00:00:00:00	00:11:06:00	CHAIRING THIS AFTERNOON'S
00:11:06:00	00:11:09:00	HEARING OF THE BOSTON CITY
00:11:09:00	00:11:09:00	COUNCIL COMMITTEE ON WAYS AND
00:11:09:00	00:11:10:00	MEANS THIS HEARING IS BEING
00:11:10:00	00:11:12:00	RECORDED IS LIVE STREAMED AT
00:11:12:00	00:11:15:00	BOSTON GUVS CITY COUNCIL TV AND
00:11:15:00	00:11:16:00	BROADCAST IT ON EXTENDED
00:11:16:00	00:11:17:00	CHANNEL EIGHT UNTIL 1782 AND
00:11:17:00	00:11:20:00	FILES CHANNEL NINE SIX FOR THE
00:11:20:00	00:11:21:00	COUNCIL'S BUDGET REVIEW PROCESS
00:11:21:00	00:11:24:00	WILL ENCOMPASS A SERIES
00:11:24:00	00:11:24:00	OF PUBLIC HEARINGS BEGINNING IN
00:11:24:00	00:11:25:00	APRIL AND RUNNING THROUGH JUNE
00:11:25:00	00:11:28:00	RESTRUNG TO ENCOURAGE RESIDENTS
00:11:28:00	00:11:29:00	TO TAKE A MOMENT TO ENGAGE IN
00:11:29:00	00:11:29:00	THIS PROCESS BY GIVING
00:11:29:00	00:11:31:00	TESTIMONY FOR THE RECORD.
00:11:31:00	00:11:32:00	YOU CAN DO THIS IN SEVERAL
00:11:32:00	00:11:33:00	WAYS.
00:11:33:00	00:11:33:00	YOU CAN ATTEND ONE OF OUR
00:11:33:00	00:11:34:00	HEARINGS AND GIVE PUBLIC
00:11:34:00	00:11:35:00	TESTIMONY WILL TAKE PUBLIC
00:11:35:00	00:11:36:00	TESTIMONY AT THE END OF EACH
00:11:36:00	00:11:38:00	DEPARTMENTAL HEARING AND ALSO
00:11:38:00	00:11:39:00	THE THREE HEARINGS DEDICATED
00:11:39:00	00:11:40:00	SOLELY TO PUBLIC TESTIMONY.
00:11:40:00	00:11:43:00	THE FULL HEARING SCHEDULE IS ON
00:11:43:00	00:11:44:00	OUR WEBSITE AT BOSTON LEGAL
00:11:44:00	00:11:47:00	COUNCILOR BUDGET.
00:11:47:00	00:11:47:00	OUR SCHEDULED HEARINGS
00:11:47:00	00:11:48:00	DEDICATED TO PUBLIC TESTIMONY
00:11:48:00	00:11:51:00	TOMORROW MAY 2ND AT 2:00 P.M.
00:11:51:00	00:11:52:00	TUESDAY MAY 9TH AT SIX P.M. AND
00:11:52:00	00:11:55:00	THURSDAY MAY 18TH AT 2:00 P.M.
00:11:55:00	00:11:57:00	FOR VIRTUAL TESTIMONY YOU CAN
00:11:57:00	00:11:59:00	SIGN UP USING OUR ONLINE FORM
00:11:59:00	00:11:59:00	ON OUR COUNCIL BUDGET REVIEW
00:11:59:00	00:12:02:00	WEBSITE OR BY EMAILING THE
00:12:02:00	00:12:06:00	COMMITTEE AT C.C.C. W.M. AT
00:12:06:00	00:12:06:00	BOSTON DOT GOV.
00:12:06:00	00:12:07:00	WHEN YOU ARE CALLED TO TESTIFY
00:12:07:00	00:12:10:00	PLEASE STATE YOUR NAME AND
00:12:10:00	00:12:10:00	AFFILIATION, SLASH RESIDENTS
00:12:10:00	00:12:11:00	AND LIMIT YOUR COMMENTS TO A
00:12:11:00	00:12:13:00	FEW MINUTES TO ENSURE THAT ALL
00:12:13:00	00:12:14:00	COMMENTS AND CONCERNS CAN BE
00:12:14:00	00:12:14:00	HEARD.
00:12:14:00	00:12:15:00	YOU CAN EMAIL YOUR WRITTEN
00:12:15:00	00:12:17:00	TESTIMONY TO THE COMMITTEE AT
00:12:17:00	00:12:21:00	C.C.C. W.M. AT BOSTON DOT GOV.
00:12:21:00	00:12:22:00	YOU CAN SUBMIT A TWO MINUTE
00:12:22:00	00:12:23:00	VIDEO TESTIMONY OF YOUR
00:12:23:00	00:12:25:00	TESTIMONY THROUGH THE FORUM ON
00:12:25:00	00:12:26:00	OUR WEBSITE AND FOR MORE
00:12:26:00	00:12:27:00	INFORMATION ON THE CITY
00:12:27:00	00:12:29:00	COUNCIL BUDGET PROCESS THAT
00:12:29:00	00:12:30:00	TESTIFIED PLEASE VISIT THE CITY
00:12:30:00	00:12:30:00	COUNCIL BUDGET WEBSITE AT
00:12:30:00	00:12:33:00	BOSTON DOT GOV SLASH
00:12:33:00	00:12:33:00	COUNCIL BUDGET.
00:12:33:00	00:12:37:00	TODAY'S HEARINGS ARE ON DOCKETS
00:12:37:00	00:12:38:00	ZERO SEVEN SIX ZERO TWO ZERO
00:12:38:00	00:12:40:00	SEVEN SIX TWO ORDERS FOR THE
00:12:40:00	00:12:41:00	FISCAL YEAR TWENTY FOUR
00:12:41:00	00:12:41:00	OPERATIONAL BUDGET INCLUDING
00:12:41:00	00:12:44:00	ANNUAL APPROPRIATIONS FOR
00:12:44:00	00:12:45:00	DEPARTMENTAL OPERATIONS FOR THE
00:12:45:00	00:12:45:00	SCHOOL DEPARTMENT FOR OTHER
00:12:45:00	00:12:48:00	POST EMPLOYMENT BENEFITS DOCKET
00:12:48:00	00:12:49:00	ZERO SIX THREE ZERO SEVEN SIX
00:12:49:00	00:12:52:00	FIVE AND AND ZERO SEVEN SIX SIX
00:12:52:00	00:12:53:00	WHICH ARE ORDERS FOR CAPITAL
00:12:53:00	00:12:56:00	FUND TRANSFER APPROPRIATIONS
00:12:56:00	00:12:59:00	AND DOCKET ZERO SEVEN SIX FOUR
00:12:59:00	00:13:00:00	ZERO SEVEN SIX SEVEN ZERO SEVEN
00:13:00:00	00:13:03:00	SIX EIGHT WHICH ARE ORDERS FOR
00:13:03:00	00:13:04:00	THE CAPITAL BUDGET INCLUDING
00:13:04:00	00:13:04:00	LOAN ORDERS AND LEASE PURCHASE
00:13:04:00	00:13:05:00	AGREEMENTS.
00:13:05:00	00:13:08:00	DOCKET ZERO SEVEN SEVEN FOUR
00:13:08:00	00:13:08:00	WHICH IS A MESSAGE IN ORDER
00:13:08:00	00:13:09:00	AUTHORIZING A LIMIT FOR THE
00:13:09:00	00:13:11:00	ENVIRONMENT CONSERVATION
00:13:11:00	00:13:12:00	COMMISSION REVOLVING FUND FOR
00:13:12:00	00:13:13:00	THE FISCAL YEAR TWENTY TWENTY
00:13:13:00	00:13:15:00	FOUR FOR THE PURPOSE
00:13:15:00	00:13:16:00	OF SECURING OUTSIDE CONSULTANTS
00:13:16:00	00:13:19:00	INCLUDING ENGINEERS WETLAND
00:13:19:00	00:13:20:00	SCIENTISTS, WILDLIFE BIOLOGIST
00:13:20:00	00:13:20:00	OR OTHER EXPERTS IN ORDER TO
00:13:20:00	00:13:23:00	AID AND REVIEW A PROPOSED
00:13:23:00	00:13:24:00	PROJECTS TO THE COMMISSION PART
00:13:24:00	00:13:24:00	OF THE CITY'S ORDINANCE
00:13:24:00	00:13:26:00	PROTECTING LOCAL WETLAND AND
00:13:26:00	00:13:27:00	PROMOTING CLIMATE CHANGE
00:13:27:00	00:13:30:00	IMPACTS ADAPTION ADAPTATION THE
00:13:30:00	00:13:31:00	REVOLVING FUND SHALL BE FUNDED
00:13:31:00	00:13:32:00	BY RECEIPTS FROM THE FEES
00:13:32:00	00:13:34:00	IMPOSED BY THE COMMISSION FOR
00:13:34:00	00:13:35:00	THE PURPOSES OF SECURING
00:13:35:00	00:13:35:00	OUTSIDE CONSULTANTS.
00:13:35:00	00:13:38:00	THE ENVIRONMENT DEPARTMENT WILL
00:13:38:00	00:13:39:00	BE THE ONLY DEPARTMENT
00:13:39:00	00:13:40:00	AUTHORIZED TO EXPAND FROM THE
00:13:40:00	00:13:41:00	FUND IN SUCH EXPENDITURE SUCH
00:13:41:00	00:13:43:00	EXPENDITURE SHALL BE CAPPED AT
00:13:43:00	00:13:44:00	FIFTY THOUSAND DOLLARS AND
00:13:44:00	00:13:46:00	DOCKET ZERO SEVEN EIGHT ONE IS
00:13:46:00	00:13:47:00	A MESSAGE IN ORDER AUTHORIZING
00:13:47:00	00:13:48:00	THE APPROPRIATION OF ONE
00:13:48:00	00:13:50:00	MILLION TWO HUNDRED THOUSAND
00:13:50:00	00:13:51:00	DOLLARS FOR THE INCOME OF THE
00:13:51:00	00:13:52:00	GEORGE FRANCIS PARTMENT FUND,
00:13:52:00	00:13:54:00	THE FUNDS WOULD BE EXTENDED TO
00:13:54:00	00:13:55:00	THE DIRECTION OF THE
00:13:55:00	00:13:55:00	COMMISSIONER OF PARKS AND
00:13:55:00	00:13:56:00	RECREATION FOR THE MAINTENANCE
00:13:56:00	00:13:58:00	AND IMPROVEMENT OF BOSTON
00:13:58:00	00:13:59:00	COMMON AND PARKS IN EXISTENCE
00:13:59:00	00:14:02:00	SINCE JANUARY 12TH, 1887.
00:14:02:00	00:14:03:00	OUR FOCUS FOR THIS YEAR WILL BE
00:14:03:00	00:14:04:00	FISCAL YEAR THE FISCAL YEAR
00:14:04:00	00:14:07:00	2014 BUDGET FOR THE PARKS AND
00:14:07:00	00:14:07:00	RECREATION DEPARTMENT, THE
00:14:07:00	00:14:08:00	ENVIRONMENT DEPARTMENT, THE
00:14:08:00	00:14:11:00	OFFICE OF FOOD, JUSTICE
00:14:11:00	00:14:11:00	DEPARTMENT FUND AND REVOLVING
00:14:11:00	00:14:12:00	FUNDS.
00:14:12:00	00:14:12:00	OUR PANELISTS FROM THE
00:14:12:00	00:14:14:00	ADMINISTRATION FOR TODAY'S
00:14:14:00	00:14:15:00	HEARINGS ARE REVEREND MORIYAMA
00:14:15:00	00:14:16:00	DWIGHT HAMMOND, CHIEF OF THE
00:14:16:00	00:14:19:00	ENVIRONMENT ENERGY OPEN SPACE.
00:14:19:00	00:14:19:00	BRIAN WOODS, COMMISSIONER
00:14:19:00	00:14:20:00	OF THE PARKS AND RECREATION
00:14:20:00	00:14:22:00	DEPARTMENT.
00:14:22:00	00:14:23:00	CATHY BAKER ECLIPSE DIRECTOR
00:14:23:00	00:14:24:00	OF THE CAPITAL PLAN PARKS AND
00:14:24:00	00:14:26:00	RECREATION DEPARTMENT.
00:14:26:00	00:14:26:00	TRACEY LEIGH FINANCE DIRECTOR
00:14:26:00	00:14:27:00	FOR PARKS DARLENE BUFORD H.R.
00:14:27:00	00:14:30:00	DIRECTOR FOR PARKS ZOO OUTLAW
00:14:30:00	00:14:34:00	GENERAL SUPERINTENDENT FOR
00:14:34:00	00:14:35:00	PARKS MAINTENANCE PARKS DR.
00:14:35:00	00:14:38:00	ALISON BREEZINESS ENVIRONMENT
00:14:38:00	00:14:38:00	COMMISSIONER KAT ESHEL CHIEF
00:14:38:00	00:14:41:00	OF STAFF FOR THE OFFICE
00:14:41:00	00:14:42:00	OF ENVIRONMENT ENERGY AND OPEN
00:14:42:00	00:14:43:00	SPACE AND ELIZA WASSERMAN,
00:14:43:00	00:14:46:00	DIRECTOR OF THE OFFICE OF FOOD
00:14:46:00	00:14:46:00	JUSTICE.
00:14:46:00	00:14:48:00	THIS AFTERNOON I AM JOINED BY
00:14:48:00	00:14:50:00	MY COUNCIL COLLEAGUES
00:14:50:00	00:14:51:00	COUNCILOR JULIE HERE AND
00:14:51:00	00:14:51:00	COUNSELOR LUJÁN.
00:14:51:00	00:14:54:00	I'LL NOW TURN OVER TO THE
00:14:54:00	00:14:55:00	ADMINISTRATION FOR THEIR
00:14:55:00	00:14:55:00	PRESENTATION.
00:14:55:00	00:15:01:00	THANK THAT AFTERNOON WE WILL GO
00:15:01:00	00:15:05:00	AHEAD AND GET STARTED AND BE
00:15:05:00	00:15:05:00	RELATIVELY BRIEF.
00:15:05:00	00:15:06:00	WE WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT WE
00:15:06:00	00:15:09:00	HAVE PLENTY OF SPACE FOR
00:15:09:00	00:15:09:00	COUNCILOR QUESTIONS AND THEN
00:15:09:00	00:15:13:00	PUBLIC TESTIMONY BUT WE'LL GO
00:15:13:00	00:15:17:00	AHEAD AND PULL UP OUR SLIDES.
00:15:17:00	00:15:21:00	OK, SO WANT TO BEGIN BY NOTING
00:15:21:00	00:15:23:00	SOMETHING THAT'S VERY IMPORTANT
00:15:23:00	00:15:24:00	.
00:15:24:00	00:15:28:00	WE OFTEN HAVE SEPARATE HEARINGS
00:15:28:00	00:15:29:00	.
00:15:29:00	00:15:30:00	WE OFTEN HAVE ENVIRONMENT
00:15:30:00	00:15:30:00	DEPARTMENT HAS ITS OWN HEARING.
00:15:30:00	00:15:33:00	PARKES HAS ITS OWN HEARING.
00:15:33:00	00:15:36:00	FOOD JUSTICE IS WITH US NOW.
00:15:36:00	00:15:37:00	IT WAS LAST YEAR BUT THIS IS
00:15:37:00	00:15:40:00	THE FIRST FULL BUDGET YEAR THAT
00:15:40:00	00:15:41:00	FOOD JUSTICE IS UNDER THE EOC
00:15:41:00	00:15:44:00	CABINET BUDGET AND WE'RE NOT
00:15:44:00	00:15:45:00	QUITE REQUESTED TO GIVE
00:15:45:00	00:15:48:00	INFORMATION FOR THE OFFICE
00:15:48:00	00:15:48:00	HISTORIC PRESERVATION BUT THEY
00:15:48:00	00:15:49:00	ARE NONETHELESS A VERY
00:15:49:00	00:15:51:00	IMPORTANT PART OF THE CABINET.
00:15:51:00	00:15:55:00	HOWEVER, BECAUSE WE ANTICIPATED
00:15:55:00	00:15:56:00	THERE WAS GOING TO BE
00:15:56:00	00:15:56:00	CHALLENGING TO FIT THREE WE
00:15:56:00	00:15:59:00	DECIDED TO NOT HAVE AN
00:15:59:00	00:16:00:00	ADDITIONAL PRESENTATION RELATED
00:16:00:00	00:16:03:00	TO THE OFFICE OF STAFF
00:16:03:00	00:16:04:00	PRESERVATION BUT IT'S WORTH
00:16:04:00	00:16:07:00	NOTING THAT THEY ARE PART
00:16:07:00	00:16:07:00	OF OUR CABINET.
00:16:07:00	00:16:08:00	I DID WANT TO SAY REALLY
00:16:08:00	00:16:09:00	QUICKLY WE SPENT SOME TIME THIS
00:16:09:00	00:16:10:00	YEAR FIGURING OUT WHAT OUR
00:16:10:00	00:16:11:00	CABINET MISSION STATEMENT WOULD
00:16:11:00	00:16:15:00	BE AND IT IS THE ENVIRONMENT,
00:16:15:00	00:16:16:00	ENERGY AND OPEN SPACE CABINET
00:16:16:00	00:16:16:00	WORKS TOGETHER TO ENSURE THAT
00:16:16:00	00:16:18:00	BOSTON IS THE MOST RESILIENT
00:16:18:00	00:16:19:00	AND JUST CITY TO LIVE IN.
00:16:19:00	00:16:20:00	WE STRIVE TO ENSURE THAT ALL
00:16:20:00	00:16:23:00	BOSTONIAN AND PARTICULARLY OUR
00:16:23:00	00:16:24:00	MOST VULNERABLE HAVE ACCESS TO
00:16:24:00	00:16:27:00	HEALTHY CULTURALLY APPROPRIATE
00:16:27:00	00:16:28:00	FOOD, AFFORDABLE RENEWABLE
00:16:28:00	00:16:30:00	ENERGY AND CLIMATE RESILIENT
00:16:30:00	00:16:31:00	SPACES TO LIVE AND PLAY WE
00:16:31:00	00:16:32:00	STEWARD AND PROMOTE BOSTON'S
00:16:32:00	00:16:34:00	HISTORICAL AND NATURAL SPACES
00:16:34:00	00:16:35:00	AS WE ENGAGE RESIDENTS IN A
00:16:35:00	00:16:38:00	ROBUST CONVERSATION ABOUT OUR
00:16:38:00	00:16:39:00	FUTURE.
00:16:39:00	00:16:42:00	WE CAN COLLABORATE WITHIN THE
00:16:42:00	00:16:43:00	CABINET, ACROSS THE CITY,
00:16:43:00	00:16:43:00	THROUGHOUT OUR NEIGHBORHOODS
00:16:43:00	00:16:46:00	SURE THAT EVERY PERSON, PLANT
00:16:46:00	00:16:50:00	AND ANIMAL IS ABLE TO LIVE GROW
00:16:50:00	00:16:51:00	, THRIVE AND DIE WITH DIGNITY.
00:16:51:00	00:16:54:00	IT IS WORTH NOTING IF YOU'RE
00:16:54:00	00:16:55:00	ASKING ABOUT THE ANIMALS WE DO
00:16:55:00	00:16:56:00	ALSO HAVE ANIMAL CONTROL IN OUR
00:16:56:00	00:16:56:00	CABINET.
00:16:56:00	00:16:58:00	WE WON'T TALK ABOUT THAT FOR A
00:16:58:00	00:17:02:00	SIGNIFICANT TIME AND ALSO SOME
00:17:02:00	00:17:03:00	FOLKS ASKED WHY WE HAVE DIED
00:17:03:00	00:17:06:00	WITH DIGNITY BECAUSE IT IS ALSO
00:17:06:00	00:17:06:00	WORTH NOTING THAT WE HAVE
00:17:06:00	00:17:07:00	CEMETERIES WITHIN OUR CABINET
00:17:07:00	00:17:10:00	SO WE'LL BE FOCUSING IN ON A
00:17:10:00	00:17:11:00	FEW PIECES BUT WANTED TO MAKE
00:17:11:00	00:17:13:00	SURE THAT WE'RE CLEAR ABOUT ALL
00:17:13:00	00:17:16:00	OF WHAT IS IN THE CABINET AND
00:17:16:00	00:17:17:00	THE WAY THAT WE REALLY WORK
00:17:17:00	00:17:20:00	TOGETHER ACROSS ALL OF THE
00:17:20:00	00:17:21:00	DIFFERENT PIECES TRYING TO MAKE
00:17:21:00	00:17:24:00	SURE THAT EACH PIECE OF OUR
00:17:24:00	00:17:25:00	CABINET IS ALSO AMPLIFYING AND
00:17:25:00	00:17:29:00	SUPPORTING THE OTHER PIECES
00:17:29:00	00:17:32:00	NEXT TIME.
00:17:32:00	00:17:37:00	SO I WANT TO FOCUS ON THE FACT
00:17:37:00	00:17:37:00	THAT THIS YEAR ONE OF THE
00:17:37:00	00:17:39:00	THINGS THAT IS DIFFERENT IS
00:17:39:00	00:17:40:00	THAT IN THE PAST THE CABINET
00:17:40:00	00:17:44:00	ALL THE CABINET FUNCTIONS HAVE
00:17:44:00	00:17:44:00	BEEN UNDER THE ENVIRONMENT
00:17:44:00	00:17:47:00	DEPARTMENT THAT HAS LED
00:17:47:00	00:17:48:00	SOMETHING THAT I THINK THAT'S A
00:17:48:00	00:17:51:00	LITTLE CHALLENGING IN THE SENSE
00:17:51:00	00:17:52:00	THAT PEOPLE CONSIDERED MY ROLE
00:17:52:00	00:17:53:00	FOR INSTANCE, ONLY TO BE
00:17:53:00	00:17:55:00	CONNECTED TO THE ENVIRONMENT
00:17:55:00	00:17:56:00	CABINET AND THE ENVIRONMENT
00:17:56:00	00:18:00:00	CABINET HAD BOTH MY JOB THE
00:18:00:00	00:18:00:00	CHIEF OF STAFF, THE DIRECTOR
00:18:00:00	00:18:04:00	OF COMMUNICATOR NATIONS ALL
00:18:04:00	00:18:05:00	OF WHOM SERVED THE ENTIRE
00:18:05:00	00:18:08:00	CABINET NOT JUST THE
00:18:08:00	00:18:08:00	ENVIRONMENT DEPARTMENT AS WELL
00:18:08:00	00:18:12:00	AS A DIRECTOR, ADMINISTRATION
00:18:12:00	00:18:13:00	AND FINANCE WHO CURRENTLY WILL
00:18:13:00	00:18:16:00	SERVE ENVIRONMENT OFFICE
00:18:16:00	00:18:18:00	OF HISTORIC PRESERVATION AND
00:18:18:00	00:18:19:00	THE OFFICE OF FOOD JUSTICE.
00:18:19:00	00:18:20:00	WHILE MOST OF THAT
00:18:20:00	00:18:23:00	INFRASTRUCTURE EXISTS IN PARKS
00:18:23:00	00:18:23:00	AND IS NOT NEEDED ADDITIONAL
00:18:23:00	00:18:27:00	SUPPORT BUT THAT THAT ROLE THE
00:18:27:00	00:18:27:00	DIRECTOR OF ADMINISTRATION AND
00:18:27:00	00:18:28:00	FINANCE WILL SERVE ACROSS THE
00:18:28:00	00:18:29:00	OTHER THREE DEPARTMENTS IN
00:18:29:00	00:18:30:00	CABINET AND THEN DIRECTOR
00:18:30:00	00:18:34:00	OF COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT WHICH
00:18:34:00	00:18:35:00	WE ARE MOVING FORWARD NOW WE'VE
00:18:35:00	00:18:36:00	GOT A LOT OF RESUMES BUT IF YOU
00:18:36:00	00:18:37:00	ARE INTERESTED AND REALLY
00:18:37:00	00:18:38:00	THINKING ABOUT HOW WE AMPLIFY
00:18:38:00	00:18:42:00	COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT ACROSS ALL
00:18:42:00	00:18:43:00	OF THE CABINET, WE'D LOVE FOR
00:18:43:00	00:18:46:00	FOLKS TO APPLY FOR THAT
00:18:46:00	00:18:46:00	POSITION AS WELL BEGIN
00:18:46:00	00:18:47:00	INTERVIEWS I THINK IN ABOUT A
00:18:47:00	00:18:50:00	WEEK OR SO AND THEN WE'VE ADDED
00:18:50:00	00:18:51:00	A POSITION EXECUTIVE ASSISTANT
00:18:51:00	00:18:53:00	TO THE CHIEF, SOMEBODY WHO
00:18:53:00	00:18:57:00	WOULD BE ENTIRELY FOCUSED ON MY
00:18:57:00	00:18:58:00	SCHEDULE AND KEEPING ME WHERE
00:18:58:00	00:19:01:00	I'M SUPPOSED TO BE CURRENTLY I
00:19:01:00	00:19:01:00	TAP INTO THE ENVIRONMENT
00:19:01:00	00:19:02:00	DEPARTMENT'S RESOURCES TO MAKE
00:19:02:00	00:19:05:00	THAT HAPPEN.
00:19:05:00	00:19:06:00	AND AGAIN, ONE OF THE
00:19:06:00	00:19:06:00	CHALLENGES WITH THAT IT IT
00:19:06:00	00:19:07:00	MEANS THAT THE ENVIRONMENT
00:19:07:00	00:19:09:00	DEPARTMENT'S BUDGET LOOKS
00:19:09:00	00:19:10:00	LARGER THAN IT ACTUALLY IS
00:19:10:00	00:19:13:00	BECAUSE THEY ARE CARRYING ALL
00:19:13:00	00:19:14:00	OF THE EXPENSES FOR THE ENTIRE
00:19:14:00	00:19:14:00	CABINET.
00:19:14:00	00:19:17:00	WE ASKED FOR CHANGE IN THAT AND
00:19:17:00	00:19:20:00	SO YOU'LL SEE THERE'S THE
00:19:20:00	00:19:21:00	OFFICE OF ENVIRONMENT ENERGY
00:19:21:00	00:19:24:00	AND OPEN SPACE THAT'S A
00:19:24:00	00:19:25:00	CENTRALIZED CABINET TEAM THAT
00:19:25:00	00:19:28:00	ALSO MEANS THAT WE DON'T HAVE
00:19:28:00	00:19:29:00	TO HAVE EACH OF OUR DEPARTMENTS
00:19:29:00	00:19:32:00	FIND A FINANCE PERSON EACH
00:19:32:00	00:19:33:00	OF OUR DEPARTMENTS HAVE SOMEONE
00:19:33:00	00:19:33:00	WHO'S EXCLUSIVELY DOING
00:19:33:00	00:19:36:00	COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT.
00:19:36:00	00:19:37:00	WE ARE ALLOWED WE'RE ABLE TO
00:19:37:00	00:19:39:00	HAVE PARTS OF THOSE ROLES IN
00:19:39:00	00:19:40:00	EACH CABINET BUT ALSO TO HAVE A
00:19:40:00	00:19:43:00	SPECIALIST THAT'S ABLE TO MOVE
00:19:43:00	00:19:44:00	ACROSS MULTIPLE CABINETS
00:19:44:00	00:19:47:00	BECAUSE THE OFFICE OF FOOD
00:19:47:00	00:19:48:00	JUSTICE OFFERS HISTORIC
00:19:48:00	00:19:51:00	PRESERVATION.
00:19:51:00	00:19:52:00	THE ENVIRONMENT DEPARTMENT ARE
00:19:52:00	00:19:55:00	ALL RELATIVELY SMALL IN
00:19:55:00	00:19:58:00	COMPARISON AND SO CAN SHARE
00:19:58:00	00:20:02:00	SOME OF THOSE FUNCTIONS ACROSS
00:20:02:00	00:20:02:00	.
00:20:02:00	00:20:03:00	AND SO YOU CAN SEE HERE
00:20:03:00	00:20:06:00	THERE'LL BE SIX ROLES FOR THE
00:20:06:00	00:20:07:00	CABINET LEVEL THAT HAS BEEN THE
00:20:07:00	00:20:10:00	CASE IN THE PAST BUT WE'RE
00:20:10:00	00:20:11:00	BREAKING IT OUT SO YOU CAN SEE
00:20:11:00	00:20:12:00	WHAT ACTUALLY IS FUNDING THE
00:20:12:00	00:20:13:00	CABINET VERSUS WHAT ACTUALLY IS
00:20:13:00	00:20:16:00	IN THE ENVIRONMENT DEPARTMENT
00:20:16:00	00:20:20:00	NEXT TIME.
00:20:20:00	00:20:23:00	SO I'M GOING TO HAND IT OFF TO
00:20:23:00	00:20:24:00	BRIAN WOODS, OUR COMMISSIONER
00:20:24:00	00:20:28:00	TO TALK ABOUT THE OVERVIEW FOR
00:20:28:00	00:20:28:00	THE PARKS BUDGET.
00:20:28:00	00:20:31:00	BUT I WANTED TO AT LEAST NOTE
00:20:31:00	00:20:32:00	HERE BECAUSE MANY OF THE VALUES
00:20:32:00	00:20:35:00	THAT YOU SEE UNDER PARKS ARE
00:20:35:00	00:20:36:00	ALSO CONNECTED TO THE LARGER
00:20:36:00	00:20:37:00	VALUES THAT WE HAVE ACROSS THE
00:20:37:00	00:20:39:00	ENTIRE CABINET.
00:20:39:00	00:20:40:00	THERE ARE SIX EQUITY
00:20:40:00	00:20:44:00	COLLABORATION, GROWTH MINDSET,
00:20:44:00	00:20:47:00	ACCOUNTABILITY, EXCELLENCE AND
00:20:47:00	00:20:48:00	JOY AND WE'RE HOPING TO HOLD
00:20:48:00	00:20:51:00	THOSE ACROSS EVERYTHING WE DO
00:20:51:00	00:20:55:00	AND EVEN THIS BUDGET HERE COULD
00:20:55:00	00:20:56:00	BE A JOYFUL HEARING.
00:20:56:00	00:20:57:00	WE'RE WORKING ON THAT BRINGING
00:20:57:00	00:20:59:00	JOY TO EVERYTHING THAT WE DO
00:20:59:00	00:21:02:00	AND THEN WE'LL HAVE EACH OF THE
00:21:02:00	00:21:03:00	DEPARTMENTS GO INTO A LITTLE
00:21:03:00	00:21:06:00	BIT OF GREATER DEPTH AND THEN
00:21:06:00	00:21:07:00	HAVE SPACE FOR QUESTIONS ABOUT
00:21:07:00	00:21:11:00	HANDING IT OVER TO YOU RIGHT.
00:21:11:00	00:21:11:00	THANK YOU.
00:21:11:00	00:21:12:00	THANK YOU, MR CHAIR.
00:21:12:00	00:21:14:00	COUNCILORS AND CHIEF HAMMOND
00:21:14:00	00:21:15:00	OUT MY NAME AS WAS STATED AS
00:21:15:00	00:21:17:00	RYAN WAS THAT I'M PROUD TO
00:21:17:00	00:21:18:00	SERVE AS THE COMMISSIONER
00:21:18:00	00:21:19:00	OF THE BOSTON PARKS AND
00:21:19:00	00:21:22:00	RECREATION DEPARTMENT JOINING
00:21:22:00	00:21:23:00	TODAY IN CASE WE HAVE A RANGE
00:21:23:00	00:21:23:00	OF QUESTIONS THAT DIRECTOR
00:21:23:00	00:21:26:00	OF CAPITALAND BAKER CLIP'S
00:21:26:00	00:21:30:00	DIRECTOR FINANCE TRACEY LEE
00:21:30:00	00:21:30:00	SEARCH OF HUMAN RESOURCES
00:21:30:00	00:21:31:00	DARLING BUFFET AND GENERAL
00:21:31:00	00:21:33:00	SUPERINTENDENT OF MAINTENANCE
00:21:33:00	00:21:34:00	JUST WAY OUT THE DOOR I'D LIKE
00:21:34:00	00:21:38:00	TO THANK THE COUNCIL FOR THEIR
00:21:38:00	00:21:39:00	SUPPORT OF NOT ONLY OUR
00:21:39:00	00:21:39:00	DEPARTMENT BUT AS WE LOOK
00:21:39:00	00:21:42:00	FORWARD AND WE CURRENTLY LOOK
00:21:42:00	00:21:42:00	TO WORK TOGETHER IN OUR
00:21:42:00	00:21:45:00	UPCOMING FISCAL YEAR.
00:21:45:00	00:21:46:00	AS THE CHIEF MENTIONED, WE HAVE
00:21:46:00	00:21:49:00	OUR CABINET WIDE VALUES INSIDE
00:21:49:00	00:21:49:00	THE PARKS DEPARTMENT.
00:21:49:00	00:21:50:00	WE FOCUS ON ACCESS EQUITY
00:21:50:00	00:21:53:00	EXCELLENCE, THE DEPTH, ABILITY
00:21:53:00	00:21:54:00	AND ACCESS IS THAT AWESOME
00:21:54:00	00:21:57:00	PARKS ENSURE THAT ALL RESIDENTS
00:21:57:00	00:21:58:00	HAVE THAT 10 MINUTE WALK THE
00:21:58:00	00:21:58:00	NEAREST PARK BUT NOW WE FOCUS
00:21:58:00	00:22:01:00	ON TAKING THAT ADDITIONAL STEPS
00:22:01:00	00:22:02:00	TO NOT ONLY BE ADA COMPLIANT
00:22:02:00	00:22:04:00	BUT TO STRIVE FOR UNIVERSAL
00:22:04:00	00:22:05:00	ACCESSIBILITY WHEN POSSIBLE
00:22:05:00	00:22:08:00	EQUITY IN OUR INVESTMENT, OUR
00:22:08:00	00:22:08:00	MAINTENANCE SERVICES AND
00:22:08:00	00:22:09:00	RENOVATION OF CAPITAL PROJECTS
00:22:09:00	00:22:12:00	THROUGHOUT THE CITY EXCELLENCE
00:22:12:00	00:22:13:00	WE STRIVE NOT ONLY TO HAVE THE
00:22:13:00	00:22:14:00	BEST PARK SYSTEM BUT ONE THAT
00:22:14:00	00:22:16:00	LEADS IN DESIGN, CLIMATE
00:22:16:00	00:22:17:00	ADAPTATION GOALS AND
00:22:17:00	00:22:20:00	ADAPTABILITY.
00:22:20:00	00:22:21:00	WE HAVE TO ADAPT TO THE NEEDS
00:22:21:00	00:22:22:00	OF OUR RESIDENTS AND EACH
00:22:22:00	00:22:23:00	COMMUNITY ADAPT TO THE EVER
00:22:23:00	00:22:25:00	CHANGING CLIMATE AND AS WE
00:22:25:00	00:22:28:00	RETURN AFTER THIS PANDEMIC WE
00:22:28:00	00:22:29:00	CERTAINLY ARE ADAPTING TO THE
00:22:29:00	00:22:31:00	WAY WE ENGAGE WITH RESIDENTS
00:22:31:00	00:22:31:00	SAFE WELCOMING SPACES.
00:22:31:00	00:22:35:00	I WANT TO TAKE A MOMENT TO
00:22:35:00	00:22:36:00	THANK THE HARDWORKING TEAM AT
00:22:36:00	00:22:37:00	THE BOSTON PARKS AND RECREATION
00:22:37:00	00:22:39:00	DEPARTMENT FOR WORK TO ENSURE
00:22:39:00	00:22:40:00	OUR PARKS ARE CLEAN, SAFE AND
00:22:40:00	00:22:43:00	WELCOMING ESPECIALLY I LIKE TO
00:22:43:00	00:22:43:00	CALL IT THE MEMBERS OF OUR
00:22:43:00	00:22:44:00	MAINTENANCE STAFF CLEAN AND
00:22:44:00	00:22:46:00	MAINTAIN OUR PARKS.
00:22:46:00	00:22:47:00	OUR ANIMAL CARE AND CONTROL
00:22:47:00	00:22:50:00	STAFF HAVE BEEN RESPONDING TO
00:22:50:00	00:22:51:00	ANIMAL EMERGENCIES AND OPERATE
00:22:51:00	00:22:51:00	OUR ANIMAL SHELTER DAILY.
00:22:51:00	00:22:54:00	OUR PARK RANGERS THAT ENSURE
00:22:54:00	00:22:55:00	PARK RULES ARE ENFORCED SERVE
00:22:55:00	00:22:58:00	AS AMBASSADORS THAT OUR PARKS
00:22:58:00	00:22:59:00	ARE WELL PROGRAMED AND OUR
00:22:59:00	00:23:02:00	CEMETERY STAFF WHO ASSIST THE
00:23:02:00	00:23:03:00	FINAL PREPARATIONS AND ASSIST
00:23:03:00	00:23:05:00	GRIEVING FAMILIES IN THIS
00:23:05:00	00:23:06:00	YEAR'S BUDGET.
00:23:06:00	00:23:09:00	WE HAVE A PROPOSED INCREASE
00:23:09:00	00:23:10:00	OF TWO POINT EIGHT MILLION IN
00:23:10:00	00:23:13:00	THE OPERATING BUDGET TO A TOTAL
00:23:13:00	00:23:14:00	THIRTY FOUR MILLION.
00:23:14:00	00:23:14:00	THIS INCLUDES THREE SENIOR
00:23:14:00	00:23:17:00	PROJECT MANAGERS YOUTH SPORTS
00:23:17:00	00:23:20:00	INITIATIVE IN PARTNERSHIP WITH
00:23:20:00	00:23:24:00	THE HHS AND OH YEAH CABINETS
00:23:24:00	00:23:25:00	AND ON-CALL PLUMBING CONTRACT
00:23:25:00	00:23:26:00	TO ASSIST WITH WATER FEATURES
00:23:26:00	00:23:29:00	CITYWIDE AND A CIVIC OPEN SPACE
00:23:29:00	00:23:29:00	PLANNING PARTNERSHIP WITH THE
00:23:29:00	00:23:31:00	EPA.
00:23:31:00	00:23:32:00	THE PROPOSED CAPITAL BUDGET IS
00:23:32:00	00:23:36:00	SEVENTY TWO POINT SIX MILLION
00:23:36:00	00:23:36:00	WHICH IS TWELVE POINT NINE
00:23:36:00	00:23:39:00	DOLLARS MILLION HIGHER THAN
00:23:39:00	00:23:40:00	FISCAL YEAR TWENTY THREE.
00:23:40:00	00:23:44:00	NEXT SLIDE PLEASE I'D LIKE TO
00:23:44:00	00:23:47:00	SHARE SOME OF THE HIGHLIGHTS
00:23:47:00	00:23:48:00	FROM THIS PAST YEAR.
00:23:48:00	00:23:49:00	THIS YEAR WAS THE YEAR PLANNING
00:23:49:00	00:23:51:00	FOR US AS WE COMPLETED AND
00:23:51:00	00:23:52:00	RELEASED THE URBAN FOREST PLAN
00:23:52:00	00:23:54:00	THE FRANKLIN PARK ACTION PLAN,
00:23:54:00	00:23:55:00	BOSTON COMMON MASTER PLAN AND
00:23:55:00	00:23:58:00	THE CITY'S OPEN SPACE PLAN.
00:23:58:00	00:23:59:00	WE EXPANDED THE URBAN FOREST
00:23:59:00	00:24:00:00	DIVISION AND NOW HAVE A
00:24:00:00	00:24:03:00	DIRECTOR AND THREE NEW
00:24:03:00	00:24:03:00	ARBORISTS ON STAFF ALLOWING US
00:24:03:00	00:24:04:00	TO BETTER RESPOND TO TREE
00:24:04:00	00:24:07:00	ISSUES, ACCOMPLISH THE GOALS
00:24:07:00	00:24:08:00	OF THE URBAN FOREST PLAN AND
00:24:08:00	00:24:10:00	BETTER MAINTAIN AND EXPAND OUR
00:24:10:00	00:24:11:00	CANOPY.
00:24:11:00	00:24:12:00	WE PLANTED TWELVE HUNDRED AND
00:24:12:00	00:24:15:00	SIXTY FIVE STREET TREES IN TWO
00:24:15:00	00:24:17:00	THOUSAND FIVE HUNDRED FIFTY
00:24:17:00	00:24:22:00	REDEDICATED THE SHAW FIFTY
00:24:22:00	00:24:25:00	FOURTH MEMORIAL AND UNVEILED
00:24:25:00	00:24:26:00	EMBRACE AS WELL AS FREEDOM
00:24:26:00	00:24:30:00	PLAZA THAT HONORS THE SIXTY
00:24:30:00	00:24:30:00	FIVE CIVIL RIGHTS LEADERS WITH
00:24:30:00	00:24:33:00	OUR PARTNERS THROUGHOUT LAST
00:24:33:00	00:24:37:00	MONTH WE BROKE GROUND ON
00:24:37:00	00:24:37:00	SEVERAL DIFFERENT PROJECTS.
00:24:37:00	00:24:41:00	WE COMPLETED OUR NEWEST LAND
00:24:41:00	00:24:41:00	ACQUISITION WHICH IS PRESERVING
00:24:41:00	00:24:45:00	PUBLIC ACCESS TO OPEN SPACE AND
00:24:45:00	00:24:45:00	RECREATIONAL PROGRAMING.
00:24:45:00	00:24:46:00	WE HAD OVER EIGHTEEN THOUSAND
00:24:46:00	00:24:49:00	PARTICIPANTS AND FIFTY TWO
00:24:49:00	00:24:50:00	HUNDRED TAKE PLACE AND FREE
00:24:50:00	00:24:58:00	FITNESS CLASS SO ONE MORE
00:24:58:00	00:24:59:00	USABLE TIME DUE TO WARMER
00:24:59:00	00:25:01:00	WEATHER AND CLIMATE CHANGE SO
00:25:01:00	00:25:02:00	NOW PEOPLE CAN USE OUR COURTS
00:25:02:00	00:25:04:00	AND NOT JUST IN OCTOBER THROUGH
00:25:04:00	00:25:05:00	NOVEMBER DECEMBER A RECORD
00:25:05:00	00:25:09:00	BREAKING NINETY ONE THOUSAND
00:25:09:00	00:25:10:00	ROUNDS OF GOLF WE PLAYED AT
00:25:10:00	00:25:12:00	WILLIAM DIVIN AND GEORGE WRIGHT
00:25:12:00	00:25:13:00	GOLF COURSES AND OVER THIRTY
00:25:13:00	00:25:16:00	THOUSAND ATTENDEES TOOK PART
00:25:16:00	00:25:16:00	AND CULTURAL PROGRAMING WITH
00:25:16:00	00:25:20:00	ONE HUNDRED EIGHT FREE EVENTS.
00:25:20:00	00:25:21:00	OUR PARK RANGERS ARE IN THEIR
00:25:21:00	00:25:23:00	FORTIETH YEAR AND CONTINUE TO
00:25:23:00	00:25:24:00	OFFER A WIDE RANGE
00:25:24:00	00:25:25:00	OF RESPONSIBILITIES FROM
00:25:25:00	00:25:27:00	AMBASSADORS PROGRAMING
00:25:27:00	00:25:28:00	INFORMING AND PROVIDING PUBLIC
00:25:28:00	00:25:32:00	SAFETY AS WELL AS NATURAL
00:25:32:00	00:25:33:00	RESOURCE MANAGEMENT IN THE
00:25:33:00	00:25:35:00	BELOVED MOUNTAIN AND OUR ANIMAL
00:25:35:00	00:25:36:00	CARE AND CONTROL DIVISION AS
00:25:36:00	00:25:39:00	THE CHIEF ALLUDED TO, THEY
00:25:39:00	00:25:40:00	ISSUED OVER ELEVEN THOUSAND DOG
00:25:40:00	00:25:43:00	LICENSE PERMITS AND RESPONDED
00:25:43:00	00:25:44:00	TO SEVENTY NINE HUNDRED CALLS
00:25:44:00	00:25:47:00	FOR SERVICE.
00:25:47:00	00:25:48:00	THE SHELTER PROVIDED CARE FOR
00:25:48:00	00:25:48:00	EIGHT HUNDRED AND THIRTY
00:25:48:00	00:25:50:00	ANIMALS AND ADOPTED ONE HUNDRED
00:25:50:00	00:25:52:00	AND SEVEN PETS TO NEW HOMES AND
00:25:52:00	00:25:54:00	THEY OFFERED FIFTEEN HUNDRED
00:25:54:00	00:25:55:00	FREE AND LOW COST RABIES
00:25:55:00	00:25:58:00	VACCINES AND GAVE AWAY FOUR
00:25:58:00	00:25:59:00	HUNDRED FREE MICROCHIPS IN OUR
00:25:59:00	00:26:02:00	PROGRAMING DIVISION HAS BEEN
00:26:02:00	00:26:03:00	VERY BUSY.
00:26:03:00	00:26:04:00	THEY ISSUED 4500 PERMITS FOR
00:26:04:00	00:26:06:00	WEDDINGS, ATHLETICS, SPECIAL
00:26:06:00	00:26:07:00	EVENTS AND OUR CEMETERY
00:26:07:00	00:26:08:00	DIVISION PROVIDED BURIAL
00:26:08:00	00:26:11:00	SERVICES JUST OVER FIVE HUNDRED
00:26:11:00	00:26:11:00	AND TWENTY FAMILIES THAT LOST A
00:26:11:00	00:26:13:00	LOVED ONE.
00:26:13:00	00:26:14:00	OUR HORTICULTURE DIVISION GROWS
00:26:14:00	00:26:17:00	MORE THAN 67 PERCENT.
00:26:17:00	00:26:18:00	THE PLANTS THAT ARE PLANTED
00:26:18:00	00:26:22:00	CITYWIDE AND THEY PLANTED FIFTY
00:26:22:00	00:26:22:00	FIVE THOUSAND BULBS ACROSS THE
00:26:22:00	00:26:26:00	CITY AS WE LOOK INTO FISCAL
00:26:26:00	00:26:28:00	YEAR TWENTY FOUR WE HAVE
00:26:28:00	00:26:29:00	SEVERAL ROLES.
00:26:29:00	00:26:30:00	OUR FIRST IS PROTECT AND
00:26:30:00	00:26:33:00	ENHANCE OUR TREE CANOPY AND WE
00:26:33:00	00:26:33:00	DO THAT BY FULLY STAFFING OUR
00:26:33:00	00:26:37:00	URBAN CORES DIVISION START WITH
00:26:37:00	00:26:38:00	ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE
00:26:38:00	00:26:38:00	NEIGHBORHOOD PLANTINGS REDUCE
00:26:38:00	00:26:41:00	OUR PRUNING, WAIT TIMES FOR
00:26:41:00	00:26:42:00	PUBLIC TREES AND BRING MORE
00:26:42:00	00:26:44:00	FOREST TO WORK IN HOUSE TO
00:26:44:00	00:26:45:00	REDUCE THE RELIANCE ON OUTSIDE
00:26:45:00	00:26:45:00	CONTRACTORS.
00:26:45:00	00:26:49:00	WE'RE ALSO GOING CONTINUE OUR
00:26:49:00	00:26:49:00	EQUITY REVIEW AND ALL HIRING
00:26:49:00	00:26:50:00	AND PROMOTIONAL PRACTICES TO
00:26:50:00	00:26:52:00	ENSURE THE PRESENCE.
00:26:52:00	00:26:53:00	WOMEN IN BOSTON RESIDENTS ARE
00:26:53:00	00:26:54:00	IN THE FINAL ROUNDS
00:26:54:00	00:26:57:00	OF INTERVIEWS AND IDENTIFY
00:26:57:00	00:26:57:00	AREAS OF IMPROVEMENT IN
00:26:57:00	00:27:00:00	RECREATIONAL PROGRAMING AND
00:27:00:00	00:27:01:00	PERMITTING AND PARTNER WITH HHS
00:27:01:00	00:27:04:00	CABINET TO IMPROVE ACCESS TO
00:27:04:00	00:27:05:00	SPORTS OPPORTUNITIES THROUGHOUT
00:27:05:00	00:27:05:00	THE CITY.
00:27:05:00	00:27:09:00	ALSO GOING TO USE THE OPEN
00:27:09:00	00:27:10:00	SPACE PLAN TO DIRECT OUR OPEN
00:27:10:00	00:27:10:00	SPACE ACQUISITIONS WHILE
00:27:10:00	00:27:13:00	ENGAGING WITH OUR CIVIL OPEN
00:27:13:00	00:27:13:00	SPACE PLAN.
00:27:13:00	00:27:17:00	SO IN CLOSING THE PARKS
00:27:17:00	00:27:17:00	DEPARTMENT ALWAYS STRIVES TO DO
00:27:17:00	00:27:18:00	BETTER.
00:27:18:00	00:27:20:00	WE CAN DO BETTER AND WE'RE
00:27:20:00	00:27:21:00	GOING TO ADAPT TO THE TIMES AND
00:27:21:00	00:27:22:00	ENSURE OUR PUBLIC PLACES ARE
00:27:22:00	00:27:24:00	ALWAYS SAFE AND WELCOMING TO
00:27:24:00	00:27:24:00	ALL.
00:27:24:00	00:27:25:00	THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME AND
00:27:25:00	00:27:28:00	PASSING IT ON TO ALLISON
00:27:28:00	00:27:31:00	BROSIUS FROM THE ENVIRONMENT.
00:27:31:00	00:27:32:00	THANK YOU RYAN AND THANK YOU
00:27:32:00	00:27:35:00	CHAIR AND COUNCILORS AS RENTS.
00:27:35:00	00:27:36:00	MY NAME IS ALLISON BROSIUS AND
00:27:36:00	00:27:37:00	I AM PROUD TO SERVE AS THE
00:27:37:00	00:27:39:00	ENVIRONMENT COMMISSIONER FOR
00:27:39:00	00:27:40:00	THE CITY.
00:27:40:00	00:27:41:00	WE IN THE ENVIRONMENT
00:27:41:00	00:27:42:00	DEPARTMENT SUPPORT MAYOR WUS
00:27:42:00	00:27:43:00	VISION OF ENHANCING
00:27:43:00	00:27:44:00	ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE AND
00:27:44:00	00:27:47:00	QUALITY OF LIFE IN BOSTON WHILE
00:27:47:00	00:27:48:00	FOCUSING ON ACHIEVING
00:27:48:00	00:27:50:00	CARBON NEUTRALITY WHILE WORKING
00:27:50:00	00:27:52:00	TO MITIGATE AND PREPARE FOR THE
00:27:52:00	00:27:54:00	EFFECTS OF CLIMATE CHANGE AND
00:27:54:00	00:27:55:00	PROTECTING OUR NATURAL
00:27:55:00	00:27:55:00	RESOURCES.
00:27:55:00	00:27:58:00	WE DO THIS ALONG A NUMBER
00:27:58:00	00:27:58:00	OF LINES.
00:27:58:00	00:27:59:00	OBVIOUSLY WE HAVE A
00:27:59:00	00:28:02:00	CARBON NEUTRALITY TEAM THAT
00:28:02:00	00:28:02:00	ADVANCES STRATEGIES FOR
00:28:02:00	00:28:03:00	EQUITABLE EMISSIONS REDUCTION,
00:28:03:00	00:28:06:00	A CLIMATE RESILIENCE TEAM
00:28:06:00	00:28:07:00	PREPARING THE CITY FOR THOSE
00:28:07:00	00:28:09:00	IMPACTS OF CLIMATE CHANGE AND
00:28:09:00	00:28:10:00	ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY TEAM THAT
00:28:10:00	00:28:13:00	FOCUSES ON ON ENHANCING
00:28:13:00	00:28:14:00	ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE AND
00:28:14:00	00:28:17:00	QUALITY OF LIFE IN BOSTON BY
00:28:17:00	00:28:18:00	PROTECTING OUR AIR, WATER AND
00:28:18:00	00:28:19:00	LAND RESOURCES AND AN ENERGY
00:28:19:00	00:28:21:00	TEAM DEDICATED TO INCREASING
00:28:21:00	00:28:22:00	ENERGY AFFORDABILITY AND ENERGY
00:28:22:00	00:28:25:00	EFFICIENCY RENEWABLE ENERGY
00:28:25:00	00:28:25:00	ACROSS THE CITY.
00:28:25:00	00:28:27:00	I'D LIKE TO ECHO COMMISSIONER
00:28:27:00	00:28:29:00	WOODS THANKS TO OUR PARTNERS AT
00:28:29:00	00:28:30:00	THE COUNCIL AND LOOK FORWARD TO
00:28:30:00	00:28:32:00	CONTINUING TO WORK WITH YOU AND
00:28:32:00	00:28:33:00	I'D LIKE TO THANK OUR DEDICATED
00:28:33:00	00:28:34:00	TEAM AND THE ENVIRONMENT
00:28:34:00	00:28:36:00	DEPARTMENT WORKING TIRELESSLY
00:28:36:00	00:28:37:00	TO ACHIEVE THESE GOALS.
00:28:37:00	00:28:40:00	A FEW NOTABLE HIGHLIGHTS FROM
00:28:40:00	00:28:44:00	OUR BUDGET THIS YEAR AS THE
00:28:44:00	00:28:45:00	CHIEF MENTIONED, WE'VE BEEN
00:28:45:00	00:28:45:00	UNDERGOING SOME RESTRUCTURING
00:28:45:00	00:28:48:00	WITHIN BOTH THE DEPARTMENT AND
00:28:48:00	00:28:49:00	CABINET.
00:28:49:00	00:28:50:00	THIS YEAR WE'RE ALSO VERY
00:28:50:00	00:28:52:00	EXCITED TO ANNOUNCE AN
00:28:52:00	00:28:53:00	ADDITIONAL 50 MILLION DOLLARS
00:28:53:00	00:28:56:00	OF INVESTMENTS AND RENEW BOSTON
00:28:56:00	00:28:57:00	TRUST TO CONTINUE THE WORK
00:28:57:00	00:28:58:00	OF DEEP DECARBONIZATION AND
00:28:58:00	00:29:00:00	ENERGY EFFICIENCY AND THE
00:29:00:00	00:29:01:00	INVESTMENT IN RENEWABLE ENERGY
00:29:01:00	00:29:04:00	GENERATION OUR MUNICIPAL
00:29:04:00	00:29:05:00	BUILDINGS WITH A PARTICULAR
00:29:05:00	00:29:08:00	FOCUS THIS YEAR ON OUR SCHOOLS.
00:29:08:00	00:29:09:00	WE'RE ALSO FOCUSING ON THE
00:29:09:00	00:29:13:00	EXPANSION OF THE BRDO TEAM TO
00:29:13:00	00:29:13:00	CONTINUE TO SUPPORT BUILDING
00:29:13:00	00:29:15:00	OWNERS AND RESIDENTS IN
00:29:15:00	00:29:16:00	ACHIEVING EMISSIONS PERFORMANCE
00:29:16:00	00:29:16:00	STANDARDS THAT WILL BEGINNING
00:29:16:00	00:29:21:00	IN 2025 AND WORKING WITH THE
00:29:21:00	00:29:21:00	BOSS.
00:29:21:00	00:29:22:00	ANOTHER NOTABLE ELEMENT IS THAT
00:29:22:00	00:29:25:00	WORKING WITH THE BOSTON PUBLIC
00:29:25:00	00:29:25:00	HEALTH COMMISSION WE'RE GOING
00:29:25:00	00:29:27:00	TO TAKE INTEGRATING NOISE
00:29:27:00	00:29:28:00	INSPECTIONS WITHIN A LARGER
00:29:28:00	00:29:31:00	ENVIRONMENTAL COMPLIANCE TEAM
00:29:31:00	00:29:32:00	THERE WITHIN THE AGENCY WHICH
00:29:32:00	00:29:33:00	WE THINK IS GOING TO BE A MORE
00:29:33:00	00:29:35:00	HOLISTIC APPROACH ON
00:29:35:00	00:29:36:00	ENVIRONMENTAL COMPLIANCE
00:29:36:00	00:29:36:00	INSPECTION AND MORE
00:29:36:00	00:29:37:00	EFFICIENCIES WITHIN THAT
00:29:37:00	00:29:40:00	BROADER IF YOU COULD GO TO THE
00:29:40:00	00:29:43:00	NEXT SLIDE PLEASE AGAIN TO
00:29:43:00	00:29:44:00	HIGHLIGHT A COUPLE OF OUR
00:29:44:00	00:29:47:00	ACCOMPLISHMENTS THAT THE TEAM
00:29:47:00	00:29:48:00	HAS BEEN WORKING HARD ON OVER
00:29:48:00	00:29:49:00	THE PAST YEAR.
00:29:49:00	00:29:51:00	THESE INCLUDE THE ADOPTION
00:29:51:00	00:29:52:00	OF PHASE ONE IN PHASE TWO
00:29:52:00	00:29:55:00	OF THE BUILDING EMISSIONS
00:29:55:00	00:29:56:00	REDUCTION AND DISCLOSURE
00:29:56:00	00:29:56:00	ORDINANCE REGULATIONS AND THE
00:29:56:00	00:29:59:00	COMPLETION OF OUR VERY FIRST
00:29:59:00	00:30:00:00	YEAR UNDER THIS NEW ORDINANCE
00:30:00:00	00:30:03:00	OF BUILDINGS REPORTING AND
00:30:03:00	00:30:03:00	VERIFYING THEIR DATA UNDER
00:30:03:00	00:30:03:00	BRDO.
00:30:03:00	00:30:07:00	WE'VE LAUNCHED A MASSIVE
00:30:07:00	00:30:07:00	COMMUNITY FIRST PARTNERSHIP TO
00:30:07:00	00:30:11:00	FOCUS ON HELPING RESIDENTS IN
00:30:11:00	00:30:11:00	OUR ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE
00:30:11:00	00:30:14:00	COMMUNITIES BE ABLE TO TAKE
00:30:14:00	00:30:15:00	ADVANTAGE OF THE MASSIVE
00:30:15:00	00:30:18:00	PROGRAM WE'VE RELEASED CLIMATE
00:30:18:00	00:30:19:00	READY BOSTON PHASE TWO REPORTS
00:30:19:00	00:30:20:00	FOR COASTAL RESILIENCE
00:30:20:00	00:30:22:00	SOLUTIONS FOR EAST BOSTON AND
00:30:22:00	00:30:22:00	CHARLESTOWN.
00:30:22:00	00:30:23:00	AND WITH THAT COMPLETED
00:30:23:00	00:30:26:00	COMPLETED MANY YEARS
00:30:26:00	00:30:27:00	OF PLANNING AND PLANNING FOR
00:30:27:00	00:30:28:00	SEA LEVEL RISE OF COASTAL
00:30:28:00	00:30:30:00	STORMS ACROSS THE FORTY SEVEN
00:30:30:00	00:30:31:00	MILES OF OUR COASTLINE WHICH
00:30:31:00	00:30:34:00	REALLY BRINGS US INTO A NEW
00:30:34:00	00:30:35:00	PHASE OF FOCUSING ON
00:30:35:00	00:30:35:00	IMPLEMENTATION FOR OUR CLIMATE
00:30:35:00	00:30:37:00	RESILIENCE.
00:30:37:00	00:30:38:00	WE'VE LAUNCHED A COASTAL RISK
00:30:38:00	00:30:42:00	MANAGEMENT STUDY WITH THE U.S.
00:30:42:00	00:30:43:00	ARMY CORPS OF ENGINEERS TO
00:30:43:00	00:30:45:00	FOCUS ON ADVANCING MUCH OF THAT
00:30:45:00	00:30:46:00	IMPLEMENTATION ACROSS THE KOCH
00:30:46:00	00:30:50:00	COAST AND OUR SOON TO ANNOUNCE
00:30:50:00	00:30:53:00	THE LAUNCH OF A NEW INITIATIVE
00:30:53:00	00:30:54:00	ON TREE PLANTING AND PRIVATE
00:30:54:00	00:30:54:00	PROPERTY.
00:30:54:00	00:30:58:00	WE'RE ALSO PROUD THAT WORKING
00:30:58:00	00:30:58:00	WITH THE TRANSPORTATION
00:30:58:00	00:30:59:00	DEPARTMENT WE'RE ABLE TO SECURE
00:30:59:00	00:31:02:00	RECONNECTING CHINATOWN GRANT TO
00:31:02:00	00:31:05:00	LOOK AT RECONNECTING ELEMENTS
00:31:05:00	00:31:06:00	OF COMMUNITY WHILE BRINGING NEW
00:31:06:00	00:31:09:00	OPEN SPACE TO THE NEIGHBORHOOD
00:31:09:00	00:31:10:00	.
00:31:10:00	00:31:11:00	AND WE'VE BEEN WORKING NOTABLY
00:31:11:00	00:31:13:00	RECENTLY WITH OUR CONSERVATION
00:31:13:00	00:31:14:00	COMMISSION AND THE URBAN WILD'S
00:31:14:00	00:31:17:00	TEAM WITHIN THE PARKS
00:31:17:00	00:31:18:00	DEPARTMENT TO ADVANCE THE
00:31:18:00	00:31:21:00	MANHUNT WOODS URBAN WILD
00:31:21:00	00:31:21:00	ECOLOGICAL RESTORATION PROJECT.
00:31:21:00	00:31:25:00	WE'RE ALSO HAPPY TO REPORT THAT
00:31:25:00	00:31:26:00	THROUGH BOSTON COMMUNITY CHOICE
00:31:26:00	00:31:29:00	ELECTRICITY IN 2022 WE'VE BEEN
00:31:29:00	00:31:30:00	ABLE TO SAVE OUR RESIDENTS OVER
00:31:30:00	00:31:32:00	WHAT NEARLY FORTY EIGHT MILLION
00:31:32:00	00:31:33:00	DOLLARS AND INCREASE OUR
00:31:33:00	00:31:36:00	PARTICIPATION BY 15 PERCENT AND
00:31:36:00	00:31:37:00	THE PROGRAM FROM MARCH
00:31:37:00	00:31:40:00	OF TWENTY TWENTY TWO THROUGH
00:31:40:00	00:31:41:00	MARCH OF TWENTY TWENTY THREE
00:31:41:00	00:31:44:00	AND IF WE LOOK TOWARDS OUR
00:31:44:00	00:31:45:00	GOALS FOR THE FUTURE JUST A FEW
00:31:45:00	00:31:48:00	TO HIGHLIGHT INCLUDE AS AS
00:31:48:00	00:31:49:00	COMMISSIONER WOODS SAID AND
00:31:49:00	00:31:52:00	CHIEF WHITE HAMMOND WILL
00:31:52:00	00:31:52:00	CONTINUING OUR WORK ON STAFF
00:31:52:00	00:31:53:00	DIVERSITY ENSURING THAT WE'RE
00:31:53:00	00:31:55:00	EMBEDDING EQUITY REVIEW
00:31:55:00	00:31:56:00	OF HIRING AND PROMOTIONS TO
00:31:56:00	00:31:59:00	ENSURE THAT PERSONS OF COLOR
00:31:59:00	00:32:00:00	WOMEN AND BOSTON RESIDENTS ARE
00:32:00:00	00:32:03:00	ALWAYS IN THE FINAL ROUND FOR
00:32:03:00	00:32:04:00	INTERVIEWS FOR EVERY ROLE AND
00:32:04:00	00:32:07:00	THAT WE'RE INCREASING THE
00:32:07:00	00:32:08:00	DIVERSITY OF OUR DEPARTMENT
00:32:08:00	00:32:11:00	WHEREVER WE CAN.
00:32:11:00	00:32:12:00	WE'RE LAUNCHING WE'RE
00:32:12:00	00:32:12:00	CONTINUING THAT WORK THROUGH
00:32:12:00	00:32:15:00	THE PROGRAM.
00:32:15:00	00:32:16:00	SO WE'RE OUR GOAL IS TO
00:32:16:00	00:32:17:00	COMPLETE OUR REGULATION'S
00:32:17:00	00:32:19:00	DEVELOPMENT BY THE END
00:32:19:00	00:32:20:00	OF TWENTY TWENTY THREE TO
00:32:20:00	00:32:21:00	ENSURE THAT THERE'S ENOUGH TIME
00:32:21:00	00:32:23:00	FOR BUILDINGS TO ACHIEVE THEIR
00:32:23:00	00:32:24:00	2025 EMISSIONS DEADLINES.
00:32:24:00	00:32:27:00	WE'RE DEVELOPING WE HOPE TO
00:32:27:00	00:32:28:00	DEVELOP RESOURCES FOR A
00:32:28:00	00:32:30:00	RETROFIT HUB AND SUPPORT
00:32:30:00	00:32:31:00	FURTHER SUPPORT BUILDING OWNERS
00:32:31:00	00:32:31:00	AND THEIR STRATEGIES.
00:32:31:00	00:32:34:00	AS I SAID EARLIER, ADVANCED
00:32:34:00	00:32:35:00	DEEP ENERGY RETROFITS THROUGH
00:32:35:00	00:32:38:00	OUR SCHOOLS AND PARTNERSHIPS
00:32:38:00	00:32:39:00	WITH THE VHA AND THEN I'LL
00:32:39:00	00:32:42:00	CONTINUE TO WORK THROUGH
00:32:42:00	00:32:43:00	CLIMATE RESILIENCE TO PROTECT
00:32:43:00	00:32:44:00	AND ENHANCE THE TREE CANOPY
00:32:44:00	00:32:46:00	THROUGH THE TREE ALLIANCE FOR
00:32:46:00	00:32:47:00	PLANTING TREES ON PUBLIC
00:32:47:00	00:32:48:00	PROPERTY AND PARTNERING
00:32:48:00	00:32:51:00	OF COURSE WITH OUR PARTNERS IN
00:32:51:00	00:32:51:00	THE CABINET IN THE BOSTON PARKS
00:32:51:00	00:32:54:00	DEPARTMENT AND WITH THE
00:32:54:00	00:32:55:00	PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT AGENCY
00:32:55:00	00:32:56:00	COASTAL DELIVERY TEAM TO
00:32:56:00	00:32:58:00	ACCELERATE COASTAL RESILIENCE
00:32:58:00	00:32:59:00	PROJECTS.
00:32:59:00	00:33:00:00	AND WITH THAT I'D LIKE TO HAND
00:33:00:00	00:33:03:00	IT OVER TO ALISA AND FOR
00:33:03:00	00:33:03:00	JUSTICE.
00:33:03:00	00:33:12:00	THANK YOU ALL.
00:33:12:00	00:33:20:00	YOU MAY BE MUTED.
00:33:20:00	00:33:20:00	YOU'RE STILL MUTED.
00:33:20:00	00:33:23:00	ELIEZER YEAH.
00:33:23:00	00:33:38:00	WE CAN'T GET YOUR AUDIO RIGHT.
00:33:38:00	00:33:39:00	ALL RIGHT.
00:33:39:00	00:33:40:00	WHILE SHE'S DOING THAT I'LL DO
00:33:40:00	00:33:43:00	A VERY QUICK UPDATE ON AND THEN
00:33:43:00	00:33:44:00	HOPEFULLY SHE'LL BE ABLE TO GET
00:33:44:00	00:33:46:00	ON WASN'T GOING TO GO INTO FULL
00:33:46:00	00:33:47:00	DEPTH WAS GOING TO LEAVE THAT
00:33:47:00	00:33:50:00	FOR A QUESTION BUT IT MIGHT AS
00:33:50:00	00:33:51:00	WELL REALLY QUICKLY WE'VE BEEN
00:33:51:00	00:33:54:00	ACTUALLY REALLY DOING A LOT
00:33:54:00	00:33:55:00	OF WORK AROUND DIVERSITY WITHIN
00:33:55:00	00:33:55:00	THE DEPARTMENT.
00:33:55:00	00:33:57:00	I THINK EACH OR WITHIN THE
00:33:57:00	00:33:58:00	CABINET EACH DEPARTMENT HAS ITS
00:33:58:00	00:34:01:00	OWN STRENGTHS AND CHALLENGES IN
00:34:01:00	00:34:02:00	THIS IN THIS AREA.
00:34:02:00	00:34:05:00	BUT WE'VE SEEN A REAL SOME REAL
00:34:05:00	00:34:09:00	PROGRESS AS WE'VE SPENT TIME
00:34:09:00	00:34:10:00	REALLY LOOKING AT NUMBERS AND
00:34:10:00	00:34:13:00	REALLY ASKING PEOPLE TO BE
00:34:13:00	00:34:14:00	INTENTIONAL ABOUT HOW WE LOOK
00:34:14:00	00:34:17:00	AT POSITIONS.
00:34:17:00	00:34:18:00	SO I THINK I WAS TRYING TO PULL
00:34:18:00	00:34:19:00	UP THE NUMBERS FOR THE
00:34:19:00	00:34:19:00	ENVIRONMENT DEPARTMENT REALLY
00:34:19:00	00:34:22:00	QUICKLY, ALLISON, DO YOU HAVE A
00:34:22:00	00:34:23:00	CAT IF CAT JUMPS FORWARD TWO
00:34:23:00	00:34:28:00	SLIDES YOU'LL HAVE A AND THEN
00:34:28:00	00:34:29:00	WE'LL GET BACK TO THAT IN A
00:34:29:00	00:34:29:00	SECOND.
00:34:29:00	00:34:31:00	HOPEFULLY WE'LL HAVE A LIZARD
00:34:31:00	00:34:32:00	BY THEN.
00:34:32:00	00:34:35:00	BUT AS YOU CAN SEE HERE, WE'VE
00:34:35:00	00:34:36:00	BEEN MAKING SOME PROGRESS.
00:34:36:00	00:34:37:00	I THINK IT'S KIND OF HARD TO
00:34:37:00	00:34:39:00	SEE PROBABLY FOR FOLKS BUT
00:34:39:00	00:34:40:00	WE'VE BEEN MAKING PRETTY
00:34:40:00	00:34:43:00	SIGNIFICANT PROGRESS
00:34:43:00	00:34:47:00	PARTICULARLY IN GROWING
00:34:47:00	00:34:47:00	HISPANIC POPULATION WITHIN THE
00:34:47:00	00:34:48:00	ENVIRONMENT DEPARTMENT AND JUST
00:34:48:00	00:34:51:00	OVERALL RAISING THE NUMBER
00:34:51:00	00:34:52:00	OF FOLKS OF COLOR WITHIN THE
00:34:52:00	00:34:54:00	DEPARTMENT THE ENTIRE
00:34:54:00	00:34:55:00	DEPARTMENT IS A PLACE THAT WE
00:34:55:00	00:34:56:00	STARTED REALLY LOOKING AT THIS
00:34:56:00	00:34:58:00	AND REALLY ASKING PEOPLE TO
00:34:58:00	00:34:59:00	TAKE A HARD LOOK AT THEIR
00:34:59:00	00:35:02:00	INTERVIEW POOL ASKING QUESTIONS
00:35:02:00	00:35:03:00	ABOUT WHEN WE DON'T HAVE ANYONE
00:35:03:00	00:35:04:00	IN THE POOL, WHAT CAN WE DO TO
00:35:04:00	00:35:07:00	ATTRACT NEW FOLKS AND TO TAP
00:35:07:00	00:35:07:00	INTO NEW NETWORKS?
00:35:07:00	00:35:10:00	WE'RE LOOKING AT WHERE WHO'S
00:35:10:00	00:35:11:00	GETTING OUR JOB JOB POSTINGS
00:35:11:00	00:35:12:00	AND HOW DO WE MAKE SURE THAT
00:35:12:00	00:35:15:00	IT'S EVEN PEOPLE ARE EVEN
00:35:15:00	00:35:15:00	SEEING IT WHO MIGHT NOT KNOW
00:35:15:00	00:35:16:00	ABOUT THE WORK THAT WE'RE DOING
00:35:16:00	00:35:19:00	AND WE'RE EXCITED TO TO KNOW
00:35:19:00	00:35:22:00	THAT THAT HAS THAT EFFORT HAS
00:35:22:00	00:35:23:00	BEEN PAYING OFF IN SUBSTANTIAL
00:35:23:00	00:35:25:00	INCREASES.
00:35:25:00	00:35:26:00	WE STILL HAVE A LOT OF WORK TO
00:35:26:00	00:35:29:00	DO PARTICULARLY AT THE SENIOR
00:35:29:00	00:35:29:00	LEVEL.
00:35:29:00	00:35:31:00	AND I WANT TO TAKE THIS MOMENT
00:35:31:00	00:35:34:00	TO NOTE DO WE HAVE ELIZABETH
00:35:34:00	00:35:34:00	YET?
00:35:34:00	00:35:35:00	OK, YOU'RE ASKING ME HERE ARE
00:35:35:00	00:35:37:00	YOU OK?
00:35:37:00	00:35:38:00	GREAT.
00:35:38:00	00:35:39:00	SO THERE'S A SERIES
00:35:39:00	00:35:39:00	OF POSITIONS THAT WE'RE HIRING
00:35:39:00	00:35:42:00	FOR ACROSS THE CABINET AND JUST
00:35:42:00	00:35:45:00	WANT TO PUT IN A PLUG ALSO
00:35:45:00	00:35:46:00	OF GE HAS SOME NEW ROLES THAT
00:35:46:00	00:35:49:00	LITERALLY POSTED THIS MORNING.
00:35:49:00	00:35:50:00	SO WE HOPE THAT FOLKS IF YOU'RE
00:35:50:00	00:35:53:00	ON US AND YOU ARE A COMMUNITY
00:35:53:00	00:35:57:00	ADVOCATE OR SUPPORTER OF THE
00:35:57:00	00:35:57:00	OFFICE OF FOOD JUSTICE, THE
00:35:57:00	00:35:58:00	PARKS DEPARTMENT OF THE
00:35:58:00	00:36:01:00	ENVIRONMENT DEPARTMENT AND YOU
00:36:01:00	00:36:01:00	ARE LOOKING FOR WORK.
00:36:01:00	00:36:02:00	WE HOPE THAT YOU'LL TAKE A
00:36:02:00	00:36:05:00	MOMENT TO LOOK ON OUR WEBSITE.
00:36:05:00	00:36:06:00	WE HAVE A ONE WEBSITE WE PUT
00:36:06:00	00:36:09:00	SORT OF ALL OF IT TOGETHER AND
00:36:09:00	00:36:10:00	HOPE THAT PEOPLE WILL CONSIDER
00:36:10:00	00:36:12:00	APPLYING PARTICULARLY FOLKS WHO
00:36:12:00	00:36:14:00	ARE FOLKS OF COLOR AND IN PARKS
00:36:14:00	00:36:17:00	DEPARTMENT TYPICALLY WOMEN IN
00:36:17:00	00:36:17:00	OUR MAINTENANCE DIVISION.
00:36:17:00	00:36:19:00	AND SO WE'RE LOOKING AT EACH
00:36:19:00	00:36:20:00	OF THE AT EACH OF THE PLACES
00:36:20:00	00:36:21:00	THAT WE COULD INCREASE
00:36:21:00	00:36:24:00	DIVERSITY AND REALLY LEANING IN
00:36:24:00	00:36:25:00	ON SPECIFIC STEPS YOU CAN TAKE.
00:36:25:00	00:36:28:00	SO I'M GOING TO HAND IT OVER TO
00:36:28:00	00:36:29:00	LISA TO GO BACK A COUPLE
00:36:29:00	00:36:31:00	OF SLIDES AND BE ABLE TO DO HER
00:36:31:00	00:36:32:00	THINGS.
00:36:32:00	00:36:35:00	GEE, THANKS FOR THE PATIENCE
00:36:35:00	00:36:36:00	THAT YOU CAN HEAR ME NOW.
00:36:36:00	00:36:37:00	SO MY NAME'S ALISA WASSERMAN.
00:36:37:00	00:36:40:00	I'M THE DIRECTOR OF THE OFFICE
00:36:40:00	00:36:40:00	OF FOOD JUSTICE.
00:36:40:00	00:36:43:00	THANK YOU SO MUCH TO THE CHAIR
00:36:43:00	00:36:44:00	AND TO COUNCILOR .
00:36:44:00	00:36:45:00	I REALLY APPRECIATE THIS
00:36:45:00	00:36:48:00	OPPORTUNITY TO SHARE WITH YOU
00:36:48:00	00:36:49:00	ABOUT OUR WORK AS WE'VE HAD A
00:36:49:00	00:36:50:00	LOT OF TRANSITION IN OUR OFFICE
00:36:50:00	00:36:51:00	OVER THE PAST YEAR.
00:36:51:00	00:36:52:00	THE OFFICE OF FOOD JUSTICE IS
00:36:52:00	00:36:55:00	MISSION IS TO BUILD A FOOD
00:36:55:00	00:36:56:00	SYSTEM THAT IS EQUITABLE,
00:36:56:00	00:36:59:00	RESILIENT, SUSTAINABLE AND JUST
00:36:59:00	00:37:03:00	AND JUST OVER A YEAR AGO THE
00:37:03:00	00:37:03:00	FORMER OFFICE OF FOOD ACCESS
00:37:03:00	00:37:06:00	WAS REESTABLISHED AS THE OFFICE
00:37:06:00	00:37:07:00	OF FOOD JUSTICE WITHIN THE EEOC
00:37:07:00	00:37:10:00	CABINET AS PART OF OUR OFFICES
00:37:10:00	00:37:11:00	EXPANDED BREADTH AND SCOPE.
00:37:11:00	00:37:14:00	WE ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR
00:37:14:00	00:37:14:00	IMPLEMENTING THE NEW FOOD
00:37:14:00	00:37:15:00	PURCHASING PROGRAM AND
00:37:15:00	00:37:18:00	DEVELOPING ADDITIONAL SYSTEMS
00:37:18:00	00:37:22:00	CHANGE INITIATIVES THAT ADDRESS
00:37:22:00	00:37:22:00	THE FOOD SYSTEMS IMPACT AND
00:37:22:00	00:37:26:00	FOOD ACCESS REMAINS THE CORE
00:37:26:00	00:37:27:00	OF THE OFFICE'S MISSION SINCE
00:37:27:00	00:37:30:00	AUGUST TWENTY TWENTY TWO WE'VE
00:37:30:00	00:37:31:00	BEEN PARTNERING WITH GROVE
00:37:31:00	00:37:34:00	BOSTON TO COMPLETE AN INTERNAL
00:37:34:00	00:37:35:00	STRATEGIC PLANNING PROCESS WITH
00:37:35:00	00:37:37:00	THE CHIEF TO DEVELOP STRATEGIC
00:37:37:00	00:37:38:00	GOALS FOR THE AREAS OUR TWO
00:37:38:00	00:37:41:00	OFFICES CAN JOINTLY HAVE THE
00:37:41:00	00:37:42:00	BIGGEST IMPACT ON TO MOVE
00:37:42:00	00:37:45:00	TOWARDS COLLECTIVE IMPACT FOR
00:37:45:00	00:37:49:00	FOOD JUSTICE TO ACHIEVE THIS
00:37:49:00	00:37:50:00	NEW MISSION WE'VE DEVELOPED A
00:37:50:00	00:37:53:00	NEW STAFF STRUCTURE FOR THE
00:37:53:00	00:37:57:00	OFFICE WORKING WITH OBM HRR
00:37:57:00	00:37:58:00	ANTIWHITE HEMING STARTING THIS
00:37:58:00	00:38:00:00	THIS PAST DECEMBER.
00:38:00:00	00:38:01:00	THESE NEW POSITIONS WILL BETTER
00:38:01:00	00:38:04:00	MEET THE OFFICE'S CURRENT
00:38:04:00	00:38:08:00	MISSION AND FUNCTIONS AS FOLKS
00:38:08:00	00:38:09:00	KNOW, OFFICE OF FOOD ACCESS
00:38:09:00	00:38:10:00	TOOK ON A VARIETY OF DIFFERENT
00:38:10:00	00:38:12:00	ROLES DURING THE PANDEMIC THAT
00:38:12:00	00:38:12:00	WERE MORE HEAVILY INVOLVED IN
00:38:12:00	00:38:15:00	FOOD DISTRIBUTION AND EMERGENCY
00:38:15:00	00:38:16:00	RESPONSE AND WE ARE
00:38:16:00	00:38:20:00	COLLABORATING TO BALANCE HOW WE
00:38:20:00	00:38:23:00	MOVE FORWARD NOW WITH IMMEDIATE
00:38:23:00	00:38:24:00	NEEDS BALANCED WITH SYSTEMS AND
00:38:24:00	00:38:27:00	POLICY CHANGE GOALS THAT RELY
00:38:27:00	00:38:28:00	LESS ON OUR OFFICE AS A DIRECT
00:38:28:00	00:38:32:00	SERVICE PROVIDER BUT CONTINUE
00:38:32:00	00:38:35:00	TO FIND NEW WAYS TO WORK WITH
00:38:35:00	00:38:36:00	COMMUNITY PARTNERS TO BETTER
00:38:36:00	00:38:39:00	RESPOND TO THE NEEDS OF THE
00:38:39:00	00:38:40:00	BROADER SYSTEM OF FOOD ACCESS
00:38:40:00	00:38:43:00	ORGANIZATIONS IN BOSTON TO
00:38:43:00	00:38:44:00	BUILD NEW WAYS FOR OUR OFFICE
00:38:44:00	00:38:46:00	TO FUNCTION MORE AS THE
00:38:46:00	00:38:50:00	CONVENING BODY OUR BUDGET FOR
00:38:50:00	00:38:51:00	24 IS LEVEL FUNDED ROUGHLY
00:38:51:00	00:38:55:00	MAINTENANCE BUDGET ONE POINT
00:38:55:00	00:38:59:00	THREE SEVEN ONE MILLION WITH A
00:38:59:00	00:38:59:00	SMALL INCREASE TO ADDRESS
00:38:59:00	00:39:02:00	PERSONNEL PERSONNEL SHIFT FROM
00:39:02:00	00:39:03:00	REMOVING EMPLOYEE POSITIONS AND
00:39:03:00	00:39:07:00	CONTRACTED SERVICES SHIFTING TO
00:39:07:00	00:39:08:00	TO PERSONNEL SO THEY'RE NOW
00:39:08:00	00:39:11:00	INCLUDED.
00:39:11:00	00:39:12:00	THERE IS PERSONNEL AS PART
00:39:12:00	00:39:15:00	OF THIS RESTRUCTURE OF OF
00:39:15:00	00:39:15:00	OFFICE POSITIONS AND WE ARE
00:39:15:00	00:39:19:00	BUILDING OUR TEAM CAPACITY AND
00:39:19:00	00:39:20:00	OPERATIONS TO ALIGN WITH OUR
00:39:20:00	00:39:23:00	MISSION AND TO FILL GAPS THAT
00:39:23:00	00:39:24:00	EXISTED WHEN THE OFFICE WAS
00:39:24:00	00:39:27:00	UNDERSTAFFED FOR MUCH OF MY
00:39:27:00	00:39:28:00	TWENTY TWO IN THE FIRST HALF
00:39:28:00	00:39:29:00	OF TWENTY THREE.
00:39:29:00	00:39:34:00	NEXT SLIDE PLEASE THIS PAST
00:39:34:00	00:39:37:00	YEAR THROUGH CITI AND ARPA
00:39:37:00	00:39:41:00	INVESTMENTS WE OPERATE WE RAN
00:39:41:00	00:39:42:00	THE FARMER'S MARKET COUPON
00:39:42:00	00:39:44:00	PROGRAM AT TWENTY TWENTY THREE
00:39:44:00	00:39:45:00	FARMER'S MARKETS WITH FOUR
00:39:45:00	00:39:46:00	HUNDRED AND FIFTY THOUSAND
00:39:46:00	00:39:49:00	DOLLARS OF FRESH FOOD PROVIDED
00:39:49:00	00:39:53:00	BETWEEN JUNE AND OCTOBER TWENTY
00:39:53:00	00:39:54:00	TWENTY TWO TO LOW INCOME
00:39:54:00	00:39:57:00	RESIDENTS THROUGH BOTH CITY AND
00:39:57:00	00:40:01:00	MARKET FUNDING WE AS PART OF A
00:40:01:00	00:40:02:00	PILOT RAISED BED GARDEN PROGRAM
00:40:02:00	00:40:04:00	WE WE WORKED WITH VENDORS TO
00:40:04:00	00:40:05:00	BUILD TWO HUNDRED AND NINETY
00:40:05:00	00:40:08:00	ONE RAISED BED GARDENS FOR LOW
00:40:08:00	00:40:09:00	INCOME HOUSEHOLDS AND PROVIDED
00:40:09:00	00:40:12:00	EIGHTEEN HUNDRED CSA OR FARM
00:40:12:00	00:40:13:00	SHARE PRODUCE BOXES THAT WERE
00:40:13:00	00:40:16:00	DISTRIBUTED TO LOW INCOME
00:40:16:00	00:40:17:00	ELDERLY AND OR DISABLED BOSTON
00:40:17:00	00:40:21:00	RESIDENTS.
00:40:21:00	00:40:22:00	WE LAUNCHED A GOOD FOOD
00:40:22:00	00:40:25:00	PURCHASING PROGRAM IMPLEMENTED
00:40:25:00	00:40:26:00	OF THE CITY OF THE TWENTY
00:40:26:00	00:40:29:00	NINETEEN ORDINANCE AND
00:40:29:00	00:40:30:00	PARTNERED WITH BPS FOOD AND
00:40:30:00	00:40:33:00	NUTRITION SERVICES TO RELEASE
00:40:33:00	00:40:34:00	AN ASSESSMENT OF BOSTON PUBLIC
00:40:34:00	00:40:36:00	SCHOOLS FOOD SPENDING FROM THE
00:40:36:00	00:40:37:00	TWENTY NINETEEN TO TWENTY
00:40:37:00	00:40:40:00	TWENTY SCHOOL YEAR THAT IS DONE
00:40:40:00	00:40:41:00	BY THE CENTER ON GOOD FOOD
00:40:41:00	00:40:44:00	PURCHASING WE COMPLETED AN
00:40:44:00	00:40:45:00	INTERNAL STRATEGIC PLANNING
00:40:45:00	00:40:48:00	PROCESS WITH BOSTON TO SET A
00:40:48:00	00:40:49:00	THREE YEAR STRATEGIC DIRECTION
00:40:49:00	00:40:52:00	FOR THE FUTURE OF THE OFFICE
00:40:52:00	00:40:53:00	WITH A FOCUS ON FOOD, JUSTICE
00:40:53:00	00:40:54:00	AND INCORPORATING REGIONAL FOOD
00:40:54:00	00:40:57:00	SYSTEMS AND FOOD PRODUCTION
00:40:57:00	00:41:00:00	DEVELOPED FOR STRATEGIC GOALS
00:41:00:00	00:41:01:00	AND THE STRATEGIES AND
00:41:01:00	00:41:02:00	ACTIVITIES WE WILL USE TO
00:41:02:00	00:41:05:00	ADVANCE THIS FOOD JUSTICE
00:41:05:00	00:41:05:00	AGENDA WITH GREATER BOSTON AND
00:41:05:00	00:41:08:00	AS MENTIONED RESTRUCTURED
00:41:08:00	00:41:09:00	STAFFING FOR THE OFFICE TO
00:41:09:00	00:41:12:00	BETTER MATCH OUR NEW FOCUS AND
00:41:12:00	00:41:13:00	HIRED TWO NEW STAFF AND AS THE
00:41:13:00	00:41:16:00	CHIEF MENTIONED ONE FULL TIME
00:41:16:00	00:41:19:00	POSITION AND SEVERAL OTHERS ARE
00:41:19:00	00:41:20:00	CURRENTLY IN THE HIRING PROCESS
00:41:20:00	00:41:23:00	AND RECENTLY POSTED.
00:41:23:00	00:41:25:00	AND AS WE FINALIZE OUR
00:41:25:00	00:41:28:00	STRATEGIC DIRECTION, OUR GOALS
00:41:28:00	00:41:31:00	FOR FOUR TWENTY FOUR ARE TO
00:41:31:00	00:41:31:00	IMPROVE OUR FOOD ACCESS
00:41:31:00	00:41:35:00	PROGRAMING BY PIVOTING OUR
00:41:35:00	00:41:35:00	BOSTON DOUBLE UP FOOD BUCKS
00:41:35:00	00:41:38:00	PROGRAM WHICH PROVIDES 50
00:41:38:00	00:41:39:00	PERCENT DISCOUNT FOR SNACK
00:41:39:00	00:41:43:00	PARTICIPANTS PURCHASING FRUITS
00:41:43:00	00:41:43:00	AND VEGETABLES AT PARTICIPATING
00:41:43:00	00:41:46:00	STORES IN THE CITY SO ARE
00:41:46:00	00:41:47:00	PIVOTING THAT TO LARGER STORES
00:41:47:00	00:41:50:00	IN ORDER TO GET DOLLARS OUT
00:41:50:00	00:41:51:00	INTO THE COMMUNITY MORE
00:41:51:00	00:41:52:00	EFFECTIVELY WE WILL BE
00:41:52:00	00:41:55:00	ITERATING AND IMPROVE THE
00:41:55:00	00:41:55:00	FARMER'S MARKET COUPON PROGRAM
00:41:55:00	00:41:56:00	WITH OUR FUNDS AND LAUNCHING A
00:41:56:00	00:41:59:00	PLANNING PROCESS TO DETERMINE A
00:41:59:00	00:42:00:00	SUSTAINABLE MODEL TO ADDRESS
00:42:00:00	00:42:03:00	AFFORDABILITY AT FARMER'S
00:42:03:00	00:42:04:00	MARKETS BEYOND THIS PERIOD
00:42:04:00	00:42:04:00	OF OUR FUNDING.
00:42:04:00	00:42:07:00	SO PLANNING FOR TWENTY TWENTY
00:42:07:00	00:42:08:00	FIVE AND WE ARE PARTNERING WITH
00:42:08:00	00:42:11:00	GREAT BOSTON TO BUILD THREE
00:42:11:00	00:42:14:00	HUNDRED RAISED BED GARDENS FOR
00:42:14:00	00:42:15:00	LOW INCOME RESIDENTS WHO HAVE
00:42:15:00	00:42:24:00	EXPERIENCED FOOD INSECURITY IN
00:42:24:00	00:42:25:00	2023 AND AN ADDITIONAL SEVERAL
00:42:25:00	00:42:26:00	HUNDRED WILL BE BUILT IN SPRING
00:42:26:00	00:42:27:00	OF OF TWENTY TWENTY FOUR WITHIN
00:42:27:00	00:42:28:00	FOUR TWENTY FOUR AND THEN AS
00:42:28:00	00:42:30:00	MENTIONED IMPLEMENT PORTION
00:42:30:00	00:42:30:00	OF THE CITY'S TWENTY NINETEEN
00:42:30:00	00:42:33:00	GOOD FOOD PURCHASING PROGRAM
00:42:33:00	00:42:34:00	ORDINANCE IS UNDERWAY WORKING
00:42:34:00	00:42:37:00	CLOSELY WITH BOSTON PUBLIC
00:42:37:00	00:42:38:00	SCHOOLS WILL BE FULLY
00:42:38:00	00:42:38:00	IMPLEMENTING THE ORDINANCE BY
00:42:38:00	00:42:41:00	THE END OF THIS YEAR AS WELL AS
00:42:41:00	00:42:42:00	ACROSS OTHER DEPARTMENTS THAT
00:42:42:00	00:42:45:00	HAVE LARGE SCALE CONTRACTS FOR
00:42:45:00	00:42:49:00	FOOD AND BY DEVELOPING A
00:42:49:00	00:42:49:00	COMMUNITY ADVISORY COUNCIL AS
00:42:49:00	00:42:52:00	PER THE ORDINANCE IN ORDER TO
00:42:52:00	00:42:53:00	SUPPORT INCREASED SOURCING FROM
00:42:53:00	00:42:57:00	SMALL AND BIPAC PRODUCERS
00:42:57:00	00:42:57:00	REGIONALLY BY CITY DEPARTMENTS
00:42:57:00	00:43:01:00	WE ARE DEEPENING OUR WORK
00:43:01:00	00:43:02:00	ENGAGING WITH THE REGIONAL FOOD
00:43:02:00	00:43:04:00	SUPPLY CHAIN BUILDING
00:43:04:00	00:43:05:00	RELATIONSHIPS THAT STARTED
00:43:05:00	00:43:08:00	DURING DURING THE PANDEMIC TO
00:43:08:00	00:43:09:00	HELP US BUILD A MORE RESILIENT
00:43:09:00	00:43:12:00	FOOD SYSTEM.
00:43:12:00	00:43:13:00	AND WE HAVE A NEW FOCUS ON FOOD
00:43:13:00	00:43:13:00	RECOVERY .
00:43:13:00	00:43:14:00	WE ARE DEVELOPING A
00:43:14:00	00:43:16:00	COMPREHENSIVE CITYWIDE APPROACH
00:43:16:00	00:43:17:00	TO SCALING UP FOOD RECOVERY IN
00:43:17:00	00:43:20:00	THE CITY IN ORDER TO
00:43:20:00	00:43:21:00	SIGNIFICANTLY INCREASE THE
00:43:21:00	00:43:24:00	AMOUNT OF EDIBLE FRESH FOOD
00:43:24:00	00:43:25:00	THAT IS RESCUED REGIONALLY FOR
00:43:25:00	00:43:28:00	CONSUMPTION BY BOSTON RESIDENTS
00:43:28:00	00:43:29:00	AND THAT IS AVAILABLE FOR
00:43:29:00	00:43:29:00	EMERGENCY FOOD ORGANIZATIONS.
00:43:29:00	00:43:32:00	I CAN SOURCE THIS FOOD TO
00:43:32:00	00:43:33:00	ADDRESS FOOD INSECURITY IN
00:43:33:00	00:43:36:00	BOSTON NEIGHBORHOODS AS WE MOVE
00:43:36:00	00:43:37:00	FORWARD WITH OUR NEW STRATEGIC
00:43:37:00	00:43:37:00	DIRECTION.
00:43:37:00	00:43:40:00	REALLY EXCITED ABOUT NEW
00:43:40:00	00:43:41:00	OPPORTUNITIES TO TO DEVELOP OUR
00:43:41:00	00:43:44:00	IMPACT MORE UPSTREAM AS WELL AS
00:43:44:00	00:43:48:00	DEEPEN OUR PROGRAMING IN
00:43:48:00	00:43:48:00	NEIGHBORHOODS THROUGHOUT BOSTON
00:43:48:00	00:43:51:00	TO IMPACT RESIDENTS ACCESS TO
00:43:51:00	00:43:52:00	HEALTHY FRESH FOOD AND THE FOOD
00:43:52:00	00:43:53:00	SYSTEMS THAT WE ARE PROUD OF .
00:43:53:00	00:43:59:00	THANK YOU.
00:43:59:00	00:44:03:00	SO WE RECOGNIZE THAT OUR TIME
00:44:03:00	00:44:06:00	IS A BIT SHORT BUT WE'LL JUST
00:44:06:00	00:44:07:00	GO TO THESE REALLY QUICKLY.
00:44:07:00	00:44:10:00	WILL.
00:44:10:00	00:44:11:00	THIS IS ALSO IN THE PACKET AND
00:44:11:00	00:44:14:00	IF FOLKS ARE INTERESTED IN
00:44:14:00	00:44:15:00	GOING AND DIVING A LITTLE BIT
00:44:15:00	00:44:16:00	MORE DEEPLY INTO THESE NUMBERS
00:44:16:00	00:44:18:00	WE WOULD LOVE TO.
00:44:18:00	00:44:19:00	I THINK THE BIG THING THAT WE
00:44:19:00	00:44:20:00	WOULD SAY IS IN TERMS
00:44:20:00	00:44:21:00	OF DIVERSITY AND EQUITY AND
00:44:21:00	00:44:22:00	INCLUSION, WE'VE BEEN REALLY
00:44:22:00	00:44:23:00	FOCUSING ON ONE MAKING SURE
00:44:23:00	00:44:25:00	THAT EVERYBODY UNDERSTANDS
00:44:25:00	00:44:26:00	WHERE WE ARE.
00:44:26:00	00:44:27:00	SO WE'VE BEEN ADDING A QUESTION
00:44:27:00	00:44:33:00	ON DIVERSITY ON EQUITY INTO OUR
00:44:33:00	00:44:34:00	HIRING PROCESSES FOR OUR
00:44:34:00	00:44:38:00	LEADERSHIP TO MAKE SURE THAT
00:44:38:00	00:44:38:00	IT'S NOT JUST SOMETHING THAT WE
00:44:38:00	00:44:39:00	TALK ABOUT WITH THE CITY
00:44:39:00	00:44:40:00	COUNCIL EVERY YEAR BUT
00:44:40:00	00:44:41:00	EVERYBODY WHO MAKES ANY LEVEL
00:44:41:00	00:44:42:00	OF HIRING DECISIONS WITHIN THE
00:44:42:00	00:44:45:00	DEPARTMENT HAS A CLEAR
00:44:45:00	00:44:45:00	UNDERSTANDING OF WHERE WE ARE
00:44:45:00	00:44:48:00	AND WHERE WE NEED TO GO.
00:44:48:00	00:44:49:00	AS YOU CAN SEE HERE WITHIN
00:44:49:00	00:44:52:00	PARKS THERE'S A LOT
00:44:52:00	00:44:56:00	OF DIVERSITY WITHIN THE PARK TO
00:44:56:00	00:44:57:00	PARKS DEPARTMENT OVERALL IN
00:44:57:00	00:45:01:00	TERMS OF BUT OVERWHELMING IT IS
00:45:01:00	00:45:01:00	BLACK AND WHITE.
00:45:01:00	00:45:05:00	WE NEED TO DO MORE TO INCREASE
00:45:05:00	00:45:05:00	THE NUMBER OF HISPANIC AND
00:45:05:00	00:45:08:00	ASIAN FOLKS WHO ARE PART OF THE
00:45:08:00	00:45:08:00	DEPARTMENT.
00:45:08:00	00:45:12:00	IN ADDITION, WE REALLY HAVE TO
00:45:12:00	00:45:13:00	TAKE A HARD LOOK AT WHERE WE
00:45:13:00	00:45:14:00	ARE IN TERMS OF OUR LEADERSHIP
00:45:14:00	00:45:16:00	AND WE'VE BEEN HAVING THAT
00:45:16:00	00:45:16:00	CONVERSATION CONVERSATION WITH
00:45:16:00	00:45:19:00	LEADERS SO THAT THEY UNDERSTAND
00:45:19:00	00:45:20:00	THAT THIS IS NOT JUST SOMETHING
00:45:20:00	00:45:21:00	THAT THE CITY COUNCIL CARES
00:45:21:00	00:45:24:00	ABOUT OR THAT I CARE ABOUT BUT
00:45:24:00	00:45:25:00	SOMETHING THAT HAS TO BE
00:45:25:00	00:45:27:00	CARRIED ACROSS THE ENTIRE
00:45:27:00	00:45:28:00	DEPARTMENT AND WE'RE MOVING
00:45:28:00	00:45:29:00	FORWARD IN A NUMBER
00:45:29:00	00:45:31:00	OF DIFFERENT PLACES.
00:45:31:00	00:45:33:00	ONE OF THEM AS I SIT IN NOW ON
00:45:33:00	00:45:35:00	SOME OF THE SORT OF TOP HIRING
00:45:35:00	00:45:39:00	DECISIONS THAT WE HAVE A SECOND
00:45:39:00	00:45:40:00	I LOOKING WITH A PARTICULAR
00:45:40:00	00:45:43:00	FOCUS ON DIVERSITY.
00:45:43:00	00:45:43:00	WE TALKED ALREADY ABOUT THE
00:45:43:00	00:45:44:00	ENVIRONMENT DEPARTMENT SLIDE
00:45:44:00	00:45:47:00	WHICH IS NEXT PRIORITY SHARED A
00:45:47:00	00:45:51:00	LITTLE BIT ABOUT WHERE WE HAVE
00:45:51:00	00:45:52:00	GROWN IN THIS THIS DEPARTMENT
00:45:52:00	00:45:54:00	AND THAT I THINK WE ADD YET SO
00:45:54:00	00:45:58:00	OFTEN A MUCH SMALLER DEPARTMENT
00:45:58:00	00:45:58:00	AGAIN WE'RE STILL PAYING
00:45:58:00	00:46:02:00	ATTENTION TO THIS BUT MOSTLY IN
00:46:02:00	00:46:03:00	THE UPCOMING HIRES THAT WE WE
00:46:03:00	00:46:08:00	HAVE COMING TO THE DEPARTMENT
00:46:08:00	00:46:12:00	AND WE KNOW THAT THERE'S BEEN
00:46:12:00	00:46:12:00	QUESTIONS ABOUT EQUITABLE
00:46:12:00	00:46:13:00	PROCUREMENT AND THAT THE LARGE
00:46:13:00	00:46:16:00	DATA SET ABOUT FOR THE WHOLE
00:46:16:00	00:46:17:00	CITY WILL BE COMING TO THE CITY
00:46:17:00	00:46:18:00	COUNCIL FROM THE BUDGET
00:46:18:00	00:46:20:00	DEPARTMENT.
00:46:20:00	00:46:21:00	WE WANT TO NOTE A FEW THINGS
00:46:21:00	00:46:24:00	THAT WE'VE DONE PARTICULARLY AS
00:46:24:00	00:46:25:00	WAS NOTED I THINK LAST YEAR WE
00:46:25:00	00:46:28:00	STARTED TALKING ABOUT THIS
00:46:28:00	00:46:29:00	PARKS DEPARTMENT WAS THE PILOT
00:46:29:00	00:46:31:00	PROJECT FOR PARTICIPATION GOALS
00:46:31:00	00:46:32:00	OF MINORITY AND WOMEN OWNED
00:46:32:00	00:46:32:00	BUSINESS AND CITY CONTRACTS.
00:46:32:00	00:46:33:00	THERE WERE SOME PLACES IN WHICH
00:46:33:00	00:46:35:00	THAT WAS SUCCESSFUL AND SOME
00:46:35:00	00:46:36:00	PLACES WHERE WE FOUND SOME
00:46:36:00	00:46:36:00	CHALLENGES.
00:46:36:00	00:46:39:00	WE'VE STAYED IN CONVERSATION
00:46:39:00	00:46:43:00	WITH PROCUREMENT TO TALK THOSE
00:46:43:00	00:46:46:00	THROUGH AND ALSO THE BJP
00:46:46:00	00:46:49:00	DEPARTMENT AS THERE HAVE BEEN
00:46:49:00	00:46:53:00	SOME CONCERNS AT THE COMMUNITY
00:46:53:00	00:46:54:00	LEVEL ABOUT HOW MANY PEOPLE ARE
00:46:54:00	00:46:55:00	COMING FROM THE NEIGHBORHOODS
00:46:55:00	00:46:58:00	THAT OUR PARKS ARE IN VERSUS
00:46:58:00	00:46:58:00	WHAT'S BEING REPORTED AND
00:46:58:00	00:47:01:00	REALLY LOOKING AT HOW HOW WE
00:47:01:00	00:47:02:00	MIGHT BE ABLE TO STRENGTHEN
00:47:02:00	00:47:02:00	THAT.
00:47:02:00	00:47:03:00	AS I KNOW THE CITY
00:47:03:00	00:47:05:00	COUNCIL ALREADY KNOWS THERE ARE
00:47:05:00	00:47:06:00	SOME CHALLENGES IN TERMS OF THE
00:47:06:00	00:47:07:00	WAY THE STATE LAWS ARE SET UP
00:47:07:00	00:47:09:00	AND AND OUR ABILITY TO TO SET
00:47:09:00	00:47:12:00	GOALS AND TO MOVE THEM DOESN'T
00:47:12:00	00:47:13:00	IS NOT ALWAYS AIDED BY THE WAY
00:47:13:00	00:47:16:00	THAT THE STATE SETS ITS RULES
00:47:16:00	00:47:17:00	IN TERMS OF HOW WE HAVE TO MOVE
00:47:17:00	00:47:20:00	FORWARD WITH CONTRACT.
00:47:20:00	00:47:21:00	BUT THE ENVIRONMENT DEPARTMENT
00:47:21:00	00:47:24:00	ALSO DID SOME PARTICULAR WORK
00:47:24:00	00:47:25:00	ON THIS AND THAT WAS
00:47:25:00	00:47:26:00	PARTICULARLY THE RENEW BOSTON
00:47:26:00	00:47:27:00	TRUST.
00:47:27:00	00:47:28:00	WE HAD A SIT DOWN ABOUT A YEAR
00:47:28:00	00:47:31:00	AND A HALF AGO WITH THE PRIMARY
00:47:31:00	00:47:32:00	CONTRACTOR THAT NEEDS THAT
00:47:32:00	00:47:35:00	PROJECT AND WE JUST ASKED THEM
00:47:35:00	00:47:39:00	WHAT COULD YOU DO TO INCREASE
00:47:39:00	00:47:40:00	MINORITY AND WOMEN OWNED
00:47:40:00	00:47:43:00	BUSINESSES AS SUBCONTRACTORS TO
00:47:43:00	00:47:44:00	THE LARGER CONTRACT?
00:47:44:00	00:47:46:00	AND WE WERE REALLY EXCITED.
00:47:46:00	00:47:47:00	WE WENT FROM VERY LOW.
00:47:47:00	00:47:50:00	I THINK IT WAS NOT EXACTLY ZERO
00:47:50:00	00:47:54:00	BUT VERY CLOSE AND WE'RE ABLE
00:47:54:00	00:47:55:00	TO REACH FORTY ONE PARTICIPATE
00:47:55:00	00:47:58:00	FORTY ONE PERCENT PARTICIPATION
00:47:58:00	00:47:59:00	IN THIS NEWEST CONTRACT AND
00:47:59:00	00:48:00:00	THAT WAS MOSTLY WITH THE
00:48:00:00	00:48:02:00	LIGHTING CONTRACT THAT WE HAD
00:48:02:00	00:48:02:00	THIS YEAR.
00:48:02:00	00:48:06:00	BUT AGAIN WE HOPE THAT WE CAN
00:48:06:00	00:48:06:00	SEE THAT CONTINUE TO GROW JUST
00:48:06:00	00:48:10:00	BY ASKING THE QUESTIONS, JUST
00:48:10:00	00:48:11:00	BY MAKING SURE EVERYONE IS ON
00:48:11:00	00:48:11:00	THE SAME PAGE AND THEN
00:48:11:00	00:48:13:00	BEGINNING TO SET FORWARD
00:48:13:00	00:48:14:00	CONCRETE PLANS FOR HOW WE
00:48:14:00	00:48:19:00	CHANGE AND HOW WE WILL CREATE
00:48:19:00	00:48:19:00	MORE OPPORTUNITIES FOR
00:48:19:00	00:48:20:00	INCLUSION.
00:48:20:00	00:48:21:00	NEXT LINE.
00:48:21:00	00:48:26:00	AND SO WE ARE THANKFUL WE ARE
00:48:26:00	00:48:26:00	MORE THAN WILLING TO GO INTO
00:48:26:00	00:48:27:00	ANYTHING ELSE IN THE END THAT
00:48:27:00	00:48:30:00	YOU WANT MORE DEPTH.
00:48:30:00	00:48:31:00	BUT WE WE ARE A LITTLE BIT
00:48:31:00	00:48:34:00	BEHIND WE HAD HOPED TO FINISH
00:48:34:00	00:48:35:00	SO I WILL STOP THERE AND MAKE
00:48:35:00	00:48:38:00	SURE THAT WE CAN BE RESPONSIVE
00:48:38:00	00:48:40:00	TO QUESTIONS THAT COUNCILORS
00:48:40:00	00:48:41:00	HAVE.
00:48:41:00	00:48:42:00	THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THAT
00:48:42:00	00:48:45:00	PRESENTATION.
00:48:45:00	00:48:46:00	I KNOW WE HAVE SEVERAL REALLY
00:48:46:00	00:48:46:00	IMPORTANT DEPARTMENTS AND WE'VE
00:48:46:00	00:48:49:00	BEEN JOINED BY
00:48:49:00	00:48:50:00	COUNCIL PRESIDENT ED FLYNN,
00:48:50:00	00:48:53:00	COUNCILOR COLLETTA,
00:48:53:00	00:48:53:00	COUNCILOR MURPHY,
00:48:53:00	00:48:54:00	COUNCILOR FLAHERTY AND
00:48:54:00	00:48:54:00	COUNCILOR BREADON.
00:48:54:00	00:48:57:00	I'M GOING TO GO IN ORDER
00:48:57:00	00:48:57:00	OF ARRIVAL.
00:48:57:00	00:48:58:00	WE'RE GOING TO TRY AND KEEP
00:48:58:00	00:49:00:00	QUESTIONS HERE TO FIVE MINUTES
00:49:00:00	00:49:01:00	.
00:49:01:00	00:49:02:00	I'M GOING TO SET A TIMER WHEN
00:49:02:00	00:49:04:00	IT IS YOUR TIME JUST TO MAKE
00:49:04:00	00:49:05:00	SURE THAT THIS MOLDERS AS WELL
00:49:05:00	00:49:09:00	AS IT CAN I AM GOING TO SORT
00:49:09:00	00:49:10:00	OF TRY TO  IN AND JUST SAY YOU
00:49:10:00	00:49:12:00	ARE FIVE MINUTES IF YOU'RE IN
00:49:12:00	00:49:13:00	THE MIDDLE OF A QUESTION OR
00:49:13:00	00:49:14:00	THERE IS AN ANSWER COMING
00:49:14:00	00:49:14:00	THROUGH YOUR QUESTION THEN
00:49:14:00	00:49:16:00	WE'LL LET THAT RIGHT.
00:49:16:00	00:49:17:00	BUT I AM GOING TO HAVE A FIVE
00:49:17:00	00:49:18:00	MINUTE TIMER AND SO WE'RE GOING
00:49:18:00	00:49:26:00	TO START WITH COUNCILOR MAKIA
00:49:26:00	00:49:29:00	NOW SITTING ON THE FLOOR IS
00:49:29:00	00:49:37:00	YOURS FOR YOUR QUESTIONS.
00:49:37:00	00:49:38:00	I WILL SEE YOU THAT FIGURED OUT
00:49:38:00	00:49:40:00	WE'RE GOING TO COUNCILOR LUJÁN
00:49:40:00	00:49:40:00	.
00:49:40:00	00:49:41:00	THANK YOU GUYS.
00:49:41:00	00:49:45:00	I WANT TO KNOW CAN YOU HEAR ME?
00:49:45:00	00:49:48:00	BUT SHE FIGURED IT OUT THERE.
00:49:48:00	00:49:49:00	SHE GOT COUNCIL .
00:49:49:00	00:49:50:00	WE HAVE THE FLOOR IS YOURS.
00:49:50:00	00:49:50:00	YOU HAVE FIVE MINUTES.
00:49:50:00	00:49:51:00	SORRY .
00:49:51:00	00:49:52:00	THANK AND I'M HAVING A LITTLE
00:49:52:00	00:49:52:00	BIT OF DIFFICULTY BECAUSE MY
00:49:52:00	00:49:55:00	MOUTH IS SWOLLEN.
00:49:55:00	00:49:59:00	MY FACE IS TOO SO I DON'T WANT
00:49:59:00	00:50:00:00	TO TALK TOO MUCH BUT I JUST
00:50:00:00	00:50:02:00	HAVE A FEW QUESTIONS IN REGARDS
00:50:02:00	00:50:07:00	TO OVERALL I THOUGHT SLIDE
00:50:07:00	00:50:07:00	AROUND THE DIVERSITY AND
00:50:07:00	00:50:10:00	INCLUSION AND IF YOU COULD JUST
00:50:10:00	00:50:11:00	TALK TO ME A LITTLE BIT ABOUT
00:50:11:00	00:50:14:00	PROCUREMENT AND CONTRACTING AND
00:50:14:00	00:50:18:00	KIND OF LIKE THE ROLE YOUR
00:50:18:00	00:50:19:00	OFFICE IS PLAYING TO HELP
00:50:19:00	00:50:22:00	SUPPORT SMALLER MINORITY OWNED
00:50:22:00	00:50:25:00	BUSINESSES AND FOLKS TO IF YOU
00:50:25:00	00:50:26:00	GET A PIECE OF THAT PIE.
00:50:26:00	00:50:30:00	YEAH, I MEAN THE VILLAGE HAS
00:50:30:00	00:50:33:00	BEEN A LITTLE LESS ENGAGED IN
00:50:33:00	00:50:34:00	ALTHOUGH WE DO HAVE ONE
00:50:34:00	00:50:37:00	CONTRACT THAT IS WITH THE MWP
00:50:37:00	00:50:38:00	BUT PARTICULARLY IN THE
00:50:38:00	00:50:41:00	ENVIRONMENT DEPARTMENT MAIN
00:50:41:00	00:50:42:00	FOCUS HAS BEEN AND OUR NEW
00:50:42:00	00:50:45:00	BOSTON TRUST BUT THE MAIN PLACE
00:50:45:00	00:50:46:00	THAT WE DO ANY LEVEL OF OF
00:50:46:00	00:50:49:00	MAJOR CONTRACT ENVIRONMENT
00:50:49:00	00:50:53:00	DOESN'T CURE A LOT OF SERVICES
00:50:53:00	00:50:54:00	BUT THIS IS THE ONE PLACE THAT
00:50:54:00	00:50:54:00	IT REALLY DOES.
00:50:54:00	00:50:57:00	AND SO WE BEGAN A CONVERSATION
00:50:57:00	00:51:00:00	WITH THE HONEYWELL WHICH IS THE
00:51:00:00	00:51:01:00	COMPANY THAT WE WORK WITH TO DO
00:51:01:00	00:51:02:00	THE MAJORITY OF THAT WORK AND
00:51:02:00	00:51:04:00	JUST STARTED ASKING THE
00:51:04:00	00:51:05:00	QUESTION WHAT ARE YOU DOING TO
00:51:05:00	00:51:08:00	INCREASE THE NUMBER OF WOMEN
00:51:08:00	00:51:09:00	MINORITY OWNED BUSINESSES?
00:51:09:00	00:51:10:00	WE TALKED ABOUT HOW THEY MIGHT
00:51:10:00	00:51:12:00	BE ABLE TO BREAK SOME CONTRACTS
00:51:12:00	00:51:13:00	DOWN AND WORK THROUGH SOME
00:51:13:00	00:51:16:00	SPECIFICS.
00:51:16:00	00:51:17:00	AND THEN THE MAIN KEY WAS THAT
00:51:17:00	00:51:21:00	IN THIS UPCOMING WE WERE ABLE
00:51:21:00	00:51:21:00	TO INCREASE THE AMOUNT OF MWP
00:51:21:00	00:51:24:00	PARTICIPATION TO FORTY PERCENT
00:51:24:00	00:51:25:00	BECAUSE PARTICULARLY OF THE WAY
00:51:25:00	00:51:27:00	THEY APPROACHED OUR MOST RECENT
00:51:27:00	00:51:28:00	LIGHTING CONTRACT, WHICH IS A
00:51:28:00	00:51:31:00	GREAT PLACE TO DO THAT BECAUSE
00:51:31:00	00:51:32:00	IT COULD BE BROKEN APART AND
00:51:32:00	00:51:35:00	SOME SOME EXCITING THINGS.
00:51:35:00	00:51:37:00	SO THAT'S ONE OF THE PLACES
00:51:37:00	00:51:39:00	THAT WE'VE SEEN REAL PROGRESS.
00:51:39:00	00:51:40:00	WE HOPE TO CONTINUE THAT AS
00:51:40:00	00:51:42:00	THEY'RE DOING ENERGY
00:51:42:00	00:51:43:00	ASSESSMENTS AND OTHER PIECES.
00:51:43:00	00:51:46:00	ONE OF THE SMALLER CHALLENGES
00:51:46:00	00:51:47:00	SOME OF THOSE IS THAT
00:51:47:00	00:51:48:00	PARTICULARLY AS WE DO WORK IN
00:51:48:00	00:51:51:00	SCHOOLS, WE WE NEED THAT WORK
00:51:51:00	00:51:54:00	TO BE DONE VERY QUICKLY BECAUSE
00:51:54:00	00:51:56:00	WE HAVE TO GET IT ALL DONE IN
00:51:56:00	00:51:56:00	THE SUMMER.
00:51:56:00	00:51:57:00	SO THAT WILL BE ONE OF THE
00:51:57:00	00:51:58:00	PLACES THAT ARE MORE
00:51:58:00	00:51:58:00	CHALLENGING BECAUSE WORKING
00:51:58:00	00:51:59:00	WITH DIFFERENT CONTRACTORS
00:51:59:00	00:52:02:00	SOMETIMES CAN INCREASE THE TIME
00:52:02:00	00:52:02:00	THAT IT TAKES.
00:52:02:00	00:52:04:00	BUT WE BELIEVE THAT WE CAN DO
00:52:04:00	00:52:06:00	IT REALLY WELL AND OTHER
00:52:06:00	00:52:07:00	MUNICIPAL BUILDINGS WE DON'T
00:52:07:00	00:52:07:00	HAVE SORT OF THE SAME LEVEL
00:52:07:00	00:52:08:00	OF TIME CONSTRAINTS.
00:52:08:00	00:52:10:00	I'M NOT SAYING THAT WE WON'T
00:52:10:00	00:52:13:00	TRY IN THE BAPS PIECES TOO BUT
00:52:13:00	00:52:14:00	ONE OF THE THINGS THAT THEY'VE
00:52:14:00	00:52:15:00	RAISED IS HAVING FOUR DIFFERENT
00:52:15:00	00:52:18:00	CONTRACTORS WHEN YOU ONLY HAVE
00:52:18:00	00:52:19:00	LIKE ABOUT EIGHT WEEKS TO GET
00:52:19:00	00:52:21:00	IT DONE AND CREATES CHALLENGES
00:52:21:00	00:52:22:00	IN TERMS OF THE HANDOFFS.
00:52:22:00	00:52:25:00	BUT OTHER MUNICIPAL BUILDINGS
00:52:25:00	00:52:26:00	WE HAVE A LOT MORE OPPORTUNITY
00:52:26:00	00:52:28:00	TO GET THAT DONE.
00:52:28:00	00:52:29:00	THAT'S WHAT WE'RE DOING IN
00:52:29:00	00:52:32:00	TERMS OF ENVIRONMENT AND PARKS
00:52:32:00	00:52:33:00	.
00:52:33:00	00:52:34:00	WE WERE ACTUALLY ONE OF THE
00:52:34:00	00:52:36:00	FIRST DEPARTMENT I BELIEVE TO
00:52:36:00	00:52:37:00	LEAN IN FOR THE EQUITABLE
00:52:37:00	00:52:40:00	PROCUREMENT IN TERMS OF MALCOLM
00:52:40:00	00:52:44:00	X PARK AND WE HIT A GOALS.
00:52:44:00	00:52:48:00	SO I WILL SAY THAT I WANT ALSO
00:52:48:00	00:52:49:00	NOTE THAT WE THERE WERE SOME
00:52:49:00	00:52:51:00	PLACES WHERE WE WERE NOT QUITE
00:52:51:00	00:52:53:00	SATISFIED AS FAR AS WE WOULD
00:52:53:00	00:52:55:00	LIKE PARTICULARLY THERE WERE A
00:52:55:00	00:52:56:00	LOT OF FOLKS WHO WANTED TO SEE
00:52:56:00	00:52:59:00	FOLKS FROM THAT NEIGHBORHOOD TO
00:52:59:00	00:53:00:00	BE ABLE TO DO THE WORK ON THE
00:53:00:00	00:53:03:00	PARK AND THAT WAS VERY
00:53:03:00	00:53:04:00	CHALLENGING TO ACHIEVE FOR A
00:53:04:00	00:53:07:00	VARIETY OF REASONS.
00:53:07:00	00:53:08:00	DOING THE WORK IN THAT
00:53:08:00	00:53:11:00	NEIGHBORHOOD HAD US MEETING
00:53:11:00	00:53:12:00	WITH NOT JUST EQUITABLE
00:53:12:00	00:53:15:00	PROCUREMENT BUT ALSO THE AARP
00:53:15:00	00:53:16:00	TEAM LOOKING AT WHAT
00:53:16:00	00:53:19:00	CONTRACTORS HAVE TO REPORT AND
00:53:19:00	00:53:20:00	THEN WHAT WE MIGHT BE ABLE TO
00:53:20:00	00:53:27:00	DO TO INFLUENCE MORE HIRING
00:53:27:00	00:53:28:00	FROM WITHIN THE NEIGHBORHOOD
00:53:28:00	00:53:28:00	RIGHT NOW WE DON'T REALLY
00:53:28:00	00:53:30:00	EXACTLY KNOW WHAT MECHANISM
00:53:30:00	00:53:31:00	THAT WE CAN USE BECAUSE WE
00:53:31:00	00:53:35:00	STILL HAVE TO TAKE THE LOWEST
00:53:35:00	00:53:38:00	BID BY STATE RULES AND WE WERE
00:53:38:00	00:53:39:00	ABLE TO SAY WE CONSIDER YOU
00:53:39:00	00:53:42:00	NONRESPONSIVE OR NON
00:53:42:00	00:53:46:00	RESPONSIBLE IF YOU DIDN'T EVEN
00:53:46:00	00:53:50:00	ATTEMPT TO FIND CONTRACTORS.
00:53:50:00	00:53:51:00	WE DID HAVE PEOPLE WHO SAID
00:53:51:00	00:53:52:00	WELL WE COULDN'T FIND THEM AND
00:53:52:00	00:53:54:00	WE SAID THAT IF SOME WERE ABLE
00:53:54:00	00:53:55:00	TO FIND THEM THAT WE TRUSTED
00:53:55:00	00:53:56:00	THAT ALL SHOULD BE ABLE TO FIND
00:53:56:00	00:53:59:00	THEM AND SO WE ARE HOLDING
00:53:59:00	00:53:59:00	PEOPLE ACCOUNTABLE FOR THE FACT
00:53:59:00	00:54:02:00	THAT AT THIS POINT THE THINGS
00:54:02:00	00:54:03:00	THAT WE'VE PUT IN THERE AS
00:54:03:00	00:54:05:00	GOALS ARE REFLECTIVE OF THE
00:54:05:00	00:54:06:00	FACT THAT THERE ARE BUSINESSES
00:54:06:00	00:54:07:00	OUT THERE THAT FOLKS COULD HAVE
00:54:07:00	00:54:10:00	CONTRACTED WITH AND IF THEY DID
00:54:10:00	00:54:11:00	IT WE CONSIDERED IT NON
00:54:11:00	00:54:13:00	RESPONSIBLE IN TERMS OF BIDDING
00:54:13:00	00:54:18:00	AND I WANT TO KNOW THAT WE HAD
00:54:18:00	00:54:19:00	HOPED IT WOULD LEAD TO GREATER
00:54:19:00	00:54:24:00	LEVELS OF VISIBLE ENGAGEMENT
00:54:24:00	00:54:25:00	AND IT DID.
00:54:25:00	00:54:28:00	AND SO THAT'S A PLACE WHERE
00:54:28:00	00:54:28:00	WE'RE CONTINUING TO FIGURE OUT
00:54:28:00	00:54:29:00	WHAT CAN WE DO WITHIN THE
00:54:29:00	00:54:32:00	CONFINES OF STATE LAWS TO MAKE
00:54:32:00	00:54:36:00	SURE THAT MORE OF THE FOLKS IN
00:54:36:00	00:54:36:00	OUR NEIGHBORHOODS ARE ABLE TO
00:54:36:00	00:54:39:00	ACCESS THESE JOBS THERE ARE
00:54:39:00	00:54:40:00	SOME CHALLENGES IN THE SENSE
00:54:40:00	00:54:41:00	THAT FOLKS HAVE TO HAVE THE
00:54:41:00	00:54:43:00	PROPER CERTIFICATIONS TO EVEN
00:54:43:00	00:54:46:00	BE PUT ON A CREW AND THAT
00:54:46:00	00:54:47:00	CONTRACTORS DON'T HIRE NEW
00:54:47:00	00:54:48:00	CREWS EVERY SINGLE TIME THEY DO
00:54:48:00	00:54:51:00	A JOB AND SO THEY TEND TO COME
00:54:51:00	00:54:52:00	WITH A CREW THAT'S ALREADY BEEN
00:54:52:00	00:54:55:00	PUT TOGETHER AND THAT DOESN'T
00:54:55:00	00:54:55:00	ALWAYS MEAN THERE'S SPACE FOR
00:54:55:00	00:54:59:00	FOLKS IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD TO BE
00:54:59:00	00:54:59:00	ABLE TO HAVE ACCESS TO THOSE
00:54:59:00	00:55:00:00	JOBS.
00:55:00:00	00:55:02:00	SO MORE THAN WILLING TO TALK
00:55:02:00	00:55:03:00	ABOUT ALL THE WORK AND FOLLOW
00:55:03:00	00:55:06:00	UP AND RESEARCH WE DID AROUND
00:55:06:00	00:55:07:00	WHAT WE CAN AND CAN'T DO.
00:55:07:00	00:55:09:00	BUT WE DID HIT THE GOALS IN
00:55:09:00	00:55:10:00	TERMS OF MINORITY AND WOMEN
00:55:10:00	00:55:14:00	CONTRACTORS.
00:55:14:00	00:55:15:00	WHAT WE YOU GET TO IS THAT
00:55:15:00	00:55:18:00	LEVEL OF COMMUNITY JOBS THAT IF
00:55:18:00	00:55:19:00	I COULDN'T BE OFF CAMERA YOU
00:55:19:00	00:55:22:00	WOULD SEE ME SAYING CAN I GET
00:55:22:00	00:55:23:00	ONE MORE QUESTION IN THERE?
00:55:23:00	00:55:25:00	ALL RIGHT, ONE MORE QUESTION
00:55:25:00	00:55:26:00	BECAUSE I SEE COMES ARROYO YOUR
00:55:26:00	00:55:29:00	HANDS BACK ON SCREEN BUT I JUST
00:55:29:00	00:55:30:00	WANTED TO UPLIFT THAT WE'VE
00:55:30:00	00:55:33:00	BEEN GETTING A LOT OF CALLS
00:55:33:00	00:55:34:00	FROM RESIDENTS WHO LIVE IN
00:55:34:00	00:55:37:00	LOWER INCOME NEIGHBORHOODS
00:55:37:00	00:55:38:00	ABOUT THE CONDITIONS OF THEIR
00:55:38:00	00:55:41:00	PARKS AND COMPARISON TO OTHERS
00:55:41:00	00:55:42:00	IN TERMS OF MAINTENANCE AND
00:55:42:00	00:55:42:00	UPKEEP.
00:55:42:00	00:55:44:00	AND I'M JUST CURIOUS ABOUT KIND
00:55:44:00	00:55:48:00	OF STAYING WITHIN THE LINE THE
00:55:48:00	00:55:49:00	RACIAL EQUITY AND JUST KIND
00:55:49:00	00:55:52:00	OF LIKE HOW WE'RE DIVIDING OUR
00:55:52:00	00:55:53:00	RESOURCES KIND OF IF YOU CAN
00:55:53:00	00:55:54:00	JUST ON THE RECORD JUST SHARE
00:55:54:00	00:55:59:00	FOR US SO PEOPLE CAN UNDERSTAND
00:55:59:00	00:56:00:00	UPKEEP AND SO THAT THEY'RE NOT
00:56:00:00	00:56:03:00	MAKING ASSUMPTIONS THAT JUST
00:56:03:00	00:56:04:00	BECAUSE THEY LIVE IN A LOWER
00:56:04:00	00:56:04:00	INCOME NEIGHBORHOOD THEY GET
00:56:04:00	00:56:07:00	LESS TREATMENT AND UPKEEP NOW.
00:56:07:00	00:56:11:00	SO ONE I HOPE THAT YOU'LL SHARE
00:56:11:00	00:56:12:00	THOSE WITH US SO THAT WE CAN
00:56:12:00	00:56:13:00	ACTUALLY LOOK AT THEM, LOOK AT
00:56:13:00	00:56:15:00	THE SPECIFIC PARKS AND REALLY
00:56:15:00	00:56:16:00	LEAN IN ON THAT CONVERSATION.
00:56:16:00	00:56:20:00	WHAT I WILL SAY IS THIS WE ARE
00:56:20:00	00:56:20:00	REALLY GRATEFUL FOR THE
00:56:20:00	00:56:23:00	RESOURCES THAT WE HAVE AND I
00:56:23:00	00:56:23:00	NEED TO BE HONEST ABOUT THE
00:56:23:00	00:56:27:00	FACT THAT WE DON'T HAVE ONE
00:56:27:00	00:56:28:00	EMPLOYEE PER ALL OF OUR
00:56:28:00	00:56:30:00	PROPERTIES AND SO THAT WE DO
00:56:30:00	00:56:31:00	MOVE ON A SCHEDULE.
00:56:31:00	00:56:34:00	WE HAVE TRIED TO TAKE A LOOK
00:56:34:00	00:56:35:00	AND MAKE SURE THAT THE
00:56:35:00	00:56:38:00	RESOURCES ARE EVENLY
00:56:38:00	00:56:42:00	DISTRIBUTED ACROSS NEIGHBORHOOD
00:56:42:00	00:56:43:00	IN LINE WITH THE NUMBER
00:56:43:00	00:56:44:00	OF PARKS THAT WE HAVE, THE
00:56:44:00	00:56:46:00	COMPLEXITY OF THOSE PARKS AND I
00:56:46:00	00:56:53:00	WILL SAY THAT WE WE BOTH STRONG
00:56:53:00	00:56:57:00	SUPPORT BUT ALSO CONCERNS
00:56:57:00	00:56:58:00	ACROSS THE CITY BECAUSE WE ARE
00:56:58:00	00:57:05:00	DIVIDING RESOURCES PRETTY CLOSE
00:57:05:00	00:57:08:00	TO WHAT WE CAN DO.
00:57:08:00	00:57:09:00	SO I WILL I'M MORE THAN WILLING
00:57:09:00	00:57:10:00	TO LOOK AT IF THERE'S A
00:57:10:00	00:57:13:00	PARTICULAR PARK AND THERE'S
00:57:13:00	00:57:16:00	SOME CONCERNS WE ARE TAKING A
00:57:16:00	00:57:17:00	REAL EQUITY LENS IN TERMS
00:57:17:00	00:57:20:00	OF WHICH PARKS WE PRIORITIZE
00:57:20:00	00:57:25:00	FOR RENOVATION BECAUSE THAT IS
00:57:25:00	00:57:25:00	ANOTHER THING THAT PEOPLE HAVE
00:57:25:00	00:57:28:00	LIFTED UP AND THAT IS TRUE AS
00:57:28:00	00:57:28:00	WE'VE LOOKED AT IT.
00:57:28:00	00:57:29:00	THERE HAVE BEEN SOME TIMES
00:57:29:00	00:57:33:00	FASTER INNOVATION CYCLES IN
00:57:33:00	00:57:33:00	SOME NEIGHBORHOODS VERSUS
00:57:33:00	00:57:36:00	OTHERS AND SO THAT'S SOMETHING
00:57:36:00	00:57:37:00	THAT WE ARE WORKING HARD
00:57:37:00	00:57:41:00	TOGETHER TO MAKE SURE THAT WE
00:57:41:00	00:57:42:00	TAKE A REAL FOCUS ON.
00:57:42:00	00:57:43:00	WE ARE REALLY FOCUSING ON
00:57:43:00	00:57:45:00	EQUITY IN TERMS OF WHICH PLACES
00:57:45:00	00:57:46:00	WHAT WE RENOVATE BUT WE'D BE
00:57:46:00	00:57:48:00	MORE THAN HAPPY TO HEAR FROM
00:57:48:00	00:57:52:00	FOLKS.
00:57:52:00	00:57:53:00	I DO THINK WE WE HAVE TRIED TO
00:57:53:00	00:57:56:00	SET IT UP SO THAT IT IS EVENLY
00:57:56:00	00:57:56:00	DISTRIBUTED.
00:57:56:00	00:57:57:00	WE WANT TO HEAR PEOPLE'S
00:57:57:00	00:57:59:00	FEEDBACK WE THINK AND I JUST
00:57:59:00	00:58:00:00	WANT TO SAY THAT IT'S JUST SO
00:58:00:00	00:58:03:00	REAFFIRMING WHEN WHEN WE HAVE
00:58:03:00	00:58:07:00	HEARINGS LIKE THIS AND PEOPLE
00:58:07:00	00:58:08:00	SHARE LIKE THE THE PLUSES AND
00:58:08:00	00:58:11:00	DELTAS, EVERYTHING THAT'S
00:58:11:00	00:58:12:00	HAPPENING AND IT'S ENCOURAGING
00:58:12:00	00:58:15:00	BECAUSE OUR CONSTITUENTS WHO
00:58:15:00	00:58:16:00	ARE LISTENING IN SEE THAT WE
00:58:16:00	00:58:19:00	ARE NOT SAYING WELL IT'S NOT
00:58:19:00	00:58:20:00	HAPPENING BUT THAT WE
00:58:20:00	00:58:21:00	ACKNOWLEDGE AND THEN WE SAY
00:58:21:00	00:58:23:00	HERE'S HOW WE'RE TRYING COURSE
00:58:23:00	00:58:23:00	CORRECTED.
00:58:23:00	00:58:24:00	SO I REALLY DO APPRECIATE YOU
00:58:24:00	00:58:25:00	DOING JUST THAT.
00:58:25:00	00:58:27:00	THANK THANK YOU ALL.
00:58:27:00	00:58:28:00	YOU REALLY DO APPRECIATE THE
00:58:28:00	00:58:30:00	OPPORTUNITY TO MY QUESTIONS.
00:58:30:00	00:58:31:00	THANK YOU COUNCILOR MEJIA FEEL
00:58:31:00	00:58:34:00	BETTER COUNCILOR RIDGEN THE
00:58:34:00	00:58:38:00	FLOOR IS YOURS.
00:58:38:00	00:58:39:00	THANK YOU.
00:58:39:00	00:58:39:00	I WANT TO THANK THE
00:58:39:00	00:58:41:00	ADMINISTRATION FOR BEING HERE
00:58:41:00	00:58:42:00	ON THE PRESENTATION TO BE
00:58:42:00	00:58:45:00	REALLY DETAILED AND EXCITED TO
00:58:45:00	00:58:46:00	SEE AN INCREASE IN THE BUDGET
00:58:46:00	00:58:49:00	TO ADDRESS A LOT OF CONCERNS
00:58:49:00	00:58:53:00	THAT HAVE BEEN ELEVATED AND I'M
00:58:53:00	00:58:54:00	HAPPY TO TO REALLY HEAR
00:58:54:00	00:58:58:00	REVEREND AT HIM AND ABOUT THE
00:58:58:00	00:58:58:00	EQUITY LINES THAT YOU'RE
00:58:58:00	00:59:00:00	BRINGING TO THIS WORK,
00:59:00:00	00:59:01:00	ESPECIALLY WHEN IT COMES TO
00:59:01:00	00:59:01:00	UPPER MANAGEMENT, ESPECIALLY
00:59:01:00	00:59:04:00	WHEN IT COMES TO JUSTICE PEACE
00:59:04:00	00:59:05:00	OFFICERS.
00:59:05:00	00:59:05:00	SO THANK YOU.
00:59:05:00	00:59:08:00	MY MY FIRST QUESTION IS ABOUT
00:59:08:00	00:59:12:00	OPEN ACQUISITIONS AND ABOUT
00:59:12:00	00:59:13:00	SORT OF WHERE WE STAND WITH
00:59:13:00	00:59:13:00	THAT.
00:59:13:00	00:59:17:00	SO WHAT THE BUDGET IS FOR OPEN
00:59:17:00	00:59:17:00	ACQUISITIONS AND A RELATED
00:59:17:00	00:59:20:00	QUESTION IS HOW ARE WE THINKING
00:59:20:00	00:59:20:00	ABOUT THE CLIFF EFFECT FOR
00:59:20:00	00:59:23:00	THINGS THAT WE'RE FUNDING
00:59:23:00	00:59:24:00	FUNDED BY OUR WHERE WE MAY NOT
00:59:24:00	00:59:27:00	HAVE THAT INFLUX OF FUNDS AGAIN
00:59:27:00	00:59:28:00	BUT WHAT WE'VE SEEN LIKE AN
00:59:28:00	00:59:32:00	IMPORTANT ROSSINI'S RELEVANT OR
00:59:32:00	00:59:36:00	IMPORTANT GROWTH AS A RESULT
00:59:36:00	00:59:36:00	OF THE OPERATIONS THAT WE WANT
00:59:36:00	00:59:38:00	TO CONTINUE AFTER ARPA.
00:59:38:00	00:59:39:00	SO I'LL ANSWER THE FIRST THE
00:59:39:00	00:59:40:00	SECOND QUESTION FIRST AND THEN
00:59:40:00	00:59:42:00	GO TO THE OTHER.
00:59:42:00	00:59:43:00	SO WE ACTUALLY WERE REALLY
00:59:43:00	00:59:47:00	CAREFUL ABOUT THE WAY THAT WE
00:59:47:00	00:59:50:00	USED ARPA TRY NOT TRYING TO PUT
00:59:50:00	00:59:51:00	INTO THINGS THAT WE KNEW WE
00:59:51:00	00:59:52:00	WOULDN'T BE ABLE TO SUSTAIN.
00:59:52:00	00:59:55:00	SO FOR INSTANCE, WE DO HAVE A
00:59:55:00	00:59:56:00	BACKLOG ON PRUNING BUT WE ALSO
00:59:56:00	00:59:59:00	ARE GROWING THE TREE DIVISION
00:59:59:00	01:00:00:00	SO AT SOME POINT WE ARE
01:00:00:00	01:00:03:00	BUILDING UP OUR CAPACITY TO BE
01:00:03:00	01:00:03:00	ABLE TO HANDLE THAT.
01:00:03:00	01:00:06:00	BUT THERE'S A BACKLOG RIGHT NOW
01:00:06:00	01:00:10:00	AND SO WE SET IT UP SO THAT WE
01:00:10:00	01:00:11:00	DO SOME OF OUR OPERATIONS TO
01:00:11:00	01:00:12:00	BRING THAT BACKLOG DOWN, TO DO
01:00:12:00	01:00:14:00	SOME OF THE PRUNING, TO
01:00:14:00	01:00:15:00	RECOGNIZE THAT WE'VE GOTTEN
01:00:15:00	01:00:15:00	BEHIND.
01:00:15:00	01:00:17:00	BUT AT THE SAME TIME WE'LL HAVE
01:00:17:00	01:00:18:00	THAT TREE DIVISION GROWING IN
01:00:18:00	01:00:19:00	SUCH A WAY THAT IT SHOULD ITS
01:00:19:00	01:00:22:00	CAPACITY SHOULD GROW IN SUCH A
01:00:22:00	01:00:23:00	WAY THAT IT CAN TAKE OVER THAT
01:00:23:00	01:00:26:00	AND NOT BE IN THE IN THE SAME
01:00:26:00	01:00:29:00	SORT OF PREDICAMENT YEAR OVER
01:00:29:00	01:00:30:00	YEAR.
01:00:30:00	01:00:34:00	SO IN TERMS OF ACQUISITION, WE
01:00:34:00	01:00:35:00	ARE LOOKING AT THIS PRETTY
01:00:35:00	01:00:38:00	CLOSELY WITH A STARTING FROM
01:00:38:00	01:00:40:00	THE NEIGHBORHOODS WHERE SO THE
01:00:40:00	01:00:45:00	URBAN IN PORTLAND AND THE HEAT
01:00:45:00	01:00:46:00	PLAN WE REALLY LOOKED AT
01:00:46:00	01:00:49:00	TOGETHER THIS QUESTION OF WHAT
01:00:49:00	01:00:49:00	ARE OUR HOTTEST NEIGHBORHOODS,
01:00:49:00	01:00:53:00	WHAT ARE OUR NEIGHBORHOODS ARE
01:00:53:00	01:00:53:00	SEEING THE IMPACT OF HAVING
01:00:53:00	01:00:54:00	INSUFFICIENT TREE CANOPY AND
01:00:54:00	01:00:57:00	INSUFFICIENT OPEN SPACE.
01:00:57:00	01:00:58:00	AND SO THE THE RESOURCES THAT
01:00:58:00	01:01:00:00	WE HAVE FOR ACQUISITION ARE
01:01:00:00	01:01:04:00	REALLY BEING DRIVEN BY WHERE
01:01:04:00	01:01:05:00	OUR COMMUNITIES ARE IN MOST
01:01:05:00	01:01:08:00	NEED OF THE FISH OF OPEN SPACE
01:01:08:00	01:01:09:00	.
01:01:09:00	01:01:10:00	SO AS ONE OF THE THINGS THAT
01:01:10:00	01:01:12:00	COMMISSIONER COMMISSIONER
01:01:12:00	01:01:13:00	BROSIUS BROUGHT UP IS THAT THE
01:01:13:00	01:01:17:00	ENVIRONMENT DEPARTMENT SAW A
01:01:17:00	01:01:18:00	GRANT WITH THE STREETS CABINET
01:01:18:00	01:01:21:00	TO LOOK AT WHAT'S CALLED
01:01:21:00	01:01:22:00	RECONNECTING COMMUNITIES
01:01:22:00	01:01:25:00	PARTICULARLY THE CHINATOWN
01:01:25:00	01:01:25:00	NEIGHBORHOOD BECAUSE SO MUCH
01:01:25:00	01:01:35:00	LAND IN OPEN SPACE WAS LOST IN
01:01:35:00	01:01:36:00	HIGHWAY 90 WAS BUILT IN
01:01:36:00	01:01:37:00	CHINATOWN.
01:01:37:00	01:01:38:00	AS A RESULT OF THAT WE SEE ALL
01:01:38:00	01:01:38:00	OF THE CHALLENGES THAT YOU
01:01:38:00	01:01:39:00	WOULD EXPECT WITH A HIGHWAY
01:01:39:00	01:01:40:00	BEING THERE IN TERMS OF AIR
01:01:40:00	01:01:40:00	QUALITY ETCETERA ETCETERA.
01:01:40:00	01:01:41:00	SO WE ARE PRIORITIZING
01:01:41:00	01:01:41:00	ACQUISITIONS OF NEIGHBORHOODS
01:01:41:00	01:01:42:00	WHERE WE HAVE INSUFFICIENT TREE
01:01:42:00	01:01:44:00	CANOPY AND INSUFFICIENT OPEN
01:01:44:00	01:01:45:00	SPACE AND WE HAVE TEN MILLION
01:01:45:00	01:01:48:00	DOLLARS AND CAPITAL WITH ALSO I
01:01:48:00	01:01:49:00	WANT TO LIFT UP CPA WHICH IS
01:01:49:00	01:01:52:00	ALSO BEEN A REAL PARTNER IN
01:01:52:00	01:01:52:00	THIS CONVERSATION.
01:01:52:00	01:01:53:00	WE'VE BEEN WORKING TOGETHER TO
01:01:53:00	01:01:56:00	LOOK AT HOW WE COULD SUPPORT
01:01:56:00	01:01:56:00	NOT JUST ACQUISITION.
01:01:56:00	01:02:00:00	ACQUISITION IS A HUGE PART BUT
01:02:00:00	01:02:01:00	ALSO HOW ARE WE ALSO SUPPORTING
01:02:01:00	01:02:04:00	OUR EDGECOMB CITIES THAT HAVE
01:02:04:00	01:02:05:00	PARKS TO BE ABLE TO DO MORE
01:02:05:00	01:02:08:00	OF THE PARK BEAUTIFICATION AND
01:02:08:00	01:02:08:00	AMPLIFICATION THAT HAS
01:02:08:00	01:02:11:00	SOMETIMES BEEN EASIER TO GET
01:02:11:00	01:02:12:00	DONE IN SOME OF OUR HIGHER
01:02:12:00	01:02:15:00	INCOME NEIGHBORHOODS.
01:02:15:00	01:02:16:00	AND SO THAT'S A PIECE OF WHAT
01:02:16:00	01:02:16:00	WE'RE DOING.
01:02:16:00	01:02:17:00	WE'RE NOT JUST TRYING TO
01:02:17:00	01:02:20:00	ACQUIRE A LAND BUT ALSO TRY TO
01:02:20:00	01:02:23:00	SUPPORT PEOPLE TO USE THAT LAND
01:02:23:00	01:02:24:00	AND TO AMPLIFY THAT IN
01:02:24:00	01:02:24:00	IMPORTANT WAYS.
01:02:24:00	01:02:28:00	SO THE TWO PIECES THAT WE ARE
01:02:28:00	01:02:30:00	MOST LOOKING AT A SPRAY POND IS
01:02:30:00	01:02:31:00	A BIG PIECE THAT WE WERE ABLE
01:02:31:00	01:02:32:00	TO DO IN THIS LAST YEAR AND
01:02:32:00	01:02:34:00	HYDE PARK WE PRIORITIZE THAT
01:02:34:00	01:02:38:00	NOT BECAUSE IT WAS IN THE BLAST
01:02:38:00	01:02:39:00	BECAUSE THERE WERE SORT OF AS
01:02:39:00	01:02:42:00	MUCH OF A OPEN SPACE EARTH
01:02:42:00	01:02:46:00	ALTHOUGH IT IS IN A HIGHER SORT
01:02:46:00	01:02:47:00	HEAT ZONE WITHIN HYDE PARK BUT
01:02:47:00	01:02:50:00	BECAUSE IT HAD IMPORTANT
01:02:50:00	01:02:53:00	HISTORICAL IMPORTANCE BOTH TO
01:02:53:00	01:02:54:00	AFRICAN-AMERICAN COMMUNITY WITH
01:02:54:00	01:02:54:00	THE FIFTY FOURTH REGIMENT
01:02:54:00	01:02:57:00	HAVING BEEN THERE AND ALSO THE
01:02:57:00	01:02:58:00	NATIVE AMERICAN COMMUNITY IN
01:02:58:00	01:03:01:00	TERMS OF THEIR CONNECTION TO
01:03:01:00	01:03:02:00	SPRAY GRANT AND THE OPPORTUNITY
01:03:02:00	01:03:06:00	TO PRESERVE UPON AND PUBLIC
01:03:06:00	01:03:07:00	ACCESS TO A POND WHICH WE DON'T
01:03:07:00	01:03:10:00	HAVE VERY MANY QUITE FRANKLY
01:03:10:00	01:03:10:00	THEY'RE NOT AS MANY IN THE
01:03:10:00	01:03:13:00	STATE BUT CERTAINLY NOT IN AN
01:03:13:00	01:03:14:00	URBAN AREA.
01:03:14:00	01:03:15:00	SO THAT'S ONE EXAMPLE OF A
01:03:15:00	01:03:16:00	PLACE THAT WE'VE REALLY LEANED
01:03:16:00	01:03:17:00	ON ACQUISITION AND WE'RE
01:03:17:00	01:03:18:00	EXCITED BECAUSE IT DOES BRING
01:03:18:00	01:03:20:00	TOGETHER MULTIPLE PARTS OF THE
01:03:20:00	01:03:21:00	CABINET.
01:03:21:00	01:03:21:00	WE'LL BE DOING SOME
01:03:21:00	01:03:22:00	ARCHEOLOGICAL SURVEYING.
01:03:22:00	01:03:25:00	IT'S GOING TO REALLY BE AN
01:03:25:00	01:03:25:00	AMAZING OPPORTUNITY TO TO
01:03:25:00	01:03:28:00	CELEBRATE IN MULTIPLE WAYS AND
01:03:28:00	01:03:29:00	THEN THE OTHER SPACE THAT WE
01:03:29:00	01:03:33:00	ARE IN NEGOTIATION ABOUT RIGHT
01:03:33:00	01:03:33:00	NOW BUT GETTING VERY, VERY,
01:03:33:00	01:03:36:00	VERY CLOSE I THINK IT'S NOT TOO
01:03:36:00	01:03:37:00	MUCH TO IT SAID THAT SINCE THE
01:03:37:00	01:03:39:00	MAYOR LIFTED IT UP A BIT THE
01:03:39:00	01:03:40:00	STATE OF THE CITY BUT EGGLESTON
01:03:40:00	01:03:43:00	PEACE GARDEN WHERE NEIGHBORS
01:03:43:00	01:03:44:00	HAVE BEEN ORGANIZING FOR YEARS
01:03:44:00	01:03:48:00	TO KEEP THAT SPACE OPEN, WE
01:03:48:00	01:03:48:00	WERE ABLE TO COME TO AN
01:03:48:00	01:03:49:00	AGREEMENT WITH CLEAR CHANNEL TO
01:03:49:00	01:03:52:00	REALLY WORK THAT FORWARD WILL
01:03:52:00	01:03:52:00	HAVE SOMETHING MORE FORMAL
01:03:52:00	01:03:56:00	TWEETED OUT EVERYONE BECAUSE WE
01:03:56:00	01:03:57:00	WANT TO OBVIOUSLY GET IT ALL
01:03:57:00	01:03:57:00	DONE BUT WE ARE VERY, VERY,
01:03:57:00	01:03:59:00	VERY CLOSE.
01:03:59:00	01:03:59:00	SO AGAIN REALLY LOOKING AT
01:03:59:00	01:04:00:00	PLACES WHERE THERE ARE SOME
01:04:00:00	01:04:03:00	UNIQUE OPPORTUNITIES BUT ALSO A
01:04:03:00	01:04:06:00	HUGE FOCUS ON WHERE DO WE HAVE
01:04:06:00	01:04:07:00	LACK OF OPEN SPACE.
01:04:07:00	01:04:08:00	AGAIN, WE HAVE 2.5 MILLION THIS
01:04:08:00	01:04:11:00	YEAR THAT WE ARE MOVING THROUGH
01:04:11:00	01:04:15:00	AND SPENDING WE HAVE THAT
01:04:15:00	01:04:15:00	ACQUISITION COMING LIKE
01:04:15:00	01:04:19:00	IMMINENTLY AND THEN WE ALSO
01:04:19:00	01:04:20:00	HAVE TWO MILLION DOLLARS IN THE
01:04:20:00	01:04:22:00	BUDGET FOR NEXT YEAR.
01:04:22:00	01:04:23:00	AND AGAIN, AS AS WE MENTIONED,
01:04:23:00	01:04:24:00	CHINATOWN IS ONE OF THE PLACES
01:04:24:00	01:04:26:00	THAT WE'RE REALLY LOOKING ON
01:04:26:00	01:04:29:00	THAT BUT WE ARE OPEN TO OTHER
01:04:29:00	01:04:30:00	PLACES AND OPEN TO PEOPLE
01:04:30:00	01:04:31:00	BRINGING FORWARD OTHER
01:04:31:00	01:04:33:00	OPPORTUNITIES.
01:04:33:00	01:04:37:00	THANK YOU.
01:04:37:00	01:04:38:00	I WANT TO THANK YOU FOR THE
01:04:38:00	01:04:39:00	OPPORTUNITY GREAT PRODUCT.
01:04:39:00	01:04:41:00	THAT WAS A GREAT EXAMPLE AND
01:04:41:00	01:04:42:00	EXCITED FOR THE WORK IN
01:04:42:00	01:04:42:00	CHINATOWN.
01:04:42:00	01:04:45:00	LET ME LOOK AT COMMUNITIES.
01:04:45:00	01:04:46:00	I THINK THAT'S EXACTLY WE
01:04:46:00	01:04:46:00	SHOULD BE SENDING TWO LAST
01:04:46:00	01:04:46:00	QUESTIONS.
01:04:46:00	01:04:52:00	ONE AROUND I'D LIKE YOU TO TALK
01:04:52:00	01:04:52:00	A LITTLE BIT MORE ABOUT HOW
01:04:52:00	01:04:55:00	YOUR OFFICE AND I YOU DID CATCH
01:04:55:00	01:04:55:00	ME.
01:04:55:00	01:04:57:00	I ASKED YOU A QUESTION BUT IS
01:04:57:00	01:04:59:00	IT ABOUT BJP AND HOW IT RELATES
01:04:59:00	01:05:02:00	TO OUR NUMBERS?
01:05:02:00	01:05:03:00	WE'D LIKE TO HEAR A LITTLE BIT
01:05:03:00	01:05:04:00	MORE ON THAT AND THEN YOU KNOW,
01:05:04:00	01:05:06:00	I THINK THE QUESTION WITH
01:05:06:00	01:05:07:00	RESPECT TO THE CAPITAL BUDGET
01:05:07:00	01:05:10:00	EXCITED TO SEE AN INCREASE A
01:05:10:00	01:05:11:00	NUMBER OF PARKS THAT HAVE MADE
01:05:11:00	01:05:11:00	IT.
01:05:11:00	01:05:12:00	THERE ARE SOME PARKS THAT DON'T
01:05:12:00	01:05:15:00	MAKE AND SOME OF THOSE PARKS I
01:05:15:00	01:05:18:00	YOU KNOW, ROSS PLAYGROUND'S
01:05:18:00	01:05:19:00	BEING ONE OF THE PARKS THAT I
01:05:19:00	01:05:22:00	CARE ABOUT DEEPLY BEING MY
01:05:22:00	01:05:23:00	NEIGHBORHOOD PARK GROWING UP
01:05:23:00	01:05:23:00	AND WHEN THAT NEIGHBORS HAVE
01:05:23:00	01:05:26:00	REALLY BEEN ASKING FOR SOME
01:05:26:00	01:05:27:00	ATTENTION JUST YOU KNOW, IF WE
01:05:27:00	01:05:29:00	CAN GET A BETTER UNDERSTANDING
01:05:29:00	01:05:30:00	OF WHAT IT TAKES FOR CERTAIN
01:05:30:00	01:05:31:00	PARKS TO BE INCLUDED IN THAT
01:05:31:00	01:05:34:00	THAT PLANNING, I THINK THAT
01:05:34:00	01:05:35:00	WOULD BE HELPFUL FOR THE
01:05:35:00	01:05:35:00	RESIDENTS OF FOLKS AT HOME.
01:05:35:00	01:05:38:00	THANK YOU FOR NOT THIS NOT JUST
01:05:38:00	01:05:41:00	RESIDENTS I OH YEAH YEAH GREAT
01:05:41:00	01:05:41:00	.
01:05:41:00	01:05:43:00	OK, THE FIRST YOUR FIRST ONE SO
01:05:43:00	01:05:45:00	I'M IS GOING TO BE REALLY CLEAR
01:05:45:00	01:05:46:00	WE NOW HAVE A REALLY GOOD
01:05:46:00	01:05:49:00	UNDERSTANDING OF HOW IT WORKS
01:05:49:00	01:05:49:00	AND WHY IT'S NOT WORKING IN THE
01:05:49:00	01:05:52:00	WAY WE WANT IT TO.
01:05:52:00	01:05:53:00	WE HAVE LESS OF A FLAHERTY
01:05:53:00	01:05:54:00	ABOUT WHAT WE DO ABOUT IT
01:05:54:00	01:05:57:00	BECAUSE FROM WHAT WE CAN
01:05:57:00	01:05:57:00	UNDERSTAND THERE'S SOME
01:05:57:00	01:06:01:00	CHALLENGES IN TERMS OF THE
01:06:01:00	01:06:01:00	STATE LAW.
01:06:01:00	01:06:03:00	SO ONE IS THAT WHEN PEOPLE BID
01:06:03:00	01:06:05:00	ON A PROJECT YOU CAN'T ASK THEM
01:06:05:00	01:06:05:00	SORT OF IN ADVANCE WHO THEIR
01:06:05:00	01:06:08:00	CREW IS GOING TO BE AND MOST
01:06:08:00	01:06:12:00	OF THE TIME WHAT THEY DO IS
01:06:12:00	01:06:13:00	THEY KEEP THE SAME CREW MOVING
01:06:13:00	01:06:16:00	SORT OF PROJECT TO PROJECT.
01:06:16:00	01:06:18:00	THE PROBLEM WITH THAT IS THAT
01:06:18:00	01:06:19:00	YOU CAN HAVE THE SAME CREW
01:06:19:00	01:06:23:00	MOVING ACROSS THE CITY AND AS
01:06:23:00	01:06:24:00	LONG AS SOME OF THEM ARE BOSTON
01:06:24:00	01:06:27:00	RESIDENTS, SOME OF THEM ARE
01:06:27:00	01:06:28:00	PEOPLE OF COLOR, SOME OF THEM
01:06:28:00	01:06:28:00	ARE WOMEN.
01:06:28:00	01:06:31:00	THEY ACTUALLY ARE IN COMPLIANCE
01:06:31:00	01:06:34:00	WITH THE BOSTON RESIDENCY
01:06:34:00	01:06:35:00	POLICY.
01:06:35:00	01:06:37:00	SO WE KNOW THAT PEOPLE WANT TO
01:06:37:00	01:06:42:00	SEE MORE LOCAL HIRING IN JOBS.
01:06:42:00	01:06:42:00	I'M JUST BEING HONEST WITH YOU.
01:06:42:00	01:06:45:00	I'M NOT EXACTLY SURE HOW DO WE
01:06:45:00	01:06:50:00	MOVE FOR THAT AT THE SAME TIME
01:06:50:00	01:06:51:00	TO REMAIN IN COMPLIANCE WITH
01:06:51:00	01:06:53:00	STATE LAW IS ONE OF THE THINGS
01:06:53:00	01:06:54:00	WE WANTED TO LOOK AT IS COULD
01:06:54:00	01:06:58:00	WE GIVE PEOPLE POINTS FOR
01:06:58:00	01:06:58:00	INSTANCE IN THE HIRING PROCESS
01:06:58:00	01:07:01:00	IF THEY WERE ABLE TO
01:07:01:00	01:07:02:00	DEMONSTRATE AT THE PREVIOUS
01:07:02:00	01:07:04:00	HIRING PROCESS THEY WERE THEY
01:07:04:00	01:07:05:00	DID A GOOD JOB OF INCREASING
01:07:05:00	01:07:09:00	THE NUMBER OF RESIDENTS WE WERE
01:07:09:00	01:07:10:00	TOLD NOT WITHIN THE STATE
01:07:10:00	01:07:13:00	REGULATIONS.
01:07:13:00	01:07:13:00	WE'RE NOT ALLOWED TO GIVE
01:07:13:00	01:07:17:00	PEOPLE EXTRA POINTS IF THEY WE
01:07:17:00	01:07:18:00	CAN ONLY CONSIDER THAT THEY'RE
01:07:18:00	01:07:21:00	EITHER COMPLIANT OR WE CALL
01:07:21:00	01:07:25:00	RESPONSIVE AND RESPONSIBLE.
01:07:25:00	01:07:25:00	RIGHT.
01:07:25:00	01:07:26:00	LIKE IF THEY FOR INSTANCE,
01:07:26:00	01:07:29:00	COMPLETELY MESSED UP A JOB AND
01:07:29:00	01:07:33:00	THEY HAD A RECORD OF DOING
01:07:33:00	01:07:34:00	THINGS INCORRECTLY, WE MIGHT
01:07:34:00	01:07:36:00	HAVE WE MIGHT HAVE SOME
01:07:36:00	01:07:37:00	STANDING TO SAY NO, WE DON'T
01:07:37:00	01:07:40:00	WANT TO WORK WITH YOU ANYMORE.
01:07:40:00	01:07:44:00	BUT FROM WHAT I CAN SEE WE'RE
01:07:44:00	01:07:48:00	NOT ABLE TO REJECT PEOPLE'S BID
01:07:48:00	01:07:52:00	BECAUSE THEY DIDN'T AS LONG AS
01:07:52:00	01:07:53:00	THEY COMPLIED WITH WHAT THE BJP
01:07:53:00	01:07:55:00	SAYS WE ARE NOT ABLE TO SAY
01:07:55:00	01:07:56:00	THIS PROJECT IS IN ROXBURY.
01:07:56:00	01:07:59:00	WE WANT YOU TO LOOK AT ROXBURY
01:07:59:00	01:08:00:00	RESIDENTS.
01:08:00:00	01:08:03:00	THAT'S A LEVEL OF DETAIL THAT
01:08:03:00	01:08:07:00	WHAT WE'VE HEARD WE'RE NOT ABLE
01:08:07:00	01:08:08:00	TO DO IN COMPLIANCE WITH STATE
01:08:08:00	01:08:08:00	LAW.
01:08:08:00	01:08:11:00	SO I'M COMPLETELY OPEN.
01:08:11:00	01:08:12:00	I'VE HEARD THE THE FEEDBACK
01:08:12:00	01:08:15:00	FROM FROM RESIDENTS WE LOVE A
01:08:15:00	01:08:18:00	SOLUTION.
01:08:18:00	01:08:19:00	WE SPENT SOME TIME REALLY
01:08:19:00	01:08:20:00	THINKING ABOUT IT AND WORKING
01:08:20:00	01:08:22:00	ABOUT IT.
01:08:22:00	01:08:22:00	YEAH.
01:08:22:00	01:08:27:00	SO I JUST WANT TO BE HONEST
01:08:27:00	01:08:27:00	ABOUT WHERE WE ARE.
01:08:27:00	01:08:28:00	WE'RE IN THE INFORMATION GAP.
01:08:28:00	01:08:31:00	WE'VE ACTUALLY REALLY GATHERED
01:08:31:00	01:08:31:00	ALL THE INFORMATION WE NEED AND
01:08:31:00	01:08:32:00	NOW WE'RE AT A BIT OF A STEP
01:08:32:00	01:08:35:00	PLACE IN TERMS ARE THERE WAYS
01:08:35:00	01:08:37:00	TO TO BE EVEN MORE HYPER LOCAL
01:08:37:00	01:08:38:00	IN OUR PROJECTS FROM WHAT WE
01:08:38:00	01:08:41:00	CURRENTLY UNDERSTAND THERE ARE
01:08:41:00	01:08:43:00	NOT IF WE'RE GOING TO BE IN
01:08:43:00	01:08:46:00	COMPLIANCE WITH STATE LAW BUT
01:08:46:00	01:08:49:00	WELCOME SUGGESTIONS, MODELS,
01:08:49:00	01:08:50:00	THINGS PEOPLE I THINK WE COULD
01:08:50:00	01:08:54:00	BE DOING AND AND REMAIN IN IN
01:08:54:00	01:08:57:00	COMPLIANCE STATE LAW.
01:08:57:00	01:08:59:00	SO I DID JUST GET A LITTLE BIT
01:08:59:00	01:09:02:00	OF INFORMATION FROM A TEAM THAT
01:09:02:00	01:09:02:00	ROSS PLAYGROUND WAS COMPLETED
01:09:02:00	01:09:05:00	IN TWENTY EIGHTEEN BUT THE
01:09:05:00	01:09:06:00	FIELDS AND COURTS HAVEN'T BEEN
01:09:06:00	01:09:09:00	RENOVATED IN A WHILE AND WOULD
01:09:09:00	01:09:10:00	BENEFIT FROM ENERGY EFFICIENT
01:09:10:00	01:09:13:00	LIGHTING AND CLEAR PATHWAYS.
01:09:13:00	01:09:14:00	SO ONE OF THE THINGS I'LL SAY
01:09:14:00	01:09:16:00	IS THIS AS I THINK PEOPLE KNOW
01:09:16:00	01:09:20:00	WE USED TO DO WE USED NOT VERY
01:09:20:00	01:09:21:00	MANY RESOURCES AND SO WE ENDED
01:09:21:00	01:09:25:00	UP GOING PARK BY PARK ONLY
01:09:25:00	01:09:26:00	RENOVATING THE THINGS THAT WERE
01:09:26:00	01:09:28:00	AT POINT OF DISREPAIR.
01:09:28:00	01:09:29:00	AS YOU'VE BEEN PROBABLY
01:09:29:00	01:09:30:00	NOTICING, WE'VE BEEN DOING A
01:09:30:00	01:09:32:00	LOT MORE SORT OF COOL PARK
01:09:32:00	01:09:32:00	REDESIGN.
01:09:32:00	01:09:36:00	THIS IS PARTICULARLY TRUE IN
01:09:36:00	01:09:36:00	SOME OF OUR CLIMATE RESILIENT
01:09:36:00	01:09:39:00	PARKS LIKE AS MCCONNELL PARK
01:09:39:00	01:09:40:00	WHICH IS RELATIVELY CLOSE TO
01:09:40:00	01:09:40:00	ME.
01:09:40:00	01:09:41:00	THE WHOLE THING HAD TO BE
01:09:41:00	01:09:44:00	RAISED BECAUSE OF CLIMATE
01:09:44:00	01:09:44:00	CHANGE AND SO THAT REQUIRED
01:09:44:00	01:09:47:00	SORT OF EVERYTHING TO BE TO BE
01:09:47:00	01:09:48:00	UPGRADED AT THE SAME TIME.
01:09:48:00	01:09:51:00	SO LET'S HAVE A CONVERSATION.
01:09:51:00	01:09:54:00	BUT WHAT WE DO DO IS THE FIRST
01:09:54:00	01:09:55:00	PIECE AND I TALKED ABOUT THIS A
01:09:55:00	01:09:59:00	LITTLE BIT AT THE AT THE AT THE
01:09:59:00	01:10:00:00	CAPITOL HEARING IS SORT OF THIS
01:10:00:00	01:10:02:00	PIECE AROUND WE LOOK AT WHAT
01:10:02:00	01:10:03:00	WAS THE LAST TIME WE TOUCHED
01:10:03:00	01:10:04:00	ALL THE COMPONENTS IN A PARK
01:10:04:00	01:10:07:00	THAT'S ONE OF THE FIRST PIECES.
01:10:07:00	01:10:09:00	WE ALSO LOOK AT SORT OF EQUITY
01:10:09:00	01:10:10:00	AND SORT OF THE NEIGHBORHOOD
01:10:10:00	01:10:13:00	AND WHO IS SERVED BY THOSE AND
01:10:13:00	01:10:17:00	ARE THERE COMMUNITIES THAT ARE
01:10:17:00	01:10:18:00	PARTICULAR NEED THAT ARE SERVED
01:10:18:00	01:10:19:00	BY THAT PARK WE LOOKED AT LOOK
01:10:19:00	01:10:21:00	AT CLIMATE RESILIENCE OBVIOUSLY
01:10:21:00	01:10:23:00	ALSO PLAYS A ROLE AND DOES SORT
01:10:23:00	01:10:26:00	OF IMPACT WHAT WHAT WHAT
01:10:26:00	01:10:29:00	DECISIONS THAT WE MAKE SO MORE
01:10:29:00	01:10:30:00	OF THEM ONLINE YOU TALK ABOUT
01:10:30:00	01:10:33:00	ANY PARTICULAR PART MORE I'M
01:10:33:00	01:10:34:00	WILLING TO DO A SPECIAL SESSION
01:10:34:00	01:10:37:00	AND WANTING TO STOP BECAUSE I
01:10:37:00	01:10:38:00	KNOW YOU'RE GOING TO RUN OUT
01:10:38:00	01:10:39:00	OF TIME JUST IN CASE YOU HAVE
01:10:39:00	01:10:40:00	ONE MORE QUESTION I KNOW THAT I
01:10:40:00	01:10:44:00	WANT TO THANK YOU FOR THE FOR
01:10:44:00	01:10:45:00	THE OFFER TO TALK MORE.
01:10:45:00	01:10:49:00	I ALSO WANT TO SAY THAT WE TEND
01:10:49:00	01:10:52:00	TO BE HITTING SOMETIMES BRICK
01:10:52:00	01:10:53:00	WALLS WHEN YOU MENTIONED BEFORE
01:10:53:00	01:10:56:00	JP SO I JUST WANT TO KNOW WE
01:10:56:00	01:10:57:00	JUST WANT TO PUT ON THE RECORD
01:10:57:00	01:10:58:00	LIKE WE DID DISPARITY STUDY
01:10:58:00	01:10:59:00	THAT ALLOWED US TO DO SHELTERED
01:10:59:00	01:11:00:00	MARKETS LIKE I THINK WE NEED TO
01:11:00:00	01:11:01:00	START PUTTING THAT BACK ON THE
01:11:01:00	01:11:03:00	TABLE AGAIN DISCUSSIONS ABOUT
01:11:03:00	01:11:04:00	DOING DISPARITY STUDIES WHEN WE
01:11:04:00	01:11:05:00	STARTED AT THESE BRICK WALLS.
01:11:05:00	01:11:07:00	SO THANK YOU.
01:11:07:00	01:11:08:00	I THINK YOU HAVE A MORAL
01:11:08:00	01:11:09:00	OBLIGATION AND EVERYONE FOR
01:11:09:00	01:11:10:00	BEING HONEST COLLEGE AND
01:11:10:00	01:11:11:00	INFORMATION ABOUT IT.
01:11:11:00	01:11:12:00	THANK YOU, COUNSELOR.
01:11:12:00	01:11:13:00	DAN, WE HAVE COUNSELED
01:11:13:00	01:11:15:00	PRESIDENT FLYNN FOLLOWED BY
01:11:15:00	01:11:16:00	COUNCILOR COUNSELOR COLLETTA SO
01:11:16:00	01:11:19:00	COUNSELOR FLYNN FLOOR'S YOURS.
01:11:19:00	01:11:23:00	THANK YOU COUNCILOR ARROYO
01:11:23:00	01:11:27:00	WANTED TO FOCUS ON A COUPLE
01:11:27:00	01:11:28:00	ISSUES IN MY POCKET AND I WANT
01:11:28:00	01:11:31:00	TO SAY THANK YOU TO
01:11:31:00	01:11:32:00	COMMISSIONER WOODS TO OFFER HIS
01:11:32:00	01:11:35:00	SUPPORT MOAKLEY POG MOQUI POCAN
01:11:35:00	01:11:38:00	SOUTH BOSTON SURROUNDED
01:11:38:00	01:11:42:00	LITERALLY SURROUNDED BY THREE
01:11:42:00	01:11:46:00	PUBLIC HOUSING DEVELOPMENTS.
01:11:46:00	01:11:47:00	REVEREND REVEREND HAMMOND, CAN
01:11:47:00	01:11:49:00	YOU TELL ME WHAT'S THE LATEST
01:11:49:00	01:11:53:00	ON THIS PARK AND WHERE WE
01:11:53:00	01:11:54:00	CURRENTLY STAND?
01:11:54:00	01:11:54:00	YES.
01:11:54:00	01:11:58:00	SO THAT WE HAVE REALLY GOOD
01:11:58:00	01:11:58:00	NEWS TO REPORT.
01:11:58:00	01:12:01:00	WE HAVE AN ADDITION ON I WANT
01:12:01:00	01:12:02:00	TO MAKE SURE I GOT THIS NUMBER
01:12:02:00	01:12:03:00	RIGHT.
01:12:03:00	01:12:03:00	FIFTY MILLION DOLLARS CORRECT
01:12:03:00	01:12:04:00	ME RIGHT THAT REMOTELY
01:12:04:00	01:12:05:00	APPROXIMATELY MIGHT BE FORTY
01:12:05:00	01:12:08:00	SEVEN TOTAL.
01:12:08:00	01:12:13:00	OK, SO WE HAVE SOME SIGNIFICANT
01:12:13:00	01:12:16:00	RESOURCES TO MOVE ON PHASE ONE
01:12:16:00	01:12:17:00	MOSTLY PARK WHICH WILL MEAN
01:12:17:00	01:12:21:00	GOING INTO GREATER DEPTH AROUND
01:12:21:00	01:12:21:00	DESIGN, STARTING TO GET ALL
01:12:21:00	01:12:24:00	THOSE ENGINEERING PIECES
01:12:24:00	01:12:28:00	TOGETHER AND WE'LL BE FOCUSING
01:12:28:00	01:12:29:00	ON SOME OF THE CLIMATE
01:12:29:00	01:12:31:00	RESILIENCE PIECES TO GET
01:12:31:00	01:12:31:00	MOVING.
01:12:31:00	01:12:33:00	AND WE'RE ALSO I DO WANT TO
01:12:33:00	01:12:35:00	KNOW REALLY EXCITED WITH THE
01:12:35:00	01:12:36:00	NEW STATE ADMINISTRATION AND
01:12:36:00	01:12:39:00	AND ALREADY HAVE HAD SOME EARLY
01:12:39:00	01:12:40:00	CONVERSATIONS WITH THEM ABOUT
01:12:40:00	01:12:42:00	HOW WE WORK MORE
01:12:42:00	01:12:43:00	COLLABORATIVELY TO ADDRESS
01:12:43:00	01:12:47:00	PLACES WHERE CLIMATE ISSUES ARE
01:12:47:00	01:12:51:00	HITTING BOTH OF OUR ADJACENT
01:12:51:00	01:12:51:00	PROPERTIES.
01:12:51:00	01:12:52:00	SO MOAKLEY, AS YOU KNOW, IS
01:12:52:00	01:12:55:00	RIGHT UP CARSON BEACH AND AND
01:12:55:00	01:12:59:00	SOME OF THE LAND THAT IS
01:12:59:00	01:13:00:00	MANAGED BY DCR, IT SORT OF GOES
01:13:00:00	01:13:02:00	BACK AND FORTH BETWEEN DCR AND
01:13:02:00	01:13:03:00	THE CITY AND YOU KNOW, SO WE'RE
01:13:03:00	01:13:04:00	ALL INTERTWINED.
01:13:04:00	01:13:05:00	THE STATE POLICE BARRACKS
01:13:05:00	01:13:06:00	THERE.
01:13:06:00	01:13:07:00	SO WE'RE EXCITED WE HAVE SOME
01:13:07:00	01:13:10:00	REAL RESOURCES TO GET STARTED
01:13:10:00	01:13:11:00	AND HOPE THAT YOU WILL BE PART
01:13:11:00	01:13:14:00	OF THIS PROCESS AS TO FIGURE
01:13:14:00	01:13:15:00	OUT HOW WE MOVE INTO THIS NEXT
01:13:15:00	01:13:15:00	PHASE.
01:13:15:00	01:13:18:00	WE KNOW YOU'VE BEEN ACTIVE
01:13:18:00	01:13:19:00	PREVIOUSLY AND MANY PEOPLE KNOW
01:13:19:00	01:13:22:00	THAT MOAKLEY IS ALSO ONE OF MY
01:13:22:00	01:13:23:00	LOCAL PARKS.
01:13:23:00	01:13:25:00	IT'S WHERE I SPENT A LOT TIME
01:13:25:00	01:13:26:00	AGO RUNNING IN THAT AREA AND
01:13:26:00	01:13:30:00	AND LOOK FORWARD TO REALLY
01:13:30:00	01:13:31:00	GETTING TO TO TO DOVE IN.
01:13:31:00	01:13:34:00	IT IS ONE OF OUR MOST MOST
01:13:34:00	01:13:35:00	IMPORTANT SORT OF NEXT
01:13:35:00	01:13:37:00	INVESTMENTS IN TERMS OF CLIMATE
01:13:37:00	01:13:37:00	RESILIENCE.
01:13:37:00	01:13:38:00	WE'RE ALSO LOOKING AT
01:13:38:00	01:13:41:00	CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS PARK.
01:13:41:00	01:13:42:00	THESE ARE TWO MAJOR PIECES
01:13:42:00	01:13:46:00	WHERE WE HAVE FLOOD PATHS RIGHT
01:13:46:00	01:13:47:00	INTO THE PARK AND WE NEED TO
01:13:47:00	01:13:47:00	BEGIN ADDRESSING THEM
01:13:47:00	01:13:50:00	IMMEDIATELY AND THOSE ARE BOTH
01:13:50:00	01:13:54:00	LOOKING TO TO MOVE FORWARD THIS
01:13:54:00	01:13:54:00	COMING YEAR.
01:13:54:00	01:13:55:00	THANK YOU.
01:13:55:00	01:13:58:00	THAT'S A PARK I'M VERY FAMILIAR
01:13:58:00	01:13:58:00	WITH AS WELL.
01:13:58:00	01:13:59:00	I PLAYED SPORTS THERE AND I GO
01:13:59:00	01:14:02:00	DOWN TO SEE MY SON PLAY
01:14:02:00	01:14:02:00	BASEBALL THERE AND PROBABLY
01:14:02:00	01:14:03:00	DOWN THERE SEVERAL TIMES
01:14:03:00	01:14:06:00	SEVERAL TIMES A WEEK.
01:14:06:00	01:14:07:00	I ALSO WANT TO ACKNOWLEDGE
01:14:07:00	01:14:10:00	SENATOR COLLINS AND
01:14:10:00	01:14:11:00	REPRESENTATIVE BEAL FOR THEIR
01:14:11:00	01:14:14:00	WORK WORKING WITH STATE
01:14:14:00	01:14:21:00	LEGISLATORS IN THE DCR TO LET
01:14:21:00	01:14:25:00	ME LET ME GO ON TO LET ME GO ON
01:14:25:00	01:14:29:00	TO CHINATOWN.
01:14:29:00	01:14:32:00	I KNOW YOU HIGHLIGHTED THE
01:14:32:00	01:14:36:00	POTENTIAL FOR SOME FUNDING FOR
01:14:36:00	01:14:40:00	A PARK MAYBE OVER THE OVER THE
01:14:40:00	01:14:44:00	OVER THE HIGHWAY SYSTEM
01:14:44:00	01:14:44:00	CONNECTING MAYBE CHINATOWN IN
01:14:44:00	01:14:48:00	THE SOUTH AND WHAT'S WHAT'S THE
01:14:48:00	01:14:52:00	STATUS ON THAT OR ROSMARIE, ANY
01:14:52:00	01:14:53:00	UPDATE ON WHAT YOU'RE THINKING
01:14:53:00	01:14:53:00	ON THAT?
01:14:53:00	01:14:56:00	YEAH, SO WE HAVE RECEIVED WE
01:14:56:00	01:14:57:00	RECEIVED A FEDERAL GRANT CALLED
01:14:57:00	01:15:00:00	RECONNECTION COMMUNITIES AND
01:15:00:00	01:15:01:00	THAT WILL PAY FOR A DESIGN
01:15:01:00	01:15:04:00	PHASE SO IT ALLOW US TO REALLY
01:15:04:00	01:15:05:00	LOOK AT WHAT IS FEASIBLE, WHAT
01:15:05:00	01:15:07:00	WILL IT WHAT WILL SOME EARLY
01:15:07:00	01:15:11:00	COST ESTIMATES TO BE AND TO BE
01:15:11:00	01:15:12:00	ABLE TO SIT DOWN WITH THE
01:15:12:00	01:15:13:00	COMMUNITY AND LOOK AT WHAT WE
01:15:13:00	01:15:13:00	MIGHT DO THERE.
01:15:13:00	01:15:16:00	SO THAT IS MOVING FROM A
01:15:16:00	01:15:19:00	HYPOTHETICAL TO SOMETHING THAT
01:15:19:00	01:15:20:00	WOULD BE VERY REAL AND SO WE'LL
01:15:20:00	01:15:23:00	GET STARTED ON FEASIBILITY AND
01:15:23:00	01:15:23:00	DESIGN AND THEN THERE'S ANOTHER
01:15:23:00	01:15:26:00	GRANT THAT YOU CAN ALSO APPLY
01:15:26:00	01:15:30:00	FOR THAT HELPS TO PAY FOR THE
01:15:30:00	01:15:31:00	ACTUAL IMPLEMENTATION.
01:15:31:00	01:15:32:00	SO WE'LL START WITH THAT
01:15:32:00	01:15:35:00	FEASIBILITY DESIGN AND THEN GO
01:15:35:00	01:15:35:00	FROM THERE.
01:15:35:00	01:15:36:00	IT'S NOT THE ONLY PLACE WE CAN
01:15:36:00	01:15:37:00	CONSIDER FOR PARC AND IN
01:15:37:00	01:15:38:00	CHINATOWN OBVIOUSLY THE
01:15:38:00	01:15:42:00	NEIGHBORHOOD IS IN SEVERE NEED
01:15:42:00	01:15:43:00	AND SO WE ARE OPEN AND HAVE HAD
01:15:43:00	01:15:46:00	SOME OUTREACH FROM COMMUNITY
01:15:46:00	01:15:46:00	ABOUT OTHER POSSIBILITIES,
01:15:46:00	01:15:50:00	OTHER PLACES WHERE WE COULD BE
01:15:50:00	01:15:50:00	SUPPORTIVE.
01:15:50:00	01:15:54:00	SO JOSIAH QUINCY SCHOOL, COULD
01:15:54:00	01:15:54:00	WE GET MORE TREES THERE?
01:15:54:00	01:15:55:00	SO THERE HAVE BEEN A VARIETY
01:15:55:00	01:15:56:00	OF CONVERSATIONS ABOUT WHAT WE
01:15:56:00	01:15:58:00	CAN DO IN CHINATOWN BUT WE ARE
01:15:58:00	01:15:59:00	REALLY THANKFUL THAT WE
01:15:59:00	01:16:01:00	RECEIVED THAT FEDERAL GRANT AND
01:16:01:00	01:16:02:00	LOOK FORWARD TO MOVING FORWARD
01:16:02:00	01:16:03:00	IN THE DESIGN PHASE FOR THAT.
01:16:03:00	01:16:05:00	I THINK CHINATOWN HAS THE
01:16:05:00	01:16:06:00	SMALLEST PARK IN THE CITY
01:16:06:00	01:16:09:00	TAICHUNG VILLAGE PARK AND IT'S
01:16:09:00	01:16:13:00	AND IT'S USED BY SO MANY
01:16:13:00	01:16:13:00	FAMILIES.
01:16:13:00	01:16:14:00	SO I I'M OVER THERE AT LEAST
01:16:14:00	01:16:17:00	TWO OR THREE DAYS A WEEK AS
01:16:17:00	01:16:17:00	WELL.
01:16:17:00	01:16:20:00	BUT HAVING THE SMALLEST PARK IN
01:16:20:00	01:16:25:00	THE CITY, HAVING ALMOST LIMITED
01:16:25:00	01:16:28:00	SPACE FOR KIDS TO PLAY I'M
01:16:28:00	01:16:35:00	WORKING WITH THE STATE AND WITH
01:16:35:00	01:16:38:00	CITY OFFICIALS ON REGGIE WONG
01:16:38:00	01:16:39:00	BASKETBALL COURT.
01:16:39:00	01:16:40:00	I KNOW BRIAN WOODS IS WAS PART
01:16:40:00	01:16:43:00	OF IT AND AND CHRIS COOK AS
01:16:43:00	01:16:47:00	WELL WAS UP THE GREENWAY BUT
01:16:47:00	01:16:48:00	THAT WOULD BE A GREAT
01:16:48:00	01:16:51:00	PARTNERSHIP.
01:16:51:00	01:16:52:00	REGGIE WANG PARK WHICH HAS
01:16:52:00	01:16:54:00	VOLLEYBALL AND BASKETBALL.
01:16:54:00	01:16:55:00	IT'S IN THE MIDDLE OF THE
01:16:55:00	01:16:59:00	LEATHERED DISTRICT AND IN
01:16:59:00	01:17:02:00	CHINATOWN.
01:17:02:00	01:17:03:00	BUT I WANT TO SEE THAT BECOME A
01:17:03:00	01:17:06:00	PARK THAT WE CAN BE PROUD OF .
01:17:06:00	01:17:07:00	I'M NOT PROUD OF THAT RIGHT NOW
01:17:07:00	01:17:07:00	IT'S STATE PROPERTY.
01:17:07:00	01:17:10:00	YEAH, THE RESIDENTS
01:17:10:00	01:17:11:00	OF CHINATOWN IN THE LEATHER
01:17:11:00	01:17:14:00	DISTRICT DESERVE SOMETHING
01:17:14:00	01:17:15:00	BEAUTIFUL JUST LIKE THE
01:17:15:00	01:17:18:00	RESIDENTS OF OF OF BACK.
01:17:18:00	01:17:21:00	SO YOU KNOW, I THAT ALSO HAS TO
01:17:21:00	01:17:22:00	BE ASKED TO BE A PRIORITY.
01:17:22:00	01:17:25:00	WE WE ARE SUPPORTING THAT.
01:17:25:00	01:17:26:00	WE KNOW WHAT RESIDENTS ARE
01:17:26:00	01:17:29:00	PUSHING FOR AND IT HAS REAL
01:17:29:00	01:17:30:00	POTENTIALS IN TERMS
01:17:30:00	01:17:30:00	OF RECREATION.
01:17:30:00	01:17:32:00	I DO WANT TO KNOW THAT THE
01:17:32:00	01:17:33:00	AMOUNT OF SOIL UNDERNEATH THE
01:17:33:00	01:17:36:00	AREA IS NOT SIGNIFICANT AND
01:17:36:00	01:17:40:00	PROBABLY WOULDN'T SUPPORT THE
01:17:40:00	01:17:41:00	LEVEL OF SORT OF TREES AND
01:17:41:00	01:17:44:00	VEGETATION THAT WE WOULD USUAL
01:17:44:00	01:17:44:00	.
01:17:44:00	01:17:45:00	SO WE DO THINK IT'S AN
01:17:45:00	01:17:48:00	IMPORTANT PART AND WE ARE
01:17:48:00	01:17:49:00	LOOKING FOR THINGS THAT MORE
01:17:49:00	01:17:52:00	CLOSELY COULD FIT WHAT WE WOULD
01:17:52:00	01:17:53:00	TRADITIONALLY THINK OF AS A
01:17:53:00	01:17:54:00	PARK WHERE YOU COULD REALLY
01:17:54:00	01:17:55:00	HAVE TREES AND YOU COULD HAVE
01:17:55:00	01:17:56:00	GRASS AND YOU CAN HAVE
01:17:56:00	01:17:57:00	DIFFERENT KINDS OF VEGETATION
01:17:57:00	01:18:00:00	AND REGGIE WONG HAS DEFINITELY
01:18:00:00	01:18:01:00	SERVED A PURPOSE IN THE
01:18:01:00	01:18:02:00	NEIGHBORHOOD AND ALLOWS PEOPLE
01:18:02:00	01:18:03:00	TO RECREATE BUT DOESN'T HAVE
01:18:03:00	01:18:07:00	ENOUGH SOIL COVERAGE UNDERNEATH
01:18:07:00	01:18:11:00	IT TO HAVE THE SAME KIND
01:18:11:00	01:18:12:00	OF VEGETATION THAT WE WOULD
01:18:12:00	01:18:12:00	USUALLY WANT.
01:18:12:00	01:18:15:00	AND IN PARK.
01:18:15:00	01:18:16:00	SO I APPLAUD IT AND WE'RE GOING
01:18:16:00	01:18:18:00	TO BE LOOKING TO DO SO.
01:18:18:00	01:18:19:00	RIGHT.
01:18:19:00	01:18:19:00	THANK YOU.
01:18:19:00	01:18:22:00	THANK YOU, REVEREND.
01:18:22:00	01:18:23:00	THAT'S IMPORTANT TO ME BECAUSE
01:18:23:00	01:18:26:00	I ALSO REPRESENT PART THE BACK
01:18:26:00	01:18:27:00	BAY AND I LOVE THE BACK BAY.
01:18:27:00	01:18:29:00	I LOVE WALKING ON COMMONWEALTH
01:18:29:00	01:18:30:00	AVENUE.
01:18:30:00	01:18:31:00	I LOVE I LOVE THE PUBLIC GOD
01:18:31:00	01:18:32:00	AND I LIKE THE FLOWERS.
01:18:32:00	01:18:34:00	I LOVE THE TREES.
01:18:34:00	01:18:35:00	BUT YOU KNOW WHAT I LOVE MORE
01:18:35:00	01:18:36:00	THAN THAT IS I LOVE WATCHING
01:18:36:00	01:18:38:00	KIDS PLAYING BASKETBALL WITH
01:18:38:00	01:18:38:00	REGGIE REGGIE ONE PARK WITH THE
01:18:38:00	01:18:42:00	KIDS FROM CHINATO ARE NOT
01:18:42:00	01:18:43:00	TREATED THE SAME AS THE KIDS
01:18:43:00	01:18:46:00	FROM THE BACK BAY AND THAT'S
01:18:46:00	01:18:49:00	THAT'S UNFAIR.
01:18:49:00	01:18:50:00	AGAIN, I'M NOT BLAMING ANYONE.
01:18:50:00	01:18:53:00	I'M I'M CERTAINLY NOT BLAMING
01:18:53:00	01:18:54:00	THE CITY BUT THE KIDS IN
01:18:54:00	01:18:57:00	CHINATOWN DESERVE THE SAME
01:18:57:00	01:18:58:00	LEVEL OF RESPECT THAT OTHER
01:18:58:00	01:19:02:00	WEALTHY KIDS DESERVE TO HAVE IN
01:19:02:00	01:19:05:00	THE CITY OF BOSTON.
01:19:05:00	01:19:08:00	LET ME LET ME LET ME GO ON LET
01:19:08:00	01:19:09:00	ME ASK ONE MORE QUESTION.
01:19:09:00	01:19:10:00	SENIOR LEADERSHIP FOR ALL
01:19:10:00	01:19:13:00	OF YOUR DEPARTMENTS DO YOU HAVE
01:19:13:00	01:19:13:00	ANY CANTONESE SPEAKING SENIOR
01:19:13:00	01:19:20:00	LEADERS NOW AND THAT IS AND
01:19:20:00	01:19:21:00	I'LL JUST SAY WITHIN THE PARKS
01:19:21:00	01:19:24:00	DEPARTMENT WE HAVE NO
01:19:24:00	01:19:28:00	ASIAN-AMERICAN STAFF AND THAT'S
01:19:28:00	01:19:31:00	OF PARTICULAR CONCERN.
01:19:31:00	01:19:32:00	SO THERE ARE A NUMBER OF PLACES
01:19:32:00	01:19:35:00	AND WHAT AS I MENTIONED EARLIER
01:19:35:00	01:19:36:00	THAT OUR FIRST PIECE IS TO MAKE
01:19:36:00	01:19:38:00	SURE THAT EVERYBODY WAS AWARE
01:19:38:00	01:19:39:00	WHERE WE WERE STRUGGLING SO WE
01:19:39:00	01:19:43:00	DON'T HAVE THERE'S NOT
01:19:43:00	01:19:46:00	SIGNIFICANT ASIAN-AMERICAN AND
01:19:46:00	01:19:47:00	NOT COMMENSURATE WITH THE
01:19:47:00	01:19:50:00	ASIAN-AMERICAN POPULATION IN
01:19:50:00	01:19:51:00	THE CITY IN THE PARKS
01:19:51:00	01:19:51:00	DEPARTMENT THERE ARE A
01:19:51:00	01:19:54:00	SIGNIFICANT AMOUNT OF BLACK
01:19:54:00	01:19:54:00	AMERICANS.
01:19:54:00	01:19:59:00	HOWEVER, WE HAVE A MAJOR
01:19:59:00	01:20:02:00	INEQUITY IN TERMS OF LEADERSHIP
01:20:02:00	01:20:03:00	POSITIONS, IN TERMS OF THE
01:20:03:00	01:20:04:00	AMOUNT OF DOLLARS THAT PEOPLE
01:20:04:00	01:20:06:00	ARE BEING PAID.
01:20:06:00	01:20:07:00	THERE'S A GREATER LEVEL
01:20:07:00	01:20:10:00	OF INEQUITY THERE AND THE OTHER
01:20:10:00	01:20:11:00	BIG DO YOU HAVE ANY BESIDES
01:20:11:00	01:20:11:00	SENIOR STAFF?
01:20:11:00	01:20:14:00	DO YOU HAVE ANY THAT SPEAKS
01:20:14:00	01:20:18:00	CANTONESE I'M NOT NOT THAT I
01:20:18:00	01:20:18:00	KNOW OF ALLISON.
01:20:18:00	01:20:19:00	DO WE HAVE ANYONE IN THE
01:20:19:00	01:20:21:00	ENVIRONMENT?
01:20:21:00	01:20:22:00	WE HAVE SEVERAL MANDARIN
01:20:22:00	01:20:22:00	SPEAKERS AND I THINK WE HAVE
01:20:22:00	01:20:25:00	ONE PERSON WHO SPEAKS A LITTLE
01:20:25:00	01:20:26:00	BIT OF CANTONESE BUT NOT FLUENT
01:20:26:00	01:20:29:00	BUT WE HAVE SEVERAL MANDARIN
01:20:29:00	01:20:29:00	SPEAKERS.
01:20:29:00	01:20:30:00	YOU HAVE THE PEOPLE MOSTLY THE
01:20:30:00	01:20:32:00	PEOPLE IN CHINATOWN THEY SPEAK
01:20:32:00	01:20:32:00	CANTONESE.
01:20:32:00	01:20:37:00	SO YEAH, TO BRING IN
01:20:37:00	01:20:38:00	INTERPRETERS WE DO HAVE
01:20:38:00	01:20:39:00	MULTIPLE MEETINGS THAT WE'VE
01:20:39:00	01:20:48:00	HAD BOTH IN PARKS AND IN
01:20:48:00	01:20:49:00	ENVIRONMENT WHERE WE BRING IN
01:20:49:00	01:20:50:00	LCA TO HAVE CANTONESE
01:20:50:00	01:20:50:00	INTERPRETATION BUT NOT IN NOT
01:20:50:00	01:20:51:00	ON THE TEAM.
01:20:51:00	01:20:52:00	I MET WITH JENNIFER THIS
01:20:52:00	01:20:53:00	MORNING FROM LANGUAGE AND
01:20:53:00	01:20:55:00	COMMUNICATION ACCESS BUT THE
01:20:55:00	01:20:59:00	INTERPRETATION SERVICES ARE NOT
01:20:59:00	01:21:00:00	THE SAME AS HAVING A FULL TIME
01:21:00:00	01:21:02:00	STAFF PERSON THAT SPEAKS THE
01:21:02:00	01:21:06:00	LANGUAGE FLUENTLY.
01:21:06:00	01:21:10:00	SO WHEN WHEN YOU COME BACK
01:21:10:00	01:21:11:00	AGAIN DURING THE BUDGET SEASON
01:21:11:00	01:21:15:00	LIKE WE ARE DOING NOW, I'M SURE
01:21:15:00	01:21:16:00	YOU'LL COME BACK AGAIN.
01:21:16:00	01:21:17:00	COULD YOU GIVE ME ANOTHER
01:21:17:00	01:21:18:00	UPDATE ON IF THERE HAS BEEN ANY
01:21:18:00	01:21:22:00	OUTREACH TO ANYONE TO TRY TO
01:21:22:00	01:21:23:00	RECRUIT SOME PEOPLE THAT SPEAK
01:21:23:00	01:21:25:00	CANTONESE?
01:21:25:00	01:21:26:00	WE CAN YEAH, WE CAN HAVE A
01:21:26:00	01:21:27:00	CONVERSATION.
01:21:27:00	01:21:27:00	I'M GOING TO BE TRANSPARENT
01:21:27:00	01:21:30:00	THAT RIGHT NOW THAT HADN'T BEEN
01:21:30:00	01:21:34:00	A CORE COMPONENT OF WHAT WE
01:21:34:00	01:21:34:00	WERE TRACKING.
01:21:34:00	01:21:35:00	WE DO ASK PEOPLE AND TALK ABOUT
01:21:35:00	01:21:37:00	HOW WE APPRECIATE BUT RIGHT
01:21:37:00	01:21:40:00	RIGHT NOW WE HAVEN'T HAD
01:21:40:00	01:21:41:00	SPECIFIC OUTREACH AROUND
01:21:41:00	01:21:44:00	LANGUAGE NOT JUST THIS LANGUAGE
01:21:44:00	01:21:45:00	BUT IN ANY LANGUAGES.
01:21:45:00	01:21:48:00	IT'S BEEN MOSTLY OVERALL RACIAL
01:21:48:00	01:21:49:00	DIVERSITY AND IN PARKS
01:21:49:00	01:21:52:00	PARTICULARLY GENDER DIVERSITY
01:21:52:00	01:21:55:00	WITHIN THE MAINTENANCE TEAM.
01:21:55:00	01:21:56:00	BUT I WOULD LOVE TO ENGAGE AND
01:21:56:00	01:21:59:00	FIGURE OUT WHERE WE COULD ADD
01:21:59:00	01:22:03:00	ANOTHER LAYER OF LOOK AT
01:22:03:00	01:22:04:00	LANGUAGE DIVERSITY.
01:22:04:00	01:22:08:00	YEAH, I JUST WANT TO MAKE MY
01:22:08:00	01:22:08:00	CONSTITUENTS THE MAJORITY
01:22:08:00	01:22:12:00	OF THEM AND JUST SO TO SPEAK
01:22:12:00	01:22:13:00	CANTONESE NO, NO, NOT A
01:22:13:00	01:22:13:00	MAJORITY OF THEM.
01:22:13:00	01:22:14:00	A GOOD PERCENTAGE.
01:22:14:00	01:22:16:00	I'M SPEAKING JAPANESE.
01:22:16:00	01:22:17:00	I JUST WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT
01:22:17:00	01:22:18:00	THEY ARE REPRESENTED IN CITY
01:22:18:00	01:22:19:00	GOVERNMENT.
01:22:19:00	01:22:23:00	SO LET ME ASK ONE MORE
01:22:23:00	01:22:23:00	QUESTION.
01:22:23:00	01:22:27:00	FOOD ACCESS DID I HEAR YOU GUYS
01:22:27:00	01:22:27:00	ARE LEVEL FUNDED?
01:22:27:00	01:22:28:00	YES.
01:22:28:00	01:22:28:00	FOOD JUSTICE.
01:22:28:00	01:22:29:00	YES.
01:22:29:00	01:22:32:00	SO JUSTICE BECAUSE WHY DO YOU
01:22:32:00	01:22:35:00	KNOW WHY ARE THEY WE HAD A
01:22:35:00	01:22:35:00	SIGNIFICANT INCREASE LAST YEAR
01:22:35:00	01:22:38:00	AND ONE OF THE BIG CHALLENGES
01:22:38:00	01:22:39:00	HAS BEEN OVER THIS LAST YEAR
01:22:39:00	01:22:39:00	WE'VE DONE A MAJOR
01:22:39:00	01:22:42:00	RESTRUCTURING PUT AND AND ADDED
01:22:42:00	01:22:43:00	THE JOBS THAT WE GOT SOME
01:22:43:00	01:22:46:00	RESOURCES FOR LAST YEAR BUT IT
01:22:46:00	01:22:47:00	MADE SENSE TO ACTUALLY ON BOARD
01:22:47:00	01:22:50:00	THOSE FOLKS GET EVERYTHING SET
01:22:50:00	01:22:51:00	AND START MOVING BEFORE ASKING
01:22:51:00	01:22:54:00	FOR MORE RESOURCES.
01:22:54:00	01:22:55:00	SO THAT HAS BEEN THE HUGE
01:22:55:00	01:22:56:00	CHALLENGE LAST YEAR.
01:22:56:00	01:23:00:00	OK, THANK YOU TO THE
01:23:00:00	01:23:03:00	ADMINISTRATION CHAIRMAN
01:23:03:00	01:23:04:00	AGRICULTURE.
01:23:04:00	01:23:08:00	THANK YOU COUNCILOR COLLETTA
01:23:08:00	01:23:09:00	AND LMB MICHAEL FLAHERTY,
01:23:09:00	01:23:12:00	COUNCILOR FLAHERTY,
01:23:12:00	01:23:12:00	COUNCILOR CALVIN SOLDIERS.
01:23:12:00	01:23:13:00	GOOD AFTERNOON EVERYBODY.
01:23:13:00	01:23:15:00	THANK YOU FOR THAT
01:23:15:00	01:23:15:00	PRESENTATION.
01:23:15:00	01:23:16:00	IT WAS IT WAS VERY THOROUGH AND
01:23:16:00	01:23:19:00	I'VE BEEN IN PARTNERSHIP IN
01:23:19:00	01:23:20:00	CONVERSATION WITH A LOT
01:23:20:00	01:23:23:00	OF FOLKS ON THIS CALL SO I DO
01:23:23:00	01:23:24:00	WANT TO START IT JUST IN
01:23:24:00	01:23:27:00	GRATITUDE TO EVERYBODY HERE FOR
01:23:27:00	01:23:28:00	THEIR WORK FOOD ACCESS ALICE
01:23:28:00	01:23:28:00	RIVER.
01:23:28:00	01:23:30:00	MARIAMA, I COMMEND COMMISSIONER
01:23:30:00	01:23:31:00	WOODS.
01:23:31:00	01:23:31:00	YOU ARE SO INCREDIBLY
01:23:31:00	01:23:31:00	RESPONSIVE.
01:23:31:00	01:23:34:00	EVERYBODY RESPONSIVE WHEN WE
01:23:34:00	01:23:35:00	HAVE ISSUES IN THE COMMUNITY.
01:23:35:00	01:23:38:00	I JUST WANT TO GIVE A SHOUT OUT
01:23:38:00	01:23:39:00	TO SOME OF THE PARK'S EMPLOYEES
01:23:39:00	01:23:41:00	THAT WORK WITHIN MY DISTRICT
01:23:41:00	01:23:45:00	ABOUT YOUR CHUNKA JACK SCHWENK.
01:23:45:00	01:23:46:00	THESE ARE SOME OF THE UNSUNG
01:23:46:00	01:23:49:00	HEROES OF OUR OF THE TEAM.
01:23:49:00	01:23:50:00	I ALSO WANT TO GIVE A SHOUT OUT
01:23:50:00	01:23:53:00	TO KAT CANDICE MANICALAND.
01:23:53:00	01:23:54:00	I DON'T KNOW IF I SAID HER NAME
01:23:54:00	01:23:55:00	RIGHT BUT HARMLESS BUT YES.
01:23:55:00	01:23:55:00	MCCANLESS YEP.
01:23:55:00	01:23:58:00	HER HER TEAMMATE CLIMATE READY
01:23:58:00	01:23:58:00	BOSTON.
01:23:58:00	01:24:01:00	I WAS JUST AN INCREDIBLE SO
01:24:01:00	01:24:05:00	THANK YOU ALL FOR YOUR WORK AND
01:24:05:00	01:24:06:00	OR FOR KEEPING ME IN THE LOOP
01:24:06:00	01:24:07:00	ON A LOT OF THESE ISSUES
01:24:07:00	01:24:10:00	ALREADY YOU ALL HAVE BEEN BUSY
01:24:10:00	01:24:13:00	WITH BRDO TREE ACCESS ARE NOT
01:24:13:00	01:24:14:00	YOUR EXCUSE ME GOOD ACCESS AND
01:24:14:00	01:24:17:00	TREE EXPANSION AND PARKS AND
01:24:17:00	01:24:18:00	OPEN SPACE OBVIOUSLY BUT I'M
01:24:18:00	01:24:20:00	REALLY EXCITED TO SEE THE
01:24:20:00	01:24:21:00	ADDITION OF THE EASE WITH THE
01:24:21:00	01:24:22:00	TREE CAN IT BE AND BRING SOME
01:24:22:00	01:24:25:00	OF THAT WORK IN HOUSE THAT WAS
01:24:25:00	01:24:25:00	GOING TO BE A PRIORITY OF MINE
01:24:25:00	01:24:26:00	IN THIS BUDGET IF IT WASN'T
01:24:26:00	01:24:29:00	ALREADY THERE.
01:24:29:00	01:24:29:00	BUT I KNOW THAT YOU'RE ALREADY
01:24:29:00	01:24:30:00	IN PARTNERSHIP WITH GIL
01:24:30:00	01:24:32:00	MASTERSON AND AND SOME OTHER
01:24:32:00	01:24:35:00	FOLKS TO EXPAND THAT AND LEAN
01:24:35:00	01:24:36:00	ON COMMUNITY PARTNERS TO TO
01:24:36:00	01:24:37:00	HELP YOU OUT IN THIS WORK.
01:24:37:00	01:24:40:00	NO SURPRISE.
01:24:40:00	01:24:40:00	MY QUESTION IS AROUND CLIMATE
01:24:40:00	01:24:41:00	RESILIENCY IN THE CITY
01:24:41:00	01:24:44:00	OF BOSTON AS WE SUNSET CLIMATE
01:24:44:00	01:24:47:00	READY PHASE TWO JUST WRAPPED UP
01:24:47:00	01:24:48:00	IN THESE BOSTON AND CHARLESTOWN
01:24:48:00	01:24:51:00	AND WE'RE LOOKING TO THIS NEW
01:24:51:00	01:24:52:00	PHASE OF IMPLEMENTATION I THINK
01:24:52:00	01:24:55:00	IS WHAT SOMEBODY HAD SAID AND
01:24:55:00	01:24:56:00	PARTNERING WITH THE PARKS
01:24:56:00	01:24:57:00	DEPARTMENT AND THE EPA ON THE
01:24:57:00	01:24:59:00	COASTAL RESILIENCY TASK FORCE.
01:24:59:00	01:25:02:00	I'M JUST WONDERING WHAT THAT
01:25:02:00	01:25:03:00	WHAT THAT LOOKS LIKE IN YOUR
01:25:03:00	01:25:04:00	MIND OPERATIONALLY ARE WE
01:25:04:00	01:25:07:00	LOSING ANY OF OUR CLIMATE READY
01:25:07:00	01:25:07:00	FOLKS?
01:25:07:00	01:25:08:00	ARE THEY TRANSITIONING TO THAT
01:25:08:00	01:25:10:00	ROLE?
01:25:10:00	01:25:11:00	ARE WE HIRING MORE PEOPLE?
01:25:11:00	01:25:12:00	IF SOMEBODY COULD JUST
01:25:12:00	01:25:15:00	ELABORATE ON THAT, I WOULD
01:25:15:00	01:25:15:00	APPRECIATE IT.
01:25:15:00	01:25:16:00	SURE.
01:25:16:00	01:25:17:00	YEAH, NO, WE'RE NOT LOSING
01:25:17:00	01:25:19:00	ANYONE AND WE'VE BEEN WORKING
01:25:19:00	01:25:20:00	WITH THE EPA OVER THE LAST FEW
01:25:20:00	01:25:22:00	MONTHS TO REALLY LOOK AT WHAT
01:25:22:00	01:25:23:00	THAT LOOKS LIKE OPERATIONALLY
01:25:23:00	01:25:27:00	HAVE HAD CONVERSATIONS WITH OUR
01:25:27:00	01:25:28:00	TEAMS, WORKED OUT SORT OF WHERE
01:25:28:00	01:25:30:00	THERE'S OBVIOUSLY A LOT
01:25:30:00	01:25:30:00	OF RESTRUCTURING HAPPENING AT
01:25:30:00	01:25:31:00	THE EPA AS THEY MOVE INTO CITY
01:25:31:00	01:25:34:00	ROLES AND SORT OF WHERE SO
01:25:34:00	01:25:37:00	YEAH, IT WILL BE A DEEP
01:25:37:00	01:25:38:00	COLLABORATION BETWEEN OUR
01:25:38:00	01:25:42:00	CABINET AND THE EPA PART OF AND
01:25:42:00	01:25:43:00	ALSO THERE'S BEEN A PRETTY
01:25:43:00	01:25:46:00	IMPORTANT ROLE PLAYED BY CHRIS
01:25:46:00	01:25:47:00	OSBORN IN THE WORK THAT HE'S
01:25:47:00	01:25:47:00	BEEN DOING AROUND
01:25:47:00	01:25:50:00	INFRASTRUCTURE.
01:25:50:00	01:25:51:00	HE'S BEEN HELPING TO SORT
01:25:51:00	01:25:51:00	OF CONVENE AND REALLY LOOK AT
01:25:51:00	01:25:53:00	WHAT ARE ALL THE DIFFERENT
01:25:53:00	01:25:55:00	KINDS OF PROJECTS THAT NEED TO
01:25:55:00	01:25:55:00	HAPPEN.
01:25:55:00	01:25:56:00	WHAT ARE THE PROJECTS THAT ARE
01:25:56:00	01:25:58:00	PUBLICLY ONE OF THE PROJECTS
01:25:58:00	01:25:59:00	THAT ARE ON PRIVATE LAND?
01:25:59:00	01:26:02:00	HOW DO WE SORT OF PULL ALL
01:26:02:00	01:26:02:00	OF THOSE DIFFERENT PIECES
01:26:02:00	01:26:03:00	TOGETHER BECAUSE WE'VE GOT A
01:26:03:00	01:26:05:00	FLOOD GLASS AND A FLOOD PARTS
01:26:05:00	01:26:06:00	DON'T REALLY GO OH THIS IS
01:26:06:00	01:26:06:00	PUBLIC LAND.
01:26:06:00	01:26:09:00	I'M GOING TO FLOAT HERE BUT
01:26:09:00	01:26:10:00	THIS IS PRIVATE LAND.
01:26:10:00	01:26:11:00	I'M GOING TO SAY IT LIKE IT
01:26:11:00	01:26:11:00	DOESN'T WORK LIKE THAT.
01:26:11:00	01:26:13:00	AND SO WE'VE BEEN TRYING TO
01:26:13:00	01:26:14:00	THINK ABOUT HOW WE HAVE A
01:26:14:00	01:26:17:00	COMPREHENSIVE APPROACH THAT
01:26:17:00	01:26:18:00	REALLY CLOSES THE FLOOD PATH AS
01:26:18:00	01:26:18:00	YOU ALSO KNOW.
01:26:18:00	01:26:21:00	BUT MAYBE NOT AT ALL OF THE
01:26:21:00	01:26:22:00	COUNCIL CLIMATE
01:26:22:00	01:26:25:00	COUNCIL COLLEAGUES NO, WE'RE
01:26:25:00	01:26:26:00	ALSO IN A PRETTY DEEP
01:26:26:00	01:26:26:00	CONVERSATION WITH THE ARMY
01:26:26:00	01:26:28:00	CORPS WHICH WE'RE REALLY
01:26:28:00	01:26:29:00	EXCITED TO PARTICIPATE IN AND
01:26:29:00	01:26:33:00	REALLY WE'RE TRYING TO BRING
01:26:33:00	01:26:36:00	MAYBE A DIFFERENT WE'RE TRYING
01:26:36:00	01:26:37:00	TO PARTNER WITH THEM ON AN
01:26:37:00	01:26:40:00	APPROACH THAT'S A LITTLE
01:26:40:00	01:26:41:00	DIFFERENT THAN WHAT THEY HAVE
01:26:41:00	01:26:41:00	TRADITIONALLY DONE AND NOW A
01:26:41:00	01:26:44:00	LOT OF OTHER PARTS OF THE
01:26:44:00	01:26:45:00	COUNTRY THERE HAS BEEN A
01:26:45:00	01:26:48:00	TENDENCY TO JUST BUILD SEAWALLS
01:26:48:00	01:26:49:00	AND WE'RE NOT SAYING THAT THERE
01:26:49:00	01:26:49:00	WILL NEVER BE A SEAWALL NEEDED.
01:26:49:00	01:26:52:00	THERE ARE SOME PLACES WHERE
01:26:52:00	01:26:53:00	THAT'S PROBABLY THE ONLY REAL
01:26:53:00	01:26:54:00	OPTION THAT WE HAVE IN THE
01:26:54:00	01:26:56:00	SENSE THAT WE BUILT VERY CLOSE
01:26:56:00	01:26:57:00	UP TO THE WATER AND THERE'S NOT
01:26:57:00	01:27:00:00	A LOT OF LEEWAY TO WORK WITH.
01:27:00:00	01:27:04:00	BUT WE WE'VE TAKEN A PRETTY
01:27:04:00	01:27:05:00	STRONG STANCE AROUND CLIMATE
01:27:05:00	01:27:08:00	NATURE BASED SOLUTIONS AND
01:27:08:00	01:27:09:00	REALLY LEANING IN THERE AND SO
01:27:09:00	01:27:10:00	WE WANT TO DO THAT AS MUCH AS
01:27:10:00	01:27:12:00	POSSIBLE AND THAT THAT'S
01:27:12:00	01:27:13:00	SOMETHING WE'VE BEEN VERY,
01:27:13:00	01:27:14:00	VERY, VERY CLEAR WITH THE CORPS
01:27:14:00	01:27:16:00	ABOUT THE VERY BEGINNING AND
01:27:16:00	01:27:17:00	ARE THANKFUL THAT IN THIS
01:27:17:00	01:27:20:00	PARTNERSHIP WE'RE CONTINUING TO
01:27:20:00	01:27:21:00	NEGOTIATE FROM DIFFERENT
01:27:21:00	01:27:24:00	APPROACHES AND STANCES TO GET
01:27:24:00	01:27:25:00	TO A PLACE WHERE WE CAN BE ON
01:27:25:00	01:27:28:00	THE SAME SAME PAGE SO THAT'S
01:27:28:00	01:27:29:00	WHERE WE ARE AND WE HAVE GOTTEN
01:27:29:00	01:27:31:00	TO THE POINT OF LIKE DOING A
01:27:31:00	01:27:33:00	BIT OF I THINK TRYING TO DO A
01:27:33:00	01:27:35:00	BIT OF A MOKA ANALYSIS WHO'S
01:27:35:00	01:27:36:00	GOING TO MANAGE WHO'S GOING TO
01:27:36:00	01:27:37:00	OWN IT, WHO'S GOING TO KNOW
01:27:37:00	01:27:40:00	WHAT THE PIECES THAT EVERYBODY
01:27:40:00	01:27:41:00	IS GOING TO DO AND WHOSE ROLES
01:27:41:00	01:27:42:00	ARE GOING TO WHO'S GOING TO
01:27:42:00	01:27:43:00	PLAY WHICH ROLE SO THAT WE ALL
01:27:43:00	01:27:46:00	ARE ON THE SAME PAGE AND WE ARE
01:27:46:00	01:27:47:00	IN AGREEMENT ABOUT HOW WE MOVE
01:27:47:00	01:27:51:00	PIECES FORWARD.
01:27:51:00	01:27:55:00	YEAH I THAT YOU WILL WE WE HAVE
01:27:55:00	01:27:58:00	ALREADY AGREED THAT A GOOD
01:27:58:00	01:27:59:00	CHUNK OF THE COMMUNITY
01:27:59:00	01:28:00:00	ENGAGEMENT PIECE IT'S NOT THE
01:28:00:00	01:28:02:00	ONLY THING WE'LL DO BUT THAT WE
01:28:02:00	01:28:05:00	THAT WE THINK WE BUILT SOME
01:28:05:00	01:28:06:00	SOME GOODWILL IN THE COMMUNITY
01:28:06:00	01:28:07:00	AROUND THESE CONVERSATIONS AND
01:28:07:00	01:28:10:00	WANT TO HELP THAT TO LEAD THIS
01:28:10:00	01:28:10:00	BUSINESS.
01:28:10:00	01:28:14:00	WELL THAT'S THAT'S WHAT I WAS
01:28:14:00	01:28:14:00	GOING TO SAY.
01:28:14:00	01:28:15:00	I MEAN ANYTHING ANY NEXT STEPS
01:28:15:00	01:28:17:00	THAT TAKE PLACE WITH THIS
01:28:17:00	01:28:18:00	STOROZYNSKI TASK FORCE I WANT
01:28:18:00	01:28:21:00	YOUR OFFICE TO BE AT THE CENTER
01:28:21:00	01:28:21:00	BECAUSE YOUR TEAM HAD THE
01:28:21:00	01:28:22:00	EXPERTIZE IN THESE NATURE BASED
01:28:22:00	01:28:25:00	SOLUTIONS YOU'RE WORKING WITH
01:28:25:00	01:28:25:00	STONE LIVING LAB.
01:28:25:00	01:28:26:00	YOU'RE WORKING WITH SOME OF OUR
01:28:26:00	01:28:26:00	ACADEMIC PARTNERS.
01:28:26:00	01:28:29:00	SO I WAS WORRIED THAT WE WERE
01:28:29:00	01:28:30:00	GOING TO BE LOSING SOME
01:28:30:00	01:28:32:00	OF THESE INCREDIBLE FOLKS SO IF
01:28:32:00	01:28:33:00	YOU'RE SAYING NO, THEN THEN I'M
01:28:33:00	01:28:36:00	I'M HAPPY WITH THAT NOW WE WE
01:28:36:00	01:28:37:00	HOPE THAT THEIR VOICES WILL BE
01:28:37:00	01:28:39:00	EVEN MORE ELEVATED IN THIS IN
01:28:39:00	01:28:40:00	THE WAY THAT THESE TEAMS COME
01:28:40:00	01:28:41:00	TOGETHER.
01:28:41:00	01:28:41:00	THAT'S GREAT.
01:28:41:00	01:28:44:00	THANK YOU SO MUCH.
01:28:44:00	01:28:45:00	TREE TREE CANOPY STUFF IN EAST
01:28:45:00	01:28:46:00	BOSTON.
01:28:46:00	01:28:47:00	ONE SPECIFIC QUESTION CAN WE
01:28:47:00	01:28:51:00	GET THOSE PETS APPROVED ON
01:28:51:00	01:28:55:00	MERIDIEN STREET?
01:28:55:00	01:28:56:00	I THINK THERE'S A COMPLEXITY TO
01:28:56:00	01:28:56:00	ANSWER BECAUSE IT'S AN
01:28:56:00	01:28:58:00	EXCAVATION PERMIT EXCAVATING
01:28:58:00	01:28:59:00	INTO A PLACE WHERE TREATMENTS
01:28:59:00	01:29:03:00	DON'T EXIST AND THE CONTRACTOR
01:29:03:00	01:29:05:00	THAT YOU SEE USING IS NOT A
01:29:05:00	01:29:06:00	CURRENT PERSON THAT'S BONDED
01:29:06:00	01:29:07:00	AND HAS THE CONTRACT WITH THE
01:29:07:00	01:29:10:00	CITY SO THERE'S A LIABILITY TO
01:29:10:00	01:29:11:00	TAKE ON THE COMPLEXITY
01:29:11:00	01:29:11:00	OF FIGURING OUT EVEN THOUGH
01:29:11:00	01:29:14:00	THIS CONTRACTING COMPANY WAS
01:29:14:00	01:29:15:00	WITH THE CITY BEFORE, THEY
01:29:15:00	01:29:15:00	CURRENTLY DON'T HAVE THE
01:29:15:00	01:29:18:00	CONTRACT LIABILITY.
01:29:18:00	01:29:19:00	SO FINDING OUT OF TREES HE'S
01:29:19:00	01:29:20:00	GOING TO MOVE TO A DIFFERENT
01:29:20:00	01:29:21:00	CONTRACTOR THAT HAVE THAT
01:29:21:00	01:29:22:00	LIABILITY OR WAYS THAT WE COULD
01:29:22:00	01:29:22:00	HAVE SOMETHING WRITTEN UP THAT
01:29:22:00	01:29:25:00	THE CURRENT CONTRACTOR THEY'RE
01:29:25:00	01:29:26:00	WORKING WITH WILL TAKE ON
01:29:26:00	01:29:26:00	LIABILITY, THAT THEY HIT
01:29:26:00	01:29:29:00	ANYTHING WHEN THEY'RE DIGGING
01:29:29:00	01:29:29:00	THE DOING THE EXCAVATION WORK
01:29:29:00	01:29:33:00	ON THE SIDEWALKS.
01:29:33:00	01:29:34:00	OK, THANK YOU FOR THE
01:29:34:00	01:29:34:00	CLARIFICATION.
01:29:34:00	01:29:35:00	WE CAN TALK OFFLINE ABOUT THIS.
01:29:35:00	01:29:36:00	I MEAN TRISTA'S IS DOING
01:29:36:00	01:29:37:00	INCREDIBLE WORK AND THEY'RE
01:29:37:00	01:29:37:00	JUST TRYING TO EXPAND OUR
01:29:37:00	01:29:40:00	COMMUNITY AS BEST AS WE CAN.
01:29:40:00	01:29:41:00	THIS IS ONE OF THOSE BARRIERS,
01:29:41:00	01:29:41:00	RIGHT?
01:29:41:00	01:29:42:00	IT'S THE LIABILITY AND BONDING
01:29:42:00	01:29:45:00	AND ALL THAT JUST WE JUST WANT
01:29:45:00	01:29:45:00	TO PLANTING TREES, YOU KNOW
01:29:45:00	01:29:46:00	WHAT I MEAN?
01:29:46:00	01:29:48:00	SO HOW CAN WE MAKE THIS EASIER
01:29:48:00	01:29:48:00	FOR SOME OF OUR PARTNERS?
01:29:48:00	01:29:49:00	I KNOW THAT'S SOMETHING THAT
01:29:49:00	01:29:50:00	YOU ALL ARE LOOKING AT WHICH IS
01:29:50:00	01:29:51:00	GREAT BUT JUST THANK YOU FOR
01:29:51:00	01:29:52:00	YOUR WORK.
01:29:52:00	01:29:53:00	I DON'T HAVE ANY OTHER
01:29:53:00	01:29:54:00	QUESTIONS BUT I'M GRATEFUL FOR
01:29:54:00	01:30:02:00	YOU ALL AND THANK YOU AGAIN.
01:30:02:00	01:30:03:00	THANK YOU COUNCILOR COLLETTA
01:30:03:00	01:30:04:00	COUNCILOR FLAHERTY TO THE FLOOR
01:30:04:00	01:30:10:00	IS YOURS MR CHAIRMAN CAN YOU
01:30:10:00	01:30:11:00	HEAR ME?
01:30:11:00	01:30:13:00	YOU'RE COMING IN CLEAR COME
01:30:13:00	01:30:14:00	TOMORROW.
01:30:14:00	01:30:15:00	DID YOU?
01:30:15:00	01:30:20:00	YES.
01:30:20:00	01:30:21:00	COUNCILOR FLAHERTY THANK YOU
01:30:21:00	01:30:21:00	VERY MUCH.
01:30:21:00	01:30:23:00	THANK YOU TO EVERYONE FROM TIME
01:30:23:00	01:30:27:00	ONE OF MY CONCERNS IS I SEE
01:30:27:00	01:30:28:00	THAT THE OBVIOUSLY THE NEED
01:30:28:00	01:30:30:00	OBVIOUSLY TO PUT A SHOULDER
01:30:30:00	01:30:34:00	INTO CLIMATE RESILIENCY TREE
01:30:34:00	01:30:35:00	CANOPY ALL THE ISSUES THAT
01:30:35:00	01:30:39:00	WE'VE TALKING ABOUT AND HAVING
01:30:39:00	01:30:39:00	HEARINGS ON PLUS OUR
01:30:39:00	01:30:42:00	RESPONSIBILITY TO THE
01:30:42:00	01:30:43:00	RESIDENTS, TO THE TAXPAYERS,
01:30:43:00	01:30:44:00	THE FAMILIES, TO OUR YOUTH TO
01:30:44:00	01:30:45:00	MAKE SURE THAT PARKS AND
01:30:45:00	01:30:46:00	PLAYGROUNDS AND BALL FIELDS ARE
01:30:46:00	01:30:49:00	IN PRISTINE CONDITION CAN
01:30:49:00	01:30:50:00	COMPETE WITH SOME OF OUR
01:30:50:00	01:30:51:00	SURROUNDING SUBURBAN
01:30:51:00	01:30:53:00	COMMUNITIES, PARTICULARLY THE
01:30:53:00	01:30:54:00	PLAYING FIELDS.
01:30:54:00	01:30:57:00	BUT I NOTICED ONCE AGAIN THIS
01:30:57:00	01:30:58:00	HAS BEEN AN ISSUE THAT I'VE
01:30:58:00	01:31:00:00	STRUGGLED WITH DURING MY TENURE
01:31:00:00	01:31:01:00	ON THE COUNCIL IS THAT OUR
01:31:01:00	01:31:04:00	OVERALL BUDGET IS STILL UNDER
01:31:04:00	01:31:05:00	ONE PERCENT AND I'D LIKE TO
01:31:05:00	01:31:08:00	MAYBE SEE IN A RECENT A HIGHER
01:31:08:00	01:31:11:00	NUMBER THAN THAT TO GIVE
01:31:11:00	01:31:12:00	APPROPRIATE RESOURCES TO ALL
01:31:12:00	01:31:16:00	OF YOU TO TO CARRY OUT YOUR
01:31:16:00	01:31:17:00	FUNCTION AS CHIEF AND AS
01:31:17:00	01:31:20:00	COMMISSIONER AND ALL THE OTHER
01:31:20:00	01:31:21:00	FOLKS THAT ARE HERE FROM PARK.
01:31:21:00	01:31:24:00	SO I GUESS THE FIRST QUESTION
01:31:24:00	01:31:25:00	IS WHY IS IT ONCE AGAIN SO LOW
01:31:25:00	01:31:28:00	WE HAVEN'T EVEN CRACKED ONE
01:31:28:00	01:31:29:00	PERCENT AND CENTERPIECES IS
01:31:29:00	01:31:35:00	AROUND THE MAINTENANCE CREW?
01:31:35:00	01:31:36:00	THAT'S ONE OF THE BIGGEST
01:31:36:00	01:31:36:00	COMPLAINTS WE GET AND THEY GET
01:31:36:00	01:31:38:00	THIS AS THAT LARGE COUNCIL I
01:31:38:00	01:31:39:00	MEAN WE'RE WAY BEHIND IN TREE
01:31:39:00	01:31:42:00	PRUNING WAY, WAY, WAY BEHIND.
01:31:42:00	01:31:43:00	SO WE NEED TO START TALKING
01:31:43:00	01:31:47:00	ABOUT INCREASING OUR CAPACITY
01:31:47:00	01:31:50:00	TO PRUNE TREES AND INPUT PEOPLE
01:31:50:00	01:31:51:00	THERE THAT THAT CAN WORK WITH
01:31:51:00	01:31:54:00	THE ARBORIST AND PRUNE TREES.
01:31:54:00	01:31:57:00	I DON'T SHORT TERM I KNOW WE'VE
01:31:57:00	01:31:58:00	SUBSIDIZED WE'VE PRIVATIZED IT,
01:31:58:00	01:32:01:00	HAVE FARMED IT OUT BUT WE HAVE
01:32:01:00	01:32:02:00	THE CAPACITY TO DO IT OURSELVES
01:32:02:00	01:32:05:00	AND THEN ALSO ON OUR HOKIES
01:32:05:00	01:32:06:00	WE'VE ALWAYS ASKED FOR
01:32:06:00	01:32:06:00	ADDITIONAL HOKIES TO TO KEEP
01:32:06:00	01:32:09:00	OUR R AND KEEP OUR STREETS AND
01:32:09:00	01:32:10:00	THE PARKS CLEAN.
01:32:10:00	01:32:13:00	BUT THEY'RE NOT ABLE TO USE
01:32:13:00	01:32:14:00	LAWN MOWERS AND AND WEED
01:32:14:00	01:32:17:00	WHACKER AND STUFF LIKE THAT.
01:32:17:00	01:32:18:00	SO AND I DON'T KNOW WHETHER OR
01:32:18:00	01:32:19:00	NOT IF IT IF MY MEMORY SERVES
01:32:19:00	01:32:20:00	ME CORRECTLY, I THINK THERE MAY
01:32:20:00	01:32:21:00	BE A COLLECTIVE BARGAINING OR
01:32:21:00	01:32:24:00	MAYBE A CIVIL SERVICE OR A
01:32:24:00	01:32:24:00	LABOR ISSUE WITH THAT.
01:32:24:00	01:32:26:00	SO ARE WE GOING TO ADDRESS THAT
01:32:26:00	01:32:28:00	SO THAT WHEN WE DO HIRE FOLKS
01:32:28:00	01:32:29:00	AND NO MATTER WHAT GENDER AND
01:32:29:00	01:32:39:00	COLOR THEY ARE, THEY'RE
01:32:39:00	01:32:40:00	PROVIDING A SERVICE AND A
01:32:40:00	01:32:40:00	FUNCTION FOR THE PARKS
01:32:40:00	01:32:41:00	DEPARTMENT THAT THEY'RE
01:32:41:00	01:32:41:00	ACTUALLY ABLE TO CARRY OUT
01:32:41:00	01:32:42:00	FUNCTIONS WHICH IS MOWING AND
01:32:42:00	01:32:42:00	PRUNING WEED WHACKING AND
01:32:42:00	01:32:43:00	SCRAPING ETC. WE RUN INTO A
01:32:43:00	01:32:44:00	PROBLEM WHEN WE'LL MAKE SOME
01:32:44:00	01:32:45:00	HIRES BUT THEY DON'T HAVE THE
01:32:45:00	01:32:47:00	ABILITY TO CARRY OUT THESE VERY
01:32:47:00	01:32:48:00	IMPORTANT NECESSARY FUNCTIONS.
01:32:48:00	01:32:49:00	SO THOSE ARE SORT OF MY
01:32:49:00	01:32:51:00	QUESTIONS RECAP WHY IS THE
01:32:51:00	01:32:52:00	BUDGET SO LOW WITH ALL THE
01:32:52:00	01:32:55:00	THINGS THAT WE HAVE TO DO AND
01:32:55:00	01:32:55:00	AROUND MAINTENANCE?
01:32:55:00	01:32:59:00	WHY HAVEN'T WE INCREASED THE
01:32:59:00	01:33:00:00	NUMBER OF MAINTENANCE
01:33:00:00	01:33:00:00	PROFESSIONALS PARTICULARLY IN
01:33:00:00	01:33:03:00	THE PRUNING AND ALSO FIXING UP
01:33:03:00	01:33:03:00	OUR PARKS AND PLAYGROUNDS AND
01:33:03:00	01:33:07:00	OUR BALLFIELDS?
01:33:07:00	01:33:08:00	AND THEN LASTLY WHEN WE DO MAKE
01:33:08:00	01:33:09:00	HIRES, HOW COME SOME FOLKS CAN
01:33:09:00	01:33:10:00	USE THE MACHINES HELP THEM?
01:33:10:00	01:33:11:00	SOME CAN'T.
01:33:11:00	01:33:11:00	SOME CAN.
01:33:11:00	01:33:14:00	MOHTARMA UNABLE TO BECAUSE I
01:33:14:00	01:33:18:00	GUESS THE CIVIL SERVICE
01:33:18:00	01:33:18:00	OF THEIR LABOR REQUIREMENTS
01:33:18:00	01:33:19:00	THOSE ISSUES HAVE TO BE IRONED
01:33:19:00	01:33:20:00	OUT SO THAT WHEN WE DO MAKE A
01:33:20:00	01:33:21:00	HIGHER AND I'M SURE THAT WE'VE
01:33:21:00	01:33:25:00	GOT A LOT OF VACANCIES IN IN
01:33:25:00	01:33:26:00	YOUR DEPARTMENT AS WELL AS
01:33:26:00	01:33:26:00	OTHER PARTS.
01:33:26:00	01:33:27:00	I THINK WE'VE GOT SOMEWHERE
01:33:27:00	01:33:30:00	OVER CLOSE HUNDRED OPEN JOBS IN
01:33:30:00	01:33:30:00	THE CITY OF BOSTON WHICH HAS
01:33:30:00	01:33:32:00	NEVER HAPPENED IN MY TWENTY
01:33:32:00	01:33:33:00	YEARS HERE.
01:33:33:00	01:33:33:00	SO LET'S FOCUS ON PUTTING
01:33:33:00	01:33:36:00	PEOPLE TO WORK AND MAKING SURE
01:33:36:00	01:33:37:00	THAT THEY'RE ABLE TO USE THE
01:33:37:00	01:33:40:00	EQUIPMENT IN IN THE MAINTENANCE
01:33:40:00	01:33:41:00	FACILITY SO THAT WE CAN GET AND
01:33:41:00	01:33:44:00	PUT A SHOULDER INTO THESE
01:33:44:00	01:33:45:00	ISSUES ON THIS WAY OUR PHONE
01:33:45:00	01:33:46:00	CALLS THAT'S WHY OUR PHONES
01:33:46:00	01:33:47:00	RING FROM CONSTITUENTS ACROSS
01:33:47:00	01:33:48:00	THE CITY CONCERNED ABOUT THE
01:33:48:00	01:33:49:00	QUALITY OF OUR FIELDS AND PARKS
01:33:49:00	01:33:52:00	AND WHAT HAVE SO THAT'S THAT'S
01:33:52:00	01:33:55:00	IT IN A NUTSHELL AND I'LL AWAIT
01:33:55:00	01:33:56:00	YOUR RESPONSES.
01:33:56:00	01:33:57:00	THANK YOU ALL FOR YOUR TIME AND
01:33:57:00	01:33:59:00	ATTENTION AND FOR ALL THE
01:33:59:00	01:34:00:00	EFFORT THAT YOU BRING TO OUR
01:34:00:00	01:34:01:00	PARKS IN THE CITY.
01:34:01:00	01:34:03:00	THANK YOU.
01:34:03:00	01:34:04:00	SO I'LL I'LL START WITH THE WHY
01:34:04:00	01:34:07:00	IS SO LOW QUESTION.
01:34:07:00	01:34:08:00	I WILL SAY THIS WE HAVE GOTTEN
01:34:08:00	01:34:11:00	MORE RESOURCES LAST YEAR AND
01:34:11:00	01:34:15:00	AGAIN THIS YEAR WA AND YOU ARE
01:34:15:00	01:34:16:00	NAMING SOME AREAS WHERE WE
01:34:16:00	01:34:18:00	COULD DO MORE.
01:34:18:00	01:34:20:00	SO IN TERMS OF THE TREE PRUNING
01:34:20:00	01:34:24:00	WE HAVE GROWN THE TREE DIVISION
01:34:24:00	01:34:26:00	PRETTY SIGNIFICANTLY FROM TWO
01:34:26:00	01:34:27:00	TO THREE PEOPLE TO SIXTEEN.
01:34:27:00	01:34:30:00	SO THOSE POSITIONS EXIST.
01:34:30:00	01:34:32:00	THAT IS A PLACE WHERE WE'RE
01:34:32:00	01:34:35:00	HIRING ALL OF OUR ARBORISTS.
01:34:35:00	01:34:36:00	WE HIRED A DIRECTOR OF URBAN
01:34:36:00	01:34:38:00	FORESTRY WHO STARTED IN
01:34:38:00	01:34:38:00	FEBRUARY.
01:34:38:00	01:34:39:00	WE'VE HAD FIRED THREE
01:34:39:00	01:34:39:00	ARBORISTS.
01:34:39:00	01:34:40:00	THOSE FOLKS HAVE STARTED AND
01:34:40:00	01:34:42:00	NOW WE IN THE PROCESS OF HIRING
01:34:42:00	01:34:45:00	OUR WHILST EQUIPMENT OPERATOR
01:34:45:00	01:34:50:00	LABORERS AND FOR PERSONS TO TO
01:34:50:00	01:34:50:00	SORT OF MOVE THOSE TREES CREWS
01:34:50:00	01:34:53:00	ONCE THOSE ARE FULLY HIRED, OUR
01:34:53:00	01:34:54:00	CAPACITY FOR TREE PRUNING WILL
01:34:54:00	01:35:00:00	BE THREE TO EXPANDED FROM WHAT
01:35:00:00	01:35:01:00	IT ONCE WAS IN THE INTERIM WE
01:35:01:00	01:35:04:00	WERE USING OUR FUNDS TO HIRE
01:35:04:00	01:35:05:00	OUTSIDE CONTRACTORS TO BRING
01:35:05:00	01:35:08:00	SOME OF THAT WAITLIST OUT SO
01:35:08:00	01:35:08:00	THAT THE CREWS DON'T START
01:35:08:00	01:35:12:00	COMPLETELY SNOWED BY LIKE A
01:35:12:00	01:35:12:00	TOTAL BACKLOG.
01:35:12:00	01:35:16:00	SO ON THAT PARTICULAR ISSUE WE
01:35:16:00	01:35:17:00	ARE MOVING FORWARD ON THE
01:35:17:00	01:35:20:00	ISSUES OF BALLFIELDS, WHAT
01:35:20:00	01:35:21:00	OTHER FOLKS HAVE SHARED GENERAL
01:35:21:00	01:35:23:00	MAINTENANCE OF PARKS THAT IS
01:35:23:00	01:35:24:00	NOT AN AREA THAT WE HAVE YET
01:35:24:00	01:35:26:00	EXPERIENCED ANY GROWTH IN THIS
01:35:26:00	01:35:27:00	UPCOMING BUDGET.
01:35:27:00	01:35:30:00	SO IF WE HAD MORE MAINTENANCE
01:35:30:00	01:35:33:00	FOLKS WE COULD CERTAINLY PUT
01:35:33:00	01:35:35:00	THEM TO USE RIGHT NOW WE ARE
01:35:35:00	01:35:37:00	JUST TRYING TO FIGURE OUT HOW
01:35:37:00	01:35:38:00	WE USE THE POSITIONS WE HAVE
01:35:38:00	01:35:42:00	AND MOVE THEM EQUITABLY TO MAKE
01:35:42:00	01:35:43:00	SURE THAT EVERYWHERE IN THE
01:35:43:00	01:35:43:00	CITY GETS THE LEVEL OF COVERAGE
01:35:43:00	01:35:46:00	THAT IT NEEDS AND WE WELCOME
01:35:46:00	01:35:49:00	COUNCILORS TO LET SNOW IN
01:35:49:00	01:35:53:00	PLACES WHERE FOLKS ARE FEEL
01:35:53:00	01:35:56:00	LIKE WE NEED TO DO MORE AND
01:35:56:00	01:35:57:00	WERE WE TO HAVE MORE
01:35:57:00	01:35:58:00	MAINTENANCE WORKERS WE COULD
01:35:58:00	01:36:01:00	ALSO DO MORE THAN WHAT WE ARE
01:36:01:00	01:36:05:00	CURRENTLY ABLE TO DO.
01:36:05:00	01:36:06:00	BUT WE ARE TRYING TO BE
01:36:06:00	01:36:09:00	CREATIVE WITH THE RESOURCES WE
01:36:09:00	01:36:09:00	DO HAVE.
01:36:09:00	01:36:13:00	AND SO TO YOUR POINT ABOUT SORT
01:36:13:00	01:36:13:00	LABORERS WHO SOMETIMES CAN OR
01:36:13:00	01:36:14:00	CAN'T DO DIFFERENT THINGS, I
01:36:14:00	01:36:16:00	WANT TO LIFT UP A CREATIVE
01:36:16:00	01:36:17:00	SOLUTION THAT THE TEAM PUT
01:36:17:00	01:36:20:00	FORWARD THIS YEAR WHICH IS
01:36:20:00	01:36:20:00	WITHOUT GETTING TOO TECHNICAL.
01:36:20:00	01:36:22:00	WE HAVE AN ENTRY LEVEL JOB IT'S
01:36:22:00	01:36:24:00	CALLED LABOR AND THEN THERE'S A
01:36:24:00	01:36:25:00	NEXT STEP UP FOR THAT WAS
01:36:25:00	01:36:28:00	CALLED AN ANIMAL A MOTOR
01:36:28:00	01:36:28:00	EQUIPMENT OPERATING LABOR AND
01:36:28:00	01:36:31:00	THAT ALLOWS YOU TO USE A LOT
01:36:31:00	01:36:32:00	MORE OF THE EQUIPMENT STRAIGHT
01:36:32:00	01:36:32:00	LABORERS CANNOT DRIVE TRUCKS.
01:36:32:00	01:36:35:00	THEY CANNOT USE SOME OF THE
01:36:35:00	01:36:36:00	EQUIPMENT TECHNICALLY IN THERE
01:36:36:00	01:36:40:00	AND THAT WE USE TO DO A LOT
01:36:40:00	01:36:40:00	OF OUR PARK MAINTENANCE.
01:36:40:00	01:36:43:00	AND SO WHAT WE HAVE FOUND THAT
01:36:43:00	01:36:44:00	WE DIDN'T FULLY GET IT BUT WE
01:36:44:00	01:36:47:00	DO NOW THAT THERE WAS THERE IS
01:36:47:00	01:36:48:00	A PROVISION IN THE PREVIOUS
01:36:48:00	01:36:48:00	COLLECTIVE COLLECTIVE
01:36:48:00	01:36:51:00	BARGAINING AGREEMENT THAT
01:36:51:00	01:36:52:00	ALLOWS US TO TO MOVE THOSE
01:36:52:00	01:36:53:00	FOLKS ALONG AND WE HAVE BUDGET
01:36:53:00	01:36:56:00	IN THIS YEAR'S BUDGET TO MAKE
01:36:56:00	01:36:56:00	SURE THAT WE CAN UPGRADE
01:36:56:00	01:36:58:00	EVERYONE THAT IS ELIGIBLE TO BE
01:36:58:00	01:36:59:00	AN EMPLOYEE INTO THAT ROLE SO
01:36:59:00	01:37:00:00	THAT THEY HAVE MORE CAPACITY
01:37:00:00	01:37:03:00	AND ARE ABLE TO DO ALL OF THE
01:37:03:00	01:37:04:00	PIECES THAT THEY WANT TO DO.
01:37:04:00	01:37:07:00	I WANT TO LIFT UP THE FACT THAT
01:37:07:00	01:37:08:00	A LOT OF OUR FOLKS TO WHAT THEY
01:37:08:00	01:37:10:00	HAVE TO DO EVEN WHEN SOMETIMES
01:37:10:00	01:37:11:00	THE RULES ARE NOT PERFECT AND
01:37:11:00	01:37:14:00	DON'T ALWAYS FACILITATE BUT BUT
01:37:14:00	01:37:17:00	WE ARE BOTH USING THE TOOLS
01:37:17:00	01:37:22:00	THAT ARE AT OUR DISPOSAL THAT
01:37:22:00	01:37:22:00	WE MAYBE HADN'T ACCESSED BEFORE
01:37:22:00	01:37:25:00	AND WE ALSO KNOW THAT
01:37:25:00	01:37:26:00	COLLECTIVE BARGAINING BEGINS
01:37:26:00	01:37:26:00	AGAIN IMMINENTLY AND WE'RE
01:37:26:00	01:37:29:00	HAVING CONVERSATIONS ABOUT
01:37:29:00	01:37:30:00	OTHER THINGS THAT WE SHOULD BE
01:37:30:00	01:37:33:00	DOING TO MODERNIZE HOW OUR
01:37:33:00	01:37:34:00	TEAMS WORK TOGETHER AND MAKE
01:37:34:00	01:37:35:00	SURE THAT EVERYBODY IS ABLE TO
01:37:35:00	01:37:38:00	PITCH IN AND WE'RE ABLE TO DO
01:37:38:00	01:37:41:00	THINGS MORE AS EFFECTIVELY AND
01:37:41:00	01:37:42:00	EFFICIENTLY AS POSSIBLE
01:37:42:00	01:37:42:00	SOMETIMES WITH JUST MORE HANDS
01:37:42:00	01:37:44:00	ON THE WHILE.
01:37:44:00	01:37:46:00	AND THEN I WOULD SAY THE LAST
01:37:46:00	01:37:48:00	THING THAT WE'RE DOING IS
01:37:48:00	01:37:49:00	REALLY LOOKING AT TRAINING TO
01:37:49:00	01:37:52:00	MAKE SURE THAT WE AS QUICKLY AS
01:37:52:00	01:37:53:00	POSSIBLE ARE GETTING HELPING
01:37:53:00	01:37:54:00	PEOPLE TO ACCESS ALL THE SKILLS
01:37:54:00	01:37:56:00	THAT THEY CAN TO BE ABLE TO DO
01:37:56:00	01:37:57:00	THE DIFFERENT PIECES OF THE
01:37:57:00	01:38:00:00	WORK THAT DECIDE AS WE DESIGN
01:38:00:00	01:38:03:00	MORE CLIMATE RESILIENT PARKS,
01:38:03:00	01:38:04:00	WE'RE ALSO ADDING FEATURES THAT
01:38:04:00	01:38:05:00	WE DID NOT HAVE 10, 15, 20
01:38:05:00	01:38:08:00	YEARS GO.
01:38:08:00	01:38:09:00	WE NEED TO MAKE SURE THAT ALL
01:38:09:00	01:38:11:00	OF OUR MAINTENANCE TEAM IS
01:38:11:00	01:38:12:00	TRAINED AND KNOW WHAT THEY NEED
01:38:12:00	01:38:16:00	TO DO IN ORDER TO BE ABLE TO DO
01:38:16:00	01:38:16:00	SO.
01:38:16:00	01:38:17:00	WE ARE TRYING TO USE OUR
01:38:17:00	01:38:19:00	RESOURCES AS EFFECTIVELY AS WE
01:38:19:00	01:38:19:00	POSSIBLY CAN.
01:38:19:00	01:38:23:00	WE HAD SOME MORE WE WOULD ADD
01:38:23:00	01:38:24:00	MORE FOLKS IN IN THE
01:38:24:00	01:38:27:00	MAINTENANCE AND TREAT THEM A
01:38:27:00	01:38:28:00	PIECE OF A SUGGESTION I SHOULD
01:38:28:00	01:38:31:00	SAY IN JOSHUA FRANKLIN PROBABLY
01:38:31:00	01:38:32:00	WOULD BENEFIT FROM THIS
01:38:32:00	01:38:34:00	SPEAKING AS A FORMER TEAMSTER
01:38:34:00	01:38:35:00	AND I KNOW THAT WE HAD A CDL
01:38:35:00	01:38:38:00	PROGRAM IT'S VERY INCONSISTENT
01:38:38:00	01:38:39:00	.
01:38:39:00	01:38:40:00	YOU CAN'T DEPEND ON IT WHEN
01:38:40:00	01:38:40:00	FOLKS CALL THEY DON'T HAVE
01:38:40:00	01:38:43:00	REGULAR CLASSES FROM AN ENTERED
01:38:43:00	01:38:45:00	DEPARTMENT SITUATION FROM PARKS
01:38:45:00	01:38:46:00	TO PUBLIC WORKS TO
01:38:46:00	01:38:47:00	TRANSPORTATION.
01:38:47:00	01:38:47:00	THERE ACTUALLY MAY BE A COUPLE
01:38:47:00	01:38:50:00	OTHER DEPARTMENTS.
01:38:50:00	01:38:51:00	WE SHOULD HAVE A SYSTEM WHEREBY
01:38:51:00	01:38:53:00	FOLKS CAN GET A HOISTING
01:38:53:00	01:38:55:00	LICENSE, THEY CAN GET A CDL
01:38:55:00	01:38:55:00	WHICH IS ALSO KNOWN AS A
01:38:55:00	01:38:58:00	COMMERCIAL DRIVER'S LICENSE AND
01:38:58:00	01:38:59:00	THEY ALSO HAVE THE ABILITY TO
01:38:59:00	01:39:02:00	LEARN AND TO BE LICENSED TO
01:39:02:00	01:39:02:00	OPERATE HEAVY EQUIPMENT THAT
01:39:02:00	01:39:05:00	SHOULD BE SORT OF A PRO FORMA
01:39:05:00	01:39:06:00	WITHIN OUR CITY SO THAT WHETHER
01:39:06:00	01:39:07:00	YOU'RE WORKING FOR THE PARKS
01:39:07:00	01:39:10:00	DEPARTMENT AND YOU WANT TO WORK
01:39:10:00	01:39:11:00	TOWARDS PROMOTION AND UPWARD
01:39:11:00	01:39:14:00	TRAJECTORY WHETHER YOU WORK FOR
01:39:14:00	01:39:14:00	A PUBLIC WORKS, WHETHER YOU
01:39:14:00	01:39:15:00	WORK FOR FOR THE TRANSPORTATION
01:39:15:00	01:39:17:00	DEPARTMENT, ALL OF THOSE
01:39:17:00	01:39:18:00	LICENSES AND OR CERTIFICATES
01:39:18:00	01:39:21:00	ARE REQUIRED AS YOU MOVE UP THE
01:39:21:00	01:39:22:00	LADDER AND WE AS THE CITY WE
01:39:22:00	01:39:25:00	MISSED THE BOAT ON THAT WE
01:39:25:00	01:39:25:00	SHOULD PARTNER WITH THE
01:39:25:00	01:39:26:00	TEAMSTERS BECAUSE THAT'S WHAT
01:39:26:00	01:39:28:00	THEY DO AND THEY DO EXCELLENT
01:39:28:00	01:39:29:00	ABOUT IT.
01:39:29:00	01:39:30:00	THEY HAVE THEIR OWN TRAINING
01:39:30:00	01:39:33:00	FACILITIES AND WE SHOULD WHEN
01:39:33:00	01:39:33:00	WHEN FOLKS GET THESE ENTRY
01:39:33:00	01:39:37:00	LEVEL JOBS WE SHOULD PUT THEM
01:39:37:00	01:39:38:00	ON A PATH TO GET THESE THE
01:39:38:00	01:39:41:00	NECESSARY NEXT STEP LICENSES SO
01:39:41:00	01:39:41:00	THAT THEY CAN COMPETE FOR
01:39:41:00	01:39:45:00	BETTER JOBS AND SUPERVISORY
01:39:45:00	01:39:45:00	POSITIONS AND BETTER WAGES ET
01:39:45:00	01:39:46:00	CETERA.
01:39:46:00	01:39:48:00	SO WE MISSED THE BOAT ON THAT
01:39:48:00	01:39:49:00	ARGUABLY BECAUSE A LOT OF IT'S
01:39:49:00	01:39:49:00	SEASONAL AND YOU HAVE THE
01:39:49:00	01:39:52:00	SEASONAL EMPLOYEES AND THEN
01:39:52:00	01:39:53:00	THEY HAVE TO TAKE A LITTLE BIT
01:39:53:00	01:39:54:00	OF A TV TIME OUT BEFORE THEY
01:39:54:00	01:39:56:00	CAN GET OFF TO ANOTHER SEASONAL
01:39:56:00	01:39:56:00	POSITION.
01:39:56:00	01:39:58:00	WE MIGHT WANT TO START TO
01:39:58:00	01:40:00:00	TRANSITION OFF OF THOSE
01:40:00:00	01:40:01:00	PORTIONS OF IT AND ALLOW FOLKS
01:40:01:00	01:40:03:00	THAT ARE DOING SEASONAL TO
01:40:03:00	01:40:04:00	MAYBE GO GET THE LICENSES AND
01:40:04:00	01:40:08:00	THEN CONTINUE ON AS A PERMANENT
01:40:08:00	01:40:09:00	FULL TIME EMPLOYEE.
01:40:09:00	01:40:12:00	SO I KNOW THE SEASONAL PORTION
01:40:12:00	01:40:13:00	OF IT BENEFITS THE CITY FROM
01:40:13:00	01:40:16:00	SEASON TO SEASON BUT I THINK WE
01:40:16:00	01:40:17:00	MISS AN OPPORTUNITY TO TRAIN
01:40:17:00	01:40:18:00	THE MEN AND WOMEN OF THE
01:40:18:00	01:40:20:00	DEPARTMENT AND ALLOW THEM TO
01:40:20:00	01:40:21:00	GAIN SORT OF I GUESS FULL TIME
01:40:21:00	01:40:23:00	OPPORTUNITY.
01:40:23:00	01:40:24:00	I'LL LEAVE THAT AT THAT AND
01:40:24:00	01:40:25:00	HAPPY TO PARTNER WITH YOU.
01:40:25:00	01:40:27:00	HAPPY TO MAKE THE INTRODUCTIONS
01:40:27:00	01:40:28:00	OVER TO THE TEAMS THOSE THAT DO
01:40:28:00	01:40:29:00	THE COUPLES AND DO THE HOISTING
01:40:29:00	01:40:31:00	AND DO THE HEAVY EQUIPMENT
01:40:31:00	01:40:32:00	STUFF BUT NO REASON WHY OUR
01:40:32:00	01:40:35:00	THREE DEPARTMENTS PARKS PUBLIC
01:40:35:00	01:40:36:00	WORKS AND TRANSPORTATION SHOULD
01:40:36:00	01:40:38:00	NOT SORT OF HAVE A CONCERTED
01:40:38:00	01:40:39:00	YOU KNOW, PLAN TO YOU KNOW, TO
01:40:39:00	01:40:43:00	TO CONTINUE TO TRAIN THE MEN
01:40:43:00	01:40:44:00	AND WOMEN OF THESE DEPARTMENTS
01:40:44:00	01:40:45:00	SO THAT THEY CAN GET THESE
01:40:45:00	01:40:46:00	LICENSES AND MOVE FORWARD.
01:40:46:00	01:40:47:00	AND THEN JUST LASTLY, IF YOU
01:40:47:00	01:40:48:00	CAN JUST TOUCH ON THAT ON THE
01:40:48:00	01:40:51:00	TREE PRUNING WE'RE WE'RE WAY,
01:40:51:00	01:40:51:00	WAY, WAY, WAY BEHIND THIS.
01:40:51:00	01:40:53:00	ONE OF THE BIG CALLS I GET I
01:40:53:00	01:40:55:00	GET THEM YEAR ROUND BUT
01:40:55:00	01:40:56:00	PARTICULARLY AS THE AS THE WARM
01:40:56:00	01:40:56:00	WEATHER.
01:40:56:00	01:40:58:00	NOW WHAT SOMEONE CALLS MY
01:40:58:00	01:40:59:00	OFFICE TOMORROW AND SAYS I NEED
01:40:59:00	01:41:00:00	A TREE CRONUT.
01:41:00:00	01:41:02:00	WHAT'S THE BEST THING I CAN
01:41:02:00	01:41:03:00	TELL THEM A COUPLE OF YEARS
01:41:03:00	01:41:04:00	LIKE LIKE WHERE ARE WE I NEED
01:41:04:00	01:41:07:00	TO I NEED THEM I NEED TO BE
01:41:07:00	01:41:07:00	ABLE TO MANAGE EXPECTATIONS
01:41:07:00	01:41:09:00	WHEN PEOPLE CALL WHEN THEY HAVE
01:41:09:00	01:41:10:00	A TREE THAT'S PROTRUDING THERE
01:41:10:00	01:41:11:00	THEIR FOUNDATION IN THEIR
01:41:11:00	01:41:14:00	BASEMENT RUBBING UP UPSIDE
01:41:14:00	01:41:14:00	THEIR HOUSE AND CAUSING DAMAGE
01:41:14:00	01:41:18:00	TO THE SIDE OF THEIR PROPERTY
01:41:18:00	01:41:18:00	AND OR CAUSING A DANGEROUS
01:41:18:00	01:41:22:00	SITUATION ON A BUCARDO, I NEED
01:41:22:00	01:41:23:00	TO BE ABLE TO TELL THEM THAT WE
01:41:23:00	01:41:25:00	CAN GET TO IT IN 24 OR 48
01:41:25:00	01:41:26:00	HOURS.
01:41:26:00	01:41:26:00	WE'RE NOT THERE YET.
01:41:26:00	01:41:30:00	WHERE ARE WE SO TWO THINGS I'LL
01:41:30:00	01:41:30:00	SAY.
01:41:30:00	01:41:31:00	ONE, EVERYTHING THAT YOU SAID
01:41:31:00	01:41:33:00	ABOUT LABOR WE ARE IN THAT
01:41:33:00	01:41:34:00	CONVERSATION WOULD LOVE TO GIVE
01:41:34:00	01:41:34:00	YOU MORE DETAIL.
01:41:34:00	01:41:35:00	NO, WE DON'T HAVE ENOUGH TIME
01:41:35:00	01:41:37:00	HERE ON THE TREE PRUNING SIDE
01:41:37:00	01:41:38:00	I'LL SAY THERE'S TWO PIECES.
01:41:38:00	01:41:41:00	ONE I'LL ASK MR WOODS TO SAY WE
01:41:41:00	01:41:43:00	HAVE ACTUALLY SEEN SOME
01:41:43:00	01:41:44:00	IMPROVEMENT AND SORT OF WHERE
01:41:44:00	01:41:45:00	WE ARE IN TERMS OF PRUNING.
01:41:45:00	01:41:48:00	BUT I DO WANT TO KNOW AND THIS
01:41:48:00	01:41:49:00	IS SOMETHING HE JUST FOR ALL
01:41:49:00	01:41:51:00	COUNCILORS JUST AS PEOPLE THERE
01:41:51:00	01:41:52:00	ARE TIMES WHEN PEOPLE ARE
01:41:52:00	01:41:55:00	CALLING ABOUT TREE ISSUES THAT
01:41:55:00	01:41:59:00	ARE NOT ACTUALLY CITY TREES SO
01:41:59:00	01:42:00:00	I WANT TO MAKE THAT DISTINCTION
01:42:00:00	01:42:01:00	IS TO SORT OF CHECK IN WITH
01:42:01:00	01:42:04:00	PEOPLE IF THE TREE THAT THEY
01:42:04:00	01:42:05:00	ARE TALKING ABOUT IS ACTUALLY A
01:42:05:00	01:42:07:00	STREET TREE THEN YES, WE NEED
01:42:07:00	01:42:07:00	TO DO BETTER.
01:42:07:00	01:42:09:00	WE CAN TALK ABOUT WHERE WE ARE
01:42:09:00	01:42:11:00	AND WE ALSO FIND THAT SOMETIMES
01:42:11:00	01:42:14:00	PEOPLE CALL US ABOUT ANYTHING
01:42:14:00	01:42:18:00	RELATED TO TREES AND WE ONLY DO
01:42:18:00	01:42:19:00	THE STREET TREES.
01:42:19:00	01:42:20:00	SO BUT LET'S WE CAN TALK ABOUT
01:42:20:00	01:42:23:00	THE TREES.
01:42:23:00	01:42:24:00	BUT I JUST WANT TO BECAUSE WE
01:42:24:00	01:42:25:00	DO HAVE SOME CONFUSION THERE
01:42:25:00	01:42:26:00	OFTEN IN THE COMMUNITY.
01:42:26:00	01:42:27:00	COMMISSIONER WOODS, DID YOU
01:42:27:00	01:42:29:00	HAVE THE DATA AROUND WHERE WE
01:42:29:00	01:42:36:00	ARE WHERE WE ARE PRUNING
01:42:36:00	01:42:37:00	CURRENTLY WHEN A CONSTITUENT
01:42:37:00	01:42:38:00	CALLS ON THE TREE REQUESTS AN
01:42:38:00	01:42:42:00	ARBORIST IT IN THE QUEUE IS UP
01:42:42:00	01:42:44:00	TO JOHN WAS UP TO THREE MONTHS
01:42:44:00	01:42:48:00	THE TO GO OUT AND INSPECT THAT
01:42:48:00	01:42:48:00	REQUEST FOR ONCE THE ARBORIST
01:42:48:00	01:42:53:00	THEN SAYS YES, IT DOES NEED TO
01:42:53:00	01:42:53:00	BE IN THESE AREAS.
01:42:53:00	01:42:54:00	THEY COULD END A CUE FROM THE
01:42:54:00	01:42:56:00	CONTRACTORS WHICH COULD TAKE
01:42:56:00	01:42:57:00	ANOTHER SIX SEVEN MONTHS FOR
01:42:57:00	01:43:00:00	THEM TO GET OUT HERE WHICH IS
01:43:00:00	01:43:00:00	RIDICULOUS.
01:43:00:00	01:43:01:00	SO WHAT WE'VE DONE IS USING THE
01:43:01:00	01:43:03:00	FUNDS AS THE CHIEF MENTIONED,
01:43:03:00	01:43:04:00	WE'RE TRYING TO GET TO A MORE
01:43:04:00	01:43:05:00	MANAGEABLE PLACE TO THE WHOLE
01:43:05:00	01:43:08:00	ISSUE TAKEN CARE OF , YOU KNOW,
01:43:08:00	01:43:08:00	WITHIN A COUPLE OF MONTHS
01:43:08:00	01:43:11:00	INSTEAD OF TAKING ALMOST A YEAR
01:43:11:00	01:43:12:00	TO GET THEM DOWN AND HAVING THE
01:43:12:00	01:43:16:00	STAFF IN-HOUSE AND NOW HAVING
01:43:16:00	01:43:16:00	THREE AREAS THAT ARE GOING OUT
01:43:16:00	01:43:19:00	TO THE INSPECTION THAT HAVE ONE
01:43:19:00	01:43:20:00	PERSON, WE ARE GOING TO REDUCE
01:43:20:00	01:43:23:00	THIS WAIT TIME TREMENDOUSLY.
01:43:23:00	01:43:24:00	IT IS A WORK IN PROGRESS
01:43:24:00	01:43:27:00	CURRENTLY IT'S ABOUT A YEAR
01:43:27:00	01:43:28:00	WHEN SOMEBODY AT REQUESTS A
01:43:28:00	01:43:29:00	TREE THAT IS NOT AN EMERGENCY
01:43:29:00	01:43:31:00	HAZARD.
01:43:31:00	01:43:32:00	IT'S AN EMERGENCY HAZARD.
01:43:32:00	01:43:33:00	IT GOES RIGHT TO THE FRONT.
01:43:33:00	01:43:34:00	THE LISTEN HAVE TO DO GREAT.
01:43:34:00	01:43:35:00	THANK YOU, COMMISSIONER.
01:43:35:00	01:43:36:00	IT'S GREAT TO WORK WITH YOU AS
01:43:36:00	01:43:36:00	IT IS THE CHIEF.
01:43:36:00	01:43:38:00	THANK YOU, CHIEF AND THANK YOU
01:43:38:00	01:43:39:00	TO THE CHAIRMAN.
01:43:39:00	01:43:40:00	AND JUST TO ASK IF THIS
01:43:40:00	01:43:42:00	RESUBMISSION THAT YOU AND ERM
01:43:42:00	01:43:43:00	FUNDS WE HAVE THEM WE SUPPORT
01:43:43:00	01:43:46:00	YOUR EFFORTS AND IT'S AN
01:43:46:00	01:43:47:00	IMPORTANT PIECE OF OUR OVERALL
01:43:47:00	01:43:50:00	BUDGET AND ONCE AGAIN 20 YEAR
01:43:50:00	01:43:51:00	TENURE IT'S SAD TO SEE THAT
01:43:51:00	01:43:52:00	YOU'RE UNDER ONE PERCENT.
01:43:52:00	01:43:53:00	I'D LIKE TO SEE A BIGGER
01:43:53:00	01:43:53:00	NUMBER.
01:43:53:00	01:43:54:00	THANK YOU NOTE COMMISSIONER
01:43:54:00	01:43:58:00	WOODS TOLD ME THAT I MISSPOKE.
01:43:58:00	01:43:59:00	HE DID NOT GET THE FUNDING FOR
01:43:59:00	01:44:01:00	THE EMAIL SO OK THAT IS
01:44:01:00	01:44:02:00	SOMETHING THAT WE SUBMITTED AND
01:44:02:00	01:44:03:00	WOULD WANT TO SEE.
01:44:03:00	01:44:06:00	IT'S ABOUT I THINK THIRTY FIVE
01:44:06:00	01:44:06:00	THOUSAND DOLLARS TO MAKE IT
01:44:06:00	01:44:07:00	POSSIBLE FOR ALL OF OUR
01:44:07:00	01:44:10:00	FRONTLINE STAFF TO BE ABLE TO
01:44:10:00	01:44:11:00	GET THAT SMALL BUMP FOR BEING
01:44:11:00	01:44:13:00	ABLE TO WORK EQUIPMENT.
01:44:13:00	01:44:14:00	I WOULD I WOULD SUPPORT THAT IF
01:44:14:00	01:44:15:00	WE COULD GET IN THE
01:44:15:00	01:44:17:00	RESUBMISSION THROUGH THROUGH
01:44:17:00	01:44:18:00	THE CHAIR INTO IT TO THE CHAIR
01:44:18:00	01:44:19:00	WAYS AND MEANS WHEN SHE GETS
01:44:19:00	01:44:21:00	BACK TO TO DEALING WITH IT WE
01:44:21:00	01:44:21:00	GREAT.
01:44:21:00	01:44:24:00	THANK YOU CHIEF.
01:44:24:00	01:44:25:00	THANK YOU.
01:44:25:00	01:44:28:00	COUNCILOR CITY
01:44:28:00	01:44:29:00	COUNCILOR BREADON.
01:44:29:00	01:44:31:00	IT IS YOUR TURN AND THEN I'LL
01:44:31:00	01:44:32:00	GO FOR A SECOND ROUND I'LL BE
01:44:32:00	01:44:33:00	AROUND IF YOU ARE A
01:44:33:00	01:44:35:00	COUNCILOR AND YOU HAVE A SECOND
01:44:35:00	01:44:36:00	ROUND OF QUESTIONS PLEASE RAISE
01:44:36:00	01:44:40:00	YOUR HANDS SO THAT I CAN GO IN
01:44:40:00	01:44:40:00	ORDER THAT WAY INSTEAD
01:44:40:00	01:44:41:00	OF CALLING FOR EVERY SINGLE
01:44:41:00	01:44:44:00	PERSON TO RAISE YOUR HAND AND
01:44:44:00	01:44:45:00	LET ME KNOW THAT YOU HAVE A
01:44:45:00	01:44:45:00	SECOND ROUND OF QUESTIONS.
01:44:45:00	01:44:47:00	COUNCILOR BREADON THE FLOOR IS
01:44:47:00	01:44:47:00	YOURS.
01:44:47:00	01:44:49:00	THANK YOU MR CHAIR.
01:44:49:00	01:44:54:00	A FEW THINGS I THINK ONE THING
01:44:54:00	01:44:57:00	WE GREATLY APPRECIATE THE
01:44:57:00	01:45:01:00	INCREDIBLE URGENCY AND DEMAND
01:45:01:00	01:45:05:00	OF RISING SEA LEVEL AND THE
01:45:05:00	01:45:06:00	IMPACTS OF CLIMATE CHANGE ALONG
01:45:06:00	01:45:08:00	THE SHORE.
01:45:08:00	01:45:10:00	I ALWAYS SAY THAT ALL THE
01:45:10:00	01:45:10:00	BRIGHTNESS FURTHER INLAND WHERE
01:45:10:00	01:45:13:00	WE'RE NOT UNLIKELY TO SEE SEA
01:45:13:00	01:45:16:00	WATER IN OUR NEIGHBORHOOD BUT
01:45:16:00	01:45:17:00	AS WE SAW RECENTLY WITH FORT
01:45:17:00	01:45:18:00	LAUDERDALE WE'RE GOING TO SEE
01:45:18:00	01:45:21:00	INCREASING EXTREME WEATHER
01:45:21:00	01:45:22:00	EVENTS THAT DROP A LOT
01:45:22:00	01:45:25:00	OF PRECIPITATION ON THE
01:45:25:00	01:45:26:00	NEIGHBORHOODS AND CAUSE INLAND
01:45:26:00	01:45:29:00	FLOODING.
01:45:29:00	01:45:30:00	AND I'M WONDERING I KNOW THIS
01:45:30:00	01:45:33:00	IS PROBABLY BOSTON WATER AND
01:45:33:00	01:45:34:00	SEWER ISSUE BUT WE ALSO NEED TO
01:45:34:00	01:45:36:00	ADDRESS THINGS LIKE PERMEABLE
01:45:36:00	01:45:40:00	PAVERS AND AND MAKE SURE THAT
01:45:40:00	01:45:44:00	WE ARE NOT PAVING OVER OUR
01:45:44:00	01:45:44:00	BACKYARDS AND THAT WE HAVE
01:45:44:00	01:45:45:00	TRYING TO MAKE PERMEABLE
01:45:45:00	01:45:48:00	SURFACES WILL ABSORB AS MUCH
01:45:48:00	01:45:49:00	WATER AS POSSIBLE.
01:45:49:00	01:45:52:00	AND I DON'T KNOW IF WE'RE
01:45:52:00	01:45:53:00	ACTUALLY ADDRESSING THAT AND I
01:45:53:00	01:45:56:00	APOLOGIZE.
01:45:56:00	01:45:57:00	I WAS LATE COMING TO THE
01:45:57:00	01:45:57:00	MEETING.
01:45:57:00	01:45:58:00	I HAD A DOUBLE HEADER THIS
01:45:58:00	01:45:59:00	AFTERNOON, YOU KNOW, IN TERMS
01:45:59:00	01:46:03:00	OF PERMEABLE STORMWATER
01:46:03:00	01:46:07:00	INFRASTRUCTURE LIKE SWAILS AND
01:46:07:00	01:46:08:00	RAIN GARDENS AND PERMEABLE
01:46:08:00	01:46:11:00	SURFACES WHAT WE'RE DOING IN
01:46:11:00	01:46:12:00	THAT AREA.
01:46:12:00	01:46:13:00	AND THEN THE OTHER QUESTION WAS
01:46:13:00	01:46:15:00	JUST REALLY THE TREE CANOPY
01:46:15:00	01:46:16:00	LIKE ONE OF THE AREAS IT'S A
01:46:16:00	01:46:20:00	HOT ZONE IN IN THE CITY IS IS
01:46:20:00	01:46:20:00	ALSTOM.
01:46:20:00	01:46:23:00	IT'S PRETTY MUCH VERY MUCH
01:46:23:00	01:46:24:00	DENUDED OF TREES AND LARGE
01:46:24:00	01:46:27:00	PARTS BE THAT PART OF THE
01:46:27:00	01:46:28:00	NEIGHBORHOOD INCREDIBLE HEAT
01:46:28:00	01:46:31:00	ISLAND EFFECTS IN THE SUMMER
01:46:31:00	01:46:32:00	AND I WAS WONDERING WHERE WE
01:46:32:00	01:46:35:00	ARE IN STRATEGICALLY WORKING ON
01:46:35:00	01:46:38:00	TREE PLANTING.
01:46:38:00	01:46:39:00	I KNOW THERE'S LOTS
01:46:39:00	01:46:40:00	OF VOLUNTARY EFFORTS ON PRIVATE
01:46:40:00	01:46:42:00	INDIVIDUALS, NON-PROFITS TRYING
01:46:42:00	01:46:43:00	TO WORK IN THIS SPACE BUT WHAT
01:46:43:00	01:46:46:00	SUPPORT WE HAVE TO TRY AND
01:46:46:00	01:46:47:00	INCREASE THE TREE CANOPY AND
01:46:47:00	01:46:50:00	ALSTOM AND THEN THE OTHER ISSUE
01:46:50:00	01:46:51:00	IS REALLY JUST OUTREACH IN
01:46:51:00	01:46:53:00	TERMS OF THE MASSIVE PROGRAM
01:46:53:00	01:46:54:00	FOR LOW INCOME HOUSEHOLDS AND
01:46:54:00	01:46:58:00	RENTERS.
01:46:58:00	01:46:59:00	IT SEEMS THAT YOU KNOW, I'VE
01:46:59:00	01:47:00:00	BEEN A GREAT BENEFICIARY
01:47:00:00	01:47:02:00	OF MASSIVE PROGRAM BUT I KNOW
01:47:02:00	01:47:03:00	SO MANY OTHER FOLKS HAVEN'T AND
01:47:03:00	01:47:06:00	HOW CAN WE APPLY THAT TO MAKE
01:47:06:00	01:47:09:00	IT MORE ACCESSIBLE TO PEOPLE?
01:47:09:00	01:47:10:00	AND THEN ONE MORE OTHER CONCERN
01:47:10:00	01:47:11:00	I HAD THAT I WANTED UPLIFT WAS
01:47:11:00	01:47:14:00	JUST THE WHOLE ISSUE ABOUT THE
01:47:14:00	01:47:17:00	BOSTON COMMUNITY CHOICE FOR
01:47:17:00	01:47:21:00	ELECTRICITY IS FABULOUS BUT WE
01:47:21:00	01:47:22:00	HEAR EVERY DAY ABOUT THE
01:47:22:00	01:47:24:00	AGGRESSIVE PREDATORY SCAMS THAT
01:47:24:00	01:47:28:00	ARE PERPETRATED ON OUR SENIORS
01:47:28:00	01:47:29:00	FOLKS WHO DO NOT SPEAK ENGLISH.
01:47:29:00	01:47:30:00	AND I JUST WANTED TO CHECK IN
01:47:30:00	01:47:33:00	ON WHERE WE'RE AT WITH THEM AND
01:47:33:00	01:47:34:00	DO WE HAVE ANY ANY TOOLS IN THE
01:47:34:00	01:47:36:00	KIT TO TRY AND REMEDIATE THAT
01:47:36:00	01:47:37:00	SITUATION?
01:47:37:00	01:47:38:00	I'M SORRY THAT WAS THREE FOUR
01:47:38:00	01:47:41:00	QUESTIONS AND I WON'T BE HERE
01:47:41:00	01:47:44:00	FOR A SECOND ROUND SO I HOPE I
01:47:44:00	01:47:45:00	CAN GET SOME ANSWERS AND THEN I
01:47:45:00	01:47:47:00	KNOW WE TALK ABOUT PARKS IN THE
01:47:47:00	01:47:48:00	NEIGHBORHOOD.
01:47:48:00	01:47:49:00	MCKINNEY PARK IS ACROSS THE
01:47:49:00	01:47:55:00	STREET FROM THE FANEUIL GARDENS
01:47:55:00	01:47:56:00	PUBLIC HOUSING AND WE'D REALLY
01:47:56:00	01:47:59:00	LIKE TO SEE SEE THAT MOVE
01:47:59:00	01:48:03:00	FORWARD EXPEDITIOUSLY AND ALSO
01:48:03:00	01:48:04:00	THE OTHER AREA IN THE MIDDLE
01:48:04:00	01:48:05:00	OF THE HEAT ISLAND IS THE
01:48:05:00	01:48:08:00	RINGER PARK IN ALLSTON AND IT'S
01:48:08:00	01:48:08:00	BEEN UNDER STUDY FOR MANY YEARS
01:48:08:00	01:48:12:00	AND WE'D REALLY LIKE TO SEE
01:48:12:00	01:48:12:00	SOME SOME MOVEMENT FORWARD AND
01:48:12:00	01:48:13:00	I KNOW I CAN HAVE THESE
01:48:13:00	01:48:16:00	CONVERSATIONS OFFLINE BUT I
01:48:16:00	01:48:17:00	JUST WANT TO PUT THOSE DAYNA'S
01:48:17:00	01:48:18:00	ITS PRIORITIES.
01:48:18:00	01:48:22:00	THANK YOU.
01:48:22:00	01:48:24:00	I'M GOING TO TRY TO MOVE
01:48:24:00	01:48:26:00	THROUGH SORT OF QUICKLY IN
01:48:26:00	01:48:27:00	TERMS OF PERMEABLE SURFACES.
01:48:27:00	01:48:30:00	THAT'S ONE OF THE REAL PIECES
01:48:30:00	01:48:31:00	THAT WE'RE LOOKING AT IN TERMS
01:48:31:00	01:48:32:00	OF OUR PARKS BEING A MAJOR
01:48:32:00	01:48:34:00	SOURCE OF IMPERMEABLE PERMEABLE
01:48:34:00	01:48:35:00	SURFACES.
01:48:35:00	01:48:38:00	BUT THERE'S ALSO IT WOULD BE
01:48:38:00	01:48:39:00	WE'RE TALKING WITH THE STREETS
01:48:39:00	01:48:40:00	CABINET KATE ENGLAND, THE
01:48:40:00	01:48:41:00	DIRECTOR OF GREEN
01:48:41:00	01:48:42:00	INFRASTRUCTURE AND SHE IS
01:48:42:00	01:48:43:00	CAUGHT DOING A LOT
01:48:43:00	01:48:46:00	OF COORDINATION WITH BOSTON
01:48:46:00	01:48:47:00	WATER AND SEWER AROUND HOW WE
01:48:47:00	01:48:50:00	INCREASE IMPERMEABLE OR
01:48:50:00	01:48:51:00	PERMEABLE SURFACES THAT WE
01:48:51:00	01:48:54:00	REMOVE IMPERMEABLE SURFACES
01:48:54:00	01:48:57:00	FROM AROUND THE CITY AND REALLY
01:48:57:00	01:48:58:00	TRYING TO GET MORE AND MORE
01:48:58:00	01:48:59:00	PEOPLE TO BE AWARE THAT REALLY
01:48:59:00	01:49:01:00	WORK WITH FOLKS TO MAKE THAT
01:49:01:00	01:49:02:00	SOMETHING THAT PEOPLE EVEN
01:49:02:00	01:49:03:00	UNDERSTAND BECAUSE I THINK A
01:49:03:00	01:49:05:00	LOT OF TIMES PEOPLE DON'T EVEN
01:49:05:00	01:49:06:00	UNDERSTAND WHAT IT MEANS TO PAY
01:49:06:00	01:49:07:00	FOR YOUR BACKYARD.
01:49:07:00	01:49:09:00	I'VE BEEN IN A LITTLE BIT OF A
01:49:09:00	01:49:10:00	STRUGGLE HERE WITH MY OWN CONDO
01:49:10:00	01:49:13:00	ASSOCIATION ABOUT NOT PAVING
01:49:13:00	01:49:17:00	OVER OUR OWN BACKYARD SO IT IS
01:49:17:00	01:49:17:00	WHAT IT IS.
01:49:17:00	01:49:21:00	BUT THAT'S THAT'S THE OTHER
01:49:21:00	01:49:21:00	RESOURCE.
01:49:21:00	01:49:22:00	I THINK THAT IT WOULD BE GOOD
01:49:22:00	01:49:24:00	TO HAVE A CONVERSATION WITH
01:49:24:00	01:49:25:00	ENGLAND ABOUT SOME OF THE
01:49:25:00	01:49:26:00	THINGS THAT ARE GOING ON BEYOND
01:49:26:00	01:49:30:00	OUR THE LANDS THAT WE OWN AS A
01:49:30:00	01:49:33:00	CITY IN TERMS OF OUR SENTRY'S
01:49:33:00	01:49:34:00	DEFINITELY STILL IN THE
01:49:34:00	01:49:34:00	CONVERSATION.
01:49:34:00	01:49:35:00	I KNOW THAT YOU RAISED THIS AND
01:49:35:00	01:49:36:00	THE CONVERSATION AROUND THE
01:49:36:00	01:49:37:00	TREE CANOPY.
01:49:37:00	01:49:38:00	WE IN THIS NEXT COMING YEAR
01:49:38:00	01:49:40:00	WILL BEGIN WORKING ON
01:49:40:00	01:49:41:00	NEIGHBORHOOD PLANS.
01:49:41:00	01:49:44:00	WE ARE THE QUESTION IS ABOUT
01:49:44:00	01:49:45:00	SEQUENCING AND HOW DEEPLY AND
01:49:45:00	01:49:45:00	HOW MANY NEIGHBORHOODS WE CAN
01:49:45:00	01:49:48:00	ENGAGE ALL AT THE SAME TIME.
01:49:48:00	01:49:49:00	SO I'M NOT GOING TO PROMISE
01:49:49:00	01:49:50:00	THAT WE'RE GOING TO ENGAGE
01:49:50:00	01:49:50:00	EVERY NEIGHBORHOOD AT THE SAME
01:49:50:00	01:49:51:00	TIME.
01:49:51:00	01:49:52:00	ARE WE GOING YOU TWO TO THREE
01:49:52:00	01:49:53:00	LEARN FROM THAT AND THEN DUE TO
01:49:53:00	01:49:56:00	TWO TO THREE THE FOLLOWING THAT
01:49:56:00	01:49:57:00	WE REALLY ACTUALLY CAN DO A
01:49:57:00	01:49:59:00	GOOD COMMUNITY PROCESS MORE
01:49:59:00	01:50:00:00	THAN INTERESTED IN CONTINUING
01:50:00:00	01:50:00:00	THE CONVERSATION AROUND WHERE
01:50:00:00	01:50:03:00	THAT MIGHT LEAD US IN TERMS
01:50:03:00	01:50:04:00	OF CCE AND COMPETITIVE
01:50:04:00	01:50:07:00	ELECTRICS.
01:50:07:00	01:50:08:00	QUITE A LOT OF OUR WORK HAS
01:50:08:00	01:50:11:00	BEEN ADVOCATING AT THE STATE
01:50:11:00	01:50:12:00	HOUSE AROUND WHAT CAN HAPPEN IN
01:50:12:00	01:50:15:00	TERMS OF COMPETITIVE ELECTRIC
01:50:15:00	01:50:16:00	POWER BECAUSE WE'RE JUST SOME
01:50:16:00	01:50:17:00	REAL LIMITATIONS TO WHAT WE CAN
01:50:17:00	01:50:19:00	DO.
01:50:19:00	01:50:20:00	WE WILL HEAR THAT THEY DO
01:50:20:00	01:50:20:00	SOMETHING.
01:50:20:00	01:50:23:00	WE REPORT THEM TO THE AG'S
01:50:23:00	01:50:24:00	OFFICE OR WE GET RESIDENTS.
01:50:24:00	01:50:25:00	BUT RESIDENTS DO CALL THE CCC
01:50:25:00	01:50:27:00	LIVE TO TELL US ABOUT WHAT
01:50:27:00	01:50:27:00	THEY'RE BEING CHARGED BY
01:50:27:00	01:50:28:00	COMPETITIVE ELECTRIC SUPPLIERS.
01:50:28:00	01:50:31:00	WE ARE READY TO DIRECT THEM TO
01:50:31:00	01:50:35:00	THE AG'S OFFICE TO MAKE THOSE
01:50:35:00	01:50:35:00	REPORTS AND WE DO FOLLOW UP AND
01:50:35:00	01:50:36:00	HAVE CONVERSATIONS WITH THE
01:50:36:00	01:50:38:00	AG'S OFFICE ABOUT WHAT THEY'RE
01:50:38:00	01:50:39:00	GETTING IN.
01:50:39:00	01:50:40:00	IT IS WORTH NOTING THOUGH THAT
01:50:40:00	01:50:43:00	THE GOVERNOR IN HER PREVIOUS
01:50:43:00	01:50:43:00	LETTER, THE AG'S OFFICE TRIED
01:50:43:00	01:50:46:00	TO DO A NUMBER OF THINGS AROUND
01:50:46:00	01:50:47:00	THIS AND SO WE ANTICIPATE WHAT
01:50:47:00	01:50:48:00	WE HAVING SOMEONE WHO HAS BEEN
01:50:48:00	01:50:50:00	MORE TUNED IN TO THIS ISSUE
01:50:50:00	01:50:51:00	WILL ALLOW SOME NEW THINGS TO
01:50:51:00	01:50:53:00	MOVE FORWARD ON THE STATE
01:50:53:00	01:50:53:00	LEVEL.
01:50:53:00	01:50:54:00	BUT MOST OF WHAT WE'RE DOING
01:50:54:00	01:50:57:00	RIGHT NOW IS JUST MAKING GET
01:50:57:00	01:50:58:00	THE WORD OUT THERE WE'RE
01:50:58:00	01:50:59:00	THANKFUL BECAUSE A NUMBER
01:50:59:00	01:50:59:00	OF COUNCILORS ONCE YOU LEARNED
01:50:59:00	01:51:02:00	ABOUT IT, YOU'VE HEARD THAT
01:51:02:00	01:51:02:00	YOU'VE BEEN TAKING THAT MESSAGE
01:51:02:00	01:51:03:00	OUT ON THE COMPUTER COMMUNITY.
01:51:03:00	01:51:04:00	THANK YOU FOR HELPING US DO
01:51:04:00	01:51:05:00	THAT.
01:51:05:00	01:51:06:00	AND WE THINK THAT WE NEED
01:51:06:00	01:51:06:00	SOMETHING WITH MORE TEETH BUT
01:51:06:00	01:51:09:00	THAT THAT PIECE AROUND HAVING
01:51:09:00	01:51:10:00	MORE TEETH TO PUSH BACK ON THEM
01:51:10:00	01:51:13:00	IS MOSTLY A STATE FUNCTION AND
01:51:13:00	01:51:14:00	WE'VE BEEN RAISING OUR BOYS
01:51:14:00	01:51:17:00	PRETTY LOUDLY AT THE STATE
01:51:17:00	01:51:18:00	HOUSE TO MAKE SURE EDUCATING
01:51:18:00	01:51:21:00	LEGISLATORS WHO ARE HAVING
01:51:21:00	01:51:21:00	PARTICULAR CONCERNS IN THEIR
01:51:21:00	01:51:22:00	COMMUNITIES WITHIN THE
01:51:22:00	01:51:24:00	POSSIBILITY.
01:51:24:00	01:51:25:00	AND THEN MCKINNEY PARK I'M
01:51:25:00	01:51:28:00	GOING TO HAND IT OVER TO CATHY
01:51:28:00	01:51:29:00	REALLY QUICKLY TO LET US KNOW
01:51:29:00	01:51:31:00	WHERE WE ARE WITH THOSE TWO
01:51:31:00	01:51:32:00	PARKS AND I THINK THEM WE WILL
01:51:32:00	01:51:36:00	HAVE ANSWERED NOW WE'RE GOING
01:51:36:00	01:51:37:00	TO BE AS SOON AS WE GET OUR
01:51:37:00	01:51:40:00	PROJECT MANAGER ON BOARD, WE'RE
01:51:40:00	01:51:41:00	GOING TO BE REASSIGNING THE
01:51:41:00	01:51:51:00	COUNTY PARK SO THAT THAT CAN
01:51:51:00	01:51:51:00	MOVE FORWARD PRETTY QUICKLY.
01:51:51:00	01:51:52:00	THERE'S A LOT OF EXCITING
01:51:52:00	01:51:53:00	THINGS TO HAPPEN THERE AND
01:51:53:00	01:51:54:00	WHERE YOUR PARKS BE STARTING A
01:51:54:00	01:51:54:00	COMMUNITY PROCESS THIS SUMMER
01:51:54:00	01:51:55:00	AS SOON AS WE GET THAT CONTRACT
01:51:55:00	01:51:56:00	BACK WE CAN WE CAN BEGIN
01:51:56:00	01:51:57:00	REACHING OUT TO THE COMMUNITY
01:51:57:00	01:51:59:00	AND TRYING THOSE CONVERSATIONS
01:51:59:00	01:51:59:00	ABOUT PHASE ONE.
01:51:59:00	01:52:01:00	I DO JUST WANT TO ALSO MENTION
01:52:01:00	01:52:03:00	THAT THAT KATE ENGLAND HAS BEEN
01:52:03:00	01:52:04:00	REALLY GREAT.
01:52:04:00	01:52:05:00	WE'VE BEEN WORKING WITH HER
01:52:05:00	01:52:07:00	PRETTY CLOSELY.
01:52:07:00	01:52:08:00	ONE OF THE CHALLENGES THAT WE
01:52:08:00	01:52:11:00	HAVE IS AROUND NOT HAVING THE
01:52:11:00	01:52:14:00	EQUIPMENT THAT'S REQUIRED TO DO
01:52:14:00	01:52:15:00	SOME OF THE PREVIOUS PAVING AND
01:52:15:00	01:52:15:00	MAINTAIN IT TO THE LEVEL AND
01:52:15:00	01:52:17:00	SHE'S REALLY BEEN INSTRUMENTAL
01:52:17:00	01:52:19:00	IN TRYING TO GET THAT GOING
01:52:19:00	01:52:19:00	FROM A CITY WIDE PERSPECTIVE TO
01:52:19:00	01:52:22:00	MAKE SURE THAT WE HAVE ALL
01:52:22:00	01:52:23:00	OF THE WHO WE CAN MAINTAIN
01:52:23:00	01:52:26:00	THESE GREEN INFRASTRUCTURE ONCE
01:52:26:00	01:52:27:00	WE PUT IT IN.
01:52:27:00	01:52:30:00	SO SHE'S BEEN REALLY SUPPORTIVE
01:52:30:00	01:52:31:00	OF OUR EFFORTS TO EXPAND THAT
01:52:31:00	01:52:31:00	AS WELL.
01:52:31:00	01:52:33:00	THANK YOU.
01:52:33:00	01:52:34:00	AND JUST ONE MORE QUESTION.
01:52:34:00	01:52:37:00	I KNOW THE NAPOLEON PROJECT IS
01:52:37:00	01:52:38:00	SORT OF A GOING FORWARD BIT BY
01:52:38:00	01:52:41:00	BIT.
01:52:41:00	01:52:45:00	I DON'T KNOW IF THIS WHERE OUT
01:52:45:00	01:52:49:00	OF THAT IN TERMS OF I KNOW WE
01:52:49:00	01:52:50:00	HAD CPA MONEY, WE HAVE STATE
01:52:50:00	01:52:51:00	MONEY WITH WE'VE GOT DIFFERENT
01:52:51:00	01:52:51:00	PIECES.
01:52:51:00	01:52:53:00	IT'S A LITTLE GEM OF A PARK.
01:52:53:00	01:52:54:00	IT'S A LITTLE ACTUALLY BUT IT'S
01:52:54:00	01:52:57:00	A IT'S A PASSIVE GREEN SPACE
01:52:57:00	01:52:58:00	AND IT'S NOT A BALL STATE AND
01:52:58:00	01:53:00:00	IT'S INCREDIBLY WELL USED AND
01:53:00:00	01:53:01:00	WE HAVE MIGRATORY BIRDS COMING
01:53:01:00	01:53:01:00	THROUGH.
01:53:01:00	01:53:05:00	IT'S JUST A FABULOUS TWENTY
01:53:05:00	01:53:08:00	THREE 365 DAYS A YEAR 12.
01:53:08:00	01:53:09:00	SO YOU KNOW ANY ANY HELP THAT
01:53:09:00	01:53:12:00	WE CAN GET TO HOW TO SORT
01:53:12:00	01:53:13:00	OF GET A PROJECT MOVED FORWARD
01:53:13:00	01:53:16:00	WE HAVE SOME MONEY AND WE JUST
01:53:16:00	01:53:17:00	LOOKED FORWARD ONE PIECE AT A
01:53:17:00	01:53:19:00	TIME AND I DO APPRECIATE ALL
01:53:19:00	01:53:20:00	THE GREAT WORK THAT THAT WE'VE
01:53:20:00	01:53:23:00	PUT INTO THIS TO TRY AND GET IT
01:53:23:00	01:53:24:00	MOVING BUT WE'RE NOT THERE YET
01:53:24:00	01:53:28:00	NOW IT IS PRIMARILY FUNDED
01:53:28:00	01:53:28:00	THROUGH CPA AND SOME OTHER
01:53:28:00	01:53:31:00	GRANTS THAT THE FRIENDS HAVE
01:53:31:00	01:53:32:00	BEEN ABLE TO SECURE.
01:53:32:00	01:53:33:00	WE ARE SUPPORTING IT FROM AN
01:53:33:00	01:53:35:00	OPERATIONAL PERSPECTIVE AND
01:53:35:00	01:53:36:00	WE'RE GOING TO BE WE'RE GOING
01:53:36:00	01:53:37:00	TO BE BIDDING IT IT'S GOING OUT
01:53:37:00	01:53:40:00	TO TO COME THIS MONTH.
01:53:40:00	01:53:41:00	SO WE'RE MAKING SOME PROGRESS
01:53:41:00	01:53:43:00	ON AND AND TRYING TO GET THAT
01:53:43:00	01:53:44:00	OUT TO BID AS SOON AS POSSIBLE.
01:53:44:00	01:53:47:00	IT IS WORTH NOTING OVERALL THAT
01:53:47:00	01:53:48:00	IN THIS BUDGET WE DO HAVE THE
01:53:48:00	01:53:50:00	RESOURCES FOR THREE ADDITIONAL
01:53:50:00	01:53:51:00	PROJECT MANAGERS, SENIOR
01:53:51:00	01:53:51:00	PROJECT MANAGERS WHICH SHOULD
01:53:51:00	01:53:54:00	MAKE A DIFFERENCE.
01:53:54:00	01:53:55:00	I KNOW MANY COUNCILORS ARE
01:53:55:00	01:53:56:00	CONCERNED ABOUT PARKS THAT YOU
01:53:56:00	01:53:59:00	GOT ALLOCATED BUT WE HAVEN'T
01:53:59:00	01:53:59:00	ACTUALLY SENT THEM TO DESIGN
01:53:59:00	01:54:00:00	AND THAT'S IN PART BECAUSE WE
01:54:00:00	01:54:01:00	JUST DON'T HAVE ENOUGH PEOPLE
01:54:01:00	01:54:02:00	TO ASSIGN THEM.
01:54:02:00	01:54:03:00	SO THAT SHOULD RELIEVE SOME
01:54:03:00	01:54:04:00	OF THAT PRESSURE.
01:54:04:00	01:54:07:00	YEAH, I DO I DO REALLY WANT TO
01:54:07:00	01:54:09:00	THANK YOU ALL PARKS DEPARTMENT
01:54:09:00	01:54:10:00	DOING SOME INCREDIBLE WORK AND
01:54:10:00	01:54:14:00	YOU KNOW, AS WE AS WE DEAL WITH
01:54:14:00	01:54:15:00	CLIMATE CHANGE, THE PARKS ARE
01:54:15:00	01:54:16:00	GOING TO BE A CRITICAL PIECE
01:54:16:00	01:54:18:00	OF WORK INFRASTRUCTURE FOR OUR
01:54:18:00	01:54:18:00	HEALTH AND WELL-BEING AND ALSO
01:54:18:00	01:54:21:00	JUST THE LIVABILITY CITY.
01:54:21:00	01:54:22:00	SO THANK YOU ALL FOR YOUR
01:54:22:00	01:54:25:00	WONDERFUL WORK AND I'M SORRY I
01:54:25:00	01:54:26:00	CAN'T STAY FOR THE REST OF THE
01:54:26:00	01:54:28:00	HEARING A LONGER ENGAGEMENT BUT
01:54:28:00	01:54:29:00	THANKS AGAIN.
01:54:29:00	01:54:30:00	THANK YOU, MR CHAIR.
01:54:30:00	01:54:31:00	THANK YOU, COUNCILOR COUNCILOR
01:54:31:00	01:54:36:00	MEJIA THANK YOU CHAIR.
01:54:36:00	01:54:39:00	I JUST HAVE A FEW QUESTIONS FOR
01:54:39:00	01:54:40:00	THE CHIEF AND WE GOT THE
01:54:40:00	01:54:43:00	COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT I KNOW A
01:54:43:00	01:54:46:00	FEW YEARS AGO WE HAD A
01:54:46:00	01:54:47:00	ENCOUNTER THIS IS BEFORE YOUR
01:54:47:00	01:54:50:00	TIME CHIEF A SERIES OF SMALL
01:54:50:00	01:54:51:00	BUSINESSES THAT HAD EXPERIENCED
01:54:51:00	01:54:55:00	FLOODING RIGHT COLUMBIA ROAD
01:54:55:00	01:54:55:00	AND WE STARTED DOING SOME
01:54:55:00	01:54:58:00	ORGANIZING IN SOME PUBLIC
01:54:58:00	01:54:59:00	EDUCATION AROUND THE
01:54:59:00	01:55:00:00	ENVIRONMENT SO THAT THESE
01:55:00:00	01:55:02:00	SMALLER IMMIGRANT OWNED
01:55:02:00	01:55:03:00	BUSINESSES CAN SEE THE
01:55:03:00	01:55:05:00	CONNECTION BETWEEN CLIMATE THE
01:55:05:00	01:55:06:00	ENVIRONMENT AND THE ISSUES THAT
01:55:06:00	01:55:07:00	THEY WERE DEALING WITH AS SMALL
01:55:07:00	01:55:10:00	BUSINESSES.
01:55:10:00	01:55:11:00	AND I'M JUST CURIOUS FROM AN
01:55:11:00	01:55:11:00	ENGAGEMENT STANDPOINT, WHAT ARE
01:55:11:00	01:55:14:00	WE DOING AND WHAT COULD WE BE
01:55:14:00	01:55:17:00	DOING MORE WITH ADDITIONAL
01:55:17:00	01:55:18:00	RESOURCES OBVIOUSLY TO HELP
01:55:18:00	01:55:21:00	BRING IN SOME MORE
01:55:21:00	01:55:22:00	NONTRADITIONAL VOICES AND
01:55:22:00	01:55:26:00	CONSTITUENTS INTO THE CLIMATE
01:55:26:00	01:55:29:00	JUSTICE CONVERSATION?
01:55:29:00	01:55:30:00	YEAH, SO I THINK THERE'S A TWO
01:55:30:00	01:55:33:00	TO TWO GROUPS THAT YOU'RE
01:55:33:00	01:55:33:00	MENTIONING.
01:55:33:00	01:55:34:00	ONE IS OUR SMALL BUSINESSES
01:55:34:00	01:55:37:00	THAT ARE BELOW THE THRESHOLD
01:55:37:00	01:55:41:00	BUT THEY ARE EXPERIENCING
01:55:41:00	01:55:41:00	FLOODING FOR INSTANCE OR
01:55:41:00	01:55:45:00	ANOTHER THING THAT WE'RE FOR
01:55:45:00	01:55:45:00	PEOPLE IS MUCH HIGHER ENERGY
01:55:45:00	01:55:49:00	COSTS THAT ARE REALLY, REALLY
01:55:49:00	01:55:52:00	TAXING OUR SMALL BUSINESSES SO
01:55:52:00	01:55:53:00	WE DO HAVE A POSITION WITHIN
01:55:53:00	01:55:54:00	THE BERTO TEAM AND SO IT'S
01:55:54:00	01:55:56:00	ACTUALLY REALLY THE BUILDINGS
01:55:56:00	01:55:57:00	AND BUILDING DECARBONIZATION
01:55:57:00	01:56:01:00	TEAM WORK IS JUST ONE COMPONENT
01:56:01:00	01:56:01:00	OF IT.
01:56:01:00	01:56:04:00	BUT WE HAVE A ONE ROLE THAT IS
01:56:04:00	01:56:05:00	PARTICULARLY FOCUSED ON HELPING
01:56:05:00	01:56:08:00	PEOPLE ACTUALLY ACCESS MASSIVE
01:56:08:00	01:56:11:00	BECAUSE IT'S ONE THING TO HAVE
01:56:11:00	01:56:12:00	THE RESOURCES THERE.
01:56:12:00	01:56:13:00	BUT THEN THERE'S MANY TIMES
01:56:13:00	01:56:14:00	THAT PEOPLE DON'T KNOW THAT THE
01:56:14:00	01:56:16:00	RECENT ARE AVAILABLE TO THEM SO
01:56:16:00	01:56:16:00	THEY DON'T THEY DON'T HAPPEN TO
01:56:16:00	01:56:19:00	THEM AND WHAT ACTUALLY ENDS UP
01:56:19:00	01:56:20:00	HAPPENING IS THAT A
01:56:20:00	01:56:20:00	DISPROPORTIONATE EVERYBODY IS
01:56:20:00	01:56:23:00	PAYING ON THEIR ELECTRICITY
01:56:23:00	01:56:23:00	BILL.
01:56:23:00	01:56:24:00	EVERYBODY'S PAYING ON THEIR
01:56:24:00	01:56:27:00	THEIR HEATING BILL FOR THE
01:56:27:00	01:56:28:00	MASSIVE PROGRAM.
01:56:28:00	01:56:29:00	BUT WHAT HAS BEEN HAPPENING AND
01:56:29:00	01:56:31:00	IT'S BEEN DOCUMENTED THROUGH
01:56:31:00	01:56:34:00	DATA IS OVERWHELMINGLY THE
01:56:34:00	01:56:35:00	COMMERCIAL PEOPLE THAT ARE
01:56:35:00	01:56:36:00	PAYING IN THE MONEY IS BEING
01:56:36:00	01:56:39:00	SPENT ON THE BIG BUILDINGS, NOT
01:56:39:00	01:56:43:00	THE SMALL SMALL BUSINESSES THAT
01:56:43:00	01:56:44:00	ARE PAYING INTO IT BUT NOT
01:56:44:00	01:56:45:00	REALLY RECEIVING ENOUGH OF IT.
01:56:45:00	01:56:47:00	AGAIN, RENTERS ARE PAYING INTO
01:56:47:00	01:56:47:00	THIS BUT OVERWHELMINGLY THE
01:56:47:00	01:56:50:00	MONEY IS GOING TO HOMEOWNERS
01:56:50:00	01:56:51:00	AND PARTICULARLY HOMEOWNERS
01:56:51:00	01:56:51:00	OUTSIDE OF THE CITY.
01:56:51:00	01:56:55:00	SO ONE OF THE THINGS THAT WE
01:56:55:00	01:56:56:00	DID AROUND THAT IS TO CREATE A
01:56:56:00	01:56:58:00	ROLE WITHIN THE CITY IN A
01:56:58:00	01:56:59:00	PARTNERSHIP WITH MARCEY TO MAKE
01:56:59:00	01:57:00:00	SURE THAT OUR PEOPLE GET THEIR
01:57:00:00	01:57:03:00	FAIR SHARE AND THEY THEY SHOULD
01:57:03:00	01:57:06:00	GET THAT AND THEY'RE NOT GOING
01:57:06:00	01:57:07:00	TO GET IT UNLESS SOMEBODY IS
01:57:07:00	01:57:08:00	ACTUALLY OUT THERE TALKING TO
01:57:08:00	01:57:08:00	THEM.
01:57:08:00	01:57:10:00	AND SO PART OF WHAT WE'RE DOING
01:57:10:00	01:57:11:00	IS HELPING TO MAKE SOME
01:57:11:00	01:57:13:00	OF THOSE CONNECTIONS.
01:57:13:00	01:57:14:00	BUT I THINK WE COULD BE DOING
01:57:14:00	01:57:15:00	THAT ALSO AROUND ISSUES
01:57:15:00	01:57:15:00	OF FLOODING.
01:57:15:00	01:57:18:00	WE WILL BE DOING SOME OF THAT
01:57:18:00	01:57:19:00	AS WE BEGIN THE CLIMATE READY
01:57:19:00	01:57:21:00	IMPLEMENTATION AND PLACE ANY
01:57:21:00	01:57:21:00	SMALL BUILDINGS THAT ARE SMALL
01:57:21:00	01:57:25:00	BUSINESSES THAT ARE RIGHT ALONG
01:57:25:00	01:57:25:00	AN ACTIVE FLOOD PATH.
01:57:25:00	01:57:29:00	BUT I I WANT TO BE HONEST THAT
01:57:29:00	01:57:30:00	TO BE HONEST WE WERE NOT QUITE
01:57:30:00	01:57:32:00	HITTING ALL OF OUR THE PEOPLE
01:57:32:00	01:57:33:00	WHO ARE IMPACTED BY BERTO AND
01:57:33:00	01:57:37:00	SO CURRENTLY OUR LEVEL
01:57:37:00	01:57:40:00	OF OUTREACH IS SOMEWHAT LIMITED
01:57:40:00	01:57:41:00	BY THE NUMBER OF FOLKS WE HAVE.
01:57:41:00	01:57:44:00	WE DO HAVE PEOPLE THAT CALL THE
01:57:44:00	01:57:44:00	BRDO HOTLINE SOMETIMES
01:57:44:00	01:57:45:00	LITERALLY CRYING BECAUSE THEY
01:57:45:00	01:57:48:00	DO NOT KNOW WHAT THEY'RE
01:57:48:00	01:57:48:00	SUPPOSED TO DO.
01:57:48:00	01:57:52:00	IF I HAD MORE RESOURCES WE'D BE
01:57:52:00	01:57:53:00	STAFFING THAT TEAM UP MORE
01:57:53:00	01:57:56:00	SUFFICIENTLY TO MAKE SURE THAT
01:57:56:00	01:57:57:00	WE COULD ACTUALLY HELP PEOPLE
01:57:57:00	01:58:00:00	THROUGH THE PROCESS NOT JUST
01:58:00:00	01:58:01:00	TELLING THEM WHAT THEY HAVE TO
01:58:01:00	01:58:03:00	DO BUT HELPING THEM TO FIGURE
01:58:03:00	01:58:04:00	WHAT THEY MIGHT ACTUALLY BE
01:58:04:00	01:58:07:00	ABLE TO DO TO REALLY
01:58:07:00	01:58:08:00	DECARBONIZE THEIR BUILDING AND
01:58:08:00	01:58:09:00	THAT IS GO FOR FOLKS WHO ARE
01:58:09:00	01:58:12:00	IMPACTED BUT ALSO FOR FOLKS WHO
01:58:12:00	01:58:13:00	ARE BELOW THAT THRESHOLD BUT
01:58:13:00	01:58:15:00	ARE PAYING THE HIGH PRICES THAT
01:58:15:00	01:58:16:00	COME FROM INEFFICIENT BUILDINGS
01:58:16:00	01:58:19:00	AND WHO ARE SEEING THE IMPACTS
01:58:19:00	01:58:20:00	OF CLIMATE CHANGE DIRECTLY ON
01:58:20:00	01:58:23:00	THOSE HOT DAYS OR WHEN PEOPLE
01:58:23:00	01:58:23:00	ARE EVEN COMING INTO THEIR
01:58:23:00	01:58:24:00	BUSINESS OR ALL THE DIFFERENT
01:58:24:00	01:58:25:00	IMPACTS THAT THEY'RE
01:58:25:00	01:58:27:00	EXPERIENCING RIGHT NOW WE ONLY
01:58:27:00	01:58:31:00	HAVE ONE PERSON THAT'S
01:58:31:00	01:58:34:00	AVAILABLE FOR THE ENTIRE WELL
01:58:34:00	01:58:34:00	THAT'S GREAT.
01:58:34:00	01:58:35:00	THANK YOU AGAIN AND THANK YOU
01:58:35:00	01:58:38:00	FOR BEING SO WHAT'S COMING THEN
01:58:38:00	01:58:42:00	I WILL OR QUESTION AND THIS IS
01:58:42:00	01:58:43:00	MORE ON TO JUSTIN AND DURING
01:58:43:00	01:58:46:00	THE CALL IT WE WORKED TO
01:58:46:00	01:58:50:00	ORGANIZE AND TO HAVE SMALLER
01:58:50:00	01:58:51:00	BODEGAS THAT WERE CLOSER TO
01:58:51:00	01:58:55:00	RESIDENTS WHO COULDN'T GET TO
01:58:55:00	01:58:55:00	THE FOOD PANTRY.
01:58:55:00	01:58:58:00	SO WE WE CREATED THIS PROGRAM
01:58:58:00	01:58:59:00	THAT I BELIEVE THE CITY HAS
01:58:59:00	01:59:02:00	ADOPTED TO SOME CAPACITY AND I
01:59:02:00	01:59:03:00	WORKED WITH NONPROFIT
01:59:03:00	01:59:03:00	ORGANIZATION AND CAN YOU JUST
01:59:03:00	01:59:06:00	GIVE ME ANY UPDATES ON KIND
01:59:06:00	01:59:07:00	OF LIKE HOW WE ARE UTILIZING
01:59:07:00	01:59:10:00	SOME OF OUR NEIGHBORHOOD CORNER
01:59:10:00	01:59:10:00	STORES?
01:59:10:00	01:59:13:00	I KNOW THAT SOMETIMES SOME ARE
01:59:13:00	01:59:14:00	MORE WELL EQUIPPED TO HAVE
01:59:14:00	01:59:17:00	HEALTHIER OPTIONS.
01:59:17:00	01:59:18:00	SOME ARE NOT SO MUCH THOUGH.
01:59:18:00	01:59:19:00	SO IF YOU COULD JUST TALK TO ME
01:59:19:00	01:59:21:00	A LITTLE BIT ABOUT KIND OF WHAT
01:59:21:00	01:59:22:00	ARE WE DOING A TO INCREASE THE
01:59:22:00	01:59:25:00	CAPACITY OF SOME OF THESE
01:59:25:00	01:59:29:00	SMALLER YOU KNOW, LOCAL STORES
01:59:29:00	01:59:30:00	TO HAVE FOOD AVAILABLE TO THEM
01:59:30:00	01:59:33:00	THAT IS YOU KNOW, HEALTHIER AND
01:59:33:00	01:59:34:00	THEN THE OTHER IS WHAT ARE WE
01:59:34:00	01:59:36:00	DOING IN TERMS OF THESE
01:59:36:00	01:59:37:00	NONPROFIT ORGANIZATIONS THAT
01:59:37:00	01:59:38:00	ARE PARTNERING UP WITH THESE
01:59:38:00	01:59:41:00	BODEGA TO BE ABLE TO SUPPORT
01:59:41:00	01:59:44:00	FOOD INSECURITY ISSUES?
01:59:44:00	01:59:45:00	IS THAT STILL HAPPENING OR NOT?
01:59:45:00	01:59:49:00	SO YES, WITH A CAVEAT AS YOU
01:59:49:00	01:59:53:00	ARE VERY RIGHT, WE MADE A
01:59:53:00	01:59:53:00	REALLY STRONG INVESTMENT AND
01:59:53:00	01:59:56:00	THE NOTION THAT LOCAL BODEGAS
01:59:56:00	01:59:57:00	COULD GET TO PEOPLE MUCH FASTER
01:59:57:00	02:00:01:00	THEY KNOW THE PEOPLE, THEY KNOW
02:00:01:00	02:00:04:00	THE NEIGHBORHOOD AND THERE ARE
02:00:04:00	02:00:05:00	SOME SORT OF CITY BASED THE
02:00:05:00	02:00:09:00	DOLLARS WE WERE ABLE TO
02:00:09:00	02:00:11:00	MOBILIZE THAT HAS GONE
02:00:11:00	02:00:12:00	RELATIVELY WELL IN SOME
02:00:12:00	02:00:12:00	INSTANCES.
02:00:12:00	02:00:15:00	WE ALSO, HOWEVER, TRIED TO
02:00:15:00	02:00:16:00	ACCESS SOME FEDERAL FUNDS THAT
02:00:16:00	02:00:19:00	WE COULD DIRECT TOWARDS  AND
02:00:19:00	02:00:24:00	CORNER STORES AND I WANT TO BE
02:00:24:00	02:00:24:00	TRANSPARENT THAT THAT WAS A
02:00:24:00	02:00:28:00	VERY BIG MIXED BAG THAT I COULD
02:00:28:00	02:00:32:00	HAND OVER TO LISA BECAUSE THIS
02:00:32:00	02:00:33:00	IS A SOAPBOX ISSUE FOR HER.
02:00:33:00	02:00:35:00	A DEEP CONCERN.
02:00:35:00	02:00:37:00	WE HAVE NOT JUST SEEN THIS IN
02:00:37:00	02:00:40:00	BOSTON BUT IN TALKING TO
02:00:40:00	02:00:41:00	PARTNERS AROUND THE COUNTRY,
02:00:41:00	02:00:44:00	THE FEDERAL DOLLARS HAVE BEEN
02:00:44:00	02:00:48:00	VERY HARD TO GET TO FLOW TO
02:00:48:00	02:00:52:00	SMALLER STORES.
02:00:52:00	02:00:53:00	IN FACT, WE HAD SET UP A
02:00:53:00	02:00:55:00	PROGRAM IN WHICH SOME OF THE
02:00:55:00	02:00:56:00	DOLLARS WOULD HAVE GONE TO ONE
02:00:56:00	02:00:56:00	OF THE SORT OF LARGER PIECES
02:00:56:00	02:00:59:00	AND THEN A LOT TO SMALLER
02:00:59:00	02:01:02:00	STORES WE HAD TO PULL OUT OF IT
02:01:02:00	02:01:03:00	IN SOME INSTANCES BECAUSE
02:01:03:00	02:01:04:00	TRYING TO HELP THEM THROUGH THE
02:01:04:00	02:01:07:00	PROCESS OF BEING ELIGIBLE FOR
02:01:07:00	02:01:11:00	THE FEDERAL FUNDS WERE JUST
02:01:11:00	02:01:12:00	MORE WORK THAN IT WAS WORTH IN
02:01:12:00	02:01:15:00	SOME INSTANCES AND BECAUSE A
02:01:15:00	02:01:16:00	NUMBER OF OTHER CITIES WERE
02:01:16:00	02:01:19:00	ALSO DOING THE SAME THING, I
02:01:19:00	02:01:21:00	THINK MAYBE WE HAD A HOPE THAT
02:01:21:00	02:01:22:00	THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT WOULD
02:01:22:00	02:01:26:00	WORK WITH US.
02:01:26:00	02:01:27:00	THAT'S NOT BEEN OUR EXPERIENCE
02:01:27:00	02:01:29:00	AND SO I THINK THERE'S A SPACE
02:01:29:00	02:01:33:00	FOR A LOT MORE ADVOCACY ON WHAT
02:01:33:00	02:01:34:00	WE'RE GOING TO DO BECAUSE IF WE
02:01:34:00	02:01:35:00	REALLY WANT TO REACH FOOD
02:01:35:00	02:01:38:00	INSECURE FOLKS, MANY OF THEM
02:01:38:00	02:01:39:00	LIVE IN NEIGHBORHOODS WHERE
02:01:39:00	02:01:41:00	IT'S NOT THE BIG GROCERY STORE
02:01:41:00	02:01:42:00	THAT'S SERVING THEM WITH
02:01:42:00	02:01:42:00	SMALLER GROCERY STORES AND
02:01:42:00	02:01:45:00	CORNER STORE ARE USING AND IF
02:01:45:00	02:01:49:00	THE FEDERAL REQUIREMENTS CAN'T
02:01:49:00	02:01:52:00	MATCH THAT REALITY, WE REALLY
02:01:52:00	02:01:56:00	RISK LOSING PEOPLE AND LOSING
02:01:56:00	02:01:57:00	HUGE OPPORTUNITIES AND THINGS
02:01:57:00	02:02:01:00	LIKE THE A LOT OF TIME THE
02:02:01:00	02:02:01:00	SMALLER BODEGAS THEY DON'T HAVE
02:02:01:00	02:02:04:00	AS MUCH SPACE.
02:02:04:00	02:02:05:00	SO WE NEED TO HELP PEOPLE DO
02:02:05:00	02:02:06:00	THINGS AROUND REFRIGERATION.
02:02:06:00	02:02:08:00	BUT THERE WERE RESTRICTIONS ON
02:02:08:00	02:02:08:00	THE RESOURCE.
02:02:08:00	02:02:10:00	SO THERE'S THERE BEEN SOME REAL
02:02:10:00	02:02:12:00	CHALLENGES.
02:02:12:00	02:02:13:00	I DON'T KNOW IF YOU WANT TO ADD
02:02:13:00	02:02:16:00	ANYTHING, ELIZA, BUT THIS IS
02:02:16:00	02:02:17:00	ACTUALLY A CONVERSATION THAT
02:02:17:00	02:02:18:00	WE'VE BEEN HAVING INTERNALLY
02:02:18:00	02:02:20:00	ABOUT WHETHER OR NOT WE SHOULD
02:02:20:00	02:02:20:00	FIND SOME OTHER FUNDS.
02:02:20:00	02:02:21:00	SHOULD WE GIVE UP ON THE
02:02:21:00	02:02:23:00	FEDERAL GOVERNMENT?
02:02:23:00	02:02:24:00	SHOULD WE TALK TO OTHER PLACES
02:02:24:00	02:02:25:00	AND TRY TO ORGANIZE AND PUSH?
02:02:25:00	02:02:27:00	BUT THERE HAVE BEEN SOME REAL
02:02:27:00	02:02:28:00	CHALLENGES MOVING THOSE
02:02:28:00	02:02:32:00	RESOURCES TO THE PLACES WE WANT
02:02:32:00	02:02:32:00	TO GO.
02:02:32:00	02:02:35:00	I'LL JUST RAISE MY HAND TO SAY
02:02:35:00	02:02:36:00	THAT AS YOU CONTINUE TO GO
02:02:36:00	02:02:39:00	THROUGH THESE CONVERSATIONS OUR
02:02:39:00	02:02:40:00	OFFICE IN BECAUSE WE MANAGE TO
02:02:40:00	02:02:44:00	FIND WAYS TO BE ABLE TO SUPPORT
02:02:44:00	02:02:47:00	AND THERE'S WAYS TO REPLICATE
02:02:47:00	02:02:50:00	AND I KNOW THAT NATALIA WHO WAS
02:02:50:00	02:02:54:00	THEN OVERSEEING THE EFFORTS
02:02:54:00	02:02:55:00	WITH THE CITY AND JOHN BARROW
02:02:55:00	02:02:59:00	BACK THEN WE DID FIND WAYS TO
02:02:59:00	02:02:59:00	HELP SUPPORT IS ABOUT THE LONG
02:02:59:00	02:03:03:00	TERM SUSTAINABILITY THAT SO YOU
02:03:03:00	02:03:03:00	KNOW, WE HAVE SOME IDEAS.
02:03:03:00	02:03:05:00	WE HAVE SOME STUDIES.
02:03:05:00	02:03:06:00	WE WORKED WITH NONPROFIT
02:03:06:00	02:03:06:00	ORGANIZATIONS.
02:03:06:00	02:03:10:00	WE WORKED WITH THE CITY BUT WE
02:03:10:00	02:03:11:00	KNEW IT WAS NOT GOING TO BE A
02:03:11:00	02:03:13:00	LONG TERM.
02:03:13:00	02:03:14:00	BUT THERE IS SOMETHING THERE,
02:03:14:00	02:03:17:00	CHIEF, IF WE CAN FIGURE IT OUT
02:03:17:00	02:03:17:00	.
02:03:17:00	02:03:18:00	I LOOK TO BE A PART OF THAT
02:03:18:00	02:03:19:00	PROCESS SO JUST LET ME KNOW HOW
02:03:19:00	02:03:20:00	I CAN BE HELPFUL.
02:03:20:00	02:03:21:00	ADMINISTRATOR I HAD TO YEAH.
02:03:21:00	02:03:22:00	YEAH WE WOULD LOVE TO TALK MORE
02:03:22:00	02:03:26:00	AT AND ALSO TO LINK WITH OTHER
02:03:26:00	02:03:27:00	FOLKS BECAUSE WE DO THINK THAT
02:03:27:00	02:03:29:00	THE SHIFT IS REQUIRED IS NOT
02:03:29:00	02:03:30:00	JUST ABOUT BOSTON BUT IF WE
02:03:30:00	02:03:33:00	COULD GET WE WERE NOT THE ONLY
02:03:33:00	02:03:34:00	CITY THAT TRIED TO MAKE THAT
02:03:34:00	02:03:36:00	BET AND WE'RE NOT THE ONLY CITY
02:03:36:00	02:03:37:00	STRUGGLING WITH THE CHALLENGES
02:03:37:00	02:03:41:00	AND WOULD LOVE TO CONNECT WITH
02:03:41:00	02:03:44:00	YOU TO FIGURE OUT HOW WE ALSO
02:03:44:00	02:03:46:00	TALK TO OTHER COLLEAGUES WE CAN
02:03:46:00	02:03:48:00	PUSH AND AGAIN, I KNOW THAT MY
02:03:48:00	02:03:49:00	TIME IS UP AND I DO APPRECIATE
02:03:49:00	02:03:52:00	THE CHARTER.
02:03:52:00	02:03:53:00	ALLOW ME TO ASK A FEW MORE
02:03:53:00	02:03:53:00	QUESTIONS BUT THANK YOU FOR
02:03:53:00	02:03:55:00	YOUR PRESENTATION AND THANK ALL
02:03:55:00	02:03:56:00	YOUR HARD WORK.
02:03:56:00	02:04:00:00	IT'S DEEPLY APPRECIATED.
02:04:00:00	02:04:01:00	THANK YOU, COUNCILOR MEJIA I'M
02:04:01:00	02:04:02:00	GOING TO ASK YOU A COUPLE
02:04:02:00	02:04:03:00	OF QUESTIONS.
02:04:03:00	02:04:04:00	I DON'T KNOW IF WE HAVE ANY
02:04:04:00	02:04:05:00	OTHER COUNCILORS WHO WANT A
02:04:05:00	02:04:07:00	SECOND ROUND.
02:04:07:00	02:04:08:00	IF YOU DO, PLEASE RAISE YOUR
02:04:08:00	02:04:11:00	HAND ONE OF MY QUESTIONS IS
02:04:11:00	02:04:12:00	OBVIOUSLY IN MY DISTRICT
02:04:12:00	02:04:14:00	DISTRICT FIVE WHICH IS RAISING
02:04:14:00	02:04:15:00	MATTAPAN AND HYDE PARK WE GET A
02:04:15:00	02:04:18:00	LOT ALMOST SEEMINGLY CONSTANT
02:04:18:00	02:04:22:00	REQUESTS FOR ACQUISITIONS BY
02:04:22:00	02:04:22:00	OUR ENVIRONMENT AND PARK
02:04:22:00	02:04:26:00	DEPARTMENT AND I THINK ONE
02:04:26:00	02:04:27:00	OF THE THINGS THAT I WOULD LIKE
02:04:27:00	02:04:30:00	SORT OF PUBLIC IS WHAT IS THE
02:04:30:00	02:04:31:00	PROCESS THAT WE GO THROUGH FROM
02:04:31:00	02:04:34:00	A DEPARTMENT STANDPOINT FOR
02:04:34:00	02:04:35:00	PRIORITIZATION OF HOW WE USE
02:04:35:00	02:04:37:00	OUR LIMITED LAND ACQUISITION
02:04:37:00	02:04:41:00	DOLLARS AND WHAT THE VISION IS
02:04:41:00	02:04:42:00	FOR HOW WE DO LAND ACQUISITION.
02:04:42:00	02:04:45:00	YOU MENTIONED SPRAY POND WHICH
02:04:45:00	02:04:46:00	WAS A SPECIFIC ONE WITHIN MY
02:04:46:00	02:04:46:00	DISTRICT BUT WHAT IS THE WHAT
02:04:46:00	02:04:49:00	IS THE PLAN MOVING FORWARD FOR
02:04:49:00	02:04:50:00	HOW WE LOOK AT ACQUISITION, HOW
02:04:50:00	02:04:53:00	THE CITY CONTEMPLATES
02:04:53:00	02:04:53:00	ACQUISITION AND WHAT THE
02:04:53:00	02:04:54:00	PRIORITY IS FOR HOW THEY GO
02:04:54:00	02:04:57:00	ABOUT THAT?
02:04:57:00	02:05:00:00	SO I THINK I'LL SHARE.
02:05:00:00	02:05:01:00	RYAN, DO YOU HAVE THE SLIDE?
02:05:01:00	02:05:02:00	ACTUALLY ME YOU MIGHT HAVE IT
02:05:02:00	02:05:08:00	TO THE SLIDE WE DID FOR FOR THE
02:05:08:00	02:05:09:00	CAPITAL BUDGET HEARING BECAUSE
02:05:09:00	02:05:12:00	I THINK THAT WAS A USEFUL IMAGE
02:05:12:00	02:05:13:00	TO JUST SHARE WITH FOLKS.
02:05:13:00	02:05:17:00	I DON'T HAVE IT PULLED UP RIGHT
02:05:17:00	02:05:18:00	NOW BUT I CAN WORK TO GET IT
02:05:18:00	02:05:18:00	UP.
02:05:18:00	02:05:18:00	ALL RIGHT.
02:05:18:00	02:05:20:00	BEAUTIFUL.
02:05:20:00	02:05:21:00	I MEAN WE LOOK AT A SERIES
02:05:21:00	02:05:24:00	OF FACTORS AND HOW WE ARE
02:05:24:00	02:05:25:00	PRIORITIZING THINGS.
02:05:25:00	02:05:26:00	THE OTHER THING I WANT TO KNOW
02:05:26:00	02:05:29:00	IS THAT THE OPEN SPACE PLAN IS
02:05:29:00	02:05:29:00	OUT FOR PUBLIC COMMENT RIGHT
02:05:29:00	02:05:32:00	NOW SO THAT JUST IS ANOTHER
02:05:32:00	02:05:32:00	THING.
02:05:32:00	02:05:32:00	WE'LL PUT THAT.
02:05:32:00	02:05:33:00	OH YEAH.
02:05:33:00	02:05:35:00	THERE'S NO CHAT.
02:05:35:00	02:05:36:00	WELL, WE WILL EMAIL THAT TO ALL
02:05:36:00	02:05:39:00	OF THE COUNCILORS OFFICES SO
02:05:39:00	02:05:41:00	THAT YOU CAN TAKE A LOOK AT
02:05:41:00	02:05:43:00	THAT.
02:05:43:00	02:05:44:00	IT DOES IT DOES RELATE TO SOME
02:05:44:00	02:05:45:00	OF THE CONVERSATION WE'RE
02:05:45:00	02:05:47:00	HAVING RIGHT NOW IN TERMS OF WE
02:05:47:00	02:05:48:00	TAKE A COMPREHENSIVE LOOK AT
02:05:48:00	02:05:51:00	WHERE IS THERE OPEN SPACE WHERE
02:05:51:00	02:05:52:00	IS THERE PROTECTED OPEN SPACE
02:05:52:00	02:05:53:00	WHERE THEY'RE UNPROTECTED OPEN
02:05:53:00	02:05:55:00	SPACE AND SO WE'RE LOOKING AT A
02:05:55:00	02:05:55:00	VARIETY OF FACTORS.
02:05:55:00	02:05:56:00	OK, GREAT.
02:05:56:00	02:06:02:00	CATHY, THANKS SO THERE'S FOUR
02:06:02:00	02:06:03:00	THINGS THAT WE'RE LOOKING AT AT
02:06:03:00	02:06:05:00	THIS PARTICULAR CYCLE.
02:06:05:00	02:06:07:00	THE FIRST IS REALLY COMMUNITY
02:06:07:00	02:06:09:00	PRIORITY PRIORITIES.
02:06:09:00	02:06:10:00	WHAT ARE PEOPLE IDENTIFYING
02:06:10:00	02:06:13:00	WHERE THEY'RE PLACES WHERE WE
02:06:13:00	02:06:17:00	REALLY NEED TO LIFT THOSE
02:06:17:00	02:06:18:00	THINGS UP NOW I WANT TO NOTE
02:06:18:00	02:06:22:00	THIS THAT WE ARE LOOKING AT
02:06:22:00	02:06:23:00	COMMUNITY PRIORITIES AND WE ARE
02:06:23:00	02:06:26:00	LOOKING AT EQUITY BECAUSE
02:06:26:00	02:06:29:00	SOMETIMES PEOPLE REALLY LIFT
02:06:29:00	02:06:30:00	THINGS UP AND WE'RE NOT
02:06:30:00	02:06:31:00	DISCOUNTING THAT.
02:06:31:00	02:06:32:00	BUT THERE IS SOMETIMES
02:06:32:00	02:06:33:00	INEQUITIES IN WHICH COMMUNITIES
02:06:33:00	02:06:34:00	ARE LOUDER THAN OTHER
02:06:34:00	02:06:37:00	COMMUNITIES.
02:06:37:00	02:06:38:00	SO COMMUNITY PRIORITIES ARE
02:06:38:00	02:06:41:00	IMPORTANT.
02:06:41:00	02:06:42:00	BUT WE ALSO ARE LOOKING AT LAND
02:06:42:00	02:06:44:00	REPAIRS.
02:06:44:00	02:06:48:00	WHAT REALLY HAS GOT A LONG TIME
02:06:48:00	02:06:49:00	IT MAKES SENSE TO REPLACE
02:06:49:00	02:06:50:00	THINGS THAT ARE 15 YEARS OLD
02:06:50:00	02:06:53:00	BEFORE WE RESPOND TO REQUESTS
02:06:53:00	02:06:54:00	FOR THINGS THAT ARE ONLY FOUR
02:06:54:00	02:06:56:00	OR FIVE YEARS OLD AND SO REALLY
02:06:56:00	02:06:58:00	LOOKING AT WHAT ARE THE LIFE
02:06:58:00	02:07:00:00	CYCLES OF OF OUR PARKS, THIS
02:07:00:00	02:07:03:00	USED TO BE A MUCH MORE MAJOR
02:07:03:00	02:07:04:00	PART IN TERMS OF PLAN REPAIRS
02:07:04:00	02:07:05:00	WHEN OUR BUDGET WAS MUCH
02:07:05:00	02:07:05:00	SMALLER.
02:07:05:00	02:07:06:00	WE HAVE A LITTLE BIT MORE SPACE
02:07:06:00	02:07:08:00	NOW TO MAKE SOME MORE
02:07:08:00	02:07:11:00	COMPREHENSIVE DECISIONS THEN
02:07:11:00	02:07:12:00	CLIMATE RESILIENCE AS I
02:07:12:00	02:07:13:00	MENTIONED, ONE OF THE REASONS
02:07:13:00	02:07:16:00	THAT MOAKLEY AND CHRISTOPHER
02:07:16:00	02:07:16:00	COLUMBUS PARK ARE REALLY
02:07:16:00	02:07:20:00	LIPSETT UP IS BECAUSE THEY ARE
02:07:20:00	02:07:21:00	AN ACTIVE FLOOD PATH THAT WE
02:07:21:00	02:07:21:00	WANT TO BE CLOSING SOONER
02:07:21:00	02:07:23:00	RATHER THAN LATER.
02:07:23:00	02:07:24:00	THESE ARE NOT JUST PARKS FOR
02:07:24:00	02:07:24:00	RECREATION.
02:07:24:00	02:07:25:00	THEY ARE ALSO PARKS FOR
02:07:25:00	02:07:27:00	PROTECTION OF RESIDENTS AND
02:07:27:00	02:07:31:00	NEIGHBORHOODS AND SO IF A PARK
02:07:31:00	02:07:35:00	IS IS LOOKED UP FOR CLIMATE
02:07:35:00	02:07:36:00	RESILIENCE, WE WE WILL ELEVATE
02:07:36:00	02:07:39:00	THAT AND THAT HAS TRADITIONALLY
02:07:39:00	02:07:43:00	BEEN AROUND SEA LEVEL RISE AND
02:07:43:00	02:07:44:00	THOSE FORMS OF FLOODING.
02:07:44:00	02:07:46:00	BUT WE ARE ALSO REALLY LOOKING
02:07:46:00	02:07:47:00	AT THIS QUESTION OF CLIMATE
02:07:47:00	02:07:47:00	RESILIENCE IN NEIGHBORHOODS
02:07:47:00	02:07:50:00	WHERE WE KNOW WE HAVE HEAT
02:07:50:00	02:07:55:00	ISLAND AND WE MADE A CONCERTED
02:07:55:00	02:07:56:00	EFFORT TO SAY THAT WE SHOULD
02:07:56:00	02:07:58:00	PUT WATER FEATURES IN ALL
02:07:58:00	02:07:59:00	OF OUR PARKS THAT ARE IN HEAT
02:07:59:00	02:08:02:00	ISLANDS AND WATER FEATURES ARE
02:08:02:00	02:08:03:00	ALREADY REALLY POPULAR BUT ONE
02:08:03:00	02:08:07:00	OF THE THINGS THAT WE GOT IN
02:08:07:00	02:08:07:00	THE BUDGET THIS YEAR WAS THE
02:08:07:00	02:08:09:00	MONEY FOR AN ON-CALL PLUMBING
02:08:09:00	02:08:10:00	CONTRACT BECAUSE THEY ALL GO ON
02:08:10:00	02:08:14:00	AT THE SAME TIME AND SOMETIMES
02:08:14:00	02:08:15:00	EVERY YEAR AFTER THE WINTER
02:08:15:00	02:08:15:00	SOMETHING'S NOT WORKING.
02:08:15:00	02:08:17:00	IT NEEDS TO BE REPAIRED IF A
02:08:17:00	02:08:18:00	REALLY HOT DAY IS COMING WE
02:08:18:00	02:08:21:00	NEED TO BE ABLE TO RESPOND AND
02:08:21:00	02:08:22:00	MAKE SURE THAT ALL OF OUR WATER
02:08:22:00	02:08:23:00	FUTURES ARE UP AND WORKING
02:08:23:00	02:08:25:00	QUICKLY AND SO WE NOW HAVE ALSO
02:08:25:00	02:08:26:00	PLUMBING FOLKS WITHIN OUR
02:08:26:00	02:08:30:00	MAINTENANCE TEAM BUT ALSO DOWN
02:08:30:00	02:08:31:00	ON A CONTRACT SO THAT IF A
02:08:31:00	02:08:33:00	FEATURE GOES DOWN QUICKLY OR A
02:08:33:00	02:08:33:00	COUPLE OF FEATURES GO DOWN, WE
02:08:33:00	02:08:37:00	HAVE THE ABILITY TO RESPOND TO
02:08:37:00	02:08:38:00	THAT AND THEN THE FINAL PIECE
02:08:38:00	02:08:40:00	IS REALLY EXECUTING THESE
02:08:40:00	02:08:40:00	MASTER PLANS.
02:08:40:00	02:08:42:00	WE DID THE TRAILER PARK MASTER
02:08:42:00	02:08:44:00	PLAN.
02:08:44:00	02:08:45:00	WE DID THE BOSTON COMMON MASTER
02:08:45:00	02:08:45:00	PLAN.
02:08:45:00	02:08:46:00	WE'VE DONE THE URBAN FOREST
02:08:46:00	02:08:50:00	PLAN AND SO WE HAVE A NUMBER
02:08:50:00	02:08:51:00	OF DIFFERENT THINGS SORT
02:08:51:00	02:08:52:00	OF LIFTING UP AND THE OPEN
02:08:52:00	02:08:53:00	SPACE PLAN LIFTING UP BIG
02:08:53:00	02:08:56:00	RECOMMENDATIONS ABOUT WHAT WE
02:08:56:00	02:08:57:00	SHOULD BE DOING MOVING FORWARD.
02:08:57:00	02:08:58:00	AND SO WE'RE LOOKING AT ALL
02:08:58:00	02:09:00:00	OF THOSE THINGS THE OTHER THING
02:09:00:00	02:09:01:00	IS WORTH NOTING AND IT'S WORTH
02:09:01:00	02:09:03:00	LOOKING AT THE OPEN SPACE PLAN.
02:09:03:00	02:09:08:00	BUT IF WE HAVE UNPROTECTED OPEN
02:09:08:00	02:09:09:00	SPACE THAT BECOMES AVAILABLE
02:09:09:00	02:09:12:00	THAT'S YOU KNOW, GOING ONTO THE
02:09:12:00	02:09:13:00	MARKET AND THEREFORE MAY NOT
02:09:13:00	02:09:16:00	BECOME MAYBE NO LONGER BE
02:09:16:00	02:09:17:00	PROTECTED, WE DO LOOK AT THAT
02:09:17:00	02:09:19:00	AND IF WE CAN AFFORD TO
02:09:19:00	02:09:20:00	PURCHASE AND PEOPLE ARE WILLING
02:09:20:00	02:09:21:00	TO TO TALK WITH US, THOSE ARE
02:09:21:00	02:09:24:00	NOT THAT'S ANOTHER THING THAT
02:09:24:00	02:09:25:00	MIGHT GO INTO WHAT WE DO IN
02:09:25:00	02:09:25:00	TERMS OF ACQUISITIONS.
02:09:25:00	02:09:30:00	SO THOSE ARE SORT OF PIECE
02:09:30:00	02:09:31:00	AROUND THAT QUESTION.
02:09:31:00	02:09:32:00	I KNOW A COUPLE OF PEOPLE HAD
02:09:32:00	02:09:33:00	ASSETS SO I HOPE THAT MAKES A
02:09:33:00	02:09:37:00	LITTLE BIT CLEARER.
02:09:37:00	02:09:38:00	THANK YOU.
02:09:38:00	02:09:39:00	THAT ACTUALLY DOES.
02:09:39:00	02:09:40:00	I'M GLAD YOU HAD A HANDY DANDY
02:09:40:00	02:09:41:00	SLIDE FOR THAT.
02:09:41:00	02:09:42:00	ANOTHER QUESTION THAT I HAVE IS
02:09:42:00	02:09:45:00	HAS THE DEPARTMENT GOING TO
02:09:45:00	02:09:45:00	MAKE ANY PROGRESS ON MAPPING
02:09:45:00	02:09:46:00	AIR QUALITY IN OUR
02:09:46:00	02:09:49:00	NEIGHBORHOODS?
02:09:49:00	02:09:49:00	IS THAT SOMETHING THAT NEEDS
02:09:49:00	02:09:50:00	ADDITIONAL FUNDING WITHIN THIS
02:09:50:00	02:09:53:00	BUDGET CYCLE AND IS THIS
02:09:53:00	02:09:53:00	SOMETHING THAT CAN BE DONE WITH
02:09:53:00	02:09:54:00	THE AIR POLLUTION AND CONTROL
02:09:54:00	02:09:56:00	COMMISSION THAT WOULD BE UNDER
02:09:56:00	02:09:57:00	THE PURVIEW OF THE AIR
02:09:57:00	02:09:57:00	POLLUTION CONTROL COMMISSION?
02:09:57:00	02:10:00:00	IT WOULD TAKE A LOT.
02:10:00:00	02:10:01:00	SO LET'S TALK ABOUT WHAT IT
02:10:01:00	02:10:03:00	WOULD TAKE FOR THAT TO BE REAL
02:10:03:00	02:10:07:00	BECAUSE YOU'D REALLY WE NEED TO
02:10:07:00	02:10:08:00	BE DOING IT OVER A PERIOD
02:10:08:00	02:10:09:00	OF TIME.
02:10:09:00	02:10:11:00	SO WE HAVE DONE SOME WORK
02:10:11:00	02:10:12:00	AROUND THIS.
02:10:12:00	02:10:13:00	WE DO HAVE SOME AIR QUALITY
02:10:13:00	02:10:13:00	MONITORS.
02:10:13:00	02:10:15:00	WE'VE DONE SOME WORK ON THEM
02:10:15:00	02:10:19:00	AND IN SOME PARTICULAR PLACES
02:10:19:00	02:10:20:00	FOR INSTANCE AMERICAN LEGION TO
02:10:20:00	02:10:23:00	SORT OF SEE LIKE WHAT IS IT?
02:10:23:00	02:10:24:00	AND THEN AS YOU MAKE CHANGES,
02:10:24:00	02:10:26:00	HOW DO THOSE CHANGES IMPACT THE
02:10:26:00	02:10:27:00	AIR QUALITY AND THAT AND THAT
02:10:27:00	02:10:31:00	NEIGHBORHOOD WOULD BE A LOT TO
02:10:31:00	02:10:32:00	JUST HAVE SENSORS EVERYWHERE IN
02:10:32:00	02:10:32:00	COLLECTING DATA EVERYWHERE THAT
02:10:32:00	02:10:35:00	WOULD BE WOULDN'T I WOULDN'T
02:10:35:00	02:10:36:00	NECESSARILY SAY THAT'S A GOOD
02:10:36:00	02:10:39:00	USE OF FUNDS IN TERMS OF HOW
02:10:39:00	02:10:40:00	MUCH IT WOULD COST TO DO SO.
02:10:40:00	02:10:43:00	BUT I DO THINK THAT IF THERE
02:10:43:00	02:10:44:00	ARE PLACES WHERE WE KNOW
02:10:44:00	02:10:46:00	THERE'S SOME REAL CHALLENGES WE
02:10:46:00	02:10:47:00	WANT TO DOCUMENT THEM THAT
02:10:47:00	02:10:48:00	MAKES SENSE OR WHERE WE KNOW
02:10:48:00	02:10:50:00	THERE'S SOME REAL CHALLENGES
02:10:50:00	02:10:51:00	AND WE ARE COMMITTING TO
02:10:51:00	02:10:52:00	LEANING IN ON ONE OF MY
02:10:52:00	02:10:54:00	FRUSTRATION IS MUCH MONEY HAS
02:10:54:00	02:10:55:00	BEEN SPENT ON RESEARCH TO TELL
02:10:55:00	02:11:05:00	US THAT WE HAVE BAD AIR, VERY
02:11:05:00	02:11:06:00	LITTLE MONEY SPENT IMPROVING
02:11:06:00	02:11:06:00	THAT AIR.
02:11:06:00	02:11:07:00	AND SO FROM MY PERSPECTIVE I
02:11:07:00	02:11:08:00	WANT DOCUMENTED WHEN WE ARE
02:11:08:00	02:11:09:00	COMMITTED TO MAKING SURE WE DO
02:11:09:00	02:11:10:00	SOMETHING ABOUT IT IS TELLING
02:11:10:00	02:11:11:00	PEOPLE THAT THEIR AIR IS
02:11:11:00	02:11:11:00	TERRIBLE WHEN THEY KIND
02:11:11:00	02:11:13:00	OF ALREADY KNOW THAT AND THEN
02:11:13:00	02:11:14:00	BEING LIKE AND NOW THAT WE'VE
02:11:14:00	02:11:17:00	DOCUMENTED THAT'S ALL THE MONEY
02:11:17:00	02:11:18:00	WE HAVE WE DO NOT WANT TO GET
02:11:18:00	02:11:21:00	IN THAT POSITION AND THAT HAS
02:11:21:00	02:11:22:00	BEEN A BIT OF THE DYNAMIC
02:11:22:00	02:11:25:00	NATIONAL SO DEFINITELY OPEN TO
02:11:25:00	02:11:26:00	IT.
02:11:26:00	02:11:29:00	WE DO HAVE SOME CAPACITY AROUND
02:11:29:00	02:11:30:00	AND WE ONLY WANT TO DOCUMENT
02:11:30:00	02:11:33:00	WHEN WE HAVE A REAL COMMITMENT
02:11:33:00	02:11:36:00	TO TAKE ACTION.
02:11:36:00	02:11:37:00	PERFECT.
02:11:37:00	02:11:37:00	THAT'S VERY HELPFUL.
02:11:37:00	02:11:40:00	I'LL PROBABLY HAVE A NUMBER
02:11:40:00	02:11:41:00	OF QUESTIONS THAT I MIGHT ASK
02:11:41:00	02:11:44:00	OFFLINE OR IN A DIFFERENT FORM
02:11:44:00	02:11:45:00	COUNCIL MURPHY I SEE THAT YOUR
02:11:45:00	02:11:46:00	HAND IS UP SO I WANT TO GIVE
02:11:46:00	02:11:48:00	YOU A CHANCE TO DO ESSENTIALLY
02:11:48:00	02:11:49:00	YOUR FIRST ROUND AND THEN I'M
02:11:49:00	02:11:50:00	GOING TO GO TO PUBLIC COMMENTS
02:11:50:00	02:11:53:00	SO FLOOR'S YOURS.
02:11:53:00	02:11:53:00	COUNCILOR MURPHY.
02:11:53:00	02:11:54:00	THANK YOU.
02:11:54:00	02:11:56:00	CHAIR ARROYO AND THANK YOU
02:11:56:00	02:11:57:00	EVERYONE FOR YOUR PRESENTATION.
02:11:57:00	02:12:00:00	I'VE BEEN LISTENING CLOSELY.
02:12:00:00	02:12:02:00	I DO JUST WANT TO TAKE ONE
02:12:02:00	02:12:03:00	MINUTE TO ECHO WHAT WITH
02:12:03:00	02:12:04:00	ALREADY SAID AND ALSO ADVOCATE
02:12:04:00	02:12:05:00	FOR ONE PERCENT OF THE CAPITAL
02:12:05:00	02:12:07:00	BUDGET.
02:12:07:00	02:12:08:00	AND YOU, REVEREND, HAD JUST
02:12:08:00	02:12:11:00	TALKED ABOUT ALSO THE THE BIG
02:12:11:00	02:12:12:00	PART ISN'T JUST NEW PARKS.
02:12:12:00	02:12:15:00	IT'S ALSO REPAIRING THE ONES WE
02:12:15:00	02:12:16:00	HAVE AND THE CLIMATE RESILIENCY
02:12:16:00	02:12:18:00	AND ALSO THE MASTER PLANS WE'RE
02:12:18:00	02:12:19:00	LOOKING AT FOR SOME GREAT
02:12:19:00	02:12:22:00	FUTURE PLANS WE HAVE FOR A
02:12:22:00	02:12:23:00	PARKS DEPARTMENT.
02:12:23:00	02:12:24:00	SO I JUST WANTED TO GO ON
02:12:24:00	02:12:26:00	RECORD TO SUPPORT THAT ALSO AND
02:12:26:00	02:12:27:00	WE'LL BE ADVOCATING TO INCREASE
02:12:27:00	02:12:28:00	THAT OUR CAPITAL BUDGET KNOWING
02:12:28:00	02:12:31:00	HOW IMPORTANT THE PARKS ARE TO
02:12:31:00	02:12:31:00	OUR CITY RESIDENTS.
02:12:31:00	02:12:33:00	SO THANK YOU FOR THAT'S ALL.
02:12:33:00	02:12:41:00	YEAH, THANK YOU
02:12:41:00	02:12:42:00	COUNCILOR MURPHY.
02:12:42:00	02:12:43:00	I WANT TO THANK THE
02:12:43:00	02:12:43:00	ADMINISTRATION FOR A REALLY
02:12:43:00	02:12:46:00	IN-DEPTH PRESENTATION AND FOR
02:12:46:00	02:12:49:00	ANSWERING YOUR QUESTIONS.
02:12:49:00	02:12:50:00	I'M GOING TO GO TO OUR PUBLIC
02:12:50:00	02:12:53:00	COMMENTS SECTION.
02:12:53:00	02:12:54:00	I DO BELIEVE WE HAVE A
02:12:54:00	02:12:54:00	SIGNIFICANT AMOUNT OF FOLKS
02:12:54:00	02:12:57:00	SIGNED UP FOR THE PUBLIC
02:12:57:00	02:13:00:00	COMMENT ON THESE DEPARTMENTS.
02:13:00:00	02:13:02:00	SO I'D LIKE TO DO THAT IN ORDER
02:13:02:00	02:13:03:00	OF ARRIVAL AND BY WHO IS HERE
02:13:03:00	02:13:04:00	AND PRESENT.
02:13:04:00	02:13:06:00	WE'RE GOING TO GO OUT AND START
02:13:06:00	02:13:09:00	WITH BELIEVE LISA PETMIN AS
02:13:09:00	02:13:13:00	FIRST BECAUSE WE HAVE SO MANY
02:13:13:00	02:13:14:00	FOLKS SIGNED UP FOR PUBLIC
02:13:14:00	02:13:14:00	TESTIMONY.
02:13:14:00	02:13:16:00	I AM GOING TO STICK TO A TWO
02:13:16:00	02:13:20:00	MINUTE TIME LIMIT WHICH MEANS I
02:13:20:00	02:13:21:00	WILL MEET YOU.
02:13:21:00	02:13:24:00	UNFORTUNATELY WHILE YOU'RE
02:13:24:00	02:13:25:00	STILL SPEAKING IF YOU GO PAST
02:13:25:00	02:13:25:00	TWO MINUTES, IF YOU'RE
02:13:25:00	02:13:28:00	FINISHING A SENTENCE, I'M GOING
02:13:28:00	02:13:29:00	TO LET YOU FINISH THAT
02:13:29:00	02:13:29:00	SENTENCE.
02:13:29:00	02:13:31:00	BUT PLEASE TRY TO BE CONSCIOUS
02:13:31:00	02:13:33:00	OF HOW MUCH TIME YOU HAVE ON
02:13:33:00	02:13:34:00	YOUR CLOCK SO THAT WE CAN GET
02:13:34:00	02:13:36:00	THROUGH THIS SO THAT EVERYBODY
02:13:36:00	02:13:37:00	CAN BE HEARD.
02:13:37:00	02:13:38:00	WE'RE GOING TO START WITH LISA
02:13:38:00	02:14:01:00	BETTMANN.
02:14:01:00	02:14:05:00	I CAN'T HEAR HER.
02:14:05:00	02:14:05:00	OH, SHE'S UNMUTED.
02:14:05:00	02:14:12:00	SO IF SHE'S READY TO BEGIN
02:14:12:00	02:14:17:00	THERE, GO I THINK SHE'S
02:14:17:00	02:14:20:00	CONNECTED TO AUDIO NOW MAYBE SO
02:14:20:00	02:14:24:00	I THINK YOU CAN HEAR ME NOW,
02:14:24:00	02:14:24:00	RIGHT?
02:14:24:00	02:14:24:00	YEP.
02:14:24:00	02:14:27:00	YOU'RE COMING IN THROUGH CLAIRE
02:14:27:00	02:14:27:00	.
02:14:27:00	02:14:31:00	OK, AWESOME SINCE I'M THE FIRST
02:14:31:00	02:14:32:00	OF MANY I WILL KEEP THIS
02:14:32:00	02:14:35:00	REALLY, REALLY BRIEF AND I AM
02:14:35:00	02:14:39:00	WELL I AM APPRECIATIVE OF THE
02:14:39:00	02:14:43:00	OPPORTUNITY TO SPEAK AND FOR
02:14:43:00	02:14:44:00	ALL OF THE COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT
02:14:44:00	02:14:47:00	I SUPPORTER OF EVERYTHING THAT
02:14:47:00	02:14:51:00	THE ENVIRONMENT AND PARKS
02:14:51:00	02:14:52:00	DEPARTMENT ARE DOING.
02:14:52:00	02:14:56:00	I FOCUSING MYSELF MOSTLY ON
02:14:56:00	02:14:59:00	CLIMATE RESILIENCE ISSUES AND
02:14:59:00	02:15:03:00	PROTECTING THE DIMINISHING
02:15:03:00	02:15:04:00	NATURAL GREEN INFRASTRUCTURE
02:15:04:00	02:15:04:00	ASSETS THAT STILL REMAIN IN
02:15:04:00	02:15:07:00	BOSTON INCLUDING CRANE
02:15:07:00	02:15:10:00	LEDGEWOOD.
02:15:10:00	02:15:11:00	MY PARTICULAR QUESTION THAT I
02:15:11:00	02:15:12:00	WOULD APPRECIATE SOME RESPONSE
02:15:12:00	02:15:18:00	TO IS THERE IS ARPA THERE THERE
02:15:18:00	02:15:22:00	IS OR WAS ROOM IN ARPA TO FOR
02:15:22:00	02:15:26:00	LAND ACQUISITION AND BUT THERE
02:15:26:00	02:15:31:00	ARE ALSO IT I HAVE SEEN MANY IN
02:15:31:00	02:15:34:00	THE NEWS A LOT MANY OTHER
02:15:34:00	02:15:35:00	SOURCES OF FEDERAL AND STATE
02:15:35:00	02:15:38:00	AND PRIVATE FOUNDATION FUNDING
02:15:38:00	02:15:43:00	THAT WOULD GREAT TO AUGMENT THE
02:15:43:00	02:15:45:00	CITY'S CAPACITY FINANCIAL
02:15:45:00	02:15:49:00	CAPACITY TO DO FAR MORE THAN
02:15:49:00	02:15:51:00	YOU KNOW, JUST WHAT IS ABLE TO
02:15:51:00	02:15:54:00	BE IN FOR EXAMPLE THE LAND
02:15:54:00	02:15:58:00	ACQUISITION LINE ITEM FOR TEN
02:15:58:00	02:15:58:00	MILLION.
02:15:58:00	02:16:01:00	IT'S CURRENTLY PROPOSED.
02:16:01:00	02:16:02:00	SO WHAT IS THE CITY WHAT HAS
02:16:02:00	02:16:05:00	THE CITY BEEN DOING TO TAP INTO
02:16:05:00	02:16:09:00	THOSE WONDERFUL KIND
02:16:09:00	02:16:12:00	OF MATCHING RESOURCES
02:16:12:00	02:16:17:00	PARTICULARLY FROM FEDERAL AND
02:16:17:00	02:16:20:00	WHAT IS THE CITY PLANNING TO DO
02:16:20:00	02:16:21:00	IN THAT REGARD?
02:16:21:00	02:16:25:00	THANK YOU.
02:16:25:00	02:16:28:00	THANK YOU, LISA.
02:16:28:00	02:16:36:00	WE NEXT HAVE MR LEE OH EVERYONE
02:16:36:00	02:16:36:00	.
02:16:36:00	02:16:37:00	MY NAME IS JULIE AND I AM PART
02:16:37:00	02:16:40:00	OF THE CONSERVANCY.
02:16:40:00	02:16:41:00	THANK YOU CHIEF MARY I'M A
02:16:41:00	02:16:43:00	WHITE WOMAN COMMISSIONER MY
02:16:43:00	02:16:44:00	RYAN WOODS AND THE MEMBERS
02:16:44:00	02:16:45:00	OF THE CITY COUNCIL AND ALL THE
02:16:45:00	02:16:47:00	PARKS MAINTENANCE TEAM FOR YOUR
02:16:47:00	02:16:48:00	CONTINUOUS WORK FOR THE CITY.
02:16:48:00	02:16:51:00	I WANT TO ECHO
02:16:51:00	02:16:52:00	COUNCILOR MICHAEL FLAHERTY AND
02:16:52:00	02:16:55:00	COUNCILOR ERIN MURPHY ABOUT THE
02:16:55:00	02:16:59:00	CITY BOSTON'S PROPOSED FISCAL
02:16:59:00	02:16:59:00	YEAR TWENTY TWENTY FOUR
02:16:59:00	02:17:03:00	OPERATION BUDGET WHICH IS TOTAL
02:17:03:00	02:17:04:00	OF FOUR POINT TWO EIGHT BILLION
02:17:04:00	02:17:05:00	DOLLARS AND THE PARKS AND
02:17:05:00	02:17:06:00	RECREATION DEPARTMENT OPERATION
02:17:06:00	02:17:10:00	BUDGET IS ROUGHLY AROUND THREE
02:17:10:00	02:17:11:00	THIRTY FOUR MILLION WHICH IS
02:17:11:00	02:17:14:00	ABOUT ZERO POINT SEVENTY THREE
02:17:14:00	02:17:15:00	PERCENT OF THE CITY'S TOTAL
02:17:15:00	02:17:18:00	OPERATION BUDGET.
02:17:18:00	02:17:19:00	WHILE WE ARE PLEASED TO SEE THE
02:17:19:00	02:17:22:00	CONTINUOUS INVESTMENT IN OUR
02:17:22:00	02:17:23:00	CITY'S OPEN SPACE, THE PARKS
02:17:23:00	02:17:23:00	AND RECREATION DEPARTMENT'S
02:17:23:00	02:17:27:00	OPERATION BUDGET IS STILL LESS
02:17:27:00	02:17:27:00	THAN ONE PERCENT OF THE CITY'S
02:17:27:00	02:17:30:00	TOTAL OPERATION BUDGET.
02:17:30:00	02:17:31:00	THIS IS INSUFFICIENT TO SUPPORT
02:17:31:00	02:17:34:00	THE MAINTENANCE AND IMPROVEMENT
02:17:34:00	02:17:35:00	OF OUR GREEN SPACES AND TO
02:17:35:00	02:17:36:00	ENSURE THE COUNTLESS ECOLOGICAL
02:17:36:00	02:17:38:00	AND SOCIAL BENEFITS REACH THOSE
02:17:38:00	02:17:38:00	MOST VULNERABLE.
02:17:38:00	02:17:42:00	WE URGE YOU TO INCREASE THE
02:17:42:00	02:17:42:00	PARKS AND REC DEPARTMENT
02:17:42:00	02:17:45:00	DEPARTMENT BUDGET TO EQUAL TO
02:17:45:00	02:17:46:00	OR GREATER THAN ONE PERCENT
02:17:46:00	02:17:49:00	EXAMPLES OF OTHER CITIES
02:17:49:00	02:17:50:00	INCLUDING SAN FRANCISCO THAT
02:17:50:00	02:17:53:00	SPENDS ONE POINT SIX PERCENT
02:17:53:00	02:17:54:00	OF ITS OPERATING BUDGETS ON
02:17:54:00	02:17:54:00	PARKS.
02:17:54:00	02:17:58:00	LOS ANGELES SPENDS TWO POINT
02:17:58:00	02:17:58:00	SIX PERCENT.
02:17:58:00	02:18:00:00	CHICAGO SPENDS WHAT FOUR POINT
02:18:00:00	02:18:01:00	THREE PERCENT AND MINNEAPOLIS
02:18:01:00	02:18:04:00	SPENDS FIVE POINT THREE.
02:18:04:00	02:18:06:00	SO I JUST WANT TO ECHO AGAIN
02:18:06:00	02:18:08:00	WHAT COUNCILOR MICHAEL FLAHERTY
02:18:08:00	02:18:09:00	COUNCILOR ERIN MURPHY HAS
02:18:09:00	02:18:10:00	SUGGESTED TO INCREASE THE PARKS
02:18:10:00	02:18:13:00	BUDGET BY AT LEAST EQUAL TO OR
02:18:13:00	02:18:14:00	GREATER THAN ONE PERCENT.
02:18:14:00	02:18:17:00	SO I THANK YOU AGAIN FOR THIS
02:18:17:00	02:18:18:00	TIME TO SPEAK AND THANK YOU FOR
02:18:18:00	02:18:21:00	ALL YOUR CONTINUOUS THANK YOU
02:18:21:00	02:18:23:00	SO MUCH.
02:18:23:00	02:18:31:00	KAREN MONAE BROADNECK UNMUTED
02:18:31:00	02:18:35:00	AMEET I AM HERE AS WELL.
02:18:35:00	02:18:36:00	KAREN MULTI-PRODUCT, PRESIDENT
02:18:36:00	02:18:37:00	OF THE EMERALD NECKLACE
02:18:37:00	02:18:40:00	CONSERVANCY BUT JUN IS HERE ON
02:18:40:00	02:18:40:00	BEHALF OF OUR ORGANIZATION.
02:18:40:00	02:18:42:00	HE DID SUCH A GREAT JOB I DON'T
02:18:42:00	02:18:44:00	KNOW IF I HAVE MORE TO ADD.
02:18:44:00	02:18:45:00	I WOULD I WANT TO SAY THANK YOU
02:18:45:00	02:18:47:00	AGAIN TO THE HARD WORKING FOLKS
02:18:47:00	02:18:51:00	THAT WORK IN THE FIELD BEHIND
02:18:51:00	02:18:52:00	THE DESKS AND ANSWERING ALL THE
02:18:52:00	02:18:53:00	CALLS AT THE PARKS DEPARTMENT.
02:18:53:00	02:18:55:00	I KNOW IT IS A NONSTOP JOB WHEN
02:18:55:00	02:18:59:00	I DO LOOK OUT THERE AND I JUST
02:18:59:00	02:19:00:00	SEE HOW MANY FOLKS ARE ARE
02:19:00:00	02:19:02:00	TAKING CARE OF FRANKLIN PARK
02:19:02:00	02:19:03:00	AND I SEE HOW BIG IT IS.
02:19:03:00	02:19:04:00	I WANT TO ECHO THE FRANKLIN
02:19:04:00	02:19:07:00	PARK COALITION'S REQUEST FOR
02:19:07:00	02:19:07:00	ADDITIONAL FIELD OPERATIONS
02:19:07:00	02:19:10:00	STAFF AND OUR LETTER THE
02:19:10:00	02:19:11:00	EMERALD NECKLACE CONSERVANCY
02:19:11:00	02:19:14:00	SUBMITTED WE WE WE SUGGESTED AT
02:19:14:00	02:19:18:00	LEAST EIGHT ADDITIONAL FIELD
02:19:18:00	02:19:19:00	MAINTENANCE STAFF MEMBERS AND
02:19:19:00	02:19:22:00	ANOTHER TO PROJECT MANAGERS.
02:19:22:00	02:19:23:00	I'M EXCITED TO HEAR YOU HAVE
02:19:23:00	02:19:26:00	THREE PROJECT MANAGERS IN THE
02:19:26:00	02:19:26:00	BUDGET.
02:19:26:00	02:19:27:00	I THINK I DID SOME BACK OF THE
02:19:27:00	02:19:29:00	ENVELOPE PROBABLY NOT PERFECT
02:19:29:00	02:19:30:00	MAP AND I THINK IF WE ADD IN
02:19:30:00	02:19:33:00	THIRTY THIRTY TWO FIELD
02:19:33:00	02:19:34:00	OPERATIONS STAFF MAYBE WE GET
02:19:34:00	02:19:37:00	UP TO CLOSE TO THAT ONE PERCENT
02:19:37:00	02:19:40:00	AND LIKE EIGHT PROJECT MANAGERS
02:19:40:00	02:19:41:00	BECAUSE I THINK THAT THIS
02:19:41:00	02:19:42:00	DEPARTMENT COULD MAKE GREAT USE
02:19:42:00	02:19:45:00	OF THOSE RESOURCES.
02:19:45:00	02:19:46:00	SO I LOOK FORWARD TO WAYS THAT
02:19:46:00	02:19:49:00	THIS BUDGET AND THE CITY
02:19:49:00	02:19:49:00	COUNCILOR WITH ITS NEW CREATIVE
02:19:49:00	02:19:50:00	TOOL THAT YOU GUYS GOT A COUPLE
02:19:50:00	02:19:53:00	OF YEARS AGO MIGHT BE ABLE TO
02:19:53:00	02:19:54:00	ADD ADDITIONAL FOLKS BECAUSE I
02:19:54:00	02:19:56:00	I THINK THAT THIS THIS TEAM
02:19:56:00	02:19:57:00	WOULD HAVE PLACES TO USE THEM
02:19:57:00	02:19:58:00	BECAUSE I THINK WE ALL KNOW
02:19:58:00	02:20:00:00	PARKS.
02:20:00:00	02:20:01:00	I DON'T THINK THERE IS A PARK
02:20:01:00	02:20:02:00	IN THE CITY THAT COULDN'T USE A
02:20:02:00	02:20:04:00	LITTLE BIT MORE SO AND I AND
02:20:04:00	02:20:05:00	SOME CAN DEFINITELY USE EVEN
02:20:05:00	02:20:05:00	MORE THAN OTHERS.
02:20:05:00	02:20:07:00	SO THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR YOUR
02:20:07:00	02:20:08:00	SUPPORT OF THIS DEPARTMENT'S
02:20:08:00	02:20:08:00	BUDGET.
02:20:08:00	02:20:11:00	THANK YOU.
02:20:11:00	02:20:11:00	THANK YOU.
02:20:11:00	02:20:15:00	SARAH FREEMAN.
02:20:15:00	02:20:21:00	SO ONE YOUR CHERRY PICKER.
02:20:21:00	02:20:25:00	I'LL TRY TO BE BRIEF BECAUSE I
02:20:25:00	02:20:29:00	HOPE YOU ALL RECEIVED AN EMAIL
02:20:29:00	02:20:33:00	THAT INCLUDED MY FULL COMMENTS
02:20:33:00	02:20:37:00	HITTING THE HIGHLIGHTS.
02:20:37:00	02:20:38:00	I LOVED BOSTON PARKS AND SO I
02:20:38:00	02:20:42:00	DON'T WANT TO SOUND LIKE A LIST
02:20:42:00	02:20:42:00	OF COMPLAINTS.
02:20:42:00	02:20:44:00	IT'S MORE LIKE A WISH.
02:20:44:00	02:20:51:00	I REALLY WISH LIST ON AN EMAIL
02:20:51:00	02:20:55:00	DOES NOT CONVEY A TONE OF VOICE
02:20:55:00	02:20:55:00	.
02:20:55:00	02:20:58:00	JUST PLEASE KEEP THAT IN MIND.
02:20:58:00	02:20:59:00	THERE ARE RANKINGS LIKE PARK
02:20:59:00	02:21:03:00	STORE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND AND
02:21:03:00	02:21:06:00	I KNOW NOT SETTINGS OR ARE
02:21:06:00	02:21:10:00	COMPARABLE BUT BOSTON HAS
02:21:10:00	02:21:11:00	SLIPPED TO EVEN THOUGH OUR
02:21:11:00	02:21:15:00	FUNDS HAVE REVEREND WHITE
02:21:15:00	02:21:18:00	HAMMOND POINTED OUT OR CHIEF
02:21:18:00	02:21:19:00	NOT SURE WHAT TO CALL YOU
02:21:19:00	02:21:21:00	POINTED OUT THE FUNDING DOLLARS
02:21:21:00	02:21:22:00	HAVE INCREASED BUT OUR RELATIVE
02:21:22:00	02:21:26:00	RANKINGS HAVE SLIPPED WHICH I
02:21:26:00	02:21:29:00	FOUND VERY INTERESTING AND
02:21:29:00	02:21:30:00	UNFORTUNATE.
02:21:30:00	02:21:33:00	SO WE'RE NOT IN THE TOP TEN
02:21:33:00	02:21:34:00	ANYMORE AND AGAIN NOT TO MAKE
02:21:34:00	02:21:37:00	IT COMPETITIVE.
02:21:37:00	02:21:39:00	I WANT EVERY CITY TO HAVE GREAT
02:21:39:00	02:21:41:00	PARKS.
02:21:41:00	02:21:45:00	LET'S SEE SOME OF THE AREAS OH
02:21:45:00	02:21:46:00	I'LL ADD MY NAME TO THE ONE
02:21:46:00	02:21:49:00	PERCENT AND THAT'S A GOAL AND
02:21:49:00	02:21:53:00	NOT AS A STEALING BECAUSE AS
02:21:53:00	02:21:57:00	JOHN LEE POINTED OUT THERE,
02:21:57:00	02:21:57:00	IT'S POSSIBLE TO EVEN GO ABOVE
02:21:57:00	02:21:58:00	THAT.
02:21:58:00	02:22:01:00	BUT AT LEAST LET'S TRY TO
02:22:01:00	02:22:04:00	ACHIEVE THAT AND THEN REASSESS
02:22:04:00	02:22:08:00	SOME EXAMPLES WHICH NOT TO
02:22:08:00	02:22:09:00	REPEAT WHAT'S BEEN SAID ALREADY
02:22:09:00	02:22:12:00	MAINTENANCE, MAINTENANCE,
02:22:12:00	02:22:12:00	MAINTENANCE.
02:22:12:00	02:22:13:00	I HAD I RECEIVED AN EMAIL FROM
02:22:13:00	02:22:13:00	A FRIEND.
02:22:13:00	02:22:16:00	YES, YESTERDAY OVER THE WEEKEND
02:22:16:00	02:22:20:00	EITHER SATURDAY OR SUNDAY THEY
02:22:20:00	02:22:21:00	WERE IN NEW YORK AND THEY'VE
02:22:21:00	02:22:21:00	GONE TO CENTRAL PARK AND SAID
02:22:21:00	02:22:24:00	OH IT LOOKS SO NICE AND IT'S
02:22:24:00	02:22:27:00	LIKE I'M THINKING TO MYSELF
02:22:27:00	02:22:28:00	I'VE GONE TO VOLUNTEER
02:22:28:00	02:22:31:00	CLEANUP'S THE PAST THREE
02:22:31:00	02:22:35:00	SATURDAYS WE'VE HAD ONE BOSTON
02:22:35:00	02:22:39:00	DAY AND EARTH DAY AND THE
02:22:39:00	02:22:40:00	MURRAY RIVER CLEAN UP AND LOVE
02:22:40:00	02:22:43:00	YOUR BLOCK AND YOU KNOW THIS
02:22:43:00	02:22:44:00	LITTLE OLD LADY WANTS TO GO TO
02:22:44:00	02:22:47:00	A PARK SOMETIME TO WORK OR SIT
02:22:47:00	02:22:51:00	AND ENJOY AND NOT FEEL LIKE I
02:22:51:00	02:22:52:00	BETTER BRING A BAG TO PICK UP
02:22:52:00	02:22:55:00	IT JUST IT WOULD IT'S SOMETHING
02:22:55:00	02:22:58:00	TO ASPIRE TO AND I KNOW IT
02:22:58:00	02:22:59:00	WON'T BE PERFECT BUT AGAIN JUST
02:22:59:00	02:23:02:00	A FEELING OF FRIENDS.
02:23:02:00	02:23:06:00	THE PARK RANGERS ARE ALWAYS
02:23:06:00	02:23:10:00	SEEMS LIKE ALWAYS STRUGGLING TO
02:23:10:00	02:23:10:00	RETAIN STUFF.
02:23:10:00	02:23:13:00	SO I'D PUT IN A PLUG FOR MAYBE
02:23:13:00	02:23:14:00	HIGHER SALARIES.
02:23:14:00	02:23:18:00	IT FEELS LIKE THEY GET TRAINED
02:23:18:00	02:23:19:00	, THEY GET SKILLS AND THEN THEY
02:23:19:00	02:23:21:00	REALIZE THAT OH THEY CAN FIND A
02:23:21:00	02:23:21:00	BETTER PAYING JOB.
02:23:21:00	02:23:25:00	WOULDN'T IT BE NICE IF THAT
02:23:25:00	02:23:28:00	BETTER PAYING JOB OR RIGHT HERE
02:23:28:00	02:23:30:00	AND THEY ALSO NEED SOME FUNDING
02:23:30:00	02:23:30:00	FOR HORSES?
02:23:30:00	02:23:32:00	I DON'T WHICH BUDGET THAT ALL
02:23:32:00	02:23:36:00	FITS INTO WE HAVE THINGS LIKE
02:23:36:00	02:23:40:00	MY PERSONAL TIME AND ENERGY IS
02:23:40:00	02:23:43:00	SPENT LARGELY ON ACCESS
02:23:43:00	02:23:44:00	PEDESTRIAN AND BIKE FEELING
02:23:44:00	02:23:48:00	FRIENDLY AND WELCOMING AND LOTS
02:23:48:00	02:23:52:00	COMING NEAR THE END.
02:23:52:00	02:23:53:00	FRANKLIN PARK ACTION PLAN I
02:23:53:00	02:23:54:00	KNOW YOU'VE HEARD FROM THE
02:23:54:00	02:23:56:00	COALITION FRANKLIN PARK
02:23:56:00	02:24:00:00	COALITION WHO DID EXTENSIVE
02:24:00:00	02:24:01:00	ANALYSIS OF THE BUDGET AND SO
02:24:01:00	02:24:04:00	I'LL JUST THROW MY HAT IN WITH
02:24:04:00	02:24:07:00	THEM THAT I TRUST THEIR THEY
02:24:07:00	02:24:08:00	HAVE THEIR FINGER ON THE PULSE
02:24:08:00	02:24:12:00	OF WHAT NEEDS TO BE DONE AND
02:24:12:00	02:24:13:00	WHAT IT WOULD TAKE TO DO IT.
02:24:13:00	02:24:15:00	AND WE KNOW THE WHEN TO SQUIRM
02:24:15:00	02:24:15:00	.
02:24:15:00	02:24:16:00	IT'S NOT ENOUGH.
02:24:16:00	02:24:19:00	SO HOW DO I GET A ROAD MAP FOR
02:24:19:00	02:24:20:00	THE CITY PORTION?
02:24:20:00	02:24:23:00	I'D LIKE TO ADD ONE ADDITIONAL
02:24:23:00	02:24:24:00	AREA AND THE ACCESS FRONT WHICH
02:24:24:00	02:24:27:00	IS THE PARK EDGE.
02:24:27:00	02:24:30:00	I THINK WHEN PEOPLE DRIVE BY
02:24:30:00	02:24:34:00	FOR EXAMPLE MORTON STREET THAT
02:24:34:00	02:24:35:00	DOES NOT THERE'S A SCARBOROUGH
02:24:35:00	02:24:38:00	POND ENTRANCE ALONG THERE BUT
02:24:38:00	02:24:39:00	IT DOES NOT LOOK VERY FEASIBLE
02:24:39:00	02:24:42:00	OR FADING WHEN YOU LOOK AT THE
02:24:42:00	02:24:43:00	REST OF THE EDGE.
02:24:43:00	02:24:46:00	SO I PUT THAT OUT.
02:24:46:00	02:24:50:00	IT'S A CHALLENGE AND ONE OTHER
02:24:50:00	02:24:51:00	WHICH LEADS TO OTHER WISH LIST
02:24:51:00	02:24:59:00	ITEMS OVERLOOKING JAMAICA POND
02:24:59:00	02:25:00:00	, IT DOESN'T JUST NEED MORE
02:25:00:00	02:25:01:00	WATER, THERE ARE HOLES LIKE YOU
02:25:01:00	02:25:05:00	CAN SEE THROUGH WHERE THE
02:25:05:00	02:25:08:00	MISSING ROCKS ARE AND THE
02:25:08:00	02:25:11:00	SHATTUCK HOSPITAL SITE I KNOW
02:25:11:00	02:25:12:00	THE CONSULTANTS MENTIONED THE
02:25:12:00	02:25:16:00	KIND OF INDIRECTLY ABOUT
02:25:16:00	02:25:20:00	INTEGRATING OR THINGS THEY CAN
02:25:20:00	02:25:24:00	DO BUT IT'S TO ME A WE CAN'T
02:25:24:00	02:25:25:00	CALL IT THAT WE'VE DONE A
02:25:25:00	02:25:28:00	COMPREHENSIVE ACTION PLAN IF WE
02:25:28:00	02:25:29:00	DON'T HAVE SOME PLANS FOR THAT
02:25:29:00	02:25:31:00	SITE.
02:25:31:00	02:25:32:00	SO THANK YOU FOR LISTENING.
02:25:32:00	02:25:36:00	THANK YOU FOR ALL YOU DO AND
02:25:36:00	02:25:36:00	I'LL BE QUIET.
02:25:36:00	02:25:49:00	THANK YOU, SARAH AND KEVIN BACK
02:25:49:00	02:25:50:00	.
02:25:50:00	02:25:50:00	THANK YOU.
02:25:50:00	02:25:51:00	THAT TOOK ME A MINUTE TO
02:25:51:00	02:25:54:00	UNMUTED MYSELF AND KEVIN BHAT.
02:25:54:00	02:25:57:00	I'M A BOARD MEMBER OF THE
02:25:57:00	02:25:57:00	FRANKLIN PARK COALITION AND I
02:25:57:00	02:26:01:00	THANK THE COUNCILORS AND CHIEF
02:26:01:00	02:26:02:00	MORIYAMA WIFE HAMMOND AND
02:26:02:00	02:26:05:00	COMMISSIONER WOODS AND THE REST
02:26:05:00	02:26:06:00	OF THE PARK STAFF AND ALL THE
02:26:06:00	02:26:09:00	WORK YOU DO TO TRY TO HELP THE
02:26:09:00	02:26:12:00	PARKS DEPARTMENT AND OUR PARKS
02:26:12:00	02:26:12:00	AND THE CITY.
02:26:12:00	02:26:16:00	I WILL TRY TO BE BRIEF.
02:26:16:00	02:26:20:00	WE WERE THRILLED TO SEE THE
02:26:20:00	02:26:21:00	COMPLETION OF THE FRANKLIN PARK
02:26:21:00	02:26:21:00	ACTION PLAN RECENTLY THIS
02:26:21:00	02:26:23:00	SPRING.
02:26:23:00	02:26:27:00	IT HAS SOME GREAT IDEAS AS SOME
02:26:27:00	02:26:27:00	GREAT METHODOLOGIES FOR THINGS
02:26:27:00	02:26:31:00	LIKE WOODLANDS MANAGEMENT BUT
02:26:31:00	02:26:32:00	IT'S STILL KIND OF LIKE LOOKING
02:26:32:00	02:26:36:00	DOWN A PARK FROM 36 THOUSAND
02:26:36:00	02:26:36:00	FEET ABOVE.
02:26:36:00	02:26:39:00	IT'S STILL ANY OF THE ACTION
02:26:39:00	02:26:40:00	THAT WE WANT TO TAKE FROM THE
02:26:40:00	02:26:43:00	PLAN WILL REQUIRE A LOT
02:26:43:00	02:26:47:00	OF DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION
02:26:47:00	02:26:48:00	CONTRACTS TO BE BROUGHT OUT.
02:26:48:00	02:26:49:00	WE'RE THRILLED THAT THERE'S A
02:26:49:00	02:26:51:00	NEW PROJECT MANAGEMENT IN THE
02:26:51:00	02:26:52:00	BUDGET TO TRY TO DO SOME
02:26:52:00	02:26:55:00	OF THAT.
02:26:55:00	02:26:59:00	BUT THESE AND WE THANK YOU FOR
02:26:59:00	02:27:00:00	PRIORITIZING THE RESTORATION
02:27:00:00	02:27:03:00	OF THE OVERLOOK WHICH WAS THE
02:27:03:00	02:27:04:00	FORMER SITE OF THE ELMA LEWIS
02:27:04:00	02:27:07:00	PLAYHOUSE SO THAT WE CAN TRY TO
02:27:07:00	02:27:08:00	BRING PERFORMANCE ART AND MUSIC
02:27:08:00	02:27:11:00	BACK TO THAT SPACE.
02:27:11:00	02:27:12:00	BUT I HAVE TO SAY WE WERE A
02:27:12:00	02:27:14:00	LITTLE BIT DISAPPOINTED WITH
02:27:14:00	02:27:15:00	THE PROPOSED BUDGET BECAUSE
02:27:15:00	02:27:16:00	LIKE MANY PEOPLE HAVE SAID,
02:27:16:00	02:27:18:00	THERE'S NOT ENOUGH MONEY FOR
02:27:18:00	02:27:19:00	MAINTENANCE.
02:27:19:00	02:27:23:00	LET ME JUST MENTION READ A BIT
02:27:23:00	02:27:24:00	FROM THE ACTION PLAN WHICH I
02:27:24:00	02:27:27:00	HAVE HERE BY MY SIDE JUST TWO
02:27:27:00	02:27:30:00	SENTENCES ATTACK COMMUNITY'S
02:27:30:00	02:27:34:00	TOP PRIORITY IS PAGE FOR 22
02:27:34:00	02:27:35:00	WHICH IS IMPLEMENTATION IS TAKE
02:27:35:00	02:27:37:00	PROPER CARE OF WHAT WE HAVE.
02:27:37:00	02:27:38:00	SO LEAVING ASIDE ANY NEW
02:27:38:00	02:27:41:00	CAPITAL PROJECTS WE NEED TO
02:27:41:00	02:27:42:00	REALLY TAKE CARE OF WHAT WE
02:27:42:00	02:27:46:00	HAVE AND THEN IT GOES ON TO SAY
02:27:46:00	02:27:47:00	EVEN IF NO NEW FEATURES ARE
02:27:47:00	02:27:50:00	INTRODUCED, LEVEL CARE IN THE
02:27:50:00	02:27:51:00	PARK NEEDS TO INCREASE
02:27:51:00	02:27:54:00	SIGNIFICANTLY REQUIRES FOUR TO
02:27:54:00	02:27:56:00	SIX TIMES MORE MAINTENANCE
02:27:56:00	02:28:01:00	STAFF HOURS AND IT GOES ON TO
02:28:01:00	02:28:02:00	RECOMMEND AT LEAST FOUR NEW
02:28:02:00	02:28:04:00	MAINTENANCE STAFF BE ADDED
02:28:04:00	02:28:05:00	DEDICATED ONLY TO FRANKLIN
02:28:05:00	02:28:05:00	PARK.
02:28:05:00	02:28:08:00	NOW WE KNOW THAT MANY OTHER
02:28:08:00	02:28:09:00	PARKS ARE ALSO NEEDING MORE
02:28:09:00	02:28:11:00	MAINTENANCE ATTENTION.
02:28:11:00	02:28:16:00	SO TO DRIVE THAT POINT HOME AS
02:28:16:00	02:28:17:00	COUNCILOR FLAHERTY AND
02:28:17:00	02:28:20:00	COUNCILOR MURPHY RECOGNIZED, WE
02:28:20:00	02:28:20:00	JUST NEED MORE MAINTENANCE
02:28:20:00	02:28:24:00	STAFF AND WHATEVER THAT TAKES
02:28:24:00	02:28:25:00	PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE TRY TO
02:28:25:00	02:28:27:00	GIVE US MORE MAINTENANCE STAFF
02:28:27:00	02:28:29:00	SO THAT WE I ALSO JOINED SARAH
02:28:29:00	02:28:32:00	FREEMAN IN MANY THESE CLEANUPS
02:28:32:00	02:28:36:00	WE BROUGHT HUNDREDS AND
02:28:36:00	02:28:38:00	HUNDREDS OF BLACK BAGS OF TRASH
02:28:38:00	02:28:39:00	.
02:28:39:00	02:28:40:00	WE CANNOT ALWAYS MAINTAIN THAT
02:28:40:00	02:28:43:00	LEVEL OF VOLUNTEER EFFORT.
02:28:43:00	02:28:43:00	WE NEED TRASH PICKUP.
02:28:43:00	02:28:44:00	WE NEED MOWED LAWNS.
02:28:44:00	02:28:47:00	WE NEED SNOW REMOVAL.
02:28:47:00	02:28:48:00	ALL OF THESE THINGS THAT
02:28:48:00	02:28:51:00	SOMEHOW THE PARKS ARE NOT QUITE
02:28:51:00	02:28:52:00	UP TO SPEED ON.
02:28:52:00	02:28:54:00	SO THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
02:28:54:00	02:28:55:00	THAT'S ALL I HAVE TO SAY FOR
02:28:55:00	02:28:55:00	NOW.
02:28:55:00	02:28:58:00	THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
02:28:58:00	02:29:04:00	WE HAVE SANDY BAILEY.
02:29:04:00	02:29:04:00	HI.
02:29:04:00	02:29:05:00	THANK YOU COUNCILOR .
02:29:05:00	02:29:08:00	I'M SANDY MALEA ROSLINDALE
02:29:08:00	02:29:12:00	RESIDENT AND I AM ALSO A MEMBER
02:29:12:00	02:29:13:00	OF THE BOARD OF FRANKLIN PARK
02:29:13:00	02:29:13:00	COALITION.
02:29:13:00	02:29:16:00	I WANT TO ECHO THE CALLS FOR A
02:29:16:00	02:29:20:00	ONE PERCENT THE PARKS BUDGET.
02:29:20:00	02:29:21:00	WE'RE HEARING SO MANY NEEDS
02:29:21:00	02:29:25:00	THAT I JUST HOPE THAT IF NOT
02:29:25:00	02:29:27:00	THIS YEAR THAT WE CAN JUST
02:29:27:00	02:29:29:00	BOOSTING UNTIL WE GET THERE AND
02:29:29:00	02:29:32:00	THEY ALSO JUST WANT TO SAY THAT
02:29:32:00	02:29:33:00	HEARING WHAT'S GOING ON, THE
02:29:33:00	02:29:36:00	ADMINISTRATION HAS PUT SO MUCH
02:29:36:00	02:29:37:00	WORK IN AND HEARING ABOUT THE
02:29:37:00	02:29:40:00	DIVERSITY INITIATIVES THAT ARE
02:29:40:00	02:29:41:00	REALLY WORKING AND STARTING TO
02:29:41:00	02:29:44:00	WORK AT LEAST IN HIRING FOR
02:29:44:00	02:29:44:00	PROCUREMENT.
02:29:44:00	02:29:45:00	THOSE ARE SUCH GREAT THINGS TO
02:29:45:00	02:29:48:00	HEAR THAT WE'RE MAKING PROGRESS
02:29:48:00	02:29:49:00	ON AND I HOPE IT WILL CONTINUE.
02:29:49:00	02:29:51:00	I'M SURE IT WILL.
02:29:51:00	02:29:55:00	BUT THIS ADMINISTRATION THE
02:29:55:00	02:29:56:00	CITY INVESTED NEARLY A MILLION
02:29:56:00	02:29:56:00	DOLLARS IN THREE YEARS TO
02:29:56:00	02:29:58:00	DEVELOP THE FRANKLIN PARK
02:29:58:00	02:29:58:00	ACTION PLAN.
02:29:58:00	02:29:59:00	FRANKLIN PARK COALITION WORKED
02:29:59:00	02:30:02:00	HARD DURING THAT PROCESS TO
02:30:02:00	02:30:03:00	ENGAGE PARK USERS FROM EVERY
02:30:03:00	02:30:06:00	NEIGHBORHOOD AROUND THE PARK.
02:30:06:00	02:30:07:00	THE CITY'S ACTION PLAN SAYS
02:30:07:00	02:30:10:00	FRANKLIN PARK HAS BEEN SUBJECT
02:30:10:00	02:30:11:00	TO UNDERINVESTMENT FOR FAR TOO
02:30:11:00	02:30:14:00	LONG AND SIGNIFICANT INVESTMENT
02:30:14:00	02:30:15:00	IS NEEDED NOW NOW TO PROTECT
02:30:15:00	02:30:16:00	AND SUSTAIN THIS CRITICAL
02:30:16:00	02:30:18:00	RESOURCE BELOVED PUBLIC SPACE
02:30:18:00	02:30:19:00	PLAN CALLS FOR PROJECTS
02:30:19:00	02:30:22:00	TOTALING ABOUT TWO HUNDRED
02:30:22:00	02:30:23:00	MILLION DOLLARS.
02:30:23:00	02:30:26:00	IF WE DID THAT OVER TEN YEARS
02:30:26:00	02:30:27:00	THAT WOULD BE TWENTY MILLION
02:30:27:00	02:30:27:00	EACH YEAR.
02:30:27:00	02:30:31:00	IT'S A LOT AND WE CAN'T RELY ON
02:30:31:00	02:30:32:00	THE WINFRIED SQUARE MONEY ALONE
02:30:32:00	02:30:34:00	WHICH IS IN THE TWENTY MILLION
02:30:34:00	02:30:35:00	DOLLAR RANGE.
02:30:35:00	02:30:36:00	IT WOULD COVER ONLY ABOUT A
02:30:36:00	02:30:38:00	TENTH OF THE PROJECT'S.
02:30:38:00	02:30:39:00	SO WHILE WE'RE REALLY PLEASED
02:30:39:00	02:30:40:00	TO SEE TWO HUNDRED AND FIFTY
02:30:40:00	02:30:42:00	THOUSAND IN THIS YEAR'S BUDGET
02:30:42:00	02:30:46:00	FOR FRANKLIN PARK, WE STILL
02:30:46:00	02:30:46:00	THINK THAT MUCH MORE IS NEEDED
02:30:46:00	02:30:49:00	TO MAKE THIS PLAN A REALITY TO
02:30:49:00	02:30:53:00	MAKE THE CAPITAL PROJECTS A
02:30:53:00	02:30:54:00	REALITY.
02:30:54:00	02:30:57:00	IT'S ALSO THE PLAN SAYS THAT A
02:30:57:00	02:30:58:00	CORE FOCUS IS TO ELEVATE THE
02:30:58:00	02:31:01:00	STANDARD OF CARE FOR FRANKLIN
02:31:01:00	02:31:01:00	PARK BY FILLING THE MAINTENANCE
02:31:01:00	02:31:05:00	GAP AND TO ACHIEVE THIS THE
02:31:05:00	02:31:05:00	PLAN CALLED FOR NEW STAFF
02:31:05:00	02:31:08:00	DEDICATED TO FRANKLIN PARK
02:31:08:00	02:31:09:00	WHICH ARE CURRENTLY NONE.
02:31:09:00	02:31:10:00	THEY CALL FOR A FULL TIME PARK
02:31:10:00	02:31:13:00	ADMINISTRATOR FOR FOUR NEW
02:31:13:00	02:31:13:00	MAINTENANCE STAFF AND
02:31:13:00	02:31:17:00	ECOLOGICAL RESTORATION CREW TO
02:31:17:00	02:31:18:00	PARK RANGERS IN TWO DEDICATED
02:31:18:00	02:31:20:00	PROJECT MANAGERS TO HELP WITH
02:31:20:00	02:31:21:00	ROLLING OUT THE MANY PROJECTS.
02:31:21:00	02:31:24:00	THIS IS ABOUT GOOD JOBS AND
02:31:24:00	02:31:24:00	ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE.
02:31:24:00	02:31:28:00	SO THESE THESE PRIORITIES OUT
02:31:28:00	02:31:29:00	OF THE ACTION PLAN ARE IN
02:31:29:00	02:31:31:00	EVERYBODY'S INTEREST.
02:31:31:00	02:31:32:00	WE'RE PLEASED TO SEE THE THREE
02:31:32:00	02:31:35:00	NEW PARKS DEPARTMENT PROJECT
02:31:35:00	02:31:35:00	MANAGER IN THIS BUDGET AND
02:31:35:00	02:31:38:00	UNFORTUNATELY THEY'RE NOT
02:31:38:00	02:31:39:00	DEDICATED TO FRANKLIN PARK AND
02:31:39:00	02:31:40:00	NONE OF THE OTHER NEW FRANKLIN
02:31:40:00	02:31:43:00	PARK STAFF RECOMMENDED ARE IN
02:31:43:00	02:31:43:00	THIS CURRENT BUDGET.
02:31:43:00	02:31:47:00	SO WITH WITH FRANKLIN PARK AND
02:31:47:00	02:31:48:00	THE AND THE RESIDENTS
02:31:48:00	02:31:48:00	OF ROXBURY, DORCHESTER,
02:31:48:00	02:31:51:00	MATTAPAN, JAMAICA PLAIN WHO
02:31:51:00	02:31:52:00	TURNED OUT TIME AND AGAIN
02:31:52:00	02:31:53:00	DURING THE THREE YEAR PLANNING
02:31:53:00	02:31:55:00	PROCESS DESERVE TO SEE THE
02:31:55:00	02:31:56:00	SIGNIFICANT INVESTMENTS THAT
02:31:56:00	02:31:58:00	THE PARKS NEEDED FOR SO LONG
02:31:58:00	02:31:59:00	AND THAT THE CITY'S PLAN
02:31:59:00	02:32:01:00	RECOMMENDS THAT WE HOPE TO WORK
02:32:01:00	02:32:03:00	WITH ALL OF YOU TO MAKE THAT
02:32:03:00	02:32:06:00	HAPPEN.
02:32:06:00	02:32:06:00	THANKS.
02:32:06:00	02:32:09:00	THANK YOU, SANDY.
02:32:09:00	02:32:12:00	ED GASCÓN.
02:32:12:00	02:32:16:00	GOOD AFTERNOON COUNCILORS AND
02:32:16:00	02:32:20:00	I'M SPEAKING SPECIFICALLY ON
02:32:20:00	02:32:24:00	THE FOOD JUSTICE ISSUE OR TOPIC
02:32:24:00	02:32:24:00	.
02:32:24:00	02:32:25:00	MY NAME IS ED GASKIN.
02:32:25:00	02:32:28:00	I'M THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
02:32:28:00	02:32:29:00	OF GREATER GROVE, OUR MAIN
02:32:29:00	02:32:30:00	STREET AND WE WERE SPEAKING ON
02:32:30:00	02:32:32:00	BEHALF OF PROVIDING A.I.S AND
02:32:32:00	02:32:33:00	THREE HUNDRED THOUSAND FOR THE
02:32:33:00	02:32:36:00	HEALTHY FOOD PANTRY PROGRAM HRP
02:32:36:00	02:32:36:00	.
02:32:36:00	02:32:37:00	THERE'S A HIGH CORRELATION
02:32:37:00	02:32:38:00	BETWEEN PEOPLE WHO ARE FOOD
02:32:38:00	02:32:40:00	INSECURE AND PEOPLE WHO HAVE
02:32:40:00	02:32:40:00	CHRONIC DISEASE.
02:32:40:00	02:32:41:00	THE PROBLEM IS THAT WHEN PEOPLE
02:32:41:00	02:32:43:00	WHO ARE FOOD INSECURE GET FOOD
02:32:43:00	02:32:44:00	FROM A FOOD PANTRY OR FOOD
02:32:44:00	02:32:45:00	BANK, THEY GET HIGHLY PROCESSED
02:32:45:00	02:32:48:00	FOOD OFTEN IN SALT, FAT AND
02:32:48:00	02:32:49:00	SUGAR WHICH MAY ADDRESS THEIR
02:32:49:00	02:32:51:00	SHORT TERM HUNGER NEEDS BUT
02:32:51:00	02:32:52:00	ONLY FURTHER AGGRAVATES THEIR
02:32:52:00	02:32:55:00	UNDERLYING CHRONIC DISEASE.
02:32:55:00	02:32:59:00	SO IN PARTNERSHIP WITH HARVARD
02:32:59:00	02:33:00:00	COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER, WE'RE
02:33:00:00	02:33:00:00	PROPOSING A PILOT FOR THE
02:33:00:00	02:33:02:00	DEVELOPMENT OF FOOD THAT WOULD
02:33:02:00	02:33:03:00	MEET THE PATIENT'S DIETARY
02:33:03:00	02:33:04:00	NEEDS IN TERMS OF MEDICAL AS IN
02:33:04:00	02:33:07:00	LIKE HIGH BLOOD PRESSURE,
02:33:07:00	02:33:07:00	DIABETES, OBESITY, DIABETES
02:33:07:00	02:33:10:00	ETC. ALLERGENS RELATED
02:33:10:00	02:33:11:00	PHILOSOPHICAL PREFERENCES WE
02:33:11:00	02:33:14:00	ARE CURRENTLY IS BEGGARS CAN'T
02:33:14:00	02:33:15:00	BE CHOOSERS.
02:33:15:00	02:33:17:00	YOU GET WHAT YOU GET REGARDLESS
02:33:17:00	02:33:18:00	OF WHAT YOUR FAMILY'S DIETARY
02:33:18:00	02:33:18:00	NEEDS MIGHT BE.
02:33:18:00	02:33:22:00	SO YOU COULD BE PRENATAL
02:33:22:00	02:33:23:00	POSTPARTUM AGING PARENT.
02:33:23:00	02:33:25:00	IT DOESN'T MATTER YOU ALL HAVE
02:33:25:00	02:33:26:00	THE SAME COMMODITY CANNED GOODS
02:33:26:00	02:33:30:00	CURRENTLY THERE IS PROGRAMS
02:33:30:00	02:33:31:00	THAT PROVIDE PRODUCE AND ONE
02:33:31:00	02:33:34:00	END OF THE SPECTRUM OR WHAT ARE
02:33:34:00	02:33:34:00	CALLED MEDICALLY TAILORED MEALS
02:33:34:00	02:33:35:00	ON THE OTHER END OF THE
02:33:35:00	02:33:38:00	SPECTRUM AND WHAT WE'RE TRYING
02:33:38:00	02:33:38:00	TO ADDRESS IS THOSE IN THE
02:33:38:00	02:33:41:00	MIDDLE WHO AREN'T SICK ENOUGH
02:33:41:00	02:33:42:00	YET.
02:33:42:00	02:33:43:00	WE'D LIKE TO PREVENT THAT FROM
02:33:43:00	02:33:43:00	NEEDING A MEDICALLY TAILORED
02:33:43:00	02:33:44:00	BILL.
02:33:44:00	02:33:45:00	THEY CAN STILL COOK BUT THEY
02:33:45:00	02:33:46:00	DON'T HAVE ACCESS TO THE EITHER
02:33:46:00	02:33:48:00	THE CONDIMENTS OR THE ENTREES
02:33:48:00	02:33:49:00	THAT THEY CAN PREPARE AT HOME.
02:33:49:00	02:33:52:00	THIS WOULD BE MUCH MORE
02:33:52:00	02:33:53:00	EFFECTIVE THAN WAITING FOR THEM
02:33:53:00	02:33:54:00	OBVIOUSLY TO GET SICK AND GET
02:33:54:00	02:33:56:00	AN ENTIRE MEAL THE PROGRAM AND
02:33:56:00	02:33:57:00	WE DO ONE OF THE THING
02:33:57:00	02:33:59:00	TYPICALLY THE DISTRIBUTION
02:33:59:00	02:34:00:00	OF FOOD IS TRANSACTION LIKE YOU
02:34:00:00	02:34:03:00	GET A BOX OF WHATEVER WHATEVER
02:34:03:00	02:34:05:00	THE GIVING OUT THAT WEEK AND WE
02:34:05:00	02:34:07:00	WANT TO MAKE IT MORE INTO
02:34:07:00	02:34:08:00	RELATIONSHIPS WITH EVERY PERSON
02:34:08:00	02:34:09:00	THAT RECEIVES WHATEVER THE
02:34:09:00	02:34:12:00	GROCERIES ARE FOR THAT WEEK
02:34:12:00	02:34:12:00	WE'RE INVITING THEM TO
02:34:12:00	02:34:13:00	PARTICIPATE IN THE CONSULTATION
02:34:13:00	02:34:16:00	WITH THE REGISTERED DIETITIAN
02:34:16:00	02:34:16:00	TO FIGURE OUT IF WE CAN
02:34:16:00	02:34:19:00	DETERMINE OTHER DIETARY NEEDS,
02:34:19:00	02:34:20:00	OTHER MEDICAL NEEDS THAT MIGHT
02:34:20:00	02:34:21:00	BE ABLE TO BE ADDRESSED OR
02:34:21:00	02:34:23:00	DISCOVERED AFTER THIS INITIAL
02:34:23:00	02:34:27:00	CONSULTATION IF THERE'S ANY
02:34:27:00	02:34:27:00	FURTHER WAYS THAT WE COULD
02:34:27:00	02:34:30:00	SUPPORT THEM, I GIVE THAT
02:34:30:00	02:34:31:00	TWENTY COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTERS
02:34:31:00	02:34:32:00	BASICALLY ONE IN EVERYBODY'S
02:34:32:00	02:34:34:00	DISTRICT.
02:34:34:00	02:34:36:00	IF IN FACT WE COULD MAKE THIS
02:34:36:00	02:34:39:00	PILOT WORK OUT WE COULD BE ABLE
02:34:39:00	02:34:40:00	TO ROLL IT OUT ACROSS THE CITY
02:34:40:00	02:34:42:00	SOMETIME IN THE FUTURE, PERHAPS
02:34:42:00	02:34:42:00	NEXT YEAR.
02:34:42:00	02:34:45:00	THANK YOU.
02:34:45:00	02:34:46:00	THANK YOU, MR GASKIN.
02:34:46:00	02:34:49:00	ALEXANDER LEVENTHAL.
02:34:49:00	02:34:50:00	THANK YOU, MR CHAIRMAN.
02:34:50:00	02:34:53:00	GOOD AFTERNOON.
02:34:53:00	02:34:54:00	MY NAME IS ALEX LEBENTHAL AND I
02:34:54:00	02:34:57:00	AM BOARD PRESIDENT OF THE
02:34:57:00	02:34:58:00	FRIENDS OF THE BOSTON PARK
02:34:58:00	02:34:58:00	RANGERS MOUNTED UNIT AS AN
02:34:58:00	02:35:01:00	ORGANIZATION OUR GOAL IS TO
02:35:01:00	02:35:02:00	ENSURE THE BOSTON PARK RANGERS
02:35:02:00	02:35:05:00	CAN CONTINUE TO ENHANCE CITY
02:35:05:00	02:35:06:00	PARKS AS WELCOMING GUIDES TO
02:35:06:00	02:35:09:00	ALL VISITORS PROVIDE CRITICAL
02:35:09:00	02:35:10:00	WAYFINDING AS WELL AS
02:35:10:00	02:35:13:00	EDUCATIONAL AND PUBLIC SAFETY
02:35:13:00	02:35:13:00	FUNCTIONS AS AN ORGANIZATION
02:35:13:00	02:35:17:00	OUR MANDATE IS TO RAISE FUNDS
02:35:17:00	02:35:18:00	AND MORE FOR PUBLIC SUPPORT SO
02:35:18:00	02:35:20:00	THAT THE MOUNTED UNIT CAN
02:35:20:00	02:35:21:00	CONTINUE TO PATROL OUR NINE
02:35:21:00	02:35:24:00	PARTS OF THE EMERALD NECKLACE.
02:35:24:00	02:35:25:00	OUR FUNDS HAVE SUPPORTED
02:35:25:00	02:35:28:00	VARIOUS COSTS OF RUNNING A
02:35:28:00	02:35:29:00	MOUNTAIN UNIT THAT INCLUDE THE
02:35:29:00	02:35:29:00	ACQUISITION OF DIVORCÉES
02:35:29:00	02:35:32:00	VETERINARY CARE, STABLE
02:35:32:00	02:35:33:00	IMPROVEMENTS IN EQUIPMENT TO
02:35:33:00	02:35:33:00	NAME A FEW.
02:35:33:00	02:35:36:00	I WOULD LIKE TO SHARE SOME
02:35:36:00	02:35:36:00	OF OUR PRIORITIES AND SPECIFIC
02:35:36:00	02:35:39:00	BUDGET REQUESTS THAT ARE NEEDED
02:35:39:00	02:35:40:00	BY THE BOSTON PARK RANGERS TO
02:35:40:00	02:35:43:00	CONTINUE TO EFFECTIVELY CARRY
02:35:43:00	02:35:43:00	OUT THEIR MISSION.
02:35:43:00	02:35:45:00	TO THIS END WE ASK FOR YOUR
02:35:45:00	02:35:47:00	SUPPORT IN MAINTAINING EXISTING
02:35:47:00	02:35:48:00	CITY SUPPORT LEVELS AND FUNDING
02:35:48:00	02:35:51:00	THE FOLLOWING BUDGET REQUEST
02:35:51:00	02:35:55:00	ONE MAINTAIN EXISTING FUNDING
02:35:55:00	02:35:56:00	FOR AT LEAST EIGHTEEN FULL TIME
02:35:56:00	02:35:59:00	RANGER POSITIONS TO INCREASE
02:35:59:00	02:36:00:00	FUNDING FOR THE RECRUITMENT AND
02:36:00:00	02:36:03:00	OUTREACH OF 4000.
02:36:03:00	02:36:04:00	THE ACQUISITION OF FOUR NEW
02:36:04:00	02:36:08:00	HORSES AT AN ESTIMATED 6000
02:36:08:00	02:36:09:00	DOLLARS PER HORSE FOR A TOTAL
02:36:09:00	02:36:11:00	REQUEST OF TWENTY FOUR THOUSAND
02:36:11:00	02:36:12:00	DOLLARS MAINTAIN THE EXISTING
02:36:12:00	02:36:15:00	ANNUAL EQUINE CARE BUDGET
02:36:15:00	02:36:19:00	OF NINETY THOUSAND DOLLARS FIVE
02:36:19:00	02:36:20:00	THE REPLACEMENT OF OFFICE
02:36:20:00	02:36:20:00	TRAILERS.
02:36:20:00	02:36:23:00	THE TOTAL COST SEVENTY ONE
02:36:23:00	02:36:26:00	THOUSAND DOLLARS SIX THREE
02:36:26:00	02:36:27:00	THOUSAND DOLLARS TO ESTABLISH A
02:36:27:00	02:36:28:00	STABLE AND GROUND MAINTENANCE
02:36:28:00	02:36:31:00	FUND AND SEVEN LASTLY FIVE
02:36:31:00	02:36:34:00	THOUSAND DOLLARS FOR EMERGENCY
02:36:34:00	02:36:35:00	VETERINARY SERVICES.
02:36:35:00	02:36:37:00	IN CLOSING I WANT TO THANK THE
02:36:37:00	02:36:38:00	CHAIRMAN AND THE MEMBERS OF THE
02:36:38:00	02:36:39:00	COMMITTEE FOR YOUR TIME AND
02:36:39:00	02:36:39:00	CONSIDERATION TO LOOK FORWARD
02:36:39:00	02:36:42:00	TO WORKING WITH OVER THE NEXT
02:36:42:00	02:36:42:00	SEVERAL MONTHS AND A SPECIAL
02:36:42:00	02:36:46:00	THANK YOU ACHIEVE WHAT AND
02:36:46:00	02:36:46:00	COMMISSIONER WOODS, DEPUTY
02:36:46:00	02:36:49:00	COMMISSIONER BICKERTON FOR ALL
02:36:49:00	02:36:50:00	YOUR SUPPORT OVER THE PAST
02:36:50:00	02:36:50:00	YEAR.
02:36:50:00	02:36:53:00	THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
02:36:53:00	02:36:57:00	THANK YOU, DEBORAH .
02:36:57:00	02:37:00:00	AS A REEF.
02:37:00:00	02:37:01:00	YES, THANK YOU, COUNCILOR .
02:37:01:00	02:37:02:00	THANK YOU.
02:37:02:00	02:37:04:00	WELL, THANKS EVERYBODY FOR
02:37:04:00	02:37:05:00	BEING HERE.
02:37:05:00	02:37:05:00	MY NAME IS DE-BRIEF.
02:37:05:00	02:37:06:00	I LIVE IN BRIGHTON.
02:37:06:00	02:37:09:00	I TESTIFIED AT MANY CITY
02:37:09:00	02:37:10:00	COUNCIL HEARINGS ON EVERYTHING
02:37:10:00	02:37:12:00	FROM KEEPING A LOCAL LIBRARY
02:37:12:00	02:37:13:00	OPEN TO LAST WEEK'S PILOT
02:37:13:00	02:37:15:00	HEARING.
02:37:15:00	02:37:16:00	BUT THIS IS THE FIRST TIME THAT
02:37:16:00	02:37:17:00	I'VE TESTIFIED AND I AM
02:37:17:00	02:37:20:00	BEGINNING TO FEEL A LITTLE
02:37:20:00	02:37:20:00	FOOLISH.
02:37:20:00	02:37:23:00	WHY?
02:37:23:00	02:37:24:00	BECAUSE YEAR AFTER YEAR
02:37:24:00	02:37:27:00	INCLUDING IN NY TWENTY TWO AND
02:37:27:00	02:37:28:00	GOING BACK TO AT LEAST TEN
02:37:28:00	02:37:31:00	YEARS I HAD PRESENTED THE NEED
02:37:31:00	02:37:34:00	FOR CAPITAL FUNDS IN THE BUDGET
02:37:34:00	02:37:35:00	FOR THE SHORELINE AND WOODLANDS
02:37:35:00	02:37:38:00	RESTORATION AT CHAMBA POND IN
02:37:38:00	02:37:39:00	BRIGHTON EVERY YEAR I SEE
02:37:39:00	02:37:41:00	MILLIONS OF CAPITAL BUDGET
02:37:41:00	02:37:42:00	DOLLARS GO TO BALLFIELDS,
02:37:42:00	02:37:43:00	FIELDS AND COURTS AND
02:37:43:00	02:37:46:00	PLAYGROUNDS AND MAKE NO MISTAKE
02:37:46:00	02:37:47:00	I'M A SPORTS LOVER AND I PLAY
02:37:47:00	02:37:50:00	BOTH BASKETBALL AND TACKLE
02:37:50:00	02:37:51:00	FOOTBALL WITH MY BROTHERS SO I
02:37:51:00	02:37:53:00	REALLY APPRECIATE THE VALUE
02:37:53:00	02:37:54:00	OF SPORT SPORTS FIELDS AND
02:37:54:00	02:37:58:00	PLAYGROUNDS AND I JUST WANT TO
02:37:58:00	02:37:59:00	QUOTE ONE OF MY NEIGHBORS WHO
02:37:59:00	02:38:02:00	SAID TO ME EVERYONE ELSE
02:38:02:00	02:38:02:00	CHILDREN BECAUSE THE CITY NOT
02:38:02:00	02:38:06:00	CARE ABOUT ALL THE SENIORS WHO
02:38:06:00	02:38:06:00	SLOWLY PERAMBULATE AROUND THE
02:38:06:00	02:38:07:00	POND FOR THEIR PHYSICAL AND
02:38:07:00	02:38:10:00	MENTAL HEALTH.
02:38:10:00	02:38:11:00	YES, THE RESTORATION PROJECT
02:38:11:00	02:38:14:00	ONE TWENTY TWENTY ONE CPA GRANT
02:38:14:00	02:38:15:00	OF THREE HUNDRED THOUSAND
02:38:15:00	02:38:17:00	DOLLARS FOR THE PROJECT WHICH
02:38:17:00	02:38:18:00	WE UNDERSTAND WILL COST A TOTAL
02:38:18:00	02:38:21:00	OF TWO POINT THREE MILLION.
02:38:21:00	02:38:22:00	YES, FRIENDS OF CHAMBA POND HAS
02:38:22:00	02:38:25:00	BEEN ADVISED TO APPLY FOR MORE
02:38:25:00	02:38:26:00	CPA MONEY.
02:38:26:00	02:38:27:00	WELL AND I ALSO JUST WANT TO
02:38:27:00	02:38:29:00	ADDRESS CLIPS.
02:38:29:00	02:38:30:00	WE DID GET A PROJECT MANAGER
02:38:30:00	02:38:33:00	WITH WHOM WE ARE THRILLED BUT
02:38:33:00	02:38:37:00	IT'S ONLY A SMALL PIECE OF THE
02:38:37:00	02:38:38:00	SHORELINE RESTORATION THAT IS
02:38:38:00	02:38:41:00	GOING BEFORE THE KONTUM AND
02:38:41:00	02:38:42:00	GOING OUT TO BID AND I WANT TO
02:38:42:00	02:38:44:00	SAY THAT IT IS NOT FAIR TO ASK
02:38:44:00	02:38:45:00	THE FRIENDS GROUP THAT HAS
02:38:45:00	02:38:49:00	WORKED LITERALLY THOUSANDS
02:38:49:00	02:38:49:00	OF HOURS INCLUDING BASIC
02:38:49:00	02:38:50:00	MAINTENANCE AND CLOSE TO
02:38:50:00	02:38:52:00	DANGEROUS MAINTENANCE THE PATCH
02:38:52:00	02:38:56:00	TOGETHER FUNDING OVER WHO KNOWS
02:38:56:00	02:38:57:00	HOW MANY YEARS TO GET A CAPITAL
02:38:57:00	02:39:00:00	PROJECT DONE.
02:39:00:00	02:39:01:00	SO INEXPLICABLE TO ME THAT A
02:39:01:00	02:39:04:00	PARKS CAPITAL BUDGET THAT HAS
02:39:04:00	02:39:05:00	GONE FROM THIRTY SIX MILLION TO
02:39:05:00	02:39:08:00	FIFTY EIGHT MILLION OVER THREE
02:39:08:00	02:39:11:00	YEARS JUST TO HAVE ZERO DOLLARS
02:39:11:00	02:39:12:00	FOR ONE OF THE CITY'S LARGEST
02:39:12:00	02:39:15:00	PARKS AND ONLY PONDS.
02:39:15:00	02:39:16:00	SO AFTER YEARS OF WORK AND SO
02:39:16:00	02:39:19:00	MANY SUCCESSFUL REQUESTS, I'M
02:39:19:00	02:39:23:00	ALSO JUST BEGINNING TO FEEL A
02:39:23:00	02:39:24:00	LITTLE BETRAYED BY THE CITY
02:39:24:00	02:39:25:00	THAT THE ONLY CITY I'VE LIVED
02:39:25:00	02:39:28:00	IN HAS A CITY I'VE WORKED FOR
02:39:28:00	02:39:30:00	AS A JOB AND THE CITY I LOVE IN
02:39:30:00	02:39:31:00	PART BECAUSE ITS PUNCHES ABOVE
02:39:31:00	02:39:34:00	ITS WEIGHT AND SIZE AND YOU
02:39:34:00	02:39:35:00	COULD APPRECIATE WHY I LOVE
02:39:35:00	02:39:38:00	THAT I'M ASKING THAT TWO
02:39:38:00	02:39:39:00	MILLION DOLLARS BE AUTHORIZED
02:39:39:00	02:39:42:00	IN CAPITAL BUDGET NEXT WHY
02:39:42:00	02:39:43:00	TWENTY FOUR FOR THE RESTORATION
02:39:43:00	02:39:44:00	OF THE CHANNEL ON SHORELINE AND
02:39:44:00	02:39:48:00	WOODLANDS.
02:39:48:00	02:39:51:00	THANK YOU VERY MUCH YVONNE
02:39:51:00	02:39:59:00	JONES GOOD AFTERNOON.
02:39:59:00	02:40:00:00	CAN YOU HEAR ME?
02:40:00:00	02:40:03:00	YES WE CAN HEAR YOU.
02:40:03:00	02:40:04:00	YES MY NAME IS YVONNE JONES AND
02:40:04:00	02:40:06:00	I'M I'M A DORCHESTER RESIDENT
02:40:06:00	02:40:07:00	AND A LONG TIME FRANKLIN PARK
02:40:07:00	02:40:07:00	USER.
02:40:07:00	02:40:11:00	I SERVE THE FRANKLIN PARK
02:40:11:00	02:40:11:00	COALITION BOARD OF DIRECTORS
02:40:11:00	02:40:15:00	FROM THE PARK HAS ALWAYS BEEN
02:40:15:00	02:40:19:00	MY SECOND HOME SO I THANK YOU
02:40:19:00	02:40:20:00	FOR THE OPPORTUNITY TO SPEAK
02:40:20:00	02:40:23:00	TODAY DURING THE PANDEMIC WHEN
02:40:23:00	02:40:26:00	MOST PEOPLE DECIDED TO STAY IN
02:40:26:00	02:40:27:00	PLACE I FOUND COMFORTING JUST
02:40:27:00	02:40:28:00	WALKING ALONE AND ENJOYING THE
02:40:28:00	02:40:30:00	OUTDOOR OR THE PARK AND I JUST
02:40:30:00	02:40:31:00	WANT TO REITERATE I'VE BEEN
02:40:31:00	02:40:34:00	GOING TO THE PARK FOR WALKS,
02:40:34:00	02:40:38:00	CONCERTS, CARNIVALS, YOU NAME
02:40:38:00	02:40:38:00	IT.
02:40:38:00	02:40:39:00	I LOVE FRANKLIN PARK AND WOULD
02:40:39:00	02:40:41:00	LOVE TO SEE SOME NEEDED CHANGES
02:40:41:00	02:40:45:00	IN THE PARK SPEAKING ON BEHALF
02:40:45:00	02:40:45:00	OF THE FRANKLIN PARK COALITION
02:40:45:00	02:40:49:00	BOARD, WE WERE VERY EXCITED TO
02:40:49:00	02:40:50:00	SEE THE FINAL FRANKLIN PARK
02:40:50:00	02:40:53:00	ACTION PLAN RELEASED IN
02:40:53:00	02:40:53:00	DECEMBER.
02:40:53:00	02:40:57:00	HOWEVER, WE URGE YOU TO FUND
02:40:57:00	02:40:57:00	THE RECOMMENDED RECOMMENDATION
02:40:57:00	02:41:00:00	OUTLINED IN THE ACTION PLAN AS
02:41:00:00	02:41:04:00	MY BOARD MEMBER MEMBERS
02:41:04:00	02:41:08:00	KEVIN BATT AND SANDY BAILEY, I
02:41:08:00	02:41:09:00	JUST WANT TO ECHO SOME OF THE
02:41:09:00	02:41:11:00	THINGS THAT THEY SAID AND SOME
02:41:11:00	02:41:12:00	OF WHAT THE CITY COUNCILORS AND
02:41:12:00	02:41:16:00	OTHERS HAVE SAID THAT WE REALLY
02:41:16:00	02:41:17:00	WOULD LOVE TO SEE IN PRACTICAL
02:41:17:00	02:41:19:00	AND INCREASE IN FUNDING FROM
02:41:19:00	02:41:20:00	THE CITY OPERATING BUDGET FOR
02:41:20:00	02:41:23:00	MAINTENANCE, WETLANDS
02:41:23:00	02:41:23:00	RESTORATION AND PARK
02:41:23:00	02:41:27:00	ADMINISTRATORS AS CALL FOR
02:41:27:00	02:41:28:00	ACTION PLAN.
02:41:28:00	02:41:31:00	THE PARKS DEPARTMENT BUDGET IS
02:41:31:00	02:41:32:00	LESS THAN ONE PERCENT OF THE
02:41:32:00	02:41:35:00	CITY BUDGET THAT'S WAY TOO LOW
02:41:35:00	02:41:36:00	FOR ALL THE BEAUTIFUL GREEN
02:41:36:00	02:41:39:00	SPACE IN THE CITY IN OUR CITY
02:41:39:00	02:41:43:00	AND FOR FRANKLIN PARK WHICH IS
02:41:43:00	02:41:46:00	FIVE HUNDRED ACRES THE OLD
02:41:46:00	02:41:47:00	BUILDING AND THE OVERLOOK RUINS
02:41:47:00	02:41:47:00	DESPERATELY NEEDS CAPITAL
02:41:47:00	02:41:50:00	FUNDING AT THE FRANKLIN PARK
02:41:50:00	02:41:51:00	COALITION.
02:41:51:00	02:41:54:00	WE HOPE THE EMPLOYEES PLAYHOUSE
02:41:54:00	02:41:55:00	IN THE PARK WILL GO BACK TO THE
02:41:55:00	02:41:58:00	ORIGINAL OVERLOOK SITE AND MISS
02:41:58:00	02:41:59:00	LEWIS'S LEGACY CAN BE
02:41:59:00	02:42:02:00	RECOGNIZED.
02:42:02:00	02:42:03:00	FRANKLIN PARK HAS SUFFERED FROM
02:42:03:00	02:42:13:00	YEARS OF DISINVESTED.
02:42:13:00	02:42:14:00	WE ASKED THE CITY COUNCIL TO
02:42:14:00	02:42:14:00	FUND THE RECOMMENDATIONS
02:42:14:00	02:42:15:00	OUTLINED ACTION PLAN TO TURN
02:42:15:00	02:42:16:00	AROUND THE STATE OF THE PARK.
02:42:16:00	02:42:17:00	THANK YOU.
02:42:17:00	02:42:17:00	THANK YOU.
02:42:17:00	02:42:20:00	PLEASE VISIT.
02:42:20:00	02:42:24:00	THANK YOU VERY MUCH COUNCILOR .
02:42:24:00	02:42:25:00	MY NAME IS LIZ VISIT PRESIDENT
02:42:25:00	02:42:26:00	OF FRIENDS OF THE PUBLIC GARDEN
02:42:26:00	02:42:29:00	AND I WANT TO THANK CHIEF
02:42:29:00	02:42:29:00	DWIGHT HAMMOND, COMMISSIONER
02:42:29:00	02:42:30:00	WOODS AND ALL THE PARKS
02:42:30:00	02:42:32:00	DEPARTMENT STAFF FOR ALL THAT
02:42:32:00	02:42:33:00	YOU DO FOR OUR PARKS SINCE 1970
02:42:33:00	02:42:36:00	WE HAVE BEEN PARTNERS WITH THE
02:42:36:00	02:42:37:00	CITY TO CARE, RENEW AND
02:42:37:00	02:42:39:00	ADVOCATE FOR THE BOSTON COMMON
02:42:39:00	02:42:40:00	, THE PUBLIC GARDEN AND
02:42:40:00	02:42:40:00	COMMONWEALTH AVENUE MALL.
02:42:40:00	02:42:43:00	THEY ARE NEIGHBORHOOD PARKS FOR
02:42:43:00	02:42:44:00	OVER SIXTY THOUSAND PEOPLE BUT
02:42:44:00	02:42:47:00	MORE IMPORTANTLY PARKS FOR THE
02:42:47:00	02:42:48:00	ENTIRE CITY.
02:42:48:00	02:42:48:00	ICONIC PARKS FOR SEVEN MILLION
02:42:48:00	02:42:51:00	PEOPLE A YEAR COME TO ENJOY.
02:42:51:00	02:42:52:00	YOU KNOW OUR PARKS ARE THE
02:42:52:00	02:42:53:00	GREEN LUNGS.
02:42:53:00	02:42:55:00	THEY ARE THE HEARTBEAT OF OUR
02:42:55:00	02:42:56:00	CITY AND WE HAVE TO MAKE SURE
02:42:56:00	02:42:57:00	THAT WE GIVE THEM THE RESOURCES
02:42:57:00	02:42:59:00	THEY NEED TO PROVIDE THE
02:42:59:00	02:43:00:00	PHYSICAL, MENTAL AND EMOTIONAL
02:43:00:00	02:43:03:00	SUPPORT THE UNIQUELY OFFER FOR
02:43:03:00	02:43:04:00	OUR COMMUNITY AND EVERY MEMBER
02:43:04:00	02:43:04:00	OF IT.
02:43:04:00	02:43:07:00	THEY ARE NOT AMENITIES.
02:43:07:00	02:43:08:00	THEY ARE NECESSITIES.
02:43:08:00	02:43:09:00	SO I AM HERE ADVOCATING FOR THE
02:43:09:00	02:43:11:00	THREE DOWNTOWN PARKS THAT ARE
02:43:11:00	02:43:12:00	THE ONES THAT THE FRIENDS TAKE
02:43:12:00	02:43:13:00	CARE OF AS WELL AS FOR THE
02:43:13:00	02:43:15:00	HEALTH OF BOSTON'S GREENSPACE
02:43:15:00	02:43:16:00	CITYWIDE AS A MEMBER OF BOSTON
02:43:16:00	02:43:19:00	PARK ADVOCATES WHICH IS A
02:43:19:00	02:43:20:00	NETWORK OF OVER 100 COMMUNITY
02:43:20:00	02:43:20:00	PARTNERS AND IT'S IMPORTANT FOR
02:43:20:00	02:43:23:00	US TO RECOGNIZE THAT WHILE
02:43:23:00	02:43:24:00	INDIVIDUAL PARKS HAVE NEEDS
02:43:24:00	02:43:25:00	THAT MUST BE SERVED OUR GREEN
02:43:25:00	02:43:27:00	SPACES IN ECOSYSTEM WITH NO
02:43:27:00	02:43:27:00	BOUNDARIES EVERY ACRE NEEDS
02:43:27:00	02:43:31:00	ADEQUATE SUPPORT AND I'M GOING
02:43:31:00	02:43:32:00	TO NOW RAISE MY VOICE TO THE
02:43:32:00	02:43:34:00	CHORUS OF PEOPLE TALKING ABOUT
02:43:34:00	02:43:35:00	ONE PERCENT.
02:43:35:00	02:43:36:00	SO THANK YOU COUNCILOR BAYATI.
02:43:36:00	02:43:36:00	THANK YOU COUNCILOR MURPHY.
02:43:36:00	02:43:39:00	THANK OF SO MANY OTHER
02:43:39:00	02:43:39:00	ADVOCATES THAT HAVE TALKED
02:43:39:00	02:43:40:00	ABOUT THE FACT THAT YET AGAIN
02:43:40:00	02:43:42:00	THE PARKS DEPARTMENT IS STUCK
02:43:42:00	02:43:43:00	BELOW ONE PERCENT OF THE CITY'S
02:43:43:00	02:43:47:00	TOTAL BUDGET AND AS THE CITY
02:43:47:00	02:43:47:00	WORKS TO REALIZE THE
02:43:47:00	02:43:48:00	ADMINISTRATION'S VISION
02:43:48:00	02:43:50:00	OF MAKING OUR GREEN SPACES MORE
02:43:50:00	02:43:51:00	CLIMATE RESILIENT AND STATE
02:43:51:00	02:43:54:00	OF THE ART WITH RAIN GARDENS,
02:43:54:00	02:43:54:00	BIO SWALES AND OTHER DESIGN
02:43:54:00	02:43:57:00	INNOVATIONS FOR 21ST CENTURY
02:43:57:00	02:43:58:00	PARK SYSTEM, IT'S CRITICAL WE
02:43:58:00	02:43:59:00	INVEST IN THE STAFF SKILLS
02:43:59:00	02:44:02:00	NECESSARY TO MAINTAIN THEM.
02:44:02:00	02:44:03:00	YOU'VE HEARD PEOPLE TALK ABOUT
02:44:03:00	02:44:05:00	CAPITAL AND MAINTENANCE.
02:44:05:00	02:44:06:00	CURRENTLY THE BUDGET LACKS THAT
02:44:06:00	02:44:07:00	SPECIALIZED SKILL LEVEL AND
02:44:07:00	02:44:10:00	CAPITAL FUNDING IS WONDERFUL
02:44:10:00	02:44:11:00	AND WE APPLAUD AND WE SAY BRING
02:44:11:00	02:44:14:00	IT ON BUT UNTIL AND UNLESS WE
02:44:14:00	02:44:15:00	HAVE MAINTENANCE FUNDING IT
02:44:15:00	02:44:16:00	SUPPORTS THAT CAPITAL
02:44:16:00	02:44:17:00	INVESTMENT IT'S GOING TO BE A
02:44:17:00	02:44:18:00	PROBLEM.
02:44:18:00	02:44:18:00	SO WE NEED THAT MAINTENANCE
02:44:18:00	02:44:21:00	FUNDING ACCOMPANY AND PROTECT
02:44:21:00	02:44:22:00	THE CAPITAL INVESTMENT THAT WE
02:44:22:00	02:44:25:00	MAKE.
02:44:25:00	02:44:26:00	I WILL SAY THAT ALL IN THE
02:44:26:00	02:44:26:00	GREEN SPACE COMMUNITY ARE VERY
02:44:26:00	02:44:29:00	ENTHUSIASTIC ABOUT THE NEW
02:44:29:00	02:44:29:00	URBAN FOREST DIVISION, THE
02:44:29:00	02:44:30:00	HIRING OF A DIRECTOR AND THREE
02:44:30:00	02:44:33:00	ARBUSTO COUNCILOR FLAHERTY, WE
02:44:33:00	02:44:34:00	ARE GOING TO BE REALIZING THAT
02:44:34:00	02:44:36:00	THAT GOAL OF GETTING MORE TREES
02:44:36:00	02:44:37:00	CARED FOR IN THE CITY.
02:44:37:00	02:44:38:00	WE ALSO SUPPORT THE INCLUSION
02:44:38:00	02:44:41:00	IN THE BUDGET OF THREE NEW FULL
02:44:41:00	02:44:41:00	TIME PROJECT MANAGERS TO
02:44:41:00	02:44:42:00	RELIEVE THE BURDEN OF TOO MANY
02:44:42:00	02:44:45:00	CAPITAL PROJECTS FOR THE
02:44:45:00	02:44:45:00	PLANNING STAFF.
02:44:45:00	02:44:46:00	I'M ALWAYS AMAZED THAT THEY GET
02:44:46:00	02:44:48:00	THIS WORK DONE.
02:44:48:00	02:44:49:00	EACH OF THEM HAS DOZENS
02:44:49:00	02:44:52:00	OF PROJECTS ON THEIR PLATE IN
02:44:52:00	02:44:52:00	DOWNTOWN PARKS.
02:44:52:00	02:44:53:00	WE APPLAUD THE INCLUSION
02:44:53:00	02:44:54:00	OF FUNDS TO RENOVATE THE
02:44:54:00	02:44:56:00	TADPOLE PLAYGROUND MCCOMMON,
02:44:56:00	02:44:57:00	WHICH IS HEAVILY USED AND
02:44:57:00	02:44:59:00	OVERDUE FOR IMPROVEMENTS AS
02:44:59:00	02:45:00:00	WELL TO PROVIDE FUNDING TO
02:45:00:00	02:45:01:00	CREATE AN ACCESSIBLE WAY TO
02:45:01:00	02:45:04:00	VISIT THE SHORE FORTHE MEMORIAL
02:45:04:00	02:45:05:00	FROM THE COMMON REALLY, REALLY
02:45:05:00	02:45:07:00	IMPORTANT THAT WE PROVIDE
02:45:07:00	02:45:08:00	ACCESSIBILITY TO THAT
02:45:08:00	02:45:09:00	PARTICULAR MONUMENT AND TO
02:45:09:00	02:45:11:00	EVERY PLACE IN OUR PARKS AND
02:45:11:00	02:45:11:00	OUR CITY'S PARKS.
02:45:11:00	02:45:12:00	WE'RE ALSO VERY ENTHUSIASTIC
02:45:12:00	02:45:15:00	ABOUT THE MONEY HAS BEEN
02:45:15:00	02:45:16:00	INCLUDED FOR THE PUBLIC GARDEN
02:45:16:00	02:45:19:00	MAINTENANCE FACILITY AND MAKING
02:45:19:00	02:45:19:00	THAT THOSE NECESSARY
02:45:19:00	02:45:20:00	IMPROVEMENTS TO THE EXISTING
02:45:20:00	02:45:23:00	BUILDING TO PROVIDE ADDITIONAL
02:45:23:00	02:45:24:00	SPACE WITHIN A VERY CRAMPED
02:45:24:00	02:45:27:00	PRECINCT TO CARRY ON THE
02:45:27:00	02:45:28:00	IMPORTANT WORK OF CARING FOR
02:45:28:00	02:45:30:00	OUR PUBLIC GARDEN AND TO
02:45:30:00	02:45:31:00	SUPPORT THE STAFF THAT DOES
02:45:31:00	02:45:31:00	THAT IMPORTANT WORK.
02:45:31:00	02:45:35:00	I WANT TO THANK YOU ALL AND THE
02:45:35:00	02:45:35:00	COUNCIL FOR YOUR COMMITMENT TO
02:45:35:00	02:45:38:00	BOSTON'S GREEN SPACES.
02:45:38:00	02:45:39:00	EACH OF YOU KNOW THE POWER
02:45:39:00	02:45:42:00	OF PUBLIC SPACE IN YOUR LIVES,
02:45:42:00	02:45:43:00	YOUR FAMILY'S LIVES AND THE
02:45:43:00	02:45:45:00	LIVES OF YOUR CONSTITUENTS AND
02:45:45:00	02:45:46:00	IT'S BEEN INSPIRING WHENEVER I
02:45:46:00	02:45:49:00	HEAR COUNCILOR SPEAK EVERY YEAR
02:45:49:00	02:45:50:00	AT THIS HEARING ABOUT THE
02:45:50:00	02:45:53:00	IMPORTANCE OF PARKS IN YOUR
02:45:53:00	02:45:54:00	LIFE AND IN THEIR FAMILY AND IN
02:45:54:00	02:45:55:00	THEIR THEIR NEIGHBORHOOD LIVES
02:45:55:00	02:45:58:00	BUT IN ORDER FOR US TO SUPPORT
02:45:58:00	02:46:01:00	THE IRREPLACEABLE GREEN LUNGS
02:46:01:00	02:46:02:00	AND HAVE THEM FUNCTION AT THEIR
02:46:02:00	02:46:05:00	HIGHEST AND BEST, IT IS VITAL
02:46:05:00	02:46:06:00	THAT THEY HAVE THE FUNDING
02:46:06:00	02:46:06:00	NECESSARY FOR THEIR CARE.
02:46:06:00	02:46:08:00	THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
02:46:08:00	02:46:09:00	THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
02:46:09:00	02:46:15:00	MARIE CLAIRE, DOMANI.
02:46:15:00	02:46:16:00	HI MY NAME IS MARIE CLAIRE.
02:46:16:00	02:46:19:00	I AM CURRENTLY A RESIDENT
02:46:19:00	02:46:20:00	OF AUSTIN BUT ORIGINALLY FROM
02:46:20:00	02:46:20:00	ROXBURY.
02:46:20:00	02:46:24:00	I HAVE BEEN A LIFELONG FRANKLIN
02:46:24:00	02:46:24:00	PARK USER.
02:46:24:00	02:46:28:00	I ALSO SERVED ON THE FRANKLIN
02:46:28:00	02:46:28:00	PARK COALITION BOARD
02:46:28:00	02:46:28:00	OF DIRECTORS.
02:46:28:00	02:46:32:00	I WOULD LIKE TO URGE THE
02:46:32:00	02:46:32:00	COUNCIL TO FUND THE
02:46:32:00	02:46:35:00	RECOMMENDATIONS FOR A FRANKLIN
02:46:35:00	02:46:36:00	PARK ACTION PLAN.
02:46:36:00	02:46:37:00	THERE ARE MANY THINGS IN THE
02:46:37:00	02:46:40:00	ACTION PLAN THAT WE NEED.
02:46:40:00	02:46:41:00	THE PARK IS IN ROUGH SHAPE.
02:46:41:00	02:46:43:00	THE BEAR CAGES AND THE OVERLOOK
02:46:43:00	02:46:44:00	ONES NEED TO BE SAVED.
02:46:44:00	02:46:47:00	THE WOODLANDS HAVE DYING TREES
02:46:47:00	02:46:50:00	AND INVASIVE PLANTS AND WE NEED
02:46:50:00	02:46:51:00	TO SAVE OUR PARK.
02:46:51:00	02:46:52:00	THIS MEANS FUNDING FROM THE
02:46:52:00	02:46:54:00	CITY'S OPERATING BUDGET FOR
02:46:54:00	02:46:55:00	MAINTENANCE PARK ECOLOGY AND
02:46:55:00	02:46:58:00	MANAGEMENT.
02:46:58:00	02:46:59:00	IT ALSO MEANS CAPITAL DOLLARS
02:46:59:00	02:47:02:00	FOR RESTORATION PROJECT.
02:47:02:00	02:47:02:00	THE LESS THAN ONE PERCENT
02:47:02:00	02:47:06:00	BUDGET ON THE PARK NEEDS TO BE
02:47:06:00	02:47:06:00	INCREASED.
02:47:06:00	02:47:07:00	THANK YOU FOR THIS OPPORTUNITY
02:47:07:00	02:47:10:00	TO TESTIFY.
02:47:10:00	02:47:14:00	THANK YOU SO MUCH.
02:47:14:00	02:47:15:00	REALLY APPRECIATE YOU LOGGING
02:47:15:00	02:47:15:00	IN.
02:47:15:00	02:47:17:00	CHRISTINE ROSE.
02:47:17:00	02:47:18:00	HI.
02:47:18:00	02:47:22:00	GOOD AFTERNOON AND THANK YOU
02:47:22:00	02:47:22:00	FOR THIS OPPORTUNITY TO SPEAK.
02:47:22:00	02:47:26:00	I AM A RESIDENT OF MATTAPAN AND
02:47:26:00	02:47:29:00	A SPENT MANY DAYS IN FRANKLIN
02:47:29:00	02:47:30:00	PARK.
02:47:30:00	02:47:33:00	I'M A MEMBER OF THE BLACK GIRLS
02:47:33:00	02:47:34:00	RUN AND WE UTILIZE THE GROUNDS
02:47:34:00	02:47:37:00	FOR TRAINING EXERCISE AND I'VE
02:47:37:00	02:47:37:00	ALSO PARTICIPATED IN THE ANNUAL
02:47:37:00	02:47:41:00	TURKEY TROT NOT ONLY AS A
02:47:41:00	02:47:42:00	RUNNER WALKER BUT ALSO AS A
02:47:42:00	02:47:42:00	VOLUNTEER.
02:47:42:00	02:47:44:00	I'M ALSO THE OWNER OF FOUR
02:47:44:00	02:47:45:00	UNWELLNESS AND I'VE NOT ONLY
02:47:45:00	02:47:46:00	SPONSORED THE ALMA LEWIS
02:47:46:00	02:47:49:00	PLAYHOUSE IN THE PARK CONCERTS
02:47:49:00	02:47:49:00	BUT I'VE ALSO VOLUNTEERED
02:47:49:00	02:47:50:00	DURING SOME OF THE CONCERTS
02:47:50:00	02:47:53:00	OVER THE LAST FEW YEARS AND ON
02:47:53:00	02:47:54:00	THE ZOOME TODAY TO ASK YOU TO
02:47:54:00	02:47:56:00	PLEASE FUND THE RECOMMENDATIONS
02:47:56:00	02:47:57:00	IN THE NEW FRANKLIN PARK ACTION
02:47:57:00	02:48:00:00	PLAN.
02:48:00:00	02:48:01:00	THE PARK DESPERATELY NEEDS AN
02:48:01:00	02:48:01:00	INVESTMENT IN OPERATING AND
02:48:01:00	02:48:04:00	CAPITAL FUNDS.
02:48:04:00	02:48:05:00	I'M EXCITED ABOUT THE THE
02:48:05:00	02:48:08:00	RECOMMENDATIONS TO BRING BACK
02:48:08:00	02:48:09:00	TO THE ALMA LEWIS PLAYHOUSE IN
02:48:09:00	02:48:11:00	THE ORIGINAL SITE AT OVERLOOK
02:48:11:00	02:48:12:00	SHELTA RUINS AND THAT SPACE HAS
02:48:12:00	02:48:15:00	BEEN AN OVERGROWN MESS SINCE
02:48:15:00	02:48:16:00	THE SEVENTIES AND DESPERATELY
02:48:16:00	02:48:16:00	NEEDS ATTENTION.
02:48:16:00	02:48:20:00	I'M SO PLEASED TO SEE THE PARKS
02:48:20:00	02:48:23:00	DEPARTMENT WORK MANAGING WEEDS
02:48:23:00	02:48:24:00	THAT HAVE BEGUN LAST YEAR THE
02:48:24:00	02:48:27:00	CITY CURRENTLY SPENDS LESS THAN
02:48:27:00	02:48:28:00	ONE PERCENT OF ITS BUDGET ON
02:48:28:00	02:48:29:00	THE PARKS AND WE NEED MORE
02:48:29:00	02:48:31:00	MAINTENANCE, MORE PARK RANGERS,
02:48:31:00	02:48:32:00	MORE MANAGEMENT AND FRANKLIN
02:48:32:00	02:48:34:00	PARK SPECIFICALLY INCREASING
02:48:34:00	02:48:35:00	THE PARKS DEPARTMENT BUDGET
02:48:35:00	02:48:38:00	WILL HELP GET THE NEEDS MET IN
02:48:38:00	02:48:39:00	THIS BELOVED PARK USED BY SO
02:48:39:00	02:48:42:00	MANY OF BOSTON'S BLACK
02:48:42:00	02:48:42:00	COMMUNITY.
02:48:42:00	02:48:43:00	THANK YOU FOR THIS OPPORTUNITY
02:48:43:00	02:48:46:00	TO TESTIFY.
02:48:46:00	02:48:51:00	THANK YOU, LUIS ALISA, SORRY .
02:48:51:00	02:49:02:00	THANK YOU FOR YOUR COMPLETE
02:49:02:00	02:49:03:00	WORDS AND WE'LL BE ABLE TO
02:49:03:00	02:49:06:00	PARTICIPATE.
02:49:06:00	02:49:07:00	WE'RE GOING TO TRY TO GET THIS
02:49:07:00	02:49:10:00	FROSTY'S BACK ON TRACK.
02:49:10:00	02:49:13:00	MY NAME IS LEWIS ALEXANDRE THE
02:49:13:00	02:49:17:00	ST VINCENT DE PAUL COALITION
02:49:17:00	02:49:21:00	BACK IN 1978 WE SOLD BECAUSE
02:49:21:00	02:49:25:00	OF WHAT WAS BEING NEGLECTED AND
02:49:25:00	02:49:26:00	TO A LARGE EXTENT IT'S STILL
02:49:26:00	02:49:29:00	BEING NEGLECTED IN MANY WAYS
02:49:29:00	02:49:30:00	EVEN THOUGH A LOT OF EFFORT HAS
02:49:30:00	02:49:32:00	GONE INTO THE LAST TWO YEARS,
02:49:32:00	02:49:33:00	THERE IS A HISTORY THAT WE HAVE
02:49:33:00	02:49:34:00	TO TAKE INTO CONSIDERATION WHEN
02:49:34:00	02:49:37:00	WE TALK ABOUT BUDGETS AND
02:49:37:00	02:49:38:00	BOOLEANS WE PROPOSE TO IMPOSE
02:49:38:00	02:49:42:00	THE THREE UNPLACED OUT THERE
02:49:42:00	02:49:44:00	THE ESTIMATIONS OF WHAT THAT
02:49:44:00	02:49:45:00	MIGHT BE AN ESTIMATE BECAUSE
02:49:45:00	02:49:49:00	OF FORTY YEARS OF NEGLECT.
02:49:49:00	02:49:50:00	THERE'S A LOT TO TRY TO
02:49:50:00	02:49:50:00	RETRIEVE THE HISTORIC PARK THAT
02:49:50:00	02:49:52:00	IS SO ESSENTIAL AND CRITICAL
02:49:52:00	02:49:53:00	NOT JUST TO BE A SOCIAL
02:49:53:00	02:49:56:00	ENVIRONMENTAL CULTURE BUT TO
02:49:56:00	02:49:57:00	THE HEALTH AND WELL-BEING
02:49:57:00	02:50:00:00	OF THE PEOPLE IN THIS
02:50:00:00	02:50:00:00	BLOSSOMING SYNERGY OF THE
02:50:00:00	02:50:04:00	HOMESTEAD NECKLESS AND AND SO
02:50:04:00	02:50:05:00	THESE YEARS THAT WE'VE HAD THAT
02:50:05:00	02:50:08:00	HAPPEN TO INCONSIDERATION.
02:50:08:00	02:50:09:00	BUT IT DOES MAKE A DIFFERENCE
02:50:09:00	02:50:11:00	WHAT WE PUT IN THE BUDGET FOR
02:50:11:00	02:50:14:00	THE PROGRAM TO TAKE CARE
02:50:14:00	02:50:15:00	OF DETERIORATION WHICH IS
02:50:15:00	02:50:16:00	TAKING PLACE OVER THE PAST
02:50:16:00	02:50:19:00	TWENTY YEARS USING ONE MILLION
02:50:19:00	02:50:20:00	DOLLARS HAS BEEN ACROSS A
02:50:20:00	02:50:23:00	GENTLEMAN IN THE CHAIR AS WE'VE
02:50:23:00	02:50:26:00	BEEN RECOMMENDATION'S THAT HAS
02:50:26:00	02:50:27:00	BEEN A CHALLENGE THAT I'VE BEEN
02:50:27:00	02:50:30:00	ENGAGED WITH FOR MORE THAN 40
02:50:30:00	02:50:31:00	IS JUST SIMPLE CLEAN UP ITS
02:50:31:00	02:50:34:00	APPEARANCE AT A COMPUTER
02:50:34:00	02:50:35:00	PROGRAM AND IT NEEDS TO BE
02:50:35:00	02:50:37:00	STRENGTHENED.
02:50:37:00	02:50:38:00	BUT THOSE WHO WERE THERE SHOULD
02:50:38:00	02:50:38:00	DO THEIR JOB.
02:50:38:00	02:50:41:00	THEY DO IT IN A COMPREHENSIVE
02:50:41:00	02:50:45:00	WAY BUT TREES AND CUT BEHIND
02:50:45:00	02:50:46:00	THEIR BACK TO THE PARTY SHOULD
02:50:46:00	02:50:49:00	NEVER BE A PLACE WHERE THEY
02:50:49:00	02:50:50:00	DON'T FINISH WHAT THEY'RE DOING
02:50:50:00	02:50:53:00	BECAUSE THAT ONLY EXACERBATES
02:50:53:00	02:50:54:00	SITUATION YOU NEED FOR HAVING
02:50:54:00	02:50:56:00	PATHWAYS TO WORK AND THINKING
02:50:56:00	02:50:57:00	EVEN A LITTLE BIT OF THOUGHT
02:50:57:00	02:50:58:00	HAS BEEN CHALLENGED.
02:50:58:00	02:51:00:00	IT DOES MAKE A DIFFERENCE THAT
02:51:00:00	02:51:01:00	PEOPLE TO LOOK AND SEE WHAT'S
02:51:01:00	02:51:01:00	GOING ON.
02:51:01:00	02:51:02:00	CERTAIN EVENTS ARE TAKING PLACE
02:51:02:00	02:51:05:00	IN SLUTTING DO INFORMATION.
02:51:05:00	02:51:06:00	LET PEOPLE KNOW THAT WHAT THEY
02:51:06:00	02:51:08:00	DO SOMETHING LIKE IT MAKES A
02:51:08:00	02:51:12:00	BIG DIFFERENCE AND SO I HAVE TO
02:51:12:00	02:51:16:00	GO THROUGH THE EARLY MORNING WE
02:51:16:00	02:51:17:00	HAD PEOPLE COMING FROM OUT
02:51:17:00	02:51:17:00	OF OUR COMMUNITY.
02:51:17:00	02:51:18:00	WE USED TO SPEAK THE
02:51:18:00	02:51:20:00	PARTICIPANTS AND THEN THEY
02:51:20:00	02:51:21:00	WOULD SAY BOY, THE PARK HAS
02:51:21:00	02:51:21:00	BEEN NEGLECTED.
02:51:21:00	02:51:23:00	IT WAS NOT BY THE COMMUNITY.
02:51:23:00	02:51:25:00	IT'S A BIG PART AND IT'S NOT
02:51:25:00	02:51:27:00	USED BY ME AS PEOPLE IN THE
02:51:27:00	02:51:28:00	AREA WHERE THE MAINTENANCE IS
02:51:28:00	02:51:29:00	NOW AND IT'S BEEN REPAIRED AND
02:51:29:00	02:51:31:00	FIXED UP SOME MAJOR
02:51:31:00	02:51:32:00	DETERIORATION WAS TAKING PLACE
02:51:32:00	02:51:33:00	ON ROADS IN WHICH, YOU KNOW,
02:51:33:00	02:51:35:00	PEOPLE GENERALLY DIDN'T TRAVEL.
02:51:35:00	02:51:36:00	SO THAT'S AN ISSUE WE HAVE TO
02:51:36:00	02:51:39:00	FIX AND IT HAS TO BE DONE NOW
02:51:39:00	02:51:40:00	THE GENERAL MAINTENANCE ALONG
02:51:40:00	02:51:43:00	JEWISH MORE DRIVE THE AMOUNT
02:51:43:00	02:51:46:00	OF STAY ON THE GROUND THAT WE
02:51:46:00	02:51:47:00	CATCH BASINS THEY HAVE TO BE
02:51:47:00	02:51:50:00	CLEAN JUST LIKE A CLEAN STREET
02:51:50:00	02:51:51:00	OF PLACES AROUND OVER WITH A
02:51:51:00	02:51:55:00	WALKWAY INTERPRETOR BETWEEN THE
02:51:55:00	02:51:55:00	LIGHTS THEY'VE BEEN KNOCKED
02:51:55:00	02:51:58:00	DOWN AND FIXED.
02:51:58:00	02:51:59:00	IT GIVES THE GENERAL APPEARANCE
02:51:59:00	02:52:02:00	THAT THE PARK IS BEING
02:52:02:00	02:52:03:00	NEGLECTED AND PEOPLE COME TO
02:52:03:00	02:52:03:00	THE TENT.
02:52:03:00	02:52:07:00	THE PARK IS IMPORTANT FOR ME.
02:52:07:00	02:52:08:00	I LIVE ON THE STREET.
02:52:08:00	02:52:10:00	I CAN TELL YOU THE CENTRAL PARK
02:52:10:00	02:52:14:00	IS LONG AND IT'S BEEN VERY
02:52:14:00	02:52:14:00	POORLY MAINTAINED.
02:52:14:00	02:52:17:00	WE HAVE TO FIX IT.
02:52:17:00	02:52:18:00	WE DON'T NEED TO DO THAT.
02:52:18:00	02:52:21:00	WE JUST NEED A COMPETENT
02:52:21:00	02:52:22:00	MAINTENANCE PLAN THAT WE STICK
02:52:22:00	02:52:23:00	WITH AND WE WORK IN COALITION
02:52:23:00	02:52:26:00	BECAUSE THE MEMBERS OF GARRISON
02:52:26:00	02:52:27:00	TRY TO MAKE ASSOCIATION AND
02:52:27:00	02:52:28:00	MYSELF WE'RE MORE THAN WILLING
02:52:28:00	02:52:30:00	TO GO AND THEN MAN WE JUST
02:52:30:00	02:52:32:00	DON'T WANT WHEN THEY THEY'VE
02:52:32:00	02:52:33:00	EVEN SAID GO BACK INTO THE
02:52:33:00	02:52:34:00	PARK.
02:52:34:00	02:52:35:00	WE'VE GOT SOMEBODY WHO'S A
02:52:35:00	02:52:37:00	MAINTENANCE.
02:52:37:00	02:52:37:00	WE'RE DOING MORE THAN WE
02:52:37:00	02:52:38:00	SUPPOSED TO DO THIS NEEDED
02:52:38:00	02:52:41:00	BECAUSE I DON'T THINK WE EVER
02:52:41:00	02:52:42:00	DO ENOUGH AND I APPRECIATE THE
02:52:42:00	02:52:42:00	WORK OF THE COALITION.
02:52:42:00	02:52:45:00	WHAT IS A VOLUNTEER WORKING IN
02:52:45:00	02:52:48:00	THE PARK OR WE FACE THE
02:52:48:00	02:52:49:00	BARRICADES IF I CAN FOR FIFTEEN
02:52:49:00	02:52:52:00	YEARS AND I'M GLAD SHE TOLD ME
02:52:52:00	02:52:53:00	THAT, YOU KNOW, IN NEGOTIATION
02:52:53:00	02:52:56:00	WITH BOTH ZOOLOGICAL PEOPLE
02:52:56:00	02:53:00:00	BECAUSE EXHAUSTED IT NEEDS TO
02:53:00:00	02:53:00:00	BE DONE.
02:53:00:00	02:53:01:00	SOMETHING NEEDS TO BE DONE.
02:53:01:00	02:53:03:00	IT'S A SPACE THAT CAN BE
02:53:03:00	02:53:04:00	UTILIZED IN A MORE PRODUCTIVE
02:53:04:00	02:53:07:00	AND USEFUL WAY BECAUSE IT'S
02:53:07:00	02:53:07:00	STILL POSSIBLE TO ACHIEVE THE
02:53:07:00	02:53:11:00	GOALS AND IT MEANS IT CAN WORK
02:53:11:00	02:53:12:00	AND WORK ACTIVITIES THAT COULD
02:53:12:00	02:53:12:00	BE ALSO BENEFIT.
02:53:12:00	02:53:14:00	I CAN THINK OF COMMUNITY AS
02:53:14:00	02:53:15:00	WELL WHICH WOULD LIKE TO DO
02:53:15:00	02:53:18:00	BUSINESS.
02:53:18:00	02:53:19:00	I THINK IT'S AN EXCELLENT
02:53:19:00	02:53:21:00	CHANCE IF YOU JUST LOOK AT IT
02:53:21:00	02:53:22:00	BUSINESS.
02:53:22:00	02:53:23:00	BUT PLEASE WE NEED TO LOOK AT
02:53:23:00	02:53:26:00	THIS PLAN AND WE LOOK AT OUR
02:53:26:00	02:53:27:00	PRESENT DAY ACTIVITIES AND IN A
02:53:27:00	02:53:30:00	WAY TO COMPLEMENT WHAT IT'S OK.
02:53:30:00	02:53:34:00	SO IT'S NOT JUST THE SECRETARY
02:53:34:00	02:53:35:00	, IT'S NOT JUST AROUND THE
02:53:35:00	02:53:36:00	PLACE BUT IS ALSO ABOUT POTAMI
02:53:36:00	02:53:37:00	STADIUM.
02:53:37:00	02:53:38:00	BASIC MAINTENANCE HAS TO BE
02:53:38:00	02:53:38:00	BEEN RENTAL CAR.
02:53:38:00	02:53:41:00	IT'S A IN ADDITION WE HAVE
02:53:41:00	02:53:45:00	MALCOLM X WHICH MARTIAN STREET
02:53:45:00	02:53:49:00	AND LUTHER KING BOULEVARD AND
02:53:49:00	02:53:54:00	IT'S SUPPORT SO A YOU KNOW A
02:53:54:00	02:53:56:00	SHOT WITH GIVEN TO CONCERNS BY
02:53:56:00	02:53:57:00	THE COMMUNITY THAT THE TOP LINE
02:53:57:00	02:54:00:00	IS NOT SAFE FOR THE CHILDREN,
02:54:00:00	02:54:01:00	THAT WE DON'T NECESSARILY NEED
02:54:01:00	02:54:04:00	A FENCE OR WE CAN'T APPROACH
02:54:04:00	02:54:05:00	PUBLIC SAFETY AND USE OUR
02:54:05:00	02:54:09:00	PUBLIC PARKS IN WHEN THE PEOPLE
02:54:09:00	02:54:10:00	SAY THAT THEY'RE NOT GOING TO
02:54:10:00	02:54:12:00	TAKE MY CHILDREN TO SPEND SO
02:54:12:00	02:54:15:00	MUCH MONEY TO GET REPAIRED AND
02:54:15:00	02:54:16:00	WE SHOULD TAKE THAT INTO
02:54:16:00	02:54:16:00	CONSIDERATION, WE SHOULD
02:54:16:00	02:54:20:00	ACTUALLY NOT GIVE DIRECTION AS
02:54:20:00	02:54:21:00	TO WHAT IS NECESSARY IN TERMS
02:54:21:00	02:54:24:00	OF DESIGN CHANGES OR WE SHOULD
02:54:24:00	02:54:24:00	TALK WITH THE RESIDENTS AND
02:54:24:00	02:54:28:00	PEOPLE USE THE MOTHERS, YOU
02:54:28:00	02:54:29:00	KNOW, IN THIS AND PEOPLE BRING
02:54:29:00	02:54:31:00	EACH OTHER AND WHAT CAN BE DONE
02:54:31:00	02:54:32:00	TO MAKE THEM FEEL MORE SAFE AND
02:54:32:00	02:54:34:00	COMFORTABLE LIMITING THE NUMBER
02:54:34:00	02:54:35:00	OF PARKS WALKING INTO OUR HOME
02:54:35:00	02:54:38:00	CITY OF GAS AND PRIVATE
02:54:38:00	02:54:39:00	BASICALLY BEING VERY SELFISH
02:54:39:00	02:54:43:00	AND LOOKING TO MAKE IT SO IS A
02:54:43:00	02:54:43:00	RATIO.
02:54:43:00	02:54:44:00	I HAVE THIS PARK WHAT IS
02:54:44:00	02:54:45:00	MALCOLM X PARK FREQUENT FLIER.
02:54:45:00	02:54:47:00	WE JUST WANT TO SEE THE RESULTS
02:54:47:00	02:54:50:00	OF THE CITY BEING ONE PERCENT
02:54:50:00	02:54:50:00	POSITIVE.
02:54:50:00	02:54:53:00	IT DOESN'T MAKE ANY SENSE
02:54:53:00	02:54:54:00	BECAUSE THE PARKS IS SUCH A
02:54:54:00	02:54:57:00	CRITICAL ROLE IN THE QUALITY
02:54:57:00	02:54:59:00	OF THE CITY CENTRAL PARK MORE
02:54:59:00	02:55:01:00	ESPECIALLY IMPORTANT CITY
02:55:01:00	02:55:05:00	REPRESENTS THE GOODNESS AND
02:55:05:00	02:55:06:00	WHAT WE AS AN ENVIRONMENTAL
02:55:06:00	02:55:06:00	COMMUNITY SHOULD BE ABOUT.
02:55:06:00	02:55:09:00	SO I APPRECIATE THAT WE SPEND
02:55:09:00	02:55:12:00	RESOURCES ON CAN WE SPEND
02:55:12:00	02:55:13:00	MEANINGFULLY IN TERMS OF MAKING
02:55:13:00	02:55:17:00	SURE THAT WORK IS GOING WELL,
02:55:17:00	02:55:18:00	OVERSIGHT OF THAT WORK IS DONE
02:55:18:00	02:55:21:00	AND THAT THERE'S A COALITION TO
02:55:21:00	02:55:21:00	LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT BUT
02:55:21:00	02:55:24:00	COMMUNITIES AND OTHERS AND MAKE
02:55:24:00	02:55:25:00	WRITING SAFETY CLEANUP PAYMENTS
02:55:25:00	02:55:29:00	IS AN OPPORTUNITY TO REACH OUT
02:55:29:00	02:55:29:00	TO THE COMMUNITY.
02:55:29:00	02:55:32:00	SO THANK YOU.
02:55:32:00	02:55:33:00	THANK YOU.
02:55:33:00	02:55:36:00	TANYA GRYMES.
02:55:36:00	02:55:39:00	HELLO.
02:55:39:00	02:55:40:00	GOOD AFTERNOON.
02:55:40:00	02:55:42:00	MY NAME IS TANYA GRIMES AND I
02:55:42:00	02:55:47:00	AM A LONGTIME USER OF THE PARK
02:55:47:00	02:55:50:00	BORN AND RAISED IN BOSTON AND
02:55:50:00	02:55:51:00	LIVING IN DORCHESTER AND
02:55:51:00	02:55:53:00	ROXBURY AND I AM JUST EXCITED
02:55:53:00	02:55:54:00	ABOUT THE FACT THAT THE MONEY
02:55:54:00	02:55:55:00	THAT WAS EARMARKED FROM THE
02:55:55:00	02:55:58:00	SALE OF THE THE GARAGE BUT THEN
02:55:58:00	02:55:59:00	WHEN I FOUND OUT THAT IT WASN'T
02:55:59:00	02:56:02:00	GOING TO BE MUCH I THINK KNOW
02:56:02:00	02:56:03:00	WHAT EVERYONE IS SAYING IS ONE
02:56:03:00	02:56:06:00	PER CENT IS WHAT WE NEED TO DO
02:56:06:00	02:56:13:00	MAKE HAPPEN AND I JUST ALWAYS
02:56:13:00	02:56:17:00	BEEN SAYING THE PART ARC IS
02:56:17:00	02:56:20:00	SOMETHING THAT'S CRUCIAL TO AM
02:56:20:00	02:56:25:00	I STILL HERE YOU ARE HERE THERE
02:56:25:00	02:56:26:00	WAS A LITTLE BIT OF A DELAY IN
02:56:26:00	02:56:27:00	YOUR IN YOUR MY LAPTOP IS
02:56:27:00	02:56:28:00	OVERHEATING.
02:56:28:00	02:56:29:00	I'M IN MY CAR AND I'VE BEEN ON
02:56:29:00	02:56:35:00	THE LAPTOP FOR SOME TIME SO NOW
02:56:35:00	02:56:37:00	JUST I CAN HEAR YOU NOW SO IF
02:56:37:00	02:56:38:00	YOU JUST GO NOW YOU'LL BE FINE
02:56:38:00	02:56:40:00	OK AND I JUST WANTED TO
02:56:40:00	02:56:41:00	REITERATE WHAT EVERYONE WAS
02:56:41:00	02:56:43:00	SAYING ABOUT THE PARK BEING SO
02:56:43:00	02:56:44:00	CRUCIAL TO THE COMMUNITY.
02:56:44:00	02:56:46:00	IT'S SOMETHING THAT I BEEN
02:56:46:00	02:56:47:00	THROUGH THE GOOD AND BAD AND
02:56:47:00	02:56:51:00	THE UGLY AND HOPING THAT THE
02:56:51:00	02:56:51:00	ELMA LEWIS CAN BE ELMA LEWIS
02:56:51:00	02:56:55:00	PLAY OFFS IN THE PARK AND BE
02:56:55:00	02:56:59:00	FINANCED AS WELL AS THE RUINS
02:56:59:00	02:56:59:00	BE REPAIRED AND ALSO TO
02:56:59:00	02:57:03:00	CONTINUE THE THE PROGRAM TO
02:57:03:00	02:57:04:00	PROVIDE THE FUNDING FOR THE
02:57:04:00	02:57:06:00	PROGRAMS THAT HAVE BEEN CRUCIAL
02:57:06:00	02:57:06:00	TO THE COMMUNITY.
02:57:06:00	02:57:10:00	AND I WANT TO THANK YOU ALL FOR
02:57:10:00	02:57:11:00	YOUR SERVICE AND I APPRECIATE
02:57:11:00	02:57:14:00	YOUR TIME.
02:57:14:00	02:57:14:00	SO THANK YOU.
02:57:14:00	02:57:17:00	I WAS MUTED.
02:57:17:00	02:57:21:00	THAT IS OUR FINAL PUBLIC
02:57:21:00	02:57:21:00	COMMENT.
02:57:21:00	02:57:25:00	SIR, IF YOU HAVE ANYTHING YOU
02:57:25:00	02:57:26:00	WOULD LIKE TO SEND US PLEASE
02:57:26:00	02:57:26:00	SEND IT TO CCC.
02:57:26:00	02:57:33:00	W.M. AT THE BOSTON GLOBE AND WE
02:57:33:00	02:57:34:00	WILL DEAL WITH THAT.
02:57:34:00	02:57:41:00	SO THAT'S SI SORRY SI SI I'M
02:57:41:00	02:57:42:00	OVER HERE GIVEN OUR WEBSITE
02:57:42:00	02:57:45:00	SINCE WWII BOSTON DOT GOV FOR
02:57:45:00	02:57:46:00	REDISTRICT FOR LOOK AT ME I'M
02:57:46:00	02:57:49:00	EVERYWHERE FOR THIS COMMITTEE
02:57:49:00	02:57:50:00	WHICH IS WAYS OF MEANS.
02:57:50:00	02:57:53:00	THIS IS WHY WE COVER FRIENDS
02:57:53:00	02:57:53:00	WAYS AND MEANS.
02:57:53:00	02:57:55:00	IF YOU GO TO THE WAYS AND MEANS
02:57:55:00	02:57:57:00	WEBSITE ON BOSTON DOT GOV YOU
02:57:57:00	02:57:58:00	HAVE A WEBSITE THAT HAS ALL
02:57:58:00	02:58:00:00	OF THE BUDGETING FOR ALL OF OUR
02:58:00:00	02:58:01:00	DEPARTMENTS.
02:58:01:00	02:58:02:00	IF YOU HAVE ANY EMAILS OR
02:58:02:00	02:58:04:00	MESSAGES THAT YOU WOULD LIKE TO
02:58:04:00	02:58:05:00	SEND FOR THIS SPECIFIC
02:58:05:00	02:58:05:00	DEPARTMENT PLEASE SEND AN EMAIL
02:58:05:00	02:58:09:00	TO C.C.C. W.M. AT BOSTON DOT
02:58:09:00	02:58:12:00	GOV WHICH IS THE EMAIL AND THEN
02:58:12:00	02:58:13:00	TOMORROW FROM TWO TO FIVE WE
02:58:13:00	02:58:16:00	HAVE A PUBLIC COMMENT PERIOD
02:58:16:00	02:58:17:00	FOR FOLKS WHO WOULD LIKE TO
02:58:17:00	02:58:18:00	SPEAK ON THE BUDGET ONE
02:58:18:00	02:58:20:00	OF THREE THAT WE WILL HAVE
02:58:20:00	02:58:21:00	UPCOMING WITH THAT I'M GOING TO
02:58:21:00	02:58:24:00	ADJOURN THIS MEETING.
02:58:24:00	02:58:25:00	I THANK EVERYONE FOR THEIR
02:58:25:00	02:58:25:00	ATTENDANCE.
02:58:25:00	02:58:31:00	THANK YOU SO MUCH.
02:58:31:00	02:59:18:00	THANK YOU.