On the order, referred on September 15, 2021, Docket 30967, regarding the Civilian Review Board Nomination, the committee submitted a report recommending that the enclosed nine names appointment to Civilian Review Board.
Thank you so much, Madam Clerk. Dockets 1213 through 1218 will be placed on file. We will now move on to reports of committees. Madam Clerk, could you please read docket 0967 Docket 0967? The Committee on Public Safety and Criminal Justice, to which is referred on September 15th, 2021. Docket number 0967 or order regarding civilian review nominations, submits a report recommending that the enclosed nine names be forwarded to the mayor for consideration of the appointment to the Civilian Review Board. Thank you so much. The Chair recognizes Councilor Campbell, Chair of Public Safety and Criminal Justice. Councilor Campbell, you have the floor. Thank you. Good. I'm not on. Oh, there we go. Thank you, Carrie. Thank you, Madam President. And thank you, Madam Clerk. The Committee on Public Safety and Criminal Justice held a working session on this docket on Friday, November 19th. I want to thank my colleagues for participating during that working session, including Councilors McCarthy, Flaherty, Arroyo, Flynn, Brady, Sobhi, George and also Councilors O'Malley, Baker, Bach, Brayden, Edwards, Flaherty, SLB, George for providing nominations and letters in writing. As a reminder, the legislation charges the city council with nominating three people for each of the three seats that the mayor will fill with. Let me just say that again. As a reminder, the OPA legislation charges the city council was nominating three people that the mayor will then appoint. I'm sorry, nominating nine people that the mayor will then appoint from the city council decided to proceed with an open process, allowing folks in the public to actually provide an application to submit a nomination through this portal. And I want to thank Councilor O'Malley and your team, as well as central staff for helping us set that up and to make it making it really easy for folks to apply. We on July 21st, 2021, the city council opened that process in that portal. It ran from September from then to September 20th. The city council received 81 eligible applications. We actually received more than that, but only 81 were eligible. And the Committee on Public Safety and Criminal Justice held a working session on Friday, November 19th. And I just want to thank the public. A lot of folks took time out of their busy schedules to actually apply for position to serve their community. This is a, um, incredibly response, an incredibly important role for the city of Boston. And so I want to thank all those who put forth their names based on the recommendations from all of you and based on the conversation at the working session and based on the letters you submitted, we actually were able to come up with consensus, to come up with nine names to submit to the mayor for appointment. And so I'm recommending as chair of the Committee on Public Safety and Criminal Justice, those nine nominees. The names are in the reports. But I will say for the record, Mona Connolly, Caspar Maria Del Rico and Hernandez, Luis Lopez, Zachary Lyon, Carrie Mayes, Tara Register, Shonda Smart and Benjamin Thompson. And I also want to thank Michelle Goldberg, Allie, my lovely chief of staff, for all of your work in this whole process. Appreciate each and every one of you. And one thing I will add is we're submitting nine names to be ultimately appointed by the mayor, which is, of course, her responsibility. One thing that did come up during the working session that I think is really important when she chooses three of these folks to nominate, to actually let the council know what her decision making was so that we can report that back to folks who were not selected and hopefully they still stay engaged in the process. And if seats open up again, they can reapply and possibly be considered to fill in seats if someone is ineligible. Thank you. And Councilor Mally, I'm sure, will say a few words as well. Thank you. Thank you. The chair recognizes Councilor O'Malley. Counsel O'Malley. Thank you very much, Madam Chair. And I will be brief. It's been well explained by my dear colleague and friend, the Chair of the Committee on Criminal Justice and Public Safety. As we know, the open ordinance passed a year ago this month by this body. The ordinance involves two oversight entities, an internal affairs oversight panel, which is responsible for reviewing completed BPD Internal Affairs investigations, as well as the CRB, the Civilian Review Board, which is responsible for reviewing and investigating certain complaints against the BPD and its employees. Now, under the ordinance, as has been said, the mayor will appoint three members from a pool of nine nominees submitted by the city council. Now, the language of the ordinance does not dictate the process by which the City Council must submit its nominations. In fact, it is around June, I think, where I was contacted in my capacity as President Pro Tempore. I could have simply suggested nine names. We could have looked at having every district councilor come up with a name. But in close consultation with the Chair of Public Safety, we put together, I think, as robust and transparent and open a process as humanly available. Not only did we have an online portal, but we made sure that language access was at the forefront. It was translate. The application was translated into Chinese, Cape Verde and Creole, Haitian Creole speaking Spanish and Vietnamese. We had a very open process. I know all of us made a real concerted effort to reach out to our networks, to try to get more folks involved. And the result was not only 80 plus candidates, 80 plus really qualified candidates. The hardest part of this process was trying to winnow that field down to nine. So, again, hats off to the the chair. She really made sure that we took what I think was another good blueprint as it relates to the the Community Preservation Act sort of way of funneling names. But this was as great a process as we've seen, so I'm really looking forward to see what happens. And thank you all for your great interest in this important work. Thank you. Thank you so much, Councilor O'Malley. Councilor Campbell seeks acceptance of the committee report and recommends that the enclosed nine names before add it to the mayor for consideration of appointment to the Civilian Review Board. All those in favor please indicate by saying i. I. Any oppose. Nay, the ayes have it. We will now move on to matters recently heard for possible action. Madam Clerk, could you please read Docket 12 zero five? Certainly. Docket 1205 message an order authorizing the city of Boston to accept an extended amount of $8 million in the form of agreeing to water by the United States Department of the Treasury to be administered by the city.