Ordinance Creating a Municipal Identification Card in the City of Boston. Referred to the Committee on Government Operations.
Councilor Murphy lays out the chair. Government Docket 0465 will be referred to the Committee on Government Operations. Mr. Kirklees re docket 04660466. Councilor Roy offer the following An ordinance creating a municipal identification card in the city of Boston. Thank you. The chair recognizes counsel. Royal counsel. Royal. You have the floor. Thank you. Mr. President, I'm very excited to introduce a municipal identification or an ordinance to create municipal identification for the city of Boston. This has been a long time coming. There was a study done in 2018 exploring the feasibility of this and what services residents would want. But other major cities like New York, Los Angeles and Chicago have already successfully done municipal identification programs. And the great part about a useful identification program as it gives Boston residents sort of a one card fits all situation. So in Chicago, for instance, their municipal resident's ID cards allow them to access the air. It serves as what our Charlie cards would serve as their venture card. So their ID actually works as their T card. It also works as their Boston their Chicago Public Library card. So the goal here is to create a municipal ID that sort of centers city services on one card, but also does things like New York's card, which New York's card gives you benefits to cultural institutions. It gives you sales and discounts to tickets, to the museums and to the to their zoos and to their different city institutions . And so it gives this one sort of resource rich card access. The wonderful part about municipal ID is that it allows us to be more inclusive in the city and who has IDs. We need IDs for many different things, and some standards for IDs are very difficult for folks who are here with proper documentation or without proper documentation to obtain. This would allow folks under a very strenuous list of requirements to preside identification of who they are to the agency that will issue these, but also that they live here. This gives the opportunity to create a very inclusive city and to send a message that Boston is a gateway city, is a city that is looking to be as inclusive and welcoming to all who call Boston home. And so I am excited to move forward with this. We have very workable examples that now exist in other cities. This is no longer a new idea. This has already sort of started to take root and has been in place for several years in other municipalities. So where we're sort of following up on that, but this is something that really should exist and really will go a long way to improving the lives and residents in the city of Boston. And so I look forward to introducing this and to moving this through. Thank you, Mr. President. Thank you, counsel. Royal Oak, would anyone else like to speak on this matter? Would anyone else like to? Would anyone else like to add their name? Please raise your hand, Mr. Kirklees. Add Councilor Bach, Councilor Brad and Councilor Edwards. Councilor Fernandez Anderson. Councilor for Charity Council, Borough Council and Councilor here. Councilor Murphy Council. Were all pleased that the Chair. Dark at 0466 will be referred to. The Committee on Government Operations. Yeah. Mr. Quirk, please amend the attendance report to include Councilor Edwards as present. Mr. Clerk, please read docket 0467.