Speaker 3: Lucky number 0762 message disapproving the annual appropriation and tax order for fiscal year 2023 talking members 0480 passed by the City Council on June eight, 2022, I am filing an amended annual appropriation in tax order so I can member 0763 message in order for amended annual appropriation and tax order for fiscal year 2023.
Speaker 0: Thank you. The Chair recognizes Councilor Fernandes Sanderson, Chair of Committee on Ways and Means Council, Fernandes and Mendes. Anderson, you have the floor.
Speaker 5: Thank you. Council President Flynn. These dockets represent the mayor's return and modifications to the council's amended budget passed on June eight. Since June 15, the committee has held one hearing of hearing and two work concessions to discuss whether to accept or override an override or override in part. The City Council has engaged in a historical, historically new role pertaining to its participatory involvement in the development of the Fy23 budget. As the Chair on Ways and Means Committee, I facilitated a process to reach a resolution that is mutually beneficial and satisfactory to our council body and to the people of Boston that we are tasked with representing. As such, I offer my sincerest gratitude to all 12 of my fellow Council colleagues, and particularly, I would like to thank my Council colleagues that were respectful, that were supportive and were kind. And they didn't give me so much of a hard time. But I encourage those who gave me a hard time and that were rude and they were not very kind to me because in this growing pains, in this new process, we have to weed out some of our own flaws in order for us to come together and understand how to move forward in a better process. With that being said, I would also like to thank my team, of course, my staff, my wonderful staff that is mostly sitting there on the bench and of course the IG team for working with me. And last but not least, the incomparable attorney, Michelle Goldberg. Thank you for everything. Thank you. Here we are again. Thank you for helping me to marshal our collective resources and resilience toward creating a budget that seeks to craft positive change for all of our constituents, particularly the most vulnerable and disenfranchized among us. It is in this spirit of collaboration and cooperation that I proceed. You can find my recommendations as chair on your desk in the in the committee reports. These recommendations are broken into three separate recommendations for partial overrides. I would like to add that additionally again the collaboration, I'd like to thank the also the administration admin staff as well for all of your support but of course administration for your cooperative cooperation and working together in ensuring that we came to the best resolution. May I recommend that we override the following increases increase back mail advancement personnel services. So again, this is will be in three parts. So I'm asking for three separate votes. So the first one increase black male advancement personnel services to $600,000 to expand the office capacity, increase Office of Human Services, Office of Returning Citizens contractual services to 800,000 to increase capacity in the Office of Returning Citizens, increase Office of Economic Opportunity Contractual Service to 100,000 to commission a citywide life insurance study. Increase city clerk contractual services to $200,000 to procure codification services for the review and reconciliation of the City of Boston. Code Ordinances and Special Acts relating to the City of Boston, including the City Charter. Increase BQ of Personnel Services to $120,000 for youth workers to support programing for youth. Residents of VHA, Commonwealth Apartments and VHA Faneuil Gardens increase Boston Public Health Commission special appropriation to $160,000 to provide salary increases of $20,000 for each FTE at Boston Youth Development Network. Increase Mayor's Office of Housing Special Appropriation, but to $400,000 to VHA for a city housing voucher with set aside for project basing at IDP units to buy deeper affordability. Returning Citizens and VHA homeownership pilot launch with the additional direction that this funding be used for a pilot for housing stipends for young people aged 19 to 24, increase parks and recreation department personnel services to 688,000 $8,373 for departmental capacity regarding three maintenance restoring $144,186 to the line on the tax order. To balance these overrides, I recommend the following decrease overrides BFD equipment $400,000. BFD Equipment $750,000 lor contractual $250,000. OPM personnel $130,000. Do it. Personnel $160,000. BFD contractual 400 and $400,000. This partial override is reflective of the collaboration of this Council during our recent working session, as well as with the administration. Should I continue or take a vote first?
Speaker 0: But I just want to say. Excuse me. Okay.
Speaker 5: So we take a vote on the first part.
Speaker 0: We were going to take.
Speaker 2: Can we take a recess?
Speaker 0: We'll take a quick recess.
Speaker 5: Thank you.
Speaker 0: For. We're back in session. Now. Mr.. Mr. CLARKE, please read the first override into the record.
Speaker 3: Partial override text based on Council for End Sanderson recommending override the following increases. Number one increase black male advancement personnel services $600,000 to expand the office capacity, adding 400,000 to the line on the tax order. To Increase Office Human Resources. Office of Human Services. Office of Returning Citizens contractual services. $800,000 to increase capacity in the Office of Returning Citizens, adding 500,000 to the line on the tax order. Number three, increase OAE or a contractual services $100,000 to commission a citywide life insurance study. Number four, increased city clerk, contractual services $200,000 to procure clarification services for the review and rectification of the City of Boston Code ordinances and the special acts relating to the City of Boston, including the city charter. Number five, increase b CYF Personnel Services $120,000 for youth workers to support programing for youth residents of VHA Commonwealth Apartments and VHA Faneuil Gardens. Number six Increase Boston Public Health Commission Special Appropriation $160,000 to provide salary increases of $20,000 for each full time employee at Boston Youth Development Network. Number seven Increase employee special appropriation $400,000 to VHA for the city housing voucher program with set aside for project base for project basing at IDP units to buy deeper affordability . Returning citizens in VHA Home Ownership Pilot Lunch with the additional direction that this funding be used for a pilot, for housing stipends for young people aged 19 to 24. And number eight increase parks and recreation department personnel services by $688,373 for the park mental capacity regarding treat maintenance. Adding $144,186 to the line on the tax order to balances increase overrides the recommended decrease. Overrides are as follows. Number one, the safety equipment $400,000. Number two, BFD equipment $750,000. Number three log contractual $250,000. Number for OPI and personnel $130,000. And number five, do it. Personnel $160,000 in number six, BFD contractual $400,000.
Speaker 0: Thank you, Mr. Quirk. Would anyone like to speak on this first part of the. Of the override? The chair recognizes council. A Royal Council. Royal. Do you have the floor?
Speaker 1: Thank you. Just a quick question for clarification. A yes vote here is to override, correct? So a no vote is to not override. A yes vote is to override. Correct. Thank you. That's that's designed.
Speaker 0: Thank you. Counsel Royal. We're going to take it. We're going to take a vote if no one has any further comments. The Chair recognizes.
Speaker 5: Conservation.
Speaker 0: Yeah, I understand. Councilor Baker.
Speaker 2: All right, Mr. President. And.
Speaker 4: So this is kind of the question.
Speaker 1: Put in the floor if anybody can maybe answer it. BFD equipment being reduced by the fire department, equipment being reduced by $1.15 million. And we're being told whether or not they didn't use it, that's like they didn't use it last year. How do we.
Speaker 4: Know.
Speaker 1: What the equipment needs for BFD are going to be in this upcoming year? That hasn't happened yet, so I don't know if there's anybody that can answer that or if this is the appropriate place for this. Because with the BFD equipment, we had that as a five and we were told we can't go into department, into an intra department, I guess it was, but we're still rating the fire department for rating for other things. So I'm just looking for a little clarification on on equipment. How do we know that the fire department does isn't going to need that money and equipment for this upcoming year? And what happens if we take it out and they do need it? Mm hmm. The. So just a thought. I don't know if it gets answered or if we just.
Speaker 0: See the recommendation. I would have counsel. Baker is maybe counsel of clarity might have a little bit of background information on that, on that issue.
Speaker 1: And are we allowed to do this in this process here? Like, um.
Speaker 0: I think if you have a question that you've asked, I think you you're entitled to any answer. Thank you, Mr. President. Counsel Clarity.
Speaker 1: The President. I'll defer to the chair on ways of being interested with the 11th hour question. Obviously the interest to try to move the budget forward, which will probably. For a later opportunity to go for that, but was not aware of a $1.8 million cut to the department.
Speaker 0: Thank you. Thank you, counsel. Clarity. Did she ever recognize this counselor, Fernandez Anderson? No. The chair recognizes illusion.
Speaker 4: Thank you, madam. Mr. President, I rise just on in support of this override. It includes a lot of really great work that we are doing and that we've advocated for that we've got generated a lot of support for on the Council. I first also should have started with my thanks to the Chair for your incredible work and stewardship of all of us, which was I know and continues to be no easy feat. But, you know, this shows our commitment to this city, to departments in this city that have been underfunded, underfunded and underinvested in. And to really do the work of building a more just and more equitable city, we have a mayor that's really committed to transfer to transforming our city. And I think that the the commitments that this city council has made in these overrides and in our initial amendments shows our work in deep partnership with community members and with folks on the ground about what we need here in this city. So I gave my whole spiel about, you know, what this budget represents in our power as city council, really leading into our power that the voters and that people gave us in our ability to amend, amend the budget. So just rising to support and hoping my colleagues will also do the same for this parcel. All right. Thank you.
Speaker 0: Thank you, councilors and the chair recognizes Councilor Murphy. Councilor Murphy, you have the floor.
Speaker 8: Thank you, Chair. So I also, similar to Councilor Baker, have a question about where the money's coming from all of these recommended increases. I have been very vocal of supporting all of these departments and knowing that this is important work. But just getting this at 1230 and now looking at it, I just have a question because I've asked this in the working sessions. If the fire department really has more than one and a half million dollars unspent, they would have put car five in to service without us ever having to vote on it, because if that money was really there and they could have made a decision on it. So I question is this money really unspent? And I also commend Council to Flaherty for pulling Carr five out of this discussion at this time, knowing that we were going to have to hit the police and the fire on a vote. So we pulled Car five out to talk about it later. And now all of these well-deserving departments which I know we are funding and many of them are new, so they're up and running and we'll continue to support. But to take it out of unspent and 400,000 is contractual. It's not just equipment money. I just am skeptical. Is that money really unspent? And if the fire is really advocating and I know we had long conversations about what this money would give us, it would give us promotions that we have never seen, and we would have many minority promotions in the fire department that we're all aching for. Right. We really want to see that. So I don't think that coming out of the fire it's counter and I feel like they're getting hit twice today. They're not given the opportunity for us as a body to vote on whether or not we want to pass Car five and lot of 13. In the conversations I have is that Ladder 13 could be placed right behind the Boston fire headquarters, which is right in the heart of Mass and Cass. And they would do really good work to support the work already going down there for the crisis we're seeing there and also be able to support the South residents at the same time. So my question is, does it have to come from this department because I'm not in support of coming from that department. So I just want to go on record for saying them.
Speaker 0: Thank you, Counselor Murphy. The chair recognizes Counselor Carter. Counselor Clara. You have the floor.
Speaker 4: Thank you, counsel. President Flynn. I just figured this is the opportunity to talk about this particular partial override. So I'm going to speak in general and then specifically on this one. But I just want to thank all my council colleagues for their work in their advocacy during this process. I'm grateful to.
Speaker 5: Each and every one of you as I hit the ground sprinting, coming in here pretty late. I especially want to thank and extend my gratitude to.
Speaker 4: Chair Fernandez Anderson again for your leadership and getting us through to this point. It was not easy, right? And so especially as we navigate this new authority that has been given to us first by the attorney general to even get it on the ballot and then by the voters of Boston to have a more.
Speaker 5: Democratic and transparent.
Speaker 4: Budget process. There were hiccups, right. And I'm not entirely sold on the intra departmental interpretation by the city's general counsel.
Speaker 5: I wish that there had.
Speaker 4: Been I wish that we had been negotiating with all of the facts from the very beginning in good faith, to produce the best possible product and First Amendment from this body. I can't speak to Carr five, but I know for me in my district I will keep fighting for items that I believe my district.
Speaker 5: Needs that fell victim to the inter intra department deal fiasco. More parking enforcement officers in East Boston.
Speaker 4: A dedicated director or cabinet level.
Speaker 5: Position like 70%.
Speaker 4: Of voters want. In a poll.
Speaker 5: Commissioned by the Coalition for a Resilient and Inclusive Waterfront.
Speaker 4: For a waterfront planner separate from the EPA, accountable to the mayor and the city council and those that elected us to represent them. And I'm proud of the fact that we advocated together as a body for more Hokies in our respective districts. I was promised to Hokies in East Boston, given the obscene level of trash on our streets. I was also promised and I'm saying this here now so that there's a record of it moving forward. I was promised dedicated resources to District one to expand our tree canopy, which is the lowest in the city. There were also promise 311 positions, although there is more reform needed to have that department.
Speaker 5: Be better and service our constituents.
Speaker 7: Better.
Speaker 4: And I'm especially proud of the.
Speaker 5: Fact that we got.
Speaker 4: $100,000 for immigrants, lead Boston for Boston immigrants who wish to take more city ownership and become leaders in their own communities. And just for those who are watching at home, because I know that you are folks in Charlestown. The administration has indicated they are favorable to investing in a capital campaign for the Clarity.
Speaker 5: Pool in Charlestown. I understand that these are two separate votes.
Speaker 4: But again, I have folks watching at home and just know that those are conversations that are ongoing and need to be had following the.
Speaker 5: Third structural assessment.
Speaker 4: Of the pool and throughout.
Speaker 5: The year. And I'll just close by saying that I.
Speaker 4: Deeply respect the institution of the City.
Speaker 5: Council and the.
Speaker 4: Responsibilities that are provided to us. It was an.
Speaker 5: Honor to advocate for my district and there needs to be their voice, to not be their.
Speaker 4: Voice, but be there microphone. And so I just want to say thank you to all the community organizers and community organizations who who helped me through this process. So even with.
Speaker 5: This new found power, there are limitations within bureaucracies.
Speaker 4: And this is what makes the democratic.
Speaker 5: Process unique.
Speaker 4: And special. Bureaucracy is slow, it is messy, but it's supposed.
Speaker 5: To be that way. And I have found that there has.
Speaker 4: Been cooperation, cooperation and a willingness to work with this body from the executive. And so I want to thank Mayor Wu and the ADR team for their work.
Speaker 7: And for getting us.
Speaker 4: Here. And so I anticipate voting yes.
Speaker 5: On this partial amendment one presented to us by chair.
Speaker 4: Finalist Anderson and support her in that endeavor. Thank you.
Speaker 0: Thank you, Counselor. Clara. The chair recognizes Counselor Bach. Counsel Bach, you have the file.
Speaker 7: Thank you so much, Mr. President. And thank you to the chair for putting together this collective override proposal and recognizing that this is the first time this has ever happened. And it's a challenge. And also recognizing that we, as the Council only gave the chair to work with what we proposed in original decreases. And, you know, I think we've all talked about ways in which we day we might learn from this process going forward. And I think that one of the things that we've all learned is that we would like to talk more with the departments in advance about the cuts and increases that we are proposing now that we have this power. And I think also that departments and I think that through always like that, this was this was sort of a different system. But I do just want to stress that, you know, and I and I'm rising as somebody who proposed a few of these decreases that that the chair is is using here to balance the amendment that they are based on information that the department's provided to us. So, for example, for one of these $400,000 lines that that fire fire had already internally within their department budget, move that 400,000 to other things because they weren't using it. They hadn't even left it in that line to be not spent, but then continued to re-up that in the following year's budget, and several of the other lines were considerably underspent, I think. Councilor Murphy, to your point, my understanding is that departments don't actually have the authority under OBM to take non personnel extra money and turn it into personnel extra money because of the dynamic that we discussed at a previous meeting where personnel actually come with the pension and other costs associated. And so while people can turn unspent personnel money into equipment, they can't do vice versa. So I would just say that I think that these proposals came from the information that the department's provided to us about their April budget spending. I also would say to Councilor Flaherty's concern, and I guess he's not here, but that was he just behind me. Okay. That you know, obviously this is the beginning of the fiscal year. And so if we were to find that, you know, there is a piece of information that the council doesn't have is very concerning. I think there are opportunities to fix that through supplemental appropriation. But I do think that that it is important going forward for departments to realize that the financial information that they provide to the Council is information on which the council is going to act and depend. And so it can't be that only when the council decides to try to pay for critical goals that then we hear, oh no, that unspent money isn't really unspent, etc. Because I think like if that's the argument, we're always going to be having that argument. So I say that saying I think we all are, you know, and I've heard the chair say it loud and clear that we need to to structure a process for next year that anticipates this sort of level of detail that the council needs from departments sooner. But I do think that the proposals for the decreases which were in the proposed like budget that day that the Council passed on June eight, are reasonable and based on information, and I'll be voting for the override. Thank you, Mr. President.
Speaker 0: Thank you. Thank you, Counsel. The Chair recognizes Counselor Fernandez Anderson. Counsel Fernandez Anderson. You have the floor.
Speaker 5: So. Just just to keep it brief and simple for me. The departments, including fire department, submitted their budget and they or their requests, and they told us that there were certain some funds that were unused and they were not going to use it in how they moved funds, moneys around. Right. So once they tell us that they are not using that money, they told us that we didn't tell them that. Then we worked with the administration as well to look at to look at the whole proposal that you see here or the old partial overrides here. And to the best of our abilities, we discussed what funds we had already recommended and voted for. Everyone here voted to decrease these amounts. I, as a chair can only recommend to use decreases that were already voted for by everyone. So that is what you have here. Those and I understand that the concern is if we're not doing CR five, then why I do that? Will the department, the fire department told us they're not using that money that is unspent funds. I'm not telling you that. And so then this body voted to not to to to use it to take it away, to decrease it and use it on something else. So I took BFD equipment. BFD equipment. Of the amounts that we had already.
Speaker 1: Voted on.
Speaker 5: In law contractor and OPM and do it and BFD contractors, all that we already voted on. And I added them up and I said, okay, do we get just car fire or can we get programs to save black men's lives or do we do programs to save black children, poor children, white poor children in the projects, too ? Do we talk about do we improve VHA? Do we clean our streets? Do we do youth programs? Do we do clean up our crew, not trees? Do we save our environment? I looked at all of those things and I said, these small amounts add up together. We could take out from the decreases that we had already voted to decrease. Anyway, that is the only money that I we had to work with. So Car five saved black men and babies and poor children in the streets. What do we do? And that is how I came to this logic. The recommendations based on our collective work sessions, the expressions from everyone, it's not me by myself is recommending this, right? It's all of us. What we voted to decrease, what we voted that we express, that we care about what we said in our campaigns. Here we are. Thank you.
Speaker 0: Thank you, Madam Chair. The chair recognizes councils and councilors.
Speaker 4: And you? Thank you, Mr. President. I just want to second what Councilor Backing Councilor Fernando Anderson stated. A lot of this, the package may look different because I think originally I'll speak for the Office of Returning Citizens. You know, that money was coming from police over time. But deferring to the chair's wisdom here and deciding how to package what we've already approved, I think is really important, especially when we think about the overall sentiment of this council to support a lot of these offices and initiatives when it comes to offers of returning citizens, black male advancement, when it comes to supporting the city based vouchers. So these are all things that we have collectively as a body decided that we wanted to support. The only thing that looks different is, you know, the line to line packaging here. But a lot of these initiatives, we have already come together and said we support them. And so I am just urging my council colleagues to to support. I know originally it was over time and a lot of us continue to want to see decreases there. And these were also areas where we collectively as a body said these are decreases that we can withstand to fund the officers that have been disinvested in and the programs that have been disinvested in. And so I just urge my council colleagues, we all care about our city departments. Some of them are really, really well funded and others are not. And we have work to do to make this a better city for all of us. I think Councilor Bok did an incredible job of breaking down projections based on past expenditures for some of our departments, and we pulled accordingly. The chair has done has spent a lot of time thinking about where to pull money and how do we make it work for all of us here on the city council. And I think that we should trust her judgment here in supporting this. All right. Thank you.
Speaker 0: Thank you. Council agenda chair recognizes councilman here. Councilman here. You have the floor.
Speaker 4: Thank you, Mr. President. And I just want to thank the chair for her incredible grace and patience that she's had with all of us, including me, because I know I could be a little Chihuahua barking all day, every day. And so just wanted to just thank you, because I know it has not been easy for you to carry all of this and the pressure, but you have risen to the occasion under very hard circumstances, working with half, not having all of the information oftentimes. So I obviously there are things that I've been fighting for here. So I am raising not only to just support this, but for us to recognize what this moment means, because it's not just about this vote, it's about a bigger conversation. It's about the power that we've been given to be able to flex that little muscle that we have here and how we set the stage for how we're going to continue to do business in collaboration with community, with the administration and the council. And this is what it looks like, right? So I think that if we look at this as a learning opportunity, which is what this is, that there are lessons to that we can all agree with and there are things that we might take and fight and scream all the way towards the end. But at the end of the day, it's about how we seize this moment and set the stage for round two and how we come back into this chamber and do it all over again with what we know. So I am highly encouraged that my colleagues will look at this as an asset and not a deficit and move with that lens. So thank you Chair, for your hard work and I look forward to my colleagues voting to pass this. All right. Thank you.
Speaker 0: Thank you, Councilman. Here, the chair recognizes Council Brayton. But before I recognize Constable President, I would like to remind everyone that when you speak on a docket, yes, you're able to speak one time. I'm not going to call on you a second time. I just don't want us to go back and forth, maybe with the exception of of the chair of Ways and Means, but for everyone else, if you if you have the opportunity to speak, take the opportunity because you're not going to get a second bite of the apple that she had calls on. Councilor Brady.
Speaker 4: Thank you, Mr. President. I do rise to support this this portion partial right. Number one. I also wanted to thank Constance Fernandez Anderson for incredible leadership in this complicated new thing that we're doing this year. You've done it with Grace, and.
Speaker 5: I really appreciate.
Speaker 4: Your leadership and your guidance in this process. It is a body. As a body, it's really important for us to work together, to come up with solutions that address the. The challenges that we communities and our folks face all across our city. One thing that we struggled with in the budget process and we have done for for many years, is the fact that sometimes we're dealing with not all the information. And when we look back at custom and practice and years gone by, the council has has struggled for over 70 years to access information in department or annual reports . And the practice of producing annual reports from different departments fell into abeyance in the 1980s. And it's no longer a thing that we'd get an annual report from the different departments to tell us what's where they're at and what their what the money spent on and what their goals and objectives are and what they've achieved in the past year and what they're, you know, what are we going to spend the money on in the future? So as this is something that our office is working on to try and improve accountability and transparency, and I do urge that in the context of budget deliberations going forward, next year, ongoing, we would love to see a modernization and standardization of the process of producing an annual report so that as we all sit down in this, as this body sits down next year, that we will be will we will be more equipped and have better information about what how the different departments are operating, what their goals and objectives are, and what the money is actually being spent on. I think that would help the process greatly. Thank you, Madam Chairman. Thank you, Madam Chair. And thank you, Mr. President.
Speaker 0: Thank you, counsel.
Speaker 5: Let's vote.
Speaker 0: The chair recognizes Council. World Council. Will you have the floor?
Speaker 6: Thank you, President Flynn. And thank you to Councilor Anderson. And this is real simple for me. It's about urgency. It's about making an investment into communities, to people and moving our city forward. We have a chance to take proactive measures instead of reactive measures in and bracken lives. And. Youth development and city in housing, everything that we talked about on the campaign trail, we had that opportunity to use our power to make sure that the communities that we're fighting for get to see it. So this is simple for me and I'll be voting yes. Thank you.
Speaker 0: Thank you, counsel world. Mr. Clarke, we're going to take a vote on this first part of the of this presentation that was provided by Counsel Fernandez Emerson. So this is one of three this is this is the first one.
Speaker 3: Partial override. Number one, roll call. Yes. Vote means in support of the override in a no vote against the override. Consuelo Arroyo.
Speaker 1: Yes.
Speaker 3: Counsel Arroyo. Yes. Counselor Baker.
Speaker 4: Yes.
Speaker 3: Councilor Baker. Yes. Councilor Borg. Yes. Councilor. Yes. Councilor Braden. Yes. Councilor Braden. Yes. Councilor Coletta. Councilor Coletta. Yes. Councilor Fernandez. Anderson. Council since? Yes. Councilor Flaherty. Yeah. Council. Clarity? Yes. Councilor Flynn. Yes. Councilor Flynn. Yes. Councilor Lara. Yes. The Council are against council illusion. Yes. Council illusion. Yes. Council. Let me hear Councilor me here. Yes. Councilor Murphy. Yes. Councilor Murphy. Yes. And Council World?
Speaker 6: Yes.
Speaker 3: Councilor.
Speaker 2: World partial overwrite number 1000.
Speaker 0: The the chair recognizes the council's priorities.
Speaker 1: Thank you, Mr. President, and obviously want to thank the chair for her great work on that and just let my colleagues know. Obviously, I was noting an objection to having the funds come from from BFD and get a commitment from the administration that if there were any equipment needs in 2022, 2023, they'll be met then if necessary , through a supplemental process, working with the chair and our brave men and women of the fire department. Thank you, Mr. President.
Speaker 0: Thank you, counsel. Clarity. Mr. Clarke, we're going on to the second part. Oh, yeah, that's right. Okay. The chair recognizes the chair of Ways and Means Council. Fernandez Andersson. Council. Fernandez Andersson. You have the floor.
Speaker 5: Y'all haven't seen my hair, but I don't have any grace.
Speaker 4: Is the all.
Speaker 5: The albums you give me grace. But hey, let's keep moving. All right. And partial override number two, to decrease BPD personnel services. And let me just explain this quickly for clarification. We could we some of you asked to break this up into pieces as we recommended them. We cannot suggest override in that order. We have to do it by contractor and personnel. So I am recommending two parts. The second part of this partial override decrease BPD personnel services line 51200 overtime to increase. Why personnel use? Sorry, is it engagement and employment engagement. Employment Engagement. Employment Personnel Services to $2,303,333 to fully fund 6000 youth summer jobs and account for a pay adjustment of and to fully fund 1500 youth year round jobs with the additional direction that $1 million be used for a partnership program between area high schools and colleges to create employment for low income college students and academic support and employment opportunities for high school students. Adding 1 million to the line item on the tax order.
Speaker 0: Thank you, Councilor Fernandez Anderson. Mr. Clark, would you please read into the record the second part of that.
Speaker 3: Partial override number to decrease personnel services line 51 to 0 zero overtime to increase why we Personnel Services $2,303,333 to fully fund 6000 youth summer jobs and account for a pay adjustment $1,373,333. And to fully fund 1500 youth year round jobs and $830,000 with the additional with the addition direction that $1 million to be used for a partnership program between area high schools and colleges to create employment for low income college students and academic support and employment opportunities for high school students. Adding $1 million to the line on the tax or.
Speaker 0: Thank you, Mr. Clarke. Would anyone like to speak on this matter? The chair recognizes counsel. Elvira. Counsel. Laura, you have the floor.
Speaker 4: Thank you, President Flynn. I would just like to make a request that we read override number two and override number three into the record together. I'm not trying to mess with our process, but I've heard a lot of feedback both from the administration and my colleagues. And I would like to make an amendment that is amicable and would help us get this passed today and that it would impact both of them.
Speaker 0: Thank you. Thank you, Counsel. Laura So the request for us to read the second part, which was read in the third part together at the same time. Can we take a brief recess, please? We're back in session. Council. Council has moved to amend the recommendations on the floor to read for the overrides to this for two and three together. Is there a second on on reading them together? Second. Okay. Is there any discussion on the matter? Just on reading them together. Not on the substance of it. Just on reading them together. Hearing none. All those in favor I. Opposed. Okay. We will now consider partial overrides of two and three together.
Speaker 3: It's not for the.
Speaker 0: Well, we will be in brief recess. We're back in session. We're back in session. A clarification, but back in session a clarification. Councilor Lara's motion is not to combine overrides two and three, but just to have both of them before the body for discussion prior to individual votes. Is there a second? Second. Councilor Anderson will now introduce the overrides the partial overrides of of number three.
Speaker 5: Thank you. Council President Flynn Partial ride number three decrease BPD personnel services line 51200 overtime to increase WIIH contractual services to 4,000,606 606,666 $7 to fully fund 6000 youth summer jobs and account for a pay adjustment of $2,746,667. And to fully fund 1500 youth year round jobs with the additional direction that 500,000 of the Y e contractual services fund be used for experiential learning opportunities for youth and the rest to be used for a partnership program between high area high schools and colleges to create employment for low income college students and academic support and employment opportunities for high school students. Adding $2,410,000 to the line on the tax order.
Speaker 0: Thank you. Thank you, Counsel Fernandez Anderson. Now, Mr. Clarke, will you please read partial override three into the record?
Speaker 3: Partial override number three, decrease the personnel services line 51 200 overtime to increase y he PPD. Sorry, I'll start again. Partial override number three decrease PBD Personnel services 951 200 overtime to increase wiih contractual services of $4,606,667 to the full week to fully fund 6000. You Summer Jobs An account for a payment adjustment $2,746,667. And to fully fund 1500 youth year round jobs. $1,860,000. With the additional direction that 500,000 of the Hawaii Contractual Services funds be used for experimental learning opportunities for youth and the rest to be used for a partnership program between area high schools and colleges to create employment for low income college students and academic support and employment opportunities for high school students. Adding $2,410,000 to the line on the Texas level.
Speaker 0: Thank you, Mr. Clarke. It is now before the body in now open for discussion. The chair calls on council. Lara. Council? Lara, you have the floor.
Speaker 4: Thank you, President Flynn. I would like to amend. I would like to move to amend the committee's recommended overrides override to and make an additional motion to also override the committee's override three. My intention is to I can read both of them together or I can read both of my amendments separately. And so city. Mr. Ron, your central staff has the amendment language that he would pass around to all of the councilors. The reason why I am filing for this amendment is because in our conversations both with the council and with the administration, we have heard a number of concerns about where this money comes from and how we can fully fund the youth jobs. I in the spirit of trying to make a good faith effort to make sure that we can get this done today, we want to make changes to where the money come from, where the money is coming from. You can see the language in the document in front of you, but my intention is to strike partial override altogether and not remove anybody any money from the Boston Police Department's overtime budget and then make an amendment to make a different amendment, a text amendment to partially override a three.
Speaker 0: Thank you, counsel. Laura. Would anyone else like to have any discussion at this time? Okay. This motion would need to be second. Is there a second? The I took a break from. Can. Okay. We're back in session. Counsel Laura has made a motion. There was a second. Now you have the written amendment to the chair's recommendation before you. At this time. Mr. Clarke, can you read it into the record council?
Speaker 3: Lara's motion to amend a striking partial override number to be in partial override. Number three Striking out decrease VPD Personnel Services 951 200 overtime two and adding the additional $2,410,000 will be offset by the following decrease overrides EPD Contractual Services $688,373 in BPD equipment $1,700,000. So the revised partial override three reads as follows Increase wiih contractual services $4,606,667 to fully fund 6000 youth summer jobs and account for a pay adjustment. $2,746,667. And to fully fund 1500 youth year round jobs $1,860,000, with the additional direction that 500,000 of the Hawaii contractual services funds be used for, expand experimental learning opportunities for youth and the rest to be used for a partnership program between area high school and colleges to create employment for low income college students and academic support and employment opportunities by school students. Adding to our 2,410,000 to the line on the tax order restore restoring the Council's 8,689,450 $300. The additional $2,410,000 will be offset by the following decrease overrides vpd and contractual services $688,373 PPD Contract Contractual Services $100,000 and PPD equipment $1,700,000.
Speaker 0: Thank you, Mr. Clarke. The floor is now open for discussion on replacing the chairs. Recommendation overrides two and three. At this time, I would like to recognize counsel of our council. Laura. You have the floor.
Speaker 4: Thank you, President Flynn. And my apologies to my council colleagues for the absolute mayhem that I have caused. I hope that the people in my district and the people who will benefit from this budget amendment, you know, see that the fight is worth it. I am one. I am rising because we had a typo in the amendment and we have handed it to other new ones out and Braun as the other one. So. Yeah. There's just. Ron has a book for you. I think he is signaling what the changes. So my question for you, President Flynn, is, does Alex need to read the new version into the.
Speaker 3: I have the new version.
Speaker 4: Do you want to read it into the black? Just read it. Okay. Yes.
Speaker 3: Oh, sorry. Excuse me one.
Speaker 4: Sec. Yes.
Speaker 3: I thought that was a new version.
Speaker 4: Thank you. Okay.
Speaker 0: Yes. At this time. At this time. Mr. Clarke, will you please read that into the record place?
Speaker 3: Okay this is the the motion to amend is filed by counsel are hereby amending a striking out partial or right number to be in partial overwrite number three striking out decrease striking out decrease BPD personnel services laying 51 200 overtime to and adding the additional $2,410,000 will be offset by the following decrease overrides BPD contractual services $688,373 . PPD Contractual Services $100,000 and BPD equipment $1,700,000.
Speaker 0: Thank you, Mr. Clarke. The Chair recognizes counsel. LRA counsel. Ira. You have the floor.
Speaker 4: Thank you, President Flynn. This amendment is my attempt to find a good faith. Just my good faith effort to find compromise on this issue. We have had extensive conversation with my colleagues in the administration, and although there is some disagreement, my colleagues in the administration have been very clear that they're unwilling to cut from the police overtime budget and that currently, as it stands, they're also Willy unwilling to cut the APD personnel, or at least enough people are unwilling to do that that would get this to pass. So we're trying to make a compromise here. One, by striking a partial override. Number two, which means that we are not removing any money from the Boston Police Department's overtime budget. And instead we are, instead of decreasing the APD personnel services, the additional 2.41 million will be offset by decrease by decreasing Boston Police Department contractual services and the Boston Police Department equipment both that are representative of unused funds in the budget, similar to the conversation that we just had about the fire department. There's a big community need for this. My attempt to get this amendment fully funded is so that the budget is reflective of the commitments that were already made by the mayor to fund 6000 summer jobs and 1500 year round jobs and to try to get us closer to that number. This really is going to help us fund them. And I also think that it's going to restore the city council's contractual services line item for Whitey so that the city does not have to build the capacity. There were a lot of concerns about US funding wiih personnel services and our ability through our infrastructure to really make sure that we send out all of these jobs. So this amendment is going straight to contractual, which means that we won't have to build any new infrastructure, but instead we will be granting the resources out to community based organizations that have the capacity to hire young people and give them programing for their summer jobs. And it also gives contracts, which gives us the ability to give contracts to partners like ABC and the Private Industry Council. I think that we have made an incredible amount of compromise when it comes to this amendment. We were originally asking for 13.7 million. We brought it down to 6.7 and now are asking for even less than that to be cut from the police overtime budget city Council. It's my belief that the City Council has a responsibility to be responsive to the needs of the people of the community. And this body has heard time and time again support not only for cutting the Boston Police Department's budget, but for making sure that the resources in the mayor's budget are reflective, financially reflective about how much is actually going to cost and make sure that that happens. I have brought with me 742 pages of emails that were received by this body in support of making this amendment. I think that every councilor here has a decision to make in terms of their vote and whether they're going to listen to the people of the city of Boston or special interest groups that we have that are supporting us. But ultimately, I really want to meet I want to name that I have heard every concern and I have made every change. And I have answered every single question that has come to me from my colleagues here on the city council to make this amendment something that we can all come to agreement on. And I urge, urge my council colleagues to please make sure that we're fully funding these jobs, to take a stand in support of the young people of the city, and to see these compromises as what they are, which is a show of good faith, to really try to make sure that we're serving the people in the city.
Speaker 0: Thank you, counsel. Laura. We will now vote on whether. Does anyone now wish to further discuss this motion? The chair recognizes counsel. Murphy. Counsel Murphy, you have the floor.
Speaker 8: Thank you. Council President So I'm a strong supporter of youth opportunities and supporting our young adults in every.
Speaker 4: Way we can.
Speaker 8: But I do not believe it's reasonable to take money out of the Boston Police budget in order to fund the expansion of the y. E Department. I got here early this morning and at 10:00 I was calling I found out at 10:00 is when the youth employment office opened because I called and wanted to find out how many summer jobs were not yet filled so successfully, which is our summer youth employment began the hiring process on March 18 and it closed on May 29th. Yet of the 6000 jobs offered, which is 1000 more than we had last year, only 2800 have been filled and people already started working this week. So less than half of the youth jobs through y e are presently filled and work has started. Yet we're asking for thousands of more jobs. These jobs, I believe, will continue to be vacant. And I also believe there's a much better way to utilize our taxpayers money. I said it in our working session the other day, and I'll repeat it again that instead of pushing our young adults to find temporary summer jobs through youth employment that may or may not align with their long term goals. I believe myself as a counselor and an At-Large councilor who represents all of the residents of Boston that this the city should be offering career entry level positions. And we know because many of us are getting calls from departments already that we have these jobs available now. My office gets calls all the time from different departments that they have great jobs they're struggling to fill. For example, we know upstairs there are 45 vacancies in the PTA departments like the Office of Black Male Advancement, the Office of LGBTQ in the Office of Equity and Returning Citizens would greatly benefit from our support on reaching out to the residents in every neighborhood to ensure that they take advantage of these great career opportunities. I believe that our young adults can gain essential professional development skills while also earning a long term, steady salary to provide for themselves and their families, not just temporary entry level summer jobs. While I fully support y. E Department in its beneficial impact on our youth, I do not believe it's a viable to expand the department, especially at the expense of our public safety officers. Thank you.
Speaker 4: Chair.
Speaker 0: Thank you. Councilor Murphy, would anyone else like to speak on this matter? We will now vote on whether to accept Council amendments to the Chair's override recommendation. Mr. Clark, could we do a roll call vote, please?
Speaker 3: Roll call vote on the motion filed by counsel to Counsel Arroyo. Yes. Counsel. Arroyo. Yes. Counsel. Baker.
Speaker 1: No.
Speaker 3: Counselor. Baker. No. Counselor. Book. Counselor. But no. Counsel. Braedon. Counselor. Breeden. Yes. Counselor Coletta and Counselor. Coletta. Yes. Counsel for Ananda Sanderson. Yes. Counsel for Ananda Sanderson. Yes. Counsel Clarity. Counsel Clarity. No. Counsel Flynn. No. Counsel of Flynn No. Counsel Lara. Counsel Ah, yes. Counsel Louisiana. Counsel Allusion Yes. Counsel Let me hear. Yes. Counsel Let me hear. Yes. Counselor Murphy. No. Counselor Murphy. No. And counselor. Overall, yes. Counselor. Well, yes. Motion pass eight in the affirmative and five in the negative.
Speaker 0: Okay. We will now vote on whether to partially override. The. Yeah. Okay. We will now vote on whether to partially override. Number three has to be as amended as the amended recommendation. Mr. Clerk, can you read it into the record? Oh. Okay. That she recognizes counsel via counsel blocking of the floor.
Speaker 7: Mr. President, I wanted to ask, is there is it discussion now on the actual motion that's now been approved?
Speaker 3: The motion just.
Speaker 7: Passed.
Speaker 3: But now the discussion on partial.
Speaker 7: That's quite interesting. Yeah. As amended. Yes. Yes.
Speaker 0: As amended.
Speaker 7: Yes. So I just wanted to say on partial override three as amended. I like I, I want to have all these jobs we possibly can and have pushed for this to increase. Have also done a lot of work to try to figure out how to get more y jobs to actually be filled to council Murphy's point, including with this shift over to contractual services. I just think that given the fact that not only are we talking about a lot of vacancies right now, but also there is a proposal embedded in this amendment to create a new program, which, again, is something that I think I'm excited about, but that I don't expect to be able to get pulled together within the first few months of this year. And I know that what the administration communicated to us with their veto of this was that they thought that they already had all the money that they could use to do this in this calendar year. And so for me, I'm going to I'm going to be supporting their position that this item's already fully funded inside the building now. Thank you.
Speaker 0: And then we'll have a discussion. Okay. Because it was revised. I'm going to ask the clerk if he could read it, read it into the record place.
Speaker 3: This revised partial overwrite number three increase why he contractual services $4,606,667 to fully fund 6000 youth summer jobs, an account for a pay adjustment of $2,746,667. And to fully fund 1500 youth year round jobs $1,860,000. With the additional direction that $500,000 of the Hawaii contractual services funds be used for experimental learning opportunities for youth and the rest to be used for a partnership program between area high schools and colleges to create employment for low income college students and academic support and employment opportunities for high school students. Adding $2,410,000 to the line on the tax order. Restoring the Council's $8,689,453. The additional $2,410,000 will be offset by the following decrease. Overrides Vpd contractual services $688,373. BPD Contractual Services $100,000 and BPD equipment $1,700,000.
Speaker 0: Thank you, Mr. Clarke. We are now going to vote on whether.
Speaker 3: To have this discussion.
Speaker 0: I am. It's open to discussion. The chair recognizes Counselor McGuire can't sell me here. You have the floor.
Speaker 4: And we pick. And even though we both agree that I've been good all day, this is an opportunity for me to step out of that goodness and to really talk about what is at stake here and what it is that we have been charged to do in 2020. I stood here as a first term counselor, really taking the lead from the people who put me in this office to fight for them and was devastated by the missed opportunity that we had to fight for young people, to fight for the things that we know are going to impact our community. And I feel like I'm having that moment here again, right? Two years later. Here we are now with the power to really move the needle and to really respond to the call of action that we've been asked to do. And it is really challenging for me to go through this process, recognizing that we continue to ask people to wait. And we keep pointing to the fact that the administration hasn't been able to get it together, and therefore, we have to question whether or not this is the right time to invest. I'm very hopeful. We have a new administration, right? We have a new administration. We have folks who are deeply committed and we have a mayor who is committed to doing this work. And all we need to do is get those dollars so that we can get to work. And so I think and I'm going to encourage my colleagues as they continue to go through this process, is to remind to continue to remind ourselves that we are representing the city as a whole, whether we're district councilors or not. We have a responsibility to the entire city of Boston. And more importantly, we have an opportunity to reflect the values that we say we ran on. We have a roomful of young people who are in this chamber right now. This is our opportunity to get politics out of the way and do the work that this moment requires us to do. And so I'm here for it, and I'm hoping that my colleagues will join me. Thank you.
Speaker 0: Thank you. Can't here. What? Everyone else like to speak on this matter? Yeah. We are now going to vote on whether to partially override number three. In the amended recommendation. We'll do a roll call vote. Mr. Clerk, can you call the roll.
Speaker 3: Roll call vote on the revised partial override number three. Councilor Arroyo. Yes. Councilor Arroyo. Yes. Councilor Baker. Councilor Baker. No. Council abort. Council abort. No. Councilor Braden. Yes. Council Braden. Yes. Councilor Coletta. Yes. Councilor Coletta. Yes. Councilor for Ananda Sanderson. Councilor Fernandes Sanderson. Yes. Council Clarity. No. Council of Clarity. No. Council of.
Speaker 0: Flynn. No.
Speaker 3: Council of Flynn. No. Council Lara. Council. Lara. Yes. Council. Louisiana. Council of Louisiana. Yes. Council. Let me hear the council. Me here? Yes. Council on Murphy. Council on Murphy. No. In Council. World yes. Council World. Yes. Six. Revised partial override number three has passed. No scrutiny. This was the override road, so it needs two thirds. So it received only eight votes in the affirmative. It does not pass.
Speaker 0: We will we will now vote. We will now vote on the. Part of the budget. If. We will now vote on the partially override as initially recommended by the chair. So we'll do the first one, the first partial override, number one.
Speaker 3: No, we always did.
Speaker 0: Now we'll take a brief recess. We're back in session. The partial override. The partial override number one has been passed to. I could 07620763 have been overridden in part this. This constitutes approval of the FBI 23 city budget zero seven. Okay, Mr. Kirk. So we're on five. I am. This constitutes approval of the FY 23 city budget. On Docket 76 on the docket 0762 and on docket 0763. 0503 Mr. Clarke We're onto docket 0503 where I want to talk in 0503 in docket 0504 together.
Speaker 3: She has a question.
Speaker 0: You can't console Fernandez and send you off before I go first. Oh, yes, she said. Okay. At this time. We have since we have so many guests here, we do have to go to dockets that we're going to take out of order because we do have a lot of guests here. Just give me a minute to to get those. One is docket 0816. And. Docket 0819. Mr. Clarke. Mr. Clarke, can you read docket 0816, which we are taking out of order at this time?
Message and order for Amended Annual Appropriation and Tax Order for FY2023.
On motion of Councilor Fernandes Anderson as Chair of the Committee on Ways and Means will be recommending overrides to the Mayor's Annual Appropriation and Tax Order return and modification as follows:
Partial override #1:

1.	Increase Black Male Advancement Personnel Services, $600,000 to expand the office capacity (adding $400,000 to the line on the tax order).
2.	Increase Office of Human Services (Office of Returning Citizens) Contractual Services,
$800,000 to increase capacity in the Office of Returning Citizens (adding $500,000 to the line on the tax order).
3.	Increase OEOI Contractual Services, $100,000 to commission a citywide life insurance study.
4.	Increase City Clerk Contractual Services, $200,000 to procure codification services for the review and recodification of the City of Boston Code-Ordinances and the Special Acts relating to the City of Boston, including the City Charter.
5.	Increase BCYF Personnel Services, $120,000 for youth workers to support programming for youth residents of BHA Com