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          HEY, 
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IT'S FIVE 30. 
          GREAT. 
          AND WE HAVE A QUORUM. 
          YES, YOU DO. 
          GREAT. 
          [ROLL CALL]
GOOD EVENING EVERYONE. 
          A QUORUM OF THE CITY COUNCIL BEING PRESENT. 
          I WANTED TO CALL TONIGHT'S JANUARY 26TH, 2026, REGULAR MEETING OF THE CAMBRIDGE CITY COUNCIL. 
          TO ORDER THE FIRST ORDER OF BUSINESS IS A ROLL CALL OF MEMBERS. 
          PRESENT, PLEASE. 
          INTERIM CLERK CRAIN CRANE, COUNCILOR ZUBIE. 
          PRESENT. 
          PRESENT, VICE MEZE. 
          PRESENT. 
          PRESENT. 
          COUNCILOR FLAHERTY. 
          PRESENT. 
          PRESENT, COUNCILOR MCGOVERN. 
          COUNCILOR MCGOVERN IS ABSENT. 
          COUNCILLOR NOLAN. 
          COUNCILOR NOLAN IS LISTED AS ABSENT, COUNCILLOR SIMMONS. 
          PRESENT AND AUDIBLE PRESENT, COUNCILLOR SABRINA WHEELER. 
          PRESENT. 
          PRESENT, COUNCILOR ZUEY. 
          PRESENT. 
          PRESENT. 
          MAYOR SIDIKI. 
          PRESENT? YES. 
          AND YOU HAVE SEVEN MEMBERS RECORDED AS PRESENT, AND TWO RECORDED AS ABSENT. 
          THANK YOU. 
          PER THE RULES, PLEASE JOIN ME IN THE PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE AND PAUSE FOR A MOMENT OF SILENCE. 
          A PLEDGE ALLEGIANCE TO THE FLAG OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AND TO THE REPUBLIC FOR WHICH IT STANDS, ONE NATION UNDER GOD, INDIVISIBLE, WITH LIBERTY AND JUSTICE FOR ALL. 
          PER CHAPTER TWO OF THE ACTS OF 2025, ADOPTED BY MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL COURT AND APPROVED BY THE GOVERNOR, THE CITY'S AUTHORIZED TO USE REMOTE PARTICIPATION AT MEETINGS OF THE CAMBRIDGE CITY COUNCIL. 
          IN ADDITION TO HAVING MEMBERS OF THE COUNCIL PARTICIPATE REMOTELY, WE'VE SET UP ZOOM TELECONFERENCE FOR PUBLIC COMMENT. 
          YOU CAN ALSO VIEW THE ME MEETING VIA THE CITY'S OPEN MEETING PORTAL OR ON THE CITY'S CABLE. 
          CHANNEL 22 TO SPEAK DURING PUBLIC COMMENT. 
          YOU MUST SIGN UP AT WWW.CAMBRIDGEMA.GOV/PUBLIC COMMENT. 
          YOU CAN ALSO EMAIL YOUR WRITTEN COMMENTS FOR THE RECORD TO THE CITY CLERK AT CITY CLERK@CAMBRIDGEMA.GOV. 
          WE WELCOME YOUR PARTICIPATION AND YOU CAN SIGN UP UNTIL 6:00 PM PLEASE NOTE THAT THE CITY OF CAMBRIDGE AUDIO AND VIDEO RECORDS THIS MEETING AND MAKES IT AVAILABLE TO THE PUBLIC FOR FUTURE VIEWING. 
          IN ADDITION, THIRD PARTIES MAY ALSO BE AUDIO AND VIDEO RECORDING. 
          THIS MEETING. 
          [PUBLIC COMMENTS]
WE NOW MOVE ON TO PUBLIC COMMENT. 
          PUBLIC COMMENT MAY BE MADE IN ACCORDANCE WITH MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL LAWS CHAPTER 30 A SECTION 20 G, AND THE CITY COUNCIL RULES 20 3D AND 37. 
          ONCE YOU FINISH SPEAKING, THE NEXT SPEAKER WILL BE CALLED INDIVIDUALS ARE NOT PERMITTED TO ALLOCATE THE REMAINDER OF THEIR TIME TO OTHER SPEAKERS. 
          I ASK THAT YOU STATE YOUR NAME AND ADDRESS FOR THE RECORD AND THE ITEM ON THE AGENDA THAT YOU'RE SPEAKING ON. 
          WE HAVE OVER 59 SPEAKERS. 
          WE'VE SIGNED UP. 
          EACH SPEAKER WILL HAVE TWO MINUTES FOR THE RULES, SO WE WILL START AND GO AHEAD TO PUBLIC COMMENT. 
          MADAM MAYOR? YES, COUNCILOR NOLAN IS LISTED AS PRESENT. 
          GREAT PRESENT. 
          THANK YOU. 
          THANK YOU. 
          OUR FIRST SPEAKER WILL BE ELIZABETH RUCKER, FOLLOWED BY LOUISE VENDEN. 
          THEN DENISE GILSON. 
          ELIZABETH, YOU HAVE TWO MINUTES, PLEASE GO AHEAD. 
          HELLO, MY NAME IS ELIZABETH RUCKER AND I LIVE AT 94 MONTEBELLO ROAD IN JAMAICA PLAIN. 
          I MANAGE THE DEMOCRACY CENTER FOR EIGHT YEARS AS THE SOLE EMPLOYEE ASSIGNED TO IT WITHIN THE FOUNDATION FOR CIVIC LEADERSHIP. 
          AND I'M HERE TO SPEAK ON THE LANDMARK PETITION FOR THE NATHANIEL STICKNEY HOUSE. 
          I CONTINUE TO WORK, PLAY, AND PARTICIPATE IN THE CAMBRIDGE COMMUNITY MULTIPLE DAYS PER WEEK. 
          IN MY FORMER POSITION, I HANDLED ALL ASPECTS OF 45 MOUNT AUBURN STREET, INCLUDING ITS PHYSICAL STRUCTURES AND ALL PROGRAMS. PLEASE VOTE IN FAVOR OF LANDMARKING THE BUILDING AT 45 MOUNT AUBURN STREET. 
          LANDMARKING. 
          THIS BUILDING IS KEY TO ENSURING THE APPROPRIATENESS OF NEW CONSTRUCTION AND ADDITIONS AND TO CELEBRATE THE ROBUST HISTORY OF CIVIC ENGAGEMENT THAT WAS LED FROM THIS BUILDING. 
          THE HISTORIC COMMISSION'S FAVORABLE REPORT LAYS OUT KEY ARCHITECTURAL POINTS AT LENGTH. 
          SO I WILL SPEAK TO THE IMPORTANCE OF 45 MOUNT AUBURN STREET TO THE PEOPLE AND EVENTS OF CAMBRIDGE IN THE LAST QUARTER CENTURY. 
          THIS BUILDING HAS SHELTERED AND NURTURED HISTORIC TOWN AND WORLD CHANGING EFFORTS TO CREATE THE CITY AND WORLD WE WANT TO SEE FROM THE GROUND UP. 
          FOR 22 YEARS, THIS BUILDING WAS A CROSSROADS OF GOOD PEOPLE DOING GOOD WORK HERE. 
          GENERATIONS CAME TOGETHER TO SHARE WISDOM AND SUPPORT. 
          ANTI-NUCLEAR ACTIVISTS MENTORED THOSE WHO WOULD LEAD THE MOVEMENT FOR BLACK LIVES. 
          HERE, COMMUNITY LEADERS USED OUR SPACE TO FEED, CLOTHE AND SHELTER IMMIGRANTS TURNED OUT OF SHELTERS IN MASSACHUSETTS HERE, CAMBRIDGE BIKE SAFETY EVEN ORGANIZED TO PASS A CITY BIKE SAFETY ORDINANCE. 
          HERE. 
          HARVARD STUDENTS FROM FOSSIL FUEL DIVEST PLANNED THEIR FIRST DIRECT ACTIONS AND 2019 TRANS PEOPLE AND THEIR ALLIES SUCCESSFULLY MOUNTED A CAMPAIGN TO DEFEND TRANSGENDER RIGHTS STATEWIDE. 
          AARON SWARTZ, THE LEGENDARY INTERNET FREEDOM ACTIVIST, HAD AN OFFICE ON THE THIRD FLOOR. 
          I DO NOT HAVE TIME 
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TO LIST EVERYONE WHO HAS MADE HISTORY BIG AND SMALL AT THE DEMOCRACY CENTER, BUT THE CAMBRIDGE WE ARE BUILDING TOGETHER HAS MUCH OF THE POSITIVE HIS OWES MUCH OF ITS POSITIVE HISTORY TOWARD TO THE HEARTHS AT 45 MOUNT AUBURN STREET. 
          AND I ENCOURAGE YOU AT THIS TIME WHEN SO MUCH HISTORY IS BEING MALICIOUSLY REWRITTEN TO PRESERVE OUR HISTORY AND CELEBRATE OUR VICTORIES ACROSS GENERATIONS BY LANDMARKING 45 MOUNT AUBURN STREET FOR ALL OF US. 
          THANK YOU. 
          THANK YOU. 
          OUR NEXT SPEAKER WILL BE LOUISE VENDEN, FOLLOWED BY DENISE JILLSON. 
          THEN DAN TOTTEN. 
          LOUISE HAS NOT JOINED. 
          WE WILL GO TO DENISE GILSON. 
          DENISE, YOU HAVE TWO MINUTES, PLEASE GO AHEAD. 
          GOOD EVENING. 
          DENISE GILSON, THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR FOR THE HARVARD SQUARE BUSINESS ASSOCIATION, AND I'M HERE SPEAKING TONIGHT ON POLICY ORDER 2026. 
          BUT BEFORE I DO, I ALSO WANT TO JUST WEIGH IN ON 45 MOUNT AUBURN STREET. 
          UM, I THINK LANDMARKING, THAT BUILDING IS A, UM, IT, IT, IT MAKES GOOD SENSE AND WE SHOULD, WE SHOULD CONSIDER DOING IT. 
          UM, I THINK IT MEANS A LOT TO HARVARD SQUARE AND HARVARD SQUARE'S HISTORY AND WE SHOULD CONSIDER, UM, THE RECOMMENDATION FROM CHARLIE SULLIVAN. 
          THANK YOU. 
          I'M HERE TONIGHT TO SPEAK ABOUT POLICY ORDER REGARDING PEDESTRIANIZATION, AND I WANT TO FIRST OF ALL THANK COUNCILORS, NOLAN SIMMONS AND ZUI, AS WELL AS MAYOR SIDIKI FOR SUPPORTING THIS POLICY ORDER. 
          AS WE ALL KNOW, OPENING STREETS FOR PEDESTRIANS FOR PEDESTRIAN ACCESS REQUIRES GREAT CARE AND THOUGHTFULNESS, ESPECIALLY. 
          SO WHEN WE CONSIDER A BUSINESS DISTRICT LIKE HARVARD SQUARE, WHICH IS COMPRISED OF APPROXIMATELY 44 ACRES, ABOUT A MILLION SQUARE FEET OF RETAIL, RESTAURANT SERVICES, HOTELS AND SOCIAL SERVICE PROVIDERS. 
          AND, UM, WE OF WHICH BY THE WAY, 70 OVER 70% ARE STILL LOCALLY OWNED, INDEPENDENT. 
          WE ALSO RECEIVE BETWEEN SIX AND 8 MILLION VISITORS PER YEAR. 
          AND WHEN WE CONSIDER THE TALENT THAT WE HAVE WITHIN THE CITY, WITHIN THE DEPARTMENT HEADS AND STAFF OF THE, I THINK WE'RE NOW CALLING IT THE DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION WITHIN COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT WITHIN THE HARVARD SQUARE BUSINESS ASSOCIATION, AS WELL AS THE HARVARD SQUARE ADVISORY IN THIS BODY. 
          THIS, THIS, YOU KNOW, THE CITY COUNCIL AS WELL AS NEIGHBORS AND PROPERTY OWNERS HAVE WEIGHED IN OVER THE YEARS REGARDING PEDESTRIANIZATION. 
          I FEEL CONFIDENT THAT THERE IS NOT A GROUP OF PEOPLE BETTER SUITED WHO UNDERSTAND THE CADENCE OF HARVARD SQUARE AND WILL WORK TO ENHANCE NOT ONLY THE, UM, PEDESTRIANIZATION, BUT THE CURATION OF THE PUBLIC SPACE. 
          WE WANT TO PARTNER WITH THE CITY OF CAMBRIDGE AND HOPE THAT ALL OF YOU WILL SUPPORT THIS COUNCIL ORDER. 
          THANK YOU. 
          OUR NEXT SPEAKER IS DAN TOTTEN, FOLLOWED BY IAN SIMMONS. 
          THEN GERM JERRY P DAN, YOU HAVE TWO MINUTES, PLEASE GO AHEAD. 
          YES. 
          HI. 
          UM, MY NAME IS DAN TOTTEN. 
          I LIVE AT 54 BISHOP ALLEN DRIVE, AND I ALSO WANNA SPEAK IN SUPPORT OF LANDMARKING THE BUILDING AT 43 THROUGH 45 MOUNT AUBURN STREET. 
          UH, I AM A COMMUNITY MEMBER OF FORMER FREQUENT USER OF THE DEMOCRACY CENTER AND A SIGNATORY TO THE ORIGINAL LANDMARK PETITION. 
          UM, THE BUILDING DOES HAVE OBJECTIVE HISTORICAL AND ARCHITECTURAL SIGNIFICANCE. 
          WHEN IT WAS BUILT NEARLY 200 YEARS AGO, THE SURROUNDING AREA WAS PASTURE LAND. 
          IT WAS ONE OF THE FIR THE FEW SURVIVING STRUCTURES FROM THAT ERA. 
          IN A NEIGHBORHOOD WHOSE APPEAL AS A GLOBAL TOURIST DESTINATION IS INSEPARABLE FROM ITS HISTORIC BUILT ENVIRONMENT. 
          THE FACT THAT THIS BUILDING HAS BEEN LISTED SINCE 1982 ON THE NATIONAL REGISTER REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES AS A CONTRIBUTING RESOURCE IS EVIDENCE THAT THESE CONCERNS DID NOT COME OUTTA THIN AIR OVER THE PAST YEAR. 
          UM, I ALSO DO WANNA ACKNOWLEDGE WHAT BROUGHT ME TO THIS PROCESS PERSONALLY. 
          UH, AND IT IS THE FACT THAT FOR THE LAST 25 YEARS, THE BUILDING SERVED AS THE DEMOCRACY CENTER, ONE OF THE CITY'S LAST REMAINING AFFORDABLE GATHERING SPACES FOR WORKING CLASS ORGANIZERS AND COMMUNITY GROUPS. 
          AS CAMBRIDGE HAS TRANSFORMED INTO A PLAYGROUND FOR THE WEALTHY WORKING CLASS RESIDENTS IN THE SPACES THAT SERVE THEM HAVE BEEN SYSTEMATICALLY ERASED. 
          THE CLOSURE OF THE DEMOCRACY CENTER IS PART OF THAT PROBLEM. 
          I DO AGREE THAT DISCRETION IS IMPORTANT AND I SHARE CONCERNS ABOUT THE HISTORICAL PROCESS, UM, POTENTIALLY BLOCKING HOUSING IN SOME CASES, BUT I THINK IN THIS CASE WE HAVE NO PROMISE OF HOUSING. 
          I WOULD LOVE IT IF MR. SIMMONS WOULD, WOULD PROMISE, PROMISE US SOME HOUSING ON THE SITE. 
          UM, BUT I THINK THAT, UH, IT'S VERY IMPORTANT THAT WE, UH, MAINTAIN A DEGREE OF ACCOUNTABILITY, UM, OVER WHAT HAPPENS ON THIS SITE SO THAT, UM, AS WE GO FORWARD, AS WE GO FORWARD THAT THE, THE, 
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THE OWNER IS NOT ALLOWED TO DO WHATEVER HE WANTS. 
          CARTE BLANCHE. 
          IT'S BEEN ALMOST TWO YEARS SINCE THIS HAPPENED, AND THE PROMISE OF BRINGING THE COMMUNITY IN AND ENGAGING WITH US AND MEETING WITH US HAS NEVER COME TO FRUITION. 
          AND I WOULD REALLY VALUE AN OPPORTUNITY TO, UH, HAVE THAT DISCUSSION RESPECTFULLY AND, AND WITH MR. SIMMONS REGARDLESS OF HOW THIS TURNS OUT. 
          THANK YOU VERY MUCH. 
          THANK YOU. 
          OUR NEXT SPEAKER IS IAN SIMMONS, FOLLOWED BY JERRY PUC, THEN MARILYN FRANKENSTEIN, FRANKENSTEIN. 
          IAN, YOU HAVE TWO MINUTES, PLEASE GO AHEAD. 
          HI, THIS IS IAN SIMMONS. 
          THANKS FOR ALLOWING US TO SPEAK TONIGHT. 
          UM, I'M PRESIDENT OF THE FOUNDATION PACIFIC LEADERSHIP, UH, NOT A SMALL NONPROFIT THAT CREATED THE DEMOCRACY CENTER AT 45 MOUNT AUBURN STREET MORE THAN 20 YEARS AGO. 
          I'M HERE TONIGHT TO RESPECTFULLY REAFFIRM OUR OPPOSITION TO LANDMARKING 45 MOUNT AUBURN. 
          WE APPRECIATE THE WORK OF THE CAMBRIDGE STORE COMMISSION AND WANT TO THANK CHARLIE SULLIVAN AND HIS STAFF THAT SAID THREE KEY POINTS REMAIN. 
          FIRST, THE PROPERTY IS ALREADY APPROPRIATELY PROTECTED WITHIN THIS TAR HARVARD SQUARE CONSERVATION DISTRICT WHERE CHANGES ALREADY REQUIRE A CERTIFICATE OF APPROPRIATENESS. 
          THE CITY'S CURRENT FRAMEWORK ALREADY PROVIDES THE RIGHT KIND OF OVERSIGHT. 
          SECOND, WHILE THE 19TH CENTURY GREEK REVIVAL FACADE IS NOTABLE, IT ALREADY HAS ADEQUATE PROTECTION AND THE HISTORY OF 45 MINUTE AUBURN, UM, DOES NOT MEET THE THRESHOLD FOR HISTORIC LANDMARK DESIGNATION WHEN COMPARED TO OTHER LANDMARKS ACROSS THE CITY. 
          FINALLY, WE WOULD HAVE ALWAYS BEEN DEEPLY COMMITTED TO IMPROVING 45 MINUTE AUBURN AS A CIVIC HUB. 
          UM, A LANDMARK DESIGNATION CREATES UNDUE BURDENS AND ED RISKS FOR THE NONPROFIT CIVIC PROJECT GOING FORWARD AND WOULD LIMIT THE AMOUNT OF, UH, CIVICS OUR ABILITY TO CONTINUE TO EXPAND CIVIC SPACE ON SITE. 
          UM, WE WOULD STRONGLY ENCOURAGE THE COUNCIL TO, UH, KEEP OUR ABILITY TO MAXIMIZE THE EXPANSION OF CIVIC SPACE TO, AND HELP US IMPROVE CIVIC, CAMBRIDGE CIVIC AND COMMUNITY LIFE. 
          UM, THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR YOUR TIME AND CONSIDERATION. 
          THANK YOU. 
          AND I'M JUST GOING TO CALL ON, UM, COUNCILLOR MCGOVERN. 
          HE'S BEEN HERE FOR A WHILE FOR HIS THE ROLL CALL. 
          COUNCIL MCGOVERN. 
          PRESENT NEXT SPEAKER IS JERRY PELLO, FOLLOWED BY MARILYN FRANKENSTEIN. 
          THEN NEIL MILLER. 
          JERRY, YOU HAVE THE FLOOR. 
          PLEASE GO AHEAD. 
          TWO MINUTES. 
          THANK YOU. 
          UH, MY NAME IS JERRY PO AND I'M A CONSULTANT TO THE FOUNDATION FOR CIVIC LEADERSHIP. 
          I'LL KEEP MY COMMENTS VERY BRIEF SINCE YOU JUST HEARD FROM IAN. 
          I HAVE HAD, UH, DECADES OF REAL ESTATE DEVELOPMENT EXPERIENCE, INCLUDING FOR 15 YEARS, A POSITION AS THE DIRECTOR OF HOUSING DEVELOPMENT FOR THE ARCHDIOCESE OF BOSTON. 
          IN THAT ROLE AND OTHERS, I'VE ACQUIRED EXTENSIVE EXPERIENCE IN THE REHAB OF EXISTING HISTORIC ASSETS AND I DEEPLY APPRECIATE THE VALUE OF PRESERVING SUCH ASSETS. 
          IT'S PARTIALLY DUE TO THAT EXPERIENCE THAT THE FOUNDATION HAS ASKED ME TO ASSIST IN THE REDEVELOPMENT OF THE PROPERTY AT 45 MOUNT AUBURN STREET. 
          MUCH OF MY WORK HAS BEEN FOCUSED ON BUILDING LOW AND MODERATE INCOME HOUSING FOR PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES, AS WELL AS REPOSITIONING THESE ASSETS TO SERVE ONGOING STRATEGIC GOALS OF NONPROFIT ORGANIZATIONS SUCH AS THE FOUNDATION FOR CIVIC LEADERSHIP. 
          I ACCEPTED THIS SPECIFIC ASSIGNMENT FROM THE FOUNDATION BECAUSE I BELIEVE THEY HAVE DEMONSTRATED THAT THEY'RE ALIGNED WITH THE CITY SCHOOLS AND HAVE WORKED FOR DECADES TO PROVIDE CIVIC SPACE TO ENRICH AND BUILD COMMUNITY AT THIS LOCATION, AS YOU'VE HEARD FROM IAN, TO HELP TO ONLY DEEPEN THIS COMMITMENT GOING FORWARD, AND IT WOULD LIMIT THEIR RESOLVE IF YOU WERE TO ADD FURTHER CONSTRAINTS ON THEIR ABILITY TO DO SO. 
          THANK YOU VERY MUCH. 
          THANK YOU. 
          OUR NEXT SPEAKER IS MARILYN FRANKENSTEIN, FOLLOWED BY NEIL MILLER. 
          THEN DAVID HALPERIN. 
          MARILYN, YOU HAVE THE FLOOR. 
          TWO MINUTES PLEASE GO AHEAD. 
          SORRY. 
          I AM, I AM I UNMUTED? YOU ARE. 
          PLEASE GO AHEAD. 
          SORRY, I I COULDN'T SEE THE, THE SIGN. 
          UM, MARILYN FRANKENSTEIN, 40 PLUS YEAR RESIDENT OF WEST CAMBRIDGE. 
          I'M HERE TO SUPPORT LANDMARK DESIGNATION FOR 45 MOUNT AUBURN STREET, THE NATHANIEL STICKNEY HOUSE, DUE TO ITS 200 YEAR HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE FOR CAMBRIDGE AND A BUILDING THAT WAS HOME TO THE DEMOCRACY CENTER FOR A QUARTER OF A CENTURY. 
          I'VE ALWAYS BEEN INTERESTED IN THE VALUE OF OUR ARCHITECTURAL SURROUNDINGS, PARTICULARLY HOW THEY GROUND US IN OUR HISTORY. 
          AND THIS BUILDING RECOGNIZED ON THE NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES IS ONE I HOPE CAMBRIDGE WILL VALUE BY DESIGNATING IT A LANDMARK. 
          BEYOND THAT HISTORICAL CONCERN IS ALSO THAT BUILDING'S MORE CURRENT QUARTER OF A CENTURY. 
          HISTORY IS THE DEMOCRACY CENTER, A COMFORTABLE AND SAFE SPACE FOR A VARIETY OF SOCIAL JUSTICE ORGANIZATIONS TO MEET AND HOST EVENTS. 
          I'M A COMMUNITY COALITION MEMBER OF HEART CAMBRIDGE'S HOLISTIC EMERGENCY ALTERNATIVE 
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RESPONSE TEAM, WHICH DEVELOPED THEIR MODEL FOR UNARMED CRISIS RESPONSE IN THIS SPACE, AND WHICH ALSO HOSTED A NUMBER OF COMMUNITY GATHERINGS AT THE DEMOCRACY CENTER. 
          I'VE BEEN TO OTHER ORGANIZATIONS, EDUCATIONAL EVENTS THERE AND ART BUILDS IN THAT SAME BUILDING. 
          IT WAS AN IMPORTANT SPACE, NOT JUST FOR EACH INDIVIDUAL ORGANIZATION, BUT FOR THE NATURAL SIGNIFICANT COLLABORATIONS AMONG SOCIAL JUSTICE ORGANIZATIONS. 
          THIS IS ALSO AN IMPORTANT PART OF THE HISTORY OF 45 MOUNT AUBURN STREET THAT I URGE YOU TO CONSIDER IN VOTING YES, TO APPROVE ITS LANDMARK DESIGNATION. 
          APOLOGIES. 
          UM, I JUST WANTED TO MAKE A QUICK ANNOUNCEMENT. 
          SOME FOLKS ARE HAVING SOME ISSUES WITH THE STREAM. 
          WE'RE WORKING ON THAT, BUT THIS MEETING IS BEING RECORDED, SO WE'LL HAVE A VIDEO OF IT UP IMMEDIATELY AFTER. 
          OUR NEXT SPEAKER IS NEIL MILLER, FOLLOWED BY DAVID HALPERIN. 
          THEN KELSEY KETER. 
          NEIL, YOU HAVE TWO MINUTES, PLEASE GO AHEAD. 
          HI, UH, NEIL MILLER, 4 2 5 MASS AVE. 
          FIRST I WANTED TO, UM, JUST GIVE A NOTE OF APPRECIATION. 
          BIG THANK YOU TO ALL THE FOLKS AT DPW LIVING ON MASS AVE. 
          I COULD SEE AND HEAR PEOPLE WORKING THROUGH THE NIGHT BEFORE THE NIGHT INTO THE MORNING, KEEPING THE ROAD CLEAR, SO THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR EVERYTHING THAT THEY DO. 
          UM, I'M CALLING IN, IN SUPPORT OF PASSING TONIGHT THE CAMBRIDGE STREET ZONING PETITION. 
          GIVEN THE, I'M ESPECIALLY EXCITED THAT THE SITES ON WEBSTER STREET AND WINDSOR STREET GOING TOWARDS UNION SQUARE WILL NOW BE ENCOURAGED AND INCENTIVIZED TO TURN INTO HOMES THAT WE REALLY NEED NEAR JOBS AND NEAR TRANSIT. 
          I AM, UM, DISAPPOINTED THAT IT SEEMS LIKE THERE, UH, IS A PUSH TO MOVE THE ZONING OR THE ALLOWABLE HEIGHTS ON THE REST OF CAMBRIDGE STREET DOWN. 
          UM, BELOW WHAT IT EVEN WAS ALREADY MOVED DOWN TO FROM EIGHT STORIES TO SIX STORIES. 
          EVERYONE ON THIS COUNCIL BASICALLY SAYS THAT THEY SUPPORT TRANSIT ORIENTED DEVELOPMENT, AND THIS WAS PART OF A LONG TIME PLAN TO, UM, ZONE FOR MORE HOMES IN OUR SQUARES AND CORRIDORS. 
          UH, AND WITH THE AMENDMENTS, IT DOES NOT DO THAT, BUT I SUPPORT PASSING THE PLAN FOR THE WEBSTER WINDOR STREET SUBDISTRICT TO ALLOW HOUSING THERE, BUT BEFORE THE AMENDMENTS ARE VOTED ON, IT WOULD ENCOURAGE, UM, US TO ASK CITY STAFF WHETHER THE CHANGES ON CAMBRIDGE STREET WILL MAKE RENT HIGHER OR LOWER FOR PEOPLE STRUGGLING TO STAY IN CAMBRIDGE, WHETHER IT WILL PROVIDE MORE OPPORTUNITIES FOR SMALL BUSINESSES OR FEWER, WHETHER IT WILL MAKE CAMBRIDGE STREET MORE OR LESS FRIENDLY TO OTHER FORMS OF TRANSPORTATION. 
          I THINK THESE ARE IMPORTANT QUESTIONS TO ASK AS WE'RE MAKING THESE DECISIONS. 
          THANK YOU. 
          HAVE A GOOD NIGHT. 
          THANK YOU. 
          OUR NEXT SPEAKER IS DAVID HALPERIN, FOLLOWED BY KELSEY KETER. 
          THEN ETHAN FRANK. 
          DAVID, YOU HAVE TWO MINUTES, PLEASE GO AHEAD. 
          GOOD EVENING. 
          DAVID HAPMAN 14 VALENTINE STREET UNIT THREE. 
          UH, I'M ALSO CALLING IN TO EXPRESS MY SUPPORT FOR PASSING THE CAMBRIDGE STREET ZONING PETITION, NOT LETTING IT EXPIRE. 
          UM, BACK DURING THE MULTI HANDEDLY HOUSING PROCESS, UH, WE WERE SHOWN HOW UNDER ANY SCENARIO WE'RE NOT GONNA HIT OUR HOUSING PRODUCTION GOALS AND, YOU KNOW, THE MULTIFAMILY HOUSING WOULD BE, UH, WOULD BE ONE COMPONENT OF, YOU KNOW, GETTING US BACK ON TRACK, UH, TOWARDS SOMETHING MORE REASONABLE. 
          BUT THE MAJORITY OF OUR HOUSING WAS PROJECTED TO STILL BE BUILT ON OUR SQUARES AND CORRIDORS. 
          UM, SO, YOU KNOW, AND YOU KNOW, DURING ALL THESE PROCESSES, WE'RE ALWAYS TOLD, YOU KNOW, WELL THE PLACE THAT WE SHOULD REALLY BE ABLE TO HAVE IS THE SQUARES AND CORRIDOR. 
          SO, YOU KNOW, SO MUCH RESISTANCE TO THIS. 
          UM, NOW THAT WE'RE FINALLY DOING IT IS REALLY DISAPPOINTING AND, YOU KNOW, CONTINUING TO WATER IT DOWN, WE'RE GONNA HAVE, YOU KNOW, MOST OF CAMBRIDGE STREET BE THE SAME HEIGHT AS THE NEIGHBORHOODS. 
          THEN, YOU KNOW, IT'S, UM, YOU KNOW, LIKE HOW IS MOST OF OUR HOUSING GOING TO BE, UH, UH, ON OUR CORRIDORS? UM, IT, YOU KNOW, IT, IT DOESN'T MAKE SENSE. 
          IT'S NOT CONSISTENT WITH WHAT PEOPLE HAVE SAID THEY WANTED IN THE PAST. 
          UM, SO, YOU KNOW, I HOPE WE CAN REALLY, UM, YOU KNOW, LIKE MOVE FORWARD WITH THE BEST COMPROMISE THAT WE CAN TONIGHT. 
          UH, BUT UM, YOU KNOW, WE, 
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UM, BUT YEAH, LIKE WE, AND WE CONTINUE UNDER EVERY SCENARIO, WE ARE FALLING BEHIND ON OUR HOUSING GOALS AND WE NEED TO TAKE THAT SERIOUSLY AND WE NEED TO, YOU KNOW, UH, CONTINUE TO, TO FIND NEW STRATEGIES TO MOVE THAT FORWARD AND, YOU KNOW, TO GET THE HOUSING WE, WE BUILT BOTH MARKET RATE AND AFFORDABLE AS INCLUSIONARY AND, YOU KNOW, EVERY TOOL IN THE TOOLBOX. 
          THANK YOU. 
          THANK YOU. 
          OUR NEXT SPEAKER IS KELSEY KETER, FOLLOWED BY ETHAN FRANK. 
          THEN DANA BULLER. 
          KELSEY, YOU HAVE TWO MINUTES, PLEASE GO AHEAD. 
          EXCELLENT. 
          DISTINGUISHED CITY COUNSELORS. 
          THANK YOU FOR PIVOTING TO A VIRTUAL SETTING AMID THE NEW ENGLAND SNOWFALL. 
          MY NAME IS KELSEY KETER AND I'M A RESIDENT OF 71 THORNDYKE STREET IN CAMBRIDGE. 
          I'M HERE TO SHARE MY STRONG SUPPORT FOR POLICY ORDER TWO REGARDING THE INCORPORATION OF PLANT-BASED SOLUTIONS INTO SUSTAINABLE CAMBRIDGE INITIATIVE, WHICH ALIGNS WITH THE PLANT-BASED TREATY IN A PROFESSIONAL CAPACITY. 
          I AM DEDICATED, I'M A DEDICATED ENVIRONMENTALIST AND SUSTAINABILITY CONSULTANT SPECIALIZING IN ENTERPRISE-WIDE CORPORATE DECARBONIZATION. 
          AS A VOLUNTEER, I CO-LEAD THE SIERRA CLUBS OF MASSACHUSETTS ENERGY JUSTICE TEAM AND I'M A NINE YEAR VEGAN FOR THE PLANET. 
          GOING BACK TO MY UNDERGRAD AT BOSTON COLLEGE AT THE NEXUS OF SUSTAINABILITY, ENVIRONMENTALISM AND EQUITABLE JUSTICE SITS THE PLANT-BASED TREATY. 
          MY FELLOW CAMPAIGNERS WILL SHARE MORE DETAIL OF THE CAMPAIGN IN DUE COURSE, BUT I'M HERE TO SPEAK ON THE ENVIRONMENTAL EFFECTS OF PLANT-BASED DEFAULTS, WHICH CAN BE INCLUDED IN THE CITY'S PLANT-BASED FOOD STRATEGY. 
          FOR EVENTS, DEFAULTS MAKE PLANT-BASED OPTIONS THE STANDARD NO ACTION CHOICE WITH MEAT AND DAILY OF DAIRY AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST. 
          STUDIES HAVE SHOWN THAT SERVING PLANT-BASED FOOD AS THE DEFAULT OPTION DECREASES MEAT CONSUMPTION BY UP TO 87%, THUS REDUCING FOODS GHD EMISSIONS BY AN AVERAGE OF 40% AND THE WATER FOOTPRINT THEREIN BY 24%. 
          THIS BEHAVIORAL NUDGING TECHNIQUE INCREASES SUSTAINABLE, HEALTHY, HEALTHIER EATING WHILE PRESERVING FREEDOM OF CHOICE. 
          THUS SERVING MEALS THAT WORK FOR ALL DIETARY RESTRICTIONS REDUCES OVERHEAD AND FOOD WASTE WITHIN OUR BOUNDARIES. 
          CAMBRIDGE CAN USE PLANT-BASED DEFAULTS AND AN EFFECTIVE TOOL AT THE EVENTS TO MEET OUR CARBON REDUCTION GOALS WHILE SAVING ON FOOD COSTS AND IMPROVING HEALTH AND INCLUSIVITY IN THE COMMUNITY. 
          THIS WILL HELP CAMBRIDGE REACH ITS NET ZERO GHG EMISSIONS BY 20 20 20 50. 
          I ASK THIS COUNCIL TO FORMALLY ADOPT POT SEA ORDER TWO, AND I THANK YOU TO THE COUNSELORS THUS FORWARD WHO HAVE ENDORSED THIS PETITION AND FOR THE WHOLE COUNCIL FOR CONSIDERING THE ADOPTION OF THE PLANT-BASED TREATY FOR CAMBRIDGE. 
          THANK YOU. 
          OUR NEXT SPEAKER IS ETHAN FRANK, FOLLOWED BY DANA BLISTER. 
          THEN JASON S ETHAN, YOU HAVE TWO MINUTES, PLEASE GO AHEAD. 
          HELLO, CAN YOU HEAR ME? YES, WE CAN. 
          PLEASE GO AHEAD. 
          UM, MY NAME IS ETHAN. 
          I LIVE AT 6 32 MASS AVE, AND THE MBTS CANCELLATION OF THEIR ALEWIFE REDEVELOPMENT PLAN REMINDS ME WHY IT'S SO IMPORTANT THAT WE USE ALL OF THE SPACE WE HAVE AVAILABLE AS EFFICIENTLY AS POSSIBLE, WHICH IS JUST ONE OF THE MANY REASONS WE SHOULD UP ZONE CAMBRIDGE STREET TONIGHT. 
          THANK YOU. 
          THANK YOU. 
          OUR NEXT SPEAKER IS DANA. 
          DANA HAS NOT JOINED. 
          WE WILL GO TO JASON ALVES, FOLLOWED BY JIM MONTEVERDE, THEN TAYLOR CROSS. 
          JASON, YOU HAVE TWO MINUTES, PLEASE GO AHEAD. 
          HI, UH, THIS IS JASON ALVES, UH, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF EAST CAMBRIDGE BUSINESS ASSOCIATION, 5 44 CAMBRIDGE STREET. 
          UM, WANTED TO SPEAK ON THE CHEMISTRY ZONING AND THE COMMUNICATION TONIGHT. 
          UH, SO JUST A, UM, THANKS TO, UH, COUNCILOR NOLAN AND AMIR SIDIKI FOR RECOMMENDING WHAT I THINK IS A PRETTY, SOME, SOME GOOD CHANGES AND, UH, MAKES FOR A NICE COMPROMISE ON, UH, THE C STREET, UH, ZONING PETITION. 
          UM, I THINK FOR US, UH, IT'S IMPORTANT THAT THE, THE WEBSTER ADVENT INTERSECTION, IT'S SOMETHING THAT WE'VE BEEN ADVOCATING FOR, UM, CLOSE TO A DECADE NOW. 
          I THINK THERE WAS SOME MISSED OPPORTUNITIES BECAUSE OF SOME PREVIOUS ZONING, BUT I THINK GETTING THAT UP ZONE THERE, UM, AS A TRANSIT TRANSITION INTO THE BOYTON YARDS AREA OF SOMERVILLE AND UNION SQUARE, UM, CAN REALLY HELP CREATE SOME GOOD TRANSIT ORIENTED, UH, HOUSING DEVELOPMENT. 
          UM, THAT DOESN'T REALLY, UM, CAUSE MUCH DISPLACEMENT. 
          I THINK, UH, THE REDUCTION ALONG CAMBRIDGE STREET TO SIX STORIES, UM, IS A NICE COMPROMISE. 
          I THINK IT GETS, 
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UH, IN LINE WITH SOME OF THE RECOMMENDATIONS OF THE ARC C STREET STUDY. 
          UM, YOU KNOW, CAMBRIDGE STREET IS BASICALLY, UH, HAS BEEN UP ZONED RECENTLY TO SIX STORIES, UM, AND THIS KIND OF REFINES THAT ZONING, UM, TO MAKE IT MORE, UH, MANAGEABLE FOR THE, FOR THE NEIGHBORHOOD. 
          UM, SO I THINK THAT THAT'S A NICE COMPROMISE AND I THINK WE'RE SUPPORTIVE OF ALL THIS KNOWING THAT YOU WILL BE REVISITING THE GROUND FLOOR COMMERCIAL REQUIREMENTS IN A SUBSEQUENT PETITION, UM, THAT IS VERY, VERY IMPORTANT TO THE DISTRICT AND SOMETHING THAT WE WANT TO SEE HAPPEN. 
          UM, AND I GUESS QUICKLY, SO, UH, HOPE YOU CAN PASS THIS TONIGHT. 
          AGAIN, I THINK IT'S A, A GOOD COMPROMISE THAT, UH, CAN HOPEFULLY MAKE A LOT OF DIFFERENT PARTIES THAT HAVE CONCERNS AND, UM, HOPES FOR CAMBRIDGE STREET AND BRING EVERYBODY IN LINE. 
          SO THANK YOU ALL VERY MUCH. 
          THANK YOU. 
          OUR NEXT SPEAKER IS JIM MONTEVERDE, FOLLOWED BY TAYLOR CROSS AND ANATO BORISOV. 
          JIM, YOU HAVE TWO MINUTES, PLEASE GO AHEAD. 
          JIM MONTEVERDE, IF YOU CAN UNMUTE YOURSELF. 
          YOU HAVE THE FLOOR. 
          TWO MINUTES, . 
          SORRY. 
          THANK YOU. 
          UH, GOOD EVENING. 
          I'M JIM MONTEVERDE OF 12 OAK STREET IN MIN SQUARE. 
          I ASK THAT YOU LET THE CAMBRIDGE STREET ZONING PETITION EXPIRE AND REQUIRE THAT IT BE REVISED WITH THE BENEFIT OF A ROBUST OPEN PUBLIC REVIEW PROCESS. 
          I SUPPORT THE NOLAN SIDIKI AMENDMENT TO CHANGE THE HEIGHT LIMIT IN THE NEW DISTRICT, UH, CAM EIGHT TO SIX STORIES AND ASK THAT THAT SAME LIMIT APPLY TO THE NEW DISTRICT CAM 10 IN THE HEART OF INMAN SQUARE. 
          I SUGGEST THAT THE PROPOSED DESIGN REVIEW THRESHOLDS OF 75,000 SQUARE FEET FOR RESIDENTIAL PROJECTS BE REDUCED SO THAT MOST, IF NOT ALL OF NEW DEVELOPMENT ALONG CAMBRIDGE STREET REQUIRE REVIEW BY THE PLANNING BOARD TO FOSTER DESIGN COMPETENCE. 
          THE ZONING PROPOSAL SHOULD ALSO BE REVISED TO ALLOW EXISTING RETAIL USES TO CONTINUE IN ANY NEW CONSTRUCTION TO MAINTAIN THE RETAIL CHARACTER AND VIBRANCY OF THE STREET. 
          PLEASE LET THE ZONING PETITION EXPIRE SO THAT IT CAN BE IMPROVED TO REFLECT THE PUBLIC'S VISION FOR CAMBRIDGE STREET THROUGH PUBLIC REVIEW AND COMMENT. 
          THANK YOU. 
          THANK YOU. 
          OUR NEXT SPEAKER IS TAYLOR CROSS, FOLLOWED BY ANATOLI BORISOV, THEN HANNAH ROACH TAYLOR, YOU HAVE TWO MINUTES, PLEASE GO AHEAD. 
          GOOD EVENING. 
          MY NAME IS TAYLOR CROSS AND MY ADDRESS IS 1315 HARVARD YARD MALE CENTER, CAMBRIDGE, AND I'M HERE IN STRONG SUPPORT OF CAMBRIDGE ENDORSING THE PLANT-BASED TREATY AND POLICY ORDER. 
          NUMBER TWO, I'M A LIFELONG CLASSICAL BALLET DANCER IN A FIRST YEAR PRE-MED STUDENT AT HARVARD, PLANNING TO PURSUE CARDIOVASCULAR SURGERY. 
          THROUGH YEARS OF INTENSIVE BALLET TRAINING AND INTERNSHIPS WITH VASCULAR SURGEONS, I BECAME DEEPLY INTERESTED IN THE INTERSECTION OF NUTRITION, CHRONIC DISEASE, AND PREVENTATIVE MEDICINE. 
          THAT JOURNEY LED ME TO STUDY WHOLE FOODS PLANT-BASED NUTRITION AND TO SEE FIRSTHAND HOW POWERFUL IT CAN BE FOR LONG-TERM HEALTH. 
          WE ARE LIVING IN A CHRONIC DISEASE EPIDEMIC, HEART DISEASE, DIABETES, AND MANY CANCERS ARE NOW THE LEADING CAUSES OF DEATH AND DISABILITY IN THE US. 
          THESE ARE LARGELY PREVENTABLE CONDITIONS, YET OUR HEALTHCARE SYSTEM SPENDS TRILLIONS OF DOLLARS TREATING SYMPTOMS RATHER THAN ADDRESSING ROOT CAUSES. 
          ONE OF THE MOST EFFECTIVE EVIDENCE-BASED TOOLS WE HAVE IS ALSO ONE OF THE SIMPLEST FOOD. 
          A WHOLE FOODS PLANT-BASED DIET HAS BEEN SHOWN TO PREVENT, TREAT, AND IN MANY CASES, REVERSE CHRONIC DISEASE. 
          LEADING PHYSICIANS AND RESEARCHERS, INCLUDING MANY WITHIN THE CAMBRIDGE AND HARVARD MEDICAL COMMUNITY, HAVE DEMONSTRATED THAT PLANT-BASED DIETS CAN LOWER CHOLESTEROL, IMPROVE INSULIN SENSITIVITY, AND SIGNIFICANTLY REDUCE CARDIOVASCULAR RISK. 
          WHAT I FIND ESPECIALLY MEANINGFUL ABOUT THE PLANT-BASED TREATY IS THAT IT RECOGNIZES THE INTERCONNECTEDNESS OF HUMAN HEALTH AND ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY AND FOOD SYSTEMS. CITIES LIKE CAMBRIDGE ARE UNIQUELY POSITIONED TO LEAD BY EXAMPLE, BY ENDORSING POLICIES THAT SUPPORT HEALTHIER, MORE SUSTAINABLE FOOD ENVIRONMENTS FOR EVERYONE. 
          CAMBRIDGE HAS LONG BEEN A LEADER IN SCIENCE, PUBLIC HEALTH, AND CLIMATE ACTION. 
          ENDORSING THE PLANT-BASED TREATY IS A LOGICAL NEXT STEP. 
          THIS ENDORSEMENT WON'T SOLVE EVERYTHING OVERNIGHT, BUT IT IS A CLEAR RESPONSIBLE STEP IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION. 
          THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR YOUR LEADERSHIP AND FOR CONSIDERING THIS IMPORTANT VOTE. 
          OUR NEXT SPEAKER IS ANATO BORISOV, FOLLOWED BY HANNAH ROACH. 
          THEN ROSA DIAZ RIVERA ANATO, TWO MINUTES. 
          THANK YOU. 
          MY NAME IS ANTO BORISOV. 
          I LIVE AT 1 53 
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WEBSTER AVENUE AND I'M SPEAKING ABOUT THE PROPOSED AMENDMENT TO THE CAMBRIDGE ZONING ORDINANCE NEAR CAMBRIDGE STREET, WHICH I'M STRONGLY IN SUPPORT OF. 
          UH, I'D ARGUE THAT IT IS THE RESPONSIBILITY OF ANY CITY TO BALANCE ITS ABILITY TO PROVIDE HOUSING SERVICES AND JOB OPPORTUNITIES TO ITS RESIDENTS. 
          THERE ARE CLEARLY MANY GREAT REASONS TO LIVE IN CAMBRIDGE AND FRANKLY, IT'S UNLIKELY THAT PEOPLE WILL STOP WANTING TO MOVE TO AND REMAIN IN CAMBRIDGE. 
          UH, BETWEEN THE VIBRANT COMMUNITIES JOB OPPORTUNITIES AND BEING A PART OF THE EXTENSIVE BOSTON METROPOLITAN AREA, POPULATIONS WILL LIKELY CONTINUE TO GROW IN CAMBRIDGE AND TO HANDLE THIS TRANSITION GRACEFULLY AND EQUITABLY, IT IS IMPORTANT THAT CAMBRIDGE PROVIDE ENOUGH HOUSING TO MEET THEIR DEMAND. 
          THE EXCEEDINGLY LOW VACANCY RATE OF APARTMENTS AND HIGH HOUSING AND RENTAL PRICES INDICATE THAT DESPITE HISTORICAL EFFORT, CAMBRIDGE STILL LAGS BEHIND, UH, WHEN THIS OCCURS, THE WEALTHIEST THAT CAN HANDLE THESE PRICES REMAIN AND THE REST ARE EXCLUDED FROM THE CAMBRIDGE COMMUNITY. 
          I THINK AN IMPORTANT PART OF A GRACEFUL TRANSITION TO DEMANDS THAT HIGHER POPULATION BRINGS COMES WITH RECOGNIZING THAT HOUSING AND TRANSPORTATION ARE NEEDED IN TANDEM. 
          AS A RESULT, THE PROPOSED UPZONING OF CAMBRIDGE STREET SERVES AS A PRIME CANDIDATE, AS AN EFFECTIVE LOCATION TO PROVIDE HOUSING DUE TO ITS ACCESSIBILITY TO MEANS OF PUBLIC TRANSPORT. 
          WHILE THERE CAN AND SHOULD BE DISCUSSION ABOUT IF THESE ZONING CHANGES IN THEMSELVES ARE ADEQUATE TO PROMOTE, PROMOTE THE DEVELOPMENT OF HOUSING, TO ME THERE'S LITTLE DOUBT THAT THIS IS A STEP IN THE DIRECTION OF BUILDING MORE HOUSING IN CAMBRIDGE. 
          THUS, FOR THAT REASON, I AM IN SUPPORT OF THE PROPOSED ESTABLISHMENT OF NEW ZONING DISTRICTS ON CAMBRIDGE STREET AS A NECESSARY, ALBEIT NOT SUFFICIENT STEP TO ALLOW CAMBRIDGE TO EQUITABLY MEET HOUSING DEMAND. 
          THANK YOU. 
          THANK YOU. 
          OUR NEXT SPEAKER IS HANNAH ROACH. 
          HANNAH, YOU HAVE TWO MINUTES. 
          PLEASE GO AHEAD. 
          HI, THIS IS HANNAH ROACH. 
          I LIVE AT 20 ORCHARD STREET IN CAMBRIDGE AND I'M A MASTER'S STUDENT OF NUTRITION AT TUFTS AND VOLUNTEER FOR THE LOCAL PLANT-BASED TREATY CAMPAIGN. 
          AND I'M TESTIFYING TO ASK YOU TO VOTE FAVORABLY ON POLICY ORDER NUMBER TWO. 
          AS A VOLUNTEER, I WANTED TO USE THIS TIME TO TALK A BIT ABOUT THE PLANT-BASED TREATY AS A CAMPAIGN. 
          THIS IS A GLOBAL GRASSROOTS INITIATIVE THAT BRINGS FOOD SYSTEMS INTO THE CLIMATE CRISIS CONVERSATION. 
          PLANT-BASED DIETS ARE PROVEN TO BE THE MOST ENVIRONMENTALLY SUSTAINABLE AND CAN ALSO BE THE HEALTHIEST DIETS FOR US. 
          CURRENTLY, 65 OTHER CITIES WORLDWIDE HAVE ENDORSED A PLANT-BASED TREATY WITH CAMPAIGNS SPREADING ACROSS EVERY CONTINENT. 
          ONE NOTABLE RECENT ENDORSEMENT THAT I WOULD LIKE TO MENTION IS FROM THE CITY OF EM IN BRAZIL. 
          EM IS LOCATED IN THE AMAZON WHERE MASS DEFORESTATION HAS BEEN CEASELESSLY OCCURRING OFTEN ILLEGALLY IN ORDER TO RAISE AND FEED CATTLE AND MEET THE RISING DEMANDS FOR MEAT EXPORTS TO THE GLOBAL NORTH. 
          THEY RECOGNIZE THE NEED FOR A PLANT-BASED TREATY AND SO SHOULD WE. 
          CAMBRIDGE ALREADY DEEPLY ACKNOWLEDGES THE CLIMATE CRISIS AND CARES FOR THE HEALTH OF THOSE WHO LIVE HERE. 
          SO IT LOGICALLY FOLLOWS THAT THE CITY WOULD JOIN THIS GLOBAL COALITION AND PROMOTE PLANT-BASED EATING. 
          ALSO, I LIKE TO CLARIFY THAT THIS POLICY ORDER DOES NOT TAKE AWAY ANY EXISTING FOOD OPTIONS FROM ANY CITY RESIDENT. 
          IT ONLY AIMS TO INCREASE ACCESSIBILITY IN EDUCATION REGARDING PLANT-BASED FOODS AND DIETS. 
          ON TOP OF THAT, THE LOCAL PLANT-BASED TREATY TEAM IS HERE TO PROVIDE ANY ASSISTANCE THE CITY MAY NEED WHEN IMPLEMENTING THIS NEW POLICY ORDER. 
          THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME. 
          COUNSELORS AND I AGAIN ASK FOR ALL OF YOU TO VOTE IN SUPPORT OF AND FORMALLY ADOPT POLICY ORDER NUMBER TWO. 
          THANK YOU. 
          OUR NEXT SPEAKER IS ROSA DIAZ RIVERA, FOLLOWED BY NJ PARK. 
          THEN CARL SCHMUCK PEPPER ROSA. 
          YOU HAVE TWO MINUTES, PLEASE GO AHEAD. 
          HELLO, COUNCIL MEMBERS. 
          THANK YOU FOR THE OPPORTUNITY TO SPEAK TODAY. 
          MY NAME IS ROSA DIAZ RIVERA AND I HAVE LIVED IN 50 CAMBRIDGE PARK DRIVE FOR TWO AND A HALF YEARS. 
          I AM HERE TO ASK THE COUNCIL TO VOTE FAVORABLY ON POLICY ORDER NUMBER TWO. 
          RESEARCH SHOWS THAT SHIFTING TOWARD TOWARDS PLANT-BASED EATING DELIVERS REAL ECONOMIC BENEFITS FOR HOUSEHOLDS AND GOVERNMENTS. 
          REDUCING RELIANCE ON ANIMAL AGRICULTURAL GLOBALLY WOULD ALLOW US TO PRODUCE ENOUGH ADDITIONAL FOOD TO FEED HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS OF PEOPLE. 
          IN ADDITION, TRANSITIONING TO PLANT-BASED DIETS WOULD ALSO SAVE A MEDICAL EXPENSES IN THE UNITED STATES. 
          CONTINUING MEAT HEAVY DIETS IS PROJECTED TO COST HUNDREDS OF BILLIONS OF DOLLARS EACH YEAR IN HEALTHCARE COSTS. 
          WHILE A BROADER SHIFT TOWARDS A PLANT-BASED DIET COULD SAVE UP TO 250 BILLION ANNUALLY AND PREVENT HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF DEATHS LINKED TO CHRONIC DISEASE. 
          IMPORTANTLY, PLANT-BASED DIETS ARE NOT MORE EXPENSIVE FOR HOUSEHOLDS THAT IS OFTEN ASSUMED. 
          OXFORD UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUND THAT VEGAN DIETS ARE THE MOST AFFORDABLE CUTTING FOOD COSTS BY UP TO ONE THIRD. 
          A SEPARATE STUDY CONFIRMED THAT PLANT-BASED CONSUMERS SPEND LESS ON FOOD THAT OMNIVORES. 
          OVERALL. 
          THESE FINDINGS DIRECTLY CHALLENGE THE IDEA THAT HEALTHY SUSTAINABLE EATING IS FINANCIALLY OUT OF REACH FOR MANY PEOPLE. 
          FOR A CITY LIKE CAMBRIDGE WHERE COST 
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OF LIVING IS A MAJOR CONCERN, THIS EVIDENCE HIGHLIGHTS THE IMPORTANCE OF PUBLIC INFORMATION CAMPAIGNS THAT PROMOTE PLANT-BASED EATING AS A BUDGET FRIENDLY OPTION BY CLEARLY COMMUNICATING THE FINANCIAL BENEFITS. 
          CAMBRIDGE CAN EM EMPOWER RESIDENTS TO MAKE CHOICES THAT STRETCH HOUSEHOLD BUDGETS AND REDUCE LONG-TERM HEALTHCARE COSTS. 
          PUBLIC EDUCATION IS A LOW COST, HIGH IMPACT TOOL THAT BENEFITS EVERYONE IN THE COMMUNITY. 
          THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR YOUR TIME. 
          OUR NEXT SPEAKER IS NJ PARK, FOLLOWED BY CARL SCHMECK PEPPER. 
          THEN NINA WU NJ. 
          YOU HAVE THE FLOOR. 
          YOU HAVE TWO MINUTES. 
          PLEASE GO AHEAD. 
          GOOD EVENING, COUNSELORS. 
          MY NAME IS NJ AND I'M A CAMBRIDGE RESIDENT AT 3 32 BROADWAY AND AN MBA STUDENT AT NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY. 
          THANK YOU FOR THE OPPORTUNITY TO SPEAK TONIGHT. 
          I'M HERE NOT AS A POLICY EXPERT, BUT AS SOMEONE WHO COMES FROM A LONG LINEAGE OF KOREAN HOME COOKS AND PROFESSIONAL CHEFS, FOOD IS HOW MY FAMILY SHOW LOVE. 
          MY UNCLE OWNS A KOREAN SUSHI RESTAURANT IN AUSTIN CALLED OPA SUSHI, WHERE WE SERVE CLASSIC SUSHI AND POPULAR KOREAN DISHES. 
          LIKE MANY IMMIGRANT OWNED RESTAURANTS, IT'S BUILT ON TRADITION, PRIDE, AND HARD WORK. 
          AT THE SAME TIME, I'VE SEEN HOW TRADITIONAL KOREAN CUISINE CAN UNINTENTIONALLY EXCLUDE PEOPLE. 
          MANY STAPLES, STAPLE DISHES LIKE JUGA DOS AND EVEN KIMCHI RELY ON ANIMAL-BASED INGREDIENTS. 
          WHEN VEGAN FRIENDS OR FAMILY DINA KOREAN RESTAURANTS, THEIR OPTIONS ARE OFTEN LIMITED. 
          THEY'RE THERE BUT NOT FULLY INCLUDED. 
          I DON'T SEE PLANT-BASED TREATY AS AN ATTACK ON TRADITION. 
          I SEE IT AS AN INVITATION, AN INVITATION FOR CREATIVITY, EVOLUTION, AND INCLUSION. 
          THIS POLICY ENCOURAGES RESTAURANT ACROSS CUISINE TO EXPAND WHO THEY SERVE AND GIVE CHEFS THE SPACE TO INTERPRET TRADITION WHILE RESPONDING TO TODAY'S CLIMATE REALITIES. 
          IT ALSO SUPPORTS LOCAL BUSINESSES LIKE CAMBRIDGE'S OWN MOM AND SON KITCHEN. 
          WHILE THEY'RE NOT EXCLUSIVELY PLANT-BASED KOREAN BUSINESS, THEIR CATERING MODEL ALLOW THEM TO ADOPT MENUS MORE FLEXIBLY THAN MANY BRICK AND MORTAR RESTAURANTS, MAKING THEM A VALUABLE RESOURCE FOR INDIVIDUALS AND CITY SPONSORED EVENTS. 
          LOOKING TO INCLUDE PLANT-BASED KOREAN OPTIONS. 
          CAMBRIDGE HAS LONG LED ON CLIMATE AND EQUITY, AND I URGE YOU TO VOTE FAVORABLY, FAVORABLY ON POLICY ORDER NUMBER TWO FOR THE CLIMATE, FOR LOCAL BUSINESSES AND FOR MORE INCLUSIVE FOOD CULTURE. 
          THANK YOU. 
          OUR NEXT SPEAKER IS CARL SCHMUCK PEPPER, FOLLOWED BY NINA WU. 
          THEN YOUNG KIM. 
          CARL, YOU HAVE TWO MINUTES, PLEASE GO AHEAD. 
          MY NAME IS CARL SCHICKER. 
          I LIVE IN 2 49 THIRD STREET, UH, IN EAST CAMBRIDGE. 
          AND I'D LIKE TO SPEAK TODAY ON THE CAMBRIDGE STREET ZONING PETITION. 
          UM, I URGE THE COUNCIL TO PLEASE ADOPT THE CAMBRIDGE STREET ZONING PETITION. 
          UM, INCREASE THE DENSITY ALONG OUR SQUARES AND CORRIDORS IS SOMETHING THAT'S CRITICAL TO MEETING THE CITY'S GOALS, UM, ON HOUSING PRODUCTION, MAKING HOUSING MORE AFFORDABLE FOR EVERYBODY AND ENVIRONMENTALLY BY MAKING IT SO PEOPLE ARE ABLE TO LIVE, UH, CLOSER TO PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION AND ARE LESS, UM, CAR DEPENDENT. 
          UM, FURTHER REDUCING THE HEIGHTS OF THE ZONING PETITION WILL BE A MISTAKE, UH, LIMIT HOW MANY PEOPLE WILL BE ABLE TO LIVE HERE, WHICH WILL LIMIT HOW MANY PEOPLE WILL BE ABLE TO HAVE CHEAPER HOUSING. 
          UM, SO I URGE THE COUNSEL TO ADOPT THE ZONING CONDITION WITH NO FURTHER. 
          THANK YOU. 
          THANK YOU. 
          OUR NEXT SPEAKER IS NINA WU. 
          WE'RE AT SPEAKER NUMBER 22. 
          FOR THOSE WAITING. 
          NINA, YOU HAVE TWO MINUTES, PLEASE GO AHEAD. 
          GOOD EVENING, CITY COUNSELORS. 
          MY NAME IS NINA AND I LIVE AT 16 HOLY EXTREME. 
          I AM A FIRST YEAR STUDENT AT HARVARD COLLEGE AND THE CO-PRESIDENT OF HARVARD UNDERGRAD PLANT-BASED. 
          I AM HERE TO ASK YOU TO VOTE FAVORABLY ON POLICY ORDER NUMBER TWO AND ENDORSE THE PLANT-BASED TREATY. 
          MANY OTHERS ARE SPEAKING ON THE ENVIRONMENTAL AND HEALTH BENEFITS THAT COME WITH PROMOTING PLANT-BASED DIETS, BUT I WOULD LIKE TO THIS OPPORTUNITY TO SPEAK ON WHAT I BELIEVE TO BE THE GREATEST AND BENEFIT OF ALL. 
          PROMOTING PLANT-BASED FOOD ALLOWS US TO SHIFT TOWARDS A MORE COMPASSIONATE FOOD SYSTEM THROUGH IMPROVING ANIMAL WELFARE. 
          IN ANIMAL AGRICULTURE, SENTIENT ANIMALS EACH WITH THEIR OWN PERSONALITY AND LIVED EXPERIENCES, ARE VIEWED AS NOTHING MORE THAN SOON TO BE FOOD. 
          THEIR ENTIRE LIVES ARE PREDETERMINED MEANS TO AN END WHEN VICTIMIZED ANIMALS BEING WITH VICTIMIZED ANIMALS BEING SO HIDDEN BEHIND THIS INDUSTRIAL SYSTEM, EVEN THE KINDEST PEOPLE HAVE TROUBLE VIEWING THE ONES ON THEIR PLATE AND IN THE FRIDGE AS VICTIMS AT 
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ALL. 
          THIS POLICY ORDER OF PROMOTING PLANT-BASED DIET HELPS NOT ONLY PROTECT THE PLANET, BUT ALSO ANIMAL WELFARE. 
          THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME. 
          COUNSELORS AND I AGAIN ASK YOU TO VOTE FAVORABLY ON POLICY ORDER NUMBER TWO. 
          THANK YOU. 
          OUR NEXT SPEAKER IS YOUNG KIM, FOLLOWED BY CASEY CANFIELD AND SARAH SUZUKI YOUNG. 
          YOU HAVE TWO MINUTES, PLEASE GO AHEAD. 
          YOUNG KIM SPEAKING AGAINST OR THE CORRIDOR ZONING PETITION. 
          BECAUSE WHEN STAFF DESCRIPTIONS ARE ACCEPTED WITHOUT INDEPENDENT VERIFICATION AGAINST THE PUBLIC RECORD, THE COUNCIL'S ROLE SHIFTS FROM LEGISLATIVE OVERSIGHT TO RUBBER STAMPING AND THAT CREATES REAL INSTITUTIONAL RISK. 
          IF YOU VOTE TONIGHT TO ORDAIN THE CAMBRIDGE CORRIDOR ZONING PETITION AS WRITTEN TOGETHER WITH THE MASS AVENUE AMENDMENT ALREADY ADOPTED,  ORGANIZ SECTION WILL CONFLICT BOTH CORRIDOR MAPS AND DESCRIPTIVE TEXT WILL ENTER THE ZONING ORDINANCE WITHOUT AT THE STATION BY THE CITY CLUB ABSOLUTE OVERLAYS SUCH AS THE MASS AVENUE OVERLAY AND THE LESLIE PORT OVERLAY AND THE REPLACE BUSINESS A FIVE AND CITY DISTRICTS WILL A ALSO BE LEFT DANGLING IN THE CODE. 
          CONSISTENCY IS THE SIGN OF SMALL MIND, BUT IN ZONING ORDINANCE CONSISTENCY IS THE BACKBONE AND MUST BE VERIFIED EACH TIME A NEW AMENDMENT IS INTRODUCED. 
          THAT DISCIPLINE HAS BEEN NEGLECTED FOR FAR TOO LONG AND THE C REGISTRY CORRIDOR MAY BE WHERE THOSE ACCUMULATED RISKS FINALLY, DESTABILIZE THE ZONING ORDINANCE. 
          ONE PRACTICAL CONSEQUENCE IS THAT RAPID UP ZONING, ALLOWING POLAR PROJECT AS OVER RIGHT IS NOW INVOLVED IN THE INCENTIVES THE CITY DELIBERATELY CREATED TO GIVE NON-PROFIT AFFORDABLE DEVELOPERS A COMPETITIVE EDGE OVER MARKET DEVELOPERS. 
          ONE CONCRETE EXAMPLE, EVEN WITH THE MAPS AND TEXT, UH, I COULD, UH, FIND IN THE AGENDA MATERIALS. 
          I COULD NOT RELY ON YOU TO TRACE POLICE CLEAR BOUNDARIES. 
          HAS ANY COUNSELOR INDEPENDENTLY TRIED? THANK YOU, KIM. 
          APOLOGIES, YOUR TIME HAS EXPIRED. 
          PLEASE EMAIL THE REMAINDER OF YOUR COMMENT. 
          OUR NEXT SPEAKER IS CASEY. 
          KAREN, FILL CASEY, YOU HAVE TWO MINUTES, PLEASE GO AHEAD. 
          CASEY, YOU ARE ON THE PHONE. 
          YOU NEED TO UNMUTE. 
          I BELIEVE IT'S STAR SIX TO UNMUTE ON THE PHONE. 
          ALL RIGHT, WE'RE HELLO? THERE YOU GO. 
          THERE YOU GO. 
          OKAY, THANK YOU. 
          I'M SO SORRY FOR THAT. 
          THANK YOU. 
          MY NAME IS FEL CASEY, ALTHOUGH I'M CURRENTLY A RESIDENT, UM, AT HACKENSACK CROW IN BOSTON. 
          I AM A LONGTIME, UH, CAMBRIDGE COMMUNITY MEMBER THROUGH FAMILY WORK ORGANIZING AND, UM, AND WHATNOT. 
          I AM SPEAKING IN SUPPORT OF THE LANDMARK DESIGNATION FOR 45 MOUNT AUBURN STREET, THE, UH, NATHANIEL STICKNEY HOUSE. 
          UH, NOT ONLY BECAUSE OF ITS 200 YEARS, UH, HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE FOR CAMBRIDGE, BUT BECAUSE THIS IS HOME TO THE DEMOCRACY CENTER, UH, FOR A QUARTER OF A CENTURY AND, UM, I MAY NOT BE AS ELOQUENT AS MY PEERS AND THE FORMER SPEAKERS, BUT TO SPEAK FROM MY HEART, I HAVE PERSONALLY BEEN, UM, A GUEST, A PARTICIPANT, AND AN ORGANIZER OF MANY GATHERINGS AND INITIATIVES THAT HAVE BEEN HOUSED AND, UH, TOOK PLACE IN THE FORMER DEMOCRACY CENTER. 
          WE, UH, UH, WE AS COMMUNITY MEMBERS, UH, ACROSS COMMUNITIES CAME TOGETHER TO WORK AND BUILD AND PROTECT THE CAMBRIDGE IN THE WORLD THAT WE HELD IN OUR HEARTS. 
          MY CHILDREN ORGANIZED THERE WITH OTHER YOUTH, OUR MY PEERS, YOU KNOW, WE FOUGHT, UM, SO MANY GOOD BATTLES AND, AND WON AND LOST AND RECOUPED AND ORGANIZED TOGETHER. 
          UM, AND ONE OF THE THINGS I CAN SAY THAT IS, IS IMPORTANT. 
          THIS HOUSE IS UNLIKE ANY OTHERS. 
          WHAT, WHAT HAPPENED THERE IS OF GREAT HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE. 
          WE SAW EVERYTHING FROM STANDING ROCK, UH, BLACK LIVES MATTER, TRANS RIGHTS, AND, UM, THESE ARE THINGS THAT HAVE BECOME A VERY IMPORTANT PART OF THE HISTORY IN NOT JUST OUR COMMUNITY, BUT ACROSS MANY COMMUNITIES. 
          AND SO I ASK THAT YOU PLEASE CONSIDER SUPPORTING, UM, OUR, OUR REQUEST FOR HISTORICAL DESIGNATION. 
          AND, 
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UM, AND I AM, I, I AM VERY GRATEFUL. 
          SO THANK YOU, UH, COUNCIL MEMBERS FOR YOUR TIME AND, AND FOR YOUR COMMITMENT. 
          AND I, UH, I HOPE THAT YOU CAN REMEMBER TO CONSIDER HOW IMPORTANT THIS IS TO THE PEOPLE, NOT JUST IN OUR COMMUNITIES THAT CAMBRIDGE HAS SUCH A COMMITMENT, UH, TO APOLO. 
          APOLOGIES. 
          KAREN, PHIL, IF YOU CAN PLEASE EMAIL THE REMAINDER OF YOUR COMMENT TO CITY COUNCIL@CAMBRIDGEMA.GOV. 
          OUR NEXT SPEAKER IS SARAH SUZUKI. 
          I DO NOT SEE SARAH IN THE ZOOM. 
          WE'RE GONNA GO TO JAMES ZALL, FOLLOWED BY WILLIAM HUGHES, THEN TRUDY GOODMAN. 
          JAMES, YOU HAVE TWO MINUTES, PLEASE GO AHEAD. 
          THANK YOU. 
          THIS IS JAMES ZAL 2 0 3 PEMBERTON STREET SINCE 2022. 
          ZONING ALONG CAMBRIDGE STREET WAS THE SUBJECT OF COMMUNITY MEETINGS, SURVEYS, HEARINGS, LOTS OF PUBLIC COMMENT AND ONLINE DISCUSSIONS. 
          PEOPLE WHO PARTICIPATED IN THESE EFFORTS GOT A CHANCE TO CONTRIBUTE TO THE RESULTING ZONING EACH PARTICIPANT DID NOT GET, NOR SHOULD THEY GET A SET OF ZONING AMENDMENTS THAT EXACTLY MATCH WHAT THEY ASKED FOR. 
          THE CLAIMS THAT THE RESULTS BEFORE YOU IS IS SOMEHOW NOT LEGITIMATE AND NEEDS TO BE DONE OVER MERELY DEMONSTRATES THE FACT THAT CAMBRIDGE STREET AND PROBABLY EVERY OTHER STREET AND NEIGHBORHOOD IS HOME TO SOME RESIDENTS WHO DON'T NEED OR DON'T WANT MORE HOUSING IN THEIR AREA. 
          CITYWIDE SURVEYS IN THE PAST SEVERAL ELECTIONS INDICATE THAT THE MAJORITY OF RESIDENTS RECOGNIZE THE HARMFUL CONSEQUENCES OF OUR LONG RUNNING SHORTAGE OF HOUSING. 
          EVEN IF THE REQUESTED DO OVER OF PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT IS ACCOMPLISHED QUICKLY. 
          THE SLOW STARTUP TIME FOR NEW HOUSING IN CAMBRIDGE ENSURES THAT OUR HOUSING CRISIS WILL BE NO LESS SEVERE WHEN THE NEXT VERSION OF THIS ZONING PROPOSAL WOULD COME HERE FOR A VOTE. 
          PLEASE DO NOT TOSS ASIDE ALL THE WORK THAT HAS BEEN DONE SO FAR AND PROCEED TO ENACT THE CAMBRIDGE STREET ZONING TONIGHT. 
          THANK YOU, YOU. 
          OUR NEXT SPEAKER IS WILLIAM HUGHES. 
          WILLIAM, YOU HAVE TWO MINUTES. 
          PLEASE GO AHEAD. 
          FOLLOWED BY TRUDY GOODMAN. 
          WILLIAM, YOU HAVE TWO MINUTES. 
          HI, UH, MY NAME IS LIAM HUGHES. 
          WILLIAM HUGHES, AND I LIVE AT, UH, 20 ORCHARD STREET NORTH CAMBRIDGE. 
          SO I CAME HERE TODAY TO VOICE MY SUPPORT FOR POLICY ORDER NUMBER TWO AND SPECIFICALLY TO DISCUSS THE ENVIRONMENTAL NEED FOR A PLANT-BASED TREATY. 
          I HAVE A MASTER'S DEGREE IN MECHANICAL ENGINEERING AND I WORKED AS A MECHANICAL ENERGY SYSTEMS DESIGNER WHERE I'VE DEDICATED MY LIFE TO DECARBONIZING BUILDINGS THROUGHOUT MASSACHUSETTS. 
          I CHOSE THIS CAREER PATH BECAUSE I DEEPLY CARE ABOUT TAKING ACTION TO COMBAT THE CLIMATE CRISIS. 
          AND WHEN I LEARNED ABOUT THE DEVASTATING ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT OF ANIMAL AGRICULTURE, THAT'S WHEN I KNEW I HAD TO ADOPT A PLANT-BASED DIET. 
          OUR FOOD SYSTEM ACCOUNTS FOR ABOUT ONE THIRD OF ALL GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS, WHICH IS LARGER, UH, THAN EVEN THE TRANSPORTATION SECTOR. 
          SO SHIFTING TOWARDS A PLANT-BASED UH, DIET IS A HUGE COMPONENT OF ADDRESSING CLIMATE CHANGE. 
          WHEN IT COMES TO DECARBONIZATION, EVERY LITTLE BIT COUNTS. 
          AND, UH, SIMILARLY WHEN WE CHOOSE TO PURCHASE PLANT-BASED PRODUCTS OR MEALS INSTEAD OF ANIMAL PRODUCTS, WE'RE DOING OUR PART TO MITIGATE THE DEMAND FOR ENVIRONMENTALLY HARMFUL ANIMAL PRODUCTS AND TO SHOW OUR GROCERY STORES, RESTAURANTS AND CAFES THAT WE ARE, UH, THAT WE AS CONSUMERS WANT SUSTAINABLE PLANT-BASED FOODS. 
          I KNOW THE CITY OF CAMBRIDGE HAS CLIMATE REDUCTION GOALS ALREADY IN PLACE, AND, UH, BY ENACTING POLICY ORDER NUMBER TWO AND FORMALLY ENDORSING THE PLANT-BASED TREATY, THE CITY WILL CITY WILL BECOME FURTHER ALIGNED WITH SUSTAINABLE BEST PRACTICES. 
          UM, SO I SINCERELY HOPE THAT WE SHARE THE SAME COMMITMENT TO MITIGATING THE CLIMATE CRISIS. 
          AND I'LL LEAVE BY ASKING YOU TO VOTE FAVORABLY ON POLICY ORDER NUMBER TWO. 
          SO OUR NEXT SPEAKER IS TRUDY GOODMAN, FOLLOWED BY ADRIANA PRATT. 
          THEN MARK KEEBLER. 
          TRUDY, YOU HAVE TWO MINUTES, PLEASE GO AHEAD. 
          UM, GOOD EVENING. 
          UM, I LIVE, CAN YOU HEAR ME OKAY? WE CAN PLEASE GO AHEAD. 
          OKAY. 
          I LIVE AT 1221 CAMBRIDGE STREET, THE EMMAN SQUARE CAST TWO APARTMENTS IN, UM, EMMAN SQUARE. 
          I'VE LIVED THERE FOR THREE, THREE YEARS NOW. 
          UM, THERE'S A LOT OF INFOR MISINFORMATION FLOATING AROUND HERE THIS EVENING. 
          I'M NOT GONNA NECESSARILY ADDRESS THAT, BUT HERE'S WHAT I DO WANNA ADDRESS. 
          I'M IN A BUILDING THAT'S 15 STORIES HIGH DOWN THE STREET FROM ME IS MILLER'S RIVER, WHICH I BELIEVE IS 18 STORIES HIGH. 
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THERE ARE HIGH RISES IN THIS AREA ALREADY. 
          THOSE HIGH RISES. 
          BASICALLY, THE PEOPLE WHO LIVE IN THOSE HIGH RISES ARE SECTION EIGHT TENANTS OR VOUCHER TENANTS. 
          NEW HIGH RISERS WILL NOT HELP PEOPLE LIKE ME AND THE PEOPLE WHO LIVE IN MILLER'S RIVER FOR PEOPLE TO BELIEVE THAT IS MISINFORMATION. 
          INCLUSIONARY WILL NOT ASSIST PEOPLE PREDOMINANTLY WHO ARE 11 TO 20:00 AM I, WHICH IS THE PEOPLE IN MY BUILDING. 
          THERE ARE 126 UNITS IN THIS BUILDING. 
          MOST OF THESE PEOPLE ARE LOW INCOME. 
          THEY WILL NOT BE ABLE TO GET INTO THESE HIGH RISES AND INTO THE INCLUSION AREA THAT SOME OF THESE PEOPLE ARE SUGGESTING HERE. 
          MORE IMPORTANTLY IS THE PEOPLE IN THIS NEIGHBORHOOD HAVE NOT BEEN GIVEN AN OPPORTUNITY TO DISCUSS ANY OF THIS, INCLUDING THE MERCHANTS WHO HAVE LONG-TERM BUSINESSES HERE IN INMAN SQUARE. 
          SO EVERYBODY WHO WANTS TO RAM THIS THROUGH, WHAT WOULD BE THE PROBLEM IF WE WAITED JUST A COUPLE OF MONTHS AND HEARD FROM EVERYBODY AND FOUND OUT JUST WHAT PEOPLE IN THIS NEIGHBORHOOD WANT? INSTEAD OF PEOPLE TRYING TO RIM THIS DOWN EVERYONE'S THROAT, PLEASE PUT AGENDA ITEM THREE ON HOLD SO THE PEOPLE IN THIS NEIGHBORHOOD HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO SPEAK ABOUT WHAT THEY NEED BECAUSE WE ACTUALLY LIVE HERE. 
          THANK YOU VERY MUCH AND HAVE A VERY GOOD EVENING. 
          THANK YOU. 
          OUR NEXT SPEAKER IS ADRIANA PRATT, FOLLOWED BY MARK KEEBLER, THEN MARYLEE MEYER. 
          ADRIANA, PLEASE GO AHEAD. 
          TWO MINUTES. 
          ADRIANA, IF YOU CAN UNMUTE YOURSELF. 
          YOU HAVE THE FLOOR. 
          AH, YES. 
          HELLO. 
          SORRY. 
          UH, UH, GOOD EVENING COUNCIL MEMBERS. 
          I AM ADRIANA PRATT AT 5 4 3 PANDA AVENUE, AND I'M HERE TO STRONGLY SUPPORT POLICY ORDER NUMBER TWO, THE PLANT-BASED TREATY. 
          I AM AN ARTIST SCIENTIST MOTHER IMMIGRANT, AND MY PASSION IS TO INSPIRE URGENTLY NEEDED ACTIONS FOR THE HUMAN MADE ENVIRONMENTAL CRISIS. 
          THROUGH MY ART AND THROUGH THE ARTIST COLLECTIVE I FOUNDED I THREE C. 
          I DO NOT NEED TO SPEAK ABOUT ENVIRONMENTAL AND CLIMATE CRISIS THAT WE ARE EXPERIENCING WHEN SEVEN OF THE NINE PLANETARY BOUNDARIES HAVE BEEN SURPASSED. 
          ANIMAL AGRICULTURE IS A MAJOR CONTRIBUTOR TO THIS, IN ADDITION TO THE CRUELTY INFLICTED TO SPECIES THAT NEVER AGREED TO BECOME A HUMAN COMMODITY. 
          AS IT HAS BEEN ELOQUENTLY DESCRIBED BEFORE ME, A PLANT-BASED DIET CAN PREVENT AND EVEN REVERSE CHRONIC DISEASES, SO IT IS DRAMATICALLY BETTER FOR THE HEALTH OF ALL OF OUR COMMUNITIES MEMBERS. 
          I WOULD HAVE LOVED IT IF MY DAUGHTER HAD HAD MORE PLANT-BASED FOOD OPTIONS WHEN SHE WAS AT CRLS YEARS AGO IN A TIME WHEN OUR FEDERAL GOVERNMENT IS PUSHING US INTO A DYSTOPIAN WORLD. 
          HAVING YOU ENDORSE THE PLANT-BASED TREATY IN CAMBRIDGE WILL BE A TREMENDOUS WIN FOR THE ENVIRONMENTAL CAUSE AND EXEMPLARY LEADERSHIP AND PRIEST PRECEDENT FOR OTHER CITIES, STATES, AND WORLD REGIONS. 
          THANK YOU FOR ALL YOUR ONGOING WORK ON CLIMATE ISSUES AND FOR EMBRACING THE PLANT-BASED REALLY TODAY TO CONTRIBUTE TO A LIVABLE FUTURE FOR ALL POPULATIONS ON OUR CHERISH PLANET. 
          THANK YOU. 
          OUR NEXT SPEAKER IS MARK KEEBLER, FOLLOWED BY MARYLEE MEYER. 
          THEN SUZANNE B MARK. 
          YOU HAVE TWO MINUTES, PLEASE GO AHEAD. 
          RIGHT, I THINK I'M UNMUTED NOW. 
          UH, SO GOOD EVENING, COUNSELORS. 
          MY NAME IS MARK KEEBLER AND I LIVE AT 52 PORTER STREET IN EAST CAMBRIDGE. 
          AND THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR YOUR TIME AND ALL THE WORK THAT YOU PUT INTO THE ZONING PROPOSALS. 
          I'M SPEAKING TODAY TO URGE YOU TO STRONG, UH, TO STRONGLY URGE YOU TO SUPPORT THE CAMBRIDGE STREET REZONING PROPOSAL AND TO MOVE IT FORWARD. 
          SO THIS CITY HAS SPENT YEARS ENGAGING RESIDENTS THROUGH ENVISION CAMBRIDGE AND OUR CAMBRIDGE STREET PLANNING PROCESSES AND AFFORDABLE HOUSING HAS REP REPEATEDLY EMERGED AS THE MOST IMPORTANT ISSUE FACING THE CITY THROUGH, UH, RESIDENTS, UH, SURVEYS. 
          AND THERE IS NO WAY TO ADDRESS THIS WITHOUT MAKING MORE HOUSING WITH THIS ORDINANCE. 
          THE CITY WOULD BE FOLLOWING THROUGH ON ITS COMMITMENTS AND ENGAGING WITH RESIDENTS, LONGSTANDING CONCERNS. 
          AND IN PARTICULAR, THIS PROPOSAL FOCUSES GROWTH WHERE IT MAKES MOST SENSE ALONG MAJOR CORRIDORS, NEAR TRANSIT JOBS AND NEIGHBORHOOD BUSINESSES. 
          SO IN THIS PROPOSAL, HEIGHT IS NOT JUST A DEVELOPER GIVEAWAY, IT'S TIED DIRECTLY TO PUBLIC BENEFITS, LIKE ACTIVE GROUND FLOOR USES BETTER STREET DESIGN, INCLUSIONARY HOUSING. 
          SO THAT MEANS THAT NEW DEVELOPMENT HAS TO CONTRIBUTE TO THE DAILY LIFE ON CAMBRIDGE STREET TO MAKE THINGS MORE WALKABLE, HAVE MORE SUPPORT FOR LOCAL BUSINESSES, AND THE GREATER POTENTIAL FOR SUSTAINABLE LIVINGS. 
          UM, SO WE OFTEN TALK ABOUT EQUITY, AFFORDABILITY, 
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AND SUSTAINABILITY AS OUR VALUES IN CAMBRIDGE. 
          AND IF YOU DON'T ENABLE HOUSING IN PLACES LIKE THIS, PLACES WITH TRANSIT, JOBS AND SERVICES AVAILABLE, THESE VALUES REMAIN TO BE JUST TALK. 
          SO THIS ORDINANCE DOESN'T SOLVE EVERYTHING, BUT IT'S A CONCRETE STEP, UH, IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION THAT ALIGNS OUR ZONING WITH OUR STATED VALUES. 
          UH, THANK YOU. 
          THANK YOU. 
          OUR NEXT SPEAKER IS MARYLEE MEYER MARYLEE. 
          YOU HAVE TWO MINUTES, PLEASE GO AHEAD. 
          HI, MARYLEE MEYER AND DANA STREET, WHILE OUR AMENDMENT REDUCING HEIGHTS ON CAMBRIDGE STREET TO SIX STORIES EXCLUDING INMAN SQUARE. 
          UM, IT DOESN'T INCLUDE OTHER EGREGIOUS ISSUES. 
          PLEASE LET CAMBRIDGE STREET EXPIRE FOR A MORE COMPREHENSIVE URBAN PLAN. 
          EXPIRATION OFTEN POINTED OUT BY COUNCILLOR MCGOVERN IS NOT THE FINAL WORD. 
          A CONTINUATION IS NOT RE-LITIGATING, BUT A MORE EFFICIENT CONSOLIDATING OF AMENDMENTS, POSSIBLY EVEN HELPING CENTRAL SQUARE. 
          FORCING THIS PETITION IGNORES UNRESOLVED ISSUES INCLUDING EVICTIONS OF, UH, RESIDENTS, SMALL BUSINESSES, LABS AS OF RIGHT INSUFFICIENT OPEN SPACE SET, UH, SETBACKS, PARKING, RESIDENTIAL AND COMMERCIAL PROJECTS SHOULD HAVE THE SAME DESIGN AND PLANNING BOARD REVIEW AT 20,000 SQUARE FEET. 
          INCLUSIONARY IS UNPREDICTABLE AND UN QUALIFIABLE AND THERE IS NO MENTION OF AFFORDABLE HOUSING AT ALL. 
          VOTE. 
          NOW, FIXATOR LEAVES THIS PLAN, UH, WANTING IN ITS PIECEMEAL STATE AND PRO DEVELOPER, UM, COUNSELORS HAVE BEEN RESHAPING CAMBRIDGE INTO THE LIFELESS PLAYGROUNDS OF THIS SUPER RICH, EXCEPT FOR SOME TONE DEAF HOUSING EFFORTS PASSED AS OF RIGHT WITHOUT COMPROMISE, AND THAT'S THE PROBLEM WITHOUT COMPROMISE, SUCH AS THE CASE OF THE HARVARD SQUARE HISTORIC DISTRICT WHERE A A PROPOSED, UM, OR INITIALLY PROPOSED RESIDENTIAL 12 TOWER PROJECT WAS PROPOSED FOR THE DEMO, UM, DEMOCRACY CENTER AND, UM, THE, UM, ON A SMALL FOOTPRINT, UM, IT WOULD BE ESSENTIALLY A DORM STRIPPED OF, OF UM, SIZE, SHAPE, AND DESIGN OVERSIGHT. 
          THIS, UM, CHC HAD, UM, LANDMARKED IT BECAUSE OF ITS IMPORTANCE. 
          WE CONTINUE TO SEE THE COUNCIL ARBITRARY NUMBER CRUNCHING IN ALL UPZONING WITHOUT NUANCE. 
          NUANCE IS, UH, YOU NEED NUANCE. 
          DO BETTER THINK HOLISTICALLY ABOUT RAMIFICATIONS. 
          THIS IS NOT AN ALL OR NOTHING FOR FOR ME OR AGAINST ME. 
          THERE HAS TO BE A PATHWAY. 
          THANK YOU. 
          THANK YOU. 
          OUR NEXT SPEAKER IS SUZANNE BLEIER, FOLLOWED BY TIMOTHY KOSKI, THEN RUTH PEFFER. 
          SUZANNE, YOU HAVE TWO MINUTES, PLEASE GO AHEAD. 
          THANK YOU, SUZANNE. 
          B FIVE FILLER PLACE FIRST, PLEASE LANDMARK THE DEMOCRACY CENTER, NOT ONLY BECAUSE IT'S REALLY IMPORTANT HISTORICALLY IN HARVARD SQUARE, BUT BECAUSE ALSO THE DEMOCRACY OF THIS COUNTRY IS REALLY UNDER THREAT AND THIS HAS BEEN A CRITICALLY IMPORTANT, UH, PLACE WITHIN THE CITY OF CAMBRIDGE AND WITHIN THE AREA. 
          SECONDLY, ON THE CAMBRIDGE STREET UPZONING, MY FIRST CHOICE WOULD BE TO LET THIS EXPIRE. 
          AT THE SAME TIME, I WANNA THANK MAYOR SIDIKI AND COUNCILLOR NOLAN FOR BRINGING PARTS OF THIS DOWN TO SIX STORIES. 
          UM, AT THE SAME TIME, GOING FORWARD, WE HAVE TO REALIZE THAT THIS IS GONNA BRING MORE LEASE TERMINATIONS, UH, AND THAT IT'S UNLIKELY TO HAVE ANY AFFORDABLE HOUSING, PARTICULARLY WITH THE PATRICK BARRETT LAWSUIT IN PLAY. 
          UM, I FOR ONCE ACTUALLY AGREE WITH SOMETHING THAT NEIL MILLER SAID, WHICH IS WE NEED TO FIND OUT IF THIS IS GONNA MAKE RENTS LOWER OR HIGHER. 
          AND MY FEELING BASED ON WHAT WE'RE SEEING AROUND THE CITY IS THAT THIS IS NOT ONLY GONNA CAUSE PEOPLE TO LOSE THEIR LEASES, BUT ALSO WILL BE MAKING RENTS HIGHER. 
          I URGE YOU IF THIS, UH, IF THE AMENDMENT DOES PASS TO LIMIT THE GROUND FLOOR SPACE TO 1500 SQUARE FEET SO WE CAN ENCOURAGE LOCAL BUSINESSES AND TO NOT ALLOW BANKS BEYOND 25 LINEAR FEET ON THE GROUND FLOOR. 
          I URGE YOU STRONGLY TO SUPPORT DESIGN OVERSIGHT FOR ANYTHING ABOVE THREE STORIES. 
          WE'RE GETTING SOME REALLY UNATTRACTIVE BUILDINGS IN CAMBRIDGE BECAUSE PEOPLE ARE NOT WILLING TO LOOK AT, UH, WHAT THE PROFESSIONALS THINK IS REALLY IMPORTANT. 
          AND WE ALL KNOW THAT WE CAN DO BETTER AND GOOD DESIGN GENERALLY IS NO MORE EXPENSIVE THAN REALLY BAD DESIGN. 
          SO I URGE YOU TO, TO LET THIS LAB AT THE LAPSE. 
          AT THE SAME TIME, I THINK MAYOR SIDIKI AND COUNCILOR NOLAN AND HAPPY SNOW DAY. 
          THANK YOU. 
          OUR NEXT SPEAKER IS TIMOTHY KOSKI, FOLLOWED BY RUTH PEFFER. 
          THEN 
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LEE FERRIS TIMOTHY, PLEASE GO AHEAD. 
          YOU HAVE TWO MINUTES. 
          HI, MY NAME IS TIMOTHY KOSKI. 
          UH, I LIVE ON 97 ELMWOOD STREET IN CAMBRIDGE. 
          UM, I'M HERE TO, UH, ASK OR TO ASK THE COUNSELORS TO GIVE SUPPORT TO THE UM, CAMBRIDGE STREET UPZONING AMENDMENT. 
          UM, FROM WHAT I HAVE READ, IT SEEMS DEEPLY, UH, MODERATE IN, IN SCOPE AND, BUT WE DO DESPERATELY NEED MORE, UM, HOUSING AND MORE BUILDING IN THIS CITY. 
          UM, AND SO I WOULD HOPE THAT THE COUNSELORS WOULD SUPPORT THIS AMENDMENT. 
          THANK YOU FOR THOSE WAITING. 
          WE ARE AT SPEAKER NUMBER 34 OF 65 SPEAKERS. 
          OUR NEXT SPEAKER IS RUTH EFFER, FOLLOWED BY LEE FERRIS AND ZION SHEAN. 
          RUTH, YOU HAVE TWO MINUTES, PLEASE GO AHEAD. 
          GOOD EVENING, CITY COUNSELORS. 
          MY NAME IS RUTH EFFER AND I'M A HIGH SCHOOL SENIOR WHO HAS LIVED AT 1 71 HARVEY STREET FOR MY ENTIRE LIFE. 
          I'M HERE TO SUPPORT POLICY ORDER NUMBER TWO, THE PLANT-BASED TREATY. 
          I'VE LOVED THIS CITY SINCE I WAS LITTLE. 
          WHILE I GREW UP HERE. 
          I LEARNED ABOUT THE EXTREME AND WIDESPREAD VIOLENCE TOWARDS ANIMALS INVOLVED IN OUR FOOD SYSTEM. 
          AS A PACIFIST, I FOUND THIS CRUELTY UNCONSCIONABLE AND I WAS INSPIRED TO BECOME AN ADVOCATE. 
          LAST YEAR I ORGANIZED THE EAT FOR IMPACT CAMPAIGN TO ADD PLANT-BASED OPTIONS TO RESTAURANTS IN CAMBRIDGE. 
          I'D LIKE TO THANK THE CITY FOR SUPPORTING ME, INCLUDING SOME OF YOU IN THIS MEETING. 
          IT'S EASY TO FEEL DESPAIR WHEN I THINK OF THE BILLIONS OF ANIMALS STRUGGLING EVERY DAY. 
          BUT CAMBRIDGE'S LONGSTANDING COMMITMENT TO ENVIRONMENTALISM GIVES ME HOPE AS I GO OFF TO COLLEGE. 
          I PLAN TO KEEP ADVOCATING FOR THE WORLD THAT I BELIEVE IN. 
          I DREAM OF SOMEDAY LIVING IN A COUNTRY WITH A NON-VIOLENT FOOD SYSTEM THAT'S BASED ON BRINGING COMMUNITIES TOGETHER AND BUILDING THAT FOOD SYSTEM STARTS RIGHT HERE WITH A PLANT-BASED TREATY. 
          THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME AND FOR CONSIDERING THIS IMPORTANT POLICY ORDER. 
          THANK YOU. 
          OUR NEXT SPEAKER IS LEE FERRIS, FOLLOWED BY ZION SHEARING, THE THEN HELEN WALKER LEE, YOU HAVE TWO MINUTES, PLEASE GO AHEAD. 
          GOOD EVENING. 
          UH, LEE FARRIS FROM NORFOLK STREET IN THE PORT. 
          I'M SPEAKING FOR THE CAMBRIDGE RESIDENCE ALLIANCE. 
          WE ENCOURAGE COUNSELORS TO VOTE FOR THE NOLAN AMENDMENT FOR SIX FLOORS. 
          HOWEVER, THE CAMBRIDGE RESIDENTS ALLIANCE STILL THINKS THE PETITION SHOULD EXPIRE, FOLLOWED BY A BRIEF COMMUNITY PROCESS ON THE PROPOSED ZONING. 
          AND THEN ALL THE REMAINING ISSUES, INCLUDING THE ACTIVE GROUND FLOOR REQUIREMENT CAN BE RESOLVED AND PRESENTED IN ONE COMPREHENSIVE COMPREHENSIVE PETITION. 
          IT IS THE WRONG APPROACH TO CONDUCT A PLANNING STUDY, THEN DESIGNED THE ZONING, BUT NOT ALLOW RESIDENTS AND BUSINESSES TO DISCUSS THAT ZONING EXCEPT DURING PUBLIC COMMENT TO THE COUNCIL. 
          OUR BIGGEST CONCERN IS NOT KNOWING THE AMOUNT OF INCLUSIONARY HOUSING ESTIMATED TO RESULT FROM THE ZONING. 
          WE ASK THAT COUNCIL, THAT COUNCIL REQUIRE THOSE INCLUSIONARY ESTIMATES BEFORE PASSING THIS ZONING AND STATE TO CITY STAFF THAT THOSE ESTIMATES MUST BE PRODUCED FOR EVERY FUTURE ZONING PETITION. 
          WE BELIEVE THAT THE PROPOSED ZONING WILL RESULT IN SIX FLOOR BUILDINGS WITH NOT EVEN ACTIVE GROUND FLOOR AND NOT HAVING INCLUSIONARY UNITS THAT COULD BE FIXED, BUT IT WOULD TAKE ANOTHER PETITION TO DO THAT. 
          WE ASK THE COUNCIL TO DELAY IMPLEMENTATION IF THE CAMBRIDGE STREET PETITION PASSES WITH THE AMENDMENTS. 
          THE ZONING SHOULD ONLY TAKE EFFECT AFTER THE PROPOSED PETITION, UH, THAT WILL REQUIRE ACTIVE GROUND FLOOR SPACE IS PASSED. 
          IN SUMMARY, WE ASK COUNSELORS TO VOTE IN FAVOR OF THE NOLAN AMENDMENT FOR SIX FLOORS AND TO NOT SUPPORT THE PETITION AS A WHOLE. 
          SOME OUTSTANDING ISSUES THAT COULD BE ADDRESSED INCLUDE NOT ALLOWING LABS AS OF RIGHT INCREASED PROJECT REVIEW REQUIREMENTS, INCREASED OPEN SPACE AND STREET TREE REQUIREMENTS, AND THE REQUIREMENTS FOR ACTIVE GROUND FLOOR USE. 
          THANK YOU. 
          THANK YOU. 
          OUR NEXT SPEAKER IS ZION. 
          SHE FOLLOWED BY HELEN WALKER, THEN BRENNAN WATERS. 
          ZION, YOU HAVE TWO MINUTES, PLEASE GO AHEAD. 
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HI, ZION CHAIR FOUR ONE WASHINGTON STREET. 
          I AM CALLING IN, UH, ASKING, UH, THE COUNCIL TO LET THE CAMBRIDGE STREET ZONING PETITION EXPIRE. 
          I DO THINK THAT THE AMENDMENTS BEING PROPOSED WOULD BE BETTER. 
          HOWEVER, UM, WHILE LOOKING AT THE AMENDMENT, I STILL AM NOT CONTENT WITH, UM, THE LACK OF ADDRESSING, UM, ZONING ISSUES WHEN IT COMES TO PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES AND ACCESSIBILITY, WHETHER IT BE PROPER LOADING ZONES OR HANDICAP SPACES. 
          I BROUGHT THIS UP SEVERAL TIMES AND SHARED THE STORY THAT I HAD WITH MY MOTHER WHO RECENTLY PASSED OF CANCER AND HER EX HER EXPERIENCES, UM, GETTING IN AND OUT OF VEHICLES AND HOW DIFFICULT THAT WAS. 
          AND I THINK THAT THE COUNCIL TAKING THE TIME TO, UH, MAKE AMENDMENTS WHEN IT CAME TO HEIGHT OF BUILDINGS BUT NOT PROPERLY ADDRESS DISABLED RESIDENTS IS, IS REALLY TELLING TO THE PRIORITIES THE COUNCIL IS, IS PUSHING. 
          ADDITIONALLY, I'D LIKE TO STATE THAT IF THIS IS TRULY ABOUT A HOUSING CRISIS AND WE'RE WORKING ON MAKING SURE MORE RESIDENTS CAN LIVE HERE, HAVING LABS BY RIGHT DOES THE EXACT OPPOSITE, ENCOURAGES SPACE THAT MAY NOT EVEN BE USED PROPERLY DUE TO THE FACT THAT RIGHT NOW ABOUT A THIRD OF LAB SPACE IN THE GREATER BOSTON AREA IS VACANT. 
          SO OVERALL, I DO THINK THAT THE AMENDMENT WOULD BE BETTER FOR THE ZONING, BUT I AM REQUESTING THAT PEOPLE ARE, THAT COUNSELORS ALLOW IT TO EXPIRE AND THAT THEY FOCUS ON PRIORITIES SUCH AS ACCESSIBILITY AND POTENTIALLY, UH, REIGNING IN THE LAB SPACE. 
          THANKS. 
          BYE. 
          THANK YOU. 
          OUR NEXT SPEAKER IS HELEN WALKER, FOLLOWED BY BRENDAN WATERS, THEN HALLE TRIAL. 
          HELEN, YOU HAVE TWO MINUTES. 
          PLEASE GO AHEAD. 
          SORRY ABOUT THAT. 
          HELEN, IF YOU CAN TRY TO UNMUTE YOURSELF NOW. 
          YOU HAVE TWO MINUTES. 
          CAN YOU HEAR ME NOW? YES, PLEASE GO AHEAD, HELEN WALKER, 43 LINEAN STREET. 
          THANK YOU FOR THE CHANCE TO SPEAK ABOUT THE CAMBRIDGE STREET ZONING PETITION. 
          PROFUSE THANKS TO COUNCILLOR NOLAN AND MAYOR SIDIKI FOR THEIR AMENDMENTS. 
          OF COURSE, THE RESULTS OF A STUDY INVOLVING SIGNIFICANT TAXPAYER FUNDS AND WORKING GROUP TIME SHOULD NOT BE SET ASIDE WITHOUT A LEGITIMATE PROCESS. 
          AND THANKS FOR HIGHLIGHTING THE NEED FOR FURTHER ACTION TO PROTECT GROUND FLOOR BUSINESS, ESPECIALLY SMALL BUSINESS. 
          BUT THERE'S MORE TO DO. 
          ON DECEMBER 15TH, COUNCIL VOTED TO REDUCE THE MAXIMUM HEIGHT AND IN SQUARE FROM 10 STORIES TO EIGHT STORIES. 
          HASN'T HAPPENED, HASN'T IN, ISN'T IN THIS AGENDA PACKAGE. 
          WHEN IS THAT GOING TO HAPPEN? THERE'S NO ZONING MAP OR DESCRIPTIVE TEXT. 
          HOW DO WE VERIFY THE BOUNDARIES OF CAMBRIDGE? 8, 10, 12, AND 15. 
          AND WHERE ARE THE AMENDMENTS? THE COMMUNITY KEEPS ASKING FOR INCLUSIONARY UNITS REQUIRED AT OVER FOUR STORIES, SAME AS C. 
          ONE DISTRICT REAR SETBACKS OVER FIVE FEET. 
          NEW AND EXISTING RESIDENTS STARING INTO EACH OTHER'S BEDROOMS. 10 FEET AWAY WILL BE MISERABLE. 
          THESE WILL NOT BE HOME FOR CASTING, FOR CASTING ROOTS AND RAISING FAMILIES IN OPEN SPACE. 
          COMPARABLE TO ALL OTHER RESIDENTIAL DISTRICTS, AT LEAST 15% AND SHOULD BE MOSTLY GREEN AND AT GRADE, REMEMBER THE PLANNING BOARD COMMENT, NO OPEN SPACE WILL LEAD TO A REALLY CRAPPY URBAN STREET SCAPE PROJECT REVIEW AT A LOWER THRESHOLD. 
          ALL PROJECTS OVER FOUR STORIES OR 20,000 SQUARE FEET ACCESSIBLE DROP OFF AND DELIVERY AS I SAY. 
          MORE TO DO AND THANK YOU FOR YOUR EFFORTS, HELEN. 
          I GUESS THAT WAS THE END. 
          UM, WE WILL GO TO BRENNAN WATERS, FOLLOWED BY HALLE TRIAL THEN LORI SHEFFIELD. 
          BRENNAN, YOU HAVE TWO MINUTES, PLEASE GO AHEAD. 
          HI, THANK YOU. 
          BRENNAN WATERS. 
          I LIVE AT 14 REMINGTON STREET. 
          I PREVIOUSLY LIVED AT 4 66 CAMBRIDGE STREET IN EAST CAMBRIDGE. 
          I WANTED TO VOICE MY SUPPORT FOR INCREASED HOUSING ON CAMBRIDGE STREET. 
          HOUSING IS SO EXPENSIVE TO CAMBRIDGE AND I'D REALLY LOVE TO STAY IN THE CITY LONG TERM AND HOPEFULLY RAISE A FAMILY HERE. 
          BUT TODAY IT'S HARD TO ENVISION IT WITH HOUSING PRICES SO HIGH IN THE PREMIUM OF STAYING IN CAMBRIDGE, BEING SO LARGE. 
          UM, MORE HOUSING WILL HELP DRIVE DOWN COSTS FOR EVERYONE, FOR, FOR YOUNG PEOPLE WHO WANT TO JOIN THE GREAT JOB MARKET, BUT ALSO FOR FAMILIES WHO WANNA STAY HERE LONG TERM AND HELP RESIDENTS LIKE ME WHO WANT TO CONTRIBUTE TO CAMBRIDGE, BUILD LIFE IN CAMBRIDGE, BE ABLE TO STAY IN CAMBRIDGE, THIS IS A GREAT OPPORTUNITY TO BUILD MORE HOUSING ON UNDERUTILIZED LOTS AS WELL AS CONTRIBUTE, UM, TO INCREASE DENSITY IN OUR CORRIDORS. 
          UH, THANK YOU VERY MUCH. 
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APOLOGIES. 
          I'M HAVING A LITTLE DELAY WITH MY INTERNET. 
          OUR NEXT SPEAKER IS HALLE TRIAL, FOLLOWED BY LORI SHEFFIELD, THEN CAMILLA, ELVIS HALLE, YOU HAVE TWO MINUTES, PLEASE GO AHEAD. 
          HELLO. 
          THANK YOU FOR THE OPPORTUNITY TO SPEAK HERE AND THANK YOU TO THE COUNSELORS FOR BRINGING THIS, UH, PROPOSAL TO UPSON, UH, CAMBRIDGE STREET FORWARD. 
          I REALLY APPRECIATE THIS AS WELL AS THE COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT THAT LED TO IT. 
          UM, I'M ONE OF THE OFFICERS OF THE MIT GRADUATE STUDENT COUNCIL, WHICH REPRESENTS OVER 6,000 GRADUATE STUDENTS LIVING, UM, YOU KNOW, AROUND MIT IN CAMBRIDGE, SOMERVILLE IN BOSTON, AND I'M HERE TO SHARE THE PERSPECTIVE OF GRADUATE STUDENTS. 
          UM, THIS ZONING CHANGE WILL HELP LIMIT MARKET RATE, UH, RENT INCREASES BY MITIGATING HOUSING SCARCITY, WHILE ALSO ALLOWING THE CONSTRUCTION OF DESPERATELY NEEDED AFFORDABLE UNITS. 
          UM, AND DATA FROM TWO SURVEYS, ONE CONDUCTED BY THE GSC AND ONE CONDUCTED BY MY HOME DEPARTMENT, HIGHLIGHT THE URGENCY OF THE HOUSING HOUSING CRISIS AS AN EQUITY ISSUE. 
          ONLY 40% OF GRADUATE STUDENTS IN MY DEPARTMENT WHO IDENTIFY AS FIRST GENERATION COLLEGE STUDENTS AGREED THAT THEY WERE ABLE TO TRANSITION TO MIT WITHOUT SEVERE FINANCIAL BURDEN COMPARED TO A MUCH HIGHER PERCENTAGE, 75% OF NON-FIRST GENERATION STUDENTS. 
          THE FINANCIAL BURDEN OF RELOCATION IS PRIMARILY DRIVEN BY HIGH HOUSING COSTS IN THE AREA. 
          AND OUR GSC SURVEY SIMILARLY FOUND THAT, UH, FIRST GENERATION AND LOW INCOME STUDENTS WERE THOSE MOST IMPACTED BY HIGH HOUSING COSTS. 
          MULTIPLE STUDENTS EVEN REPORTED HAVING TO LIVE IN AIRBNBS FOR THEIR FIRST FEW WEEKS IN CAMBRIDGE BECAUSE OUR LOW VACANCY RATE MADE IT IMPOSSIBLE FOR THEM TO FIND A PLACE TO LIVE BEFORE THEY NEEDED TO START THEIR PROGRAM. 
          OUR STRIKING RESULTS MOTIVATED US TO CONTINUE PRESSURING BOTH LOCAL GOVERNMENT AND THE MIT ADMINISTRATION TO REDUCE THE COST OF HOUSING. 
          FAILURE TO ADDRESS OUR HOUSING CRISIS WILL NOT DIMINISH THE DESIRABILITY OF THE EXCELLENT EDUCATIONAL, PROFESSIONAL, CULTURAL AND PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCES CAMBRIDGE HAS TO OFFER, BUT IT WILL LIMIT WHO CAN TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THESE OPPORTUNITIES. 
          IF WE WANT CAMBRIDGE TO BE A PLACE THAT WELCOMES PEOPLE OF ALL BACKGROUNDS, WE CANNOT ALLOW HOUSING SCARCITY TO CONTINUE ACTING AS A BARRIER TO LOW INCOME PEOPLE WHO ARE HERE TO PURSUE THEIR DREAMS. THANK YOU, HALLE. 
          WE WILL GO TO LORI SHEFFIELD, FOLLOWED BY CAMILLA, ELVIS, SYDNEY SNOW, THEN KATHY HOFFMAN. 
          LORI, YOU HAVE TWO MINUTES, PLEASE GO AHEAD. 
          OKAY, I'M UNMUTED. 
          UM, HELLO. 
          I'M A CAMBRIDGE PORT RESIDENT, UH, AND I'VE LIVED IN CAMBRIDGE FOR DECADES. 
          I AM SURE THAT ALL THE SPEAKERS IN FAVOR OF INCREASED HOUSING ARE BOTH SPEAKING FROM THEIR HEARTS AND ABSOLUTELY CORRECT IN TERMS OF THE PRESSURES THAT MANY PEOPLE FACE, UH, IN TERMS OF HOUSING COST. 
          THERE ARE OTHER SPEAKERS WHO HAVE GONE THROUGH THE, UH, PROPOSED AMENDMENTS IN MORE DETAIL. 
          I'D LIKE TO SPEAK TO THE ACTIVE USE OF THE GROUND FLOOR, UH, ISSUE, WHICH WAS SPELLED OUT PRETTY CAREFULLY RELATED TO EXISTING BUSINESSES ON CAMBRIDGE STREET. 
          THIS IS ONE OF THE FEW SEMI INTACT SHOPPING DISTRICTS IN CAMBRIDGE AND INCLUDES, UH, BUSINESSES I REGULARLY USE. 
          UM, THE THE HARDWARE STORE, THE CRAFT STORE, THE RUG STORE, THE PAINT STORE. 
          THIS IS ONE OF THE PLACES IN CAMBRIDGE WHERE YOU CAN ACTUALLY SHOP LOCALLY AS A PROPERTY OWNER AND A HOMEOWNER AND SOMEONE WHO BROUGHT UP CHILDREN IN THIS CITY. 
          I WANT THESE TYPES OF SHOPPING AREAS TO BE POSSIBLE AND I THINK THAT CAREFUL WORK ON THIS PROPOSAL CAN MAKE THAT MORE POSSIBLE. 
          SO I WOULD BE LIKE TO SUPPORT THE NOLAN AMENDMENT ABOUT THE NUMBER OF STORIES INCLUDED AND WOULD LIKE TO PARTICULARLY EMPHASIZE THE PARTS OF THE PROPOSAL WHICH ADDRESS EXISTING BUSINESSES THE SIZE, THE SQUARE FOOTAGE OF BUSINESSES ON THE GROUND FLOORS. 
          AND PART OF THAT IS BECAUSE OF HAVING OBSERVED DEVELOPMENT ON OTHER MAJOR QUARTERS, WHICH DO ALLOW ACTIVE USE, BUT BECAUSE THE SPACES ARE ONLY APPROPRIATE FOR CORPORATE OR LARGER USES, IN FACT REMAIN VACANT TURNOVER RAPIDLY OR ARE REALLY NOT USED AT ALL IN THE WAY THAT THEY WERE INTENDED. 
          SO THAT'S THE PART OF THE PROPOSAL THAT INTERESTS ME MOST AS A RESIDENT WHO WANTS TO CONTINUE SHOPPING LOCALLY AND FOR CAMBRIDGE TO HAVE THE URBAN TEXTURE THAT IN FACT MAKES WHAT PEOPLE WANNA LIVE HERE. 
          IT'S ACTUALLY QUITE IMPORTANT TO THE WHOLE PICTURE. 
          THANK YOU. 
          I APPRECIATE ALL THE WORK. 
          BYE. 
          THANK YOU. 
          OUR NEXT SPEAKER IS CAMILLA ELVIS. 
          UH, CAMILLA HAS NOT JOINED THE ZOOM. 
          WE'RE GONNA GO TO SYDNEY SNOW FOLLOWED BY KATHY HOFFMAN. 
          SYDNEY, PLEASE GO AHEAD. 
          YOU HAVE TWO MINUTES. 
          THANK YOU ALL. 
          UM, GOOD EVENING. 
          MY NAME IS SYDNEY SNOW OF 43 FIFTH STREET JUST OFF CAMBRIDGE. 
          UM, I'M HERE TO DISCUSS THE PROPOSITION TO AMEND THE ZONING MAP AND ZONING ORDINANCES 
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AND ITEM NUMBER THREE ON THE TABLE. 
          WHILE I THINK ADDED RESIDENTIAL SPACE WOULD BE BENEFICIAL TO THOSE WHO LIVE IN THIS CORRIDOR, THERE DOES NOT SEEM TO BE A GUARANTEE OF INCLUSIONARY HOUSING PROJECTS OR OTHER TYPES OF AFFORDABLE HOUSING BEING MANDATED IN THE FUTURE WITH THIS ZONING PLAN, WHICH IS WHY I WOULD LIKE TO SUGGEST THAT THE COUNCIL ALLOWS THE AMENDMENT TO EXPIRE AND TO ADD LANGUAGE IN REVISIONS TO THE AMENDMENT FOR GUARANTEED INCLUSIONARY HOUSING AND OR OTHER TYPES OF AFFORDABLE HOUSING IN ANY FUTURE PROJECTS. 
          MY CONCERN IS THAT THE INCLUSIONARY HOUSING WILL BE AVOIDED IN NEW DEVELOPMENTS IF IT IS BELOW THE 10 UNIT AND 10,000 SQUARE FOOT THRESHOLD FOR INCLUSIONARY HOUSING MANDATES OUTLINED IN SECTION 11.203 OF THE CURRENT ZONING ORDINANCE. 
          AND THAT WE WILL CONTINUE TO SEE EXPENSIVE UNITS COME UP, EVEN WITH THE ZONING CHANGES IF THEY GO THROUGH THIS, WOULD MAKE AN ALREADY EXPENSIVE AREA EVEN MORE UNAFFORDABLE, PUSHING OUT LONGTIME RESIDENTS IN THE WORKING CLASS. 
          ON A MORE PERSONAL NOTE, I'M A TEACHER AND I HONESTLY ALREADY STRUGGLE TO LIVE IN THE AREA DUE TO THE COST OF LIVING, SPECIFICALLY THE HOUSING COSTS. 
          AND I THINK IT WOULD BE REALLY BENEFICIAL TO WORKING CLASS RESIDENTS AS A WHOLE, UM, NOT JUST THOSE WHO WOULD QUALIFY FOR INCLUSIONARY HOUSING IF THERE WAS A GUARANTEE OF THAT TYPE OF HOUSING AMID RISING RENT PRICES. 
          I KNOW IT'S BEEN SUGGESTED BY SOME THAT THERE IS NATURALLY OCCURRING AFFORDABLE HOUSING, BUT IN ALL HONESTY, I WAS LOOKING FOR HOUSING SIX TO EIGHT MONTHS BEFORE I PLANNED TO MOVE TO CAMBRIDGE THIS PAST YEAR. 
          AND THE HOUSING PRICES ARE ASTRONOMICAL, I THINK ACROSS THE BOARD, ESPECIALLY CONSIDERING THE STATE OF A LOT OF THE OLDER HOUSING STOCK. 
          UM, THANK YOU ALL FOR YOUR TIME. 
          AGAIN, I WOULD URGE A COUNCIL TO JUST PUT THIS ON HOLD AND LIKE SOME OTHER FOLKS HAVE SAID, JUST PLEASE REVIEW IT. 
          UM, I ALSO AGREE WITH, YOU KNOW, THE OTHER COMMENTS ABOUT KIND OF REVIEWING SOME OTHER PARTS OF THE PLAN. 
          UM, IT SEEMS LIKE SOME MORE SPECIFIC VERBIAGE WOULD BE HELPFUL IN A COUPLE DIFFERENT SECTIONS. 
          UM, SO THANK YOU ALL FOR YOUR TIME. 
          THANK YOU. 
          OUR NEXT SPEAKER IS KATHY HOFFMAN, FOLLOWED BY BARAL LIPTON, THEN MAX KAPLAN. 
          KATHY, YOU HAVE TWO MINUTES, PLEASE GO AHEAD. 
          CAN YOU HEAR ME? WE CAN PLEASE GO AHEAD. 
          BEAUTIFUL, BEAUTIFUL. 
          GOOD SNOWY EVENING. 
          I WANNA BEGIN THANKING THE CITY WORKERS OUT THERE, MAKING IT POSSIBLE FOR US TO MOVE AROUND AND KEEP OUR LIVES SORT OF ON TRACK. 
          WITH SO MUCH BLOWING UP AND DIVIDING US AROUND THE COUNTRY, IT SHOWS THE COOPERATION AND MUTUAL CARE WE REALLY NEED. 
          IT'S IN THAT SPIRIT, I'M ADDING MY VOICE TO THOSE ASKING FOR THE UNAMENDED CAMBRIDGE STREET ZONING TO EXPIRE SO WE CAN REORIENT STOP FIGHTING EACH OTHER OR PUTTING TIME INTO A FRAUGHT PROPOSAL, WHICH HAS THE POSSIBILITY OF HEIGHTS WITHOUT BENEFITS OR EVEN WITH BENEFITS WHICH MIGHT DISAPPEAR. 
          LEAVING US WITH TALL AS OF WRIGHT HEIGHTS LED BY DEVELOPERS AS WE SEE THE, I ALSO WANNA MENTION TO THE GRADUATE STUDENT FROM MITI APPRECIATE YOUR REMARKS AND THAT IS PART OF WHY THERE HAS BEEN AN ONGOING STRUGGLE TO HOLD MIT RESPONSIBLE FOR HOUSING. 
          ITS GRADUATE STUDENTS NOT PUTTING THAT BURDEN ON THE CITY OF CAMBRIDGE TO BUILD BUILDINGS FOR YOU. 
          AS WE SEE THE DIVIDES BETWEEN THE HAVES AND HAVE NOTS DRAMATICALLY PLAYED OUT AROUND US, THIS COUNCIL SHOULD TAKE THE TIME TO FIND SOLUTIONS TO HOUSING AS WELL AS HEALTHCARE PUBLIC SAFETY TRANSIT, WHICH BENEFIT THE GOOD OF THE WHOLE. 
          WHILE CA CENTERING THOSE MOST LEFT OUT, WE DON'T HAVE TO VILIFY ANYONE TO LIFT UP THOSE MOST IN NEED IN OUR CITY AND CHOOSING THINGS LIKE SOCIAL HOUSING, CLTS OR MAXIMUM AFFORDABILITY OVER MARKET RATE GIVEAWAYS FOR DEVELOPERS. 
          FINALLY, I JUST WANNA MENTION I'M IN SUPPORT OF LANDMARKING THE DEMOCRACY CENTER. 
          AS SOMEONE WHO WAS IN AND OUT OF THAT BUILDING WITH MANY HATS ON OVER THE PAST 25 YEARS, IT WAS AN EXTRAORDINARY, UH, EXTRAORDINARY PLACE OF VIBRANCY ON THE WHOLE BREADTH OF WHAT DEMOCRACY CAN MEAN FROM FEEDING PEOPLE TO ENVISIONING NEW WAYS OF BEING, UH, SERVING HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS IN THE CAMBRIDGE AND MANY OTHERS, UH, CREATING THIS STATUTE. 
          I THINK, MY APOLOGIES, KATHY, PLEASE EMAIL US THE REMAINDER OF YOUR COMMENT. 
          OUR NEXT SPEAKER IS BERYL LIPTON, FOLLOWED BY MAX KAPLAN, THEN MARYANNE QUINN BERYL. 
          TWO MINUTES PLEASE GO AHEAD. 
          THANK YOU SO MUCH. 
          BERYL LIPTON OAK STREET. 
          I'VE SPOKEN WITH MANY CAMBRIDGE STREET PEOPLE OF DIVERSE BACKGROUNDS, INCOMES AND LEVELS OF COMFORT WITH PUBLIC TESTIMONY. 
          OUR CONCERNS ABOUT COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT, PLANNING AND DETAILS, TRANSPARENCY, OUR BELOVED SMALL BUSINESSES ENVIRONMENT, HISTORY AND VIBRANCY IN THE PUBLIC REALM, THE LOVE I, AND WE HAVE EXPRESSED ALL THAT IN GOOD FAITH. 
          WHILE I'VE WORKED AND VOLUNTEERED FOR NONPROFITS, I'VE SPENT MORE THAN A QUARTER MILLION DOLLARS IN RENT ALONE IN CAMBRIDGE AND I'VE NEVER OWNED A CAR. 
          I'M STILL TRYING TO MAKE THE NUMBERS PENCIL FOR MY OWN LIFE AND I RESPECT THIS PLACE AND ITS PEOPLE AND THOSE WHO SHARE AND WANT TO SHARE THIS HOME 
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IN THE GREAT CULTURAL CENTER THAT IS CAMBRIDGE A PLACE WORTHY OF QUALITY THOUGHT. 
          ON THAT NOTE, I WANNA SHARE THAT. 
          LAST WEEK FRIENDS MADE ME AWARE OF AN UNFORTUNATE BLOG POST BY A LOCAL COMMENTATOR FEATURING IMAGES OF THE WEBSTER WINDSOR AREA REGARDING THIS PETITION IN ALL OF CAMBRIDGE STREET. 
          IT'S STATED IN PART, CITY COUNCIL NEEDS TO DECIDE WILL IT MAINTAIN THE CHARACTER OF GAS STATIONS AND TOW LOTS. 
          I'VE WALKED THESE STREETS INCLUDING WEBSTER, LITERALLY THOUSANDS OF TIMES DEVELOPMENT THERE IS A CVILLE ISSUE AND IT'S WILD TO ENCOUNTER SUCH CONFUSION ABOUT THE CHARACTER OF CAMBRIDGE STREET. 
          WE'VE REFERENCED AND SUGGEST THAT WE DON'T SEE BOTH ROOM FOR SERIOUS PROGRESS AND THE EMPTY SPACES AND LABS THAT ALREADY EXIST. 
          THIS KIND OF LOW QUALITY FRAMING OF IMPORTANT COMMUNITY ISSUES IS CRAP. 
          AND TO IT I SAY MISS ME WITH THAT KIND OF BAD FAITH BS I DID APPRECIATE HEARING INTEREST TONIGHT IN SOME OF THE SAME QUESTIONS WE'VE BEEN ASKING AND I'VE TRULY APPRECIATED THE CONVERSATIONS AND ACTUAL CARE SOME OF YOU HAVE SHOWN TO ME IN MY NEIGHBORHOOD. 
          I WELCOME MORE DISCUSSION WITH ANYONE INTERESTED IN CAMBRIDGE STREET'S FUTURE AS I'M OPTIMISTIC THAT OUR VALUES ARE NOT SO DIFFERENT. 
          WHILE I WANT THIS PARTICULAR SLIPSHOD PETITION TO EXPIRE, I KNOW THAT IT ISN'T THE LAST WORD ON WHAT HAPPENS TO CAMBRIDGE STREET AND I'LL BE HERE FOR THOSE NEXT CONVERSATIONS. 
          THE BONES HERE ARE GOOD AND WE SHOULD BE TRULY THOUGHTFUL ABOUT THE RENOVATION. 
          I URGE YOU, COUNSELORS, AS YOU MOVE FORWARD WITH THIS TERM AND PLANS FOR CENTRAL SQUARE AND SEWAGE AND TRANSIT IN OUR CITY, PLEASE SHOW US WHAT REAL CONSIDERATION AND DELIBERATION AND QUALITY CONVERSATION LOOKS LIKE. 
          MODEL THE LOCAL LEADERSHIP AND GOOD GOVERNMENT GOVERNANCE OUR CITY DESERVES AND OUR COUNTRY NEEDS. 
          THANK YOU. 
          ALRIGHT, I COULDN'T UNMUTE THERE. 
          OUR NEXT SPEAKER IS MAX KAPLAN, FOLLOWED BY MARYANNE QUINN, THEN AMINA BUUBA CAR MAX. 
          YOU HAVE TWO MINUTES MAX, IF YOU CAN UNMUTE YOURSELF. 
          YOU HAVE TWO MINUTES, PLEASE GO AHEAD. 
          YEP. 
          HI, MAX KAPLAN 45 Y ROAD. 
          IF YOU LOOK AT WHICH CITIES ACROSS THE COUNTRY HAVE MANAGED TO HALT OR REVERSE OUT OF CONTROL, RENT PRICES, THEY ALL HAVE ONE THING IN COMMON. 
          THEY BUILT MORE UNITS. 
          I SUPPORT THE CAMBRIDGE STREET UPZONING 'CAUSE WE NEED THE HOUSING. 
          THANK YOU. 
          THANK YOU. 
          OUR NEXT SPEAKER IS MARIANNE QUINN, FOLLOWED BY AMINA BUUBA CAR. 
          THEN NANCY RYAN MARYANNE, IF YOU CAN UNMUTE YOURSELF, PLEASE GO AHEAD. 
          YOU HAVE TWO MINUTES. 
          HI, UH, IT'S MARIE ANN QUINN. 
          I LIVE AT 29 OTIS STREET, AND I WOULD LIKE TO COMMENT ON THE UPZONING. 
          UM, SO 29 OTIS STREET IS PART OF THE ONE FIRST COMPLEX. 
          IT TAKES UP THE CITY BLOCK OF CAMBRIDGE AND OTIS AND FIRST AND SECOND STREETS. 
          OUR BUILDING HAS MORE THAN 400 RESIDENTS IN A SIX STORY COMPLEX OF BUILDINGS SITUATED AROUND A COURTYARD. 
          WE UNDERSTOOD THAT THE EMPTY PARCEL OF LAND DIRECTLY ACROSS CAMBRIDGE STREET WAS ZONED TO BECOME A SIX STORY BUILDING WITH A SEVENTH FLOOR OF BUILDING UTILITIES SUCH AS HVAC. 
          WE NOW UNDERSTAND THAT THE CITY COUNCIL IS CONSIDERING UPZONING THIS LOT AND ALLOWING A DEVELOPER TO PUT UP A 15 STORY BUILDING MORE THAN DOUBLE THE ORIGINAL FOOTPRINT. 
          COMMUNICATION ABOUT THIS POTENTIAL CHANGE WAS NOT WELL DISSEMINATED. 
          WE ONLY LEARNED ABOUT IT BY CHANCE. 
          A 15 STORY BUILDING WOULD DWARF OUR BUILDING ALONG WITH THE TRIPLE DECKERS ADJACENT TO THIS LOT AND THE GLASS FACTORY APARTMENT BUILDING ACROSS MCGRATH HIGHWAY AND EAST CAMBRIDGE AS A WHOLE, WHICH IS MOSTLY TWO AND THREE STORY BUILDINGS. 
          IT IS NOT IN KEEPING WITH THE NEIGHBORHOOD. 
          RESIDENTS OF THE NEIGHBORHOOD RECENTLY ENDURED THE DEMOLITION OF THE SULLIVAN COURTHOUSE IN THE BUILDING OF 40 THORNDYKE, A PROCESS THAT WENT ON FOR MONTHS AND MONTHS. 
          40 THORNDYKE HAS ONLY THREE OCCUPIED FLOORS. 
          THE REST OF THE BUILDING IS EMPTY. 
          WE DO NOT WANT ANOTHER LARGE, NOISY, DISRUPTIVE, LENGTHY CONSTRUCTION PROJECT. 
          THE PROPOSED DEVELOPMENT HAS NO ONSITE PARKING, WHICH WILL LEAD TO MORE TROUBLE FINDING PARKING AND FURTHER TRAFFIC CONGESTION, WHICH ALREADY BACKS UP FOR BLOCKS DURING RUSH HOUR ON CAMBRIDGE STREET. 
          FINALLY, A 15 STORY BUILDING WILL RESULT IN A PERMANENT LOSS OF DAYLIGHT TO OUR APARTMENTS AS WELL AS TO THE COMMUNITY ROOF DECK AND COURTYARD. 
          PLEASE VOTE AGAINST THIS PROPOSAL. 
          THANK YOU. 
          THANK YOU. 
          OUR NEXT SPEAKER IS AMINA KAR, FOLLOWED BY NANCY RYAN. 
          THEN MARK TRUANT. 
          AMINA, YOU HAVE THE FLOOR. 
          PLEASE GO AHEAD. 
          TWO MINUTES. 
          AMINA, I SEE YOU LISTED AS A DIFFERENT NAME POSSIBLY. 
          UM, IF YOU CAN UNMUTE YOURSELF, YOU HAVE THE FLOOR. 
          OKAY. 
          WE'RE GONNA MOVE ON TO NANCY RYAN, FOLLOWED BY MARK TRUANT. 
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NANCY, YOU HAVE TWO MINUTES, PLEASE GO AHEAD. 
          HI, GOOD EVENING AND, UM, THANKS FOR THIS DISCUSSION. 
          UM, I URGE YOU TO LET THIS CAMBRIDGE STREET UPZONING PETITION EXPIRE. 
          WE DO HAVE A HOUSING CRISIS IN CAMBRIDGE, BUT THE NAME OF THE CRISIS IS AFFORDABILITY AND THERE IS NOTHING BUILT INTO THIS PETITION THAT GUARANTEES ANY KINDS OF AFFORDABILITY. 
          I JUST WANNA NOTE THAT RECENTLY LEADERS OF THE SO-CALLED YBI ABUNDANCE HOUSING MOVEMENT IN, UH, MASSACHUSETTS AND IN CAMBRIDGE HAVE BEEN QUOTED AS SAYING THAT, UH, ESSENTIALLY INCLUSIONARY ZONING GETS IN THE WAY OF DEVELOPMENT. 
          SO IT'S KIND OF BECOMING CLEAR THAT THIS IS NOT A PRIORITY FOR THE INTENSE ADVOCATES OF THE HEIGHT AND DENSITY AGENDA. 
          SO LET'S TAKE A BREATH, LET THIS PETITION EXPIRE AND TAKE A LOOK AT HOW CAMBRIDGE STREET CAN, WE CAN PLAN CAMBRIDGE STREET FOR THE FUTURE THAT IS GENUINELY INCLUSIVE OF LOW AND MODERATE INCOME EARNERS IN PARTICULAR, BUT OF A BROAD RANGE OF RESIDENTS. 
          THANKS SO MUCH. 
          THANK YOU. 
          WE ALREADY HEARD FROM JERRY PUC. 
          WE'RE GONNA GO TO MARK TRUANT, FOLLOWED BY STEVEN GARDNER, THEN SUSAN MARKOWITZ. 
          MARK, YOU HAVE TWO MINUTES, PLEASE GO AHEAD. 
          HI, MARK TRUANT. 
          YEP, PLEASE GO AHEAD. 
          YOU HAVE TWO. 
          OKAY. 
          UH, OKAY. 
          HI. 
          IT'S IRONIC, UH, THAT THE LONGTIME HOME OF THE DEMOCRACY CENTER WAS MENTIONED, UH, BY A COUPLE OF, UH, MY FELLOW IANS EARLIER THIS EVENING BECAUSE THE WAY THAT THE UPZONING ALONG CAME STREET HAS BEEN ENACTED OVER THE PAST YEAR, HAS BEEN ANYTHING BUT DEMOCRATIC. 
          IT IS A GOOD EXAMPLE OF HOW OUR GOVERNMENT ACTS WITHOUT FIRST UNDERSTANDING THE IMPACT OF MAJOR ZONING, CHANCE CHANGES AND CRAFTING REGULATIONS THAT WILL ACHIEVE GOALS WITHOUT DESTROYING THE BUILT ENVIRONMENT. 
          THE OUR CAMBRIDGE STREET STUDY HAS BEEN CITED BY COUNSELORS AND OTHER SUPPORTERS OF UPZONING HAS A JUSTIFICATION FOR IT. 
          FOR THE RECORD, THE STUDY STATED THAT IN THE, IN THAT STATED THAT THE PUBLIC IN GENERAL WAS OKAY WITH AN INCREASE IN DENSITY AS LONG AS THE ADDITIONAL HOUSING WAS AFFORDABLE AND SUNLIGHT OPEN SPACE TREES, TRAFFIC AND PARKING WERE ALL ACCOUNTED FOR SO THAT THE CHARACTER OF THE NEIGHBORHOOD WAS RESPECTED AND STRENGTHENED. 
          THE ORDINANCES WHICH HAVE BEEN PASSED AND THOSE PROPOSED ARE NOT RESPONSIVE TO THE STUDY. 
          CAMBRIDGE STREET IS 65 FEET WIDE. 
          THE STUDY ITSELF RECOGNIZED THAT INCREASING BUILDING HEIGHTS ON THE, ON THE STREET BEYOND FOUR STORIES WOULD HAVE A NEGATIVE IMPACT UNLESS BUILDINGS WERE REQUIRED TO HAVE STEP BACKS SO THAT SUNLIGHT WOULD REACH PEOPLE AND TREES ON THE STREET AND THE BUILDINGS MASSING WOULD BE IN SCALE AND RESPONSIVE TO THE CONTEXT OF THE NEIGHBORHOOD. 
          RED, A DARE WHOSE COMPANY FAMOUSLY FOUGHT OIL FIELD FIRES TO BRING THEM UNDER CONTROL, SAID TO A CLIENT, IF YOU THINK IT'S EXPENSIVE TO HIRE A PROFESSIONAL TO DO THE JOB, WAIT UNTIL YOU HIRE AN AMATEUR. 
          I RESPECT THE DESIRE TO, UH, INCREASE DENSITY AND HOUSING, BUT THE ORDINANCES THAT HAVE BEEN WORKED ON DATE ARE WORK OF AN AMATEUR. 
          WE NEED TO HOLD THIS PRESS REDO ALL OF THESE ORDINANCES. 
          THANK YOU. 
          THANK YOU. 
          OUR NEXT SPEAKER IS STEVEN GARDNER, FOLLOWED BY SUSAN MARKOWITZ, THEN DEBORAH COVAR. 
          STEVEN, YOU HAVE TWO MINUTES, STEVEN, IF YOU CAN TRY TO UNMUTE YOURSELF. 
          YOU HAVE THE FLOOR. 
          I'M STEVEN GARDNER. 
          I LIVE AT 29 OTIS STREET AND HAVE SPENT MY CAREER IN AFFORDABLE HOUSING. 
          ALMOST SEVEN YEARS AGO, THE EAST CAMBRIDGE COMMUNITY WAS COMPELLED TO COMPROMISE TO ALLOW THE REDEVELOPMENT OF THE OLD SULLIVAN COURTHOUSE INTO WHAT STANDS VIRTUALLY EMPTY. 
          TODAY AT AS 40 THORNDYKE, THE COMMUNITY'S COMPROMISE ALLOWED THIS ENORMOUS TOWER TO CONTINUE TO DOMINATE OUR COMMUNITY, AWKWARDLY CONTRASTED WITH OUR RESIDENTIAL SCALE COMMUNITY OF TRIPLE DECKERS STOREFRONTS AND MODEST MIDRISE PROPERTIES. 
          THANK THANKFULLY THAT COMPROMISE INCLUDED AN INCREASE IN AFFORDABLE HOUSING. 
          MOST RECENT DEVELOPMENTS LIKE CVS PHARMACY AND BUILDINGS ALONG FIRST STREET HAVE MAINTAINED THAT LOW RISE PROFILE WITH THE PROPOSED UPZONING OF CAMBRIDGE STREET AT PARCEL SEVEN, 
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THE CITY OF CAMBRIDGE MAY ONCE AGAIN IMPOSE AN OUT OF SCALE TOWER ON OUR COMMUNITY, ALBEIT RESIDENTIAL AT THE ENTRY POINT TO RESIDENTIAL EAST CAMBRIDGE. 
          IF ALLOWED TO PROCEED, THIS TOWER WILL STAND OUT AS AN UN UNWELCOMING SORE THUMB. 
          THIS SITE SHOULD NOT BE AN EXTENSION OF CAMBRIDGE CROSSING, RATHER, A WELCOMING ADDITION TO EAST CAMBRIDGE, A REFLECTION OF THE RESIDENTIAL AND STOREFRONT COMMUNITY BOULEVARD AT ITS BEGINNING AS ONE FIRST CONDOMINIUM. 
          SO ASSOCIATION OWNER, I COULD CERTAINLY URGE THE COUNCIL TO REDUCE THE ZONING HEIGHT OF PARCEL SEVEN, BECAUSE OF ITS NEGATIVE IMPACT ON OUR PARTICULAR COMMUNITY FROM CONGESTION AT AN ALBEIT CHALLENGING INTERSECTION TO UNNECESSARILY BLOCKING SUNSHINE TO OUR COMPLEX, THAT THE MORE COMPELLING ARGUMENT AGAINST THIS UPZONING IS A NEGATIVE IMPACT SUCH A SORE THUMB WOULD HAVE ON OUR ENTIRE COMMUNITY. 
          I OPPOSE THE PROPOSED UPZONING OF PARCEL SEVEN AND URGE THE COUNCIL TO ALLOW THE PETITION TO EXPIRE. 
          THANK YOU VERY MUCH. 
          THANK YOU. 
          OUR NEXT SPEAKER IS SUSAN MARKOWITZ, FOLLOWED BY DEBORAH VAR, THEN SOPHIA SANCHEZ. 
          WE HAVE ABOUT 11 SPEAKERS LEFT. 
          FOR THOSE WHO ARE WAITING. 
          SUSAN, YOU HAVE TWO MINUTES. 
          PLEASE GO AHEAD. 
          HI. 
          THANK YOU. 
          THANK YOU TO PATTY NOLAN AND SYMBOL SIDIKI FOR YOUR RECENT AMENDMENT. 
          THIS IS A COMPROMISE AND I REALLY APPRECIATE IT. 
          I STILL SAY, THOUGH, LET THE LET THE PETITION EXPIRE BECAUSE THE OVERWHELMING MAJORITY OF PEOPLE IN THE COMMUNITY DO NOT KNOW THAT THIS PETITION EXISTS. 
          THIS MORNING WHEN I WAS SHOVELING, I SPOKE TO MY NEXT DOOR NEIGHBOR AND A NEIGHBOR ACROSS THE STREET, BOTH OF WHOM I MET FOR THE FIRST TIME. 
          NEITHER OF THEM KNEW ANYTHING ABOUT THE PETITION. 
          ONE RESPONDED, THAT'S HORRIBLE. 
          HOW DID YOU FIND OUT ABOUT THIS? THE OTHER ONE WHO MOVED IN IN SEPTEMBER SAID, OH NO, THERE GO MY FAVORITE SHOPS DOWN THE STREET. 
          WHEN, WHEN IS THIS GONNA HAPPEN? I REALLY DON'T UNDERSTAND WHY IT'S NOT IMPORTANT FOR RESIDENTS TO BE NOTIFIED ABOUT THIS PETITION. 
          MOST PEOPLE DO NOT GO TO OR READ THE CITY COUNCIL MEETINGS. 
          THEY HAVE NOT BEEN INFORMED ABOUT THE MAJOR CHANGES THAT YOU'RE PLANNING. 
          IN CONTRAST TO THE CAMBRIDGE STREET STUDY, WE'VE SUGGESTED A TWO MONTH DEMOCRATIC COMMUN COMMUNITY PROCESS TO GIVE PEOPLE A CHANCE TO HEAR WHAT AND WHY YOU WERE PROPOSING THIS POSITION. 
          THEY WOULD GET A CHANCE TO BE HEARD. 
          THE OUTSTANDING ISSUES COULD, THAT WE COULD DISCUSS COULD INCLUDE THE AMOUNT OF INCLUSIONARY HOUSING THAT WILL BE GENERATED BECAUSE IT'S NOT KNOWN AND IT'S LIKELY SMALL. 
          THE IN THE NEED FOR INCREASED PROJECT REVIEW LABS THAT ARE CURRENTLY AS OF RIGHT INCREASING STEP BACKS, INCREASING OPEN SPACE, INCREASED STREET TREES INCREASE PROTECTIONS FROM FOR FIRST SMALL, SMALL FIRST FLOOR BUSINESSES. 
          YOU'VE SAID THE PETITION AS AMENDED NEEDS TO BE PASSED NOW IN ORDER TO MOVE ON TO CENTRAL SQUARE. 
          REALLY IS THIS HOW YOU'RE GONNA TREAT THE RESIDENTS IN CENTRAL SQUARE? WHAT IS THE RUSH? IF YOU THINK THAT THIS IS WHAT CAMBRIDGE STREET NEEDS ENGAGES IN THE LEGITIMATE TWO MONTH COMMUNITY PROCESS, WE'LL ASK SOME QUESTIONS, EXPRESS WHAT WE LIKE, AND YOU CAN DO THE SAME. 
          PLEASE DO NOT SHORTCHANGE US. 
          THIS WILL RENEW OUR TRUST AND FAITH IN YOU. 
          THANK YOU. 
          THANK YOU. 
          OUR NEXT SPEAKER IS DEBORAH COVAR, FOLLOWED BY SOPHIA SANCHEZ. 
          THEN KIRIN VIA NO, NO, ALL I REALLY THINK YOU NAILED IT. 
          I DON'T. 
          DEBRA, IF YOU CAN PLEASE UNMUTE YOURSELF. 
          YOU HAVE THE FLOOR. 
          UM, CAN YOU HEAR ME NOW? WE CAN. 
          PLEASE GO AHEAD. 
          GREAT. 
          I'M DEBRA KOVAR AND I'M AN OWNER AT ONE FIRST CONDOMINIUM AT ONE 50 CAMBRIDGE STREET. 
          I'M HERE TO TONIGHT TO ADDRESS POLICY NUMBER THREE AND TO ASK THE CITY COUNCIL TO OPPOSE THE UPZONING PROPOSAL TO A 15 STORY BUILDING ALONG CAMBRIDGE STREET. 
          WHILE I SUPPORT RESPONSIBLE DEVELOPMENT AND THE SIX TO EIGHT STORY BUILDING PROPOSED THE 15 STORY BUILDING WITHOUT PARKING WILL CONTRIBUTE TO A HEAVILY CONGESTED AREA. 
          COHESION WITH SURROUNDING STRUCTURES WOULD BE BEST SERVED BY A SIX TO EIGHT STORY STRUCTURE, WHICH ALSO MAKES PROVISIONS FOR PARKING. 
          THIS WOULD ALSO MAINTAIN AND RESPECT THE WELL-VETTED PROCESS THAT WAS PREVIOUSLY UNDERTAKEN FOR ZONING TO ALLOW A SIX TO EIGHT STORY BUILDING. 
          PLEASE VOTE NO TO UPZONING ALONG THE CAMBRIDGE CORRIDOR. 
          NO ON POLICY NUMBER THREE. 
          THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME. 
          OUR NEXT SPEAKER IS SOPHIA SANCHEZ, THEN KAREN VIA, FOLLOWED BY ANN COBURN. 
          SOPHIA, 
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I DON'T SEE SOPHIA ON THE ZOOM. 
          WE WILL GO TO KAREN VIA KAREN. 
          TWO MINUTES PLEASE. 
          GO AHEAD. 
          HI. 
          UM, I LIVE IN, UH, ONE FIRST CAMBRIDGE, WHICH OVERLOOKS THE PARKING THE SPACE, WHICH WAS THE UR WHILE, UM, LECH BEER STATION. 
          AND I URGED THE CITY COUNCIL MEMBERS TO OPPOSE THE UPZONING FOR CONVERTING THIS PREVIOUSLY APPROVED SIX STORY BUILDING INTO A PROPOSED 15 STORY BUILDING. 
          LIKE THE REST OF THEM BEFORE ME HAVE MENTIONED, UM, THE, THE REDUCTION IN, IN SUNLIGHT, WHICH IS GOING TO FORCE US TO TURN OUR LIGHTS ON DURING THE DAY, INCREASING OUR ELECTRICITY BILLS. 
          THE PARKING, NO REQUIREMENT FOR PARKING INCREASES THE TRAFFIC, WHICH IS, UH, WHICH IS ALMOST BEGINNING TO BE A NIGHTMARE ALREADY. 
          UH, THERE'S NO, THERE'S ALREADY 40 ON D**E, WHICH WE SEE, UM, VERY SCARCELY OCCUPIED. 
          SO IS THERE REALLY A REQUIREMENT FOR MORE HOUSING WHEN WE CAN'T FILL IN WHAT EXISTS, UH, ALREADY? AND THIS TOTALLY CHANGES THE, THE LOOK AND FEEL OF CAMBRIDGE STREET, WHERE WE'VE LIVED FOR ALMOST 15 YEARS. 
          NOW. 
          THAT SAID, APART FROM THE FACT THAT THE BURDEN IS GOING TO FALL ON THE REST OF US WHO'VE BEEN LIVING HERE AND SERVING THIS COMMUNITY AND CONTRIBUTING TO THIS COMMUNITY, IT'S ALSO NOT GOING TO INCREASE, IMPROVE, PROVIDE A GOOD QUALITY OF LIFE FOR PEOPLE LIVING IN THIS NEW BUILDING WITH NO PARKING, WITH CONGESTED AREAS, NO GROCERY STORES IN, IN WALKABLE DISTANCE, WHICH MEANS EVERYBODY WILL HAVE TO HAVE A CAR OR SOME PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION OR UBERS. 
          UM, IT, IT'S GOING TO CONVERT THIS WHOLE STREET AND AREA INTO EXTREMELY UNLIVABLE, UM, UH, SURROUNDINGS. 
          IS THIS SO IN THE NAME OF AFFORDABLE HOUSING? IS THIS WHAT WE ARE PROVIDING TO THE FOLKS WHO, WHO WOULD WANT TO COME AND LIVE IN THESE BUILDINGS? SO I, I RESPECTFULLY URGE YOU TO PLEASE LET THIS EXPIRE, UM, RETHINK HOW THIS GELS WITH THE COM, WITH THE CAMBRIDGE STREET COMMUNITY AND NOT NECESSARILY THE CAMBRIDGE CROSSING COMMUNITY, WHICH IS COMPLETELY DIFFERENT WHILE IT'S JUST ACROSS THE STREET. 
          AND I DO APPRECIATE ALL THE HARD WORK THAT'S BEING DONE IN THIS. 
          UM, BUT RESPECTFULLY URGE TO PLEASE, UM, RECONSIDER THIS PROPOSAL. 
          THANK YOU. 
          THANK YOU. 
          OUR NEXT SPEAKER IS JAMIE HAGUE. 
          JAMIE, YOU HAVE TWO MINUTES. 
          PLEASE. 
          GO AHEAD, JAMIE. 
          SORRY, JAMIE, IF YOU CAN TRY TO UNMUTE YOURSELF AGAIN. 
          OH, SURE. 
          YEP, GO AHEAD. 
          UH, THANK YOU. 
          UM, MY NAME'S JAMIE HAAGE AND, UH, UH, MY WIFE AND I LIVE AT, UH, 17 OTIS STREET IN, IN CAMBRIDGE AT, UH, ONE FIRST, AND LIKE MANY OF THE OTHER SPEAKERS HAVE SAID, UH, WE OPPOSE, UH, THE, UH, UH, PROPOSED UPZONING PETITION, ESPECIALLY, UH, AS IT PERTAINS TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE PARCEL ACROSS THE STREET FROM ONE FIRST AS EITHER PARCEL SIX OR SEVEN, THE FORMER LECHMERE STATION SITE, UH, TO CONSTRUCT UP TO 15 STORIES THAT IS COMPLETELY OUT OF CHARACTER WITH THE, UH, THE CHARACTER OF THE REST OF THE, UH, NEIGHBORING, UH, PROPERTY. 
          UH, IT WILL AFFECT, UM, UH, TRAFFIC AND CONGESTION IN THE AREA AND WILL NOT, WILL NOT BE DESIGNED OR DEVELOPED FOR AFFORDABLE HOUSING. 
          A 15 STORY COMPLEX, AS I UNDERSTAND IS THIS, IS, THIS IS BEING PROPOSED AS A, UH, AS A, UH, A BENEFIT, UH, FOR A PARTICULAR DEVELOPER, UH, WHO IS, UH, INTERESTED IN DEVELOPING, UH, HIGH-END, UH, RESIDENTIAL HOUSING AND JUST INCREASING PROFIT. 
          BUT IT'S GONNA AFFECT, UH, THE CAMBRIDGE COMMUNITY AS A WHOLE TO HAVE THIS HIGH DENSITY, UH, HIGH RISE, UH, IN, IN THIS AREA. 
          AND WE STRONGLY OPPOSE IT AND ASK THE COUNCIL TO, UH, LET THIS EXPIRE AND, UH, REVISIT, UH, THIS UP ZONING PETITION ON ANOTHER DAY. 
          THANK YOU. 
          THANK YOU. 
          NEXT WE HAVE ANN COBURN, FOLLOWED BY JOHN GAGLIARDI. 
          THEN JAMES WILLIAMSON. 
          ANN, YOU HAVE THE FLOOR. 
          TWO MINUTES. 
          THANK YOU. 
          UM, HI, MY NAME IS ANN COBURN. 
          I LIVE AT 1 1 7 A OAK STREET, CAMBRIDGE. 
          TONIGHT, I AM SPEAKING TO URGE THAT THE CITY COUNCIL PASS TABLED MOTION NUMBER THREE TO ALLOW THE CAMBRIDGE STREET REZONING PETITION TO MOVE FORWARD. 
          I USUALLY URGE ELECTED OFFICIALS TO DO THINGS BECAUSE IT'S THE RIGHT THING TO DO FOR PEOPLE, BECAUSE EVERYBODY SHOULD BE ABLE TO AFFORD A PLACE TO LIVE BECAUSE THERE'S ENOUGH HOUSING FOR FOLKS, ET CETERA. 
          BUT TONIGHT, WHILE THIS IS THE RIGHT THING TO DO, I'M ALSO GONNA MENTION THAT I BELIEVE THAT PASSING THIS MOTION IS A NECESSARY FIRST STEP TO DIVERSING DIVERSIFYING THE SIZE AND NUMBER OF BUSINESSES IN CAMBRIDGE 
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BY REVISITING THE GROUND FLOOR COMMERCIAL REQUIREMENTS IN THE FUTURE. 
          FOR THE, AT LEAST THE LAST TWO DECADES, CAMBRIDGE HAS RELIED ON A RESTRICTIVE ECONOMIC MONOCULTURE OF BIOTECH AND ACADEMICS. 
          THE CITY'S AVAILABLE COMMERCIAL AND HOUSING SPACES SPEAK TO THAT ECONOMIC FRAMEWORK, WELL-FUNDED VENTURE CAPITAL BACKED BUSINESSES OR UNIVERSITIES WITH MASSIVE ENDOWMENTS, VERSUS THE ABILITY TO CREATE THE CAPACITY FOR NEW SMALL BUSINESSES TO GROW MORE GRADUALLY AND MORE SUSTAINABLY. 
          BUT NOW, THE REAL LIFE CONCRETE AND LONG-TERM EFFECTS OF THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION'S ASSAULT ON THOSE KINDS OF INDUSTRIES DEEPLY AFFECTS THE CITY OF CAMBRIDGE'S CURRENT PROPERTY TAX REVENUE SOURCES. 
          I BELIEVE THAT BY PASSING THIS MOTION, THE CITY OF CAMBRIDGE MAY BE POSITIONED TO CULTIVATE MORE SMALL TO MEDIUM SIZED INDUSTRIES AND MORE SPACE TO WELCOME NEW IDEAS, NEW BUSINESSES AND NEW RESIDENTS, RESIDENTS WHO CAN ACTUALLY AFFORD TO LIVE HERE. 
          BECAUSE I THINK THAT THIS CITY NEEDS THAT KIND OF ENERGY, HOPE, AND MOVEMENT. 
          THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR YOUR TIME. 
          THANK YOU. 
          OUR NEXT SPEAKER IS JOHN GAGLIARDI, FOLLOWED BY JAMES WILLIAMSON. 
          THEN ED HENLEY. 
          JOHN, YOU HAVE THE FLOOR. 
          YOU HAVE TWO MINUTES. 
          PLEASE GO AHEAD, JOHN. 
          YOU'RE UNMUTED. 
          ALL RIGHT. 
          WE'RE NOT GETTING ANY SOUND FROM JOHN. 
          WE'RE GONNA MOVE ON TO JAMES WILLIAMSON, FOLLOWED BY ED HENLEY. 
          THEN JOSE RELA. 
          JAMES, YOU HAVE THE FLOOR. 
          YOU HAVE TWO MINUTES, PLEASE. 
          GO AHEAD. 
          CAN YOU HEAR ME? WE CAN. 
          THAT'S PROBABLY ES BUT ANYWAY, UM, THANK YOU. 
          UM, I, UM, I WANNA TALK FIRST ABOUT THE, UH, CAMBRIDGE STREET, UH, UP ZONING PROPOSAL. 
          UM, I FIND I, I LEARNED FOR THE FIRST TIME TONIGHT HERE LISTENING TO SOME PEOPLE ON OTIS STREET AND, UM, IN THE, IN THE LECHMERE AREA ABOUT THIS, UH, YOU KNOW, IDEA OF, YOU KNOW, THE PROPOSAL FOR A MAJOR, UH, DEVELOPMENT IN EXCESS OF WHAT THEY, THEIR PREVIOUS UNDERSTANDING HAD BEEN. 
          UM, I THINK WHAT WE NEED TO KNOW, UH, AMONG OTHER THINGS BEFORE ANYTHING GETS PASSED IS DO, DO WHEN DEVELOPERS GO IN AND HAVE PRIVATE MEETINGS WITH CITY STAFF, ARE WE ENTITLED TO KNOW, UH, WHAT THE DETAILS ARE OF THOSE CONVERSATIONS? I'M NOT NECESSARILY AGAINST, UH, CITY STAFF TALKING TO DEVELOPERS, BUT I THINK WE WHO LIVE HERE HAVE A RIGHT TO KNOW WHAT TRANSPIRES IN THOSE CONVERSATIONS ARE. 
          CITY COUNT, UH, OUR STAFF MAKING DEALS PRIVATELY, UH, TO ACCOMMODATE DEVELOPERS, AND WE'RE NOT TOLD ABOUT IT, AND NOW WE HAVE TO HEAR ABOUT IT AS CITY COUNCIL MEETING. 
          UM, I, I, I DO THINK THERE ARE A LOT OF PROBLEMS WITH THIS CAMBRIDGE STREET PROPOSAL. 
          UM, IT SEEMS LIKE A REAL MESS THE MORE I LISTENED TO OTHER SPEAKERS. 
          UM, BY THE WAY, MIT, THERE WAS A TIME WHEN THE GRADUATE STUDENT COUNCIL THERE DEMANDED THAT MIT HOUSE ALL OF THEIR GRADUATE STUDENTS ON LAND THEY ALREADY OWN IN ATRAC IN ATTRACTIVE HOUSING AT AFFORDABLE PRICES. 
          BUT ANYWAY, I WANNA SAY A WORD ABOUT THE, UH, STICKNEY, UH, LANDMARK PETITION. 
          I THINK IT'S FLAWED, AND I DON'T THINK IT SHOULD PASS IT. 
          UH, IT, I, IT, IT DID REMIND ME OF THE ADDITION, THE EAST, UH, ADDITION TO THE WHITE HOUSE THAT WAS DEMOLISHED RECENTLY TO THE HORROR OF MANY PEOPLE. 
          AND NOW YOU'RE GONNA ALLOW AN ADDITION THAT MAKES THAT BUILDING, GIVES IT IN THE INTEGRITY THAT IT CURRENTLY HAS, HAS. 
          AND, UM, IT SEEMS LIKE A SELLOUT. 
          SO I HOPE YOU DON'T PASS IT. 
          THANK YOU. 
          OUR NEXT SPEAKER IS ED HENLEY, FOLLOWED BY JOSE ESTRELLA. 
          ED, YOU HAVE TWO MINUTES. 
          PLEASE. 
          GO AHEAD. 
          ED HENLEY, IF YOU CAN UNMUTE YOURSELF. 
          YOU HAVE THE FLOOR. 
          YEP, THERE YOU GO. 
          MY NAME IS ED HENLEY. 
          I LIVE AT 2 37 FRANKLIN STREET, MANNING APARTMENTS SENIOR HOUSING. 
          I'M A MEMBER OF THE CAMBRIDGE SOMERVILLE CHAPTER OF THE MASS SENIOR ACTION COUNCIL SPEAKING ON TABLED ITEM NUMBER THREE. 
          I'M SPEAKING TO LET THE UPZONING PETITION LAPSE AND BE REDONE IN A SECURE FASHION THAT WILL ALLOW HOMES FOR NEW HOUSING AND FOR EVERY DAY, AND ESPECIALLY LOWER INCOME RESIDENTS TO LIVE IN AND LIVE IN OVER THE COURSE OF A LIFETIME, ESPECIALLY IF THEY'RE RAISING A FAMILY COMMUNITY IN CAMBRIDGE IS EVERYTHING. 
          IT IS THAT COMMUNITY OF PEOPLE THAT WANTS AFFORDABLE HOUSING, BUT WANTS IT INCLUDING THE ABILITY TO DRIVE, PARK, AND SHOP, OBTAIN MEDICAL SERVICES 
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AND MEDICAL GOODS, THOSE KINDS OF THINGS LOCALLY. 
          LOCALLY IS WHERE WE SPEND THE MAJORITY OF OUR INCOMES, WHETHER THAT'S FROM OUR, A RETIREMENT INCOME FROM WORK, OR FROM RENTING APARTMENTS, UM, THAT SOME PEOPLE HAVE WORKED FOR A LIFETIME TO, TO OWN AND TO RENT, UM, PEOPLE TO OWN THEIR OWN HOMES. 
          I CAN PERSONALLY NAME SMALL FAMILY OWNED BUSINESSES, AND THEY PROBABLY OWN THE ACTUAL BUILDING AS WELL, AS OPPOSED TO RENTING ON CAMBRIDGE STREET AS WELL AS INMAN SQUARE, WHICH REGULARLY MAKES THE, THE, WHICH I REGULARLY MAKE THE ROUNDS OF WHEN I'M SHOPPING. 
          TYPICALLY, IT'LL DO A MEDICAL APPOINTMENT AND THEN SHOP IN A COUPLE PLACES ON CAMBRIDGE STREET, A COUPLE PLACES IN EMMETT SQUARE. 
          PLEASE DO NOT CHANGE CAMBRIDGE IN SUCH THAT A WAY THAT LARGE MEGA MOGULS OWN LARGE DEVELOPMENT PROPERTY AND CON CONSTANTLY TEST TENANTS ABILITY TO PAY WITH OUTRAGEOUS RENT INCREASES IN WHATEVER ADDED COSTS THEY CAN ADD TO THAT TENANT'S, UH, UM, COST OF LIVING THERE. 
          THIS CREATES SUCH INSTABILITY FOR FAMILIES TRYING TO MATCH, TRYING TO MAINTAIN CONSISTENT CONSISTENCY RE ESPECIALLY WITH REGARDS TO LIVING SITUATIONS CONSISTENTLY IN THE, IN THEIR CHILDREN'S SCHOOLING, AS WELL AS ABILITY TO GET AROUND THE COMMUNITY. 
          PLEASE DON'T PUT THESE COMMUNITY FEATURES AT RISK. 
          UM, I GUESS THAT PLEASE DO THE RIGHT THING, THE RIGHT WAY FOR THE RIGHT REASON. 
          THANK YOU VERY MUCH. 
          THANK YOU. 
          WE ARE GOING TO SKIP JOSE AS HE HAS NOT JOINED. 
          WE WILL GO TO KATHLEEN HIGGINS, FOLLOWED BY HEATHER HOFFMAN. 
          KATHLEEN, YOU HAVE TWO MINUTES, PLEASE GO AHEAD. 
          HI, MY NAME IS KATHY HIGGINS. 
          I LIVE AT 3 45 NORFOLK STREET, A FEW HOUSES IN FROM CAMBRIDGE STREET IN NIMAN SQUARE. 
          I STRONGLY SUPPORT ACTING FAVORABLY ON THE CAMBRIDGE STREET PETITION TO CHANGE ZONING TO ALLOW FOR MORE HOMES. 
          I HAVE ALSO LIVED FOR, I ALSO LIVED FOR MANY YEARS AT INMAN SQUARE APARTMENTS AND CAN ONLY HOPE THAT MORE BUILDINGS LIKE THIS CAN BE BUILT WITH THIS ZONING AND THUS ADD TO THE VIBRANCY OF CAMBRIDGE STREET. 
          I EXPERIENCED THE WONDERFUL CARING PEOPLE WHO LIVED IN THE MEN'S SQUARE APARTMENTS WHO CREATED A COMMUNITY OF SUPPORT DESPITE YES CHALLENGES, IF HRI WORKING WITH THE RESIDENTS HAD NOT PRESERVED APPROXIMATELY 100 APARTMENTS AS AFFORDABLE, MANY PEOPLE WHO FOUND A HOME THERE WOULD'VE HAD TO LEAVE CAMBRIDGE. 
          WE NEED A WIDE RANGE OF HOUSING TOOLS AND MORE OF ALL TYPES OF HOUSING BUILT. 
          OF COURSE, WE SHOULD DO ALL WE CAN TO INCREASE DEEPLY AFFORDABLE HOUSING, AND THE POSSIBILITY OF SOCIAL HOUSING BEING DEVELOPED IN CAMBRIDGE IS AN EXCITING NEW TYPE. 
          BUT WE ALSO NEED TO PROVIDE OPTIONS FOR THOSE IN THE AFFORDABLY RANGES THAT QUALIFY FOR A HUNDRED PERCENT AFFORDABLE HOUSING. 
          THAT J JUST TO START AN HRI BILL, AS WELL AS THOSE WHO DON'T QUALIFY THROUGH THESE OR INCLUSIONARY UNITS, BUT WHO MAY BE PAYING EXORBITANT RENTS 50% OF THEIR INCOME IN RENT AS WE, AS OTHERS HAVE SAID, THE ZONING FOR MORE HOUSING REPRESENTS ANOTHER STEP FORWARD. 
          BY REMOVING THE BARRIERS TO ALLOWING ALL TYPES OF HOUSING IN ALL NEIGHBORHOODS, IT IS PART OF UNDOING A HISTORY, A SAD HISTORY OF EXCLUSIONARY AND RACIST ZONING. 
          IF A COMPROMISE WILL RESULT, RESULT IN ENTERTAINING THE ABILITY TO BUILD DENSER AND TALLER NEAR SUCH AREAS AS WEBSTER, THEN THAT SHOULD BE THAT, THAT SHOULD BE REZONED FOR HOUSING, THEN I WOULD SUPPORT THAT RATHER THAN SEE THE PETITION DIE. 
          WE DON'T NEED MORE PROCESS. 
          THANK YOU. 
          THANK YOU. 
          OUR NEXT SPEAKER IS HEATHER HOFFMAN. 
          HEATHER, YOU HAVE TWO MINUTES, PLEASE GO AHEAD. 
          HELLO, HEATHER HOFFMAN, TWO 13 HURLEY STREET. 
          I'D LIKE TO START OFF WITH THE COURT CASES ONCE, ONCE AGAIN, AND I WOULD JUST LOVE TO HEAR HOW THE INCLUSIONARY ZONING CASE IS DOING AND WHETHER YOU ACTUALLY GOT THE ANSWER IN TODAY, ALONG WITH THE THREE NEW LAWYERS. 
          UM, WITH RESPECT TO PEDESTRIANIZATION. 
          I WOULD LOVE IT IF THIS CITY THOUGHT THAT PEDESTRIANS WERE WORTH ANYTHING AND DID ANYTHING TO MAKE IT SO WE COULD GET AROUND BETTER. 
          LOOK AT HOW YOU SET UP CONSTRUCTION AND WHAT YOU WANT IS CONSTRUCTION EVERYWHERE ALL THE TIME. 
          AND PEDESTRIANS JUST GET SHUNTED FROM ONE SIDE OF THE STREET TO THE OTHER IF THEY'RE LUCKY. 
          WITH RESPECT TO THE CAMBRIDGE STREET ZONING, I HATE TO BE THE BEARER OF BAD NEWS, BUT THERE IS, AS SOMEONE SAID BEFORE ME ABSOLUTELY NOTHING IN THIS ZONING TO EXPECT THAT YOU WILL BUILD ANYTHING AFFORDABLE. 
          THIS IS SIMPLY A GIVEAWAY TO DEVELOPERS, 
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AND I UNDERSTAND THAT THAT IS THE WAY CAMBRIDGE DOES THINGS. 
          TAKE A LOOK AT WHAT'S BEING BUILT NOW, SUCH AS IT IS PEOPLE ARE REGULARLY AVOIDING PROVIDING A SINGLE INCLUSIONARY APARTMENT. 
          THEY WILL BUILD BIGGER, THEY'LL MAKE MORE MONEY, AND IT WILL BE NOTHING AFFORDABLE TO IT. 
          I WILL ALSO NOTE AS, UM, WAS NOTED BEFORE ME THAT, UH, THERE DOESN'T SEEM TO BE A, A ZONING MAP OR A DESCRIPTION ANYWHERE IN THE PACKET. 
          UM, AND I'M JUST WONDERING IF YOU GUYS ARE TOO OVERWORKED AT CDD TO GET YOUR ACT TOGETHER OR WHAT, BECAUSE I, I HAVE NOT SEEN SUCH SCREW UPS IN THE PAST JUST ON A REGULAR BASIS, SO PLEASE LET IT LAPSE. 
          THANK YOU, MADAM MAYOR, THAT IS ALL THAT WE'RE SIGNED UP TO SPEAK. 
          THANK YOU, NAOMI, FOR LEADING US THROUGH PUBLIC COMMENT. 
          AND THAT CONCLUDES PUBLIC COMMENT ON A MOTION BY COUNCILLOR SIMMONS. 
          TO CLOSE PUBLIC COMMENT, WE'LL DO A ROLL CALL. 
          COUNCILOR ZUBIE? YES. 
          YES. 
          VICE MAYOR. 
          YES. 
          YES. 
          COUNCILOR FLAHERTY. 
          YES. 
          YES. 
          COUNCILOR MCGOVERN. 
          YES. 
          YES. 
          COUNCILLOR NOLAN? YES. 
          YES. 
          COUNCILLOR SIMMONS. 
          YES. 
          YES. 
          COUNCILOR SABRINA WHEELER. 
          YES. 
          YES. 
          COUNCILLOR ZUI. 
          YES. 
          YES. 
          MAYOR SIDIKI. 
          YES. 
          YES. 
          AND YOU HAVE NINE MEMBERS RECORDED IN THE AFFIRMATIVE PUBLIC COMMENT IS NOW CLOSED. 
          THERE'S NO SUBMISSION OF THEIR RECORD. 
          THERE ARE NO RECONSIDERATIONS. 
          SO WE'LL MOVE 
          [CITY MANAGER'S AGENDA]
ON TO CITY MANAGER'S AGENDA. 
          I HAD PULLED COUNSELORS ON ITEMS THAT THEY'D LIKE TO PULL. 
          SO WHAT I'M GONNA DO TO MAKE IT AS EASY AS POSSIBLE IS I'M GOING TO PULL THE ONES THAT MY COLLEAGUES HAD INQUIRED ABOUT. 
          UM, AND THEN WE'LL DO A MOTION ON THE BALANCE AND WHEN I, AND THEN I'LL SIGN PARTICULAR COUNSELORS TO THE ONES THAT THEY HAD PULLED. 
          AND IF YOU E WHEN WE GET TO EACH ITEM, I'LL ASK FOR YOU TO RAISE YOUR HANDS. 
          UH, WHEN AFTER THE COUNSELOR'S SPOKEN, YOU HAVE ADDITIONAL QUESTIONS. 
          SO WE'LL PULL NUMBER ONE. 
          UM, AND THEN NUMBER THREE WAS PULLED BY, UH, COUNSELOR ZUI. 
          UM, AND NUMBER FOUR WAS ALSO PULLED BY COUNCILLOR SIE. 
          WE HAVE NUMBER FIVE THAT WAS PULLED BY COUNCILLOR NOLAN. 
          WE HAVE NUMBER SEVEN THAT WAS PULLED BY COUNCILLOR SIMMONS. 
          UH, AND THEN WE HAVE CITY MANAGER AGENDA ITEM NUMBER 10 THAT WAS PULLED BY COUNCILLOR ZUI. 
          AND THEN FINALLY WE HAVE CITY MANAGER AGENDA ITEM NUMBER 11 THAT WAS PULLED BY COUNSELOR NOLAN AFTER WE'RE, WE JUST HAVE DISPOSED OF THE CITY MANAGER'S AGENDA. 
          WE DO HAVE A LATE CITY MANAGER'S AGENDA, AND I'LL COME TO THE MOTION AT THAT TIME ALONG WITH SOME OF THE OTHER MOTIONS WE'LL HAVE TO DO. 
          SO FOR THE RECORD, WE'VE PULLED NUMBER ONE, NUMBER THREE, NUMBER FOUR, NUMBER FIVE, NUMBER SEVEN, NUMBER 10 AND 11. 
          ARE THERE ANY IN ADDITION TO THIS, MY COLLEAGUES WOULD LIKE TO PULL HEARING NONE. 
          WE'LL GO AHEAD AND DO A ROLL CALL ON CITY MANAGER AGENDA ITEM NUMBER 2 6 8 9, PLEASE. 
          COUNCILOR ZUBIE? YES. 
          YES. 
          VICE MAYOR. 
          YES. 
          YES. 
          COUNCILOR FLAHERTY? YES. 
          YES. 
          COUNCIL MCGOVERN? YES. 
          YES. 
          COUNCILOR NOLAN? YES. 
          YES. 
          COUNCILOR SIMMONS. 
          YES. 
          YES. 
          COUNCILLOR SABRINA WHEELER. 
          YES. 
          YES. 
          COUNCILLOR ZUI. 
          YES. 
          YES. 
          MAYOR SIDIKI. 
          YES. 
          YES. 
          AND YOU HAVE NINE MEMBERS RECORDED IN THE AFFIRMATIVE. 
          THE BALANCE IS ADOPTED. 
          WE'LL GO TO CITY MANAGER AGENDA ITEM NUMBER ONE, WHICH IS A COMMUNICATION TRANSMITTED FROM IAN WONG, CITY MANAGER RELATIVE TO A FEDERAL UPDATE, INCLUDING AN UPDATE ON RELEVANT COURT CASES. 
          CITY MANAGER. 
          YOU HAVE THE FLOOR. 
          I CAN'T HEAR YOU. 
          WE CAN'T HEAR YOU. 
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IT'S JUST NOT ME. 
          RIGHT? PEOPLE CAN'T HEAR CITY MANAGER. 
          HOW'S THAT? IS THAT BETTER? GREAT. 
          GREAT. 
          PERFECT. 
          OKAY, GOOD. 
          WE'RE IN BUSINESS. 
          UH, THANK YOU MAYOR SIDIKI. 
          UM, I WANTED TO PROVIDE AN UPDATE ON ALL THAT'S BEEN HAPPENING ON ICE ENFORCEMENT ACROSS THE COUNTRY, AND HOW WE ARE BOTH RESPONDING AND PREPARING IN OUR OWN COMMUNITY. 
          UM, WE HAVE HELD CROSS PENN DEPARTMENTAL MEETINGS, UH, TO DISCUSS IMMIGRATION SURGES THAT WE WERE SEEING, PARTICULARLY IN MINNESOTA AND MAINE, AND TO REVIEW PREPARATIONS FOR A POTENTIAL SURGE IN THE GREATER BOSTON AREA. 
          WE'VE ALSO BEGUN MEETING ACROSS THE 17 METRO MAYORS COMMUNITIES IN GREATER BOSTON ON CHAIRING PRACTICES AND COORDINATING RESPONSES ACROSS THE REGION. 
          UH, WITHIN, WE'VE TAKEN A NUMBER OF CITY ACTIONS OVER THE LAST YEAR, INCLUDING HOLDING KNOW YOUR RIGHTS TRAININGS IN PARTNERSHIP WITH MIRA AND THE STATE OFFICE FOR REFUGEES AND IMMIGRANTS, DISTRIBUTION OF RED CARDS AND MULTIPLE LANGUAGES TO HELP PEOPLE ASSERT THEIR CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS AND DIFFICULT SITUATIONS, PROVIDING EDUCATION AND INFORMATION ON FAMILY PREPAREDNESS, CONTINUING TO TALK CLOSELY AND PARTNER WHERE WE CAN WITH LOCAL ORGANIZATIONS LIKE LUE, BIJAN DE NOVO, AND GREATER BOSTON LEGAL SERVICES. 
          WE'VE PROVIDED FUNDING FOR DE NOVO TO PROVIDE LEGAL ASSISTANCE TO LOW INCOME FAMILIES AND HOSTED A MONTHLY LEGAL CLINIC. 
          AND THANK YOU AS WELL TO THE CITY COUNCIL FOR THE WORK TO STRENGTHEN OUR WELCOMING COMMUNITY'S ORDINANCE, WHICH INCLUDES SPECIFIC REPORTING REQUIREMENTS FOR ICE ACTIONS IN THE CITY AT REGULAR INTERVALS. 
          WE'VE ALSO TRANSITIONED MIXED STATUS FAMILIES FROM FEDERAL TO MUNICIPAL HOUSING VOUCHERS TO AVOID THE IMPACT OF CHANGING HUD POLICIES AND POTENTIAL DATA SHARING WITH ICE. 
          WE PROVIDED TRAINING AND PROTOCOLS TO FRONTLINE CITY STAFF ON WHAT TO DO IF ICE SHOWS UP, DEMARCATING PUBLIC VERSUS PRIVATE SPACES IN CITY BUILDINGS, AND ESTABLISHING A HOTLINE FOR CITY STAFF TO REACH OUT TO THE LAW DEPARTMENT DURING BUSINESS HOURS TO REVIEW ANY POTENTIAL ADMINISTRATIVE JUDICIAL WARRANTS THAT ARE BEING PRESENTED BY ICE AGENTS. 
          AND FINALLY, WE'VE TAKEN SIGNIFICANT LEGAL ACTION WHERE WE CAN RELATED TO IMMIGRATION AND ICE. 
          THE CITY IS A PLAINTIFF IN TWO CASES AND FILED NINE AMICUS BRIEFS AND LITIGATIONS RELATED TO IMMIGRATION ENFORCEMENT AND ACTIONS. 
          SO THIS IS A GROWING LIST. 
          UH, I'M REALLY APPRECIATIVE FOR COUNSELORS AND PEOPLE IN OUR COMMUNITY WHO CONTINUE TO BRING US GREAT IDEAS. 
          AND IN PARTICULAR, THANK YOU TO CAROLINA EL MONTE AND THE WORK THAT THE COMMISSION ON IMMIGRANT RIGHTS AND CITIZENSHIP HAS BEEN DOING IN THIS SPACE. 
          PLEASE CONTINUE TO BE IN CONTACT WITH CAROLINA AND THE COMMISSION, UM, GIVE US THOSE IDEAS. 
          WE'RE EXCITED TO, TO ASSESS NEW THINGS THAT WE CAN BE DOING AND HOW WE CAN SUPPORT OUR COMMUNITY IN THIS TIME. 
          UM, I KNOW MANY OF US OVER THIS WEEKEND, UH, HAVE BEEN REALLY HORRIFIED BY THE TRAGIC SECOND KILLING OF A US CITIZEN IN MINNEAPOLIS, ALEX PRETY, WHO CONTRARY TO FEDERAL STATEMENTS, SEEMS FROM VIDEO FOOTAGE TO HAVE CLEARLY BEEN RESTRAINED BY MULTIPLE AGENTS WHEN HE WAS SHOT AND KILLED. 
          I KNOW THAT MANY OF US HAVE BEEN SO DEEPLY DISTURBED. 
          AND AS CO-CHAIRS OF METRO MAYORS MAYOR, BRIANNA LGO, KERN OF MEDFORD, AND I RELEASED A STATEMENT DECRYING THE ICE OCCUPATION THAT WE'RE SEEING IN MINNESOTA AND MAINE. 
          UH, WE NOTE THAT AN OCCUPYING FORCE DOES NOT BELONG IN OUR COMMUNITIES OR ANYWHERE IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, AND THAT THESE UNCONSTITUTIONAL AND UNNECESSARY ACTIONS ARE MAKING US LESS SAFE. 
          THE CITY OF CAMBRIDGE ALSO HAS FILED AN AMICUS BRIEF IN THE MINNESOTA VERSE, NOME LITIGATION THAT HELD A HEARING EARLIER TODAY, WHICH REQUESTED AN INJUNCTION ON THE ICER THAT HAS CAUSED SO MUCH HARM IN MINNEAPOLIS. 
          THE JUDGE DID NOT RULE TODAY FROM THE BENCH, BUT PROMISED THAT QUOTE, IF I HAD A BURNER IN FRONT OF THE FRONT, FRONT BURNER, THIS WOULD BE ON IT, AND THAT A DECISION WOULD COME QUICKLY. 
          WELL, THE JUDGE WAS CRITICAL OF THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT'S INTENT FOR THE SURGE, AS WELL AS THE LONG LIST OF TROUBLING ACTIONS. 
          SHE ALSO APPEARED SKEPTICAL OF, OF ISSUING A SWEEPING ORDER FOR ICE TO LEAVE THE STATE RATHER THAN MORE NARROW SOLUTIONS TARGETING SPECIFIC WRONGS. 
          WHAT I THINK IS ACTUALLY VERY UNPRECEDENTED IN THIS CASE IS THAT IT'S BEING BUILT ON THE COERCIVE NATURE OF THE ICE SURGE. 
          THAT THIS OCCUPATION AND THE AGGRESSIVENESS OF FEDERAL ACTIONS ARE PART OF A DESIRE NOT TO ACTUALLY ADDRESS IMMIGRATION CHALLENGES, BUT TO PRESSURE THE STATE TO ACT DIFFERENTLY, WHICH IS AN UNCONSTITUTIONAL, UNCONSTITUTIONAL USE OF FEDERAL POWER TO COERCE STATE ACTION. 
          IN THIS LINE OF ARGUMENT, THE COURT IS BEING ASKED NOT TO FOCUS ON A LINE BY LINE, PERSON BY PERSON ANALYSIS OR OVERSIGHT OF DHS OPERATIONS. 
          HOW MANY AGENTS ARE TOO MANY, WHAT THE RIGHT PRACTICE SHOULD BE, BUT RATHER THAT THE ACT ITSELF IS ILLEGITIMATE BY ITS INTENT. 
          WE'LL KEEP THE CITY COUNCIL UPDATED. 
          UM, BUT THIS LINE OF ARGUMENT FEELS RELEVANT BECAUSE IT'S A SIMILAR PATTERN THAT WE'RE LITIGATING IN OTHER CASES WHERE THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT IS SEEKING TO, FOR INSTANCE, WITHHOLD FUNDS TO COERCE CITIES TOWARD POLICY CHANGES THAT ARE IRRELEVANT TO THE PROGRAM GOALS OF THAT, THAT FUNDING. 
          UM, SO I THINK THERE'S, THERE'S STILL ULTIMATELY A LOT TO BE UNDERSTOOD IN 
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TERMS OF WHERE THAT COURT RULING WILL LAND. 
          UM, AND EVEN AS WE SPEAK, I THINK DECISIONS ARE BEING MADE. 
          UM, BUT JUST KNOW THAT WE ARE CERTAINLY, UH, WANTING TO CONTINUE TO BE IN CLOSE CONVERSATION WITH THIS CITY COUNCIL, WITH OUR COMMUNITY ABOUT HOW WE'RE PREPARING ACTIONS THAT WE CAN TAKE, UM, AND FOLLOWING AND SUPPORTING COMMUNITIES AROUND THE COUNTRY THAT ARE STRUGGLING WITH, UM, WITH, UH, WITH WHAT THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT IS DOING. 
          I ALSO WANTED TO TOUCH ON THE POTENTIAL FOR A FEDERAL GOVERNMENT SHUTDOWN. 
          UM, AFTER THE UPCOMING DEADLINE, WHICH IS THE END OF DAY, THIS FRIDAY, JANUARY 30TH, UH, WE'VE BEEN WATCHING THAT DEADLINE SINCE THE GOVERNMENT REOPENED IN THE FALL. 
          AT THIS POINT, UM, IT APPEARS CLEAR THAT DEMOCRATS IN THE SENATE ARE UNLIKELY TO VOTE FOR FUNDING PACKAGES THAT INCLUDE MORE BUDGET FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY AND ICE WITHOUT SOME REFORM, UH, WHICH MAY THREATEN THE PASSAGE OF THESE BILLS BEFORE THE DEADLINE. 
          I THINK IT'S HARD TO KNOW EXACTLY HOW THE NEXT FOUR DAYS WILL UNFOLD, AND THERE ISN'T A LOT OF TIME, UH, FOR THEM TO FIGURE OUT HOW TO GET ALL OF THESE BILLS PASSED. 
          UM, THE REMAINING AGENCIES THAT NEED TO BE FUNDED INCLUDE THE DEPARTMENTS OF DEFENSE, LABOR, HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES, EDUCATION, TRANSPORTATION AND HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT. 
          THIS REPRESENTS ABOUT, I BELIEVE, 75% OF THE GOVERNMENT'S ANNUAL SPENDING. 
          UM, AND I THINK I WOULD SAY, AS WE EXPERIENCED DURING THE LAST RECENT SHUTDOWN, IT WILL TAKE SOME TIME TO BETTER UNDERSTAND EVEN AFTER THE GOVERNMENT SHUTS DOWN, WHEN APPROPRIATIONS RUN OUT AND WHERE THERE MAY BE AN IMPACT THAT FILTERS TO STATES AND CITIES. 
          SO WE'LL KEEP WATCHING DEVELOPMENTS AND WE CAN PROVIDE A FULLER UPDATE WITH MORE INFORMATION IN TWO WEEKS WHEN WE MEET ON MONDAY, FEBRUARY 9TH. 
          UM, BUT JUST KNOW THAT WE'RE DEFINITELY, UM, IN TOUCH TO, TO TRY AND FIGURE OUT, YOU KNOW, HOW THIS MIGHT AFFECT OUR COMMUNITY, UH, AND ULTIMATELY THE PROGRAMS THAT WE'RE RUNNING. 
          UM, A FINAL UPDATE JUST IN TERMS OF THINGS THAT ARE HAPPENING THAT, UM, THAT THE COUNCIL AND THE COMMUNITY MAY BE THINKING ABOUT IN THE NEXT COUPLE OF WEEKS. 
          UM, A NUMBER OF PEOPLE IN OUR COMMUNITY ARE, ARE VERY CONCERNED OVER THE EXPIRATION OF TEMPORARY PROTECTED STATUS FOR HAITIANS. 
          UM, THAT EXPIRES NEXT TUESDAY, FEBRUARY THE THIRD. 
          THERE IS A COURT DECISION THAT IS SCHEDULED TO BE MADE THE DAY BEFORE NEXT MONDAY, FEBRUARY THE SECOND. 
          AND IT MAY BE POSSIBLE THAT AN INJUNCTION OR AN EXTENSION MAY BE ISSUED. 
          CERTAINLY THE JUDGE DURING A PRIOR HEARING WAS SKEPTICAL THAT THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT HAD SUFFICIENTLY REVIEWED WHETHER CONDITIONS IN THE GROUND IN HAITI HAD IMPROVED. 
          UM, APPARENTLY THE ONLY EVIDENCE OF AN ACTUAL REVIEW BEING CONDUCTED WAS A ONE SENTENCE EMAIL SENT ABOUT AN HOUR AFTER AN INQUIRY WAS MADE TO THE STATE DEPARTMENT. 
          UM, BUT WE WILL FIND OUT MORE IN THE COMING WEEK. 
          UM, I REALLY WISH THERE WAS MORE CERTAINTY THAT WE COULD PROVIDE ON WHAT MAY HAPPEN. 
          UM, IT IS GENERALLY THE CASE THAT, THAT EVEN WITHOUT TEMPORARY PROTECTED STATUS, PEOPLE WHO ARE IN SOME PENDING ASYLUM CASE WOULD HAVE LEGAL PROTECTION. 
          BUT GIVEN WHAT WE'RE SEEING AROUND THE COUNTRY, IT'S ALSO CLEAR THAT ICE IS PICKING PEOPLE UP, DETAINING FOLKS, AND PUTTING PEOPLE INTO DEPORTATION PROCEEDINGS BEYOND I THINK WHAT WE HAVE UNDERSTOOD TO BE LEGAL, UM, OR, OR POLICY WITHIN, UH, WITHIN DHS. 
          UM, AND SO I THINK THIS IS, THIS IS SORT OF A CASE WHERE I WOULD REALLY CONTINUE TO ENCOURAGE FOLKS WHO ARE IN THESE COMPLICATED STATUSES TO BE IN TOUCH WITH AN IMMIGRATION LAWYER. 
          UM, WE ARE TRYING TO PROVIDE RESOURCES SO THAT ANYBODY CAN GET IN TOUCH WITH AN IMMIGRATION LAWYER AND HAVE THEIR CASE WORKED ON. 
          UM, BUT THIS IS A TOUGH TIME AND, AND, YOU KNOW, REALLY MY HEART IS WITH EVERYBODY THAT'S IN THESE TOUGH SITUATIONS. 
          SO I THINK THOSE ARE THE MAJOR UPDATES, THINGS THAT WE HAVE BEEN TRACKING AND WATCHING. 
          UM, AND THAT WILL UNFOLD OVER THE NEXT TWO WEEKS. 
          UM, AND VERY OPEN TO QUESTIONS OR COMMENTS FROM THIS THE COUNCIL. 
          SO THANK YOU ALL. 
          UH, YES, THANK YOU, CITY MANAGER. 
          AND, UH, YOU KNOW, AS HAS BEEN MENTIONED, UH, YOU KNOW, THESE ARE REALLY CHALLENGING TIMES AND SOMETIMES IT FEELS LIKE WE, THERE ARE MORE QUESTIONS THAN ANSWERS. 
          AND, UM, AS MUCH INFORMATION WE CAN PROVIDE TO THE COMMUNITY, THE BETTER. 
          UM, I KNOW MY COLLEAGUES, UM, AND I HAVE ALL THOUGHT ABOUT AND OR ASKED ABOUT HOW WE CAN EVEN STRENGTHEN, UM, WHAT WE HAVE NOW. 
          AND I THINK, UM, IN THE WEEKS TO COME, I KNOW THAT THIS COUNCIL, UM, WILL PRIORITIZE THAT AND PRIORITIZE WHATEVER WE CAN DO, UH, TO, UM, GET MORE CLARITY, GET MORE, UH, ANSWERS, AND STRENGTHEN WHAT WE ALREADY HAVE. 
          SO, UH, THANK YOU FOR THE UPDATE. 
          I KNOW MY COLLEAGUES MUST HAVE QUESTIONS, SO I WILL ASK THAT YOU RAISE YOUR HAND AND I WILL THEN CALL ON YOU IN TURN. 
          AND THE RAISE HAND FEATURE IS AT THE END IN THE BOTTOM OF THE SCREEN. 
          I'LL GO TO COUNSELOR ZUBI. 
          YEAH. 
          HEY, UM, JUST WANNA SAY THANK YOU FOR ADDRESSING THE WAYS THAT OUR CITY IS TRYING TO BE ACTIVE ABOUT PROTECTING OUR RESIDENTS. 
          IT'D 
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BE GREAT TO GET A LIST OF THE RESOURCES AND OPPORTUNITIES THAT YOU NOTED HERE. 
          UM, AND I ALSO JUST WANNA ALSO ACKNOWLEDGE THE PAIN THAT YOU NOTED WITH THE RECENT KILLINGS BY ICE. 
          UM, I WILL PERSONALLY BE CONTINUING TO WORK ON AN ASSESSMENT OF OUR WELCOMING CITY ORDINANCE, SIMILAR TO WHAT MAYOR SIDIKI NOTED, UH, TO ENSURE THAT OUR FEDERAL ADMINISTRATION KNOWS THAT WHEN THEY ARE BLURRING THE LINES ON WHO IS WHAT, THAT WE WILL BE MOVING TO ENSURE THAT WE ARE AS EXPLICIT AS POSSIBLE IN, IN NON-COOPERATION. 
          I'LL YIELD NO QUESTIONS THERE. 
          COUNCILOR FA FLAHERTY. 
          THANK YOU, DREW. 
          YOU MADAM MAYOR. 
          I JUST NOTE THAT THE NINTH CIRCUIT IS A PROBLEMATIC CIRCUIT, AND WE JUST HAD A BIG WIN THERE IN ONE OF THE EST BRIEFS THAT, UH, THE CITY OF CAMBRIDGE FILED. 
          SO CONGRATULATIONS TO THAT. 
          I'VE GOT A THOUGHT ON OUR RESPONSE TO UNLAWFUL, UH, DETENTION FOR, UH, RESIDENTS OF THE CITY OF CAMBRIDGE. 
          AND MAYBE, UM, YOU KNOW, IF THE, UH, CITY SOLICITOR AND, AND, UH, THE CITY MANAGER IS INTERESTED IN ESTABLISHING A, UH, A VOLUNTEER NETWORK OF LAWYERS, MAYBE 30 OR 40 OR 50 LAWYERS IN THE CITY OF CAMBRIDGE, EVERYBODY COULD TAKE A DAY AND BE THE ON-CALL LAWYER IF SOMEBODY IS DETAINED. 
          IF THERE'S A SURGE IN CAMBRIDGE, THEN WE HAVE, UH, AN A PERSON WHO'S IDENTIFIED FOR THAT DAY TO GO AND FILE A HABEAS CORPUS PETITION IN THE FEDERAL COURT. 
          SO THE BODY'S NOT REMOVED, UM, BECAUSE WE'RE SEEING THIS EVERYWHERE. 
          UM, JUST A THOUGHT AND WE COULD TALK ABOUT IT, BUT I CONGRATULATE THE CITY ON ITS EFFORTS AND LET'S, UH, LET'S KEEP IT UP. 
          THANK YOU SO MUCH. 
          I HAVE COUNCILOR NOLAN. 
          THANK YOU. 
          UM, UH, MAYOR AND THANK YOU CITY MANAGER, AND THANK YOU, MY COLLEAGUES. 
          I DO HAVE A QUESTION ON IT. 
          IT'S A SENSITIVE AREA TO KNOW HOW MANY OF OUR RESIDENTS ARE IN, UH, TEMPORARY PROTECTED STATUS. 
          BUT AS THE CITY MANAGER REFERENCED, ONE OF THE MOST, I I I, I THINK HORRIFYING THINGS THAT HAS BEEN HAPPENING IS THAT, THAT THIS PARTICULAR FEDERAL ADMINISTRATION IS LITERALLY TAKING PEOPLE, EVEN AT THE VERY POINT OF WHEN THEY ARE ABOUT TO GET THEIR CITIZENSHIP, THEY ARE, ARE NOT ONLY IGNORING THE FACT THAT SO MANY FOLKS ARE HERE LEGALLY SEEKING ASYLUM, BUT EVEN WHEN THEY'VE GONE THROUGH THE ENTIRE PROCESS, FOLLOWED EVERY SINGLE RULE AND ARE ABOUT TO FINALIZE IT, THEY HAVE HAD NO QUALMS ABOUT PICKING UP PEOPLE AND DETAINING THEM. 
          UH, UN UNLAWFULLY DO WE HAVE STANDING, IF IT IS, AND I REALIZE THIS IS A QUESTION I'M THROWING OUT, WOULD WE HAVE STANDING AS A CITY IF A RESIDENT IS ILLEGALLY DETAINED TO THEN SUE THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT BACK? I I, IS THAT ONE OF THE TOOLS IN OUR TOOLKIT THAT WE WOULD BE ABLE TO, TO USE? I MEAN, ONE OF THE THINGS THAT SINCE THEY HAVE NO QUALMS AT ALL ABOUT BREAKING THE LAW, THE QUESTION IS CAN WE AS A CITY ACTUALLY HAVE STANDING? I'M JUST CURIOUS. 
          AND IF WE DON'T KNOW, THEN I, I'LL JUST, THAT'S LATER. 
          AND, AND I THINK THE OTHER RELATED QUESTION IS, DO WE HAVE A SENSE OF HOW MANY FAMILIES, AS COUNCILOR ZUBIE SAID, GETTING INFORMATION OUT TO THE COMMUNITY TO MAKE SURE ALL THE FAMILIES KNOW WHAT THEIR OPTIONS ARE? AND AS COUNCILOR FLAHERTY SAID, IF WE COULD MAKE SURE THAT ANY RESIDENTS HAVE ACCESS TO PERHAPS SOME PRO BONO LAWYERS TO HELP, DO WE HAVE ANY SENSE OF HOW MANY RESIDENTS THIS TPS AFFECTS? I HAVE SOLICITOR MAYOR, THANK YOU. 
          AND THROUGH YOU MADAM MAYOR. 
          AND JUST TO THE QUESTION ON WHETHER THE CITY WOULD HAVE STANDING, UM, UNFORTUNATELY, I DON'T THINK THE CITY WOULD HAVE STANDING IN THAT INSTANCE WHERE THERE'S AN INDIVIDUAL WHO'S UNLAWFULLY DETAINED. 
          UM, BUT I HEAR THE POINTS THAT SEVERAL OF YOU HAVE RAISED, UM, ON, YOU KNOW, LOOKING AT VOLUNTEER ATTORNEY SERVICES. 
          WE DO ALREADY FUND, UM, THE DE NOVO IMMIGRANT CLINIC AND LOOK FOR VOLUNTEER ATTORNEYS TO HELP THAT CLINIC. 
          THAT'S OBVIOUSLY NOT A DAILY SERVICE. 
          IT'S, UM, ONCE A MONTH, I BELIEVE, ANSWERING QUESTIONS AND THEN ALSO CONNECTING, UM, CLINIC PARTICIPANTS WITH ONGOING LEGAL SUPPORT. 
          BUT I THINK WE WILL BE CONTINUING TO LOOK AT WAYS WE CAN, UM, YOU KNOW, PARTNER WITH OUR LEGAL SERVICE PROVIDERS AND PARTNER WITH VOLUNTEER ATTORNEYS AND SEE IF THERE'S ANY OTHER PROGRAMS THAT THE CITY CAN BE PART OF TO HELP, UM, GET THE NECESSARY LEGAL SERVICES OUT TO, UM, THE IMMIGRANTS. 
          AND THEN COUNCILOR NOLAN, YOUR SECOND QUESTION AROUND THE NUMBER, RIGHT? DO WE HAVE ANY SENSE OF THAT? I'M SURE THAT, UM, MAYBE CITY MANAGER, 
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MAYBE WE CAN LOOK INTO THAT. 
          YEAH, WE CAN LOOK INTO IT. 
          YEAH. 
          YEAH. 
          AND THEN MAYOR, JUST RE REMIND ALL OF US THAT AS WE, WE MOVE FORWARD, OUR WELCOMING ORDINANCE IS QUITE STRONG. 
          YOU KNOW, WE CAN ALWAYS LOOK AT IT TO SEE IF WE, WE CAN IMPROVE IT. 
          THE OTHER THING WE NEED TO REMEMBER IS THAT WE NEED TO INSIST ON OUR RIGHTS IF THERE ARE LAWS BROKEN IN OUR CITY, TO MAKE SURE WE WILL BE THE ONES TO ENSURE THAT THEY ARE, UH, TAKEN CARE OF. 
          YOU KNOW, WE, WE KNOW IN MIN IN MINNEAPOLIS, THERE'S BEEN A CONCERTED EFFORT TO NOT EVEN ALLOW LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT TO BE INVOLVED. 
          AND IT'S SOMETHING WE SHOULD PROBABLY PROACTIVELY THINK ABOUT. 
          HOW DO WE ENSURE THAT IF, IF I ASSAULT SOMEONE ON THE STREET, OUR LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS RIGHTFULLY SO, WILL BE IN CHARGE OF, UH, ADJUDICATING THAT AND LOOKING AT IT. 
          AND IF AN, IF AN ICE OFFICER ASSAULTS SOMEONE, WHICH WE HAVE SEEN HAPPEN TIME AND TIME AND TIME AGAIN ACROSS THE, THE COUNTRY, WE NEED TO MAKE SURE THAT WE CAN HOLD THEM ACCOUNTABLE. 
          WE WILL NOT INTERFERE WITH THE FEDERAL IMMIGRATION WORK. 
          HOWEVER, WHEN OUR OWN LAWS ARE, ARE, ARE BROKEN, I THINK WE NEED TO PROACTIVELY THINK ABOUT HOW DO WE ENSURE THAT OUR LAW ENFORCEMENT, UH, CAN, CAN ENFORCE LAW AND ORDER WHEN, WHEN THE, THE LAWS ARE BEING BROKEN BY FEDERAL OFFICIALS. 
          SO I, I'M NOT SURE THAT'S AN ANSWERABLE QUESTION, BUT I DO WANNA RAISE IT NOW BECAUSE WE HAVE CERTAINLY SEEN IT AND CLEARLY IT WILL COME UP AT SOME POINT HERE BECAUSE THEY WILL BE AFTER US GIVEN PARTICULARLY OUR, UM, STATUS AS A, AS A CITY THAT STANDS STRONG. 
          THANK YOU? YES, YOUR HONOR. 
          UH, WE'LL GO TO COUNCILOR MCGOVERN. 
          THANK YOU MADAM MAYOR. 
          THROUGH YOU. 
          UH, MR. MANAGER, COULD YOU JUST REMIND, UM, REMIND US, UH, THAT REPORTS THAT WE GET FROM THE POLICE DEPARTMENT ON ICE ACTIVITY IN THE CITY, THOSE ARE WHAT, EVERY THREE MONTHS? HOW OFTEN DO WE GET THOSE? UM, I THOUGHT IT MIGHT'VE BEEN EVERY, IT'S EITHER EVERY THREE MONTHS, EVERY QUARTER, OR EVERY SIX MONTHS. 
          I'LL CHECK. 
          UM, AND I THINK WE HAD ONE FAIRLY RECENTLY IN THE FALL. 
          OKAY. 
          UM, I WOULD JUST MAYBE RECOMMEND THIS, ESPECIALLY IF WE'RE LOOKING AT, THERE'S, THERE'S GONNA BE A POTENTIAL SURGE THAT MAYBE WE GET THOSE REPORTS MORE FREQUENTLY. 
          I THINK PEOPLE, AS MUCH AS WE CAN COMMUNICATE WITH FOLKS IN THE COMMUNITY ABOUT WHAT IS ACTUALLY HAPPENING TO THE BEST OF OUR KNOWLEDGE, UM, I THINK THE BETTER I SEE ON SOCIAL MEDIA A LOT ABOUT PEOPLE SAYING, YOU KNOW, ICE WAS SPOTTED HERE, ICE WAS SPOTTED THERE. 
          A LOT OF TIMES THOSE TURN OUT NOT TO BE ACCURATE. 
          UM, BUT AGAIN, EVERYONE IS SO ANXIOUS AND SO ON EDGE, UM, THAT IF THE MORE INFORMATION WE CAN PROVIDE, I THINK GOING EVERY, YOU KNOW, GOING FOUR MONTHS OR, OR LONGER TO, TO GIVE PEOPLE INFORMATION IS PROBABLY TOO LONG GIVEN THE WAY THINGS ARE GOING AND POTENTIALLY GONNA GO. 
          SO, UH, IF WE CAN DO THAT MAYBE MORE OFTEN, I THINK THAT WOULD BE, UH, THAT WOULD BE HELPFUL. 
          YEAH. 
          THAT'S ALL I HAVE. 
          MADAM MAYOR, ANY MANAGER THROUGH, THROUGH YOU, MAYOR SIDIKI? UM, I THINK WE CAN DEFINITELY, WE CAN MAYBE BE IN TOUCH IN TERMS OF WHAT, WHAT IS, WHAT IS BETTER. 
          I MEAN, I THINK DOING IT MONTHLY WOULD BE FINE. 
          UH, WE CURRENTLY HAVE IT QUARTERLY. 
          UM, THERE HAS NOT BEEN A SIGNIFICANT AMOUNT OF, UM, ICE DETENTIONS WITHIN THE CITY OF CAMBRIDGE. 
          UH, BUT CERTAINLY I THINK OUR UNDERSTANDING IS THERE'S BEEN MORE ACTIVITY, UM, IN MANY OF OUR SURROUNDING COMMUNITIES. 
          AND, UM, AND OF COURSE, WE ARE VERY MUCH WATCHING FOR IF THERE WOULD BE ANY INDICATION THAT THERE'S GOING TO BE SOME SORT OF A SURGE OR AN UPTICK. 
          UM, SO, UM, APPRECIATE THAT THOUGHT. 
          COUNCILLOR MCGOVERN. 
          OTHER QUESTIONS, COMMENTS FROM THE CITY COUNCIL ON THIS? SEEING NONE, UH, WE WILL BE IN TOUCH WITH YOU, CITY MANAGER, UM, ON OTHER ITEMS. SO ON A MOTION BY COUNCILOR SIMMONS TO PLACE CITY MANAGER. 
          AGENDA NUMBER ONE ON FILE. 
          WE'LL DO A ROLL CALL. 
          COUNCILOR ZUBIE? YES. 
          YES. 
          VICE MAYOR ZE? YES. 
          YES. 
          COUNCIL FLAHERTY? YES. 
          YES. 
          COUNCILOR MCGOVERN? YES. 
          YES. 
          COUNCILOR NOLAN? YES. 
          YES. 
          COUNCILOR SIMMONS. 
          YES. 
          YES. 
          COUNCILOR SABRINA WHEELER. 
          YES. 
          YES. 
          COUNCILOR ZUEY. 
          YES. 
          YES. 
          MAYOR SIDIKI. 
          YES. 
          YES. 
          AND YOU HAVE NINE MEMBERS RECORDED IN THE AFFIRMATIVE CITY MANAGER AGENDA. 
          ITEM NUMBER ONE IS PLACED ON FILE. 
          WE'LL MOVE ON TO CITY MANAGER. 
          AGENDA ITEM NUMBER THREE, THIS IS TRANSMITTING COMMUNICATION FROM IAN WONG, CITY MANAGER RELATIVE TO THE APPROPRIATION OF A HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS RECEIVED FROM THE MASSACHUSETTS SCHOOL BUILDING AUTHORITY TO THE PUBLIC INVESTMENT FUND SCHOOL. 
          EXTRAORDINARY EXPENDITURES ACCOUNT TO FUND THE FEASIBILITY STUDY AND ISCHEMIC DESIGN COSTS FOR THE ROOF REPLACEMENT 
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PROJECT AT THE CAMBRIDGE PORT SCHOOL, LOCATED AT 89 ELM STREET. 
          COUNSELOR, ZUI, YOU HAVE THE FLOOR. 
          THANK YOU. 
          UM, MAYOR SIDIKI, UH, I THINK IT'S GREAT WE GOT THIS GRANT. 
          I JUST WONDERED, UM, WHY A FEASIBILITY STUDY OR WHETHER A FEASIBILITY STUDY AND A DESIGN IS NEEDED FOR ROOF REPLACEMENT, HAVING, I KNOW A SCHOOL IS MORE COMPLICATED THAN A HOUSE, BUT, UH, WOULDN'T A GOOD ROOFER BE ABLE TO COME UP WITH, UM, WITH A, A PLAN AND NOT NEED A HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS FOR FEASIBILITY STUDY IN A FORMAL DESIGN? SO, THAT'S A QUESTION THROUGH YOU. 
          UH, MAYOR SIDIKI FOR THE CITY MANAGER. 
          SO WE HAVE A BUNCH OF, UM, SCHOOL STAFF HERE, SO, OH, GOOD. 
          UM, WE'LL GO TO, UM, VIDA. 
          UM, SURE. 
          THANK YOU, MADAM MAYOR. 
          UM, HI, MY NAME. 
          MY NAME IS VIDA KAJI. 
          I'M A DIRECTOR OF FACILITIES FOR CAMBRIDGE PUBLIC SCHOOLS. 
          I AM NOT SURE IF YOU CAN SEE ME. 
          UM, YOU CAN, UH, BUT YOU CAN HEAR ME RIGHT? YES. 
          YES. 
          OKAY, EXCELLENT. 
          SO, UH, I JUST WANNA EXPLAIN, UH, YOU KNOW, UH, MASSACHUSETTS, UH, SCHOOL BUILDING AUTHORITY, UH, UH, PROCESS. 
          SO, UH, IN ORDER TO, UM, GET, UM, UH, IN THERE, UH, UH, A PROGRAM, UH, FOR ACCE, UH, ACCELERATED REPAIR, WHICH IS FOR A REPLACEMENT OF ROOFS, UH, BOILERS AND WINDOWS. 
          WE NEED TO SUBMIT A STATEMENT OF INTEREST, UH, LAST YEAR AROUND THIS TIME. 
          AFTER THAT, WE GET INVITED. 
          IF WE ARE SELECTED BASED ON, UH, YOU KNOW, CRITERIA THAT THEY HAVE, WHICH IS USUALLY THE AGE AND, UH, YOU KNOW, CONDITION OF THE ROOF OR THE BOILER, OR THE WINDOW, UH, YOU GET INVITED TO DO, UH, A, UH, UM, A FEASIBILITY STUDY OR A SCHEMATIC DESIGN TO SEE IF WE QUALIFY FOR, UM, BEING ACCEPTED INTO THEIR PROGRAM. 
          WE FINANCE THE ENTIRE COST OF THE PROJECT, AND ONCE THE PROJECT IS COMPLETED, WE ARE REIMBURSED A CERTAIN RATE, WHICH IS ROUGHLY BETWEEN 30 AND 40% OF COST OF THE PROJECT. 
          UH, THESE ARE, UH, MSBA REQUIREMENTS. 
          THEY REQUIRED US TO DO A FEASIBILITY STUDY. 
          THEY ALSO, IF WE ARE SELECTED TO GO FORWARD WITH THE PROCESS, THEY WILL ASSIGN US, UM, A DESIGNER AND THE OWNER'S PROJECT MANAGER WHO'S GONNA OVERSEE THE PROJECT. 
          THAT'S THEIR, UH, PROCESS. 
          UH, THOSE ARE THEIR RULES. 
          UH, WE'VE COMPLETED SEVERAL PROJECTS, UH, YOU KNOW, WITH THEM IN THE PAST. 
          AND, UM, UM, IT, IT IS DEFINITELY, YOU KNOW, UH, UH, SOMETHING IF, IF WE WERE DOING IT ON OUR OWN, WHICH WE ARE RIGHT NOW, WE ARE IN THE MIDST OF REPLACING A ROOF AT THE LONGFELLOW BROADWAY. 
          UH, WE WOULD HIRE AN ARCHITECT, UH, OURSELVES. 
          UH, THIS JUST REQUIRE, THESE ROOFS ARE, UH, A LITTLE BIT MORE COMPLEX. 
          UH, THERE'S A LOT TO GO, UH, INTO. 
          THERE'S A LOT OF CURBS. 
          UM, YOU KNOW, UM, A LOT OF THINGS UP ON THE ROOF IS NOT JUST A KIND OF LIKE A FLAT ROOF THAT, UH, CAN EASILY BE DONE. 
          SO THERE'S DEFINITELY, UH, SOME DESIGN THAT GOES INTO IT. 
          AND WE ALSO NEED A DESIGN TO GO, UH, OUT TO BID TO THE COMPETITIVE BIDDING SO THAT, UH, YOU KNOW, ROOFING CONTRACTOR, UH, KNOW WHAT THEY'RE BIDDING ON, WHAT THE, YOU KNOW, CONDITION OF, UH, UH, YOU KNOW, SUBSTRUCTURE IS, AND ALL OF THAT SO THEY CAN MAKE UP, UH, UH, YOU KNOW, MEANINGFUL BID ON THE PROJECT. 
          THANK YOU. 
          COUNCILOR ZUZI. 
          YEAH. 
          THANK YOU. 
          THANK YOU SO MUCH AGAIN THROUGH YOU MAYOR SIDIKI. 
          THAT'S REALLY HELPFUL. 
          HELPFUL. 
          UM, MR. KJC AND I, SO WE'RE NOT GUARANTEED OF THE FUNDING FROM THE STATE OR PARTIAL FUNDING FOR THE REPAIR OF THE ROOF, BUT IT SOUNDS LIKE IT'S LIKELY IF WE FOLLOW THIS PROCEDURE. 
          IS THAT RIGHT? YES, THAT IS CORRECT. 
          YEAH. 
          ANYWAYS. 
          SOUNDS GREAT. 
          AND I THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR MAKING THIS HAPPEN. 
          I YIELD OF COURSE. 
          THANK YOU. 
          DO MY COLLEAGUES HAVE ANY OTHER QUESTIONS ON THIS? THANK YOU TO THE SCHOOL STAFF WHO JOINED. 
          UM, HEARING NONE WILL GO AHEAD AND DO ON A MOTION BY COUNCILLOR ZZI, A ROLL CALL ON THE APPROPRIATION AND PLACING CITY MANAGER AG AGENDA ITEM NUMBER THREE ON FILE. 
          COUNCILOR ZUBE? YES. 
          YES. 
          VICE MAYOR. 
          YES. 
          YES. 
          COUNCILOR FLAHERTY? YES. 
          YES. 
          COUNCILOR MCGOVERN. 
          YES. 
          YES. 
          COUNCILOR NOLAN. 
          YES. 
          YES. 
          COUNCILOR SIMMONS. 
          YES. 
          YES. 
          COUNCILOR SABRINA WHEELER. 
          YES. 
          YES. 
          COUNCILOR ZUEY. 
          YES. 
          YES. 
          MAYOR SIDIKI. 
          YES. 
          YES. 
          AND YOU HAVE NINE MEMBERS RECORDED IN THE AFFIRMATIVE. 
          WE HAVE PLACED THE ITEM ON FILE. 
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THE MONEY HAS BEEN PERFORATED. 
          WE'LL MOVE ON TO CITY MANAGER. 
          AGENDA ITEM NUMBER FOUR, THIS IS TRANSMITTING A COMMUNICATION FROM IAN WONG, CITY MANAGER RELATIVE TO THE APPOINTMENT OF THE FOLLOWING PERSONS AS PUBLIC WEARERS FOR THE CALENDAR YEAR 2026 TO OPERATE SCALES AT 500 FRONT STREET, CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS 0 2 1 4 2. 
          COUNCILLOR ZUI. 
          YOU HAVE A FOUR. 
          THANK YOU SO MUCH, MAYOR SIDIKI. 
          I JUST, I JUST WANTED TO HEAR MORE ABOUT THIS 'CAUSE IT SOUNDED VERY MYSTERIOUS TO ME. 
          I, I, UM, HOW LONG IS THE TERM? WHAT IS THE FUNCTION OF THE PUBLIC WEARERS? I'VE NEVER HEARD OF A PUBLIC WAYER. 
          WHAT ARE THEIR QUALIFICATIONS? ARE THEY PAID? AND I WAS LOOKING AT 500 FRONT STREET, IT LOOKS LIKE IT'S VERY CLOSE TO MIT. 
          IS IT RIGHT BESIDE MIT I'VE NEVER NOTED A SCALE THERE, SO I'M JUST EAGER TO LEARN MORE ABOUT THIS THROUGH YOU, MAYOR SIDIKI, I GUESS TO, UM, DEPUTY CITI, CITY MANAGER, KATHY WATKINS, I THROUGH YOU, UM, MADAM MAYOR, UM, I THINK WE ARE HAVING SOME TECHNICAL DIFFICULTIES. 
          SO ISD IS TRYING TO LOG ON WHO WOULD BE THE BEST PEOPLE TO ANSWER THESE QUESTIONS. 
          UM, AND SO I GENUINELY APOLOGIZE. 
          SO I KNOW PETER WAS TRYING TO APOLOGIZE. 
          UH, TRYING TO LOG ON. 
          WE MAY HAVE TO GET BACK TO YOU ON SOME OF THESE QUESTIONS. 
          SO APOLOGIZE. 
          I SEE ANTHONY. 
          UM, YES. 
          UH, SORRY ABOUT THAT. 
          OH, PERFECT. 
          THANK YOU, ANTHONY. 
          I'M LIKE, TRYING TO DO IT. 
          THANK YOU. 
          ANTHONY IS HERE. 
          WE'RE GOOD ANSWER. 
          SURE. 
          THANK YOU, COUNSELOR FOR THAT QUESTION. 
          UH, THROUGH YOU, MME. MAY ASK, PUBLIC WAY IS IN MASSACHUSETTS, CITIES AND TOWNS, UH, SWEAR IN PUBLIC WAYS, UH, FOR BUSINESSES TO ENSURE ACCURACY AND FAIRNESS WITH THE STATE CONSUMER PROTECTION LAWS OF SALE OF GOODS AND WEIGHTS AND MEASURES. 
          THIS PRACTICE IS MANDATED BY MASS GENERAL LAW, CHAPTER 41, SECTION 85, WHICH REQUIRES MAS AND CITY COUNCILS TO APPOINT WHERES UPON REQUEST TO VERIFY ACCURACY OF COMMODITIES, PARTICULARLY IN HEAVY MATERIALS LIKE STONE AND SAND. 
          UM, WHAT IT IS, IS BOSTON SAND AND GRAVEL HAS SELL SUCH LARGE VOLUMES OF GOODS. 
          UM, YOU KNOW, THAT THESE PUBLIC WAY IS, ARE SWORN IN TO CERTIFY THAT THE GOODS THAT THEY SELL, UH, CO UH, WEIGHED ACCORDING TO LAW. 
          THEY DO GO THROUGH A QUARTERLY THIRD PARTY INSPECTION, AND WE DO JOIN THEM, UH, ON ONCE A YEAR ON THAT THIRD PARTY INSPECTION. 
          AND SEAN FRIEND IS OUR INSPECTOR WHO DOES THAT, IS ONLINE ALSO. 
          UH, I THINK ONE OF YOUR QUESTIONS WAS, DO THEY GET PAID? THEY GET PAID BY BOSTON SAND AND GRAVEL, UM, NOT BY US. 
          AND IT'S JUST A SAFEGUARD, UM, AGAINST PUBLIC FRAUD AND CARELESSNESS, UM, INVOLVING WEIGHTS AND MEASURES. 
          SO, ZUZI YEAH. 
          THROUGH YOU, UH, MAYOR SIDIKI. 
          SO IF I WANTED TO BE A PUBLIC WAY, OR WHAT SORT OF CREDENTIALS WOULD I NEED TO HAVE? WELL, I, I, THROUGH YOU, MADAM MAYOR, UM, FIRST YOU WOULD WORK FOR THE, THE COMPANY THAT YOU'RE BEING SWORN INTO TOO. 
          UM, YOU KNOW, WE HAVE A WEIGHTS AND MEASURES, UH, DEPARTMENT THAT GO, THAT'S THROUGH INSPECTION SERVICES. 
          WE DO ALL OF THE SMALLER SCALES. 
          THIS PARTICULAR, UH, BUSINESS, THERE'S SUCH LARGE VOLUMES, WE DON'T, WE WOULD, WE DON'T HAVE THE EQUIPMENT TO DO THIS. 
          A LOT OF CITIES AND TOWNS IN MASSACHUSETTS THAT HAVE THIS TYPE OF BUSINESS, UH, DO, UH, SWEAR IN PUBLIC WAYS. 
          COUNCILLOR SUZI. 
          SO ARE THEY, SO IS IT, ARE THEY LIKE CIVIL? AND SO MOSTLY IT'S A CHECK AND BALANCE SYSTEM, IT SOUNDS LIKE. 
          SO YOU JUST, YOU NEED A RELIABLE, HONEST PERSON WHO MIGHT HAVE SOME MECHANICAL ABILITY THAT WOULD CHECK THE SCALES IS MM-HMM . 
          IS THAT IT? LIKE, I MEAN, WHY, SO WHY WOULD, WHY WOULD WE NEED LIKE NINE OF THOSE, UH, PEOPLE? 'CAUSE DO THEY TAKE TURNS OR, UH, THROUGH YOU, UM, THROUGH YOU, MADAM MAYOR, COUNSELOR. 
          YES. 
          I THINK THEY ALL WORK IN DIFFERENT SHIFTS, IN DIFFERENT CAPACITIES AT BOSTON SAND AND GRAVEL. 
          UM, WHETHER IT'S, UM, WHAT THEY'RE SELLING OR WHAT THEY'RE WEIGHING, UH, WHAT MATERIALS ARE GOING OUT, IT'S SO DIFFERENT, DIFFERENT PEOPLE. 
          OKAY. 
          AB I'M JUST ABSOLUTELY FASCINATED. 
          I NEVER HEARD OF THIS CAREER, OCCUPATION. 
          AND, UM, THANK YOU FOR TELLING ME ABOUT IT. 
          THANK YOU. 
          I, I YIELD COUNCILLOR SIMMONS. 
          UH, THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR. 
          UH, JUST KIND OF FOLLOWING UP BEHIND CA UH, COUNCILLOR ZUZI. 
          AND I WANNA THANK HER FOR RAISING THIS QUESTIONS BECAUSE AS I WAS READING THROUGH THE AGENDA AND CAME TO THIS PARTICULAR ITEM, ONE THOUGHT I HAD WAS, I WONDER HOW MANY MEMBERS ACTUALLY KNOW WHAT 
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THESE FOLKS DO. 
          SOME OF US DO HAVE BEEN AROUND FOR A WHILE. 
          SOME OF US MIGHT HAVE KNOWN AND DIDN'T REMEMBER. 
          AND SO I RAISED THIS AND SUPPORT MY COLLEAGUE AND HER HER QUERIES. 
          UH, SO I DON'T HAVE ANY OBJECTIONS OR CONCERNS, BUT I DO WANNA POINT OUT, UH, THAT THE CITY MANAGER, UH, SHOULD BE BETTER ABOUT PROVIDING INFORMATION, A SENTENCE OR TWO THAT SAYS, YOU KNOW, WEIGHTS AND MEASURES, AND THIS IS WHAT THE PERSON DOES, BECAUSE EVERYONE DOESN'T KNOW, INCLUDING THE PEOPLE THAT MIGHT BE VIEWING IN. 
          SO WE'RE NOT ONLY EDIFYING OURSELVES AS COUNSELORS, BUT WE'RE TELLING THE PEOPLE THAT ARE VIEWING IT. 
          SO WHO ARE THESE PEOPLE THAT THEY'RE APPOINTING? WHAT ARE THEY DO? WHAT, WHAT ARE THEY FOR? UH, THE OTHER THING THAT WE DON'T KNOW, WE, LIKE I SAID, WE DON'T KNOW WHO THEY ARE. 
          WE DON'T KNOW WHY THEY'RE QUALIFIED FOR THESE ROLES OR EVEN WHAT THE ROLES ARE. 
          SO THANK YOU AGAIN. 
          UH, I JUST WANNA ACKNOWLEDGE MY COLLEAGUE FOR, FOR RAISING THAT. 
          AND I JUST THINK AS WE GO FORWARD, WE, IT WOULD BE HELPFUL TO HAVE SOME CONSISTENCY ACROSS THE APPOINTMENTS OF BOARDS AND COMMISSIONS AND QUASI EMPLOYEES, IF YOU WILL. 
          'CAUSE I DON'T KNOW WHAT REALLY TO, TO IDENTIFY THESE INDIVIDUALS, UH, AS, BUT HAVING SOME CONSISTENCY ON THE COMMUNICATION AND THE, AND THE INFORMATION THAT WE RENDER ON THESE APPOINTMENTS THAT WE ARE SUPPOSED TO APPROVE. 
          UM, THE INFORMATION, THE CONTEXT THAT WE'RE GETTING IS IN THE RECORD AND THAT ANYONE HAS ACCESS TO IT. 
          AND I THINK IT'S BETTER FOR US AS COUNSELORS THAT WE KNOW WHO AND WHAT WE'RE VOTING TO APPROVE. 
          SO WITH THAT, I YIELD THE FLOOR. 
          THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR. 
          THANK YOU, COUNCILOR SIMMONS. 
          ANY OTHER QUESTIONS ON THIS HEARING? NONE. 
          CLERK CAIN CRANE, DID YOU HAVE YOUR HAND UP, ? I DID. 
          I JUST WANTED TO ADD THAT THESE TERMS ARE USUALLY FOR ONE YEAR, THE CITY CLERK'S OFFICE GOES OUT ON SITE YEARLY IN SWIZZ, UM, THESE PUBLIC LAWYERS IN I KNOW THAT WAS A QUESTION. 
          THANK YOU CLERK. 
          AND TO FOLKS', UH, POINTS, I THINK, YOU KNOW, IF THERE'S A WAY WE CAN GET SOME MORE INFORMATION ABOUT WHAT THIS IS, WHAT PUBLIC WEARS ARE, ARE, UM, SO THAT IT'S ON THE RECORD, SEEING NO ONE ELSE. 
          WE'LL, ON A MOTION BY COUNSELOR ZUI TO APPROVE THE APPOINTMENTS AND PLACE. 
          CITY MANAGER AGENDA ITEM NUMBER FOUR ON FILE. 
          WE'LL DO A ROLL CALL. 
          COUNCILOR ZUBE? YES. 
          YES. 
          VICE MAYOR ZI? YES. 
          YES. 
          COUNCIL OF FLAHERTY? YES. 
          YES. 
          COUNCILOR MCGOVERN? YES. 
          YES. 
          COUNCILOR NOLAN? YES. 
          YES. 
          COUNCILOR SIMMONS. 
          YES. 
          YES. 
          COUNCILOR SABRINA WHEELER. 
          YES. 
          YES. 
          COUNCILOR EY. 
          YES. 
          YES. 
          MAYOR SIDIKI. 
          YES. 
          YES. 
          AND YOU HAVE NINE MEMBERS RECORDED IN THE AFFIRMATIVE. 
          THE APPOINTMENTS HAVE BEEN APPROVED AND CITY MANAGER AGENDA ITEM FOUR IS PLACED ON FILE. 
          WE'RE MOVING ON TO CITY MANAGER. 
          AGENDA ITEM NUMBER FIVE, TRANSMITTING COMMUNICATION FROM IAN HUANG, CITY MANAGER RELATIVE TO THE APPOINTMENT. 
          REAPPOINTMENT OF THE FOLLOWING PEOPLE TO THE RECYCLING ADVISORY COMMITTEE FOR TERMS OF THREE YEARS. 
          CONSER NOLAN, YOU HAVE THE FOUR. 
          THANK YOU, MAYOR SIDIKI. 
          VERY EXCITED TO SEE THIS ON THE AGENDA. 
          AND, UH, THE REASON I PULLED IT IS I, I DO HAVE A QUESTION ON HOW THE APPOINTMENTS WERE MADE IN THE PROCESS BY WHICH BOTH THE REAPPOINTMENTS AND THE NEW MEMBERS. 
          IT'S, IT'S GREAT THAT WHILE THERE'S A TOTAL OF NINE THAT ARE, UM, REQUIRED, IT CAN BE AS MANY AS 20 OR 24. 
          UH, SO THIS LAST TERM, WE SPENT A LOT OF TIME WORKING TO MAKE UPDATES TO THE ZERO WASTE MASTER PLAN. 
          AND, UH, THERE'S BEEN MANY, MANY DISCUSSIONS AROUND HOW IT IS THAT WE CAN IMPROVE ALL OF THE CITY OPERATIONS RELATED TO RECYCLING. 
          AND PART OF THAT INITIATIVE AROUND THE CHANGES WHERE MAKING MORE AGGRESSIVE BENCHMARKS, ORDINANCE CHANGES TO REDUCE WASTE, TAKE THE FIRST STEPS FOR THE FIRST TIME TOWARDS A SINGLE USE PLASTIC BAN TO MAKE IT MORE WIDELY AVAILABLE, SINCE THAT IS SOMETHING THAT IS PUBLIC HEALTH CONSEQUENCES, AS WELL AS ENVIRONMENTAL CONSEQUENCES, AS WELL AS EMISSION POLLUTION CONSEQUENCES. 
          SO THE QUESTION IS, WHEN YOU WERE INTERVIEWING CANDIDATES, WAS THERE AN EXPLICIT, UH, LOOK AT CANDIDATES WHO WERE INCLINED TO ADVOCATE FOR STRONG IMPROVEMENTS IN WASTE REDUCTION AND OR ADDITIONALLY, SPECIFICALLY LOOKING FOR CANDIDATES WOULD HELP OVERSIGHT OF, OF EXISTING AND FUTURE CITY PRACTICES? I JUST WANNA MAKE SURE CANDIDATES FOR THESE BOARDS AND COMMISSIONS, AND THIS IS JUST ONE OF 'EM, AS WE GO THROUGH THEM, THERE'LL BE A LOT MORE BOARDS AND COMMISSIONS ARE NOT ONLY, YOU KNOW, DEDICATED RESIDENTS, BUT REALLY ABLE TO HELP US PERFORM THE, A A VERY CRITICAL ROLE IN OVERSIGHT AND MANAGEMENT. 
          NOT JUST GIVING INPUT OR HEARING ABOUT PLANS OF THE CITY, BUT TO ACTUALLY BE ABLE TO INFORM, DEVELOP, CREATE, AND, AND PUSH THE CITY TO BE THE BEST THAT IT CAN BE IN THESE AREAS. 
          AND PARTICULARLY FOR THIS ADVISORY COMMITTEE, I THINK IT'S CRITICALLY IMPORTANT ROLE SO THAT WE CAN HAVE A SUCCESSFUL IMPLEMENTATION OF THE ZERO WASTE MASTER PLAN. 
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WE'RE ALREADY BEHIND ON A COUPLE OF THE, UM, IDEAS THAT WERE SUPPOSED TO BE PROMULGATED UP TO, UH, BY NOW. 
          SO I'M JUST REALLY WANTING TO UNDERSTAND HOW THE PROCESS INCLUDED THAT SOMEWHAT EXPANDED VISION FOR WHAT OUR, UH, ZERO WASTE MASTER PLAN WILL BRING TO THE CITY. 
          AND THIS RAC WILL BE KEY TO THAT. 
          WE'LL GO TO THE DEPUTY CITY MANAGER, THANK YOU, UH, THROUGH MAYOR SIDIKI. 
          UM, SO, AND I THINK THEY WERE TRYING TO GET PROMOTED. 
          HOPEFULLY THEY DID. 
          UM, WE HAVE JENNIFER MATTHEWS, WHO'S THE DEPUTY COMMISSIONER OF PUBLIC WORKS AND MICHAEL ORR, WHO'S THE RECYCLING DIRECTOR, WHO I WILL TURN IT OVER TO THAT CAN TALK ABOUT, UM, RESPOND TO YOUR QUESTIONS. 
          COUNCILOR NOLAN. 
          HI. 
          UM, THIS IS MIKE ORR THROUGH YOU, MADAM MAYOR. 
          UM, SO THE INTERVIEW PROCESS WAS, UM, YOU KNOW, FIRST OF ALL, WE LOOK AT, YOU KNOW, HOW MANY PEOPLE APPLIED. 
          WE LOOK AT, UM, GEOGRAPHIC DIVERSITY OF APPLICANTS. 
          YOU KNOW, WE WANT TO JUST MAKE SURE WE HAVE LIKE A WELL-ROUNDED GROUP OF PEOPLE ON THE COMMITTEE. 
          UM, BUT THEN WE DO LOOK AT LIKE, SPECIFIC QUALIFICATIONS. 
          LIKE WE HAVE ONE CANDIDATE WHO, UM, WAS A CHIEF COMMUNICATIONS OFFICER AND HAS A LOT OF INSIGHT AS TO LIKE, HOW TO COMMUNICATE AROUND ZERO WASTE OR, OR THINGS IN THE CLIMATE REALM. 
          UM, BUT THEN WE ALSO HAVE, UM, DIFFERENT KIND OF CANDIDATES THAT ARE MAYBE NEWER TO THE ZERO WASTE KIND OF, UM, LIFESTYLE, FOR LACK OF A BETTER WORD, THAT CAN OFFER DIFFERENT INSIGHTS. 
          SO WE LIKE TO BALANCE DIFFERENT AGES, DIFFERENT BACKGROUNDS, DIFFERENT PARTS OF THE CITY, UM, PEOPLE THAT ARE IN THE INDUSTRY, AND SO PEOPLE THAT ARE NOT IN THE INDUSTRY. 
          SO WE HAVE, UM, A REPRESENTATIVE FROM HARVARD AND MIT THAT ARE BOTH IN THE ZERO WASTE, KIND OF LIKE THEIR JOB DESCRIPTIONS FULLY COVER THE ZERO WASTE, UM, UH, INITIATIVES. 
          AND THEN WE HAVE PEOPLE THAT, UH, THAT HAVE WORKED IN INDUSTRY AS PLASTICS MANUFACTURERS OR DIFFERENT KIND OF, UM, UM, INDIVIDUALS IN CIRCULARITY THINGS. 
          SO, UM, I THINK WE HAVE A PRETTY WELL-ROUNDED GROUP HERE. 
          IT, IT IS A RELATIVELY LARGE ADVISORY COMMITTEE, BUT WE DO LIKE GIVING A LOT OF DIFFERENT PEOPLE INSIGHT WHEN WE HAVE SO MANY APPLICANTS THAT ARE VOLUNTEERING FOR VOLUNTARY COMMITTEE. 
          WE, WE LIKE TO, UM, GIVE 'EM THE OPPORTUNITY. 
          ONE, ONE THING I WOULD ADD TO THAT, THROUGH MADAM MAYOR, UM, COUNCILLOR NOLAN, WE ARE IN THE PROCESS OF FINALIZING DRAFT ORDINANCE CHANGES TO, UM, AFFECT THE CHANGES THAT WERE ANTICIPATED IN THE ZERO WASTE MASTER PLAN 2.0. 
          AND ONE OF THE CHANGES THAT WE WILL BE PROPOSING, UM, THAT I THINK IS CONSISTENT WITH SOME OF THE ISSUES YOU'VE RAISED, IS CHANGING THE NAME OF THE RECYCLING ADVISORY COMMITTEE TO THE WASTE REDUCTION ADVISORY COMMITTEE, AND REALLY REFOCUSING THEIR WORK ON, UM, ZERO WASTE INITIATIVES BROADLY. 
          SO AGAIN, LOOKING AT, AT THIS AND, AND THINKING ABOUT IT NOT SIMPLY AS RECYCLING, BUT THE VERY, UM, THE VARIED WAYS THAT, THAT THIS GROUP WILL BE HELPING TO ADVISE ON, UM, ZERO WASTE INITIATIVES. 
          THANK YOU, COUNCIL. 
          THANK YOU, . 
          THANK YOU. 
          UM, MICHAEL AND JENNIFER, THAT'S TERRIFIC. 
          IT WASN'T REALLY RESPONSIVE TO THE QUESTION, THOUGH. 
          THE QUESTION REALLY WAS, AS WE WERE RECRUITING AND TALKING TO THESE PEOPLE, WAS IT VERY CLEAR THAT OVERSIGHT MONITORING, NOT JUST BEING TOLD WHAT THE ISSUES ARE, NOT JUST COMMUNICATING THE ISSUES, BUT ACTUALLY TAKING A MUCH MORE INTENTIONAL APPROACH TO OUR ZERO WASTE MASK PLAN. 
          WE'VE HAD SOME SUCCESSES IN, IN, YOU KNOW, THE ZERO WASTE AND RECYCLING AREA, AND WE'VE HAD SOME REALLY STALLED OUT, WHICH IS PART OF WHY ZERO WASTE AND MASTER PLAN 2.0 IS REALLY SIGNIFICANT AND EXCITING. 
          HOWEVER, THIS COMMITTEE, AGAIN, LIKE, LIKE AS I'VE SAID WITH MANY OF OUR OTHER COMMITTEES, LET'S REALLY MAKE USE OF THE VOLUNTEERS IN THE COMMUNITY WHO ARE VERY INTERESTED IN THIS. 
          SO, SO MY QUESTION IS, WHAT WAS THAT PART OF THE INTERVIEW PROCESS? TO LET THEM KNOW THAT THEY DO HAVE A ROLE, THAT WE WANT THEM TO PUSH US, AND AGAIN, GO FORWARD WITH THIS. 
          RENAMING THE COMMITTEE IS GOOD, BUT THE OTHER ORDINANCE CHANGES ARE ONES WE'RE REALLY EAGERLY AWAITING FOR, FOR COMMERCIAL FOOD WASTE. 
          YOU KNOW, THERE, AND, AND TERMINOLOGY MATTERS, AS YOU KNOW, WE FOUGHT REALLY HARD TO HAVE IT BE FOOD WASTE, NOT COMPOST. 
          HOWEVER, THERE'S SO MANY OTHER THINGS WE REALLY NEED TO WORK ON IF WE'RE GONNA MEET OUR GOALS. 
          THAT I'M JUST CURIOUS, AGAIN, IN THIS INTERVIEW PROCESS, WHETHER THAT WAS PART OF THE, THE APPROACH TO ENSURE THAT PEOPLE COMING ON ARE GOING TO BE THE TYPES OF PEOPLE WHO ARE NOT ONLY CAPABLE OF CREATING AND GIVING INPUT AND 'CAUSE THAT'S OUR JOB IS THEN TO LISTEN TO THEM, BUT ALSO HAVE AN ATTITUDE THAT, UM, YOU KNOW, TO PUSH THE CITY TO REALLY DO ALL WE CAN. 
          'CAUSE THAT'S WHAT WE ALL NEED AND HOPEFULLY WANT FROM, FROM THESE BOARDS AND COMMISSIONS. 
          SO, IF THAT MAKES SENSE AS A QUESTION, I JUST WANNA BE VERY CLEAR ABOUT, UH, THAT PART OF THE QUESTION. 
          SURE. 
          UH, THROUGH YOU MADAM MAYOR, UM, YOU KNOW, WE DID TALK EXTENSIVELY ABOUT HOW WE DO HAVE A NEW ZERO WASTE MASTER PLAN, AND WE DO WANT THIS COMMITTEE TO HAVE A LOT OF KIND OF STAKE IN HELPING US REACH THOSE GOALS. 
          UM, AND, YOU KNOW, I THINK THAT'S 
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SOMETHING THAT WE CAN CONTINUE TO WORK ON IS KIND OF LIKE ON OUR MONTHLY MEETINGS AND, AND EVEN IN BETWEEN MEETINGS, JUST TRYING TO FIGURE OUT LIKE HOW TO EMPOWER THE COMMITTEE AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE TO LIKE, HELP PUSH US ALONG TO MEETING THESE GOALS. 
          I MEAN, IT'S, IT, IT IS A LITTLE BIT TRICKY. 
          I MEAN, 'CAUSE YOU KNOW, THERE'S A LOT OF, UM, PEOPLE THAT ARE COMING FROM DIFFERENT PART, DIFFERENT BACKGROUNDS, AND THEY MAY NOT FULLY UNDERSTAND EVERYTHING IN THE WASTE WORLD OR LIKE THE OPERATIONS. 
          BUT, YOU KNOW, AS WE START GETTING MORE VERSED AND AS WE GET A LOT OF THESE NEW CANDIDATES, UM, INTERESTED IN MORE INVOLVED IN DPW, IT, IT'LL HELP KIND OF BRING OUT, I THINK, A BETTER KIND OF O OPPORTUNITY FOR THEM TO NUDGE US ALONG. 
          AND SO THAT'S SOMETHING THAT WE CAN DEFINITELY LOOK A LOT MORE CLOSELY AT. 
          GREAT. 
          THANK YOU. 
          AND AGAIN, THIS IS GONNA BE TRUE ALL BOARDS AND COMMISSION. 
          I THINK THAT WE'RE GONNA BE DOING OUR JOB BETTER IF WE TAKE ADVANTAGE AND REALLY USE THESE BOARDS AND COMMISSIONS, AND PARTICULARLY IN THIS AREA. 
          I THINK IT'S GONNA BE CRITICALLY IMPORTANT AS YOU KNOW, I'M, I'M THAT THIS IS A GREAT PLAN AND YET IT COULD HAVE BEEN EVEN MORE AGGRESSIVE. 
          AND, AND, YOU KNOW, THE TIMELINE IS, WE, WE REALLY NEED TO MEET THESE TIMELINES SO THAT WE CAN GET ONTO ZERO WASTE MASTER PLAN. 
          UH, DCM WATKINS MAY NOT LIKE TO HEAR THIS, BUT I'M ALREADY THINKING OF ZERO WASTE MASTER PLAN 3.0 ONCE WE GET THROUGH THIS. 
          UM, SO THANK YOU WITH THAT. 
          UH, MAYOR SIDIKI, I YIELD, I I WILL BE APPROVING THESE. 
          THERE'S A TERRIFIC ARRAY OF PEOPLE AND I, AND I DO HOPE THEY HEAR THE MESSAGE AND THE STAFF. 
          HERE IS THE MESSAGE THAT WE'D REALLY LOVE TO HAVE THIS GROUP BE, UH, PART OF THE, THE SOLUTION TO SO MANY OF THESE ISSUES THAT WILL, THAT ARE CRITICALLY IMPORTANT FOR THE CITY MOVING FORWARD. 
          THANK YOU. 
          I YIELD COUNCILOR NOLAN YIELDS, DON'T SEE ANY OTHER QUESTIONS ON THIS ITEM. 
          SO, ON A MOTION BY COUNCILOR NOLAN TO APPROVE THE APPOINTMENTS, UH, PLACE CITY MANAGER AGENDA ITEM NUMBER FIVE ON FILE. 
          WE'LL DO A ROLL CALL, PLEASE. 
          COUNCILOR ZUBE? YES. 
          YES. 
          VICE MAYOR. 
          YES. 
          YES. 
          COUNCIL OF FLAHERTY? YES. 
          YES. 
          COUNCILOR MCGOVERN? YES. 
          YES. 
          COUNCILOR NOLAN? YES. 
          YES. 
          COUNCILOR SIMMONS. 
          YES. 
          COUNSELOR SABRINA WHEELER. 
          YES. 
          YES. 
          COUNCILOR ZUI. 
          YES. 
          YES. 
          MAYOR SIDIKI. 
          YES. 
          YES. 
          AND YOU HAVE NINE MEMBERS RECORDED IN THE AFFIRMATIVE. 
          THE APPOINTMENTS ARE APPROVED AND CITY MANAGER AGENDA ITEM NUMBER FIVE IS PLACED ON FILE. 
          WE ARE MOVING ON TO CITY MANAGER. 
          AGENDA ITEM SEVEN, TRANSMITTING COMMUNICATION FROM IAN WONG, CITY MANAGER RELATIVE TO THE APPROPRIATION OF $226,880. 
          FROM THE EMERGENCY SOLUTIONS GRANT TO THE GRANT FUND, EMA SERVICES, SALARY AND WAGES, AND OTHER ORDINARY MAINTENANCE ACCOUNTS. 
          COUNCILLOR SIMMONS, YOU HAVE THE FOUR I. 
          THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR. 
          SO TONIGHT WE'RE AUTHORIZING THE $226,880 IN EMERGENCY SOLUTIONS GRANT FUNDING. 
          AND EVERY DOLLAR OF THIS ALLOCATION IS DIRECTED TOWARD HOMELESS ASSISTANCE AND SHELTER OPERATIONS, ESSENTIAL SERVICES, RAPID HOUSING AND HOMELESS HOMELESSNESS PREVENTION. 
          AND, AND SO THIS IS NOT DISCRETIONARY SPENDING. 
          IT IS CORE. 
          IT IS CORE TO HOW WE MEET OUR OBLIGATIONS TO SOME OF OUR MOST VULNERABLE RESIDENTS AND THE CITY. 
          BUT AT THE SAME TIME, I THINK IT'S IMPORTANT TO BE CANDID. 
          OVER THE PAST SEVERAL YEARS, THIS COUNCIL AND THE CITY HAS ENCOUNTERED SOME TROUBLING CONCERNS RELATED TO THE EXPERIENCES OF PEOPLE UTILIZING SOME OF OUR LOCAL SHELTERS. 
          THOSE CONCERNS HAVE COME FROM RESIDENTS, ADVOCATES, AND SERVICE USERS THEMSELVES. 
          THEY'VE RANGED FROM SAFETY ISSUES TO DIGNITY AND RESPECT TO HOW COMPLAINTS ARE RECEIVED AND ADDRESS. 
          AND SO, WHILE THE CITY DOES NOT DIRECTLY OPERATE THESE SHELTERS, WE ARE NOT WITHOUT RESPONSIBILITY WITH PUB WHEN, FROM, FROM MY POINT OF VIEW, WHEN PUBLIC DOLLARS ARE BEING INVESTED, ESPECIALLY FEDERAL DOLLARS ENTRUSTED TO US, THOSE FUNDS MUST COME WITH CLOSE, CLEAR EXPECTATIONS. 
          SO FOR ME, OVERSIGHT CANNOT BE SYMBOLIC. 
          ACCOUNTABILITY CANNOT BE COSMETIC. 
          MY SUPPORT FOR THIS APPROPRIATION COMES WITH THE EXPECTATION THAT THE CITY WILL MORE STRENUOUSLY, ASSERT ITS INFLUENCE WITH THE SHELTER, WITH OUR SHELTER PARTNERS. 
          AND WHAT DOES THAT MEAN? THAT MEANS INSISTING UPON MEANINGFUL RESPONSES WHEN CONCERNS ARE RAISED, NOT PROCEDURAL BOX CHECKING OR TEMPORARY FIXES DESIGNATED TO QUIET CRITICISM. 
          IT MEANS A WILLINGNESS TO LOOK HONESTLY AT PATTERNS, NOT JUST INDIVIDUAL INCIDENTS. 
          AND TO PUSH FOR REAL IMPROVEMENTS IN THE PRACTICE AND THE CULTURE. 
          I PARTICULARLY TRUSTED THE CITY MANAGERS APPROACHING THESE AGREEMENTS CAREFULLY AND DELIBERATELY. 
          AND THAT WHEN THIS FUNDING IS DISPERSED, IT IS PAIRED WITH CLEAR STANDARDS, ACTIVE MONITORING AND SHARING, UNDERSTANDING THAT THE PARTNERSHIP DOES NOT MEAN ABDICATION OF OUR RESPONSIBILITY. 
          SO OUR MOST VULNERABLE 
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RESIDENTS DESERVE BETTER THAN LIP SERVICE, AND OUR PARTNER SHOULD UNDERSTAND THAT CONTINUED PUBLIC INVESTMENT CARRIES REAL EXPECTATIONS. 
          I THANK YOU AND I YIELD THE FLOOR. 
          THANK YOU. 
          COUNCILOR SIMMONS. 
          I SEE COUNCILOR ZUES, UM, THROUGH YOU. 
          MAYOR SIDIKI. 
          I JUST WANTED TO, THIS IS GREAT NEWS THAT WE GOT THIS GRANT. 
          SO IS IT A FEDERAL GRANT AND WERE WE ANTICIPATING IT? OR IF, ARE WE JUST THRILLED THAT WE GOT THIS MONEY? DO YOU KNOW WHAT I DO YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN? WAS IT BUDGETED? WERE WE ANTICIPATING, IS THIS SOMETHING WE GET EVERY YEAR OR IS THIS SOMETHING NEW? THIS IN CITY MANAGER SEMINAR, UM, THROUGH YOU, MADAM MAYOR, UM, THIS IS A FEDERAL GRANT THAT WE HAVE RECEIVED FOR A VERY, UM, LONG TIME. 
          THIS WAS, AS YOU MAY RECALL, UM, MANY OF OUR HUD RELATED GRANTS, UM, WERE SUBJECT TO CONDITIONS. 
          EITHER WE WEREN'T GETTING THE MONEY OR THEY WERE SUBJECT TO CONDITIONS THAT IT WASN'T CLEAR WE COULD AGREE TO. 
          UM, THE FACT THAT WE ARE APPROPRIATING THE MONEY NOW IS A RESULT OF HUD HAVING, UM, ENTERED INTO AGREEMENTS, WHICH INCLUDED OUR, AND, UM, THE, AND IF MEGAN'S STILL HERE, IF YOU HAVE MORE QUESTIONS, SHE COULD JOIN IN. 
          UM, BUT WHICH INCLUDED OUR BEING ABLE TO, UM, CROSS OUT, UM, THE CONDITIONS THAT WERE UNACCEPTABLE BECAUSE OF THE PENDING, UM, INJUNCTION IN THE KING LAWSUIT. 
          THAT IS, UM, WHICH WE'VE TALKED ABOUT A NUMBER OF TIMES HERE, BUT THIS PARTICULAR FUNDING, THE CITY MANAGER KNOWING THAT WE HAD THE, UM, FEDERAL, UM, FUNDING ALLOWED US TO ACTUALLY CONTRACT WITH THESE SHELTERS BEGINNING IN JULY, BECAUSE ALTHOUGH IT'S NOT A LOT OF MONEY FOR EACH OF THE INDIVIDUAL SHELTERS, THEY COUNT ON THIS MONEY. 
          AND SO WE WERE, UM, OPERATING UNDER THE ASSUMPTION THAT IF THOSE FUNDS DID NOT ULTIMATELY GET RELEASED BY HUD, THAT THESE WOULD BE COVERED THROUGH THAT FEDERAL STABILIZATION FUND. 
          FORTUNATELY, UM, THE, UM, WE NOW HAVE BEEN GIVEN AUTHORITY BY HUD TO GO AHEAD AND SO WE WILL BE ABLE TO CONTINUE THIS FUNDING, UM, UH, TO THE VARIOUS SHELTERS. 
          UM, AND IF I MIGHT SAY SOMETHING IN RESPONSE TO, UM, COUNCILOR SIMMONS, UM, I APPRECIATE YOUR COMMENTS AND I KNOW THAT, UM, WE WORKED CLOSELY WITH YOUR OFFICE OVER THE COURSE OF THE LAST YEAR, UM, UM, LAST TWO YEARS WHEN THERE WERE SOME COMPLAINTS AND WE WERE ABLE, UM, TO DEVELOP, UM, STRONGER SYSTEMS FOR, UM, SUPPORTING INDIVIDUALS WHO HAD COMPLAINTS IN THE SHELTERS. 
          AND I WANNA SAY THAT'S SOMETHING WHICH WE WOULD EXPECT, UM, TO CONTINUE TO HAPPEN AS WE MOVE FORWARD. 
          COUNCILOR , DID YOU HAVE ANYTHING ELSE? YEAH, UM, I JUST, I THANK YOU SO MUCH AND I'M SO GRATEFUL. 
          FORMER ASSISTANT, UM, CITY MANAGER, SOFF, THAT YOU ARE STILL HERE AND ENGAGED IN AND, UH, HELPING US IN SO MANY DIFFERENT WAYS. 
          THANK YOU SO MUCH THROUGH YOU. 
          UM, MADAM MAYOR, I JUST WANNA SAY I'M JUST HERE THROUGH THIS WEEKEND AND THEN WE WILL HAVE A NEW ASSISTANT CITY MANAGER. 
          SO YOU WILL JUST BE SEEING ME AS A CONSTITUENT NO LONGER AS THE ASSISTANT CITY MANAGER. 
          THANK YOU. 
          WE'RE VERY LUCKY TO HAVE YOU SO CLOSE BY COUNCILLOR SIMMONS, DID YOU HAVE ANYTHING ELSE? UH, THANK YOU. 
          MAD CHAIR. 
          UH, I JUST WANTED TO SAY TO, UM, ASSISTANT CITY MANAGER SIMON, OFF. 
          THANK YOU FOR THAT RE RESPONSE. 
          IT'S IMPORTANT AS, UH, YOU RE AND YOU SAID THIS IN THE RESPONSE THAT WE, WE DO THE FUNDING BECAUSE WE WANNA KEEP THE SERVICES GOING, BUT IT'S ALSO IMPORTANT THAT WE TAKE THE NECESSARY STEPS TO MAKE SURE OUR PARTNERS ARE, ARE TREATING OUR CLIENTS AND RESIDENTS. 
          SOME, UH, RESPECTFULLY. 
          SO THANK YOU FOR, FOR THAT ANSWER. 
          ALTHOUGH I WAS GONNA SAY, I THOUGHT YOU RETIRED, BUT I'M GLAD YOU'RE HERE. 
          , IT'S ALWAYS GOOD TO SEE YOU. 
          I YIELD THE FLOOR MANAGER CHAIR. 
          I DO NOT SEE ANY OTHER HANDS ON THIS. 
          SO, UH, ON A MOTION BY COUNCILLOR SIMMONS ON THE PREPARATION AND PLACING CITY MANAGER AGENDA ITEM NUMBER SEVEN ON FILE. 
          WE'LL DO A ROLL CALL. 
          COUNCILOR ZUBIE? YES. 
          YES. 
          VICE MAYOR ZE? YES. 
          YES. 
          COUNCILOR FLAHERTY? YES. 
          YES. 
          COUNCIL MCGOVERN? 
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YES. 
          YES. 
          COUNCILOR NOLAN? YES. 
          YES. 
          YES. 
          COUNCILOR SIMMONS? YES. 
          YES. 
          COUNCILOR SABRINA WHEELER. 
          YES. 
          YES. 
          COUNCILOR . 
          YES. 
          YES. 
          YES. 
          MAYOR SIDIKI. 
          YES. 
          YES. 
          AND YOU HAVE NINE MEMBERS RECORDED IN THE AFFIRMATIVE. 
          THE MONEY HAS BEEN APPROPRIATED AND CITY MANAGER AGENDA ITEM NUMBER SEVEN IS PLACED ON FILE. 
          WE ARE MOVING ON TO CITY MANAGER. 
          AGENDA ITEM NUMBER 10, A COMMUNICATION TRANSMITTED FROM YAN WONG, CITY MANAGER RELATIVE TO THE APPOINTMENT OR REAPPOINTMENT OF THE FOLLOWING PEOPLE'S PEOPLE AS CONSTABLE FOR TERMS OF THREE YEARS. 
          COUNCILLOR ZUI. 
          YOU HAVE THE FLOOR. 
          UM, THANK YOU SO MUCH, MAYOR SIDIKI, JUST A QUICK QUESTION AGAIN, I, YOU KNOW, I KNOW THERE'S A CONSTABLE THAT OPENS UP THE HARVARD COMMENCEMENT EVERY YEAR. 
          I I DID A LITTLE GOOGLING AND I UNDERSTAND THAT THEY SERVE LEGAL, UH, PROCESS EVICTION, PROVIDE EVICTION NOTICES, AND DO OTHER LAW ENFORCEMENT. 
          ARE THESE, ARE THESE USUALLY POLICE MEMBERS OF OUR POLICE FORCE THAT DO THIS WORK? AND AGAIN, IS IT A, IS IT A PAID POSITION? IS IT A FULL-TIME POSITION OR IS IT A HONORARY POSITION? UH, THROUGH YOU, MR. MAYOR, MAYOR TO WHOMEVER THANK, THANK YOU. 
          THROUGH YOU, MADAM MAYOR. 
          UM, SO A CONSTABLE IS, UM, A POSITION ESTABLISHED UNDER STATE LAW. 
          AND WE ALSO HAVE AN ORDINANCE, UM, ON CONSTABLES. 
          WE DON'T EMPLOY THEM, THEY'RE NOT EMPLOYEES OF THE CITY, BUT IT'S A DESIGNATION THAT THE CITY IS AUTHORIZED TO APPOINT SOMEONE WITH. 
          UM, OFTEN PRIVATE SECURITY COMPANIES, UH, EMPLOY CONSTABLES OR AS YOU MENTIONED, UM, SERVICE, YOU KNOW, PROCESS. 
          SERVICE SERVERS ARE OFTEN, UH, ARE CONSTABLES. 
          UM, SO WHEN A CONSTABLE IS APPOINTED WITH THE POWER TO SERVE PROCESS, THEY ARE PROCESS SERVERS. 
          UM, AND THE CITY'S ROLE IS DOING A, UH, SOME BACKGROUND INVESTIGATION THAT IF YOU WANNA HEAR MORE ABOUT THE POLICE COMMISSIONER CAN SPEAK TO. 
          AND THEN THE CITY MANAGER APPOINTS THE CONSTABLE FOR A TERM OF THREE YEARS. 
          OH. 
          SO WE HAVE, DO WE HAVE ONE OR DO WE HAVE MANY? UH, THROUGH YOU MADAM MAYOR, THERE ARE MULTIPLE, UM, CONSTABLES, UH, THE, SO WHEN THEIR, THEIR TERM IS UP, IF THEY'RE, UH, REAPPOINTED OR IF SOMEONE NEW IS APPOINTED, UM, IT COMES UP BEFORE THE COUNCIL. 
          UH, I DON'T KNOW THE EXACT NUMBER. 
          THE CITY MANAGER'S OFFICE MIGHT HAVE THAT INFORMATION OF HOW MANY HAVE BEEN APPOINTED, UM, THROUGH YOU. 
          MAYOR SADIKI, I THINK COUNCILLOR ZUI, YOU MAY BE THINKING IN TERMS OF HARVARD COMMENCEMENT OF THE MIDDLESEX SHERIFF. 
          OH, YES. 
          UH, OF WHICH THERE'S ONLY ONE. 
          OKAY. 
          UM, OKAY. 
          AGAIN, I, IT IS JUST A, A MYSTERY TO ME ABOUT WHO THESE PEOPLE ARE. 
          SO ARE, SO A PRIVATE SECURITY FIRM MIGHT, UM, PROVIDE THEM, MAKE THEM ACCESSIBLE TO THE CITY, AND WE HIRE THEM FOR WHO HIRES THEM. 
          DID, DID YOU HIRE THEM? CITY MANAGER? UH, SO IF I MAY THROUGH YOU MADAM MAYOR. 
          SO IT'S, UM, IT'S THE TITLE AND THE AUTHORITY IS DESIGNATED BY THE CITY MANAGER BY STATE LAW. 
          BUT THEY'RE NOT CITY EMPLOYEES. 
          THEY'RE NOT POLICE OFFICERS. 
          WE DO NOT, THE CITY DOES NOT EMPLOY CONSTABLES. 
          JUST THE CITY MANAGER BY STATE LAW HAS THE AUTHORITY TO DESIGNATE, TO APPOINT SOMEONE TO BE A CONSTABLE. 
          AND SO, LIKE I SAID, SOME ARE EMPLOYED BY PRIVATE SECURITY FIRMS. SOME, UM, WORK FOR A PROCESS SERVER COMPANY OR THEMSELVES, UM, HAVE A, YOU KNOW, ARE SELF-EMPLOYED, UH, DOING PROCESS SERVING. 
          SO THAT, THAT TYPE OF WORK. 
          YEAH. 
          THANK YOU. 
          THANK YOU. 
          YEAH. 
          THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THAT CLARIFICATION. 
          UM, I YIELD ANY OTHER QUESTIONS ON THIS? UH, HEARING NONE. 
          SEEING NONE. 
          UH, WE'LL GO AHEAD ON A MOTION BY COUNCILLOR ZUZI TO APPROVE THE APPOINTMENTS AND PLACE CITY MANAGER AGENDA ITEM 10 ON FILE. 
          COUNCILOR ZUBI? YES. 
          YES. 
          VICE MAYOR Z? YES. 
          YES. 
          COUNCILOR OF FLAHERTY. 
          YES. 
          YES. 
          COUNCILOR MCGOVERN. 
          YES. 
          YES. 
          COUNCILOR NOLAN. 
          YES. 
          YES. 
          COUNCILOR SIMMONS. 
          YES. 
          YES. 
          COUNCILOR SABRINA WHEELER. 
          YES. 
          YES. 
          COUNCILOR EY. 
          YES. 
          YES. 
          MAYOR SIDIKI. 
          YES. 
          YES. 
          AND YOU HAVE NINE MEMBERS RECORDED IN THE AFFIRMATIVE. 
          THE APPOINTMENTS ARE APPROVED AND CITY MANAGER AGENDA ITEM NUMBER 10 IS PLACED ON FILE. 
          WE'RE MOVING ON TO CITY MANAGER. 
          AGENDA ITEM NUMBER 11, A COMMUNICATION TRANSMITTED FROM IAN HUANG, CITY MANAGER RELATIVE TO AWAITING REPORT. 
          ITEM NUMBER 25 DASH 69 REGARDING YOUR REVIEW OF THE 
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PREVIOUS HOME RULE PETITION AND PREPARING A NEW PETITION THAT WOULD ALLOW CAMBRIDGE TO ENACT A REAL ESTATE TRANSFER FEE TO BE SENT TO THE STATE LEGISLATURE. 
          COUNCILOR NOLAN, YOU HAVE THE FLOOR. 
          THANK YOU, MAYOR SIDIKI. 
          I AM, THIS IS AN EXCITING TIME TO, WE HAVE TO REFILE THIS, UH, PETITION BECAUSE THE COUNCIL HAS SENT SEVERAL INTO THE STATE LEGISLATURE EACH TIME. 
          IT, IT HAS NOT GONE THROUGH, BUT WE DO HAVE TO, UH, REFILE IT IN ORDER FOR IT TO BE HEARD. 
          THERE HAVE BEEN SOME QUESTIONS RAISED ABOUT, FOR INSTANCE, WHETHER WE CAN DO, UM, WE GOT AN EMAIL ABOUT, UH, ENSURING THAT THIS DOES NOT END UP RAISING RENTS FOR MULTIFAMILY ZONING, BECAUSE THAT IS SOMETHING APPARENTLY LA IS, UH, CONCERNED ABOUT AND SOME OTHER, UH, HOUSING ADVOCATES ARE CONCERNED ABOUT. 
          I DID REACH OUT TO THE CITY SOLICITOR EARLIER TODAY, AND SHE WASN'T, UM, SHE DID THINK SOME OF THE, THE WAYS THAT THE COUNCIL COULD CHANGE THIS IN THE FUTURE WOULD BE POSSIBLE, BUT SHE'S NOT CERTAIN. 
          SO I WILL EXERCISE MY CHARTER RIGHTS SO THAT I CAN MAKE SURE THAT THOSE QUESTIONS ARE BEFORE US THE NEXT TIME THAT WE ARE LOOKING AT THIS, BEFORE WE FILE IT WITH THE STATE LEGISLATURE TO ENSURE THAT WE'RE ALL IN SYNC WITH WHAT IT IS THAT WE CAN OR, AND MAY NOT DO WITH THIS, UH, PETITION. 
          BUT AGAIN, I'M, I'M IN FAVOR OF IT, HAD FILED SOME OF THIS, BUT WANT, I THINK THERE'S SOME UNANSWERED QUESTIONS. 
          OKAY. 
          THANK YOU COUNCILOR NOLAN. 
          COUNCILOR NOLAN EXERCISES OR CHARTER RATE ON CITY MANAGER. 
          AGENDA ITEM NUMBER 11. 
          AT THIS TIME, I'LL ENTERTAIN A MOTION TO SUSPEND THE RULES TO BRING FORWARD LATE COMMUNICATION LATE CITY MANAGER AGENDA ITEM. 
          AND I'M GOING TO, I'LL MOVE. 
          AND OTHER ITEMS. I'M GOING TO GO TO COUNT, UM, CO-CHAIR OF THE ORDINANCE COMMITTEE. 
          COUNCILLOR MCGOVERN. 
          EXCUSE ME. 
          THANK YOU, MADAM MAYOR, THROUGH YOU. 
          UM, THERE'S A NUMBER OF THINGS WE CAN DO RIGHT NOW TO BRING, UH, CAMBRIDGE STREET IN FRONT OF US. 
          SO, UM, I'D LIKE TO MOVE FIRST TO SUSPEND THE RULES TO BRING FORWARD THE LATE, UH, COMMUNICATION FROM THE CITY MANAGER, AS WELL AS THE LATE COMMUNICATION FROM, UH, OTHER CITY OFFICERS FILED BY YOURSELF. 
          AND COUNCILOR NOLAN, WE'LL DO A ROLL CALL ON BRINGING FORWARD THOSE TWO ITEMS. SORRY, CLAIRE. 
          SORRY. 
          COUNCILOR ZUBE? YES. 
          YES. 
          VICE MAYOR ZE. 
          YES. 
          YES. 
          COUNCIL FLAHERTY. 
          YES. 
          YES. 
          COUNCILOR MCGOVERN. 
          YES. 
          YES. 
          COUNCILOR NOLAN. 
          YES. 
          YES. 
          COUNCILLOR SIMMONS. 
          YES. 
          YES. 
          COUNCILLOR SABRINA WHEELER. 
          YES. 
          YES. 
          COUNCILLOR ZUEY. 
          YES. 
          YES. 
          MAYOR SIDIKI. 
          YES. 
          YES. 
          AND YOU HAVE NINE MEMBERS RECORDED IN THE AFFIRMATIVE. 
          SO WE HAVE THE LATE THANK YOU FINN MANAGER. 
          AGENDA ITEM. 
          UM, THAT'S THE REVISIONS TO CAMBRIDGE STREET ZONING PETITION AND THE COMMUNICATIONS FROM OTHER CITY OFFICERS. 
          WE HAVE ONE MORE VOTE. 
          COUNCIL MEMBER MCGOVERN. 
          YEAH, I THINK WE SHOULD, UM, MOVE SUSPENSION TO BRING FORWARD, UM, BUT WE HAVE TO VOTE TO TAKE THE CAMBRIDGE STREET ZONING OFF THE TABLE. 
          SO I'D LIKE TO MOVE SUSPENSION TO DO THAT. 
          COUNCILOR ZUBIE? YES. 
          YES. 
          VICE MAYOR. 
          YES. 
          YES. 
          COUNCIL FLAHERTY? YES. 
          YES. 
          COUNCILOR MCGOVERN? YES. 
          YES. 
          COUNCILOR NOLAN. 
          YES. 
          YES. 
          COUNCILOR SIMMONS. 
          YES. 
          YES. 
          COUNCILOR SABRINA WHEELER. 
          YES. 
          YES. 
          COUNCILOR ZUI. 
          YES. 
          YES. 
          MAYOR SIDIKI. 
          YES. 
          YES. 
          AND YOU HAVE NINE MEMBERS RECORDED IN THE AFFIRMATIVE. 
          UH, MADAM MAYOR, I'LL TURN IT BACK TO YOU FOR DISCUSSION. 
          AND THEN DEPENDING ON THAT, HOW THAT GOES, THE THERE POTENTIAL, OTHER VOTES AFTER THAT. 
          GREAT. 
          THANK YOU. 
          COUNCILOR MCGOVERN. 
          SO WE HAVE, UM, MULTIPLE ITEMS BEFORE US. 
          UH, WE HAVE THE CITY MANAGER, UH, LATE, UM, UH, THE REVISIONS, WE HAVE THE COMMUNICATION FROM OTHER CITY OFFICERS, THE ACTUAL PETITION ITSELF. 
          I'LL GO TO COUNCILOR NOLAN TO TALK ABOUT THE COMMUNICATION FROM OTHER CITY OFFICERS. 
          THANK YOU. 
          BUT BEFORE WE DO THAT, UH, MAYOR SIDIKI, THE LATE COMMUNICATION FROM CITY MANAGER, IS THAT, UH, ON GRANICUS OR WHATEVER THE, THE NEW SYSTEM IS? I'M JUST MAKING SURE THAT WE ALL HAVE ACCESS TO IT. 
          OR WAS IT EMAILED TO US, OR, YEAH, IT WAS PROVIDED. 
          I'M JUST HAVING, I'M JUST HAVING TROUBLE SEEING IT ON THE, ON THIS REGULAR SCREEN NOW, BUT I KNOW IT WAS EMAILED TO US SEPARATELY, SO I GUESS WE COULD JUST USE THAT. 
          YES. 
          ALL OF US SHOULD HAVE IT. 
          AND IT WAS MY UNDERSTANDING THAT IT WAS ALSO ON THE, UM, GRANICUS, BUT WE CAN HAVE NAOMI PULL IT UP AS WELL. 
          OR SOMEONE. 
          CITY MANAGER, DID YOU WANNA SAY ANYTHING, UM, THROUGH YOUR MAYOR SIDIKI? UM, I BELIEVE, UH, THE MEETING PORTAL IS 
          [02:55:01]
UPDATED AND SO IT IS SHOWING UP AS AN AGENDA ITEM NUMBER 12 ON THE CITY MANAGER'S AGENDA. 
          UM, BUT IT DID GO UP LATE. 
          COUNCILOR NOLAN. 
          OKAY. 
          THANK YOU. 
          YEAH, SO IT, I THINK ALL OF OUR COLLEAGUES, UH, RECEIVED AND WAS PART OF THE AGENDA. 
          MAYOR SIDIKI AND I WORKED ON THE CAMBRIDGE STREET PETITION. 
          THIS IS A COMPROMISE FROM WHAT WAS, UM, ORIGINALLY ON THE AGENDA. 
          THERE'S A, UH, IT'S LAID OUT IN THE MEMO ACCOMPANYING THIS, UH, THESE ZONING CHANGES WHICH RESPOND TO MANY OF THE COMMUNITY, UH, FEEDBACK THAT WE HAVE. 
          THIS IS AS IN AS IN ANY TIME WE TAKE ON A VERY IMPORTANT AND ALSO QUITE FAR REACHING ZONING CONVERSATION ACROSS THE CITY. 
          THERE ARE A RANGE OF VOICES. 
          THERE ARE PEOPLE WHO WOULD LIKE SOMETHING, UH, THE ORIGINAL OR SOMETHING EVEN MORE, UH, AGGRESSIVE. 
          THERE ARE PEOPLE WHO WANT NOTHING. 
          THERE ARE PEOPLE WHO WANTS EVERYTHING IN BETWEEN. 
          AND THANK YOU MAYOR SIDIKI FOR WORKING WITH ME ON WHAT SEEMS TO ME TO BE, AND I HOPE THAT COUNCIL AGREES TO BE A REASONABLE COMPROMISE OF ENSURING THAT A DEVELOPMENT CAN HAPPEN AND WILL HAPPEN IN LINE WITH MANY OF THE GOALS OF THE COMMUNITY, INCLUDING SOME ADDITIONAL SETBACKS, SOME OPEN SPACE, ALLOWING HOUSING. 
          WE HAVE ALREADY PUT IN PLACE, UM, THE PROCESS BY WHICH WE WOULD LOOK AT GROUND FLOOR RETAIL, UM, WHICH WAS SOMETHING THAT JASON S FROM THE EAST CAMBRIDGE BUSINESS ASSOCIATION, MANY OF THE OTHER SMALL BUSINESS, UH, OWNERS, PATRICK MCGEE ALSO SIGNED THE LETTER, ENCOURAGED US TO PASS THESE AMENDMENTS AND THEN PASS THE ZONING INSTEAD OF WAITING. 
          I KNOW THERE ARE MANY PEOPLE WHO ARE DISAPPOINTED THAT I HAVE SAID THAT WHEN THESE, IF THESE AMENDMENTS PASS THAT I WILL BE SUPPORTING, UH, THE, THERE'S UNDERLYING ZONING PETITION INSTEAD OF LETTING IT EXPIRE. 
          WE CAN ALWAYS IMPROVE THINGS AND I DON'T BELIEVE IN ACTING IN A WAY THAT IS, UM, TOO CAPRICIOUS OR JUST TOO QUICKLY. 
          HOWEVER, THIS PROCESS HAS BEEN GOING ON FOR SEVERAL YEARS. 
          THESE AMENDMENTS ARE VERY MUCH IN LINE WITH THE ARC CAMBRIDGE STREET WORK THAT A HUGE RANGE OF PEOPLE IN THE CITY WE'RE INVOLVED IN. 
          SO I'M VERY GLAD THAT, UH, WE ARE PRESENTING THIS TO THE COUNCIL. 
          WE HOPE THAT THEY PASS SO THAT WE CAN MORE THAN AS A CITY AND ADOPT THE PETITION TONIGHT, WHICH BEFORE IT EXPIRES, AND THEN MOVE ON TO A RANGE OF OTHER ISSUES THAT THE CITY IS FACING. 
          I'M NOT SURE IF YOU WANT ME TO GO INTO MORE DETAIL ON THIS, UH, MAYOR SIDIKI, IT IS LAID OUT IN OUR MEMO, BUT I'M HAPPY TO TALK A LITTLE BIT MORE ABOUT IT IF THAT ISN'T RAISED BY OUR COLLEAGUES IN THE ENSUING DISCUSSION. 
          THANK YOU COUNCILOR NOLAN. 
          UM, YOU KNOW, I THINK WE CAN OP OPEN IT UP TO QUESTIONS AND COMMENTS. 
          SO I HAVE COUNCILOR ZE. 
          UH, THANK YOU MADAM MAYOR. 
          UM, SO, UM, HAPPY TO SUPPORT THESE AMENDMENTS. 
          I DID WANNA SAY THAT, YOU KNOW, UM, FROM MY PERSPECTIVE, IT'S A VERY, VERY, UH, MILD IMPROVEMENT OVER THE CURRENT ZONING. 
          YOU KNOW, CAMBRIDGE STREET IS ALREADY SIX STORIES. 
          THIS WOULD KEEP IT SIX STORIES. 
          UH, THE LECHMERE PARCEL, UM, YOU KNOW, BEFORE IT WAS 15 AND THE CAMBRIDGE STREET STUDY WAS 12, THIS WOULD BRING IT DOWN TO 10. 
          BUT ALREADY IT'S BEEN ZONED OR PERMITTED FOR SIX AT 11.5% INCLUSIONARY. 
          SO THE ODDS THAT SOMEONE WOULD RE PERMITTED AT 20 JUST TO GET TO 10, WHICH IS KIND OF A DEAD ZONE, I THINK IS UNLIKELY. 
          UM, THE ONLY I THINK, UH, NEW HOUSING WE'RE EXPECTED TO GET FROM THIS IS THE WEBSTER STREET PARCEL, WHICH IS SOMETHING. 
          BUT ALSO I WOULD SAY THAT, UM, YOU KNOW, WITH THIS PLUS THE CHANGES TO OPEN SPACE AND THE FOLLOW UP WE'LL DO ON FIRST FLOOR RETAIL, WHICH IS, UH, EVEN LESS PROFITABLE THAN HOUSING, UH, MEANS THAT, YOU KNOW, OVERALL I THINK THAT CAMBRIDGE STREET, ONCE IT'S ALL DONE, WILL MAKE HOUSING HARDER TO PENCIL IN THE CITY. 
          UM, NOT EASIER. 
          HAVING SAID THAT, YOU KNOW, A LOT OF WORK HAS BEEN DONE BY CITY STAFF. 
          THIS IS NOW MORE RESTRICTED THAN THE CURRENT, THE CAMBRIDGE STREET STUDY PRESENTED. 
          AND I THINK THAT IT'S IMPORTANT FOR US TO, YOU KNOW, FEEL LIKE WE FINISHED A PROCESS, UM, EVEN IF I'M NOT ENTIRELY EXCITED ABOUT THE RESULTS. 
          UM, BUT, YOU KNOW, THANK YOU TO COUNCILOR NOLAN AND MAYOR SADIKI FOR COMING TOGETHER AND TRYING TO GET US SOMETHING THAT HELPS US GET THIS OVER THE FINISH LINE. 
          I WILL GO TO COUNSELOR JIVAN SERINA WHEELER. 
          UH, THANKS. 
          MAD MAYOR. 
          I BELIEVE OTHER FOLKS HAVE THEIR HANDS UP IF ANYBODY WANTS TO GO FIRST, OTHERWISE, I'M HAPPY TO GO. 
          UM, YEAH, I, UH, REALLY APPRECIATE THE AMENDMENT FROM, UM, COUNSELOR NOLAN AND SORT OF THE THOUGHT THAT THAT WENT TO IT, UM, JUST BRIEFLY ON THE AMENDMENT ITSELF THAT I'M, UM, WILL BE A NO FOR THE SAME REASON AS I WAS A NO ON THE, THE PREVIOUS AMENDMENT AND THE AMENDMENT ON ON MASS AVE. 
          AND THAT'S, UH, BECAUSE ANYTHING ABOVE SIX STORIES IS IN THE RANGE WHERE WE'RE GETTING INCLUSIONARY HOUSING. 
          SO IF WE'RE REDUCING FROM EIGHT STORIES TO SIX STORIES, THOSE ARE TWO STORIES WHERE WE'RE GONNA BE GETTING AFFORDABLE HOUSING UNITS. 
          AND I JUST CAN'T, UH, ABLY REDUCE THAT. 
          UM, I DO EXPECT THE AMENDMENT WILL WILL PASS THOUGH. 
          AND SO ON THE UNDERLYING 
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PETITION, YOU KNOW, I HAVE SPENT A BUNCH OF TIME OVER THE LAST FEW WEEKS AND MONTHS LOOKING AT THE CURRENT BUILDINGS ON CAMBRIDGE STREET, LOOKING AT THE LOT SIZES ON CAMBRIDGE STREET, LOOKING AT THE CITY'S BUILDING PERMIT LOG TO SEE WHAT IS BEING BUILT UNDER THE CURRENT ZONING. 
          UM, AND THAT LOG IS ALL ONLINE AND PUBLIC. 
          I THINK THE IMPORTANT CONTEXT FOR THIS DISCUSSION TONIGHT IS THAT WHETHER THIS PROPOSAL PASSES OR NOT, BUILDINGS ARE GONNA CONTINUE TO BE REDEVELOPED ON CAMBRIDGE STREET LIKE THEY ARE NOW. 
          WHETHER THE COUNCIL DOES ANYTHING OR IF WE JUST, WE JUST CALL IT AN EIGHT RIGHT NOW, BUILDINGS ARE GONNA KEEP HAPPENING. 
          THE CHOICES NOT BETWEEN DEVELOPMENT AND NO DEVELOPMENT. 
          THE CHOICES BETWEEN SHORTER BUILDINGS THAT ARE A HUNDRED PERCENT MARKET RATE, WHICH IS WHAT WE'RE GETTING NOW, OR SLIGHTLY TALLER BUILDINGS THAT ARE GONNA CREATE HUNDREDS OF NEW AFFORDABLE HOMES. 
          UM, THE BUILDINGS THAT ARE BEING NOW ARE LIKE THE ONE I, UH, YOU KNOW, CAME UP IN MY RESEARCH ON CAMBRIDGE STREET. 
          IT'S RIGHT NEAR THE KING OPEN SCHOOL IN THE VALENTI LIBRARY BRANCH. 
          UH, IT WAS BUILT IN 2024. 
          YOU CAN FIND IT ON THE CITY'S DEVELOPMENT LOG AND ON ZILLOW, IF YOU'RE CURIOUS WHICH ONE EXACTLY I'M TALKING ABOUT, IT'S A SIX UNIT, FOUR STORY BUILDING. 
          IT REPLACED AN EXISTING BUILDING AND EACH OF THE UNITS IN THAT BUILDING WAS BUILT REC THAT WAS BUILT JUST RECENTLY SOLD FOR AROUND A MILLION DOLLARS OR MORE. 
          ONE OF THEM SOLD FOR $1.75 MILLION, WHICH THE VAST MAJORITY OF FOLKS IN CAMBRIDGE CANNOT AFFORD. 
          AND THAT BUILDING HAD ZERO AFFORDABLE HOUSING IN IT BECAUSE IT WAS LESS THAN 10 UNITS, UH, WHICH IS WHERE THE CITY'S INCLUSIONARY ZONING PICKS IN. 
          UM, THAT IS WHAT'S BEING BUILT RIGHT NOW, AND THAT'S WHEN I, WHAT'S GONNA CONTINUE TO GET BUILT ON CAMBRIDGE STREET IF WE TAKE NO ACTION MILLION DOLLAR UNITS AND NO AFFORDABLE HOUSING. 
          THE AFFORDABLE HOUSING OVERLAY THAT WE'VE PASSED HAS WORKED REALLY WELL IN A LOT OF PLACES. 
          IT HAS NOT WORKED ON CORRIDORS LIKE CAMBRIDGE STREET FOR A NUMBER OF REASONS. 
          WE HAVE NOT SEEN A HO PROJECTS THERE, AND THERE'S BASICALLY NO IZ UNITS THERE BEING BUILT ON CAMBRIDGE STREET. 
          WHEN WE TALKED ABOUT THE MULTIFAMILY HOUSING ORDINANCE TO END, UH, EX EXCLUSIONARY ZONING LAST TERM, UH, THERE ARE MANY FOLKS WHO ARGUED IT WOULDN'T ACTUALLY LEAD TO AFFORDABLE HOUSING. 
          THAT IS NOT WHAT'S HAPPENED IN A, UH, REALITY. 
          WE'VE SEEN LOTS OF SIX STORY BUILDINGS WITH AFFORDABLE HOUSING AND THEM BEING PROPOSED EVEN UNDER THE CURRENT ECONOMIC CONDITIONS. 
          UH, IF ANYTHING, WITH THE OBJECTIONS WE'RE HEARING, THERE'S TOO MANY SIX STORY BUILDINGS, UH, WITH AFFORDABLE HOUSING BEING PROPOSED AND WE HIT, WE SHOULD HAVE SHORTER BUILDINGS THAT ARE ALL MARKET RATE. 
          AND I, I DISAGREE WITH THAT. 
          THERE'S NO REASON TO THINK, UM, THAT WE WOULD SEE DIFFERENT RESULT HERE ON CAMBRIDGE STREET WHERE THE LOTS ARE SIMILAR SIZES AND CORRIDORS ARE MORE ATTRACTIVE FOR TALLER BUILDINGS. 
          THIS IS THE PLACE THAT EVERYBODY SAYS WE SHOULD BE HAVING TALLER BUILDINGS. 
          THAT'S WHERE WE'RE GONNA SEE TALLER BUILDINGS WITH AFFORDABLE HOUSING IN THEM. 
          UM, YOU KNOW, I, I APPRECIATE, UM, UH, THE AMENDMENT FROM COUNCILLOR NOLAN AND, AND REALLY HER WORK TO ENGAGE ON THIS AND FIGURE OUT, UH, HOW TO GET TO YES. 
          I THINK THE MAIN CONCERNS I HEARD THE LAST FEW TIMES WE TALKED ABOUT THIS WAS THAT ABOUT THE, THE HEIGHT EIGHT STORIES BEING TOO TALL. 
          UH, THESE, UH, PARCELS BEING TOO TALL THAT'S BEEN ADDRESSED, THE LOCAL BUSINESSES MIGHT BE IMPACTED. 
          THE LOCAL BUSINESS ASSOCIATION, AS WE'VE HEARD TONIGHT IS, IS IN FAVOR OF THIS, UM, WITH THE, THE, THE AMENDMENTS THAT THE CONCERNS THAT FOLKS  WERE ADDRESSED. 
          SO WHEN, WHEN COUNSELORS SAY THEY WOULD REALLY LIKE TO VOTE FOR A PROPOSAL BECAUSE THEY CARE ABOUT AFFORDABLE HOUSING, BUT THEY CAN'T BECAUSE THERE, THERE IS AN IMPORTANT CONCERN AND THEN THE, THE CONCERN GETS ADDRESSED AND THEN, THEN THERE'S ANOTHER CONCERN. 
          IT BEGINS TO FEEL A LITTLE LIKE, SORT OF LOOSE IN THE FOOTBALL FROM CHARLIE BROWN SORT OF PULLING IT OUT AT LAST MINUTE. 
          IF YOU SAY WHAT YOU WANT MORE HOUSING AND CORRIDORS, UM, BUT THIS ISN'T QUITE RIGHT. 
          YOU COME BRING AN AMENDMENT, WORK ON IT. 
          I REALLY APPRECIATE COUNCIL NOLAN FOR DOING THAT. 
          I MEAN, THE REASON, SIMILAR REASON WE PASSED THE MULTI-FAMILY HOUSING ORDINANCE, EIGHT TO ONE WAS NOT 'CAUSE WE HAD EIGHT CITY COUNCILORS TOTALLY IN LOCKSTEP IS 'CAUSE WE WORKED TOGETHER AND WE HAD AMENDMENTS AND CHANGES AND WE GOT TO SOMETHING. 
          I THINK THE, THE LAST PIECE I WANNA MAKE ON THIS WAS SOMETHING I'VE BEEN THINKING ABOUT A LOT RECENTLY. 
          YOU KNOW, IN THE LAST TERM THERE WAS A VOTE, UH, TO DELAY BIKE LANES ON CAMBRIDGE STREET. 
          AND THE ARGUMENT IN FAVOR, UH, OF NOT MAKING ANY CHANGES THERE WAS THAT NEEDED MORE TIME FOR STUDY IN PROGRESS BEFORE WE DID ANY CHANGES TO, TO CAMBRIDGE STREET. 
          I LISTENED TO THOSE ARGUMENTS, I HEARD THEM, I SAT WITH THEM. 
          BUT I VOTED AGAINST THAT DELAY BECAUSE I HAVE GOTTEN TO KNOW A NUMBER OF PEOPLE WHOSE LOVED ONES WERE KILLED, BIKING ON CAMBRIDGE STREET. 
          I AND I COULD NOT BEAR TO BE RESPONSIBLE FOR ANOTHER DEATH DUE TO DELAY. 
          WE KNOW THIS WILL CREATE MORE AFFORDABLE HOUSING. 
          UH, AND, UM, WHICH IS THE MAIN QUESTION I NEED ANSWERED AND IT FEELS HYPOCRITICAL FOR ME TO VOTE FOR AN ADDITIONAL DELAY HERE WHEN WE KNOW THE ANSWER ALREADY. 
          UM, THE PEOPLE WHO NEED AFFORDABLE HOUSING ARE JUST AS IMPORTANT TO, TO ME EVERY MONTH, EVERY WEEK, EVERY DAY MATTERS TO THAT PERSON WHOSE LIFE COULD BE CHANGED BY HAVING AFFORDABLE HOUSING. 
          YOU KNOW, I GAVE THIS A LITTLE MORE TIME FROM DECEMBER 'CAUSE WE HAD ANOTHER BIG PROPOSAL ON, ON NORTH MASS AVE. 
          UH, WE'VE GIVEN THAT MORE TIME. 
          UH, WE'RE NOT GETTING ANY MORE HOUS AFFORDABLE HOUSING ON CAMBRIDGE STREET UNDER THE STATUS QUO. 
          AND I CAN'T DEFEND THAT STATUS QUO. 
          SO I'LL VOTE VIEW IT. 
          YES, THE, TO CHANGE IT TONIGHT. 
          UH, YIELD BACK. 
          THANK YOU COUNCILOR SABRINA WHEELER. 
          I HAVE COUNCILORS, SUSIE, COUNCILOR ZUBIE, AND THEN COUNCILLOR MCGOVERN. 
          UM, THANK YOU MAYOR SIDIKI. 
          I HAVE A COUPLE POINTS OF INFORMATION. 
          SO ONE SOMEONE, UM, BROUGHT UP DURING PUBLIC TESTIMONY THAT WOULD, THE SIX STORIES, DOES THAT, UM, WOULD THAT BE FOR MOND SQUARE AS WELL? UH, SO THAT'S ONE QUESTION. 
          UM, AND ANOTHER IS, UM, A QUESTION 
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IS SOME HAVE SUGGESTED THAT THERE WOULDN'T BE INCLUSIONARY AT SIX STORIES. 
          UH, AND IS THAT TRUE OR NOT? AND THEN THIRD OF ALL, WILL WE BE DISCUSSING THE OVERALL ZONING PROPOSAL FOR CAMBRIDGE STREET AFTERWARDS, OR SHOULD I BE SHARING ALL MY THOUGHTS ABOUT THE PROPOSAL RIGHT HERE AND NOW? SO THOSE ARE MY THREE QUESTIONS. 
          SO THIS IS A SPACE FOR ALL OF IT. 
          OKAY. 
          SO, UM, CAN YOU MAYBE, UM, THROUGH YOU, MAYOR SADIKI, MAYBE, UM, ASSISTANT CITY MANAGER PETERS CAN ANSWER WHETHER THIS, WHETHER INMAN SQUARE WOULD BE SIX STORIES OR EIGHT STORIES WITH THIS AMENDMENT? YES. 
          UH, THANK YOU FOR THE QUESTION. 
          COUNCILOR ZUZI THROUGH YOU. 
          MAYOR SIDIKI, UH, IN BIN SQUARE UNDER THIS REVISED PETITION TEXT IS AT SIX STORIES. 
          OKAY. 
          SO IT'S E EVERYTHING IS SIX STORIES EXCEPT FOR WEBSTER WINDSOR, WHICH WOULD BE AT 10 TO 12, AND THEN LEACH ME WOULD BE 10 IS, UH, WEBSTER. 
          WEBSTER, WINDSOR WOULD BE AT 12. 
          AND THEN LEACH MERIT IS AT 10 UNDER THESE PROPOSED AMENDMENTS. 
          OKAY, GREAT. 
          AND THEN MAYBE THROUGH YOU MAYOR SIDIKI, MAYBE FOR, UM, OUR SOLICITOR OR ONE OF OUR SOLICITORS. 
          I'D LOVE TO UNDERSTAND. 
          SO THERE, SOME HAVE SUGGESTED THAT, YOU KNOW, SO WE KNOW CURRENTLY, UM, WHEN WE PASS MULTIFAMILY HOUSING OR UM, OR WHEN YOU PASS MULTIFAMILY HOUSING, UM, THAT, THAT THE SIX STORIES ALONG ALL OUR CORRIDORS, ALL OF THE CORRIDORS WERE UP ZONED SO THAT WE WOULD STILL BE INCENTIVIZING, UM, TALLER BUILDINGS ON THE CORRIDORS. 
          SO THE QUESTION IS, SO ARE WE, SO IS IT STILL, IF YOU'RE BUILDING SIX STORIES, TWO STORIES OR 20% IS INCLUSIONARY OR IS THAT NOT PART OF THE SIX STORIES ON CAMBRIDGE STREET NOW? SO, SO MAYBE I'LL TAKE THE FIRST, UH, ATTEMPT AT THAT AND STER BEAR CAN JUMP IN AS NEEDED. 
          UM, BUT THE CURRENT INCLUSIONARY ZONING ORDINANCE, AS YOU KNOW, UH, APPLIES FOR ANY PROJECT OVER 10,000 SQUARE FEET OR 10 UNITS. 
          UM, AS PART OF THE CONVERSATION AROUND THIS CAMBRIDGE STREET AND THE MASS AVE REZONINGS, UM, THE CITY COUNCIL CONTEMPLATED AN AMENDMENT THAT WE'VE INCLUDED IN THIS DRAFT THAT WOULD REQUIRE PROJECTS, UH, OVER SIX STORIES TO BE SUBJECT TO INCLUSIONARY REGARDLESS IF THEY, UM, MET THAT 10,000 SQUARE FOOT THRESHOLD. 
          SO THAT WOULD REQUIRE PROJECTS TO BE INCLUSIONARY. 
          UM, I DID WANT TO NOTE THAT, UM, YOU KNOW, THERE'S BEEN A LOT OF TALK THAT A LOT OF PROJECTS COULD, YOU KNOW, WILL GO UP TO SIX STORIES OR FIVE STORIES WITHOUT, UM, UM, MEETING THE INCLUSIONARY ZONING REQUIREMENT. 
          UM, GIVEN THE SIZE OF THE PARCELS THAT WE CONSIDER SOFT SITES OR DEVELOPABLE SITES, UM, WE ARE QUITE SIGNIFICANTLY OVER THAT 10,000 SQUARE FOOT THRESHOLD. 
          SO THERE'S ALWAYS A CASE WHERE SOMEONE COULD SIGNIFICANTLY UNDERBUILT THEIR, THEIR SITE, BUT JUST GIVEN THE LIKELIHOOD AND THE, UH, DEVELOPER'S, UM, DESIRE TO MAXIMIZE DEVELOPMENT POTENTIAL, WE DO THINK IT'S GONNA BE OVER 10,000 SQUARE FEET. 
          AND THEN CERTAINLY WITH THIS ADDITIONAL, UM, REQUIREMENT, INCLUSIONARY ZONING WOULD BE, UH, REQUIRED. 
          OKAY. 
          UM, AGAIN, THROUGH YOU MAYOR SADIKI, UM, THANK YOU, UM, ASSISTANT CITY MANAGER, UM, PETER, SO MUCH FOR THAT, UM, EXPLAN OR THAT CLARIFICATION. 
          SO, SO, SO IT'S LIKELY THAT SOME AFFORDABLE UNITS WILL BE BUILT, BUT WE DON'T HAVE ANY CALCULATE CALCULATION OF HOW MANY WE'RE, WE'RE NOT, WE HAVE NO IDEA HOW MUCH AFFORDABLE UNITS WILL BE BUILT. 
          RIGHT. 
          AND IF PEOPLE ARE BUILDING OVER SIX STORIES, SO THIS WOULD ALLOW PEOPLE TO BUILD OVER SIX STORIES. 
          SO IF THEY WANNA BUILD OVER SIX STORIES, THEN DO THEY HAVE, WHAT DO THEY HAVE TO, IF THEY WANNA GO TO EIGHT STORIES AND BUILD INCLUSIONARY UNITS, WHAT, WHAT REVIEWS WOULD THEY HAVE TO, UM, WOULD THEY WOULDN'T NEED A SPECIAL PERMIT? WHO, WHAT WOULD THEY HAVE TO GO THROUGH THROUGH, UM, YEAH, YEAH, THANK YOU, UH, THROUGH YOU. 
          MAYOR SADIKI. 
          UH, SO THE SPECIAL PERMIT THRESHOLD, UH, KICKS IN AT 75,000 SQUARE FEET. 
          UM, UH, SO IF PROJECTS EX, UH, EXCEED THAT, THEY WOULD HAVE TO GO TO THE PLANNING BOARD FOR A SPECIAL PERMIT. 
          UM, WE DO HAVE, UH, DESIGN REVIEW AT DIFFERENT THRESHOLDS. 
          SO, UM, ALL OF THESE PROJECTS WOULD GO THROUGH STAFF REVIEW, UM, AND DIFFERENT DEGREES OF ADVISORY OR, OR PROJECT REVIEW WITH STAFF, 
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UM, AND PUBLIC UH, MEETINGS. 
          OKAY, BUT WHAT AGAIN, YOU, UM, MADAM MAYOR, WHAT I, WHAT I DON'T UNDERSTAND THOUGH IS IF THIS, IF THE STREET IS ZONED FOR SIX STORIES, IF SOMEONE WANTED TO GO TO EIGHT STORIES, WHAT WOULD THEY HAVE TO DO? THE, THE STREET IS ZONED FOR SIX STORIES. 
          YES. 
          SO, UH, THANK YOU FOR CLARIFYING THE QUESTION. 
          SO, UM, IF THIS PROPOSED AMENDMENT WERE TO PASS AND THE, THE CAP WAS SIX STORIES, UM, YOU COULD NOT GO TO EIGHT STORIES REGARDLESS IF YOU WERE TO GET AN ADDITIONAL PERMIT. 
          SO SIX STORIES WOULD BE THE CAP, EXCEPT IN THOSE, AGAIN, THOSE TWO AREAS ON CAMBRIDGE STREET THAT WE'VE SAID COULD GO POTENTIALLY UP TO 10 OR 12. 
          SO, BUT IF ALONG THE CORRIDOR AND INMAN SQUARE, IF, IF, IF YOU COULD ONLY BUILD UP TO SIX STORIES, RIGHT? SO THERE WOULD NOT BE ANY INCLUSIONARY UNITS IN THOSE SIX STORY BUILDINGS UNLESS THEY'RE OVER 10,000 SQUARE FEET. 
          THAT'S, THAT'S, THAT'S CORRECT. 
          CORRECT. 
          OKAY. 
          UM, SO HERE'S, OKAY. 
          SO OVER THE WEEKEND I ATTENDED THE MASS MUNICIPAL ASSOCIATION MEETING AT THE CONVENTION CENTER IN BOSTON. 
          AND SO I WAS WALKING DOWN SUMMER STREET, WHICH IS A MUCH WIDER STREET. 
          IT'S ABOUT THE WIDTH OF MASS AVE. 
          SO IT'S 90, I GUESS MASS AVE IS ABOUT A HUNDRED FEET OR ANYWAY, UM, SUMMER STREET IS 98 FEET. 
          SO IT'S A VERY BROAD AVENUE. 
          AND THERE ARE BEAUTIFUL, UH, BRICK BUILDINGS THERE THAT ARE FIVE STORIES, SIX STORIES, SEVEN STORIES. 
          AND THEN OF COURSE THERE'S SOME TALLER BUILDINGS AS YOU GET DEEPER INTO THE SEAPORT DISTRICT. 
          BUT WHAT WALKING DOWN THAT STREET MADE ME REALIZE IS LIKE THOSE BUILDINGS REALLY LOOKED HANDSOME ON THAT WIDE STREET, BUT I REALLY WORRY ABOUT CAMBRIDGE STREET. 
          I WORRY ABOUT CAMBRIDGE STREET. 
          I, I THINK YOU COULD. 
          I ALSO WALKED CAMBRIDGE STREET ON A VERY, VERY COLD DAY LAST WEEK AND WE WERE WALKING ON THE SOUTH SIDE OF THE STREET AND IT WAS VERY COLD, BUT WE HAD SUN BECAUSE THE BUILDINGS ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE STREET WERE LOWER. 
          UM, SO WE COULD STILL BE IN THE SUNLIGHT. 
          SO WHAT I'M AWARE OF, SINCE IT'S AN EAST, WEST STREET, THAT IF WE BUILD, UM, CAMBRIDGE STREET TALLER, LIKE TO EVEN SIX STORIES WE REALLY NEED SETBACKS. 
          A SETBACK WOULD ALLOW FOR LIGHT TO PENETRATE THE STREET SO THAT IT ISN'T A DARK CORRIDOR, UM, IN THE WINTER. 
          SO I, I, I DO WORRY ABOUT THAT, AND I FEEL LIKE THE PROPER, FROM MY WALK OF CAMBRIDGE STREET, I REALLY FEEL AS THOUGH FOUR OR SIX STORIES, OR FOUR STORIES WITH A 10 FOOT STEP BACK IS WHAT WOULD REALLY BE BEST FOR CAMBRIDGE STREET. 
          UM, BUT I, I REALIZE THAT ISN'T ON, THAT ISN'T UNDER CONSIDERATION AT THIS POINT. 
          I THINK SIX STORIES IS MUCH BETTER THAN EIGHT STORIES, BUT I, I THINK THAT THE STEP BACK AT FOUR STORIES WILL REALLY BE CRITICAL. 
          UM, WHAT I WORRY ABOUT, THE OTHER THING THAT'S COME TO MY, UM, REALIZATION IS LIKE HOW MUCH I LOVE CAMBRIDGE STREET, BECAUSE IT, I THINK, I FEEL LIKE IT'S THE LAST VESTIGE OF A STREET WITH LOCAL RETAIL IN THE CITY. 
          I MEAN, IT'S, IT'S RICH WITH LOCAL RETAIL. 
          IT'S, UH, RICH WITH ETHNIC BUSINESSES, YOU KNOW, ORGANIZATIONS, UM, RESIDENTS. 
          UM, THERE'S A GREAT DIVERSITY THERE. 
          AND I JUST WORRY THAT WITH THIS UPZONING, UM, WHICH I LIKE, I, I I, I DO FEEL LIKE GROWTH SHOULD BE ON THE QUARTERS, BUT I, BUT I FEEL AS THOUGH THIS IS A PRETTY NARROW STREET. 
          AND I THINK ESPECIALLY WHEN I FEEL LIKE WE'RE GIVING AWAY THE, THESE DENSITY BONUSES, THIS HEIGHT TO DEVELOPERS WITHOUT ANY GUARANTEE OF THE PRODUCTION OF AFFORDABLE UNITS OR ANY COMMUN COMMUNITY BENEFITS, I FEEL AS THOUGH, UM, IT, IT, IT'S TOO MUCH THAT WE'RE GIVING AWAY. 
          I DO THINK IT MAKES SENSE TO HAVE MORE HEIGHT IN THE WEBSTER, WINDSOR AREA. 
          I REALLY APPRECIATE THAT AS A PLACE THAT COULD USE MORE HEIGHT. 
          AND I THINK YOU COULD HAVE MORE HEIGHT AT LECH MIRROR, THOUGH. 
          I, I FEEL FOR THE PEOPLE IN THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY ACROSS THE STREET. 
          'CAUSE THEIR LIGHT WILL BE BLOCKED. 
          I MEAN, I REALLY HOPE DIVIV CO WEST DOES BUILD A SIX STORY BUILDING THERE. 
          'CAUSE I, I DO THINK IT WOULD BE, UM, UH, MORE IN KEEPING WITH THE NEIGHBORHOOD. 
          AND I WORRY, I WORRY ABOUT ALL THE, UM, CONCERNS CAMBRIDGE STREET RESIDENTS HAVE SHARED. 
          THERE ALREADY IS A LOT OF CONGESTION. 
          THERE'S A GREAT CONCERN ABOUT NO PARKING MINIMUM AND ADDING DENSITY TO THE STREET. 
          THERE'S A, YOU KNOW, CONCERNS ABOUT LABS. 
          I, I WHAT I, 
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I, I WILL SUPPORT THIS AMENDMENT. 
          'CAUSE I THINK SIX STORIES IS BETTER THAN EIGHT STORIES. 
          BUT OVERALL, I, I THINK WE SHOULD LIKE WAIT A MONTH. 
          MAYBE THIS SHOULD GO TO NEIGHBORHOOD AND LONG-TERM PLANNING FOR FURTHER DISCUSSION. 
          BUT I THINK WE SHOULD WORK OUT THE KINKS OF THE ZONING AND LIKE CONSIDER THE STEP BACKS, CONSIDER OTHER THINGS PEOPLE HAVE DISCUSSED. 
          LIKE THEY'RE REALLY WORRIED ABOUT THE WET LABS. 
          APPARENTLY THERE ALREADY ARE SOME WET LABS ON CAMBRIDGE STREET. 
          UM, SO, UH, RESIDENTS DON'T WANT THEM THERE. 
          UM, I THINK WE SHOULD MAKE SURE WE'RE GONNA GET INCLUSIONARY UNITS. 
          UM, I THINK WE SHOULD MAKE SURE THAT WE'RE GONNA GET THAT FIRST FLOOR RETAIL. 
          UM, I THINK THE IDEAS RESIDENTS HAVE SHARED DURING PUBLIC TESTIMONY ABOUT SAYING, UM, SMALLER, REQUIRING SMALLER GROUND GRAND, GROUND FLOOR RETAIL SHOULD BE PART OF THE ZONING WE PASS. 
          AND, AND WE DO WANNA DISCOURAGE BANKS AND LARGER BUSINESSES. 
          SO PUTTING IN SOMETHING ABOUT YOU, YOU CAN'T HAVE, YOU KNOW, HUGE SPACES FOR BANKS. 
          I THINK THAT WOULD BE IMPORTANT TO INCLUDE AS WELL. 
          SO, SO AGAIN, I WILL SUPPORT THIS AMENDMENT BECAUSE I THINK SIX STORIES IS MUCH BETTER FOR THAN EIGHT STORIES ON THAT STREET. 
          I THINK WHEN WE THINK ABOUT UPZONING, WE HAVE TO REALLY THINK ABOUT THE CONTEXT OF THE NEIGHBORHOOD AND THE ACCESS OF THE STREET AND, AND LOOK AT SHADOW STUDIES. 
          AND I WISH, UM, UM, UM, ASSISTANT CITY MANAGER, PETERS, I WISH, I THINK IT'S REALLY IMPORTANT. 
          I KNOW YOU'VE GOT THE TOOLS TO SHARE WHAT THE STREET WOULD LOOK LIKE AT FOUR STORIES, WHAT IT WOULD LOOK LIKE AT SIX STORIES, WHAT IT WOULD LOOK LIKE WITH THE 10 FOOT STEP BACK AT FOUR STORIES, WHAT IT WOULD LOOK LIKE AT EIGHT STORIES, WHAT IT WOULD LOOK LIKE, 10 WITH 10 STORIES. 
          I THINK IT'S REALLY IMPORTANT THAT YOU AS THE HEAD OF THE PLANNING DEPARTMENT SHARE THOSE IMAGES WITH US SO WE UNDERSTAND THE IMPLICATIONS OF THE ZONING THAT WE'RE CONSIDERING. 
          AND THEN ALSO, IT'D BE GOOD TO HAVE STATS TO REALLY BETTER UNDERSTAND. 
          I, I FELT, I ACTUALLY REALLY THOUGHT THAT OUR CAMBRIDGE STREET STUDY WAS STRONG. 
          BUT YOU KNOW WHAT, WHAT IT TALKS ABOUT IS THE GOALS ARE SUPPORT SMALL BUSINESSES. 
          AND I WORRY THIS WILL, UM, FORCE THEM OUT. 
          IT'LL IMPROVE MOBILITY. 
          WHILE OUR BIKE LANES WILL IMPROVE MOBILITY, IT'LL INCREASE HOUSING SUPPLY, ESPECIALLY AFFORDABLE HOUSING. 
          BUT AGAIN, IT DOESN'T LOOK LIKE IT. 
          WE'RE GONNA BE INCREASING AFFORDABLE HOUSING, INCREASE PUBLIC OPEN SPACE. 
          I DON'T SEE THIS INCREASING PUBLIC O OPEN SPACE. 
          IT SEEMS LIKE WE NEED TO BE ADDING A 15% REQUIREMENT FOR OPEN SPACE. 
          COUNCILOR ZI, WE HAVE A FEW PEOPLE. 
          UM, YEAH, YEAH, YEAH. 
          WAITING ANYWAY. 
          ANYWAY, SO THOSE ARE, THOSE ARE MY, MY THOUGHTS. 
          I AM COMMITTED TO UP ZONING, UH, OR COMING UP WITH THOUGHTFUL ZONING FOR CAMBRIDGE STREET, BUT I DON'T THINK WE'RE THERE. 
          AND I THINK WE SHOULD HOLD OFF, LET THIS PETITION EXPIRE AND, UM, AND BE A LITTLE BIT MORE THOUGHTFUL AND THEN PUSH SOMETHING THROUGH IN THE NEXT MONTH OR TWO WITH THE CORRECTIONS THAT PEOPLE HAVE RECOMMENDED. 
          THANK YOU. 
          I YIELD WE'LL GO TO COUNCILOR ZUBIE AND COUNCILOR MCGOVERN NEXT. 
          THANK YOU MAYOR SIDIKI. 
          I'M GONNA SPECIFICALLY SPEAK ON THE AMENDMENT PIECE AND LATER ON THE FINAL PETITION AFTER WE VOTE ON THIS AMENDMENT FOR CLARITY. 
          I WANNA SHARE WHY I WILL ABSTAIN ON THIS AMENDMENT. 
          I CURRENTLY DON'T FEEL LIKE I'VE BEEN A PART OF THE PROCESS AROUND THIS ZONING PETITION. 
          AND MY CONCERNS ARE DEEPER THAN JUST THE HEIGHT OF THE BUILDINGS. 
          I'M RIGHT NOW FOCUSED ON WHO GETS TO BENEFIT FROM THE NEW BUILDINGS, NOT JUST HOW TALL THEY ARE. 
          I APPRECIATE THAT A LAST MINUTE DEAL HAS BEEN STRUCK AND THAT THIS WILL LIKELY MOVE FORWARD TONIGHT, BUT THAT'S NOT HOW I THINK WE SHOULD DO THIS WORK. 
          AND IT'S NOT HOW I HOPE WE DO THIS WORK GOING FORWARD. 
          AND AGAIN, UM, I'D LOVE TO SPEAK TO THE OVERALL PETITION BEFORE WE APPROACH THAT VOTE. 
          AND IF NOT, PLEASE LET ME KNOW. 
          AS, AS I WOULD LIKE TO SPEAK TO THE, TO THE OVERALL PETITION. 
          I WOULD SAY COUNCILOR ZUBI, YOU SHOULD JUST SPEAK TO THAT, THE OVERALL PETITION AS WELL. 
          SURE. 
          YEAH. 
          SO ON THE SECOND HALF OF THE OVERALL PETITION, AND AGAIN, I, I REALLY APPROACHED THIS FROM THE SIDE OF CLARITY FOR RESIDENTS TO UNDERSTAND THE TWO PIECES. 
          UM, I ALSO WANNA BE CLEAR ABOUT WHY I WILL BE VOTING NO ON THE OVERALL ZONING PETITION TONIGHT. 
          OVER THE LAST FEW WEEKS, THINGS HAVE BEEN VERY INTENSIVE, LISTENING TO COMMUNITY PERSPECTIVES, UNDERSTANDING THE PARTICULARS OF THIS PETITION, GETTING UP TO SPEED ON ZONING MORE BROADLY. 
          I MEAN, I'M, I'M GRATEFUL TO HAVE HAD THE OPPORTUNITY TO WEIGH IN AND DISRUPT THE STATUS QUO ON HOUSING IN OUR CITY. 
          BUT WITH THAT SAID, I, I DON'T FEEL LIKE I'VE BEEN A PART OF THIS PROCESS THOROUGHLY ENOUGH. 
          I WOULD'VE APPRECIATED A COMMITTEE HEARING TO UNPACK THE ISSUE, BUT I ALSO UNDERSTAND THAT YOU ALL WENT THROUGH THAT LAST TERM AND THAT THERE'S A DESIRE TO FINISH THIS TONIGHT. 
          IT'S JUST HARD FOR ME RIGHT NOW TO CO-SIGN 
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ON A PROCESS THAT I WASN'T PART OF, THAT I DIDN'T HELP SHAPE, ESPECIALLY WHEN THERE ARE CONCERNS ABOUT HOW IT WENT AND PIECES THAT AREN'T IN THE ZONING, AND I CAN'T IGNORE THOSE IN GOOD FAITH. 
          MY THINKING IS MORE FUNDAMENTAL THAN HOW TALL THE BUILDINGS WILL BE. 
          I WANT US TO THINK MORE ABOUT WHO WILL ULTIMATELY BENEFIT FROM THE BUILDINGS, THE AFFORDABILITY ASPECT. 
          I WANT US TO CONSIDER WORKING CLASS PEOPLE IN OUR CITY, OUR EDUCATORS, OUR SERVICE WORKERS, AND OTHERS WHO LARGELY PROBABLY WON'T BE ABLE TO BENEFIT AT ALL OUTSIDE OF THE SUBSIDIZED UNITS IF THEY'RE BUILT AT THE CORE OF THE ISSUE. 
          I CANNOT VOTE TO GIVE DEVELOPERS ADDITIONAL VALUE UNTIL I CAN TELL OUR CONSTITUENTS WITH CONFIDENCE THAT OUR 20% INCLUSIONARY HOUSING WILL ACTUALLY BE DELIVERED. 
          WE MUST REFUSE TO HAND OVER MASSIVE DEVELOPMENT RIGHTS TO PRIVATE CAPITAL WITHOUT THAT GUARANTEE. 
          OUR INCLUSIONARY ZONING REQUIREMENT IS LEGALLY RELIANT ON THE ECONOMIC JUSTIFICATION STUDY FROM 2016 THAT IS NOW OUT OF DATE. 
          AND THE NEW FEASIBILITY STUDY ARRIVES IN JUST FIVE MONTHS. 
          THAT'S JUNE OF 2026, AND THAT'S ON TOP OF A LAWSUIT WE'RE NOW NAVIGATING. 
          SO THE NEXUS STUDY ARRIVING IN JUNE WILL LIKELY SHOW THAT THE 20% IS NOT ECONOMICALLY JUSTIFIABLE UNDER THE CONDITIONS OF THIS CURRENT MOMENT. 
          AND FACED WITH THAT, THE COUNCIL WILL INEVITABLY VOTE TO LOWER THE INCLUSIONARY PERCENTAGE TO WHATEVER THE STUDY CLAIMS IS JUSTIFIABLE, WHICH I'M QUITE CONCERNED ABOUT. 
          AND THEN THE QUESTION ON THE PROMISE FOR INCLUSIONARY ZONING BEING AT 20% IN THIS ZONING PETITION WILL PRETTY MUCH EVAPORATE. 
          UM, WHAT MAKES IT REALLY ESPECIALLY DIFFICULT FOR ME TO SUPPORT THIS TONIGHT IS WE'RE GIVING AWAY OUR LEVERAGE FOR FREE. 
          THE TALLER HEIGHTS AND ADDITIONAL DENSITY CONTEMPLATED IN THIS PETITION ARE INCREDIBLY VALUABLE TO DEVELOPERS. 
          AND IF WE WERE TO FRAME THESE AS A DENSITY BONUS, CONT CONDITIONED EXPLICITLY ON DELIVERING 20% AFFORDABLE HOUSING, RATHER THAN GIVING THEM AWAY IN THE BASE ZONING, UM, WHICH WE HAVE UNDER SECTION 11.203, WE WOULD PRESERVE OUR ABILITY TO MAINTAIN THAT 20% REQUIREMENT, EVEN IF THE NEXUS STUDY FORCES US TO LOWER THE BASE REQUIREMENT. 
          I MEAN, WE HAD THIS CONVERSATIONS EVEN IN THE, IN THE LAST YEAR. 
          SO UNDER THE DENSITY BONUS FRAMEWORK, DEVELOPERS WHO WANNA BUILD THESE NEW HEIGHTS WOULD HAVE TO DELIVER 20% AFFORDABILITY. 
          THOSE THAT DON'T WANNA MEET THE THRESHOLD CAN BUILD TO WHATEVER THE BASE ZONING ALLOWS WITH WHATEVER LOWER PERCENTAGE THE NEXUS STUDY SUPPORTS. 
          AND THIS IS ONE WAY WE MIGHT ACTUALLY BE ABLE TO GUARANTEE AFFORDABILITY OUTCOMES, RATHER THAN MAKING PROMISES THAT WE PROBABLY KNOW WILL BE BROKEN. 
          20% IS THE MINIMUM THRESHOLD WE CAN ACCEPT FOR ECONOMICALLY STRATIFIED BUILDINGS TO ALSO FEEL DIGNIFIED AND IN AND INTEGRATED. 
          AND ESPECIALLY ACCORDING TO OUR OWN RESIDENT EXPERIENCE STUDY, 50% OF RENTERS IN INCLUSIONARY UNITS REPORTED EXPERIENCING BIAS WHERE RACE WAS SEEN AS THE PRIMARY CAUSE. 
          SO IT'S OBVIOUS THAT AS THE BUILDINGS GET MORE ECONOMICALLY SEGREGATED BY RACE AND CLASS, THE POTENTIAL FOR HARM INCREASES. 
          BUT THE, BUT I ALSO JUST WANNA ADDRESS DIRECTLY THE ARGUMENT THAT WAITING UNTIL JUNE, 2026 WILL DELAY HOUSING PRODUCTION. 
          BECAUSE FOR ME, IT'S NOT ABOUT A DELAY, IT'S ABOUT DOING OUR DUE DILIGENCE. 
          DEVELOPERS RIGHT NOW ARE WAITING TO SEE WHERE INCLUSIONARY PROGRAM LANDS AND WHY WOULD THEY MOVE FORWARD WITH PROJECTS UNDER A 20% REQUIREMENT WHEN THEY KNOW THAT IN FIVE MONTHS, WE MIGHT JUST LOWER THAT TO 12 OR 15%. 
          SO IN A WAY, OUR FAILURE TO RESOLVE ON THIS UNCERTAINTY IS IN ITSELF FREEZING DEVELOPMENT. 
          UM, THE PETITION ACCESS SUB ZONE SIGNIFICANT PORTIONS OF CAMBRIDGE STREET, WHICH AGAIN GIVES DEVELOPERS THE LEGAL RIGHT TO EXTRACT SIGNIFICANTLY MORE VALUE FROM THE LAND WHILE THE LEGAL FOUNDATION FOR OUR ONLY COMMUNITY BENEFIT IS MOST LIKELY CRUMBLING BENEATH US. 
          AND I ALSO WANNA JUST TALK ABOUT WHO BENEFITS FROM RUSHING THIS THROUGH. 
          IT'S NOT WORKING CLASS CANTE WHO DESPERATELY NEED AFFORDABLE HOUSING. 
          IT'S NOT SMALL DEVELOPERS WHO ARE FROZEN OUT BY THE MARKET BY FINANCING COSTS ANYWAYS. 
          IT'S LANDOW LANDOWNERS AND LARGE DEVELOPERS WHO WANT TO LOCK IN NEW DEVELOPMENT RIGHTS BEFORE THE INCLUSIONARY PROGRAM IS LEGALLY TESTED. 
          AND BEFORE WE'VE HAD THE CHANCE TO STRUCTURE THIS AS A DENSITY BONUS, RIGHT NOW, THE ALTERNATIVE IS RIGHT IN FRONT OF US. 
          WE HAVE A STATE LEVEL AFFORDABLE HOMES ACT, WHICH INCLUDES MIXED INCOME SOCIAL HOUSING AS A PILOT, WE HAVE OUR OWN REP, MIKE CONNOLLY, WHO'S INDICATED THAT THE STATE WOULD ENTERTAIN A PROPOSAL AS PART OF THE JUNE, 2026 STATE CAPITAL BUDGET IF SOMETHING ACTIONABLE WERE SUBMITTED. 
          SO WE KNOW THAT SOCIAL HOUSING IS BUILT BY THE PUBLIC, FOR THE PUBLIC REMAIN, AND TO REMAIN FOR THE PUBLIC. 
          AND, AND IT'S PROVEN THAT IT WORKS, BUT IT IS AVAILABLE TO US RIGHT NOW IF WE CHOOSE TO PRIORITIZE IT. 
          YET IN THIS POLICY ORDER, THE COUNCIL THAT HAD PASSED LAST SEPTEMBER, UM, IT WAS UNCEREMONIOUSLY WIPED FROM THE AWAITING REPORTS LIST WITHOUT THE REPORT BACK FROM THE MANAGER THAT WAS REQUESTED. 
          THE DECEMBER HEARING WAS INFORMATIVE, A GOOD START, BUT PRODUCED NO PRODUCTIVE PROGRESS FROM STAFF. 
          I HAVE TO ASK WHY, BECAUSE MY ASSUMPTION IS MOST LIKELY THAT STAFF ARE BEING ASKED TO SPEND ALL THEIR TIME RUNNING FROM A ZONING PETITION TO ANOTHER, ESSENTIALLY CHASING THE FALSE BELIEF THAT WE CAN BUILD OUR WAY OUT OF THE AFFORDABILITY CRISIS, UM, THROUGH INCLUSIONARY ZONING ALONE. 
          SO I'M HOPING THAT WE CAN SPEND THE NEXT FIVE MONTHS PRIORITIZING SOCIAL HOUSING AND GETTING A PROPOSAL TOGETHER FOR THE STATE CAPITAL BUDGET. 
          AND WHEN THE NEXT 
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STUDY ARRIVES IN JUNE, UM, WE HAVE A SERIOUS CONVERSATION ABOUT RESTRUCTURING OUR APPROACH. 
          AND IF WE AREN'T FACING OR FOCUSING ON SOLUTIONS LIKE SOCIAL HOUSING THAT ACTUALLY DE COMMODIFY HOUSING AND TREAT IT AS A HUMAN RIGHT, UM, WE'LL ALMOST BE TREADING THE LINE OF REBRANDING GENTRIFICATION AS ABUNDANCE. 
          UM, MY BOTTOM LINE IS UP ZONING CONVERSATIONS ARE USUALLY FRAMED AS CREATING OPPORTUNITY FOR WORKING CLASS PEOPLE, WHICH CAN BE TRUE, BUT OFTENTIMES THEY SERVE PROFIT ENOUGH PEOPLE. 
          AND RIGHT NOW WE'RE BEING ASKED TO GIVE AWAY DEVELOPMENT RIGHTS WHILE THE ONLY MECHANISM WE HAVE TO ENSURE COMMUNITY BENEFIT IS UNDER INTENSE LEGAL AND ECONOMIC THREAT. 
          UM, THE ONLY E EMERGENCY WE'RE FACING TONIGHT IS AGAIN, THE AFFORDABLE HOUSING CRISIS, AS WE ALL KNOW. 
          AND THIS POTENT, THIS PETITION SPECIFICALLY IS WRITTEN WITH THE INCLUSIONARY REQUIREMENT THAT WILL LIKELY NOT BE RELEVANT IN FIVE MONTHS. 
          IT IS GOING TO BE MAKING THINGS WORSE BY TRANSFERRING WEALTH TO LANDOWNERS WITHOUT A GUARANTEE OF MEANINGFUL TO COMMUNITY BENEFITS. 
          UM, OPEN TO VOTING YES ON ZONING PROPOSALS THAT DELIVER MEANINGFUL GUARANTEED COMMUNITY BENEFITS. 
          I JUST NEED TO FEEL CONFIDENT WITH WHAT WE CAN DELIVER ON AFFORDABILITY WHEN PROCEEDING WITH THESE. 
          AND I DON'T THINK THIS PETITION DOES THAT FOR ME RIGHT NOW AT THIS TIME. 
          I, I KNOW WE CAN DO BETTER AND, AND, AND WE SHOULD. 
          I'LL YIELD, I'LL GO TO COUNCIL MEMBER GOVERN AND THEN COUNCILOR FLAHERTY. 
          THANK YOU MADAM MAYOR THROUGH YOU. 
          UM, THERE'S, THERE'S A LOT HERE. 
          I'M GONNA, I HAD A STATEMENT, I'M GONNA GO A LITTLE BIT OFF THAT FOR A SECOND. 
          UM, YOU KNOW, FIRST I WANNA ADDRESS THE, YOU KNOW, THE CONTINUED, UH, SUGGESTION THAT RUSHING THIS THROUGH, THIS HAS BEEN A CONVERSATION THAT'S BEEN GOING ON FOR YEARS. 
          AND THIS COUNCIL, THIS IS WHY I FELT IT WAS IMPORTANT FOR THE PREVIOUS COUNCIL TO TAKE OWNERSHIP OF THIS GOOD OR BAD, BECAUSE WE WERE THE ONES THAT DOING, WERE DOING THE WORK. 
          AND I UNDERSTAND THAT IT'S PROBABLY DIFFICULT IF YOU ARE A NEW COUNSELOR TO BE COMING ON IN THE LAST MINUTE AND BEING ASKED TO TAKE A VERY DIFFICULT AND CONTROVERSIAL VOTE. 
          UM, AND SO I STILL BELIEVE THAT WE SHOULD HAVE TAKEN A RESPONSIBILITY IF PEOPLE ARE GONNA GET MAD, LET 'EM GET MAD AT US BECAUSE WE WERE THE ONES THAT HAVE BEEN DOING THIS. 
          UM, BUT THAT DOESN'T MEAN IT'S RUSHED. 
          AND I, I I, I DON'T BELIEVE THAT THIS HAS BEEN RUSHED. 
          UM, SECOND OF ALL, YOU KNOW, WHEN WE HEAR, UM, WHEN FOLKS SAY, YOU KNOW, I, I I SUPPORT BUILDING MORE HOUSING, BUT THEN LIST OFF 15 OTHER THINGS THAT THEY WANT ADDRESSED THAT MAKE BUILDING THAT HOUSING IMPOSSIBLE TO ACTUALLY BUILD. 
          NOT THAT THOSE THINGS AREN'T IMPORTANT, SETBACKS, STEP BACKS, TREES, ALL OF THOSE THINGS. 
          BUT IF YOU PUT SO MANY REQUIREMENTS THAT YOU THEN MAKE IT IMPOSSIBLE TO BUILD THE HOUSING YOU ALLEGEDLY SAY YOU WANT, THEN YOU'RE NOT GONNA GET IT. 
          AND NO, UM, YOU KNOW, NO ONE ZONING ORDINANCE IS GONNA SOLVE ALL THE ILLS THAT THAT WE HAVE, WHICH IS WHY WE HAVE TO HAVE MULTIPLE, UH, TOOLS, RIGHT? WE NEED SOCIAL HOUSING, WE NEED INCLUSIONARY ZONING, WE NEED MARKET RENT, HOUSING. 
          UM, SO THIS ORDINANCE IS NOT NECESSARILY GONNA SOLVE EVERY SINGLE PROBLEM THAT EVERYBODY HAS AND THAT WE ALL SHARE. 
          UM, SO I'LL JUST SAY THAT, YOU KNOW, I CONTINUE TO BELIEVE WE HAVE A HOUSING SHORTAGE. 
          AND I THINK THAT ALLOWING EIGHT STORIES ON CAMBRIDGE STREET WOULD PROVIDE MORE HOMES FOR PEOPLE, MORE CUSTOMERS FOR OUR LOCAL BUSINESSES, AND MORE INCLUSIONARY UNITS. 
          TALLER BUILDINGS WILL DELIVER MORE LOW INCOME UNITS THROUGH IZ. 
          AND LET'S REMEMBER THAT CLOSE TO 50% OF THE PEOPLE WHO LIVE IN INCLUSIONARY UNITS EARN LESS THAN THE MINIMUM INCOME REQUIREMENTS TO QUALIFY FOR IZ. 
          AND THEY ARE IN THOSE UNITS BECAUSE OF VOUCHERS, INCLUDING MANY FORMERLY UNHOUSED PEOPLE. 
          UM, SO IN ORDER TO GET MORE INCLUSIONARY UNITS, WHEN YOU LIMIT THE AMOUNT OF UNITS THAT CAN BE BUILT, YOU'RE GONNA THEREFORE GET LESS INCLUSIONARY UNITS AS WELL. 
          AND SO BY DOING THIS, WE'RE NOT ONLY GONNA LOSE AFFORDABLE HOUSING BY DROPPING FROM EIGHT STORIES TO SIX, WE'RE ALSO GONNA LOSE HOUSING FOR THOSE FOLKS WHO EARN TOO MUCH MONEY TO QUALIFY FOR INCLUSIONARY HOUSING OR FOR A VOUCHER, BUT ARE STILL PAYING ABOUT 50% OF THEIR INCOME ON RENT. 
          THAT IS THE MIDDLE CLASS OF CAMBRIDGE NOW. 
          AND THOSE ARE THE FOLKS WHO EARN TOO MUCH MONEY TO GET ANY KIND OF HELP OR SUBSIDY, BUT THEY END UP, THOSE ARE THE ONES WHO ARE LEAVING BECAUSE AFTER A COUPLE YEARS, THEY CAN NO LONGER PAY 50% OF THEIR INCOME ON RENT. 
          SO THOSE PEOPLE ARE GONNA SUFFER TOO. 
          UM, YOU KNOW, BUT I WILL SAY IN TERMS OF THE AMENDMENTS, UM, YOU KNOW, I, I DON'T BELIEVE THAT THERE ARE SIX VOTES TO PASS THIS ORDINANCE WITHOUT THE AMENDMENTS. 
          UM, AND I DO BELIEVE THAT 
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WE NEED TO PASS THIS. 
          UM, I THINK IT IS BETTER THAN THE CURRENT ZONING. 
          UM, IT'S A, IT IS A STEP FORWARD. 
          UNFORTUNATELY, IT IS NOT THE LEAP FORWARD THAT I THINK WE NEED IF WE'RE GONNA ADDRESS OUR HOUSING SHORTAGE. 
          UM, BUT IT IS BETTER TO PASS THIS THAN TO NOT PASS THIS. 
          I DON'T THINK TAKING TWO MORE MONTHS FOR MORE COMMUNITY CONVERSATION IS GONNA MAKE THAT MUCH OF A DIFFERENCE. 
          I THINK, YOU KNOW, PEOPLE WHO, THE SAME PEOPLE WHO ARE UPSET ABOUT, YOU KNOW, EIGHT STORIES AND SIX STORIES ON THE CORRIDORS ARE THE SAME PEOPLE WHO WERE UPSET ABOUT THAT ON MASS AVE. 
          THE SAME PEOPLE THAT WERE UPSET ABOUT THAT IN OTHER AVENUES OF THE, OF THE CITY. 
          I DON'T THINK THAT'S GONNA CHANGE. 
          UM, SO I THINK WE'VE HAD THE CONVERSATION. 
          I WILL VOTE FOR THE AMENDMENTS. 
          I WILL VOTE FOR THE FINAL ORDINANCE. 
          AGAIN, I THINK IT'S, IT'S NOT WHAT I, WHAT I THINK WE NEED, BUT IT'S BETTER THAN WHAT WE HAVE. 
          THANK YOU, MADAM MAYOR. 
          AND I DO, UH, BEFORE I GO, I DO WANT TO THANK OUR STAFF, UM, WHO AT CDD, OUR PROFESSIONAL STAFF WHO WORK REALLY, REALLY HARD, UH, ON THIS. 
          AND I KNOW HOW DIFFICULT IT IS TO BALANCE ALL THE DIFFERENT VISIONS AND WANTS AND DESIRES, UM, IN THE COMMUNITY BECAUSE THERE ARE SO MANY DIFFERENT OPINIONS. 
          UM, AND I DO WANT TO JUST MAKE SURE THAT I APPRECIATE YOU. 
          THANK YOU. 
          THANK YOU, COUNCILOR. 
          GOVERNOR CONSTABLE FLAHERTY. 
          THANK YOU, MADAM MAYOR, AND THROUGH YOU. 
          UM, IT'S A COMPLICATED ISSUE, AND I DON'T THINK ANYONE HERE DENIES THAT FACT. 
          UM, I WILL SAY LIKE COUNCILOR ZUBIE, UH, I WAS NOT PART OF THE PUBLIC PROCESS, AND I REGRET THAT BECAUSE I KNOW THAT THERE WAS A, UM, A VALUABLE EXCHANGE OF IDEAS. 
          AND I KNOW THAT THE CITY STAFF, UM, SPENT, UM, UH, AN EXHAUSTIBLE EFFORT ON ALL OF THIS. 
          UH, BUT I'M HERE TO REPRESENT THE PEOPLE WHO VOTED FOR ME. 
          AND, UH, I'M NOT, UH, GOING TO HAVE THOSE PEOPLE BEING DISENFRANCHISED BECAUSE I WAS NOT INVOLVED IN THAT PUBLIC PROCESS. 
          SO I'M GOING TO, UM, UH, I, I'M IN FAVOR OF ALLOWING THE PETITION TO EXPIRE, AND I'M ALSO NOT GOING TO SUPPORT THIS WELL-INTENTIONED AMENDMENT BECAUSE AS, UH, COUNCIL MCGOVERN JUST MENTIONED, I DON'T WANT TO SEE AN AMENDMENT PASSED. 
          I WOULD LIKE TO SEE THE ENTIRE PETITION EXPIRE. 
          AND I, AND I SPEAK ABOUT THIS ISSUE FROM, I COME FROM MAYBE A, UH, MORE GLOBAL ISSUE, UH, STANDPOINT, A VIEWPOINT THAN MANY OF MY, UM, BROTHER AND SISTER COUNSELORS DO, BECAUSE I FULLY RECOGNIZE, APPRECIATE, AND UNDERSTAND THAT OUR HOUSING SHORTAGE ISSUE IS A REGIONAL ISSUE. 
          THIS IS NOT A LOCAL ISSUE. 
          THIS IS NOT A CAMBRIDGE ONLY ISSUE. 
          WE DON'T LIVE IN A SILO. 
          THIS IS SOMETHING THAT WE'RE EXPERIENCING REGIONALLY, NATIONALLY. 
          AND IN MY LIFETIME, THE CITY OF CAMBRIDGE HAS DONE AND CONTINUES TO DO MORE THAN ALL OF THE OTHER 351 CITIES AND TOWNS IN MASSACHUSETTS TO ALLEVIATE THE HOUSING SHORTAGE. 
          AND WE HAVE DONE THAT. 
          UH, AND OVER THE LAST MAYBE DECADE IN PARTNERSHIP WITH THE STATE, AND THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT WOULD'VE SPENT $2.2 BILLION ON THE GREEN LINE EXTENSION TO MAKE THE COMMUNITIES OF, UH, SOMERVILLE AND MEDFORD, UH, EASILY ACCESSIBLE TO THE HIGH PAYING JOBS IN KENDALL SQUARE. 
          YET IN THE, UM, WAKE OF ALL THAT, THE CITY COUNCIL ON THE LAST TERM, UM, I GUESS ON FEBRUARY 10TH OF THEREABOUTS, DECIDED THAT WE SHOULD UP ZONE THE ENTIRE CITY, UH, EVERY BLOCK, EVERY STREET, EVERY NEIGHBORHOOD, ANY SIZE LOT. 
          SO AS OF RIGHT, UM, ON ANY SIZE LOT, A STRUCTURE OF FOUR STORIES CAN BE BUILT, THEREBY INCENTIVIZING THE DEMOLITION OF SINGLE TWO FAMILY AND THREE FAMILY HOMES, UH, WITHOUT ANY ELEMENT OF AFFORDABILITY, ZERO AFFORDABILITY, WHICH CLEARLY WILL RESULT IN THE DISPLACEMENT OF THE MIDDLE CLASS AS IT CURRENTLY EXISTS IN CAMBRIDGE. 
          UM, I THINK IT'S A, I I I THINK IT'S A WELL-INTENTIONED, UM, ZONING, UM, ORDINANCE, WHICH HAS DRAMATIC, UH, NEGATIVE IMPACTS ON THE CITY AS A WHOLE. 
          AND IF WE TAKE IT TO ITS LOGICAL, SOME PEOPLE WOULD SAY FEAR MONITORING CONCLUSION, AND WE CONSIDER THE, UH, AVAILABILITY OF MONEY AT A, UH, MAYBE A, A MAJOR REAL ESTATE DEVELOPER'S HANDS TO BE DEPLOYED TO THE CITY OF CAMBRIDGE, 
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HE WOULD RECOGNIZE, AND LET'S SAY FOR EXAMPLE, JUST HYPOTHETICALLY THAT PERSON'S NAME MIGHT BE DONALD TRUMP. 
          HE WOULD RECOGNIZE THE MASSIVE, UH, INVESTMENT OPPORTUNITY IN THE CITY OF CAMBRIDGE. 
          AND IN ONE GENERATION WE COULD ERADICATE, UH, THIS CITY AND LOSE NEIGHBORHOODS. 
          AND, AND, AND I LOOK AT THE CITY OF CAMBRIDGE AND ITS FUTURE AS A SUSTAINABLE CITY, ONE WHERE WE'RE DOING ALL WE CAN TO SUPPORT AND INCENTIVIZE FAMILIES HERE IN THE CITY, UM, SO THAT WE REMAIN THE HISTORICALLY FABULOUS PLACE TO LIVE AND RAISE A FAMILY. 
          AND I THINK, UH, THAT, THAT MULTIFAMILY HOUSING ZONING ORDINANCE HAS THE UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES OF, UM, THERE'S THE CLARITY THAT'S NOT BEFORE US. 
          SO YOU HAVE TO TIE BACK TO CAMBRIDGE. 
          I KNOW, BUT I'M TRYING TO LINK IT TO THIS, AND I'M, BY LINKING IT TO THIS, I THINK THAT IT CREATES, UH, IN, IN MY VIEW, A DANGEROUS PRECEDENT. 
          AND I THINK THAT THE UP ZONING OF CAMBRIDGE STREET DOES THE EXACT SAME THING IN THAT REGION. 
          IT CREATES A, UH, AN AS OF RIGHT DEVELOPMENT OF SIX STORIES ALONG THAT CORRIDOR, WHICH IN TURN WILL HAVE THE SAME IMPACT OF, UM, CAUSING THE DISPLACEMENT OF THE MIDDLE CLASS IN THAT REGION OF CAMBRIDGE. 
          AND I THINK IT'S A BAD IDEA. 
          I'M FULLY IN FAVOR OF THE UPZONING ON THE WEBSTER RAV CORRIDOR, BECAUSE I THINK IT'S APPROPRIATE. 
          AND LIKE COUNCIL ZUBIE, I THINK THAT WE HAVE, UH, AS A CITY, UH, WHEN WE ALLOW THESE ZONING AMENDMENTS LIKE THIS ONE, WE'RE GIVING UP OUR LEVERAGE. 
          UM, AND IF WE DO ANYTHING, UH, IN TERMS OF HOUSING DEVELOPMENT ALONG THE C STREET CORRIDOR TO SIX STORIES, EIGHT STORIES, 10 STORIES, ALL OF THIS SHOULD BE THROUGH A REVIEW, WHICH REQUIRES A SPECIAL PERMIT, UH, HEARING WITH COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT, THE OPPORTUNITY FOR INPUT, UH, AND WITH SPECIFIC , IT HAS TO BE MET. 
          AND WITHOUT THAT COMPONENT IN THIS PARTICULAR, UM, ZONING ORDINANCE, UM, I I, AND, AND AGAIN, WITHOUT BEING INVOLVED IN THE PUBLIC PROCESS, I WOULD HAVE TO, YOU KNOW, FOR THE RECORD, NOT THAT IT MAKES ANY DIFFERENCE AT THIS POINT, BUT I'D HAVE TO SAY THAT I, I JUST, I CAN'T, I, I CAN'T VOTE IN FAVOR OF IT. 
          SO THANK YOU MADAM MAYOR. 
          AND I YIELD, AND I'M SORRY TO BE AS LOQUACIOUS AS I WAS. 
          I KNOW THAT WE ARE, UH, WE'RE LISTENING TO EACH ONE OF US, AND I APPRECIATE YOUR ATTENTION AND YOUR RESPECT. 
          AND I, I, I DON'T MEAN TO BELABOR. 
          THANK YOU. 
          THANK YOU. 
          COUNCILLOR FLAHERTY HAS EVERYONE WHO HAS WANTED TO SPEAK ON THIS ISSUE SPOKEN AT LEAST ONCE. 
          UM, I'M GONNA JUST BRIEFLY SPEAK AND THEN GO TO COUNCILLOR ZE. 
          UM, YOU KNOW, I'LL SAY THAT, UM, I HEAR MY COLLEAGUES ON THEIR VARIOUS POINTS OF VIEW. 
          OH, DOC COUNCILLOR SIMMONS, DID YOU WANNA SPEAK BEFORE I GO? OKAY, I HEAR YOU ALL ON THE VARIOUS POINTS OF VIEW. 
          I THINK I WON'T REPEAT WHAT SOME OF MY COLLEAGUES HAVE SAID. 
          UH, I'LL JUST SAY THAT I THINK THE AMENDMENTS, UM, WERE AN ATTEMPT TO, UH, INCORPORATE SOME OF THAT FEEDBACK THAT WE HAD HEARD. 
          AND, UH, THIS PROCESS STARTED IN THE FALL OF 2021. 
          UM, UH, AND IT, YOU KNOW, IF YOU LOOK, THERE'S 105 PAGE COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT, UH, SUMMARY, UH, ABOUT THIS PROCESS AND EXACTLY WHAT WAS DONE, A HUNDRED  AND FIVE PAGES. 
          UH, AND SO THE ASSERTION AROUND THIS BEING RUSHED, UM, AND THIS, UM, NOT HAVING ENOUGH PROCESS, UM, YOU KNOW, I THINK I COME OUT A LITTLE DIFFERENTLY THAN THAT. 
          I THINK THERE ARE ARGUMENTS THAT FOLKS HAVE MADE AROUND SOME OF THE QUESTIONS OF, UM, YOU KNOW, THE, SOME OF THE, THE CHANGES AND THE IMPACTS. 
          AND, AND I HEAR THAT. 
          I THINK WE ARE TRYING TO BE, WE ARE TRYING TO DO A LOT OF THINGS. 
          UM, AND WE HAVE OUR A HUNDRED PERCENT OVERLAY. 
          WE HAVE, WE'VE, WE'RE GOING, THERE'S A LOT OF FERVOR OVER MULTI-FAMILY HOUSING, AND I KNOW MANY OF US ARE OPEN TO AMENDMENTS. 
          WE'RE TALKING ABOUT SOCIAL HOUSING. 
          SO I DO THINK THERE'S NO LACK OF, UM, COMMITMENT FROM MOST OF THIS COUNCIL ON MANY OF THESE IMPORTANT THINGS. 
          AND I THINK RIGHT NOW, BEFORE US IS AN ATTEMPT TO SAY, LOOK, WE DID HEAR THAT THE PROCESS DID RECOMMEND SIX STORIES, UM, AND WITH SOME GREATER HEIGHTS. 
          AND SURE, THERE CAN BE CRITIQUES OF PROCESS. 
          AND I, I'M SO OPEN TO THAT. 
          I'M OPEN TO IMPROVING ON A LOT OF DIFFERENT THINGS. 
          BUT I THINK ON SUBSTANCE, I DO THINK WE ARE TAKING INTO ACCOUNT A NUMBER OF THINGS, AND NAMELY ALSO THE 
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FEEDBACK FROM OUR BUSINESS ASSOCIATION FROM OTHERS WHO AT FIRST WERE SAYING, YOU KNOW, YOU SHOULD LET THIS EXPIRE. 
          UM, YOU KNOW, WE DON'T LIKE WHAT HAPPENED HERE. 
          UH, AND SO I DO THINK THERE ARE PEOPLE WHO'VE COME AND SAID, WE'VE COME FORWARD, UM, ON THIS. 
          AND SO I, YOU KNOW, I, I DID WANNA RECOGNIZE THAT. 
          SO I WANNA JUST MAKE THAT BRIEF POINT. 
          I'LL GO TO COUNCILLOR ZIM. 
          UH, THANK YOU MADAM MAYOR. 
          UM, I JUST HAD A FEW REMARKS. 
          UH, I TYPICALLY TEND TO KEEP MY COMMENTS SHORT, UH, SHORT, BUT I DID WANNA JUST ADDRESS SOME MISCONCEPTIONS. 
          UM, YOU KNOW, MY COLLEAGUE COUNSELOR FLAHERTY SAID, YOU KNOW, UH, HE SUPPORTS THE WEBSTER PART, BUT ALL THE OTHER CHANGES, YOU KNOW, ARE A BIT TOO MUCH. 
          I WOULD JUST SAY THAT, YOU KNOW, INMAN IS STAYING AT SIX. 
          IT'S ALREADY AT SIX. 
          THERE IS NO CHANGE THERE. 
          UM, CAMBRIDGE STREET IS AT SIX, IT'S STAYING AT SIX. 
          THERE'S NO CHANGE THERE. 
          UM, AND THE LECH MERE PARCEL HAS ALREADY BEEN PERMITTED AT SIX AT A LOWER INCLUSIONARY. 
          SO THERE'S FUNCTIONALLY NO CHANGE THERE. 
          SO IT IS WHAT THE PROPOSAL MY FELLOW COUNSELOR WANTED, AND THAT BASICALLY, THIS IS JUST A CHANGE TO WEBSTER. 
          IT WAS ALSO CONCERN ABOUT IT NOT BEING BY, RIGHT, BY REQUIRING SPECIAL PERMIT. 
          CONGRATULATIONS. 
          THE WEBSTER PERMIT, UH, WEBSTER BLOCK REQUIRES A SPECIAL PERMIT. 
          SO I THINK WE SHOULD CHECK OFF THOSE BOXES. 
          UM, THE PROCESS HAS BEEN GOING AROUND TILL 2021, AND I AGREE THAT A THREE YEAR PROCESS, OR REALLY FOUR YEAR PROCESS WAS WAY TOO LONG. 
          EVERY TERM, WE HAVE NEW COUNSELORS. 
          IF WE WANNA MAKE SURE THAT ALL OF OUR COUNSELORS ARE PART OF THE ENTIRE PROCESS, WE SHOULD MAKE OUR PROCESSES SHORTER. 
          UM, I WOULD SAY THAT THERE'S BEEN CONCERNS ABOUT DISPLACEMENT, BUT ALSO I WOULD SAY THAT, YOU KNOW, IT'S NOTABLE THAT THE FIRST BUILDINGS THAT WERE REALLY PROPOSED UNDER WERE MULTIFAMILY HOUSING WERE, YOU KNOW, THE SPEARS FUNERAL HOME, THE HARRIET JACOBS HOUSE BUILDINGS THAT HAD NO RESIDENCE LIVING IN THERE, BECAUSE THE PLACE WHERE THE ECONOMICS LIVE WORK BEST ARE PLACES THAT AREN'T ALREADY RESIDENTIAL. 
          AND SO WHAT WE'VE SEEN IS ACTUALLY BEEN A LOT OF DEVELOPMENT IN PLACES WHERE WE WOULD WANT TO SEE IT. 
          UM, I WOULD SAY THAT THERE WAS CONCERN THAT THE STUDY WILL COME BACK AND SAY THAT LIKE, INCLUSIONARY ZONING NEEDS TO BE ADJUSTED. 
          I WOULD SAY THE NEXUS IS NOT BASED ON THE FEASIBILITY, THE ECONOMIC FEASIBILITY OF INCLUSIONARY ZONING. 
          IT'S BASED ON DIVERSITY, WHICH IS INHERENTLY BUILT IN ECONOMIC DIVERSITY. 
          SO, UH, I, I THINK THAT THAT'S JUST NOT HOW THE NEXUS STUDY HAS FAILED UP ON, LIKE WHAT, UH, ON HOW INCLUSIONARY ZONING IS BUILT UP. 
          THERE WAS CONCERNS ABOUT OTHER COMMUNITIES ON CAMBRIDGE DOING WAY MORE THAN EVERYONE ELSE. 
          I WOULD SAY THE PORTION OF OUR, UH, OF THE CITY, EVERETT REVERE BOSTON, LOTS OF OTHER PLACES HAVE BEEN BUILDING MORE HOUSING PER CAPITA THAN WE HAVE. 
          UM, JUST A FEW MORE SHORT RESPONSES WAS, UM, YOU KNOW, THIS IS BASICALLY JUST A ZONING FOR WEBSTER AT THIS POINT. 
          UM, AND THERE'S LOTS OF GREAT IDEAS. 
          IT IS A HOUSING EMERGENCY, AND WE CAN EITHER TAKE A STANCE OF LIKE, YES, AND WE ALL HAVE SLIGHTLY DIFFERENT APPROACHES. 
          SOME PEOPLE REALLY LOVE THE OA LITTLE BIT MORE, SOME THE MULTIFAMILY, SOME OTHER PROPOSALS, AND THAT WE'RE GONNA TRY TO BUILD EACH OTHER UP AND TRY A YES AND APPROACH WITH ALL DIFFERENT SORTS OF ANSWERS. 
          OR WE CAN BREAK EACH OTHER DOWN. 
          UM, LIKE I HAVE MY ISSUES WITH SOCIAL HOUSING. 
          I THINK OF IT AS A WAY OF WEAKENING THE A HO AND ACTUALLY SAYING THAT WE SHOULD PAY MORE FOR 33% AFFORDABLE HOUSING. 
          I DON'T THINK THE NUMBERS MAKE SENSE, BUT I UNDERSTAND THAT OTHER COLLEAGUES WANT TO, AND I'M LIKE, OKAY, LET'S EXPLORE, LET'S TRY TO PROVE THAT THING OF IT. 
          BUT I SEE SOCIAL HOUSING AS A WAY TO, YOU KNOW, ACTUALLY MAKE, UH, MORE MARKET RATE HOUSING AND LESS AFFORDABLE HOUSING AT WORSE ECONOMICS. 
          SO I DON'T REALLY UNDERSTAND THAT. 
          BUT LIKE, YOU KNOW, WE GIVE EACH OTHER THE OPPORTUNITY AND GRACE TO TRY TO MAKE OUR POINTS. 
          UM, AND I WOULD JUST FINALLY JUST END OFF BY SAYING THAT I THINK THAT THIS IS AN APPROACH THAT OTHER PLACES THAT WE'RE VISITING, BOTH THE NEW MAYOR OF NEW YORK AND THE NEW MAYOR OF SEATTLE ZORAN AND KATE WILSON, ARE REALLY LOOKING AT OUR EXAMPLES AND SAYING THAT THIS IS THE APPROACH THAT WE WANT TO TAKE BETWEEN MULTIFAMILY HOUSING AND CAMBRIDGE STREET. 
          I THINK THAT WE'VE HAD A LONG ENOUGH EX UH, DISCUSSION. 
          I WOULD JUST LIKE TO VOTE ON THE AMENDMENTS, UM, BUT I JUST WANTED TO ADDRESS THOSE POINTS. 
          COUNCILLOR SIMMONS, ANYTHING YOU'D LIKE TO SAY? UH, UH, THANK YOU, MADAM MAYOR. 
          NO, I THINK IT'S ALL BEEN SAID QUITE WELL AND QUITE OFTEN, SO, UH, IF FOR ANYTHING, I WOULD LIKE TO MOVE THAT WE VOTE ON THIS, THANK YOU. 
          I YIELD AND I WILL GO TO COUNSELOR MCGOVERN. 
          THERE, AS HAS BEEN MENTIONED, THERE WAS A COMMUNICATION, UM, ON THE DIFFERENT VARIOUS CHANGES, UM, AND AMENDMENTS, UH, IN THE PACKET. 
          SO COUNCILOR MCGOVERN, THANK YOU, MADAM MAYOR THROUGH YOU. 
          SO THE NEXT ORDER OF BUSINESS WOULD BE FOR THE COUNCIL TO VOTE TO AMEND THE CAMBRIDGE STREET ZONING PETITION BY SUBSTITUTION WITH THE ATTACHED PETITION, TEXT REVISED MAP, AND REVISED MAP BOUNDARY DESCRIPTIONS PUT FORWARD IN THE LATE ORDER BY THE CITY MANAGER. 
          SO THAT'S ON THE AMENDMENTS. 
          SO THE MOTION IS BEFORE US COUNCILLOR NOLAN, JUST TO BE CLEAR, UH, THANK YOU THROUGH YOU MAYOR SIDIKI TO, UH, ORDINANCE CHAIR MCGOVERN. 
          THESE, THIS WOULD MEAN WE'D BE VOTING ON 
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THE AMENDMENTS PROPOSED IN THE COMM COMMUNICATION FROM OTHER CITY OFFICERS. 
          IS THAT WHAT WE'RE THIS VOTE? OKAY, SO THE, THE JUST MADAM MAYOR, JUST IN CASE PEOPLE HAVEN'T, SO THE, SO THE LATE, UM, CITY MANAGER AGENDA ITEM TOOK WHAT WAS IN THE COMMUNICATION FILED BY MAYOR SADIKI AND COUNCILOR NOLAN PUT THAT INTO ORDINANCE LANGUAGE. 
          WE WOULD NOW VOTE ON THAT SO THAT THAT WILL BE SUBSTITUTED INTO THE CAMBRIDGE STREET LANGUAGE. 
          AND THEN THAT WILL BECOME THE LANGUAGE THAT WE EVENTUALLY, IN A FEW MINUTES VOTE ON AS, AS AMENDED COUNCILOR NOLAND. 
          DOES THAT MAKE SENSE? Y YES. 
          THANK YOU FOR THE CLARIFICATION. 
          UH, MAYOR SIDIKI AND, UH, CHAIRMAN MCGOVERN. 
          SO PER COUNCILOR MCGOVERN'S MOTION, WE HAVE TO FIRST VOTE, VOTE ON THE AMENDMENTS, AND THEN THE UNDERLYING PETITION. 
          SO, CLERK, WILL YOU PLEASE CALL THE ROLE ON THE AMENDMENTS? SO WE'RE CALLING THE ROLE ON THE AMENDMENTS BY THE LATE CITY COUNCIL AGENDA BY THE CITY MANAGER, CORRECT? MADAM MAYOR? YES. 
          OKAY. 
          COUNCILOR ZUBE. 
          PRESENT. 
          PRESENT. 
          VICE MAYOR ZIM? YES. 
          YES. 
          COUNCIL OF FLAHERTY? NO. 
          NO. 
          COUNCILOR MCGOVERN? YES. 
          YES. 
          COUNCILLOR NOLAN? YES. 
          YES. 
          COUNCILLOR SIMMONS? YES. 
          YES. 
          COUNCILOR SABRINA WHEELER. 
          NO. 
          NO. 
          COUNCILOR ZUI? YES. 
          YES. 
          MAYOR SIDIKI? YES. 
          YES. 
          AND YOU HAVE SIX MEMBERS RECORDED IN THE AFFIRMATIVE. 
          TWO RE MEMBERS RECORDED IN THE NEGATIVE, AND ONE RECORDED IS PRESENT. 
          MADAM MAYOR THROUGH YOU? YES. 
          ON THAT, THE MOTION, THE AMENDMENTS PASS. 
          YES. 
          SO THE NEXT VOTE WOULD BE, UH, TO VOTE THE CAMBRIDGE STREET ZONING ORDINANCE AS AMENDED. 
          WE'LL GO AHEAD WITH THAT. 
          ROLL CALL. 
          SEEING NO HANDS. 
          COUNCILOR ZUBIE? NO. 
          NO. 
          VICE MAYOR ZI? YES. 
          YES. 
          COUNCILOR FLAHERTY? NO. 
          NO. 
          COUNCILOR MCGOVERN? YES. 
          YES. 
          COUNCILOR NOLAN? YES. 
          YES. 
          COUNCILOR SIMMONS? YES. 
          YES. 
          COUNCILOR SABRINA WHEELER. 
          YES. 
          YES. 
          COUNCILOR ZUI? NO. 
          NO. 
          MAYOR SIDIKI? YES. 
          YES. 
          AND YOU HAVE SIX MEMBERS RECORDED IN THE AFFIRMATIVE AND THREE RECORDED IN THE NEGATIVE. 
          THE MAYOR. 
          WE'RE ALMOST THERE. 
          WE'RE ALMOST THERE. 
          GO AHEAD, COUNSELOR. 
          WE'RE ALMOST THERE. 
          WE NOW NEED TO VOTE. 
          UM, THE CITY MANAGER, THE LATE CITY MANAGER, ADD AGENDA ITEM NUMBER 12, AND COMMUNICATION AND REPORT FROM OTHER CITY OFFICERS. 
          I BELIEVE IT'S NUMBER TWO TO BE PLACED ON FILE. 
          SO WE'LL GO AHEAD ON THAT MOTION FROM COUNCIL MCGOVERN TO PLACE THOSE TWO, UH, ITEMS ON FILE. 
          COUNCIL LORE ZUBE? YES. 
          YES. 
          VICE MAYOR ZE? YES. 
          YES. 
          COUNCIL FLAHERTY? YES. 
          YES. 
          COUNCIL MCGOVERN? YES. 
          YES. 
          COUNCILOR NOLAN? YES. 
          YES. 
          COUNCILOR SIMMONS? YES. 
          YES. 
          COUNCILOR SABRINA WHEELER. 
          YES. 
          YES. 
          COUNCILOR ZUI. 
          YES. 
          YES. 
          MAYOR SIDIKI. 
          YES. 
          YES. 
          AND YOU HAVE NINE MEMBERS RECORDED IN THE AFFIRMATIVE. 
          SO THOSE ARE ONE MORE MADAM MAYOR FILE. 
          WE HAVE ONE MORE, AND WE'LL GO AHEAD TO COUNCILLOR MCGOVERN. 
          THANK YOU, MADAM MAYOR, THROUGH YOU. 
          UH, I WOULD LIKE TO MOVE SUSPENSION OF THE RULES TO MOVE RECONSIDERATION, HOPING THE SAME WILL NOT PREVAIL. 
          SO, THERE'S TWO, GOING TO BE TWO VOTES HERE. 
          SO THE CLERK, I'LL LEAD YOU, YOU'LL LEAD US THROUGH THOSE VOTES. 
          SO THE FIRST IS TO MOVE SUSPENSION. 
          COUNCILOR ZUBE. 
          CAN I DO A POINT OF ORDER HERE AND ASK THEM, ASK YOU ALL TO EXPLAIN WHAT IS, WHAT ARE THESE VOTES SPECIFICALLY ON? SURE. 
          SUSPENSION. 
          OH, CLERK, PLEASE GO AHEAD. 
          SUSPENSION OF THE RULES BASICALLY MEANS THAT WE'RE GOING, UM, OUT OF ORDER OF THE REGULAR AGENDA OF THE MEETING TO BRING SOMETHING ELSE FORWARD. 
          SO WE ARE SUSPENDING THE RULES. 
          SO VICE, SO COUNCILOR MCGOVERN CAN MOVE RECONSIDERATION, WHICH MEANS, UM, IF, IF RECONSIDERATION IS APPROVED, THEN THERE WILL BE NO RECONSIDERATION ALLOWABLE BEFORE THE 12 O'CLOCK WEDNESDAY FINAL. 
          I DON'T KNOW IF I WAS VERY CLEAR WITH THAT. 
          YEAH, I'LL JUST ADD THAT BASICALLY A MOTION TO, 
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IF THERE'S A MOTION TO RECONSIDER UNDER ROBERT'S RULE, UM, YOU CAN BRING BACK SOMETHING THAT WAS ALREADY, UM, VOTED ON, VOTED ON, AND THAT CAN BE REEB DEBATED AND POSSIBLY CHANGED. 
          AND SO WE'RE SAYING THAT WE WANT THIS MATTER TO BE CLOSED. 
          UM, AND SO YOU WOULDN'T ALLOW RECONSIDERATION. 
          SO THAT WOULD BE OF NO VOTE. 
          AND HISTORICALLY, ON VARIOUS MATTERS, WE'VE DONE NO VOTES ON RECONSIDERATION BECAUSE WE FEEL THAT THE MATTER SHOULD BE CLOSED AND YOU HAVE A CERTAIN AMOUNT OF TIME TO DO THE RECONSIDERATION. 
          IF I'VE MISSED ANYTHING, ANYONE FEEL FREE TO ADD AMEN. 
          CHAIR? YES. 
          COUNCILOR SIMMONS. 
          THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR. 
          ALSO, RECONSIDERATION CAN ONLY BE DONE AND, BUT I WANNA MAKE SURE WE'RE CORRECT IF YOU ARE ON THE PREVAILING SIDE. 
          YEAH. 
          YES, YES. 
          SO ANY FURTHER QUESTIONS? WELL, OKAY. 
          SO COUNCIL ZU, DID THAT ANSWER YOUR QUESTION? YEAH. 
          SO MY UNDERSTANDING IS THE FIRST FIRST VOTE IS ON THE SUSPENSION OF THE RULES, AND THE SECOND VOTE IS ON THE RECONSIDERATION. 
          YES, EXACTLY. 
          OKAY, GOTCHA. 
          I HAVE QUESTIONS, CLARIFYING QUESTIONS. 
          I'LL GO TO COUNCILOR FLAHERTY AND THEN COUNCILOR ZUZI. 
          NO, UH, COUNSELOR SIMMONS ANSWERED MY QUESTION UNDER THE POINTER. 
          I WAS GONNA MAKE A POINT OF PARLIAMENTARY PROCEDURE TO ASK UNDER THE ROBERTS RULES THAT THE ONLY, UM, THE ONLY, THE ONLY MOVEMENT, MOVEMENT UNDER A, UH, MOTION FOR RECONSIDERATION MUST BE THE PREVAILING PARTY, NOT THE AGGRIEVED PARTY. 
          SO IT'S BEEN ANSWERED. 
          THANK YOU. 
          YOU'VE BEEN STUDYING COUNCILOR CLARITY. 
          I APPRECIATE IT. 
          NO, I ALWAYS DO. 
          WE'LL, WE'LL GO TO COUNCILOR ZUI. 
          UH, I JUST WANTED TO SAY, I WAS TALKING TO A LO, A KIAN LAWYER WHO WAS SAYING THAT THE COUNCIL DIDN'T USE TO ASK FOR THE SUSPENSION OF RULES AND THE, UM, INABILITY TO RECONSIDER THINGS. 
          IT'S JUST SOMETHING THAT WE'VE BEEN DOING MORE RECENTLY. 
          I, I MEAN, THEY'RE ACTUALLY, UH, UH, HAVING MORE TIME TO THINK ABOUT THINGS CAN SOMETIMES BE A GOOD THING. 
          SO IT DOESN'T SEEM LIKE WE SHOULD ALWAYS BE LOCKING EVERY VOTE INTO A FINAL VOTE. 
          AND WE'LL HAVE RULES DISCUSSION, UM, THIS WEEK. 
          SO FEEL FREE TO BRING THAT UP. 
          AND THEN THERE, YES, COUNCIL. 
          AND I WOULD JUST SAY, MA'AM, I WOULD SAY MADAM MAYOR, THIS IS SOMETHING THAT I'VE, WE'VE BEEN DOING SINCE I GOT ELECTED IN THE SCHOOL COMMITTEE 22 YEARS AGO. 
          SO I'M NOT SURE WHO SAYS WHO GAVE THAT ADVICE ON THAT, UH, COUNCILLOR ZUZI. 
          BUT WE HAVE DONE THIS FOR A VERY LONG TIME. 
          ON, ON IMPORTANT ISSUES. 
          THIS IS NOT UNUSUAL. 
          SO NOW THAT WE'VE HAD QUESTIONS ANSWERED, CLARIFIED, WE'LL GO BACK TO THE VOTE, PLEASE. 
          ON SUSPENSION. 
          COUNCILOR ZUBI? YES. 
          YES. 
          VICE MAYOR ZE? YES. 
          YES. 
          COUNCIL FLAHERTY? NO. 
          NO. 
          COUNCILOR MCGOVERN? YES. 
          YES. 
          YES. 
          GOVERNOR NOLAN? YES. 
          YES. 
          COUNCILLOR SIMMONS? YES. 
          YES. 
          COUNCILLOR SABRINA WHEELER? YES. 
          YES. 
          COUNCILLOR EY? NO. 
          NO. 
          MAYOR SIDIKI? YES. 
          YES. 
          AND YOU HAVE SEVEN MEMBERS RECORDED IN THE AFFIRMATIVE AND TWO RECORDED IN THE NEGATIVE SUSPENSION PREVAILS. 
          WE'LL GO ON TO THE RECONSIDERATION. 
          VOTE PLEASE ON RECONSIDERATION. 
          COUNCILOR ZUBE? NO. 
          NO. 
          VICE ZE. 
          NO. 
          NO. 
          COUNCILOR FLAHERTY? NO. 
          NO. 
          COUNCILOR MCGOVERN? NO. 
          NO. 
          COUNSELOR NOLAN? NO. 
          NO. 
          COUNCILOR SIMMONS? NO. 
          NO. 
          COUNCILOR SABRINA WHEELER? NO. 
          NO. 
          COUNCILLOR ZUI. 
          YES. 
          YES. 
          MAYOR SIDIKI. 
          NO. 
          NO. 
          AND YOU HAVE ONE MEMBER RECORDED IN THE AFFIRMATIVE IN EIGHT, RECORDED IN THE NEGATIVE COUNCILLOR MCGOVERN. 
          WAS THERE ANYTHING ELSE? I THINK WE'VE WRAPPED UP THAT IS ALL ON THIS ISSUE. 
          MADAM MAYOR. 
          THANK YOU EVERYONE FOR YOUR PATIENCE. 
          YEAH. 
          THANK YOU EVERYONE. 
          THANK YOU FOR, UM, GOING THROUGH THIS, UH, THE CAMBRIDGE STREET PETITION ZONING PETITION, UM, HAS BEEN ORDAINED AS AMENDED. 
          WE ARE NOW 
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DONE WITH THE CITY MANAGER'S AGENDA, SO WE WILL GO AHEAD TO POLICY ORDERS. 
          TREASURER OF THE CITY COUNCIL. 
          AND I ASK THAT YOU RAISE YOUR HANDS. 
          WE'LL GO TO COUNSELOR ZUBI. 
          I WOULD LIKE TO PULL ONE AND THREE COUNSELOR ZUBI POLLS ONE AND THREE. 
          COUNCILLOR ZUI. 
          UH, YOU'RE MUTED. 
          COUNCILLOR ZUI. 
          I APOLOGIZE. 
          TWO AND NINE. 
          TWO AND 
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NINE. 
          COUNCILLOR NOLAN. 
          UH, IT'S BEEN PULLED. 
          MAYOR CITY. 
          CAN'T FIND. 
          OKAY. 
          SO WE'VE PULLED 1, 2, 3, AND NINE, AND NINE. 
          AND SO WE'LL GO AHEAD AND DO A ROLL CALL. 
          COUNSELOR. 
          ZUBU, YOU'RE NOT PULLING NUMBER EIGHT. 
          NO, BUT YOU'RE GOOD. 
          YEAH. 
          NO. 
          OKAY. 
          SO WE'LL DO A ROLL CALL ON ADOPTING POLICY ORDERS. 
          FOUR, FIVE, SIX, SEVEN, AND EIGHT. 
          COUNCILOR ZUBE. 
          YES. 
          YES. 
          VICE MAYOR. 
          YES. 
          YES. 
          COUNCILOR FLAHERTY. 
          YES. 
          YES. 
          COUNCILOR MCGOVERN. 
          YES. 
          YES. 
          COUNCILOR NOLAN. 
          YES. 
          YES. 
          COUNCILOR SIMMONS. 
          YES. 
          YES. 
          COUNCILOR SABRINA WHEELER. 
          YES. 
          YES. 
          COUNCILLOR ZUI. 
          YES. 
          YES. 
          MAYOR SIDIKI. 
          YES. 
          YES. 
          AND YOU HAVE NINE MEMBERS RECORDED IN THE AFFIRMATIVE. 
          THE BALANCE OF THE POLICY ORDERS IS ADOPTED, WILL GO TO POLICY ORDER NUMBER ONE, THAT THE CITY MANAGER ASKED THE APPROPRIATE DEPARTMENTS TO REVIEW THE CITY'S DIGITAL EQUITY WORK TO DATE, INCLUDING THE STUDIES, RECOMMENDATIONS, AND ALL STEPS TAKEN SINCE THE STUDY CONCLUSION, IN ORDER TO UPDATE THE EVALUATION OF EXISTING INTERNET ACCESS PROGRAMS, ASSESSING WHETHER RESIDENTS DIGITAL NEEDS ARE OR COULD BE PROVIDED FOR, AND TO PROPOSE HOW WE CAN BETTER MEET THEIR NEEDS. 
          AND TO REPORT BACK TO THE COUNCIL BY JUNE, 2026 ON INTERNET ACCESS PROGRAMS. THIS WAS FILED BY COUNCILLOR ZUZI, COUNCILLOR NOLAN, COUNCILLOR, SABRINA WHEELER, AND VICE MAYOR AZI. 
          THIS WAS PULLED BY COUNSELOR ZUBI. 
          I'LL GO TO THE LEAD SPONSOR, COUNCILOR ZI AND LESI YIELDS TO COUNCILLOR AYA. 
          COUNCILLOR ZUZI. 
          UH, THIS IS A POLICY ORDER THAT WE INTRODUCED LAST SPRING AND, UH, THE, THE, WITH THE SAME CO-SPONSORS, BUT WE FORGOT TO ASK FOR A REPORT BACK. 
          SO WE'VE RESUBMITTED THIS POLICY ORDER, ASKING FOR A REPORT BACK, BECAUSE, UM, I REALIZE AT LEAST THAT WE MAY NOT HAVE THE 150 TO 200 MILLION, UM, ESTIMATED TO INVEST IN MUNICIPAL BROADBAND RIGHT NOW OVER THE NEXT, LIKE FIVE YEARS. 
          BUT IT'S ABSOLUTELY ESSENTIAL THAT ALL OF OUR RESIDENTS HAVE DIGITAL AS A ACCESS. 
          UM, AND I'M REALLY HAPPY FOR THE A HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS GRANT THAT WE JUST RECEIVED, THE CAMBRIDGE PUBLIC LIBRARY JUST RECEIVED FOR THEIR DIGITAL NAVIGATOR PROGRAM. 
          BUT WHAT I WANTED, AND I GUESS WHAT WE WANTED WAS A BROADER REPORT BACK ON WHAT ELSE IS HAPPENING IN, UM, CAMBRIDGE HOUSING, UM, MCHA PROPERTIES AND OTHER, THERE, THERE ARE ALL THESE OTHER PROGRAMS THAT HAVE EXISTED OVER TIME, AND WE WOULD LIKE AN UPDATE ON THE STATUS OF THEM, BECAUSE WE WANNA MAKE SURE THAT EVERYBODY REALLY HAS DIGITAL ACCESS. 
          UM, WITH THAT I YIELD GOOD. 
          COUNCIL, ZUBIE. 
          THANK YOU, MADAM MAYOR. 
          I WOULD LIKE TO EXERCISE MY CHARTER RIGHT ON THIS POLICY ORDER TO BETTER UNDERSTAND, TO BETTER UNDERSTAND IT, ESPECIALLY AS IT CONTEXTUALLY RELATES TO MUNICIPAL BROADBAND. 
          COUNCILOR ZUBIE EXERCISES RETURN RATE ON POLICY. 
          RULE NUMBER ONE, WE'LL MOVE TO POLICY RULE NUMBER TWO, THAT THE CITY MANAGERS REQUESTED TO WORK WITH RELEVANCE CITY, WITH DEPARTMENTS REGARDING INCORPORATING PLANT-BASED SOLUTIONS INTO THE SUSTAINABLE CAMBRIDGE INITIATIVE, INCORPORATING PLANT-BASED PRACTICES AND CITY OPERATED EVENTS, AND USING MUNICIPAL COMMUNICATION CHANNELS TO PROMOTE SUSTAINABLE AND AFFORDABLE FOOD AND DRINK PRACTICES THROUGHOUT THE CITY. 
          THIS WAS FILED BY COUNCILOR NOLAN, AND COUNCILOR SABRINA WHEELER, COUNCILLOR MCGOVERN, AND MYSELF. 
          THIS WAS PULLED BY COUNCILLOR ZUZI, BUT I WILL GO TO COUNCILLOR NOLAN AS THE LEAD SPONSOR. 
          COUNCILLOR NOLAN, UNLESS YOU YIELD COUNCILLOR NOLAN, YOU HAVE THE FOUR. 
          THANK YOU MAYOR SIDIKI. 
          AND I'LL JUST MAKE A, A FEWER MARKS RELATED TO THIS POLICY, OR TO BEFORE, UH, YIELDING TO COUNCILOR SUZI. 
          AS WE HEARD IN PUBLIC COMMENT, I WANNA THANK ALL THE FOLKS FROM THE PLANT-BASED TREATY WHO CAME TO PUBLIC COMMENT. 
          I KNOW THEY MET WITH, I THINK, MANY CITY COUNSELORS, AND THEY'RE REALLY WORKING TO ENSURE THAT CAMBRIDGE IS PART OF THE LEADING EDGE OF CITIES ACROSS THE COUNTRY, AND IN FACT, THE WORLD THAT ARE LOOKING INTO EVERY SINGLE WAY THAT WE CAN ADDRESS NOT ONLY EMISSION AND CLIMATE, BUT THIS IS ALSO GETS AT THE HEART OF A LOT OF PUBLIC HEALTH AS WELL. 
          SO, AGAIN, IT ALSO IMPROVES SOCIAL JUSTICE, ECONOMIC WELLBEING, THIS WHOLE POLICY ORDERS ABOUT SUPPORTING CAMBRIDGE AND REDUCING ITS CONSUMPTION BASED EMISSIONS, AND GETTING THE WORD OUT, UM, TO THE PUBLIC AT LARGE ABOUT THE IMPORTANCE OF THIS FOR, FOR THAT CLIMATE WORK, BUT ALSO FOR PUBLIC HEALTH. 
          AS SOME OF THE PUBLIC COMMENT NOTED, THIS DOESN'T RESTRICT ANYBODY'S INDIVIDUAL CHOICES. 
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WHAT IT DOES DO IS WHAT IT WOULD DO IF WE MOVE FORWARD. 
          UM, AND IT ASKS THE CITY STAFF TO REALLY INCORPORATE PLANT-BASED SOLUTIONS, NOT ONLY INTO SUSTAINABLE CAMBRIDGE, BUT INTO EVERYTHING THAT WE DO. 
          UM, AND IN INCORPORATE PURCHASING PRACTICES ACROSS THE CITY. 
          AGAIN, NO ONE'S DIET HAS TO CHANGE OVERNIGHT, BUT I WOULD SAY EVERYONE'S DIET CAN BE IMPROVED. 
          THE EMISSION POLLUTION THAT IS DIRECTLY CAUSED BY ALL OF OUR DIETS, UM, IS SOMETHING THAT WE SHOULD BE PRIORITIZING BECAUSE IT'S SOMETHING WE CONTROL. 
          AND ALSO, IT'S EASY, AND YOU CAN STILL HAVE A LOT OF TASTY THINGS AND STILL JUST REDUCE THE, UH, EMISSION POLLUTION THAT COMES WITH EVERY SINGLE CHOICE WE MAKE RE RELATED TO EATING. 
          SO I'D BE REALLY EXCITED FOR THE COUNCIL TO PASS THIS, UH, POLICY ORDER TO, THERE'S A LOT OF FOLKS IN THE COMMUNITY, MANY OF WHOM CAME TO PUBLIC COMMENT, WHO ARE WILLING TO WORK WITH US ON THIS. 
          AND AGAIN, THIS IS REALLY ABOUT SETTING THIS STAGE FOR CAMBRIDGE TO BE ELITE, TO JOIN SOME OF THE LEADERS IN THE COUNTRY AND THE WORLD WHO ARE WORKING ON THIS REALLY, REALLY IMPORTANT ISSUE RELATED TO OUR PUBLIC HEALTH GOALS, AS WELL AS OUR, UH, CLIMATE REDUCTION AND EMISSION POLLUTION REDUCTION GOALS. 
          SO I HOPE, UH, THESE MORE PLANT-BASED FOOD CHOICES IS GONNA BE A GREAT WAY FOR RESIDENTS ALSO TO, TO WORK WITH EACH OTHER AND EDUCATE EACH OTHER AND, UM, HELP THE CITY, AND THEREFORE THEN THE WORLD AS A ROLE MODEL MOVE TOWARDS A MORE SUSTAINABLE, UH, LIFESTYLE. 
          SO THAT'S, THAT'S MY REASON FOR BRINGING THIS FORWARD, AND I'M REALLY GRATEFUL. 
          I KNOW THERE'S, THERE'S SEVERAL OTHER COUNSELORS INCLUDING, UM, COUNCILOR MCGOVERN, WHO HAD WORKED WITH THIS A A LOT, AND HE IS A CO-SPONSOR. 
          HE MIGHT WANNA SPEAK BEFORE WE, UH, GO TO COUNCILLOR SUZI, WHO WAS THE CO-SPONSOR. 
          IT WAS, UM, YEAH, ANY OF THE CO-SPONSORS. 
          COUNCILOR COUNCILOR MCGOVERN. 
          WAS COUNCILOR MCGOVERN. 
          I DON'T SEE. 
          OH, YEAH, YOUR HAND IS UP. 
          GO AHEAD. 
          THANK YOU, MADAM MAYOR THROUGH YOU. 
          UM, I JUST WANT TO THANK COUNCILOR NOLAN, UH, FOR PUTTING THIS POLICY ORDER TOGETHER. 
          I ACTUALLY GOT APPROACHED WITH THIS ISSUE MAYBE A YEAR AND A HALF AGO THROUGH THE, UM, UH, MASS ASSOCIATION, UM, UH, M-S-P-C-A, THAT WAS, THAT WAS, UH, ENDORSING THIS WORK THROUGH SOME OF THEIR ANIMAL RIGHTS WORK. 
          AND, UM, AND THEN AS COUNCILOR NOLAN SAID, YOU KNOW, WE WERE APPROACHED AGAIN MORE RECENTLY BY SOME OF THE, SOME OF THE OTHER GROUPS THAT, UH, WANTED US TO PUT THIS FORWARD. 
          I, I JUST, UM, I WANNA THANK COUNCILOR NOLAN FOR ACTUALLY WRITING IT AND PUTTING IT TOGETHER. 
          'CAUSE I, I, I DROPPED THE BALL ON IT. 
          UM, BUT I APPRECIATE, UH, HER TAKING THE LEAD AND, AND, UM, AND COS AND SPONSORING THIS. 
          AND, UH, I THINK IMPORTANT POINT THAT SHE SAID IS THAT, YOU KNOW, THIS DOESN'T FORCE ANYBODY TO, YOU KNOW, TO DO, TO DO ANYTHING. 
          UM, YOU KNOW, BUT IT IS SO THAT WE HAVE A GREATER AWARENESS OF, OF THIS ISSUE AND, AND, UH, CAN MAKE SOME PROGRESS AND, AND, AND DO A BETTER JOB WITH, WITH HEALTHY EATING AND, AND, UH, AND ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES. 
          THANK YOU MADAM MAYOR. 
          AYE. 
          THANK YOU. 
          WE'LL GO TO COUNSELORS AND SEE. 
          THANK YOU. 
          UH, THROUGH MADAM MAYOR. 
          I JUST, I WANTED TO THANK COUNCILOR NOLAN ALSO FOR INITIATING THIS. 
          I ALSO MET WITH THE PLANT-BASED TREATY PEOPLE LAST FALL, AND I WAS REALLY IMPRESSED WITH THEIR PRESENTATION. 
          AND, UH, SHE, UM, COUNCILOR NOLAN JUST BEAT ME TO WRITE, DRAFTING A POLICY ORDER ABOUT IT. 
          UM, I THINK IT'S GREAT TO GET INFORMATION OUT ABOUT THIS AND FOR THE CITY TO MODEL IT. 
          AND I WOULD LIKE TO BE, UM, ADDED AS A CO-SPONSOR FOR THE POLICY ORDER. 
          WOULD ANYONE ELSE LIKE TO BE ADDED AS A CO-SPONSOR? WOULD ANY, DO, DO ANY FOLKS HAVE ANY QUESTIONS OR COMMENTS ON THIS BEFORE WE GO AHEAD ON AND ASK COUNSELOR? ASK THAT COUNCILOR ZUZI BE ADDED? SO, ON THAT MOTION, WE'LL DO A ROLL CALL TO ADD COUNCILOR ZZI TO THE POLICY ORDER. 
          COUNCILOR ZUBE? YES. 
          YES. 
          VICE MAYOR ZE? YES. 
          YES. 
          COUNCILOR FLAHERTY? YES. 
          YES. 
          COUNCILOR MCGOVERN? YES. 
          YES. 
          COUNCILLOR NOLAN. 
          YES. 
          YES. 
          COUNCILLOR SIMMONS. 
          YES. 
          YES. 
          COUNCILLOR SABRINA WHEELER. 
          YES. 
          YES. 
          COUNCILLOR ZI. 
          YES. 
          YES. 
          MAYOR SIDIKI. 
          YES. 
          YES. 
          AND YOU HAVE NINE MEMBERS RECORDED IN THE AFFIRMATIVE. 
          COUNCILOR ZUZI IS ADDED TO THAT POLICY ORDER. 
          WE CAN GO AHEAD AND ADOPT THE POLICY ORDER AS AMENDED ON A ROLL CALL, PLEASE. 
          COUNCILOR ZUBE? YES. 
          YES. 
          VICE MAYOR. 
          YES. 
          YES. 
          COUNCILOR FLAHERTY? YES. 
          YES. 
          COUNCILOR MCGOVERN COUNCIL? YES. 
          YES. 
          COUNCILLOR NOLAN? YES. 
          YES. 
          COUNCILLOR SIMMONS. 
          YES. 
          YES. 
          COUNCILLOR SABRINA WHEELER. 
          YES. 
          YES. 
          COUNCILLOR EY. 
          YES. 
          YES. 
          MAYOR SIDIKI. 
          YES. 
          YES. 
          AND YOU HAVE NINE MEMBERS RECORDING THE AFFIRMATIVE POLICY. 
          ORDER NUMBER TWO, AS AMENDED IS PASSED, WE'LL GO TO POLICY ORDER NUMBER THREE, THAT THE CITY MANAGERS REQUESTED TO WORK WITH RELEVANT CITY DEPARTMENTS TO PRIORITIZE PILOT 
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PROJECTS IN 2026 WITHOUT THE USE OF A CONSULTANT FOR AN EXTENSIVE, UM, PEDESTRIANIZATION STUDY. 
          AND IN THE MEDIUM TERM, CONSIDER HOW ADDITIONAL PEDE PEDESTRIANIZATION, IT'S A LONG WORD,  OF A SECTION, UH, OF RATTLE STREET. 
          BY RESTORING TWO WAY TRAFFIC TO JFK STREET COULD ENHANCE THE SQUARE. 
          THIS WAS FILED BY COUNCILLOR NOLAN, COUNCILLOR SIMMONS, MYSELF, AND COUNCILLOR ZUZI. 
          THIS WAS PULLED BY COUNSELOR ZUBIE. 
          WE'LL GO TO COUNCILLOR NOLAN AND ANY OF THE CO-SPONSORS, UH, TO SPEAK ON THIS. 
          COUNCILLOR NOLAN AND THEN COUNCILLOR SIMMONS. 
          THANK YOU, MAYOR SIDIKI. 
          THIS, UH, POLICY ORDER IS ABOUT SOMETHING THE COUNCIL'S BEEN WORKING ON, AS I THINK IS NOTED FOR MANY, MANY YEARS. 
          UM, THERE'S BEEN LOTS OF FOLKS ACROSS THE CITY, UM, WHO ARE INTERESTED IN THIS. 
          AND THE HARVARD SQUARE BUSINESS ASSOCIATION, AS WE HEARD IN, UH, PUBLIC COMMENT, UH, WANTS US TO MOVE FORWARD WITH SOME PILOTS. 
          AND THE WHOLE IDEA IS THAT WE, WE ARE ALL ON RECORD. 
          THE COUNCIL'S BEEN ON RECORD IN A NUMBER OF WAYS OF SUPPORTING MORE OPPORTUNITIES TO PEDESTRIANIZE SECTIONS OF THE PUBLIC WAY IN ORDER TO ENLIVEN THE COMMUNITY, HELP LOCAL BUSINESSES, BUILD COMMUNITY. 
          UM, WE HAVE WORKED AS A GROUP TO PILOT A NUMBER OF PEDESTRIANIZATION OPPORTUNITIES. 
          WE CAN CONTINUE THAT WORK IN 2026, THE POLICY ORDER, REALLY ASK THE CITY STAFF TO PRIORITIZE THESE PILOT OPPORTUNITIES PRETTY MUCH IMMEDIATELY. 
          WE HAVE, UH, SEVERAL STREETS THAT ARE NAMED IN THE POLICY ORDER TO MOVE FORWARD. 
          AND I THINK IF WE PASS THIS, IT REALLY SAYS TO THE CITY, WE WANT THESE TO HAPPEN AS SOON AS POSSIBLE. 
          WE ALSO BELIEVE, PARTLY BECAUSE THE WORLD HAS CHANGED IN THE LAST FEW YEARS IN TERMS OF AVAILABILITY OF INFORMATION AND AVAILABILITY OF, UH, DATA, PARTICULARLY IN TRANSPORTATION AND TRAFFIC, THAT WE DO NOT NEED A VERY EXPENSIVE AND TIME CONSUMING CONSULTANT STUDY TO MOVE FORWARD. 
          I HOPE THAT THE CITY WILL UNDERSTAND THAT WE CAN MOVE FORWARD WITH SOME PILOTS, BUT THAT ALSO THE DREAM FOR ME IS STILL TO MAKE SURE THAT WE TAKE, UM, WE, WE FOLLOW THE EXAMPLE OF LEADING CITIES IN EUROPE AND SEVERAL IN THIS COUNTRY AS WELL, TO USE, UM, PEDESTRIANIZATION AS A STRATEGY FOR BUILDING COMMUNITY AND HELPING SMALL BUSINESSES, INCLUDING THAT STRETCH OF BATTLE STREET, WHICH IS IDENTIFIED, UM, IN, IN EARLIER PO POLICY ORDERS, WHICH WOULD REQUIRE SOME RE SOME REDIRECTION OF SOME OF THE OTHER STREETS. 
          BUT IT'S IMMINENTLY FEASIBLE AND DOES NOT REQUIRE, UH, AN EXPENSIVE, LENGTHY STUDY. 
          SO I, I HOPE THAT WE CAN MOVE FORWARD AND HAVE ON THE GROUND PROBLEMS, UH, SOLVED BY, WITH, UH, JOINT AND COLLABORATIVE EFFORTS OF LOCAL PROPERTY OWNERS BUSINESSES IN THE COUNCIL. 
          THANK YOU. 
          COUNCILLOR NOLAN, WE'LL GO TO COUNCILLOR SIMMONS. 
          UH, THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR. 
          UH, LET ME JUST STOP BY ACKNOWLEDGING COUNCILOR NOLAN FOR TAKING THE LEAD ON THIS POLICY ORDER AND FOR DOING THE WORK, THE HARD WORK OF KEEPING YOUR FOCUS PRACTICAL AND ACHIEVABLE, ESPECIALLY IN TONIGHT'S IN, IN THIS TIGHT BUDGET ENVIRONMENT. 
          I ALSO WANT TO RECOGNIZE DENISE GILSON, WHO'S LONGSTANDING ADVOCACY FOR MORE WELCOMING PEOPLE. 
          SELECTED HARVARD SQUARE HAS BEEN A REAL SPARK BEHIND THIS EFFORT. 
          THIS ORDER REFLECTS YEARS OF Q AND D CONVERSATION, CAREFUL WALKTHROUGHS, SHARED INTEREST AND TESTING IDEAS THOUGHTFULLY RATHER THAN OVER STUDYING THEM. 
          SO I SUPPORT THIS APPROACH BECAUSE IT PRIORITIZE REAL WORLD PILOTS, RESPECTS FISCAL CONSTRAINTS, AND GIVES US AN OPPORTUNITY TO LEARN QUICKLY, COLLABORATIVELY, AND TRANSPARENTLY, BUT WHAT WORKS FOR RESIDENTS, BUSINESSES, AND VISITORS ALIKE. 
          SO I HOPE OUR COLLEAGUES WILL SEE FIT TO SUPPORT THIS AND WITH, I RESPECTFULLY YIELD THE FLOOR MANAGER CHAIR. 
          THANK YOU. 
          COUNCILLOR SIMMONS. 
          COUNCILLOR ZUZI, DID YOU WANNA SPEAK? OKAY, GREAT. 
          YEAH. 
          OH, WE'LL GO TO COUNCILOR ZUBE WHO PULLED THIS. 
          YEAH. 
          THANK YOU, MADAM MAYOR. 
          I'M OKAY WITH VOTING YES ON THIS POLICY ORDER AND APPRECIATE THE WORK PUT INTO IT. 
          I, I DO JUST WANNA QUICKLY NOTE SOME THOUGHTS AND QUESTIONS THAT I HAVE THAT I'LL BE CURIOUS ABOUT. 
          UM, I'M EXCITED ABOUT THE POTENTIAL TO BEEZ I'S HARVARD SQUARE. 
          UH, BUT AS SOMEONE WHO WAS RECENTLY A STUDENT, I THINK JFK GOING TWO WAYS IS LIKELY DANGEROUS, ESPECIALLY WHEN YOU CONSIDER HOW HEAVY PEDESTRIAN TRAFFIC, UM, IS IN THAT AREA, DESPITE THE FACT THAT THERE IS TRAFFIC MOVING THERE. 
          UH, I'M WORRIED ABOUT THE SAFETY OF PEDESTRIANS, DRIVERS, BIKERS, AND ANYONE ELSE. 
          AND I'M LOOKING FORWARD TO UNDERSTANDING THE FEEDBACK ON THIS REPORT. 
          JUST A FEW QUESTIONS ON, ARE WE THINKING OUTSIDE OF THE BOX HERE AS MUCH AS WE CAN? ARE WE ONLY GOING TO CONSIDER ONE WAY FORWARD TOWARD PEDESTRIAN PEDESTRIANIZATION, OR CAN WE LEAVE ROOM FOR A RANGE OF OPTIONS? UM, WOULD THIS JUST NEED MORE ADJUSTMENTS THAN WHAT IS ON THIS POLICY ORDER CURRENTLY? UM, IS IT SIMPLY ENOUGH TO GO BACK TO TWO-WAY TRAFFIC? I HAVE A LOT OF QUESTIONS AND, AND WE'LL BE CURIOUS, UM, AS I DO CARE ABOUT THE PEDESTRIANIZATION OF HARVARD SQUARE, SINCE IT'S SUCH A BUSY AREA IN OUR CITY. 
          SO I'LL BE CHECKING OUT THE REPORT AND, AND WOULD LOVE TO YIELD ANY OTHER QUESTIONS ON THE POLICY ORDER BEFORE US? 
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I DON'T SEE ANY, SO WE CAN GO AHEAD AND DO A ROLL CALL ON ADOPTING, UH, POLICY ORDER NUMBER THREE. 
          COUNCILOR LORE. 
          ZUBE? YES. 
          YES. 
          VICE MAYOR. 
          YES. 
          YES. 
          COUNCILOR FLAHERTY? YES. 
          YES. 
          COUNCIL MCGOVERN? YES. 
          YES. 
          COUNCILLOR NOLAN? YES. 
          YES. 
          COUNCILLOR SIMMONS. 
          YES. 
          COUNCILLOR SABRINA WHEELER. 
          YES. 
          YES. 
          COUNCILLOR ZUI. 
          YES. 
          YES. 
          MAYOR SIDIKI. 
          YES. 
          YES. 
          AND YOU HAVE NINE MEMBERS RECORDED IN THE AFFIRMATIVE POLICY. 
          ORDER NUMBER THREE IS ADOPTED. 
          WE ARE NOW ARE ONTO POLICY ORDER NUMBER NINE, THAT THE MAYOR, HE BRYAN APPOINTS A COMMITTEE TO SCREEN APPLICANTS FOR THE POSITION OF CITY CLERK. 
          THIS WAS FILED BY MYSELF AND VICE MAYOR AZI AND PULLED BY COUNCILLOR ZUZI. 
          BEFORE I GO TO COUNCILOR ZUZI, I WILL, UM, ASK FOR A MOTION BY COUNCILOR AZI TO ON SUSPENSION TO BRING FORWARD COMMUNICATIONS FROM OTHER CITY OFFICERS. 
          NUMBER FOUR, WHICH IS A COMMUNICATION FOR ME, TRANSMITTING INFORMATION ABOUT THE SEARCH PROCESS FOR A PERMANENT CITY CLERK, SO THAT WE CAN HAVE BOTH OF THOSE TOGETHER AS WE TALK ABOUT THE POLICY ORDER AND WHERE THINGS, UM, LEFT OFF WITH THE PREVIOUS SEARCH. 
          SO, ON THAT MOTION, WE'LL DO A ROLL CALL FOR SUSPENSION COUNSELOR ZUBY? YES. 
          YES. 
          VICE MAYOR Z. 
          YES. 
          YES. 
          COUNCILOR FLAHERTY. 
          YES. 
          YES. 
          COUNCILOR MCGOVERN. 
          YES. 
          YES. 
          COUNCILOR NOLAN. 
          YES. 
          YES. 
          COUNCILOR SIMMONS. 
          YES. 
          YES. 
          COUNCILOR SABRINA WHEELER. 
          YES. 
          YES. 
          COUNCILOR ZUI. 
          YES. 
          YES. 
          MAYOR SIDIKI. 
          YES. 
          YES. 
          AND YOU HAVE NINE MEMBERS RECORDED IN THE AFFIRMATIVE. 
          THE COMMUNICATION IN, UH, FROM OTHER CITY OFFICERS AND BEFORE IS BEFORE US ALONGSIDE THIS POLICY ORDER. 
          UM, AND I'LL JUST, UH, QUICKLY BE BRIEF. 
          UH, THE PO THE COMMUNICATION KIND OF OUTLINES THE HISTORY OF THE CITY CLERK SEARCH PROCESS, UM, AND THE FACT THAT THERE WAS, UM, A PROCESS. 
          AND I WANNA THANK COUNCILOR, UH, SIMMONS, UM, WHO AS MAYOR LED THAT PROCESS. 
          UM, AND MANY OF THE, SEVERAL OF THE CITY COUNSELORS WHO WERE INVOLVED. 
          AND AS, UM, WAS MENTIONED, UM, YOU KNOW, THE, I THINK THE, THERE WAS THOUGHT PUT INTO THE FACT THAT, UM, WHILE THERE WAS A PROCESS, THERE WERE FOLKS WHO WERE EVA, YOU KNOW, EVALUATED FOR THE POSITION, UM, THAT THEY WERE, WE, THE COMMITTEE AT THE TIME WAS NOW READY TO BRING FORWARD RECOMMENDED FINALISTS. 
          UM, COUNCILLOR SIMMONS, IF YOU WANNA ADD ANYTHING, I'LL YIELD TO YOU. 
          UH, THANK YOU MADAM MAYOR. 
          UH, AND, AND THANK YOU FOR BRINGING THIS FORWARD AND RESTARTING THE PROCESS. 
          UH, AS YOU HAD SAID, THERE WAS A COMMITTEE CONVENED, UH, I WANNA THANK, AND NAOMI STEPHAN WHO HELPED US BY, WE, WE SENT OUT THE JOB DESCRIPTION. 
          WE GOT A NUMBER OF, UM, RESUMES BACK. 
          THOSE RESUMES WERE VETTED. 
          WE SAT DOWN AND LOOKED OVER FINALISTS, GOT THOSE FINALISTS DOWN TO ANOTHER GROUP FINALISTS. 
          AND AT THE END OF THAT, ALTHOUGH WE CAME VERY CLOSE WITHOUT SAYING TOO MUCH, UH, WE DID NOT FEEL CONFIDENT THAT WE SHOULD GO FORWARD WITH THE FINAL PRODUCT. 
          I'M TRYING TO BE VAGUE ON PURPOSE. 
          UH, SO, UH, SO I GUESS YOU COULD SAY TAG, YOU'RE IT MADAM MAYOR, BUT WE DID. 
          IT WAS, I DO WANNA THANK MY COLLEAGUES FOR THE WORK THEY PUT IN. 
          IT WAS, UH, WELL RUN IT. 
          WE, WE DID OUR BEST WORK. 
          WE, BUT THIS IS AN IMPORTANT JOB. 
          AND AS AN IMPORTANT JOB, WE WANTED TO MAKE SURE WE GOT THE BEST CANDIDATE. 
          AND ONE OF THE CANDIDATES THAT WE WERE VERY INTERESTED IN DROPPED OUT, UM, AT THE END AND DID NOT WANNA SAY, WELL, LET'S TAKE WHO'S LEFT, LET'S RESTART. 
          SO THANK YOU FOR THAT OPPORTUNITY TO EXPLAIN THAT. 
          AND I YIELD THE FLOOR. 
          THANK YOU, COUNCILLOR SIMMONS. 
          AND I'LL SAY TO MY COLLEAGUES, UM, YOU KNOW, BEING ON THE CITY CLERK SEARCH PROCESS, UM, IS ALL THE RAGE. 
          AND SO PLEASE DO LET ME KNOW IF YOU'RE INTERESTED, UM, BECAUSE WE DO NEED . 
          WE NEED YOU. 
          UH, SO I'LL GO TO COUNCILLOR ZUI FOR YOUR QUESTIONS. 
          UM, I JUST WANTED TO THANK, UM, PAULA CRANE FOR, YOU KNOW, CONTINUING TO SERVE AS OUR CLERK. 
          UM, YEAH. 
          WHEN YOU HAD SIGNED UP FOR A SIX MONTH JOB. 
          UM, AND I WANTED TO EXPRESS INTEREST IN BEING ON THE COMMITTEE. 
          I THINK IT'S VERY IMPORTANT THAT WE FILL THIS POSITION AND SOON, UM, AND I UNDERSTAND THAT SOMERVILLE IS JUST ABOUT TO HIRE A NEW CLERK TOO. 
          SO I, I HOPE THEY HAVEN'T SNATCHED THE BEST CANDIDATE. 
          SO I, I THINK WE GOT, WE NEED TO GET ON IT. 
          AND, UM, AGAIN, PAULA, THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR ALL OF YOUR 
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SERVICE. 
          BUT, UM, ANYWAY, SO I'M EAGER FOR US TO ADVANCE AND TO FIND SOMEONE THAT CAN DO THE JOB. 
          AGREE. 
          THANK YOU, . 
          THANK YOU, COUNCILOR IAN. 
          LOOK FORWARD TO HEARING FROM OTHERS. 
          YES. 
          COUNCILOR FLAHERTY. 
          I'M HAPPY TO SERVE ON THE COMMITTEE, MADAM MAYOR. 
          BUT I, I CONFESS THAT NO MATTER HOW HOT I WORK IN IT, WE'RE NOT GONNA FIND ANYBODY AS TALENTED AND AS EXPERIENCED AND AS GRACIOUS, GRACIOUS AS PAULA CRANE. 
          SO MAYBE I SHOULDN'T SERVE ON THE COMMITTEE. 
          'CAUSE I DON'T WANNA BE BLAMED FOR HIRING HER REPLACEMENT BECAUSE SHE'S IRREPLACEABLE. 
          WE, WE, WE APPRECIATE YOU, PAULA. 
          THANK YOU SO MUCH. 
          THANK YOU. 
          UH, AND I THINK THE BEST GIFT TO YOU WOULD BE TO FIND SOMEONE. 
          AND SO WE WILL, WE'RE, WE'RE ON IT. 
          SO, ON THAT, ON A COUNSELOR ON A MOTION BY COUNSELOR ZUI TO ADOPT THIS POLICY ORDER AND THEN PLACE COMMUNICATION OTHER FROM OTHER CITY OFFICERS ON FILE. 
          WE'LL DO A ROLL CALL. 
          COUNSELOR ZUBIE? YES. 
          YES. 
          VICE MAYOR Z. 
          YES. 
          YES. 
          COUNCILOR FLAHERTY. 
          YES. 
          YES. 
          COUNCILOR MCGOVERN. 
          YES. 
          YES. 
          COUNCILOR NOLAN. 
          YES. 
          YES. 
          COUNCILOR SIMMONS. 
          YES. 
          SORRY. 
          YES. 
          COUNCILOR SABRINA WHEELER. 
          YES. 
          YES. 
          COUNCILOR ZUI. 
          YES. 
          YES. 
          MAYOR SIDIKI. 
          YES. 
          YES. 
          AND YOU HAVE NINE MEMBERS RECORDED IN THE AFFIRMATIVE POLICY ORDER NUMBER NINE IS ADOPTED AND THE CITY MANAGER, THE COMMUNICATIONS FROM OTHER CITY OFFICERS IS PLACED ON FILE. 
          WE'RE DONE WITH POLICY ORDERS, UM, BUT WE'RE 
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NOT DONE WITH THE CALENDAR. 
          SO WE'LL MOVE ON TO THE CALENDAR. 
          THERE ARE TWO ITEMS ON THE CALENDAR. 
          SO WE'LL GO TO THE NUMBER ONE ITEM, WHICH IS A COMMUNICATION TRANSMITTED FROM YIAN WONG CITY MANAGER RELATIVE TO THE FINAL LANDMARK DESIGNATION REPORT FOR THE NATHANIEL STICKNEY HOUSE AT 45 MOUNT AUBURN STREET. 
          THIS CHARTER RIGHT WAS EXERCISED BY COUNCILOR ZUBE AT OUR LAST COUNCIL MEETING JANUARY 12TH. 
          SO I WILL GO TO COUNCILOR ZUBE. 
          THANK YOU, MADAM MAYOR. 
          SO SOME CONTEXT. 
          I EXERCISED MY CHARTER RIGHT TO BETTER UNDERSTAND WHAT WAS GOING ON IN THE CASE OF THIS LANDMARKING DECISION. 
          TONIGHT, I WILL BE VOTING IN FAVOR OF LANDMARKING THE NATHANIEL STICKNEY HOUSE FOR TWO MAIN REASONS THAT I JUST WANTED TO NOTE. 
          THE FIRST IS IN RECOGNIZING THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THE SPACE WITHIN A HISTORICAL DISTRICT, SUCH AS HARVARD'S. 
          AND I BELIEVE THAT LANDMARKING CAN ASSIST WITH APPRECIATING ITS SIGNIFICANCE HISTORICALLY, CULTURALLY, AND SOCIALLY. 
          I MEAN, WE'RE TALKING ABOUT ONE OF THE MOST HISTORICAL AREAS IN THE UNITED STATES. 
          THE SECOND IS OUT OF SUPPORT FOR THE ORGANIZATIONS AND PEOPLE WHO MADE THE DEMOCRACY CENTER WHAT IT WAS. 
          MY UNDERSTANDING IS THAT THERE COULD HAVE BEEN SIGNIFICANTLY MORE INTENTIONALITY PLACED INTO BRINGING COMMUNITY MEMBERS AND ORGANIZATIONS IN INTO THE CONVERSATION ABOUT NEXT STEPS. 
          UM, IT HAS BEEN ALMOST TWO YEARS SINCE THIS HAS STARTED GRANTED PROBABLY MORE BECAUSE IT'S NOT EASY TO, TO TAKE THE STEP TO CLOSE DOWN AND THINK ABOUT THE FUTURE. 
          AND I KNOW IAN IS INTERESTED IN DOING THAT WORK, AND, AND I BELIEVE HIM IN GOOD FAITH. 
          AND, AND BECAUSE OF THAT, I, I THINK THIS LANDMARKING COULD HELP GIVE US A CHANCE TO BRING IN MORE OF THAT COLLABORATION ON THE HISTORIC AND COMMUNITY PIECES. 
          I'LL YIELD, WE'LL GO TO COUNCILOR AZIM AND THEN COUNCILLOR SABRINA WHEELER. 
          UH, THANK YOU MADAM MAYOR. 
          UM, I WILL NOT BE VOTING IN FAVOR OF THIS TODAY. 
          UM, YOU KNOW, UH, FIRST OF ALL, I WOULD SAY THAT, UH, HARVARD SCHOOL IS ALREADY A CONSERVATION DISTRICT. 
          THERE'S IN LARGE READ AND EXTENSIVE PROCESS IN PLACE TO MAKE SURE THAT BUILDINGS FIT THE CHARACTER. 
          UM, AND IT'S A CONSERVATION DISTRICTS THAT I STRONGLY SUPPORT. 
          UM, I WOULD ALSO SAY THAT LIKE THE SPECIFICS OF THIS CASE ARE NOT VERY POSITIVE IN THAT THE BUILDING, UM, IS FALLING APART. 
          IT NEEDS RENOVATIONS AND IT, THOSE RENOVATIONS, UH, HAVE BEEN HELD OFF BECAUSE OF THIS PROPOSAL IN A WAY THAT IS ACTUALLY MAKING THE BUILDING LESS HABITABLE. 
          AND ALSO ON A PRACTICAL PURPOSE. 
          LIKE THIS IS A VINDICTIVE, UM, YOU KNOW, REPORT IN THAT SENSE THAT LIKE, WE ALL KNOW THAT THE REAL REASON IT HERE IS NOT BECAUSE CERTAIN, SUDDENLY PEOPLE HAD A VERY DIFFERENT FEELING ABOUT LIKE THE HISTORICAL NATURE OF THE HOUSE, BUT RATHER BECAUSE, YOU KNOW, IN ORDER TO DO THE RENOVATIONS, PEOPLE HAD TO BE MOVED OUT. 
          BUT ALSO, LIKE, YOU KNOW, FOR A LONG TIME, THE DEMOCRACY CENTER WAS PROVIDING LOW INCOME SPACE AS A BENEFIT TO THE COMMUNITY. 
          AND IT'S UNFAIR, I THINK, IN MY OPINION, FOR THEM TO BE PUNISHED FOR DOING THAT AS A COMMUNITY SERVICE. 
          AND ALSO I THINK THAT IT'S ABUSING OUR HISTORICAL PROCESS BECAUSE THIS IN NO WAY WILL KEEP THAT USE THE SAME OR ANYTHING ELSE. 
          IT WILL JUST KEEP THE BUILDING IN THE SAME, IN A WAY THAT THOSE RENOVATIONS CAN'T HAPPEN BECAUSE PEOPLE ARE UPSET ABOUT THE FACT THAT, YOU KNOW, PEOPLE HAD TO BE REMOVED. 
          BUT I'LL ALSO SAY THAT LIKE, YOU KNOW, THE, UH, OWNERS OF THE PROPERTY HAVE INDICATED EVERY DESIRE TO WELCOME PEOPLE BACK IN AFTER EVERYTHING IS DONE. 
          AND SO, AND WORK WITH THE COMMUNITY TO 
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HELP PEOPLE GOING FORWARD. 
          SO FOR ALL THOSE REASONS, I DON'T THINK I CAN SUPPORT THIS DESIGNATION. 
          THANK YOU. 
          WE'LL GO TO COUNCILOR SABRINA WHEELER. 
          THANKS. 
          MAD MAYOR THROUGH YOU. 
          UH, I HAVE SPENT A LOT OF TIME IN THIS BUILDING AT ORGANIZING MEETINGS, AT CAMPAIGN LAUNCHES AT SOUTH ASIAN COMMUNITY OPEN MICS. 
          UH, AND I WAS PROUD TO BE THE LEAD SPONSOR OF A POLICY ORDER LAST TERM, CALLING ON THE FOUNDATION FOR CIVIC LEADERSHIP TO KEEP THE DEMOCRACY CENTER OPEN AND LISTEN TO THE COMMUNITY GROUPS THAT WERE IMPACTED AND SIT DOWN AND HAVE MORE MEETINGS WITH THEM AND, AND COME TO A RESOLUTION. 
          WE NEED MORE COMMUNITY GATHERING SPACES, UH, LIKE THE, THE ONE THAT SERVED. 
          WE HAVE SOME WONDERFUL PUBLIC LIBRARIES AND MEETING ROOMS AND, AND PUBLIC BUILDINGS IN CAMBRIDGE, BUT THERE IS A REAL DEMAND FOR MORE. 
          UM, THIS LANDMARKING PETITION BY THE HISTORICAL COMMISSION, UNFORTUNATELY DOESN'T DO ANYTHING TO MANDATE THAT THE FOUNDATION FOR CIVIC LEADERSHIP OR ANY OTHER ENTITY THAT WOULD BE IN THIS BUILDING, UH, ACTUALLY USED THIS BUILDING AS A COMMUNITY GATHERING SPACE. 
          IF THE HISTORICAL COMMISSION HAD SUBMITTED A PETITION THAT DID THAT, UH, OR IF THE HISTORICAL COMMISSION PUT FORWARD A PROPOSAL FOR THE CITY TO PURCHASE THIS BUILDING, I WOULD, UH, VOTE FOR THAT IN A HEARTBEAT. 
          UM, BUT IN READING THROUGH THE REPORT, IT'S PRETTY CLEAR THAT IT WOULD ONLY PRESERVE SPECIFIC ARCHITECTURAL FEATURES OF THE BUILDING AND NOT ANY PROTECTIONS FOR ACTUAL COMMUNITY USE. 
          UM, THE LANDMARKING WOULD STILL EVEN ALLOW FOR MAJOR CHANGES TO THE BUILDING. 
          THERE'S A LINE DIRECTLY FROM THE ION QUOTE, THE PROPOSED DESIGNATION OFFERS APPROVAL AND PRINCIPLE FOR REMOVAL OF THE L AND ONE STRICT BRICK EDITION, AS WELL AS RELOCATION OF THE HOUSE TO THE CORNER OF DUL STREET TO ACCOMMODATE NEW CONSTRUCTION. 
          THE ONLY THING, UH, THE LAND IT PROVIDES LANDMARK BRICK PROTECTIONS FOR ARE SPECIFIC FEATURES AND KEEPING THE BUILDING ROUGHLY THE SAME SIZE, BUT EVEN THAT COULD CHANGE, UH, PROVIDE ANOTHER LAYER OF BUREAUCRACY, BUT NOT ANY MEANINGFUL PROTECTIONS FOR THE BUILDING ITSELF, UH, THAT THE HARVARD SQUARE HISTORIC DISTRICT DOESN'T ALREADY PROVIDE. 
          THE IMPORTANCE OF THE BUILDING HAS BEEN IN ITS USE AS A COMMUNITY GATHERING SPACE, NOT IN THE, YOU KNOW, ARCHITECTURAL FEATURES THAT ARE HONESTLY PRETTY SIMILAR TO HUNDREDS OF OTHER BUILDINGS IN CAMBRIDGE. 
          IF THE LANDMARKING PROCESS DID ANYTHING TO ACTUALLY GUARANTEE ITS USE AS A COMMUNITY SPACE, I WOULD GLADLY VOTE FOR IT. 
          UM, I THINK THAT SITUATION ALSO, YOU KNOW, REALLY UNDERLINES THAT WE SHOULDN'T HAVE TO RELY ON PRIVATE ENTITIES LIKE THE FOUNDATION FOR CIVIC LEADERSHIP TO VOLUNTARILY PROVIDE AFFORDABLE PUBLIC MEETING AND GATHERING SPACES FOR CAMBRIDGE RESIDENTS. 
          YOU KNOW, THE CITY OF CAMBRIDGE AS A PUBLIC ENTITY SHOULD BE THE ONE ENSURING THAT WE PROVIDE MORE OF THOSE SPACES. 
          AND I HOPE THAT'S WORK WE CAN CONTINUE TO PURSUE THIS TERM. 
          I GO BACK, WE WILL GO TO COUNCILOR FLAHERTY. 
          THANK YOU. 
          BE SUPPORTING THE LANDMARK DESIGNATION OF THIS BUILDING. 
          I KNOW THE BUILDING VERY WELL. 
          AS A MATTER OF FACT, I VISITED THE BUILDING, UH, MANY YEARS AGO BEFORE THE, UH, THE DEMOCRACY CENTER WAS IN THERE. 
          AND I, I'M, I'M FAMILIAR WITH, UH, ITS DECAY. 
          AND, UM, I, I WOULD SAY I AGREE WITH, UH, COUNSELOR, UH, AZI THAT THIS SEEMS TO ME TO BE SORT OF AN ABUSE OF THE HISTORICAL PROCESS BECAUSE THIS IS A BUILDING THAT FALLS IN THE JURISDICTION OF THE HARVARD SQUARE NEIGHBORHOOD CONSERVATION DISTRICT. 
          AND, UM, THIS IS A FURTHER ENCUMBRANCE THAT I THINK ERODES FROM THE IMPORTANCE OF, UH, THE HISTORICAL COMMISSION. 
          NOW, I, I FULLY APPRECIATE THE WORK THAT THE HISTORICAL COMMISSION DOES, AND, UH, MR. SULLIVAN AT THE HISTORICAL COMMISSION, I THINK IS, IS OUTSTANDING. 
          BUT IN, WHEN I LOOKED AT THIS, I DID A LITTLE RESEARCH. 
          I THINK HIS INITIAL REPORT WAS TO RECOMMEND TO DECLINE THE PETITION FOR THE, UM, FOR THE REASONS IN HIS ORIGINAL REPORT. 
          AND I THINK I'M CORRECT ABOUT THAT. 
          SO, UM, I WILL NOT BE VOTING TO, UH, DESIGNATE THIS AS A LANDMARK BECAUSE THEN IT WOULD BE, I THINK ONLY THE 44TH BUILDING IN THE HISTORY OF THE CITY OF CAMBRIDGE TO BE, UH, LANDMARKED. 
          AND, AND THIS BUILDING DOES NOT FIT THAT CRITERIA IN MY VIEW. 
          WE'LL GO TO COUNCILOR ZUI, UH, POINT OF INFORMATION. 
          CAN WE BRING, UH, CHARLIE SULLIVAN FROM THE HISTORIC COMMISSION IN TO SPEAK TO SOME OF THE QUESTIONS THAT HAVE ARISEN? IS THAT AN OPTION? I DON'T BELIEVE HE'S ON THE ZOOM, BUT I'LL GO TO COUNSELOR. 
          I'M SORRY. 
          YOU'RE A COUNSELOR NOW. 
          I'LL GO TO, UH, DEPUTY CITY MANAGER WATKINS. 
          THANK YOU. 
          UM, YEAH, HE'S HAVING SOME CHALLENGES LOGGING ON. 
          UM, SO PAULA AND, UM, NAOMI, I JUST SENT AN EMAIL, I DON'T KNOW IF YOU COULD SEND HIM A LINK HE'S LISTING IN, BUT IS HAVING A CHALLENGE LOGGING IN. 
          I APOLOGIZE. 
          HE, HE WAS ON PRIOR, AND I DON'T SEE HIM IN THE ZOOM AT ALL NOW. 
          UM, WE CAN TRY TO GET HIM A LINK. 
          YEAH. 
          I DON'T THINK WE SHOULD BE MAKING A DECISION TONIGHT WITHOUT HEARING FROM CHARLIE. 
          AND I MEAN, ONE IDEA WOULD BE TO MOVE THIS DISCUSSION TO A NEIGHBORHOOD AND LONG-TERM PLANNING COMMITTEE MEETING, UH, TO, TO BETTER UNDERSTAND, 
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UM, HIS ARGUMENTS FOR WHY IT SHOULD BE LANDMARKED. 
          I MEAN, WHAT I, WHAT I TOOK FROM THE REPORT WAS THAT, UH, THE BUILDING HAS SIGNIFICANCE FOR MANY DIFFERENT REASONS. 
          NOT ONLY BECAUSE OF ITS ASSOCIATION WITH THE, THE DEMOCRACY CENTER. 
          IT WAS REALLY POWERFUL TO HEAR SO MANY OF OUR, UM, PUBLIC PRESENTERS TALK TONIGHT ABOUT THE IMPORTANT ROLE THE DEMOCRACY CENTER HAS PLAYED IN, IN THEIR LIVES AND IN THE HISTORY OF CAMBRIDGE AND HARVARD SQUARE. 
          UM, THE HISTORY OF NATHANIEL STICKNEY AS A, SOMEONE THAT WAS A LUMBER DEALER AND A WHARF OPERATOR, BUT IT SOUNDS LIKE IT'S REALLY THE RARE, UM, UH, WOODEN FRAME BUILDING THAT, THAT THE HISTORIC COMMISSION UNANIMOUSLY THOUGHT, YOU KNOW, WELL, ALL THESE THINGS, THEY THOUGHT IT WAS IMPORTANT. 
          UM, BUT THEY ALSO, UM, UH, WHAT WAS IT? OH, THEY WERE WORRIED ABOUT THE VIEW SHED. 
          AND, AND AS I WAS WALKING UP MOUNT AUBURN STREET FROM HARVARD SQUARE TOWARDS CENTRAL TO, TO THE CITY HALL, I WAS REALLY AWARE, I, I THINK WHAT, WHAT, WHAT, UM, LANDMARKING WOULD ALLOW IS FOR THERE TO BE SOME REVIEW IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE PROPERTY. 
          AND I GUESS I REALLY WOULD TRUST THE HISTORIC COMMISSION IN, UM, HELPING TO FACILITATE THAT REVIEW. 
          UM, I, I WOULD HATE TO HAVE, UM, THE BELL TOWER, THE VIEW OF THE BELL TOWER, WHICH IS ONE OF THOSE QUINTESSENTIAL VIEWS BLOCKED BY THE NEW BUILDING. 
          SO I JUST FEEL LIKE, SO INSTEAD OF IT BEING AS OF RIGHT WITH THIS LANDMARKING, THERE WOULD BE SOME REVIEW IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE SITE. 
          THAT WAS ONE OF THE REASONS THAT IT SEEMED REALLY IMPORTANT TO DO. 
          I WAS IMPRESSED WITH THE ALLOWANCES THAT THE HISTORIC COMMISSION HAD MADE, UH, IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE SITE. 
          THEY SAID, YOU KNOW, THEY CAN CHANGE, THE DEVELOPER CAN CHANGE THE ENTRANCE, HE CAN REMOVE THE SIDE, UH, ADDITION, HE CAN REMOVE THE BACK ADDITION. 
          HE CAN EVEN MOVE THE HOUSE. 
          SO I, I FELT LIKE THERE HAD BEEN A LOT OF FLEXIBILITY. 
          AND I ALSO JUST WANTED TO SAY, UM, IN TALKING TO CHARLIE RECENTLY, ABOUT HOW MANY HISTORICAL PROPERTIES HAVE BEEN EVALUATED FOR HISTORICAL REVIEW, UM, AS OF LIKE TWO WEEKS AGO, YOU KNOW, 240 PROPERTIES HAD BEEN REVIEWED. 
          BUT THE HISTORIC COMMISSION IS REALLY TRYING TO BE REALLY THOUGHTFUL ABOUT HOW MANY THEY CONSIDER HISTORICAL. 
          'CAUSE THEY DON'T WANNA GET IN THE WAY OF DEVELOPMENT. 
          UM, SO THEY'RE ONLY SAYING LIKE THAT 60, 60 BUILDINGS, THAT'S A QUARTER OF 240 ARE HISTORICALLY SIGNIFICANT. 
          BUT THEY ARE SAYING THIS BUILDING IS HISTORICALLY SIGNIFICANT. 
          THEY'VE BEEN WORKING WITH, UM, IAN SIMONS OF THE FOUNDATION FOR CIVIC LEADERSHIP FOR YEARS ON IT. 
          IT SEEMS LIKE THEY HAVE A COPACETIC RELATIONSHIP. 
          I WAS ASKING CHARLIE ABOUT, UM, UM, COUNSELOR NOLAN'S POINT THAT IT MIGHT ADD TO THE EXPENSE OF THE REDEVELOPMENT OF THE SITE. 
          AND, YOU KNOW, APPARENTLY, YOU KNOW, THE HISTORIC COMMISSION DOESN'T HAVE ANY CONTROL OVER THE INTERIOR OF THE BU BUILDING, BUT ONLY THE EXTERIOR. 
          BUT HE, HE SAID THE INTERIOR HAD BASICALLY BEEN GUTTED. 
          APOLOGIES. 
          COUNCILOR ZUI, UM, MR. SULLIVAN HAS JOINED. 
          OKAY, GREAT. 
          UH, I YIELD TO MR. SULLIVAN, AND I THINK IT'D BE GOOD TO JUST GO AROUND, UH, TO THOSE WHO DO WANNA SPEAK ON THIS. 
          SO FAR I'VE HEARD, UM, ONE, ONE COUNSELOR WHO IS, UM, SUPPORTIVE. 
          I, AND I GUESS TWO COUNSELORS WHO ARE SUPPORTIVE OF THIS DESIGNATION, THREE WHO ARE NOT. 
          UM, ARE THERE PARTICULAR QUESTIONS THAT OTHERS HAVE, UM, THAT WE CAN LAY OUT FOR DIRECTOR SULLIVAN? ANYONE WHO HASN'T SPOKEN ON THIS, OR WOULD YOU LIKE TO HEAR FROM? UM, MANU, I'D LIKE TO HEAR FROM. 
          OKAY. 
          ALL RIGHT. 
          DIRECTOR SULLIVAN, DO YOU WANNA GO THROUGH THIS WITH US? THANK YOU. 
          DID YOU GET THE QUESTIONS, DIRECTOR SULLIVAN, OR THE DID, WOULD YOU WANNA, DID YOU HEAR WHAT WAS SAID PRIOR? I DON'T KNOW IF HE HEAR. 
          CAN YOU HEAR US? I THINK YOU HEAR, LEMME TEXT HIM. 
          SORRY FOLKS. 
          YEAH, I DON'T THINK HE CAN HEAR US. 
          GOD, LOVE ZOOM, RIGHT? . 
          THIS IS A GOOD TIME FOR ME. 
          MAYOR. 
          YOU DID, DID YOU UNDERSTAND MY QUESTION THOUGH? SO, UM, IT WAS ABOUT WHETHER IF THE HISTORIC COMMISSION WAS INVOLVED, WHETHER IT WOULD REALLY INCREASE THE COST OF RENOVATING THE BUILDING, WHETHER THERE WAS SIGNIFICANT DETAIL TO INCREASE, INCREASE THE COST. 
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UH, DIRECTOR SULLIVAN, YOU'RE STILL, WE CAN'T HEAR YOU. 
          OH, NOW WE CAN SEE, BUT NOT HEAR. 
          SORRY. 
          YEAH, WE CAN SEE YOU. 
          WE CAN'T HEAR YOU. 
          CHARLIE, IF, IF YOU CAN DIAL IN ON YOUR PHONE. 
          I'M ABOUT TO EMAIL YOU THE DIAL IN INSTRUCTIONS OR JUST HOLD HOLDING MOMENTARILY. 
          SORRY, I WASN'T PREPARED TO HAVE MUSIC TONIGHT. 
          SORRY. 
          UM, MAYOR STICK, I DON'T KNOW IF THERE'S OTHER AGENDA ITEMS. CHARLIE'S RIGHT NEXT DOOR, HE COULD ALSO WALK OVER AND GO TO MY OFFICE. 
          WHAT DID YOU SAY? I WAS JUST SAYING, I DON'T KNOW IF THERE'S OTHER AGENDA ITEMS. UM, I THINK CHARLIE'S RIGHT NEXT DOOR AND COULD WALK OVER TO MY OFFICE AS QUICKLY AS WE CAN FIGURE THIS OUT. 
          I DID ALSO SEND HIM THE, THE PHONE DIAL IN. 
          OKAY. 
          IF HE WANTS TO SIGN THAT. 
          SORRY. 
          THANKS, NAOMI. 
          COUNCILOR SIMMONS DID, WHAT DID YOU SAY? I WAS GONNA SAY, DID WE WANNA GO TO THE NEXT ITEM AND THEN COME BACK TO CHARLIE? YEAH, WHAT WE CAN DO IS WE ONLY HAVE, UM, WE DON'T EVER HAVE ANYTHING ELSE ON THE CALENDAR, BUT IN THE MEANTIME, WE CAN GO TO APPLICATIONS. 
          ONE MORE WRITE ITEM. 
          NO, THERE'S ONE WITH CHARTER WRITE. 
          CHARLIE, DO YOU WANNA BACK THE CITY HALL? AND I CAN MEET YOU THERE. 
          I DON'T THINK HE CAN HEAR YOU. 
          OH, I'LL CALL HIM. 
          YEAH, . 
          SO WE'LL GO TO CHARTER ITEM TWO, I CAN CALL HIM. 
          UM, THAT THE CITY MANAGERS REQUESTED TO CONDUCT A COMPREHENSIVE REVIEW OF EXISTING SAFETY AND SECURITY MEASURES AT CAMBRIDGE CITY HALL, WHICH SHALL INCLUDE AN ASSESSMENT OF PHYSICAL ACCESS CONTROLS, VISITOR SCREENING PRACTICES, ONSITE SECURITY, STAFFING AND TRAINING, EMERGENCY RESPONSE AND EVACUATION PROTOCOLS, AND THE USE OF SECURITY TECHNOLOGIES SUCH AS SURVEILLANCE SYSTEMS AND ALARM MONITORING. 
          CHARTER, RIGHT. 
          WAS EXERCISED BY COUNSELOR, UM, SIMMONS. 
          ACTUALLY, IT WAS, YEAH. 
          IT WASN'T ACTUALLY, YEAH, IT WAS COUNCILLOR SIMMONS. 
          AND THEN, UM, I KNOW THERE WAS A DISCUSSION OF AMENDMENT THAT DOES NOT CARRY OVER. 
          UM, BUT COUNCILLOR SIMMONS, PLEASE GO AHEAD. 
          UH, THANK YOU MADAM MAYOR. 
          UH, I JUST WANNA START, FIRST OF ALL BY JUST A, A SMALL HOUSEKEEPING ISSUE. 
          COUNCILOR MCGOVERN HAD ASKED TO BE A CO-SPONSOR, BUT IN THE PROCESS OF WORKING ON THE POLICY ORDER, WE HAD A LITTLE TECHNICAL PROBLEM AND HE WAS NOT ADDED. 
          SO THE FIRST THING I'D LIKE TO DO IS TO ADD THAT WE, UH, AMEND THE POLICY ORDER BY ADDING COUNCILOR MCGOVERN, AND WE CAN DO THAT. 
          NOW. 
          I CAN GO THROUGH MY REMARKS AND COME BACK TO WHAT'S YOUR PLEASURE? I THINK LET'S JUST GO DO THAT NOW IN CASE. 
          UH, SO WE'LL DO, I'LL RULE, UH, COUNCIL MCGOVERN. 
          WE'LL DO A ROLL CALL ON COUNCILLOR SIMMONS. 
          MOTION TO ADD COUNCILLOR MCGOVERN. 
          COUNCIL FLORE ZUBE? YES. 
          YES. 
          VICE MAYOR ZE. 
          YES. 
          YES. 
          COUNCILOR FLAHERTY? YES. 
          YES. 
          COUNCIL MCGOVERN? YES. 
          YES. 
          COUNCILLOR NOLAN? YES. 
          YES. 
          COUNCILLOR SIMMONS. 
          YES. 
          YES. 
          COUNCILLOR SABRINA WHEELER. 
          YES. 
          YES. 
          COUNCILLOR EY. 
          YES. 
          YES. 
          MAYOR SIDIKI. 
          YES. 
          YES. 
          AND YOU HAVE NINE MEMBERS RECORDED IN THE AFFIRMATIVE COUNSELOR MCGOVERN IS ADDED. 
          COUNCILLOR SIMMONS, PLEASE GO AHEAD. 
          NO, THANK YOU. 
          UH, SO I EXERCISED MY CHART. 
          ALL RIGHT. 
          BECAUSE I KNEW THERE WAS A, A AMENDMENT THAT WAS ADDED BY MY COLLEAGUE, ZUBIE AND SABRINA WHEELER. 
          AND I WANNA HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY TO, TO TALK THROUGH THEIR, UH, AMENDMENT, UH, WITH THEM. 
          AND WE DID HAVE THAT OPPORTUNITY. 
          SO I WANNA JUST ACKNOWLEDGE AND THANK THEM FOR TAKING MY CALL AND HAVING AN OPPORTUNITY TO TALK TO THEM A LITTLE BIT ABOUT, UH, MY, THE REASON BEHIND MY POLICY ORDER AND THEIR PROPOSED AMENDMENT. 
          AND SO, FOR ME, UM, I ALSO, I WANTED TO BE VERY CLEAR TO MY COLLEAGUES AT LARGE, AT LARGE ABOUT THE POLICY ORDER AND WHAT IT IS NOT. 
          UH, THIS IS NOT ABOUT TURNING CITY HALL INTO A FORTRESS. 
          IT'S NOT ABOUT MAKING THIS BUILDING INHOSPITABLE OR UNWELCOMING. 
          IT'S NOT ABOUT FLOODING CITY HALL WITH POLICE WEAPONS OR AGGRESSIVE ENFORCEMENT. 
          CITY HALL, I THINK WE ALL AGREE MUST REMAIN OPEN, ACCESSIBLE, AND FUNDAMENTALLY DEMOCRATIC. 
          AND THAT IS NOT NEGOTIABLE. 
          BUT WHAT THIS IS ABOUT IS SAFETY, PLAIN AND 
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SIMPLE. 
          WE'RE ASKING FOR A SERIOUS PROFESSIONAL REVIEW. 
          I'M NOT SAYING AT I, A CONSULTANT, BUT I AM LOOKING FOR A SERIOUS PROFESSIONAL REVIEW OF WHERE WE STAND TODAY. 
          NOT BECAUSE SOMETHING TERRIBLE HAS HAPPENED HERE, BUT BECAUSE YOU RECOGNIZE THAT WE LIVE IN A WORLD, UH, THAT, THAT WE LIVE IN THIS WORLD, AND WE HAVE TO BE RESPONSIBLE TO THE PEOPLE WHO WORK IN THE BUILDING AND THE RESIDENTS THAT COME TO IT EVERY DAY. 
          RIGHT NOW, CITY HALL HAS VERY LIMITED MECHANISMS TO KNOW WHO IS ENTERING THE BUILDING, WHO REMAINS INSIDE IT, OR HOW TO RESPOND TO A SITUATION IF IT ESCALATES QUICKLY. 
          OVER THE PAST TWO DECADES ALONE, WE HAVE HAD MORE THAN A FEW MOMENTS THAT WE'RE UNCOMFORTABLE CLOSE TO SOMETHING MAY BE HAPPENING WORSE. 
          AND THE ONLY REASON THOSE MOMENTS DID NOT TURN INTO TRAGEDIES IS LUCK. 
          AND LUCK IS NOT A SAFETY STRATEGY ACROSS THE COUNTRY. 
          MUNICIPAL BUILDINGS, BUILDINGS LIKE OURS HAVE BEEN, THE SITES OF REAL VIOLENCE ELECTED OFFICIALS, STAFF AND MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC HAVE BEEN KILLED INSIDE SPACES DESIGNATED FOR CIVIC PARTICIPATION. 
          THESE ARE NOT HYPOTHETICAL SCENARIOS, AND THEY'RE NOT ANCIENT HISTORY. 
          THE RECENT INCIDENT IN LAWRENCE CAN IN LAWRENCE, KANSAS, IS A STARK REMINDER THAT THE RISK REMAIN VERY REAL AND VERY CURRENT. 
          NONE OF US WANTS TO BE STANDING HERE AFTER AN INCIDENT, WHETHER IT HAPPENS IN CAMBRIDGE OR SOMEWHERE, UNCOMFORTABLY POST A HOME BEING ASKED TO, YOU KNOW, WHY DIDN'T WE DO MORE? WHY DIDN'T YOU DO ANYTHING WHEN YOU HAD A CHANCE? SO THIS POLICY ORDER DOES NOT DICTATE SOLUTIONS. 
          IT DOES NOT PRE-APPROVED SURVEILLANCE SYSTEMS, ACCESS CONTROLS OR STAFFING MODELS. 
          IT ASKS THE CITY MANAGER TO DO WHAT WE SHOULD HAVE, SHOULD EXPECT ANY RESPONSIBLE ADMINISTRATOR TO DO, TAKE A COMPREHENSIVE LOOK AT THE EXISTING CONDITIONS, IDENTIFY A VULNERABILITIES, AND COME BACK TO THE COUNCIL WITH SOME CONCRETE, THOUGHTFUL RECOMMENDATIONS. 
          RECOMMENDATIONS THAT WOULD REQUIRE COUNCIL REVIEW AND APPROVAL. 
          I THINK THAT'S IMPORTANT TO SAY. 
          WE ARE NOT ASKED TO ACT BLINDLY. 
          WE'RE ASKED TO PLAN DELIBERATELY. 
          OTHER MUNICIPALITIES HAVE FOUND WAYS TO FIND A BALANCE BETWEEN OPENNESS WITH LAYER PROPORTIONS OF SAFETY MEASURES. 
          CAMBRIDGE SHOULD BE CAPABLE OF DOING THE SAME AND IN A WAY THAT REFLECTS OUR VALUES, OUR SCALE, AND OUR COMMITMENT TO TRANSPARENCY. 
          TAKING SAFETY SERIOUSLY DOES NOT MEAN ABANDONING OPENNESS. 
          IT MEANS PROTECTING IT. 
          I HOPE MY COLLEAGUES WILL SUPPORT THIS ORDER, NOT OUT OF FEAR, BUT OUTTA RESPONSIBILITY TO OUR STAFF, TO OUR CONSTITUENTS, AND TO OURSELVES. 
          UH, SO, UM, SO THAT WE ARE NOT LEFT WISHING THAT WE HAD ACTED SOONER, I BELIEVE MS. STEFAN HAS A COPY OF A AMENDMENT THAT I MAY, UH, ACKNOWLEDGING MY COLLEAGUES', UH, CONCERNS, UM, AROUND THIS POLICY ORDER. 
          SHE CAN BRING THAT UP ON THE SCREEN. 
          UH, I WILL YIELD THE FLOOR FOR FURTHER DISCUSSION. 
          AND, UM, I HOPE THAT YOU WILL FAVOR ME AND MY COLLEAGUES WHO HAVE, UH, THANK YOU TO COUNCILOR FLAHERTY AND COUNCILOR MCGOVERN THAT ADDED THE NAME IN SUPPORT OF THIS POLICY ORDER. 
          WE'LL GO TO COUNCILOR MCGOVERN AND THEN COUNCILOR FLAHERTY. 
          THANK YOU, MADAM MAYOR THROUGH YOU. 
          UM, JUST TO KIND OF PIGGYBACK ON, ON WHAT COUNCILOR SIMMONS SAID, YOU KNOW, I, I, I THINK, UM, I THINK THAT THERE IS A WAY TO BALANCE INCREASE SAFETY WITHOUT BECOMING A BUILDING THAT IS INHOSPITABLE. 
          UM, I CERTAINLY DO NOT WANT PEOPLE TO FEEL THAT WAY. 
          I WANT PEOPLE TO FEEL WELCOME IN, IN CITY HALL. 
          AND I ALSO UNDERSTAND THAT, YOU KNOW, THINGS CAN HAPPEN AND THINGS CAN HAPPEN HERE. 
          YOU KNOW, THE ONE THING THAT MOST OF THESE COMMUNITIES THAT SEE SOME, SOME TYPE OF TRAGIC INCIDENT HAPPEN IN THEIR CITY, ONE THING THEY ALL HAVE IN COMMON IS THEY ALL SAY, WE NEVER THOUGHT IT COULD HAPPEN HERE. 
          I CAN'T BELIEVE THIS HAPPENED HERE. 
          RIGHT? SO, TO THINK THAT SOMEHOW CAMBRIDGE IS SOMEHOW MAGICALLY IMMUNE TO SOMETHING BAD HAPPENING, UH, I WISH THAT WERE THE CASE. 
          UM, IT'S NOT. 
          UM, AND SO I WOULD LIKE TO GET A REPORT BACK FROM THE MANAGER WITH SOME IDEAS AND SOME RECOMMENDATIONS. 
          I MAY NOT SUPPORT ALL OF THOSE RECOMMENDATIONS. 
          I MAY NOT SUPPORT ANY OF THOSE RECOMMENDATIONS. 
          YOU KNOW, IF HE COMES BACK AND SAYS, WE SHOULD HAVE, YOU KNOW, MILITARY PERSONNEL AT EVERY DOOR, I WOULD NOT WANT THAT , RIGHT? BUT IF HE COMES BACK AND SAYS, WE CAN PUT A PANIC BUTTON IN EACH OFFICE SO THAT IF YOU KNOW AN EMPLOYEE, AND LET'S REMEMBER, WE ALSO EMPLOY A LOT OF OLDER FOLKS IN OUR BUILDING WHO MAY NOT FEEL AS COMFORTABLE DEALING WITH, UM, SOMEONE WHO IS BEING THREATENING OR, OR, OR BEING DANGEROUS OR, YOU KNOW, THE A BUTTON AT THEIR DESK THAT THEY CAN PRESS TO ALERT THE POLICE OFFICER WHO'S DOWNSTAIRS. 
          UM, YOU KNOW, THAT'S NOT GONNA HINDER ANYONE FROM COMING INTO CITY HALL, BUT IT WOULD ADD 
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AN EXTRA LEVEL OF SAFETY FOR, FOR THOSE FOLKS, SHOULD THEY FIND THEMSELVES ALONE IN THEIR OFFICE WITH SOMEONE WHO IS, UM, YOU KNOW, THREATENING THEM. 
          SO THERE IS A WAY TO DO THIS, UM, WITHOUT IT, WITHOUT CITY HALL BECOMING AN INHOSPITABLE FORTRESS. 
          SO, I WOULD LIKE TO HEAR THOSE RECOMMENDATIONS BACK FROM THE CITY MANAGER. 
          AGAIN, I MAY SUPPORT SOME OF THEM, NOT OTHERS, BUT LET'S GET THIS REPORT AND GET THESE THINGS IN FRONT OF US SO THAT WE CAN HAVE A BROADER CONVERSATION ABOUT IT. 
          THANK YOU, MADAM MAYOR. 
          I YIELD, WE'LL GO TO COUNCILOR FLAHERTY. 
          THANK YOU, MADAM MAYOR, THROUGH YOU. 
          I, UH, FULLY SUPPORT WHAT COUNCILOR SIMMONS HAS PUT FORWARD. 
          I'M IN PUBLIC BUILDINGS THROUGHOUT THIS COMMONWEALTH EVERY SINGLE DAY. 
          I'M IN COURTHOUSES IN, UH, VERY URBAN AREAS, VERY RURAL AREAS, FEDERAL, STATE, APPELLATE DISTRICT, PROBATE COURTS, AND THERE'S A, UH, METAL DETECTOR AT THE FRONT DOOR OF EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THEM. 
          IT DOES NOT MAKE THE BUILDINGS INHOSPITABLE, BUT IT ELEVATES, UH, DECORUM. 
          UH, AND IT'S A, UH, IT'S A SECURITY MEASURE THAT I THINK IS NECESSARY, UH, IN PUBLIC BUILDINGS BECAUSE, UH, ALL OF US, UH, AS MEMBERS OF THE CITY COUNCIL, WHETHER WE LIKE IT OR NOT IN TODAY'S, UH, AGE, UM, BECAUSE OF OUR FUNCTION, BECOME A PERSON WHO'S POTENTIALLY THE TARGET OF SOMEONE, UM, BECAUSE OF THEIR DISAGREEMENT OR, UH, WHATEVER IT MAY BE. 
          SO I THINK THAT IT'S INCUMBENT ON ALL OF US, UH, AND FOR THE ENTIRE STAFF IN THE BUILDING TO HAVE A THOUGHTFUL SECURITY PLAN, UH, PRESENT IN THE BUILDING IN THE EVENT THAT THERE IS SOME SORT OF AN EMERGENCY THAT ARISES. 
          SO I FULLY SUPPORT, UH, THIS POLICY ORDER. 
          THANK YOU. 
          I YIELD COUNCILOR EM AND THEN COUNCILOR NOLAN. 
          UM, THANK YOU. 
          UM, I WAS GOING TO SAY, UH, THE SAME THING. 
          WHEN I FIRST CAME INTO CITY HALL, I WAS VERY SKEPTICAL OF MEASURES LIKE THESE. 
          UM, BUT OVER MY TIME, I'VE SEEN BOTH, YOU KNOW, THE MASSACHUSETTS STATE HOUSE AND BOSTON CITY HALL HAVE MEASURES, AND I FEEL LIKE THEY'RE STILL EQUALLY WELCOMING. 
          UM, AND IN FACT, I WOULD SAY THAT IT'S MORE WELCOMING IN SOME WAYS. 
          IT'S NICE TO BE IN A SPACE WHERE YOU FEEL LIKE AUTOMATICALLY A LITTLE BIT SAFER THAN YOU DO OUTSIDE. 
          UM, YOU KNOW, THERE'S A LOT OF DIFFERENT SORTS OF PEOPLE THAT WALK INTO CAMBRIDGE CITY HALL, NOT JUST RESIDENTS OF CAMBRIDGE OR LIKE PEOPLE WHO COME HERE FOR PUBLIC COMMENT, BUT REALLY ANYONE. 
          AND, UM, I, I THINK THAT IT REALLY JUST HELPS TO HAVE A LITTLE BIT OF CONFIRMATION OF WHAT DO WE DO IN TERMS OF EMERGENCIES. 
          I KNOW THAT DURING MY TIME IN CITY HALL, PEOPLE HAVE GOTTEN MYSELF INCLUDED LETTERS FROM PEOPLE WITH, YOU KNOW, SOMETIMES VAGUE, SOMETIMES LESS THAN VAGUE THREATS. 
          I STILL GET EMAILS FROM TIME TO TIME WITH THREATS, ESPECIALLY AFTER, UM, INAUGURATION THIS TIME FROM WHITE SUPREMACISTS SORTS OF SITUATIONS. 
          UM, AND YOU REALLY DO WORRY, LIKE WHAT HAPPENS AT ANY PARTICULAR MOMENT. 
          UM, AND IT'S NOT MY INTENTION OF ANY WAY OF MAKING IT LESS WELCOMING, BUT HOPEFULLY JUST, YOU KNOW, A HIGHER ASSUMPTION OF SAFETY. 
          AND I WOULD SAY, LIKE, THE SMALL LITTLE CAVEAT I WOULD THROW OUT THERE AS WELL IS LIKE, UM, OFTENTIMES IN THESE METAL DETECTORS, YOUR BADGES ARE ALSO THROWN. 
          AND SO I KNOW THERE'LL BE A SEPARATE CONVERSATION ABOUT, UM, ICE OFFICERS IN MUNICIPAL BUILDINGS AND THINGS LIKE THAT. 
          AND THIS WILL BE ONE EXCUSE FOR THEM TO GET THEIR BADGE OUT OF THEIR POCKET AND  HAVE TO PUT IT THROUGH THE DETECTOR. 
          UM, SO FOR ALL THOSE REASONS, I'M HAPPY TO SUPPORT COUNCILOR NOLAN. 
          THANK YOU. 
          AND THROUGH YOU MAYOR SIDIKI, TO MY COLLEAGUES, I, I CAN SUPPORT THIS. 
          UH, I FIND MYSELF WITH, UM, APPRECIATIVE OF, UH, COUNCILOR SIMMONS FOR BRINGING THIS FORWARD. 
          IT MAKES SENSE TO HAVE A REVIEW. 
          AND ALSO, AS COUNCILOR MCGOVERN SAID, DEPENDING ON WHAT MEASURES ARE SUGGESTED, I HAVE NO IDEA WHAT I WOULD SUPPORT. 
          I I AM MIXED ON THIS, ON THE ONE HAND, VERY MUCH UNDERSTAND THAT WE ALL NEED TO BE SAFE. 
          WE NEED TO BE COGNIZANT OF THE WORLD WE'RE WE'RE LIVING IN, WHERE THIS IS NOT SOMETHING WE CAN TAKE FOR GRANTED. 
          AND YET, HAVING BEEN OUT IN SALT LAKE CITY, JUST A COUPLE MONTHS AGO FOR NATIONAL LEAGUE OF CITIES, I WALKED RIGHT INTO AN INCREDIBLY BEAUTIFUL STATE HOUSE. 
          THE, THE, THE CAPITAL OF THE STATE HOUSE, NO SECURITY WHATSOEVER. 
          IT WAS OPEN TO THE PUBLIC. 
          IT FELT UNBELIEVABLY WELCOMING. 
          PEOPLE WERE WANDERING IN. 
          THIS WAS ON A WEEKEND, YET IT WASN'T EVEN, UM, DURING THE WEEK, IT JUST FELT LIKE, WOW, THIS IS THE KIND OF WELCOMING CITY HALL WE SHOULD HAVE. 
          SO I THINK WHAT'S GONNA BE CRITICALLY IMPORTANT IS FOR US TO NOT FEEL LIKE A FORTRESS. 
          WHATEVER HAPPENS, TO OBVIOUSLY BALANCE THAT SAFETY WITH AN APPROACHABLE OPEN CITY HALL WHERE PEOPLE ARE NOT, UM, FEELING THAT THEY DON'T BELONG. 
          AND I, AND I KNOW THAT IS THE INTENTION HERE, WHICH IS WHY I CAN SUPPORT IT. 
          AND I ALSO 
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VERY MUCH HOPE THAT WE DO EVERYTHING WE CAN TO, TO MAKE SURE THAT PEOPLE THROUGHOUT THE CITY FEEL WELCOME INTO CITY HALL. 
          THAT, AND YET TO ADDRESS THE, THE VERY REAL CONCERN ABOUT, ABOUT SAFETY MAKES SENSE TO ME. 
          BUT AGAIN, THERE, THERE'S PLENTY OF PLACES IN THIS COUNTRY THAT HAVE MANAGED TO HAVE SAFE ENVIRONMENTS AND HAVE NOT GONE OVERBOARD WITH, UH, SCARING PEOPLE INTO FEELING THAT THEY DON'T FEEL SAFE. 
          SO I VERY MUCH LOOK FORWARD TO THE REVIEW OF OUR CURRENT SITUATION AND APPRECIATE THE POLICY ORDER. 
          WHOSE INTENT IS THAT? I HAVE COUNCILOR ZUBIE, AND THEN I'LL GO TO OUR CITY MANAGER, AND THEN TO THE AMENDMENT BY COUNCILOR SIMMONS. 
          THANK YOU, MADAM MAYOR. 
          IT MIGHT MAKE SENSE THAT I GO AFTER, BECAUSE I WILL BE PROPOSING AN AMENDMENT TO WHAT I BELIEVE IS THE AMENDED POLICY ORDER THAT COUNSELOR SIMMONS IS GONNA PUT ON THE FLOOR WITH COUNSELORS FLAHERTY AND MCGOVERN, IF I UNDERSTOOD THAT CORRECTLY. 
          COUNSELOR SIMMONS? YES. 
          DO YOU HAVE THE AMENDMENT, OR NO, SORRY, NAOMI HAS IT. 
          , DO YOU WANNA WALK US THROUGH IT? IT'S VERY, IT'S VERY SHORT. 
          IT'S AT, AT THE VERY END, AND IT SAYS, UM, I'M NOT, I'M WAITING FOR SUBJECT TO CITY COUNCIL APPROVAL. 
          I, IF I UNDERSTOOD, AND, AND TRULY I UNDERSTOOD WHAT MY COLLEAGUES WERE SAYING, AND THEY DID, THEY WANTED TO BE SURE THAT NOTHING WENT THROUGH WITHOUT THE COUNCIL APPROVAL, WHICH, YOU KNOW, AND I, HAVING HAD THE BENEFIT OF BEING ON THE COUNCIL FOR A LONG TIME, I KNOW THAT WE DON'T USUALLY DO THINGS THAT QUICKLY, BUT I WANTED TO, IN THE SPIRITS OF COLLABORATION, COOPERATION, AND COLLEGIALITY, I WANTED TO ADD THIS LANGUAGE TO ASSURE MY COLLEAGUES THAT WE WOULD NOT BE TAKING ANY REC ANY ACTIONS ON ANY PROPOSED IMPLEMENTATION WITHOUT HAVING IT APPROVED BY THE CITY COUNCIL. 
          AND THAT IT HAS TWO PATHWAYS DIRECTLY TO THE COUNCIL. 
          OR IT COULD GO THROUGH, UH, ANY NUMBER OF COMMITTEES I YIELD. 
          SO WE HAVE THIS AMENDMENT BEFORE US, UH, DISCUSSION ON THE AMENDMENT, WE WILL GO TO COUNCIL MAYOR SIKI. 
          YES. 
          COUNCILOR NOLAN. 
          YEAH. 
          I, I, I DON'T, I DON'T UNDERSTAND WHY THERE WOULD BE PARENTHESES AROUND IT. 
          I MEAN, IT, IT MAY SEEM MINOR, BUT IT SHOULD JUST BE SUBJECT TO CITY COUNCIL APPROVAL. 
          RIGHT. 
          COUNCILOR SIMMONS. 
          MADAM CHAIR. 
          YEAH. 
          THROUGH MADAM CHAIR. 
          IT WAS JUST A WORDS TO STAND OUT FOR US TO SEE IT. 
          IT'S NOT HOW WE WOULD, IT WOULD SAY SUBJECT TO CITY COUNCIL APPROVAL WOULDN'T HAVE PARENTHESIS. 
          THIS IS JUST OUR WAY OF EMPHASIZING THAT WE ARE MAKING THIS CHANGE. 
          IN ADDITION TO IT BEING READ. 
          I MIGHT HAVE MADE IT BOLD IN HIS CATALYST EYES, BUT WE DIDN'T WELL, IF I UNDERSTAND THE INTENT, COUNCILLOR SIMMONS, WE CAN TAKE OUT THE PARENTHESES. 
          YES. 
          IT'S JUST SUBJECT TO APPROVAL. 
          GOT IT. 
          OKAY. 
          BECAUSE COUNCILOR NOLAN, THAT WAS YOUR QUESTION. 
          YES. 
          AND, AND I, I'M INTERESTED IN HEARING COUNSELOR ZUBIE, UM, AMENDMENTS BECAUSE IT, IT VERY MUCH ASSUMES THERE WILL BE AN ENHANCED SAFETY PLAN. 
          AND I THINK WHAT WE'RE ALL SAYING IS THERE, THERE MAY BE AN ENHANCED SAFETY RECOMMENDATIONS FOR A PLAN, AND THEN IT WOULD BE SUBJECT TO CITY COUNCIL APPROVAL. 
          SO I, I, I CAN SUPPORT THIS AMENDMENT. 
          'CAUSE I THINK IT'S VERY IMPORTANT THAT THE CITY COUNCIL BE INVOLVED BEFORE ANYTHING HAPPENS. 
          WE'LL GO TO COUNCIL ZUBIE AND THEN I KNOW THE MANAGER'S ON, SO IF HE WANTS TO SHARE ANYTHING, THAT'D BE GREAT. 
          GO AHEAD, COUNCILOR ZUBIE. 
          YEAH, SO I, I SENT OVER AN AMENDED VERSION TO COUNCILLOR SIMMONS, FLAHERTY AND MCGOVERN GOVERNS PROPOSED AMENDED POLICY ORDER. 
          AND I JUST WANNA PREFACE THIS CONVERSATION FIRST WITH SAYING THAT I REALLY APPRECIATE THAT THEY'RE BRINGING THIS TO THE TABLE. 
          AND I, I REALLY DO CARE ABOUT BETTER UNDERSTANDING THE CURRENT PUBLIC SAFETY MEASURES THAT EXIST WITHIN CITY HALL. 
          UM, THEY DO RAISE AN IMPORTANT CONCERN, AND I THINK I'M COMING FROM THIS, FROM A PLACE OF WANTING TO MAKE SURE THAT FIRST WE HAVE A BETTER UNDERSTANDING OF WHAT IS GOING ON WITHIN CITY HALL FROM A PUBLIC SAFETY PERSPECTIVE BEFORE MOVING FORWARD ON THE NEXT STEPS. 
          I MEAN, EVEN IN THE CONVERSATION THAT WE'RE HAVING RIGHT NOW, WE HAVE PEOPLE UNDERSTANDING IT AS POSSIBLY METAL, METAL DETECTORS. 
          AND THEN COUNCILLOR SIMMONS RAISING THIS, UM, IS NOT NECESSARILY ABOUT THAT, WHICH ASSUMES CERTAIN THINGS ABOUT THE AMENDED, UH, PIECE THAT COUNCILLOR SABRINA WHEELER AND I ARE PROPOSING IN THIS CONVERSATION. 
          SO WE'RE TRYING TO BE EXPLICITLY THOUGHTFUL ABOUT THIS BECAUSE WE CARE ABOUT OUR CITY STAFF AND OUR RESIDENTS AS WELL. 
          AND I WANNA MAKE SURE BY FOCUSING ON DELIVERING A SOLID REPORT ON WHAT WE CURRENTLY HAVE, WE CAN TAKE THE NEXT STEP ON EXPLORING RECOMMENDATIONS TOGETHER. 
          THAT'S PART OF WHY I DECREASED THE DAYS WITH COUNSELOR SABRINA WHEELER, UM, TO AGAIN, BE THOUGHTFUL AND PROACTIVE ABOUT THAT PROCESS. 
          AND I DO THINK THAT A STRONG FOUNDATION OF UNDERSTANDING 
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WHAT'S GOING ON AND TYING IT ALL TOGETHER, UM, WITH WHAT WE CURRENTLY HAVE ON THE AMENDED POLICY ORDER, IT IS GOING TO HARM THE INTENTIONALITY THAT GOES INTO, UM, THIS PROCESS. 
          SO BREAKING IT DOWN, AGAIN, FROM MY PERSPECTIVE, WILL ACTUALLY HELP US BRING MORE VOICES INTO THE PROCESS THAT WOULD MAKE IT MORE DEMOCRATIC, ESPECIALLY WHEN THIS IS A SPACE THAT GROUNDS THE PEOPLE IN GOVERNMENT ENGAGEMENT. 
          SO I'M LOOKING FORWARD TO HEARING MORE ABOUT WHAT WE'RE DOING TO KEEP CITY HALL SAFE AND ACCESSIBLE TO OUR RESIDENTS. 
          BUT THAT'S JUST A LITTLE BIT MORE ABOUT THE THINKING BEHIND THIS SPECIFIC AMENDMENT. 
          CAN WE GO TO CITY MANAGER? OH, UH, THANK YOU MAYOR SADIKI. 
          UM, I APPRECIATE THE DISCUSSION AND I THINK THIS IS ACTUALLY A REALLY IMPORTANT TOPIC. 
          UM, AND ONE THAT, ONE THAT WE MAY WANNA JUST APPROACH VERY THOUGHTFULLY. 
          UM, CERTAINLY I THINK THIS IS A CHALLENGE THAT A LOT OF ORGANIZATIONS ARE FACING IN TERMS OF HOW TO BE OPEN, WELCOMING, UM, AND THEN REAL SECURITY CONCERNS, ESPECIALLY AS WE SEE DIFFERENT INCIDENTS HAPPEN ACROSS THE COUNTRY. 
          UM, I THINK MY THOUGHT WOULD BE FIRST THAT, UM, I WANT TO RECOGNIZE SOME OF THE INHERENT CHALLENGES IN THE LAYOUT OF CITY HALL IN PARTICULAR. 
          UM, THE FRONT ENTRANCE IS PRETTY SIGNIFICANTLY STEPPED UP. 
          UM, AND BECAUSE OF THE AMERICAN DISABILITIES ACT AND OUR DESIRE TO BE ACCESSIBLE, UM, WE ESSENTIALLY OPERATE TWO ENTRANCES TO THE PUBLIC. 
          ONE IN THE FRONT THAT IS ACCESSIBLE BY STAIRCASE, AND THE BACK ENTRANCE IS ACTUALLY THE ONE THAT YOU CAN USE THAT'S WHEELCHAIR ACCESSIBLE. 
          UM, AND SO I JUST WANNA ACKNOWLEDGE THAT ONE OF THE, ONE OF THE LOGISTICAL CHALLENGES IS THAT WE ARE ACTUALLY COVERING TWO ENTRANCES. 
          UM, I THINK THE SECOND IS THAT WE, IT MAY BE HELPFUL FOR FURTHER ENGAGEMENT, PERHAPS WITH A SMALLER GROUP OF COUNSELORS. 
          JUST TO BE SPECIFIC. 
          I THINK FROM THE POLICY ORDER, IT FEELS LIKE THE INTENT OF THIS IS MOSTLY THINKING ABOUT SECURITY FROM THE STANDPOINT OF SPECIFICALLY WEAPONS. 
          AND, AND I THINK THAT'S PROBABLY A LITTLE BIT DIFFERENT THAN, UM, THAN POTENTIALLY A BROADER SENSE OF SAFETY. 
          UM, BUT I THINK THAT MAY BE JUST SOMETHING FOR US TO WORK OUT BECAUSE THE INTERVENTIONS MAY BE A LITTLE BIT DIFFERENT IF WE'RE THINKING ABOUT GUN VIOLENCE VERSUS A DIFFERENT KIND OF, UM, CHALLENGE. 
          AND, AND I THINK THAT ACTUALLY HELPS US BETTER UNDERSTAND WHAT KIND OF TECHNOLOGY OR SECURITY SOLUTIONS WOULD FIT. 
          UM, I THINK THE OTHER, AND, AND SO I THINK THE SECOND IS JUST BEING CLEAR WHAT IS THE PROBLEM THAT WE'RE TRYING TO SOLVE? AND THE THIRD WOULD BE TO MAKE SURE THAT, ESPECIALLY AS WE ARE EXAMINING THIS, THAT WE'RE ALSO GETTING A SENSE FROM THE COUNCIL ON WHAT LEVEL OF COMFORT WE HAVE WITH WHAT AMOUNT OF BUDGET. 
          AND, AND THAT, THAT'S ACTUALLY PROBABLY A BIT OF A BACK AND FORTH. 
          I, I DON'T WANNA SAY LIKE WE NEED A POLICY ORDER THAT SPECIFICALLY SAYS LIKE THIS MUCH. 
          I THINK ULTIMATELY WE'RE GONNA WANT TO BOTH UNDERSTAND WHAT THE PROBLEM IS AND THEN START DOING SOME RESEARCH AND LOOKING AT, YOU KNOW, WHAT IS THE RANGE OF, OF POTENTIAL SOLUTIONS. 
          BUT I JUST WANNA ACKNOWLEDGE THAT, THAT SOME OF THESE POTENTIAL SOLUTIONS COULD BE COSTLY. 
          UM, AND THERE ARE BOTH PEOPLE SOLUTIONS AND TRAINING SOLUTIONS AND TECHNICAL SOLUTIONS. 
          UM, AND CERTAINLY IF YOU'VE BEEN, I THINK IN OTHER CITY HALLS OR I KNOW THERE ARE MANY FACILITIES WITHIN OUR CITY, UM, THAT HAVE PUT IN PLACE, UM, VERY SOPHISTICATED TOOLS, BUT ARE VERY EXPENSIVE, WHICH ACTUALLY RETAIN REALLY SIGNIFICANT SENSES OF OPENNESS. 
          UM, BUT SOME OF THOSE TOOLS ARE ACTUALLY, UM, PRETTY, UM, PRETTY EXPENSIVE. 
          UM, SO I THINK THOSE, THOSE WOULD BE MY THOUGHTS IN TERMS OF HOW WE WOULD PROCEED. 
          UM, AND MAYBE MY FOURTH THOUGHT WOULD JUST BE AS, AS YOU'RE THINKING ABOUT TIMELINE, I WANT TO ACKNOWLEDGE LIKE, THIS STUFF IS NOT SOMETHING THAT I THINK WE'RE GONNA JUST PICK UP AND IN A COUPLE OF WEEKS, LIKE HAVE AN ANSWER FOR. 
          AND SO, ESPECIALLY IF WE'RE GONNA BE GOING BACK AND FORTH AND JUST TRYING TO BE CLEAR, WHAT ARE WE ACTUALLY TRYING TO SOLVE FOR, UM, WHAT ARE THE POTENTIAL OPTIONS? LIKE, THIS IS GONNA TAKE A LITTLE BIT OF TIME AND WE'RE VERY HAPPY TO ENGAGE. 
          I THINK THIS IS AN IMPORTANT TOPIC. 
          UM, BUT I WANT TO JUST CALL OUT LIKE, UM, YOU KNOW, SOME EXPECTATIONS THAT, THAT THIS ISN'T GONNA BE LIKE THE COUNCIL SAYS, GO AND GIVE US A PERFECT ANSWER, AND THEN WE DISAPPEAR AND, AND WITHIN 30 DAYS WE COME BACK AND THERE'S AN ANSWER AND WE CAN IMPLEMENT IT. 
          UM, I THINK THIS IS PROBABLY A LONGER CONVERSATION THAT WE'LL TAKE MORE RESEARCH AND, AND ALSO MORE DISCUSSION TO MAKE SURE WE'RE LANDING IN THE RIGHT PLACE. 
          I WOULD GO TO, I HAVE COUNCILLOR ER WHEELER AND THEY'LL GO TO COUNCILLOR SIMMONS. 
          THANKS, MADAM MAYOR. 
          UH, TRY TO BE BRIEF. 
          YEAH, I THINK MY, UM, I'M HAPPY 
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TO SUPPORT, UH, COUNCILOR ZUBI AMENDMENTS HERE. 
          I THINK MY THOUGHTS BROADLY ON THIS ARE THINKING ABOUT PUBLIC SAFETY AND WHAT REALLY KEEPS US SAFE. 
          AND I THINK THAT IS, UH, ULTIMATELY PEOPLE AND COMMUNITY PLANNING AND COMMUNICATION. 
          AND IT'S EASY TO, UH, SPEND MONEY ON, ON SORT OF SECURITY AND PUBLIC SAFETY SOLUTIONS AND, AND JUMP STRAIGHT TO THAT. 
          BUT THE, THE REAL HARD WORK IS THE DIALOGUE AND THE PLANNING OF HOW DO WE KEEP EACH OTHER SAFE. 
          UM, I, UH, THINK, UH, HAD A REALLY GOOD, UH, HAD A GOOD CONVERSATION WITH, UH, COUNCILLOR SIMMONS AND COUNCILLOR ZUBIE ABOUT THIS. 
          AND ONE OF THE THINGS I HAD SAID IN THAT CONVERSATION WAS, I THINK THERE'S JUST, YOU KNOW, SOME PART OF THE, THE CHALLENGE HERE IS JUST THE COMPLEXITIES, THE POLICY ORDER PROCESS, AND WHAT ARE WE ACTUALLY ASKING FOR? ARE WE ASKING FOR A REPORT BACK? ARE WE ASKING FOR SOMETHING TO BE IMPLEMENTED RIGHT AWAY AND REVIEWED AND THEN REPORT BACK? AND, AND THAT'S PART OF THE CHALLENGE IS THE, THE, I IMPRE PRECISENESS OF THIS, BUT I THINK, UM, THE AMENDMENTS FROM COUNCILLOR ZUBY DO HELP IT BE A LITTLE MORE CLEAR IN TERMS OF WHAT WE'RE, WHAT WE'RE GETTING FOR, AND YOU KNOW, HOW WE REALLY FOCUS ON COMMUNITY SAFETY. 
          YOU BACK, WE'LL GO TO COUNCILLOR SIMMONS. 
          UH, THANK YOU MADAM MAYOR, UH, TO THROUGH YOU TO THE CITY MANAGER. 
          UM, YOU SAID, I DON'T KNOW IF THIS IS TALKING ABOUT GUN VIOLENCE OR, AND YOU SAID SOME OTHER THINGS I DIDN'T, I DIDN'T WRITE THEM ALL DOWN. 
          IT'S TALKING ABOUT SAFETY IN, ITS, IN ITS BROADEST WAY, IN ITS SMALLEST WAY. 
          WILL IT COST MONEY? MAYBE, MAYBE NOT, BUT I DON'T THINK YOU CAN PUT A PRICE ON PEOPLE'S LIFE WHEN IT COMES TO KEEPING THEM SAFE. 
          BECAUSE I DON'T THINK ANYONE WANTS TO BE HA BE IN THE POSITION OF SAYING, I WISH I WOULD'VE, COULDA WOULD'VE IF WE HAD KNOWN. 
          AND SO AGAIN, IT'S, IT'S OFF. 
          IT'S SAYING TO THE ADMINISTRATION, PLEASE LOOK AT THIS AND HERE'S SOME OF SOME OF THE THINGS THAT YOU MAY WANT TO, TO LOOK AT. 
          UH, I'D LIKE FOR THE CITY MANAGER THROUGH HIS ADMINISTRATION TO COME BACK WITH SOME HAVE LOOKED AT, AT A TOPIC GIVEN US, GIVE US SOME SUGGESTIONS, AND THEN WE WORK FROM THERE AS OPPOSED TO, WELL, UM, WE'RE GOING TO GIVE YOU REPORT WITHOUT SAYING, WELL, THIS IS SOMETHING THAT I THINK YOU MIGHT WANT TO TRY. 
          AND THEN THERE'S THE SCALE OF SOMETHING THAT'S FAIRLY BENIGN, WHATEVER THAT MIGHT BE, TO SOMETHING THAT'S MORE STRINGENT. 
          I, AS MY COLLEAGUE, UH, COUNCIL MCGOVERN SAID, WE DON'T KNOW UNTIL WE SEE WHAT OTHER, SOME OF THE OPTIONS ARE THAT WE MIGHT WANT TO TAKE, IF WE WANNA VOTE IT OR NOT. 
          BUT I WANNA BE ABLE TO WORK WITH SOME MATERIAL. 
          SO WE'RE, WE ARE, AND ALL DUE RESPECT TO MY COLLEAGUES ABOUT, WELL, LET'S LEAVE IT OPEN-ENDED. 
          LET'S GET BACK IN 30 DAYS. 
          AS THE CITY MANAGER SAYS, IT'S NOT GONNA HAPPEN THAT QUICKLY. 
          IF YOU WANT IT TO BE THOUGHTFUL, THE CITY MANAGER AND THE STAFF ENGAGING THE, UH, ALL THE PEOPLE THAT ARE INVOLVED IN PUBLIC SAFETY, 'CAUSE THAT DOESN'T QUITE INCLUDE FIRE. 
          UM, TO HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY TO SAY, WE'VE LOOKED AT IT. 
          WE'VE, WE LOOKED AT THE BUILDING, HERE ARE SOME OF THE ISSUES THAT WE SEE THAT COULD BE TIGHTENED UP. 
          YOU MIGHT SAY, WE THINK IT'S ALL FINE. 
          NOTHING'S GONNA HAPPEN HERE. 
          WE'RE ALL GOOD. 
          BUT IF WE DON'T ALLOW THIS ADMINISTRATION TO AT LEAST LOOK AT OUR PROCEDURES AND OUR PROTOCOLS, I DON'T THINK WE'VE EVER DONE A SAFETY DRILL OTHER THAN A FIRE DRILL IN THIS BUILDING. 
          AND SO IT'S VERY BROAD, AND I THINK WE SHOULD KEEP IT BROAD AND ALLOW THE ADMINISTRATION TO LOOK AT THE ISSUE, TAKE THE 90 DAYS. 
          AND IF THEY NEED A LITTLE LONGER, THEY TAKE A LITTLE LONGER, BUT THEY SAY, WE'VE, WE'RE LOOKING AT THIS, WE'RE CLOSE TO COMING UP WITH SOME INFORMATION. 
          WE DON'T HAVE IT YET. 
          WE RESPECTFULLY ASK YOU FOR AN EXTENSION SO THAT THEY CAN HAVE THE TIME TO DO IT CORRECTLY AND THEN BRING IT BACK TO THE COUNCIL, AND THE COUNCIL CAN THEN, I THINK IT SHOULD BE A FULL COUNCIL ENGAGEMENT PIECE SO THAT WE'RE ALL AT THE TABLE ALL THE TIME TO, TO TALK ABOUT THIS. 
          AND THEN THE LAST THING, YOU KNOW, YOU SAID, WANNA GO BACK TO THE GUN VIOLENCE? I JUST WANNA GO BACK TO, AND I'M GONNA SAY THIS WRONG, THE TRUTH FINDERS OR WHATEVER THEY CALL THEMSELVES THAT CAME, UM, I DON'T KNOW IF MS. STEFAN'S STILL ON, ON ON, AND SHE MIGHT REMEMBER THE NAME OF THEM, BUT THESE FOLKS CAME TO AGITATE PEOPLE AND GOT INTO THE LAW DEPARTMENT AND REALLY RATTLED THIS YOUNG LADY, UH, IN THE WAY THEY APPROACHED HER AND TALKED TO HER. 
          THEY DIDN'T HAVE ANY GUNS OR ANYTHING LIKE THAT, BUT THEY WERE VERY MENACING. 
          AND WE WANT PEOPLE TO FEEL SAFE IN THE BUILDING REGARDLESS OF WHY THEY'RE THERE, WHETHER THEIR EMPLOYEE ARE, THEY'RE HERE TO PAY THEIR WATER BILL. 
          SO WITH THAT, UM, I WILL YIELD THE FLOOR, HAVE COUNCILOR , JUST, JUST VERY QUICKLY I WOULD SUPPORT A SECURITY ASSESSMENT. 
          I THINK THAT'S WHAT WE'RE ASKING FOR. 
          I AGREE. 
          MAYBE IT'LL TAKE 90 DAYS. 
          SO I, I, I WOULD SUPPORT, I THINK WE SHOULD JUST KEEP, KEEP IT WITH, UM, UH, COUNCILOR SIMMONS, UH, PROPOSAL, ADDING THE SUBJECT TO CITY COUNCIL APPROVAL. 
          AND 
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I AGREE WITH MY COLLEAGUES. 
          WE WANT THE, WE WANT CITY HALL TO BE A WELCOMING PLACE. 
          AND, AND I ALMOST WONDER IF THIS SHOULD BE AN EXECUTIVE SESSION. 
          UH, YOU KNOW, I, I FEEL LIKE WE, WE DON'T WANT THE BAD GUYS TO KNOW ABOUT ALL OUR SECURITY MEASURES. 
          UH, BUT I, I, UM, I LOOK FORWARD TO HEARING MORE FROM THE CITY MANAGER. 
          UM, AND I, I THINK THERE'S SOME WAY TO MAKE SURE WE HAVE THERE, THERE PROBABLY IS A SECURITY, UM, PROTOCOL, WHOLE PLAN IN PLACE, BUT IT WOULD BE A COMFORT TO KNOW MORE ABOUT IT. 
          THANK YOU. 
          I YIELD, I THINK WE'VE HEARD FROM ALL CITY COUNSELORS. 
          I THINK, UM, UM, YOU KNOW, ONE THING TO WHAT I'VE HEARD IS, UM, FROM COUNCIL, FROM CITY MANAGER WONG, IS THAT, YOU KNOW, THIS IS GOING TO, THERE'S HAS TO BE SOME BACK AND FORTH HERE. 
          UM, AND IT'S, YOU KNOW, MUCH BETTER TO HAVE KIND OF GUIDELINES AROUND THAT PIECE OF IT. 
          SO I DO THINK, UM, YOU KNOW, WE CAN PERHAPS HAVE A PUBLIC, WE HAVE IT A PUBLIC SAFETY HEARING. 
          WE COULD HAVE, UM, YOU KNOW, AN EXECUTIVE SESSION. 
          UM, I THINK, UM, IT COULD BE PERMISSIBLE UNDER THE EXECUTIVE SESSION PURPOSES, UH, THAT DO EXIST. 
          SO THERE ARE DIFFERENT AVENUES HERE. 
          UM, I THINK IT'S CLEAR THAT, YOU KNOW, WE CAN DO IN A, WE COULD PROBABLY, I DO THINK IT'S IMPORTANT TO GET ON PAPER WHAT OUR POLICIES AND PROCEDURES ARE. 
          'CAUSE FRANKLY, THERE'S BEEN A LOT OF CHANGES TO CITY HALL THE LAST, YOU KNOW, MANY YEARS. 
          AND I'M NOT, I'M NOT ACTUALLY SURE WHAT EVERYTHING IS. 
          AND SO I DO THINK THAT'S IMPORTANT TO GET, UM, YOU KNOW, ON, ON THE RECORD. 
          AND THEN I DO THINK IT IS IMPORTANT FOR US TO DISCUSS, UM, TO GIVE FEEDBACK TO, YOU KNOW, IT IS SUBJECT TO US. 
          AND SO THAT IS A, YOU KNOW, IMPORTANT POINT. 
          UM, I DO SEE COUNCILOR ZUBIE. 
          COUNCILOR ZUBIE, DID YOU WANNA SAY SOMETHING BEFORE WE GO AHEAD ON YOUR AMENDMENT? YEAH, I JUST WANTED TO QUICKLY NOTE THAT, YOU KNOW, I DON'T, I DON'T THINK THIS IS ABOUT KEEPING IT OPEN-ENDED. 
          I ACTUALLY THINK IT'S THE OPPOSITE. 
          IT'S ABOUT KEEPING IT FOCUSED AND ALSO DEMOCRATIC. 
          BECAUSE THIS SPACE ISN'T A, BECAUSE THIS SPACE IS ABOUT ALL OF US. 
          UM, I MEAN, WE'RE HEARING FROM THE CITY MANAGER THAT THERE WOULD ALSO BE AN EXPECTATION THAT IT WOULD TAKE, UH, A GOOD AMOUNT OF TIME. 
          AND SO IF WE MOVE FORWARD WITH THIS LARGER PIECE, AGAIN, IT COULD BRING IN A LOT OF DIFFERENT PIECES THAT MAKE IT HARDER TO NAVIGATE THE CONVERSATION. 
          SO THIS IS MORE SO ABOUT KEEPING IT FOCUSED AND MAKING SURE IT'S MOVING FORWARD WITH THE CLARITY THAT IT DESERVES. 
          AND ALSO IT'LL GIVE THE CITY MANAGER PART OF WHAT HE'S LOOKING FOR AND WHAT HE LISTED, WHICH IS, UM, WHAT ARE WE TRYING TO RESOLVE HERE? AND IF WE'RE NOT TAKING THOSE EXPLICIT STEPS, UM, THAT, THAT'S WHERE, AGAIN, WHERE THE, A AMEND WHERE THE AMENDMENT'S COMING FROM. 
          BECAUSE I, I SHARE THAT LEVEL OF, OF CARE FOR MAKING SURE THAT WE HAVE THE RIGHT PUBLIC SAFETY MEASURES IN PLACE. 
          I'LL YIELD. 
          SO WE'VE HEARD FROM EVERYONE. 
          WE HAVE TO, WE SHOULD MOVE ON. 
          SO I, WE DO HAVE TO VOTE FIRST ON, ON THE AMENDMENT. 
          YES. 
          ON THE WE HAVE TO WORK. 
          YEAH. 
          WE HAVE TO VOTE ON COUNCIL ZU BE'S AMENDMENT. 
          RIGHT. 
          AND THEN WE'LL VOTE ON AMENDMENT. 
          RIGHT. 
          SO I, I WILL NOT BE SUPPORTING COUNCIL ZU BE'S AMENDMENT, BUT I DO APPRECIATE THE THOUGHTFULNESS. 
          OKAY. 
          SO WE'LL PUT THAT BEFORE US. 
          AND IT WAS TO TAKE OUT THE, IT'S THE RED LINE EDITS. 
          ANY QUESTIONS? WE CAN GO PROCEED TO THE VOTE. 
          COUNCIL LORE ZUBE? YES. 
          YES. 
          VICE INE. 
          NO, NO. 
          COUNCILOR FLAHERTY? NO. 
          NO. 
          COUNCILOR MCGOVERN? NO. 
          NO. 
          COUNCILOR NOLAN? YES. 
          YES. 
          COUNCILOR SIMMONS? NO. 
          NO. 
          COUNCILOR SABRINA WHEELER. 
          YES. 
          YES. 
          COUNCILLOR EY? NO. 
          NO. 
          MAYOR SIDIKI? YES. 
          YES. 
          AND YOU HAVE FOUR MEMBERS RECORDED IN THE AFFIRMATIVE AND FIVE RECORDED IN THE NEGATIVE. 
          THE AMENDMENT FAILS. 
          WE'LL GO TO COUNCILOR SIMMONS AMENDMENT. 
          COUNCILOR ZUBE. 
          PRESENT. 
          PRESENT VICE MAYOR. 
          YES. 
          YES. 
          COUNCILOR FLAHERTY. 
          YES. 
          YES. 
          COUNCIL MCGOVERN? YES. 
          YES. 
          COUNCILOR NOLAN. 
          YES. 
          YES. 
          COUNCILOR SIMMONS. 
          YES. 
          YES. 
          COUNCILOR SABRINA WHEELER. 
          NO. 
          NO. 
          COUNCILOR ZUI? YES. 
          YES. 
          MAYOR SIDIKI. 
          YES. 
          YES. 
          AND YOU HAVE SEVEN MEMBERS RECORDED IN THE AFFIRMATIVE. 
          ONE RECORDED IN THE NEGATIVE, AND ONE RECORDED IS PRESENT. 
          THE POLICY ORDER AS AMENDED IS PASSED. 
          SO NOW WE'LL GO BACK TO 
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THE FIRST CHARTER, RIGHT? WE DO HAVE DIRECTOR SULLIVAN. 
          WE DO, YES. 
           COUNSELOR. 
          SUSIE, YOU HAD LEFT OUT. 
          YOU HAD LEFT OFF WITH YOUR A QUESTION, DO YOU WANT TO REPEAT THAT? SINCE IT WAS THREE HOURS AGO, , ALMOST THREE HOURS AGO? UH, NO, I'M EAGER TO HEAR FROM CHARLES SULLIVAN, THE HEAD OF THE HISTORIC COMMISSION, AND TO SEE WHAT HIS THOUGHTS ARE ABOUT WHY IT WOULD BE IMPORTANT TO LANDMARK THE BUILDING. 
          GREAT DIRECTOR. 
          OKAY. 
          UM, THANK YOU MADAM MAYOR. 
          AND, UH, I APOLOGIZE AND I APPRECIATE YOUR ACCOMMODATION, UH, FOR THE TECHNICAL ISSUES. 
          SO, UM, THE, THE, WHAT THE COMMISSION IS TRYING TO ACCOMPLISH HERE IS TO RECAPTURE THE AUTHORITY OVER SIZE AND SHAPE OF ADDITIONS AND NEW CONSTRUCTION. 
          UH, THAT WAS TAKEN AWAY FROM NEIGHBORHOOD CONSERVATION DISTRICTS BY THE AMENDMENTS OF OCTOBER, 2023. 
          SO, UM, THE COMMISSION ALREADY HAS JURISDICTION OVER THIS PROPERTY. 
          UM, IT COULD EASILY, UH, PUT A PAUSE ON FUTURE DEVELOPMENT BY SAYING THAT NO, THE ADDITIONS AND THE L AND THE CAN'T BE REMOVED AND THE HOUSE HAS TO STAY ON ITS CURRENT LOCATION. 
          AND THAT WOULD BE BASICALLY THE, THE END OF IT, OF ANYTHING EXCEPT A REHAB OF THE PRISON PROPERTY. 
          WE, UH, HEARD VERY CLEARLY, UH, WORKING WITH, UH, THE OWNER, UH, THAT, UH, HE INTENDED TO REDEVELOP THE SITE. 
          HE HOPED TO REDEVELOP THE SITE. 
          WE, UH, RECOGNIZED HIS WISHES IN THAT REGARD. 
          AND, UH, WE CAME UP WITH A DESIGNATION, UM, THAT WOULD CREATE A BUILDABLE SITE BY ALLOWING THE HOUSE TO BE MOVED TO FACE TO WALL STREET, AND THEN, UH, CREATING A SPACE BEHIND IT, UH, THAT COULD ACCOMMODATE A, UH, A AS OF RIGHT BUILDING THAT COULD BE THEORETICALLY UP TO 12 STORIES HIGH. 
          AND, UH, WE CRAFTED THE DESIGNATION ORDER TO ACCOMMODATE THAT EXPLICITLY TO ACCOMMODATE NEW CONSTRUCTION AS PERMITTED BY THE ZONING IN EFFECT. 
          AND THE REASON WE NEED TO HAVE THE, UH, AUTHORITY OVER SIZE AND SHAPE IN THIS INSTANCE IS THE PARTICULAR LOCATION OF A POTENTIAL TOWER ADJACENT TO THE TOWER OF ST. 
          PAUL'S CHURCH. 
          AND, UM, AND THE SENSITIVITY, OVERALL SENSITIVITY OF THE LOCATION, WHICH IS SUBJECT TO DISTANT VIEWS ALL THE WAY FROM JFK STREET. 
          UM, SO THE ACTUAL DESIGN OF THAT TOWER, WHICH WE HAVE SAID WE WILL ALLOW, UM, IS CRITICAL, UH, SIZE AND SHAPE OF THAT TOWER IS CRITICAL TO, UH, TO AN APPROPRIATE CONSTRUCTION ON THAT, ON THAT SITE. 
          SO THAT'S THE LONG AND SHORT OF IT. 
          UH, WE NEED THAT JURISDICTION BACK BECAUSE, YOU KNOW, WE'VE WORKED WITH, UH, IN SIMMONS AND AS ARCHITECT, UH, VERY IMAGINATIVE ARCHITECT WHO, UM, BLOCKED OUT SOME, SOME HIGH RISE ALTERNATIVES THAT INCLUDED SOME FRANKLY GROTESQUE, UH, PROJECTIONS AND CANTILEVERS THAT WOULD'VE, UH, INCORPORATED OR ENCROACHED OVER THE RELOCATED RESTORED BUILDING, WHICH WE FELT WOULD BE REALLY INAPPROPRIATE. 
          UM, I DON'T THINK, UH, MR. SIMMONS OR HIS ARCHITECT ARE SERIOUS ABOUT THAT. 
          BUT THERE ARE POSSIBILITIES, UH, UNDER THE ZONING, OR IT COULD BE POSSIBILITIES UNDER THE, THE ZONING. 
          SO THE COMMISSION IS WILLING TO ACCEPT A HIGH-RISE BUILDING ON THAT SITE. 
          WE'RE NOT TRYING TO PREVENT IT. 
          WE'RE JUST TRYING TO BE ABLE TO, UM, TO DETAIL, TO SHAPE ITS MASSING AND SHAPE ITS CHARACTER SO THAT IT BEST ACCOMMODATES THE SURROUNDINGS, UH, SPECIFICALLY THE ST. 
          PAUL'S TOWER. 
          SO THE OTHER POINT I WOULD MAKE IS THAT, UM, UH, WE'RE TOTALLY AWARE THAT THE MOTIVES OF, OF SOME OF THE PETITIONERS, UH, MAY NOT ALIGN WITH HISTORIC PRESERVATION GOALS. 
          THEY MAY HAVE A VARIETY OF MOTIONS. 
          WELL, THE COMMISSION IS, UM, AWARE THAT LIFE IS COMPLICATED. 
          UH, THIS IS AN HISTORIC RESOURCE, AN IMPORTANT HISTORIC RESOURCE, AND A POTENTIAL DEVELOPMENT SITE THAT COULD BE DONE WELL, COULD BE DONE NOT SO WELL. 
          AND SO, REGARDLESS OF THE MOTIVATIONS OF SOME OF THE, SOME OF THE PETITIONERS, THE COMMISSIONER RECOGNIZED THAT THIS IS AN IMPORTANT ASSET AND A CRITICAL, CRITICAL PLACE IN HARVARD SQUARE WHERE ITS JURISDICTION NEEDED TO BE STRENGTHENED. 
          AND SO I'LL LEAVE IT AT THAT. 
          MADAM MAYOR, THANK YOU VERY MUCH. 
          I HAVE COUNCILOR SUZI, UM, THROUGH, UM, MADAM MAYOR. 
          I JUST WANTED TO ASK, UH, CHARLIE, SO CHARLIE, WE HAD, I HAD ASKED YOU, I KNOW COUNCILOR NOLAN HAD BEEN CONCERNED ABOUT THE COST OF RESTORING THE EXTERIOR OF THE STICKNEY HOUSE BEING 
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MUCH HIGHER IF IT'S UNDER HISTORICAL COMMISSION JURISDICTION. 
          BUT I KNOW WE HAD SPOKEN AND YOU HAD SUGGESTED THAT THERE ISN'T THAT MUCH DETAILING THAT. 
          SO THE, THE QUESTION IS JUST THE OPEN QUESTION IS, DO YOU THINK THIS WOULD INCREASE THE COST OF, UM, BUILDING ON THE SITE DRAMATICALLY, UH, WITH THE LANDMARKING OF THE STICKNEY BUILDING, INCREASE THE COST OF THE RESTORATION OF THE STICKNEY HOUSE DRAMATICALLY? WELL, THE STICKNEY HOUSE IS BASICALLY A WOOD FRAME 19TH CENTURY HOUSE, UH, LIKE THOUSANDS OF HOUSES IN CAMBRIDGE. 
          AND IT, UM, IT'S HAD HARD TREATMENT, IT'S COVERED WITH SIDING. 
          UM, IT'S, IT CAN BE TREATED AS A, UH, WITH A RESIDENTIAL GRADE APPROACH TO CONSTRUCTION. 
          I DON'T THINK WE'RE, WE'RE GOING TO COST THEM A SIGNIFICANT AMOUNT OF MORE MONEY. 
          UH, AND CERTAINLY IT'S ALREADY IN THE CONSERVATION DISTRICT. 
          SO, UM, WHAT WE DO IS TO, UH, WORK WITH THE PROPERTY OWNERS. 
          UM, AND, UM, MOST OF WHAT WOULD BE DONE ON A RESTORATION WOULD PROBABLY BE DONE WITHOUT, WITHOUT COMMISSION REVIEW, WOULD BE DONE WITH STAFF REVIEW. 
          UM, IF, IF, UH, MR. SIMMONS WANTS TO REDEVELOP THE SITE, UH, YEAH, RELOCATING THE HOUSE, UM, THAT, YOU KNOW, HE MIGHT PREFER TO TAKE, JUST SCRAPE THE SITE AND MAKE IT GO AWAY, OF COURSE, THAT'S AN EXTRA, EXTRA EXPENSE. 
          BUT THAT'S THE NATURE OF, UM, PROPERTY OWNERSHIP IN A CONSERVATION DISTRICT OR AN HISTORIC DISTRICT. 
          THE PUBLIC INTEREST, YEARS AGO, THE CITY COUNCIL RECOGNIZED THAT THE PUBLIC INTEREST IMPOSED CERTAIN COSTS ON PROPERTY OWNERS AND, UM, AND VOTED, UH, AND, AND VOTED TO IN IMPLEMENT DISTRICTS WITH THAT RECOGNITION. 
          SO THAT'S JUST A GIVEN GOING FORWARD. 
          BUT THE COMMISSION HAS ALWAYS TRIED TO BE PART OF THE SOLUTION AND NOT A BURDEN ON PROPERTY OWNERS. 
          AND SO I THINK OUR TRACK RECORD SHOWS THAT WE'VE HELPED PROPERTY OWNERS DELIVER, UH, PROJECTS THAT CONTRIBUTE TO THE CHARACTERS CAMBRIDGE IN A SIGNIFICANT WAY. 
          THANK YOU SO MUCH. 
          I YIELD COUNCILOR NOLAN. 
          THANK YOU. 
          UH, MAYOR S DEON. 
          THANK YOU, UH, COUNCILOR ZI FOR INVITING AND HAVING DIRECTOR SULLIVAN HERE. 
          THIS IS, THIS IS REALLY HARD BECAUSE I SUPPORT HISTORICAL PRESERVATION AND CONSERVATION. 
          I RESPECT THE WORK OF THE HISTORICAL COMMISSION. 
          UM, I DO WANNA ADDRESS, AND, AND I BELIEVE DIRECTOR SULLIVAN ALLUDED TO THIS OR ACTUALLY DIRECTLY ADDRESSED IT, UM, ON, ON THE QUESTION OF SOME OTHER REASONS FOR WHY SOME PEOPLE ARE WANTING TO LANDMARK, WHICH IS NOT RELATED TO THE, UH, HISTORICAL COMMISSION. 
          UM, I JUST WANNA REAFFIRM WHAT SEVERAL, I THINK HAS BEEN KNOWN TO SOME PEOPLE. 
          THE OWNERS DID WORK WITH THE COMMUNITY, AND DESPITE NO REQUIREMENT TO DO SO, HAD MANY MEETINGS WITH THE TENANTS IN THE BUILDING. 
          UM, AND THEY DO HAVE AMAZING PLANS FOR A GREAT COMMUNITY ASSET. 
          UM, AND YES, FOR THOSE PEOPLE WHO CAME AND SPOKE IN PUBLIC COMMENT, I REALLY APPRECIATE IT. 
          I, MYSELF HAVE BEEN TO A NUMBER OF MEETINGS THERE. 
          THEY WERE VERY, UH, USEFUL AND A REALLY GREAT SPACE IN MANY IMPORTANT MEETINGS, IN PROBABLY HISTORIC DECISIONS OR ORGANIZING TOOK PLACE IN THE BUILDING. 
          BUT IF EVERY SPACE THAT HAD IMPORTANT MEETINGS, INCLUDING POLITICAL PLANNING OR HISTORICALLY KNOWN PEOPLE WERE TO BE LANDMARKED AND PRACTICALLY EVERY BUILDING IN CAMBRIDGE COULD NEVER BE ALTERED BECAUSE OUR CITY IS THE EPICENTER OF SO MANY DIFFERENT THINGS. 
          SO I JUST WANNA ACKNOWLEDGE THAT, THAT OF COURSE, IT'S HARD TO SEE A BUILDING THAT YOU'VE HAD IMPORTANT SPACE IN AND MEETINGS IN TO BE CHANGED. 
          AND YET IT DOES SEEM TO NOT WANT THIS BUILDING TO BE DEVELOPED BY THIS INCREDIBLE NONPROFIT. 
          TO ENHANCE THE SQUARE WOULD REALLY, WE WOULD BE STYMIEING EFFORTS BY RESPONSIBLE OWNER TO CREATE A WONDERFUL SPACE. 
          SO THAT IS REALLY KIND OF THE COMMUNITY, SOME OF THE FOLKS WHO WANT LAND MARKING JUST TO PRESERVE WHAT THEY HAD. 
          I APPRECIATE THOUGH, THE HISTORICAL COMMISSION REPORT, WHICH DIRECTOR SULLIVAN JUST TALKED ABOUT, GOES ON FOR, FOR DIFFERENT REASONS. 
          AND I REALLY APPRECIATE THE WAYS THAT THE BUILDING ITSELF HAS BEEN ALLOWED TO SAY WE COULD, UH, OWNERS COULD MOVE IT, TAKE OFF THE L WHICH DOESN'T MAKE ANY SENSE TO PRESERVE HISTORICALLY. 
          UM, HOWEVER, I AGREE WITH COUNCILLOR FLAHERTY THAT, UH, THIS BUILDING TO ME DOES NOT MEET THE CRITERIA THAT I BELIEVE WE SHOULD BE USING FOR LANDMARKING AND HAS BEEN NOTED. 
          MY MY POINT AND COUNCILLOR ZUZI THANK YOU FOR RAISING ABOUT COST IS THAT ANY ADDITIONAL LAYER OF OVERSIGHT JUST RAISES THE COST FOR ANY PROJECT. 
          THIS STILL IS A NONPROFIT WANTING TO DEVELOP NONPROFIT COMMUNITY ASSET SPACE. 
          THERE'S ALREADY FAIRLY SIGNIFICANT PRESERVATION DUE TO THE NEIGHBORHOOD CONSERVATION DISTRICT REQUIREMENTS. 
          UM, THE ALLOWED CHANGES TO THE BUILDING ALREADY ALLOWED, MEANING THE BUILDING SITE WILL BE DRAMATICALLY DIFFERENT. 
          WHY ADD ADDITIONAL CHA CHALLENGES TO THE PROJECT? 
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AND AS WE PUT MORE CONSTRAINTS ON OWNERS WITHOUT CLEAR HISTORIC RATIONALE, IRONICALLY ENOUGH, IT MAY LEAD TO LESS PRESERVATION. 
          BECAUSE IF YOU DO NOT HAVE A HIGHLY RESOURCED OWNER, THEY COULD JUST LET THE BUILDING COMPLETELY DETERIORATE, WHICH IS WHAT WE SAW, AND ARE SEEING SOME WITH THE, UM, UH, SPACE OVER ON, ON STORY STREET, THE HARRIET JACOB'S HOUSE. 
          YOU KNOW, IT COULD JUST FALL INTO ROOM. 
          AND IF WE DON'T ALLOW FOR PROPER DEVELOPMENT, IT'S GOING TO FURTHER DETERIORATE SPACES INSTEAD OF MOVING FORWARD. 
          SO I AM STILL VOTING NO ON THE LANDMARKING. 
          I HOPE THIS IS NOT, I, I WANNA MAKE SURE THAT PEOPLE UNDERSTAND. 
          I REALLY APPRECIATE THE REPORT AND THE WILLINGNESS OF THE HISTORICAL COMMISSION TO CONSIDER VARIOUS CHANGES, AND I EXPECT THEM TO CONTINUE. 
          I, I KNOW THAT THE, UH, THIS PROPERTY IN A FEW YEARS WILL BE AN, A TREMENDOUS ASSET TO THE CITY AND WHAT I'M, FOR ONE, AM GRATEFUL THAT IT'S BEING DEVELOPED BECAUSE I THINK IT'S GONNA ADD TREMENDOUSLY TO THE, TO THE CIVIC INSTITUTIONS IN THIS CITY. 
          AND WE'LL ALL BE THE BETTER OFF IF THEY ARE ALLOWED TO DEVELOP IT AS SOON AS POSSIBLE WITH AS FEW RESTRICTIONS AS POSSIBLE, GIVEN THE ONES THAT ARE ALREADY ON THERE FOR ITS HISTORICAL COMMISSION AND THEIR COMMITMENT TO A, A REALLY GREAT ASSET IN THE CITY. 
          I YIELD COUNCILOR, GOVERNOR, UH, THANK YOU, MADAM MAYOR THROUGH YOU. 
          UM, SO JUST TO, 'CAUSE WE DID HEAR A NUMBER OF PEOPLE TALK ABOUT THE, UM, YOU KNOW, ALL THE MEETINGS, THE COMMUNITY MEETINGS AND ORGANIZATIONS THAT HAVE, UM, BEEN PART OF THE HISTORY OF THAT, UH, OF THAT BUILDING, WHICH, UM, I TOO HAVE BEEN IN. 
          I THINK WE'VE ALL BEEN IN THAT BUILDING A MILLION TIMES, UM, FOR DIFFERENT REASONS. 
          UM, BUT, YOU KNOW, JUST SO MAKE SURE THAT, YOU KNOW, FOLKS KNOW THAT WHETHER THIS IS LANDMARKED OR NOT, OR I SHOULD SAY LANDMARKING, THIS BUILDING HAS NO INFLUENCE WHATSOEVER ON WHAT HAPPENS INSIDE THE BUILDING, RIGHT? SO WE HEARD SOME PEOPLE SAY, WE SHOULD LANDMARK THIS BECAUSE WE WANT TO PRESERVE THE DEMOCRACY CENTER AND THE MEETING THAT THAT HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH LANDMARKING THE BUILDING. 
          UM, THE LANDMARKING OF THE BUILDING IS WHAT THE PHYSICAL OUTSIDE STRUCTURE OF THE BUILDING. 
          SO EVEN LANDMARKING, THIS DOESN'T MEAN THAT, UM, IT'S GONNA GO BACK TO HOW IT WAS USED BEFORE. 
          THAT COMES FROM DEVELOPING A RELATIONSHIP WITH THE OWNER OF THE BUILDING AND THEIR MISSION, WHICH IS ONE TO FOSTER, UM, CIVIC SPACE. 
          THAT IS THEIR MISSION. 
          IT'S IN THEIR MISSION. 
          THAT'S WHAT THEY DO. 
          UM, AND SO LANDMARKING IS NOT GONNA PROTECT THAT. 
          UM, I WOULD ALSO SAY, YOU KNOW, I GUESS MR. SULLIVAN, UH, MADAM MAYOR THROUGH YOU TO, TO MR. SULLIVAN, UM, YOU KNOW, YOU OUTLINED A LOT OF THINGS THAT, YOU KNOW, WHY THIS BUILDING SHOULD BE CONSIDERED HISTORIC, I GUESS, AND YOU MAYBE CAN'T ANSWER THIS, BUT, YOU KNOW, THE BUILDING'S OBVIOUSLY BEEN AROUND FOR A VERY LONG TIME, AND NO ONE HAS MOVED TO LANDMARK BEFORE. 
          UM, WHICH SORT OF MAKES, AGAIN, MAKES ME WONDER AROUND THE MOTIVATION FOR THIS, YOU KNOW. 
          UM, AND, AND I'D LIKE YOU IF YOU COULD TALK A LITTLE BIT MORE, BECAUSE WHERE I ALSO AM A LITTLE BIT UNCOMFORTABLE, UM, WAS YOUR, YOUR OPENING STATEMENT TONIGHT, UM, WHERE YOU SAID THAT, THAT BASICALLY THIS IS A WAY FOR THE HISTORIC COMMISSION TO REGAIN CONTROL OVER A RULE CHANGE THAT THE COUNCIL MADE BACK IN 2023. 
          AND I GUESS WHAT WORRIES ME A LITTLE BIT IS THAT, IS THIS ABOUT THIS PARTICULAR SITE OR IS THIS ABOUT THE HISTORICAL COMMISSION NOT BEING HAPPY WITH THAT RULE CHANGE AND HAS FOUND A WAY TO WORK AROUND THAT RULE CHANGE? UH, THROUGH YOU, MADAM MAYOR? THIS IS ABOUT THE PARTICULAR SITE. 
          I WOULD BE, IT WOULD BE DISINGENUOUS OF ME TO SAY THE COMMISSION WAS PLEASED ABOUT THE RULE CHANGE BECAUSE SIZE AND SHAPE IS REALLY CRITICAL TO ANY KIND OF DESIGN REVIEW. 
          BUT IN THIS PARTICULAR CASE, UH, THE POSSIBILITY OF A, OF A HIGH RISE BUILDING SHAPED IN SUCH A WAY THAT IT WOULD NOT ONLY BLOCK THE VIEWS OF ST. 
          PAUL'S TOWER, BUT WOULD POSSIBLY BE CANTILEVERED OUT OR WRAPPED AROUND, UH, THE PRESERVED HOUSE IN A WAY THAT MIGHT BE EXTREMELY INAPPROPRIATE. 
          UH, THOUGH THAT'S THE MOTIVATION IN THIS CASE, AND THAT'S WHAT CAUSED THE COMMISSION TO ACCEPT THE PETITION, UM, AND TO EVENTUALLY BRING THIS, UH, PROPOSAL DESIGNATION TO YOU. 
          THANK YOU. 
          UM, AND THROUGH THANK YOU MADAM MAYOR, THROUGH YOU. 
          UM, I CAN'T, I THINK THIS WAS IN PUBLIC COMMENT, BUT MAYBE IT WAS IN THE FIRST ROUND OF THIS DISCUSSION BEFORE, I CAN'T REMEMBER WHERE IT CAME IN, BUT, UM, SOMEONE HAD SAID THAT INITIALLY YOUR POSITION WAS NOT TO LAND MARKET, AND THEN THAT POSITION CHANGED. 
          IS THAT ACCURATE? AND THEN IF SO, WHY DID IT CHANGE? WELL, UH, THE, THE , YOU KNOW, COULD, COULD BLOCK ALMOST ANY DEVELOPMENT ON THE SITE, UH, JUST SIMPLY BY ITS AUTHORITY TO REGULATE ALTERATIONS 
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OR RELOCATIONS OF THE BUILDING. 
          UH, WHEN WE STARTED TO, UM, GET INTO IT, UM, UH, WITH THE OWNER AND HIS PLANS FOR REDEVELOPMENT AND NEW CONSTRUCTION ON THE SITE, WE THOUGHT IT WOULD BE ADVANTAGEOUS TO THE DISTRICT AND TO THE BUILDING ITSELF IF IT WERE RELOCATED TO FACE TO FACE EAST ON DU WALL STREET, UH, THAT WE COULD ACCOMMODATE THE OWNER'S, UM, INTENTION TO DEVELOP ON THE SITE IN AN APPROPRIATE WAY. 
          AND SO, UH, YES. 
          SO THEN, YOU KNOW, THE COMMISSION DID VOTE THAT, AND WE'VE WORKED POSITIVELY, CONSTRUCTIVELY, I THINK WITH, WITH THE OWNER, UH, WITH THAT IN MIND. 
          I MEAN, WE, WE COULD HAVE JUST DUG OUR HEELS IN IF WITHOUT THIS, THE COMMISSION COULD DIG ITS HEELS IN AND SAY NO. 
          AND SO ON THAT BASIS, YOU KNOW, INITIALLY, UM, YOU KNOW, I WAS SKEPTICAL OF THE, UH, OF THE PETITION, BUT AS WE GET INTO IT, YEAH. 
          OKAY. 
          THANK, THANK YOU MADAM MAYOR. 
          SORRY. 
          UM, AND I, DO, YOU KNOW, I I, AND I THINK COUNCILOR NOLAN MENTIONED THIS, THAT, YOU KNOW, THERE, THERE WAS, YOU DID ALLOW FOR A LOT OF FLEXIBILITY AND A LOT OF THINGS TO HA HAPPEN WITH THE SITE. 
          SO THAT CLEARLY THOSE CONVERSATIONS WERE VERY HELPFUL AND I DO APPRECIATE THAT. 
          UM, I WILL YIELD FOR NOW, MADAM MAYOR. 
          THANK YOU, COUNCILOR SIMMONS. 
          UH, UH, THANK YOU MADAM MAYOR. 
          I, I THINK MY COLLEAGUES ASKED AND ANSWERED, HAS ASKED THE QUESTIONS THAT WOULD'VE ASKED. 
          UH, I WAS, UH, ON THE FENCE FOR A MINUTE, BUT I, I DON'T, I THINK I'M GOING TO STAY WITH MY ORIGINAL OPINION THAT I WOULD NOT VOTE TO LANDMARK THE SITE. 
          ALTHOUGH I DO HEAR AND RESPECT MR. SULLIVAN, UM, IN HIS WORK. 
          AND I ALWAYS ENJOY ANYTIME HE PUTS ANYTHING BEFORE THE COUNCIL. 
          UH, IT'S A HISTORY LESSON THAT I, I READ TWO OR THREE TIMES OVER, BUT SPECIFIC TO THE LANDMARKING, I, I FEEL CONFIDENT THAT IT'S GOING TO BE DEALT, DEVELOPED IN A WAY THAT IS GOING TO PRESERVE MUCH OF THE INTEGRITY THAT IS SPOKEN ABOUT INTO. 
          SO, UM, I WILL NOT BE SUPPORTING IT AND I WILL YIELD THE FLOOR. 
          THANK YOU. 
          THANK YOU, COUNSELOR. 
          AND COUNCILLOR FLAHERTY, YOU'VE SPOKEN ON THIS IS YES. 
          AND DREW, YOU MADAM MAAM, MRS. SULLIVAN. 
          UH, YOU, YOU DO EXCELLENT WORK. 
          AND I UNDERSTAND THAT THE, UM, THE BUILDING, WHETHER LANDMARKED OR NOT, STAYS UNDER THE JURISDICTION OF THE, THE CONSERVATION DISTRICT, CORRECT? YES, THAT'S CORRECT. 
          THROUGH YOU. 
          AND SO ANY, AM I RIGHT THAT THERE'S A CERTIFICATE OF APPROPRIATENESS THAT HAS TO BE ISSUED, OR AM I MISSTATING THAT, UM, FOR YES, THROUGH, THROUGH YOU MADAM MAYOR? UH, ANY EXTERIOR WORK THAT REQUIRES A BUILDING PERMIT, UM, REQUIRES A CERTIFICATE OF APPROPRIATENESS. 
          RIGHT. 
          AND OBVIOUSLY ALL THE ZONING IS STILL IN PLAY, RIGHT? YES. 
          OKAY. 
          ALL RIGHT. 
          WELL, I APPRECIATE THAT. 
          THANK YOU VERY MUCH. 
          THANK YOU. 
          SO WE'VE HEARD FROM ALL MY COLLEAGUES, AND YOU KNOW, I AM AWARE, I THINK THE MAJORITY OF THE COUNCIL, UH, IS AROUND NOT DESIGNATING THIS AS A LANDMARK, UH, BASED ON WHAT'S BEEN SAID. 
          SO I THINK WE SHOULD GO AHEAD AND, UM, TAKE A VOTE, UM, ON A APPRO, UH, WHETHER OR NOT TO APPROVE, UH, THE FINAL LANDMARK DESIGNATION REPORT OR THE NATHANIEL SICKNEY HOUSE AT 45 MOUNT AUBURN STREET. 
          SO WE'LL DO A ROLL CALL. 
          COUNCILOR ZUBE? YES. 
          YES. 
          VICE ZE? NO. 
          NO. 
          COUNCIL OF FLAHERTY? NO. 
          NO. 
          COUNCILOR MCGOVERN? NO. 
          NO. 
          COUNCILOR NOLAN? NO. 
          NO. 
          COUNCILOR SIMMONS? NO. 
          NO. 
          COUNCILOR SABRINA WHEELER? NO. 
          NO. 
          COUNCILLOR ZUI? YES. 
          YES. 
          MAYOR SIDIKI? NO. 
          NO. 
          AND YOU HAVE TWO MEMBERS RECORDED IN THE AFFIRMATIVE AND SEVEN RECORDED IN THE NEGATIVE DESIGNATION. 
          FOR THE REPORT FAILS, WE HAVE DISPOSED OF THE CHARTER RIGHT ITEMS AND THE TABLED ITEMS. WE ARE 
          [APPLICATIONS]
MOVING TO APPLICATIONS AND PETITIONS. 
          THERE ARE THREE PLEASURE OF THE COUNCIL ON A MOTION BY COUNSELOR, SOME MOVE TO ACCEPTANT TO ACCEPT THE APPLICATIONS AND PETITIONS ADOPT THEM. 
          YES. 
          ON A MOTION BY COUNCILOR NOLAN TO ADOPT, LET'S DO A ROLL CALL, PLEASE. 
          COUNCILOR ZUBY? YES. 
          YES. 
          VICE MAYOR INE. 
          YES. 
          YES. 
          COUNCIL FLAHERTY? YES. 
          YES. 
          COUNCIL MCGOVERN? YES. 
          YES. 
          COUNCILOR NOLAN? YES. 
          YES. 
          COUNCILLOR SIMMONS? YES. 
          YES. 
          COUNCILOR SERINA WHEELER. 
          YES. 
          YES. 
          COUNCILLOR EY? YES. 
          YES. 
          UH, MAYOR SIDIKI? YES. 
          YES. 
          AND YOU HAVE NINE MEMBERS RECORDED IN THE AFFIRMATIVE. 
          [05:25:02]
THE APPLICATIONS AND PETITIONS ARE ADOPTED. 
          WE'LL MOVE 
          [COMMUNICATIONS]
ON TO COMMUNICATIONS PLACED ON FILE ON A MOTION BY COUNCILOR SIMMONS TO PLACE THEM ON FILE. 
          WE'LL DO A ROLL CALL. 
          COUNCILOR ZUBIE? YES. 
          YES. 
          VICE MEZE. 
          YES. 
          YES. 
          COUNCILOR FLAHERTY. 
          YES. 
          YES. 
          COUNCILOR MCGOVERN. 
          YES. 
          YES. 
          COUNCILOR NOLAN. 
          YES. 
          YES. 
          COUNCILOR SIMMONS. 
          YES. 
          YES. 
          COUNCILLOR SABRINA WHEELER. 
          YES. 
          YES. 
          COUNCILLOR EY. 
          YES. 
          YES. 
          MAYOR SIDIKI. 
          YES. 
          YES. 
          AND YOU HAVE NINE MEMBERS RECORDED IN THE AFFIRMATIVE. 
          THE COMMUNICATIONS ARE ADOPTED. 
          WE'LL, 
          [RESOLUTIONS]
TWO RESOLUTION THERE. 
          SIX. 
          PLEASURE OF THE CITY COUNCIL AND CHAIR. 
          YES. 
          COUNCILLOR SIMMONS. 
          NUMBER ONE. 
          NUMBER ONE. 
          ANY OTHERS? COUNCILLOR FLAHERTY. 
          CAN I PULL TWO? NUMBER TWO, AND THEN WE CAN DO A ROLL CALL ON ADOPTING THE BALANCE OF THE RESOLUTIONS, MAKING THEM UNANIMOUS UPON ADOPTION ON A MOTION BY COUNCILLOR SIMMONS. 
          COUNCILOR ZUBE. 
          YES. 
          YES. 
          VICE MAYOR ZE. 
          YES. 
          YES. 
          COUNCILOR FLAHERTY. 
          YES. 
          YES. 
          COUNCILOR MCGOVERN. 
          YES. 
          YES. 
          COUNSELOR NOLAN. 
          YES. 
          YES. 
          COUNCILOR SIMMONS. 
          YES. 
          YES. 
          COUNCILLOR SABRINA WHEELER. 
          YES. 
          YES. 
          COUNCILLOR ZUI. 
          YES. 
          YES. 
          MAYOR SIDIKI. 
          YES. 
          YES. 
          AND YOU HAVE NINE MEMBERS RECORDED IN THE AFFIRMATIVE. 
          THE BALANCE OF THE RESOLUTIONS ARE ADOPTED. 
          WE'LL GO TO NUMBER ONE, UH, WHICH IS A RESOLUTION. 
          WISHING DON DONALD WILLIAM'S, UH, FULL RECOVERY COUNCILLOR SIMMONS. 
          I THANK YOU, MADAM MAYOR. 
          UH, A COUPLE OF THINGS RELATIVE TO THIS, UM, PARTICULAR RESOLUTION. 
          I WANT TO PULL IT IN. 
          AMEND BY SUBSTITUTION. 
          UNFORTUNATELY, MR. WILLIAMS PASSED AWAY SATURDAY AT 8 29 WITHIN, WITH ALL HIS FRIENDS AND FAMILY AROUND HIM. 
          IT WAS A VERY, VERY SAD MOMENT. 
          I WAS ABLE TO VISIT HIM A FEW TIMES BEFORE HIS PASSING. 
          UH, AND, UH, SO IT WAS JUST VERY SAD. 
          SO THIS IS, UH, NOT APPROPRIATE THIS TIME. 
          I DO BELIEVE, OR AT LEAST I HOPE, UM, MS. STEFAN HAS AN AMENDED RESOLUTION TO SEND, UH, TO HIS FAMILY. 
          AND IN FACT, HIS FUNERAL WILL BE THIS FRIDAY. 
          AND I HAVE DETAILS FOR THOSE THAT MAY WANNA KNOW. 
          BUT MS. STEFAN, DO YOU HAVE THE AMENDMENT? YES, I DO. 
          DID YOU WANT IT SHOWN ON SCREEN? IF YOU, IF YOU DON'T MIND, PLEASE. 
          SO WHAT WE'LL DO IS, UM, DO A ROLL CALL ON THE, UM, BY SUBSTITUTION. 
          RIGHT. 
          I DON'T KNOW IF MY COLLEAGUES HAVE IT OR NOT, BUT BASICALLY IT'S JUST NOT ACKNOWLEDGING HIS LIFE AND YES. 
          YOU KNOW, ACKNOWLEDGING THAT HE HAS TRANSITIONED. 
          MADAM, MADAM MAYOR. 
          YES. 
          COUNCILOR MCGOVERN, UH, COUNCILOR THROUGH YOU TO COUNCILOR SIMMONS. 
          WOULD YOU, UM, ALSO ADD ME AS A CO-SPONSOR? CAN WE VOTE THAT TOO? I KNEW THE FAMILY VERY WELL AS WELL. 
          ABSOLUTELY. 
          ABSOLUTELY. 
          SO I WOULD MOVE THAT WE ADD COUNCILOR MCGOVERN TO, UM, TO THE POLICY RESOLUTION. 
          AND BECAUSE IT'S MADE UNANIMOUS UPON ADOPTION, EACH MEMBER WILL BE, UM, LISTED AS FULLY SUPPORTING, UH, THIS, UH, RESOLUTION. 
          SO THE AMENDED, UM, AMENDMENT IS BEFORE US, AND WE CAN GO AHEAD AND ADOPT, UM, AND DO A ROLL CALL ON THE AMENDMENT COUNCIL OR ZUBE? YES. 
          YES. 
          VICE MAYOR ZE. 
          YES. 
          YES. 
          COUNCIL OF FLAHERTY. 
          YES. 
          MAY GOD HAVE MERCY AND THE SOUL COUNCILOR MCGOVERN? YES. 
          YES. 
          YES. 
          COUNCILLOR NOLAN. 
          YES. 
          YES. 
          COUNCILLOR SIMMONS. 
          YES. 
          YES. 
          COUNCILOR SABRINA WHEELER. 
          YES. 
          YES. 
          COUNCILLOR ZUI. 
          YES. 
          YES. 
          MAYOR SIMMONS. 
          YES. 
          YES. 
          AND YOU HAVE NINE MEMBERS RECORDED IN THE AFFIRMATIVE, BUT I THINK, I'M SORRY, NEAR SIDIKI , I DIDN'T EVEN NOTICE. 
          YES. 
          . 
          SORRY. 
          UH, AND IT'S OKAY. 
          WE'LL ADD, UM, COUNCILOR MCGOVERN. 
          UM, THANK YOU. 
          YES, MAYOR SIDIKI. 
          I'M READING THROUGH THIS VERY QUICKLY, AND ONE OF THE THINGS FOR ME, UH, THAT STOOD OUT ABOUT MR. WILLIAMS IS HE, HE LOVED CENTRAL SQUARE AND WAS FONDLY REGARDED AS THE VICE MAYOR OF CENTRAL SQUARE. 
          AND I DON'T SEE IT, AND I WOULD JUST LIKE TO ADD THAT LINE, UH, SOMEPLACE APPROPRIATELY. 
          UM, YOU KNOW, WHERE IT SAYS DONYA WILLIAMS SHALL BE FONDLY MEMBERED AT, FOR HIS LIFETIME CONTRIBUTION IS LEFT OF CENTRAL SQUARE. 
          THE, AND, AND JOY AND HUMANITY HAS BROUGHT TO SO MANY THROUGHOUT CAMBRIDGE 
          [05:30:01]
COMMUNITY. 
          AND NOW, THEREFORE, BE, I, I WOULD, I'M TRYING TO THINK ABOUT SHOEHORNING FOLLOWING ME, MEMBER FOR HIS LIFELONG AND CONTRIBUTION AND BEING THE UNOFFICIAL, UH, MAYOR, UH, A VICE MAYOR OF CENTRAL SQUARE. 
          I WOULD SHOE THAT IN IF PEOPLE WOULD, UH, ACCEPT THAT WITHOUT HAVING ME WRITE IT OUT. 
          THANK YOU. 
          UM, MS. STEFAN, YOU, YOU'RE, SO, IT'S PERFECT WHEN IT COMES TO THIS. 
          SO THANK YOU AS VICE MAYOR. 
          AS THE VICE MAYOR OF CENTRAL SQUARE. 
          YES. 
          SO WE CAN GO AHEAD AND, UM, AND VIEW THAT AS A FRIENDLY AMENDMENT. 
          UH, BUT WE CAN ADD, WE CAN ADD THAT, AND THEN ALSO ADD COUNCILOR MCGOVERN AS THE SECOND CO-SPONSOR AND DO A ROLL CALL. 
          COUNCILOR ZUBIE? YES. 
          YES. 
          VICE MAYOR ZE. 
          YES. 
          YES. 
          COUNCILOR FLAHERTY. 
          YES. 
          YES. 
          COUNCILOR MCGOVERN. 
          YES. 
          YES. 
          COUNCILLOR NOLAN. 
          YES. 
          YES. 
          COUNCILLOR SIMMONS. 
          YES. 
          YES. 
          COUNCILLOR SABRINA WHEELER. 
          YES. 
          YES. 
          COUNCILLOR EY. 
          YES. 
          YES. 
          MAYOR SIDIKI. 
          YES. 
          YES. 
          AND YOU HAVE NINE MEMBERS RECORDING THE AFFIRMATIVE, MY CONDOLENCES AS WELL TO HIS FAMILY. 
          AND, UM, I KNOW HIS DAUGHTER. 
          UH, SO WE'LL, WE'LL MISS HIM. 
          SO WE'LL GO AHEAD AND DO, UM, A ROLL CALL ON ADOPTING THE, UH, AMENDED RESOLUTION. 
          WE JUST DID THAT, MADAM MAYOR. 
          I THOUGHT WE ADDED, WE ADDED, WE DID THE AMENDMENT, AND THEN WE ADDED MARK, BUT WE DIDN'T DO A RES, WE DIDN'T DO A ROLL CALL ON THE RESOLUTION AS AMENDED. 
          OH, I'M SORRY. 
          I HAD COUNTED COUNT. 
          I HAD COUNSELOR MCGOVERN HAS ADDED IN THE PREVIOUS VOTE. 
          THAT'S FINE. 
          UM, SO ON THE AMENDMENT BY SUBSTITUTION AND TO ADD COUNCIL MCGOVERN NO, NO, WE DID THAT. 
          WE DID ALL THAT. 
          BUT NOW WE HAVE TO VOTE ON THE, ALL, THE WHOLE RESOLUTION AS AMEN. 
          WE JUST ADDED THE VICE CHAIR LINE AS WELL. 
          VICE MAYOR. 
          OKAY. 
          THANK YOU. 
          COUNCILOR ZUBE? YES. 
          YES. 
          VICE? YES. 
          YES. 
          COUNCIL FLAHERTY? YES. 
          YES. 
          COUNCIL MCGOVERN? YES. 
          YES. 
          COUNCILOR NOLAN? YES. 
          YES. 
          COUNCILOR SIMMONS. 
          YES. 
          YES. 
          COUNCILOR SABRINA WHEELER. 
          YES. 
          YES. 
          COUNCILOR ZUI. 
          YES. 
          YES. 
          MAYOR SIMMONS. 
          I'M SORRY. 
          MAYOR SIDIKI. 
          YES. 
          YES. 
          YOU HAVE NINE AFFIRMATIVE . 
          OKAY. 
          ALL GOOD. 
          ALL GOOD. 
          SO THERE WERE LESS, THE RESOLUTION AS AMENDED WAS ADOPTED. 
          WE'RE GOING ON TO RESOLUTION NUMBER TWO. 
          UH, CONDOLENCES ON THE DEATH OF RENEE ADA. 
          UH, THIS WAS FILED BY COUNCIL FLAHERTY. 
          COUNCILOR FLAHERTY. 
          YOU HAVE THE FOUR? YES. 
          JUST PER, VERY BRIEFLY. 
          AND I KNOW SOME OF MY COLLEAGUES ATTENDED THE CELEBRATION OF LIFE FOR RENEE LAST WEEK AT THE CHARLES HOTEL. 
          AND, UM, I WAS JUST, I JUST WANTED TO MENTION THAT I WAS STRUCK BY HER HUMANITY AND HER GENEROSITY. 
          THERE WERE SEVERAL SPEAKERS THAT MENTIONED HER IMPACT, UH, ON THEIR LIVES, UH, AND WHAT A VIBRANT PERSON SHE WAS BEYOND BEING SUCH A TALENTED PERSON. 
          THEN HER, HER HUSBAND PAUL, UM, YOU KNOW, TOLD STORIES ABOUT HOW SHE WOULD, UM, SHE WAS A MASTER PUZZLER. 
          WHENEVER THERE WAS A, A 4,000 PIECE PUZZLE, SHE WOULD, SHE WOULD ASSEMBLE IT IN THE HOUSE. 
          AND, UH, AND THEY HAD A LAUGH ABOUT THAT. 
          BUT I WAS STRUCK BY JUST THE TREMENDOUS LOVE THEY HAVE FOR ONE ANOTHER AND THE IMPACT SHE'S HAD ON SO MANY DIFFERENT PEOPLE. 
          AND WHAT A LOSS SHE IS. 
          NOT JUST TO PAUL, BUT TO THE CITY OF CAMBRIDGE, AND JUST WHAT A TREMENDOUS HUMAN BEING AND GENTLEMAN PAUL IS. 
          HE'S AN OUTSTANDING EXAMPLE TO ALL OF US. 
          AND HE'S BEEN A GREAT FRIEND AND, UH, A WONDERFUL PROPRIETOR OF THE HONG KONG RESTAURANT IN HARVARD SQUARE. 
          AND I JUST, UM, I, I JUST WANNA OFFER MY CONDOLENCES TO HIM AND TO THE ENTIRE FAMILY. 
          UM, THEY'RE JUST EXCELLENT PEOPLE. 
          SO THANK YOU VERY MUCH, MADAM MAYOR. 
          I YIELD, I AGREED. 
          THANK YOU, COUNCILOR FLAHERTY. 
          ANY OTHER COMMENTS? WE'LL DO, WE WILL GO AHEAD AND, UH, DO A ROLL CALL ON ADOPTION, MAKING IT UNANIMOUS UPON ADOPTION. 
          COUNCILOR ZUBE? YES. 
          YES. 
          VICE MAYOR Z? YES. 
          YES. 
          COUNCIL OF FLAHERTY? YES. 
          YES. 
          COUNCILOR MCGOVERN. 
          YES. 
          YES. 
          COUNCILOR NOLAN. 
          YES. 
          YES. 
          COUNCILLOR SIMMONS. 
          YES. 
          YES. 
          COUNCILLOR SABRINA WHEELER. 
          YES. 
          YES. 
          COUNCILLOR EY. 
          YES. 
          YES. 
          MAYOR SIDIKI. 
          YES. 
          [05:35:01]
YES. 
          AND YOU HAVE NINE MEMBERS RECORDED IN THE AFFIRMATIVE. 
          THE RESOLUTIONS ARE ADOPTED. 
          WE ARE 
          [COMMITTEE REPORTS]
GOING TO COMMITTEE REPORTS. 
          THERE ARE FOUR. 
          PLEASURE OF THE COMMITTEE, CITY COUNCIL. 
          ACCEPT THE COMMITTEE REPORTS IN PLACE ON FILE ON THAT MOTION FROM COUNCILOR SIMMONS. 
          WE'LL DO A ROLL CALL. 
          COUNCILOR ZUBE? YES. 
          YES. 
          VICE ZE. 
          YES. 
          YES. 
          COUNCILOR FLAHERTY. 
          YES. 
          YES. 
          COUNCILOR MCGOVERN. 
          YES. 
          YES. 
          COUNCILOR NOLAN. 
          YES. 
          YES. 
          COUNCILOR SIMMONS. 
          YES. 
          YES. 
          COUNCILOR SABRINA WHEELER. 
          YES. 
          YES. 
          COUNCILOR ZUI. 
          YES. 
          YES. 
          MAYOR SIDIKI. 
          YES. 
          YES. 
          AND YOU HAVE NINE MEMBERS RECORDED IN THE AFFIRMATIVE. 
          THE FOUR COMMITTEE REP COMMITTEE REPORTS ARE PLACED ON FILE. 
          THERE ARE NO, UH, ROUND TABLE MINUTES. 
          THERE ARE 
          [COMMUNICATIONS FROM OTHER CITY OFFICERS]
THREE REMAINING COMMUNICATIONS FROM OTHER CITY OFFICERS. 
          UM, WE'VE, WELL, NO, THERE'S, UM, TWO, ONLY ONE. 
          UM, NO, ONLY TWO. 
          SO WE CAN DO A ROLL CALL ON THAT, ON THE BALANCE PLACE. 
          ON FILE. 
          I'M PLACING THEM ON FILE FROM COUNCILOR NOLAN. 
          COUNCILOR ZUBI. 
          YES. 
          YES. 
          VICE MAYOR. 
          YES. 
          YES. 
          COUNCILOR FLAHERTY. 
          YES. 
          YES. 
          COUNCILOR MCGOVERN. 
          YES. 
          YES. 
          COUNCILLOR NOLAN. 
          YES. 
          YES. 
          COUNCILLOR SIMMONS. 
          YES. 
          YES. 
          COUNCILLOR SABRINA WHEELER. 
          YES. 
          YES. 
          COUNCILOR ZUI. 
          YES. 
          YES. 
          MAYOR SIDIKI. 
          YES. 
          YES. 
          AND YOU HAVE NINE MEMBERS RECORDED IN THE AFFIRMATIVE. 
          THOSE COMMUNICATIONS AND REPORTS FROM OTHER CITY OFFICERS ARE PLACED ON FILE. 
          UH, WE WILL MOVE ON. 
          THERE'S, ARE 
          [LATE AGENDA ITEMS REQUIRING SUSPENSION OF THE RULES PER RULE 36A]
THERE ANY LATE RESOLUTIONS, CLERK? NO, I DO NOT HAVE ANY LATE RESOLUTIONS. 
          I DO HAVE ONE LATE POLICY ORDER. 
          SO WE HAVE ONE LATE POLICY ORDER, WHICH REQUIRES A SUSPENSION OF THE RULES. 
          SO ON SUSPENSION, WE'LL DO A ROLL CALL. 
          COUNCILOR ZUBE? YES. 
          YES. 
          VICE MAYOR ZI. 
          YES. 
          YES. 
          COUNCIL OF FLAHERTY. 
          YES. 
          YES. 
          COUNCIL MCGOVERN. 
          YES. 
          YES. 
          COUNCILOR NOLAN. 
          YES. 
          YES. 
          COUNCILOR SIMMONS. 
          YES. 
          YES. 
          COUNCILLOR SABRINA WHEELER. 
          YES. 
          YES. 
          COUNCILLOR ZUI. 
          YES. 
          YES. 
          MAYOR SIDIKI. 
          YES. 
          YES. 
          AND YOU HAVE NINE MEMBERS RECORDING THE AFFIRMATIVE. 
          WE ARE IN SUSPENSION, SO WE CAN BRING FORWARD THE LATE POLICY ORDER. 
          COUNCILLOR S WHEELER. 
          THANKS. 
          MAD MAYOR THROUGH YOU. 
          UM, THIS POLICY ORDER ASKS THE CITY MANAGER, DIRECT STAFF TO, UH, REQUEST THAT FLAGS BE LOWERED TO HALF STAFF, UH, FOR ONE WEEK. 
          AND, UH, RECOGNITION OF THE HORRIFIC KILLINGS OF PEOPLE, UH, WHO ARE TRYING TO EXERCISE THEIR FIRST AMENDMENT RIGHTS BY FEDERAL AGENTS IN MINNESOTA, OR, OR IN SOME CASES WHO ARE TRYING TO PROTECT OTHER PEOPLE. 
          WE HAD A NUMBER OF RESIDENTS, UH, CAMBRIDGE RESIDENTS REACH OUT ABOUT THIS OVER THE PAST TWO DAYS. 
          UM, I THINK IT'S A FITTING WAY TO, TO HONOR THE FOLKS AND REALLY RECOGNIZE WHAT'S, YOU KNOW, A TRAGIC MOMENT IN OUR, OUR COUNTRY'S HISTORY THAT WE HAVEN'T SEEN FOR, FOR DECADES, REALLY. 
          UM, I REACHED OUT TO THE CITY STAFF AND THE LAW DEPARTMENT, UH, AFTER WE STARTED, UH, GETTING QUESTIONS ABOUT THIS FROM RESIDENTS, MADE CLEAR THAT, YOU KNOW, WE, THE CITY DOES HAVE THE AUTHORITY TO MAKE FLAG LOWERING DECISIONS ON OUR OWN AS A CITY, EVEN WITHOUT THE ORDER FROM A GOVERNOR. 
          AND THAT IT WOULD BE APPROPRIATE, UH, FOR US AS A COUNCIL TO PUT AN ELITE POLICY ORDER TONIGHT, DIRECTING THE CITY MANAGER TO DO SO. 
          UM, ALSO JUST WANNA BE CLEAR THAT THIS IS NOT THE ONLY WAY WE ARE THINKING OF RESPONDING TO THE ACTIONS OF ICE AS A PUBLIC. 
          AND, YOU KNOW, IT SHOULDN'T BE, UH, INTERPRETED THAT WAY. 
          UM, IT'S SOMETHING WE CAN DO, YOU KNOW, IMMEDIATELY TO RESPOND TO IT. 
          WE ARE ALSO, UH, AT LEAST FOR MYSELF, CONSIDERING ADDITIONAL POLICY SOLUTIONS AND HAVE BEEN IN TOUCH WITH CITY STAFF AND LEGAL ADVOCATES ABOUT, YOU KNOW, THE HORRIFIC ACTIONS WE'VE SEEN, BOTH HOW TO RESPOND TO THEM AND HOW TO BE PREPARED AND, AND PROTECT OUR RESIDENTS. 
          UM, I'LL DEFER TO IF ANY OF THE CO-SPONSORS WANNA SPEAK ON THIS, UH, AND BE BACK. 
          ANY COMMENTS? YES. 
          COUNCILLOR MCGOVERN. 
          THANK YOU, MADAM MAYOR, THROUGH YOU. 
          UH, I WANNA THANK COUNCIL SABRINA WHEELER, UH, AND THE OTHER CO-SPONSORS, UH, FOR PUTTING THIS FORWARD. 
          AND JUST, UM, AND AS, AS COUNCILOR SABRINA WHEELER SAID, THERE, THERE ARE OTHER ACTIONS THAT FEW OF US ARE WORKING ON, UM, TO REALLY TRY TO ENSURE SAFETY IN OUR, IN OUR OWN COMMUNITY, BUT ALSO, UH, RESPECT AND SUPPORT, UH, OTHER CITIES THAT ARE, UH, CURRENTLY SEEING VERY UNSAFE, UM, UH, CONDITIONS ON THEIR STREETS. 
          UH, YOU KNOW, I COULD CERTAINLY GO ON FOR QUITE A WHILE ON MY FEELINGS ABOUT ICE AND, AND THEIR TACTICS AND THE VIOLENCE THAT THEY'RE CAUSING. 
          UH, I WILL LEAVE THAT FOR ANOTHER TIME. 
          UM, BUT I DO, UM, I DO APPRECIATE THIS AND SHARING SOLIDARITY WITH, UH, THE PEOPLE OF MINNESOTA AND THE FAMILIES OF THE VICTIMS, UH, AT THE HANDS OF THIS, UH, 
          [05:40:01]
LEGALIZED MILITIA BY THE PRESIDENT. 
          THANK YOU, COUNCILOR NOLAN. 
          THANK YOU, MAYOR SIDIKI. 
          I APPRECIATE THIS. 
          ALSO, I HAD BEEN, UH, ALSO WORKING ON SOMETHING AND THEN WAS TOLD THERE WAS ALREADY A LATE ORDER IN PROCESS. 
          SO I'D LOVE TO BE ADDED TO THIS ORDER AND TO RECOGNIZE FOR SOME FOLKS THAT WHO MAY HAVE CONCERNS THAT, HOW DO WE DECIDE WHAT TO DO THIS? WELL, THIS IS A TIME THAT WE NEED TO STAND UP VERY CLEARLY AND SAY THESE DEATHS ARE COMPLETELY, UH, NECESSARY FOR US TO ACKNOWLEDGE THAT THEY ARE BEYOND THE PALE, AND THAT WE AS A CITY CAN STAND UP AND ACKNOWLEDGE JUST THROUGH THE SYMBOLIC GESTURE. 
          AND YET, WE'VE DONE A LOT OF OTHER WORK, AND WE'LL CONTINUE TO DO WORK TO MAKE SURE THAT WE ARE STANDING ON THE SIDE OF, UH, DEMOCRACY AND JUSTICE AND AGAINST WHAT TOO MANY ELEMENTS OF THE, UH, FEDERAL GOVERNMENT HAD BECOME. 
          SO, UM, I APPRECIATE THIS ORDER AND RECOGNIZE THAT, UM, WE ARE IN VERY, UH, SCARY TIMES. 
          THANK YOU COUNCILOR NOLAN. 
          WE'LL, UM, CERTAINLY ADD YOU. 
          AND I'LL JUST GO AROUND, UM, TO HEAR FROM OTHERS. 
          COUNCILOR AZI, UH, JUST WANTED TO THANK, UM, UH, ALL THE SPONSORS AND ESPECIALLY COUNCILOR SABRINA WHEELER FOR, UH, LEADING ON THIS. 
          I JUST WANTED TO BE ADDED AS WELL. 
          DOES ANYONE ELSE LIKE TO BE ADDED? WE'LL GO AHEAD AND JUST ADD, UH, COUNCILOR, UM, NOLAN AND INE AND DO A ROLL CALL. 
          COUNCILOR ZUBI? YES. 
          YES. 
          VICE MAYOR ZE? YES. 
          YES. 
          COUNCIL FLAHERTY? YES. 
          YES. 
          COUNCILOR MCGOVERN? YES. 
          YES. 
          COUNCILOR NOLAN. 
          COUNCILOR NOLAN. 
          OH, SORRY. 
          YES. 
          YES. 
          COUNCILOR SIMMONS. 
          YES. 
          YES. 
          COUNCILOR SABRINA WHEELER. 
          YES. 
          YES. 
          COUNCILOR ZUEY. 
          YES. 
          YES. 
          MAYOR SIDIKI. 
          YES. 
          YES. 
          AND YOU HAVE NINE MEMBERS RECORDED IN THE AFFIRMATIVE. 
          WOULD ANYONE ELSE LIKE TO BE HEARD ON THIS BEFORE WE ADOPT? HEARING NONE? WE'LL GO AHEAD AND DO A ROLL CALL ON THE POLICY ORDER ON THE LATE POLICY ORDER AS AMENDED. 
          COUNCILOR ZUBE? YES. 
          YES. 
          VICE MAYOR Z? YES. 
          YES. 
          COUNCIL COUNCILOR FLAHERTY? YES. 
          YES. 
          COUNCILOR MCGOVERN. 
          YES. 
          YES. 
          COUNCILLOR NOLAN. 
          YES. 
          YES. 
          COUNCILLOR SIMMONS. 
          YES. 
          YES. 
          COUNCILLOR SABRINA WHEELER. 
          YES. 
          YES. 
          COUNCILLOR EY. 
          YES. 
          YES. 
          MAYOR SIDIKI. 
          YES. 
          YES. 
          AND YOU HAVE NINE MEMBERS RECORDED IN THE AFFIRMATIVE. 
          THE LATE POLICY ORDER AS AMENDED IS, UM, ADOPTED. 
          SO WE'RE DONE WITH THE AGENDA. 
          ANY ANNOUNCEMENTS? YES, MAYOR, IF I COUNCILLOR SIMMONS, I JUST WANTED TO LET PEOPLE KNOW THE SPECIFICS FOR DONALD WILLIAMS' FUNERAL VISITING HOURS WILL BE HELD AT ROGER'S FUNERAL HOME, THREE 80 CAMBRIDGE STREET IN CAMBRIDGE ON FRIDAY. 
          THAT'S THIS FRIDAY, THE 30TH OF JANUARY FROM FOUR TO 8:00 PM THERE'LL BE A FUNERAL MASS FOR O'DONNELL ON SATURDAY, JANUARY 31ST AT THE SACRED HEART CHURCH. 
          49 SIXTH STREET IN CAMBRIDGE AT 10:00 AM THEN PE THEY WILL BE GOING TO THE CEMETERY. 
          THERE'LL BE A REPAS AT THE AMERICAN LEGION MARSH POACH. 
          4, 4, 2 AT THREE GOODO BOULEVARD. 
          AND THAT'S FROM 12 TO FOUR. 
          THANK YOU FOR, UM, SHARING THAT INFORMATION. 
          ANY OTHER ANNOUNCEMENTS FROM THE BODY? HEARING NONE ON A MOTION. 
          QUICK REMINDER. 
          OH, GO AHEAD, COUNSELOR. 
          CLARITY, QUICK REMINDER. 
          THE BASKETBALL GAME BETWEEN THE CAMBRIDGE POLICE AND THE CAMBRIDGE WARRIORS OF SPECIAL NEEDS, UM, UH, BASKETBALL TEAM. 
          IS THIS SATURDAY AT THE WAR MEMORIAL? FIVE O'CLOCK. 
          UM, BE THERE. 
          BE SQUARE. 
          THANK YOU. 
          THANK YOU. 
          ANY, SORRY. 
          DON'T SEE ANYONE ELSE. 
          THANK YOU. 
          UH, WE'LL GO AHEAD ON COUNCILOR SIMMONS. 
          MOTION TO ADJOURN. 
          DO A ROLL CALL. 
          COUNCIL. 
          FLORE ZUBY. 
          YES. 
          YES. 
          VICE MAYOR ZE? YES. 
          YES. 
          COUNCILOR FLAHERTY? YES. 
          YES. 
          COUNCILOR MCGOVERN. 
          YES. 
          YES. 
          COUNCILLOR NOLAN? YES. 
          YES. 
          COUNCILLOR SIMMONS. 
          YES. 
          YES. 
          COUNCILLOR SABRINA WHEELER. 
          YES. 
          YES. 
          COUNCILLOR ZUI. 
          YES. 
          YES. 
          MAYOR SIDIKI. 
          YES. 
          YES. 
          AND YOU HAVE NINE MEMBERS RECORDING THE AFFIRMATIVE. 
          GOODNIGHT. 
          THANK YOU EVERYONE.
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