Speaker 3: Thank you. Thank you, Madam Clerk. Madam Clerk, would you now please read docket 1026 Docket 1026.
Speaker 4: Councilor Edwards offered the following resolution in support of amending the Downtown Municipal Harbor Plan.
Speaker 3: Thank you very much. The Chair recognizes the District Council for me as Boston Councilor Lydia Edwards. The floor is yours.
Speaker 0: Thank you very much. Much of our conversations today are about the planning and our waterfront and making sure that they're equitable. We have a municipal harbor plan and I've gone on record actually saying it should be removed and scrapped and done over again. I know our attempts to do so have been thwarted as a city. So I come back actually to my colleagues on the on the body and say if if removing it completely is not an option, then certainly we should be moving to amend it, amend it to make sure that it's reflecting of where we are as a city when we're dealing with racial awareness and equity. Amend it because we need to be talking about environmental justice. Amend it because climate change was not part of the original plan. And so when we go to sit down and deal with this plan as it is, I hope that you would support an amendment that does all of those things. The fact is that this municipal harbor plan wasn't looking at those things. It was trying to help and in life in the harbor and make sure that there was development available. Well, we've already changed our zoning. We've amended our zoning to actually include racial inclusion, to do a deeper analysis, to make sure it's a true place, whatever gets built in any of our neighborhoods that is inclusive for all of us. So I'm asking that the municipal harbor plan that we go on record as a body saying we support that same vision, that same commitment to an equitable, just environmentally just harbor plan that everybody in the city of Boston, if not in the greater Boston area, feels that they can be a part of and be welcome to. And I think that that's part of our planning. And I would like the amendment to reflect that as well. So I hope that my colleagues will go on record in support of an amendment that does that. And I'm asking to suspend the rules and vote on that resolution today.
Speaker 3: Thank you, Councilor Edwards. Any further discussion on 1026? Seeing none. Would any councilors wish to add their name? Madam Clerk, please add. Councilor Arroyo. Councilor Braden. Councilor Campbell. Councilor Siby George. Councilor Flaherty. Councilor Flynn. Councilor may here. Please add the chair. Councilor will as well. And please that Councilor Baker. Madam Clerk, would you please excuse me, Madam Clerk? Councilor Edwards seeks suspension of the rules and adoption of Docket 1026. All those in favor, please indicate by saying I oppose. Nay, the ayes have it. The docket is hereby adopted. Congratulations, Councilor Edwards. Moving right along to personnel orders. Madam Clerk, would you please begin with docket 1027?
Speaker 4: Certainly. Docket 1027. Councilor O'Malley for council clarity.
Speaker 3: Chair six. Suspension of the rules and passage of docket 1027. All those in favor please indicate by saying I oppose name. The ayes have it. The docket is passed.
Resolution in Support of Amending the Downtown Municipal Harbor Plan.
On motion of Councilor Edwards, the rules were suspended; the resolution was adopted yeas 12.