So welcome everyone.

Welcome, everyone.

I call this meeting to order.

This is the committee's confirmation of appointment and personnel matters.

It's Monday, July 6, 2026 at 6 p.m.

Pursuant to chapter 2 of the acts of 2025.

This meeting of the city council committee will be conducted via remote participation.

We will post an audio recording, audio, video recording, transcript, or other comprehensive record of this proceeding as soon as possible after the meeting on the city of Summer website and local cable access government channels.

Will you please call the role?

This is roll call, Council McLaughlin.

Yeah.

Councilor Hart.

Here Council will counselor Young Campin.

Here and Councilor Bow.

Present.

Mr.

Chair, all members are present.

We have a quorum.

Wonderful.

Thank you.

So we will lay you know item one.

You know, on the table to take it at the end for approval, which is you know, the minutes, you know, of the last meeting.

Um and then before we proceed, I think uh Ig Honey should take some item out of order.

I guess let me just so clerk a few items by the file number.

Uh um Dr.

Noggins, can you just read the items you want?

I see blue, black.

I'm just lost.

Just Peter will read the any item that you want me to take out of order, and I'll take he will read it and then we'll take it out of order.

I can't.

I don't know.

The num I cannot understand this text.

So just read the items that you want to be taken, and then you know, Peter would will call them out, please.

Good evening, Mr.

Chair.

Amanda Nature Williams, Director of Intergovernmental Affairs.

Uh, I believe the first item out of order.

Uh, thank you, Chair, for your willingness to do that would be uh agenda item number three, file number 260655.

Perfect.

Okay.

Um Peter, would you read that, please?

Gender three, 260, excuse me, 0655.

Requesting the confirmation of the appointment of Taylor Perkins to the Fair Housing Commission.

Amazing.

And and on in our just I I'm not gonna assume that my committee members and in support.

So by any objection from the committee members, I hope it's okay that we took this as item out of order.

Thank you.

Thank you.

I don't want to, you know.

So is there anybody here to introduce the member?

Thank you, Chair.

I Lisa Davidson, the director of housing, and I'd like to introduce Taylor Perkins.

First candidate being recognized uh recommended for the appointment is Taylor.

He is being recommended because through his professional experience as a professor at the Boston College and has an associate's director of the Concord Center for real estate, excuse me, urban planning.

He demonstrated deep knowledge of fair housing policy in its intersection with the overall overall housing landscape in Somerville and throughout Massachusetts.

In his interview, he also demonstrated enthusiasm for teaching teaching experience that could lend itself to the commission's goals of expanding education around fair housing in Somerville, noting in particular that he would like to expand outreach to Somerville's immigrant and student communities who are off often least likely to know and experience their fair housing rights.

This candidate is our first choice because his knowledge, experience, enthusiasm for deeper engagement, connecting with the community members to fair housing resources, aligns with the commission's mission, and can push forward the ways in which they strive to meet it.

Wow.

Thank you, Director Davidson.

It's still open here.

Yes, I am, counselor.

Oh, Mr.

Chairman, excuse me.

No, no, no, no, no.

Welcome.

Thank you.

Honored to be here.

Thank you for joining.

Thank you for your willingness to volunteer on this board.

You know, part of, you know, um, this meeting is just to even acknowledge your presence and your, you know, appreciate you.

You get to meet your fellow counselors, and then we can always, you know, like chat.

I guess yeah, uh, do you have anything to say to members of the this body before you know I ask just one like later?

Of course.

No, I'm I'm honored to be here.

Um, and a resident of Somerville, live on East Street, um, single dad to a four-year-old daughter, and uh just really uh looking for an opportunity to help make our community stronger.

Wonderful.

Thank you.

Wow.

You always just reinforce my ability to just want to see these faces and the people, you know, like always willing to help, you know, uh move the city forward.

I guess just you know, uh, one question for the fun of it, is just to say, you know, uh like why would how would you ensure that all residents know their housing rights?

You know, this is just us also educating one another and it kind of like educating kind of members of this body in terms of like your approach.

Yeah, you know, I think uh, and I want to acknowledge that there's been a lot of good work done by the commission up um until now, and I'm really excited to build on that.

Um, I think one of the things that we talked a lot through the interview process that was exciting about, and I'll be honest, I'm sometimes a little apprehensive, but I think it's the truth.

Um, is like a little bit more outreach and sort of like social media, um, alternate media like that.

And I think also um trying to create um sort of force multipliers uh and sort of looking for champions in the community, really going deep with them on sort of like what are their rights uh and helping to sort of equip them to talk to their friends and neighbors because ultimately it's like where there's a lot of stigma around housing, right?

And so people often aren't just raising their hand and saying, like, hey, uh, you know, I'm I'm facing eviction, and or in a lot of what you see is like, oh, this landlord said uh, you know, the apartment's not taken or something like that.

And so, you know, I'd love it if in a year um there's a larger group of people in Somerville who would say, wait, actually, you know, that sounds like that's you know, your rights are being violated.

And here's how you can do something about that.

Wow, thank you.

Thank you, you know, Professor.

Like even myself, I've experienced my own share of you know, like housing issue.

Like I remember when we were, you know, like expecting a baby, you call, you know, there's a thevailability, and then they realize that oh, you know, you have you're expecting it's not deleted, then it's like, and so it's just like this issues are real, you know, and we're just grateful that you know there are people out there really willing to put their thumb on this scale to kind of like uh keep keep the city moving and keeping you know, like uh uh the landlords and the residents accountable to each other.

So no, I think I'm good.

Maybe members of the committee have any questions to ask you because this is like usually we just do this for formality.

Counselor Ewen Campen.

Thank you, Mr.

Chair.

Um I'll just say this at the top of the meeting.

I'm totally blown away by this candidate, but also we have a lot of candidates on tonight's agenda.

Um, I've reviewed all of their materials.

I'm incredibly impressed by all of them.

I'm incredibly thankful to all of them for stepping up to serve the city.

Um, I I don't have any additional questions for this candidate or others tonight, but I just wanted to state for the record once how impressed I am, how thankful I am for their service, and I'm looking forward to supporting everyone on tonight's agenda.

Amazing.

Thank you, Counselor Yuan Campin.

I'm right there with you.

A hundred and twenty percent.

Any other members of this body, you know, have any questions for uh counselor Hart Sure.

Well, I'll I'll take the opportunity to echo um uh counselor you and campen's uh sentiments.

Um really appreciate you stepping forward, Dr.

Perkins, and and um I'm super impressed by your qualifications for this and your dedication to Somerville.

So thank you.

Um, and likewise to everybody who's coming forward this evening.

Really appreciate it.

Yep, thank you.

Thank you, Councillor Hart.

And and guys, you know, moving forward, this is gonna change.

It's like a revised protocol for confirmation of appointment, which is gonna be on the agenda on the city council.

So we can all we are on the same page, you know.

Yeah, no, this is for me, it's the fact that we're all here, it's just easier to for me to see Dr.

Perkins and just to say thank you as well.

Like I think we are on the same page.

So uh this is our yep, our recommended move to recommend approval.

And Lisa, you have another person, right?

The same for fair housing.

Yes, chair.

Yes, could you do that introduction for us and then sure?

The next candidate being recommended for appointment is Callie Masters.

She's being recommended because she was a professional, has professional experience working with the working with and lobbying for fair housing organizations, including Mass Fair Housing Center and South Coast Fair Housing on her public policy priorities.

She demonstrates specific knowledge of fair housing law and interest and the intersections between affordability and fair housing law to protect access to housing, focusing on the impact on immigrant families.

In her interview, she mentioned connecting with lawmakers to expand awareness around fair housing and reaching young people who often don't know their rights or how to navigate the housing systems.

This alliance with the commission's goal to increase outreach and expand the groups they are they are reaching.

This candidate is our first choice because her knowledge of fair housing, experience with fair housing organizations and thoughtful approach to outreach aligns with the commission's mission and can add to the ways in which they strive to meet it.

Mr.

Claire, sorry, just a technical note, just so the clerk knows your note taking is being broadcast on the screen.

The minute taking.

Oh thank you.

Thank you, Castle.

You and Campia.

And Claire, this is also like uh so we're gonna move to like this.

Is uh item number six.

Uh, because we just want to check off those boxes, and then after that, we'll bring everybody else, you know, with the same agenda.

It will read all that, and then everybody's gonna come on the screen.

So, Kali, welcome.

Thank you, Mr.

Chairman.

Good evening, everyone.

It's great to be with you all today.

Um, just to quickly introduce myself, Callie Masters.

I've been a Somerville resident for six years and a renter for six years in Somerville, living in Ward 3.

Um, and I'm really grateful to the Fair Housing Commission who's recommended me for this position, and I'm happy to answer any additional questions that you all might have.

Thank you, Kylie Masters.

I guess you can tell my colleagues don't have any questions, but the fact that I compare you guys to be here, I gotta ask that my one question, you know, like how would you ensure that you know all residents know their rights in in some of you?

Yes, absolutely.

Um, as Taylor said as well, a lot of our conversations during the interview process focused on specific communities that could be tapped for additional outreach and education.

Um, and as I as Lisa stated too, my work and my day job is um doing government affairs work, which is encompassed with nonprofit clients that I work with, including two of the state's four fair housing agencies, and in talking with those folks um in particular in their public policy agenda, so much of the work that they do is focused around who has access to the right resources to know what their rights are.

So, as someone who was a renter in Somerville during my college days, um I identified particularly the student population who is likely vulnerable, maybe folks moving in from out of state, like I did, who don't know the full slate of Somerville's Fair Housing of Massachusetts' fair housing laws and the rights that they have available to them here.

Um so I thought about ways that we can leverage social media, meeting people where they're at, going to college campuses, councils on aging for folks with disabilities and uh aren't aware of their rights to have handrails installed in their apartments so that they aren't unhoused.

Um, and as Lisa also alluded to, um, the folks that I work with every day are up on Beacon Hill.

So I think that there is a real opportunity to engage with state lawmakers and their staff to make sure that they're able to adequately help residents in our city when they reach out to their constituent services director in our state senators, the representative's office to ensure that they have the resources too to direct them to their rights and the the folks we can help avail them of those.

Recommended to be approved, unless any member have any questions for Kali.

I think that was that was like excellent, you know, above and beyond.

So uh Dr.

Davidson, do you have any other kind candidate before us?

I do not well, we have Shaniqua here to do a trust, an affordable housing trust member.

And as IGH, do you want us in order to take that also out of order, Amanda?

Mr.

Chair, yes, that's correct.

That is the item that we discuss next.

It is agenda item number five.

Okay, Peter, take it away.

Item number five requesting the confirmation of the appointment of Durek Wolfrey Weathers to the affordable housing trust.

Requesting the confirmation of the appointment of Durek Moultrie Weathers to the Affordable Housing Trust.

Okay.

So it was here to introduce Shinney.

Is that are you the one to introduce the candidate?

Yes.

Okay, take it away, please.

Sure.

To you, Mr.

Chair Shink Waroper, Affordable Housing Trust Liaison.

Good evening, Chair and members of the committee.

Before I introduce the candidate, I'd like to let the committee know that Ms.

Jarette Moultrie Weathers, who's being recommended for the city represent for the city resident representative seat, was unable to attend this evening due to an unexpected family emergency.

She asked that I extend her sincere apologies and shared that if the committee feel it would be helpful, she would welcome the opportunity to appear before you at a future meeting.

Now, given the timing, however, I respectfully ask that the committee still consider her appointment this evening.

The three opening seats that we do have are consist of two nonprofit representatives and one city representative, which we are here for tonight.

Two current trustees have indicated that they are prepared to step down, but they have graciously agreed to remain temporarily until the vacancies are filled so that the trust can continue meeting quorum requirements.

We also have the two nonprofit um representative vacancies.

Now, while we had hoped to bring those appointments before the committee prior to council recess, uh, we did have some scheduling constraints that prevented us from doing so.

So we anticipate we anticipate bringing those recommendations forward at a future meeting.

So filling these seats is particularly important as the trust anticipates bringing forward several funding requests and other matters required formal that requires formal votes over the next few months.

That's that's forthcoming.

Um staff interviewed the finalist for the city resident representative seat, which is a position reserved for Somerville residents who is considered income eligible for state and or federal housing programs following the interview process.

Staff ultimately recommended Miss Moultrie Weathers for appointment to the mayor.

Um Miss Moultrie Weathers has many years of experience advocating on behalf of Somerville residents through organizations including Cambridge and Somerville Legal Services, Greater Boston Legal Services, the Massachusetts Advocates for Children, and the city's anti-displacement task force.

During the interview, she spoke about both her professional experience supporting tenants and her own lived experience navigating housing affordability in the city.

She emphasized the importance of ensuring that affordable housing decisions remain connected to the experiences of the residents most affected by them.

Staff believe that those experiences combined with her commitment to tenant advocacy and community engagement will bring an important resident perspective that truly complements the existing expertise represented on the trust that we currently have today.

So with that said, I'd be happy to answer any questions the committee may have.

Huh?

Is that the your title director?

Oh no, that's Lisa.

Anyway, um, but no, thank you.

I guess you know it's fine, you know, it's like you know, approved, you know, uh recommended to be approved.

Again, this is uh advisory, you know, like both for me.

My goal is just been to you know, appreciation, but in the future, we will just I will need to meet them offline just so that at least people know their reps.

It's just helpful because they've told me that they want to get to, you know, so this is not nobody's interview your appointment is in jeopardy.

It's just it's nice to acknowledge, you know, that you know, thank you.

This is our volunteers.

So we don't have they don't exercise any binding votes.

So thank you for being here.

Thank you, thank you.

Uh somebody has a question.

Counselor Ewan Campen.

Uh thank you, Mr.

Chair.

Well, just to be clear, the um the Affordable Housing Trust Fund takes very important binding votes on funding.

Um, but I'm completely in support of Miss Moultrie Weathers.

I've had the great opportunity to meet her over the years.

Um, excited that she's stepped up.

No, no problem whatsoever that she wasn't able to make it tonight.

Um, and very much looking forward to her serving.

I think this is I I know Councillor Mbaugh, myself, and many others have served on this when we're um as counselors, and the the trust does really, really valuable important work for the city.

So we're very thankful that she's stepping up to do this.

Thank you, Council U and Company.

I appreciate that.

Thank you so much.

Thank you.

So I guess are we done with uh should we not?

You know, Dr.

Davison, I think I think you know, we don't have any item for you, correct?

That's correct, Chair.

Okay, wonderful.

So we'll now move on.

Uh is IGH also fine, you know, that we return back to uh business order.

Thank you, Mr.

Chair.

Do you miss the chair?

Yes.

Um so Peter, I guess what will happen is all the items for uh um the climate action commission, like those ones, you know, we'll just have you know, like director Nuta introduce all these wonderful folks that are doing well behind the scene to us, and then we can do the normal ritual of appreciation.

If anybody has the chance to have one or two questions, that's fine.

So Pira, can you I think we'll probably Clark?

Do you think we can waive those readings or do they want it's like can you read them?

Um why don't I just do one general with all of the names?

Okay, amazing.

Yep, thank you.

Yes.

Okay, so this is going to be agenda items seven through 19.

Yes.

And the candidates would be Alexis Washburn, Corey Dunnayu, Courtney Coslow, Kenzie Ballad, Zara at Ati, Lauren Gumpa, Ratika Phillips, Paxteen Martinez, Larry Yu, Monty Allen, Sierra Mall, Gava, Kalia, and Rio Hunter Black.

Amazing.

Amazing.

Director Nuda, introduce all these fine people.

For some reason, I also just if you have a question for them too.

Just one nice one.

I know this is climate, like everybody's talking about climate.

So there's no way they're gonna come before us.

And then we don't, I don't ask my climate question.

So Dr.

Nurat, can you just introduce us?

Uh yes, thank you.

Uh, to you to you, Chair.

I'm I'm glad that everyone's talking about climate.

It's really important.

Uh my name is Stephen Nutter.

I'm the chief sustainability officer for the city of Somerville here.

Just want to thank you all for your time tonight and for consideration, the Climate Action Commission appointees.

Um I I'm gonna give it a short overview here and then turn it over to uh Kate Bossingham and our department, too, if that's if that works for you.

Um I just want to share that this group is incredibly exceptional.

I'm I'm definitely going to call them exceptional.

They're multi-generational blend of deep technical expertise, grassroots community trust, and proven advocacy leadership.

Uh that's I think uniquely tailored to Somerville's needs.

Um and that's really the two things that we need to accomplish our our our climate goals.

Uh we received 49 applications for 13 slots on the Climate Action Action Commission.

Uh, which I it just it's it was incredibly challenging to go through uh the determination process.

I would have rather had a you know a commission of 49 people if if I if I had my choice.

Uh so I just want to give thanks to everyone who applied.

Um the the people before you range from lifelong and new newer residents, youth leaders, retirees, new parents, multilingual immigrants, and uh to professional careers in energy regulation architects, affordable housing developers.

These candidates are already doing stuff in climate uh in in the city, uh including serving on uh uh previous commissions, uh school decarbonization campaigns and doing environmental justice projects.

Um and just to put this in context, the climate action commission is really a broader ecosystem of our community actors that we're working to uh engage and and uplift.

Um they're doing uh youth uh so it connects with our youth climate clubs, uh, our climate ambassador program, uh, and then of course the thousands that connect and amplify the work of our of our division uh to reach our 77 climate action goals.

And then of course the thousands that connect and amplify the work of our of our division to reach our 77 climate action goals.

So and this is also for those who didn't know this is a reiteration of a previous commission.

Then there's been more than a year at least of work to figure out what this new commission is going to be.

So we're basically building a whole new commission from scratch here tonight.

So I'm going to introduce Kate Bossingham, who's our environmental policy manager and staff liaison to the commission.

Yeah.

Thank you, Steven, for that you know, wonderful introduction.

So Kate.

I will say this briefly because I think Steven covered some of the material I was going to mention, but just to give some context for the CAC.

It was created in April 2025 through a new ordinance, and it's an evolution of the long-standing commission on energy use and climate change, the CEUCC, which was created back in 2001.

The new CAC ordinance uh expands the scope and also the membership.

So it'll be a larger body than the CEUCC was.

And per the authorizing ordinance, the CAC serves the following functions.

It is to address and reverse both the climate and environmental crises through community and local government operations with the goal of creating a healthier, safer and more equitable Somerville community, to advise the mayor and municipal staff and to mobilize Somerville residents and stakeholders by educating the public through outreach and engagement.

So I'm excited to be here tonight and for this committee to learn more about the candidates for the Climate Action Commission.

I'm available to answer any questions about the CAC that you may have.

Thank you.

Amazing.

Nice.

I can even see those candidates on the screen.

Where's where's ladney?

Where's all these folks?

We need like I think there's like a there's a way that the screen was kind of like structural, so we can see all these amazing folks.

So I can have like a general question for everybody.

Not like specifically.

It's but I'll be happy to hear from each one.

You know, like it's not even like a lot of one, but I again, these are people that I know, a bunch of them.

But Steven, if if that I will be happy to hear from each one, like what is like the what they think that some of you should be focusing on in the next two years.

I don't want to have like all this 10-year goal, you know, 2040, like those two years, you know, in terms of like climate.

And they just kind of like give us that, you know, say I don't want to boo what in anybody's mouth.

But that's that's the way that we can actually enjoy this introduction with each other, and then I can just thank them.

It's not like this is there's no formality here.

Um, I can start um since I'm uh first on the agenda.

But hi everyone, I'm Alexis Washburn.

I live in Ward 7, um, and I've been a Somerville resident for four years now.

Um I was previously on the former commission, the commission on energy use and climate change, and happy to be uh joining the new Climate Action Commission.

I think one thing that I'm excited about working in climate um for my job, um, but also getting to be in the space and volunteer here is just seeing some of the really cool pilots that we do here in Somerville.

Um, like I've been really excited about um the uh composting pilot that we've been doing in East Somerville and hopefully seeing that expand to other parts of the city.

Um certainly what we've done when it comes to um community choice energy um and negotiating better rates for more um clean energy for the city of Somerville.

I think that's really exciting.

And um, it always makes me proud to say that I live in Somerville because other folks wish that they had those things.

So I think if we can certainly continue to lead by example, I think other communities will also follow, which is really exciting.

Thank you, Alexi.

Corey uh to you, Mr.

Chair, um Corey Donahue is actually um unable to make it to the meeting tonight.

Um chair, if I could um request uh if we had a couple of people with conflicts, if I could um push them to the top of the line, if that's all right.

Um Ridica Phillip, I think is on.

I'm here.

Um hello, lovely to meet all of you.

I'm uh resident of Davis Square, very a new resident of Somerville, but very excited to be here.

And my interest or the area I'd like to focus on over the next two years with Somerville is the school decarbonization efforts, but also the education around sustainability.

I spent a year as a chief of staff for an education nonprofit, which was specifically focused on intercultural education around sustainability.

So we worked on a baseline of things like energy usage, water usage, but also thinking about things like food systems travel to and from school.

So I know that Somerville's already done a lot in terms of thinking about the lease leases, for example, on the fleet, but I'm very excited to work with the commission and then all the kind of relevant stakeholders on where the schools are going and how we can help them get there faster.

Amazing.

Thank you, Rodica, and thank you for your time on your studies.

Thank you.

Kid, yes, take it away.

Where's next?

To you, Mr.

Chair Monty Allen.

Wow.

Good evening, Mr.

Chairman, and through you to the members of the committee, and thank you for your time tonight.

I'm Monty Allen.

I don't know any of you well.

I recognize some of you.

So I wonder if I could have just a bit of time to tell you about myself.

Of course.

I'm familiar with uh working in the context of uh municipal government um because while living in Belmont, I was uh elected as a town meeting member and actually re-elected a number of times as a town meeting member from one of the precincts in Belmont.

Um but when we moved to Somerville, the thing that really just captured my imagination and just sparked my interest was the fact that Somerville at that time has just publicly committing to carbon neutrality and now even carbon negativity by 2050.

And it's just this is what our society needs to do.

And here's Somerville doing it and making a public commitment to it.

And I got very jazzed about that.

Um so I'm delighted um to have the opportunity to help advance that objective.

Um I uh my career, the last 15 years of my career, I worked with CARE, the international uh development and poverty alleviation organization.

Um as a high-level fundraiser, I raised a ton of money for uh a number of things that were climate related.

Um, but I think actually, in the end, my greatest contribution to care was uh persuading care to pay attention to climate change as a primary driver of global poverty.

So I was able, as uh part of CARES delegation to attend COP20 in Lima, Peru was a real highlight for me.

Um, and one of the things that became apparent um at that COP uh gathering was the fact that the whole uh phenomenon of climate-induced human migration wasn't even on the agenda for discussion.

And it's a huge phenomenon.

And I think it's big now, you wait.

So anyway, um Kier uh worked together with one of the UN uh ministries uh to conduct a study on um climate-induced human migration, and I raised the money for that study.

Um let's see, what else should I tell you about?

Um, one of the things that I'm currently involved in is uh the decarbonization effort of the Unitarian Church in Belmont connected with that.

And actually, this is something that I sparked.

And now it is uh a progress that is moving along uh uh a really uh fast pace.

What will happen is that there will be a geothermal system, HVAC system installed uh at the Belmont Unitarian Church.

And um, being a part of uh the working group of uh six uh members of the congregation to advance that is very consuming, uh, but incredibly satisfying.

Um so it's one of the things that I'm very glad to be part of.

Um uh I wanted to say another thing about uh Somerville's uh commitment to carbon neutrality.

Um one of the things that I really admired about uh the approach Somerville was taking to this was to start it by conducting a study to determine where are the greenhouse gases actually coming from and uh one of the primary findings was that two-thirds of the greenhouse gases are coming from the existing building stock in Somerville.

And so obviously a primary uh question is how does what can the city do to persuade building owners to make the investments that will be required to bring the buildings that they own to carbon neutrality.

Um that just seemed to me like the biggest question confronting uh this whole uh initiative.

And uh so with Larry U as uh a thought partner, we took a deep dive into trying to address that question.

Um and after uh you know many conversations and um uh compiled our findings into a report that I developed um that uh offered some suggestions for what Somerville could do in order to persuade building owners to retrofit their buildings.

Um so um that's very much in line with my interest in serving on the commission.

Um I'd be happy to answer any questions that you have, and I'm delighted to have this chance to introduce myself to you all.

Thank you, thank you.

I feel like thank you, Montana.

I now um even it's not that I voted this submit them, I revised protocol for confirmation of appointment.

I might have to do some amendments just to still have to see you guys.

It's so nice to kind of like yeah, get this connection, get this FaceTime and see you know, the remarkable people that you know are volunteer and stepping up to make a difference.

Counselor Link, is this your you know, like I know you had somebody that was at City Hall, is it was it Monte Alain?

Yes, yes, it was.

Oh my god.

We should have even brought him on the horseshoe to kind of like give a whole you know editorial about like what the commission is all about because you know, no, thank you so much for for stepping up and just for joining the city in this capacity.

Thank you.

So happy to have you.

And you know, apologies for the mix up when you came to City Hall.

I just didn't want to select you out and just say, hey, you know, and also just approving everybody without even knowing.

Look at just how refreshing it is personally, as I can speak for myself.

I just love to see and thank the people helping the city in this capacity.

So thank you.

Yes, Kid.

Hi, to you, Mr.

Chair, if I could um request that uh Babaka Kalia um be able to speak next.

Of course.

Yeah, thank you so much.

Um good evening, Chair and Counselors.

Um, my name is Baba Kakalia, and um and I'm a rising senior at Somerville High School, and I'm super excited to be here tonight.

Um, just a little bit about me.

I've been involved in a variety of climate initiatives, both on the local level and also the statewide level.

And I specifically focus a lot on climate education.

So, for example, over the past year, I was a Somerville Public School's climate education intern and facilitator, and I worked um very closely with the project innovation specialist of Somerville Public Schools, Jason Behrens, to bring a variety of climate education initiatives throughout our middle schools and also the high school as well.

And then I also served as a co-chair of a subcommittee on the governor's youth climate change council, where we write climate policy recommendations to Governor Keeley, which was really great, and I also focused on education there.

And yeah, that's a little bit about the work I do.

But looking ahead, I'm really excited to kind of bridge the gap between the city or what we're doing in the city and what we're doing within the schools because I've definitely seen a bit of a disconnect, and I would love to bridge that gap and to really ensure that youth voices are really heard and to ensure that all young people see themselves represented in these spaces because of course our generation is you know not just the leaders of the future, but also the leaders of the present.

So yeah, I'm excited to bring um a youth voice to the table.

Yeah, thank you.

Wonderful.

Thank you.

Happy to have you.

And Kate, yes, can you next?

Um next is uh Sierra Mole on.

Hi, everyone.

Hi, Mr.

Chair and Counselors and fellow climate action committee folks.

My name is Sierra Mall.

I have lived in Somerville for the last five years.

I three or four of them were near Ball Square, and I'm currently in Union Square.

And right now I work for the state of Massachusetts doing community engagement and outreach around clean energy, energy affordability and energy justice.

So I'm really excited to dive into those topics at the local level and support all of Somerville's great ongoing existing efforts there and help you know expand access and participation in the Mass Save program, get some more Somerville homes with heat pumps and better insulation and building envelope ceiling, get people onto the aggregation of the city and off of third party suppliers, um, things like that.

And then also at a personal level, I just love to be outside and connecting with nature.

So I'm excited to work on some of Somerville's efforts around pollinator gardens and reintroducing native plant species into our green spaces around here.

So excited to meet you all and thanks for having me.

Thank you, Sierra.

We all love to be outside, you know.

So now I can see that face outside.

I can say hi.

If you see John Councillor Ling, you can say like hey, Councillor Ling.

That's you know, I saw you.

So yeah, no, thank you for joining and for your time in helping the city.

Kid, what's next?

Uh uh Courtney Costell.

God, Courtney.

It's Courtney.

Courtney needs no introduction.

Can I introduce Courtney anyway?

Courtney's uh Chair and every everybody um like counsel who's here today.

I really appreciate um the opportunity to continue to serve as a member now on the official Climate Action Commission, um, having been on the interim and the CEU CC for about three years now.

Um, as many of you know, I'm a long-term Somerville resident.

I've been here 27 years.

I'm an affordable housing developer, uh, working on large um multifamily affordable housing.

And I have a particular focus and passion on creating high performance all electric um urban sequestering buildings, um, which I've been happy to be able to successfully do.

Um I am also very um passionate about Somerville and really find myself coming to life and engaged when I'm that physically involved until I have um most recently kind of harnessed that energy around school decarbonization.

I'm a parent of a rising seventh grader at the Winter Hill Community Innovation School.

Um I've on the economic governing board since my daughter was in pre-K in 2018 and also serve on the Mass School Board Authority School Building Committee, but I really find being on um all of those groups together help me um have a more informed and uh you know be able to make help to make change from a more informed place, and I'm really happy to be able to do that at a time where we're really um kind of working as a city together to make some good change important needed changes on our climate.

So we appreciate the opportunity.

Thank thank you, Courtney.

And for anyone that hasn't yet seen a high performance building, book an appointment with Courtney.

You you will see what I mean in practice because I have been there to see.

So thank you.

Thank you.

That was good.

Thanks.

Um, I'd like to ask uh Kenzie, um, Kinzie Ballard.

Yes, hello.

Hello.

Hi.

Hi everyone.

Thanks so much for having me here.

I am Kenzie.

Um I have um been a Summerville resident for about five years and now work as one of the co-directors at Groundwork Somerville.

You're a local environmental justice organization.

Um what I get to do is I get to um teach youth how to be climate justice advocates in their community, and that is what um how I hope to support the climate action commission is by connecting further connecting um the city with our youth perspectives and um some other things that our youth do is I collect local climate um data, so heat, noise, and air quality data.

Our youth collect the data and visualize, interpret the data, and then provide recommendations to city partners to um big land use changes for climate justice.

Um I also plant and water trees.

I'm on the Somerville Bike Kitchen um staff.

So I also do a lot of transportation advocacy work um for climate-friendly transportation options.

Um that's me.

Thank you, Kenzie.

So good to see you again.

When I saw your name, I was like, oh, what is is it's a lot?

You know how you know the first name, and then I looked at the last and I said, is this my kinsey or this is what it doesn't matter.

Yeah.

I will put a face behind the people doing the work.

So thank you.

Yes.

Thank you all.

It's um, I'd like to ask uh Lauren Gunther to speak next.

Hi, can you hear me?

Yes, please.

Oh, hi.

Uh I'm Lauren Ginter.

I am uh a resident of Massachusetts.

I mean, sorry, of Somerville since uh 2014.

Um I have a son that attends uh Argonciano.

Um he's going into sixth grade.

Um uh sorry, uh uh do you hear additional noise behind me?

Okay.

Oh, no.

Okay.

Um, and uh I am director of sustainability and an architecture firm in Boston.

I'm a trained architect, and I really focus on energy codes.

I'm also um a part of the Department of Energy Resources uh stretch code advisory committee, um helping to uh really um establish um more flexible energy codes um to really help our existing buildings and decarbonization.

And um I also have a background in passive house, who we work on many passive house projects, high performance envelopes, all electric, net zero.

Um so I bring that level of expertise.

Um, and I'm just really excited uh to be here and um honored to be um uh part of this commission.

And um I I also um over for the next two years, one of the topic that I love to see uh really um brought to the forefront is resiliency.

Um, you know, with what we're seeing with our changing climate, um, with the the heat over the last many years really rising in the summers and the cold temperatures, you know, we just saw how um cold everything got in January and February.

I really um would love to see the education and outreach uh around um environmental justice to really support the residents in this community uh in terms of how can they um you know better prepare or or how can they live in you know such a changing climate climate.

Um so that's one of the things I really love to um bring to the forefront.

Thank you, Lauren.

We're happy to have you.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Um I'd like to ask ask uh Pax Dee Martinez to speak next.

Hello, everyone.

Hey, so nice to meet everybody.

Uh finally put so many fans uh and names together.

My name is Paxty.

I'm originally from Sumisek, the land of the sun, which is near Mexico and Texas, but I've lived in uh Somerville for a number of years now.

Um I have uh my my undergrad education and urban planning with a focus on democratic place making.

My grad degree was at Harvard.

I wrote a thesis about how New England um could prepare for the changes that New England expects to see um as a result of climate change.

Um I'm an indigenous person, I pull a lot from the indigenous perspective on uh on climate change that really informs a lot of my work.

And I'm primarily interested in social infrastructure and systems and economics.

So very much involved in solidarity economics and cooperatives and circular economics, so on so forth.

Uh I believe that the road that got us here will not be the road that will get us out.

Uh right now I work for a nonprofit called Culture House, and my most exciting project is a bit silly goofy, but still very meaningful.

Uh, we are running in East Somerville specifically.

A imagine an ice cream truck, but it's an e-peddle cargo bike, and we give out uh water and electrolytes and ice and cooling materials and ice pops for kids.

So if you see this loud uh jangling, colorful uh giant bike wagon around East Somerville, uh that's me giving uh supplies to to east Somerville residents.

So come say hi.

Nice to meet everybody.

Thank you, Patsy.

Thank you so much.

I I have to be honest, part of me was to have this like a five-minute, you know, like closure, like, oh, you know, just they do the introduction, and then I just thank everybody, and they were like, okay, we don't need you guys.

But the more I just hear it's just the more I'm like, wow, this is like really very refreshing, just to you know, like know our own citizens, our own community members who are leaders, you know, or in the champions in their own spaces that is like never have chosen to give their time to the city, you know, in that capacity.

So thank you.

Director Luda.

I just was gonna say I wasn't lying when I said that they were extraordinary.

There's no I I wasn't saying that I mean, like, because usually, you know, we will normally not even have these folks in committee.

But again, since I've seen some in different restaurants in different places, that they say, Oh, well, you know, it's like I step on this, you know, you you guys approve, and then I'm like, oh wow, thank you.

But again, it will be nice.

Then even express, that'll be nice to have to know, you know, some of us.

And so that was my thinking.

But I think in the future we'll kind of like figure out, you know, like the best part way to say thank you also in this kind of you know, way for you know, so that people feel are not acknowledged.

So thank you.

So kid, yeah, but that list is a long list, man.

Wow.

I we I mean how how far down like we're getting there.

Um uh if I could ask uh Larry Yu to speak next.

Okay, no, now I need to introduce a lot of you.

All right to you, Mr.

Chair.

Uh and perhaps I'm gonna be the letdown after Director Nutter just said everyone is extraordinary, so sorry about that.

Uh also through you, Mr.

Chair, it's a it's a pleasure to see counselors whom I've met before, and also a pleasure to uh to meet new counselors whom I haven't met.

So uh thank you for thank you for having me and thank you for uh for your service.

Um my name's Larry Yu.

I have lived in Somerville in Word 6 for 21 years now.

I'm a homeowner in Davis Square.

Um I have a day job working uh for a management consulting firm that works with nonprofits and philanthropies.

Uh I also um am active in a number of community organizations centered around climate, but also doing some uh very adjacent work in other areas.

Uh so the the climate coalition of Somerville, but also active through Green and Open Somerville and through uh uh Somerville Alliance for Safe Streets or through a number of other local organizations.

Um I have served on the board of uh Massachusetts Climate Action Network and currently serve on the board of the Charles River Watershed Association.

Um and I've also been on the predecessor commission for this commission, uh the Commission on Energy Use and Climate Change since 2019.

Um you have you specifically asked what I what we what I hope to bring or achieve in the next two years.

Uh I would say it is to listen to uh engage with and activate uh as many members of the Somerville community as possible to be a part of this culture of sustainability and climate action.

Um yeah, that's it's that simple, I think.

Uh also flexcrify everything.

So thank you.

Oh, thank you, Larry.

I think you and Courtney have known you guys for over 10 years now, which is like it's why how time flies, you know, and just seeing your work also in the Charles River weather shit, you know, which I also serve as the butt-up advisor there.

It's just remarkable, like just to see, you know, like the the enormous infinite capacity that you have, Larry, to touch on everything, you know, wherever they need you, you're always there.

So thank you, Larry.

And I'm glad that you said you haven't even met some of the counselors.

So this is really also for me, it's very refreshing to continue the conversation.

So I appreciate you.

Thank you, Larry.

Uh to you, Mr.

Chair, I'd like to um ask uh Zara Ati to speak next.

Hi, good evening, counselors.

Um, thank you for taking the time to meet with me today.

My name is Zara, and I'm also rising senior at Somerville High School.

And um I'm gonna talk about myself just a little bit.

So I'm a really a pretty like um recent resident in Somerville.

I'm moving Somerville um less than two years ago from Italy, and I really like experience how um how we was like to join a toy new community and how outreach was really important, especially for community, especially for people who can speak for themselves, and because of uh language barriers and more.

And so uh since I came, I uh we wanted to get involved in um in things that uh can make people more um more feel like feel present more uh in their community, so in their city.

And when I just came uh last summer, I I did the climate cohort uh for this mayor summer jobs, and I really um learned I how local government can create meaningful environment changes.

And for me, that was a really uh important experience because for me was like the first step that I made just to um to also like feel also more involved uh since I I was also like a new resident.

And then um recently in my school, I started this um this climate club.

I started um I participated in this climate club where um where we taught uh middle school students about climate change and that experience really uh showed me how uh youth and also kids can be also like we involved and can also um be really um can really care about climate change and uh also like the solution that the things that they can do to make a change.

And I'm also part of the Books of Hope, where I also share my immigrant story uh through poetry.

And um yeah, so um uh through this um through this like this experience is showing me how important community engagement in the education are and they're part a big part of my uh of why I'm excited to serve um on the Climate Action Commission.

Thank you.

Thank you for having me here.

Oh, I was muted.

Breg Gozara, prego.

We're so happy to have you.

Uh to you, Mr.

Chair, um, I'd like to ask if the phone number on the meeting is Rio Hunter Black.

Hi, good evening.

Good evening.

Good evening.

Hi.

Thank you so much to all of the counselors and the fellow committee members for hosting this meeting, introducing yourselves.

I feel really honored to get to be um nominated for the commission and also for the chance to work with all of you.

Um and also thank you for your patience.

I know um my connection today has been a little shoddy, so thank you for uh bearing with me as my video is not turned on and I've been struggling to rejoin the meeting every couple minutes.

Um yeah, my name is Rio.

I just graduated from Tufts University this spring.

I was a biology major and have been interested and dedicated to climate science and health science for the entirety of my undergraduate and high school education.

I grew up in Somerville and I'm still living in Somerville, so I'm really excited for the chance to apply that education and background in sort of the biological sciences to community outreach work with the commission.

My primary goal with the commission for the next year appointment is to invest time and resources in collaborating between the city and local mutual aid organizations.

When I was in high school, I founded the Somerville Youth Chapter of Sunrise, which is a climate activism organization that sought to promote teaching and more community education on climate justice and also promote climate resilience policy at the state and local level.

And so I'm interested in engaging youth in the high schools and middle schools in similar types of efforts, specifically with a focus on promoting activism and advocacy in young people.

And also I'm interested in mutual aid as it relates to community health.

So as an EMT in the Boston and Somerville area, I'm excited to um there's a connection between city policy, city community members and local hospitals, like Cambridge Health Alliance, um, Mellows Lakefield, Winchester Hospital, which all have their own climate resilience plans and could have more uh sharing of resources and information with the Somerville City, I think.

Yeah, thank you so much for the introduction and for taking the time this evening.

It's good to meet you all.

Thank you.

Bye.

Thank you, Rio.

It's excellent.

We appreciate your time and your service.

Uh to you, Mr.

Chair.

Um, I believe our last remaining candidate is the one candidate who can't join us tonight.

Um, if I could just give a brief overview of his candidacy, um, since he can't be here tonight.

Um, so uh Corey Donahue, who may be a familiar name to some of you.

Um, we selected Corey for his um dedication to the community.

Um, he's very active um on uh school decarb school building decarbonization.

Um he's also been very involved in some of um the Office of Sustainability and Environment's um other community programs, the Climate Ambassador Program, um which is a really popular program where um community members um learn about climate and do kind of a self-directed project in the community and a lot of um previous climate ambassadors find their way to the climate action commission or other ways to stay involved with um climate action um uh here in Somerville.

So we're really excited to um have Corey as a member of the Climate Action Commission.

Amazing.

Thank you, kid.

I guess is this like the most active commission in the city?

Like because you know, like I'm I'm just curious because I've never like seen I've never seen this, and having like uh 49 applications for 13 spots, that's like that's big.

Like you guys are the is it the most?

I might just assuming like this like is there any other commission that has more capacity than this?

Uh you, Mr.

Chair.

I'm I'm not aware of the like membership number numbers of all the other commission members.

Um, I'm sure someone knows the answer to that question, but I we were very proud of the number of applications that we received, and I think that was due to the you know outreach we did in our uh department as well as um the interim members of the climate action commission also put in a lot of work making sure we had a diverse set of applications um and had a really great group to choose from.

Oh thank you.

And and on behalf of this committee and and most especially the city council, we want to you know thank you, uh, and and Dr.

Nuda for like all the your your leadership in bringing all these talented folks, you know, to serve the city.

So as uh you know, chair of this committee with a power best up on me and move to approve all these candidates, you know, before the the for this body, except you know, any member of uh of this body has any objection to that see none, yep.

So they're all approved.

Thank you so much.

I really appreciate the time.

And you know, I really feel like this was also very funny.

I almost wanted to kind of I I thought this is gonna be like a five minutes like, oh wow, yeah, no, nobody's in job at it.

This is like just us acknowledging uh our talented folks, and it's so rewarding that actually we actually got to see that you know on display.

So thank you.

So we will continue with uh with our business.

If you guys you can stay if you want to see how we how we make the sausage, or you can leave, you know.

But that is, but I think we are we uh we are all set, you know, with you guys.

Thank you so much.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Oh, Director Nuda.

I just wanted to say thank you all uh for the time given to all of our volunteers.

Um we built a team.

Thank you.

Thank you.

So Clerk for Silicon.

Yes.

Where are we?

We have two items left.

Uh agenda number two and agenda number four.

Okay, yeah.

Oh, number two.

Uh can you read that into the recording?

Chair.

Mr.

Chair.

Yes, yes.

I just wanted out to apologize, but I have to jump off to another meeting.

Uh, just want to make sure you have quorum.

Yeah, yes, I I have.

Thank thank you, Councilman.

I appreciate you joining.

Thank you.

Hello, Nora.

Uh so Clerk, could you read that item?

Yes, uh, item two.

Uh an order by Council Barr that the city clerk implement the hiring practices detailed within propositions in the city council and city clerk department.

Thank you, Clerk.

Uh, I think I have a communication, you know, I've discussed with the clerk.

I think the clerk is currently in consultation with uh HR, and then you know, so we'll be back yet, you know, at the later time to you know, once the clerk is ready to provide you know substantive information.

So we'll keep this item in committee.

Thank you, Clay Henderson.

Okay, next item, Mr.

Clerk.

The last one.

Uh yes, the last item is agenda number four.

Yeah, the city council appoints Rodrigo Padaro, Bayer Gomez Mukad, Mary Ann Walsh, Martin Sanchez, Yasina El Faro, and Marcy Goldstein Geld to the wage theft advisory committee.

So I think they are the the administration that is supposed to discuss this so that we can figure out next step.

Is it the clerk that is supposed to introduce this candidate?

Or I guess, or I can just take it on because this is coming Mr.

Chair, please please were recommended by counselor Davis.

Well, he put in this referral for recommendation.

Okay.

So I guess yes, Clerk Anderson, you want to say something before I'm happy to do so.

So these were put forth as um Peter has mentioned through uh from counselor Davis.

Um his expectations were that you all um this committee would decide on their terms.

I think um correct.

Um he left that up to you all to decide.

But this these are appointments coming from the council, not the mayor's office.

Amazing.

Okay, thank you.

Uh so uh colleagues, I think we have uh uh one mission here, you know.

We because I was looking at this uh the text of the ordinance prescribed for the advisory board for this confirmation of appointments, you know, again, as this is it's about uh it talked about the fact that there will be nine members.

There's actually six, and then uh it's about we have to stagger them.

So it talked about this the directly from the section nine uh uh 35.

That the committee shall consist of nine members, the council personal designee, or and the mayor or design shall serve by virtue of their office, blah blah.

Four members shall be representative of unions.

Two shall be representatives of local nonprofit, and one shall be a member of local business organization.

So that is like the main piece that we want to make sure that that alone, that structure.

It is the that those the people that have been presented are representative of this various group.

And then the initial appointment shall be staggered with three members appointed for a term of one year, two members appointed for a term of two years, and two members appointed for a term of three years.

So um, so I guess I don't really have any preference.

We can make that decision here.

Like I uh uh we can pick you know, say two like one year term for like maybe two union and one nonprofit, two two-year terms for one union and one business, just so that they all have different, they don't have to all expire at the same time, and then three-year terms for maybe one union, one nonprofit.

So I want to hear what you guys think, and then we can and then uh uh uh make that that decision and then and then approve them.

So I'm open, you know, the floor is open for um for discussion.

Counselor Link.

Uh Mr.

Chair, have we heard from any of them like what they're uh from any of these appointees, like what their own capacities are.

I'm just curious that might help guide us in terms of if someone's like, you know, I can do this for a year.

Yeah, yeah, I know.

Good question, Councillor Link.

I don't, you know, but I at this point, honestly, it's like um, yes, that's an excellent question.

But we can, I mean, the fact that they've shown all this excitement, they can figure that out because you see, like the commission that just came before us, they all know, like you know, it's the same.

It's like they all have different terms, like, and so they all know that already.

So that's why we didn't even have to have that conversation.

But this is like a brand new advisory board that is just from.

So it's like I think uh we will probably have to have that conversation maybe once those meetings start to happen, and there's a staff person, you know, because I'm like the council rep, so I don't know if I should be the one to asking them, hey, like what term, like because I'm just also a representative, you know, the council representative.

So uh yeah, I I think it's an excellent question, but I think we can decide you know the course of action, and then they can now take it from there and and structure it as they evolve.

Thank you, Councillor Ewan Campen.

Thank you, Mr.

Chair.

So through you, just confirming with Clerk Henderson, there's no thought been put into this to this point.

We should just randomly choose two get one year, two get two years, two get three years.

Through through you, Mr.

Chair to Councillor Ewan Campan, that is correct.

You all can also vote to approve them all, and then they can decide afterwards their um their terms as long as they're aware that their three need to be you know allocated to a certain amount of time, three to another set of time, etc.

So if you all don't want to discuss necessarily their terms because you haven't connected with them individually to see what their capacities would be, then you all could also just vote, you know, recommend to approve what's submitted here.

If that makes sense.

I don't I don't know if I'm making any sense.

Yeah, no, it makes sense, but I think uh thank you, Clark Anderson.

And come to you back to Council UN campaign.

I think I touched this with one of the you know the folks that I've been working with closely, you know, uh uh mass Marcy, you know, uh Bornstein prior to this meeting, and so they want us to make that determination.

So it's just I think it's easier for us to make that and give it back to them because they just want to stay out of the whole the whole thing, so nobody says, Oh, why is this one happen one year?

Why isn't so I'm also kind of like open back in the the good old days?

I would have had the names in the hat, and then we just pick because there's no way like we're gonna there's no structure to say let's go determine that, like how they're gonna pull that off.

Like it's just but I'm open to like how we can just come up with this like our own methodology, uh thought process to say okay.

This one takes two, this one takes one, and then you know, leave it.

Wait, do it.

Do I still have the floor, Mr.

Chair?

Oh, yes, yes, Councillor UN Campaign.

Sorry.

Thank you.

Okay, so I uh it it sounds to me this should be completely random.

The the applicants don't want to make the decision themselves.

We have a list of names in front of us.

My reading of the ordinance.

Uh it's talking about seven.

I believe there's six names before us tonight.

I I would recommend that we do the first two on the list for one year, the second two for two years, the second the last two for three years, and just be done with it.

It's random.

That's the equivalent of pulling them out of a hat.

Makes sense to me.

Counselor Hutt, yeah, yeah.

Counselor Ewan Captain, thank you.

Is that is that like a motion already in order, or should we yeah, what counselor Hart says?

Uh but I love happy to hear what what Councillor Hart has to say.

That would be my motion whenever the conversation wraps up.

I love it.

I love it.

Counselor Hutt.

Um, thank you, Chair.

I was just gonna ask for clarification on you said at the beginning, there needs to be so many representatives.

Um, from you, you know, that could you repeat that part about how many representatives of each type of organization there need to be?

Yes, uh, thank you, Councillor Hart for that question.

Yeah, it says uh so they this is directly you know, of like from the ordinances.

So like four members shall be representative of unions, two shall be representative of local nonprofits groups, and one shall be a member of local business organization.

Okay, thank you.

I was just you know, in terms of thinking about um how we stagger it, and then but I guess um I think the motion, so the idea that's not yet a motion makes sense to me.

So thank you.

Thank you.

No, so there's a motion at the table, which I think is an excellent one.

This is like this really like I just like the way it is, and and it's uh no, I think thank you, Councilor Ewan Camp.

And Mr.

Chair, if I may, so just to be clear, like the the very much hope that these folks just get reappointed if they want to keep serving.

This is right, it's not like you're you can never serve again once you've served.

This is just so that the the reappointment don't happen all six at once, it's so that they're staggered.

That's all.

This is not to say people can't serve more than one term, right?

Yes, yes, thank you for that clarification.

Thank you.

So uh I don't think Mr.

Chair, I I would move that we recommend Rodrigo Badero and Beya Gomez Moacad for a term of one year, Mary Ann Wallace and Martin Sanchez for a term of two years, and Your Cena Alfaro and Marcy Goldstein Geld for a term of three years.

Uh Mr.

Clerk, did you get that motion?

Yes, I did.

Yeah, on that motion.

Do we need it all covered, Cleck?

Uh uh well if we can take everything up and we uh yeah, why don't we do that?

Okay, take actually I don't think it let's be safe.

Cool on the motion, Council McLaughlin, Councilor Hart, yes, Councilor Link, yes, Councilor Young Campin.

Yes, Councilor Bach.

Yes, Mr.

Chair, four members have voted in favor, one is absent.

The motion passes.

Thank you, thank you, colleagues.

Yeah, so I think we should have even just uh uh um we should have we should have taken that motion, you know, and then taking uh um item number one and also taking a motion to adjourn, you know, like at the same time, so we can't because is there any there's no further business before this committee, correct?

Ms.

Mr.

Clerk.

That's correct, but we're gonna need um to take the roll call on all the items on the agendas.

Absolutely.

So the one roll call vote.

It'll be the entire agenda items one through nineteen.

Yep.

Amazing and then with yep with the motion to adjourn.

We're ready for that.

Yeah, any committee member have any issues with this?

None.

See no okay.

So Clerk on approval of items one through nineteen on tonight's agenda and on adjournment, council McLaughlin, councillor Hart.

Yes, Councilor Link.

Yes, Councilor Young Campan.

Yes, Councilor Ba.

Yes, please.

Ms.

Chair, four members have approved those items and voted for adjournment.

One is absent.

We are adjourned.

Thank you, colleagues.

Thank you.