Speaker 1: nuclear or radiological materials that pose a threat to the Homeland Security and high risk urban area. Two Mr. Report recommending the order of two parts and docket number 1036 Committee on Public Safety and Criminal Justice, to which was referred on October 4th, 2021. Docket number 1036 message an order authorizing the city of Boston to accept and expanded an amount of $239,234 in the form of a grant for the FBI. 2020 DNA testing has been a backlog reduction program. What about the United States Department of Justice to be administered by the police department? The grant will fund two criminalist positions over time. Lab supplies and continuing education expenses submits a report. Recommending the order ought to pass.
Speaker 3: Thank you.
Speaker 0: Thank you very much. How about a round of applause for our clerk?
Speaker 1: Oxygen.
Speaker 0: Please take take a break, please. So the chair will soon recognize Councilor Andre Campbell, chair of the Committee on Public Safety and Criminal Justice. She will be discussing all these dockets together and then we will obviously vote on them separately. So the chair now recognizes Chair Campbell, Chair of the Committee on Public Safety, Criminal Justice. Counselor Campbell, the floor is yours.
Speaker 3: Thank you, counsel. President. And thank you, Madam Clerk, because I often tell my team you're hired. Thank you very much. The committee heard from a number of members from the administration who gave the committee a breakdown, an overview of how these moneys would be spent. And we also submitted documents. The department also submitted documentation, which we forwarded, of course, to the council. And as a part of these dockets as well, we heard from Frank DeLuca, who is the program administrator at BPD, and also for why we heard from Roy Martin, who's the program director for SS, why at the Health Commission, we heard from Ali Boehler, who's a senior program manager for SS. Why at the Health Commission? Mark Scott, who's the Director of Division of Violence Prevention at the Health Commission. Christopher MacInnis, who's the Director of Quality Assurance and Operations Division of BPD. Anthony or Tony Rizzo, who's a program coordinator at BPD. Timothy Connolly, who's a DPD captain who spoke on one of the docket dockets. Kevin Laredo, who's the director of Quality Assurance and Forensic Division of CPD. And then lastly, Maria Cheevers, who runs the Department of Research and Development at PPD. And I want to thank all of them for coming and providing robust testimony for each docket. I will talk to them each separately and then, of course, take a vote on each. The first is docket 0850845. This is why I grand. We've received this grant for a number of years and this committee has actually done a lot of work to improve how the resources are given out, namely that there are a diverse array of organizations that receive it in community and also some of how they measure their work. I will say there's always, I think, ways to improve in which we measure our success, including for this grant. So the next council will have to sort of take this over, which I think is really important. This particular round, the funding went to those who work in occupational training and employment service. This includes more than words or I Strive project, right mission safe new beginning the Economic Development and Industrial Corporation of Boston Youth Options Unlimited. Boston Inner City Weightlifting Education Service, an education service provider at the Notre Dame Education Center, a behavioral health service provider and some of Bmc's work at the best program and in partnership with the Bay Calls Human Services. And what was great about this round of this is why I despite the severe disruptions with COVID 19 as is why I only met their service goals, they exceeded them. And this is a reminder that this grant is used to target those who are getting involved and those deemed to be and I put this in quotes, at risk and most at risk of involvement in violence. And so they write, they reached many folks. The initiative has a contract, has contact with nearly 3500 youth. It enrolled 122 young people out of its target of 300 in the midst of COVID. So clearly more work to do. But it exceeded its work this year compared to last. BPD is also in agreement with the Health Commission to actually partner as is why I, which hasn't been done in a long time usually to just the BPD. Now there's a partnership between the two which should be applauded. The next docket is 0954. This was a grant in the in the cost or in the amount of $4 million. This will fund course with enhanced 911 services. We heard lengthy testimony of how this will be used to maintain and upgrade the computer dispatch system and improve technology improvements, which is obviously critical and defray some of the costs for nine on one personnel. They always are looking for more resources here because that department, frankly, is overworked when you think about the number of calls. This grant is in partnership with docket 0956, which is in the amount of $399,000 or 399 $418.73, which funds the training and the certification of these 911 telecommunication staff members. And training topics include obviously communication. There's a CLE requirement for folks products and software enhancing the service itself. Administrative and public safety communications. The next docket was docket 1012. We heard a lot on this docket. And so I encourage folks, if they have not watch the video, they can. This is a year or two of a two year funding program called Securing the Cities. It is a regional approach to deal with and to detect and prevent terrorist attacks and other high consequence events which could utilize. Other radiological materials that pose a threat, obviously, to homeland security and particularly in urban areas. The funds would be used for a whole host of things, including backpack detention devices used in large crowds by various personnel, and also to cover some costs in the event that there are events that call for more staffing given the risk factors. I want to thank Tony in particular, who was brought on to manage this grant. We asked for a lot of transparency here. He provided a lot more than is normally required in hearings and some documentation which I want to applaud the department in particularly his efforts on. And then lastly, we have docket 1036. Pretty self-explanatory. This is an amount of $239,254. We've received this before. We can always use more. This helps the department deal with the DNA backlog and to reduce that backlog to also do more in terms of collecting and receiving data to track what the backlog is and to hire some more folks and in order to deal with it. And so this was a critical grant that the department is always looking for. It funds a couple of positions. It helps with lab supplies, which are really important as they're going through the backlog and continuing education expenses, which are required for certain positions within that department. So I want also thank the department for sending folks to testify on that at this time as the chair of the Committee on Public Safety and Criminal Justice seeking suspension and suspension passage of all of these dockets. Thank you.
Speaker 0: Thank you very much, Madam Chair, for that very thorough overview. Again, we will vote on these all individually, but we will do a voice vote. An individual can, of course, doubt the vote if they wish, but I don't think that will be necessary. So beginning with the first one. Councilor Andrea Campbell, chair of the Committee on Public Safety and Criminal Justice, seeks acceptance of the committee report and passage of Docket 0845. All those in favor please indicate by saying I oppose nay. The ayes have it. The order is passed. Chair Campbell seeks acceptance of the committee report and passage of Docket 0956. All those in favor say I nay oppose any way I have at the docket. As past Chair Campbell seeks acceptance of the committee report and passage of Docket 0954. All those in favor please indicate by saying I oppose nay. The ayes have it. The docket is passed. Chair Campbell seeks acceptance of the committee report and passage of docket 01012. All those in favor please indicate by saying I oppose. The ayes have it. The docket is passed. And finally, Chair Campbell seeks acceptance of the committee report and passage of Docket 1036. All of those in favor please indicate by saying I oppose. Nay, the ayes have it. The docket has passed. Thank you, Chair Campbell. Madam Clerk, would you now please read Docket 1010?
Speaker 1: Certainly. Docket 1010. The Committee on Housing and Community Development, to which is referred on September 29, 2021, docket number 1010 in order authorizing City of Boston to apply for and to accept and expand the federal fiscal year 2021 Continuum of care grant funds from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development in the amount not to exceed
On the message and order,referred on October 4, 2021, Docket #1036, Message and order authorizing the City of Boston to accept and expend the amount of Two Hundred Thirty Nine Thousand Two Hundred Fifty Four Dollars ($239,254.00) in the form of a grant, for the FY2020 DNA Capacity Enhancement and Backlog Reduction Program, awarded by the United States Department of Justice to be administered by the Police Department. The grant will fund two Criminalist positions, overtime, lab supplies, and continuing education expenses, the committee submitted a report recommending that the order ought to pass.
The report was accepted; the order was passed.