Petition for a Special Law re: An Act Relative to Reorganization of the Boston School Committee.
Thank you. Docket 0187 Council Councilors Arroyo and Mejia offer the following petition for a special law regarding an act relative to the reorganization of the Boston School Committee. At this time. The chair recognizes Counselor Arroyo. Counsel Arroyo. You have the floor. I'll be brief again because I have a few of these in a row. This is the home rule petition to reform how the school committee looks at an elected format. This is obviously something that I'm looking to, and I think the council is looking to move within the earlier part of the council's term. This is not something that we'll do lightly. I hope I fully hope and expect that this council will engage in what they want this to look like. I know that there's members on this council who want a fully elected body. There's folks who want district. There's folks who don't want the district, those folks who do want some version of a hybrid. And so my goal is in the next couple of months to hopefully have this go through working sessions and homework in maybe another hearing and additional hearing to make sure that all those voices are heard, that everybody sort of gets to come in and put their stamp on this. And hopefully we get to some some compromise that is not necessarily perfect but is good and does the work that the city has asked us to do when they voted overwhelmingly to to enact in next an elected school committee. And so this is just a refile from last year, and there'll be more edits to this and more work done on this with the body. Thank you. Thank you. Counsel royalty, the original co-sponsor. Counsel me. Here you have the floor. And to my co-sponsor, Councilor Arroyo, last November, Boston residents made it perfectly clear that we need to return to an elected school committee, with over 99,000 Bostonians voting in favor of returning to an elected school committee. We have an obligation to make that happen and to make the process as engaging and as collaborative as possible. We have had the privilege of working alongside several amazing advocates, the Yes on three coalition, the ECP, the Boston Education, Equity and more. We're going to continue engaging the public through a series of community conversations that we hope to be hosting soon. And I'm happy to say that we'll be doing it in various native languages to ensure that our voices are heard. Thank you. Thank you, Councilman. Here. Anyone else like to speak on this matter? The chair recognizes Council of Florida. Please have my name as a co-sponsor. Thank you, Counsel. Anyone else like to add their name? Please. Councilor Baker, Councilor Braid and Councilor. Console, Lara. Console vision. Councilor Murphy Council overall the chair. Uh, talking 0187 will be referred to the committee on. Government operations. Madam Clerk, please read docket 0188, please. Thank you. Do I could zero 180 Councilors Arroyo in here are fortifying ordinance preventing wage theft in the city of Boston.