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Um everyone, uh, good morning.

Uh, for the record, uh, my name is Ben Weber, and I'm the chair of the Ways and Means Committee and the District Six City Councilor.

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Um, uh today is May thirteenth, two thousand twenty-six, and the exact time is nine thirty-seven a.m.

Uh, in accordance with chapter two of the acts of two thousand twenty five modifying certain requirements of the open meeting law and relieving public bodies of certain requirements, including the requirement that they conduct their meetings in a public place that are open and physically accessible to the public.

The city council will be conducting this hearing virtually via Zoom.

This hearing is being recorded, it's also being live streamed at Boston.gov slash city dash council-tv and broadcast on Xfinity Channel Eight, RCM channel eighty-two, and five channel nine sixty-four.

Written comments may be sent to the committee at CCC.wm at Boston.gov and will be made part of the record and available to all counselors.

Public testimony will be taken at the end of the hearing.

Individuals will be called on the order which they've signed up and have two minutes to testify.

If you wish to sign up for public testimony, please email our central staff liaison Chrisma John at K-A-R-I-S-H-M-A.CHOUHAM at Boston.gov for the zoom link, and your name will be added to the list.

This morning's hearing is on four dockets related to collective bargaining between the city and Boston Police Detectives, Benevolent Society, and superior officers.

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Um, so docket number zero nine zero nine message in order for your approval in order to reduce the FY26 appropriation for the reserve for collective bargaining by one million nine hundred fifty-one thousand eight hundred ninety-four dollars to provide funding for the Boston Police Department for the FY26 increases contained within the collective bargaining agreements between the City of Boston and the Boston Police Detectives Benevolent Society.

Um or BPD B uh BS, which if I refer to that as the Detective's Pennevelus Society.

Okay, docket number zero nine one zero message in order for a supplemental appropriation order for the Boston Police Department for FY26 and the amount of one million nine hundred fifty-one thousand eight hundred ninety-four dollars to cover the FY26 cost items contained within the collective bargaining agreement between the City of Boston and the BPDBS.

The terms of the contract are July 1st, 2025 through June 30th, 2026.

The major provisions of the contract include a base wage increase of 2% in July of 2025.

Contract also contains an update to hazardous duty pay and amended language around sick time buyback at retirement.

Docket number 0911 message in order for your approval an order to reduce the FY26 appropriation for the reserve for collective bargaining by $1,366,093 to provide funding for the Boston Police Department for the FY26 increases contained within the collective bargaining agreements between the City of Boston and the B Boston Police Detective Benevolent Society Superior Officers Unit.

Docket number 0912 message in order for a supplemental appropriation order for the Boston Police Department for FY26 and the amount of $1,366,093 to cover the FY26 cost items contained within the collective bargaining agreements between the City of Boston and the Boston Police Detectives Benevolent Society Superiors Officers Unit.

The terms of the contract are July 1st, 2025 through June 30th, 2026.

The major provisions of the contract include a base wage increase of 2% in July 2025.

The contract also contains an update to hazardous duty pay and amended language around paid details and summer vacation schedules.

These matters were sponsored by Mayor Michelle Wu and referred to the committee on May 6, 2026.

And joined by my colleagues in order of arrival, Councillor Ed Flynn, Councilor Aaron Murphy, Counselor John Fitzgerald.

We're also joined by our panelists.

So let's uh I don't know, who do you have a presentation?

Let's just get to it and then we'll get to questions.

No council, I usually just uh introduced what the transaction that we have before us.

So uh thank you, uh Chim Weber and other uh members to the council.

Uh as you said, my name is uh Jim Williamson.

I'm the budget director here at the city of Boston, and I'm joined by my colleagues from the labor relations department and the police department to uh to uh uh speak for these uh uh four appropriation uh orders that are before you.

Um we appreciate this opportunity to both uh uh explain uh the financial transactions they represent and um the impact to the labor force and uh ask for your support in approving these dockets at your next council meeting.

Um so uh I think you articulated the dockets.

There's one dot uh two sets of dockets moving uh one point nine million dollars from the collective bargaining reserve into the police department budget for the police detectives union.

Uh, and then an additional two dockets, uh uh moving uh approximately one point four million dollars uh again from the collective bargaining reserve in uh for the police detective superiors into the police department budget.

So the total of these these four dockets is three point three million dollars.

Uh just to uh go over uh the uh what's happened during the course of this fiscal year.

Uh the FY26 budget finalized in June of 2025 included a 102.7 million dollar collective bargaining reserve.

Um there's been 11 CBAs approved uh uh by the city council today, uh totaling 86.3 million dollars.

Uh, and uh this um uh uh with these supplementals of three point three million dollars, there'll be a total um dollars uh appropriate of 89.6 million dollars.

Uh with that uh I don't know if anybody else on the on the city team has any other statements they'd like to make or questions.

Um I'll I'll just add um good morning counselors thank you um these are two one year agreements for the detectives and the detective superior units they largely mirror um they'll they'll be up um next month june 30th um they largely mirror what has already been approved for the BBPA with the two percent and the one percent in hazardous duty some of the changes in the detail rates the workout time the gyms um and the um name tags so those it's largely a one year sort of catch up contract mirroring what the BPPA has already received um you know we were happy to be able to do some of these things with the workout time and gyms for the officers involved um and we ask your approval uh for these contracts okay uh thank you very much yeah I mean the uh this was filed last week and uh hoping to have a hearing and bring up for a vote today uh so um I'm gonna leave it to my colleagues here councillor Flynn you're up first uh um do six minutes uh and you'll all come on camera with uh a minute to go.

Thank you Mr.