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Joel Faller: From the.

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Joel Faller: Okay, why don't let everyone know this meeting is being recorded So if you do not wish to be recorded.

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Joel Faller: You should mute and.

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Marie S.: Take yourself off camera.

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Joel Faller: Michael is there is there a current currently lives on set up for the Senate Office, if you know.

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Michael Bonetti: i'm not yet i'm handling the count everything in the Council level.

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Michael Bonetti: accounts are still hiring at.

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Michael Bonetti: At the Senate level.

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Michael Bonetti: At the moment, yeah.

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Joel Faller: And I neglected to mention in in the Presidents report congratulations to.

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Joel Faller: counselor edwards and Senator edwards who's now, since our last meeting has been sworn in as Senator understand that she's going to be having both roles until April 30.

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Joel Faller: When.

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Joel Faller: She will step down.

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Joel Faller: Okay, do not see Patrick lions.

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Joel Faller: And I.

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Joel Faller: Do not see anyone from.

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Joel Faller: Senator edwards office, so will.

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Joel Faller: We can move on to committee reports.

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Joel Faller: Kevin drew is not here.

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Joel Faller: And Carmen I know we're expecting a report from Rachel.

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Joel Faller: little later on in the meeting as.

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Carmine Guarino: I hadn't prepared about the annual Gala which is.

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Carmine Guarino: awesome i'm excited in person, but Rachel have better, I would say.

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Joel Faller: Okay i'm harbor front neighbor harbor front neighborhood alliance Kevin Fleming I think you do have a report.

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kevinfleming: very, very quick report, the only thing of note that on the edge of our neighborhood is.

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kevinfleming: News reported because they come to the they are also represented in our preferred neighborhood alliance they shared their opposition to the.

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kevinfleming: marketplace Center development which we reviewed on our November 17 meeting, but did not vote on to this outside of our geographic area but newer is indeed.

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kevinfleming: A writing a letter and opposition based on casting shadow on the greenway and other other run.

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kevinfleming: scale scale law concern I think they're thrilled to add seven stories, so I think the the the time for public comment preservative the BP da and February 25 so you can check out the bba bba website and check it out, and I can put something in the notes, so people can see it themselves.

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Joel Faller: Thank you Kevin.

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kevinfleming: And just so you know that's the very end of faneuil hall area called marketplace Center it a bunch the greenway Brighton near the Armenian park right.

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Joel Faller: Ashley is not here i'm.

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Joel Faller: rory anything from the.

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Joel Faller: Public Health committee.

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Rory Harrington: sure to quick updates from North end waterfront health related to coven 19 they are still offering coven testing on Tuesday mornings from 830 in the morning to 11am.

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Rory Harrington: it's by appointment only you can call ahead or go on their website to sign up and also anyone who is 12 or older is eligible for the coven booster shot again, you can make that by appointment by calling.

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Rory Harrington: calling them directly or going to the website and they can also get their vaccine at new health as well.

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Joel Faller: Thanks very.

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Joel Faller: And Tommy is not here so we'll go straight straight to the candidates.

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Joel Faller: As mentioned.

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Joel Faller: counselor edwards is stepping down April 30 to become to solely become Senator edwards.

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Joel Faller: And we have.

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Joel Faller: Two two candidates buying for that seat we're good enough to come in and.

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Joel Faller: address the Council, and then the North and residents, so I do appreciate them both taking taking the time to come in.

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Joel Faller: And I will I will.

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Joel Faller: I will recognize tanya del Rio and then followed, followed by gabrielle nicoletta tanya thanks thanks for coming in and.

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Joel Faller: Both of you happy valentine's day and tiny I believe today is also your anniversary so double, thank you for for for whatever damage you're going to take on the home front.

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Tania Del Rio (she/ella): We were able to celebrate last night so so that's good we are definitely corny announced to get married on valentine's day, so thank you for that Joel.

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Tania Del Rio (she/ella): And yeah it's it's really great to to be here and to meet everyone and and the the chance to introduce myself, I really very much appreciate it.

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Tania Del Rio (she/ella): As well as everything you do for for the Community, so what a pleasure.

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Tania Del Rio (she/ella): So i'll introduce myself, my name is tanya del Rio i'm a mom of two Mbps and i'm a Latino immigrant originally from Mexico City and leader with proven results, both in the Community and already in city government.

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Tania Del Rio (she/ella): i'm running for the console because I want to be our voice for just keeping everyone in the Community that wants to stay together.

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Tania Del Rio (she/ella): We are, as you all know, dealing with in or did crisis and it's really just about time that our leaders take action.

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Tania Del Rio (she/ella): We have Community members that are being pushed out of our neighbors and it's happening for a few reasons, and I think we have to tackle all of them.

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Tania Del Rio (she/ella): And, first and foremost, I think we are losing people in the Community, because we're turning too much of our workforce housing into luxury condos.

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Tania Del Rio (she/ella): And it's also happening because families are facing really difficult choices and in the face of boundaries and frankly shortcomings with ups.

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Tania Del Rio (she/ella): And it's also happening and i've heard it from a couple of people already in the north end because there's flooding happening and it's just becoming a mainstay in our lives and it's draining our pocketbooks.

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Tania Del Rio (she/ella): And we have to stop, we have to fight to stop all of this, and now i'll take a few minutes, just to tell you a little bit about my story, so you can understand kind of why I care and why this specific district means so much to me.

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Tania Del Rio (she/ella): I originally came to Boston as a graduate student after growing up in a bunch of different places between my native Mexico and the US, and we finally found our home in East Boston.

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Tania Del Rio (she/ella): after graduation, I went to work in the Mexican consulate where my job enabled me to help immigrants in many different ways.

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Tania Del Rio (she/ella): And included from ensuring they have proper documentation to protecting them against wage theft and defending their rights in immigration detention jails and prisons.

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Tania Del Rio (she/ella): And at the time when I was working there my husband could not work, he was in the middle of a three what ended up being a three year wait for his immigration paperwork and a student at quincy college.

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Tania Del Rio (she/ella): And we were also raising a one year old and.

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Tania Del Rio (she/ella): At that time I was 2016 and I found out one day that my job was going to require me to exchange my Green Card for a temporary visa, and it was a pretty scary prospect in 2016 because of the.

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Tania Del Rio (she/ella): rhetoric we were hearing coming from Washington about immigrants specifically even Mexican Americans like me.

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Tania Del Rio (she/ella): And if I did, that I would have lost my pathway to citizenship, so my husband and I had a nice little talk and we just decided to.

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Tania Del Rio (she/ella): bet on this city, and so I resigned from my job, and we were very nervous and.

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Tania Del Rio (she/ella): And at the same time, we were hopeful because we kind of saw this and had gotten the vibe which remains true that this is.

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Tania Del Rio (she/ella): awesome city where neighbors stick together and have each other's back and that proved to be true, and.

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Tania Del Rio (she/ella): The Community that i'm fighting for is is i'll tell you a story from a couple months ago, just to describe what I mean when I say that.

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Tania Del Rio (she/ella): And we just found a new home recently we're proud Homeowners here in orient heights and.

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Tania Del Rio (she/ella): One Saturday morning, our House needs a little work still and we came out in the back, we started working on the artist eat in the morning.

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Tania Del Rio (she/ella): By 815 our neighbor Enzo came in and he had equipment in hand and decided that he would help us.

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Tania Del Rio (she/ella): 830 our other neighbor Paul he came in same equipment had decided, he would help us and by 9am Andrew had farm, so we were four different households just kind of.

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Tania Del Rio (she/ella): Working together, we didn't ask for help, we didn't you know really know them from a long time and.

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Tania Del Rio (she/ella): They just you know they saw neighbor and need and they said let's roll up our sleeves and let's hope and that's that's what i've seen in this district, and in this Community, time and time again and it's just me as love it.

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Tania Del Rio (she/ella): And for us city government has kind of been like that a little bit too, and in the sense that it had our back in a number of ways, so first.

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Tania Del Rio (she/ella): back when my husband couldn't work we qualified for an income restricted home ownership opportunity that allowed us to really you know set have our roots here in East Boston and.

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Tania Del Rio (she/ella): and stay in the neighborhood eventually I was able to find work in City Hall, first in the mayor's office and I ultimately had the honor of serving as the head of the women's advancement office.

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Tania Del Rio (she/ella): In City Hall and i'm very proud of the work that we did there my most proud moment was the last of the childcare entrepreneur fund, which supports childcare workers so funding and training.

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Tania Del Rio (she/ella): We also had the first ever tell their senses to document parents preferences with challenges and challenges with childcare.

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Tania Del Rio (she/ella): And so, for us, like we saw city government work for our family and i'm running for make sure it works for everyone.

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Tania Del Rio (she/ella): And now, after I I worked in City Hall and lead their office, I was proud to continue my public service as the Executive Director of the ywca in Cambridge.

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Tania Del Rio (she/ella): that's an organization with a $3 million budget and assets that amount to over $11 million, including a historic building.

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Tania Del Rio (she/ella): And it provides housing for over 100 women and families who experienced homelessness and trauma so in some.

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Tania Del Rio (she/ella): i've led city departments i've loved nonprofit organizations and i've delivered real results to our communities.

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Tania Del Rio (she/ella): And my experience really goes beyond politics, it goes beyond campaigns, you know I have led us a public official I have lead as an advocate.

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Tania Del Rio (she/ella): and beyond, you know supportive roles i've been the decision maker i've been the person in charge, and I understand the pressures that come with that and it is really, really challenging work and i've learned a lot from it.

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Tania Del Rio (she/ella): And on the more personal side i'm a mom of two a six year old and a two year old and, like many of you i'm sure i've been facing the challenges of parenting during the pandemic.

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Tania Del Rio (she/ella): from Cuba 19 related closures through remote school to navigating what it is to even sign up for bbs and i've been you know i've had to leave work when.

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Tania Del Rio (she/ella): The bus doesn't come or it drops off the kids without anyone to monitor them so i've i've lived those challenges, and I really, really think that we need a counselor that can focus on education.

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Tania Del Rio (she/ella): In a very, very strong way and i've also learned a lot through my participation in our own school site Council.

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Tania Del Rio (she/ella): And i've witnessed you know the unwavering commitment of features and I think that we need to be fighting to get back to them because they've gone above and beyond, especially during the pandemic.

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Tania Del Rio (she/ella): So all of these experiences they've led me here today and I really believe that they differentiate me from the kind of politicians, you may be used to seeing.

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Tania Del Rio (she/ella): i've directly worked with people during sometimes the worst moments of their lives and it's helped me build an empathy that I think is really going to allow me to serve with.

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Tania Del Rio (she/ella): A lot of authenticity and just a lot of heart, and we also have to recognize that we're in a historic moment in our city.

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Tania Del Rio (she/ella): Voters in Boston have chosen change in recent years and i'm just so proud of us because we've done so much.

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Tania Del Rio (she/ella): But the challenges that we're facing really requires to come together in a new way So for me as your city councilor I would be fighting.

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Tania Del Rio (she/ella): For quality schools in each part of the district that includes an extension of universal pre K two or three year olds that includes investing in our school facilities, many of which are sadly as humbling.

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Tania Del Rio (she/ella): And I would use it, the council's new budget hours for that I also think that we need to bring together stakeholders.

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Tania Del Rio (she/ella): and talk away forward, especially through the big challenges that we're facing in charlestown high school in in the pathway after the Elliot or the Harvard pen or the warm Prescott.

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Tania Del Rio (she/ella): I want to also be pushing the city to invest in housing and homeownership programs, like the one that helped my family.

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Tania Del Rio (she/ella): I will be advocating for development and Sony processes that bring neighbors in from the beginning.

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Tania Del Rio (she/ella): And that, when our voice is you know when we're speaking up our voices actually heard and actually taken into account, and not just you know check the box that we're checking.

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Tania Del Rio (she/ella): On the green front, I want to be fighting to accelerate our carbon emission reductions, I want to create smart traffic solutions.

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Tania Del Rio (she/ella): And I want to make sure that we bring those public fair transit options that we're seeing, on the other side of the city, I want to see some of that here.

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Tania Del Rio (she/ella): And just work with you all to make sure our cities resilient and prepared for the effects of climate change, and I will be fighting to.

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Tania Del Rio (she/ella): To make sure also that we have public and free access to do the harbor walk.

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Tania Del Rio (she/ella): For me, the north end for us down and each Boston they're all you know and on different sides of the harbor, but we are all on the harbor.

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Tania Del Rio (she/ella): We are all facing the challenges of climate change, the covert pandemic reckless development many times and loud noises that keep people up at night.

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Tania Del Rio (she/ella): And you know many others and we're facing all of those together.

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Tania Del Rio (she/ella): And if today harbor separate says we definitely have to find a way in which it can unite us through again access to the harbor walk water transportation and just just do this together.

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Tania Del Rio (she/ella): For me, as I shared earlier i'm someone who grew up kind of being the new kid in school, every year, it was definitely a wonderful childhood that I wouldn't fit for the world but.

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Tania Del Rio (she/ella): The feeling of having put roots in a community and feeling supported by it has meant a lot to me my family's always really felt welcome here.

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Tania Del Rio (she/ella): Just like all previous waves of immigrants, because our Community values.

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Tania Del Rio (she/ella): It celebrates our diversity, we are all coming from different places, we are different colors we are different religions and just have so many differences but, at the end of the day we all want.

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Tania Del Rio (she/ella): That our family to have a wonderful quality of life and so that includes, for me, are small businesses or transportation workers, our service industry workers.

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Tania Del Rio (she/ella): Are seniors our students our families everyone, but the beautiful tapestry that's us and and I strongly believe that the people who.

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Tania Del Rio (she/ella): Are in this Community have put blood, sweat and tears into creating what is our President, and you know, I believe that they deserve to have a chance to be here.

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Tania Del Rio (she/ella): and be part of the future and have a wonderful livable community.

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Tania Del Rio (she/ella): For me, honestly, there would be no greater honor than the fight for that Boston that we know we all deserve for the opportunities that each one of us here deserve, and so I humbly really ask for your vote.

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Tania Del Rio (she/ella): I invite you to get involved in our campaign by visiting my website, which is del Rio for boston.com.

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Tania Del Rio (she/ella): And again, we all are here for the same reason, we want to make sure this is a district, where we can all thrive.

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Tania Del Rio (she/ella): I can't wait to hear some of your questions if you're if we're having Q amp a and i'll put all my information in the chat if you want to get in touch with me want to be really responsive really accessible and this grateful for the time that you spent here with me today.

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Joel Faller: Thank you.

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Joel Faller: And all all all started.

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Joel Faller: It is as long as i've lived here and, perhaps, as long as most most people live here we've been represented by an East Boston resident.

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Joel Faller: We got to East Boston residents here tonight vying for the job as well.

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Joel Faller: Tell me, what is it about you, that would you know best represent the north end, as well as East Boston.

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Tania Del Rio (she/ella): yeah there's a few things I mean, as I shared of Joel and I think that i'm a leader that's been proven, and that has experience.

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Tania Del Rio (she/ella): Like I said, not only in the political arena, but outside of it, so I know how to work across difference, I know what it's like to be inside.

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Tania Del Rio (she/ella): As part of the government machine, but I also know what it's like to be on the outside, trying to advocate for change or advocate for community.

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Tania Del Rio (she/ella): And you know, having that empathy of what it feels like I think I can create all of these bridges that are necessary.

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Tania Del Rio (she/ella): I know there's many generations of North enders that are immigrants themselves and that share that experience of having to navigate a new place and having to adjust to a new country.

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Tania Del Rio (she/ella): And I think that that brings a special kind of understanding and and also, I think i've.

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Tania Del Rio (she/ella): worked with small businesses the northern has a large community of small businesses that make it so vibrant and so economically.

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Tania Del Rio (she/ella): An economic engine for the whole city, I have worked with small businesses, specifically childcare small businesses in my work as the at the office of women's advancement.

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Tania Del Rio (she/ella): and learn there that if you want a city program to work you have to create it with the people that are going to benefit from it, so in that in that case, what we did is we did.

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Tania Del Rio (she/ella): Almost a year's worth of conversations with the people that were going to benefit from the program we created it together we.

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Tania Del Rio (she/ella): Then ran the program we took feedback from them and adjusted the program to improve it and that's really my leadership style I would take a long time.

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Tania Del Rio (she/ella): Trying to trying to understand and trying to build something together there with the Community that we then can fine tune together.

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Tania Del Rio (she/ella): And it's always been my style and very collaborative and very inclusive and I think that's something that the north end needs, especially being the smallest neighborhood in the district.

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Tania Del Rio (she/ella): it's just the math always works out you'll see that there is boston's candidate just because, because we have.

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Tania Del Rio (she/ella): A bigger population, but you will need someone that's really mindful of that difference, and that will take the time.

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Tania Del Rio (she/ella): To understand that neighborhood to become a part of it and to really not try to you know put my ideas at the Center but the neighborhoods ideas at the Center and build something together.

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Joel Faller: Okay, thank you um and then the second question would be.

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Joel Faller: I think you know as a new counselor whoever is elected, is going to be to be facing doesn't or dozens of issues across all spectrums I think you you named a good deal of them tonight.

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Joel Faller: But I think.

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Joel Faller: I mean, I would, I think, to get things done, probably people need to prioritize and maybe in one term you can you know pick one, two or three you know top items that you really get a push through what would your top top couple items be that you'd want to prioritize if you became counselor.

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Tania Del Rio (she/ella): yeah so I want to prioritize one like I said I was talking about a pathway into quality education for.

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Tania Del Rio (she/ella): Everyone in the district i've heard from a lot of families in the district that they don't feel like.

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Tania Del Rio (she/ella): There is necessarily a pathway into a high school and we're specifically talking about charlestown high school, so I would really want to bring stakeholders together and talk about that.

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Tania Del Rio (she/ella): And climate is another one, because, as I mentioned, we are the three neighborhoods that are going to be the most affected, and as I shared earlier, I I thought that this was a.

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Tania Del Rio (she/ella): thing of the near future, but i've learned that it's a thing of the President that people are moving out of the north end, especially of the in the waterfront area.

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Tania Del Rio (she/ella): Because of the flooding, and so we need the city to accelerate the timeline.

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Tania Del Rio (she/ella): For climate ready Boston and for all of the projects that we need to make sure we are ready and it's not only about you know, building a seawall it's about making sure.

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Tania Del Rio (she/ella): We, we have a comprehensive plan and and, lastly, as I said, this doesn't really come from me, it comes from everyone i've talked to what people are really clamoring for responsive.

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Tania Del Rio (she/ella): Efficient constituent services right like the issues that we might talk about more when we're in her personally talking, and that includes rick.

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Tania Del Rio (she/ella): rhoden infestations and includes the crosswalks being painted right.

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Tania Del Rio (she/ella): All of those things that really come come together to make the quality of life of a resident.

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Tania Del Rio (she/ella): i've heard a lot from people about that, and so I would want to be someone that's very transparent.

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Tania Del Rio (she/ella): about the the requests that are coming in the requests that are being solved how fast, are we doing that can we have a public dashboard where people can see the efficiency of our office because i've heard time and time again that people really want someone that's responsive and available.

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Joel Faller: Thank you i'm going to open up to the rest of the Council.

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Joel Faller: rory see your hand.

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Rory Harrington: Yes, hi tanya nice to meet you, and thanks for coming on one issue that's been in the news a lot recently is the the vaccine mandate, I know, the Council, I think hell to hearing on Friday to meet with union leaders who oppose the mandate, I guess, my question for you is.

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Rory Harrington: Do you support the mayor's vaccine mandate and.

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Rory Harrington: If you do, how would you respond to Union leaders who.

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Rory Harrington: are opposed.

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Tania Del Rio (she/ella): yeah for sure, I think that one of the things that happened at the beginning of the mandate is that unions felt like the conversation wasn't had.

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Tania Del Rio (she/ella): And so I definitely support the conversation being had and being ongoing.

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Tania Del Rio (she/ella): And, especially because the levels of Kobe are going up and down, depending on whether we're in a search moment or in a non search moment, I know that, now that we're coming down from.

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Tania Del Rio (she/ella): All mccaughan and the city might ease those those mandates and those measures that were put in place in terms of during the emergency now I.

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Tania Del Rio (she/ella): I support the public health measures, I support the science and if we're in a surge I am Okay, with the mandates and However, I do think that the conversation with the Union needed to to be had.

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Tania Del Rio (she/ella): And i'm glad to learn that they're now going to be temporary well as we're coming down from the surgeon, you know eventually we're going to sadly have to live with this virus and we're all learning together what exactly that looks like.

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Rory Harrington: Thank you mm hmm.

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Joel Faller: Any other questions from the Council, and I think I.

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Joel Faller: Think, potentially, although did not look like Ashley when the video came on Ashley McCarthy may actually Leo may have joined us.

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Joel Faller: But.

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Joel Faller: Any other questions from the castle Kevin Fleming.

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kevinfleming: I do have a question that you brought up.

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kevinfleming: Schools, I do not have any children, but I do have nieces and nephew at the Elliott school and I know the Dante Dante Allah gary's schools and he's Boston.

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kevinfleming: And I know the Elliott in Daniela Gary or two of us to have, I want to say, maybe six schools, I thought that a rough estimate that do not get a 10 point bonus for being having a low.

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kevinfleming: economic status within their student body and because there's so few that don't get it, I think it works more of the penalties and an actual penalty for those students that don't get it really as a boon for those that really need it.

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kevinfleming: So my question to you is what's your position on the 10 point 10 point bonus that 10 bonus points for schooled with I think 40% or more of low economic.

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Tania Del Rio (she/ella): yeah, thank you for asking that Kevin my son actually goes to the alley Gary so.

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kevinfleming: There you go.

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Tania Del Rio (she/ella): yeah he's in first grade, but we had sixth graders affected this year and it's it's sad to see now I testified at school committee about this very issue.

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Tania Del Rio (she/ella): And I have asked this question of bps different bps staff members, a number of times and still don't have an answer, so I would really want to be pushing on this.

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Tania Del Rio (she/ella): For some reason and bps decided not to assign the 10 points let's call them equity points they don't they don't really have a name but i'll call them that.

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Tania Del Rio (she/ella): The 10 points at the school level instead of at the household level, which would have made a lot more sense right.

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Tania Del Rio (she/ella): The way they're doing it now penalizes those five schools in our case in East Boston it's going to.

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Tania Del Rio (she/ella): cause families to play the system and on enroll from the alligator, which is actually the only Montessori in the whole system and.

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Tania Del Rio (she/ella): And it's unfortunate you have low income kids that go to some of these five schools that will not get the points, and you have high income kids that go to other schools that will be getting extra points.

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Tania Del Rio (she/ella): that's not equity that makes no sense I don't understand, and I said I don't have an answer to why bps is not assigning these points at the household level.

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Tania Del Rio (she/ella): That would make much more sense to me if you're a low income household you get the points.

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Tania Del Rio (she/ella): If you're not you do not get the points and there you don't you don't have families, as I said on enrolling and enrolling into schools, trying to game, the system.

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Tania Del Rio (she/ella): On the one hand, on the other hand, we need to stop talking about the exam school the exam schools are great wonderful they work for many kids.

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Tania Del Rio (she/ella): And, and we should you know, let them continue on, but what about all the other schools, I have heard from so many parents.

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Tania Del Rio (she/ella): That just wish that their kids could go to school, near their homes and receive a quality education and they're facing all of these difficult choices we are really losing people.

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Tania Del Rio (she/ella): From the Community because they move away when they don't find that there is an option for them if they can afford it, maybe they go to private school but that's just not.

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Tania Del Rio (she/ella): that's not what we should be striving for, we should be striving for.

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Tania Del Rio (she/ella): A quality education that's accessible to all, in diverse schools and that should include charlestown high school and that's why I would like to bring stakeholders together to talk about.

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Tania Del Rio (she/ella): What does the next step forward look like you know the conversation starting that's great, but we have to find something some kind of.

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Tania Del Rio (she/ella): solution that works for the teachers for the students for the parents for everyone involved in i'm very interested in having that conversation.

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kevinfleming: Thank you and also follow up since you brought up charlestown high school, I think there was a proposal to turn that into an innovation school, but I.

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kevinfleming: think that got rejected I don't know if that can come back I don't know the precise procedure of that.

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Tania Del Rio (she/ella): yeah so that's what i'm hoping, is that there will be a conversation that brings together everyone, one of the reasons that the proposal didn't move forward.

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Tania Del Rio (she/ella): Is that many stakeholders felt like they weren't consulted appropriately and so, how can we start that process again and make sure that everyone's points of view can be heard, and we find a way forward together.

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kevinfleming: Thank you.

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Joel Faller: Okay, and I know the tanya Green has joined us thanks thanks.

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Joel Faller: For coming in tanya I know you had some complex.

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Joel Faller: anyone else from the Council quickly, because we are we're coming on.

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Joel Faller: coming on to.

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Joel Faller: like to move on to Gary on the in the near future anyone else in the Council.

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Joel Faller: And I will quickly open it up to the public, any questions from the neighborhood.

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Joel Faller: Thank you so much on you for coming in and next candidate.

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Joel Faller: was no no stranger.

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Joel Faller: To the to the council's in North end gabrielle nicoletta and i'll let you introduce yourself and we'll we'll go through the same process thanks for thanks again thanks for coming and get real yeah.

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Gabriela Coletta: awesome Thank you so much for having me and good evening everybody happy valentine's day.

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Gabriela Coletta: i've already had my dinner with my partner so i'm not in the doghouse quite yet, but super happy to be here and share this evening with you all, and for those of you who don't know me, my name is gabrielle kolata.

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Gabriela Coletta: candidate for the district one at Boston City Council seat, soon to be vacated by now Senator elect lydia edwards.

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Gabriela Coletta: i'm a lifelong resident of this beautiful district proud product of the Boston public school systems.

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Gabriela Coletta: And i've committed my entire professional career and service to my community and to my neighbors and i'm running because this moment.

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Gabriela Coletta: This district requires a proven leader who's ready to take on the job and advocate effectively for this community on day one.

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Gabriela Coletta: And, as somebody who has literally lived and breathed the the new the nuances and complexities of the city council office for almost four years.

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Gabriela Coletta: I am confident that I am that person, and I have gotten to know all of you.

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Gabriela Coletta: Many of you as Chief of Staff for Council edwards working on issues related to the north end and even before then being a restaurant worker, since I was 18 years old in this neighborhood.

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Gabriela Coletta: And I absolutely love fighting for this neighborhood and it would be an honor to continue my advocacy as your city councilor.

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Gabriela Coletta: But just by way of further introduction I will give a brief overview of who I am where I come from, and then jump into why i'm running.

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Gabriela Coletta: And why I believe, on the best candidate for this moment in time, but i'm a daughter of East Boston I continue to live here with my partner Sebastian we've already you know we've.

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Gabriela Coletta: pretty much decided that we're going to stay here so i'm here to protect the vibrancy of our communities.

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Gabriela Coletta: But even before then, I was a proud product for Boston public schools and graduated from Latin academy I eventually went on to graduate from.

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Gabriela Coletta: From umass Boston and I was raised by Community activists who took me to neighborhood meetings like this, but not necessarily like this because we weren't on zoom quite yet.

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Gabriela Coletta: And events, including protests against runway expansion in the 1990s so even at a young age, I understood that there were injustice was happening in this Community.

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Gabriela Coletta: By special interest in major institutions, and so I became obsessed with the idea of a realize power of residence and the idea of neighbors coming together to achieve something great.

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Gabriela Coletta: And so i've carried that legacy of generation generational activism with me through my entire life.

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Gabriela Coletta: And i've made a career out of empowering my neighbors and bringing people together and that's something that i'm very, very proud of.

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Gabriela Coletta: So on the professional side, while I was in college I helped to elect state representative Adrian madero in East Boston.

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Gabriela Coletta: And served as his Community liaison going to Community meetings for almost four years.

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Gabriela Coletta: And I got the opportunity to sit shoulder to shoulder with my neighbors in in meetings like this just to better understand their priorities, their hopes and dreams for their kids and how they wanted to define their neighborhoods growth for future generations.

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Gabriela Coletta: In college when I graduated and then transition to you know the the professional sphere I was the associate director at the Massachusetts women's political Caucus.

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Gabriela Coletta: Where I helped to recruit train and elect dozens of women from across the Commonwealth to elected office and was also mentoring dozens of young women looking to get their foot in the door in this space.

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Gabriela Coletta: And then, most recently, I was chief of staff to outgoing Boston city councilor lydia edwards for almost four years and I lead that office and serve over 80,000 residents.

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Gabriela Coletta: While overseeing a staff working on hundreds of constituent cases.

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Gabriela Coletta: went toe to toe with special interests, ensuring our districts got what it deserved, while also contributing to almost 30 different policy initiatives at any given time.

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Gabriela Coletta: And again, it was an honor serving this community for so many years and it's exactly why I want to come back and make an even bigger difference as your city councilor.

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Gabriela Coletta: And I always say that when somebody was calling our office they were looking for a quarterback because they felt like they might not have been getting anywhere, or they were in tough times.

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Gabriela Coletta: And I took that responsibility very seriously and I did serve with my heart and in an authentic way.

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Gabriela Coletta: And we tried our best to help whoever was in need, just so they know that somebody in City Hall had their back.

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Gabriela Coletta: And when lydia can be in a conversation with a developer or lawyer or a City Hall official she sent me.

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Gabriela Coletta: I was everywhere, she couldn't be in addition to working with our amazing staff.

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Gabriela Coletta: And that's why she just recently endorsed me in this race and i'm very proud to have her support and the support of every city councilor to have ever held this seat.

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Gabriela Coletta: As well as hundreds of Community Members who have already committed to supporting me in this campaign and i'm proud of my work, I mean I helped lead the fight for affordable housing its Community and across the city.

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Gabriela Coletta: I said, with public housing residents at bunker Hill and was directly involved in negotiations with the national developer, to ensure they got safe dignified and stable housing for their new homes.

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Gabriela Coletta: i'm very proud to have helped expand paid parental leave and the city of Boston just last year for both new moms and dads as a matter of economic.

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Gabriela Coletta: Economic and reproductive justice and then, of course, during the coven 19 crisis we received hundreds of calls from people and we mobilized quickly to connect as many residents as possible.

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Gabriela Coletta: including many seniors to food employment resources for those who just lost their jobs and housing resources as well.

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Gabriela Coletta: And i've literally helped people who are pushed out of their homes to find shelter and physically brought food to folks during the beginning days of the pandemic.

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Gabriela Coletta: And then the last six months i've been leading the New England aquariums efforts to ensure our waterfront remains resilient inclusive and accessible for all bostonians.

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Gabriela Coletta: Regardless of their race, ethnicity or socio economic status, and so I decided to run because i'm ready to lead in service but also in partnership with you all.

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Gabriela Coletta: i'm 100% committed to protecting the vibrancy of this community and promoting quality of life for all residents from the policy to the potholes because i've done just that and everything in between.

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Gabriela Coletta: And right now I know this district is dealing with a lot, we have a compounding displacement crisis both do to gentrification and development.

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Gabriela Coletta: And then, looking to the very near future, people about 11,000 people are going to be displaced due to coastal flooding, I think it's about 3000 in this district in particular on the on the North and waterfront.

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Gabriela Coletta: And so I intend to post, the city which i'm doing right now, at the aquarium to fortify our coastline and to meet the sea and become resilient to protect our Community.

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Gabriela Coletta: it's a very urgent issue and that will affect this area and is affecting this area and we need to act now.

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Gabriela Coletta: And then layering On top of that we're dealing with the housing affordability crisis for me i've worked on anything from zoning.

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Gabriela Coletta: reform to different housing policies, just to make sure that folks who live here can stay here.

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Gabriela Coletta: And we need to come up with more innovative solutions to the challenges we face today, for me, as somebody who grew up in East Boston I feel like i'm being pushed out.

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Gabriela Coletta: And so I would like to deepen affordability levels to reflect the neighborhood and just make sure that we protect the character of the neighborhood and hold developers accountable.

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Gabriela Coletta: And of course we have structural and systemic inequities in our public education system.

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Gabriela Coletta: That require immediate work and intentional work and I intend to continue my work in the Council, I was working on bps issues for lydia to prioritize equity and specifically focused on students mental health.

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Gabriela Coletta: As well as health, education, followings global pandemic and look, we have an opportunity to chart a new course with the departure of vendor facilities.

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Gabriela Coletta: And hire new superintendent through a Community lead process to find somebody who can handle the structural issues but understands that our kids just need to be picked up on time by their school bus and just making sure that those Logistics are taken care of.

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Gabriela Coletta: And of course it all comes down to constituent services and it's not an afterthought, for me, I will prioritize being extremely responsive and accessible, a city councilor.

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Gabriela Coletta: and intend to focus a lot of my time making sure that city government works at its most efficient.

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Gabriela Coletta: I understand that a lot of the smaller issues but they're not really that small right it's like trash.

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Gabriela Coletta: sidewalks I know that a lot of streets need to be repaired in the north end they add up to make a big impact on quality of life, especially here in the north end.

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Gabriela Coletta: And so, for me, i'm excited to work on all of those issues i'm excited to represent this district, I know City Council city councilors are closest elected official to the people they represent.

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Gabriela Coletta: And I know that some of the best ideas to come from this Community, and we have a lot of diversity of lived experience in this district, and I know that I would look to you as thought partners.

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Gabriela Coletta: In this work because we've already done, the work together and i'm ready to step up and fight for this neighborhood.

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Gabriela Coletta: And i'm deeply passionate about bringing folks to the table, and I have a proven record and experience hit the ground running on day one, and to me that's the defining difference in this race.

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Gabriela Coletta: And I know our best days are ahead of us, and so it just it would be an honor to represent you on the Boston city council to ensure we have a bright future for everybody.

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Gabriela Coletta: So just thank you so much for your time election days may 3 and I humbly ask for your vote, and I really look forward to your questions and I will put my contact information in the chat as well as my my website.

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Joel Faller: Thank you gabrielle and i'll i'll i'll start the same question another East Boston resident what.

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Joel Faller: What, what do you have to offer the north end.

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Gabriela Coletta: And it's a it's a great question because it has just been us island folks coming over and thinking you know we know what's going on the North end.

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Gabriela Coletta: But, for me it working on the working for years on these issues and deeply understanding the neighborhood's priorities.

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Gabriela Coletta: Is is something that I would bring as a city councilor like I said i've worked here, since I was 18 years old.

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Gabriela Coletta: And i've gotten to really know and love the neighborhood and and also the neighbors and I know that you all are deeply passionate about issues that affect you every day and it's something that you know I intend to.

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Gabriela Coletta: I intend to make sure that i'm constantly reaching back to you all, because i'm not an earthen resident i'm not going to pretend that I know what you go through every day or the traffic that you deal with or the noise that you deal with.

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Gabriela Coletta: On a daily basis from outdoor dining and, for me, I would constantly make sure in a good example of this is the short term rental fight that we had right in the beginning of lydia's tenure.

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Gabriela Coletta: lydia understood that there were issues were short term Rentals were basically becoming de facto hotels.

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Gabriela Coletta: And it was really becoming an issue for this Community, so what lydia did was bring in leaders from across this community to get ideas from them and, I think.

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Gabriela Coletta: As part of the regulation, they had put in that you need to be owner occupied in order to have a short term rental and that idea came from the neighborhood so it's that constant reaching back out that constant intentionality and inclusive city and like I said in my opening that.

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Gabriela Coletta: The lived experience of residents and making sure that they feel like they're being heard.

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Gabriela Coletta: In a conversation but taking their their feedback in a meaningful way and translating that into policy that's something that have already done and something that I would love to continue as a city councilor.

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Joel Faller: Thank you and Allah i'll i'll i'll go ahead and echo the second question as well, what would your top two or three priorities.

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Joel Faller: You know, understanding, you can't be everywhere, you can't be on every issue you know with with laser focus, what would your your your top couple issues that you devote most priority to.

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Gabriela Coletta: yeah So for me and i'll go through the list for us and then i'll talk a little bit about each and every one of them.

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Gabriela Coletta: But affordable housing and planning and development reform that's the first one climate resiliency.

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Gabriela Coletta: And also constituent services also with the last one first so constituent services was something that could potentially take up about 50 to 80% of my day, let alone my staff.

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Gabriela Coletta: And so I know just how much it adds up on a day to day basis, and for us as a city council office we knew that if we were not tracking these constituent services.

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Gabriela Coletta: They would get lost, and you know we really tried our best to push things forward sometimes things were resolved in a day.

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Gabriela Coletta: Sometimes it took six months, especially somebody who had called our office and so that they're being evicted and we needed to find them housing or find them a bha unit.

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Gabriela Coletta: So for me, I would love and I don't know if anybody knows this, but the City Council Office does not have access to the back end of free one one.

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Gabriela Coletta: They wouldn't, let us so whatever the administration was you know from menino to Walsh they didn't allow counselors to be able to go into 311.

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Gabriela Coletta: To put a case in and to track it on the back end to see where it's going so half of my day was calling up 311 to ask you know, whereas a certain case.

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Gabriela Coletta: Where you know what are you doing on on this particular issue public works or vtt not to single them out is D.

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Gabriela Coletta: But, for me, I think that the City Council needs to have access to that system, but it also needs to be reformed, there needs to be more transparency about where cases.

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Gabriela Coletta: And I know that city departments are doing their best but there's also there's no downside and holding anybody accountable.

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Gabriela Coletta: Right, including the city councilors office So for me, I would like to see 311 reform, I know that's been a source of a lot of frustration for both me personally working in the city council, as well as residents.

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Gabriela Coletta: And there are ways to do that i've already been talking to some data folks about how to change the CRM system, I won't go into that unless if people want to hear about that.

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Gabriela Coletta: But it's fascinating i'm learning a lot and then moving backwards climate resiliency is a huge thing and again it's something that i'm working on right now.

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Gabriela Coletta: in the very near future, and I mean just as tanya had said it's happening today with King tides, we see it already in right now for climate ready Boston based on the report and.

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Gabriela Coletta: they're saying that a seawall is sufficient or simply raising an elevated harbor or elevating the harbor walk is going to protect us.

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Gabriela Coletta: And it's not it's it's an archaic report already from 2018 we already have contemporary data that we should be looking at or resilience strategies.

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Gabriela Coletta: That we could put into practice, and I think a good example of this is land going to park they've already created permeable spaces to take in water, but I think that we could also meet the see i'd love to see more investment in wave attenuation islands.

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Gabriela Coletta: Looking at martin's Park, they have great at steps, so I think for for me I don't want to just see a partial by partial approach.

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Gabriela Coletta: It really needs to be district wide with major investments and thankfully we do, based on what Congressman lynch had said.

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Gabriela Coletta: about a month ago at a recent Community meeting with millions of dollars coming in from the Federal Government.

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Gabriela Coletta: And this is the city of Boston moment to get this done and finally have a district wide planning process to to invest in our Community invest in our waterfront and to fortify it.

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Gabriela Coletta: And then last but certainly not least, affordable housing is very important to me, I mentioned that I feel like i'm being pushed out of my neighborhood.

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Gabriela Coletta: And there aren't enough affordable opportunities for people, and you know, I was renting burden until last year, before moving with my partner Sebastian.

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Gabriela Coletta: And we still live in a one bedroom and of course someday we hope to to own a home but it feels so far away from me, so we need to be intentional about possibly using federal.

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Gabriela Coletta: money coming down the Pike to invest in affordable housing and homeownership opportunity, and there are ways to do this through.

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Gabriela Coletta: Different development projects right, so your city councilor has a lot of power and a lot of leverage in these individual negotiations to make sure that there is more affordability.

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Gabriela Coletta: Right, going beyond the 13% to the 20% potentially even higher, but making those affordable units even deeper.

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Gabriela Coletta: Right so for somebody making workforce housing between $40,000 or $60,000 per year, how can we translate that into.

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Gabriela Coletta: Physical spaces, that people can actually live in so that's really, really important to me, of course, the bba needs to be reformed, I support planning before development and not taking a parcel by partial approach, and so I was happy to see mayor wus.

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Gabriela Coletta: call for Chief of planning I think that's going to be a great first step.

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Gabriela Coletta: And I look forward to working with her in that regard, but I know that we can go farther we've already done zb reform in the counselor's office and that's something that I intend to build on.

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Gabriela Coletta: And look forward to working with you all to ensure that all of this, everything that I just mentioned my issues and my priorities are something that i'm working in partnership with you all.

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Joel Faller: Thank you i'll open up to the rest of the Council.

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Joel Faller: Kevin Fleming.

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kevinfleming: Hello i'm going to change up my questions, since i'll let you set the topics a environmental see rise issues obviously it's very important for.

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kevinfleming: This district, and both of our neighborhoods have you thought about seagate's to close Boston harbor and what that would cost and how that we have that funding now it'd be calm nation state federal city.

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Gabriela Coletta: I mean you know i'm so sorry I don't know what secrets are, this is the first time i'm hearing of.

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kevinfleming: strategy has been proposed, I believe, new Bedford harbor already has it you literally can put you know, essentially, you would be where, when and where you put it, but it's the big the biggest game gotta get all Boston harbor be like hall to Dr island off to literally stop on storm surge.

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Gabriela Coletta: Okay, I think, I think.

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kevinfleming: it's very expensive but it's one of the few ways to ensure Boston not does not become dentist and you know 100 years.

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Gabriela Coletta: yeah yeah I definitely I mean I love Venice I don't want Boston to become Dennis I think we should look at some of the resiliency strategies that they're deploying.

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Gabriela Coletta: But, for me, I think that Seagate idea, in addition to the sea walls and the elevated harbor walk it's all well and good.

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Gabriela Coletta: it's I think it's a part of a menu, and I want to see targeted investments, two things I can take in water, rather than just try to keep it out.

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Gabriela Coletta: Because, at the end of the day, the water is going to find the path of least resistance.

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Gabriela Coletta: So we need to make sure that the water is is being able to sink down, and I know that Boston is built on stilts and there's a lot of issues with that the Boston groundwater trust is doing incredible work.

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Gabriela Coletta: And then, in addition to that, I do know that water does go through storm drains and a nice Boston on the on the waterfront.

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Gabriela Coletta: With new development they built it up on a pedestal to block the water, but now the water is you know going up and over they've shown that it's not necessarily effective it's going underneath.

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Gabriela Coletta: And going through into the sponsoring greenway, so I think the Seagate idea is is maybe like the appetizer and i'm so sorry it's the North and I have to have a restaurant.

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Gabriela Coletta: pun, but it's it's the appetizers but then I think it's the additional investments into into the waterfront and and the coastline, but at a district wide scale, not just parcel parcel.

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kevinfleming: Right, we got to bring to I think there was a proposal by the CLS the conservation law foundation at least a rough proposal to put a park unit surgeons Wharf, which is actually now owned by the BP da as a parking lot.

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kevinfleming: yeah and I think that probably something worth looking into.

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kevinfleming: I think you're aware of where of that proposal.

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Gabriela Coletta: yeah and spend sorry to interrupt me just there it's the trustees.

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Gabriela Coletta: And they I think they're still in conversations with the bb D I don't know where there was conversations have gone, but they did approach lydia's office at one point in time, I do know that that is valuable parking space.

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Gabriela Coletta: For me, I would love to see more more green less Gray, so that we can take on water so trying to take out as much concrete as possible.

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Gabriela Coletta: If there's a happy middle ground to ensuring that folks can park their car, because I know that that's a huge thing in the north end great well also creating parks space great, but I don't know where that particular proposal has landed today or where it said.

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kevinfleming: Okay, one last thing I know you mentioned sidewalks in 311 a in the proposal recently put forth by current city Councillor kenzie Bach about the city removing snow from sidewalks.

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kevinfleming: And where do you where do you stand on that.

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Gabriela Coletta: I support it 100% I know that it's it's a accessibility issue, and I know that there are some folks in the north end who used to call us all the time.

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Gabriela Coletta: who are blind or who are in wheelchairs, who physically could not get around during a snowstorm and I think if Boston is a world class city, we should look into every single.

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Gabriela Coletta: opportunity to help make someone's lives, a little bit better and if it is investing money, because this is real dollars right, this is a coming from the city budget.

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Gabriela Coletta: From something into another pot, but I think it's worth the investment or maybe we could generate some money.

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Gabriela Coletta: through different revenue sources or something coming in from the Federal Government to pay for those trucks that i've seen in Montreal, where they are physically taking the snow away.

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Gabriela Coletta: But yeah Boston is a world class city, I think people need access to the sidewalks I think that was the as basic as it gets for a city and if investing in those trucks or different machinery is how we get there, then then yeah I support that.

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kevinfleming: yeah I think I live in the north, Dan and I want most places and it's definitely an issue that the streets will be perfectly well plowed and they'll flow in all the crosswalks and I love that three on one every storm about crosswalks being plowed in so.

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kevinfleming: we're on the same page with that.

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Gabriela Coletta: yeah and I have so shout out to sell them a.

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Gabriela Coletta: Tina he started the first ever sidewalk or crosswalk clearing contest and he actually just reminded me of that the other day and it's something that I think we need to.

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Gabriela Coletta: To make happen again, working with the solutions boys and girls club or dinner bizarro are trying to just get some kids out there, but working with our Community partners and our team centers to try to get them some community service by clearing.

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Gabriela Coletta: crosswalks in the meantime, before we get these machines are these trucks that right that's true that's true, but I think it.

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kevinfleming: Also, I think crosswalks to be a priority over.

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kevinfleming: Clearing streets for.

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kevinfleming: People who don't even drive the local don't even drive on some time you know, making the street clean to go down that the financial district well all the crosswalks are entirely clouded right, so thank you.

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Gabriela Coletta: Thank you for your questions.

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Joel Faller: Any other questions from the Council.

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Joel Faller: Okay.

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Joel Faller: Open up to the public, any questions from the north end public.

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Joel Faller: Seeing nothing.

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Joel Faller: Thank you.

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Joel Faller: thank both of you, thank you gabrielle Thank you tanya.

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Joel Faller: And you know I apologize we're not a bigger crowd today a little bit of a mid February law, but we are working to have.

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Joel Faller: Our our videos put on Facebook I don't think we're on a website.

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Joel Faller: You know, we were hoping, hoping that all agendas and and videos up for everyone to check in on.

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Joel Faller: in the very near future, hopefully, hopefully, very soon.

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Joel Faller: Thank you for coming in, is there, I hadn't caught it yet is there an election day set for this yet.

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Gabriela Coletta: yeah it's gonna be a may 3.

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Gabriela Coletta: A third.

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Joel Faller: A third for a preliminary or.

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Gabriela Coletta: Oh sorry, so if there is a preliminary if there is a third candidate that emerges it's going to be April 5 and then a month later, the final will be on may 3.

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Joel Faller: method okay.

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Joel Faller: All right.

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Joel Faller: There we go um good luck to both of you.

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Gabriela Coletta: Thank you.

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kevinfleming: Thank you.

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Joel Faller: So we will move on.

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kevinfleming: Rachel lake who's been.

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Joel Faller: patiently waiting probably should have just let Carmen throw it to you.

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Rachel Lake | she/her | Rose Kennedy Greenway Conservancy: No worries.

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Rachel Lake | she/her | Rose Kennedy Greenway Conservancy: No that's not what i'm here, for I love see it.

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Joel Faller: Right.

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Joel Faller: Go ahead with your update.

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Rachel Lake | she/her | Rose Kennedy Greenway Conservancy: Okay awesome i'm going to share my screen really quickly.

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Rachel Lake | she/her | Rose Kennedy Greenway Conservancy: Can you guys see do you see a slideshow yes, I have to I just got a new desktop as my valentines day present so I was very romantic gift, it was a second desktop is work from home i'm.

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Rachel Lake | she/her | Rose Kennedy Greenway Conservancy: Okay, so I just wanted to get a couple quick updates from the greenway conservancy so one as Caroline said, our Gala is coming up on June 9 we were very excited to announce today that we're honoring mayor Michelle when our Gala this year.

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Rachel Lake | she/her | Rose Kennedy Greenway Conservancy: The reason I am here so early as opposed to years past is that we're actually moving the location of the Gala to the Rings fountain this year so typically it's at rose Wharf under that big tent we're actually moving that big tent to.

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Rachel Lake | she/her | Rose Kennedy Greenway Conservancy: The rings fountain Plaza, which means that we will actually have to close down.

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Rachel Lake | she/her | Rose Kennedy Greenway Conservancy: That Plaza for better day or two ahead of the event to get the 10 setup so knowing that that's such an iconic space in downtown Boston and such an iconic spot on provokes a visit, especially with the amount of hot days we had last summer.

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Rachel Lake | she/her | Rose Kennedy Greenway Conservancy: will be coming back there'll be signage just got announced really early but definitely wanted to just get the word out early.

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Rachel Lake | she/her | Rose Kennedy Greenway Conservancy: While we're very excited to be hosting our Gala at this incredible location and will be having a dance performance around the fountain.

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Rachel Lake | she/her | Rose Kennedy Greenway Conservancy: It does mean that we're going to have to close that site off about a day or two in advance.

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Rachel Lake | she/her | Rose Kennedy Greenway Conservancy: But it is a really incredible space so we're very excited to be hosting our Gala and then the night after will be our young professionals event glow in the park.

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Rachel Lake | she/her | Rose Kennedy Greenway Conservancy: So I will throw some links in there, if anyone has any questions or is interested in sponsorship details there.

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Rachel Lake | she/her | Rose Kennedy Greenway Conservancy: i'm North metro on the greenway I actually don't have too many updates here we've had a lot of delays in construction with not only the snow and temperature but also.

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Rachel Lake | she/her | Rose Kennedy Greenway Conservancy: As folks can imagine, where this space is the tunnel is very close underneath.

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Rachel Lake | she/her | Rose Kennedy Greenway Conservancy: This park space so we've been dealing with a lot of really close utility issues to the park space.

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Rachel Lake | she/her | Rose Kennedy Greenway Conservancy: We are still feeling pretty good that we saw that we've been building a lot of the pieces off site, like the boardwalk or.

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Rachel Lake | she/her | Rose Kennedy Greenway Conservancy: pieces like that so as soon as the folks are able to get back in the park we're hoping, this is actually going to come together pretty quickly.

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Rachel Lake | she/her | Rose Kennedy Greenway Conservancy: And then we'll be able to hopefully plant this spring, and this is definitely going to have some sort of you know ribbon cutting event big opening event, so you know we'll be coming back to you guys once those details are solidified.

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Rachel Lake | she/her | Rose Kennedy Greenway Conservancy: But I will throw like our construction update blog in the chat afterwards as well.

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Rachel Lake | she/her | Rose Kennedy Greenway Conservancy: um a couple quick updates that we're really excited about the conservancy is really excited in 2022 to pilot a number of language access improvements across both our digital and in park signage.

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Rachel Lake | she/her | Rose Kennedy Greenway Conservancy: So, traditionally, we have a lot of our signage in chinatown is bilingual so we're actually hoping to expand our signage across the park trialing really.

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Rachel Lake | she/her | Rose Kennedy Greenway Conservancy: we've been working a lot and I want to give a big shout out to the city of Boston office of language access they've been incredible partners and helping us think through.

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Rachel Lake | she/her | Rose Kennedy Greenway Conservancy: Some of the data from the census and kind of what would work best knowing that the greenway crosses through so many unique and diverse neighborhoods.

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Rachel Lake | she/her | Rose Kennedy Greenway Conservancy: So we are going to be working on a lot of our windjammer signage which are those big structural signs you see out in the park to be trilingual.

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Rachel Lake | she/her | Rose Kennedy Greenway Conservancy: Additionally, we are remaking our map in trilingual and we'll be playing with some qr codes and increased online resources as well, so more to come there, but something we're excited to pilot this year and then grow throughout the season.

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Rachel Lake | she/her | Rose Kennedy Greenway Conservancy: um, this is a quick update and this has not been pushed out yet so i'm not saying it's a secret, but we have not pushed out too much yet trillium will be doing a saint pass a pop up, so the weekend of March 18 which we're really excited about they're going to have.

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Rachel Lake | she/her | Rose Kennedy Greenway Conservancy: Some I don't think live music, but some music and some vendors and they'll say they'll pop up for that weekend and then they will be opening, I believe, for the season, the weekend of the Boston marathon in April so mark your calendars we're very excited about that.

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Rachel Lake | she/her | Rose Kennedy Greenway Conservancy: And then we've put out a couple of press releases and made some announcements about our new public art.

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Rachel Lake | she/her | Rose Kennedy Greenway Conservancy: So I wanted to just share those quickly we're really excited to announce that will be working with rob pro black gives to be our 2022 year list at the Dewey square mural he's the first black Boston native to be commissioned for this space.

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Rachel Lake | she/her | Rose Kennedy Greenway Conservancy: folks are probably familiar with his work throughout the city so we're definitely really excited for him to come and do our mural this year.

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Rachel Lake | she/her | Rose Kennedy Greenway Conservancy: Additionally, in chinatown celebrating your of the tiger, we have commissioned cheryl wings the long should do a.

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Rachel Lake | she/her | Rose Kennedy Greenway Conservancy: series of stage performance set pieces, so the stage itself will have these kind of moving.

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Rachel Lake | she/her | Rose Kennedy Greenway Conservancy: movable pieces that serve not only a seating and play space, but also as performance space and then to go along with it, we are doing a curated performance.

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Rachel Lake | she/her | Rose Kennedy Greenway Conservancy: series with a pow so throughout the whole year will be doing your of the tiger performances, of course, the year of the tiger really focuses on bravery and courage so we'll be working with a lot of different groups around performances.

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Rachel Lake | she/her | Rose Kennedy Greenway Conservancy: In China down and then additionally folks may remember in 2020 we had us lose lantern stories out in chinatown unfortunately due to koba that piece really wasn't given kind of the full.

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Rachel Lake | she/her | Rose Kennedy Greenway Conservancy: length of time nor you know Community access that it was really intended for it was really intended to be the Overhanging piece over a festival or or a Community event so we'll be bringing.

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Rachel Lake | she/her | Rose Kennedy Greenway Conservancy: lantern stories back this summer, which we're very excited about and we have a few more public art surprises coming down the road, but those are still getting finalized so more to come there.

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Rachel Lake | she/her | Rose Kennedy Greenway Conservancy: Oh, and that is all that was all um so I know that was a lot trying to be quick for for time, but always happy to take questions I know this is definitely a quieter time of year we just finished up our food truck rfp process so we'll be announcing our future calendar and March.

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Rachel Lake | she/her | Rose Kennedy Greenway Conservancy: Our carousel will hopefully be opening up back again at the end of March, we are finishing up our fitness rfp hoping to have an even broader range of classes for the summer so.

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Rachel Lake | she/her | Rose Kennedy Greenway Conservancy: Definitely gearing up for you know I feel like hopefully what will be even more folks that were back in the park that in 2021.

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Rachel Lake | she/her | Rose Kennedy Greenway Conservancy: i'm really excited to welcome everyone back to the green line.

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Joel Faller: Thanks Rachel.

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Joel Faller: So that's that's exciting looking forward to.

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Joel Faller: Being having the greenway back.

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Joel Faller: in full swing and we're we're we got a little taste of Nice nice weather on Saturday, followed by the snow on Sunday and today.

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Rachel Lake | she/her | Rose Kennedy Greenway Conservancy: lot of a lot of melted snow man.

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Rachel Lake | she/her | Rose Kennedy Greenway Conservancy: we're seeing my our park Rangers for sure.

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Joel Faller: will be will be walking the greenway.

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Joel Faller: Before before we know it.

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Joel Faller: Thanks Rachel.

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Joel Faller: So we'll we'll move on to our voting items first one on is 166 Salem street, I think.

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Joel Faller: Greg McCarthy is here to present said.

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gregmccarthy: grab a.

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Joel Faller: New leader leading the presentation.

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gregmccarthy: yep hi you're.

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Joel Faller: On are you.

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hi everybody.

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gregmccarthy: Thanks, so I can kind of run everybody through the.

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gregmccarthy: The general overview of the project it's a existing nine unit building it's a residential and one commercial unit we're proposing to change it to nine residential units.

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gregmccarthy: So we have a violation for.

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gregmccarthy: Insufficient parking because we are adding a residential unit, we would have to provide a parking spot which we don't have and we are also extending the living area are proposing to extend the living area to the basement which would be a violation of floor area ratio.

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gregmccarthy: we're not changing the envelope of the building we're just only finishing that space that's existing in the basement, but it is would put us beyond the allowed square footage.

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gregmccarthy: Did you watch should I pull up the plants here.

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Joel Faller: that'd be great thanks.

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Joel Faller: Right, you see me yep okay.

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gregmccarthy: So, initially, I think it says in our.

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gregmccarthy: In our project description also that we have a roof structure restriction height restriction and rear setback restriction those have all been removed, we uh.

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gregmccarthy: We held in a butters meeting.

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gregmccarthy: Last month of the month before and there was a lot of concern over the roof deck that we were proposing.

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gregmccarthy: So we've actually you know, so we kind of you know, asked if you know we can make it a little bit smaller put it in the middle of the deck but.

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gregmccarthy: Everybody seemed to be pretty much against it, so we also removed the roof deck, which was the bulk of our violations and where the pretty much the the concerns that were raised at the Community meeting.

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gregmccarthy: The majority of what's changing is down here on the ground level.

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gregmccarthy: see if I can find the picture of the exterior up sorry have.

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gregmccarthy: gone by.

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gregmccarthy: This is actually right here on the left here is the garden level.

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gregmccarthy: it's just living space in an office for the units that are on the first floor to add a little bit more square footage and improve the layouts.

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See.

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gregmccarthy: The biggest change to the exterior is right on the front, right here.

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gregmccarthy: i'm not sure if you all know, 166 sound right now it's a.

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gregmccarthy: It has a storefront it's been the legal uses of club, but it hasn't been used in some time so it's kind of you know it's usually shuttered with a metal gate right here.

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gregmccarthy: So we're proposing to kind of change that to the rest of the building to kind of activate it as a residential feel and build out the facade of the building to match the rest of the floors So the first floor matches the rest of the floors.

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gregmccarthy: And that's that's basically the.

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gregmccarthy: The overview on the project.

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gregmccarthy: And if anybody has any questions George how.

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Joel Faller: With the regular, let me i'll start.

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Joel Faller: The what's the ar before and after that's.

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gregmccarthy: So I know after it's 3.6 before it is.

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gregmccarthy: Sorry i'm calculating right now 3.3.

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Joel Faller: Okay.

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Joel Faller: And the only violations are FDR and at parking.

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Joel Faller: yeah when, after you've made after the roof, the roof deck.

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gregmccarthy: Correct yep.

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Joel Faller: Yes, and what were the sort of the the original the original violations when you're, including the roof deck included roof structure.

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gregmccarthy: roof structure.

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gregmccarthy: height.

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gregmccarthy: The I think those are the those are the only two the roof structure restriction to the height and then we still have the insufficient parking and the.

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gregmccarthy: floor area ratio.

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Joel Faller: And you no longer no longer looking for root structure or or height.

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Direct.

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Joel Faller: And the I may you're making changes to the facade is not changing the building on website correct.

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gregmccarthy: The it not in terms of square footage is just changing be the look from the street.

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Joel Faller: Okay um and were there any of butter comments beyond beyond the roof deck.

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Joel Faller: At the meeting.

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gregmccarthy: though that was that was the main concern with the design, was the the roof deck and get some people in the neighborhood of and throwing bottles off roof decks and stuff like that, so it was it was pretty big concern for them, but.

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gregmccarthy: yeah That was the That was a concern.

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Joel Faller: So i'll open up to other questions from the Council.

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Joel Faller: me change my view here i'm not.

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Joel Faller: Alright i'm not seeing anyone raising their hand or giving me a signal, but any any Council members wanting to pipe in.

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Joel Faller: just go go ahead and unmute and let me know.

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Joel Faller: Okay, so I will move on to any comments or questions from the public.

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Joel Faller: Actually Greg if you could turn off the screen share.

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Joel Faller: I don't think i'm seeing anyone but yeah that helps.

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Joel Faller: i'm okay i'm seeing no.

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Joel Faller: i'm seeing no no questions from the public, I did see tanya briefly checking in a Tony did you have a question, or you just checking in.

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Joel Faller: you're muted.

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NE: Sorry i'm currently taking my temperature i'm not feeling well.

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NE: Oh i'm sorry I signed back and no, thank you.

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Joel Faller: Hope you're feeling better.

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Joel Faller: Okay.

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Joel Faller: So we can move on to voting i'll just go go go across the screen here Kevin Fleming.

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kevinfleming: I support.

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Joel Faller: rory harrington.

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Rory Harrington: Your music for support.

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Joel Faller: Carmen guarino.

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I support.

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Joel Faller: and Marie Somali.

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Marie S.: I support.

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Joel Faller: and actually I missed you there tania tania green.

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NE: support.

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Joel Faller: And that's.

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Joel Faller: Okay that's it.

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Joel Faller: got unanimous support five zero.

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Joel Faller: Thanks thanks for coming in.

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gregmccarthy: Thank you, thank you so much, everybody appreciate it all right.

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Joel Faller: Thank you.

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Joel Faller: And then the last item of the day to 27 and over St.

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Joel Faller: john I am all I see right there.

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Joel Faller: I i'll.

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Joel Faller: i'll turn it over to you john I understand you're just looking to change a proviso in a special permit or a conditional permit that.

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Joel Faller: Limits you're used to the the applicant only so so go ahead and.

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Joel Faller: Give us a description of the project and we'll go from there.

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John Hamel: Sure, and.

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John Hamel: i'm willing to give as much information as you like, but also.

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John Hamel: cognizant of the time and the date so happy to give you a brief but my name is john hamill i'm just a by way of introduction of my family my father immigrated from from.

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John Hamel: Italy to the north and basically in the 60s and live in in on Hanover streets so we've got a long standing history in the north end and i'm not sure how many of you have lived here for a while, but we used to have a family business right this same location back in the 70s, was.

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John Hamel: Actually, the 70s, we had a travel agency in the 80s late 70s, we built the bottom half of this building and and and had a travel agency in 2000 we built on top of it and the building that we see today actually when I.

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John Hamel: kind of keep trying keep this brief but i'll just share some information here.

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John Hamel: Just in case can you see the screen, by the way.

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Joel Faller: Yes.

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John Hamel: So, just in case you're not familiar with the building our with the address it's the two to seven industry is is this property that currently houses tresco restaurant and formerly cobblestones restaurant and, and so we were cobblestones unfortunately was a victim of code and.

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John Hamel: we've been doing all we can to find a new tenant and and finally have found a great restaurant tour that it's actually on the call here and we'll introduce her in a second on.

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John Hamel: And I guess, we were all surprised to find out that there's there was this provides Oh, because it used to be under our name some of the roads in.

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John Hamel: 2000.

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John Hamel: In 2012 we had switched it from moves bake shop for bakery use to a small takeout restaurant us at that time it was.

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John Hamel: Hot tomatoes restaurant, they are only for a short period of time and, but it was under our name the the change of use and and and then.

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John Hamel: I wasn't even aware of this.

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John Hamel: That when cobblestones came somehow I was put under their name and, and so it wasn't we none of us were actually aware that this would be an issue and so.

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John Hamel: When the current tenant went to get it CEO it was already all the way down the path of being ready to open.

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John Hamel: discovered that they couldn't issue the CEO because it was under the former tenants name, not the landlord's name right nothing owners name and if it was under the.

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John Hamel: landlord's name, not a problem, but it was under the former owners name, and so I spoke to is D and they said we'll go in.

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John Hamel: and submit an application to just remove the proviso, and so that's why we're here today, so.

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John Hamel: So I have, I think some of the questions that you need to answer it up better answered by.

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John Hamel: From from an operational perspective, he would you like to hear some of those answers from JESSICA was on the phone on the call as well if that makes sense, let me stop sharing and maybe I think she has some information.

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Joel Faller: Sure, no that'd be great I think that's probably probably the best thing to to if we're we're looking to make to get rid of the get rid of the proviso that doesn't let you operate let's let's hear how you're going to operate.

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John Hamel: And sorry and to be clear nope there's no change, so no change of use know construction.

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John Hamel: Just removing that provides.

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John Hamel: graduate so JESSICA.

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Jessica Chiep: hi everyone, good evening to the Council, everyone in attendance, thank you for having me and can everyone hear me yes okay great and if it helps and, if I may, can I share my screen, I have a quick presentation.

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Jessica Chiep: All right.

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Rory Harrington: you're having issues, I can.

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Jessica Chiep: walk me through it.

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Rory Harrington: make you a Co host might help.

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Okay.

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Jessica Chiep: let's see here.

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Jessica Chiep: Share screen okay.

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Jessica Chiep: Can everyone see.

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Rory Harrington: No, no okay.

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Jessica Chiep: No.

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Jessica Chiep: Here we go.

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Rory Harrington: There we go.

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Jessica Chiep: Okay, great, thank you for bearing with me.

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Jessica Chiep: Okay, so.

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Jessica Chiep: Just a quick little information about who we are, and so the shipments coming into the two to seven Hannover street location is so stay.

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Jessica Chiep: In Cambodian means hello, and welcome, and so a little bit about who we are.

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Jessica Chiep: we're restaurant coming to the city Center two to seven Hannover straight that street space and pretty much on the cusp of the the North and we're kind of close to that cross street.

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Jessica Chiep: And Hanover intersection and and we're a family run business we're looking to bring converting so inches into the Boston area.

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Jessica Chiep: and personal about me is i've been in the food and beverage industry by running restaurants now for about nine to 10 years so i'm i'm no stranger to operating and.

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Jessica Chiep: Even during this kind of tumultuous time that you know cupboards brought to us.

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Jessica Chiep: A little bit of our menu here, so a lot of our usage is going to be kind of similar to what cobblestones offering before they were doing you know burgers.

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Jessica Chiep: sandwiches shakes French Fries so we're not really looking to change too much you know we're not changing any seating anything pretty much everything that was there used before we're coming in and just kind of.

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Jessica Chiep: occupying a similar space, and this is kind of a quick example of what our menu would look like and we're offering about six different sandwich flip burgers sandwiches salads soft drinks and our hours operations somewhere, from nine to 11pm business creating you know conditions permitting.

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Jessica Chiep: And a little bit little example couple photo shoots of our sandwiches that we're looking to offer, so we have you know different variety and array.

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Jessica Chiep: The Interior we're not really looking to change any layouts or anything, everything is just decorative so that's no major construction we're not looking to take up any space in the street, no dumpsters know realistically like loud noises and you know pretty pretty straightforward.

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Jessica Chiep: And then I know there's questions about signage really, this is the, this is the signage that we've had proven by the city already and we're just looking to keep it simple and tasteful for the area and.

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Jessica Chiep: Just to recap so basically just looking to get rid of that proviso, and if anyone needs any contact information, this is this is me.

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John Hamel: And and one other thing I should have noted that we were also hoping we were told that we should ask for a letter of support for a temporary CEO.

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John Hamel: Given that you know that, again, this is just a removal of the proviso in a.

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John Hamel: Nice change of use that we were hoping to work with the city to city Hall, to have a temporary CEO granted so that JESSICA in our partners can can get up and running as soon as possible.

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Joel Faller: So JESSICA what other restaurants, are you do you run or have you run.

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Jessica Chiep: yeah so i've i've worked with love sushi and libert Albert coke a couple of love our group restaurants i've helped open help other small business owners open a couple restaurants, as well, so cloud and spirits over in the Cambridge area.

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Jessica Chiep: And i've helped another small restaurant owner also open a restaurant in Connecticut as well, so i'm no stranger to open restaurants in a stranger to build outs and no stranger to.

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Jessica Chiep: What the scene, right now, so.

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Joel Faller: And if you if you get your temporary CEO when would you open.

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Jessica Chiep: As soon as possible so pretty much is, if I can get that temporary CEO I would take it to the health department which is pretty much my last stop in the.

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Jessica Chiep: run here, they obviously need me to produce produce that to be able to get an inspection and once I clear that i'm hoping to just rock and roll.

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Joel Faller: sounds good, no.

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01:18:32.670 --> 01:18:41.880
Joel Faller: i'll make up make a comment here I you know I definitely love the wide array of Italian food offerings we've got on anniversary.

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01:18:43.410 --> 01:18:48.990
Joel Faller: it'll it'll certainly be welcome, you know welcome addition a little variety.

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Joel Faller: To have.

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01:18:52.590 --> 01:18:55.020
Joel Faller: Those sandwiches look really good so.

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Joel Faller: There there's a you know so that's all I have any any other questions or comments from the Council No three.

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Marie S.: is just strictly take out.

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Jessica Chiep: Yes, so the previous tenant was strictly take out we're pretty much going to be following the same line of a note here.

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Marie S.: Okay, thank you.

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Joel Faller: There were I you know I mean I mean cobblestone there were like a table or booth are you planning on keeping that or just strictly takeout.

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Jessica Chiep: yeah so they have standing standing space to eat and with the we're not looking to change that if people you know, want to stand around, but I think the current way things are working with.

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Jessica Chiep: The City of Boston and what can or can't be allowed, we may not offer it up immediately from the get go I do know i've worked with health department about.

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01:19:47.400 --> 01:20:00.210
Jessica Chiep: You know what it means to be allowed people to dine in the space, and I know the hurdles are much, much higher and so that may not be something that we allow immediately, but I think it's something that is there, and is it amenity that we hope to open up in the future.

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Joel Faller: And as you can see the sort of outdoor dining is you know government issue is there, are there any plans to do you don't have a lot of space or any plans to do any outdoor dining.

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Jessica Chiep: i'm, not that I know of I do know quite a bit of that space is already taken are spoken for so I wouldn't be able to really add any new spaces over there um yeah for the outdoor dining, not that I not that i'm aware of now.

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Jessica Chiep: Okay.

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Joel Faller: Any other questions from the Council any questions from God I don't even see any public left.

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Joel Faller: good candidates and Council.

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Joel Faller: and good oh Michael bonetti you're you're you're actually a member of the public as well.

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Joel Faller: Any any.

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01:20:49.680 --> 01:20:51.750
Joel Faller: Any other questions from anyone.

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01:20:53.820 --> 01:20:56.130
Joel Faller: nope so.

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Joel Faller: Okay we'll we'll put it to vote.

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01:21:01.920 --> 01:21:02.880
Joel Faller: Kevin Fleming.

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kevinfleming: I support and john I was blasted 93.

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kevinfleming: courier house.

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John Hamel: And i'm surprised.

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John Hamel: I haven't I guess I guess.

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01:21:15.270 --> 01:21:16.380
Joel Faller: Before because it wasn't.

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01:21:16.890 --> 01:21:18.870
Joel Faller: That it was clear from my support.

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Joel Faller: yeah.

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01:21:19.350 --> 01:21:20.790
Joel Faller: No, no, I got it I got I got.

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Joel Faller: I got your support and before I actually before I accept your vote of support Kevin I actually want to make it clear i'm going to expand because it wasn't so clear from the agenda i'm going to expand the.

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Joel Faller: i'll move and look for a second and i'll move that we expand what we're voting on to include a letter of support for the temporary certificate of occupancy as well as the support for the for the.

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Joel Faller: The the modification the zoning zoning permits and to have a second.

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Joel Faller: Second okay.

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01:22:01.740 --> 01:22:02.700
Joel Faller: All in favor.

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kevinfleming: Aye Sprite.

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Joel Faller: or oppose.

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01:22:07.560 --> 01:22:08.430
Joel Faller: Alright, so now.

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01:22:09.990 --> 01:22:12.210
Joel Faller: Was that I okay.

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Joel Faller: Right I.

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Joel Faller: In support black yes okay yeah so now we're voting for.

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Joel Faller: For both the the removal of the proviso, as well as a vote of support for the temporary stripping occupancy now now Kevin.

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Joel Faller: Support support.

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Joel Faller: rory harrington.

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support.

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01:22:38.430 --> 01:22:39.540
Joel Faller: Carbon green oh.

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support.

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Joel Faller: Murray.

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Joel Faller: you're on mute three.

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Marie S.: I support.

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Joel Faller: Okay, I think we've we've lost tanya.

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Joel Faller: was feeling better but that's still we're still a quorum here that's still for nothing, and the.

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Joel Faller: you've you've obtained the unanimous support of the Council.

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John Hamel: Thank you.

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Joel Faller: graduation, I actually john if you could, if you could get in touch with me because normally I i'm a little i'm not always as.

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Joel Faller: On you know right on point as getting those letters of support out as quickly you know immediately following the meeting I think on this one, it seems like there's some time sensitivity, so if you check in with me tomorrow let's let's get that support letter out.

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John Hamel: Thank you so much really appreciate it.

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Jessica Chiep: Thank you.

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John Hamel: Thank you everyone.

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Joel Faller: Thank you.

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Joel Faller: um so.

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Joel Faller: All right, that's that's it for the meeting today I hope everybody.

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Joel Faller: everybody enjoys the rest of valentine's day and I probably learned a little lesson about what kind of.

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Joel Faller: turn out we're going to expect if we have a meeting on valentine's day and.

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Joel Faller: i'll i'll give a shout out to tanya green.

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Joel Faller: who had contacted me about a week or so ago and suggested that maybe this wouldn't have been the best day to do it.

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Joel Faller: But you know live and learn and i'll.

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Joel Faller: Close the meeting of that everybody will see in March.

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Rory Harrington: And I.

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John Hamel: married you.