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1177
01:29:58,630 --> 01:29:59,880
when he came home.
1178
01:30:00,550 --> 01:30:06,800
But his wife wrote to him and told him that
she was just so happy that he was alive.
1179
01:30:06,970 --> 01:30:09,050
He cried and I cried too.
1180
01:30:09,340 --> 01:30:13,550
The Street right down a few houses
away from me
1181
01:30:13,670 --> 01:30:18,720
was named Andrew Biggio Square and
as I was introduced, that�s my name.
1182
01:30:19,380 --> 01:30:23,510
Except that Square was not named after me.
It was named after my uncle
1183
01:30:23,720 --> 01:30:26,010
who was killed in action in World War II.
1184
01:30:26,920 --> 01:30:28,630
The first Andrew Biggio.
1185
01:30:30,300 --> 01:30:32,196
When I was a kid
I didn�t know anything about it.
1186
01:30:32,220 --> 01:30:36,130
I told the other kids just what my parents
told me that it was named after my uncle.
1187
01:30:36,590 --> 01:30:41,630
It wasn�t until I was getting ready
to go to my first tour in Iraq...
1188
01:30:42,130 --> 01:30:46,300
I was looking at that Street sign
saying Andrew Biggio Square
1189
01:30:47,630 --> 01:30:50,220
and it was a weird feeling knowing that
1190
01:30:50,840 --> 01:30:51,840
I was the...
1191
01:30:52,630 --> 01:30:54,510
I'm the next Andrew Biggio to go to war
1192
01:30:54,670 --> 01:30:57,970
and the first Andrew Biggio went
to war and didn�t come back, so...
1193
01:30:58,670 --> 01:31:02,670
I survived Iraq.
I survived a tour in Afghanistan
1194
01:31:03,260 --> 01:31:06,970
and I came home and I was staring
at that Street sign again and I said
1195
01:31:07,130 --> 01:31:12,840
I got to find out what happened to that first
Andrew Biggio on that hill in Italy in 1944.
1196
01:31:13,300 --> 01:31:17,940
I went to my grandmother�s house. I asked her if she still
had Andrew�s letters that he wrote home from World War II.
1197
01:31:18,010 --> 01:31:22,840
She said she did. I went upstairs. I pulled the
shoebox out of letters and I started reading them.
1198
01:31:23,260 --> 01:31:26,670
I started to track down men
from his company that were with him.
1199
01:31:28,840 --> 01:31:31,130
It went from men from his company
1200
01:31:31,590 --> 01:31:36,010
to different types of Veterans and I ended up
covering almost the whole war on the rifle as far as
1201
01:31:36,130 --> 01:31:38,880
divisions, places, battles.
1202
01:31:40,800 --> 01:31:42,550
How did I get the rifle?
1203
01:31:42,840 --> 01:31:45,090
I go through Andrew�s letters and I read
1204
01:31:45,420 --> 01:31:47,760
on how much he enjoyed to shoot
the M1 Garand.
1205
01:31:48,670 --> 01:31:51,550
I said I�m going to buy an M1.
We should have this
1206
01:31:51,970 --> 01:31:56,300
in our family history, we should have it
forever. He died carrying this kind of a rifle.
1207
01:31:56,550 --> 01:31:58,550
I purchased the M1
1208
01:31:58,720 --> 01:32:01,800
and I�m in my house
and I�m aiming in at the wall and I�m
1209
01:32:02,300 --> 01:32:07,260
playing Army man again at 30 years old
in my living room.
1210
01:32:08,010 --> 01:32:10,090
But I said, who do I bring this to?
1211
01:32:10,260 --> 01:32:14,720
I can�t show my family. Would they
really understand? They�re not Veterans.
1212
01:32:15,010 --> 01:32:17,760
It�s great, but now what?
I bought the rifle, now what?
1213
01:32:17,920 --> 01:32:22,510
How do I fit the puzzle piece together on
what happened to that first Andrew Biggio?
1214
01:32:23,550 --> 01:32:26,920
So I thought about my neighbor.
My next door neighbor, Joe.
1215
01:32:27,260 --> 01:32:33,010
He had fought in the Battle of Okinawa and
was a grouchy prick to me my whole life.
1216
01:32:35,170 --> 01:32:39,920
Anytime a foul ball would land
in his backyard I�d hear an earful from,
1217
01:32:40,090 --> 01:32:45,010
he wouldn�t crack a smile to me
until I graduated Marine Corp Bootcamp.
1218
01:32:45,340 --> 01:32:48,720
Then I started to see him
wave to me from his yard.
1219
01:32:48,880 --> 01:32:54,130
The relationship became different. So I
said I�m going to go show this rifle to Joe.
1220
01:32:54,470 --> 01:32:59,300
I went to his house, opened the door and he�s
sitting in the wheelchair. He was 92 at the time.
1221
01:33:00,720 --> 01:33:02,920
And I said hey, check what I bought.
1222
01:33:03,090 --> 01:33:07,300
I placed the rifle which was empty,
not covered in signatures like it is now,
1223
01:33:07,590 --> 01:33:09,590
I put the rifle into his arms.
1224
01:33:10,260 --> 01:33:13,420
He was in his recliner.
His legs had atrophited
1225
01:33:13,590 --> 01:33:17,380
to nothing after years of not being able
to walk at his age and illness,
1226
01:33:17,880 --> 01:33:20,260
and he brightened up.
1227
01:33:20,590 --> 01:33:22,920
It was like a burst of energy
soared through his body.
1228
01:33:23,050 --> 01:33:27,170
He started waving the rifle around the room,
smiling like he was 18 years old again.
1229
01:33:27,300 --> 01:33:30,510
I said holy crap,
I am holding something special.
1230
01:33:31,670 --> 01:33:34,760
He said go into his top drawer.
1231
01:33:36,510 --> 01:33:38,340
I want you to have these now.
1232
01:33:38,760 --> 01:33:44,090
I went into his top drawer,
I pulled out a velvet Crown Royal bag.
1233
01:33:46,130 --> 01:33:48,920
Inside of it were Japanese gold teeth.
1234
01:33:49,470 --> 01:33:51,510
He said, I want you to have these now.
1235
01:33:52,380 --> 01:33:58,670
Now, I�m not sitting here justifying war
or what happened in the 1940s, but
1236
01:33:59,340 --> 01:34:02,550
I figured out this is why this man
was a grouch.
1237
01:34:02,920 --> 01:34:06,130
I finally understand what was
bothering this man my whole life
1238
01:34:06,300 --> 01:34:08,840
and what he had seen
and what he had went through.
1239
01:34:10,550 --> 01:34:15,800
I wanted to, this was more than just
oh my God, let me hear a war story.
1240
01:34:16,050 --> 01:34:18,510
He began to pass on the advice,
1241
01:34:18,720 --> 01:34:24,260
life advice and suggestions on how to
live a long successful life after combat.
1242
01:34:24,630 --> 01:34:27,170
I was 28
1243
01:34:28,220 --> 01:34:31,630
when I had this conversation with him
and he was 92.
1244
01:34:32,510 --> 01:34:36,510
I said, I want to remember this forever.
I said Joe sign the rifle.
1245
01:34:36,840 --> 01:34:38,550
He was the first signature on it.
1246
01:34:38,920 --> 01:34:41,010
I left his house and I
said I�m going to go around
1247
01:34:41,130 --> 01:34:44,970
and get as many World War II
Veteran signatures as possible.
1248
01:34:45,130 --> 01:34:49,380
I want to be able to pass on to the younger
Veterans how to live a long successful life,
1249
01:34:49,630 --> 01:34:51,510
to have a career, have a job
1250
01:34:51,970 --> 01:34:56,590
If these men could do it, what they saw
in Okinawa, Iwo Jima, Normandy, Burma,
1251
01:34:57,010 --> 01:35:01,630
France, Belgium, Germany,
Saipan, Tarawa, Tinian,
1252
01:35:02,420 --> 01:35:04,760
that our generation could do it too.
1253
01:35:05,420 --> 01:35:07,260
And that is the story of the rifle.
1254
01:35:08,550 --> 01:35:09,550
We come out
1255
01:35:09,760 --> 01:35:11,800
of the factory,
and for you Ramadi vets,
1256
01:35:12,090 --> 01:35:13,800
we�re out on Route Michigan
1257
01:35:15,340 --> 01:35:18,050
and we stop two possible VBEDs.
1258
01:35:21,130 --> 01:35:26,920
They�re both coming down Michigan
to the point that we have
1259
01:35:27,340 --> 01:35:28,550
I believe two Humvees.
1260
01:35:28,840 --> 01:35:34,010
We stop. Everyone dismounts to get more
guns down range to back off the vehicles.
1261
01:35:36,420 --> 01:35:39,760
While that happened
about 450 to 600 meters out
1262
01:35:40,300 --> 01:35:45,260
I look at what would be known as the White
Apartments for anybody that served in Ramadi.
1263
01:35:47,260 --> 01:35:49,420
There�s three military aged males or...
1264
01:35:50,840 --> 01:35:54,300
At that time because I�m old in comparison
to these new kids, Al-Qaeda,
1265
01:35:54,550 --> 01:35:56,720
on a roof
and they�re tactically observing us.
1266
01:35:57,050 --> 01:35:58,800
So I go to take the shot
1267
01:35:59,720 --> 01:36:03,920
and then its Ramadi, it�s the middle of the day.
Everyone�s getting sniped, everyone�s getting killed.
1268
01:36:04,090 --> 01:36:08,170
I�m going to tell the Lieutenant I�m making
the shot so guys don�t think its incoming fire.
1269
01:36:08,720 --> 01:36:11,840
When I go to take the shot,
the whole thing was a setup.
1270
01:36:12,760 --> 01:36:14,760
It was a sniper from my three.
1271
01:36:14,880 --> 01:36:19,090
So I turned at the last second before
I took the shot to tell the Lieutenant.
1272
01:36:20,920 --> 01:36:23,800
The round actually blew
through my holographic sight
1273
01:36:24,010 --> 01:36:25,920
and into the side of my chest.
1274
01:36:26,380 --> 01:36:28,380
But I didn�t know that at the time.
1275
01:36:29,010 --> 01:36:31,090
So, I said I�m hit.
1276
01:36:31,920 --> 01:36:36,630
I get in the Humvee and then I said no,
I said I�m good.
1277
01:36:36,800 --> 01:36:41,380
I said it�s not being top. I said your adrenalin
goes through the roof. Anybody that�s been shot here,
1278
01:36:41,800 --> 01:36:46,010
my man over there knows to say the least.
And I said no, I�m good.
1279
01:36:46,170 --> 01:36:48,510
They stop the Humvee,
I go to get back out of it,
1280
01:36:48,720 --> 01:36:52,130
I open the door and my platoon sergeant
reaches over and grabs me
1281
01:36:52,380 --> 01:36:54,800
because blood's coming out
of the side of my chest.
1282
01:36:54,970 --> 01:36:56,300
And I know at that point
1283
01:36:57,840 --> 01:36:59,600
he hit me exactly where
he wanted to hit me,
1284
01:36:59,760 --> 01:37:02,400
they were shooting through the side
of the pectoral into the heart.
1285
01:37:02,550 --> 01:37:05,880
We believe that same sniper killed
a couple of my friends the same exact way.
1286
01:37:06,170 --> 01:37:11,340
They rushed me into the forward
operating base and on the operating table.
1287
01:37:14,670 --> 01:37:20,880
I think OK, maybe a piece of plate got me.
I feel good. I�m feeling fine.
1288
01:37:25,380 --> 01:37:28,170
I get out of the Humvee and
that�s always a big thing. Everybody knows
1289
01:37:28,340 --> 01:37:31,590
if you can walk in the hospital,
even if you die on the floor,
1290
01:37:31,760 --> 01:37:35,220
if you walk into the hospital, that�s
how it goes. So I said don�t touch me.
1291
01:37:35,380 --> 01:37:36,670
Take my clothes off
1292
01:37:36,840 --> 01:37:40,300
and one of the baddest guys
I�ve ever met in my entire life
1293
01:37:40,470 --> 01:37:46,090
that had survived a battle over there
with a handful of our guys getting killed
1294
01:37:46,420 --> 01:37:48,220
and you know he was...
1295
01:37:53,170 --> 01:37:55,720
one of two survivors
out of like seven guys.
1296
01:37:56,300 --> 01:37:58,260
He looks at me and he�s mortified.
1297
01:37:58,470 --> 01:38:01,260
And I have a big gaping hole
on the side of my chest.
1298
01:38:01,420 --> 01:38:04,340
What happened was because it shot
through my holographic sight,
1299
01:38:04,550 --> 01:38:06,420
it created like buckshot.
1300
01:38:06,590 --> 01:38:10,840
So now at this point I�m like,
I know I�m going to die. It is what it is.
1301
01:38:11,260 --> 01:38:14,550
I believe in the cause, I feel good,
you know, in terms of like
1302
01:38:14,840 --> 01:38:18,170
hey this is what it�s going to be,
I�m a true believer.
1303
01:38:18,510 --> 01:38:20,590
They get me on the operating table
1304
01:38:22,300 --> 01:38:24,630
I�m saying, no but I, you know,
I feel good.
1305
01:38:24,970 --> 01:38:28,766
They tell me the bullet�s still inside so everyone�s
just waiting for me to bleed out on the table,
1306
01:38:28,790 --> 01:38:30,590
bleed out internally and die.
1307
01:38:31,470 --> 01:38:34,670
My Commanding Officer�s holding my hand
and he said,
1308
01:38:34,840 --> 01:38:40,510
hey you know Kurt, hang in there buddy.
Do you know what the date is?
1309
01:38:42,010 --> 01:38:44,970
Do you know what�s going on?
And I said I know what you�re doing.
1310
01:38:45,130 --> 01:38:46,970
I said today�s October 10th.
1311
01:38:48,590 --> 01:38:50,720
I said I�m a lifelong Patriot�s fan.
1312
01:38:50,880 --> 01:38:54,800
Adam Vinatieri just kicked the game winning
field goal. Best kicker in football.
1313
01:38:56,220 --> 01:38:59,300
I looked around the operating room
and everyone was mortified,
1314
01:38:59,900 --> 01:39:01,800
but they knew I was going to survive.
1315
01:39:04,670 --> 01:39:06,220
I make it through surgery
1316
01:39:06,420 --> 01:39:08,130
and they said you know son,
1317
01:39:08,340 --> 01:39:12,130
thank you for your service, you�re going to
go from Ramadi to Bagdad, Bagdad to Germany,
1318
01:39:12,300 --> 01:39:15,300
Germany back to the United States.
1319
01:39:15,470 --> 01:39:19,090
I said with all due respect,
everyone�s dying, I�m not going anywhere.
1320
01:39:19,260 --> 01:39:22,470
And they said, you�re stupid.
They said
1321
01:39:24,010 --> 01:39:28,300
the bullet�s still in there,
your chest isn�t going to close.
1322
01:39:28,510 --> 01:39:30,300
No granulation. You need skin grafts.
1323
01:39:30,500 --> 01:39:33,510
You�re going to get infected
and you�re going to die over here.
1324
01:39:33,670 --> 01:39:37,720
And I said like it is what it is.
1325
01:39:38,130 --> 01:39:41,220
I�m staying.
And I checked myself out of the hospital.
1326
01:39:41,510 --> 01:39:46,760
I talked to my father via Sat phone and
then always one of my biggest supporters,
1327
01:39:47,090 --> 01:39:50,970
I called my Aunt.
She�s a former nun who then went onto be
1328
01:39:51,130 --> 01:39:52,970
very successful on Wall Street,
1329
01:39:53,380 --> 01:39:57,300
a no nonsense kind of woman
who grew up here in the City of Boston.
1330
01:39:57,590 --> 01:40:01,550
And I said, you know, I need you
to grab my back in this. I said I got shot.
1331
01:40:01,760 --> 01:40:05,920
And I�m staying. And she said, well I
wouldn�t expect anything differently.
1332
01:40:08,260 --> 01:40:10,880
I continued to fight on the ground
for eight more months
1333
01:40:11,380 --> 01:40:15,470
and you know, it was heavy.
We lost guys
1334
01:40:17,010 --> 01:40:19,260
but I wouldn�t have
done it any differently.
1335
01:40:19,420 --> 01:40:21,260
I�m an open book and I tell everyone:
1336
01:40:21,920 --> 01:40:27,090
listen, war is war and it's tough, but
honestly the hardest part was coming home.
1337
01:40:27,720 --> 01:40:31,590
I said I actually know Tommy because
I went through the home base program
1338
01:40:31,760 --> 01:40:34,510
and same thing,
not to get too organization specific.
1339
01:40:34,670 --> 01:40:37,130
But it was the best thing I ever did.
1340
01:40:39,340 --> 01:40:41,380
Because I said I wasn�t scared.
1341
01:40:41,670 --> 01:40:44,920
I wasn�t scared when I hit IEDs.
I wasn�t scared when I was shot
1342
01:40:45,090 --> 01:40:47,670
I knew I was going to die,
but I said when I came home
1343
01:40:48,090 --> 01:40:50,340
and I�m on the side of 93C and my family
1344
01:40:50,510 --> 01:40:56,300
and Local 103 has Welcome Home from Iraq,
Sergeant Kurt Power. I said it hit me.
1345
01:40:57,420 --> 01:41:00,130
What am I doing back here?
I don�t belong here anymore.
1346
01:41:00,260 --> 01:41:04,066
I had never thought I would have to prepare for
it because I never thought I was going to survive.
1347
01:41:04,090 --> 01:41:05,130
And there was a...
1348
01:41:05,920 --> 01:41:08,130
for guys and gals that were over
1349
01:41:08,300 --> 01:41:10,170
there�s a certain comfort level to that.
1350
01:41:10,670 --> 01:41:12,840
Listen we�re all
going to die someday right?
1351
01:41:13,220 --> 01:41:16,170
You know it�s sooner than later over there,
well then why sweat it?
1352
01:41:16,510 --> 01:41:20,220
That�s the reality of it.
The best way to honor the guys
1353
01:41:20,380 --> 01:41:23,970
that didn�t make it home is to do what
you can to make the world a better place
1354
01:41:25,470 --> 01:41:29,840
That�s how I live my life every day
and I just want everyone to know
1355
01:41:30,420 --> 01:41:33,970
that our coming home and our going
through things that you�re not alone.
1356
01:41:34,260 --> 01:41:36,590
We�re all in this together. Because
1357
01:41:36,760 --> 01:41:38,800
we�re losing 22 Veterans a day
1358
01:41:38,970 --> 01:41:42,510
because everyone thinks they�re the
only one that ever went through anything.
1359
01:41:42,920 --> 01:41:48,880
Nightmares and cold sweats and anxiety,
that�s all part of the process.
1360
01:41:49,050 --> 01:41:52,300
The only way we�re going
to get people to get help
1361
01:41:52,510 --> 01:41:55,380
and to continue to live another day
1362
01:41:56,090 --> 01:42:00,090
is by being open and talking about it.
So keep fighting.
1363
01:42:00,170 --> 01:42:04,670
Keep fighting for the guys that didn�t make it.
Keep fighting for the gals that didn�t make it.
1364
01:42:05,590 --> 01:42:10,220
We�re proud of all of you. Thank you so
much for your service and God bless America.
1365
01:42:11,760 --> 01:42:13,220
We went further north.
In Ai Quoc.
1366
01:42:13,550 --> 01:42:17,630
You can see it in Ken Burns� documentary.
He focuses on Con Thien.
1367
01:42:18,010 --> 01:42:20,550
But we were at Con Thien. We were
at Geo Lin, at Camp Caroll
1368
01:42:20,720 --> 01:42:23,970
and almost every time we went to one
of those places we were under siege.
1369
01:42:24,340 --> 01:42:26,090
And they were shooting rockets.
1370
01:42:26,260 --> 01:42:31,470
We could literally look right into North Vietnam. We
could see the little sparks from the artillery guns.
1371
01:42:31,720 --> 01:42:34,880
And they�d usually fire three at a time.
They�d fire them every hour.
1372
01:42:35,260 --> 01:42:39,800
Some of you have seen
the Boston Marathon bombing.
1373
01:42:40,090 --> 01:42:43,550
Remember the panic when the first bomb
went off and folks started running one way
1374
01:42:43,720 --> 01:42:46,090
and another bomb went off
and folks didn�t know what to do?
1375
01:42:46,340 --> 01:42:48,840
That�s what was happening to us every hour.
1376
01:42:49,010 --> 01:42:53,470
Three artillery rounds would come in and
guys were literally getting blown to bits.
1377
01:42:55,090 --> 01:42:55,920
It was clear
1378
01:42:56,090 --> 01:43:00,340
that we were being sacrificed. We were at the
most northern outpost that the Marines had.
1379
01:43:02,470 --> 01:43:07,630
It was almost like we were a pawn
in somebody�s chess game.
1380
01:43:08,130 --> 01:43:10,090
And I had the opportunity to call home.
1381
01:43:10,470 --> 01:43:12,130
I called my mother
1382
01:43:12,300 --> 01:43:14,800
and the first thing I said to her was Ma,
I want to just
1383
01:43:14,970 --> 01:43:19,470
apologize to you for all the problems
I caused you when I was in high school.
1384
01:43:19,970 --> 01:43:21,730
She said why are you
talking to me like this?
1385
01:43:21,760 --> 01:43:24,380
I said because you�ll probably
never see me again.
1386
01:43:24,550 --> 01:43:27,380
She said what do you mean?
I said everybody in my unit�s dying.
1387
01:43:28,090 --> 01:43:32,220
We�re the most northern outpost
that the Marines have. We�re surrounded.
1388
01:43:32,510 --> 01:43:35,670
They�re bombarding us every day.
Sometimes they don�t even bring us water.
1389
01:43:35,800 --> 01:43:37,840
We have to drink mud and eat grass.
1390
01:43:38,010 --> 01:43:42,550
And my mother said, you�re not going to die.
I said Ma, I�m trying to tell you something.
1391
01:43:42,720 --> 01:43:48,300
She said, I talk to God every day.
And you�re special. You�re coming back.
1392
01:43:48,630 --> 01:43:51,670
I said Ma, everybody�s mother
thinks they�re special.
1393
01:43:52,260 --> 01:43:55,260
I�m putting pieces of special people
in bags. Listen to what I�m saying.
1394
01:43:55,420 --> 01:43:58,340
Don�t believe what you read in the Globe
or what you see on the 6:00 news.
1395
01:43:58,380 --> 01:44:01,130
We�re losing the war.
We�re being sacrificed.
1396
01:44:01,220 --> 01:44:03,316
You�re probably not going to see me again
and she kept saying,
1397
01:44:03,340 --> 01:44:07,760
you�re coming back. She tried to tell a
joke. She said besides, you got to come back.
1398
01:44:07,920 --> 01:44:09,550
I said what do you mean?
She said,
1399
01:44:09,880 --> 01:44:11,146
if you don�t come back
who�s going to pay
1400
01:44:11,170 --> 01:44:13,630
this telephone bill?
And everytime I see or hear
1401
01:44:13,970 --> 01:44:17,130
anything about Veterans
who lost their lives in Vietnam,
1402
01:44:17,300 --> 01:44:20,760
I pull up on the corner and I see
guys with the cardboard placards
1403
01:44:21,010 --> 01:44:24,840
and their cups, I realize how blessed I am.
Having gone through all that
1404
01:44:26,010 --> 01:44:31,260
everything that I do I do it for them. I do
it for the guys that didn�t make it back.
1405
01:44:31,420 --> 01:44:34,510
I do it for the guys who lost
their arms and legs and guys who
1406
01:44:35,170 --> 01:44:36,550
even lost their minds.
1407
01:44:36,720 --> 01:44:41,840
I long for the day with all this technology, like
we walk around with computers in our pockets,
1408
01:44:42,340 --> 01:44:46,130
I long for the day
when we can evolve to a point where
1409
01:44:46,420 --> 01:44:49,880
we can resolve conflicts without sending
our sons and daughters to kill each other.
1410
01:44:50,380 --> 01:44:54,010
Let us not forget the total cost of war.
1411
01:44:54,380 --> 01:45:00,380
World War I was among the deadliest conflicts
in human history up to that time at least.
1412
01:45:01,010 --> 01:45:06,050
The total number of military
and civilian casualties in World War I
1413
01:45:06,550 --> 01:45:10,470
was around 40 million people.
1414
01:45:11,550 --> 01:45:14,010
40 million people
1415
01:45:15,760 --> 01:45:20,066
of which 9.7 military personnel
1416
01:45:20,090 --> 01:45:26,760
and approximately 10 million civilians lost
their lives as a direct result of this conflict.
1417
01:45:27,420 --> 01:45:33,340
About 23 million military personnel
were also wounded.
1418
01:45:35,050 --> 01:45:39,840
In the United States which was isolated
from the combat conflict in Europe,
1419
01:45:40,760 --> 01:45:48,760
321,000 military casualties was approximately 3 %
of the total military casualties of the Great War.
1420
01:45:50,010 --> 01:45:55,010
To put things in perspective,
and why this date is so important,
1421
01:45:55,840 --> 01:45:58,260
90 million casualties of
1422
01:45:58,420 --> 01:45:59,670
World War II
1423
01:46:00,840 --> 01:46:05,800
and later conflicts further signified
having a day each year
1424
01:46:05,970 --> 01:46:07,920
to honor and remember
1425
01:46:08,470 --> 01:46:10,800
all Veterans and their sacrifice
1426
01:46:11,300 --> 01:46:15,050
to protect our freedoms
and their way of life.
1427
01:46:16,050 --> 01:46:19,380
Thank you for your service
to our country.
1428
01:46:20,470 --> 01:46:22,590
Thank you for your sacrifice
to our country.
1429
01:46:23,260 --> 01:46:26,010
To your loved ones,
thank you to your loved ones as well.
1430
01:46:26,170 --> 01:46:28,970
Because oftentimes we don�t realize that
1431
01:46:30,420 --> 01:46:33,971
families are affected
by not having their loved ones here.
1432
01:46:34,486 --> 01:46:37,050
Any gold star families here?
We pray for you
1433
01:46:37,220 --> 01:46:41,260
and thank you as well. I have a
great uncle that fought in World War I.
1434
01:46:42,387 --> 01:46:44,550
My family and my father
didn�t talk about him much.
1435
01:46:45,340 --> 01:46:47,804
His name was Patrick and he left Ireland
1436
01:46:47,971 --> 01:46:52,470
to America and came to South Boston
and he enlisted in the Army.
1437
01:46:52,679 --> 01:46:55,637
He went over to France
and never came home.
1438
01:46:55,880 --> 01:46:58,762
I was at an event right
after I got elected Mayor,
1439
01:46:59,262 --> 01:47:02,054
and I was talking to some
World War I guys about
1440
01:47:04,090 --> 01:47:08,470
about keeping the memory alive
of World War I service members.
1441
01:47:09,090 --> 01:47:13,012
And they sent me his draft, his card.
The day he signed up.
1442
01:47:13,420 --> 01:47:17,179
And they sent me the letter that they
sent to his brother Jimmy when he died,
1443
01:47:17,387 --> 01:47:19,012
when he got killed in action.
1444
01:47:19,637 --> 01:47:21,721
We never talked about in the house
and never really
1445
01:47:22,012 --> 01:47:24,679
thought about it much.
And my father never talked about it.
1446
01:47:24,880 --> 01:47:26,346
I grew up in an Irish home,
1447
01:47:26,710 --> 01:47:29,596
you didn�t talk about your things
and I�m not a Veteran.
1448
01:47:30,090 --> 01:47:35,630
But I know the importance of telling
what�s on your heart sometimes.
1449
01:47:36,420 --> 01:47:39,800
I�m in recovery.
So my connection
1450
01:47:40,130 --> 01:47:42,137
to getting help is in recovery.
1451
01:47:43,380 --> 01:47:46,300
I grew up in Dorchester,
1452
01:47:46,470 --> 01:47:49,238
I went to work construction
and you didn�t tell your feelings back then
1453
01:47:49,262 --> 01:47:51,429
when you�re drinking and things like that.
1454
01:47:51,590 --> 01:47:53,590
My drinking got out of control
1455
01:47:54,840 --> 01:47:56,804
so much that I ended up in detox.
1456
01:47:57,760 --> 01:48:00,096
It was the last place that I wanted to be.
1457
01:48:00,590 --> 01:48:02,170
But when I was in there...
1458
01:48:03,050 --> 01:48:06,721
I didn�t go there to stop drinking.
Went there to get the heat off me.
1459
01:48:07,510 --> 01:48:10,510
But while I was in there
the first night a meeting came in,
1460
01:48:10,800 --> 01:48:15,920
you know, an AA meeting came in and they
talked and whatever it was I was interested.
1461
01:48:16,220 --> 01:48:18,420
It kind of perked my interest
and the rest of that week,
1462
01:48:18,554 --> 01:48:22,679
I listened to talk of addiction.
1463
01:48:23,970 --> 01:48:26,346
And I learned about what alcoholism was.
1464
01:48:27,470 --> 01:48:30,346
And when you get out of there
you�re not cured.
1465
01:48:30,800 --> 01:48:33,637
The key for me is the aftercare.
1466
01:48:34,096 --> 01:48:36,596
And 23 years later
I�m still working on it.
1467
01:48:37,380 --> 01:48:41,137
And you think about every now and then about
situations you might have put yourself in.
1468
01:48:41,429 --> 01:48:44,804
And if you don�t deal with it and you
don�t talk to somebody else about it,
1469
01:48:44,971 --> 01:48:46,679
it�s going to stay inside of you.
1470
01:48:46,840 --> 01:48:51,170
Because whether you�re in the battlefield
and you come home
1471
01:48:51,800 --> 01:48:54,800
or you�re in the barroom
and you�re not talking about it,
1472
01:48:55,260 --> 01:48:59,679
or you�re in a dark room where they�re putting
a needle in your arm, and not talking about it,
1473
01:48:59,846 --> 01:49:01,846
there�s no way of helping.
1474
01:49:02,050 --> 01:49:06,887
And I equate, I connect the... not the
same way because it�s very different.
1475
01:49:08,010 --> 01:49:15,760
The fighting for your country and coming back
is different on the surface of alcoholism,
1476
01:49:16,050 --> 01:49:18,380
but inside it�s all the same.
1477
01:49:19,340 --> 01:49:22,387
It�s that feeling that hopeless,
what I had,
1478
01:49:22,846 --> 01:49:25,986
helpless,
don�t know what to do about it feeling.
1479
01:49:26,010 --> 01:49:30,800
And like I said, everyone had suggested
that I go get help.
1480
01:49:31,010 --> 01:49:35,512
Many times I�m like yeah, yeah. I went to one
AA meeting one time and used that as an excuse.
1481
01:49:35,679 --> 01:49:39,596
Yeah I got help, I went to a meeting.
And I used that for about 5 years.
1482
01:49:40,050 --> 01:49:42,550
But it wasn�t until I hit my bottom.
1483
01:49:43,470 --> 01:49:47,554
And when I hit my bottom I didn�t realize it
was my bottom, but I knew, it was pretty low.
1484
01:49:47,760 --> 01:49:51,471
And a lot of other things happened
in my life that built up to that point.
1485
01:49:52,010 --> 01:49:56,179
Every time I drank I didn�t get in trouble,
but every time I got in trouble I was drinking.
1486
01:49:56,720 --> 01:49:59,137
So, you think about that and I think about
1487
01:49:59,637 --> 01:50:04,137
sharing experiences and I love, I go to,
I still go to my meetings.
1488
01:50:04,510 --> 01:50:06,762
Hearing people share their experience,
strength and hope
1489
01:50:06,971 --> 01:50:11,012
about addiction, sometimes there�s
somebody talking that�s in so much pain
1490
01:50:11,220 --> 01:50:14,012
that they don�t see the benefit.
1491
01:50:14,179 --> 01:50:17,554
They don�t see the hope. They don�t
see the help. They don�t see the end game.
1492
01:50:17,721 --> 01:50:21,721
And if I get a chance to talk to them
I just say, it�s a day at a time.
1493
01:50:21,880 --> 01:50:24,560
When I first got sober I�d hear people
talk about they have a house,
1494
01:50:24,596 --> 01:50:28,596
a job and a car and they have this and
that, and I used to be like, I want that.
1495
01:50:28,880 --> 01:50:32,554
But I was in no way in the situation that
I could get that at that particular moment.
1496
01:50:32,721 --> 01:50:35,137
And seven years later I bought my house.
1497
01:50:35,880 --> 01:50:38,221
And I remember sitting
on my back porch of my house, even
1498
01:50:38,918 --> 01:50:41,804
10 years after I had it.
I looked up and I can�t believe it�s mine.
1499
01:50:41,971 --> 01:50:44,929
And it all goes back
to going for help and asking for help.
1500
01:50:45,510 --> 01:50:47,887
And I know many of you in this room
1501
01:50:48,054 --> 01:50:51,096
shared your story today
and I thank you for that.
1502
01:50:51,920 --> 01:50:54,012
And there�s probably
some people in this room
1503
01:50:54,221 --> 01:50:57,221
that might be listening and saying
I don�t know what I�m going to do.
1504
01:50:57,380 --> 01:51:00,679
Just reach out.
Put your hand out and ask for help.
1505
01:51:01,420 --> 01:51:05,346
That�s all you got to do. That�s
the first step. That�s the first step.
1506
01:51:06,800 --> 01:51:11,090
You fought for this country.
We owe it to you to help you.
1507
01:51:11,970 --> 01:51:15,300
That�s our job.
As a government that�s our job.
1508
01:51:16,050 --> 01:51:19,260
Our Veterans office,
Veterans Affairs office,
1509
01:51:19,420 --> 01:51:23,554
I�m proud of the work we do
because we�re there for the veterans.
1510
01:51:23,760 --> 01:51:25,846
I said this earlier as we went out.
1511
01:51:26,420 --> 01:51:34,420
In my five years as Mayor, I have never once had
to suggest to the Commissioner of the Office,
1512
01:51:34,760 --> 01:51:38,554
you need to do this for the Veterans or do that
for the Veterans. They�re already doing it.
1513
01:51:39,130 --> 01:51:42,970
It�s setup for you.
If it weren�t for the Veterans
1514
01:51:43,550 --> 01:51:49,550
of the Revolutionary War,
of World War I, II, Korea, Vietnam,
1515
01:51:50,340 --> 01:51:53,762
Iraq, Afghanistan
fighting all over the world,
1516
01:51:53,971 --> 01:51:56,471
I wouldn�t have the opportunity
to be the Mayor.
1517
01:51:57,130 --> 01:51:59,554
We wouldn�t have
the opportunity of a democracy.
1518
01:51:59,920 --> 01:52:00,920
It�s because of you.
1519
01:52:01,596 --> 01:52:03,346
Because you fight for that democracy.
1520
01:52:04,340 --> 01:52:05,762
Thank you for being here.
1521
01:52:06,090 --> 01:52:10,346
Thank you for what you�ve done for our country.
For what you continue to do for our country.
1522
01:52:10,840 --> 01:52:15,721
For me, Veteran�s Day is a day on the calendar
just like Memorial Day�s a day on the calendar.
1523
01:52:16,260 --> 01:52:20,304
But Veteran�s Day, Memorial Day is every
day. It should be every day in our country.
1524
01:52:29,470 --> 01:52:32,300
Everybody go 45 degrees towards the center.
1525
01:53:28,670 --> 01:53:31,340
Tuesday after the election for the Congress
was complete,
1526
01:53:32,380 --> 01:53:36,970
I reached out to Richard Neal. Congratulated
Richard Neal. He�s in line to be
1527
01:53:37,130 --> 01:53:40,170
the next Chairman of the Ways and Means
from Springfield.
1528
01:53:40,630 --> 01:53:43,554
I reached out to Jim McGovern.
Congratulated him.
1529
01:53:43,762 --> 01:53:47,762
He�s in line to be
the Rules Chair from Worcester County.
1530
01:53:48,670 --> 01:53:51,971
That�s the seat formerly held
by Joe Moakley who he worked for.
1531
01:53:53,800 --> 01:53:59,510
So we have some really good allies in there.
I mean obviously they can�t favor Boston
1532
01:54:00,380 --> 01:54:02,550
per se on Massachusetts,
but having them there
1533
01:54:02,720 --> 01:54:09,420
in their office, there�s a contact for a lot of
different issues. Education, climate, transportation,
1534
01:54:09,760 --> 01:54:12,846
fire stuff, police stuff.
That�s really important to have.
1535
01:54:13,090 --> 01:54:17,300
We�ll have staff in those offices
that we can call, reach out directly to.
1536
01:54:17,590 --> 01:54:19,880
On a national level
that will be important.
1537
01:54:20,170 --> 01:54:23,554
I also just reached out to the Governor to
say that I�d like to get together with him
1538
01:54:23,721 --> 01:54:27,346
to talk about education, transportation
and climate issues
1539
01:54:27,512 --> 01:54:30,970
and is there an opportunity for us
to go and lobby in Washington
1540
01:54:31,380 --> 01:54:33,340
for those funds
for the Commonwealth and the City.
1541
01:54:33,880 --> 01:54:36,221
I think we have decided
to take a different approach.
1542
01:54:36,550 --> 01:54:38,971
The last couple years we haven�t done
much of that because
1543
01:54:39,260 --> 01:54:41,971
we were used to going
right to the White House.
1544
01:54:42,515 --> 01:54:45,179
We could go right to the Secretary�s
when Obama was there.
1545
01:54:45,346 --> 01:54:49,512
We haven�t done that with this President. But
I think there�s an opportunity for us to go
1546
01:54:50,679 --> 01:54:54,471
to Washington and lobby for a whole lot
different pieces that we�re looking at here
1547
01:54:54,637 --> 01:54:58,220
through the Congressional folks right now.
That�s usually how it worked in the past.
1548
01:54:58,510 --> 01:55:01,550
It changed under Obama
the last couple years, they really made
1549
01:55:02,220 --> 01:55:05,012
a concerted effort to build a relationship
directly with mayors.
1550
01:55:05,179 --> 01:55:08,554
Usually you go through the Legislative
leaders like you at the State House.
1551
01:55:10,590 --> 01:55:12,430
So,
I think that�s a really good thing for us.
1552
01:55:12,590 --> 01:55:16,471
Hopefully, I�m hoping good things
can happen out of Washington.
1553
01:56:07,120 --> 01:56:11,830
There�s an openness that John has.
If he opens it up we get a really
1554
01:56:12,000 --> 01:56:14,330
bad storm to 30 or 40 women.
1555
01:56:14,830 --> 01:56:16,710
It doesn�t go back down. Right.
1556
01:56:18,370 --> 01:56:21,210
He was willing...
it worked well last winter,
1557
01:56:21,670 --> 01:56:26,370
to fill some beds between six and 8 p.m.,
but then leave a little room
1558
01:56:26,830 --> 01:56:29,080
for overflow from other places.
1559
01:56:29,330 --> 01:56:32,420
There needs to be some space
because if he�s going to step up
1560
01:56:32,580 --> 01:56:36,830
he needs to be able to know that there is
space that he's going to take these people to.
1561
01:56:37,210 --> 01:56:41,540
That we�re not going to be in a situation where
he�s showing up at Pine Street or somewhere
1562
01:56:41,750 --> 01:56:43,620
and say you can�t.
1563
01:56:44,080 --> 01:56:47,500
A group of women who are
sort of chronic...
1564
01:56:48,330 --> 01:56:51,960
they seem to be severely mentally ill
who don�t leave shelter at all.
1565
01:56:52,120 --> 01:56:55,870
I mean they�re in it because
we�re open 24/7 and they don�t leave.
1566
01:56:56,500 --> 01:56:59,210
I think we have a number of people also,
1567
01:57:00,420 --> 01:57:03,250
with sort of a combination of behavioral
1568
01:57:03,420 --> 01:57:06,790
and substance use disorders
that are a combination there.
1569
01:57:07,170 --> 01:57:10,290
There�s a host of women who just
desperately want to get housed,
1570
01:57:10,460 --> 01:57:13,080
who just don�t have the income you know.
1571
01:57:13,460 --> 01:57:15,210
Like we have a woman, an evacuee
1572
01:57:15,370 --> 01:57:16,750
from Puerto Rico
1573
01:57:17,250 --> 01:57:19,170
who just wants to get housing,
1574
01:57:19,330 --> 01:57:22,750
but has like a $535 Security Income check
and that about 50 %
1575
01:57:23,000 --> 01:57:26,670
of the women also had some sort of
domestic violence
1576
01:57:26,790 --> 01:57:30,750
or violence issue prior to coming, so we�re
trying to get more service providers in.
1577
01:57:31,290 --> 01:57:34,460
There does seem to be a group of women
who are like hiding.
1578
01:57:34,750 --> 01:57:39,080
Just trying to stay under the radar
for whatever reason.
1579
01:57:40,080 --> 01:57:42,790
In the cold weather transit stations
are places where people who are
1580
01:57:42,960 --> 01:57:47,670
sometimes less well-known or sometimes
kind of hanging out have aggregated
1581
01:57:48,170 --> 01:57:52,580
and we know last year
how the unintended consequence
1582
01:57:52,870 --> 01:57:55,000
of the compassion of the T at South Station
1583
01:57:55,250 --> 01:57:59,170
that really attracted people
who were not so vulnerable, but....
1584
01:58:00,710 --> 01:58:02,750
- Predatory.- Taking advantage.
1585
01:58:02,920 --> 01:58:04,790
There was some of that for sure.
1586
01:58:05,370 --> 01:58:07,620
So we just want to think about this year,
1587
01:58:07,790 --> 01:58:10,120
what the approach is working with the team
because I think
1588
01:58:10,290 --> 01:58:13,580
Superintendent, you want to talk a little
about what you pivoted to last year,
1589
01:58:13,710 --> 01:58:16,790
when it was clear the South Station
wasn�t working in January, February.
1590
01:58:18,000 --> 01:58:20,500
Unfortunately we had to just keep
muddling through it.
1591
01:58:20,750 --> 01:58:22,620
Unless we come up with something better,
1592
01:58:22,790 --> 01:58:27,330
I think we�re going to have it worse this year.
So at its peak we had 170 people in there.
1593
01:58:27,580 --> 01:58:29,120
There�s no vetting.
1594
01:58:29,290 --> 01:58:32,920
The place is not secure.
There�s no metal detectors.
1595
01:58:33,370 --> 01:58:37,210
There was all kinds of activity going on,
inappropriate, criminal.
1596
01:58:37,670 --> 01:58:40,830
A lot of people were telling me
just throw more cops in there.
1597
01:58:41,000 --> 01:58:44,750
That�s not the answer, that�s treating
the symptom and not the cause.
1598
01:58:45,710 --> 01:58:47,750
We�ve intelligence that suggests this year,
1599
01:58:47,960 --> 01:58:50,920
and everyone�s aware of what�s going on
at Mass and Melnea.
1600
01:58:51,290 --> 01:58:54,670
We�re right in the middle. That�s where
our headquarters are. There�s anywhere
1601
01:58:54,830 --> 01:58:58,750
as low as 50 to, as high as 200 people
that are gathering there,
1602
01:58:58,920 --> 01:59:02,580
using drugs, engaged in violence,
prostitution, you name it.
1603
01:59:03,370 --> 01:59:08,040
We�ve intelligence that�s already telling
us that core group which is in the dozens
1604
01:59:08,210 --> 01:59:13,580
are going to South Station when it
gets cold to do whatever they want to do.
1605
01:59:14,580 --> 01:59:18,580
So, it�s great. One or two nights,
we hit some extreme weather,
1606
01:59:18,790 --> 01:59:22,420
they come in there, but last year as
you know, it started November 10th.
1607
01:59:22,580 --> 01:59:25,460
Right away was the first day
we had to do shelter in place.
1608
01:59:26,250 --> 01:59:30,710
Two weeks after that we went on a stretch
that went 17 straight nights.
1609
01:59:30,870 --> 01:59:32,620
We just can�t do it.
1610
01:59:32,960 --> 01:59:35,460
I think we�re doing them more disservice,
1611
01:59:36,750 --> 01:59:41,290
we got killed in the media.
We got killed amongst homeless advocates
1612
01:59:41,460 --> 01:59:45,580
because when you think of a homeless shelter,
right away you think of showering facilities,
1613
01:59:46,040 --> 01:59:50,960
food, mental health, medical.
We have none of that.
1614
01:59:51,920 --> 01:59:54,750
And I can tell you that
the folks that are paying
1615
01:59:54,920 --> 01:59:59,170
a lot of rent inside South Station
were beside themselves.
1616
01:59:59,370 --> 02:00:02,960
Commuters coming in, in the morning
were beside themselves.
1617
02:00:03,420 --> 02:00:07,170
This isn�t me getting it thirdhand,
and I personally would respond.
1618
02:00:07,460 --> 02:00:11,540
I would say a vast majority of,
probably weren�t even homeless.
1619
02:00:12,580 --> 02:00:14,210
And it�s impossible for us,
1620
02:00:14,330 --> 02:00:18,750
I wouldn�t ask my officers to subject themselves
to all kinds of accusations just to go around
1621
02:00:18,920 --> 02:00:23,210
and pick and choose who should
stay in there and who shouldn�t.
1622
02:00:24,370 --> 02:00:27,040
I think we need to come up
with a better solution.
1623
02:00:27,290 --> 02:00:30,710
I�m willing to hire people
1624
02:00:30,870 --> 02:00:33,960
and transport people all over the city,
all night long.
1625
02:00:34,370 --> 02:00:38,000
We want to be good and responsible
neighbors and we want to do our part.
1626
02:00:38,500 --> 02:00:44,750
But just from seeing that firsthand, I think
we were almost causing more harm than good.
1627
02:00:44,920 --> 02:00:49,830
None of the folks who left South Station
when the overnights ended,
1628
02:00:51,000 --> 02:00:55,170
very few of them ended up out in the street
in places we saw.
1629
02:00:55,330 --> 02:00:57,250
They migrated to other places.
1630
02:00:57,500 --> 02:01:01,210
We have to work together to make sure
that the transportation is offered,
1631
02:01:01,370 --> 02:01:04,000
that the shelter capacity
we�ve added is available.
1632
02:01:04,670 --> 02:01:06,476
The most humane thing
that we can do for people
1633
02:01:06,500 --> 02:01:10,670
who find themselves in the middle
of a very bad weather situation
1634
02:01:10,830 --> 02:01:14,460
is to get them to the place where they can
get the support and the resources they need.
1635
02:01:14,620 --> 02:01:19,040
Get a meal, there�s a bathroom,
there�s a shower and there�s support there.
1636
02:01:19,210 --> 02:01:24,000
Leaving them at South Station especially
some of the more vulnerable folks...
1637
02:01:24,620 --> 02:01:27,040
I feel like the public position,
1638
02:01:27,210 --> 02:01:31,540
we�re in a strong position to say that the
T is stepping up doing what it does best.
1639
02:01:31,790 --> 02:01:32,830
Transportation.
1640
02:01:35,370 --> 02:01:37,250
The weekly outreach meetings on Tuesdays
1641
02:01:37,420 --> 02:01:40,540
we�re making sure that we have represent...
because the other first responders,
1642
02:01:40,710 --> 02:01:42,870
the Boston Police Department, District I,
1643
02:01:43,210 --> 02:01:46,290
the Boston EMS, the Squad 80 Group,
1644
02:01:46,580 --> 02:01:48,620
and the State Police
are all at that meeting.
1645
02:01:48,790 --> 02:01:52,620
Making sure we have conversations in those
meetings about how the outreach networks can help.
1646
02:02:22,210 --> 02:02:23,710
Anything in your pockets?
1647
02:02:38,420 --> 02:02:40,330
Do you have anything in your pockets,
ma�am?
1648
02:02:44,370 --> 02:02:48,210
- Any metal in your pockets? Phone, keys?
- Belt?
1649
02:02:48,330 --> 02:02:50,170
No, belt's fine. Just your pockets
1650
02:03:07,750 --> 02:03:08,960
Have a good one, sir.
1651
02:03:39,540 --> 02:03:42,960
The Fair Housing Act of 1968
pretty much eliminates
1652
02:03:43,120 --> 02:03:45,750
or it makes it illegal for anyone
to discriminate
1653
02:03:46,460 --> 02:03:49,170
when it comes to housing,
especially for certain classes of people
1654
02:03:49,420 --> 02:03:53,960
based on race, gender, color, sexual
orientation and a bunch of other things.
1655
02:03:54,370 --> 02:03:58,580
Currently, House and Urban Development
has proposed a new rule.
1656
02:03:59,040 --> 02:04:02,960
It�s proposing a new rule
under the Trump Administration.
1657
02:04:03,080 --> 02:04:04,120
And as you know,
1658
02:04:04,790 --> 02:04:10,620
the Fair Housing Act of 1968 has
for the last 50 years governed or guided
1659
02:04:11,420 --> 02:04:12,960
the laws of fair housing.
1660
02:04:13,250 --> 02:04:15,830
What�s happening is
that with this new rule,
1661
02:04:16,000 --> 02:04:20,750
under the Fair Housing Act, let me start by saying
that there�s a portion they call Disparate Impact.
1662
02:04:21,000 --> 02:04:24,080
Under Disparate Impact what it does is
it allows a complainant,
1663
02:04:24,370 --> 02:04:29,790
meaning anybody that has a complaint
of discrimination happening in housing
1664
02:04:29,960 --> 02:04:35,330
against a policy or practices that are happening
to bring a complaint, formerly bring a complaint
1665
02:04:35,500 --> 02:04:42,460
against a bank, landlord, lender,
or any kind of housing provider.
1666
02:04:43,330 --> 02:04:45,620
So, currently what�s happening is
1667
02:04:45,960 --> 02:04:48,830
the HUD wants to propose a rule
1668
02:04:49,000 --> 02:04:53,710
that is going to make it basically
next to impossible for people
1669
02:04:54,790 --> 02:04:56,250
or anyone who is
1670
02:04:56,670 --> 02:04:59,920
experiencing any kind of discrimination
under the Disparate Impact Rule,
1671
02:05:00,080 --> 02:05:03,540
to be able to bring a complaint.
How this will work is:
1672
02:05:03,710 --> 02:05:07,960
currently there�s a very neutral
task for it. All that needs to be shown
1673
02:05:08,250 --> 02:05:09,830
is that there is a...
1674
02:05:11,870 --> 02:05:17,170
whatever the policy or practice is
has a wide reaching discriminatory effect.
1675
02:05:17,870 --> 02:05:20,210
But under this new rule
what�s going to happen is that
1676
02:05:20,370 --> 02:05:22,290
anyone that brings these complaints
1677
02:05:22,540 --> 02:05:26,870
will now have to show not only
that it�s doing this, but also intent.
1678
02:05:27,080 --> 02:05:30,790
That whomever the housing provider is,
1679
02:05:32,080 --> 02:05:34,420
has these policies or practices
that are happening
1680
02:05:34,870 --> 02:05:39,870
and not only do they have them,
but they intend to discriminate against
1681
02:05:40,370 --> 02:05:44,620
a person of color, race, gender,
sexual orientation, what have you.
1682
02:05:45,290 --> 02:05:46,750
The problem with this is that
1683
02:05:47,000 --> 02:05:51,040
it makes it next to impossible because people who
normally bring these complaints don�t have the time,
1684
02:05:51,170 --> 02:05:54,920
the money, the resources
under the current rule as it is to do this.
1685
02:05:55,120 --> 02:05:58,830
That�s why we�re able to investigate
if such a thing happens.
1686
02:05:59,000 --> 02:06:01,750
Under the current Disparate Impact Rule
we�re able to look into it.
1687
02:06:02,080 --> 02:06:06,040
Or HUD is able to look into it and investigate
and figure out if this is happening.
1688
02:06:06,210 --> 02:06:09,120
With this new rule
it makes it next to impossible.
1689
02:06:09,460 --> 02:06:14,870
And it shifts the burden onto the complainant.
The complainant will now have to show this
1690
02:06:15,040 --> 02:06:19,830
that it�s happening. So we have written
a letter along with the Mayor to challenge
1691
02:06:20,250 --> 02:06:23,460
the Federal government on it.
Challenge HUD on this new proposed rule.
1692
02:06:23,620 --> 02:06:26,710
Our department has linked up
with other city agencies
1693
02:06:26,920 --> 02:06:30,000
and we have been part of the comment period
that is currently open
1694
02:06:30,170 --> 02:06:33,960
and the Mayor has also
written a letter to HUD
1695
02:06:34,370 --> 02:06:38,370
opposing this new rule
because if it does in fact pass,
1696
02:06:38,560 --> 02:06:42,790
then this thing not only is it
going to affect how we currently
1697
02:06:43,080 --> 02:06:46,670
do fair housing
under the Disparate Impact Rule,
1698
02:06:46,830 --> 02:06:51,580
but it has far more wide reaching effects
which is an attack against civil rights.
1699
02:06:52,870 --> 02:06:57,830
Because the Fair Housing Act
was enacted under civil rights.
1700
02:06:58,080 --> 02:07:02,670
And if you can erode this rule
then you can erode civil rights,
1701
02:07:03,000 --> 02:07:07,370
when it comes to discrimination,
segregation, voting rights,
1702
02:07:07,710 --> 02:07:13,370
equal opportunity in employment because these
things we all follow the same thinking process.
1703
02:07:13,710 --> 02:07:17,460
And it�s under the civil rights umbrella.
So if HUD is able to do this
1704
02:07:17,620 --> 02:07:20,790
that means later they�re going to be able
to attack all these other civil rights
1705
02:07:20,960 --> 02:07:24,500
that the country has fought for
over the last 51 years to make sure
1706
02:07:24,670 --> 02:07:27,620
that people have or
are being treated fairly.
1707
02:07:28,210 --> 02:07:31,080
So,
this is a really huge thing at the moment.
1708
02:07:31,290 --> 02:07:33,420
We don�t know
what�s going to happen with it.
1709
02:07:34,790 --> 02:07:39,330
We�ve submitted a comment letter. We
encouraged all of the other FHIPs and FAPs,
1710
02:07:39,540 --> 02:07:42,960
fair housing providers and the agencies
that are involved in this work,
1711
02:07:43,460 --> 02:07:45,620
to submit comment letters as well too.
1712
02:07:46,420 --> 02:07:48,870
The mayor wrote a really good
comment letter
1713
02:07:49,210 --> 02:07:53,580
that hopefully we�re praying
we get some traction with HUD.
1714
02:07:54,040 --> 02:07:57,460
But in the event that it doesn�t pass, a
1715
02:07:57,870 --> 02:08:02,420
and the HUDs new proposal rule does pass,
then we are now in a situation where
1716
02:08:02,750 --> 02:08:07,420
basically we are watching the erosion
of civil rights in the country.
1717
02:08:18,330 --> 02:08:20,210
What do we have here in Boston
1718
02:08:20,610 --> 02:08:25,500
that highlights the strength of diversity
and of our immigrant population?
1719
02:08:25,670 --> 02:08:28,790
How can we celebrate
what unites us here in the City?
1720
02:08:29,170 --> 02:08:32,040
And having Boston be a city of immigrants
1721
02:08:32,710 --> 02:08:35,670
with a majority, minority population?
1722
02:08:36,080 --> 02:08:37,870
What do we have to say here
1723
02:08:38,040 --> 02:08:40,750
and what can we do to really communicate
1724
02:08:41,080 --> 02:08:44,370
and celebrate that our diversity
makes us stronger
1725
02:08:44,710 --> 02:08:48,170
and it actually leads us back to
one another and to a sense of unity
1726
02:08:48,330 --> 02:08:52,080
and solidarity with one another?
And that is that our diversity
1727
02:08:52,250 --> 02:08:55,120
and our strength really comes
from the immigrant population.
1728
02:08:55,290 --> 02:08:58,170
So that�s really where it came from.
1729
02:08:58,370 --> 02:09:01,920
Just really thinking about how can we
highlight these intersecting types
1730
02:09:02,080 --> 02:09:04,710
of issues around health
which have to do with food,
1731
02:09:05,040 --> 02:09:08,620
with the activity that we started with
1732
02:09:08,790 --> 02:09:13,330
at the Armenian Heritage Park starting with
walking and physical activity and meditation.
1733
02:09:13,500 --> 02:09:16,500
And then coming over here and being,
1734
02:09:16,870 --> 02:09:22,790
and having a cooking class to sort of
celebrate all of us being together,
1735
02:09:23,080 --> 02:09:26,460
healthy food and again,
all the ethnic cultures of Boston.
1736
02:09:27,290 --> 02:09:29,186
That was really the goal of this series,
1737
02:09:29,210 --> 02:09:33,960
to break down some of the barriers that
have historically existed here in Boston
1738
02:09:34,370 --> 02:09:41,620
and sort of, by being next to one another,
by being together sort of
1739
02:09:42,290 --> 02:09:44,540
create the sense of community
1740
02:09:44,670 --> 02:09:48,790
that really exists and breakdown some
of the separations that have historically
1741
02:09:49,000 --> 02:09:50,620
existed here in the City.
1742
02:09:51,580 --> 02:09:54,540
So the meal that we�re going
to demonstrate today
1743
02:09:54,710 --> 02:09:56,290
is Shrimp Lo Mien.
1744
02:09:56,460 --> 02:09:59,620
So Mien in Chinese means noodles.
1745
02:10:00,250 --> 02:10:05,370
And Lo in Cantonese means stirred.
So it�s a stir fried noodle.
1746
02:10:05,870 --> 02:10:10,670
And noodles in the Chinese cuisine
symbolizes longevity and prosperous life.
1747
02:10:10,830 --> 02:10:16,120
Traditionally, it�s served at celebrations
such as Chinese New Year or birthdays.
1748
02:10:16,460 --> 02:10:18,920
So, for the sauces
we are going to use today
1749
02:10:19,250 --> 02:10:24,460
is oyster sauce, low sodium soy sauce,
cooking wine and a little bit of sugar.
1750
02:10:24,620 --> 02:10:28,960
Some spices, either chili powder
or the pepper, black pepper.
1751
02:10:29,210 --> 02:10:33,266
And it will also give it a flavor
without adding too much salt.
1752
02:10:33,290 --> 02:10:34,710
That�s what we call rice noodle.
1753
02:10:35,000 --> 02:10:38,750
So it has different flavor
and goes with different kind of sauces
1754
02:10:40,210 --> 02:10:46,460
and a lot of people from China, they go back
to their home town just to have that dish of
1755
02:10:46,790 --> 02:10:50,040
the noodles that were
in their childhood memory.
1756
02:10:51,370 --> 02:10:55,920
And we also put a tablespoon
of our cooking wine
1757
02:10:56,080 --> 02:11:00,710
and just to give it a little
flavor\and also to reduce
1758
02:11:02,210 --> 02:11:07,290
the fishy smell in the shrimp as well.
1759
02:11:10,080 --> 02:11:11,790
Now we put into the shrimp.
1760
02:11:15,960 --> 02:11:17,540
So the shrimp is already cooked
1761
02:11:18,080 --> 02:11:20,920
for our demonstration,
but we do recommend
1762
02:11:21,080 --> 02:11:23,960
to prepare the protein separately
from our noodles
1763
02:11:24,210 --> 02:11:26,620
just to make sure that it�s cooked
all the way through
1764
02:11:27,000 --> 02:11:32,330
and then reach the internal temperature
that�s recommended.
1765
02:14:35,790 --> 02:14:38,080
55 % of Bostonians
1766
02:14:38,250 --> 02:14:41,580
are non-White, so in addition to be
a majority city of color, we are also
1767
02:14:41,750 --> 02:14:45,790
a city of immigrants.
And so 28 % of Bostonians are foreign born
1768
02:14:45,920 --> 02:14:48,870
and come from about
150 countries of origin.
1769
02:14:49,040 --> 02:14:51,960
Immigrants own 33 %
of incorporated businesses
1770
02:14:52,120 --> 02:14:56,580
And in 2014,
according to Brookings Institute,
1771
02:14:56,750 --> 02:14:59,960
Boston was ranked number one
in terms of income inequality.
1772
02:15:00,330 --> 02:15:04,040
By 2017, they ranked us number seven
and that was due primarily
1773
02:15:04,250 --> 02:15:08,170
to the increase of income
in the lower income brackets.
1774
02:15:08,420 --> 02:15:14,580
And the Federal Reserve Banks'
Boston�s Color of Wealth Report,
1775
02:15:15,540 --> 02:15:18,870
it listed different things.
First it was the first report to
1776
02:15:19,040 --> 02:15:22,040
break out net worth by ethnic groups.
1777
02:15:22,250 --> 02:15:24,870
It�s a fascinating report if you have
a chance to look at it,
1778
02:15:25,170 --> 02:15:28,790
but for Black Americans,
U.S. Blacks as it listed it,
1779
02:15:29,620 --> 02:15:35,330
the net worth, median net worth
for U.S. Black families was $8.00.
1780
02:15:36,040 --> 02:15:43,170
And the medium net worth for White families
in the same period of time $247,000.
1781
02:15:44,370 --> 02:15:46,330
This is not something we�re proud of.
1782
02:15:46,790 --> 02:15:48,620
Many Bostonians are
1783
02:15:48,870 --> 02:15:51,420
under employed, over credentialed,
1784
02:15:53,120 --> 02:15:56,790
so meeting with companies and
doing a comparison on their job postings,
1785
02:15:56,960 --> 02:16:00,170
in Boston versus job postings
around the country,
1786
02:16:01,920 --> 02:16:03,120
we�ve got some folks,
1787
02:16:03,960 --> 02:16:05,540
I won�t name them, but
1788
02:16:06,000 --> 02:16:09,790
we looked at one company and like 100 %
of their jobs you need a Bachelor's.
1789
02:16:10,040 --> 02:16:11,120
And it�s like really?
1790
02:16:11,290 --> 02:16:14,420
And then when you look at like jobs
around the country it�s just not true.
1791
02:16:14,620 --> 02:16:19,040
And so having conversations with employers that
allow us to access those jobs is important.
1792
02:16:20,250 --> 02:16:23,460
Jobs are a big part
of the work that we do.
1793
02:16:23,670 --> 02:16:28,580
So the Boston Resident�s Job Policy which
was a policy that was developed in 1983,
1794
02:16:28,790 --> 02:16:33,250
was recently updated by Mayor Walsh.
And this policy essentially
1795
02:16:33,330 --> 02:16:37,670
mandates that in the construction space
1796
02:16:37,920 --> 02:16:43,460
where there is any private development, or
public development that is looking for a private
1797
02:16:43,960 --> 02:16:47,710
variances or any kind of public approval,
1798
02:16:48,000 --> 02:16:49,790
we are mandating
1799
02:16:50,420 --> 02:16:54,370
51 % of those on a construction site
be Boston residents,
1800
02:16:54,540 --> 02:16:57,710
40 % people of color, and 12 % women.
1801
02:16:58,000 --> 02:17:00,330
And this is something that
1802
02:17:00,420 --> 02:17:05,210
is really important because the construction
jobs end up being pretty good jobs.
1803
02:17:05,500 --> 02:17:07,540
And so part of that is creating a pipeline
1804
02:17:07,790 --> 02:17:11,500
in working with the Unions and others to
make sure that we have a diverse workforce
1805
02:17:11,710 --> 02:17:13,620
so that we can hit those numbers.
1806
02:17:15,040 --> 02:17:17,210
The other one frankly though is the new
1807
02:17:17,370 --> 02:17:21,790
good jobs policy
that the City just announced on RFPs.
1808
02:17:22,290 --> 02:17:25,120
So any City land that is being disposed of,
1809
02:17:25,420 --> 02:17:31,210
the Mayor announced that we will be looking for
a good jobs analysis, or a good jobs program
1810
02:17:31,500 --> 02:17:35,670
for the permanent jobs
that will be built or attracted to
1811
02:17:35,920 --> 02:17:38,170
the developments built on City land.
1812
02:17:38,330 --> 02:17:43,460
We don�t have the necessary legal levers
to demand certain wages,
1813
02:17:43,710 --> 02:17:48,790
so we set criteria definition for what good jobs
are and certain wages and benefits and conditions.
1814
02:17:49,040 --> 02:17:51,250
And we want the developer
to respond to that.
1815
02:17:51,420 --> 02:17:54,830
Once the developer
responds to that program and says
1816
02:17:55,040 --> 02:17:57,016
here�s what we�re going to do
in front of the community and of the City,
1817
02:17:57,040 --> 02:18:02,250
we will then codify them in the City agreement
to what�s going to happen on that land.
1818
02:18:02,540 --> 02:18:05,370
We are leasing the land so we will have
1819
02:18:05,620 --> 02:18:10,420
serious legal levers on any lease, on what
they should be doing with permanent jobs.
1820
02:18:11,670 --> 02:18:15,290
On the small business side,
the other piece is following the
1821
02:18:15,540 --> 02:18:21,920
Federal Reserve Bank's Color of Wealth
Report, we do believe that there is
1822
02:18:22,040 --> 02:18:25,040
an ethnic strategy to wealth creation.
1823
02:18:25,330 --> 02:18:29,000
So the ethnic groups are very different in
how they approach wealth and wealth creation.
1824
02:18:29,580 --> 02:18:35,040
So, how do you have the conversation
with the immigrant communities?
1825
02:18:35,290 --> 02:18:38,670
And the different immigrant communities
look very different.
1826
02:18:38,790 --> 02:18:40,370
Some immigrant communities are
1827
02:18:40,620 --> 02:18:43,820
high unemployment so their employment rate
for some of the immigrant communities.
1828
02:18:44,620 --> 02:18:47,750
Cape Verdean�s, which is an immigrant group
here, from West Africa,
1829
02:18:49,290 --> 02:18:51,750
their employment numbers
are really high,
1830
02:18:51,870 --> 02:18:54,250
but their entrepreneur numbers
are really low.
1831
02:18:54,420 --> 02:18:58,170
It does something for income,
but does nothing for wealth.
1832
02:18:58,500 --> 02:19:00,436
How do you have that conversation
with that community;
1833
02:19:00,460 --> 02:19:03,180
When you look at the Black community
which is very diverse in Boston,
1834
02:19:03,210 --> 02:19:04,620
when you look at the U.S. Blacks,
1835
02:19:05,000 --> 02:19:07,080
it�s one picture.
When you look at Caribbeans,
1836
02:19:07,250 --> 02:19:09,870
the Blacks from the Caribbean,
it�s a different picture.
1837
02:19:10,170 --> 02:19:12,000
How do you help to think about
1838
02:19:12,170 --> 02:19:15,210
what�s happening there
and how we have different strategies.
1839
02:19:15,370 --> 02:19:18,250
So we�re rolling out
and we haven�t announced this publicly,
1840
02:19:18,540 --> 02:19:24,210
but we�re rolling out conversations
that are ethnic based. The BDPA has
1841
02:19:24,620 --> 02:19:27,370
set up some research around it.
We�ve got some numbers.
1842
02:19:27,670 --> 02:19:29,870
We did an internal presentation recently
1843
02:19:30,080 --> 02:19:34,370
and we�re going to roll out ethnic based conversations
to have a conversation about the difference
1844
02:19:34,580 --> 02:19:38,170
in approach in our ethnic communities,
not bad or good.
1845
02:19:38,420 --> 02:19:39,896
But we�re going to put out the number,
1846
02:19:39,920 --> 02:19:43,870
we�re going to set up panels of people
from the community to have the conversation
1847
02:19:44,040 --> 02:19:46,500
about what this might mean
and what might be new strategies
1848
02:19:46,670 --> 02:19:49,250
and how we can approach this
to make sure we�re having
1849
02:19:49,670 --> 02:19:53,710
a very responsive conversation
about the economy that people live in.
1850
02:19:54,010 --> 02:19:57,080
We�re now mandating that people tell us
how their team
1851
02:19:57,250 --> 02:20:02,040
is diverse and inclusive in all areas.
And then we will score them on that
1852
02:20:02,170 --> 02:20:04,670
diversity inclusion in a way obviously
1853
02:20:05,120 --> 02:20:06,920
that those who are more diverse
1854
02:20:07,170 --> 02:20:11,040
and inclusive of women and people of color
on their construction team,
1855
02:20:11,210 --> 02:20:13,120
on their design team,
on the development team,
1856
02:20:13,620 --> 02:20:16,210
on finance, on operation, on ownership.
1857
02:20:16,500 --> 02:20:22,000
And so we�re driving to
use public assets for...
1858
02:20:22,290 --> 02:20:25,460
and align it to the Mayor�s agenda.
1859
02:20:26,620 --> 02:20:29,290
We�re also asking that people work with us
1860
02:20:29,830 --> 02:20:33,830
in terms of what the community has said
it wants to see in the neighborhood.
1861
02:20:34,040 --> 02:20:40,000
The recent RFP that we put out is actually in
response to what's called Plan Dudley Square.
1862
02:20:40,670 --> 02:20:45,830
And we�re making sure that there is clarity between
alignment on what the community has asked for
1863
02:20:46,170 --> 02:20:50,170
and what these developments are bringing.
The second innovation is we picked
1864
02:20:50,330 --> 02:20:52,170
a neighborhood, following
1865
02:20:53,290 --> 02:20:57,210
the first comprehensive citywide plan
that Boston�s done in 65 years,
1866
02:20:57,370 --> 02:21:01,500
or 50 depending on how you look at it,
alled Imagine Boston 2030,
1867
02:21:01,750 --> 02:21:06,250
to pilot an effort of trying
to develop a neighborhood
1868
02:21:06,420 --> 02:21:08,040
without displacing the neighborhood.
1869
02:21:08,210 --> 02:21:13,210
One of the strategies called for the City
being more aggressive in acquiring property.
1870
02:21:13,710 --> 02:21:17,580
It�s something we�re doing now
on the housing side as well.
1871
02:21:17,960 --> 02:21:20,710
We are out there
acquiring existing property
1872
02:21:20,870 --> 02:21:25,120
and not trying to just create affordability
on new developments that are coming.
1873
02:21:25,420 --> 02:21:31,540
How do we go after the high risk property, buy
them and then make them permanently affordable,
1874
02:21:31,710 --> 02:21:35,080
hopefully making the tenants
the owners of those properties.
1875
02:21:35,250 --> 02:21:39,540
So now we�re doing that on a
neighborhood wide scale in Upham�s Corner,
1876
02:21:40,170 --> 02:21:45,370
acquiring as much property as possible before
we launch any kind of public conversation
1877
02:21:45,670 --> 02:21:48,370
around the development of those properties.
The third one would be
1878
02:21:48,540 --> 02:21:52,040
working with corporations
that are coming to Boston
1879
02:21:53,060 --> 02:21:57,750
who are looking for tax incentives or any
kind of incentive to relocate to our city.
1880
02:21:58,250 --> 02:22:01,040
Or bring a headquarter to our city.
We have an agreement with Amazon
1881
02:22:01,210 --> 02:22:04,540
who is building about a million square feet
in the Seaport
1882
02:22:04,710 --> 02:22:07,250
which equates about 4,000 jobs
in two waves.
1883
02:22:07,540 --> 02:22:10,420
2,000 for the first wave,
another 2,000 for the second wave.
1884
02:22:10,500 --> 02:22:13,750
There�s an agreement with Amazon
that we will use a linkage fees
1885
02:22:14,040 --> 02:22:15,750
that that construction is producing
1886
02:22:16,040 --> 02:22:18,210
to create a workforce,
1887
02:22:18,460 --> 02:22:22,000
development and placement program
specifically for those 2,000.
1888
02:22:22,500 --> 02:22:26,790
We�re meeting with HR this December. We�re going
to look at the criteria�s, skills, what�s needed.
1889
02:22:27,080 --> 02:22:29,960
We�re then going to work
with Tren and her team
1890
02:22:30,120 --> 02:22:34,210
on an RFP that looks at the workforce
development in being specific
1891
02:22:34,500 --> 02:22:39,210
in designing that pipeline,
or that journey to those jobs.
1892
02:22:40,000 --> 02:22:42,250
This is something we�re doing
more and more of
1893
02:22:42,460 --> 02:22:47,500
is linking the employers or employment
opportunity to the development
1894
02:22:48,080 --> 02:22:51,830
and programs that are happening
all the way down to high schools.
1895
02:22:52,000 --> 02:22:55,290
Which is something we didn�t talk
about here, but Boston�s effort to map
1896
02:22:55,580 --> 02:23:00,500
the job development ecosystem and then link it
in a way that it�s more effective and evaluated.
1897
02:23:02,040 --> 02:23:04,210
The concept of resilience
is a powerful one.
1898
02:23:05,750 --> 02:23:08,710
It resonates
with every aspect of city life and planning
1899
02:23:08,870 --> 02:23:11,080
in our city and what we do
in our city every day.
1900
02:23:11,540 --> 02:23:13,120
And our decision to focus
1901
02:23:13,750 --> 02:23:18,040
on our racial equity work
was important to our city to move on.
1902
02:23:18,420 --> 02:23:21,460
And to move forward really.
Not move on, move forward.
1903
02:23:21,830 --> 02:23:23,710
It�s something that�s important.
1904
02:23:25,000 --> 02:23:31,040
I grew up in Boston in Dorchester during
the bussing, when bussing came in.
1905
02:23:31,540 --> 02:23:33,000
I was at grammar school
1906
02:23:33,170 --> 02:23:34,870
and I used to walk to...
1907
02:23:35,250 --> 02:23:37,370
my mother and father
are immigrants from Ireland.
1908
02:23:37,540 --> 02:23:41,830
And when they came here they sent me
to parochial school, Catholic school.
1909
02:23:42,000 --> 02:23:46,540
I used to walk by the William E. Russell
every day in the early 70s
1910
02:23:46,830 --> 02:23:51,120
and the kids would come up
in the school buses, but they were led
1911
02:23:51,370 --> 02:23:54,080
by motorcycle police officers.
1912
02:23:55,250 --> 02:23:58,290
And there was a motorcycle police officers
behind them, and one on each side.
1913
02:23:58,580 --> 02:24:02,250
And they were moving kids in and
out of schools and I thought that was
1914
02:24:02,460 --> 02:24:06,210
a little hard when you think I�m walking
down to St. Margaret�s down the street.
1915
02:24:06,420 --> 02:24:10,700
We�re walking down to school and these kids are being
escorted by the police. Not understanding at that time
1916
02:24:11,040 --> 02:24:14,920
what was going on because
I was six and seven and eight years old.
1917
02:24:15,080 --> 02:24:18,170
I wasn�t really sure
what was happening and going on.
1918
02:24:19,370 --> 02:24:23,460
Since that time Boston has made
some progress.
1919
02:24:24,790 --> 02:24:27,420
And we�ve worked on that progress
with other elected officials
1920
02:24:27,670 --> 02:24:30,750
and talking about
addressing the disparities,
1921
02:24:30,960 --> 02:24:35,420
addressing racism and addressing the past
that we�ve experienced in the City of Boston.
1922
02:24:36,620 --> 02:24:38,750
But the disparities remain deep
1923
02:24:38,920 --> 02:24:44,960
and there�s a real, the distrust we have
is real in a lot of areas of our society.
1924
02:24:46,040 --> 02:24:48,870
People wanted more open
and honest conversations
1925
02:24:49,210 --> 02:24:52,540
and I saw the duty as a Mayor
who�s a White Mayor,
1926
02:24:53,120 --> 02:24:55,580
Irish Catholic White Mayor of Boston,
1927
02:24:56,290 --> 02:25:00,170
to start by listening and learning.
1928
02:25:00,830 --> 02:25:03,540
And that�s something important
you have to do because
1929
02:25:03,710 --> 02:25:07,330
if you get somebody making conversation
and trying to make up answers,
1930
02:25:07,500 --> 02:25:12,120
like I did when I was a candidate, it�s not
the way to go. And I did that as a candidate.
1931
02:25:12,420 --> 02:25:14,420
Trying to see what I could do.
1932
02:25:15,580 --> 02:25:18,580
A city can�t thrive if we�re disconnected
from each other.
1933
02:25:19,710 --> 02:25:23,250
And that�s something also important as
far as the work that we do moving forward.
1934
02:25:23,500 --> 02:25:27,920
Racial disparities are our deepest form of
disconnection that we have in this country.
1935
02:25:28,290 --> 02:25:34,330
And I realize in Boston we can�t solve the
problems of the United States of America in here.
1936
02:25:34,830 --> 02:25:38,790
What we can do is work on the issues
that we�re dealing with here in Boston
1937
02:25:38,960 --> 02:25:41,500
and hopefully other cities will see
what we�re doing
1938
02:25:41,710 --> 02:25:45,000
and mistakes we might make,
they won�t have to make those mistakes.
1939
02:25:45,500 --> 02:25:47,250
And what is successful in our city,
1940
02:25:47,420 --> 02:25:50,040
they can say OK this is something
we can do and use in our cities.
1941
02:25:51,620 --> 02:25:54,250
We were just in Columbia, South Carolina
1942
02:25:54,580 --> 02:25:58,750
with Mayor Stephen Benjamin a couple
weeks ago, about 40 mayors I think there,
1943
02:25:59,370 --> 02:26:03,370
and inevitably this conversation comes up
about equity and race. And we tie it into
1944
02:26:03,580 --> 02:26:08,710
what happens on a national level, but we also come
to saying that the impact can be made locally.
1945
02:26:09,080 --> 02:26:10,830
All it takes is one city.
1946
02:26:11,500 --> 02:26:16,870
One city to do something about it. To
be able to share best practices and ideas.
1947
02:26:17,000 --> 02:26:20,290
That�s what we do as Mayors,
as cities, as city councils.
1948
02:26:20,460 --> 02:26:25,120
That�s what legislatures do: they take ideas
from each other and use best practices.
1949
02:26:25,290 --> 02:26:29,710
I just continue to have these dialogues,
continue to have these conversations
1950
02:26:29,960 --> 02:26:33,960
and hopefully we can continue to move forward
as a City of Boston, but also as a country.
1951
02:29:24,460 --> 02:29:26,960
The Food Bank is a great partner
to the City of Boston.
1952
02:29:27,620 --> 02:29:33,080
They work closely with our Office of Health and Human
Services and Office of Food Access as they do with the State.
1953
02:29:33,710 --> 02:29:36,620
They�re member of our
Boston Food Access Council
1954
02:29:36,790 --> 02:29:39,790
and we all know how important
this partnership is.
1955
02:29:40,250 --> 02:29:43,920
One out of every 6 Bostonians
struggle with food insecurity.
1956
02:29:44,460 --> 02:29:48,080
One out of every 6 Bostonians
struggle with food insecurity.
1957
02:29:49,420 --> 02:29:52,580
We�ve added 20,000 new jobs every year
for the last five years.
1958
02:29:52,920 --> 02:29:56,420
We have $9 billion dollars of new
development going on in the City of Boston.
1959
02:29:56,710 --> 02:29:59,120
We�ve built almost 28,000
1960
02:29:59,290 --> 02:30:01,580
new homes in the City of Boston
in the last five years.
1961
02:30:02,290 --> 02:30:05,370
We have great prosperity
in the City of Boston right now
1962
02:30:05,920 --> 02:30:09,460
and one out of every six Bostonians
are struggling with food insecurity.
1963
02:30:09,620 --> 02:30:11,000
That�s the message today.
1964
02:30:11,170 --> 02:30:14,370
That�s something that we need
to work together to tackle this issue
1965
02:30:14,540 --> 02:30:16,960
to get that number to zero.
No one should have
1966
02:30:17,120 --> 02:30:19,790
to worry about
where their next meal�s coming from.
1967
02:30:20,250 --> 02:30:24,000
Everyone deserves access to food
and that�s everyone�s basic human right.
1968
02:30:24,170 --> 02:30:28,210
In Boston, we need to know that that work
of fighting hunger is important
1969
02:30:28,370 --> 02:30:31,870
and the impact that we�re doing in fighting
has to go much further.
1970
02:31:17,880 --> 02:31:21,370
I don�t know what it�s going to take
the United States Congress and Senate
1971
02:31:21,620 --> 02:31:24,500
to recognize the need for gun legislation.
1972
02:31:24,670 --> 02:31:30,540
And also, we can look at Boston and see
when we have a homicide in Boston,
1973
02:31:31,160 --> 02:31:34,000
you can generally tie it back to poverty,
1974
02:31:34,080 --> 02:31:39,080
maybe dropping out of school, lack of
education, desperation, whatever it might be.
1975
02:31:39,290 --> 02:31:43,830
I don�t think anyone�s ever done a real study
on what�s going on with these mass shootings.
1976
02:31:44,000 --> 02:31:46,790
These mass shootings
don�t happen in other countries.
1977
02:31:47,080 --> 02:31:52,080
They happen in the United States of America.
They�re targeting seniors, religious groups, kids
1978
02:31:52,210 --> 02:31:54,170
and nightclubs.
It�s the second nightclub shooting
1979
02:31:54,290 --> 02:31:57,040
in the last couple of years here
and Pulse was the first.
1980
02:31:57,210 --> 02:31:59,120
Something has to give here.
1981
02:31:59,980 --> 02:32:02,960
You can only protect the NRA for so long.
1982
02:32:03,540 --> 02:32:07,370
They have an obligation,
the National Rifle Association,
1983
02:32:07,620 --> 02:32:09,710
if they don�t want to change the laws,
1984
02:32:09,870 --> 02:32:14,500
they have an obligation to the American
people to come up with some solutions.
1985
02:32:14,870 --> 02:32:19,040
When Purdue Pharma,
I�m not going to give him credit here,
1986
02:32:19,330 --> 02:32:24,830
had their back put up against a wall on
oxycodone, they tried to offer some solutions.
1987
02:32:25,170 --> 02:32:29,500
The Labor Movement, when their back's up against
the wall they have to come up with solutions.
1988
02:32:29,670 --> 02:32:35,080
The NRA needs to be held responsible and
accountable for coming up with solutions.
1989
02:32:35,620 --> 02:32:38,960
And if we can�t pass legislation
maybe that�s the route we have to take.
1990
02:32:39,120 --> 02:32:40,710
The NRA is allowing
1991
02:32:40,960 --> 02:32:46,460
mass shootings to happen by not letting any
action happen in the Congress and that�s a sin.
1992
02:34:26,960 --> 02:34:30,620
The ultimate goal of making this stuff
usable, at getting out here to West Roxbury
1993
02:34:30,830 --> 02:34:35,750
is one way to get to this data, but if we get it all
online you don�t have to travel all the way up here.
1994
02:34:35,920 --> 02:34:37,920
Let�s say somebody is looking at
1995
02:34:38,710 --> 02:34:42,710
a governor�s mansion in Virginia and wants to compare
it to the governor�s mansion in Massachusetts,
1996
02:34:42,870 --> 02:34:45,350
they may not even have to do
anything more than open a computer
1997
02:34:45,580 --> 02:34:47,000
to get all of our data.
1998
02:34:47,250 --> 02:34:49,330
They might have to
email or call us to find out
1999
02:34:49,500 --> 02:34:52,330
what do we mean by this or that
or the other thing,
2000
02:34:52,500 --> 02:34:54,790
but the more accessible our data is
the more usable it is.
2001
02:34:54,960 --> 02:34:58,790
Frankly, the more usable it is even
here. So when I look for something,
2002
02:34:59,350 --> 02:35:03,710
I either have to know which box of the
2000 boxes we have contains the artifact
2003
02:35:03,950 --> 02:35:08,370
or I can look it up on our
searchable database and open it up.
2004
02:35:08,750 --> 02:35:11,230
If a researcher comes in looking
for a certain type of artifact
2005
02:35:11,290 --> 02:35:14,250
I can actually search our entire database
to see if we have it or
2006
02:35:14,420 --> 02:35:16,710
how many do we have
and what sites it turns up in.
2007
02:35:16,920 --> 02:35:22,170
And within 20 minutes Sarah or I could get
out to the box and pull it for researcher.
2008
02:35:23,170 --> 02:35:26,460
Which is how it works. Usually when I get
research requests, somebody will say,
2009
02:35:26,610 --> 02:35:29,250
I want to look at
one particular type of ceramic.
2010
02:35:30,460 --> 02:35:33,710
If I don�t know where every piece of that
ceramic is in our two million artifacts,
2011
02:35:34,250 --> 02:35:39,080
I can�t make it accessible to them even
though I know we might have some of it.
2012
02:35:40,420 --> 02:35:43,250
It�s making them usable by people
who may not even know that
2013
02:35:43,420 --> 02:35:46,960
we have these collections. I, myself
am still learning what we have every day.
2014
02:35:47,170 --> 02:35:49,960
I haven�t seen most of this stuff,
even while we were digging,
2015
02:35:50,120 --> 02:35:53,830
because I was in the home most of the time,
not seeing the actual artifacts, but...
2016
02:35:54,140 --> 02:35:56,000
there�s some really cool stuff here.
2017
02:35:56,950 --> 02:35:59,346
Can I talk about the clams real fast
because the clams are really cool.
2018
02:35:59,370 --> 02:36:00,580
I�ll take it all.
2019
02:36:00,950 --> 02:36:05,750
When we were digging we got down to the very
bottom of the site and we hit a layer of clay
2020
02:36:05,990 --> 02:36:09,250
which is this deposit here,
in the very bottom of our site.
2021
02:36:09,950 --> 02:36:12,120
It was manmade as far as
2022
02:36:12,290 --> 02:36:16,346
where it came from because there�s little bits of
brick in it, so we know it wasn�t natural clay deposit.
2023
02:36:16,370 --> 02:36:19,210
But it�s a blue clay.
We call it Boston blue clay.
2024
02:36:19,370 --> 02:36:22,330
And it�s a marine clay
that was deposited by the glacier
2025
02:36:22,720 --> 02:36:25,750
right after the glacier left.
It melted a lot of soil.
2026
02:36:26,590 --> 02:36:31,540
Basically the ground that Boston is
was pushed down by the glacier
2027
02:36:32,000 --> 02:36:34,620
and when the glacier melted
it was still down a little bit deep.
2028
02:36:34,790 --> 02:36:39,500
It�s almost like jumping off a dock. The
ground bounces up after the glacier leaves.
2029
02:36:39,670 --> 02:36:42,330
But before that happened
the ocean flooded Boston.
2030
02:36:42,540 --> 02:36:46,330
So we have a couple thousand years
around 10,000, 15,000 years ago
2031
02:36:46,500 --> 02:36:50,420
where Boston was under water completely.
And then it bounced back up above water.
2032
02:36:50,580 --> 02:36:53,210
But during that time it laid
a huge deposit of clay
2033
02:36:53,370 --> 02:36:57,500
and that�s the Boston blue clay. And you see
it in construction sites all over the place.
2034
02:36:57,960 --> 02:37:01,620
We found clay that was then dug up
by somebody probably in the
2035
02:37:01,790 --> 02:37:04,830
late 1800s, early 1900s
and they used it to line something,
2036
02:37:05,000 --> 02:37:08,580
we�re not even sure what it is. A cistern,
a water collection, something like that.
2037
02:37:09,290 --> 02:37:13,790
And they dug up the clay and they pulled
out all of these shells in the clay still.
2038
02:37:14,900 --> 02:37:20,540
These were stuck in the clay from where they dug it out.
So these are actually clams that were living in Boston
2039
02:37:20,900 --> 02:37:24,460
when it was flooded that are
between 11,000 and 15,000 years old.
2040
02:37:24,620 --> 02:37:29,370
So these are like prehistoric clams.
They�re really thick. They�re huge.
2041
02:37:29,920 --> 02:37:35,330
And it�s just really kind of fun to see them
from 11,000 years ago stuck in the clay,
2042
02:37:35,590 --> 02:37:37,210
scallop in two soft shell clams.
2043
02:37:38,080 --> 02:37:40,790
I just think they�re really cool to find.
Basically they�re fossils.
2044
02:37:41,250 --> 02:37:44,790
We don�t get to find a lot of fossils
in archeology so we don�t do dinosaurs,
2045
02:37:45,010 --> 02:37:46,726
but it�s nice to happen
every once in a while.
2046
02:37:46,750 --> 02:37:50,250
In that deposit we also have artifacts
from the 1700s, like this
2047
02:37:51,080 --> 02:37:55,420
1800s, like this glass.
And 15,000 year old clams.
2048
02:37:56,120 --> 02:37:58,580
Not very typical, but it�s interesting.
2049
02:40:58,930 --> 02:41:01,870
Do minority and women owned businesses
face any barriers
2050
02:41:02,170 --> 02:41:04,420
when it comes to city contracting?
2051
02:41:04,620 --> 02:41:09,580
The disparity study is designed to assess
that question in a number of different ways.
2052
02:41:10,230 --> 02:41:14,920
So first, we�ll look at the degree to which
minority and women owned businesses
2053
02:41:15,080 --> 02:41:19,250
participate in city contracts relative
to their availability for that work.
2054
02:41:19,420 --> 02:41:22,210
I�ll unpack those terms
in just a few minutes.
2055
02:41:23,330 --> 02:41:28,670
We�ll also provide a comprehensive analysis
of the local marketplace to help understand
2056
02:41:28,830 --> 02:41:32,290
whether minorities,
women and minority and women own businesses
2057
02:41:32,460 --> 02:41:39,580
face any barriers working in the Boston region,
and whether any of those barriers lead to
2058
02:41:39,750 --> 02:41:43,330
less success with city contracting
in particular.
2059
02:41:44,540 --> 02:41:48,170
We�ll also provide a comprehensive review
of the contracting policies
2060
02:41:48,330 --> 02:41:51,750
and program measures
that the city uses to help identify
2061
02:41:51,990 --> 02:41:54,420
any policies or practices
that might be inadvertently
2062
02:41:54,710 --> 02:41:58,170
making it more difficult for small businesses
and minority and women owned businesses
2063
02:41:58,460 --> 02:42:01,670
to compete successfully for city contracts.
2064
02:42:03,210 --> 02:42:06,250
Then we�ll also provide a great deal
of insight and recommendations
2065
02:42:06,420 --> 02:42:09,830
around how the City can refine
2066
02:42:09,960 --> 02:42:12,976
the programs it uses to encourage minority
and women owned businesses' participation
2067
02:42:13,000 --> 02:42:16,000
and what programs it can consider using
in the future.
2068
02:42:16,290 --> 02:42:18,500
Educate me a little bit about this.
2069
02:42:19,420 --> 02:42:25,080
Disparity studies. I�ve been in this business
in my industry for the past 30 years.
2070
02:42:25,540 --> 02:42:32,080
I have encountered all kind of difficulties and I�m
still a small contractor after 30 years in business.
2071
02:42:33,120 --> 02:42:39,580
When you say disparity study,
meaning a study that is a doubt.
2072
02:42:41,250 --> 02:42:43,830
Is there a doubt that this exists?
2073
02:42:44,000 --> 02:42:48,870
Because I find it in this 30 years
the difficulty in contracts
2074
02:42:49,170 --> 02:42:55,040
for me to achieve all years in the study. I
don�t think there should be a kind of a doubt.
2075
02:42:55,400 --> 02:42:58,290
Maybe we're looking for proof.
2076
02:42:59,000 --> 02:43:02,540
But I been part of it
and not too long ago,
2077
02:43:03,470 --> 02:43:08,920
I was a minority in a contract,
a State contract with housing.
2078
02:43:09,290 --> 02:43:12,460
I was a third tier subcontract
2079
02:43:13,000 --> 02:43:16,580
just so I can fill the minority quorums,
2080
02:43:16,820 --> 02:43:22,580
but there is a major company, let�s say White
right in front of me to hire me just for that.
2081
02:43:22,930 --> 02:43:28,290
Is that something why
wouldn�t I be directly to the GC?
2082
02:43:28,420 --> 02:43:31,500
Why do I have to be
second and third tier?
2083
02:43:31,710 --> 02:43:37,790
So we know that thing happens where connections
are made to just use us for the particular.
2084
02:43:38,000 --> 02:43:42,120
I�m sorry if I�m out of the equation
2085
02:43:42,750 --> 02:43:45,750
or I�m getting out of the point
that we�re talking.
2086
02:43:46,580 --> 02:43:48,540
But for the past 30 years,
2087
02:43:50,540 --> 02:43:56,080
I can feel it...
If the dollar is taken green,
2088
02:43:56,290 --> 02:44:00,210
I�m suddenly all the qualifications...
I can�t meet them.
2089
02:44:00,370 --> 02:44:03,330
Usually like I was speaking here to Greg,
2090
02:44:03,960 --> 02:44:10,540
I cannot do a 20 or let�s say $10 million,
let�s say $2 million project.
2091
02:44:11,690 --> 02:44:18,870
But I have 10, 12, sometimes 15,
$200,000 projects.
2092
02:44:19,250 --> 02:44:22,960
I can do 20, as many as 200, but at one
2093
02:44:23,180 --> 02:44:25,460
then so really you'll see that
2094
02:44:25,920 --> 02:44:32,040
what is there that is something to keep us
or keep me still on that $200-300,000,
2095
02:44:32,250 --> 02:44:36,540
but where the dollar is greener.
So the disparity is there.
2096
02:44:36,780 --> 02:44:42,750
If it�s proof you�re looking, you come to me.
I�ve been a victim of it for the past years.
2097
02:44:42,920 --> 02:44:47,870
It�s been very hard for a small company
like myself to grow.
2098
02:44:47,950 --> 02:44:52,040
And usually I find let�s say
major stream what do you call it,
2099
02:44:52,210 --> 02:44:54,000
not by using the color of the skin,
2100
02:44:54,170 --> 02:44:57,670
but the mainstream companies
in five years in construction,
2101
02:44:57,870 --> 02:45:01,120
they do it in 20 or 30 million
and they speeding up there.
2102
02:45:01,370 --> 02:45:04,370
And what we say
if you really want to help this,
2103
02:45:04,670 --> 02:45:09,000
I don�t understand that
in bigger companies, bigger projects.
2104
02:45:09,150 --> 02:45:15,290
Like I heard Honeywell has so many million
dollars, negotiated contract with the city.
2105
02:45:16,520 --> 02:45:18,460
The casino was negotiated.
2106
02:45:18,580 --> 02:45:22,670
Why with a small contractor
so we can�t negotiate with the city
2107
02:45:22,870 --> 02:45:25,620
to get that has to be
different ways of doing it
2108
02:45:25,870 --> 02:45:30,870
that we can sit down and negotiate contracts
and make sure we eliminate that gap.
2109
02:45:31,080 --> 02:45:36,750
Suddenly with us it�s illegal. With major
companies it�s not illegal. That�s my point.
2110
02:45:37,000 --> 02:45:39,830
Question is there.
I think essentially it was
2111
02:45:40,030 --> 02:45:46,500
why do the disparity studies?
So there�s a belief on the ground that
2112
02:45:46,900 --> 02:45:49,080
these barriers exist.
2113
02:45:50,420 --> 02:45:54,290
So there�s a few reasons
why we have to go through this process.
2114
02:45:54,460 --> 02:46:01,580
One is as researchers we,
as strong as though, as strong as
2115
02:46:01,830 --> 02:46:04,620
our feeling is
that these barriers might exist or not,
2116
02:46:04,920 --> 02:46:08,460
we�ve got to do the work
and understand and look for evidence,
2117
02:46:08,830 --> 02:46:12,750
objective evidence that this exists.
The reason why is because
2118
02:46:12,870 --> 02:46:15,250
in order for the city
to develop its program
2119
02:46:15,780 --> 02:46:19,620
and for the city to develop a program
that can stand up to legal scrutiny,
2120
02:46:20,670 --> 02:46:23,370
there has to be
objective evidence in place
2121
02:46:23,620 --> 02:46:29,710
that they can point to that informs what programs
they use and why they�re using those programs.
2122
02:46:30,004 --> 02:46:31,460
That�s really the reason.
2123
02:46:31,580 --> 02:46:34,170
I wouldn�t use the word doubt necessarily,
2124
02:46:34,290 --> 02:46:37,460
but it�s really an exercise
in making sure that we�re gathering
2125
02:46:37,670 --> 02:46:42,629
the evidence that the city needs to make sure
that it�s tailoring its program appropriately.
2126
02:46:42,796 --> 02:46:44,236
That�s really what it comes down to.
2127
02:46:44,350 --> 02:46:49,460
There is no doubt that there are
disparities that exist in doing business.
2128
02:46:50,040 --> 02:46:53,046
There�s no doubt that there are disparities
in our economy.
2129
02:46:53,420 --> 02:46:56,754
In fact, the Mayor would be very clear
and has been very clear,
2130
02:46:56,921 --> 02:46:59,921
his number one priority right now
is addressing
2131
02:47:01,000 --> 02:47:04,796
inequities that exist
in the participation of our economy.
2132
02:47:05,330 --> 02:47:06,879
All over the City.
2133
02:47:07,290 --> 02:47:12,212
Now we think the inequities that exist in the
participation in doing business with the City
2134
02:47:12,380 --> 02:47:16,370
is where we need to put real effort
and try to lead.
2135
02:47:16,580 --> 02:47:18,337
And so there�s been historic
2136
02:47:18,754 --> 02:47:23,629
challenges doing business with women owned
and minority owned businesses here in the City
2137
02:47:24,290 --> 02:47:25,830
way before we got in,
2138
02:47:26,220 --> 02:47:29,290
and there are systemic barriers
and policy barriers.
2139
02:47:29,462 --> 02:47:31,171
And we want to address them.
2140
02:47:31,421 --> 02:47:33,080
We�ve been doing things
2141
02:47:33,600 --> 02:47:36,790
and there also have been challenges,
2142
02:47:36,920 --> 02:47:39,920
legal challenges to policies that the City
2143
02:47:40,080 --> 02:47:42,629
before we got into office,
but all over the country,
2144
02:47:42,870 --> 02:47:46,004
whenever a City adopts a policy
2145
02:47:46,171 --> 02:47:49,587
that begins to work with one group
or another, people will challenge it.
2146
02:47:49,793 --> 02:47:52,421
And say hey, is that fair?
Is that not fair?
2147
02:47:55,000 --> 02:48:00,750
BBC, Sameer, is representing the city�s
effort to make sure that we are well informed
2148
02:48:01,330 --> 02:48:04,920
when we introduce
any of these policies.
2149
02:48:05,790 --> 02:48:08,080
And more importantly,
that they can stand up in court.
2150
02:48:52,250 --> 02:48:53,250
Good boy.
2151
02:48:54,060 --> 02:48:58,500
So the good news is to take his temperature
I don�t have to put a thermometer in him.
2152
02:48:58,880 --> 02:49:01,170
I have a scanning thermometer
I can just put on his skin.
2153
02:49:01,460 --> 02:49:03,504
And it�s going to scan for his temperature.
2154
02:49:07,500 --> 02:49:10,710
- Perfect. He doesn�t have a fever.
- He�s neutered correct?
2155
02:49:15,120 --> 02:49:18,000
So the plan for today because
he�s already got his rabies vaccine,
2156
02:49:18,250 --> 02:49:21,040
we�re going to do
a distemper parvo vaccine.
2157
02:49:21,230 --> 02:49:26,170
We're going to give him a kennel cough vaccine
which is a drop that has to go into his nose.
2158
02:49:26,750 --> 02:49:29,580
We�re going to give him a de-wormer
and we�ll do a blood test.
2159
02:49:30,040 --> 02:49:34,120
We�re testing him for heartworm disease.
That�s transmitted by mosquitoes
2160
02:49:34,250 --> 02:49:35,830
and it�s a horrible disease
2161
02:49:35,960 --> 02:49:37,870
to have to treat
that�s really easy to prevent.
2162
02:50:24,790 --> 02:50:26,500
Distemper. Ready?
2163
02:50:34,260 --> 02:50:36,040
What was that? Nothing.
2164
02:50:38,970 --> 02:50:40,960
Rabies. I�m sorry little girl.
2165
02:50:42,000 --> 02:50:44,212
So you want to giver her a bath now?
2166
02:51:32,010 --> 02:51:35,710
You can call 1-800-PETMEDS
and ask for a prescription
2167
02:51:36,120 --> 02:51:40,420
of heartworm medication and they�ll call
here to verify that the test was clean.
2168
02:51:40,470 --> 02:51:41,921
But the way to keep him healthy
2169
02:51:42,129 --> 02:51:45,962
is to have him on the preventive medicine
once a month, all around the year.
2170
02:53:05,270 --> 02:53:07,460
This organization is incredible.
2171
02:53:07,580 --> 02:53:11,120
Morgan Memorial we all have a story
growing up of Morgan Memorial
2172
02:53:11,350 --> 02:53:15,790
and Goodwill,
providing opportunities for training,
2173
02:53:16,030 --> 02:53:18,330
for housing, for food,
2174
02:53:18,870 --> 02:53:20,920
for supplies, for clothing,
2175
02:53:21,040 --> 02:53:25,460
helping people. This organization has always
wrapped its arms around people that are in need.
2176
02:53:25,620 --> 02:53:30,920
It�s one of our largest employers for people with disabilities.
I want to thank you as well for the great work you do there.
2177
02:53:31,210 --> 02:53:35,000
I want to thank all the people that are
here today that we had the honor of serving.
2178
02:53:35,170 --> 02:53:38,830
Thank you for letting us serve you today.
Thank you for letting us be part of this day.
2179
02:53:39,860 --> 02:53:41,290
Thanksgiving is...
2180
02:53:43,040 --> 02:53:45,712
one of those holidays I think that
2181
02:53:46,087 --> 02:53:49,171
allows us the opportunity
to come and serve somebody else.
2182
02:53:49,670 --> 02:53:55,460
And a chance to see people and it should fill
our hearts with gratitude for what we have.
2183
02:53:55,750 --> 02:53:58,629
And on behalf of myself and all the folks
from the City and the State,
2184
02:53:58,884 --> 02:54:02,004
I want to thank you because
my heart is filled with gratitude today
2185
02:54:02,421 --> 02:54:04,790
because of the great work
that Goodwill does
2186
02:54:05,010 --> 02:54:07,846
and the great work of the young people
and the people that are here today.
2187
02:54:07,870 --> 02:54:12,087
So I�m going to stop talking and then we�re
going to have, we�re going to have dancing.
2188
02:54:12,370 --> 02:54:16,337
Will the runners go to the kitchen
and dinner will start.
2189
02:57:02,070 --> 02:57:07,070
We�re going to be doing the general contracting.
We�re the developer and the property manager
2190
02:57:07,370 --> 02:57:10,160
and this is some of the additional
organizations that we have.
2191
02:57:10,370 --> 02:57:13,990
We�re very proud of Cruz�s Care
because it�s a nonprofit that does
2192
02:57:14,780 --> 02:57:19,530
outreach to youth. We mentor young people, we
take them on trips, we do computer learning.
2193
02:57:20,530 --> 02:57:25,070
We do all kinds of backpack giveaways, but
the most important thing is we spend time
2194
02:57:25,240 --> 02:57:28,660
with youth that live on our properties
because we think mentorship
2195
02:57:29,290 --> 02:57:32,530
and interaction
is vital in young people�s lives.
2196
02:57:32,870 --> 02:57:33,990
And next slide.
2197
02:57:34,740 --> 02:57:38,160
We also have heard through the community
in this process,
2198
02:57:38,450 --> 02:57:40,530
about the wealth gap that exists.
2199
02:57:40,740 --> 02:57:44,240
And we all know in the Black community
the wealth gap
2200
02:57:45,200 --> 02:57:48,490
between Blacks and Whites is 275,000
2201
02:57:48,910 --> 02:57:52,950
for an average White family and
750 for an average Black family.
2202
02:57:53,120 --> 02:57:57,740
So one of the things that we made
as part of our mission in this proposal
2203
02:57:57,920 --> 02:58:01,070
is to give as much back
economically to the community
2204
02:58:01,280 --> 02:58:03,570
and leave it better than we find it.
2205
02:58:04,020 --> 02:58:08,870
We just want to give folks a bit of sense
of what we do from a payroll standpoint.
2206
02:58:09,030 --> 02:58:11,410
This is the last seven years.
You'll see our people
2207
02:58:11,740 --> 02:58:16,570
of color percentages go up
from 77 to 93.
2208
02:58:16,740 --> 02:58:21,620
Boston residents are in the 60�s.
Women and Section 3 workers.
2209
02:58:21,870 --> 02:58:24,620
And we continue to put money back
in the community.
2210
02:58:26,470 --> 02:58:29,700
And this is not only
on an employee�s standpoint,
2211
02:58:29,950 --> 02:58:31,490
but on a business standpoint.
2212
02:58:31,660 --> 02:58:35,990
We think it�s very important
that we support local businesses of color.
2213
02:58:36,160 --> 02:58:38,530
So these are MBE numbers.
2214
02:58:39,430 --> 02:58:43,160
Utilization of firms of color
in the last seven years.
2215
02:58:44,370 --> 02:58:49,120
And you see out of 152 million of total
development costs that we�ve done on average
2216
02:58:49,660 --> 02:58:54,700
75 to 78 % have gone to firms of color.
And you look at the worker hours.
2217
02:58:54,910 --> 02:58:59,780
We�ve hit as much as 95 % on 35,000 hours.
2218
02:58:59,980 --> 02:59:02,200
So again it�s about
Ngiving back to the community.
2219
02:59:03,010 --> 02:59:08,240
To talk about the program, it�s now 160
units. When we were selected it was 150.
2220
02:59:08,970 --> 02:59:11,120
But as you get more into design
2221
02:59:11,320 --> 02:59:15,410
and more finite layouts you find that
you have a little bit more footprint.
2222
02:59:16,030 --> 02:59:22,620
So right now, it�s 160 units of which
105 are home ownership condominiums
2223
02:59:23,380 --> 02:59:27,700
and there�s 15,500 square feet
of retail space.
2224
02:59:27,770 --> 02:59:29,240
That�s also an increase
2225
02:59:29,640 --> 02:59:33,570
from when we were designated because
during, we�ve had about nine meetings
2226
02:59:33,990 --> 02:59:37,990
with DND, BPDA and part of the feedback,
2227
02:59:38,910 --> 02:59:41,240
most of the feedback we incorporated
2228
02:59:41,410 --> 02:59:43,990
and you�ll see in the design we
have more of a street presence
2229
02:59:44,410 --> 02:59:48,740
and as that evolved
it opened up for more retail space.
2230
02:59:48,950 --> 02:59:51,320
So you�ll see when they do
the architectural
2231
02:59:51,800 --> 02:59:54,950
that our retail space
has in fact increased.
2232
02:59:55,750 --> 03:00:00,950
Estimated real estate tax, people ask us,
is about $700,000 annually.
2233
03:00:02,020 --> 03:00:07,490
As some of you know, as part of our community
benefits we are going to be leasing space
2234
03:00:07,660 --> 03:00:10,490
to the NAACP at no cost for 10 years.
2235
03:00:10,780 --> 03:00:14,450
In addition to that we�ve endowed
a $5,000 scholarship
2236
03:00:15,120 --> 03:00:19,030
annually for 10 years for them to allocate
anyway that they want.
2237
03:00:19,650 --> 03:00:24,200
We also have agreed, YouthBuild Boston
for those of you who aren�t familiar,
2238
03:00:24,400 --> 03:00:27,120
is an organization
that trains young people in the trades.
2239
03:00:27,370 --> 03:00:30,870
Helps them get on a straight path.
2240
03:00:31,620 --> 03:00:35,450
We�ve committed $100,000
to that organization over five years.
2241
03:00:35,700 --> 03:00:40,410
Plus we�re going to hire at least
one YouthBuild graduate
2242
03:00:40,870 --> 03:00:45,070
in every major trade
or during the life of the development.
2243
03:00:45,320 --> 03:00:49,240
The life of the construction and we have
estimated that to be about 20 positions.
2244
03:00:49,540 --> 03:00:54,030
Community benefits should be
driven by the community
2245
03:00:54,530 --> 03:00:57,070
and not by a developer.
2246
03:00:57,280 --> 03:01:01,700
I�m not taking issue with that.
It�s a broad statement that I�m making.
2247
03:01:01,870 --> 03:01:05,120
It�s not targeted at crews specifically.
2248
03:01:06,910 --> 03:01:13,240
What, in that sort of proposal and package
can we revisit and look at
2249
03:01:14,530 --> 03:01:19,700
and really build more consensus around
from the community�s perspective
2250
03:01:19,870 --> 03:01:23,740
as to what they would like to see
as a community benefit.
2251
03:01:24,200 --> 03:01:28,070
Much of what you listed out
2252
03:01:28,320 --> 03:01:33,660
of course NAACP, I�m not sure they need
1,000 square feet of space.
2253
03:01:34,820 --> 03:01:41,740
And some of the others that are noble
endeavors, but could there be others?
2254
03:01:42,030 --> 03:01:45,280
And that make more sense
particularly for this site?
2255
03:01:45,780 --> 03:01:49,370
So I would just like to hear,
2256
03:01:49,700 --> 03:01:53,700
I think from not only the IAG group,
2257
03:01:53,950 --> 03:01:56,200
but also from the community
2258
03:01:56,280 --> 03:01:59,660
and have that community
benefits process be more
2259
03:01:59,820 --> 03:02:02,450
inclusive of what the community wants,
2260
03:02:02,620 --> 03:02:07,700
as opposed to relationships that developers
have with specific groups of people.
2261
03:02:07,950 --> 03:02:11,120
It may not be that thing,
but it can look like that.
2262
03:02:11,860 --> 03:02:14,530
For us to go a little deeper on that.
2263
03:02:14,570 --> 03:02:15,870
I would like to respond.
2264
03:02:15,990 --> 03:02:17,950
We tried to get out ahead of...
2265
03:02:18,490 --> 03:02:23,910
Anytime we put in a proposal, as part of that we
think about the benefits back to the community.
2266
03:02:24,350 --> 03:02:30,410
And I think the Roxbury Strategic Master
Plan Oversight Committee asks the question,
2267
03:02:30,870 --> 03:02:35,740
how come the Cruz�s proposal has benefits
and none of the other�s had them?
2268
03:02:36,360 --> 03:02:38,910
And it�s because we always try
to be proactive.
2269
03:02:39,280 --> 03:02:41,780
So we can always have a discussion.
2270
03:02:42,410 --> 03:02:46,990
You know John�s always open to having
conversations and considering things.
2271
03:02:47,570 --> 03:02:50,950
But we made a commitment to the NAACP
in writing.
2272
03:02:51,910 --> 03:02:54,950
That not only would we give them
free space for 10 years...
2273
03:02:55,450 --> 03:03:00,740
Not to date myself, but when I was growing up
the NAACP was on Mass Ave, the prominent side.
2274
03:03:00,910 --> 03:03:05,320
You drive by you see them, you had ethnic
pride because you knew their mission.
2275
03:03:05,570 --> 03:03:07,240
Now, unfortunately
2276
03:03:07,570 --> 03:03:11,450
they�re in the Washington Park Mall
where no one sees them.
2277
03:03:11,820 --> 03:03:13,910
So we thought it was an excellent idea
2278
03:03:14,320 --> 03:03:17,530
to have them visible,
where better than in Dudley Square.
2279
03:03:17,780 --> 03:03:21,030
When people come down.
So we made that agreement with them.
2280
03:03:21,240 --> 03:03:25,320
We also made an agreement
to fund a scholarship
2281
03:03:25,820 --> 03:03:30,820
at $5,000 a year for at least 10 years
that they would have the control
2282
03:03:31,450 --> 03:03:35,160
to determine who got it.
We wouldn�t be involved in that at all,
2283
03:03:35,570 --> 03:03:37,650
just from the vantage point
of giving them the money.
2284
03:03:37,780 --> 03:03:40,450
And with YouthBuild.
YouthBuild does a great job.
2285
03:03:40,660 --> 03:03:42,910
If you�re not aware of them
just Google them.
2286
03:03:43,030 --> 03:03:46,120
Not that a lot of organizations don�t,
but they do a great job
2287
03:03:46,990 --> 03:03:48,660
taking our troubled youth
2288
03:03:48,780 --> 03:03:53,820
and turning them around when
their next step is either incarceration
2289
03:03:54,430 --> 03:03:59,070
or they have to turn their lives around. And
so we thought that that was a high priority
2290
03:03:59,290 --> 03:04:01,030
for us to make a commitment on
2291
03:04:01,910 --> 03:04:05,120
and providing jobs.
We�ve worked with them before, in fact
2292
03:04:05,620 --> 03:04:08,740
John has hired at least
10 YouthBuild graduates
2293
03:04:09,160 --> 03:04:12,740
in probably the last 10 or 15 years
because we think it�s so important.
2294
03:04:13,030 --> 03:04:16,280
It�s like ex-offenders. They need a chance.
They need another chance.
2295
03:04:16,570 --> 03:04:19,410
So, conversation on community benefits
2296
03:04:19,820 --> 03:04:22,537
is not off the table,
but the ones that we�ve given
2297
03:04:22,704 --> 03:04:25,829
we feel like we�ve given our word
to those people.
2298
03:04:26,120 --> 03:04:29,820
To those organizations.
It would be hard to go back and say,
2299
03:04:30,990 --> 03:04:32,320
we�ve changed our mind.
2300
03:04:32,530 --> 03:04:36,780
Community benefits should be driven
by the community.
2301
03:04:37,070 --> 03:04:41,240
It should have its focus
come from the community.
2302
03:04:41,410 --> 03:04:46,160
I understand that you as a developer
and others want to, some of you,
2303
03:04:46,320 --> 03:04:50,280
not all developers want to get
ahead of that and put on the table,
2304
03:04:51,660 --> 03:04:54,530
meaningful, long term community benefits.
2305
03:04:54,700 --> 03:04:57,950
That�s the other thing
and this is also more for the City that
2306
03:04:58,160 --> 03:05:02,070
community benefits shouldn�t just be
a shot in the arm. It should be long term.
2307
03:05:02,370 --> 03:05:06,620
It should be, it should you know,
2308
03:05:07,030 --> 03:05:10,280
build equity in the community.
2309
03:05:10,980 --> 03:05:15,620
That�s my concern and my concern
is that the voice
2310
03:05:15,870 --> 03:05:18,320
that carries that piece
around community benefit
2311
03:05:18,530 --> 03:05:20,120
resonate and comes
from the community.
2312
03:06:18,280 --> 03:06:19,596
I�m here today to tell my story on
2313
03:06:19,620 --> 03:06:22,660
how I got in front of the hydrant
and why I�m in front of the hydrant.
2314
03:06:23,780 --> 03:06:27,620
First of all I�m not denying I parked
there. I was wrong in parking there.
2315
03:06:28,200 --> 03:06:30,450
How I ended up there?
2316
03:06:30,910 --> 03:06:34,320
My industry�s biggest conference
of the year
2317
03:06:34,780 --> 03:06:37,450
is September 22, 23rd.
That�s something I know.
2318
03:06:37,740 --> 03:06:42,370
It�s also happened to be two weeks
before my wife�s due date.
2319
03:06:42,780 --> 03:06:45,676
It was a big debate throughout the year
if I should go, if I should not go.
2320
03:06:45,700 --> 03:06:47,740
That conference was in Rockland, Maine.
2321
03:06:48,700 --> 03:06:50,160
So predictably,
2322
03:06:51,570 --> 03:06:56,660
Tuesday night, September 23rd, I get a
phone call, my wife�s having contractions.
2323
03:06:56,780 --> 03:07:00,950
And I race home to, from Rockland, Maine,
Bar Harbor area.
2324
03:07:02,690 --> 03:07:05,030
So I drive home
three and a half, four hours.
2325
03:07:05,840 --> 03:07:08,780
It�s East Boston past midnight.
2326
03:07:08,950 --> 03:07:12,160
There�s no parking anywhere
within two miles of my house.
2327
03:07:12,370 --> 03:07:14,660
I�m a first time father, new father.
2328
03:07:14,910 --> 03:07:17,470
I have no idea what to expect.
I just have to get a parking spot.
2329
03:07:18,160 --> 03:07:20,620
2:30 in the morning
I park in front of the hydrant.
2330
03:07:22,280 --> 03:07:25,620
I wake up the next day and there�s not one,
but two tickets on my car.
2331
03:07:26,350 --> 03:07:29,620
So, I�m here,
letting you know I was wrong,
2332
03:07:29,780 --> 03:07:33,370
but as an exhausted, stressed,
tired new father
2333
03:07:33,820 --> 03:07:38,370
that is facing a pile of medical bills,
asking for reprieve from one of those tickets.
2334
03:07:39,280 --> 03:07:42,200
Based on the evidence you provided,
2335
03:07:42,370 --> 03:07:44,796
as well as the evidence provided
by the Officer who wrote the tickets,
2336
03:07:44,820 --> 03:07:47,700
factoring what I�m allowed to factor in,
legally speaking
2337
03:07:47,870 --> 03:07:49,820
I should deny the appeal today.
2338
03:07:50,130 --> 03:07:53,530
What I�m going to do however instead
I�m going to dismiss both tickets.
2339
03:07:53,700 --> 03:07:55,700
One with a warning
the other with a final warning.
2340
03:07:55,860 --> 03:07:57,370
That means is a couple of things.
2341
03:07:57,530 --> 03:07:59,450
First, in the future you got to make sure
2342
03:07:59,620 --> 03:08:02,320
you check where you park
because especially with issues like this,
2343
03:08:02,490 --> 03:08:06,240
and with no stop or stands, they
can tow the car if they really wanted to.
2344
03:08:06,410 --> 03:08:09,240
Which would not have been helpful
in this entire process for you.
2345
03:08:09,870 --> 03:08:12,160
Second, if you filed an appeal
you do need to bring
2346
03:08:12,320 --> 03:08:14,840
all evidence that you have
that can corroborate any testimonies,
2347
03:08:14,910 --> 03:08:17,280
paperwork, receipts, photos, whatever.
2348
03:08:17,410 --> 03:08:19,506
And third, means you don�t have
to pay anything today.
2349
03:08:19,530 --> 03:08:20,530
Thank you very much.
2350
03:08:24,690 --> 03:08:28,700
For the record we�re here today
for ticket 754471406
2351
03:08:28,870 --> 03:08:31,660
issued to us in a resident permit only
on 8/9/2019
2352
03:08:31,910 --> 03:08:35,120
at 10:09 p.m. at 343 Congress Street.
2353
03:08:35,490 --> 03:08:37,950
So what can you do to prove
the ticket was given incorrectly.
2354
03:08:39,200 --> 03:08:42,240
It�s tough for me to prove the ticket
was given incorrectly, but...
2355
03:08:42,530 --> 03:08:45,820
When I parked the car
there wasn�t any sign for
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