Message and order authorizing the City of Boston to accept and expend the amount of Thirty Nine Thousand One Hundred Fifty Five Dollars ($39,155.00) in the form of a grant for the Recording Risk Grant, awarded by the Council on Library and Information Resources to be administered by the Office of the City Clerk. The grant will fund the Preserving Boston’s Voices project: Digitizing the Boston 200 Community Oral History collection.
Thank you. Docket 093530937 will be referred to the Committee on Public Safety. Criminal Justice. Mr. Clerk, can you please read docket 09380938 message? An order authorizing the city of Boston to accept and expand the amount of $39,155 in the form of a grant for the recording risk grant awarded by the Council on Library and Information of Information Resources to be administered by the Office of the City Clerk. The grant will fund the preserving Boston's voice, this project digitizing the Boston 200 Community Oral History Collection. Thank you. The Chair recognizes Council BLOCK Chair of the Committee on City Services and Innovation Technology Council of Barking of the Floor. Thank you so much, Mr. President. On behalf of the committee, I'm seeking a suspension of passage of this docket today. It's obviously less than $40,000. But I wanted to inform the the council about what it's really for. So this project, it was described in the brief description as preserving Boston's voices, digitizing the Boston Community Oral History collection . But the details on that is actually that the city archives that they want to provide digital and public access to this community. Oral history recordings, which were created by the Boston Bicentennial Commission between 1974 and 1976, in which period the Commission recorded oral histories with a wide cross-section of Boston's residents, including members of Boston's black and immigrant communities. Due to their age and over a decade of storage and poor environmental conditions, these tapes are at serious risk of degradation and cannot currently be accessed. Transcripts and partial transcripts exist for approximately half of the recordings and show the interview. Content includes immigration, the African-American experience in Boston, Boston's social movements, urban renewal and a wide variety of local history topics. This project will preserve the recordings through digital reformatting, produce descriptive metadata for the recordings and make the recordings available to the public in the Boston City Archives Digital Access Portal. So I think it's a really important, vital project. It's also exciting because it's the type of thing that we'd like to do 50 years on today, doing a bunch of oral interviews with Bostonians in the coming years. So it's a it's a nice model for us. I've had the chance to read a few of the transcripts from these, and they're just like so full of detail of kind of Bostonians perspective on their lives back in the seventies. And I just want to commend our archival staff has done an exceptional job applying for grants. They really hold a really precious treasure trove together a little bit too much with duct tape and chewing gum. And I'm hoping that a design process that we're currently in is going to give them some better facilities overall. But in the meantime, they've secured this obviously relatively small grant, and we wouldn't want to lose any of those tapes. And so I hope that the council can support this motion for suspension passage. Thank you, Mr. President. Thank you, Counsel. BLOCK each seek suspension of the roles and passage of docket 0938. All those in favor say I oppose. Same day the ayes have it. Docket zero 948 has passed. Mr. Clerk, can you please read docket. 09390939 message in order for your approval, in order to fully authorize the creation of a sheltered market program during the pilot, which ended on June 2022, we learned that this is a powerful and necessary tool to advance our administration's mission to foster equity in city contracting.