Order for a hearing to discuss ways of creating a partnership between colleges and high schools that will create jobs and academic supports for students. On motion of Councilor Fernandes Anderson, Rule 12 was invoked to include Councilors Louijeune and Mejia as co-sponsors.
Council. Royal Council. Meet here. Council. Anyone else. Okay. Docket 0634 will be assigned to the Committee on City Services in Innovation Technology. Mr. Clerk, please read Docket 0635.0635. Councilor Fernandes Sanderson offer the following order for a hearing to discuss ways of creating a partnership between colleges and high schools that will create jobs and academic supports for students. Thank you. The chair recognizes Counselor Fernandez Anderson. Counsel Fernandez Anderson. You have the floor. Thank you. Earlier, I just so you know, I forgot to do my slogan when you said Councilor Fernandez Anderson aways, it means I was going to be like where the money resides, where the money resides. But then I forgot and then it's just too late. So I'll just go on to talking about this one now. So I think that, you know, the possibility of getting academic support to our high school youth via partnering between area colleges and high school is super exciting. I wonder if we can discuss at this opportunity in terms of how we can hold colleges accountable by way of some sort of community benefit or pilot program where they can compensate lower socioeconomic class or lower income students to tutor high school students and then create and also creating jobs to our high school or stipends as a compensation. So creating this incentive to get high schools. The two would get compensated of consequence compensated and the tutor would also be employed. And so a partnership between the city and area colleges and high schools to get academic supports to our high schools is important and vital. And I hope you guys can support this idea. Thank you. Oh, and I'd also like to add Councilor Resolution and Councilor Mickey to this order. Thank you. Hearing, hearing. No objection. Council illusion and councilman here. So, so added. Is anyone else looking to speak on this matter? The chair recognizes Constitution. Constitution. You have the floor. Thank you, President Flynn. And thank you, Councilor Fernandez, and for offering this. Many of the students in our city have no choice but to work and sometimes have to choose work over school because of family situations, especially for our black and brown students, especially for immigrant families. And so it's whether, you know, and we see this all the time, and sometimes it's just because of spending money. A lot of us here started early. I started as soon as I was able to work, I was working. That is why I think this is a really great idea, so that we can provide stipends. I'm a big fan of learning and earning give jobs to folks who are young kids, where they are able to learn and able to put some money in their pocket. That was a big benefit for me and all of my sisters who started working when we were 14. Um, so we know that a lot of our students are dropping out. They're not finishing school as the rate of at the rate of their white peers. And we know that a lot of them suffer from entrenched poverty that's rooted in cycles of structural racism. And so they can't afford to test for test. And we know that all of our wonderful and really wealthy colleges have the capacity to give back more and be better neighbors here in Boston to our students who need it the most. A stipend for studying program, as the counselor has offered, would be a win win win for our students, for our schools and for our local colleges. And universities would pay dividends for the students who need resources to move and motivation to continue their academic pursuits and choose learning over, you know, a just a regular job if every college students take a leadership role and to really be invested in the city of Boston. So I think this is a really great idea and I'm looking forward to partnering with Councilor Fernando Anderson on this to make sure that we are incentivizing our young kids and really doing the work of making, giving, giving them money so that they can so that they can learn. Thank you. Thank you. Counsel. Again, the chair recognizes councilman here. Councilman, here you have the floor. Thank you, Mr. President. And thank you to my colleague for adding me. What a beautiful surprise. So I just thank you. And I just would offer that, you know, I always talk about the fact that I had three jobs when I was in high school. So working wasn't something that I felt was a privilege. It was really more about survival. And I think the more opportunities that we can create for young people to earn while they learn and also create a pipeline of being able to give back is important. So I'm I'm happy to support this and look forward to having this involved in any of my committees, both as the Chair of Education and Workforce Development. This is a nice intersection of both. I really do appreciate your leadership and your creativity about thinking outside the box. So thank you. Thank you, councilman here. Would anyone else like to speak on this matter? What? Anyone else like to sign on to this? Please raise your hand. Mr. Kirklees. Council. Royal Council of Balk Council. Brighton Council. Councilor Fernandez Innocent Council. Florida Councilor Laura. Councilor Murphy, please add the chair. Docket 0635 will be assigned to the Committee on Pilot Agreements, Institutional and Intergovernmental Inter-Governmental Relations. At this time. I just want to acknowledge the former colleague, Boston City Councilor Paul Skippy Serpico. Paul, thank you for being with us today. Mr. Quirk, please read docketed. 06360636. Councilor Fernandes Sanderson offered the following order for a hearing to discuss the initiation of a study that assesses life insurance needs for low income residents.