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Is it an emergency situation
that you would need
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an oncall animal control officer
to go there?
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Do you by any chance know if your parents
were married at the time of your birth?
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She wants to speak about food tax.
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Is the control box or open or missing?
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So we just got a call from Boston Fire reporting a one alarm fire at 33
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Browning Ave. in Dorchester,
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and there’s no displacements
at this time.
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Just wait one moment while I do
some research for you.
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I’m going to open up a case for
the Parks Department. They deal with trees.
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I got a call from Boston Police. The intersection of the VFW Parkway and LaGrange Street in West Roxbury.
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The traffic signal is out.
I just want to confirm that you had it.
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I have a constituent that’s asking about
road maintenance. Is it OK if I put him through?
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Is it a stray dog?
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She said she couldn’t see a visible cause.
Like there was no down wires or anything.
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But the whole block appears to be out.
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Is it blocking both the roadway
and the sidewalk?
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Constituent’s saying her landlord turned off
her electricity to her apartment.
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She said that she’s going back and forth
with him. They’re in court
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with something and she thinks
she turned it off on him.
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I had a meeting with some community activists.
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One of the biggest pushbacks I got was
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not on the police.
It’s after the police do their thing,
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after an incident happens,
what’s the follow up on trauma?
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We have the counselors obviously
and police have their counselors too I explained
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in the police walks, works with the family
through I think the burial.
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And then what happens after that.
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And what happens to the greater community.
Like what happens to the group of friends and...
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And I know we’re taking, I’m taking criticism
for Carlos Henriquez.
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Part of the role for Carlos Henriquez was going to be
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to coordinate services to make sure
that there’s follow up. So, for example...
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Kind of like Operation and Support.
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When there’s something going on in the community,
whether it’s a development or street cleaning,
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or whatever, Jerome’s shop O&S goes in and does their thing
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and they’re working with Planning and Development
and they’re working with the Housing.
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With all the different departments
and they’re kind of the constant in the neighborhood.
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And I thought
- and it hasn’t fully vetted yet - but
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I thought of doing something like that
around the streets.
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When the police, when your work
is done, what happens then?
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And we’re not going in and and we have
public safety doing their thing for a while
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working to keep areas calm and combat violence
and the street workers are out there doing their thing.
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But there’s not coordination necessarily
of services.
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So when a person gets killed and there’s a lot
of indirect concern and, wreckage of that,
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we don’t have a coordinated effort per se
to coordinate that.
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I thought of Carlos’s work in returning citizens
and working different areas
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could slowly build up capacity
and bring on individuals, like O&S,
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that will be actually
the intake coordinators in the community
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and work with everyone
that needs to work with.
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Because I think what happens now is
when we have, like we did few months ago
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we had 8 people killed in 10 days,
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everyone’s looking for a blame.
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Police get blamed because the violence is up.
Street workers get blamed because they’re not there.
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Trauma councilors get blamed
because they’re not there.
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City gets blamed because it’s happened
in the city. Everyone’s blaming.
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Our thing is: can we coordinate services
so there’s a better coordination of services
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to follow these families through
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and maybe get into a family
and see that: Wow,
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there’s really some difficult situations here and can we help them
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individually to connect them
to services as things move on.
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That’s the intention behind Carlos’s role.
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And that’s... whether it's Carlos,
whoever it is...
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He was the person that I thought of
because he understands the streets
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and he understands the community,
and he’s done the work
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both as prior to being elected
and after elected.
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He’s done a lot of difference at work,
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that’s kind of why I think the missing link here.
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I think we have a lot of great things going on,
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the police department
does some great programing.
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It does some great programming.
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I think that there’s an opportunity now through,
not necessarily through Nora’s office,
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but what Nora’s doing
and how do we tie it in?
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Because you can’t do it, and Nora needs
to have a contact. "Who should I call?"
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Instead of me calling Marty
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and Will and Chris and Mark and
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Danny and Conan and Jerome
and Laurie and me,
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is there one person she can contact
that can actually help pull all this stuff together
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and that will be a liaison
in the neighborhood.
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- I like that.
- That’s what I’d look at.
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That came out of a conversation with...
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Danny put a meeting together and the room
was a very honest meeting.
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It was a very honest... people in the community
were very... it wasn’t a bad meeting.
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It was one of those direct meetings and people
didn’t understand all the work that we’re doing.
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And I don’t think we do
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a good enough job of telling that story,
what we actually do in the city
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We also don’t do a good job
of tying it all in together.
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That’s where I think
we want to go with that.
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So, I’m just letting you know
that I’ve got a list of people.
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So, you guys, if anyone wants to come in
you may just want to let me know so I can
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give the Mayor the list of people
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that need to see him before the weekend.
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What is the budget? The budget is a set
of financial documents. It’s how we spend money,
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how we raise money, how we decide
how to pay everyone’s salary.
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But it’s also a statement of priorities.
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It's one annual time a year that the city
can take a pause and take stock of what’s going on,
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what are the decisions we’ve made,
the decisions we need to make,
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how is the city changing
and how do we make investments to do that.
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The budget refers to both the day to day
operational side of things,
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so that’s everyone’s salaries, that’s what you pay
for utilities, that’s what you pay for heat.
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It also means the capital plan
which is what we do for five years,
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big projects, like roads and bridges
and schools and all the big stuff that you see.
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Boston’s budget parameters.
By that we mean,
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we can’t do everything that
everybody wants all at the same time.
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The reason that is, is because we live in a really
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kind of constrained fiscally
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tight structure. What I mean by that is
we can’t run a deficit like the Federal government.
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The State law requires us
to have a balanced budget every year
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and we are capped in what we can raise
in our own revenues.
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We’re capped
by our property tax at 2,5 %,
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we also don’t have the ability
to say raise an income tax
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like other cities across the country
or the State.
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So we’re living within a pretty tight
fiscally constrained world.
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Which means we have to make
strategic investments. We have to make priorities,
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to make tradeoffs
²between what those things are.
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The reason that that is a good thing
at the end of the day
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is because when there is an economic
downturn like there was in 2010,
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we do a lot better than the State, a lot better
than other cities and towns across the country.
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A lot of other seasoned towns had massive layoffs
in 2010 when the economy tanked.
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The State obviously
ran a billion dollar budget deficit.
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This city, because of the way it’s run
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and because of the way the history
of financial management has gone,
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actually came out on the other side pretty unscathed.
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And frankly we avoided a lot of the pitfalls and a lot of the
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negative consequences that came
with the economic recession in 2010.
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What do we have for revenue
at the end of the day?
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We collect money in different buckets
as you can see here.
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The FY19 budget is about 3.3 billion.
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70 % of that comes from property taxes.
State aide makes up of about
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13 % and then we have other revenue,
excises, local permits, all these other types of things
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that are out there in the world.
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Property tax is vital. Property tax is not only 2,5 %
we grow every year on our existing property,
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but also what we call new growth which is the new buildings, new residential
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all the new construction that comes
into the city every year,
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which is a little bit harder to predict,
but at the end of the day
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is a lot of what we build our bread and butter on.
That’s how we’ve been able to make
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strategic investments over the last few years
and continue to kind of push the city forward.
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State aid is on there at 13 %.
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Ten years ago,
that used to be about 20 %.
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And 20 years ago, it used to be 30 %.
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So that means that the State
used to represent a much bigger
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portion of our budget: that’s both a decrease
in what we call State aid at the end of the day,
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and property taxes has been so strong in the last few years.
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That actually helped increase
our reliance as well.
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So overall we’re in a growing environment.
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We grow about 4 or 5 % every year.
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both from the property tax and other strategic revenue initiatives
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that we push forward in the last year.
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Moving onto how we spend
the $3.3 billion dollars.
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It’s in basically 5 big buckets right now.
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There’s obviously a lot of complexity
that goes into each of those.
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The first one should be
familiar for everyone.
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Education represents about 40 % of the budget.
That’s both BPS and Charter Schools.
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Obviously both of those have been
increasing since the Mayor’s been in office.
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$200 million more per year for public schools
as a part of the last budget
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and our charter assessment is up
another $100 million dollars in that time.
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So since the Mayor’s been in office,
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education spending has increased by about
$300 million which is something to be proud of.
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Public safety, that’s Police and Fire.
They make up about 20 % of the budget.
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City departments. That’s things like streets,
Public Health, Parks and everyone in this room.
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We make up the smallest portion of this budget,
but it’s an important part of it.
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And it’s something that we tried to grow
a lot more, but there are a lot of demands
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on many different parts of the City budget.
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Fixed costs like pensions and debt service
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and then finally Healthcare that support
all the other city departments
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are basically how we spend the majority
of that 3.3 billion on the operating budget side.
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The other big piece of the budget that we have
is the capital plan.
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Right here is a map of what we have
from a top down view ofl the different types
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of projects that we have out there.
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It’s a 2.4 billion dollar plan over 5 years
to invest in roads and bridges
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and schools and libraries
and all the great things that you have.
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A lot of folks, especially in the rating agency world
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and people who buy our debt
want to see that we’re making
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investments in places that we planned for.
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That’s why the Mayor committed 10 %
of all new capital funding
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towards climate resiliency.
We have the billion dollar Public School plan
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and a whole host of other things
that we’re investing in. The annual capital plan
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is over a 5 year period because
these projects are typically bigger in scope.
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We borrow money for them and we pay for it
on the operating budget side for debt service.
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So they’re companion piece
to the operating budget,
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but something that goes
through the very similar process to
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what we do on the operating side.
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We have come to join Becka and Molly in marriage,
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a wedding is a joyful celebration of the promises you make today.
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Learning to love each other
and live together in harmony
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is one of the greatest challenges
of a marriage.
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But know that love, trust and loyalty
are the foundation of a happy enduring marriage.
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Remember to listen, respect, encourage
and inspire one another.
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Support each other dreams
as you build your lives together.
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Comfort one another during times of struggle.
Laugh together during times of joy.
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Now if you want to face each other
we’ll do vows.
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I Becka.
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Take thee Molly.
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To be my wedded wife.
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And I promise to be.
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A loving and faithful wife.
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Through joy and sorrow.
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Sickness and health
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To love and to cherish.
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From this day forward.
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Now do you Becka take thee Molly
here present to be your wife?
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Excellent. All right Molly’s turn.
I, Molly.
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Now, do you Molly take thee Becka
here present to be your wife?
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Excellent. Now we’re going
to go on to the rings.
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These rings are a symbol of eternity
and made by your friend.
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The unbroken circle, it represents
the unbroken circle of love.
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Today you’ve chosen to exchange rings
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as a sign of your love for one another
and the seal of the promises you make today.
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You’re going to repeat these vows after me
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and then the last line
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you’re going to put the ring on Molly’s finger when you say "with this ring".
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This is my favorite part.
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Just as this ring.
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Encircles your finger.
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So does my love.
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Encircle your heart.
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Now you can place it on her finger
and say/: "With this ring
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I thee wed.
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Molly’s turn. "Just as this ring.
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Now, with this ring.
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I thee wed.
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Perfect.
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In as much as Becka and Molly
have exchanged rings,
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have consented to matrimony and vows,
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by the authority vested in me
by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts,
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I now pronounce you hus...
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married.
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Here we go. Stand together.
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Smile.
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Let me show you what we got.
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I want to congratulate
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Alex Cora and the Boston Red Sox
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and the entire organization for an incredible run.
119 wins from start to finish
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I didn’t realize until last night that they had won the Spring Training Leagues
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and the regular leagues and then obviously
the World Series last night,
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it’s exciting here in the City of Boston.
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I want to congratulate Red Sox Nation
for our 9th World Championship in Boston.
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This is an all-time great team that we had.
I think a lot of people enjoyed watching this team.
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Everybody contributed.
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I was talking to people
on the way to work this morning
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and thinking about everybody in this whole team.
Everyone had a special play in this World Series.
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Congratulations to the entire team
for your resilience
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and your positivity, and the way you carried
yourself on the field and off the field.
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And even last night
during the interview session.
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Thank you to all the players
for the great work they did.
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These players are role models
and we want to celebrate them in Boston style.
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A championship duck boat parade will take place on Wednesday,
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starting at 11:00 on Boylston Street
by Fenway Park.
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We hope to see a big crowd out there,
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but we do have a few messages out there.
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Do not try to drive to the parade.
Take public transportation.
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They’ll be traffic and parking restrictions
surrounding the route.
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We’re working on a web page.
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It will be up in a little bit.
It will be Boston.gov/Redsoxparade.
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As far as safety goes,
be respectful of the City.
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Be respectful of the property, of the people,
of the businesses, be respectful
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of the Red Sox. We are a City of champions
so let’s celebrate like champions.
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I’m going to turn the microphone over
to Commissioner Gross.
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And then we’re going to turn it over
to Chief Green
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and then I’ll open it up for questions
that people might have.
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Thank you Your Honor.
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Good morning everyone.
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Well, I'll say congratulations
not only to the Red Sox,
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but the City of Boston.
We would ask everyone to act
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responsibly
and be respectful
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of the other revelers in the parade.
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Also we will have full coverage
in our neighborhoods.
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But for those attending the parade,
no public drinking.
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Alcohol will not be tolerated.
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And you should know this. This should be
common sense, but no weapons at all either.
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So we fully expect
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to have a great parade.
It’s time to celebrate.
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Well now I’ll turn it over to Chief Green.
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Thank you Commissioner.
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You know this doesn’t get old. I think this is
my 11th Championship in the last 16 years?
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It just doesn’t get old.
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That being said, the transit police
are well experienced
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and prepared for special events
such as Wednesday’s parade.
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We encourage everyone
as the Mayor says, to
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come in the City of Boston,
utilizing the MBTA transit system.
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We will have increased coverage,
both uniformed and in plain clothes
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throughout the system
to ensure a safe and travel by all.
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We ask our riders
to be respectful to one another
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and especially mindful of those with young children,
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the elderly and people with disabilities
as you utilize the MBTA transit system.
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And as the Commissioner stated, alcohol
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consumption and or unruly behavior
will not be tolerated at all on the MBTA.
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Currently we got updates from the brick.
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There are no known credible threats to this event.
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With that being said,
we also ask our riders to
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please if you see something, say something.
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Nothing’s too small.
We need you to be our extra eyes out there.
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Contact us immediately and we will send
an officer out to investigate.
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With your help
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we can have a safe
and enjoyable celebration.
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So, the goal of the taskforce
is really to focus
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on eviction prevention.
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We would like to meet 4 times.
This is the second meeting.
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And ultimately to put together a list of
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recommendations for public comment
by Spring of 2019.
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And then to present those recommendations
to the Mayor
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and to the City Council.
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With some sort of legislation
to come out of it.
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What’s the total amount for the awards, roughly?
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2.5 million dollars.
So put two and a half million dollars out
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for tenancy stability and eviction prevention,
it’s a sizable commitment.
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Our office has also been working
in conjunction
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with the Neighborhood Housing Department
here in DND.
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And to put together an eviction prevention
policy that is required for all landlords,
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or all property
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prospectors who are looking to purchase
property or bid on property here in Boston.
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That policy was implemented
and it went out in the Request for proposals for
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September of this year.
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The proposals that we’ve received
are now under review
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and we’ll try to figure out exactly
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how effective that was
during the first implementation of it.
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The same policy was out
under our Dudley Square RFP,
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and that I believe is wrapping up today.
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Those proposals, the Dudley proposals
are due today.
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Which is very exciting
and like Dominique said,
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there was a very clear requirement
that anyone submitting for land,
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submitting proposals
for the four sites in Dudley,
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had to provide a proposal
on how they were going to...
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how their development was going to
not contribute to displacement
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and including, if they were going to develop
housing, an eviction prevention plan.
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So it was very, very, specific language
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and before you leave,
I’ll make sure you have a copy.
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The Neighbourghood Housing proposals:
if you want money from us,
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you’re going to tell us how you’re going...
what’s your eviction prevention plan,
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and Dominique’s shop is reviewing them
right now with NHD.
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And if they’re not adequate
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we’re going to have to make it a deficiency
if we really love the proposal,
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or not fund the proposal altogether.
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Really asking new developers
of new developments
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to tell us how they’re really going
to reduce evictions.
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We cannot just scratch things
on the surface
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because they usually come back
a few years later, stronger, deeper, uglier.
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In the meantime
those folks who are facing eviction,
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they keep facing eviction all of their lives.
I know someone
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from the age of 12, she faced eviction.
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And now she’s 39 and
she’s facing eviction again. So it’s a cycle.
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If we really want to fix it
we should think about
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community land trust also,
have a site for it.
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What we need is more, in my opinion,
we need more housing.
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More and more housing.
You can’t have enough.
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And everything you do short of that
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and that’s just one way of thinking about it,
but everything you do short of that,
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is gap filling kind of thing.
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Not that it’s not necessary,
but I guess what I’m wondering
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based on what I’ve heard so far is,
it sounds like we’re...
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It’s so easy to move broader than simply
what are we doing about evictions.
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I’m asking the question: are we focused
on the eviction question or are we
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morphing into, or is it part of the mandate here?
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How are we going to fix the big problem?
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Until we have enough
of affordable housing for everyone,
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we need the office of housing stability
and to work on evictions
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because not everybody’s safe.
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But we do have a housing plan.
It’s pretty robust in the City,
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I can share it with you about increasing housing
overall. Increasing affordable housing,
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preservation, getting people to buy homes.
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So, we’ve done a lot of work
on more of the systemic issues.
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But we still get 100 calls a week
from people that are
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in market rate housing
that are getting their rents increased.
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Or, are in subsidized housing,
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but have fallen behind in their rents,
et cetera.
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There’s a special sort of work
that we’re all doing that is not
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fixing our larger housing issues.
Does that make some sense?
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Say there’s 30,000 notices to quit
served in Boston every year.
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It’s what we are estimating.
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I think the challenge
with early intervention
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is that it’s super valuable, super necessary,
probably more effective and opens up
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the target population that you could serve
to be large enough
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that it’s impossible to even conceive
of how to serve them.
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1,100 households
who were in subsidized housing
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actually went to court,
somehow didn’t get raft,
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didn’t get anything else,
did get evicted. In a year.
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The thing that we also know is that
subsidized household who were evicted
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are not eligible for Emergency Assistance.
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Which to me just makes them
the red alarm population.
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And so to some extent there is a benefit to...
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I think that there is a benefit
to focusing on that population
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above all else if only for that reason.
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If you get evicted from subsidized housing,
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or you have a housing voucher
and you get evicted,
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you can’t access family shelter at the State.
You have no safeguard.
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You make the lowest income
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and you’ve been evicted probably
for rent arrearage, small amounts.
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And you have absolutely nowhere to go
because you can’t access the shelter system.
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For three years.
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What could we do to intervene sooner?
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And what I thought was...
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I guess it’s reinventing the wheel,
except we haven’t invented it yet.
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I think we do a particularly bad job
of informing and persuading.
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Maybe the small landlords in particular
are informed that there are resources,
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but persuading them to actually use them?
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The small landlord groups seem to feel
like they’re battled
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and they approach everything
from that point of view.
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And it’s just economics.
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It would make so much more sense
to be able to say,
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We’re not going to hit you over the head.
You don’t have to do this.
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But if you know somebody’s chronically late,
or somebody’s not budgeting,
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or somebody is falling behind,
catching up every 4 to 6 months,
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clearly that’s not a good business model.
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Bring them to us, we’ll help them budget.
You bring them to us early.
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We’ll do this
and it’s so much more cost efficient.
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But we don’t do anything.
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Because I was talking to the Citylife Group,
I said,
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could Citylife see its way to holding itself
out to that. I’m not sure because...
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But somebody should be able to say,
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on a more intimate basis than simply
"we’ve got a website":
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Here’s what we can use.
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Here’s how to do it and I think
that’s the only way you’re going to get to them.
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If we're really concerned about
what we’re doing,
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we need to also think about
community land trust.
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For those folks who really can’t do anything,
they could go there and it will be a safe zone.
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And it could go from generation to generation.
Why can’t we do that? Other places have done it.
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That’s good.
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Everybody gets the first round.
But you can only get one.
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What do you want? You want pie now?
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Apple, cherry...
What kind do you want, sir?
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Not right now. You have to come back
the second time. Let everybody go through.
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Let some more people get to have some.
That’s all I got. Thank you.
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M'am, no problem.
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I don’t mean for nobody to get mad
but I gotta get enough for everybody.
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Please don’t take the ice.
No, go on with that, go.
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If you take it, the rest won’t be cold.
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Any questions?
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I’m a victim of PC scam.
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I thought it was Microsoft and it wasn’t,
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it turned out to be some scammers.
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I actually gave them my name,
my card. I need help.
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Don’t give any information out
over the phone.
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If somebody says it’s your doctor:
"send me a letter".
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If somebody says, you’re going to shut
your cable off tomorrow: send me a letter.
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Don’t give them your email.
Tell them to send you a letter.
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Serve it. If they say you owe money,
send a constable.
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"Send somebody down, petition me".
Don’t even bother.
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You’re going to get letters in your house.
If you own your home.
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My mother gets them. Because I go to her house
and do her bills and I get the mail
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There’s always: oh, you can earn
a lot of money on your home.
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Or we can give you a mortgage
a low interest mortgage.
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Just don’t believe any of this stuff.
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Unless it comes from the City,
from the Counselor’s office or our office,
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or something that your civic association
might have talked about.
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Do not give anybody any information.
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The Counsel was talking about scams.
Somebody might call and say to you:
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we have your grandson.
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We’re not going to give him back
until you give us money.
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Your instant reaction is:
"Is it Billy or Bob?"
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I got Billy.
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That’s all they need
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and they will frighten you into
you will think that they’re kidnapped.
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There are literally people
that do this from other parts of the world.
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00:29:43,640 --> 00:29:46,350
They scam people and people
will give them money, they’ll run around,
453
00:29:46,520 --> 00:29:50,680
get money and they’ll give it to somebody.
So do not, do not do that.
454
00:29:50,710 --> 00:29:52,560
If Eversource calls you for a deal:
455
00:29:53,520 --> 00:29:55,060
"Can I have your name and number?".
456
00:29:55,270 --> 00:29:58,970
Call your City counselor, call the Mayor’s office
and say does Eversource have a deal?
457
00:29:59,210 --> 00:30:02,140
Does Comcast have a deal? Does RNC Cable have a deal?
458
00:30:02,310 --> 00:30:04,770
Does whatever it is, make sure you follow up.
459
00:30:04,970 --> 00:30:07,060
I’m going to follow up with you.
Emily’s going to get your information.
460
00:30:07,310 --> 00:30:11,180
And we’ll get on it today and we’ll find out,
we’ll contact the authorities.
461
00:30:11,350 --> 00:30:14,310
We also have a couple police officers,
so if we need to take the next step we will.
462
00:30:14,320 --> 00:30:16,140
From my area in Lower Mills,
463
00:30:16,350 --> 00:30:19,720
those calls and those phone numbers
and those people knock on the door.
464
00:30:20,040 --> 00:30:21,390
They come into the station.
465
00:30:21,970 --> 00:30:26,310
And they report it to the police department
and they take it over to the detective department.
466
00:30:26,850 --> 00:30:32,310
But the thing about it is
nothing never get back to me or anybody else.
467
00:30:32,470 --> 00:30:36,270
What has taken place since we reported this?
468
00:30:36,390 --> 00:30:39,640
And the calls and the number thing,
you could have them right there.
469
00:30:39,810 --> 00:30:44,850
So how do we handle that to get some response
to what we’re trying to stop?
470
00:30:45,220 --> 00:30:48,220
One thing I would suggest, maybe what we’ll do
is at one of the meetings coming up,
471
00:30:48,430 --> 00:30:50,220
I’ll ask Nora Bastian to come in.
472
00:30:50,410 --> 00:30:52,350
Nora is the new Superintendent.
473
00:30:52,470 --> 00:30:55,970
Her role is community policing.
Her role is, under community policing,
474
00:30:56,220 --> 00:30:59,680
to follow the Elderly Department.
As far as going out to districts.
475
00:30:59,970 --> 00:31:03,140
So we’ll ask Nora to come to
your next meeting and she can explain
476
00:31:03,220 --> 00:31:05,890
and come up with a process.
There might not have been a process.
477
00:31:06,100 --> 00:31:08,560
My experience has been
that the information flows back and forth.
478
00:31:08,770 --> 00:31:12,640
But we’re going to make sure
that it really does flow back and forth.
479
00:31:12,930 --> 00:31:17,390
If you make a complaint at a civic association,
you should get a call back
480
00:31:17,560 --> 00:31:20,810
because it's reporting it into a black hole,
if you’re not getting information back.
481
00:31:20,970 --> 00:31:22,850
And then you can share the information
with other people.
482
00:31:23,220 --> 00:31:25,060
We’ll have Nora come to the next meeting.
483
00:31:26,270 --> 00:31:29,140
If you live in a BHA Housing Development
and you’re not getting a response,
484
00:31:30,130 --> 00:31:31,850
my advice are two things.
485
00:31:32,260 --> 00:31:37,310
Number one is call your complaint into 311.
Because 311 is the City hotline.
486
00:31:37,620 --> 00:31:40,390
And it’s a public information
and it’s in my office.
487
00:31:40,850 --> 00:31:42,140
I see it up on the wall.
488
00:31:42,850 --> 00:31:44,640
I will follow up
and say what’s going on with that?
489
00:31:44,870 --> 00:31:47,350
Number two, reach out
to the Elderly Commission.
490
00:31:47,810 --> 00:31:50,270
There’s been times where I’ve gone
to different events.
491
00:31:50,470 --> 00:31:52,560
Some of you have grabbed me
about situations
492
00:31:52,720 --> 00:31:54,560
that might not be related
to the Elderly Commission,
493
00:31:54,970 --> 00:31:59,100
but the advocacy there, they will call over.
And when they call over, I’m calling over.
494
00:31:59,310 --> 00:32:03,060
It’s important to you to use those different steps.
If you’re not getting somewhere,
495
00:32:03,220 --> 00:32:05,890
and you live somewhere, you call 311 and make a public,
496
00:32:06,060 --> 00:32:08,180
and when they ask you why’d you do that?
The man told me to.
497
00:32:09,330 --> 00:32:12,060
And if you see me in the street grab me
and tell me what the problem is.
498
00:32:12,230 --> 00:32:16,310
Because I guarantee you by the time
I get in the car and to the next stop after this,
499
00:32:16,520 --> 00:32:19,140
somebody at the BHA
will be talking to me. All right?
500
00:32:19,990 --> 00:32:21,310
Questions over here
then I’ll come back this way.
501
00:32:21,600 --> 00:32:24,680
Now I had medicine that I actually need
502
00:32:25,190 --> 00:32:27,270
and they want me to pay
503
00:32:27,520 --> 00:32:30,890
a co-pay of 65 dollars that I can’t afford.
504
00:32:31,060 --> 00:32:33,810
And I need that medicine
and I don’t know what to do about it.
505
00:32:34,060 --> 00:32:35,810
We have to really think about here,
506
00:32:36,350 --> 00:32:41,270
in Massachusetts, at the Legislative level
and in Congress at the congressional level
507
00:32:41,390 --> 00:32:44,220
to do something about
pharmaceutical costs.
508
00:32:45,890 --> 00:32:47,560
They’re out of control.
509
00:32:49,760 --> 00:32:53,470
My father passed away in 2008,
but before he passed away...
510
00:32:54,100 --> 00:32:56,680
and I didn’t know
what a "donut hole" was until then.
511
00:32:59,100 --> 00:33:03,350
He was on a pill, once a day for prostate.
512
00:33:04,600 --> 00:33:07,100
It was $500 a month, the prescription.
513
00:33:07,810 --> 00:33:10,100
So for the first five months of the year,
514
00:33:10,270 --> 00:33:12,930
it was covered a 100 %
by his health insurance.
515
00:33:14,310 --> 00:33:16,930
The next $2500 dollars as you know,
the Donut Hole,
516
00:33:17,560 --> 00:33:19,810
the next 5 months was out of pocket.
517
00:33:20,720 --> 00:33:23,890
And then the last 2 months of the year
were covered by insurance again.
518
00:33:24,980 --> 00:33:28,560
What Obamacare did, what the Affordable
Care Act did was close the Donut hole.
519
00:33:29,510 --> 00:33:32,220
And that Donut hole now is there,
but what they’ve done is...
520
00:33:32,390 --> 00:33:35,600
I don’t know what the right answer is,
but they’ve done something with prescriptions
521
00:33:37,020 --> 00:33:39,270
that you end up paying more out of pocket.
522
00:33:41,020 --> 00:33:46,310
I haven’t seen it in any of my prescriptions,
but it happens to seniors all the time.
523
00:33:46,890 --> 00:33:51,180
So we do have to think about legislatively
how do we file something
524
00:33:51,350 --> 00:33:54,140
that closes that gap for you.
Because many of you,
525
00:33:54,890 --> 00:33:59,680
all of us, as you get older you take
prescriptions for high blood pressure,
526
00:33:59,850 --> 00:34:01,810
for cholesterol, whatever it is you have.
527
00:34:03,970 --> 00:34:07,060
It’s important that we understand
there’s more health risk as you get older.
528
00:34:07,750 --> 00:34:09,310
Because the body breaks down a little bit.
529
00:34:09,600 --> 00:34:12,270
There’s more chance that you’re going
to be on a prescription as you get older.
530
00:34:12,980 --> 00:34:15,140
And we need to make sure that that’s covered.
531
00:34:15,640 --> 00:34:18,680
The answer is we have to look legislatively
fixing that.
532
00:34:19,320 --> 00:34:22,310
One of the reasons why
we have the Elderly Commission
533
00:34:22,600 --> 00:34:26,270
is to advocate on your behalf.
The people that work for the City work for you.
534
00:34:26,560 --> 00:34:29,850
They’re there to service you. So take advantage
535
00:34:30,140 --> 00:34:31,350
of that opportunity.
536
00:34:31,520 --> 00:34:35,350
Take advantage of that office. Ask questions.
They’ll get the answers.
537
00:34:36,020 --> 00:34:39,140
And if we got to a point where,
what I’d like to do,
538
00:34:39,310 --> 00:34:45,310
I’ll have to double the size of the Elderly Commission
because the amount of calls they get.
539
00:34:45,640 --> 00:34:48,520
Believe it or not, we don’t get
that many calls. We get a lot of calls,
540
00:34:48,680 --> 00:34:53,220
but not as many as there are people
in Boston that are over 60 years old.
541
00:34:53,520 --> 00:34:54,680
We need a bigger budget.
542
00:34:54,850 --> 00:34:58,390
We’ll get the budget there,
but we need you to use the office
543
00:34:58,600 --> 00:35:02,020
because I’d rather you talk to
one of the specialists we have
544
00:35:02,600 --> 00:35:05,100
and get a benefit
than be taken advantage of.
545
00:35:05,640 --> 00:35:09,060
That’s why they’re there. They’re there for you.
They work for you.
546
00:35:09,220 --> 00:35:11,810
Our primary purpose is to help people
547
00:35:11,970 --> 00:35:14,600
with the situations you might have.
So, please, call them.
548
00:36:24,510 --> 00:36:26,720
As usual, it was busy night
last night on Halloween
549
00:36:26,960 --> 00:36:31,890
and just be aware of any kind of violence
that might extend from it.
550
00:36:32,070 --> 00:36:35,520
Townsend and Warren: there was a firearm
recovered at 7 p.m. with an arrest.
551
00:36:35,680 --> 00:36:39,470
There was a person shot and stabbed
at 137 Center Street.
552
00:36:39,640 --> 00:36:41,430
There was a large party,
a couple hundred people.
553
00:36:41,600 --> 00:36:44,312
Full notes on the person shot,
but they’re probably going to survive.
554
00:36:44,720 --> 00:36:49,187
The gang unit then had a car chase through H block
of Bailey Associates, so be aware of that.
555
00:36:49,430 --> 00:36:53,396
And around 3 a.m. this morning,
556
00:36:54,160 --> 00:36:57,220
the K-car got a firearm arrest
in Upham’s Corner.
557
00:36:58,040 --> 00:36:59,720
And that was,
558
00:37:00,710 --> 00:37:03,604
I don’t know if it’s related, but there was a violent assault up there.
559
00:37:03,854 --> 00:37:07,021
That was the reason why people were up there and led to a firearm arrest.
560
00:37:14,040 --> 00:37:14,937
Any issues?
561
00:37:15,250 --> 00:37:17,437
Concerns? Check your assignments.
562
00:37:17,600 --> 00:37:18,810
Let’s have a good day. Fall out.
563
00:38:15,180 --> 00:38:16,270
I had a chance,
564
00:38:16,510 --> 00:38:19,810
over the last 5 years to get to know
almost every single person in this room.
565
00:38:21,120 --> 00:38:25,390
And what’s amazing is that we have
developers in this room
566
00:38:25,740 --> 00:38:29,890
and housing developers in this room,
that believe in resiliency.
567
00:38:30,430 --> 00:38:33,930
And that are here month after month
after month after month,
568
00:38:34,340 --> 00:38:35,890
after meeting after meeting
I should say.
569
00:38:36,310 --> 00:38:41,437
We have developers developing buildings
in town? that believe in resiliency.
570
00:38:41,590 --> 00:38:46,470
We have folks that work in the area of
whatever it is and you come back here.
571
00:38:46,720 --> 00:38:49,396
We have Universities. We have Universities.
572
00:38:49,562 --> 00:38:53,310
Boston University is one of our great partners,
and we have construction companies.
573
00:38:53,970 --> 00:38:56,720
And to me it’s special.
This room’s a special room
574
00:38:57,720 --> 00:39:00,390
in the sense of the commitment
by the people in this room.
575
00:39:03,200 --> 00:39:08,600
Since I’ve been Mayor, a lot of natural disasters
have happened in different cities across America.
576
00:39:10,100 --> 00:39:13,430
Houston kind of...
577
00:39:15,180 --> 00:39:16,560
hit me a little different.
578
00:39:16,970 --> 00:39:19,729
I was talking to Mayor Turner
as it was going on and...
579
00:39:19,984 --> 00:39:22,970
when he was talking about his City,
he was a brand new Mayor,
580
00:39:23,146 --> 00:39:25,312
literally brand new Mayor in his first term.
581
00:39:26,270 --> 00:39:29,687
The people of Boston wanted to send things out to Houston,
582
00:39:29,854 --> 00:39:34,104
we were going to send one tractor trailer down,
we ended up sending 18 tractor trailers of stuff down.
583
00:39:34,670 --> 00:39:37,187
And I thought to myself:
what if that was Boston?
584
00:39:38,290 --> 00:39:42,600
And it wasn’t the giving to Houston
that struck me,
585
00:39:42,970 --> 00:39:45,562
it was the need in Houston
that struck me.
586
00:39:46,310 --> 00:39:49,604
It was the 18 trucks going down there
and that wasn’t enough.
587
00:39:50,040 --> 00:39:53,271
When you think about 18 tractor trailers
from Boston and other places around the country,
588
00:39:53,437 --> 00:39:55,437
that wasn’t enough and I thought to myself:
589
00:39:55,590 --> 00:40:00,890
where are we in our city? Where are we in the City?
Not in the Green Ribbon Commission,
590
00:40:01,120 --> 00:40:05,720
not on the global plans, not working
with the State. Where are we in the City?
591
00:40:05,930 --> 00:40:08,680
So we have, I don’t have it here
with us today...
592
00:40:10,260 --> 00:40:13,560
We have a plan that literally protects
593
00:40:14,580 --> 00:40:21,430
the harbor, protects the shoreline,
creates 47 miles of shoreline.
594
00:40:22,460 --> 00:40:25,770
We talk a lot about bringing people
back to the water.
595
00:40:25,937 --> 00:40:28,310
This plan brings people back to the water.
596
00:40:29,140 --> 00:40:37,890
This plan allows people access to the water where we
have 67 acres of new open space on Boston Harbor.
597
00:40:38,850 --> 00:40:42,687
It creates 122 acres of
revitalized open space in the waterfront.
598
00:40:43,960 --> 00:40:46,312
It’s about protections and connections.
599
00:40:46,730 --> 00:40:51,020
So when people like you in this room
look at what’s happening,
600
00:40:51,170 --> 00:40:52,937
you know that we’re protecting
601
00:40:53,100 --> 00:40:55,354
what we have to protect in our neighborhoods.
602
00:40:55,521 --> 00:40:58,021
We’re protecting Charlestown and East Boston
and South Boston.
603
00:40:58,146 --> 00:41:01,146
We’re protecting downtown, North End,
the Dorchester coastline.
604
00:41:01,450 --> 00:41:02,680
We’re protecting Roxbury.
605
00:41:02,810 --> 00:41:06,970
We’re protecting the South End. We’re protecting
all of those different neighborhoods in our city
606
00:41:07,350 --> 00:41:09,100
that it’s important for us to do.
607
00:41:09,800 --> 00:41:13,770
What we’re doing here is
I think important for the future.
608
00:41:14,070 --> 00:41:17,479
I think it’s time for us to take this conversation
beyond our walls.
609
00:41:18,830 --> 00:41:21,687
I think it’s time to take this conversation
to the editorial boards.
610
00:41:21,920 --> 00:41:24,687
And let them understand fully
what’s happening here.
611
00:41:25,540 --> 00:41:27,562
Because the first editorial that came out...
612
00:41:27,729 --> 00:41:31,771
in all due respect, a nice editorial, but it was:
how to pay for it? Who’s going to pay for it?
613
00:41:31,790 --> 00:41:34,520
The question’s not Who’s going to pay for it?
How’s this going to happen?
614
00:41:34,687 --> 00:41:37,521
It’s not about who’s going to pay for it.
It needs to happen.
615
00:41:37,940 --> 00:41:42,600
The editorial needs to say, and the press needs
to start and other people need to start saying:
616
00:41:42,760 --> 00:41:45,104
'This has to happen'. It’s not about the costs.
617
00:41:46,910 --> 00:41:49,812
It’s not about whose going put up
he biggest chunk of money,
618
00:41:50,560 --> 00:41:53,771
its how do we get everyone together
to put this plan together?
619
00:41:54,180 --> 00:41:57,020
The Green Ribbon Commission
is vital in this work.
620
00:41:57,770 --> 00:41:59,850
As we continue to move forward
in this work,
621
00:42:00,930 --> 00:42:05,890
we need to help convey the urgency
and bring diverse partners into our strategy.
622
00:42:06,140 --> 00:42:09,062
We need to talk to all of our schools,
not some of our schools.
623
00:42:09,229 --> 00:42:12,187
We need to talk to all of our museums,
not some of our museums.
624
00:42:12,180 --> 00:42:16,604
We need to make sure all of our hospitals understand
the importance of this, not some of the hospitals.
625
00:42:16,810 --> 00:42:20,270
And more importantly we need to make
business people know that this is really
626
00:42:20,437 --> 00:42:22,979
important for them as well.
It’s important for us,
627
00:42:23,430 --> 00:42:25,979
for the health and safety of our residents
are at stake.
628
00:42:27,180 --> 00:42:29,060
Making sure that Houston,
629
00:42:31,060 --> 00:42:35,390
Puerto Rico, Florida, New Orleans,
630
00:42:35,390 --> 00:42:39,020
Louisiana, Florida again,.
631
00:42:39,380 --> 00:42:44,850
New York, all of those different cities
and areas had a storm.
632
00:42:44,930 --> 00:42:49,646
If you talk to Mitch Landrieu the former Mayor of New Orleans
who wasn’t the mayor when Katrina happened,
633
00:42:49,880 --> 00:42:53,062
he said if they addressed this
20 years earlier
634
00:42:54,600 --> 00:42:57,729
the outcome might have been different.
It still would have been bad
635
00:42:58,770 --> 00:43:02,271
because Katrina was a bad storm,
but it would have been not as detrimental.
636
00:43:02,437 --> 00:43:06,060
We have to think about that now and think about,
how do we prevent that from happening?
637
00:43:06,770 --> 00:43:11,270
We need to work with other leaders, with other
elected officials. We need to let the legislature
638
00:43:11,390 --> 00:43:13,770
know and the city council know
the importance
639
00:43:13,850 --> 00:43:16,104
of focusing on the work
that we’re doing here today.
640
00:43:16,650 --> 00:43:19,396
We know that mitigation is resilience.
641
00:43:20,390 --> 00:43:24,896
It’s about the impacts here in Boston and it’s about
the example we set for the nation and the world,
642
00:43:25,680 --> 00:43:30,140
By showing that it can be done
we can improve public health, create jobs
643
00:43:30,560 --> 00:43:33,350
and also help people in our neighborhoods.
644
00:43:34,100 --> 00:43:35,770
We can also show the way
645
00:43:36,180 --> 00:43:38,687
and help rally the global community
to do their part.
646
00:43:38,854 --> 00:43:41,680
I know that what we wanted to do here
is be a leader in the country
647
00:43:41,970 --> 00:43:44,271
and a leader in the world here in Boston
as far as resiliency.
648
00:43:44,441 --> 00:43:47,060
And now that we have the plan it’s about,
what’s the next steps
649
00:43:47,430 --> 00:43:50,810
and what’s the actions? We know
we don’t have a national government, at least
650
00:43:51,180 --> 00:43:55,850
a leader down in Washington, a president that
does understand the importance of resiliency.
651
00:43:57,470 --> 00:44:01,021
We know that we don’t have the commitments
right now in the EPA down in Washington
652
00:44:01,187 --> 00:44:04,354
that understands the importance of resiliency
and what we’re doing here.
653
00:44:05,210 --> 00:44:10,521
Even if we had the greatest champion in Washington,
it’s still incumbent upon cities and towns
654
00:44:10,680 --> 00:44:12,180
across America to carry out the plan.
655
00:44:12,390 --> 00:44:14,310
I do think it’s important first
that we start
656
00:44:14,479 --> 00:44:17,812
to take this conversation outside this room
and have real conversations.
657
00:44:18,220 --> 00:44:19,479
I would suggest that we go
658
00:44:19,680 --> 00:44:21,812
to editorial boards of the news outlets.
659
00:44:22,200 --> 00:44:24,979
I would suggest that we start talking
to more business leaders.
660
00:44:25,220 --> 00:44:28,562
I would suggest that we start thinking
about how do we amp up this plan
661
00:44:28,729 --> 00:44:31,229
so it’s not just the people on the inside crowd,
662
00:44:31,430 --> 00:44:35,146
whether it’s the Chamber of Commerce or here at the Commission.
663
00:44:35,312 --> 00:44:37,312
We need to take this conversation beyond this.
664
00:45:12,100 --> 00:45:13,430
So what are we here for today?
665
00:45:14,510 --> 00:45:17,060
- Fire blocking.
- OK, so the rough inspection?
666
00:45:17,890 --> 00:45:19,562
When are you guys looking to insulate?
667
00:45:20,370 --> 00:45:22,180
Insulate next week.
668
00:45:22,340 --> 00:45:23,850
Next week you have on schedule.
669
00:45:24,021 --> 00:45:25,560
On schedule for Monday.
670
00:45:26,680 --> 00:45:29,354
So you’re thinking Monday.
671
00:45:29,530 --> 00:45:32,430
Monday, Tuesday. He said two, two and a half days
he’d have it all wiped out.
672
00:45:32,646 --> 00:45:35,312
- What are you doing, spray foam?
- Spray foam, closed cell.
673
00:45:35,480 --> 00:45:36,770
Closed cell on the exterior.
674
00:45:37,040 --> 00:45:41,390
So you’re thinking that if all goes well today,
you have them scheduled for Monday.
675
00:45:41,562 --> 00:45:45,979
For Monday. I spoke with him earlier, he said two,
two and a half days to wrap it all.
676
00:45:46,770 --> 00:45:48,430
He’ll send two crews.
677
00:45:48,590 --> 00:45:50,640
I’m going to be off on Thursday.
678
00:45:52,850 --> 00:45:56,270
If we could get you may be, well provided
he sends two crews Monday.
679
00:45:57,180 --> 00:45:59,270
All right. So then you’ll just email me.
680
00:46:00,040 --> 00:46:01,646
And let me know how that goes.
681
00:46:01,812 --> 00:46:06,396
And if Wednesday comes around and I have time
I’ll squeeze you in to keep it going.
682
00:46:07,310 --> 00:46:10,100
So all the fire blocking’s done.
All the penetration.
683
00:46:11,230 --> 00:46:14,680
- Fire caulking.
- Use the caulk and the 3M caulking?
684
00:46:14,890 --> 00:46:17,220
- No foam, right?
- No foam.
685
00:46:24,020 --> 00:46:28,810
Now what do we do down the basement is
extended living spaces as a part of this unit?
686
00:46:28,937 --> 00:46:33,060
Extended living space for the first floor
master suite, master bath, master shower --
687
00:46:33,520 --> 00:46:36,062
- And this is fully sprinkled, right?
- Fully sprinkled.
688
00:46:38,940 --> 00:46:41,020
This was new underground plumbing.
689
00:46:42,230 --> 00:46:44,890
We had our plumbing inspection yesterday,
so we can close out.
690
00:46:45,060 --> 00:46:46,310
So he got a look at it?
691
00:46:46,479 --> 00:46:48,770
This is a master bedroom.
692
00:46:49,020 --> 00:46:52,470
Master bedroom, master closet,
master bath, laundry.
693
00:46:52,687 --> 00:46:54,771
- Extended from that unit up above.
- Correct.
694
00:46:56,020 --> 00:46:59,100
And then you have this door here
for your egress?
695
00:46:59,930 --> 00:47:02,310
What are we going to do with this here?
How are you going...
696
00:47:03,310 --> 00:47:05,562
It’s going to be a drain here
with a wet bell on the bottom.
697
00:47:05,729 --> 00:47:07,560
And it’s going to be two steps up.
698
00:47:09,330 --> 00:47:12,604
We’re going to get all that stuff
and some flagstones or something.
699
00:47:12,930 --> 00:47:14,187
Are you going to patio this?
700
00:47:14,720 --> 00:47:15,896
All the way out to the back.
701
00:47:21,130 --> 00:47:24,310
Fire caulking is done. All the penetrations.
702
00:47:27,780 --> 00:47:29,729
And then this is all getting closed cell.
703
00:47:32,860 --> 00:47:35,430
And then as I said they’ll be
all batts in between.
704
00:47:35,850 --> 00:47:39,520
Where’s your sprinkler head down here?
705
00:47:41,460 --> 00:47:46,310
One there, there’s one over here.
This is to go outside underneath the deck.
706
00:47:46,700 --> 00:47:48,310
So that’s going to go out.
707
00:47:48,810 --> 00:47:49,896
There’s one on each floor.
708
00:47:50,900 --> 00:47:52,312
- Exterior, right?
- Exterior.
709
00:47:55,180 --> 00:47:56,396
Low temperature.
710
00:48:06,810 --> 00:48:08,479
What are you doing for railings here?
711
00:48:08,720 --> 00:48:10,970
The railings are all on the second floor.
712
00:48:12,250 --> 00:48:14,600
- Iron?
- It’s iron railings, the wire.
713
00:48:17,560 --> 00:48:21,930
That’s not a bad view.
Are these going to be sold or rentals?
714
00:48:22,104 --> 00:48:23,146
These are condos.
715
00:48:23,312 --> 00:48:26,271
So you’re going to put them
on the market when you’re done.
716
00:48:27,180 --> 00:48:29,271
- No roof deck?
- There is a roof deck.
717
00:48:31,180 --> 00:48:34,810
- How’s the access?
- There’s going to be a spiral.
718
00:48:35,440 --> 00:48:36,600
That’s on the plans?
719
00:48:39,710 --> 00:48:41,854
Then this is all being spray foamed, right?
720
00:48:42,000 --> 00:48:43,312
This is what you’re using, right?
721
00:49:03,720 --> 00:49:05,062
Let’s get on the second floor.
722
00:49:13,470 --> 00:49:16,396
And then with this over here Brendan,
you’re going to box this all out.
723
00:49:18,250 --> 00:49:21,810
So you’re going to come off,
box out that sprinkler, right.
724
00:49:22,770 --> 00:49:24,062
It will all be boxed in.
725
00:49:24,560 --> 00:49:27,229
And then you have all your heads here.
And then that.
726
00:49:30,130 --> 00:49:32,604
You’re going to need
some ledger lock on that right?
727
00:49:38,020 --> 00:49:40,271
It’s not a bad view
until that building gets built.
728
00:49:43,680 --> 00:49:45,562
Have you seen any plans for that one yet?
729
00:49:45,750 --> 00:49:47,104
It’ll probably go up just as high.
730
00:49:47,390 --> 00:49:51,850
Take a picture of this, Brendan.
Someone’s going to throw this out.
731
00:49:52,850 --> 00:49:55,396
Take a picture
and make a copy for the record.
732
00:49:58,750 --> 00:49:59,604
Hold onto that.
733
00:50:02,290 --> 00:50:06,350
So you’re all set Brendan. Give me a shout
early next week. It’s a short week.
734
00:50:46,140 --> 00:50:48,100
If 16 year old
735
00:50:48,720 --> 00:50:51,220
have services at Bridge, and they’re
connected to the services at Bridge,
736
00:50:51,430 --> 00:50:55,146
if they’re no longer served by Bridge they don’t have
a relationship with Bridge anymore.
737
00:50:55,330 --> 00:50:58,810
So it’s like how do we...
and I’m not sure how we do this.
738
00:50:58,930 --> 00:51:01,220
This is why we need the RFP,
the definition is like
739
00:51:01,680 --> 00:51:04,354
it has to be not connected to the services
that they’re getting.
740
00:51:04,560 --> 00:51:06,979
Because once the services go away
the relationship goes away,
741
00:51:07,270 --> 00:51:10,520
Which is what keeps young people in the cycle
because they don’t have long term relationships.
742
00:51:10,970 --> 00:51:13,430
So the challenge
743
00:51:13,890 --> 00:51:17,390
that the RFP’s addressing,
the first one is that unfortunately,
744
00:51:17,680 --> 00:51:24,310
the scope of services for youth or young adults
experiencing homelessness is limited.
745
00:51:24,510 --> 00:51:26,680
Not only in Boston,
but across the country.
746
00:51:26,854 --> 00:51:31,562
And most services around people experiencing
homelessness are services for adults.
747
00:51:31,820 --> 00:51:33,937
And so the adult shelter system,
748
00:51:34,120 --> 00:51:36,770
unfortunately sometimes is the place where
749
00:51:36,937 --> 00:51:41,770
18, 19, 20 year old find themselves
if they’re homeless on the street,
750
00:51:41,890 --> 00:51:44,970
dealing with behavioral health challenges,
end up finding themselves in a shelter.
751
00:51:45,170 --> 00:51:47,937
What we’re trying to do is to tell these shelters:
752
00:51:48,104 --> 00:51:52,430
the services, the environment
and the culture are created for adults
753
00:51:52,604 --> 00:51:55,890
who may experience chronic homelessness,
who are 40.
754
00:51:56,140 --> 00:51:58,140
It's different for a 19 year old
755
00:51:58,430 --> 00:52:01,521
who we know statistically - and I think this would be in the RFP -
756
00:52:01,687 --> 00:52:05,312
is more likely to be LGBTQ,
more likely to be people of color,
757
00:52:05,687 --> 00:52:08,021
experiencing other issues.
758
00:52:08,470 --> 00:52:12,180
What we want to say is the challenge here
is that the gap of services
759
00:52:12,470 --> 00:52:16,430
to meet the specific needs of youth and young adults
experiencing homelessness is great
760
00:52:16,890 --> 00:52:19,810
and multiple parts.
Mayor Walsh’s plan is working on that.
761
00:52:20,020 --> 00:52:24,640
However, in the meantime we know youth and young
adults already find themselves in the adult shelters.
762
00:52:24,930 --> 00:52:28,646
We’re trying to say is that in an ideal world
we want youth and young adult shelters.
763
00:52:28,896 --> 00:52:34,350
But in the meantime, the city’s plan is to not just wait until we have those shelters, or have those services.
764
00:52:34,560 --> 00:52:37,146
We’re going to meet the needs
of youth and young adults today.
765
00:52:37,312 --> 00:52:39,271
We want these shelters to do that.
766
00:52:39,437 --> 00:52:42,562
That’s the challenge or the need
we’re trying to meet in that first one.
767
00:52:42,812 --> 00:52:46,521
And to be fair we want the shelters
to think about how they’re doing this
768
00:52:46,870 --> 00:52:50,729
in a way that what do they need to do
to do better? You know what I mean?
769
00:52:51,020 --> 00:52:54,890
You know this better than I. Some types of shelters
will say, well we have a separate space.
770
00:52:55,270 --> 00:53:00,396
Like upstairs in the corner these 10 beds
are meant for 18 to 24 year olds.
771
00:53:01,430 --> 00:53:03,680
OK, I guess a separate space is important.
772
00:53:03,860 --> 00:53:08,771
But when I have to get through all the chaos
of the shelter to get to the separate space,
773
00:53:08,937 --> 00:53:10,812
I still have to go downstairs
to the kitchen to eat.
774
00:53:11,062 --> 00:53:13,930
To go to the shared bathroom.
775
00:53:14,120 --> 00:53:17,430
And at night there’s only one person upstairs,
or one staff person.
776
00:53:17,720 --> 00:53:22,354
How are they thinking about the fact that youth
and young adults are vulnerable in these spaces?
777
00:53:22,521 --> 00:53:24,604
So we want them to say we know it’s a gap.
778
00:53:25,180 --> 00:53:29,187
We have to say this because we know our funders
don’t agree with us. It’s not a long term solution.
779
00:53:29,350 --> 00:53:33,430
But that’s where they find themselves today
so we’re going to meet them where they’re at.
780
00:53:33,590 --> 00:53:36,729
So this solution that you would envision...
781
00:53:38,430 --> 00:53:43,060
We’re talking about physical space.
We’re talking about policies and practices.
782
00:53:43,229 --> 00:53:45,937
We’re talking about competencies of staff.
783
00:53:46,270 --> 00:53:47,812
We’re talking about
784
00:53:50,100 --> 00:53:53,187
how we do outreach
and engagement and connection.
785
00:53:53,680 --> 00:53:57,146
All the stuff we know about. How do you make
a space youth friendly? Same thing.
786
00:53:57,312 --> 00:54:01,146
How do we think about all those things that we
already know? I think that’s how you would bucket it.
787
00:54:01,479 --> 00:54:04,270
We’re talking about space,
about policies and practices.
788
00:54:04,437 --> 00:54:06,479
They're concerned about
the onetime funding? I get it.
789
00:54:06,646 --> 00:54:09,687
There’s a lot you can do with onetime funding
in all of those buckets.
790
00:54:09,854 --> 00:54:12,520
That then they have to sustain post that.
791
00:54:12,680 --> 00:54:14,271
So I think that’s what that is.
792
00:54:14,680 --> 00:54:16,354
And would you like for me to stay
793
00:54:16,521 --> 00:54:21,062
a little bit away from programing
because it’s not multiyear funding?
794
00:54:22,550 --> 00:54:25,771
On the challenge that RFP’s trying to address
795
00:54:26,062 --> 00:54:31,146
is that we know that young adults
experiencing homelessness lack
796
00:54:31,312 --> 00:54:35,604
the social capital and the personal connections
with caring adults in their lives
797
00:54:35,770 --> 00:54:38,390
to help them navigate
the challenges that exist.
798
00:54:39,020 --> 00:54:44,350
So to help them access opportunity,
but avoid the challenges that are in front of them.
799
00:54:44,640 --> 00:54:48,187
And that too many of the relationships
and this comes from youth and young adult voices,
800
00:54:48,354 --> 00:54:51,771
too many of those relationships are relationships
based on the provision of service.
801
00:54:52,180 --> 00:54:57,021
And what young people have told us through this process
is they need more permanent connections
802
00:54:57,210 --> 00:55:01,970
that are not tied to a service,
not a case manager, not a clinician,
803
00:55:02,146 --> 00:55:06,020
not a behavioral health specialist
at the community center, whatever,
804
00:55:06,100 --> 00:55:10,020
but people who just care about me
and my wellbeing, separate from that.
805
00:55:10,229 --> 00:55:11,104
Permanent connections,
806
00:55:11,271 --> 00:55:15,104
the more relationships young adults have,
the more likely they are to be successful
807
00:55:15,271 --> 00:55:18,930
and overcome these challenges.
And so that’s what we’re trying to address.
808
00:55:19,130 --> 00:55:22,600
That youth and young adults need this
especially LGBTQ
809
00:55:22,720 --> 00:55:25,140
and youth of color who are more likely
to experience homelessness.
810
00:58:45,520 --> 00:58:47,470
Program folks, five dollars here.
811
00:58:48,090 --> 00:58:52,090
Get a program for the World Series champions,
folks. Five dollars here.
812
00:58:54,200 --> 00:58:59,420
Program folks. Get a program for the World Series
champions folks. Five dollars here.
813
00:58:59,700 --> 00:59:02,800
Comes with your free bumper sticker.
Best team ever.
814
00:59:03,540 --> 00:59:05,170
Red Sox parade folks,
815
00:59:05,300 --> 00:59:07,590
get a program, 5 dollars
for the World Series champions.
816
00:59:23,300 --> 00:59:29,130
119 wins, 108 during the regular season, 11 more
in the post season to bring the championship home.
817
00:59:32,470 --> 00:59:36,510
Thank everyone for coming herein today.
I wanna thank the Red Sox, an incredible organization
818
00:59:36,760 --> 00:59:40,340
starting with the ownership down to
our general manager. I had the chance
819
00:59:40,470 --> 00:59:46,720
to go to Puerto Rico with Alex Cora in the very beginning
of the season and I saw what type of person he was.
820
00:59:46,840 --> 00:59:51,470
He’s an amazing man, an amazing team, with the best fans in the world. Go Red Sox!
821
00:59:55,190 --> 00:59:58,220
- Mayor Walsh, how you doing?
- This is great. I’m doing good. I can’t complain.
822
00:59:58,380 --> 01:00:02,300
It’s the World Series, Red Sox parade, people
are happy, what else can you ask for?
823
01:00:02,470 --> 01:00:07,010
This isn’t our first rodeo. As a friend of mine in LA
said, didn’t you guys invent the rodeo?
824
01:00:07,170 --> 01:00:12,300
I think we did. I was saying that earlier today
in the car, driving to the police roll call,
825
01:00:12,470 --> 01:00:18,470
Other cities are dying for one and we’ve had 11
in the last 14 years or 15 years. It’s amazing.
826
01:00:18,780 --> 01:00:22,090
- Everyone’s won one too which is incredible.
- So much goes into this.
827
01:00:23,170 --> 01:00:25,090
What does it do for the city?
828
01:00:25,170 --> 01:00:27,300
Sports is so engrained in the City of Boston.
829
01:00:27,470 --> 01:00:29,760
When there’s a parade in the city,
what does it do for the City,
830
01:00:29,920 --> 01:00:32,840
despite all the logistics
and all the issues that go into it?
831
01:00:33,010 --> 01:00:35,300
When our teams are doing well,
it’s good for the city,
832
01:00:35,470 --> 01:00:39,130
for the restaurants, the bars,
all the different venues. The excitement in the city.
833
01:00:39,300 --> 01:00:42,720
The team's being part of the community,
so that’s another important part of these teams.
834
01:00:43,040 --> 01:00:45,130
They’re part of our neighborhoods
and community.
835
01:00:45,340 --> 01:00:47,800
It’s great for the city,
and the parade keeps the spirit up
836
01:00:47,920 --> 01:00:52,260
and I think today in the world of politics and what’s going on in the world,
837
01:00:52,290 --> 01:00:56,050
the horrible incident that happened
in Pittsburgh, I think something like this
838
01:00:56,150 --> 01:00:59,800
makes you realize
to be positive and move forward.
839
01:03:01,050 --> 01:03:03,590
Thank you for being proud of who you are
and where you’re from.
840
01:03:03,800 --> 01:03:06,510
And as I look around the room,
a lot of you are the future leaders
841
01:03:06,550 --> 01:03:11,130
of the City. You might not see that, you might not
understand where your pathway’s going to take you,
842
01:03:11,720 --> 01:03:14,470
but it’s going to take you
to amazing places.
843
01:03:14,590 --> 01:03:18,550
So when you think about advancement,
when you think about moving forward,
844
01:03:18,670 --> 01:03:23,010
it’s about who you are as a person and the commitment
you have to your own professional career
845
01:03:23,300 --> 01:03:27,220
in being recognized and realized and involved
and engaged and moving forward.
846
01:03:27,490 --> 01:03:29,800
Whatever you do there are opportunities.
847
01:03:29,970 --> 01:03:31,800
When you think about the Latino community,
848
01:03:32,620 --> 01:03:36,630
when I first became the Mayor, I spent a lot of time,
I still do, but I spent a lot of time
849
01:03:36,710 --> 01:03:39,760
with organizations particularly
Latino community organizations
850
01:03:39,920 --> 01:03:44,840
that felt that they were underrepresented
or not represented in a lot of different places.
851
01:03:45,010 --> 01:03:47,260
And we sat down
and we really started to look at
852
01:03:47,420 --> 01:03:51,050
Boards and Commissions and staff and who’s around
and how we’re doing, what’s going on.
853
01:03:51,260 --> 01:03:58,380
And making a real concerted effort
to change that reality. Not image, reality.
854
01:03:58,760 --> 01:04:03,380
To make sure our people have opportunities
within City government.
855
01:04:03,630 --> 01:04:07,130
And as I think about you,
all of you in this room,
856
01:04:07,580 --> 01:04:10,130
I think about being future leaders
in the business sector,
857
01:04:10,380 --> 01:04:12,300
future leaders in the nonprofit sector.
858
01:04:12,510 --> 01:04:16,630
This is a starting point. Some people are going to stay, come
from the City, work their whole career in the City
859
01:04:16,800 --> 01:04:19,090
and I commend you for that and love you for that.
860
01:04:19,260 --> 01:04:21,510
Some of you will say it’s time to move
to something else.
861
01:04:21,670 --> 01:04:23,050
and go into the business sector.
862
01:04:23,300 --> 01:04:26,840
And that's honestly what you have to start
thinking about how we do things.
863
01:04:27,100 --> 01:04:30,880
And how you advance yourself, number one.
First and foremost.
864
01:04:31,130 --> 01:04:35,010
Second piece is Latino pride.
865
01:04:35,670 --> 01:04:40,420
And I think that is really important.
These service projects are about education.
866
01:04:41,100 --> 01:04:42,340
They’re about pride.
867
01:04:42,510 --> 01:04:45,220
One of the thing that’s special
about Latino community
868
01:04:45,380 --> 01:04:48,470
is that you are a diverse community
within your community.
869
01:04:48,720 --> 01:04:52,470
Because as you we’re going around here
and everyone’s introducing themselves,
870
01:04:52,630 --> 01:04:54,800
every time Columbia was mentioned.
871
01:04:57,010 --> 01:05:01,550
There are some Venezuelan’s here that were excited.
The Mexicans seem really excited as well.
872
01:05:01,850 --> 01:05:04,090
So there is a sense of pride.
873
01:05:04,420 --> 01:05:08,630
And I think for us in the City,
doing these service projects,
874
01:05:08,730 --> 01:05:10,510
you’re doing it because you’re trying to help people,
875
01:05:10,510 --> 01:05:13,720
but what you’re also doing is
you’re teaching people about government.
876
01:05:14,220 --> 01:05:16,340
You’re also teaching people
about what can be possible.
877
01:05:17,000 --> 01:05:19,300
You’re also creating opportunities
to open doors.
878
01:05:19,470 --> 01:05:24,340
How do you take your expertise
and what you know as a person,
879
01:05:24,390 --> 01:05:27,510
as your heritage and your nationality
880
01:05:27,670 --> 01:05:30,970
and also what you’ve learned, whether it’s been
in school, if you were born here,
881
01:05:31,130 --> 01:05:33,590
if you weren’t born here,
what you learned at home and take it
882
01:05:33,720 --> 01:05:35,840
to the community
and give people opportunities.
883
01:05:36,010 --> 01:05:37,510
The day that Trump came down
884
01:05:37,590 --> 01:05:39,920
with the ban, I looked up at the screen,
I saw what was going on and I’m like
885
01:05:40,220 --> 01:05:43,420
what’s he doing today? And Dan says:
you know he’s doing a Muslin ban
886
01:05:43,630 --> 01:05:45,760
and he’s banning against immigrants.
887
01:05:45,920 --> 01:05:48,880
I said let’s do a press conference.
When? I said in a half hour.
888
01:05:49,550 --> 01:05:53,800
I said I want every single immigrant
that works in the building standing behind me
889
01:05:54,050 --> 01:05:55,840
and I want every first generation person
890
01:05:56,010 --> 01:06:00,470
in there as well, because I didn’t think I had enough
immigrant community behind me to fill the room.
891
01:06:00,640 --> 01:06:03,630
We were out in the hall, out in the hallway,
it was packed.
892
01:06:03,880 --> 01:06:05,630
That was a proud moment
893
01:06:05,840 --> 01:06:07,970
because I was standing amongst my peers
894
01:06:08,920 --> 01:06:11,340
because I might be the Mayor,
but I’m a public employee.
895
01:06:11,510 --> 01:06:14,510
We’re no different.
And I was proud of that moment.
896
01:06:14,690 --> 01:06:18,670
And that has nothing to do ...
So I’m proud of where my heritage is.
897
01:06:20,260 --> 01:06:24,510
And I think back to comparing,
maybe doing a little history of the Irish.
898
01:06:25,420 --> 01:06:29,300
In the end of the 19th century
Irish were called dogs,
899
01:06:30,510 --> 01:06:35,840
servants, slaves, pigs, monkeys, animals.
900
01:06:36,040 --> 01:06:41,050
If you look at the portrayal of Irish people back then
it was completely racist.
901
01:06:42,340 --> 01:06:47,920
And a group of people got together
and started to think about being a power broker.
902
01:06:48,330 --> 01:06:53,090
And they slowly but surely started to go into cities
around America and they got elected to
903
01:06:53,330 --> 01:06:58,470
town councils, city councils
and then a couple legislatures.
904
01:06:58,840 --> 01:07:02,970
And eventually continued to build up
a brief of support and understood who they were,
905
01:07:03,160 --> 01:07:05,130
and next thing they’re Mayors.
906
01:07:05,300 --> 01:07:10,880
And that’s really what every community
that comes to this country has done over time.
907
01:07:11,630 --> 01:07:13,720
And you don’t settle at politics.
908
01:07:13,920 --> 01:07:20,050
Our job is to represent and support
the people of Boston.
909
01:07:21,090 --> 01:07:22,380
That’s our job.
910
01:07:23,010 --> 01:07:27,880
Whether it’s for, through somebody or directly
for somebody, that’s what our job is.
911
01:07:28,050 --> 01:07:30,970
And when you’re a public employee
you have responsibility for that.
912
01:07:31,130 --> 01:07:37,380
And I think that everyone in this room is
more motivated than the average person at City Hall
913
01:07:38,130 --> 01:07:40,720
in a lot of different ways, and take that motivation,
914
01:07:40,880 --> 01:07:45,170
take that desire and keep that moving forward.
Because that’s who we have to be.
915
01:07:53,060 --> 01:07:56,420
This car doesn’t have
an active registration.
916
01:07:58,220 --> 01:08:01,050
I should have brought my passport, but
that wouldn’t have been any good either.
917
01:08:07,420 --> 01:08:10,880
So to get married it costs $75 cash
on the date of the ceremony.
918
01:08:15,220 --> 01:08:19,470
So you can only park at the meter
between those times. 12 to eight.
919
01:08:23,640 --> 01:08:27,220
I’m looking to get an Allston Brighton
parking pass.
920
01:08:30,300 --> 01:08:32,260
It doesn’t have your Boston address.
921
01:08:54,970 --> 01:08:58,510
There are 3 fairly significant master plans
that are happening in
922
01:08:58,590 --> 01:09:01,470
city departments right now
that we’re going to be a part of.
923
01:09:01,720 --> 01:09:04,050
The first one
is the Boston Public Library.
924
01:09:04,340 --> 01:09:09,720
They’re starting a master planning process
in the spring to look at the McKim Building
925
01:09:10,080 --> 01:09:12,420
which is the old building of the library.
926
01:09:12,650 --> 01:09:17,920
Specifically for interest to our community
is looking at the front entrance.
927
01:09:18,090 --> 01:09:18,800
As we know,
928
01:09:18,920 --> 01:09:23,550
thanks to great advocacy of the Board
and an individual Boston resident
929
01:09:25,220 --> 01:09:28,920
they installed a semi-permanent ramp
earlier this year
930
01:09:29,170 --> 01:09:31,550
so that the front entrance
is now accessible.
931
01:09:31,760 --> 01:09:33,630
However, they want to build a permanent ramp,
932
01:09:33,800 --> 01:09:39,050
a very nice artistic structure so they don’t have
a temporary metal ramp up there for long.
933
01:09:39,220 --> 01:09:41,380
So that’s going to be worked
into the master plan.
934
01:09:41,630 --> 01:09:45,260
And also there are two meeting rooms
in the library
935
01:09:45,470 --> 01:09:52,510
in the old McKim Building, that the only way you can
access them right now is with a lift, a vertical lift.
936
01:09:52,720 --> 01:09:55,880
That is the Map Room
and the Commonwealth Salon.
937
01:09:56,100 --> 01:10:01,800
We’re going to be looking at those areas
to see if there’s a way to improve accessibility.
938
01:10:02,010 --> 01:10:04,300
Unfortunately there was a meeting scheduled
939
01:10:04,510 --> 01:10:07,630
a few weeks ago to give updates
on the PCA Program,
940
01:10:08,090 --> 01:10:11,130
scheduled by Mass Health
and there was some communication
941
01:10:11,460 --> 01:10:14,670
where the Library staff
told the people at Mass Health
942
01:10:14,760 --> 01:10:18,550
the room was accessible and it was one of
these rooms which is technically accessible
943
01:10:18,720 --> 01:10:22,170
but when you have 20 and 30 people
coming in wheelchairs, trying to go up
944
01:10:22,300 --> 01:10:25,260
that lift,
it was not very accessible, so...
945
01:10:25,420 --> 01:10:28,090
I’m working on communication with the library
and looking at
946
01:10:28,260 --> 01:10:31,590
different strategies
to try to improve accessibility.
947
01:10:32,090 --> 01:10:36,420
Another master plan that’s happening
is the Parks Department
948
01:10:36,790 --> 01:10:39,300
is working on a master plan
for Boston Common.
949
01:10:39,920 --> 01:10:41,970
There is a large barrier in the Common
950
01:10:42,050 --> 01:10:44,880
that we’ve been interested in working on
for a long time.
951
01:10:45,340 --> 01:10:48,130
And that is the set of steps
at the Shaw Memorial
952
01:10:48,300 --> 01:10:51,510
which go from the Common up to Beacon Street,
across from the State House.
953
01:10:52,050 --> 01:10:55,630
Right now if you’re in the Common
and you can’t use the steps,
954
01:10:55,720 --> 01:10:59,840
there’s no way to get to the State House
except to go back to Tremont Street
955
01:11:00,050 --> 01:11:03,220
and walk all around up Park Street
to Beacon Street.
956
01:11:03,420 --> 01:11:08,760
So it’s a really long path of travel
and even that path is not very accessible.
957
01:11:09,600 --> 01:11:13,010
So, we had worked with the Parks Department
for a few years
958
01:11:13,170 --> 01:11:15,800
to try to get some measurements of slopes
959
01:11:16,260 --> 01:11:22,380
and come up with some design concepts to either
do a ramp or an exterior elevator in the Common.
960
01:11:22,610 --> 01:11:25,220
So this will be included
in the Master planning.
961
01:11:25,460 --> 01:11:28,800
I heard you say on the Master Plan
regarding the Boston Common
962
01:11:28,970 --> 01:11:32,170
with the steps going up to the State House
that input would be valuable.
963
01:11:32,470 --> 01:11:37,670
I get complaints all the time as the ADA
Coordinator at the State House. Would it help if I
964
01:11:38,240 --> 01:11:43,130
got a letter from the State House
saying that we would appreciate
965
01:11:43,500 --> 01:11:44,970
those steps be made be accessible?
966
01:11:45,280 --> 01:11:49,010
Yes, I definitely think a collaboration
between the City and the State
967
01:11:49,170 --> 01:11:55,050
because it’s definitely the State House
which is part of the Freedom Trail.
968
01:11:55,270 --> 01:11:58,420
When they have people with disabilities
on the Freedom Trail they have to detour
969
01:11:58,590 --> 01:12:00,420
and they can’t go on the standard route.
970
01:12:00,610 --> 01:12:02,550
It happens almost every day.
971
01:12:02,900 --> 01:12:04,840
So I think we can definitely
collaborate on that.
972
01:12:04,970 --> 01:12:10,260
I’ll put together a letter and have it
signed by the Superintendent of the State House.
973
01:12:11,370 --> 01:12:12,090
Great.
974
01:12:50,380 --> 01:12:51,880
To me this is personal.
975
01:12:53,550 --> 01:12:57,010
When I was seven years old
I was diagnosed with cancer.
976
01:12:57,610 --> 01:13:02,470
For 4 years I was treated at the Children’s
Hospital in Dana Farber Cancer Institute.
977
01:13:02,760 --> 01:13:07,800
And the people that were in our corner
every single day, the doctors were there,
978
01:13:08,340 --> 01:13:10,470
but around the clock it was the nurses.
979
01:13:10,750 --> 01:13:14,630
It was the nurses who we got to know.
It was the nurses who comforted my parents.
980
01:13:14,800 --> 01:13:18,300
It was the nurses who helped everybody. It was the nurses that held my hand.
981
01:13:18,470 --> 01:13:22,470
It was the nurses that did everything
in my life and I never forgot that.
982
01:13:22,670 --> 01:13:26,090
And it’s something that’s really important
for all of us never to forget.
983
01:13:26,260 --> 01:13:30,720
Because in a time of need in the hospital
it’s the nurses that show up at your bedside.
984
01:13:30,970 --> 01:13:34,420
It’s the nurses that comfort your families.
It’s the nurses that are there for you.
985
01:13:34,590 --> 01:13:39,630
And I want to thank you for that. And I want to
let you know that that’s why I’m here today.
986
01:13:39,790 --> 01:13:43,760
Because when I needed to be taken care of
and my family needed to be taken care of,
987
01:13:43,970 --> 01:13:45,920
it was the nurses that took care of my family.
988
01:13:46,090 --> 01:13:47,420
So thank you for that.
989
01:14:13,510 --> 01:14:16,380
Pedro and I have talked pretty extensively about
990
01:14:16,510 --> 01:14:22,130
some of the work that’s been being done
on the opioid crisis in Boston.
991
01:14:22,360 --> 01:14:25,880
Pedro expressed a particular interest in that work
992
01:14:26,350 --> 01:14:34,170
and in exploring how we might use public art
to inform or tell a story,
993
01:14:34,380 --> 01:14:37,760
or whatever it is we want to do
about that particular crisis.
994
01:14:37,800 --> 01:14:42,420
I told him the last time we met
about a couple things in particular.
995
01:14:43,100 --> 01:14:47,720
The Engagement Center and also the effort
to build a Recovery Campus on Long Island.
996
01:14:48,220 --> 01:14:54,630
And thought it would be a good idea to put
together this particular team who are working
997
01:14:54,930 --> 01:14:57,920
on arts and culture and the Recovery Campus
and the whole host of other things
998
01:14:58,870 --> 01:15:01,090
to have a conversation and see
if there’s something we might be
999
01:15:01,220 --> 01:15:04,720
thinking about doing in art and recovery.
1000
01:15:05,920 --> 01:15:10,550
Something small or something significant, I don’t know.
But it seems there’s a great opportunity if there are
1001
01:15:10,720 --> 01:15:13,970
patrons around who might like to help us
1002
01:15:14,220 --> 01:15:17,010
tell the story of the Recovery Campus or of the Engagement Center.
1003
01:15:17,170 --> 01:15:19,670
So I’d like to try and figure out how to,
1004
01:15:19,840 --> 01:15:24,720
if that’s something that you want to explore,
how to get you access to
1005
01:15:25,550 --> 01:15:27,010
these two places.
1006
01:15:27,320 --> 01:15:33,380
What’s interesting is that Long Island,
if you think about being the place that is the long term,
1007
01:15:33,730 --> 01:15:37,130
sort of recovery place for people,
1008
01:15:37,460 --> 01:15:40,840
kind of completing our continuum of care
that we offer as a city.
1009
01:15:41,010 --> 01:15:46,010
The Engagement Center is really the low end.
It is the thing that starts the continuum of care.
1010
01:15:48,090 --> 01:15:51,380
In bureaucratic speak called
a low threshold space because
1011
01:15:51,550 --> 01:15:54,510
even people who are kicked out of shelters, people kicked out of programs,
1012
01:15:54,760 --> 01:15:56,470
are allowed to be there.
You can be
1013
01:15:56,630 --> 01:16:00,470
in any state of mind
as long as you’re respecting the space.
1014
01:16:00,630 --> 01:16:03,380
You can come and sleep,
you can come and play games.
1015
01:16:03,630 --> 01:16:05,050
You’ll see some pictures.
1016
01:16:05,220 --> 01:16:10,010
What’s interesting is that we try
to make the best of what we had.
1017
01:16:10,300 --> 01:16:12,840
It was a storage tent basically.
1018
01:16:13,010 --> 01:16:16,920
Like with a structure.
Like it has air conditioning and it has
1019
01:16:16,920 --> 01:16:20,300
things you’d find in a building,
but it’s still canvas.
1020
01:16:20,420 --> 01:16:21,840
And so, very quickly
1021
01:16:22,340 --> 01:16:27,550
the most random assortment of ragtag gang
of people in the City from many departments
1022
01:16:27,720 --> 01:16:30,630
came together and figured out
what to do with this space
1023
01:16:30,970 --> 01:16:35,800
to make it habitable, but more importantly
to make it a place that people wanted to be.
1024
01:16:35,970 --> 01:16:37,670
Because we really wanted this
to be a place
1025
01:16:37,840 --> 01:16:43,340
where you’re not on the recovery spectrum yet.
You’re no necessarily wanting recovery.
1026
01:16:43,510 --> 01:16:46,800
Maybe you are, maybe you aren’t.
It’s just a place for people to go
1027
01:16:46,970 --> 01:16:48,590
so that they’re not on the streets,
1028
01:16:48,760 --> 01:16:53,470
so they’re not in danger of falling into the highway,
because that’s where this is located.
1029
01:16:53,910 --> 01:16:55,590
And just a place where people could
1030
01:16:56,090 --> 01:16:59,630
be their full selves. It’s important to people.
It’s home for a lot of people.
1031
01:17:00,010 --> 01:17:02,220
To follow up on what Sabrina said,
1032
01:17:02,380 --> 01:17:06,510
you were talking about your art in a way
that we’ve been talking about
1033
01:17:06,670 --> 01:17:11,380
some of the artistic approaches here
and we sort of discussed around a civic art.
1034
01:17:11,550 --> 01:17:17,170
It’s art that is not just public. It’s not just there
to see, but rather there’s some purpose,
1035
01:17:17,760 --> 01:17:20,840
or the artist or the community
can articulate
1036
01:17:21,010 --> 01:17:25,420
this is doing, this is this.
This is how we’re going to put it to use.
1037
01:17:25,720 --> 01:17:28,510
And here it’s not just because it looks nice.
1038
01:17:28,670 --> 01:17:32,380
It’s the little teeny things
that like push people into recovery.
1039
01:17:32,550 --> 01:17:38,220
The little breath of fresh air. Being able to talk
to somebody that gives some meaning to your day.
1040
01:17:39,010 --> 01:17:43,800
And that is totally what this space
could always use.
1041
01:17:44,220 --> 01:17:46,050
We’re year 2 into this.
1042
01:17:46,220 --> 01:17:49,260
We put some money in the capital budget
for a permanent space at some point,
1043
01:17:49,420 --> 01:17:51,920
but we have no idea how long it’s going to take to actually do that.
1044
01:17:52,090 --> 01:17:55,970
In the meantime, this space
is being very well utilized.
1045
01:17:56,130 --> 01:18:00,050
To the point where things are wearing out
faster than we would like them to.
1046
01:18:00,510 --> 01:18:03,590
So very cognizant of trying
to make sure that the place is
1047
01:18:04,130 --> 01:18:07,760
welcoming
and a good place for people to be.
1048
01:18:08,260 --> 01:18:10,720
But the administration is committed to
1049
01:18:10,880 --> 01:18:16,720
keeping an engagement center in some form
up and running pretty much permanently.
1050
01:18:17,700 --> 01:18:19,760
There are a number of people
who have found their way
1051
01:18:19,920 --> 01:18:21,760
to recovery
through the Engagement Center.
1052
01:18:23,010 --> 01:18:27,010
It’s like Steven said, it’s a low threshold space.
These are folks who
1053
01:18:27,130 --> 01:18:30,300
might not have even thought about that yet.
1054
01:18:30,380 --> 01:18:33,130
But at least having the ability
to ask for help,
1055
01:18:33,300 --> 01:18:37,220
makes it I think probably a little bit more likely
that you might actually ask for help.
1056
01:18:37,380 --> 01:18:39,840
A friendly space
allows you to take that first step.
1057
01:18:39,970 --> 01:18:41,470
- Springboard. Not even a step.
- Springboard.
1058
01:18:41,670 --> 01:18:44,590
Because there’s no
expectation of recovery.
1059
01:18:44,760 --> 01:18:49,170
it’s not like most other services, you don’t go there because you’re ready necessarily.
1060
01:18:49,380 --> 01:18:51,420
You can go there just to get your snack,
1061
01:18:51,590 --> 01:18:55,970
but then over enough time maybe
that will be the thing that springs you forward.
1062
01:18:56,130 --> 01:19:00,300
You got everything from 'hey I’m looking
for a coed space that I can be with my partner'
1063
01:19:00,510 --> 01:19:03,840
to 'I’ve been barred from all the other spaces
that the City provides,
1064
01:19:04,010 --> 01:19:07,630
but I definitely need to access
1065
01:19:07,880 --> 01:19:12,170
fruit cups in order to deal with
my low blood sugar.'
1066
01:19:12,340 --> 01:19:15,090
This space offered that opportunity
to provide that for them.
1067
01:19:15,300 --> 01:19:17,550
And then sort of ease them back
into being a part of
1068
01:19:18,510 --> 01:19:21,220
whatever they may have not been
a part of before.
1069
01:19:21,920 --> 01:19:26,920
It acted like an incredibly interesting mediation space for some, a social space for other,
1070
01:19:27,090 --> 01:19:28,760
a living room, a pit stop,
1071
01:19:29,010 --> 01:19:32,010
a sort of community
and again being in that meeting,
1072
01:19:32,170 --> 01:19:34,420
hearing everyone talk about this
is like a family.
1073
01:19:34,630 --> 01:19:36,590
So I think we’re in
a really interesting point where
1074
01:19:36,760 --> 01:19:39,300
yes, we’re trying to think about
how to refresh the space as a city,
1075
01:19:39,470 --> 01:19:43,090
trying to think about what does it mean to keep
the Engagement Center? What does that look like?
1076
01:19:43,260 --> 01:19:47,050
Does that mean more of them? Does it mean
a better version of what we have right now?
1077
01:19:47,350 --> 01:19:51,260
All that aside, also thinking about how do we
tell the story about what’s happening here?
1078
01:19:51,470 --> 01:19:55,380
Both on the level of the humanizing folks
and meeting people where they are,
1079
01:19:55,430 --> 01:20:00,260
but also functionally we’ve done something here
that clearly is filling a gap and a need
1080
01:20:00,750 --> 01:20:04,260
and really what’s the story
that Boston’s trying to tell around recovery?
1081
01:20:04,450 --> 01:20:06,340
Being such an epicenter, regionally?
1082
01:20:06,510 --> 01:20:09,720
So I think there’s some interesting connections
to think about.
1083
01:20:09,920 --> 01:20:11,630
How do we talk about this?
How do we talk
1084
01:20:11,760 --> 01:20:13,010
about Long Island?
1085
01:20:13,010 --> 01:20:18,760
Obviously there’s a political side to all of this too
because this exists in a neighborhood.
1086
01:20:19,090 --> 01:20:22,130
The South End neighborhood has been very good
1087
01:20:22,300 --> 01:20:26,300
about accepting the amount of social services
1088
01:20:26,760 --> 01:20:29,130
that have to be absorbed by that community because
1089
01:20:29,380 --> 01:20:33,420
the shelter is in that a neighborhood.
There’s a methadone clinic in that neighborhood.
1090
01:20:33,720 --> 01:20:37,340
So this is the corner of
Melnea Cass and Mass Ave.
1091
01:20:37,630 --> 01:20:40,920
People call it methadone mile.
We call it Recovery Road.
1092
01:20:42,590 --> 01:20:45,340
We need to do a better job of telling the story,
1093
01:20:45,510 --> 01:20:49,130
also lifting up the neighbors in the South End
who’ve been good
1094
01:20:49,470 --> 01:20:56,220
about absorbing all of this activity that
not every neighborhood would be so open to receiving.
1095
01:20:56,420 --> 01:21:02,090
It goes a long way that most people have
substance use disorders somewhere in their family.
1096
01:21:02,970 --> 01:21:06,470
Most people probably have it
pretty close in their families, so that helps,
1097
01:21:06,630 --> 01:21:10,840
but we owe it to them to tell a story
about why this is needed.
1098
01:21:11,420 --> 01:21:18,090
This is sort of a short term, it’s big for us,
but it’s also small and short term when you...
1099
01:21:18,670 --> 01:21:21,760
in the context of the Recovery Campus
on Long Island.
1100
01:21:22,130 --> 01:21:24,470
Much longer term project.
1101
01:21:24,760 --> 01:21:28,470
It calls for the rebuilding of a bridge
and obviously there’s a
1102
01:21:29,470 --> 01:21:32,720
a court case
that’s going to go on about that,
1103
01:21:33,010 --> 01:21:36,510
an argument between two municipalities
about how that gets done.
1104
01:21:36,840 --> 01:21:42,300
But Long Island was a place where a lot of programs
like this existed for many years.
1105
01:21:42,800 --> 01:21:45,920
And the Mayor’s made it clear that he wants to build
1106
01:21:46,350 --> 01:21:52,170
this Recovery Campus which will serve
long term residential programs in recovery.
1107
01:21:53,220 --> 01:21:57,090
Where it used to be there was a homeless shelter,
at least one homeless shelter, maybe two.
1108
01:21:57,590 --> 01:21:59,340
There was 2 shelters out there.
1109
01:21:59,510 --> 01:22:03,630
So where it used to be
there would be a night shelter.
1110
01:22:03,800 --> 01:22:08,130
That’s not going to be the case anymore.
It’s going to be focused on long term recovery.
1111
01:22:08,340 --> 01:22:09,630
It’s residential as opposed to
1112
01:22:09,800 --> 01:22:14,260
shuttling homeless people out at night and
bringing them back into the City in the morning.
1113
01:22:14,840 --> 01:22:19,220
So there’s a whole, where I actually don’t know what the latest update is on
1114
01:22:19,590 --> 01:22:24,260
when we could even expect a bridge to be rebuilt,
but it’s at least 3 or 4 years out.
1115
01:22:24,420 --> 01:22:26,920
In the meantime we’re thinking
about programming,
1116
01:22:27,090 --> 01:22:29,970
assessing the viability
of all the buildings that are out there
1117
01:22:30,340 --> 01:22:33,340
and trying to figure out how
to tell the story of Long Island.
1118
01:22:33,880 --> 01:22:37,800
Because we definitely have a story that we need
to tell because we need to build
1119
01:22:38,010 --> 01:22:41,300
political will to actually
make the Recovery Campus happen.
1120
01:22:41,510 --> 01:22:43,590
So that it can serve not just Bostonians,
1121
01:22:43,760 --> 01:22:48,510
but people dealing with substance use disorders
from around the greater Boston area.
1122
01:22:48,670 --> 01:22:54,800
So there’s some great opportunity there for storytelling
and we’re very much in the beginning stages of that.
1123
01:22:55,050 --> 01:22:57,170
I think I’ve mentioned Swoon in the past.
1124
01:22:57,670 --> 01:23:01,340
Swoon she was actually,
I mean this is public.
1125
01:23:01,630 --> 01:23:05,300
She was raised by...
her parents were addicts.
1126
01:23:05,840 --> 01:23:07,800
Heroin if I remember correctly.
1127
01:23:09,760 --> 01:23:15,550
So it’s a topic that she’s very attuned to
and I think
1128
01:23:15,880 --> 01:23:18,760
she’s made it clear
that she wants to dedicate
1129
01:23:19,050 --> 01:23:25,010
maybe the rest of her career to
really looking at addiction and trauma.
1130
01:23:26,260 --> 01:23:29,090
And how you know,
trauma leads to addiction.
1131
01:23:31,550 --> 01:23:37,720
So the project I did with her in Philadelphia,
she worked with
1132
01:23:39,420 --> 01:23:41,340
men at Graterford State Prison
1133
01:23:41,720 --> 01:23:46,220
Inmates, of the largest state prison, maximum
security prison in the state of Pennsylvania.
1134
01:23:47,130 --> 01:23:49,840
Women in a re-entry program and...
1135
01:23:51,130 --> 01:23:51,800
I’m sorry.
1136
01:23:52,260 --> 01:23:54,840
Women in halfway house
and a re-entry program.
1137
01:23:55,510 --> 01:23:58,630
The most important thing
was the element of telling the story.
1138
01:23:59,420 --> 01:24:05,420
She worked with participants
to teach them how to tell their story.
1139
01:24:06,050 --> 01:24:09,420
And we were all crying. It was so...
1140
01:24:09,550 --> 01:24:12,090
you know, powerful.
1141
01:24:13,800 --> 01:24:16,470
I think that the oral histories
1142
01:24:17,090 --> 01:24:19,510
are very important.
1143
01:24:19,670 --> 01:24:24,670
The portrayal of people
who we often forget about,
1144
01:24:25,010 --> 01:24:31,340
disregard,
are really important tools for humanization.
1145
01:24:31,510 --> 01:24:32,970
So much of recovery
1146
01:24:33,300 --> 01:24:36,470
is about story telling anyway.
Who knows what tomorrow might bring
1147
01:24:36,760 --> 01:24:41,260
and so I think the more that
we can use these stories
1148
01:24:41,970 --> 01:24:47,260
to put them out there, but also to really put
at the center of all this work,
1149
01:24:47,380 --> 01:24:51,380
the idea of storytelling.
Or, the idea of like owning your story
1150
01:24:52,470 --> 01:24:53,470
and sharing it.
1151
01:26:21,760 --> 01:26:24,720
I think a fan belt inside the generator
1152
01:26:25,130 --> 01:26:26,380
caught fire. So,
1153
01:26:26,880 --> 01:26:32,380
they extinguished it. I think they shut the power off.
They’re on their way down now.
1154
01:28:15,510 --> 01:28:19,220
I just want to give a brief background
of how this event came to be.
1155
01:28:20,300 --> 01:28:25,380
For those of you familiar with Sebastian Junger,
who’s a writer, his last book was called Tribe.
1156
01:28:26,300 --> 01:28:30,470
In this book he explores
the concept around homecoming
1157
01:28:30,630 --> 01:28:33,300
and belonging
within the Veterans community.
1158
01:28:33,970 --> 01:28:38,050
And he often talks about
how the best thing a community can do
1159
01:28:39,010 --> 01:28:46,130
for our Veterans is to listen to their stories
without judgment and with full support.
1160
01:28:47,550 --> 01:28:50,800
And this is what this Town Hall
is intended to do.
1161
01:28:51,300 --> 01:28:52,720
This is a community forum
1162
01:28:53,300 --> 01:28:57,470
aiming to establish greater understanding
between local Veterans
1163
01:28:57,720 --> 01:29:00,260
and the friends and neighbors
that they fought for.
1164
01:29:00,720 --> 01:29:06,800
We took care of English and American soldiers
when they came back from the front.
1165
01:29:07,130 --> 01:29:12,260
Some of the soldier’s wounds would heal
and they were able to get up,
1166
01:29:12,720 --> 01:29:15,880
but most of them were bed patients.
1167
01:29:16,380 --> 01:29:18,470
We helped the soldiers recuperate
1168
01:29:19,130 --> 01:29:22,090
from physical and mental injuries.
1169
01:29:22,840 --> 01:29:25,970
Back then we called it shell shock.
1170
01:29:26,880 --> 01:29:30,510
We tried to keep the soldier’s spirits up.
1171
01:29:31,050 --> 01:29:38,260
Many of the soldiers had lost a leg or an arm
or sometimes both legs and arms.
1172
01:29:41,050 --> 01:29:48,260
Those men were sent to Walter Reed to receive
artificial limbs and appendages.
1173
01:29:48,970 --> 01:29:52,340
I had a patient
who wrote a letter to his wife
1174
01:29:52,800 --> 01:29:54,510
to tell her that he had lost his leg.
1175
01:29:55,670 --> 01:29:58,170
He was worried that she wouldn’t want him
1176
01:29:58,630 --> 01:29:59,880
when he came home.
1177
01:30:00,550 --> 01:30:06,800
But his wife wrote to him and told him
that she was just so happy that he was alive.
1178
01:30:06,970 --> 01:30:09,050
He cried and I cried too.
1179
01:30:09,340 --> 01:30:13,550
The Street right down a few houses
away from me
1180
01:30:13,670 --> 01:30:18,720
was named Andrew Biggio Square and
as I was introduced, that’s my name.
1181
01:30:19,380 --> 01:30:23,510
Except that Square was not named after me.
It was named after my uncle
1182
01:30:23,720 --> 01:30:26,010
who was killed in action in World War II.
1183
01:30:26,920 --> 01:30:28,630
The first Andrew Biggio.
1184
01:30:30,300 --> 01:30:32,090
When I was a kid
I didn’t know anything about it.
1185
01:30:32,220 --> 01:30:36,130
I told the other kids just what my parents told me
that it was named after my uncle.
1186
01:30:36,590 --> 01:30:41,630
It wasn’t until I was getting ready
to go to my first tour in Iraq...
1187
01:30:42,130 --> 01:30:46,300
I was looking at that Street sign
saying Andrew Biggio Square
1188
01:30:47,630 --> 01:30:50,220
and it was a weird feeling knowing that
1189
01:30:50,840 --> 01:30:51,840
I was the...
1190
01:30:52,630 --> 01:30:54,510
I'm the next Andrew Biggio to go to war
1191
01:30:54,670 --> 01:30:57,970
and the first Andrew Biggio went to war and didn’t come back,so...
1192
01:30:58,670 --> 01:31:02,670
I survived Iraq.
I survived a tour in Afghanistan
1193
01:31:03,260 --> 01:31:06,970
and I came home and I was staring
at that Street sign again and I said
1194
01:31:07,130 --> 01:31:12,840
I got to find out what happened to that first
Andrew Biggio on that hill in Italy in 1944.
1195
01:31:13,300 --> 01:31:17,840
I went to my grandmother’s house. I asked her if she still
had Andrew’s letters that he wrote home from World War II.
1196
01:31:18,010 --> 01:31:22,840
She said she did. I went upstairs. I pulled the
shoebox out of letters and I started reading them.
1197
01:31:23,260 --> 01:31:26,670
I started to track down men
from his company that were with him.
1198
01:31:28,840 --> 01:31:31,130
It went from men from his company
1199
01:31:31,590 --> 01:31:36,010
to different types of Veterans and I ended up covering
almost the whole war on the rifle as far as
1200
01:31:36,130 --> 01:31:38,880
divisions, places, battles.
1201
01:31:40,800 --> 01:31:42,550
How did I get the rifle?
1202
01:31:42,840 --> 01:31:45,090
I go through Andrew’s letters and I read
1203
01:31:45,420 --> 01:31:47,760
on how much he enjoyed to shoot
the M1 Garand.
1204
01:31:48,670 --> 01:31:51,550
I said I’m going to buy an M1.
We should have this
1205
01:31:51,970 --> 01:31:56,300
in our family history, we should have it forever.
He died carrying this kind of a rifle.
1206
01:31:56,550 --> 01:31:58,550
I purchased the M1
1207
01:31:58,720 --> 01:32:01,800
and I’m in my house
and I’m aiming in at the wall and I’m
1208
01:32:02,300 --> 01:32:07,260
playing Army man again at 30 years old
in my living room.
1209
01:32:08,010 --> 01:32:10,090
But I said, who do I bring this to?
1210
01:32:10,260 --> 01:32:14,720
I can’t show my family. Would they
really understand? They’re not Veterans.
1211
01:32:15,010 --> 01:32:17,760
It’s great, but now what?
I bought the rifle, now what?
1212
01:32:17,920 --> 01:32:22,510
How do I fit the puzzle piece together
on what happened to that first Andrew Biggio?
1213
01:32:23,550 --> 01:32:26,920
So I thought about my neighbor.
My next door neighbor, Joe.
1214
01:32:27,260 --> 01:32:33,010
He had fought in the Battle of Okinawa
and was a grouchy prick to me my whole life.
1215
01:32:35,170 --> 01:32:39,920
Anytime a foul ball would land
in his backyard I’d hear an earful from,
1216
01:32:40,090 --> 01:32:45,010
he wouldn’t crack a smile to me
until I graduated Marine Corp Bootcamp.
1217
01:32:45,340 --> 01:32:48,720
Then I started to see him
wave to me from his yard.
1218
01:32:48,880 --> 01:32:54,130
The relationship became different.
So I said I’m going to go show this rifle to Joe.
1219
01:32:54,470 --> 01:32:59,300
I went to his house, opened the door and he’s sitting
in the wheelchair. He was 92 at the time.
1220
01:33:00,720 --> 01:33:02,920
And I said hey, check what I bought.
1221
01:33:03,090 --> 01:33:07,300
I placed the rifle which was empty,
not covered in signatures like it is now,
1222
01:33:07,590 --> 01:33:09,590
I put the rifle into his arms.
1223
01:33:10,260 --> 01:33:13,420
He was in his recliner.
His legs had atrophited
1224
01:33:13,590 --> 01:33:17,380
to nothing after years of not being able
to walk at his age and illness,
1225
01:33:17,880 --> 01:33:20,260
and he brightened up.
1226
01:33:20,590 --> 01:33:22,920
It was like a burst of energy
soared through his body.
1227
01:33:23,050 --> 01:33:27,170
He started waving the rifle around the room,
smiling like he was 18 years old again.
1228
01:33:27,300 --> 01:33:30,510
I said holy crap,
I am holding something special.
1229
01:33:31,670 --> 01:33:34,760
He said go into his top drawer.
1230
01:33:36,510 --> 01:33:38,340
I want you to have these now.
1231
01:33:38,760 --> 01:33:44,090
I went into his top drawer,
I pulled out a velvet Crown Royal bag.
1232
01:33:46,130 --> 01:33:48,920
Inside of it were Japanese gold teeth.
1233
01:33:49,470 --> 01:33:51,510
He said, I want you to have these now.
1234
01:33:52,380 --> 01:33:58,670
Now, I’m not sitting here justifying war
or what happened in the 1940s, but
1235
01:33:59,340 --> 01:34:02,550
I figured out this is why this man
was a grouch.
1236
01:34:02,920 --> 01:34:06,130
I finally understand what was
bothering this man my whole life
1237
01:34:06,300 --> 01:34:08,840
and what he had seen
and what he had went through.
1238
01:34:10,550 --> 01:34:15,800
I wanted to, this was more than just
oh my God, let me hear a war story.
1239
01:34:16,050 --> 01:34:18,510
He began to pass on the advice,
1240
01:34:18,720 --> 01:34:24,260
life advice and suggestions on how
to live a long successful life after combat.
1241
01:34:24,630 --> 01:34:27,170
I was 28
1242
01:34:28,220 --> 01:34:31,630
when I had this conversation with him
and he was 92.
1243
01:34:32,510 --> 01:34:36,510
I said, I want to remember this forever.
I said Joe sign the rifle.
1244
01:34:36,840 --> 01:34:38,550
He was the first signature on it.
1245
01:34:38,920 --> 01:34:41,010
I left his house and I said I’m going to go around
1246
01:34:41,130 --> 01:34:44,970
and get as many World War II
Veteran signatures as possible.
1247
01:34:45,130 --> 01:34:49,380
I want to be able to pass on to the younger Veterans
how to live a long successful life,
1248
01:34:49,630 --> 01:34:51,510
to have a career, have a job
1249
01:34:51,970 --> 01:34:56,590
If these men could do it, what they saw
in Okinawa, Iwo Jima, Normandy, Burma,
1250
01:34:57,010 --> 01:35:01,630
France, Belgium, Germany,
Saipan, Tarawa, Tinian,
1251
01:35:02,420 --> 01:35:04,760
that our generation could do it too.
1252
01:35:05,420 --> 01:35:07,260
And that is the story of the rifle.
1253
01:35:08,550 --> 01:35:09,380
We come out
1254
01:35:09,760 --> 01:35:11,800
of the factory,
and for you Ramadi vets,
1255
01:35:12,090 --> 01:35:13,800
we’re out on Route Michigan
1256
01:35:15,340 --> 01:35:18,050
and we stop two possible VBEDs.
1257
01:35:21,130 --> 01:35:26,920
They’re both coming down Michigan
to the point that we have
1258
01:35:27,340 --> 01:35:28,550
I believe two Humvees.
1259
01:35:28,840 --> 01:35:34,010
We stop. Everyone dismounts to get more guns
down range to back off the vehicles.
1260
01:35:36,420 --> 01:35:39,760
While that happened
about 450 to 600 meters out
1261
01:35:40,300 --> 01:35:45,260
I look at what would be known as the
White Apartments for anybody that served in Ramadi.
1262
01:35:47,260 --> 01:35:49,420
There’s three military aged males or...
1263
01:35:50,840 --> 01:35:54,300
At that time because I’m old in comparison
to these new kids, Al-Qaeda,
1264
01:35:54,550 --> 01:35:56,720
on a roof
and they’re tactically observing us.
1265
01:35:57,050 --> 01:35:58,800
So I go to take the shot
1266
01:35:59,720 --> 01:36:03,920
and then its Ramadi, it’s the middle of the day.
Everyone’s getting sniped, everyone’s getting killed.
1267
01:36:04,090 --> 01:36:08,170
I’m going to tell the Lieutenant I’m making the shot
so guys don’t think its incoming fire.
1268
01:36:08,720 --> 01:36:11,840
When I go to take the shot,
the whole thing was a setup.
1269
01:36:12,760 --> 01:36:14,760
It was a sniper from my three.
1270
01:36:14,880 --> 01:36:19,090
So I turned at the last second
before I took the shot to tell the Lieutenant.
1271
01:36:20,920 --> 01:36:23,800
The round actually blew
through my holographic sight
1272
01:36:24,010 --> 01:36:25,920
and into the side of my chest.
1273
01:36:26,380 --> 01:36:28,380
But I didn’t know that at the time.
1274
01:36:29,010 --> 01:36:31,090
So, I said I’m hit.
1275
01:36:31,920 --> 01:36:36,630
I get in the Humvee and then I said no,
I said I’m good.
1276
01:36:36,800 --> 01:36:41,380
I said it’s not being top. I said your adrenalin goes
through the roof. Anybody that’s been shot here,
1277
01:36:41,800 --> 01:36:46,010
my man over there knows to say the least.
And I said no, I’m good.
1278
01:36:46,170 --> 01:36:48,510
They stop the Humvee,
I go to get back out of it,
1279
01:36:48,720 --> 01:36:52,130
I open the door and my platoon sergeant
reaches over and grabs me
1280
01:36:52,380 --> 01:36:54,800
because blood's coming out
of the side of my chest.
1281
01:36:54,970 --> 01:36:56,300
And I know at that point
1282
01:36:57,840 --> 01:36:59,590
he hit me exactly where he wanted to hit me,
1283
01:36:59,760 --> 01:37:02,380
they were shooting through the side
of the pectoral into the heart.
1284
01:37:02,550 --> 01:37:05,880
We believe that same sniper killed
a couple of my friends the same exact way.
1285
01:37:06,170 --> 01:37:11,340
They rushed me into the forward operating base
and on the operating table.
1286
01:37:14,670 --> 01:37:20,880
I think OK, maybe a piece of plate got me.
I feel good. I’m feeling fine.
1287
01:37:25,380 --> 01:37:28,170
I get out of the Humvee and
that’s always a big thing. Everybody knows
1288
01:37:28,340 --> 01:37:31,590
if you can walk in the hospital,
even if you die on the floor,
1289
01:37:31,760 --> 01:37:35,220
if you walk into the hospital, that’s how it goes.
So I said don’t touch me.
1290
01:37:35,380 --> 01:37:36,670
Take my clothes off
1291
01:37:36,840 --> 01:37:40,300
and one of the baddest guys
I’ve ever met in my entire life
1292
01:37:40,470 --> 01:37:46,090
that had survived a battle over there
with a handful of our guys getting killed
1293
01:37:46,420 --> 01:37:48,220
and you know he was...
1294
01:37:53,170 --> 01:37:55,720
one of two survivors
out of like seven guys.
1295
01:37:56,300 --> 01:37:58,260
He looks at me and he’s mortified.
1296
01:37:58,470 --> 01:38:01,260
And I have a big gaping hole
on the side of my chest.
1297
01:38:01,420 --> 01:38:04,340
What happened was because it shot
through my holographic sight,
1298
01:38:04,550 --> 01:38:06,420
it created like buckshot.
1299
01:38:06,590 --> 01:38:10,840
So now at this point I’m like,
I know I’m going to die. It is what it is.
1300
01:38:11,260 --> 01:38:14,550
I believe in the cause, I feel good,
you know, in terms of like
1301
01:38:14,840 --> 01:38:18,170
hey this is what it’s going to be,
I’m a true believer.
1302
01:38:18,510 --> 01:38:20,590
They get me on the operating table
1303
01:38:22,300 --> 01:38:24,630
I’m saying, no but I, you know,
I feel good.
1304
01:38:24,970 --> 01:38:28,470
They tell me the bullet’s still inside so everyone’s
just waiting for me to bleed out on the table,
1305
01:38:28,790 --> 01:38:30,590
bleed out internally and die.
1306
01:38:31,470 --> 01:38:34,670
My Commanding Officer’s holding my hand
and he said,
1307
01:38:34,840 --> 01:38:40,510
hey you know Kurt, hang in there buddy.
Do you know what the date is?
1308
01:38:42,010 --> 01:38:44,970
Do you know what’s going on?
And I said I know what you’re doing.
1309
01:38:45,130 --> 01:38:46,970
I said today’s October 10th.
1310
01:38:48,590 --> 01:38:50,720
I said I’m a lifelong Patriot’s fan.
1311
01:38:50,880 --> 01:38:54,800
Adam Vinatieri just kicked the game winning
field goal. Best kicker in football.
1312
01:38:56,220 --> 01:38:59,300
I looked around the operating room
and everyone was mortified,
1313
01:38:59,900 --> 01:39:01,800
but they knew I was going to survive.
1314
01:39:04,670 --> 01:39:06,220
I make it through surgery
1315
01:39:06,420 --> 01:39:08,130
and they said you know son,
1316
01:39:08,340 --> 01:39:12,130
thank you for your service, you’re going to go
from Ramadi to Bagdad, Bagdad to Germany,
1317
01:39:12,300 --> 01:39:15,300
Germany back to the United States.
1318
01:39:15,470 --> 01:39:19,090
I said with all due respect, everyone’s dying,
I’m not going anywhere.
1319
01:39:19,260 --> 01:39:22,470
And they said, you’re stupid.
They said
1320
01:39:24,010 --> 01:39:28,300
the bullet’s still in there,
your chest isn’t going to close.
1321
01:39:28,510 --> 01:39:30,300
No granulation. You need skin grafts.
1322
01:39:30,500 --> 01:39:33,510
You’re going to get infected
and you’re going to die over here.
1323
01:39:33,670 --> 01:39:37,720
And I said like it is what it is.
1324
01:39:38,130 --> 01:39:41,220
I’m staying.
And I checked myself out of the hospital.
1325
01:39:41,510 --> 01:39:46,760
I talked to my father via Sat phone
and then always one of my biggest supporters,
1326
01:39:47,090 --> 01:39:50,970
I called my Aunt.
She’s a former nun who then went onto be
1327
01:39:51,130 --> 01:39:52,970
very successful on Wall Street,
1328
01:39:53,380 --> 01:39:57,300
a no nonsense kind of woman
who grew up here in the City of Boston.
1329
01:39:57,590 --> 01:40:01,550
And I said, you know, I need you
to grab my back in this. I said I got shot.
1330
01:40:01,760 --> 01:40:05,920
And I’m staying. And she said,
well I wouldn’t expect anything differently.
1331
01:40:08,260 --> 01:40:10,880
I continued to fight on the ground
for eight more months
1332
01:40:11,380 --> 01:40:15,470
and you know, it was heavy.
We lost guys
1333
01:40:17,010 --> 01:40:19,260
but I wouldn’t have done it any differently.
1334
01:40:19,420 --> 01:40:21,260
I’m an open book and I tell everyone:
1335
01:40:21,920 --> 01:40:27,090
listen, war is war and it's tough, but honestly
the hardest part was coming home.
1336
01:40:27,720 --> 01:40:31,590
I said I actually know Tommy because
I went through the home base program
1337
01:40:31,760 --> 01:40:34,510
and same thing,
not to get too organization specific.
1338
01:40:34,670 --> 01:40:37,130
But it was the best thing I ever did.
1339
01:40:39,340 --> 01:40:41,380
Because I said I wasn’t scared.
1340
01:40:41,670 --> 01:40:44,920
I wasn’t scared when I hit IEDs.
I wasn’t scared when I was shot
1341
01:40:45,090 --> 01:40:47,670
I knew I was going to die,
but I said when I came home
1342
01:40:48,090 --> 01:40:50,340
and I’m on the side of 93C and my family
1343
01:40:50,510 --> 01:40:56,300
and Local 103 has Welcome Home from Iraq,
Sergeant Kurt Power. I said it hit me.
1344
01:40:57,420 --> 01:41:00,130
What am I doing back here?
I don’t belong here anymore.
1345
01:41:00,260 --> 01:41:03,920
I had never thought I would have to prepare for it
because I never thought I was going to survive.
1346
01:41:04,090 --> 01:41:05,130
And there was a...
1347
01:41:05,920 --> 01:41:08,130
for guys and gals
that were over
1348
01:41:08,300 --> 01:41:10,170
there’s a certain comfort level to that.
1349
01:41:10,670 --> 01:41:12,840
Listen we’re all
going to die someday right?
1350
01:41:13,220 --> 01:41:16,170
You know it’s sooner than later over there,
well then why sweat it?
1351
01:41:16,510 --> 01:41:20,220
That’s the reality of it.
The best way to honor the guys
1352
01:41:20,380 --> 01:41:23,970
that didn’t make it home is to do what you can
to make the world a better place
1353
01:41:25,470 --> 01:41:29,840
That’s how I live my life every day
and I just want everyone to know
1354
01:41:30,420 --> 01:41:33,970
that our coming home and our going through things
that you’re not alone.
1355
01:41:34,260 --> 01:41:36,590
We’re all in this together. Because
1356
01:41:36,760 --> 01:41:38,800
we’re losing 22 Veterans a day
1357
01:41:38,970 --> 01:41:42,510
because everyone thinks they’re the only one
that ever went through anything.
1358
01:41:42,920 --> 01:41:48,880
Nightmares and cold sweats and anxiety,
that’s all part of the process.
1359
01:41:49,050 --> 01:41:52,300
The only way we’re going to get people to get help
1360
01:41:52,510 --> 01:41:55,380
and to continue to live another day
1361
01:41:56,090 --> 01:42:00,090
is by being open and talking about it.
So keep fighting.
1362
01:42:00,170 --> 01:42:04,670
Keep fighting for the guys that didn’t make it.
Keep fighting for the gals that didn’t make it.
1363
01:42:05,590 --> 01:42:10,220
We’re proud of all of you. Thank you so much
for your service and God bless America.
1364
01:42:11,760 --> 01:42:13,220
We went further north.
In Ai Quoc.
1365
01:42:13,550 --> 01:42:17,630
You can see it in Ken Burns’ documentary.
He focuses on Con Thien.
1366
01:42:18,010 --> 01:42:20,550
But we were at Con Thien. We were
at Geo Lin, at Camp Caroll
1367
01:42:20,720 --> 01:42:23,970
and almost every time we went to one
of those places we were under siege.
1368
01:42:24,340 --> 01:42:26,090
And they were shooting rockets.
1369
01:42:26,260 --> 01:42:31,470
We could literally look right into North Vietnam.
We could see the little sparks from the artillery guns.
1370
01:42:31,720 --> 01:42:34,880
And they’d usually fire three at a time.
They’d fire them every hour.
1371
01:42:35,260 --> 01:42:39,800
Some of you have seen
the Boston Marathon bombing.
1372
01:42:40,090 --> 01:42:43,550
Remember the panic when the first bomb went off
and folks started running one way
1373
01:42:43,720 --> 01:42:46,090
and another bomb went off
and folks didn’t know what to do?
1374
01:42:46,340 --> 01:42:48,840
That’s what was happening to us every hour.
1375
01:42:49,010 --> 01:42:53,470
Three artillery rounds would come in
and guys were literally getting blown to bits.
1376
01:42:55,090 --> 01:42:55,920
It was clear
1377
01:42:56,090 --> 01:43:00,340
that we were being sacrificed. We were at the most
northern outpost that the Marines had.
1378
01:43:02,470 --> 01:43:07,630
It was almost like we were a pawn
in somebody’s chess game.
1379
01:43:08,130 --> 01:43:10,090
And I had the opportunity to call home.
1380
01:43:10,470 --> 01:43:12,130
I called my mother
1381
01:43:12,300 --> 01:43:14,800
and the first thing I said to her was Ma,
I want to just
1382
01:43:14,970 --> 01:43:19,470
apologize to you for all the problems
I caused you when I was in high school.
1383
01:43:19,970 --> 01:43:21,590
She said why are you
talking to me like this?
1384
01:43:21,760 --> 01:43:24,380
I said because you’ll probably
never see me again.
1385
01:43:24,550 --> 01:43:27,380
She said what do you mean?
I said everybody in my unit’s dying.
1386
01:43:28,090 --> 01:43:32,220
We’re the most northern outpost
that the Marines have. We’re surrounded.
1387
01:43:32,510 --> 01:43:35,670
They’re bombarding us every day.
Sometimes they don’t even bring us water.
1388
01:43:35,800 --> 01:43:37,840
We have to drink mud and eat grass.
1389
01:43:38,010 --> 01:43:42,550
And my mother said, you’re not going to die.
I said Ma, I’m trying to tell you something.
1390
01:43:42,720 --> 01:43:48,300
She said, I talk to God every day.
And you’re special. You’re coming back.
1391
01:43:48,630 --> 01:43:51,670
I said Ma, everybody’s mother
thinks they’re special.
1392
01:43:52,260 --> 01:43:55,260
I’m putting pieces of special people in bags.
Listen to what I’m saying.
1393
01:43:55,420 --> 01:43:58,220
Don’t believe what you read in the Globe
or what you see on the 6:00 news.
1394
01:43:58,380 --> 01:44:01,130
We’re losing the war.
We’re being sacrificed.
1395
01:44:01,220 --> 01:44:03,170
You’re probably not going to see me again
and she kept saying,
1396
01:44:03,340 --> 01:44:07,760
you’re coming back. She tried to tell a joke.
She said besides, you got to come back.
1397
01:44:07,920 --> 01:44:09,550
I said what do you mean?
She said,
1398
01:44:09,880 --> 01:44:10,920
if you don’t come back
who’s going to pay
1399
01:44:11,170 --> 01:44:13,630
this telephone bill?
And everytime I see or hear
1400
01:44:13,970 --> 01:44:17,130
anything about Veterans
who lost their lives in Vietnam,
1401
01:44:17,300 --> 01:44:20,760
I pull up on the corner and I see guys with the cardboard placards
1402
01:44:21,010 --> 01:44:24,840
and their cups, I realize how blessed I am.
Having gone through all that
1403
01:44:26,010 --> 01:44:31,260
everything that I do I do it for them.
I do it for the guys that didn’t make it back.
1404
01:44:31,420 --> 01:44:34,510
I do it for the guys who lost their arms and legs
and guys who
1405
01:44:35,170 --> 01:44:36,550
even lost their minds.
1406
01:44:36,720 --> 01:44:41,840
I long for the day with all this technology, like
we walk around with computers in our pockets,
1407
01:44:42,340 --> 01:44:46,130
I long for the day
when we can evolve to a point where
1408
01:44:46,420 --> 01:44:49,880
we can resolve conflicts without sending
our sons and daughters to kill each other.
1409
01:44:50,380 --> 01:44:54,010
Let us not forget the total cost of war.
1410
01:44:54,380 --> 01:45:00,380
World War I was among the deadliest conflicts
in human history up to that time at least.
1411
01:45:01,010 --> 01:45:06,050
The total number of military
and civilian casualties in World War I
1412
01:45:06,550 --> 01:45:10,470
was around 40 million people.
1413
01:45:11,550 --> 01:45:14,010
40 million people
1414
01:45:15,760 --> 01:45:20,090
of which 9.7 military personnel
1415
01:45:20,090 --> 01:45:26,760
and approximately 10 million civilians lost
their lives as a direct result of this conflict.
1416
01:45:27,420 --> 01:45:33,340
About 23 million military personnel
were also wounded.
1417
01:45:35,050 --> 01:45:39,840
In the United States which was isolated
from the combat conflict in Europe,
1418
01:45:40,760 --> 01:45:48,970
321,000 military casualties was approximately 3 %
of the total military casualties of the Great War.
1419
01:45:50,010 --> 01:45:55,010
To put things in perspective,
and why this date is so important,
1420
01:45:55,840 --> 01:45:58,260
90 million casualties of
1421
01:45:58,420 --> 01:45:59,670
World War II
1422
01:46:00,840 --> 01:46:05,800
and later conflicts further signified
having a day each year
1423
01:46:05,970 --> 01:46:07,920
to honor and remember
1424
01:46:08,470 --> 01:46:10,800
all Veterans and their sacrifice
1425
01:46:11,300 --> 01:46:15,050
to protect our freedoms
and their way of life.
1426
01:46:16,050 --> 01:46:19,380
Thank you for your service
to our country.
1427
01:46:20,470 --> 01:46:22,590
Thank you for your sacrifice
to our country.
1428
01:46:23,260 --> 01:46:26,010
To your loved ones,
thank you to your loved ones as well.
1429
01:46:26,170 --> 01:46:28,970
Because oftentimes we don’t realize that
1430
01:46:30,420 --> 01:46:33,971
families are affected
by not having their loved ones here.
1431
01:46:34,486 --> 01:46:37,050
Any gold star families here?
We pray for you
1432
01:46:37,220 --> 01:46:41,260
and thank you as well.
I have a great uncle that fought in World War I.
1433
01:46:42,387 --> 01:46:44,550
My family and my father
didn’t talk about him much.
1434
01:46:45,340 --> 01:46:47,804
His name was Patrick and he left Ireland
1435
01:46:47,971 --> 01:46:52,470
to America and came to South Boston
and he enlisted in the Army.
1436
01:46:52,679 --> 01:46:55,637
He went over to France
and never came home.
1437
01:46:55,880 --> 01:46:58,762
I was at an event right after I got elected Mayor,
1438
01:46:59,262 --> 01:47:02,054
and I was talking to some
World War I guys about
1439
01:47:04,090 --> 01:47:08,470
about keeping the memory alive
of World War I service members.
1440
01:47:09,090 --> 01:47:13,012
And they sent me his draft, his card.
The day he signed up.
1441
01:47:13,420 --> 01:47:17,179
And they sent me the letter that they sent to his brother Jimmy when he died,
1442
01:47:17,387 --> 01:47:19,012
when he got killed in action.
1443
01:47:19,637 --> 01:47:21,721
We never talked about in the house
and never really
1444
01:47:22,012 --> 01:47:24,679
thought about it much.
And my father never talked about it.
1445
01:47:24,880 --> 01:47:26,346
I grew up in an Irish home,
1446
01:47:26,710 --> 01:47:29,596
you didn’t talk about your things
and I’m not a Veteran.
1447
01:47:30,090 --> 01:47:35,630
But I know the importance of telling
what’s on your heart sometimes.
1448
01:47:36,420 --> 01:47:39,800
I’m in recovery.
So my connection
1449
01:47:40,130 --> 01:47:42,137
to getting help is in recovery.
1450
01:47:43,380 --> 01:47:46,300
I grew up in Dorchester,
1451
01:47:46,470 --> 01:47:49,096
I went to work construction
and you didn’t tell your feelings back then
1452
01:47:49,262 --> 01:47:51,429
when you’re drinking and things like that.
1453
01:47:51,590 --> 01:47:53,590
My drinking got out of control
1454
01:47:54,840 --> 01:47:56,804
so much that I ended up in detox.
1455
01:47:57,760 --> 01:48:00,096
It was the last place that I wanted to be.
1456
01:48:00,590 --> 01:48:02,170
But when I was in there...
1457
01:48:03,050 --> 01:48:06,721
I didn’t go there to stop drinking.
went there to get the heat off me.
1458
01:48:07,510 --> 01:48:10,510
But while I was in there
the first night a meeting came in,
1459
01:48:10,800 --> 01:48:15,920
you know, an AA meeting came in and they talked
and whatever it was I was interested.
1460
01:48:16,220 --> 01:48:18,346
It kind of perked my interest
and the rest of that week,
1461
01:48:18,554 --> 01:48:22,679
I listened to talk of addiction.
1462
01:48:23,970 --> 01:48:26,346
And I learned about what alcoholism was.
1463
01:48:27,470 --> 01:48:30,346
And when you get out of there
you’re not cured.
1464
01:48:30,800 --> 01:48:33,637
The key for me is the aftercare.
1465
01:48:34,096 --> 01:48:36,596
And 23 years later
I’m still working on it.
1466
01:48:37,380 --> 01:48:41,137
And you think about every now and then about
situations you might have put yourself in.
1467
01:48:41,429 --> 01:48:44,804
And if you don’t deal with it
and you don’t talk to somebody else about it,
1468
01:48:44,971 --> 01:48:46,679
it’s going to stay inside of you.
1469
01:48:46,840 --> 01:48:51,170
Because whether you’re in the battlefield
and you come home
1470
01:48:51,800 --> 01:48:54,800
or you’re in the barroom
and you’re not talking about it,
1471
01:48:55,260 --> 01:48:59,679
or you’re in a dark room where they’re putting
a needle in your arm, and not talking about it,
1472
01:48:59,846 --> 01:49:01,846
there’s no way of helping.
1473
01:49:02,050 --> 01:49:06,887
And I equate, I connect the...
not the same way because it’s very different.
1474
01:49:08,010 --> 01:49:15,760
The fighting for your country and coming back
is different on the surface of alcoholism,
1475
01:49:16,050 --> 01:49:18,380
but inside it’s all the same.
1476
01:49:19,340 --> 01:49:22,387
It’s that feeling that hopeless, what I had,
1477
01:49:22,846 --> 01:49:26,010
helpless,
don’t know what to do about it feeling.
1478
01:49:26,010 --> 01:49:30,800
And like I said, everyone had suggested
that I go get help.
1479
01:49:31,010 --> 01:49:35,512
Many times I’m like yeah, yeah. I went to one AA
meeting one time and used that as an excuse.
1480
01:49:35,679 --> 01:49:39,596
Yeah I got help, I went to a meeting.
And I used that for about 5 years.
1481
01:49:40,050 --> 01:49:42,550
But it wasn’t until I hit my bottom.
1482
01:49:43,470 --> 01:49:47,554
And when I hit my bottom I didn’t realize
it was my bottom, but I knew, it was pretty low.
1483
01:49:47,760 --> 01:49:51,471
And a lot of other things happened
in my life that built up to that point.
1484
01:49:52,010 --> 01:49:56,179
Every time I drank I didn’t get in trouble,
but every time I got in trouble I was drinking.
1485
01:49:56,720 --> 01:49:59,137
So, you think about that and I think about
1486
01:49:59,637 --> 01:50:04,137
sharing experiences and I love, I go to,
I still go to my meetings.
1487
01:50:04,510 --> 01:50:06,762
Hearing people share their experience, strength and hope
1488
01:50:06,971 --> 01:50:11,012
about addiction, sometimes there’s
somebody talking that’s in so much pain
1489
01:50:11,220 --> 01:50:14,012
that they don’t see the benefit.
1490
01:50:14,179 --> 01:50:17,554
They don’t see the hope. They don’t see the help.
They don’t see the end game.
1491
01:50:17,721 --> 01:50:21,721
And if I get a chance to talk to them
I just say, it’s a day at a time.
1492
01:50:21,880 --> 01:50:24,429
When I first got sober I’d hear people
talk about they have a house,
1493
01:50:24,596 --> 01:50:28,596
a job and a car and they have this and that,
and I used to be like, I want that.
1494
01:50:28,880 --> 01:50:32,554
But I was in no way in the situation
that I could get that at that particular moment.
1495
01:50:32,721 --> 01:50:35,137
And seven years later I bought my house.
1496
01:50:35,880 --> 01:50:38,221
And I remember sitting
on my back porch of my house, even
1497
01:50:38,918 --> 01:50:41,804
10 years after I had it.
I looked up and I can’t believe it’s mine.
1498
01:50:41,971 --> 01:50:44,929
And it all goes back
to going for help and asking for help.
1499
01:50:45,510 --> 01:50:47,887
And I know many of you in this room
1500
01:50:48,054 --> 01:50:51,096
shared your story today
and I thank you for that.
1501
01:50:51,920 --> 01:50:54,012
And there’s probably
some people in this room
1502
01:50:54,221 --> 01:50:57,221
that might be listening and saying
I don’t know what I’m going to do.
1503
01:50:57,380 --> 01:51:00,679
Just reach out.
Put your hand out and ask for help.
1504
01:51:01,420 --> 01:51:05,346
That’s all you got to do. That’s the first step.
That’s the first step.
1505
01:51:06,800 --> 01:51:11,090
You fought for this country.
We owe it to you to help you.
1506
01:51:11,970 --> 01:51:15,300
That’s our job.
As a government that’s our job.
1507
01:51:16,050 --> 01:51:19,260
Our Veterans office, Veterans Affairs office,
1508
01:51:19,420 --> 01:51:23,554
I’m proud of the work we do
because we’re there for the veterans.
1509
01:51:23,760 --> 01:51:25,846
I said this earlier as we went out.
1510
01:51:26,420 --> 01:51:34,420
In my five years as Mayor, I have never once
had to suggest to the Commissioner of the Office,
1511
01:51:34,760 --> 01:51:38,554
you need to do this for the Veterans or do that
for the Veterans. They’re already doing it.
1512
01:51:39,130 --> 01:51:42,970
It’s setup for you.
If it weren’t for the Veterans
1513
01:51:43,550 --> 01:51:49,550
of the Revolutionary War,
of World War I, II, Korea, Vietnam,
1514
01:51:50,340 --> 01:51:53,762
Iraq, Afghanistan
fighting all over the world,
1515
01:51:53,971 --> 01:51:56,471
I wouldn’t have the opportunity
to be the Mayor.
1516
01:51:57,130 --> 01:51:59,554
We wouldn’t have
the opportunity of a democracy.
1517
01:51:59,920 --> 01:52:00,840
It’s because of you.
1518
01:52:01,596 --> 01:52:03,346
Because you fight for that democracy.
1519
01:52:04,340 --> 01:52:05,762
Thank you for being here.
1520
01:52:06,090 --> 01:52:10,346
Thank you for what you’ve done for our country.
For what you continue to do for our country.
1521
01:52:10,840 --> 01:52:15,721
For me, Veteran’s Day is a day on the calendar
just like Memorial Day’s a day on the calendar.
1522
01:52:16,260 --> 01:52:20,304
But Veteran’s Day, Memorial Day is every day.
It should be every day in our country.
1523
01:52:29,470 --> 01:52:32,300
Everybody go 45 degrees towards the center.
1524
01:53:28,670 --> 01:53:31,340
Tuesday after the election for the Congress
was complete,
1525
01:53:32,380 --> 01:53:36,970
I reached out to Richard Neal. Congratulated
Richard Neal. He’s in line to be
1526
01:53:37,130 --> 01:53:40,170
the next Chairman of the Ways and Means
from Springfield.
1527
01:53:40,630 --> 01:53:43,554
I reached out to Jim McGovern.
Congratulated him.
1528
01:53:43,762 --> 01:53:47,762
He’s in line to be
the Rules Chair from Worcester County.
1529
01:53:48,670 --> 01:53:51,971
That’s the seat formerly held
by Joe Moakley who he worked for.
1530
01:53:53,800 --> 01:53:59,510
So we have some really good allies in there.
I mean obviously they can’t favor Boston
1531
01:54:00,380 --> 01:54:02,550
per se on Massachusetts,
but having them there
1532
01:54:02,720 --> 01:54:09,420
in their office, there’s a contact for a lot of
different issues. Education, climate, transportation,
1533
01:54:09,760 --> 01:54:12,846
fire stuff, police stuff.
That’s really important to have.
1534
01:54:13,090 --> 01:54:17,300
We’ll have staff in those offices
that we can call, reach out directly to.
1535
01:54:17,590 --> 01:54:19,880
On a national level
that will be important.
1536
01:54:20,170 --> 01:54:23,554
I also just reached out to the Governor
to say that I’d like to get together with him
1537
01:54:23,721 --> 01:54:27,346
to talk about education, transportation
and climate issues
1538
01:54:27,512 --> 01:54:30,970
and is there an opportunity for us
to go and lobby in Washington
1539
01:54:31,380 --> 01:54:33,260
for those funds
for the Commonwealth and the City.
1540
01:54:33,880 --> 01:54:36,221
I think we have decided
to take a different approach.
1541
01:54:36,550 --> 01:54:38,971
The last couple years we haven’t done
much of that because
1542
01:54:39,260 --> 01:54:41,971
we were used to going
right to the White House.
1543
01:54:42,515 --> 01:54:45,179
We could go right to the Secretary’s
when Obama was there.
1544
01:54:45,346 --> 01:54:49,512
We haven’t done that with this President.
But I think there’s an opportunity for us to go
1545
01:54:50,679 --> 01:54:54,471
to Washington and lobby for a whole lot
different pieces that we’re looking at here
1546
01:54:54,637 --> 01:54:58,220
through the Congressional folks right now.
That’s usually how it worked in the past.
1547
01:54:58,510 --> 01:55:01,550
It changed under Obama
the last couple years, they really made
1548
01:55:02,220 --> 01:55:05,012
a concerted effort to build a relationship
directly with mayors.
1549
01:55:05,179 --> 01:55:08,554
Usually you go through the Legislative leaders
like you at the State House.
1550
01:55:10,590 --> 01:55:12,420
So, I think that’s a really good thing for us.
1551
01:55:12,590 --> 01:55:16,471
Hopefully, I’m hoping good things
can happen out of Washington.
1552
01:56:07,120 --> 01:56:11,830
There’s an openness that John has.
If he opens it up we get a really
1553
01:56:12,000 --> 01:56:14,330
bad storm to 30 or 40 women.
1554
01:56:14,830 --> 01:56:16,710
It doesn’t go back down. Right.
1555
01:56:18,370 --> 01:56:21,210
He was willing...
it worked well last winter,
1556
01:56:21,670 --> 01:56:26,370
to fill some beds between six and 8 p.m.,
but then leave a little room
1557
01:56:26,830 --> 01:56:29,080
for overflow from other places.
1558
01:56:29,330 --> 01:56:32,420
There needs to be some space
because if he’s going to step up
1559
01:56:32,580 --> 01:56:36,830
he needs to be able to know that there is space
that he's going to take these people to.
1560
01:56:37,210 --> 01:56:41,540
That we’re not going to be in a situation
where he’s showing up at Pine Street or somewhere
1561
01:56:41,750 --> 01:56:43,620
and say you can’t.
1562
01:56:44,080 --> 01:56:47,500
A group of women who are
sort of chronic...
1563
01:56:48,330 --> 01:56:51,960
they seem to be severely mentally ill
who don’t leave shelter at all.
1564
01:56:52,120 --> 01:56:55,870
I mean they’re in it because
we’re open 24/7 and they don’t leave.
1565
01:56:56,500 --> 01:56:59,210
I think we have a number of people also,
1566
01:57:00,420 --> 01:57:03,250
with sort of a combination of behavioral
1567
01:57:03,420 --> 01:57:06,790
and substance use disorders
that are a combination there.
1568
01:57:07,170 --> 01:57:10,290
There’s a host of women who just
desperately want to get housed,
1569
01:57:10,460 --> 01:57:13,080
who just don’t have the income you know.
1570
01:57:13,460 --> 01:57:15,210
Like we have a woman, an evacuee
1571
01:57:15,370 --> 01:57:16,750
from Puerto Rico
1572
01:57:17,250 --> 01:57:19,170
who just wants to get housing,
1573
01:57:19,330 --> 01:57:22,750
but has like a $535 Security Income check
and that about 50 %
1574
01:57:23,000 --> 01:57:26,670
of the women also had some sort of
domestic violence
1575
01:57:26,790 --> 01:57:30,750
or violence issue prior to coming, so we’re
trying to get more service providers in.
1576
01:57:31,290 --> 01:57:34,460
There does seem to be a group of women
who are like hiding.
1577
01:57:34,750 --> 01:57:39,080
Just trying to stay under the radar
for whatever reason.
1578
01:57:40,080 --> 01:57:42,790
In the cold weather transit stations
are places where people who are
1579
01:57:42,960 --> 01:57:47,670
sometimes less well-known or sometimes
kind of hanging out have aggregated
1580
01:57:48,170 --> 01:57:52,580
and we know last year
how the unintended consequence
1581
01:57:52,870 --> 01:57:55,000
of the compassion of the T at South Station
1582
01:57:55,250 --> 01:57:59,170
that really attracted people
who were not so vulnerable, but....
1583
01:58:00,710 --> 01:58:02,750
- Predatory.- Taking advantage.
1584
01:58:02,920 --> 01:58:04,790
There was some of that for sure.
1585
01:58:05,370 --> 01:58:07,620
So we just want to think about this year,
1586
01:58:07,790 --> 01:58:10,120
what the approach is working with the team
because I think
1587
01:58:10,290 --> 01:58:13,580
Superintendent, you want to talk a little
about what you pivoted to last year,
1588
01:58:13,710 --> 01:58:16,790
when it was clear the South Station
wasn’t working in January, February.
1589
01:58:18,000 --> 01:58:20,500
Unfortunately we had to just keep
muddling through it.
1590
01:58:20,750 --> 01:58:22,620
Unless we come up with something better,
1591
01:58:22,790 --> 01:58:27,330
I think we’re going to have it worse this year.
So at its peak we had 170 people in there.
1592
01:58:27,580 --> 01:58:29,120
There’s no vetting.
1593
01:58:29,290 --> 01:58:32,920
The place is not secure.
There’s no metal detectors.
1594
01:58:33,370 --> 01:58:37,210
There was all kinds of activity going on,
inappropriate, criminal.
1595
01:58:37,670 --> 01:58:40,830
A lot of people were telling me
just throw more cops in there.
1596
01:58:41,000 --> 01:58:44,750
That’s not the answer, that’s treating
the symptom and not the cause.
1597
01:58:45,710 --> 01:58:47,750
We’ve intelligence that suggests this year,
1598
01:58:47,960 --> 01:58:50,920
and everyone’s aware of what’s going on
at Mass and Melnea.
1599
01:58:51,290 --> 01:58:54,670
We’re right in the middle. That’s where
our headquarters are. There’s anywhere
1600
01:58:54,830 --> 01:58:58,750
as low as 50 to, as high as 200 people
that are gathering there,
1601
01:58:58,920 --> 01:59:02,580
using drugs, engaged in violence,
prostitution, you name it.
1602
01:59:03,370 --> 01:59:08,040
We’ve intelligence that’s already telling us
that core group which is in the dozens
1603
01:59:08,210 --> 01:59:13,580
are going to South Station when it gets cold
to do whatever they want to do.
1604
01:59:14,580 --> 01:59:18,580
So, it’s great. One or two nights,
we hit some extreme weather,
1605
01:59:18,790 --> 01:59:22,420
they come in there, but last year as you know,
it started November 10th.
1606
01:59:22,580 --> 01:59:25,460
Right away was the first day
we had to do shelter in place.
1607
01:59:26,250 --> 01:59:30,710
Two weeks after that we went on a stretch
that went 17 straight nights.
1608
01:59:30,870 --> 01:59:32,620
We just can’t do it.
1609
01:59:32,960 --> 01:59:35,460
I think we’re doing them more disservice,
1610
01:59:36,750 --> 01:59:41,290
we got killed in the media.
We got killed amongst homeless advocates
1611
01:59:41,460 --> 01:59:45,580
because when you think of a homeless shelter,
right away you think of showering facilities,
1612
01:59:46,040 --> 01:59:50,960
food, mental health, medical.
We have none of that.
1613
01:59:51,920 --> 01:59:54,750
And I can tell you that the folks that are paying
1614
01:59:54,920 --> 01:59:59,170
a lot of rent inside South Station
were beside themselves.
1615
01:59:59,370 --> 02:00:02,960
Commuters coming in, in the morning
were beside themselves.
1616
02:00:03,420 --> 02:00:07,170
This isn’t me getting it thirdhand,
and I personally would respond.
1617
02:00:07,460 --> 02:00:11,540
I would say a vast majority of,
probably weren’t even homeless.
1618
02:00:12,580 --> 02:00:14,210
And it’s impossible for us,
1619
02:00:14,330 --> 02:00:18,750
I wouldn’t ask my officers to subject themselves
to all kinds of accusations just to go around
1620
02:00:18,920 --> 02:00:23,210
and pick and choose who should stay in there
and who shouldn’t.
1621
02:00:24,370 --> 02:00:27,040
I think we need to come up
with a better solution.
1622
02:00:27,290 --> 02:00:30,710
I’m willing to hire people
1623
02:00:30,870 --> 02:00:33,960
and transport people all over the city,
all night long.
1624
02:00:34,370 --> 02:00:38,000
We want to be good and responsible neighbors
and we want to do our part.
1625
02:00:38,500 --> 02:00:44,750
But just from seeing that firsthand, I think
we were almost causing more harm than good.
1626
02:00:44,920 --> 02:00:49,830
None of the folks who left South Station
when the overnights ended,
1627
02:00:51,000 --> 02:00:55,170
very few of them ended up out in the street
in places we saw.
1628
02:00:55,330 --> 02:00:57,250
They migrated to other places.
1629
02:00:57,500 --> 02:01:01,210
We have to work together to make sure
that the transportation is offered,
1630
02:01:01,370 --> 02:01:04,000
that the shelter capacity we’ve added is available.
1631
02:01:04,670 --> 02:01:06,330
The most humane thing
that we can do for people
1632
02:01:06,500 --> 02:01:10,670
who find themselves in the middle
of a very bad weather situation
1633
02:01:10,830 --> 02:01:14,460
is to get them to the place where they can get
the support and the resources they need.
1634
02:01:14,620 --> 02:01:19,040
Get a meal, there’s a bathroom,
there’s a shower and there’s support there.
1635
02:01:19,210 --> 02:01:24,000
Leaving them at South Station
especially some of the more vulnerable folks...
1636
02:01:24,620 --> 02:01:27,040
I feel like the public position,
1637
02:01:27,210 --> 02:01:31,540
we’re in a strong position to say
that the T is stepping up doing what it does best.
1638
02:01:31,790 --> 02:01:32,830
Transportation.
1639
02:01:35,370 --> 02:01:37,250
The weekly outreach meetings on Tuesdays
1640
02:01:37,420 --> 02:01:40,540
we’re making sure that we have represent...
because the other first responders,
1641
02:01:40,710 --> 02:01:42,870
the Boston Police Department, District I,
1642
02:01:43,210 --> 02:01:46,290
the Boston EMS, the Squad 80 Group,
1643
02:01:46,580 --> 02:01:48,620
and the State Police are all at that meeting.
1644
02:01:48,790 --> 02:01:52,620
Making sure we have conversations in those meetings
about how the outreach networks can help.
1645
02:02:22,210 --> 02:02:23,710
Anything in your pockets?
1646
02:02:38,420 --> 02:02:40,330
Do you have anything in your pockets, ma’am?
1647
02:02:44,370 --> 02:02:48,210
- Any metal in your pockets? Phone, keys?
- Belt?
1648
02:02:48,330 --> 02:02:50,170
No, belt's fine. Just your pockets
1649
02:03:07,750 --> 02:03:08,960
Have a good one, sir.
1650
02:03:39,540 --> 02:03:42,960
The Fair Housing Act of 1968
pretty much eliminates
1651
02:03:43,120 --> 02:03:45,750
or it makes it illegal for anyone
to discriminate
1652
02:03:46,460 --> 02:03:49,170
when it comes to housing,
especially for certain classes of people
1653
02:03:49,420 --> 02:03:53,960
based on race, gender, color, sexual orientation
and a bunch of other things.
1654
02:03:54,370 --> 02:03:58,580
Currently, House and Urban Development
has proposed a new rule.
1655
02:03:59,040 --> 02:04:02,960
It’s proposing a new rule
under the Trump Administration.
1656
02:04:03,080 --> 02:04:04,120
And as you know,
1657
02:04:04,790 --> 02:04:10,620
the Fair Housing Act of 1968 has
for the last 50 years governed or guided
1658
02:04:11,420 --> 02:04:12,960
the laws of fair housing.
1659
02:04:13,250 --> 02:04:15,830
What’s happening is that with this new rule,
1660
02:04:16,000 --> 02:04:20,750
under the Fair Housing Act, let me start by saying
that there’s a portion they call Disparate Impact.
1661
02:04:21,000 --> 02:04:24,080
Under Disparate Impact what it does is
it allows a complainant,
1662
02:04:24,370 --> 02:04:29,790
meaning anybody that has a complaint
of discrimination happening in housing
1663
02:04:29,960 --> 02:04:35,330
against a policy or practices that are happening
to bring a complaint, formerly bring a complaint
1664
02:04:35,500 --> 02:04:42,460
against a bank, landlord, lender,
or any kind of housing provider.
1665
02:04:43,330 --> 02:04:45,620
So, currently what’s happening is
1666
02:04:45,960 --> 02:04:48,830
the HUD wants to propose a rule
1667
02:04:49,000 --> 02:04:53,710
that is going to make it basically
next to impossible for people
1668
02:04:54,790 --> 02:04:56,250
or anyone who is
1669
02:04:56,670 --> 02:04:59,920
experiencing any kind of discrimination
under the Disparate Impact Rule,
1670
02:05:00,080 --> 02:05:03,540
to be able to bring a complaint.
How this will work is:
1671
02:05:03,710 --> 02:05:07,960
currently there’s a very neutral task for it.
All that needs to be shown
1672
02:05:08,250 --> 02:05:09,830
is that there is a...
1673
02:05:11,870 --> 02:05:17,170
whatever the policy or practice is
has a wide reaching discriminatory effect.
1674
02:05:17,870 --> 02:05:20,210
But under this new rule
what’s going to happen is that
1675
02:05:20,370 --> 02:05:22,290
anyone that brings these complaints
1676
02:05:22,540 --> 02:05:26,870
will now have to show
not only that it’s doing this, but also intent.
1677
02:05:27,080 --> 02:05:30,790
That whomever the housing provider is,
1678
02:05:32,080 --> 02:05:34,420
has these policies or practices
that are happening
1679
02:05:34,870 --> 02:05:39,870
and not only do they have them,
but they intend to discriminate against
1680
02:05:40,370 --> 02:05:44,620
a person of color, race, gender,
sexual orientation, what have you.
1681
02:05:45,290 --> 02:05:46,750
The problem with this is that
1682
02:05:47,000 --> 02:05:50,960
it makes it next to impossible because people who
normally bring these complaints don’t have the time,
1683
02:05:51,170 --> 02:05:54,920
the money, the resources
under the current rule as it is to do this.
1684
02:05:55,120 --> 02:05:58,830
That’s why we’re able to investigate
if such a thing happens.
1685
02:05:59,000 --> 02:06:01,750
Under the current Disparate Impact Rule
we’re able to look into it.
1686
02:06:02,080 --> 02:06:06,040
Or HUD is able to look into it and investigate
and figure out if this is happening.
1687
02:06:06,210 --> 02:06:09,120
With this new rule
it makes it next to impossible.
1688
02:06:09,460 --> 02:06:14,870
And it shifts the burden onto the complainant.
The complainant will now have to show this
1689
02:06:15,040 --> 02:06:19,830
that it’s happening. So we have written a letter
along with the Mayor to challenge
1690
02:06:20,250 --> 02:06:23,460
the Federal government on it.
Challenge HUD on this new proposed rule.
1691
02:06:23,620 --> 02:06:26,710
Our department has linked up
with other city agencies
1692
02:06:26,920 --> 02:06:30,000
and we have been part of the comment period
that is currently open
1693
02:06:30,170 --> 02:06:33,960
and the Mayor has also written a letter to HUD
1694
02:06:34,370 --> 02:06:38,370
opposing this new rule because if it does in fact pass,
1695
02:06:38,560 --> 02:06:42,790
then this thing not only is it going to affect
how we currently
1696
02:06:43,080 --> 02:06:46,670
do fair housing
under the Disparate Impact Rule,
1697
02:06:46,830 --> 02:06:51,580
but it has far more wide reaching effects
which is an attack against civil rights.
1698
02:06:52,870 --> 02:06:57,830
Because the Fair Housing Act
was enacted under civil rights.
1699
02:06:58,080 --> 02:07:02,670
And if you can erode this rule
then you can erode civil rights,
1700
02:07:03,000 --> 02:07:07,370
when it comes to discrimination,
segregation, voting rights,
1701
02:07:07,710 --> 02:07:13,370
equal opportunity in employment because these
things we all follow the same thinking process.
1702
02:07:13,710 --> 02:07:17,460
And it’s under the civil rights umbrella.
So if HUD is able to do this
1703
02:07:17,620 --> 02:07:20,790
that means later they’re going to be able
to attack all these other civil rights
1704
02:07:20,960 --> 02:07:24,500
that the country has fought for
over the last 51 years to make sure
1705
02:07:24,670 --> 02:07:27,620
that people have or are being treated fairly.
1706
02:07:28,210 --> 02:07:31,080
So, this is a really huge thing at the moment.
1707
02:07:31,290 --> 02:07:33,420
We don’t know
what’s going to happen with it.
1708
02:07:34,790 --> 02:07:39,330
We’ve submitted a comment letter. We encouraged
all of the other FHIPs and FAPs,
1709
02:07:39,540 --> 02:07:42,960
fair housing providers and the agencies
that are involved in this work,
1710
02:07:43,460 --> 02:07:45,620
to submit comment letters as well too.
1711
02:07:46,420 --> 02:07:48,870
The mayor wrote a really good
comment letter
1712
02:07:49,210 --> 02:07:53,580
that hopefully we’re praying
we get some traction with HUD.
1713
02:07:54,040 --> 02:07:57,460
But in the event that it doesn’t pass, a
1714
02:07:57,870 --> 02:08:02,420
and the HUDs new proposal rule does pass,
then we are now in a situation where
1715
02:08:02,750 --> 02:08:07,420
basically we are watching the erosion
of civil rights in the country.
1716
02:08:18,330 --> 02:08:20,210
What do we have here in Boston
1717
02:08:20,610 --> 02:08:25,500
that highlights the strength of diversity
and of our immigrant population?
1718
02:08:25,670 --> 02:08:28,790
How can we celebrate
what unites us here in the City?
1719
02:08:29,170 --> 02:08:32,040
And having Boston be a city of immigrants
1720
02:08:32,710 --> 02:08:35,670
with a majority, minority population?
1721
02:08:36,080 --> 02:08:37,870
What do we have to say here
1722
02:08:38,040 --> 02:08:40,750
and what can we do to really communicate
1723
02:08:41,080 --> 02:08:44,370
and celebrate that our diversity
makes us stronger
1724
02:08:44,710 --> 02:08:48,170
and it actually leads us back to one another
and to a sense of unity
1725
02:08:48,330 --> 02:08:52,080
and solidarity with one another?
And that is that our diversity
1726
02:08:52,250 --> 02:08:55,120
and our strength really comes
from the immigrant population.
1727
02:08:55,290 --> 02:08:58,170
So that’s really where it came from.
1728
02:08:58,370 --> 02:09:01,920
Just really thinking about how can we
highlight these intersecting types
1729
02:09:02,080 --> 02:09:04,710
of issues around health
which have to do with food,
1730
02:09:05,040 --> 02:09:08,620
with the activity that we started with
1731
02:09:08,790 --> 02:09:13,330
at the Armenian Heritage Park starting with
walking and physical activity and meditation.
1732
02:09:13,500 --> 02:09:16,500
And then coming over here and being,
1733
02:09:16,870 --> 02:09:22,790
and having a cooking class to sort of
celebrate all of us being together,
1734
02:09:23,080 --> 02:09:26,460
healthy food and again,
all the ethnic cultures of Boston.
1735
02:09:27,290 --> 02:09:29,210
That was really the goal of this series,
1736
02:09:29,210 --> 02:09:33,960
to break down some of the barriers that have
historically existed here in Boston
1737
02:09:34,370 --> 02:09:41,620
and sort of, by being next to one another,
by being together sort of
1738
02:09:42,290 --> 02:09:44,540
create the sense of community
1739
02:09:44,670 --> 02:09:48,790
that really exists and breakdown
some of the separations that have historically
1740
02:09:49,000 --> 02:09:50,620
existed here in the City.
1741
02:09:51,580 --> 02:09:54,540
So the meal that we’re going
to demonstrate today
1742
02:09:54,710 --> 02:09:56,290
is Shrimp Lo Mien.
1743
02:09:56,460 --> 02:09:59,620
So Mien in Chinese means noodles.
1744
02:10:00,250 --> 02:10:05,370
And Lo in Cantonese means stirred.
So it’s a stir fried noodle.
1745
02:10:05,870 --> 02:10:10,670
And noodles in the Chinese cuisine
symbolizes longevity and prosperous life.
1746
02:10:10,830 --> 02:10:16,120
Traditionally, it’s served at celebrations
such as Chinese New Year or birthdays.
1747
02:10:16,460 --> 02:10:18,920
So, for the sauces
we are going to use today
1748
02:10:19,250 --> 02:10:24,460
is oyster sauce, low sodium soy sauce,
cooking wine and a little bit of sugar.
1749
02:10:24,620 --> 02:10:28,960
Some spices, either chili powder or the pepper, black pepper.
1750
02:10:29,210 --> 02:10:33,290
And it will also give it a flavor
without adding too much salt.
1751
02:10:33,290 --> 02:10:34,710
That’s what we call rice noodle.
1752
02:10:35,000 --> 02:10:38,750
So it has different flavor
and goes with different kind of sauces
1753
02:10:40,210 --> 02:10:46,460
and a lot of people from China, they go back
to their home town just to have that dish of
1754
02:10:46,790 --> 02:10:50,040
the noodles that were
in their childhood memory.
1755
02:10:51,370 --> 02:10:55,920
And we also put a tablespoon
of our cooking wine
1756
02:10:56,080 --> 02:11:00,710
and just to give it a little flavor\and also to reduce
1757
02:11:02,210 --> 02:11:07,290
the fishy smell in the shrimp as well.
1758
02:11:10,080 --> 02:11:11,790
Now we put into the shrimp.
1759
02:11:15,960 --> 02:11:17,540
So the shrimp is already cooked
1760
02:11:18,080 --> 02:11:20,920
for our demonstration,
but we do recommend
1761
02:11:21,080 --> 02:11:23,960
to prepare the protein separately
from our noodles
1762
02:11:24,210 --> 02:11:26,620
just to make sure that it’s cooked
all the way through
1763
02:11:27,000 --> 02:11:32,330
and then reach the internal temperature
that’s recommended.
1764
02:14:35,790 --> 02:14:38,080
55 % of Bostonians
1765
02:14:38,250 --> 02:14:41,580
are non-White, so in addition to be
a majority city of color, we are also
1766
02:14:41,750 --> 02:14:45,790
a city of immigrants.
And so 28 % of Bostonians are foreign born
1767
02:14:45,920 --> 02:14:48,870
and come from about
150 countries of origin.
1768
02:14:49,040 --> 02:14:51,960
Immigrants own 33 %
of incorporated businesses
1769
02:14:52,120 --> 02:14:56,580
And in 2014,
according to Brookings Institute,
1770
02:14:56,750 --> 02:14:59,960
Boston was ranked number one
in terms of income inequality.
1771
02:15:00,330 --> 02:15:04,040
By 2017, they ranked us number seven
and that was due primarily
1772
02:15:04,250 --> 02:15:08,170
to the increase of income
in the lower income brackets.
1773
02:15:08,420 --> 02:15:14,580
And the Federal Reserve Banks'
Boston’s Color of Wealth Report,
1774
02:15:15,540 --> 02:15:18,870
it listed different things.
First it was the first report to
1775
02:15:19,040 --> 02:15:22,040
break out net worth by ethnic groups.
1776
02:15:22,250 --> 02:15:24,870
It’s a fascinating report if you have
a chance to look at it,
1777
02:15:25,170 --> 02:15:28,790
but for Black Americans,
U.S. Blacks as it listed it,
1778
02:15:29,620 --> 02:15:35,330
the net worth, median net worth
for U.S. Black families was $8.00.
1779
02:15:36,040 --> 02:15:43,170
And the medium net worth for White families
in the same period of time $247,000.
1780
02:15:44,370 --> 02:15:46,330
This is not something we’re proud of.
1781
02:15:46,790 --> 02:15:48,620
Many Bostonians are
1782
02:15:48,870 --> 02:15:51,420
under employed, over credentialed,
1783
02:15:53,120 --> 02:15:56,790
so meeting with companies
and doing a comparison on their job postings,
1784
02:15:56,960 --> 02:16:00,170
in Boston versus job postings
around the country,
1785
02:16:01,920 --> 02:16:03,120
we’ve got some folks,
1786
02:16:03,960 --> 02:16:05,540
I won’t name them, but
1787
02:16:06,000 --> 02:16:09,790
we looked at one company and like 100 %
of their jobs you need a Bachelor's.
1788
02:16:10,040 --> 02:16:11,120
And it’s like really?
1789
02:16:11,290 --> 02:16:14,420
And then when you look at like jobs
around the country it’s just not true.
1790
02:16:14,620 --> 02:16:19,040
And so having conversations with employers
that allow us to access those jobs is important.
1791
02:16:20,250 --> 02:16:23,460
Jobs are a big part
of the work that we do.
1792
02:16:23,670 --> 02:16:28,580
So the Boston Resident’s Job Policy
which was a policy that was developed in 1983,
1793
02:16:28,790 --> 02:16:33,250
was recently updated by Mayor Walsh.
And this policy essentially
1794
02:16:33,330 --> 02:16:37,670
mandates that in the construction space
1795
02:16:37,920 --> 02:16:43,460
where there is any private development,
or public development that is looking for a private
1796
02:16:43,960 --> 02:16:47,710
variances or any kind of public approval,
1797
02:16:48,000 --> 02:16:49,790
we are mandating
1798
02:16:50,420 --> 02:16:54,370
51 % of those on a construction site
be Boston residents,
1799
02:16:54,540 --> 02:16:57,710
40 % people of color, and 12 % women.
1800
02:16:58,000 --> 02:17:00,330
And this is something that
1801
02:17:00,420 --> 02:17:05,210
is really important because the construction jobs
end up being pretty good jobs.
1802
02:17:05,500 --> 02:17:07,540
And so part of that is creating a pipeline
1803
02:17:07,790 --> 02:17:11,500
in working with the Unions and others to make sure
that we have a diverse workforce
1804
02:17:11,710 --> 02:17:13,620
so that we can hit those numbers.
1805
02:17:15,040 --> 02:17:17,210
The other one frankly though is the new
1806
02:17:17,370 --> 02:17:21,790
good jobs policy
that the City just announced on RFPs.
1807
02:17:22,290 --> 02:17:25,120
So any City land that is being disposed of,
1808
02:17:25,420 --> 02:17:31,210
the Mayor announced that we will be looking
for a good jobs analysis, or a good jobs program
1809
02:17:31,500 --> 02:17:35,670
for the permanent jobs
that will be built or attracted to
1810
02:17:35,920 --> 02:17:38,170
the developments built on City land.
1811
02:17:38,330 --> 02:17:43,460
We don’t have the necessary legal levers
to demand certain wages,
1812
02:17:43,710 --> 02:17:48,790
so we set criteria definition for what good jobs are
and certain wages and benefits and conditions.
1813
02:17:49,040 --> 02:17:51,250
And we want the developer
to respond to that.
1814
02:17:51,420 --> 02:17:54,830
Once the developer
responds to that program and says
1815
02:17:55,040 --> 02:17:56,870
here’s what we’re going to do
in front of the community and of the City,
1816
02:17:57,040 --> 02:18:02,250
we will then codify them in the City agreement
to what’s going to happen on that land.
1817
02:18:02,540 --> 02:18:05,370
We are leasing the land so we will have
1818
02:18:05,620 --> 02:18:10,420
serious legal levers on any lease, on what
they should be doing with permanent jobs.
1819
02:18:11,670 --> 02:18:15,290
On the small business side,
the other piece is following the
1820
02:18:15,540 --> 02:18:21,920
Federal Reserve Bank's Color of Wealth
Report, we do believe that there is
1821
02:18:22,040 --> 02:18:25,040
an ethnic strategy to wealth creation.
1822
02:18:25,330 --> 02:18:29,000
So the ethnic groups are very different in how
they approach wealth and wealth creation.
1823
02:18:29,580 --> 02:18:35,040
So, how do you have the conversation
with the immigrant communities?
1824
02:18:35,290 --> 02:18:38,670
And the different immigrant communities
look very different.
1825
02:18:38,790 --> 02:18:40,370
Some immigrant communities are
1826
02:18:40,620 --> 02:18:42,370
high unemployment so their employment rate
for some of the immigrant communities.
1827
02:18:44,620 --> 02:18:47,750
Cape Verdean’s, which is an immigrant group
here, from West Africa,
1828
02:18:49,290 --> 02:18:51,750
their employment numbers
are really high,
1829
02:18:51,870 --> 02:18:54,250
but their entrepreneur numbers
are really low.
1830
02:18:54,420 --> 02:18:58,170
It does something for income,
but does nothing for wealth.
1831
02:18:58,500 --> 02:19:00,250
How do you have that conversation
with that community;
1832
02:19:00,460 --> 02:19:02,920
When you look at the Black community
which is very diverse in Boston,
1833
02:19:03,210 --> 02:19:04,620
when you look at the U.S. Blacks,
1834
02:19:05,000 --> 02:19:07,080
it’s one picture.
When you look at Caribbeans,
1835
02:19:07,250 --> 02:19:09,870
the Blacks from the Caribbean,
it’s a different picture.
1836
02:19:10,170 --> 02:19:12,000
How do you help to think about
1837
02:19:12,170 --> 02:19:15,210
what’s happening there
and how we have different strategies.
1838
02:19:15,370 --> 02:19:18,250
So we’re rolling out
and we haven’t announced this publicly,
1839
02:19:18,540 --> 02:19:24,210
but we’re rolling out conversations
that are ethnic based. The BDPA has
1840
02:19:24,620 --> 02:19:27,370
set up some research around it.
We’ve got some numbers.
1841
02:19:27,670 --> 02:19:29,870
We did an internal presentation recently
1842
02:19:30,080 --> 02:19:34,370
and we’re going to roll out ethnic based conversations
to have a conversation about the difference
1843
02:19:34,580 --> 02:19:38,170
in approach in our ethnic communities,
not bad or good.
1844
02:19:38,420 --> 02:19:39,750
But we’re going to put out the number,
1845
02:19:39,920 --> 02:19:43,870
we’re going to set up panels of people
from the community to have the conversation
1846
02:19:44,040 --> 02:19:46,500
about what this might mean
and what might be new strategies
1847
02:19:46,670 --> 02:19:49,250
and how we can approach this
to make sure we’re having
1848
02:19:49,670 --> 02:19:53,710
a very responsive conversation
about the economy that people live in.
1849
02:19:54,010 --> 02:19:57,080
We’re now mandating that people tell us
how their team
1850
02:19:57,250 --> 02:20:02,040
is diverse and inclusive in all areas.
And then we will score them on that
1851
02:20:02,170 --> 02:20:04,670
diversity inclusion in a way obviously
1852
02:20:05,120 --> 02:20:06,920
that those who are more diverse
1853
02:20:07,170 --> 02:20:11,040
and inclusive of women and people of color
on their construction team,
1854
02:20:11,210 --> 02:20:13,120
on their design team,
on the development team,
1855
02:20:13,620 --> 02:20:16,210
on finance, on operation, on ownership.
1856
02:20:16,500 --> 02:20:22,000
And so we’re driving to use public assets for...
1857
02:20:22,290 --> 02:20:25,460
and align it to the Mayor’s agenda.
1858
02:20:26,620 --> 02:20:29,290
We’re also asking that people work with us
1859
02:20:29,830 --> 02:20:33,830
in terms of what the community has said
it wants to see in the neighborhood.
1860
02:20:34,040 --> 02:20:40,000
The recent RFP that we put out is actually
in response to what's called Plan Dudley Square.
1861
02:20:40,670 --> 02:20:45,830
And we’re making sure that there is clarity between
alignment on what the community has asked for
1862
02:20:46,170 --> 02:20:50,170
and what these developments are bringing.
The second innovation is we picked
1863
02:20:50,330 --> 02:20:52,170
a neighborhood, following
1864
02:20:53,290 --> 02:20:57,210
the first comprehensive citywide plan
that Boston’s done in 65 years,
1865
02:20:57,370 --> 02:21:01,500
or 50 depending on how you look at it,
alled Imagine Boston 2030,
1866
02:21:01,750 --> 02:21:06,250
to pilot an effort of trying
to develop a neighborhood
1867
02:21:06,420 --> 02:21:08,040
without displacing the neighborhood.
1868
02:21:08,210 --> 02:21:13,210
One of the strategies called for the City
being more aggressive in acquiring property.
1869
02:21:13,710 --> 02:21:17,580
It’s something we’re doing now
on the housing side as well.
1870
02:21:17,960 --> 02:21:20,710
We are out there acquiring existing property
1871
02:21:20,870 --> 02:21:25,120
and not trying to just create affordability
on new developments that are coming.
1872
02:21:25,420 --> 02:21:31,540
How do we go after the high risk property, buy them
and then make them permanently affordable,
1873
02:21:31,710 --> 02:21:35,080
hopefully making the tenants
the owners of those properties.
1874
02:21:35,250 --> 02:21:39,540
So now we’re doing that on a neighborhood wide scale in Upham’s Corner,
1875
02:21:40,170 --> 02:21:45,370
acquiring as much property as possible
before we launch any kind of public conversation
1876
02:21:45,670 --> 02:21:48,370
around the development of those properties.
The third one would be
1877
02:21:48,540 --> 02:21:52,040
working with corporations
that are coming to Boston
1878
02:21:53,060 --> 02:21:57,750
who are looking for tax incentives or any
kind of incentive to relocate to our city.
1879
02:21:58,250 --> 02:22:01,040
Or bring a headquarter to our city.
We have an agreement with Amazon
1880
02:22:01,210 --> 02:22:04,540
who is building about a million square feet
in the Seaport
1881
02:22:04,710 --> 02:22:07,250
which equates about 4,000 jobs
in two waves.
1882
02:22:07,540 --> 02:22:10,420
2,000 for the first wave,
another 2,000 for the second wave.
1883
02:22:10,500 --> 02:22:13,750
There’s an agreement with Amazon
that we will use a linkage fees
1884
02:22:14,040 --> 02:22:15,750
that that construction is producing
1885
02:22:16,040 --> 02:22:18,210
to create a workforce,
1886
02:22:18,460 --> 02:22:22,000
development and placement program
specifically for those 2,000.
1887
02:22:22,500 --> 02:22:26,790
We’re meeting with HR this December. We’re going
to look at the criteria’s, skills, what’s needed.
1888
02:22:27,080 --> 02:22:29,960
We’re then going to work
with Tren and her team
1889
02:22:30,120 --> 02:22:34,210
on an RFP that looks at the workforce
development in being specific
1890
02:22:34,500 --> 02:22:39,210
in designing that pipeline,
or that journey to those jobs.
1891
02:22:40,000 --> 02:22:42,250
This is something we’re doing
more and more of
1892
02:22:42,460 --> 02:22:47,500
is linking the employers or employment
opportunity to the development
1893
02:22:48,080 --> 02:22:51,830
and programs that are happening
all the way down to high schools.
1894
02:22:52,000 --> 02:22:55,290
Which is something we didn’t talk about here,
but Boston’s effort to map
1895
02:22:55,580 --> 02:23:00,500
the job development ecosystem and then link it
in a way that it’s more effective and evaluated.
1896
02:23:02,040 --> 02:23:04,210
The concept of resilience
is a powerful one.
1897
02:23:05,750 --> 02:23:08,710
It resonates
with every aspect of city life and planning
1898
02:23:08,870 --> 02:23:11,080
in our city and what we do
in our city every day.
1899
02:23:11,540 --> 02:23:13,120
And our decision to focus
1900
02:23:13,750 --> 02:23:18,040
on our racial equity work
was important to our city to move on.
1901
02:23:18,420 --> 02:23:21,460
And to move forward really.
Not move on, move forward.
1902
02:23:21,830 --> 02:23:23,710
It’s something that’s important.
1903
02:23:25,000 --> 02:23:31,040
I grew up in Boston in Dorchester during
the bussing, when bussing came in.
1904
02:23:31,540 --> 02:23:33,000
I was at grammar school
1905
02:23:33,170 --> 02:23:34,870
and I used to walk to...
1906
02:23:35,250 --> 02:23:37,370
my mother and father
are immigrants from Ireland.
1907
02:23:37,540 --> 02:23:41,830
And when they came here they sent me
to parochial school, Catholic school.
1908
02:23:42,000 --> 02:23:46,540
I used to walk by the William E. Russell
every day in the early 70s
1909
02:23:46,830 --> 02:23:51,120
and the kids would come up
in the school buses, but they were led
1910
02:23:51,370 --> 02:23:54,080
by motorcycle police officers.
1911
02:23:55,250 --> 02:23:58,210
And there was a motorcycle police officers
behind them, and one on each side.
1912
02:23:58,580 --> 02:24:02,250
And they were moving kids in and out of schools and I thought that was
1913
02:24:02,460 --> 02:24:06,210
a little hard when you think I’m walking
down to St. Margaret’s down the street.
1914
02:24:06,420 --> 02:24:10,670
We’re walking down to school and these kids are being
escorted by the police. Not understanding at that time
1915
02:24:11,040 --> 02:24:14,920
what was going on because
I was six and seven and eight years old.
1916
02:24:15,080 --> 02:24:18,170
I wasn’t really sure
what was happening and going on.
1917
02:24:19,370 --> 02:24:23,460
Since that time Boston has made
some progress.
1918
02:24:24,790 --> 02:24:27,420
And we’ve worked on that progress
with other elected officials
1919
02:24:27,670 --> 02:24:30,750
and talking about addressing the disparities,
1920
02:24:30,960 --> 02:24:35,420
addressing racism and addressing the past
that we’ve experienced in the City of Boston.
1921
02:24:36,620 --> 02:24:38,750
But the disparities remain deep
1922
02:24:38,920 --> 02:24:44,960
and there’s a real, the distrust we have
is real in a lot of areas of our society.
1923
02:24:46,040 --> 02:24:48,870
People wanted more open
and honest conversations
1924
02:24:49,210 --> 02:24:52,540
and I saw the duty as a Mayor
who’s a White Mayor,
1925
02:24:53,120 --> 02:24:55,580
Irish Catholic White Mayor of Boston,
1926
02:24:56,290 --> 02:25:00,170
to start by listening and learning.
1927
02:25:00,830 --> 02:25:03,540
And that’s something important
you have to do because
1928
02:25:03,710 --> 02:25:07,330
if you get somebody making conversation
and trying to make up answers,
1929
02:25:07,500 --> 02:25:12,120
like I did when I was a candidate, it’s not
the way to go. And I did that as a candidate.
1930
02:25:12,420 --> 02:25:14,420
Trying to see what I could do.
1931
02:25:15,580 --> 02:25:18,580
A city can’t thrive if we’re disconnected
from each other.
1932
02:25:19,710 --> 02:25:23,250
And that’s something also important as far as
the work that we do moving forward.
1933
02:25:23,500 --> 02:25:27,920
Racial disparities are our deepest form
of disconnection that we have in this country.
1934
02:25:28,290 --> 02:25:34,330
And I realize in Boston we can’t solve the problems
of the United States of America in here.
1935
02:25:34,830 --> 02:25:38,790
What we can do is work on the issues
that we’re dealing with here in Boston
1936
02:25:38,960 --> 02:25:41,500
and hopefully other cities will see
what we’re doing
1937
02:25:41,710 --> 02:25:45,000
and mistakes we might make,
they won’t have to make those mistakes.
1938
02:25:45,500 --> 02:25:47,250
And what is successful in our city,
1939
02:25:47,420 --> 02:25:50,040
they can say OK this is something
we can do and use in our cities.
1940
02:25:51,620 --> 02:25:54,250
We were just in Columbia, South Carolina
1941
02:25:54,580 --> 02:25:58,750
with Mayor Stephen Benjamin a couple weeks ago,
about 40 mayors I think there,
1942
02:25:59,370 --> 02:26:03,370
and inevitably this conversation comes up
about equity and race. And we tie it into
1943
02:26:03,580 --> 02:26:08,710
what happens on a national level, but we also come
to saying that the impact can be made locally.
1944
02:26:09,080 --> 02:26:10,830
All it takes is one city.
1945
02:26:11,500 --> 02:26:16,870
One city to do something about it.
To be able to share best practices and ideas.
1946
02:26:17,000 --> 02:26:20,290
That’s what we do as Mayors, as cities, as city councils.
1947
02:26:20,460 --> 02:26:25,120
That’s what legislatures do: they take ideas
from each other and use best practices.
1948
02:26:25,290 --> 02:26:29,710
I just continue to have these dialogues,
continue to have these conversations
1949
02:26:29,960 --> 02:26:33,960
and hopefully we can continue to move forward
as a City of Boston, but also as a country.
1950
02:29:24,460 --> 02:29:26,960
The Food Bank is a great partner
to the City of Boston.
1951
02:29:27,620 --> 02:29:33,080
They work closely with our Office of Health and Human Services
and Office of Food Access as they do with the State.
1952
02:29:33,710 --> 02:29:36,620
They’re member of our
Boston Food Access Council
1953
02:29:36,790 --> 02:29:39,790
and we all know how important
this partnership is.
1954
02:29:40,250 --> 02:29:43,920
One out of every 6 Bostonians
struggle with food insecurity.
1955
02:29:44,460 --> 02:29:48,080
One out of every 6 Bostonians
struggle with food insecurity.
1956
02:29:49,420 --> 02:29:52,580
We’ve added 20,000 new jobs every year
for the last five years.
1957
02:29:52,920 --> 02:29:56,420
We have $9 billion dollars of new development
going on in the City of Boston.
1958
02:29:56,710 --> 02:29:59,120
We’ve built almost 28,000
1959
02:29:59,290 --> 02:30:01,580
new homes in the City of Boston
in the last five years.
1960
02:30:02,290 --> 02:30:05,370
We have great prosperity
in the City of Boston right now
1961
02:30:05,920 --> 02:30:09,460
and one out of every six Bostonians
are struggling with food insecurity.
1962
02:30:09,620 --> 02:30:11,000
That’s the message today.
1963
02:30:11,170 --> 02:30:14,370
That’s something that we need to work together
to tackle this issue
1964
02:30:14,540 --> 02:30:16,960
to get that number to zero.
No one should have
1965
02:30:17,120 --> 02:30:19,790
to worry about
where their next meal’s coming from.
1966
02:30:20,250 --> 02:30:24,000
Everyone deserves access to food
and that’s everyone’s basic human right.
1967
02:30:24,170 --> 02:30:28,210
In Boston, we need to know that that work
of fighting hunger is important
1968
02:30:28,370 --> 02:30:31,870
and the impact that we’re doing in fighting
has to go much further.
1969
02:31:17,880 --> 02:31:21,370
I don’t know what it’s going to take
the United States Congress and Senate
1970
02:31:21,620 --> 02:31:24,500
to recognize the need for gun legislation.
1971
02:31:24,670 --> 02:31:30,540
And also, we can look at Boston and see
when we have a homicide in Boston,
1972
02:31:31,160 --> 02:31:34,000
you can generally tie it back to poverty,
1973
02:31:34,080 --> 02:31:39,080
maybe dropping out of school, lack of education,
desperation, whatever it might be.
1974
02:31:39,290 --> 02:31:43,830
I don’t think anyone’s ever done a real study
on what’s going on with these mass shootings.
1975
02:31:44,000 --> 02:31:46,790
These mass shootings
don’t happen in other countries.
1976
02:31:47,080 --> 02:31:52,080
They happen in the United States of America.
They’re targeting seniors, religious groups, kids
1977
02:31:52,210 --> 02:31:54,120
and nightclubs.
It’s the second nightclub shooting
1978
02:31:54,290 --> 02:31:57,040
in the last couple of years here
and Pulse was the first.
1979
02:31:57,210 --> 02:31:59,120
Something has to give here.
1980
02:31:59,980 --> 02:32:02,960
You can only protect the NRA for so long.
1981
02:32:03,540 --> 02:32:07,370
They have an obligation,
the National Rifle Association,
1982
02:32:07,620 --> 02:32:09,710
if they don’t want to change the laws,
1983
02:32:09,870 --> 02:32:14,500
they have an obligation to the American people
to come up with some solutions.
1984
02:32:14,870 --> 02:32:19,040
When Purdue Pharma,
I’m not going to give him credit here,
1985
02:32:19,330 --> 02:32:24,830
had their back put up against a wall
on oxycodone, they tried to offer some solutions.
1986
02:32:25,170 --> 02:32:29,500
The Labor Movement, when their back's up against
the wall they have to come up with solutions.
1987
02:32:29,670 --> 02:32:35,080
The NRA needs to be held responsible
and accountable for coming up with solutions.
1988
02:32:35,620 --> 02:32:38,960
And if we can’t pass legislation
maybe that’s the route we have to take.
1989
02:32:39,120 --> 02:32:40,710
The NRA is allowing
1990
02:32:40,960 --> 02:32:46,460
mass shootings to happen by not letting
any action happen in the Congress and that’s a sin.
1991
02:34:26,960 --> 02:34:30,620
The ultimate goal of making this stuff usable,
at getting out here to West Roxbury
1992
02:34:30,830 --> 02:34:35,750
is one way to get to this data, but if we get it
all online you don’t have to travel all the way up here.
1993
02:34:35,920 --> 02:34:37,920
Let’s say somebody is looking at
1994
02:34:38,710 --> 02:34:42,710
a governor’s mansion in Virginia and wants
to compare it to the governor’s mansion in Massachusetts,
1995
02:34:42,870 --> 02:34:45,290
they may not even have to do
anything more than open a computer
1996
02:34:45,580 --> 02:34:47,000
to get all of our data.
1997
02:34:47,250 --> 02:34:49,330
They might have to email or call us to find out
1998
02:34:49,500 --> 02:34:52,330
what do we mean by this or that
or the other thing,
1999
02:34:52,500 --> 02:34:54,790
but the more accessible our data is
the more usable it is.
2000
02:34:54,960 --> 02:34:58,790
Frankly, the more usable it is even here. So when I look for something,
2001
02:34:59,350 --> 02:35:03,710
I either have to know which box
of the 2000 boxes we have contains the artifact
2002
02:35:03,950 --> 02:35:08,370
or I can look it up on our searchable database
and open it up.
2003
02:35:08,750 --> 02:35:11,000
If a researcher comes in looking
for a certain type of artifact
2004
02:35:11,290 --> 02:35:14,250
I can actually search our entire database
to see if we have it or
2005
02:35:14,420 --> 02:35:16,710
how many do we have
and what sites it turns up in.
2006
02:35:16,920 --> 02:35:22,170
And within 20 minutes Sarah or I could
get out to the box and pull it for researcher.
2007
02:35:23,170 --> 02:35:26,460
Which is how it works. Usually when I get
research requests, somebody will say,
2008
02:35:26,610 --> 02:35:29,250
I want to look at
one particular type of ceramic.
2009
02:35:30,460 --> 02:35:33,710
If I don’t know where every piece of that ceramic
is in our two million artifacts,
2010
02:35:34,250 --> 02:35:39,080
I can’t make it accessible to them
even though I know we might have some of it.
2011
02:35:40,420 --> 02:35:43,250
It’s making them usable by people
who may not even know that
2012
02:35:43,420 --> 02:35:46,960
we have these collections. I, myself
am still learning what we have every day.
2013
02:35:47,170 --> 02:35:49,960
I haven’t seen most of this stuff,
even while we were digging,
2014
02:35:50,120 --> 02:35:53,830
because I was in the home most of the time, not seeing the actual artifacts, but...
2015
02:35:54,140 --> 02:35:56,000
there’s some really cool stuff here.
2016
02:35:56,950 --> 02:35:59,170
Can I talk about the clams real fast
because the clams are really cool.
2017
02:35:59,370 --> 02:36:00,580
I’ll take it all.
2018
02:36:00,950 --> 02:36:05,750
When we were digging we got down to the very
bottom of the site and we hit a layer of clay
2019
02:36:05,990 --> 02:36:09,250
which is this deposit here,
in the very bottom of our site.
2020
02:36:09,950 --> 02:36:12,120
It was manmade as far as
2021
02:36:12,290 --> 02:36:16,170
where it came from because there’s little bits
of brick in it, so we know it wasn’t natural clay deposit.
2022
02:36:16,370 --> 02:36:19,210
But it’s a blue clay.
We call it Boston blue clay.
2023
02:36:19,370 --> 02:36:22,330
And it’s a marine clay
that was deposited by the glacier
2024
02:36:22,720 --> 02:36:25,750
right after the glacier left.
It melted a lot of soil.
2025
02:36:26,590 --> 02:36:31,540
Basically the ground that Boston is
was pushed down by the glacier
2026
02:36:32,000 --> 02:36:34,620
and when the glacier melted
it was still down a little bit deep.
2027
02:36:34,790 --> 02:36:39,500
It’s almost like jumping off a dock.
The ground bounces up after the glacier leaves.
2028
02:36:39,670 --> 02:36:42,330
But before that happened
the ocean flooded Boston.
2029
02:36:42,540 --> 02:36:46,330
So we have a couple thousand years
around 10,000, 15,000 years ago
2030
02:36:46,500 --> 02:36:50,420
where Boston was under water completely.
And then it bounced back up above water.
2031
02:36:50,580 --> 02:36:53,210
But during that time it laid
a huge deposit of clay
2032
02:36:53,370 --> 02:36:57,500
and that’s the Boston blue clay. And you see it
in construction sites all over the place.
2033
02:36:57,960 --> 02:37:01,620
We found clay that was then dug up
by somebody probably in the
2034
02:37:01,790 --> 02:37:04,830
late 1800s, early 1900s
and they used it to line something,
2035
02:37:05,000 --> 02:37:08,580
we’re not even sure what it is.
A cistern, a water collection, something like that.
2036
02:37:09,290 --> 02:37:13,790
And they dug up the clay and they
pulled out all of these shells in the clay still.
2037
02:37:14,900 --> 02:37:20,540
These were stuck in the clay from where they dug it out.
So these are actually clams that were living in Boston
2038
02:37:20,900 --> 02:37:24,460
when it was flooded that are
between 11,000 and 15,000 years old.
2039
02:37:24,620 --> 02:37:29,370
So these are like prehistoric clams.
They’re really thick. They’re huge.
2040
02:37:29,920 --> 02:37:35,330
And it’s just really kind of fun to see them
from 11,000 years ago stuck in the clay,
2041
02:37:35,590 --> 02:37:37,210
scallop in two soft shell clams.
2042
02:37:38,080 --> 02:37:40,790
I just think they’re really cool to find.
Basically they’re fossils.
2043
02:37:41,250 --> 02:37:44,790
We don’t get to find a lot of fossils
in archeology so we don’t do dinosaurs,
2044
02:37:45,010 --> 02:37:46,620
but it’s nice to happen
every once in a while.
2045
02:37:46,750 --> 02:37:50,250
In that deposit we also have artifacts
from the 1700s, like this
2046
02:37:51,080 --> 02:37:55,420
1800s, like this glass.
And 15,000 year old clams.
2047
02:37:56,120 --> 02:37:58,580
Not very typical, but it’s interesting.
2048
02:40:58,930 --> 02:41:01,870
Do minority and women owned businesses
face any barriers
2049
02:41:02,170 --> 02:41:04,420
when it comes to city contracting?
2050
02:41:04,620 --> 02:41:09,580
The disparity study is designed to assess
that question in a number of different ways.
2051
02:41:10,230 --> 02:41:14,920
So first, we’ll look at the degree
to which minority and women owned businesses
2052
02:41:15,080 --> 02:41:19,250
participate in city contracts
relative to their availability for that work.
2053
02:41:19,420 --> 02:41:22,210
I’ll unpack those terms in just a few minutes.
2054
02:41:23,330 --> 02:41:28,670
We’ll also provide a comprehensive analysis
of the local marketplace to help understand
2055
02:41:28,830 --> 02:41:32,290
whether minorities, women and minority and women own businesses
2056
02:41:32,460 --> 02:41:39,580
face any barriers working in the Boston region,
and whether any of those barriers lead to
2057
02:41:39,750 --> 02:41:43,330
less success with city contracting
in particular.
2058
02:41:44,540 --> 02:41:48,170
We’ll also provide a comprehensive review
of the contracting policies
2059
02:41:48,330 --> 02:41:51,750
and program measures
that the city uses to help identify
2060
02:41:51,990 --> 02:41:54,420
any policies or practices
that might be inadvertently
2061
02:41:54,710 --> 02:41:58,170
making it more difficult for small businesses
and minority and women owned businesses
2062
02:41:58,460 --> 02:42:01,670
to compete successfully for city contracts.
2063
02:42:03,210 --> 02:42:06,250
Then we’ll also provide a great deal
of insight and recommendations
2064
02:42:06,420 --> 02:42:09,830
around how the City can refine
2065
02:42:09,960 --> 02:42:12,830
the programs it uses to encourage minority
and women owned businesses' participation
2066
02:42:13,000 --> 02:42:16,000
and what programs it can consider using
in the future.
2067
02:42:16,290 --> 02:42:18,500
Educate me a little bit about this.
2068
02:42:19,420 --> 02:42:25,080
Disparity studies. I’ve been in this business
in my industry for the past 30 years.
2069
02:42:25,540 --> 02:42:32,080
I have encountered all kind of difficulties and I’m
still a small contractor after 30 years in business.
2070
02:42:33,120 --> 02:42:39,580
When you say disparity study,
meaning a study that is a doubt.
2071
02:42:41,250 --> 02:42:43,830
Is there a doubt that this exists?
2072
02:42:44,000 --> 02:42:48,870
Because I find it in this 30 years
the difficulty in contracts
2073
02:42:49,170 --> 02:42:55,040
for me to achieve all years in the study.
I don’t think there should be a kind of a doubt.
2074
02:42:55,400 --> 02:42:58,290
Maybe we're looking for proof.
2075
02:42:59,000 --> 02:43:02,540
But I been part of it
and not too long ago,
2076
02:43:03,470 --> 02:43:08,920
I was a minority in a contract,
a State contract with housing.
2077
02:43:09,290 --> 02:43:12,460
I was a third tier subcontract
2078
02:43:13,000 --> 02:43:16,580
just so I can fill the minority quorums,
2079
02:43:16,820 --> 02:43:22,580
but there is a major company, let’s say White
right in front of me to hire me just for that.
2080
02:43:22,930 --> 02:43:28,290
Is that something why
wouldn’t I be directly to the GC?
2081
02:43:28,420 --> 02:43:31,500
Why do I have to be
second and third tier?
2082
02:43:31,710 --> 02:43:37,790
So we know that thing happens where connections
are made to just use us for the particular.
2083
02:43:38,000 --> 02:43:42,120
I’m sorry if I’m out of the equation
2084
02:43:42,750 --> 02:43:45,750
or I’m getting out of the point
that we’re talking.
2085
02:43:46,580 --> 02:43:48,540
But for the past 30 years,
2086
02:43:50,540 --> 02:43:56,080
I can feel it...
If the dollar is taken green,
2087
02:43:56,290 --> 02:44:00,210
I’m suddenly all the qualifications...
I can’t meet them.
2088
02:44:00,370 --> 02:44:03,330
Usually like I was speaking here to Greg,
2089
02:44:03,960 --> 02:44:10,540
I cannot do a 20 or let’s say $10 million,
let’s say $2 million project.
2090
02:44:11,690 --> 02:44:18,870
But I have 10, 12, sometimes 15,
$200,000 projects.
2091
02:44:19,250 --> 02:44:22,960
I can do 20, as many as 200, but at one
2092
02:44:23,180 --> 02:44:25,460
then so really you'll see that
2093
02:44:25,920 --> 02:44:32,040
what is there that is something to keep us
or keep me still on that $200-300,000,
2094
02:44:32,250 --> 02:44:36,540
but where the dollar is greener.
So the disparity is there.
2095
02:44:36,780 --> 02:44:42,750
If it’s proof you’re looking, you come to me.
I’ve been a victim of it for the past years.
2096
02:44:42,920 --> 02:44:47,870
It’s been very hard for a small company
like myself to grow.
2097
02:44:47,950 --> 02:44:52,040
And usually I find let’s say
major stream what do you call it,
2098
02:44:52,210 --> 02:44:54,000
not by using the color of the skin,
2099
02:44:54,170 --> 02:44:57,670
but the mainstream companies
in five years in construction,
2100
02:44:57,870 --> 02:45:01,120
they do it in 20 or 30 million
and they speeding up there.
2101
02:45:01,370 --> 02:45:04,370
And what we say
if you really want to help this,
2102
02:45:04,670 --> 02:45:09,000
I don’t understand that
in bigger companies, bigger projects.
2103
02:45:09,150 --> 02:45:15,290
Like I heard Honeywell has so many million dollars,
negotiated contract with the city.
2104
02:45:16,520 --> 02:45:18,460
The casino was negotiated.
2105
02:45:18,580 --> 02:45:22,670
Why with a small contractor
so we can’t negotiate with the city
2106
02:45:22,870 --> 02:45:25,620
to get that has to be
different ways of doing it
2107
02:45:25,870 --> 02:45:30,870
that we can sit down and negotiate contracts
and make sure we eliminate that gap.
2108
02:45:31,080 --> 02:45:36,750
Suddenly with us it’s illegal. With major companies
it’s not illegal. That’s my point.
2109
02:45:37,000 --> 02:45:39,830
Question is there.
I think essentially it was
2110
02:45:40,030 --> 02:45:46,500
why do the disparity studies?
So there’s a belief on the ground that
2111
02:45:46,900 --> 02:45:49,080
these barriers exist.
2112
02:45:50,420 --> 02:45:54,290
So there’s a few reasons
why we have to go through this process.
2113
02:45:54,460 --> 02:46:01,580
One is as researchers we,
as strong as though, as strong as
2114
02:46:01,830 --> 02:46:04,620
our feeling is
that these barriers might exist or not,
2115
02:46:04,920 --> 02:46:08,460
we’ve got to do the work
and understand and look for evidence,
2116
02:46:08,830 --> 02:46:12,750
objective evidence that this exists.
The reason why is because
2117
02:46:12,870 --> 02:46:15,250
in order for the city
to develop its program
2118
02:46:15,780 --> 02:46:19,620
and for the city to develop a program
that can stand up to legal scrutiny,
2119
02:46:20,670 --> 02:46:23,370
there has to be
objective evidence in place
2120
02:46:23,620 --> 02:46:29,710
that they can point to that informs what programs
they use and why they’re using those programs.
2121
02:46:30,004 --> 02:46:31,460
That’s really the reason.
2122
02:46:31,580 --> 02:46:34,170
I wouldn’t use the word doubt necessarily,
2123
02:46:34,290 --> 02:46:37,460
but it’s really an exercise
in making sure that we’re gathering
2124
02:46:37,670 --> 02:46:42,629
the evidence that the city needs to make sure
that it’s tailoring its program appropriately.
2125
02:46:42,796 --> 02:46:44,087
That’s really what it comes down to.
2126
02:46:44,350 --> 02:46:49,460
There is no doubt that there are disparities
that exist in doing business.
2127
02:46:50,040 --> 02:46:53,046
There’s no doubt that there are disparities
in our economy.
2128
02:46:53,420 --> 02:46:56,754
In fact, the Mayor would be very clear
and has been very clear,
2129
02:46:56,921 --> 02:46:59,921
his number one priority right now
is addressing
2130
02:47:01,000 --> 02:47:04,796
inequities that exist
in the participation of our economy.
2131
02:47:05,330 --> 02:47:06,879
All over the City.
2132
02:47:07,290 --> 02:47:12,212
Now we think the inequities that exist in the
participation in doing business with the City
2133
02:47:12,380 --> 02:47:16,370
is where we need to put real effort
and try to lead.
2134
02:47:16,580 --> 02:47:18,337
And so there’s been historic
2135
02:47:18,754 --> 02:47:23,629
challenges doing business with women owned
and minority owned businesses here in the City
2136
02:47:24,290 --> 02:47:25,830
way before we got in,
2137
02:47:26,220 --> 02:47:29,290
and there are systemic barriers
and policy barriers.
2138
02:47:29,462 --> 02:47:31,171
And we want to address them.
2139
02:47:31,421 --> 02:47:33,080
We’ve been doing things
2140
02:47:33,600 --> 02:47:36,790
and there also have been challenges,
2141
02:47:36,920 --> 02:47:39,920
legal challenges to policies that the City
2142
02:47:40,080 --> 02:47:42,629
before we got into office,
but all over the country,
2143
02:47:42,870 --> 02:47:46,004
whenever a City adopts a policy
2144
02:47:46,171 --> 02:47:49,587
that begins to work with one group
or another, people will challenge it.
2145
02:47:49,793 --> 02:47:52,421
And say hey, is that fair?
Is that not fair?
2146
02:47:55,000 --> 02:48:00,750
BBC, Sameer, is representing the city’s effort
to make sure that we are well informed
2147
02:48:01,330 --> 02:48:04,920
when we introduce
any of these policies.
2148
02:48:05,790 --> 02:48:08,080
And more importantly,
that they can stand up in court.
2149
02:48:52,250 --> 02:48:53,212
Good boy.
2150
02:48:54,060 --> 02:48:58,500
So the good news is to take his temperature
I don’t have to put a thermometer in him.
2151
02:48:58,880 --> 02:49:01,170
I have a scanning thermometer
I can just put on his skin.
2152
02:49:01,460 --> 02:49:03,504
And it’s going to scan for his temperature.
2153
02:49:07,500 --> 02:49:10,710
- Perfect. He doesn’t have a fever.
- He’s neutered correct?
2154
02:49:15,120 --> 02:49:18,000
So the plan for today because
he’s already got his rabies vaccine,
2155
02:49:18,250 --> 02:49:21,040
we’re going to do
a distemper parvo vaccine.
2156
02:49:21,230 --> 02:49:26,170
We're going to give him a kennel cough vaccine
which is a drop that has to go into his nose.
2157
02:49:26,750 --> 02:49:29,580
We’re going to give him a de-wormer
and we’ll do a blood test.
2158
02:49:30,040 --> 02:49:34,120
We’re testing him for heartworm disease.
That’s transmitted by mosquitoes
2159
02:49:34,250 --> 02:49:35,830
and it’s a horrible disease
2160
02:49:35,960 --> 02:49:37,870
to have to treat
that’s really easy to prevent.
2161
02:50:24,790 --> 02:50:26,500
Distemper. Ready?
2162
02:50:34,260 --> 02:50:36,040
What was that? Nothing.
2163
02:50:38,970 --> 02:50:40,960
Rabies. I’m sorry little girl.
2164
02:50:42,000 --> 02:50:44,212
So you want to giver her a bath now?
2165
02:51:32,010 --> 02:51:35,710
You can call 1-800-PETMEDS
and ask for a prescription
2166
02:51:36,120 --> 02:51:40,420
of heartworm medication and they’ll call
here to verify that the test was clean.
2167
02:51:40,470 --> 02:51:41,921
But the way to keep him healthy
2168
02:51:42,129 --> 02:51:45,962
is to have him on the preventive medicine
once a month, all around the year.
2169
02:53:05,270 --> 02:53:07,460
This organization is incredible.
2170
02:53:07,580 --> 02:53:11,120
Morgan Memorial we all have a story
growing up of Morgan Memorial
2171
02:53:11,350 --> 02:53:15,790
and Goodwill,
providing opportunities for training,
2172
02:53:16,030 --> 02:53:18,330
for housing, for food,
2173
02:53:18,870 --> 02:53:20,920
for supplies, for clothing,
2174
02:53:21,040 --> 02:53:25,460
helping people. This organization has always
wrapped its arms around people that are in need.
2175
02:53:25,620 --> 02:53:30,920
It’s one of our largest employers for people with disabilities.
I want to thank you as well for the great work you do there.
2176
02:53:31,210 --> 02:53:35,000
I want to thank all the people that are here today
that we had the honor of serving.
2177
02:53:35,170 --> 02:53:38,830
Thank you for letting us serve you today.
Thank you for letting us be part of this day.
2178
02:53:39,860 --> 02:53:41,290
Thanksgiving is...
2179
02:53:43,040 --> 02:53:45,712
one of those holidays I think that
2180
02:53:46,087 --> 02:53:49,171
allows us the opportunity
to come and serve somebody else.
2181
02:53:49,670 --> 02:53:55,460
And a chance to see people and it should
fill our hearts with gratitude for what we have.
2182
02:53:55,750 --> 02:53:58,629
And on behalf of myself and all the folks
from the City and the State,
2183
02:53:58,884 --> 02:54:02,004
I want to thank you because
my heart is filled with gratitude today
2184
02:54:02,421 --> 02:54:04,790
because of the great work
that Goodwill does
2185
02:54:05,010 --> 02:54:07,620
and the great work of the young people
and the people that are here today.
2186
02:54:07,870 --> 02:54:12,087
So I’m going to stop talking and then
we’re going to have, we’re going to have dancing.
2187
02:54:12,370 --> 02:54:16,337
Will the runners go to the kitchen
and dinner will start.
2188
02:57:02,070 --> 02:57:07,070
We’re going to be doing the general contracting.
We’re the developer and the property manager
2189
02:57:07,370 --> 02:57:10,160
and this is some of the additional organizations
that we have.
2190
02:57:10,370 --> 02:57:13,990
We’re very proud of Cruz’s Care
because it’s a nonprofit that does
2191
02:57:14,780 --> 02:57:19,530
outreach to youth. We mentor young people,
we take them on trips, we do computer learning.
2192
02:57:20,530 --> 02:57:25,070
We do all kinds of backpack giveaways,
but the most important thing is we spend time
2193
02:57:25,240 --> 02:57:28,660
with youth that live on our properties
because we think mentorship
2194
02:57:29,290 --> 02:57:32,530
and interaction
is vital in young people’s lives.
2195
02:57:32,870 --> 02:57:33,990
And next slide.
2196
02:57:34,740 --> 02:57:38,160
We also have heard through the community
in this process,
2197
02:57:38,450 --> 02:57:40,530
about the wealth gap that exists.
2198
02:57:40,740 --> 02:57:44,240
And we all know in the Black community
the wealth gap
2199
02:57:45,200 --> 02:57:48,490
between Blacks and Whites is 275,000
2200
02:57:48,910 --> 02:57:52,950
for an average White family and 750 for an average Black family.
2201
02:57:53,120 --> 02:57:57,740
So one of the things that we made
as part of our mission in this proposal
2202
02:57:57,920 --> 02:58:01,070
is to give as much back
economically to the community
2203
02:58:01,280 --> 02:58:03,570
and leave it better than we find it.
2204
02:58:04,020 --> 02:58:08,870
We just want to give folks a bit of sense
of what we do from a payroll standpoint.
2205
02:58:09,030 --> 02:58:11,410
This is the last seven years.
You'll see our people
2206
02:58:11,740 --> 02:58:16,570
of color percentages go up
from 77 to 93.
2207
02:58:16,740 --> 02:58:21,620
Boston residents are in the 60’s.
Women and Section 3 workers.
2208
02:58:21,870 --> 02:58:24,620
And we continue to put money back
in the community.
2209
02:58:26,470 --> 02:58:29,700
And this is not only
on an employee’s standpoint,
2210
02:58:29,950 --> 02:58:31,490
but on a business standpoint.
2211
02:58:31,660 --> 02:58:35,990
We think it’s very important
that we support local businesses of color.
2212
02:58:36,160 --> 02:58:38,530
So these are MBE numbers.
2213
02:58:39,430 --> 02:58:43,160
Utilization of firms of color
in the last seven years.
2214
02:58:44,370 --> 02:58:49,120
And you see out of 152 million of total
development costs that we’ve done on average
2215
02:58:49,660 --> 02:58:54,700
75 to 78 % have gone to firms of color.
And you look at the worker hours.
2216
02:58:54,910 --> 02:58:59,780
We’ve hit as much as 95 % on 35,000 hours.
2217
02:58:59,980 --> 02:59:02,200
So again it’s about
Ngiving back to the community.
2218
02:59:03,010 --> 02:59:08,240
To talk about the program, it’s now 160 units.
When we were selected it was 150.
2219
02:59:08,970 --> 02:59:11,120
But as you get more into design
2220
02:59:11,320 --> 02:59:15,410
and more finite layouts you find that
you have a little bit more footprint.
2221
02:59:16,030 --> 02:59:22,620
So right now, it’s 160 units of which
105 are home ownership condominiums
2222
02:59:23,380 --> 02:59:27,700
and there’s 15,500 square feet
of retail space.
2223
02:59:27,770 --> 02:59:29,240
That’s also an increase
2224
02:59:29,640 --> 02:59:33,570
from when we were designated because during,
we’ve had about nine meetings
2225
02:59:33,990 --> 02:59:37,990
with DND, BPDA and part of the feedback,
2226
02:59:38,910 --> 02:59:41,240
most of the feedback we incorporated
2227
02:59:41,410 --> 02:59:43,990
and you’ll see in the design we have more of a street presence
2228
02:59:44,410 --> 02:59:48,740
and as that evolved
it opened up for more retail space.
2229
02:59:48,950 --> 02:59:51,320
So you’ll see when they do
the architectural
2230
02:59:51,800 --> 02:59:54,950
that our retail space has in fact increased.
2231
02:59:55,750 --> 03:00:00,950
Estimated real estate tax, people ask us,
is about $700,000 annually.
2232
03:00:02,020 --> 03:00:07,490
As some of you know, as part of our community
benefits we are going to be leasing space
2233
03:00:07,660 --> 03:00:10,490
to the NAACP at no cost for 10 years.
2234
03:00:10,780 --> 03:00:14,450
In addition to that we’ve endowed
a $5,000 scholarship
2235
03:00:15,120 --> 03:00:19,030
annually for 10 years for them to allocate
anyway that they want.
2236
03:00:19,650 --> 03:00:24,200
We also have agreed, YouthBuild Boston
for those of you who aren’t familiar,
2237
03:00:24,400 --> 03:00:27,120
is an organization
that trains young people in the trades.
2238
03:00:27,370 --> 03:00:30,870
Helps them get on a straight path.
2239
03:00:31,620 --> 03:00:35,450
We’ve committed $100,000
to that organization over five years.
2240
03:00:35,700 --> 03:00:40,410
Plus we’re going to hire at least
one YouthBuild graduate
2241
03:00:40,870 --> 03:00:45,070
in every major trade
or during the life of the development.
2242
03:00:45,320 --> 03:00:49,240
The life of the construction and we have
estimated that to be about 20 positions.
2243
03:00:49,540 --> 03:00:54,030
Community benefits should be
driven by the community
2244
03:00:54,530 --> 03:00:57,070
and not by a developer.
2245
03:00:57,280 --> 03:01:01,700
I’m not taking issue with that.
It’s a broad statement that I’m making.
2246
03:01:01,870 --> 03:01:05,120
It’s not targeted at crews specifically.
2247
03:01:06,910 --> 03:01:13,240
What, in that sort of proposal and package
can we revisit and look at
2248
03:01:14,530 --> 03:01:19,700
and really build more consensus around
from the community’s perspective
2249
03:01:19,870 --> 03:01:23,740
as to what they would like to see
as a community benefit.
2250
03:01:24,200 --> 03:01:28,070
Much of what you listed out
2251
03:01:28,320 --> 03:01:33,660
of course NAACP, I’m not sure they need
1,000 square feet of space.
2252
03:01:34,820 --> 03:01:41,740
And some of the others that are noble endeavors,
but could there be others?
2253
03:01:42,030 --> 03:01:45,280
And that make more sense
particularly for this site?
2254
03:01:45,780 --> 03:01:49,370
So I would just like to hear,
2255
03:01:49,700 --> 03:01:53,700
I think from not only the IAG group,
2256
03:01:53,950 --> 03:01:56,200
but also from the community
2257
03:01:56,280 --> 03:01:59,660
and have that community benefits process be more
2258
03:01:59,820 --> 03:02:02,450
inclusive of what the community wants,
2259
03:02:02,620 --> 03:02:07,700
as opposed to relationships that developers
have with specific groups of people.
2260
03:02:07,950 --> 03:02:11,120
It may not be that thing,
but it can look like that.
2261
03:02:11,860 --> 03:02:14,530
For us to go a little deeper on that.
2262
03:02:14,570 --> 03:02:15,870
I would like to respond.
2263
03:02:15,990 --> 03:02:17,950
We tried to get out ahead of...
2264
03:02:18,490 --> 03:02:23,910
Anytime we put in a proposal, as part of that we
think about the benefits back to the community.
2265
03:02:24,350 --> 03:02:30,410
And I think the Roxbury Strategic Master Plan
Oversight Committee asks the question,
2266
03:02:30,870 --> 03:02:35,740
how come the Cruz’s proposal has benefits
and none of the other’s had them?
2267
03:02:36,360 --> 03:02:38,910
And it’s because we always try
to be proactive.
2268
03:02:39,280 --> 03:02:41,780
So we can always have a discussion.
2269
03:02:42,410 --> 03:02:46,990
You know John’s always open to having
conversations and considering things.
2270
03:02:47,570 --> 03:02:50,950
But we made a commitment to the NAACP
in writing.
2271
03:02:51,910 --> 03:02:54,950
That not only would we give them
free space for 10 years...
2272
03:02:55,450 --> 03:03:00,740
Not to date myself, but when I was growing up
the NAACP was on Mass Ave, the prominent side.
2273
03:03:00,910 --> 03:03:05,320
You drive by you see them, you had ethnic pride
because you knew their mission.
2274
03:03:05,570 --> 03:03:07,240
Now, unfortunately
2275
03:03:07,570 --> 03:03:11,450
they’re in the Washington Park Mall
where no one sees them.
2276
03:03:11,820 --> 03:03:13,910
So we thought it was an excellent idea
2277
03:03:14,320 --> 03:03:17,530
to have them visible,
where better than in Dudley Square.
2278
03:03:17,780 --> 03:03:21,030
When people come down.
So we made that agreement with them.
2279
03:03:21,240 --> 03:03:25,320
We also made an agreement
to fund a scholarship
2280
03:03:25,820 --> 03:03:30,820
at $5,000 a year for at least 10 years
that they would have the control
2281
03:03:31,450 --> 03:03:35,160
to determine who got it.
We wouldn’t be involved in that at all,
2282
03:03:35,570 --> 03:03:37,570
just from the vantage point
of giving them the money.
2283
03:03:37,780 --> 03:03:40,450
And with YouthBuild.
YouthBuild does a great job.
2284
03:03:40,660 --> 03:03:42,910
If you’re not aware of them
just Google them.
2285
03:03:43,030 --> 03:03:46,120
Not that a lot of organizations don’t,
but they do a great job
2286
03:03:46,990 --> 03:03:48,660
taking our troubled youth
2287
03:03:48,780 --> 03:03:53,820
and turning them around
when their next step is either incarceration
2288
03:03:54,430 --> 03:03:59,070
or they have to turn their lives around.
And so we thought that that was a high priority
2289
03:03:59,290 --> 03:04:01,030
for us to make a commitment on
2290
03:04:01,910 --> 03:04:05,120
and providing jobs.
We’ve worked with them before, in fact
2291
03:04:05,620 --> 03:04:08,740
John has hired at least 10 YouthBuild graduates
2292
03:04:09,160 --> 03:04:12,740
in probably the last 10 or 15 years
because we think it’s so important.
2293
03:04:13,030 --> 03:04:16,280
It’s like ex-offenders. They need a chance.
They need another chance.
2294
03:04:16,570 --> 03:04:19,410
So, conversation on community benefits
2295
03:04:19,820 --> 03:04:22,537
is not off the table,
but the ones that we’ve given
2296
03:04:22,704 --> 03:04:25,829
we feel like we’ve given our word
to those people.
2297
03:04:26,120 --> 03:04:29,820
To those organizations.
It would be hard to go back and say,
2298
03:04:30,990 --> 03:04:32,320
we’ve changed our mind.
2299
03:04:32,530 --> 03:04:36,780
Community benefits should be driven
by the community.
2300
03:04:37,070 --> 03:04:41,240
It should have its focus
come from the community.
2301
03:04:41,410 --> 03:04:46,160
I understand that you as a developer
and others want to, some of you,
2302
03:04:46,320 --> 03:04:50,280
not all developers want to get ahead of that
and put on the table,
2303
03:04:51,660 --> 03:04:54,530
meaningful, long term community benefits.
2304
03:04:54,700 --> 03:04:57,950
That’s the other thing
and this is also more for the City that
2305
03:04:58,160 --> 03:05:02,070
community benefits shouldn’t just be
a shot in the arm. It should be long term.
2306
03:05:02,370 --> 03:05:06,620
It should be, it should you know,
2307
03:05:07,030 --> 03:05:10,280
build equity in the community.
2308
03:05:10,980 --> 03:05:15,620
That’s my concern and my concern
is that the voice
2309
03:05:15,870 --> 03:05:18,320
that carries that piece
around community benefit
2310
03:05:18,530 --> 03:05:20,120
resonate and comes
from the community.
2311
03:06:18,280 --> 03:06:19,450
I’m here today to tell my story on
2312
03:06:19,620 --> 03:06:22,660
how I got in front of the hydrant
and why I’m in front of the hydrant.
2313
03:06:23,780 --> 03:06:27,620
First of all I’m not denying I parked there.
I was wrong in parking there.
2314
03:06:28,200 --> 03:06:30,450
How I ended up there?
2315
03:06:30,910 --> 03:06:34,320
My industry’s biggest conference
of the year
2316
03:06:34,780 --> 03:06:37,450
is September 22, 23rd.
That’s something I know.
2317
03:06:37,740 --> 03:06:42,370
It’s also happened to be two weeks
before my wife’s due date.
2318
03:06:42,780 --> 03:06:45,370
It was a big debate throughout the year
if I should go, if I should not go.
2319
03:06:45,700 --> 03:06:47,740
That conference was in Rockland, Maine.
2320
03:06:48,700 --> 03:06:50,160
So predictably,
2321
03:06:51,570 --> 03:06:56,660
Tuesday night, September 23rd, I get
a phone call, my wife’s having contractions.
2322
03:06:56,780 --> 03:07:00,950
And I race home to, from Rockland, Maine,
Bar Harbor area.
2323
03:07:02,690 --> 03:07:05,030
So I drive home
three and a half, four hours.
2324
03:07:05,840 --> 03:07:08,780
It’s East Boston past midnight.
2325
03:07:08,950 --> 03:07:12,160
There’s no parking anywhere
within two miles of my house.
2326
03:07:12,370 --> 03:07:14,660
I’m a first time father, new father.
2327
03:07:14,910 --> 03:07:17,370
I have no idea what to expect.
I just have to get a parking spot.
2328
03:07:18,160 --> 03:07:20,620
2:30 in the morning
I park in front of the hydrant.
2329
03:07:22,280 --> 03:07:25,620
I wake up the next day and there’s not one,
but two tickets on my car.
2330
03:07:26,350 --> 03:07:29,620
So, I’m here,
letting you know I was wrong,
2331
03:07:29,780 --> 03:07:33,370
but as an exhausted, stressed,
tired new father
2332
03:07:33,820 --> 03:07:38,370
that is facing a pile of medical bills,
asking for reprieve from one of those tickets.
2333
03:07:39,280 --> 03:07:42,200
Based on the evidence you provided,
2334
03:07:42,370 --> 03:07:44,530
as well as the evidence provided
by the Officer who wrote the tickets,
2335
03:07:44,820 --> 03:07:47,700
factoring what I’m allowed to factor in,
legally speaking
2336
03:07:47,870 --> 03:07:49,820
I should deny the appeal today.
2337
03:07:50,130 --> 03:07:53,530
What I’m going to do however instead
I’m going to dismiss both tickets.
2338
03:07:53,700 --> 03:07:55,700
One with a warning
the other with a final warning.
2339
03:07:55,860 --> 03:07:57,370
That means is a couple of things.
2340
03:07:57,530 --> 03:07:59,450
First, in the future you got to make sure
2341
03:07:59,620 --> 03:08:02,320
you check where you park
because especially with issues like this,
2342
03:08:02,490 --> 03:08:06,240
and with no stop or stands,
they can tow the car if they really wanted to.
2343
03:08:06,410 --> 03:08:09,240
Which would not have been helpful
in this entire process for you.
2344
03:08:09,870 --> 03:08:12,160
Second, if you filed an appeal
you do need to bring
2345
03:08:12,320 --> 03:08:14,780
all evidence that you have
that can corroborate any testimonies,
2346
03:08:14,910 --> 03:08:17,280
paperwork, receipts, photos, whatever.
2347
03:08:17,410 --> 03:08:19,280
And third, means you don’t have
to pay anything today.
2348
03:08:19,530 --> 03:08:20,530
Thank you very much.
2349
03:08:24,690 --> 03:08:28,700
For the record we’re here today
for ticket 754471406
2350
03:08:28,870 --> 03:08:31,660
issued to us in a resident permit only
on 8/9/2019
2351
03:08:31,910 --> 03:08:35,120
at 10:09 p.m. at 343 Congress Street.
2352
03:08:35,490 --> 03:08:37,950
So what can you do to prove
the ticket was given incorrectly.
2353
03:08:39,200 --> 03:08:42,240
It’s tough for me to prove the ticket
was given incorrectly, but --
2354
03:08:42,530 --> 03:08:45,820
when I parked the car
there wasn’t any sign for
2355
03:08:46,410 --> 03:08:48,530
resident permit parking there.
2356
03:08:48,700 --> 03:08:50,530
It was just a meter I thought
2357
03:08:50,910 --> 03:08:55,620
and I mean I lived in this town my whole life.
I didn’t even know anybody lived down there.
2358
03:08:55,870 --> 03:08:58,780
I haven’t been down there
in a long time, so
2359
03:08:58,950 --> 03:09:01,490
for me to park in that part of town
2360
03:09:01,660 --> 03:09:03,530
and think, wait a minute,
this might be resident permit,
2361
03:09:03,990 --> 03:09:06,120
like it was the Hill or like it was the Back Bay
2362
03:09:06,280 --> 03:09:07,990
or like it was the South End.
2363
03:09:08,160 --> 03:09:09,700
I just didn’t see a sign
2364
03:09:10,070 --> 03:09:13,990
and I figured 9:00 I’m fine and I come out
and get a ticket at 10.
2365
03:09:15,620 --> 03:09:19,410
I can’t understand what happened.
I don’t, I just don’t know.
2366
03:09:20,180 --> 03:09:22,820
So what could have happened,
there are some parts of Boston
2367
03:09:22,990 --> 03:09:24,820
where it’s resident permit after six.
2368
03:09:25,070 --> 03:09:28,530
So without any evidence that
there isn’t a sign posted on the block,
2369
03:09:28,700 --> 03:09:31,160
more likely it was given correctly,
but I’ll dismiss it.
2370
03:09:31,380 --> 03:09:33,820
Just make sure every time you park the car
even if you’re at your in meter.
2371
03:09:33,990 --> 03:09:36,570
I have to check a little bit harder
than I did that night. Certainly.
2372
03:09:37,020 --> 03:09:39,120
I was even on a date the other night
and I’m like:
2373
03:09:39,120 --> 03:09:42,070
Hold on, I made her wait,
I got to check the signs
2374
03:09:42,370 --> 03:09:45,070
Just keep going until you find a sign there,
there’s always going to be one.
2375
03:09:45,330 --> 03:09:49,030
I just didn’t think to look.
Again, because who lives down there?
2376
03:09:49,200 --> 03:09:51,740
Evidently a lot of people
live down there now.
2377
03:09:52,160 --> 03:09:54,280
Maybe it’s like a new high rise
or something, I’m not sure.
2378
03:09:55,030 --> 03:09:56,910
Back in the day, nobody lived down there.
2379
03:09:58,710 --> 03:10:01,200
So that’s a copy of the decision.
Do you have any further questions?
2380
03:10:02,160 --> 03:10:05,200
Thank you for hearing me because
I missed my date and everything.
2381
03:10:05,450 --> 03:10:08,700
- You missed your date?
- Like I said, but the guy said you can.
2382
03:10:21,570 --> 03:10:23,700
Except for Atlantic, nothing’s that bad.
2383
03:10:23,870 --> 03:10:25,160
Don’t worry. It’ll get there.
2384
03:10:27,560 --> 03:10:29,570
Harold Street’s not bad so far.
2385
03:10:31,410 --> 03:10:34,700
So far it’s not bad.
It’s going to be getting bad.
2386
03:10:35,030 --> 03:10:37,200
Starting to build up
in the Sumner tunnel.
2387
03:10:46,420 --> 03:10:49,200
8th Street is not bad tonight.
2388
03:10:53,030 --> 03:10:55,280
I made a little adjustments
over there earlier.
2389
03:10:56,660 --> 03:11:00,070
You figured they’d start diving off
the highway, cutting through the back streets.
2390
03:11:07,070 --> 03:11:09,370
Looks like the highway
is starting to slow down.
2391
03:11:10,990 --> 03:11:13,030
The expressway’s starting to slow down.
2392
03:11:14,070 --> 03:11:15,780
Everyone is going north skiing.
2393
03:11:16,870 --> 03:11:19,740
Got to stay ahead of the traffic.
Got to stay ahead of the problem.
2394
03:11:21,870 --> 03:11:23,700
I might make this change permanent.
2395
03:11:23,950 --> 03:11:25,570
- Which one?
- Upham’s corner.
2396
03:11:26,570 --> 03:11:31,530
I’m always doing this. I just don’t think those
left turns need that much green time.
2397
03:11:31,700 --> 03:11:33,870
I never see that many cars making the move.
2398
03:11:38,740 --> 03:11:40,160
It backs up.
2399
03:11:40,530 --> 03:11:42,450
Some nights it doesn’t, but --
2400
03:11:42,960 --> 03:11:45,280
It don’t do it all the time though.
2401
03:11:45,450 --> 03:11:47,990
No, but it’s 50/50.
2402
03:11:49,160 --> 03:11:51,160
Gotta give it time. It will clear up.
2403
03:11:53,740 --> 03:11:55,160
What’s that? Double parked?
2404
03:12:02,950 --> 03:12:06,070
Hi it’s Keith from the Tech Center.
Hey, how’s it going?
2405
03:12:06,730 --> 03:12:11,870
I’ve got a vehicle stopped in the bike lane
on Congress Street at Milk Street.
2406
03:12:13,200 --> 03:12:14,320
Great, thanks.
2407
03:13:53,990 --> 03:13:58,740
I am the Executive Director of the Mayor’s Office
of Women’s Advancement here in Boston
2408
03:13:58,910 --> 03:14:02,620
and you’re now joining a community
of almost 8,000 women
2409
03:14:02,780 --> 03:14:07,990
that have been trained to know their worth
and demand fair pay.
2410
03:14:08,910 --> 03:14:13,950
You may know that Latinas in Boston
through the data that we measure locally,
2411
03:14:14,070 --> 03:14:19,160
and we are the only city that measures
these pay gaps locally,
2412
03:14:19,410 --> 03:14:24,870
Latinas are making 49 cents
to the White man’s dollar in Boston.
2413
03:14:25,800 --> 03:14:27,700
And then the figure nationally
2414
03:14:28,210 --> 03:14:33,310
is slightly different, but almost the same
which makes today Latina Equal Pay Day.
2415
03:14:33,310 --> 03:14:35,410
We have to work up until November 1st
2416
03:14:35,570 --> 03:14:39,370
to make the same amount of money
that White men made last year.
2417
03:14:39,430 --> 03:14:43,450
And so if you think
that’s shocking and depressing as I do,
2418
03:14:44,200 --> 03:14:45,530
that’s why you’re here.
2419
03:14:45,990 --> 03:14:49,370
And I wanted to say thank you.
You are part of the solution.
2420
03:14:50,240 --> 03:14:53,070
We have a two or three prong solution
2421
03:14:53,530 --> 03:14:57,160
that we’re working on putting together
at the Mayor’s Office of Women’s Advancement.
2422
03:14:57,370 --> 03:15:01,570
The first part of it is training ourselves,
empowering ourselves
2423
03:15:01,740 --> 03:15:04,570
and learning how to navigate the system as it is.
2424
03:15:04,870 --> 03:15:07,620
So we acknowledge that the system is unfair and that
2425
03:15:07,780 --> 03:15:12,700
it’s not our individual fault that we are
experiencing this pay gap as Latinas.
2426
03:15:12,980 --> 03:15:18,410
But there is something that we ourselves
can do about it and that is
2427
03:15:18,470 --> 03:15:21,280
learning to negotiate,
learning our work, our worth,
2428
03:15:21,570 --> 03:15:24,570
doing our research
and then demanding fair pay.
2429
03:15:24,770 --> 03:15:29,240
At the same time at the Mayor’s Office of
Women’s Advancement we do understand
2430
03:15:29,490 --> 03:15:32,120
that’s only going to get us so far,
so on the other hand
2431
03:15:32,370 --> 03:15:35,870
we are working on fixing that system and leveling it off so that
2432
03:15:36,160 --> 03:15:38,740
we are playing in a more equal play field.
2433
03:15:39,450 --> 03:15:42,280
What that entails is doing
a lot of work with employers.
2434
03:15:42,570 --> 03:15:46,280
So that you guys will learn how to negotiate
and demand your worth here,
2435
03:15:46,560 --> 03:15:49,620
they have to be ready for that
on the other end.
2436
03:15:49,950 --> 03:15:54,740
We work with more than 200 employers in the
greater Boston area to talk about this issue,
2437
03:15:54,990 --> 03:15:58,490
to get them to measure their own
wage gaps and then to come together,
2438
03:15:59,320 --> 03:16:03,370
and learn and propose strategies
for what they’re going to do about it.
2439
03:16:04,320 --> 03:16:07,410
Part of it is, how do you figure out
for this role,
2440
03:16:07,570 --> 03:16:10,070
how do I know
that I should be getting paid more?
2441
03:16:10,180 --> 03:16:15,490
Or that I should even get anything
outside of just a paycheck? What is that?
2442
03:16:16,070 --> 03:16:19,240
With the advent, thank goodness,
of the Internet,
2443
03:16:19,740 --> 03:16:22,410
that type of information
is very readily available.
2444
03:16:23,050 --> 03:16:25,780
So one of the things that I did learn
2445
03:16:26,160 --> 03:16:30,990
at an early stage thanks to the same manager,
because we had a conflict at one point.
2446
03:16:31,240 --> 03:16:35,490
And it was a conflict about
the size of my skirt.
2447
03:16:36,740 --> 03:16:40,530
It taught me one of these lessons, a good
negotiating point and why I researched.
2448
03:16:40,780 --> 03:16:42,990
Somebody complained
that my skirt was too short.
2449
03:16:43,370 --> 03:16:47,120
Now mind you compared to these days, woo.
It was like having knee length skirt.
2450
03:16:48,160 --> 03:16:53,370
But I asked him: would you ask or say
something, say the same thing to a man?
2451
03:16:53,620 --> 03:16:55,780
I mean obviously at that time,
2452
03:16:55,950 --> 03:16:58,700
men didn’t have the option they do or --
2453
03:16:59,200 --> 03:17:03,700
non-binary wasn’t a thing then,
so we didn’t have those types of conversations.
2454
03:17:03,950 --> 03:17:06,030
Then he said I’m going
to teach you something.
2455
03:17:06,450 --> 03:17:08,370
I don’t care if you’re a woman or a man.
2456
03:17:08,700 --> 03:17:11,820
He said do you want people to think about
these things because you’re a woman
2457
03:17:11,990 --> 03:17:15,120
or do you want them to think about
the value that you bring into your role?
2458
03:17:17,410 --> 03:17:20,280
And so, he did teach me that,
so part of that was
2459
03:17:20,670 --> 03:17:24,320
every time when I go for a new role,
or I’m helping someone,
2460
03:17:24,570 --> 03:17:27,620
I say go look up what a man
and a woman’s making for that role.
2461
03:17:28,280 --> 03:17:29,570
Find out what they’re making here
2462
03:17:29,570 --> 03:17:31,910
and what they’re making
in other parts of the country.
2463
03:17:32,070 --> 03:17:34,200
Find out what that scale is,
and then use the men’s scale.
2464
03:17:35,280 --> 03:17:38,490
The other thing too,
when you talk about knowing your value is:
2465
03:17:38,870 --> 03:17:41,740
besides that number on a piece of paper,
2466
03:17:42,370 --> 03:17:44,870
what else should you be negotiating for?
And that’s one of the great things
2467
03:17:45,120 --> 03:17:47,410
about doing your research
between the Internet,
2468
03:17:47,570 --> 03:17:50,240
what the company’s offering
and what other people are making.
2469
03:17:50,620 --> 03:17:52,570
Do you have bonus potential?
2470
03:17:52,990 --> 03:17:58,160
Are you moving expenses?
Do you have training that’s involved, or
2471
03:17:58,820 --> 03:18:00,950
memberships
for professional associations?
2472
03:18:01,070 --> 03:18:03,240
There’s so many things
that you can actually negotiate,
2473
03:18:03,410 --> 03:18:05,120
they should all be on the table.
2474
03:18:05,490 --> 03:18:09,120
So how my strategy changed
was I learned how to research.
2475
03:18:09,280 --> 03:18:12,870
I learned how to do those types of things.
But the other thing I also learned how to do
2476
03:18:13,160 --> 03:18:16,160
and Evelyn you touched upon this.
This is so very important.
2477
03:18:16,530 --> 03:18:18,070
Learning how to read people.
2478
03:18:18,320 --> 03:18:20,410
You can have all the knowledge
in the world,
2479
03:18:20,900 --> 03:18:23,570
but if the person across from you does not want to negotiate
2480
03:18:23,740 --> 03:18:28,120
or you don’t think they want to negotiate,
or you don’t know their negotiation style,
2481
03:18:28,340 --> 03:18:30,070
you may go nowhere in that conversation.
2482
03:18:30,240 --> 03:18:33,780
So another really important part
of that negotiation is
2483
03:18:34,020 --> 03:18:37,530
trying to figure out a person’s
negotiation style. It’s not that difficult
2484
03:18:37,820 --> 03:18:42,070
to be honest with you. One of the things
I had to learn early on in my career
2485
03:18:42,370 --> 03:18:45,410
because when I started negotiating
there was not that many women in my field.
2486
03:18:45,950 --> 03:18:48,200
So it was non’t even women of color,
it was just women.
2487
03:18:48,410 --> 03:18:50,570
And I had to learn to hold my own
2488
03:18:51,270 --> 03:18:55,570
with all these men that in a lot of times
I was leading, especially early in my career.
2489
03:18:55,740 --> 03:18:57,950
I was 23, 24 leading men that were,
2490
03:18:58,240 --> 03:19:01,820
had been in corporate careers for 20, 30, 40 years if not more.
2491
03:19:01,990 --> 03:19:04,700
So that was my first lesson
because I remember,
2492
03:19:05,780 --> 03:19:08,820
just from a cultural type of perspective,
2493
03:19:09,200 --> 03:19:11,870
a gentleman from Alabama
called me Sug one day.
2494
03:19:12,930 --> 03:19:16,450
Now I knew culturally that
he wasn’t trying to be offensive
2495
03:19:16,870 --> 03:19:19,030
and I also knew him personally,
2496
03:19:19,240 --> 03:19:22,910
but I also knew that that could impact
how other people looked at me.
2497
03:19:23,570 --> 03:19:27,410
And when you talk about value that’s not
a dollar sign value at that point in time.
2498
03:19:27,560 --> 03:19:31,120
Although it could translate into it
at a later point.
2499
03:19:31,410 --> 03:19:36,070
I had to go to my manager and say,
I know he doesn’t mean harm by this,
2500
03:19:36,240 --> 03:19:38,200
but he could be creating harm
2501
03:19:38,370 --> 03:19:41,660
based on the fact that I’m a woman.
And I’m a woman, a female negotiator.
2502
03:19:42,160 --> 03:19:47,570
So one of the things that I had to learn
from a cultural and just the value as a woman,
2503
03:19:47,910 --> 03:19:50,450
was my job was a negotiator.
2504
03:19:51,030 --> 03:19:55,700
If I could not negotiate my salary, what
was I saying to my potential employer?
2505
03:19:56,990 --> 03:20:01,320
So it was even more stressful
to be able to put a package together.
2506
03:20:01,780 --> 03:20:05,950
A couple of things that I learned,
I actually learned a lot from men.
2507
03:20:06,120 --> 03:20:07,780
I had a lot of male mentors.
2508
03:20:07,950 --> 03:20:11,620
Mostly because of the fact that
there was no one else again in that space
2509
03:20:11,920 --> 03:20:15,950
that were women. And they were definitely
not women of color, very seldom.
2510
03:20:16,200 --> 03:20:18,490
Very seldom did I ever run into
a woman of color.
2511
03:20:19,030 --> 03:20:21,740
So I had to lean outside of that space
2512
03:20:21,910 --> 03:20:26,240
to actually find women and women of color
who were doing something different
2513
03:20:26,380 --> 03:20:29,620
and that they could teach me
and they could give me a voice.
2514
03:20:29,910 --> 03:20:32,030
So mentorship was huge for me.
2515
03:20:32,230 --> 03:20:33,954
Without that mentorship,
2516
03:20:34,246 --> 03:20:39,920
I would not have learned as a woman
and as a Latina what my value was.
2517
03:20:39,920 --> 03:20:42,070
Then the other thing I did lean on
2518
03:20:42,530 --> 03:20:46,120
as far as my approach was concerned,
was I watched men.
2519
03:20:46,280 --> 03:20:48,490
And I watched how
they conducted themselves.
2520
03:20:48,700 --> 03:20:50,200
When you talk about learning your value,
2521
03:20:50,370 --> 03:20:55,160
a lot of times where I learned
were at bars at happy hours.
2522
03:20:56,270 --> 03:20:57,280
So number one,
2523
03:20:57,520 --> 03:21:02,490
I was taught you should not be a woman
going to a bar at happy hour with all these men.
2524
03:21:02,920 --> 03:21:08,450
I had to take a risk at that time in my career
to say there’s something going on there.
2525
03:21:09,360 --> 03:21:11,700
And so I would go and have a beer or two.
2526
03:21:11,950 --> 03:21:15,780
And have these conversations
because again, negotiation strategy.
2527
03:21:16,320 --> 03:21:20,160
People let their guard down at different points
and it was usually at the bar for men.
2528
03:21:20,420 --> 03:21:24,990
The other thing that I had to learn as far as
what was going on corporate America at the time?
2529
03:21:25,280 --> 03:21:27,660
Things were happening on the golf course.
2530
03:21:28,030 --> 03:21:32,200
I didn’t play golf. We played no activities.
We had no money for it.
2531
03:21:32,550 --> 03:21:36,450
So, I went and I took golf lessons
at the public golf course. I was horrible.
2532
03:21:37,070 --> 03:21:41,320
The first time I joined the company golf league
and I would tell them, I’m horrible.
2533
03:21:41,700 --> 03:21:46,490
The first time that I went up to hit the ball,
I missed it. And I missed it horribly.
2534
03:21:47,630 --> 03:21:50,740
But I told everyone.
I said I told you I was not good at golf.
2535
03:21:50,990 --> 03:21:55,240
At least people knew I was going to play golf,
but I was going to be on that golf course.
2536
03:21:55,620 --> 03:21:59,410
And I knew at the time that especially
when I was living in Pittsburg,
2537
03:21:59,780 --> 03:22:03,490
there really was not that many
women of color in the community,
2538
03:22:03,660 --> 03:22:07,030
much less in corporate America that I was doing
these things, that I was representing,
2539
03:22:07,200 --> 03:22:11,160
so I had to be careful of my actions.
I had to be careful of my words.
2540
03:22:11,320 --> 03:22:13,990
But when that did translate into salary,
2541
03:22:14,160 --> 03:22:15,662
I was at a stronger position
2542
03:22:15,871 --> 03:22:18,329
because people knew
that I was willing to do these things
2543
03:22:18,700 --> 03:22:20,870
to understand what my value was.
2544
03:22:21,160 --> 03:22:23,950
Because at that point I wasn’t
comparing myself to other women
2545
03:22:24,240 --> 03:22:27,450
and I definitely wasn’t comparing myself
to women of color because they weren’t there.
2546
03:22:27,910 --> 03:22:31,280
I was learning what to do and what
my value was compared to a guy,
2547
03:22:31,820 --> 03:22:33,120
compared to a White man.
2548
03:22:33,820 --> 03:22:38,530
And so that was huge for me as far as
my career in negotiation was concerned.
2549
03:24:05,520 --> 03:24:08,820
We had a shooting today
at Quincy and Ceylon Street.
2550
03:24:09,690 --> 03:24:13,990
It was a guy on a -- a kid on a scooter.
2551
03:24:14,200 --> 03:24:16,450
The scooter’s been recovered,
2552
03:24:16,620 --> 03:24:18,570
but the suspect’s still outstanding.
2553
03:24:18,740 --> 03:24:20,950
Pull it up, it’s on the brick, but I printed out
2554
03:24:21,120 --> 03:24:23,820
like 15 copies
so you guys can grab one if you need to.
2555
03:24:23,990 --> 03:24:25,490
Check your emails. It’s in there.
2556
03:24:25,680 --> 03:24:28,200
Otherwise, we’ll be
on the lookout for him.
2557
03:24:29,250 --> 03:24:33,370
And 7 p.m., the 201 --
what did I say 201 was?
2558
03:24:34,450 --> 03:24:36,450
Hogan and Lahey. You guys do
2559
03:24:36,910 --> 03:24:40,320
the Gloucester versus Boston Latin game
up at Madison Park.
2560
03:24:40,490 --> 03:24:43,780
Go up there. A couple code 19s. Or just
drive around at 7 p.m., take a look
2561
03:24:44,280 --> 03:24:46,320
and let us know if anything
needs attention up there.
2562
03:25:02,160 --> 03:25:04,740
I remain concerned about the precedent
2563
03:25:05,030 --> 03:25:10,160
establishing past practice of this committee
to approve such a request as this
2564
03:25:10,780 --> 03:25:13,370
of allowing the increase in enrollment
for a school,
2565
03:25:13,660 --> 03:25:17,910
when we know that the current
physical capacity of their building
2566
03:25:18,070 --> 03:25:20,490
is not equal to
what we are proposing going to.
2567
03:25:21,230 --> 03:25:25,450
And that we’re setting ourself up
for a year or two years from now,
2568
03:25:26,780 --> 03:25:28,950
the school rightfully coming back to us
and saying,
2569
03:25:30,740 --> 03:25:32,450
'we expect a bigger facility,
2570
03:25:32,660 --> 03:25:34,740
'you told us we were going
to have a bigger facility'.
2571
03:25:36,000 --> 03:25:37,280
And this is something that
2572
03:25:37,620 --> 03:25:40,320
this committee has perpetually done
time after time.
2573
03:25:40,360 --> 03:25:42,280
This is no reflection on the school.
2574
03:25:42,410 --> 03:25:46,990
But I’m concerned
we’re setting up a conflict
2575
03:25:47,120 --> 03:25:48,200
a year or two from now
2576
03:25:48,450 --> 03:25:52,200
when you’re trying to expan
to your approved enrollment level
2577
03:25:52,370 --> 03:25:55,370
particularly when there’s a lot of demand
for your school because you’re doing
2578
03:25:55,490 --> 03:25:58,320
really good things there with some youth
who are very challenged.
2579
03:25:58,620 --> 03:26:00,320
You’re doing outstanding work.
2580
03:26:00,950 --> 03:26:04,240
And yet, unless I hear otherwise,
2581
03:26:04,320 --> 03:26:09,280
the answer I have here was about
suspension, but was not yet about facilities.
2582
03:26:10,390 --> 03:26:14,200
This is a long setup to then hear
from the Superintendent on
2583
03:26:14,490 --> 03:26:16,200
where the District stands
2584
03:26:16,540 --> 03:26:19,070
about what we will do for facilities
2585
03:26:19,240 --> 03:26:23,490
because I remain deeply concerned
about approving this amendment.
2586
03:26:24,070 --> 03:26:27,660
I recognize we’re in a challenge.
We’re doing this because of the State review.
2587
03:26:28,580 --> 03:26:31,570
And yet we’re setting up a problem
a year from now.
2588
03:26:31,820 --> 03:26:36,820
I believe there was testimony last time that
the school is already well in excess of its
2589
03:26:37,780 --> 03:26:42,280
approved enrollment and so part of what is
in front of us right now
2590
03:26:42,490 --> 03:26:47,490
is an opportunity to right size
the maximum enrollment of the school
2591
03:26:47,740 --> 03:26:50,950
that would capture
what the excess enrollment will be.
2592
03:26:51,110 --> 03:26:52,870
So that’s not an excuse and that’s not
2593
03:26:53,030 --> 03:26:55,570
a total answer for what your question is, but I think
2594
03:26:55,740 --> 03:26:59,660
just to give that context, we are serving
through the current building,
2595
03:26:59,910 --> 03:27:04,530
or the current facility, students in excess
of what our current allotment is.
2596
03:27:05,170 --> 03:27:07,870
So there is a need for an additional building
2597
03:27:07,870 --> 03:27:11,030
or additional space.
I don’t want to presuppose a building.
2598
03:27:12,740 --> 03:27:17,530
And within that context I think that
might be helpful for the District to further
2599
03:27:18,120 --> 03:27:21,410
elaborate on its own comments
on the facilities from the last meeting.
2600
03:27:21,570 --> 03:27:25,570
But Mr. Chair, correct me if I’m wrong.
We are not just approving
2601
03:27:26,410 --> 03:27:32,820
for the Charter, for the enrollment to go up to
what the existing enrollment is right now,
2602
03:27:33,120 --> 03:27:37,160
we’re going beyond that
which would allow the school to expand
2603
03:27:37,450 --> 03:27:42,780
particularly in the 2.0, right?
So this is a kind of a newer program.
2604
03:27:42,990 --> 03:27:46,160
So this will be an expansion
for the school, it’s not just --
2605
03:27:46,410 --> 03:27:48,820
part of it is correcting where they are, right?
2606
03:27:48,990 --> 03:27:51,490
I agree with you,
but just help me out with that.
2607
03:27:51,700 --> 03:27:55,620
Absolutely and I want to just make sure
that within the context of that,
2608
03:27:56,000 --> 03:27:58,200
the increase is not 100 students.
2609
03:27:58,500 --> 03:28:02,780
The increase to the approved
maximum enrollment is 100 students.
2610
03:28:02,780 --> 03:28:05,740
But the increase I believe
in the actual enrollment is --
2611
03:28:06,170 --> 03:28:08,660
can you help me out with
what that number might be?
2612
03:28:08,830 --> 03:28:13,320
Next year is 430. And the enrollment
is 405 in our Charter.
2613
03:28:13,820 --> 03:28:17,240
- And this is a multiyear enrollment?
- Over 3 years.
2614
03:28:17,410 --> 03:28:19,450
The idea would be to grow 100.
2615
03:28:21,410 --> 03:28:24,620
- Grow 100 additional students?
- To 505.
2616
03:28:25,030 --> 03:28:26,030
To 505.
2617
03:28:26,420 --> 03:28:31,780
That’s 100 additional students,
but over your existing maximum enrollment.
2618
03:28:32,420 --> 03:28:34,030
- its’ about 70? - 70.
2619
03:28:34,360 --> 03:28:36,530
70 students over your actual enrollment.
2620
03:28:37,160 --> 03:28:40,030
- And that will require new physical space.
- More space.
2621
03:28:41,720 --> 03:28:44,740
So, we’re setting ourselves up here
for a big challenge.
2622
03:28:45,910 --> 03:28:47,780
So we’re not proposing simply
2623
03:28:47,950 --> 03:28:52,570
to adjust the amendments
to the actual enrollment right now,
2624
03:28:52,990 --> 03:28:57,030
but we’re proposing now
to allow them to expand
2625
03:28:58,140 --> 03:29:01,280
for students that we know
we do not yet have space for.
2626
03:29:01,820 --> 03:29:07,370
We cannot identify specific space
so we can’t say a plan is part of it.
2627
03:29:09,010 --> 03:29:10,280
Am I correct in that?
2628
03:29:11,940 --> 03:29:14,870
I can tell you that we are committed
2629
03:29:15,030 --> 03:29:18,490
to finding space for the current students
who are offsite already.
2630
03:29:18,780 --> 03:29:21,410
So we will be finding
space for them regardless.
2631
03:29:21,620 --> 03:29:24,450
They’re currently in an offsite location
this year.
2632
03:29:24,910 --> 03:29:26,570
- They’re in the Dearborn?
- In the Dearborn.
2633
03:29:26,740 --> 03:29:28,410
And Dearborn’s going
to need that space next year?
2634
03:29:28,570 --> 03:29:30,950
So we already know we need
to find some space for them?
2635
03:29:31,390 --> 03:29:33,820
But now we’re talking about
additional space beyond that.
2636
03:29:35,280 --> 03:29:36,910
This is a great problem to have.
2637
03:29:37,070 --> 03:29:39,990
It’s because you’re an outstanding school
doing outstanding work.
2638
03:29:40,200 --> 03:29:43,410
There is huge demand. When we talked to folks
at the Reengagement center,
2639
03:29:43,910 --> 03:29:47,950
they would love to have
so many more students there.
2640
03:29:48,030 --> 03:29:49,820
It’s not about a bad problem.
2641
03:29:50,060 --> 03:29:53,870
But it’s a problem that we’ve done
over and over again here.
2642
03:29:54,070 --> 03:29:55,660
And that’s what concerns me.
2643
03:29:55,820 --> 03:29:59,570
I wonder if we can come to a compromise
2644
03:29:59,770 --> 03:30:03,570
of what the enrollment actually is
for the building
2645
03:30:03,880 --> 03:30:05,450
and come back and have this conversation.
2646
03:30:06,220 --> 03:30:08,240
In order to capably serve
2647
03:30:09,280 --> 03:30:11,410
the varied and diverse
2648
03:30:11,490 --> 03:30:14,070
and high needs populations
within our district, we need to be able to
2649
03:30:14,240 --> 03:30:18,620
walk and chew gum at the same time.
Be able to move these programs forward
2650
03:30:18,920 --> 03:30:24,280
while we also continue to think about
how we are best creating the facilities
2651
03:30:24,450 --> 03:30:27,870
and the architecture around the district
to support these programs.
2652
03:30:27,990 --> 03:30:31,780
I’m wondering if it may be better for us
since we’re improving policy
2653
03:30:32,660 --> 03:30:38,660
just to make it clear that we’re approving you
to 435 or whatever the number is immediately
2654
03:30:38,910 --> 03:30:47,450
and to 505 contingent upon finding
a suitable facilities solution for the school.
2655
03:30:47,620 --> 03:30:50,820
So the school and their leadership
and their students and their staff
2656
03:30:51,160 --> 03:30:54,070
know that this is a priority
for the school committee
2657
03:30:54,510 --> 03:30:58,030
to find that solution for the school.
2658
03:30:58,360 --> 03:31:00,620
And that we’re also
very supportive of the school
2659
03:31:00,760 --> 03:31:03,280
because we know the population
they’re serving is critical.
2660
03:31:04,120 --> 03:31:06,280
But also now it’s a school committee by policy,
2661
03:31:06,700 --> 03:31:09,530
putting it back to the District
that it’s critical we find a solution.
2662
03:31:09,630 --> 03:31:12,740
Not putting it solely on the back
of the Superintendent to say,
2663
03:31:13,240 --> 03:31:14,450
we’re going to find something.
2664
03:31:14,620 --> 03:31:16,660
My recommendation at this point would be
2665
03:31:17,180 --> 03:31:21,280
rather than change the number which
would require a whole new process of approval,
2666
03:31:21,660 --> 03:31:23,910
that we table the current request
2667
03:31:24,040 --> 03:31:29,030
until we have completed
their satellite location identification
2668
03:31:29,200 --> 03:31:31,320
and we will bring this back to you
2669
03:31:32,160 --> 03:31:36,030
subsequently with that space solution
connected to it.
2670
03:31:36,200 --> 03:31:38,410
What about simply adding the sentence
2671
03:31:38,740 --> 03:31:40,030
to the approval that
2672
03:31:40,200 --> 03:31:45,190
the expansion is subject to finding
an appropriate facility solution?
2673
03:31:45,370 --> 03:31:46,950
Does that create a problem?
2674
03:31:47,450 --> 03:31:49,280
Thinking about
2675
03:31:50,700 --> 03:31:54,070
the issue that the Interim Superintendent
just laid out,
2676
03:31:54,700 --> 03:31:57,530
I suppose an approval like that
2677
03:31:58,200 --> 03:32:00,910
would allow the District to move forward
2678
03:32:01,160 --> 03:32:06,320
simply upon notification to the committee
at a later date that space has been found.
2679
03:32:07,300 --> 03:32:09,950
And so what that would then do would be--
2680
03:32:11,120 --> 03:32:16,780
it would simply be delaying the opportunity
for BDA to move forward to the State
2681
03:32:17,070 --> 03:32:21,740
and seek the approval
for the full 505 at a later date.
2682
03:32:22,720 --> 03:32:26,780
In other words, we would be taking care
of our committee business this evening
2683
03:32:26,980 --> 03:32:29,700
with that provision
2684
03:32:29,820 --> 03:32:31,240
and in the alternative,
2685
03:32:31,950 --> 03:32:35,120
if we were to table this
we would be voting at a later date.
2686
03:32:35,200 --> 03:32:40,070
Either way, it’s going to result in
2687
03:32:40,240 --> 03:32:42,370
an action from BDA to DESE
2688
03:32:42,630 --> 03:32:47,120
that follows the identification of space
for these students.
2689
03:32:48,240 --> 03:32:51,950
So, you know, I think it’s probably
six of one, half dozen of the other.
2690
03:32:52,160 --> 03:32:54,530
We do think that’s
a wise path forward. It allows
2691
03:32:54,740 --> 03:32:59,490
the current Charter proposal as presented
to be approved,
2692
03:32:59,700 --> 03:33:03,410
but the approval of moving beyond the 435
2693
03:33:03,570 --> 03:33:08,280
is contingent on us coming back to you with their offsite space plan.
2694
03:33:09,120 --> 03:33:12,780
So if you want to propose
the amending language
2695
03:33:13,320 --> 03:33:15,070
that would give them the approval
2696
03:33:15,290 --> 03:33:18,160
and also make it clear that
before we submit it to DESE,
2697
03:33:18,490 --> 03:33:20,990
we will have come back to you with the space plan.
2698
03:33:21,450 --> 03:33:22,990
Alison, if that buys you the right amount of time?
2699
03:33:25,730 --> 03:33:27,950
We’re not waiting until fall next year.
2700
03:33:28,700 --> 03:33:33,200
No. We’re talking about
before the end of this school year.
2701
03:33:34,110 --> 03:33:35,870
To bring it back from the very
2702
03:33:38,280 --> 03:33:40,740
focused conversation we had
about facilities this evening.
2703
03:33:40,910 --> 03:33:44,570
This really isn’t about facilities. That’s just a condition precedent to
2704
03:33:44,740 --> 03:33:48,200
allowing you to continue to serve
the population that you serve so well.
2705
03:33:48,370 --> 03:33:49,910
And expand that service to
2706
03:33:50,200 --> 03:33:52,870
a number of students across the district
who really need it.
2707
03:33:53,000 --> 03:33:54,370
We’re very excited.
2708
03:33:54,620 --> 03:33:58,910
Something that was lost is that you’re also
changing your enrollment policy
2709
03:33:59,250 --> 03:34:02,030
as part of the Charter amendments
that are going forward and so,
2710
03:34:02,280 --> 03:34:05,990
making it easier and more accessible
for students to find
2711
03:34:06,240 --> 03:34:08,370
high quality education at BDA
2712
03:34:08,530 --> 03:34:12,410
is the sum and substance of the Charter
amendments that you put before us tonight.
2713
03:34:12,570 --> 03:34:14,410
We’re very happy to approve those
and we wish you well.
2714
03:34:14,770 --> 03:34:16,780
And we look forward to hearing
about your new location.
2715
03:35:26,970 --> 03:35:28,910
So your main issue is the rodents?
2716
03:35:29,310 --> 03:35:33,870
I found one of them dead under that cabinet.
I moved the refrigerator --
2717
03:35:35,320 --> 03:35:39,620
I had to throw him away.
He was about that big with a big fat tail.
2718
03:35:40,450 --> 03:35:42,620
And oh, it stunk bad.
2719
03:35:43,070 --> 03:35:47,070
- It pulled out the refrigerator.
- You were seeing ‘em over here?
2720
03:35:47,640 --> 03:35:51,870
I threw one away. I killed one.
I had traps under there.
2721
03:35:52,490 --> 03:35:56,660
Trays and they were empty.
And then I smelled a bad odor. Really bad.
2722
03:35:57,330 --> 03:36:02,410
He was like that big. That wasn’t no mouse and
he got a big fat tail with rings around it.
2723
03:36:03,490 --> 03:36:05,990
So it could possibly be a rat.
2724
03:36:07,950 --> 03:36:10,620
Did you already clean out
the droppings under there?
2725
03:36:10,710 --> 03:36:13,370
Yeah, but I did take some pictures
on my phone.
2726
03:36:14,830 --> 03:36:17,570
I wanted to just check around here
just to make sure.
2727
03:36:18,120 --> 03:36:20,120
They’re possibly getting in
through right there.
2728
03:36:20,410 --> 03:36:23,120
He’s coming through the cellar I think.
2729
03:36:23,360 --> 03:36:24,280
We can take a look.
2730
03:36:24,900 --> 03:36:27,370
But those droppings right there
are pretty big.
2731
03:36:27,460 --> 03:36:31,450
It’s not a mouse. I had three tomatoes
on the top of the counter.
2732
03:36:31,990 --> 03:36:34,570
They we’re smashed all over the place.
I’ve never seen a mouse do that.
2733
03:36:35,230 --> 03:36:37,620
How often have you been seeing them?
2734
03:36:38,380 --> 03:36:41,240
Every day for the last month,
month and a half.
2735
03:36:41,610 --> 03:36:43,530
Since they’ve been working on the streets.
2736
03:36:45,370 --> 03:36:49,570
- I can’t even sleep at night because --
- Because that’s been going on?
2737
03:36:49,760 --> 03:36:53,700
I mean I saw one of them running,
he runs fast.
2738
03:36:54,550 --> 03:36:59,910
And then I hear him in the broiler there
where I left him some peanut butter
2739
03:37:00,390 --> 03:37:02,780
and then the next day it’s half gone.
2740
03:37:02,860 --> 03:37:05,490
I’m surprised he’s still kicking.
But there might be more than one.
2741
03:37:05,990 --> 03:37:08,780
This is probably the second one.
There might be three or four.
2742
03:37:10,110 --> 03:37:14,070
Those kick plates underneath the cabinet
can come out easy, they’re not nailed in.
2743
03:37:16,160 --> 03:37:19,160
If you kick it or--
yeah I can kick it with my foot.
2744
03:37:36,910 --> 03:37:42,120
- There’s definitely heavy activity down there.
- I know I wasn’t imagining it.
2745
03:37:42,490 --> 03:37:44,700
- I’ve never seen rats before here.
- You’re getting a lot.
2746
03:37:44,820 --> 03:37:47,950
Before this I had raccoons
in my ceiling.
2747
03:37:48,570 --> 03:37:50,700
They dug two holes and I patched
2748
03:37:50,820 --> 03:37:53,700
that one, but with the heavy rain
he dug a big circle in the wood
2749
03:37:54,240 --> 03:37:57,990
and the water was coming in and the rain,
the sheetrock just came down.
2750
03:37:58,120 --> 03:38:01,320
Does the management usually get back
to you when you try --
2751
03:38:01,770 --> 03:38:05,570
My sister’s got problems
her side of the house. Water leaking in.
2752
03:38:05,950 --> 03:38:08,780
So it’s you on this side
and your sister on the other side?
2753
03:38:09,120 --> 03:38:12,450
And my two brothers own a part of this
2754
03:38:12,860 --> 03:38:15,740
and one of my brothers is trying to evict me
because I think
2755
03:38:16,200 --> 03:38:18,870
he wants to come down into my apartment
which is better than his.
2756
03:38:19,190 --> 03:38:20,070
Got you.
2757
03:38:21,150 --> 03:38:24,280
I put all those in there.
They’re pretty clean.
2758
03:38:25,410 --> 03:38:27,410
There’s no food on them,
but I don’t know.
2759
03:38:29,400 --> 03:38:32,490
- What’s going on with the flooring?
- It’s just cracking from the water.
2760
03:38:32,910 --> 03:38:36,570
It’s been that way for the last year or so.
2761
03:38:37,290 --> 03:38:38,700
It was with all the little leaks.
2762
03:38:38,960 --> 03:38:42,530
When you have a chance and possibly
get to it sooner than later,
2763
03:38:43,230 --> 03:38:46,820
start scrubbing that, getting rid of
that heavy build up, that grease.
2764
03:38:48,410 --> 03:38:51,070
- Because any sort of food source --
- He ate half of my--
2765
03:38:51,240 --> 03:38:54,780
I had a sponge with some food on it
and he chewed half of it away.
2766
03:38:54,950 --> 03:38:57,410
So what you really want to do
2767
03:38:57,970 --> 03:39:00,780
is not leave any kind
of food source out for them.
2768
03:39:01,290 --> 03:39:04,530
So anything like for instance
these onions right here.
2769
03:39:04,700 --> 03:39:09,200
If you can, get a plastic container
and just put them in there
2770
03:39:09,580 --> 03:39:11,030
at least until --
2771
03:39:11,710 --> 03:39:16,910
I’ll let the management or the landlord know
what’s going on as far as the issue.
2772
03:39:17,470 --> 03:39:20,280
But in the meantime, you’re going
to have to do your part.
2773
03:39:20,450 --> 03:39:23,740
So, that would be the stove
and putting
2774
03:39:23,870 --> 03:39:26,910
these onions or any kind of fruit
or vegetable in a plastic container.
2775
03:39:27,120 --> 03:39:28,910
What I’ll do is I’ll try to talk to them,
2776
03:39:30,030 --> 03:39:32,280
find out what’s going on.
2777
03:39:32,820 --> 03:39:37,660
And where the disconnect happened so hopefully
we can come to some sort of resolution
2778
03:39:38,070 --> 03:39:43,370
where you’re not living
with a pest infestation and the leaks.
2779
03:39:44,360 --> 03:39:45,910
Because they spread disease too.
2780
03:39:46,950 --> 03:39:50,530
And I try to keep it clean as I can here.
I’m a bachelor right now
2781
03:39:50,680 --> 03:39:52,990
and living here for 18 years
since I got divorced.
2782
03:39:53,420 --> 03:39:57,620
I’ve made my mistakes, but you know,
I don’t do drugs or anything.
2783
03:39:57,940 --> 03:39:59,660
- I’m clean.
- That’s good.
2784
03:39:59,740 --> 03:40:04,320
I have a glass of of wine here and there
and lately my spirit's broken.
2785
03:40:05,910 --> 03:40:08,740
Because they want to throw me
to the street after all.
2786
03:40:11,170 --> 03:40:12,870
Anybody’s spirit would be broken.
2787
03:40:13,030 --> 03:40:15,570
I’ve been going through mental health
through Veterans.
2788
03:40:15,820 --> 03:40:22,450
And I got some anxiety pills,
I’m on blood pressure pills,
2789
03:40:22,660 --> 03:40:25,240
baby aspirin because I got
stents in my heart.
2790
03:40:25,920 --> 03:40:30,570
But I’m still alive. Hopefully
move onto something better soon.
2791
03:40:35,170 --> 03:40:37,490
We’ll try to help you out
as much as possible.
2792
03:40:37,870 --> 03:40:40,620
And I’ll talk to them to see
what exactly is going on.
2793
03:40:43,990 --> 03:40:45,780
Anytime, and I’ll leave my card for you.
2794
03:40:46,410 --> 03:40:47,870
On the back of my card
2795
03:40:48,240 --> 03:40:51,910
I’ll leave my cell in case you have
any issues or if anything comes up.
2796
03:40:52,060 --> 03:40:54,200
Most of this stuff will be on a 30 day notice.
2797
03:40:54,450 --> 03:40:59,780
Some things that I deem is an emergency
will be on an emergency notice.
2798
03:41:00,320 --> 03:41:03,700
And so, once they get an emergency notice
that’s 24 hours.
2799
03:41:04,400 --> 03:41:07,280
The other stuff will be 30 days
so they’ll have 30 days to fix that.
2800
03:41:08,700 --> 03:41:12,490
What I need from you is
when they come by
2801
03:41:12,740 --> 03:41:14,410
or when they’re letting you know
2802
03:41:14,570 --> 03:41:16,320
like within the 24/48 hours like
2803
03:41:16,570 --> 03:41:18,950
I’m going to come by and do the repairs.
Just let them in.
2804
03:41:19,700 --> 03:41:21,200
That’s no problem. Sure.
2805
03:41:21,870 --> 03:41:23,740
I want the repairs to be done. Believe me.
2806
03:41:23,910 --> 03:41:25,780
- I know.
- I don’t want to live like this.
2807
03:41:25,950 --> 03:41:30,490
I hear you. So, like I said I’ll touch base
with you later on today
2808
03:41:30,700 --> 03:41:33,530
after I talk to your siblings
and then we’ll take it from there.
2809
03:41:53,570 --> 03:41:54,240
Currently
2810
03:41:54,700 --> 03:41:58,160
we need to finalize the community
process which we’re doing right now
2811
03:41:59,240 --> 03:42:02,070
and then finalize the host community
agreement with the City.
2812
03:42:02,280 --> 03:42:03,450
And then apply to
2813
03:42:03,740 --> 03:42:06,740
to the Cannabis Control Commission
for the provisional licenses
2814
03:42:06,950 --> 03:42:08,570
and then that will allow
2815
03:42:08,620 --> 03:42:12,620
617 to move forward with the build out
and final inspections and hopefully,
2816
03:42:13,160 --> 03:42:14,740
ultimately license to operate.
2817
03:42:16,690 --> 03:42:19,780
How close are the cannabis shops
going to be to the school?
2818
03:42:20,910 --> 03:42:25,820
How many people are you hiring?
And where are you hiring them from?
2819
03:42:26,180 --> 03:42:28,780
I believe the closest school
is about 600 feet.
2820
03:42:29,010 --> 03:42:31,410
To say that we just want to offer jobs
is actually a misnomer.
2821
03:42:31,570 --> 03:42:35,160
We actually want to
help people with a career.
2822
03:42:35,720 --> 03:42:36,454
We also have
2823
03:42:36,704 --> 03:42:39,037
a cultivation facilities
in Southwestern Massachusetts
2824
03:42:39,204 --> 03:42:41,204
that’s going through licensing processes.
2825
03:42:41,690 --> 03:42:43,660
Anybody can get a job. That’s very easy.
2826
03:42:43,890 --> 03:42:46,496
But in this industry,
we want to be able to mentor somebody
2827
03:42:46,996 --> 03:42:49,621
and to let them have
a pathway to a career.
2828
03:42:49,787 --> 03:42:52,621
If you’re interested in edibles,
we can help you with that pathway.
2829
03:42:52,780 --> 03:42:56,871
If you’re interested in extractions,we have
a facility going up that will be able
2830
03:42:57,037 --> 03:42:59,162
to mentor people
to go through that particular program.
2831
03:42:59,370 --> 03:43:00,412
If you want to be a grower,
2832
03:43:01,121 --> 03:43:04,537
we do have some pretty good growers on our
team that would be able to mentor people
2833
03:43:04,720 --> 03:43:07,787
to get to a certain point where they can
become successful in this industry.
2834
03:43:08,030 --> 03:43:11,204
And not just so
they can go get a job, right?
2835
03:43:11,579 --> 03:43:15,454
We’re looking for pathway to a career,
a mentorship program that can
2836
03:43:15,662 --> 03:43:18,079
really turn some things around
for this neighborhood
2837
03:43:18,454 --> 03:43:20,787
in certain ways that a job
just probably couldn’t.
2838
03:43:21,750 --> 03:43:25,370
How many parking spaces do you guys
have dedicated to your facility?
2839
03:43:25,660 --> 03:43:29,160
What's it like in the surrounding area?
Have you done any traffic studies?
2840
03:43:29,510 --> 03:43:33,704
And then how many shoppers can you
physically handle inside your store?
2841
03:43:33,871 --> 03:43:37,496
What’s your plan for line management
and overflow?
2842
03:43:37,621 --> 03:43:40,579
I only saw a small mantrap on that floor plan.
2843
03:43:41,079 --> 03:43:43,121
So I’m curious if you could address that.
2844
03:43:43,630 --> 03:43:45,204
Someone would come into a vestibule.
2845
03:43:45,371 --> 03:43:47,746
He would be identified
with the proper government I.D.
2846
03:43:47,920 --> 03:43:50,371
and then he would buzz
into the retail area there.
2847
03:43:50,870 --> 03:43:52,746
So, as soon as we want,
2848
03:43:52,912 --> 03:43:55,579
we’ll have someone outside
telling everybody, have your I.D. ready.
2849
03:43:55,746 --> 03:43:59,912
We’ll try to move that line as fast as
we can safely, professionally and securely
2850
03:44:00,079 --> 03:44:01,287
that allows them into the next.
2851
03:44:01,454 --> 03:44:04,204
And then when they make the purchase
they will exit a different door
2852
03:44:04,371 --> 03:44:06,200
so there won’t be
that backlog right there.
2853
03:44:06,371 --> 03:44:10,780
Are you going to have a line down the block?
Are you going to have a waiting area inside?
2854
03:44:11,410 --> 03:44:13,829
Just these are the things
you need to think about
2855
03:44:13,996 --> 03:44:15,954
because these situations will come up when
2856
03:44:16,121 --> 03:44:20,280
you’re at capacity and people
are going to be standing outside.
2857
03:44:20,621 --> 03:44:22,870
These are things that you got
to think about.
2858
03:44:23,170 --> 03:44:25,204
Given the neighborhood,
given the location,
2859
03:44:25,371 --> 03:44:27,204
we absolutely think
that a lot of the traffic
2860
03:44:27,371 --> 03:44:31,660
and customers are going to be pedestrian
based as well as public transportation.
2861
03:44:31,960 --> 03:44:37,240
And then certainly rideshare
which is being used all over the place.
2862
03:44:37,454 --> 03:44:41,660
When you talk, you’re speaking
to the host community groups,
2863
03:44:42,070 --> 03:44:44,200
I’m sorry, there’s some of those groups
2864
03:44:45,370 --> 03:44:47,954
that are being talking to
that really don’t matter.
2865
03:44:49,160 --> 03:44:51,246
And some of those people
that you’re talking to
2866
03:44:51,412 --> 03:44:53,871
are making decisions
for the rest of us in this room
2867
03:44:54,287 --> 03:44:56,871
that don’t consider us.
2868
03:44:57,620 --> 03:45:02,370
Like some of the people over in Savin Hill
that don’t like this side of Dorchester.
2869
03:45:03,810 --> 03:45:05,496
So, I think when we’re talking about --
2870
03:45:05,658 --> 03:45:09,162
when we’re making plans about host community
and talking about to the community,
2871
03:45:09,320 --> 03:45:12,030
I think you need to reach out
to the regular people of the community
2872
03:45:12,240 --> 03:45:17,700
because some of these organizations
and some of these little groups and meetings
2873
03:45:17,880 --> 03:45:19,829
don’t really give a crap about us.
2874
03:45:20,950 --> 03:45:24,240
And it’s all about their agenda that
they have set forth. That’s one thing.
2875
03:45:24,620 --> 03:45:26,740
Also often in our community
2876
03:45:26,990 --> 03:45:29,700
we do have Asian businesses
that are run,
2877
03:45:29,880 --> 03:45:34,530
but there’s not people that look like me
that work in those Asian businesses,
2878
03:45:34,950 --> 03:45:40,746
I don’t want -- we’ve talked Richard
so I don’t have a problem with you
2879
03:45:41,389 --> 03:45:42,912
and we’ve already discussed this.
2880
03:45:43,870 --> 03:45:50,280
I’m just concerned that are we going
to make this a multicultural employment area?
2881
03:45:50,410 --> 03:45:52,371
Like I said, a lot of the times
2882
03:45:52,579 --> 03:45:56,662
the Asians that do come in our community, they don’t hire me.
2883
03:45:57,530 --> 03:45:59,700
We have to hire locally
because that’s the easiest
2884
03:46:01,200 --> 03:46:02,662
community outreach we can do
2885
03:46:02,829 --> 03:46:05,829
and also for the operations sense is the best way to do it.
2886
03:46:06,030 --> 03:46:07,570
As a business owner,
2887
03:46:07,700 --> 03:46:09,954
once you get in here
and I’m not going to say right away,
2888
03:46:10,240 --> 03:46:13,570
but maybe six months or a year
depending how your profit goes,
2889
03:46:13,746 --> 03:46:19,870
are you willing to personally give
something back to this community to help
2890
03:46:20,120 --> 03:46:24,370
educate the young African Americans,
the young Cape Verdeans, the young Asians
2891
03:46:24,620 --> 03:46:28,537
that live in this poor community
that’s riddled by gun violence
2892
03:46:29,870 --> 03:46:32,787
and other drugs that are not marijuana
that keeps everybody calm?
2893
03:46:32,954 --> 03:46:35,371
If everybody was on marijuana
they’d be calm someway.
2894
03:46:36,490 --> 03:46:40,410
Your first comment regarding the various
groups that we are supposed to meet,
2895
03:46:41,110 --> 03:46:43,996
and I strongly use the words
'we were supposed to meet',
2896
03:46:44,162 --> 03:46:46,329
because a lot of those
are dictated by the City.
2897
03:46:46,530 --> 03:46:48,030
Exactly! That’s my point.
2898
03:46:48,280 --> 03:46:52,496
So you know for us to jump outside
of that particular parameter
2899
03:46:52,662 --> 03:46:54,490
is not very easy for us.
2900
03:46:58,070 --> 03:47:01,746
As a business man, as a lifelong
resident of Boston, Massachusetts,
2901
03:47:01,912 --> 03:47:04,121
we would want to give back.
2902
03:47:04,590 --> 03:47:09,740
But because there are some things
that are beyond our control as a business,
2903
03:47:10,140 --> 03:47:14,200
there are only so many things we can do
per the host community agreement.
2904
03:47:14,490 --> 03:47:17,490
Now if you want to touch upon
a personal stuff,
2905
03:47:17,871 --> 03:47:20,496
that’s a personal passion of mine
to really give back
2906
03:47:20,996 --> 03:47:22,621
and do things for the community.
2907
03:47:22,930 --> 03:47:25,329
I can’t promise you anything today,
but I can pledge.
2908
03:47:25,787 --> 03:47:27,829
Let me finish.
I can pledge
2909
03:47:28,650 --> 03:47:31,450
that there are times
we will outreach to the community.
2910
03:47:31,740 --> 03:47:34,280
People that think that we didn’t
include them in this particular
2911
03:47:35,420 --> 03:47:38,870
round of talks and everything like that,
because that is a personal mission for me.
2912
03:47:39,070 --> 03:47:42,204
That is something I hold dear and near
and it's passion for me.
2913
03:47:43,260 --> 03:47:47,579
First things first. I need to make sure that
I cross my T’s and dot my I’s with the City.
2914
03:47:47,870 --> 03:47:52,370
They are the ones that are in control
of a lot of things in our situation here.
2915
03:47:52,530 --> 03:47:54,660
I just want to make sure that
2916
03:47:54,829 --> 03:47:58,070
whatever funds that you’re going
to be giving out of your pocket
2917
03:47:58,280 --> 03:48:01,037
goes into a great entity in this community
that really matters
2918
03:48:01,246 --> 03:48:03,662
and that is actually having an effect
on our community.
2919
03:48:03,829 --> 03:48:09,037
As I said, I support you guys. I just want
to make sure that you have a solid plan,
2920
03:48:09,240 --> 03:48:11,070
and especially around security
2921
03:48:11,750 --> 03:48:16,820
and the overflow thing is really, we need
to address that as the young lady said
2922
03:48:16,950 --> 03:48:19,287
becaus we can’t have a line of people
2923
03:48:19,496 --> 03:48:22,412
particularly if we have people coming
from like Milton or other places.
2924
03:48:22,780 --> 03:48:25,871
It’s kind of like Oh look at them,
let’s go setup for robbery.
2925
03:48:26,037 --> 03:48:28,662
I want to make sure
that those are addressed, OK?
2926
03:48:31,490 --> 03:48:34,079
I guess I want to find out from you
what you’re going to do
2927
03:48:34,246 --> 03:48:39,371
truly to address safety concerns around
the store that you’re looking to open.
2928
03:48:39,990 --> 03:48:46,070
We have some phenomenal officers in our
neighborhood. They work extremely hard
2929
03:48:46,620 --> 03:48:48,662
to keep us all safe.
2930
03:48:49,340 --> 03:48:54,910
And it sounds like part of your
public safety plan is to lean on the Polie.
2931
03:48:56,280 --> 03:48:58,660
And I think that’s a bit unfortunate.
2932
03:48:58,980 --> 03:49:02,990
There’s a lot going on
in this neighborhood that isn’t good.
2933
03:49:03,870 --> 03:49:06,950
And we lean heavily on them
to help support the community.
2934
03:49:07,300 --> 03:49:13,740
So that doesn’t help when we’re layering
something additional onto the BPD.
2935
03:49:13,990 --> 03:49:18,371
Second question has to do with
the process for approving this.
2936
03:49:19,470 --> 03:49:21,121
If someone can just sort of address
2937
03:49:21,371 --> 03:49:26,829
whether or not the community
has an opportunity to vote up or down.
2938
03:49:27,200 --> 03:49:29,204
This has to go through another process.
2939
03:49:29,371 --> 03:49:33,412
The Board of Appeal which they have not
received a date as of yet.
2940
03:49:34,310 --> 03:49:36,537
You can make your voice heard
through that process as well.
2941
03:49:36,746 --> 03:49:38,871
This is not a done deal here today.
2942
03:49:39,240 --> 03:49:42,320
They have more meetings to do.
We have more applicants to
2943
03:49:42,740 --> 03:49:46,120
visit and do outreach to as many people
in the neighborhood as possible.
2944
03:49:46,960 --> 03:49:49,450
Leaning on the police for their expertise
2945
03:49:49,662 --> 03:49:53,787
in this neighborhood and what the police
needs for resources in this neighborhood.
2946
03:49:53,954 --> 03:49:56,496
I don’t think we want
to stand up here and say
2947
03:49:56,662 --> 03:49:59,121
oh, we’re going to do X, Y, Z
for security.
2948
03:49:59,310 --> 03:50:01,871
And then the police say You don’t want
to do that in this neighborhood',
2949
03:50:02,037 --> 03:50:03,870
or 'That’s not what we need
in this neighborhood'.
2950
03:50:04,037 --> 03:50:06,496
I think that conversation is ongoing.
2951
03:50:06,662 --> 03:50:10,579
And one of the big things
that I think 617 can do as an entity
2952
03:50:10,790 --> 03:50:15,162
is obviously that surveillance
and extending that circle of surveillance
2953
03:50:15,570 --> 03:50:18,780
really in conjunction with BPD
and what they’re looking for.
2954
03:50:18,954 --> 03:50:21,160
Making sure those systems
talk to each other.
2955
03:50:21,380 --> 03:50:28,200
But also making sure that BPD and who’s ever
running the store have a relationship.
2956
03:50:28,270 --> 03:50:31,070
My concern is I’m an abutter
to this whole establishment.
2957
03:50:31,600 --> 03:50:33,740
So, I’m right behind Walgreens.
2958
03:50:35,050 --> 03:50:39,530
I maintain it. There’s dumpster
diving back there with Walgreens.
2959
03:50:39,760 --> 03:50:43,030
They park in my driveway.
I can’t get in and out of the alley.
2960
03:50:43,204 --> 03:50:45,954
Half the time I got to call the police.
I got to call 311.
2961
03:50:46,330 --> 03:50:48,320
It’s a huge major --
2962
03:50:51,320 --> 03:50:54,660
If I wasn’t such a gentleman
I would say what it is.
2963
03:50:55,280 --> 03:50:57,450
So what I’m saying is that
having no parking,
2964
03:50:58,070 --> 03:51:00,496
dealing with the security issues
that I’m dealing with right now,
2965
03:51:00,662 --> 03:51:03,204
I’m not having it.
Just dealing with the restaurant
2966
03:51:03,770 --> 03:51:07,740
and dealing with the smoke shop
and dealing with Walgreens is enough.
2967
03:51:08,370 --> 03:51:10,700
I can’t even get in and out
my driveway as it is.
2968
03:51:10,950 --> 03:51:14,320
I got people dumpster diving in the middle
of the night. I have security cameras.
2969
03:51:14,680 --> 03:51:18,329
When the police come and they look
what stuff that goes on back there,
2970
03:51:18,662 --> 03:51:19,954
doesn’t do anything.
2971
03:51:20,820 --> 03:51:23,160
Those are my issues whatsoever.
2972
03:51:23,330 --> 03:51:27,780
The parking -- People that park from
Boden Str. and down Blakeville Str.,
2973
03:51:28,020 --> 03:51:31,700
blocking the driveway just
when people are going to the restaurant.
2974
03:51:31,990 --> 03:51:34,620
So never mind having a dispensary there.
2975
03:51:34,900 --> 03:51:37,030
Where they going to park at?
Where they block
2976
03:51:37,570 --> 03:51:42,160
my neighbors, I got one, two, three, four,
four or five abutters here
2977
03:51:42,870 --> 03:51:45,829
that they block their driveways here
and we always like
2978
03:51:45,996 --> 03:51:50,079
up in a rage trying to figure out
whose car is blocking your driveway.
2979
03:51:50,490 --> 03:51:52,160
So what are your plans for that?
2980
03:51:52,340 --> 03:51:54,950
We’re going to have cameras out front
that indicate
2981
03:51:55,280 --> 03:51:57,570
that someone’s there and we’ll have
one of the security go out there
2982
03:51:57,700 --> 03:51:58,912
and ask them to move.
2983
03:51:59,079 --> 03:52:01,871
We’re going to work hand in hand
with Boston Police on this.
2984
03:52:02,270 --> 03:52:04,621
There may come a time
when we may have to hire some details
2985
03:52:04,787 --> 03:52:06,787
to help us out at the early goings on this.
2986
03:52:07,080 --> 03:52:10,070
We’re going to have conversations
with them. They’ll approve our plan.
2987
03:52:10,320 --> 03:52:11,871
They’re going to have input to our plan
2988
03:52:12,037 --> 03:52:13,954
and those are things
that we’ll discuss with them
2989
03:52:14,162 --> 03:52:17,079
that they can be on the lookout
when they send their patrols by as well.
2990
03:52:17,320 --> 03:52:19,079
And I can tell you that there is no way
2991
03:52:19,329 --> 03:52:22,579
that we’re going to let our customers
double park in front,
2992
03:52:22,870 --> 03:52:25,079
say I’ll be right back and run in.
2993
03:52:25,246 --> 03:52:27,371
They won’t be allowed entry
into the store.
2994
03:52:27,930 --> 03:52:32,490
We have personnel who will be onsite
inside and outside
2995
03:52:32,704 --> 03:52:37,740
as well as some sort of combination of
Boston Police outside,
2996
03:52:37,990 --> 03:52:42,204
and our store person checking people
as they get in. And we won’t let them in.
2997
03:52:44,570 --> 03:52:49,530
Walgreens is a staple of our community
and an intersection where people go get
2998
03:52:49,820 --> 03:52:54,240
family supplies, go get Pampers,
they go get their medical needs.
2999
03:52:54,530 --> 03:52:56,621
So within that going on,
3000
03:52:56,829 --> 03:52:59,537
they have to pass through
a smoke shop, a weed shop.
3001
03:53:01,040 --> 03:53:06,450
Then that alley that’s running there
is famous to becoming a smoke --
3002
03:53:07,220 --> 03:53:10,910
destination. Before the smoke shop got there
that was a smoke destination.
3003
03:53:11,120 --> 03:53:13,704
The smoke shop came and it became
a bigger smoke destination.
3004
03:53:13,871 --> 03:53:16,954
A barber shop was there.
It became a bigger smoke destination.
3005
03:53:17,121 --> 03:53:20,280
The Walgreens has been raided,
I mean from --
3006
03:53:20,490 --> 03:53:22,537
us doing an event for the community
3007
03:53:22,746 --> 03:53:24,787
and people going across the street
and raid it.
3008
03:53:25,100 --> 03:53:29,120
There’s been shootings and other
negative things going on in the community.
3009
03:53:29,440 --> 03:53:34,870
So just having an entity there constantly
is really worrisome for
3010
03:53:35,240 --> 03:53:40,410
our seniors, our young people
who have teen centers.
3011
03:53:40,620 --> 03:53:44,030
We have schools,
even though there’s a radius.
3012
03:53:44,280 --> 03:53:47,412
At the end of the day this is
a common intersection for everyone.
3013
03:53:47,579 --> 03:53:50,912
Those imaginary lines don’t exist
because we have to go to Walgreens
3014
03:53:51,079 --> 03:53:53,160
to get our medications,
we have to go get Pampers
3015
03:53:53,370 --> 03:53:55,490
and our daily stuff
that we need right away.
3016
03:53:55,950 --> 03:53:57,740
We need Walgreens in our community.
3017
03:53:58,280 --> 03:54:03,490
We don’t necessarily need a smoke shop
or a weed shop, but we do need Walgreens.
3018
03:54:04,150 --> 03:54:07,070
As I read this,
you guys are talking about
3019
03:54:07,450 --> 03:54:11,740
'fostering a mutual beneficial
healthy and safe partnership'.
3020
03:54:12,280 --> 03:54:16,990
Again, we had a store, never got robbed,
never got anything,
3021
03:54:17,160 --> 03:54:23,160
but we have seen people who have been
getting shot in corners, inside stores.
3022
03:54:23,330 --> 03:54:25,780
There is a lot of trauma
in this neighborhood
3023
03:54:25,990 --> 03:54:30,490
and in your whole beautiful presentation
I didn’t see
3024
03:54:30,740 --> 03:54:31,996
bullet points around
3025
03:54:32,246 --> 03:54:35,787
how you guys are doing all that
and bringing it back to the community.
3026
03:54:37,590 --> 03:54:39,450
And also about,
3027
03:54:39,600 --> 03:54:45,579
where you say that you’re creating a positive
economic impact beneficial to Boston,
3028
03:54:45,780 --> 03:54:50,079
and Dorchester neighborhood.
Bowdoin Geneva is a high needs.
3029
03:54:50,450 --> 03:54:55,870
We don’t have police available
in the evening hours.
3030
03:54:56,410 --> 03:54:59,912
So it’s my concern how you guys are saying
that you’re going to reach out
3031
03:55:00,079 --> 03:55:02,079
and get support from, you know,
3032
03:55:02,480 --> 03:55:05,120
the police department
which is all nice and dandy,
3033
03:55:05,580 --> 03:55:09,120
but they’re short staffed. They have
people retiring day in and day out.
3034
03:55:09,340 --> 03:55:10,912
And academy’s coming in
3035
03:55:11,079 --> 03:55:12,910
and we’re not getting the people
that we need in order to
3036
03:55:14,160 --> 03:55:18,370
provide the services that we need,
in order to be a safe environment.
3037
03:55:18,840 --> 03:55:22,950
So bringing in this flow where you guys
are going to have somebody at the door,
3038
03:55:23,200 --> 03:55:27,120
I didn’t hear anybody directing traffic
or telling people
3039
03:55:27,150 --> 03:55:30,240
where to go and how to park.
It sounds beautiful when you’re saying
3040
03:55:30,450 --> 03:55:32,870
we’re going to tell people
to move their cars,
3041
03:55:33,320 --> 03:55:35,530
but that’s not how it works around here.
3042
03:55:36,270 --> 03:55:39,070
We are not in downtown.
We are not in Back Bay.
3043
03:55:39,150 --> 03:55:41,162
We are in Dorchester where people say
3044
03:55:41,329 --> 03:55:43,160
I’ll leave my car there,
what you gonna do about it?
3045
03:55:43,371 --> 03:55:48,120
I think that it we all agree that earing that type of feedback
3046
03:55:48,530 --> 03:55:52,370
is the starting point because
we don’t have all the answers right now.
3047
03:55:52,510 --> 03:55:55,410
You’re absolutely right.
There are certain things that we don’t know.
3048
03:55:55,780 --> 03:55:57,870
And we need the feedback
from the community
3049
03:55:58,250 --> 03:56:03,570
to be able to work together
to come up with a plan that works.
3050
03:56:03,860 --> 03:56:06,121
Are we going to have
all the answers on day one?
3051
03:56:06,450 --> 03:56:08,204
I hope so, but it’s unlikely.
3052
03:56:09,520 --> 03:56:11,454
We’re not going to know what problems may arise.
3053
03:56:11,662 --> 03:56:15,746
There may be problems that are resolved
by our presence just as much.
3054
03:56:18,630 --> 03:56:24,280
We can commit to working with you
to resolve them as they come up.
3055
03:56:25,220 --> 03:56:28,200
I mean that’s all that we can promise
right now. Hearing that,
3056
03:56:28,480 --> 03:56:29,954
that’s something that’s important.
3057
03:56:30,280 --> 03:56:32,910
It’s noted. We want
as much feedback as we can get
3058
03:56:33,870 --> 03:56:37,570
on those types of issues that we may not
be able to see at the moment.
3059
03:56:38,320 --> 03:56:40,662
And if we can help prevent
issues like that
3060
03:56:41,412 --> 03:56:44,621
and there’re ideas on how to do that,
we’re all ears.
3061
03:56:45,530 --> 03:56:46,871
It may sound like
we haven’t addressed it,
3062
03:56:47,037 --> 03:56:49,329
it’s only because there are a lot
of moving parts that we have to
3063
03:56:49,537 --> 03:56:52,579
make sure that we coordinate
with the City.
3064
03:56:53,120 --> 03:56:55,246
Having community meetings like this
to meet with you
3065
03:56:55,412 --> 03:56:57,240
to talk about stuff that concerns you guys
3066
03:56:57,370 --> 03:57:00,410
and incorporate that into our business plan
and plans moving forward.
3067
03:57:00,580 --> 03:57:03,780
This isn't by far a done deal.
This is something that we would like to discuss
3068
03:57:03,980 --> 03:57:05,746
with everybody in the community as well
3069
03:57:05,996 --> 03:57:07,740
and hopefully
tonight’s a great start to that
3070
03:57:08,070 --> 03:57:11,660
and something more elaborate
and a little bit more lengthy in the future.
3071
03:57:12,200 --> 03:57:15,912
This community meeting is part
of the process for you to get your license?
3072
03:57:16,820 --> 03:57:20,912
And then does this community meeting
have a process to vote?
3073
03:57:22,070 --> 03:57:27,870
So does this community, after we talk
and we vent, and we cry and we laugh --
3074
03:57:29,530 --> 03:57:31,410
- What happens?
- Nothing.
3075
03:57:33,670 --> 03:57:36,120
We take what happens here
back to City Hall.
3076
03:57:37,450 --> 03:57:39,537
We have a conversation there
about what happened --
3077
03:57:40,246 --> 03:57:41,530
To City Hall meaning the Mayor or --?
3078
03:57:42,660 --> 03:57:45,240
We go back and reiterate
what happened here.
3079
03:57:45,490 --> 03:57:47,746
So you also have an opportunity yourself,
3080
03:57:47,996 --> 03:57:51,621
if you’d like to send in an email,
a phone call, write a letter
3081
03:57:51,660 --> 03:57:56,450
- And it gets taken a look at.
- It goes into a file for this applicant.
3082
03:57:56,510 --> 03:57:57,740
I’m new to this. I’m sorry.
3083
03:57:58,710 --> 03:58:00,450
So that’s how the information that --
3084
03:58:01,450 --> 03:58:04,537
the public puts out gets put into play.
3085
03:58:05,030 --> 03:58:08,320
'Mr. Mayor, this is what they said'.
And then what happens?
3086
03:58:08,450 --> 03:58:11,329
In a nutshell we go over what happens
and it’s deliberated,
3087
03:58:11,329 --> 03:58:14,787
it's decisions made and if they move
forward they move forward.
3088
03:58:15,370 --> 03:58:17,780
You have good intentions. I believe you.
3089
03:58:18,370 --> 03:58:20,746
If you have good intentions,
forget the requirements!
3090
03:58:20,996 --> 03:58:23,371
Communicate with us.
Go above and beyond.
3091
03:58:23,537 --> 03:58:26,121
Make sure that everybody knows about it.
3092
03:58:27,810 --> 03:58:30,280
- Too much?
- No, no you’re right.
3093
03:58:30,600 --> 03:58:31,954
You have good intentions.
3094
03:58:32,170 --> 03:58:35,990
Do more, make sure that everybody knows
about it because you know what?
3095
03:58:36,200 --> 03:58:41,079
I know this kind of stuff is beneficial
to Black communities if done properly
3096
03:58:41,246 --> 03:58:43,954
because I’ve done my research.
However,
3097
03:58:44,121 --> 03:58:47,200
if done in this way
and just an ill prepared manner --
3098
03:58:47,371 --> 03:58:49,329
I’m not saying you have been
because I don’t know enough --
3099
03:58:49,660 --> 03:58:52,121
then you have detriment at your hands.
3100
03:58:52,320 --> 03:58:55,787
This kind of business,
if it doesn’t benefit our community
3101
03:58:55,954 --> 03:59:00,829
is a detriment and will disproportionally
affect brown and black people.
3102
03:59:01,780 --> 03:59:04,620
We have been outreaching
to the community members.
3103
03:59:05,170 --> 03:59:12,120
They work at the neighborhood associations
to address us and to introduce us.
3104
03:59:12,490 --> 03:59:18,450
We cannot go knock on every single door
in Dorchester. That’s not possible.
3105
03:59:19,240 --> 03:59:24,746
Those neighborhood associations
are predominantely represented by Whites.
3106
03:59:25,200 --> 03:59:27,246
So what happens is the people that
3107
03:59:27,412 --> 03:59:31,871
or we’re saying that are impacted,
the people that suffer from trauma or not,
3108
03:59:32,220 --> 03:59:36,070
we’re not generalizing this culture saying
everybody suffers from trauma. We’re saying
3109
03:59:36,240 --> 03:59:40,287
that this is a poorer neighborhood
and poverty affects us in this way.
3110
03:59:40,740 --> 03:59:44,530
So, the people that it impacts
are not being communicated to.
3111
03:59:44,900 --> 03:59:47,370
And so, it makes sense then
3112
03:59:47,520 --> 03:59:51,280
if you have good intentions
that you go above and say look,
3113
03:59:51,490 --> 03:59:54,162
we want everyone to be aware
3114
03:59:54,329 --> 03:59:57,621
and we want to be very transparent
so we’re going to do more.
3115
03:59:57,820 --> 04:00:01,160
This process is not dictated by us,
the applicant. As much as we want to be
3116
04:00:01,280 --> 04:00:04,996
in control as business owners,
this entire process is dictated by the City.
3117
04:00:06,990 --> 04:00:10,162
Let me reiterate it. This entire process
is dictated by the City.
3118
04:00:10,370 --> 04:00:14,246
Many things you brought up and concerns,
I personally am bothered as well.
3119
04:00:14,620 --> 04:00:16,621
Some of the things that you talked about
and you reiterated,
3120
04:00:16,912 --> 04:00:18,787
some other people have said
that same thing.
3121
04:00:18,954 --> 04:00:20,996
We heard it. Several, many times.
3122
04:00:21,700 --> 04:00:24,537
But the fact of the matter
is a lot of things that we’re hand tied.
3123
04:00:24,740 --> 04:00:27,496
To go above and beyond something
that was instructed us to do by the City,
3124
04:00:27,662 --> 04:00:29,490
we just do what the City asks us to do.
3125
04:00:29,730 --> 04:00:32,496
Now to say forget about crime,
just go ahead and do that.
3126
04:00:32,662 --> 04:00:36,121
We can’t.
We listened tonight and we shall.
3127
04:00:36,280 --> 04:00:37,787
We need to get organized
and get to the City then.
3128
04:00:38,621 --> 04:00:40,204
We need to change this process.
3129
04:00:43,360 --> 04:00:45,910
I represent the Bowdoin Geneva community.
3130
04:00:46,200 --> 04:00:51,037
It’s an amazing community, but that has
some of the worst public health outcomes.
3131
04:00:51,640 --> 04:00:55,820
If you look at the geography of
incarceration today in our Commonwealth,
3132
04:00:56,140 --> 04:00:59,329
about 60 % of the people
in the Massachusetts jails
3133
04:00:59,496 --> 04:01:04,079
actually come from the zip codes
that I partially represent.
3134
04:01:04,700 --> 04:01:07,329
And so I want to just ask
a couple questions
3135
04:01:07,746 --> 04:01:12,037
that constituents brought to me. First,
I’ve only been in office 7 weeks.
3136
04:01:12,240 --> 04:01:13,954
The State didn’t do a good job
3137
04:01:14,121 --> 04:01:17,121
and I’ve said this
at every cannabis meeting
3138
04:01:17,330 --> 04:01:20,579
because applicants
are educating residents
3139
04:01:20,829 --> 04:01:23,704
about things that should have been done
by State and City government.
3140
04:01:23,871 --> 04:01:25,329
At least that’s my opinion.
3141
04:01:25,460 --> 04:01:30,120
And so I offered to bring the Office
of emerging industries and the Commission
3142
04:01:30,270 --> 04:01:35,120
to come and talk to our community
directly because we have questions
3143
04:01:35,460 --> 04:01:37,454
that can’t be answered
3144
04:01:37,621 --> 04:01:43,079
by asking an applicant and having
an agitated conversation with the residents.
3145
04:01:43,370 --> 04:01:49,280
The first is this is one of the most
diverse communities in the entire City.
3146
04:01:49,740 --> 04:01:51,870
It is the poorest part of Dorchester.
3147
04:01:52,490 --> 04:01:55,120
It’s over 90 % of color.
3148
04:01:55,320 --> 04:01:58,030
My question is
do you have anybody on your team
3149
04:01:58,410 --> 04:02:01,450
that represents one of the major
ethnic groups in this community?
3150
04:02:01,920 --> 04:02:05,990
I know the Vietnamese community is 20 %
so that answered probably yes.
3151
04:02:06,330 --> 04:02:08,280
I don’t want to assume Asian identity.
3152
04:02:08,484 --> 04:02:13,070
Two, also mass incarceration
has deeply impacted our community
3153
04:02:13,370 --> 04:02:16,570
and when this law was first passed
I know a lot of people went to vote
3154
04:02:16,740 --> 04:02:18,621
because we wanted to right the wrongs
3155
04:02:18,871 --> 04:02:22,704
of also what has happened to our community
because of the war on drugs.
3156
04:02:22,900 --> 04:02:24,329
Do you have anybody on your team
3157
04:02:24,579 --> 04:02:28,121
that has been impacted by that
or have you thought about that?
3158
04:02:28,630 --> 04:02:31,950
Third, we know that the host agreement
goes into a general fund,
3159
04:02:32,200 --> 04:02:35,160
so the other question I had is
have you discussed as a team
3160
04:02:35,410 --> 04:02:38,287
how you will put resources together
for this community
3161
04:02:38,496 --> 04:02:40,412
that is highly under resourced,
3162
04:02:41,180 --> 04:02:43,621
also by the City and State government
to be quite honest,
3163
04:02:43,787 --> 04:02:46,079
but there’s an immediate needs on this --
3164
04:02:46,270 --> 04:02:50,579
in this corridor that are not represented
in areas like
3165
04:02:50,829 --> 04:02:55,030
Neponset or in Lower Mills.
That the Bowdoin Geneva specifically
3166
04:02:55,750 --> 04:03:00,320
been deeply impacted by bad policy
and under resources. So those were
3167
04:03:00,560 --> 04:03:04,320
three questions and are you open
to a second meeting or conversation?
3168
04:03:04,930 --> 04:03:08,410
This district is 42 % Cape Verdean
3169
04:03:08,580 --> 04:03:13,410
and a lot of the times at these meetings,
I might see 4 or 5 Cape Verdean Americans,
3170
04:03:13,579 --> 04:03:15,700
but nothing is translated in our language
3171
04:03:15,870 --> 04:03:18,579
and so what I find is that
they’re not even participating
3172
04:03:18,829 --> 04:03:21,454
in these conversations,
not because they don’t want to.
3173
04:03:21,700 --> 04:03:24,912
They care about this community,
but you’re not going to walk into a room
3174
04:03:25,079 --> 04:03:29,950
where they don’t speak your language
or try to have things translated for you.
3175
04:03:30,121 --> 04:03:32,246
So I just wanted to know
if you’d be open to another --
3176
04:03:32,412 --> 04:03:34,371
because you’re only required to have
one meeting,
3177
04:03:34,700 --> 04:03:37,660
so the question is
are you open to another conversation?
3178
04:03:38,070 --> 04:03:42,200
So those are the points that I want to share
that mainly came from constituents
3179
04:03:42,490 --> 04:03:44,287
who couldn’t be here tonight,
3180
04:03:44,454 --> 04:03:47,996
so part of my job is to
represent their interest and share that.
3181
04:03:48,910 --> 04:03:50,537
Somebody brought up
a comment earlier about
3182
04:03:50,704 --> 04:03:53,287
when they walk into these
particular stores they don’t really see
3183
04:03:53,787 --> 04:03:55,537
a representation of themselves.
3184
04:03:55,760 --> 04:03:57,787
Well I do want to note
that we’re not open yet.
3185
04:03:58,200 --> 04:04:01,287
And so we will have representation
of this neighborhood.
3186
04:04:01,440 --> 04:04:03,787
A lot of people have asked us
to drill down hard on that number.
3187
04:04:04,037 --> 04:04:07,704
That’s a business question. I don’t have
that answer for you because
3188
04:04:08,121 --> 04:04:11,662
that has not been answered
during our business plan discussions.
3189
04:04:12,900 --> 04:04:16,954
But we're willing to have more conversations
and more dialogue with everybody
3190
04:04:17,246 --> 04:04:20,412
that should be involved.
As you stated in your first comment
3191
04:04:20,910 --> 04:04:23,662
before saying anything else that
the State didn’t do a very good job on this.
3192
04:04:23,830 --> 04:04:27,871
And I felt the applicant’s the guy that
has to elucidate and enlighten the public.
3193
04:04:28,200 --> 04:04:29,162
And we’ve done that.
3194
04:04:29,454 --> 04:04:32,829
Through our own pockets, through our own
measures and through our own grit.
3195
04:04:33,120 --> 04:04:34,787
We don’t want to see this industry fall.
3196
04:04:34,996 --> 04:04:38,537
Because yes, Dorchester has been
disproportionately affected by this.
3197
04:04:38,820 --> 04:04:40,454
I don’t see anybody else stepping up
3198
04:04:40,662 --> 04:04:43,537
to really say hey, let’s bring this
to Dorchester and really make this happen.
3199
04:04:43,890 --> 04:04:45,662
You see a lot of Colorado people,
3200
04:04:45,912 --> 04:04:48,579
you see a lot of Washington people,
you see a lot of California people.
3201
04:04:48,980 --> 04:04:52,030
But the barrier is so high
during the DPH era,
3202
04:04:52,250 --> 04:04:54,912
for you to get into this
that it was nigh impossibility
3203
04:04:55,246 --> 04:04:59,162
for anybody thinking of bringing a medical
marijuana establishment to Dorchester.
3204
04:04:59,400 --> 04:05:03,450
You’re talking high six figures
to even be heard,
3205
04:05:04,240 --> 04:05:06,996
so not only have you been
disproportionately affected
3206
04:05:07,246 --> 04:05:09,537
by having your members
of your community arrested,
3207
04:05:09,700 --> 04:05:13,079
and now there is an economic barrier
for you to go ahead and overcome
3208
04:05:13,287 --> 04:05:16,121
just so you can do business
in this industry that has affected your life
3209
04:05:16,537 --> 04:05:18,246
and generations down the road.
3210
04:05:18,690 --> 04:05:20,912
We’re not the type of people
that’s going to come in and say
3211
04:05:21,079 --> 04:05:22,870
I can go ahead and clean this up for you.
3212
04:05:23,037 --> 04:05:25,662
I’m not that type of person.
But what I can pledge to you
3213
04:05:25,910 --> 04:05:27,121
is that we can come down here
3214
04:05:27,329 --> 04:05:29,954
and have discussions and
frank conversations with everybody
3215
04:05:30,121 --> 04:05:32,704
to make sure we include
as many people as we can.
3216
04:05:32,830 --> 04:05:34,162
We can’t do everything for everyone,
3217
04:05:34,537 --> 04:05:36,579
but we can do a lot of things
for a lot of people.
3218
04:05:36,830 --> 04:05:39,530
But again, we are not open yet.
Give us the opportunity to come down
3219
04:05:39,750 --> 04:05:42,787
and really show you our medal
and show you what we’re really all about.
3220
04:05:43,070 --> 04:05:45,079
And let the State know that what they did
3221
04:05:45,246 --> 04:05:47,912
and what they have been doing
is not the correct process.
3222
04:05:48,079 --> 04:05:50,070
And with your help we can go ahead
and let them know
3223
04:05:50,380 --> 04:05:53,870
that we can overcome that situation
and bring this neighborhood around.
3224
04:05:54,037 --> 04:05:55,787
This is the poorest neighborhood
in Boston.
3225
04:05:55,990 --> 04:05:57,704
Do you guys not want economic development?
3226
04:05:57,990 --> 04:05:59,990
Do you guys not want to be
a piece of something
3227
04:06:00,280 --> 04:06:01,954
that has taken your lives away from you?
3228
04:06:02,121 --> 04:06:05,660
I’m the catalyst for that and so be it.
I can do it. I look forward to helping you
3229
04:06:05,950 --> 04:06:08,537
and you helping me
and we can accomplish this together.
3230
04:06:09,410 --> 04:06:11,700
We see everyone who’s at the table here,
3231
04:06:12,120 --> 04:06:16,780
and as a community we need to make sure
that we’re holding them accountable.
3232
04:06:16,990 --> 04:06:20,410
So we shouldn’t just be
saying this now in the moment,
3233
04:06:20,890 --> 04:06:26,280
but we really need to take everybody
who has a hand in this to task.
3234
04:06:26,910 --> 04:06:29,240
When things are not working correctly
3235
04:06:29,550 --> 04:06:32,829
because you all have to live here.
We have people who work here.
3236
04:06:32,996 --> 04:06:37,579
We have people who care about this
community who’s been here for many years,
3237
04:06:37,746 --> 04:06:41,990
putting in the hard work and effort
to get ourselves together.
3238
04:06:42,370 --> 04:06:46,950
And so the way we do that is
every time somebody says something to us,
3239
04:06:47,180 --> 04:06:49,246
let’s make sure
we’re going back to them.
3240
04:06:49,537 --> 04:06:51,829
And let’s make sure
that we’re holding them accountable.
3241
04:06:52,070 --> 04:06:56,030
And let this evening not be the only time
where we’re continuing to do that.
3242
04:06:56,170 --> 04:07:00,620
Because if we do that, you know what?
It’s just going to be another situation,
3243
04:07:00,820 --> 04:07:04,660
same old, same old and we get to hold
the crappy end of the stick.
3244
04:07:05,620 --> 04:07:07,621
And we’ve been doing that for many years
3245
04:07:07,871 --> 04:07:11,371
and so let’s hold folks to the fire
and let’s hold folks to task.
3246
04:07:11,910 --> 04:07:14,990
There’ll be business cards
on the back table. If you have comments
3247
04:07:15,280 --> 04:07:17,412
you can call up
or you can shoot an email.
3248
04:07:17,579 --> 04:07:20,621
We’ll be responsive and we’ll make sure
it’s noted and it’s on file.
3249
04:08:06,472 --> 04:08:11,522
We talked about this you know from a
year ago when we first met to talk about
3250
04:08:11,589 --> 04:08:16,407
utilizing the restore program.
Hiring an architect through our program
3251
04:08:16,659 --> 04:08:23,759
to work with you and your family,
to really elevate your business.
3252
04:08:23,846 --> 04:08:29,071
I know one of the other goals was really, I
mean this is a very successful supermarket.
3253
04:08:29,384 --> 04:08:33,861
I think that you have a very
loyal customer base,
3254
04:08:34,001 --> 04:08:34,962
but I do know
3255
04:08:34,986 --> 04:08:37,395
and this is true for any business
in the city,
3256
04:08:37,602 --> 04:08:40,127
it’s always important to
attract new customers.
3257
04:08:40,189 --> 04:08:42,471
So were you hoping,
is one of the goals
3258
04:08:42,595 --> 04:08:46,170
that by doing this project it will attract
some new customers in the city?
3259
04:08:46,215 --> 04:08:51,182
Yeah, absolutely 100 percent. You know
I know during the rush hour traffic
3260
04:08:51,229 --> 04:08:53,068
in the morning,
rush hour traffic at night there’re
3261
04:08:53,093 --> 04:08:56,426
thousands of cars that go along
Cummins Highway that pass the
3262
04:08:56,451 --> 04:08:59,759
store and probably don’t even
think twice about
3263
04:08:59,784 --> 04:09:03,143
ever coming in here to do their
grocery shopping. But I think
3264
04:09:03,168 --> 04:09:06,285
once we remodel and redesign
the front I think they might
3265
04:09:06,310 --> 04:09:09,507
have second thoughts about
that and maybe give us a chance
3266
04:09:09,532 --> 04:09:12,619
and see what we have to offer
for them and their family.
3267
04:09:12,703 --> 04:09:18,649
Yeah, I mean we do know like through this
program that when people complete a project
3268
04:09:18,674 --> 04:09:21,980
of this scale, two things happen.
Your existing
3269
04:09:22,005 --> 04:09:27,930
customers feel
grateful and taken care of,
3270
04:09:28,628 --> 04:09:33,237
and it in many ways it’s a thank you to
them for shopping here.
3271
04:09:33,419 --> 04:09:36,401
And I think people get
very excited when a project
3272
04:09:36,503 --> 04:09:40,466
like this, a store that they’re
going to constantly is transformed.
3273
04:09:40,625 --> 04:09:42,443
But I think also
3274
04:09:42,443 --> 04:09:45,513
people discover you for
the first time
3275
04:09:45,878 --> 04:09:48,886
and as you said, people are driving
up and down Cummins Highway
3276
04:09:49,121 --> 04:09:51,553
and not pulling into
your parking lot.
3277
04:09:51,577 --> 04:09:54,859
Because they’re not really seeing you.
And I think that’s absolutely going to
3278
04:09:55,322 --> 04:10:00,027
happen for you and we see this happen over
and over again for many of our projects.
3279
04:10:00,145 --> 04:10:04,617
Is that people walk by a storefront
and once we actually transform it
3280
04:10:04,642 --> 04:10:08,338
through the restore program with
a new signage and design, you know
3281
04:10:08,362 --> 04:10:12,111
it’s getting people through that door.
And obviously that helps you
3282
04:10:12,184 --> 04:10:13,445
be more successful.
3283
04:10:13,576 --> 04:10:15,358
Who are the
customers that come to this store?
3284
04:10:15,463 --> 04:10:19,217
So predominately residents of Mattapan.
3285
04:10:19,327 --> 04:10:21,993
We also get a fair amount of people from
3286
04:10:22,154 --> 04:10:26,915
Dorchester, Hyde Park, a little bit of
Milton as well.
3287
04:10:27,086 --> 04:10:31,285
And you know demographic wise come
from many different countries,
3288
04:10:31,443 --> 04:10:36,073
all the Caribbean countries,
South, America, Central America
3289
04:10:36,311 --> 04:10:39,378
hat’s predominately where
customers come from.
3290
04:10:39,671 --> 04:10:44,592
And you know I live in the neighborhood
too, so I know
3291
04:10:44,700 --> 04:10:47,696
America’s Food Basket’s been in
the neighborhood for so long.
3292
04:10:47,696 --> 04:10:50,608
I do know that based on
the constituency that
3293
04:10:50,966 --> 04:10:55,318
America’s Food Basket’s
been serving in your four locations,
3294
04:10:55,371 --> 04:11:02,769
so do you carry specific foods and
that really the community needs?
3295
04:11:02,799 --> 04:11:06,973
Yeah, yeah absolutely especially in the
meat department, the produce department
3296
04:11:07,046 --> 04:11:10,664
and grocery department as well.
Basically we want customers when
3297
04:11:10,737 --> 04:11:14,263
they come in they feel like they never
left their home, left their country.
3298
04:11:14,348 --> 04:11:18,727
Whether they’re Haitian or Dominican,
they want, we want them to be able
3299
04:11:18,752 --> 04:11:23,259
to come in here and get whatever it
is, whether it’s Plantains, Yucca, Ox
3300
04:11:23,440 --> 04:11:27,800
Tails, you know whatever seasonings
that they use in their countries
3301
04:11:28,075 --> 04:11:34,628
we want them to be able to use that same
recipe that their grandmother and mother
3302
04:11:34,751 --> 04:11:38,472
used when they were growing up
back home. Only now they’re in Boston.
3303
04:11:38,589 --> 04:11:43,463
So how do you develop that list of
ingredients and foods over time?
3304
04:11:43,994 --> 04:11:48,335
I mean the founders of
Americas Food Basket,
3305
04:11:48,414 --> 04:11:51,579
you know they’re Dominican so that
aspect the Caribbean aspect
3306
04:11:51,682 --> 04:11:54,918
of it was fairly easy.
3307
04:11:54,943 --> 04:11:57,978
Then as you’re in the store, as you gain
experience dealing with different types of
3308
04:11:58,315 --> 04:12:02,450
types of customers, they’ll ask you
what they’re looking for
3309
04:12:02,475 --> 04:12:05,733
and we try our best to get
whatever it is that they’re
3310
04:12:05,742 --> 04:12:08,255
asking. And you know I think
to a great extent
3311
04:12:08,280 --> 04:12:11,677
we’ve done a good job of that,
kind of serving to their needs.
3312
04:14:40,336 --> 04:14:43,459
Managing expectations is important
so, where we can get folks
3313
04:14:43,484 --> 04:14:46,682
in a room who are interested
because they’re calling me too
3314
04:14:46,707 --> 04:14:49,066
and they have all these great ideas
and I said well that’s not how
3315
04:14:49,150 --> 04:14:52,920
National NAACP conventions work.
We’re not organizing from the
3316
04:14:53,053 --> 04:14:56,371
ground it’s really organized from National
and there’s some local activities.
3317
04:14:56,396 --> 04:14:59,336
So, I’ve had to
educate folks locally on that,
3318
04:14:59,361 --> 04:15:01,729
but I think if we can have
a community conversation
3319
04:15:01,754 --> 04:15:03,134
I think Tanesha could host.
3320
04:15:04,266 --> 04:15:06,157
And then I manage expectations
3321
04:15:06,264 --> 04:15:08,906
that it’s convention of delegates,
it’s a voting convention.
3322
04:15:08,931 --> 04:15:10,873
So people are here to do business.
3323
04:15:11,430 --> 04:15:12,741
They’re here to go to luncheons,
3324
04:15:12,766 --> 04:15:15,341
be part of panel discussions.
There’s not a lot of free time
3325
04:15:15,366 --> 04:15:18,234
to leave the area that they’re
in,
3326
04:15:18,259 --> 04:15:21,065
and if they leave the area they’re not
there to vote
3327
04:15:21,127 --> 04:15:23,486
on a particular matter that’s
coming before the body.
3328
04:15:23,618 --> 04:15:25,304
So there’ll be some limited opportunities
3329
04:15:25,338 --> 04:15:27,865
to get out of the convention
area and see Boston
3330
04:15:28,463 --> 04:15:31,049
and we just got to be intentional
about when those opportunities come up.
3331
04:15:31,099 --> 04:15:33,645
We talked about that.
There might be NAACP
3332
04:15:33,670 --> 04:15:36,546
members that are police
chiefs and fire fighters
3333
04:15:36,571 --> 04:15:38,819
and nurses,
and doctors
3334
04:15:38,892 --> 04:15:42,054
that want to like get a tour of behind the
scenes at Mass General or
3335
04:15:42,078 --> 04:15:45,276
go to Dimock in Roxbury
3336
04:15:45,301 --> 04:15:47,554
and see how the recovery community
that they have there,
3337
04:15:47,579 --> 04:15:50,258
one of the best in the country.
Look at these different
3338
04:15:50,283 --> 04:15:53,079
places and so we can
offer that up for people.
3339
04:15:53,209 --> 04:15:57,860
We have a criminal justice community here
so if we tap Harvard, and some of our other
3340
04:15:57,885 --> 04:16:00,305
higher Ed institutions say
hey, we need Skip Gates
3341
04:16:00,330 --> 04:16:03,496
to be at the convention and we as
the City of Boston are reaching out
3342
04:16:03,712 --> 04:16:06,051
to you Harvard to say make
your folks available.
3343
04:16:06,105 --> 04:16:09,133
I think there’s an opportunity for
us to provide value in that way.
3344
04:16:09,316 --> 04:16:13,275
If we can do that basic part first then
all the extras come along after that.
3345
04:16:13,405 --> 04:16:17,366
There’s a fuller picture of Boston’s
history good and bad that I want
3346
04:16:17,493 --> 04:16:20,226
West Roxbury to know
and Roxbury to know
3347
04:16:20,275 --> 04:16:25,760
and Dedham to know and I think we have an
opportunity to share that through different
3348
04:16:25,799 --> 04:16:27,872
ways so that it’s
an education for us
3349
04:16:27,897 --> 04:16:30,404
Bostonians and an
education for our visitors.
3350
04:16:30,488 --> 04:16:32,781
I think it’s great.
And I say this all the time.
3351
04:16:32,806 --> 04:16:34,416
I know there’s kids in
Roxbury, in West Roxbury
3352
04:16:34,467 --> 04:16:35,872
that have no idea,
they don’t even know busing
3353
04:16:36,053 --> 04:16:39,168
because they weren’t even here.
Their families were
3354
04:16:40,377 --> 04:16:42,587
where their families impacted by it.
3355
04:16:43,975 --> 04:16:46,905
And not even understanding,
I think even bussing there was a
3356
04:16:46,931 --> 04:16:50,070
step before that that’s
not talked about if the
3357
04:16:50,522 --> 04:16:54,250
school committee elected
at the time took action
3358
04:16:54,868 --> 04:16:57,808
Yes, would have staved
off that whole experience.
3359
04:16:57,808 --> 04:17:04,240
So that was a lack of, inaction by local
represented people elected by the people.
3360
04:17:04,481 --> 04:17:07,693
And if they’d dealt with it and
addressed it history might have been a
3361
04:17:07,810 --> 04:17:12,417
little different. And it would have been,
maybe a little different if you tackle
3362
04:17:12,442 --> 04:17:17,114
the issue at the time, in a different
manner, but it wasn’t thought of so.
3363
04:17:17,166 --> 04:17:19,891
And not to debate that,
but I think what’s interesting
3364
04:17:19,916 --> 04:17:22,714
is the values of the city
wasn’t fully reflected by that
3365
04:17:22,739 --> 04:17:25,500
City Council as it is today right?
We see the diversity
3366
04:17:25,525 --> 04:17:28,163
in the City Council today.
The diversity, the lack of
3367
04:17:28,188 --> 04:17:30,974
diversity at that time didn’t
take the racial imbalance
3368
04:17:30,999 --> 04:17:33,909
issue seriously enough that
if they had had more diversity
3369
04:17:33,934 --> 04:17:36,918
they would have said no,
let’s avoid court action and let’s
3370
04:17:36,943 --> 04:17:39,678
do something proactive to
create the kind of diversity
3371
04:17:39,706 --> 04:17:42,766
Wanna back up even further,
Civil Rights Movement? That same
3372
04:17:42,791 --> 04:17:45,776
diversity wasn’t in the City
Council today that it was back
3373
04:17:45,801 --> 04:17:49,062
then. And they took action.
And the abolition of slavery, a lot
3374
04:17:49,087 --> 04:17:52,144
of things, so it’s like that
generation had an opportunity.
3375
04:17:52,196 --> 04:17:53,196
Yeah, they missed it.
3376
04:17:53,221 --> 04:17:56,417
And you mean obviously it’s easier to
talk about it today sitting here and
3377
04:17:56,442 --> 04:17:59,425
not saying you should do that.
But there’s a different mindset today.
3378
04:17:59,501 --> 04:18:04,123
So we talked about all the talent here,
the Cornell West, the Skip Gates, the
3379
04:18:04,148 --> 04:18:06,978
Academic Institutions,
the healthcare industry,
3380
04:18:07,003 --> 04:18:09,219
dominant industries
here in this City
3381
04:18:09,244 --> 04:18:14,150
and in this region. We say hey, we can
offer those up as resources as you have the
3382
04:18:14,175 --> 04:18:17,311
conversation here. So we know the folks
from Partners are already interested.
3383
04:18:17,789 --> 04:18:21,540
We know the folks at TGS companies. I talked
to Bob Rivers today at Eastern Bank and
3384
04:18:21,808 --> 04:18:25,437
the banking community wants to be involved.
Now we just got to sort of harness all
3385
04:18:25,462 --> 04:18:31,348
that interest and I think they’re reaching
out to me and to you and Tanesha and it’s
3386
04:18:31,607 --> 04:18:36,304
exciting that this is, in my years of
being President of NAACP, there was never
3387
04:18:36,329 --> 04:18:41,217
this much focus on being involved in civil
rights. And contributing to it, so we
3388
04:18:41,242 --> 04:18:46,285
just have to harness that. How do we get
Black and Brown and White Boston to become
3389
04:18:46,388 --> 04:18:52,789
observers, delegates, alternates at the
convention during that week?
3390
04:18:53,338 --> 04:18:58,188
That would be huge and I’ve not seen it
done as well as I think Boston could do it.
3391
04:18:58,213 --> 04:19:01,935
That we have an additional 3,000 Bostonians
3392
04:19:01,935 --> 04:19:05,657
at the convention to listen
to the Presidential nominees
3393
04:19:05,682 --> 04:19:09,471
or Presidential candidates at
that point to partake in the conversation
3394
04:19:09,496 --> 04:19:13,443
around criminal justice and what’s going on
in terms of today with mass incarceration.
3395
04:19:13,468 --> 04:19:18,112
The folks are here and the interest is
here. We just got to get them over to
3396
04:19:18,116 --> 04:19:19,255
-I think it’s the marketing.
-Right
3397
04:19:19,255 --> 04:19:23,882
It’s how do we market it to let people
know this is open for you, so that you
3398
04:19:23,907 --> 04:19:28,747
live on whatever street it is you live
on, Humboldt. This is your convention. You
3399
04:19:28,772 --> 04:19:34,028
might not be a credential voting delegate,
but you are as engaged in this conversation
3400
04:19:34,053 --> 04:19:38,703
as everyone else. We need you to get that.
And I think it’s about marketing.
3401
04:19:38,755 --> 04:19:40,307
We’ve done all this,
3402
04:19:40,307 --> 04:19:43,095
but yet we’re still
not where we need to be
3403
04:19:43,365 --> 04:19:47,281
And why did that happen?
And how do we take the past
3404
04:19:47,409 --> 04:19:50,075
and celebrate it, but also
understand where the problems happen
3405
04:19:50,228 --> 04:19:52,292
and I think that you
know, when people talk about you
3406
04:19:52,317 --> 04:19:55,728
know racist Boston, racist
Boston, racist Boston, you know
3407
04:19:55,753 --> 04:19:58,661
like you said, a lot was done here.
3408
04:19:58,923 --> 04:20:01,089
So to bring equality,
3409
04:20:01,114 --> 04:20:03,505
but for some reason we have more
work to do.
3410
04:20:03,598 --> 04:20:06,186
And I think there’s an opportunity for
maybe one month’s a reflecting month.
3411
04:20:06,214 --> 04:20:08,849
History is the key thing.
Right. Is if people
3412
04:20:08,874 --> 04:20:11,712
know history they get the
good, they get the bad,
3413
04:20:11,737 --> 04:20:14,588
they got a context for
where we are
3414
04:20:14,613 --> 04:20:18,236
and then they can act. But the problem
is many of us don’t know our history.
3415
04:20:18,717 --> 04:20:22,339
So we think that the poverty rates in
our communities is an accident.
3416
04:20:22,632 --> 04:20:25,476
People just decided to be poor
or our health disparities
3417
04:20:25,501 --> 04:20:28,149
is an accident.
People just need to eat better
3418
04:20:28,174 --> 04:20:31,024
and they don’t understand
the context for access
3419
04:20:31,049 --> 04:20:33,991
and opportunity and inequities.
So I think there’s
3420
04:20:34,016 --> 04:20:36,795
a unique opportunity with
the convention coming
3421
04:20:36,820 --> 04:20:39,574
here and the work that
you’ve been doing around
3422
04:20:39,599 --> 04:20:42,507
racial justice and equity
and these conversations
3423
04:20:42,532 --> 04:20:45,066
is to have it be a
citywide conversation as
3424
04:20:45,091 --> 04:20:47,940
you said that plays out
throughout the course of
3425
04:20:47,965 --> 04:20:50,639
the year and it’s really
grounded in history.
3426
04:26:01,584 --> 04:26:07,491
Oh say can you see by the
3427
04:26:07,516 --> 04:26:14,344
dawn’s early light, what so
3428
04:26:14,369 --> 04:26:19,928
proudly we hailed at the
3429
04:26:19,953 --> 04:26:26,206
twilight’s last gleaming.
3430
04:26:26,258 --> 04:26:31,622
Whose broad stripes and bright
3431
04:26:31,647 --> 04:26:37,725
stars through the perilous fight
3432
04:26:37,801 --> 04:26:41,488
O’er the ramparts we
3433
04:26:41,513 --> 04:26:46,465
watched were so gallantly
3434
04:26:46,490 --> 04:26:53,862
streaming.
And the red rockets red glare
3435
04:26:53,938 --> 04:26:59,862
The bombs bursting in air.
3436
04:26:59,887 --> 04:27:04,084
Gave proof through
3437
04:27:04,109 --> 04:27:08,748
the night that our
3438
04:27:08,773 --> 04:27:16,631
flag was still there.
Oh say does
3439
04:27:16,656 --> 04:27:20,816
that star spangled
3440
04:27:20,841 --> 04:27:24,769
banner yet wave
3441
04:27:24,913 --> 04:27:31,026
O’er the land of the free
3442
04:27:31,572 --> 04:27:39,552
And the home of the brave
3443
04:28:11,832 --> 04:28:15,629
To the people of Boston,
thank you for the privilege
3444
04:28:15,654 --> 04:28:18,911
of serving you these past five years.
I love my job
3445
04:28:19,056 --> 04:28:22,908
Every day I get to go out
into the neighborhoods to talk
3446
04:28:22,974 --> 04:28:25,479
listen and work with the people of Boston.
3447
04:28:25,865 --> 04:28:29,042
Every day Bostonians walk
through the doors of City Hall
3448
04:28:29,273 --> 04:28:31,451
and share
their hopes and dreams with me.
3449
04:28:31,867 --> 04:28:35,502
They remind me of how
grateful I am to live my dream
3450
04:28:35,605 --> 04:28:38,580
and walk through those doors
as the son of immigrants.
3451
04:28:39,449 --> 04:28:42,157
I think of another
door that opens. It was
3452
04:28:42,239 --> 04:28:44,593
the morning after
my election in 2013.
3453
04:28:44,764 --> 04:28:48,812
I was in a hotel room and opened the
door for the worker to deliver breakfast.
3454
04:28:49,260 --> 04:28:52,146
Her name was Letty. She emigrated
3455
04:28:52,171 --> 04:28:54,215
from Africa to follow her
dreams here in Boston.
3456
04:28:54,499 --> 04:28:58,119
She came around the cart
and gave me a big hug and she was crying.
3457
04:28:58,808 --> 04:29:02,440
She said we did it. We won.
We are going to be Mayor.
3458
04:29:11,195 --> 04:29:13,281
Letty’s here somewhere.
Thank you Letty.
3459
04:29:14,571 --> 04:29:18,009
It hit home right at that
moment what this job means.
3460
04:29:18,675 --> 04:29:21,452
It means opening doors for more
Bostonians to walk through.
3461
04:29:21,481 --> 04:29:24,601
People of every race,
creed and class.
3462
04:29:24,995 --> 04:29:27,758
Changing a city.
Changing a nation.
3463
04:29:28,128 --> 04:29:31,774
One year ago I pledged my
second term to strengthening
3464
04:29:31,799 --> 04:29:34,045
and expanding Boston’s middle class.
3465
04:29:34,070 --> 04:29:37,846
Today more people are working than
any other time in our city’s history.
3466
04:29:38,378 --> 04:29:41,248
Unemployment is 2.4 percent.
3467
04:29:41,547 --> 04:29:44,068
The lowestever recorded.
3468
04:29:50,631 --> 04:29:55,005
We are ranked number two in the nation for
moving people up and into the middle class.
3469
04:29:55,434 --> 04:29:59,108
And we’ve been named the best city
in the entire world to find a job.
3470
04:30:06,546 --> 04:30:09,307
We have thrown open the
doors of opportunity
3471
04:30:09,518 --> 04:30:11,960
and Bostonians are surging through them
3472
04:30:12,099 --> 04:30:15,431
to live their dreams
and lead us forward.
3473
04:30:15,573 --> 04:30:18,397
And because we are drawing
on more of our people’s strength
3474
04:30:18,682 --> 04:30:21,227
the state of our city
is stronger than ever.
3475
04:30:21,277 --> 04:30:24,183
But I’m concerned
about the state of our Union.
3476
04:30:24,647 --> 04:30:28,790
What happens in Washington,
we feel on the streets of Boston.
3477
04:30:29,254 --> 04:30:35,102
But here’s what matters more. What we
do in Boston can change this country.
3478
04:30:35,247 --> 04:30:37,915
We’ve shown that differences
don’t have to divide us.
3479
04:30:38,186 --> 04:30:43,036
When we come together anything is possible.
That’s democracy in action.
3480
04:30:43,519 --> 04:30:45,938
That’s how we
built this administration.
3481
04:30:46,331 --> 04:30:49,409
We won office in a coalition that
wasn’t supposed to be possible.
3482
04:30:50,103 --> 04:30:54,941
Working people, Black, White,
Latino, Asian, all came together.
3483
04:30:55,163 --> 04:30:58,711
We created the most diverse
administration in Boston’s history from
3484
04:30:58,736 --> 04:31:00,995
the Cabinet to the frontlines.
3485
04:31:01,220 --> 04:31:06,015
We listened to the voices of every
community. We took on Boston’s toughest
3486
04:31:06,040 --> 04:31:09,496
long standing challenges and
we began changing our city.
3487
04:31:10,200 --> 04:31:13,622
We are opening doors to new
schools, new libraries,
3488
04:31:13,647 --> 04:31:15,041
new homes, new jobs.
3489
04:31:15,383 --> 04:31:19,752
We’re listeningto new voices.
It’s not always easy or comfortable,
3490
04:31:19,815 --> 04:31:23,650
but a more open conversation means
better solutions for our City.
3491
04:31:24,261 --> 04:31:26,735
The sign of a more vibrant democracy.
3492
04:31:26,921 --> 04:31:30,003
We put social justice
at the heart of our vision.
3493
04:31:30,302 --> 04:31:34,008
Because a more equal conversation
means a more resilient city.
3494
04:31:34,501 --> 04:31:37,836
So we’ll keep leading the
fight to defend immigrants.
3495
04:31:38,351 --> 04:31:42,004
We’ll continue our groundbreaking
work to achieve gender equality.
3496
04:31:42,250 --> 04:31:46,036
And we’ll never stop protecting the
rights and embracing the
3497
04:31:46,061 --> 04:31:47,842
identities of our LBGTQ community.
3498
04:31:47,867 --> 04:31:51,863
Five years together, we made
Boston a more compassionate, a more
3499
04:31:51,888 --> 04:31:53,821
dynamic, a more democratic city.
3500
04:31:53,846 --> 04:31:57,632
We’ve listened, we’ve learned and
we’re leading. I’m proud of what
3501
04:31:57,657 --> 04:32:01,120
we’ve achieved.
We should all be proud.
3502
04:32:01,184 --> 04:32:04,969
And we should be ready to do more.
Our city needs us, our country needs us
3503
04:32:05,300 --> 04:32:08,936
and we’re
just getting started.
3504
04:32:46,423 --> 04:32:48,556
Boston 311. How may I help you?
3505
04:32:49,626 --> 04:32:55,412
1,367 customers affected. Estimated
time to be fixed between five and 5:30.
3506
04:32:56,882 --> 04:33:01,204
And is this only in Brighton
or does it extend beyond that?
3507
04:33:01,814 --> 04:33:04,040
And you said that it fell
onto your property, correct?
3508
04:33:04,040 --> 04:33:06,648
No, so that’s furniture
and furniture you can
3509
04:33:06,673 --> 04:33:09,111
just throw that out
with the regular trash.
3510
04:33:09,704 --> 04:33:12,484
If you want I can connect you
over with the Credit Union.
3511
04:33:12,868 --> 04:33:17,087
OK, but if you were in Watertown that
would be a responsibility of Watertown.
3512
04:33:17,087 --> 04:33:19,487
It wouldn’t be anything with Boston.
3513
04:33:20,442 --> 04:33:23,375
OK. Is it a whole tree,
a limb or a branch?
3514
04:33:23,869 --> 04:33:28,002
The first step is to request a
birth certificate request form.
3515
04:33:28,019 --> 04:33:33,215
You print it out, fill it out
and then with that form you would
3516
04:33:33,240 --> 04:33:38,678
send it in with a $14 money order or
check, addressed to City Hall.
3517
04:33:40,143 --> 04:33:42,078
So the senior shuttle you mean?
3518
04:33:42,078 --> 04:33:44,257
I can connect you with
their department so you
3519
04:33:44,282 --> 04:33:46,554
can see exactly when it’s
going to get there OK?
3520
04:33:47,641 --> 04:33:50,253
OK, I have down that
you reported that there
3521
04:33:50,278 --> 04:33:52,657
is something wrong
with the hawk’s eyes?
3522
04:33:52,906 --> 04:33:56,939
And that the hawk isn’t acting
normal since it is feeding on
3523
04:33:56,964 --> 04:34:00,930
a pigeon on the street other
than flying away with its food.
3524
04:34:01,188 --> 04:34:03,396
There are a lot of people
around the hawk and
3525
04:34:03,421 --> 04:34:05,484
the hawk doesn’t seem
able able to fly away
3526
04:34:07,320 --> 04:34:11,193
But it’s only picked up on
your specific trash day.
3527
04:34:12,012 --> 04:34:13,570
Yeah, so if it’s public housing
3528
04:34:13,570 --> 04:34:16,282
you want to contact the
Boston Housing Authority
3529
04:34:16,307 --> 04:34:18,907
Work Order Center to get
that replaced for you.
3530
04:34:19,313 --> 04:34:21,678
Sir, please don’t yell
3531
04:34:23,883 --> 04:34:27,356
I just have someone on the other line
that’s trying to locate a gravestone.
3532
04:34:27,356 --> 04:34:31,890
They have a name, but they just are
trying to find the burial ground
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