Order for a hearing to discuss pest control and illegal dumping in the City of Boston.
Certainly Docket 0863 order for hearing to discuss pest control and illegal dumping in the city of Boston. Thank you so much. Docket is up. The chair recognizes counsel. Flynn. Counsel, you have the floor. Thank you, Madam President. Madam President, we held a working session on pest control and illegal dumping. Um, on December 15. Um, we held this working session with docket 0863 as in order for working session to discuss pest control, illegal dumping. I want to thank my colleagues, Councilor Murphy and Braydon, for attending. In the administration panelists for participating as well. This is a follow up from several conversations we've had throughout the year on the same subject. Because we know that there's a significant increase in rodent and pest control related issues in the city. And we have had neighbors reach out to us across District two. But I also know colleagues, District City Council colleagues, as well as our lodge have also received significant calls as well about pest control related issues as we move into the new year. We wanted to discuss ways that the city can adequately handle this critical issue. It's important that we discuss measures for effective pest control and keeping our streets clean, healthy, especially when we are trying to keep our residents and environment environment healthy as well. In the working session, we're fortunate to have great leadership that are part of a task force that includes the City of Boston Public Works and Inspectional Service Department, and they are providing the tools to curb rodent activity and illegal dumping. And we also talked about the possibility of using products that would stop rats from reproducing, using a new kind of trashcans that we had a pilot program before the pandemic in the south end and increasing the number of inspectors in inspect inspectional services. Inspectional services play a critical role, as does public works department. On this issue, we need to continue working with them with the mayor's office, to expand public outreach in different languages and continue doing neighborhood walkthroughs and working with residents on this critical issue. And finally, I highlighted the critical need that this is a public health issue. It's a public safety issue. It's a quality of life issue. And as we go forward during the the budget debate next year, it's critical that we all advocate for more resources for pest control. Again, it's impacting every district in the city, and we need to stay on top of this to provide our residents the best public health and environmentally safe neighborhoods as we possibly can. Thank you, Madam President. Thank you so much. DUCKETT 0863 will be placed on file. We will now move on to docket 0732.