Speaker 1: Lucky numbers 0 to 4 for councilors Braden and or for the following or for a hearing to review affirmative marketing practices for rereleasing existing affordable rental units generated by the Inclusionary Development Policy.
Speaker 0: The chair recognize the chair recognizes counsel of.
Speaker 2: Thank you, Mr. President. I would like to move to suspend Rule 12 and consider the region as a third original co-sponsor to this talk of peace.
Speaker 0: Counsel. Braden seeks suspension of the roles and adds Constitution as the third original course co-sponsor. Seeing and hearing no objection. Constitution is added to add it as a third co-sponsor. Council rate in the floor is yours.
Speaker 2: Thank you, Mr. President. Since its inception in the year 2000, the inclusionary development policy has generated approximately 5500 income restricted units, of which two 3200 were both onsite and offsite units created by developers. And roughly two and a half thousand of these are rental units. These income restricted rental units generated by the ADP program provide support for moderate and middle income households being priced out of the Boston real estate market. When a development subject to IVP completes construction, including residential rental developments, an affirmatively and an affirmative marketing plan is put in place and a lottery is conducted through the Office of Fair Housing to determine initial tenants. The BPA maintains a spreadsheet on its website, listing over 3535 existing developments with affordable rental units through ADP. With lotteries conducted for initial tenants. When a unit becomes vacant, the property owner goes down to the lottery, goes down the lottery list, order in as a waitlist to join the witnessed of an existing development participating in the IDP program, prospective tenants must contact each individual property owner or their listing agent to inquire about vacancies, upcoming availability or waitlist procedures before even even initiating an income certification process. This process of releasing existing IDP rent units in the city's portfolio places burdens on prospective tenants to contact each development, many of whom may have differing practices from obtaining their waiting lists. At times, people have been given 24 hours from notification to confirm if they are able to submit an application for an available unit. This is not. There is no centralized mechanism to assess how many prospective tenants are on the waitlist for individual developments subject to the IDP program across the city, or how long the average wait is by any by age? Am I affordability level in all units size in future? I would like to see a schedule of all IDP rental units by. And turnover and vacancy rates broken down by. AM I level in multiple IDP units at the San Gabriel's Development set at 170% of the area median income and remain vacant and continuously marketed for months. I look forward to continuing the conversation and working to ensure affirmative marketing principles are not only in practice for the initial lease up of new developments, but for the releasing of existing units to be accessible, comprehensive, efficient and without barriers to participation. Thank you, Mr. President.
Speaker 0: Thank you, counsel. Bright and. Would anyone else like to speak on this matter? The chair recognizes Counsel Bach.
Speaker 2: Thank you so much. Mr. President, I just want to thank Counselor Reed in recruiting me in this and her advocacy on this and just say, you know, I think that we we always want to be thinking about folks who are looking for housing are in a very difficult situation. And I think the more difficult we make it to get over those hurdles and kind of have to look in a million places, the harder it is just in terms of the tax on people's mental energy and time. And I think as counselor has elucidated, we still don't have the kind of centralization of these opportunities that we'd really like to see. I think that, you know, the BPA and the DMV and now mayor's office of Housing folks have done a lot to improve Metro list and make it more searchable. And there's a lot of people are supporting this behind the scenes. But at the same time, I still think that a family's experience, especially if you're finding these real estate units that are the ones that are they're listed right at the start can often be quite arduous. And so thinking about, you know, as a council, we want to see every one of these units occupied with the lowest vacancy, both in the initial lease up and later. At least that's possible because this is such a precious valued resource to like for everyone in the city. And then another thing that I'm interested in exploring in this hearing is we've heard a little bit about the challenges that when folks like when something positive, they get a promotion and they start to make slightly more than the speed limit. And we have in my district a resident who actually came out of homelessness, out of shelter, got a voucher, got an IDP unit, then got a job, has earned more and more, and now is in a strange situation where if she earns a little bit more, suddenly her rent in this market building jumps up by like $3,000 , which is completely untenable for her family. So making sure that we as a city don't set up these cliff effects in our own programs. This is something that we criticize federal programs for when they have those little backs. So just looking forward to to lifting the lid and talking about program improvements here, recognizing there's a lot of great people at city who are working on this. So thank you, Counselor Braden, for letting me co-sponsor.
Speaker 0: Thank you, counsel. Would anyone else like to speak on this matter? I do see Councilor make his hand up. Councilman here. Would you like to speak on this matter?
Speaker 2: Just add my name as a sponsor. I just want to make sure that I get called on the next.
Speaker 3: Thank you.
Speaker 0: Please add counsel. His name. Would anyone else like to add their name, please? Councilman Murphy. Please let counsel of Bake of Counsel of Clarity. Counsel of Royal Counsel. Role. Cancellara. Councilor Fernandez Anderson. We have we got councilman here in the chair as well. Docket zero two for four will be referred to the Committee on Housing and Community Development and. Councilman here. The chair recognizes Councilman Hill.
Speaker 2: Yes. Thank you, President Flynn. I just actually am asking for reconsideration of docket 0240.
Speaker 0: Council may hear moves for reconsideration. Docket 02.0 announced that we. Suspend the rules.
Speaker 2: Yes. And pass.
Speaker 0: Suspend the rules.
Speaker 2: Yeah. This is just a simple a tax amendment we have. This is at the request of the administration. And we're just trying to codify an administrative technical language here. So we're hoping that we can it's a simple fix and a change. So I'm just hoping that we can we consider it.
Speaker 0: I second that motion to reconsider. I think. I think we're out of water here.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 0: I mean, in Robert's rules, I think we're out of water. I think it's Berardi. Sorry, Mr. President. Can I speak on this for a bit? The chair. The chair recognizes Councilor Baker. I think we're out of order here. I don't think it's going to hurt us to vote on that next week. Simple changes. Simple changes. We don't know what simple changes are. I don't think there should be a problem with slimness exactly the way we did it and vote on it next week. Thank you, counsel. Just an opinion. Thank you, counsel. Mr.. Mr. Clarke. Yes. Are you able to to weigh in whether we should do a roll call vote or whether this should be held off for next week?
Speaker 1: Well, because the meeting is still active and it's the docket is still in play. It can be reconsidered. A motion can be made to be reconsidered. And it was seconded. So, Counsel Baker, because we're still in the meeting, we can actually do this.
Speaker 0: Thank you, Mr. Clarke. Mr. Clarke, can we do a roll call vote, please?
Speaker 2: Yes, Mr. President. Before you called a vote, can you take further comment?
Speaker 0: Yes. Go ahead, counsel. We'll do it briefly. Go ahead, Counselor. To the floor. Just.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I would just say briefly. I mean, I. I very much expect to support this change, but I would just say that I think it's it is a material change in the sense that it involves it involves adding paid staff. So to me, this wouldn't I mean, because obviously that's not a city budget implications, etc.. It's not quite at the level of a technical change like, oh, we put a comma in the wrong place. So my inclination would just be to want communication from the administration about it, which I don't think we've received. And so I would tend that Councilor Baker's direction of thinking that while this is something that we could do speedily it, we shouldn't necessarily do it so speedily as to suspend and pass. So I just would say, I think I'm going to be voting against the reconsideration motion. Thank you.
Speaker 0: Thank you. Thank you, counsel. Mr. Carr, can we take a roll call? Vote, please. Mr. President, the council planning here at my end raises the curious. I just want to have the docket number. And what is the technical change? Can we have the verbiage? It's talk of 0240. City Council me here. Would you respond to council priorities? Question, please.
Speaker 2: Counselor. President Flynn, I'm having technical difficulties. I'm in two streams. Right now, my internet is down. Give me a quick second. But we did submit this. The changes that that we've made are already submitted. We submitted it through the Council. So if you can look through your packet. Councilor Flaherty, the details are there. Look, just give me a second because I'm operating two screens here and I have my Internet is a bit.
Speaker 0: But Mr. Clark, could we take a five minute recess and just give everybody an opportunity to take a look at it?
Speaker 2: And Carrie, if my Internet goes down again, I'm going to be in the waiting room. So if you could look out for me so you can let me back in, please.
Speaker 3: On. Stand by. No problem.
Speaker 0: Well, we'll be in a brief recess for 5 minutes.
Speaker 3: Well.
Speaker 0: Mr. President, you Castle Arroyo Castle, when you want to just remain on recess until we have full audio. But I appreciate, councilman, his response. And I have to I have a follow up. Yes. We're all set. Thank you. Thank you, Counselor Arroyo. Thank you. Thank you, Counselor, for bringing that to our attention. We appreciate it. The chair recognizes counsel a priority for our response. Yes. Thank you, Mr. President. Thank you to counsel me here. Joe, do we have any idea what the fund and executive director is that is that also $50,000 similar to the other one or is it do we have a dollar amount for the for how much we're going to pay the executive director. The Chair of the chair recognizes recognizes council. I'm here in response to a brief question to Counsel of Florida. And from my screen council president, it seems that councilman here, it looks like it's connecting to audio. So she might be having some technical difficulties from my vantage point. Yeah.
Speaker 2: So I don't know if you can hear me, but this is up to the discretion of the administration council. Clarity.
Speaker 0: Very good. So there's. So that's something we're gonna have a hearing about. Is that something we're trying to suspend and pass? I think we need to get some more information in terms of who this executive with the executive director position consist of, how much we're going to pay them, etc.. That's those are important financial responsibilities as this Council has a fiduciary responsibility to the resident and the taxpayer. I'm just not comfortable suspending and passing that or taking steps to language without any more specifics. Again, thank you, Mr. President. Thank you to the maker for responding. Thank you, Counsel. Clarity. Let let me go back. Councilman here made a motion to reconsider. It is properly before us now, as we were, just as we discussed. Does anybody object to this? If any? If anyone objects to this, we will refer this matter. So government ops.
Speaker 2: So I just want to. Excuse me, Mr. President. You know, I. I don't think we've ever decided how much an executive director makes. And when I when we when have we done this, we've never utilized salaries. So I just want to push for a motion, as is presented, and allow my colleagues to vote, as I requested earlier . And let's see what happens, and we could take it from there. President Flynn That's what I am advocating on behalf of.
Speaker 3: And Constable.
Speaker 0: I need a point of clarification here. I'm a little confused. Mr. Carr, can you give us for clearance? I'm. I understand that a motion is properly before us in it was second. And if anyone is not in agreement, it would get referred to government or government.
Speaker 1: Well, there is a motion.
Speaker 0: In order to assemble the rules, we need unanimous consent.
Speaker 1: Well, there is a motion in play offered by a council making a motion to reconsider. It was seconded by Councilor Arroyo, so it's probably before the body and there was a motion to reconsider docket 240. So the day, the next step we had discussion. Then it would be to vote on the motion to reconsider.
Speaker 2: But Mr. Clarke, can we just clarify, is the motion to reconsider, does it then trigger another vote to suspend and pass? What I think is Councilor Flynn is alluding to has to be unanimous multi-step vote or is the motion there also the S&P.
Speaker 1: There would be another vote to to pass it today? Yes. I don't think it has to be unanimous as long as a majority votes for.
Speaker 3: It, if it.
Speaker 1: Were passed.
Speaker 2: But Mr. Clarke, it's a newly filed docket, so wouldn't it require suspension and passage to pass in its first meeting and therefore unanimous consent?
Speaker 0: I believe that. I believe that. That's correct. If there's no objection to the.
Speaker 1: Right counsel, I guess because it's a new docket. You.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I would just counsel like I'm sorry to disagree on this. I just think that the I don't think the the difference of a week, for instance, will affect us being able to get the commission up and running. And I think that the practice of the council voting suspension and passage on something that has financial implications without without any prior conversation about it, where we sort of end up doing the hearing in the meeting like this. It's not a great precedent for the council. So I think in that context, I would object procedurally to this. So I just think you come back to that feedback. I just want to note for the record that I have been on this council for the last two years, that I have seen how we have finagled and move things around in order of convenience on certain things. But I do appreciate this feedback. I do appreciate the point of order, and I do appreciate your advocacy in regard to this. But I will be making note of how we do business and and take the feedback as as as presented. Thank you.
Speaker 0: Thank thank you, councilman. Here. Thank you, counsel board for the. For the follow up as.
Speaker 2: Life becomes more and more, who has his hand up?
Speaker 0: The chair recognizes Counselor Arroyo. Thank you, Mr. President. It does seem very obvious that someone will object to the suspended pass, which will probably send this to committee. But what. What I will just say is that we've done this with grants. We've done this with grants that number into the millions of dollars in the past. And so there's obviously precedent for this. But obviously, this is a body. This body has rules. And we will follow those rules as they're presented, I think, as a body. And so I appreciate everybody's concern. I appreciate the way that this has gone. But I will just say it's not foreign to us to make decisions that have financial implications for the body or for the city with a suspended pass. In fact, we've done it often. Thank you, Councilor Royall, for that follow up as well, Mr. Clarke. So we have the obviously the motion is properly before us. It was second. The next step would be, is there anyone that objects, I believe, to this? I think we take a vote, don't we?
Speaker 1: We have to take a vote on the motion.
Speaker 0: Mr. Clarke, could we check could we check the roll call vote, please?
Speaker 3: Yes.
Speaker 1: So, docket number 0240. Motion by council on me here to reconsider the docket. And it was seconded by Councilor Arroyo. Councilor Arroyo.
Speaker 0: Yes.
Speaker 1: Councilor Arroyo. Yes. Councilor Baker.
Speaker 0: No.
Speaker 1: Councilor Baker. No. Councilor Back. Council abort. No. Councilor Brady.
Speaker 3: If no.
Speaker 1: Councilor Bray. No.
Speaker 3: Councilor Edwards as a muslim.
Speaker 1: Councilor Fernandez Anderson.
Speaker 2: Yes.
Speaker 1: Counsel of clarity. No counsel of Flynn.
Speaker 0: Is.
Speaker 1: Counsel of.
Speaker 3: He has.
Speaker 1: Council of Louisiana.
Speaker 2: Yes.
Speaker 1: On me here.
Speaker 2: Yes.
Speaker 1: Councilor Murphy. Councilor Murphy.
Speaker 2: No.
Speaker 1: In council.
Speaker 3: World? Yes. Yes. Do you have.
Speaker 1: So Council Council of Flynn, seven votes in the affirmative. Five votes in the negative and one present. The motion to reconsider passes.
Speaker 0: Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Clarke. So the. The matter is properly before us. And now.
Speaker 3: I.
Speaker 0: Know council me here is asking for a suspension of the.
Speaker 3: Rules.
Speaker 0: And to pass.
Speaker 3: The.
Speaker 0: And I believe we would need unanimous consent.
Speaker 3: Yes.
Speaker 0: But at this time, are there any objections?
Speaker 2: Yes.
Speaker 0: Dear. So the chair and the chair. No notes, Councilor Bach. Clarity. Counsel clarity. So the matter now will be referred to the Committee on Government Operations.
Speaker 3: Thank you.
Speaker 0: Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Clarke.
Speaker 3: Welcome.
Speaker 0: Mr. Clarke. Mr. Clarke, will you please bring the docket 0 to 4 or five, please?
Speaker 1: Lucky number 0 to 4 or five. Councilor Murphy offered the following order for a hearing to address the youth mental health crisis in our city.
Order for a hearing to review Affirmative Marketing practices for re-leasing existing affordable rental units generated by the Inclusionary Development Policy.