUNCILOR DURKIN, THE CHAIR OF THE COMMITTEE ON PLANNING DEVELOPMENT AND PRESENTATION WAS A PASSAGE OF DOCKET NUMBER 010401 MOMENT BECAUSE WITH DURKIN IS THERE SOMETHING I JUST WANT TO CONSIDER CAN YOU NOW CONSIDER COULD YOU NOW HAVE THE FLOOR? THANK YOU SO MUCH. I JUST WANT TO BE CLEAR THIS IS FOR THE ZONING COMMISSION AND SHE'S THE RESIDENTIAL SEAT AND I THINK A COUPLE OF PEOPLE WE JUST MISNAMED IT A COUPLE OF TIMES. I JUST WANT TO BE CLEAR WHAT WE'RE APPOINTING HER FOR. THANK YOU.  THANK YOU. CATHERINE DURKIN, CHAIR OF THE COMMITTEE ON PLANNING DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION WAS A PASSENGER DOCKET NUMBER 0104. ALL THOSE IN FAVOR SAY I AM OPPOSED SAY A THE AYES HAVE IT. THIS DOCKET HAS PASSED IS ANYONE ELSE LOOKING TO PULL ANYTHING FROM THE GREEN SHEETS ? WE ARE NOW MOVING ON TO LEAD FILES. I AM INFORMED BY THE COURT THAT THERE ARE THERE IS ONE LATE FILE MATTER.  MR CLERK, CAN YOU PLEASE READ THAT FILE MATTER INTO THE RECORD WHEN THEY FIND OUT ABSENCE LETTER FROM CITY COUNCIL A JUNIOR MEJIA THE AMOUNT OF PRESENT I'M WRITING TO INFORM YOU OF MY ABSENCE FROM OUR UPCOMING CITY COUNCIL MEETING. WELL I WOULD REGRET NOT BEING ABLE TO PARTICIPATE IN PERSON. MY STAFF WILL BE IN ATTENDANCE AND I WILL BE REVIEWING THE ONLINE STREAM SINCERELY COUNCILOR JULIA.  MEJIA. THANK YOU. WE WILL TAKE A VOTE TO ADD THESE MATTERS TO THE AGENDA. ALL THOSE IN FAVOR OF ADDING THE FINAL MATTER SAY I I ALL OPPOSE ANY THANK YOU. THE LATE FILE MATTER HAS BEEN ADDED TO THE AGENDA THAT WE ARE NOW MOVING ON TO THAT CONSENT.  OH OKAY. THIS LETTER THIS ABSENCE LETTER FROM FROM HERE WILL BE PLACED ON FILE. WE ARE NOW MOVING ON TO THE CONSENT AGENDA. I HAVE BEEN INFORMED TO THE CLERK THAT THERE IS ONE ADDITION 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 THANK YOU THE CONSENT AGENDA HAS BEEN ADOPTED. WE ARE NOW MOVING ON TO ANNOUNCEMENTS. PLEASE REMEMBER THESE ARE FOR UPCOMING DATES AND EVENTS. IF ANY OF MY COLLEAGUES HAVE ANY ANNOUNCEMENTS NOW IS THE TIME. I'D LIKE TO WISH A VERY HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO SOME OF OUR COUNCIL BIRTHDAYS WITH HORIZON STARWOOD TONY, BAEZ, SIERRA WALKER, MARK COHEN, IRIS ZAO AND WILMER QUINONEZ OUR UPCOMING MAY BIRTHDAYS SO HAPPY BIRTHDAY THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES COUNCILOR FOR NANJIANI'S IN COUNCIL FOR AN ENGINEERING ON THE FLOOR. THANK YOU MADAM PRESIDENT. I JUST WANTED TO RISE AND WISH A VERY HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO OUR VERY OWN LOUIS ELIZA. HE IS AN AMAZING LEADER IN DISTRICT SEVEN. HAPPY BIRTHDAY. AND FOR THOSE OF YOU WHO HAVE BEEN INVITED I SAW YOU AT THE PARTY. THANKS. SEE YOU AT THE PARTY.  HAPPY BIRTHDAY LEWIS. WE ARE NOW MOVING ANYONE ELSE OKAY. WE ARE NOW MOVING ON TO MEMORIALS.  IF ANY OF MY COLLEAGUES WOULD LIKE TO SPEAK ON ANY ONE NOW IS THE TIME.  I WOULD LIKE TO LIFT UP A FEW PEOPLE FOR US TO REMEMBER RICK SLEEMAN WHOSE FATHER BOYCE SLEEMAN WAS THE MANAGER OF MEL KING'S MAYORAL CAMPAIGN.  FRANK STELLA, ONE OF AMERICA'S GREATEST AMERICA'S GREAT ARTISTS THAT DEFINED CATEGORY ABOUT BOUNDARIES AND WAS INFLUENTIAL HERE IN OUR BOSTON IN THE BOX GREATER BOSTON AREA. MARLENE ADONIS, THE BELOVED SISTER OF BERNADETTE ADONIS AND JEANNIE CHRISTY HEINZ WHO LOST HER WHO RECENTLY PASSED AND WHO MANY OF HER CHILDREN AND HER THE MANY CHILDREN THAT SHE HAS REARED WHO ARE THE CHURCH THAT SHE BIRTH MOURN HER PASSING. SO MAY HER MEMORY BE A BLESSING BECAUSE OF JENISON YOU HAVE THE FLOOR. THANK YOU. THIS ACTUALLY JUST A COUPLE OF DAYS AGO WE LOST A VERY OUR VERY OWN WE CALL HIM BY NEW PUSHING THE CAPE HERDING COMMUNITY KNOWS HIM HE IS A STORYTELLER OR OUR OWN DR. SEUSS FOR CHILDREN IN WEST COAST AFRICA CAPE VERDE I GREW IN A HOME WITH NO TV OR REFRIGERATOR OR AND YOU GREW UP GROWING UP LAYING IN A BED WITH AT LEAST TEN CHILDREN IN JUST ONE MATTRESS IN A VERY LOVING HOME AND I'M FILLED WITH AMAZING MEMORIES AND EVERY NIGHT WE WOULD GATHER A CIRCLE AND THE OLDEST PERSON WOULD TELL ALL OF THE STORIES FROM YOU PUSHING SO VERY NEAR AND DEAR TO MY HEART YOU JUST WOULD GROW UP LISTENING TO HIS STORIES IN THE RADIO.  I JUST WANTED TO SEND LOVE AND PRAYERS TO HIS FAMILY. THANK YOU. CANCER FOR AN INJURY ANDERSON DID YOU RECOGNIZE HIS CANCER ? DURKIN, YOU HAVE THE FLOOR. THANK YOU SO MUCH. COUNCIL PRESIDENT I WANTED TO RISE TO HONOR THE LIFE OF ARTHUR ARCHIE EISENBERG. HE LIVED IN MY DISTRICT AND AND THEN NOW LIVES IN COUNCILOR 24 NOTICES ANDERSON'S DISTRICT TWO IS AN EAST FENS RESIDENT AND 90 YEARS OLD. AS A YOUNG MAN HE DELIVERED GOODS FOR HIS FATHER'S PICKLE BUSINESS WHILE IN GRADUATE SCHOOL HE DROVE AN ICE CREAM TRUCK.  HE BEGAN AS A SOCIAL WORKER WITH THE JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER IN BRIGHTON. THEN HE DIRECTED AND SHARED OWNERSHIP A BOSTON RETIREMENT HOME. IN 1978 HE MADE THE TRANSITION TO ACADEMIA RETIRING AFTER TEN YEARS FROM HIS FACULTY POSITION AT BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF SOCIAL WORK AT THE AGE OF 55 AS A COLLEAGUE AT B, YOU SAID GIVEN THE CHALLENGES, THE HIGHS AND LOWS OF THE ED FIELD ARCHIE WAS ALWAYS GROUNDED, THOUGHTFUL, FUNNY AND PRESENT SOME OF HIS EAST FRIENDS NEIGHBORS REMEMBER HIM THE CHURCH PARK EAST FENWAY COMMUNITY WILL MISS HIS DRY HUMOR AND SEEING HIM AT 70 WHOLE FOODS MARKET HE SURVIVED BY HIS BELOVED WIFE ELAINE FOUR CHILDREN, SIX GRANDCHILDREN AND FIVE GREAT GRANDCHILDREN. ONE HONORARY GRANDCHILD, ONE NEWBORN GREAT GRANDCHILD. HE WAS PRECEDED IN DEATH BY HIS PARENTS MAURICE AND LILLIAN, THANK YOU.  THANK YOU. CANCER DURKIN AND YOU MY OTHER COLLEAGUES THE CHAIR THE CHAIR A MOMENT OF SILENCE AND A MOMENT OF SILENCE FOR THOSE WE ARE REMEMBERING THE CHAIR MOVES THAT WHEN THE COUNCIL ADJOURNED TODAY IT DOES SO IN MEMORY OF THE AFOREMENTIONED INDIVIDUALS.  THE COUNCIL IS SCHEDULED TO MEET AGAIN IN THE CHAMBER ON WEDNESDAY, MAY 15TH AT 12 NOON. THANK YOU TO MY COLLEAGUES CENTRAL STAFF, THE CLERK IN THE CLERK'S OFFICE AND THE COUNCIL STENOGRAPHER ALL IN FAVOR OF ADJOURNMENT THEY SAY. ALL RIGHT, THE COUNCIL IS ADJOURNED