Order for a hearing on fire and emergency disaster relief services in the City of Boston. Councilors Louijuene and Flaherty rule 12 was invoked to include Councilor Breadon as co-sponsors.
The resolution has been adopted. Congratulations. Mr. Clarke, we're going we're going to 0723. Mr. Couric, please read Dr.. 0723.0723 Counsel allusion and Flurry offered the following order for a hearing on fire and emergency disaster relief services in the city of Boston. Thank you. The chair recognizes counsel Lewis and counsel to adjourn. You have the floor. Thank you, Mr. President. I'd like to ask that we suspend rule 12 so that I can add a rate as a third and a co-sponsor. The hearing. No objection. Counsel. Braden is so, so adamant. Thank you, Mr. President. I believe with you, Mr. President. We just spoke about getting the the nuts and bolts of city government. Right. And so this hearing water really is about that. I'm sorry. I'm not speaking. I passed it. So this hearing water really is about getting that right, you know, every day. You know, too often in the city of Boston, we have our residents who are displaced because of fire. You know, one of my early cases as an attorney was helping a family navigate the experience of losing their home to a fire and really working with the city departments to get that client shelter. Really taught me a lot. But not just shelter, access to resources, making sure that they were close enough to the hospital that one of our children went to so that he could receive dialysis. There was so much involved in once a family is displaced from a fire, oftentimes landlords that are required to maintain insurance don't do that. And they're supposed to be able to provide relocation benefits to their tenants. But that doesn't always happen. And so this hearing order is about figuring out how we get it right. How do we show up for our vulnerable residents who face fires, you know, analyze Boston's fire incident reporting system? Does it have any quantifiable, quantifiable data on the injuries or displacement numbers? And we know the city of Boston has an emergency assistance fund for victims of fire, that we need to do more work to make sure that we're supporting all of our residents. There were recently there's recently a fire in Mattapan, and there were young leaders from the Mattapan teen center that held a bake sale because we were falling short as a city in providing for this family. There have been multiple occasions where families who had nowhere to go showed up in our office. Shout out to my chief of staff, Emily, who is, you know, does a great job at triaging that issues. But we have to do better at providing the basic city services to our residents who are experiencing fires. So this hearing order is about bringing our different city departments together to make sure that we're providing adequate city services, that we are using this emergency assistance fund that we have. And looking at the modeling, Cambridge, Cambridge has a fund that sort of Cambridge has a fire relief fund that residents, public and private entities and others can donate into in order to assist those facing displacement and fire. This is not by no means to supplant the work has done in community, to really help those who are who who face violence, really, to try to bring all those resources together and so that we maximize our impact on our families that experienced fires, especially for our tenants who are renting and renting in subpar units, often feel this the most. So thank you so much to my co-sponsors, Councilor Flaherty and Councilor Reading, and I look forward to this hearing. Thank you. Thank you, counsel. Again, the chair recognizes counsel, clarity, counsel, clarity of the floor. And I'll be brief, obviously, that I appreciate the lead sponsors inclusion of me on this as a co-sponsor. It's done a lot of work in this space and not quite sure whether or not it's quiet because folks that I give folks my name a number or if it's the board of companies that do it. But nonetheless, we are oftentimes in the middle of this working either with the landlords or more particularly the tenants, particularly those that don't have tenant insurance. So more needs to be done, I think in the space, any time an incident like this happens, more often than not , individuals or families, they lose everything in a fire and they're starting from scratch. And so anything that we can do, assisting them with housing, working closely with neighborhood services, working closely with Inspectional services, all of those different agencies and organizations and resources, we have a responsibility to do that for residents. And so with that, I look forward to an expert adhering to find ways that we as a council can continue to help individuals who are displaced due to fire and or those that have lost everything in an effort to help them get back on their feet and find resources so they can keep a roof over their head and start to get back to life as they knew it prior to the fire. Thank you, Mr. President, and look forward to work with my colleagues next to counsel religion. Thank you. Counsel Florida. The chair recognizes counsel Baker. Counsel Baker, you have the floor. Thank you, Mr. President. Just please sign me on here as a district city council. This is unfortunately something that we come across too often. We only offer these families that are displaced in the street one week worth of housing. We need to offer more than that. But also, counsel already had mentioned the board of the boarding up companies just a heads up two people that our district city council has the at large for that matter they are the pariah in this here. If you go to a if I see them all standing with their clipboards, they use that as an opportunity to to put a lean on those properties. So just so people know what, when you're on the scene and you see the guys with the clipboards, they're they're looking to steal the house most of the time looking to steal the house from the people that are watching it burn right now. So just so people put in the back of their minds and please sign my name. Thank you, counsel Baker. Is anyone else stopping to speak on this matter? Would anyone like to add their name? If you could raise your hand. Mr. Kirklees Council. Royal Council. Bacup Council. Borough Council. Fernandez Innocent Council. Borough Council. Me here. Council. Murphy please have the chair originally. Originally I was going to place this docket into the into the Committee on Public Safety and Criminal Justice. But after further discussion and consideration, I'm going to place this in city services and innovation technology. Thank you. Mr. Clerk, please read docket. 07240724.