On the communication referred on February 24, 2021, Docket #0353, was received from Eneida Tavares, Chair, of the Board of Election, for your approval a citizen petition entitled "Petition for Eversource Substation East Boston", the committee submitted a report recommending the petition ought to pass in a new draft. The report was accepted; the petition was passed in a new draft.
The docket has passed. Madam Clerk, would you now please read docket 0353? I could 0353 The Committee on Government Operations, to which is referred on February 24, 2021, docket number 0353. Communication was received from Anita to virus chair of the Boss, the Board of Elections for your approval. A Citizens Petition. Untitled petition for Eversource substation in East Boston submitted a report recommending that the petition ought to pass in a new draft. Thank you, Madam Clerk. The chair now recognizes Councilor Lydia Edwards, chair of the Committee on Government Operations, as well as the District Council from East Boston. Chair Edwards, the floor is yours. Thank you very much. It is about a nonbinding question that will be placed before the voters if we vote on it today as a body. This docket was actually created by ten people in East Boston who came forward and presented the question properly before the Elections Department. At Elections Department then had us have a hearing on it. And I conducted the hearing with a question at the time that read, Excuse me, trying to find the question. Do you support relocating an Eversource electric substation now proposed at 400 Condor St East Boston away from nearby homes, parks and flood risk in East Boston to an alternate secure location such as within Logan Airport. Now, ultimately, after the hearing, we decided that the question was a little bit confusing in a lot of conditions. So the hearing then produced an amended question which reads as follows, which I hope that my colleagues will vote to allow for the people of Boston to consider should a high voltage electric substation be built at 400 Condor Street in East Boston along the Chelsea Creek near homes, parks, playgrounds, jet fuel storage and a flood risk area rather than an alternate safe nearby location such as a nonresidential Massport land at Logan Airport. We took Eversource out of it and really wanted to go to the concept for whether this should be located in any neighborhood so that the city of Boston can decide and make a moral statement as to whether we should be building that kind of infrastructure in those kinds of locations. So ultimately, I'm suggesting or asking that my colleagues vote, that this question be approved in the amended version and it would be placed on the ballot for November 2nd. For the people of Boston to do in a non-binding way vote as to whether this is infrastructure that they would like to see continuing in the city of Boston . Thank you very much. Councilor Eldridge, chair of the Committee on Government Operations, seeks acceptance of the committee report and passage of Docket 0353 in a new draft. All those in favor, please indicate by saying I oppose nay. The ayes have it. The docket is has been passed. Congratulations, Councilor Edwards. Madam Clerk, would you now please read docket 0481? Docket 0481, the Committee on Government Operations, to which is referred on March 31st, 2021. Docket number 0481. Ordinance Amending the City of Boston Code Section five. Dash 5.20. Paid parental leave for the City of Boston employees submit a report recommending that the order ought to pass.