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Joel Faller: I will remind everybody that these meetings are recorded.

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Joel Faller: If you do not wish to be recorded then mute yourself and take yourself off video, please.

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Joel Faller: As I mentioned at the last meeting.

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Joel Faller: I had a walkthrough with the.

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Joel Faller: instructional services rat team.

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Joel Faller: He got a few.

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Joel Faller: Few tips to pass along.

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Joel Faller: The city, believe me, believe me, is certainly aware that it is a huge problem in the north end and they are you know they are sending crews on a weekly basis, they are coming in.

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Joel Faller: What they told me to pass along is that if you know they will respond to the reports so keep making them.

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Joel Faller: It is helpful when you make the 311 reports, if you are able to determine where the rats are going or coming to they need the source, to be able to really track them down.

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Joel Faller: A couple general you know general concepts that rats are attracted to dog waste so we've had a number of discussions and in these meetings and will again about picking up after your dogs and that you know not, not just for all the reasons we know, but it also is a rat hazard.

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Joel Faller: feeding feeding pigeons and other birds also ends up feeding rats just keep that in mind.

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Joel Faller: and

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Joel Faller: rats they tend to find holes in planters and in.

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Joel Faller: Other you know gardens and soil areas, so if you, you see little burrow holes in planters.

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Joel Faller: that's that's where the the 311 report, we are supposed to be getting a webinar for all of us to share we'll we'll put it on the Facebook page when we have it on how to deal with wrath.

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Mayor's Office of Neighborhood Services - John Romano: God, I think you muted yourself.

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Joel Faller: What happens when I put paper on my computer.

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Joel Faller: So northen Athletic Association baseball registration is underway will call to be thinking about that, but.

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Joel Faller: registration is going to be ongoing loop until March 1 you can do register for.

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Joel Faller: baseball at any a baseball dot work.

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Joel Faller: So with that.

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Joel Faller: In a move on to reports from the offices of local elected officials.

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Joel Faller: Starting with.

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Joel Faller: john Romano happy to see you.

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Joel Faller: yeah if they persuaded you to come and.

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Joel Faller: see us for one last time.

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Mayor's Office of Neighborhood Services - John Romano: yeah so i'm actually very excited to introduce you all to my replacement for the North end Western waterfront position have been moving on from the position from there.

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Mayor's Office of Neighborhood Services - John Romano: But actually Sierra d'amico is here tonight to be able to go through some updates introduce yourself to the Council here.

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Mayor's Office of Neighborhood Services - John Romano: will be sharing out a press release, for her relatively soon, but we knew that this meeting was coming up for us and we didn't want her to miss one from her start date so.

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Mayor's Office of Neighborhood Services - John Romano: I know she's very excited to work with you all, as I had been to work with you all in the past i'm glad to see some familiar faces.

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Joel Faller: Okay well and Johnny I glad you're here because I do, I did want to take take the opportunity to thank you for your service throughout and you'll be missed.

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Mayor's Office of Neighborhood Services -Ciara D'Amico: I am scared to Mikko the new liaison for North and water fried and West and i'm really excited to work with you all.

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Mayor's Office of Neighborhood Services -Ciara D'Amico: Some notes, we have about everything going on, so Michelle will we have be together, which is a Boston vaccine requirement for select indoor spaces, I feel like that's familiar with everyone hopefully.

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Mayor's Office of Neighborhood Services -Ciara D'Amico: I can be starting on January 15 so that will include places such as indoor dining bars nightclubs into our fitness and indoor entertainment venues.

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Mayor's Office of Neighborhood Services -Ciara D'Amico: So these locations will just require people to show their vaccination cards before entering to make sure that the place inside is a safe and healthy spot for everyone So yes, i'd be effective on the 15th of Saturday.

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Mayor's Office of Neighborhood Services -Ciara D'Amico: So you have to really do is you can show a picture of your vaccine card or have your actual Vaccination Card on you and there's a new city designed APP.

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Mayor's Office of Neighborhood Services -Ciara D'Amico: that they will have out that you can get your vaccination likes bars can code on it, which pieces, will be able to accept as well.

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Mayor's Office of Neighborhood Services -Ciara D'Amico: We have like a mini timeline so this the 15th this Saturday that will start people that age 12 and older must show, at least one proof of.

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Mayor's Office of Neighborhood Services -Ciara D'Amico: One dose of the vaccine them by February 15 a month leader ages 12 and up must show full vaccination So hopefully that both shots by then.

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Mayor's Office of Neighborhood Services -Ciara D'Amico: Then sign on march 1 ages between five and I live in muster one proof of one dose of the vaccine and then by Sunday may one, our goal is to have people.

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Mayor's Office of Neighborhood Services -Ciara D'Amico: Age five and above to have full proof of vaccination so there's some time limit and a little timeline of when everyone has a chance to get it for the younger age.

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Mayor's Office of Neighborhood Services -Ciara D'Amico: And then throw up for the help in residence businesses, the city will be hosting a series of webinars throughout to educate business owners.

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Mayor's Office of Neighborhood Services -Ciara D'Amico: about the whole coven 19 vaccine requirement that we've taken any questions if needed that will be held Thursday January 13 at 10am.

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Mayor's Office of Neighborhood Services -Ciara D'Amico: And you can find that on boston.gov slash be together, so I think I believe the zoom link and everything will be on there and that business owners can join that.

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Mayor's Office of Neighborhood Services -Ciara D'Amico: And then going off on that BC last updated coven it protocols as well, so that will be effective immediately for them as well, so any BC white families or anything that helps with them.

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Mayor's Office of Neighborhood Services -Ciara D'Amico: You just need to pre register members for participating in any programs I know that's for like younger kids activities you've done a dose sports leagues.

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Mayor's Office of Neighborhood Services -Ciara D'Amico: bps and on PBS school games and practices barely swim practices and meets at any of the schools so some activities will continue at the vc side, which include.

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Mayor's Office of Neighborhood Services -Ciara D'Amico: games and practices with the in house basketball and volleyball League and practice with it and how swim team and, once again, you can find all this on the boston.com BC, why not.

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Mayor's Office of Neighborhood Services -Ciara D'Amico: going off of that bps Cobra 19 update, so the bps athletics were put on pause of as of now, excuse me.

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Mayor's Office of Neighborhood Services -Ciara D'Amico: There continue to monitor the authentic strategy and working together to get the kids back in sports and make sure it's safe for everyone to do so, so we'll have enough to to date on that.

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Mayor's Office of Neighborhood Services -Ciara D'Amico: they're working with the Boston public health Commission as of now, so all those leads are put on pause for winter sports.

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Mayor's Office of Neighborhood Services -Ciara D'Amico: And that efforts to reduce homeless says between mass AV and Mandela class boulevard Michelle whoo and senior advisors announced an updated timeline.

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Mayor's Office of Neighborhood Services -Ciara D'Amico: key steps to transfer ideas in mass of with the city wide plan to connect residents experiences who's experiencing homelessness and a substance use with needed housing and services fall on December survey of all individuals.

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Mayor's Office of Neighborhood Services -Ciara D'Amico: This will set a deadline of January January 12 was Wednesday to connect those two individuals with the appropriate services and sure that there were made clear, of the following Monday.

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Mayor's Office of Neighborhood Services -Ciara D'Amico: Along with that the city's emergency response goals are to help individuals.

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Mayor's Office of Neighborhood Services -Ciara D'Amico: Experiences homelessness mental health issues substance use disorder transition from living in an unsafe environment to find hopefully an indoor safe and supportive environment while receiving medical care and to promote safety in the areas around mass among our class boulevard.

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Mayor's Office of Neighborhood Services -Ciara D'Amico: doses of low three three hosts some sort house and placement currently available or slated to come online with the week's included invasion hotel the tactic help hospital campus in the roundhouse hotel so those will be all available soon.

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Mayor's Office of Neighborhood Services -Ciara D'Amico: And then, along with the Christmas tree curbside collection Christmas tree curbside pickup speaking it, they did it begin January 3 and it runs through the this Friday and 14.

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Mayor's Office of Neighborhood Services -Ciara D'Amico: going off on that we have Boston public health Commission statement on tests kid distributed in availability, so at home test for people city of Boston and public public health.

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Mayor's Office of Neighborhood Services -Ciara D'Amico: Commission have worked together with Community partners to distribute over 18,000 rocket at home covert testing kits to Boston areas and residents so because the demand of kids that everyone is expecting.

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Mayor's Office of Neighborhood Services -Ciara D'Amico: we're doing our best to make sure that everyone is distribute them equally and that more sites will have them hopefully sooner than later.

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Mayor's Office of Neighborhood Services -Ciara D'Amico: While the supply of kids in a city state partnership effect is limited bph as is a sporting venues to expand testing both rapid in the PCR site in the new year, so hopefully that will be changed soon.

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Mayor's Office of Neighborhood Services -Ciara D'Amico: For emergency foreclosure prevention fund the emergency foreclosure prevention fund is.

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Mayor's Office of Neighborhood Services -Ciara D'Amico: Income eligible Boston Homeowners who live in the home they own and are very high risk for foreclosure because of negative economic impacts of the Cobra pandemic, and this is at least 90 days of our homeownership related payments.

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Mayor's Office of Neighborhood Services -Ciara D'Amico: So thank you, legible for assistance, you have any questions we have a list of contacts that I can go.

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Mayor's Office of Neighborhood Services -Ciara D'Amico: Most of them have numbers, right here so i'm going to give my email out once i'm set up with that so for further questions that can be found here with me.

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Mayor's Office of Neighborhood Services -Ciara D'Amico: For a Community choice of exclusive program winter electricity prices are rising residents are risky unfairly spending hundreds of dollars more than they need to.

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Mayor's Office of Neighborhood Services -Ciara D'Amico: So residents receive their electricity from a competitive electric supplier or ever source, there will be spending more than our that we spend a lot more per hour than they would be from the city of Boston so you could do the Community choice, but choose any Program.

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Mayor's Office of Neighborhood Services -Ciara D'Amico: And there's a website as well to find more information about that, so I know that would be like between dorchester roxbury not a PM East Boston.

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Mayor's Office of Neighborhood Services -Ciara D'Amico: and high parks in neighborhoods with most low income residents on the contract one solution is joining the city buses too many toys program so the cce rates will be lower than ever sources basic service, where you begin on January 1.

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Mayor's Office of Neighborhood Services -Ciara D'Amico: And you can learn more about boston.gov slash Community choice, electricity and then we have route 28 free bus program extended to February 28 2020 22 so there be extending the fair fee on route 28 and you will be going till the end of February.

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Mayor's Office of Neighborhood Services -Ciara D'Amico: can also find more than boston.com slash 28 bucks and then the senior save program we have a senior see program which helps low income seniors over the age of 60 replace all teams and systems in their houses.

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Mayor's Office of Neighborhood Services -Ciara D'Amico: Or the residents living on fixed incomes can't always afford important improvements to that home, so this is an effective way to help them reduce energy bills.

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Mayor's Office of Neighborhood Services -Ciara D'Amico: We want to encourage you to take advantage of this program before the what the extra cold weather hits such as tomorrow.

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Mayor's Office of Neighborhood Services -Ciara D'Amico: um we also have done mayor's helpline so it may it's helpline is a free information referral service they help and welcome all residents, regardless of immigration status.

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Mayor's Office of Neighborhood Services -Ciara D'Amico: If you or your family needs legal assistance assistance we provide referrals to legal services, you can call them at 617-534-5050 between Monday and Friday 9am to 5pm.

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Mayor's Office of Neighborhood Services -Ciara D'Amico: And then the Boston neighborhood trauma team so Boston they were trauma team NTT offers a fallen services individuals, families and communities impacted Community violence.

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Mayor's Office of Neighborhood Services -Ciara D'Amico: So we have access, support a hotline 24 seven 365 days a year that number is also listed as 617-431-0125, so this is a meat support services for any individual impacted by Community violence.

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Mayor's Office of Neighborhood Services -Ciara D'Amico: Support for individuals and families here in Community events include him memorial funeral services referrals ongoing behavioral health services individual families.

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Mayor's Office of Neighborhood Services -Ciara D'Amico: China education support at any Community meetings Community outreach to distribute basic health information on trauma and Community copy in.

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Mayor's Office of Neighborhood Services -Ciara D'Amico: koeppen and healing cup on groups so support is available to all residents who feel impacted by Community violence.

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Mayor's Office of Neighborhood Services -Ciara D'Amico: You can also access the services by calling the hotline for a meat support or column neighborhood trauma to all services are free and private.

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Mayor's Office of Neighborhood Services -Ciara D'Amico: And anything that needs to be repeated, or if you need any contact info that I said i'm going to get my marriage email like City Hall email soon so i'll be able to be contacted i'm not with any questions.

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Joel Faller: Thank you.

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Joel Faller: And I do I understand you're not quite set up with the city email yet.

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Mayor's Office of Neighborhood Services -Ciara D'Amico: No, not yet I did just get my work phone those I can get that number, I can write in the chat.

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Joel Faller: Sure, if you drop that in the chat and then just shoot me your sheet john will will certainly provide you my email if you can shoot that and will will circulate it on the Facebook page.

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Mayor's Office of Neighborhood Services -Ciara D'Amico: Perfect Thank you.

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Joel Faller: Thank you um.

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Joel Faller: So.

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Joel Faller: I believe.

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Joel Faller: I believe Mike bonetti is on vacation I don't see him here, but I I believe us out.

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Joel Faller: we're.

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Joel Faller: I don't see Patrick lions from represented my boots his office.

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Joel Faller: early January is always tough.

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Joel Faller: And we're for another.

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Joel Faller: short period of time, I guess, without a senator.

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Joel Faller: And I don't I don't see represented there either so.

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Joel Faller: i'll.

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Joel Faller: move on to the committee reports.

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Joel Faller: Nice start with.

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Ruthzee Louijeune she/her: hi jodi i'm not sure if you saw me.

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Ruthzee Louijeune she/her: Oh, my God.

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Joel Faller: i'm doing.

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Ruthzee Louijeune she/her: A video.

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Joel Faller: You know what let me uh I believe I did tell you 715 so let's let's yeah I will uh let's what are.

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Ruthzee Louijeune she/her: The committee reports or or I can wait until after the report it's fine.

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Joel Faller: Alright let's let's let's just quickly get through the reports and then we're we're back in regular water.

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Joel Faller: Kevin drew is not here for public safety committee a.

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Joel Faller: Carmen.

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Carmine Guarino: I don't have any updates, but I know Rachel is on.

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Joel Faller: And I think you say to us yeah.

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Joel Faller: Rachel I think was there was a update regarding the north meadow parcel.

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Rachel Lake | she/her | Rose Kennedy Greenway Conservancy: yeah so that was gonna be my major update, so you know, we must be quiet right now carousels officially closed for the season.

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Rachel Lake | she/her | Rose Kennedy Greenway Conservancy: All of our you know programming is all set the we are still doing construction on North bend on the greenway so folks have seen more vehicles out there.

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Rachel Lake | she/her | Rose Kennedy Greenway Conservancy: We do have some slightly increased pedestrian impacts on the sidewalks and roads so i'll share a blog post with our most recent today info there, but if anyone has any specific questions you know construction still ongoing that's that's pretty much it for me.

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Joel Faller: Great thanks Rachel i'm Kevin the report of the harbor.

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Kevin Fleming: I have nothing going for it, we did not have a December meeting, we have our first meeting of 2022 on Wednesday and i'm sure i'll have more to add next month.

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Joel Faller: We do have a report from Ashley on rough.

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ashley leo: No nothing for me today.

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Joel Faller: Oh, nothing i'm sorry.

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Joel Faller: That you had a we have a report from Roy harrington on the public health committee yep.

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Rory Harrington: A few quick updates from new health, they are offering covert testing only on Tuesday mornings from 830 to noon.

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Rory Harrington: it's by appointment only so you can call them to set your appointment, but it's only available to anyone who has been exposed to covert or displayed symptoms.

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Rory Harrington: They will be offering an additional testing session on Saturday January 15 from 8:30am to noon again, you can make an appointment online or by calling their number and.

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Rory Harrington: Also, they still are offering anyone who is above the age of 1616 plus who's eligible for Cobra booster you can you can do that there as well, by appointment only and that's the main updates there.

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Joel Faller: um and, finally, the green committee.

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iPhone 13 Pro: hi everyone it's tanya it's 2022 and a lot of you may have some resolutions to clean out your apartments condos tiny spaces.

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iPhone 13 Pro: On it if you're doing that, just a couple things to keep in mind the city of Boston offers a has hazardous waste events batteries computers cell phones so.

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iPhone 13 Pro: Take those items put them at the back of your closet and just check the website that I left in the chat so you can check if they schedule events they do them like usually every two or three months and.

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iPhone 13 Pro: You can drop off those hazards hazardous waste materials at these recycling centers when the event scheduled rather than throwing them in the trash, which is a big no now and then there's also a textile drop off box.

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iPhone 13 Pro: In actually multiple located around the city, the nearest one is in charlestown where you can donate clothes, shoes, and anything that doesn't have like.

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iPhone 13 Pro: Major major stains or spillage on it and they'll either take those items and donate it to people who are in need, or they'll take those textiles and.

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iPhone 13 Pro: use it for installation or to to make to make other products for for industry, so it doesn't go in the landfill so.

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iPhone 13 Pro: any type of dish rags or socks or anything like that shouldn't be just thrown away in your trash there's ways of disposing it so it doesn't end up in a landfill and i've put those links to the city of boston's web web pages, so you can learn more about that in the chat Thank you.

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Joel Faller: Thank you tanya and now we'll move on.

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Joel Faller: To introduce them.

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Joel Faller: thrilled to be able to introduce.

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Joel Faller: Our newest at large city councilor congratulations counselor just worn in last week and.

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Joel Faller: very happy very happy to have you here and I appreciate your coming in, I don't don't all that often get the.

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Joel Faller: attention from the at large city Kansas city wide respire them so thanks so much and I.

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Joel Faller: appreciate your time.

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Joel Faller: i'm gonna i'm gonna send it to you go ahead and unmute.

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Ruthzee Louijeune she/her: You so much I try to take my at large responsibilities very seriously, so that means 23 neighborhoods, and that means as much as I, as I possibly can to show up.

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Ruthzee Louijeune she/her: and be a voice and representative for every neighborhood I met a few of you on the campaign trail, so I want to say hello, again, I also want to say hello to Gabriella and.

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Ruthzee Louijeune she/her: Others who are on this call also on this call is Emily posting who is my chief of staff, but to those who haven't met me, my name is rootsy Louisiana and I.

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Ruthzee Louijeune she/her: was sworn in, last Monday, so still learning, we have our voicemail setup, though, which is great in our walls are painted so we're excited to really.

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Ruthzee Louijeune she/her: get to every neighborhood and even if virtually and continue the work by just to give you a bit of my bio I was born and raised here in Japan and high park.

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Ruthzee Louijeune she/her: My parents are immigrants from Haiti, you know came in and worked incredibly hard to create a better life for me and my three sisters and that meant working.

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Ruthzee Louijeune she/her: You know number of jobs at hospitals at mcdonald's and my father, who is 72 and still won't retire working at northeastern.

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Ruthzee Louijeune she/her: In the am on campus in the cafeteria and they work really hard to create a better life for me and my four sisters were all bps kids um so I.

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Ruthzee Louijeune she/her: Have I feel I take a take a a more keen interest in how our schools are performing and aren't performing for our kids i've seen it all going to the tailor amount of pan the McCormick and dorchester.

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Ruthzee Louijeune she/her: And Latin school from there, I went to Columbia, then I went to Harvard law school and where's an attorney representing families facing eviction and foreclosure so.

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Ruthzee Louijeune she/her: I you know spent many of my Thursdays and housing court representing my clients facing eviction and displacement and also just taking on clients for the day for an attorney for the day program and then.

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Ruthzee Louijeune she/her: From there worked for a federal judge and then worked at a law firm working on voting rights and redistricting and helping to a left progressive prosecutors are out in the country and then I worked.

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Ruthzee Louijeune she/her: With Senator Warren on our presidential campaign as her top attorney working on a number of everything that's legal that touches the campaign.

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Ruthzee Louijeune she/her: But all throughout that you know my first job here was as a tour guide at the age of 14 giving walking towards of boston's neighborhoods I also worked.

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Ruthzee Louijeune she/her: right outside of the aquarium for two years in a in a ticket booth selling city view city tour trolley tour tickets.

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Ruthzee Louijeune she/her: So I care deeply about the city and all of our neighborhoods I care deeply about housing justice i'm a member and an activist with them.

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Ruthzee Louijeune she/her: My master's affordable housing alliance helping them secure $10 million in funding tell closing ratio homeownership wealth gap and I care deeply about.

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Ruthzee Louijeune she/her: You know, issues of justice, whether it be racial justice and climate justice, especially as.

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Ruthzee Louijeune she/her: We have multiple crises, including climate crisis at our doorstep and so i'm excited to partner with all of you to.

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Ruthzee Louijeune she/her: help solve the city's most pernicious issues I don't have all the answers I think a lot of the answers do come and working in partnership, you know just in this past week.

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Ruthzee Louijeune she/her: alone answering constituent questions really be out there is really I Emily and I can tell you we've learned quite a bit in this short period of time and we.

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Ruthzee Louijeune she/her: look forward to continuing on side of all of you so i'm going to stop talking and and if anyone has any questions but i'm going to put all of my contact information in the chat too so feel free to reach out to my office and consider me one of your city councilors.

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Joel Faller: Thanks a lot.

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Joel Faller: we'll start i'll i'll ask you to start first question.

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Joel Faller: What you know, there are a lot of issues facing the city as you as you start your.

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Joel Faller: Your first two year term here.

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Joel Faller: What are your what are your top priorities that you want to see get done.

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Joel Faller: Over the next two years.

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Ruthzee Louijeune she/her: yeah so the number one issue that I think that we need to be addressing as a city is.

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Ruthzee Louijeune she/her: Making sure that our residents, especially our frontline workers who hold up the city, are able to afford to live here so it's being very intentional about the mixture.

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Ruthzee Louijeune she/her: of things that we need to do to ensure affordable housing right it's like of course it's easier said than done it's something that a lot of people talk about but it's work.

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Ruthzee Louijeune she/her: That i've that i've done and that i've been on the front row for so whether we're talking about a building using more to the land to develop affordable homeownership and affordable housing opportunities and also doing so and making sure that you know we're not just solving one crisis.

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Ruthzee Louijeune she/her: we're not just talking for one crisis when we're working on an issue or so solving for multiple crisis so when we're building, how are we building.

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Ruthzee Louijeune she/her: You know properties and buildings and our climate resilience on how are we building transit oriented housing to encourage people to get out of their cars.

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Ruthzee Louijeune she/her: And onto the trains so definitely affordable housing, we have a climate crisis, and so I will always say that the two frameworks that we need to make sure.

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Ruthzee Louijeune she/her: are embedded on the all of the word coming out of City Hall is definitely a racial equity framework and a climate equity framework to make sure.

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Ruthzee Louijeune she/her: That we are thinking about these crises, at the same time and putting our money where our mouth is, when we talk about this investment, you know we for far too long, have ignored.

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Ruthzee Louijeune she/her: Or have not paid enough attention to the climate crisis and same to the disinvestment a lot of our neighborhoods.

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Ruthzee Louijeune she/her: um you know, like the neighbors I come from, and then live in I live in high park matter pin dorchester and thinking about how do we make sure we're using our budget to solve for those problems.

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Ruthzee Louijeune she/her: You know I, as I said, i'm a bps student and the issue of our schools i'm not going to print tender so there's like an easy fix there, but I am committed.

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Ruthzee Louijeune she/her: To I also realize that all of our students are brilliant I think about the opportunities that are open to me just because my father stumbled on free test prep courses that.

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Ruthzee Louijeune she/her: allowed me to go to an exam school that you know those free test prep courses after I went there.

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Ruthzee Louijeune she/her: They disappeared, and so I think about all of the little girls, like me and amanda pan who had the door shut on my mind on accessing a really a real quality education so.

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Ruthzee Louijeune she/her: there's a lot of work that we need to do in our schools, when it comes to increasing the number of.

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Ruthzee Louijeune she/her: license counselors that are there and improving the things that we know that are going to increase retention when an attendance among our students that does increasing access to sports and.

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Ruthzee Louijeune she/her: And to arts and also you know a lot of the money that we need to be using that we're getting from the Federal Government.

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Ruthzee Louijeune she/her: To retrofit our schools and to really have difficult conversations you know we're we're a school system that is losing population, how do we one.

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Ruthzee Louijeune she/her: You know use our our our buildings more judiciously and also work to get more students to believe that bps as a as a system that can afford them a quality education, so I think I talked on you know housing.

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Ruthzee Louijeune she/her: Climate education i'm obviously the daughter of immigrants doctor patient immigrants and care a lot about issues that affect our immigrant communities, our Asian communities um so yeah Those are just some of the things that I think are big issues that we need to work on as a city.

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Joel Faller: Thanks and.

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Joel Faller: We deal.

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Joel Faller: A lot with the sort of constituent services types issues as well, who should we be contacting.

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Joel Faller: Your office, if you know just for the kind of day to day constituent issues as well.

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Ruthzee Louijeune she/her: yeah so you can contact me and i'm going to put my email in the chat and you can also contact Emily so the two of us, at least for now.

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Ruthzee Louijeune she/her: are the ones who will be you know who can answer and help with any constituent issues i've been doing it is, is doing constituent work before campaigning.

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Ruthzee Louijeune she/her: You know, out of my own law practice representing pro bono folks facing a variety of issues.

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Ruthzee Louijeune she/her: Or you know just doing it during the campaign and we started doing it day one, and so we'll wait i'm here to do it because I can't ask my staff to do constituent work if i'm not also doing it, so my entire team that's the work that will be doing.

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Joel Faller: Thank you i'm going to open it up to the other members of the Council, any other Council members have questions.

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Joel Faller: Seeing seeing no one i'm going to open it up to the public.

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Ruthzee Louijeune she/her: don't be shy yeah.

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Ruthzee Louijeune she/her: or feel free to email me your question or that's my office number.

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Ruthzee Louijeune she/her: I can also give you another number, you can reach me more directly.

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Ruthzee Louijeune she/her: If you want to talk offline.

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Joel Faller: So I think we got a good a good a quiet crowd today.

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Joel Faller: Thanks thanks a lot received for coming in.

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Ruthzee Louijeune she/her: Thank you so much for having me.

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Joel Faller: Thanks a lot alright.

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Joel Faller: So we're.

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Joel Faller: gonna continue to try to get.

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Joel Faller: To Thank you very much, I appreciate when our electives do do come in here and, at the very.

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Joel Faller: smallest representative level to come in and face face your public base your constituents.

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Joel Faller: going to try to do over the over the next few months trying to do as much of that as possible.

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Joel Faller: We also do have.

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Joel Faller: we're going to have an open seat for our district.

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Joel Faller: And I will be inviting.

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Joel Faller: Any announced candidate in to to meet all of us meet all of you, and I do see there's one announced candidate here and i'll open it up very briefly for gabrielle nicoletta to say hello.

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Gabriela Coletta: Thank you so much Jody I appreciate that I know i'm not on the agenda so i'm just super grateful for this time, and I promise I will make it short.

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Gabriela Coletta: But my name is Gabriella kolata and i'm running to fill the expected vacancy for Boston City Council district one.

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Gabriela Coletta: Which is lydia edwards seat, and I know i've gotten to know many of you over the years through that work.

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Gabriela Coletta: Well, first as a for a North end restaurant worker, starting in high school through college, then as a campaign manager and then as lydia's chief.

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Gabriela Coletta: And again through my waterfront related work at the New England aquarium but now i'm running to be your city councilor because you know my experience in this Community and across the district.

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Gabriela Coletta: makes me the most qualified for this job and i'll be able to step into this role, which should be in some middle of April, maybe even may starting through budget season.

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Gabriela Coletta: It will allow me to hit the ground running and I will be ready to fight for this district and be the most effective advocate on day one.

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Gabriela Coletta: I have an understanding of the complexities of the job and the nuances of the issues working in City Hall, and being in this Community, for many, many years.

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Gabriela Coletta: And I know a lot of you know me as grounded in this Community, I was born and raised in East Boston I went to be PS graduated from Latin Academy.

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Gabriela Coletta: And I understand that the city councilor is the closest position to the people, and so I intend to be a collaborative leader and continuously look to you all as a partner in this work as as rootsy mentioned.

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Gabriela Coletta: So I don't want to take up too much time again, I just know that this district in the north end faces incredible challenges, both in the long and short term.

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Gabriela Coletta: And this district deserves a leader who's ready to take them on on day one, so I will put my cell phone number in the chat i'll put my email, as well as my campaign.

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Gabriela Coletta: feel free to call at any time i'm happy to talk to you about the issues I intend to run a robust campaign so you should see me out in the neighborhood and I look forward to talking with you and earning your support over the course of this candidate see so thanks so much.

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Joel Faller: Thank you, thank you gabrielle and the invitation is is open to anyone else who wants to jump into the fray and.

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Joel Faller: it's it's not an easy thing to do and.

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Joel Faller: I get up and appreciative of the Gabriella and all all everybody else is.

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Joel Faller: coming forward for to serve the Community.

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Joel Faller: So with that you can move on to the last agenda item.

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Joel Faller: Which is a the application regarding to 66 commercial street good times hospitality llc looking to transfer the alcoholic beverage licenses.

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Joel Faller: At the same property previously, the four winds and.

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Joel Faller: Believe representing the applicant is marcy cost, I think I saw her.

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Joel Faller: open it up to marcy.

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Marci Costa: Okay, thank you john remembers that the Council, thank you so much for having me this evening i'm joined with tied to sassy and higher demand, as they are the proposed owners and operators of the new establishment at 266 commercial street I also wanted to say, welcome to pass Sierra and.

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Marci Costa: counselor it's great to have you i'm really looking forward to working with you both we do a lot of work in the in all the neighbors of the city, especially the north end so i'm sure we'll be seeing each other, a lot.

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Marci Costa: done sad to see you go.

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Marci Costa: And, as was previously mentioned, and we are here to discuss a petition to transfer the all alcoholic beverages restaurant license currently held at 266 commercial street was previously before wins.

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Marci Costa: My clients are looking to come in and open a new concept restaurant, the name of it will be the flamingo.

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Marci Costa: requesting a 2am closing our that's already what is on the license so we're going to keep that the same and the floor plan will generally not be changing just cosmetic changes to fit this newest static it'll be American fair.

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Marci Costa: Really nostalgic vibe I do have kind of a image of the inspiration, I can share my screen closer to the end of the presentation, so you can have an idea.

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Marci Costa: Of kind of what they are going for something new to the north end and not another Italian restaurant just a neighborhood.

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Marci Costa: bar restaurant that you want to go to all the time, where you feel like you're at home.

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Marci Costa: To fill the space that's been vacant for a little while and so tie in hydro are really excited to hopefully get in there, get the restaurant open and start welcoming all of the members of the north end to come in and enjoy.

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Marci Costa: Just a little bit about them and then i'll let them take over and kind of give you some more information on their vision and they both have.

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Marci Costa: number of years of experience in the food and beverage industry, they operate rock and Rye over in the chinatown districts, they also have.

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Marci Costa: A restaurant in Providence and then each separately have other projects that they've done throughout the city of Boston.

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Marci Costa: And the greater Boston area, so they are fully aware of all the responsibilities and all of the hard work that goes into running a successful business and a successful restaurant.

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Marci Costa: They have managed to keep their operations running through this very difficult time for the food and beverage industry.

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Marci Costa: And are really excited to bring another new concepts to the north end and help kind of rejuvenate a building in a space that has been vacant for a little while now, so I will turn it over to tie in Cairo and let them introduce themselves and give you some more background.

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Marci Costa: You guys are muted.

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Ty Di Stasi & Jairo Dominguez: Sorry, I apologize, my name is side the sassy to my lab is I wrote the mangoes he's been my long time but business partner we're really excited.

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Ty Di Stasi & Jairo Dominguez: To hopefully become a part of the neighborhood in the north end and create not create but to provide an exciting and fun really a neighborhood spot we're not reinventing the wheel.

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Ty Di Stasi & Jairo Dominguez: We know what it takes we're not doing another Italian restaurant, we would like a place for everybody, that is, at home and wants to come in and hang out and like you know, have a drain kava have American fare food and nothing too crazy nothing too exciting.

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Ty Di Stasi & Jairo Dominguez: And what we predicate ourselves on is nostalgia, and I think that's where our direction is going, I think the neighborhood.

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Ty Di Stasi & Jairo Dominguez: We want to give something to the neighborhood which we think the neighborhood would really like and it's a nostalgic easy place to go.

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Ty Di Stasi & Jairo Dominguez: And it's just just some fun neighborhood restaurant bar and we would like to become a big part of the neighborhood and sorry i'm not as well spoken or as eloquent as my see.

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Ty Di Stasi & Jairo Dominguez: um but I mean I don't know I guess I would open myself up to any questions from anyone, but we really want to do provide.

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Ty Di Stasi & Jairo Dominguez: Like a nice restaurant and a nice bar like for everyone to hang out like and just.

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Ty Di Stasi & Jairo Dominguez: Like a place for people, but for lack of a better term cheers.

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Marci Costa: Okay happy to answer any questions that you all have also, I know I mentioned the 2am closing our, and that is meant to keep the kitchen open, as well as I mentioned, it really is meant to be a Community space, so the kitchen is really a big part of the establishment, offering food so.

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Marci Costa: The goal is not for it to be just a bar turned into any type of a.

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Marci Costa: rowdy crazy place it really is meant to be that neighborhood comfort place that you want to come.

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Marci Costa: If you work at another restaurant in the area and you need a place to get grab a bite to eat when you get out at 11 o'clock 1130 that kitchens still going to be open for you to be able to show up so.

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Marci Costa: The goal of keeping that 2am closing our is of course the benefit of the business that comes with having that later closing our.

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Marci Costa: But also the ability to keep the kitchen open and continue to serve the Community, a lot of the people who are in the north end do work in the service industry those hours are crazy and sometimes it's.

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Marci Costa: late and you need food and the ability to stop in somewhere on your way home is also a really big you know draw for having that later our.

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Joel Faller: um so what's the plan for it to be primarily restaurants, bars are going to be music or events dancing anything like that.

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Marci Costa: So, as of now we're just going to be seeking TVs background music non live entertainment.

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Marci Costa: The space currently does not appear to have be zoned to have any live entertainment, so it is something that we would potentially like to explore, to be able to bring a two piece.

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Marci Costa: band for some light music in the background, but it will require obviously going through the zoning process and which would bring us back in front of you all.

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Marci Costa: When the time comes to do that, so we can kind of present all of that those options with you, I, in the meantime.

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Marci Costa: They would just be exploring a one day option if, when they open they wanted to have again just mostly small to three piece musicians coming into the space to provide background music, but, on the day to day, it would just be you know the TVs and background radio playlists.

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Joel Faller: And it was a second floor to that facility that there to that restaurant that has, I think, in recent years hasn't been utilized very much is the plan to use the second floor or just keep it mostly on the first floor.

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Ty Di Stasi & Jairo Dominguez: i'm The focus is the first floor potentially.

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Ty Di Stasi & Jairo Dominguez: To use the second floor but initially the, the focus is on the first floor.

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Ty Di Stasi & Jairo Dominguez: But we do not want to say we won't use a second for potentially at some point, we would like to to potentially use that, for you know corporate functions private events anything like that, but the main focus will be on the first floor.

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Joel Faller: Good open up to other members of the Council.

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Kevin Fleming: I have a question.

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Kevin Fleming: Kevin you plan on changing the floor plan at all.

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Ty Di Stasi & Jairo Dominguez: No, no it's all cosmetics, we plan to keep the same capacity.

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Kevin Fleming: Okay, and that's 2am seven days a week Is that correct, yes, yes, and what time do you open.

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Ty Di Stasi & Jairo Dominguez: Oh sorry March.

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Marci Costa: 14 PM dinner dinner shift initially if the if the neighborhood was you know, showing signs of wanting a lunch option, then that would be something they would consider to open up earlier some days a week, but the goal ultimately is dinner service so 4pm right.

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Ty Di Stasi & Jairo Dominguez: And, and that would be inclusive of potentially if as marcy said the neighborhood was receptive of it, we would do Saturday Sunday brunch from so we would do 11am till 2am.

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Kevin Fleming: And you plan on serving food up until to.

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Ty Di Stasi & Jairo Dominguez: A pretty close we plan on serving food so 1am at least minimum.

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Ty Di Stasi & Jairo Dominguez: And that's that's the whole key is, we want to be an option for you, if you're either working in their neighborhood or you're a resident in the neighborhood we want to give you an option to to have.

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Ty Di Stasi & Jairo Dominguez: A great little American fair and and that's a that's a key component for us it's American comfort food, you know a little bit chef driven but it's American comfort food.

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Kevin Fleming: Okay, thank you.

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Joel Faller: and other questions from the Council.

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Rory Harrington: worry I can you tell us a little bit more about the other establishments that you've opened, I understand you have one in Boston and.

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Rory Harrington: Then.

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Rory Harrington: couple in Providence.

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Ty Di Stasi & Jairo Dominguez: yeah so if i'm i'm not sure if any of you guys have been here we're right in the chinatown.

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Ty Di Stasi & Jairo Dominguez: For the w hotel in front of you by the w hotel where directly across on the moxie hotel we're a neighborhood driven bar we we cater very well to the hospital people.

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Ty Di Stasi & Jairo Dominguez: You know hospital employees.

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Ty Di Stasi & Jairo Dominguez: young professionals young professionals like it, what How would I say, like, I just want you guys can come.

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Ty Di Stasi & Jairo Dominguez: it's just in America, it like, if you look at our menu we're just an American driven bar.

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Ty Di Stasi & Jairo Dominguez: restaurant bar and we'd like to cater to the neighborhood I guess that's our thing is that's the way we we like to present ourselves and that's the way.

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Ty Di Stasi & Jairo Dominguez: We do very well with the neighborhood is because we were just a neighborhood driven restaurant bar and so what we do is we've had great response from the.

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Ty Di Stasi & Jairo Dominguez: Hospitals on the local residents um I don't know house nice yeah I think you know demographics pretty much from 25 to empty nesters recover a little bit of everything.

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Rory Harrington: And this is the same concept of massive amount of this.

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Ty Di Stasi & Jairo Dominguez: Just spin up spin off of it and the food is relatively the same so it's driven more on Baba say 70s, maybe at.

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Ty Di Stasi & Jairo Dominguez: Miami beach and Hollywood kind of that'll be the style nostalgic, and a look.

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Joel Faller: Okay, any any other questions from the Council.

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iPhone 13 Pro: yeah.

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Joel Faller: Oh yeah yes.

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iPhone 13 Pro: This tania hi i'm.

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iPhone 13 Pro: I think that sounds great I, I would say that, obviously, you know that you're kind of sandwiched between residential buildings and while we definitely appreciate a.

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iPhone 13 Pro: neighborhood establishment, obviously the north end, particularly when when a cron isn't you know floating among us it's a definitely a tourist.

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iPhone 13 Pro: destination.

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iPhone 13 Pro: Will you have promoters who are you know will promote the business and like bring people in I guess the concern is is that.

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iPhone 13 Pro: You know you're staying open until 2am that's fine your zones that way but um you know what are you going to do to be respectful of the neighborhood and because you're you're right next to residential units.

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Ty Di Stasi & Jairo Dominguez: I think I can answer that very quickly we've been here for a year and a half, almost two years.

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Ty Di Stasi & Jairo Dominguez: We have not used promoters here in sorry in a downtown and we don't have the any intention of using promoters, we want to grow organically within their neighborhood and we want the neighborhood to be endeared with us as a product, and we have no intentions of using any promoters.

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iPhone 13 Pro: Okay, all right, thank you.

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Joel Faller: Any other questions from the Council.

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Joel Faller: Okay, any other any questions from the public.

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Joel Faller: Okay.

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Joel Faller: We do have.

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Joel Faller: We do have a couple comments from the in the chat.

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Joel Faller: From Nancy Allah brandi we've got a question is the 2am hour, seven days a week, I think you already answered that that's a yes and how do you handle the late night noise that affects residence.

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Ty Di Stasi & Jairo Dominguez: Well, we plan to call last call at 140 and get everybody out of the building at 2am and get them out in a timely fashion, as well as we don't expect look what we're doing, we do not expect from rowdy crowd or noisy crowd, but we will get everybody out of the building by 2am.

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Ty Di Stasi & Jairo Dominguez: And we'll have a security plan in place to clear the area, so we do not disturb the neighborhood.

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Joel Faller: Okay, any any still not still not seeing anyone last call for questions from the from the public.

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Joel Faller: Okay, failing to see anyone, I guess, I make one last comment in ECHO I think both really tanya and Nancy that.

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Joel Faller: You know what when people are coming come before us we're mostly looking for is good neighbors and the you know the one concern that I think anyone would have is as tanya said you're you're in residential neighborhood.

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Joel Faller: it's your bar and restaurant open till 2am and so.

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Joel Faller: You know, we hope to see good neighbors and we hope to not not have loud music and not allowed people.

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Joel Faller: spilling out of your establishment late into the night.

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Joel Faller: And with that we will.

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Joel Faller: put it to a vote.

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Ty Di Stasi & Jairo Dominguez: We couldn't agree more, we want to our expectation is to be a great neighbor a good addition to the neighborhood a good addition to the Community and.

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Ty Di Stasi & Jairo Dominguez: We hope workplace where people do want to come by and get late night food and have a couple of drinks and that's our expectation and we want to be welcomed in the Community, and we want to be a great asset to the Community.

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Ty Di Stasi & Jairo Dominguez: will always be in a row, is one of us, and so our neighbors.

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Ty Di Stasi & Jairo Dominguez: there's no point in being there for very well received by our neighbors anyways.

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Ty Di Stasi & Jairo Dominguez: Like to be a neighborhood spot and that that's extremely important to us that's what drives our business.

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iPhone 13 Pro: And God, I just have two more questions for them.

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Joel Faller: Go ahead.

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iPhone 13 Pro: Just real quickly, do you have any existing violations or any violations that that you've been cited for and then more fun question is, can you give us like one or two dishes that you plan on serving just to kind of what our appetite yes.

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Ty Di Stasi & Jairo Dominguez: We will definitely send this will send you a full menu.

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Ty Di Stasi & Jairo Dominguez: And now we do not have any citations.

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Marci Costa: can actually give you guys some things off the menu, if you want just.

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Joel Faller: yep yeah.

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Joel Faller: You all.

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Joel Faller: Are she sent me a menu, it looks.

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iPhone 13 Pro: And you also mentioned that you have like a sneak peek of of the of the design.

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iPhone 13 Pro: or something so.

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Marci Costa: I can actually share my screen.

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Marci Costa: Sure, able to do that, I also see somebody Nancy had asked about sharing the security plan at some point we can provide that to.

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Marci Costa: The Council, and they can always post it to their Facebook, or I can open my email in the chat and anyone who has any questions, please feel free to email me, we can provide you with any information.

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Marci Costa: And we're also meeting with nura later this month as well with both their zoning licensing committee and then with the entire residents association so.

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Marci Costa: Those meetings last will be if you think of a question and you want to ask it, you can join us at those meetings as well okay where's my screen share.

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Marci Costa: You would think after all of this time I would be much better.

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Marci Costa: Okay, can you see.

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Marci Costa: Oh i'm So this is the concept board.

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Ty Di Stasi & Jairo Dominguez: Everyone, that is our mood board just so you know we're going back to yesteryear and it's an homage to back to the 70s and 80s and we think that was, as it is a place that will really fit in the northeast.

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Marci Costa: And here is menu so as they mentioned classic American fare with a little bit of a twist and.

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Marci Costa: sandwiches snacks anything that you're looking for.

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Marci Costa: And if you're wondering at all about, you know how they run their business I highly encourage you to you know, take a walk over to Stewart street they are.

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Marci Costa: rocking right over there and i'm sure they would be so happy to have any of you just kind of get a taste of what you will hopefully be having in the north end.

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Ty Di Stasi & Jairo Dominguez: Yes, we would we would love to host any or all of you, whenever you're willing to come by and and give us a little bit of your time we would really appreciate you coming by.

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Ty Di Stasi & Jairo Dominguez: I think I think you'd get even a further understanding of what we do and everything we do is predicated on neighborhood in the soldier.

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Joel Faller: Okay.

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Joel Faller: um alright.

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Joel Faller: So we'll uh we'll move to the vote.

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Joel Faller: rory harrington.

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support.

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Joel Faller: Ashley Leo.

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ashley leo: laporte.

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Joel Faller: tanya green.

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support.

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Joel Faller: marie's in Bali.

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support.

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Joel Faller: Carmen barrino.

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Joel Faller: Kevin Fleming.

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Joel Faller: board okay well congratulations, you have the council's unanimous support.

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Marci Costa: Thank you all so much.

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Marci Costa: We appreciate it look forward to seeing you.

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Joel Faller: I want to again thank rootsy.

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Joel Faller: Thank you all for coming out.

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Ty Di Stasi & Jairo Dominguez: We look forward to being or being able to be a part of the Community in the neighborhood we really appreciate it Thank you so much.

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Joel Faller: Thank you, thank you, we look forward to it, thank you good night all right, and with that.

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Joel Faller: meeting will come to a close.

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Ty Di Stasi & Jairo Dominguez: Thank you everyone right.

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Joel Faller: Thank you.

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Ruthzee Louijeune she/her: Thank you.