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Welcome to our annual meeting with our federal and state legislators.

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We are a little bit behind

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schedule, so I just want to make sure that we go around the room and are able to introduce

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members in the room. Well, legislators, staff members, and school committee members, we will have

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of lots of conversations with her from all of you

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on your priorities and then share some of ours.

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I will, I'll do the TLDR as my kid would say,

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which is funding in the wake of about two and a half

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and health care and content rising health care costs

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like all three under the 51 cities and towns,

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we're struggling to keep up with revenue to our finances.

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So, too, then the minute I start down there

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and say, where you are and what is it for the district?

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Sure.

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I'm Susan Givens, so is the deputy superintendent

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or the administration panel?

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Five examples.

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I'm Robin Benoit.

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I'm the deputy superintendent for teaching and learning.

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I am Suzanne Ferrisfield, and I'm the school committee.

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Hi, I'm Bella Wong, superintendent of schools.

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Tommy Petrollo, the representative for mine.

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for a part of Brooklyn and you can.

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Carolyn Ball, Brooklyn School of Management.

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But why don't you have a full head of Brooklyn High School,

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now Brooklyn School Committee?

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Aaron Schmelke, interim deputy student of student services,

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seven, and seven.

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Ellen Gibson, what did you say, if anything,

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for a group of seven graduates?

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for us.

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Uh, symbols and letters they've paid for are not billed.

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I'll bring you a web, be in your policy advisor, and general capital grade semi-dream.

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And walking around, because of seat is, sorry, thank you, Sydney Queen, uh, said it, or

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for book one.

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Uh, Congressman?

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Hi, Jake Aachenclass, Congressman for Brookline.

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Karina.

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Hi, there, outreach director for Congressman Aachenclass.

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Um, Mariah, while you're doing your intro, we're going to bring in Mr. McGregor.

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Gregor?

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Great.

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Mariah and Obrega, member of the school committee.

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In comments in the room we have, uh, State Park Bill McGregor and his two little, beautiful

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girls.

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Um, at this part of our program, we do our legislative updates.

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So that's what's important to all of our state's federal partners.

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Uh, Congressman Plus, we're happy to start with you.

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You know, you have other things happening in DC.

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I appreciate it.

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Good afternoon, everybody.

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I regret that I can't be with you in person

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as I have in years past.

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I'm speaking to you from my office in Washington.

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I know that top of mind for the Brookline School Committee

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is funding.

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Here you'll add and clear.

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I know it's been a challenging year on funding

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for reasons both external,

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with all the pressures and volatility

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and also internal, which I've been following as well.

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The good news is we actually have passed now appropriations bills in Congress, which is

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one an important constitutional moment to exert power of the purse against a grotesque

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overreaching president and two important for stabilizing funding and creating certainty.

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I voted for these bills when they were first considered by the House, regrettably last

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week.

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They were paired with ICE funding.

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I voted against that package and strongly encouraged all my colleagues in the House to do so as well so we could have a moment of power and leverage over the speaker for reforms to ICE, regrettably, you know, that didn't happen about 21 Democrats pealed off and voted for that package.

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but these bills are at the President's desk now. Title I, a local grants, basically level funded at 18.4 billion.

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Idea state grants, which I know are particularly critical, 14.23 billion. That's an increase of 20 million.

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And then Title II, the professional development, level funded, English acquisition, and Title III level funded.

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Title IV, and the all-level funded. Now with inflation, obviously these aren't really level funds.

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These are modest decreases, but there is funding certainty and less, less

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draconian cuts, I think, than the administration probably wanted to do a year ago, not

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probably definitely wanted to do.

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We'll continue to advocate for federal funds for K-12 formula grant programs, and in particular

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the idea, which I know are really, really helpful in Massachusetts.

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I also know that the Brookline School Committee has been thinking about the role of personal

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technology in the classrooms and to what degree it can be a tool of pedagogy and to what

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degree it's a distraction. I think that's a very, very timely and important conversation

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to be having. I'm trying to lean into it as well. I've introduced a series of social media

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bills that are trying to bulldoze their business model of attention fracking our youth, fragmenting

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their attention spans and pairing their mental and development.

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One of those bills would levy attacks on the revenues of social media firms and use those

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monies for education, one on one tutoring and the development of career and technical vocational

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schools.

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There's also state-level efforts as well to do that in Utah and Maryland, and who knows

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maybe in Massachusetts soon as well as the state-level, but certainly at the federal

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level consider me a strong ally in forcing these tech companies to be tools of those who

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have children's best interests at heart and not to treat children like products which they

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had been doing for the last 15 years.

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members. I will pause there. Thank you, Congressman. Any question for the Congressman from staff

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or members?

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You have a quiet crew today. I have a question for Superintendent Susan. Does

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this, is this new information regarding some of the tidal grants or this? So that's really

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helpful. We had, we had assumed cuts in some of those tidal grants. So thank you very

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We'll send you the exact numbers, superintendant to catering them and make sure that we get you the exact numbers.

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It turns out that when Congress does its job, that things are better than when we let Trump just run roughshod over the Constitution and our laws as a nation.

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I don't know why my Republican colleagues have such a hard time understanding that, that we're Article 1.

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But these appropriations bills were an important step towards, as I said, not just a constitutional check on abusive power, but also just,

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is doing what Americans want, which is fund education.

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I mean, we should be funding it more,

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but at least we're putting a floor under

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some of the really draconian contemplations

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he was putting out there.

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Be happy to district.

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I just wanna say,

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so the subject is much appreciated.

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And thank you for your opportunity.

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So we hope that you are able to hang around

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when I'll understand that you have other

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appointments under calendar.

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So thank you for being with us.

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I am gonna listen in for a few minutes.

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I do have something coming up, but I do want to listen for a few minutes until I have

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to log off.

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Thank you for having me.

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Thank you.

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I'm saying Representative Tommy Bissolo, for real to be here today, and I just want to

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take off a few things and I'll take up too much time.

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And this is not my first annual meeting with the school committee, and so I fully understand

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the importance that the state offers in partnership on funding.

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In the past, I think our delegation has under promised no over delivered last year.

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We were able to ratchet up the minimum student aid considerably by the end, and we know that

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The bulk of funding for Reclined Public Schools comes from Reclined Property Taxes but

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still the States of Partner and of course we are happy to try to find every dollar we

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can to support public schools throughout the state, including in Reclined, but it's

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tough sledding, of course, budget's aren't easy federally, the Congressmen are not easily

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and hopefully they're not easy at the state level either.

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In terms of legislative priorities,

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this is not a numbered list, it's not a ordered list,

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but it is a list.

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I'll tell you that ICE is a legislative priority.

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The idea that poorly trained federal agents

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are hanging around places where young people are learning

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and scooping pigs up, scooping parents up, it's reprehensible, and I'll tell you there's

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not, there are a lot of things that the state government can not do about that because

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the federal supremacy, I will also tell you that we are actively working to figure out

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what we can do, even just to slow down this terrible and really disgusting behavior

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from federal immigration.

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I believe we should have an immigration enforcement.

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I believe we shouldn't look anything

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like what it looks like right now.

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And of course, that affects the students in our schools.

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And of course, it's something that we are gonna work on.

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Another item that we've been working on in the House,

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the Senate has taken the lead on and we're grateful for.

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And I hope Senator Creme will tell us about her contributions

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is data privacy.

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Convent and we're going to get a data privacy bill across the finish line in the house and then House and Senate will conference.

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And that's really important for all people including our learners.

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They deserve to be people in their community and not commodities to be bought and sold.

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their data belongs to them, and some of it is philosophical, some of it is technical,

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some of it really may relate to personal safety for our learners, and we do want to maintain

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that. I expect the House will be coming forward with an energy bill in the coming weeks.

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One was floated in November and it went to Houseway's means. It is a balance of environmental

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priorities and cost saving measures. And we know that, for example, public schools of Brookline

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and the county of Brookline have considerable energy bills. You've got a lot of big buildings,

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and they've got to keep me warm. And so that's an area where state legislative action may have a

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small impact on the budget. And again, it's a real challenge of balancing these climate priorities with

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with people's bills and with the bills of local governments.

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Finally, I just want to mention, I'm going to look at my phone for a minute because I've

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gathered down there.

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The house passed a trio of education bills in late 2025, age 4670 and act relative to personal

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financial literacy education.

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I think it's a modest expectation for middle and high school students and personal financial

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literacy, age 4671, an active student access to the state seal of bioliteracy will allow

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high school graduates who are literate in two or more languages to have that reflected

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on their diploma.

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It's something to really be proud of and something that's worthy of the diploma.

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And then I think the one that's the most meaningful statewide, although not an unfunded mandate

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for Berkland because Berkland was ahead of the game, is age 4672, an act relative to teacher

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preparation and student literacy. And this was a bill about evidence-based learning

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phonics, learning to read using the techniques that we know work based on analysis and data.

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And it turned out that many school districts have come away from using reading techniques

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that were known to work in favor of reading techniques that don't work as well.

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And many teachers or even districts were reticent to go back to the things that worked.

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The House passed a bill and said, you're better.

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The good news is Brookline was ahead of that curve and so I don't think this will have a practical

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impact on superintendent Wong on down to the teachers themselves. I think that

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for mine is ahead of it, but I'm proud that we did it because you know we've got

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kids coming out of third, fourth, fifth grade who aren't able to read proficiently

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how can it possibly expect grade six to 12 to go very well. So that's some things

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that we did in the past year. I'm hopeful that the Senate will pick up some of those

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and those will become law in 2026 and I think I'm more than enough time, so I'm going to pass the law.

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Senator, thank you for having us.

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I'm happy to jump in. I wasn't sure you wanted to tell us what you wanted before you heard, but we got it.

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I'd like to hear from you first. You've seen what we want.

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Okay, so let me talk about a few things there.

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where you said our legislative objectives,

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we both ascended in the House that passed

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the literacy bill.

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I'm proud because I grew up in one

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to the frontline schools in graduate and high school.

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So I'm glad that we've had other fur above literacy.

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But I'm pleased that the frontline has a new bill,

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but not every community is sophisticated

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or forward to the superintendent who've seen other schools,

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That's an important goal and I know that it will be both parties will come to some agreement on it.

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We did a few things in the Senate. The data privacy bill was my bill. I filed it and we passed it in the Senate. I think the relative part of it is that it's certainly important for everybody. It may not be specific to school district, but it does make a statement that we want to minimize the amount of data to begin with. And we want to say that there is data that's sensitive and that data can't be sold.

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their health, your sector, who you are and who you love and all of those things in a day

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and age, I mean, political, but boy, everything we believed in is up the grabs.

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We passed a bill in the Senate that would limit the amount of data, prohibit the sale

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of sensitive data.

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And what really I was proud about is we have a piece of it that says that your location data

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is sensitive.

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So for those that travel to the Massachusetts, because they need services, there are legal

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and Massachusetts, but may not be legal in the state like Texas, their location is

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protective and consider sensitive and not be something that they can buy.

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I mention it because I think it's a great bill.

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I hear that the House can take it up and look forward to having a bill on the government's

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test.

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Yes, the Senate also did a great bill on cell phones trying to ban them into schools and

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have a method of understanding that there are instances where there are emotional needs

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or specific needs for some people to be able to reach their children.

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We've made those exceptions.

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I think it's a bill that the schools really care about and I'm proud that the Senate has

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on that, and I hope that we'll be taken up in the house.

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Again, everything that the governor signs is something that has been taken up by both

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party, both branches, so nothing becomes law unless we have something that everybody

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agrees to, and that's an important one.

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Another bill that I was involved with was a bill that would forgive the book then, and set

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up a system where in schools, books would have to be approved by, according to a standard

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that the American Library Association had, know how to standard that somebody, who

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knows who we have.

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And part of that bill, I took some credit for because I was very excited, and it allows

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an author to have a right to bring soon as well as other people.

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And in the spirit of transparency, I have to say that my son-in-law wrote a book for

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an out-young adolescence at the Berlin Boxing Club, and that book won awards.

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It was very successful, and it was a story about a young boy during the World War II who

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was bullied as a result of these Jewish, and they sent him, the Boxing School with Max

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smelling to help him strengthen himself so that he can fight the kids that are bullying him.

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It won awards at number one adolescent book and all of a sudden my son-in-law saw that the book was

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banned in several states and when he invited this young man's father has a friend who appears as

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an ancillary character in the book, and he's transgender. And as a result of that the book was banned in

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certain states and certain flyers, the young adolescents, that's sort of reprehensible,

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but in any event, I really was excited about that bill, that bill, that related to book

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family.

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And now, I'm, I'm ready to go on a new bill, which sort of talks in relation to what the

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congressman was talking about, it's a bill on addictive social media feaks.

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And while that, we talked about why that importantness school, it is important and it is parents,

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local parents that came to me and said that their children had one problem or another.

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They went on social media and then they started getting all these other social media from

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areas that they didn't want all night long that were getting things.

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And this bill would, first of all, have a way to have age identification, the Attorney

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general would have to come up with some method that you would need to show that this was

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age-related. And there would not be the social media between six at night and in the morning.

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It's a great bill. It's my thing to try and get the Senate to pass. My pal over here is trying

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to do it in the House, Representative McGregor. And I said, well, yesterday with the congressman

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who has some great federal bills.

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So some of the problems of these lobbyists,

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particularly like the data bill

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and this social media bill is the argument,

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oh, why not wait until it happens at the federal level

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rather than having different ideas at different states?

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And you told me that would be great

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because we should all do it there.

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But these things are not going anywhere

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the federal level. And so it's my hope that we can please do them in a place like Massachusetts.

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And this one walkbook again may not be the kind of thing we talk about here, but

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so the House and the Senate work together I work to

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represent a parish and we passed a resolution that would wipe out prior

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requests for constitutional conventions.

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So, it's kind of an interesting thought.

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It actually came to me from the common cause.

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So, from time to time,

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different legislators in a particularly in Massachusetts

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have requested a constitutional convention.

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And if 32 states, if requisite number of states

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ask for a constitutional convention, they will be more.

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It's never even though under the Constitution they were entitled to do that, there's no rules.

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So anything can be held up.

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And we as Massachusetts had on the books a request a long time ago to ban abortion.

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And that was a request to have a Constitutional Convention.

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And we were amongst the states that had listed outstanding things that we wanted.

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A Constitutional Convention, if called, could give the President another term.

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A lot of things can happen in a Constitutional Convention, and we represent a patient I worked

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so that it can out of both the House and the Senate, that we got rid of whatever we

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had requested, but I no longer one of the states.

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A lot of states have done that, and if we can make sure that we don't want a Constitutional

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Convention out one, then we don't know what would might be out there.

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With respect to funding, which I know is your number one and all of our number one priorities,

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I will say that over the past years, we have done well with funding.

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It may not be enough, but we really look deep.

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This is a bad time.

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I'm not coming bearing bad news, but you know that we don't know how much money people are from the federal government.

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We're actually lucky that we have the millionaire tariffs because the funding that is coming

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in for schools education is the funding that's coming for the millionaire tax point.

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We are out a lot of money and a lot of people are not going to have the health insurance

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that they had before and we've been trying the stuff is still low at all so that we can

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keep our money rules for health insurance.

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but the governance budget, so everyone knows that the government does a budget first,

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then the House does a budget.

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Then the Senate and the House and the Senate get together with one budget,

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and then that goes to the government.

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And the government's budget works quite well.

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We don't know because we haven't seen the House and we haven't that House.

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And I understand I mean things like,

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But it's been a priority for me to cover all the benefits that have been spent to make

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sure that we've covered my communities are so into funding for things like that versus

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other communities.

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And I know that we've done better, we've put the circuit plate around.

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I'm hoping that we can do that.

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I'm hoping that you can fund this through an opportunity.

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The thing on the horizon that I always say is that I don't know how it's going to turn

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it out is, for example, in chapter 7, my community is all over, my Rosley are all in the

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same position.

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They don't depend entirely on stake funding for their school budget.

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And my colleagues whose communities depend on that funding are saying that Boston,

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you can go find you all the way, Boston and Europe being a symptom of things, are communities

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that don't depend as much on chapters FD funding.

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And as we wrote that, we're doing that, I think we're going to have to pay attention to

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what effect it's going to have on them for a while and mention that because I think it's

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something kind of the real idea not all looking because it is somewhat maybe bothers

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them to the community set out of the set. I hear any other questions or we're all ready.

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We're going to come back to questions as we make sure we get through all the updates.

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Thank you, Ron.

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Good to see you.

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And, of course, my campaign manager for my first campaign.

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That's the tragedy.

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So I have nothing to say about that, but I'm not your first campaign.

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My very first, well, I'm sorry.

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It just popped up on one of the social media that Kevin is in his 40th year, sorry.

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That was your first job.

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And it was for us after a nationwide search, my brother's girlfriend.

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That's how she got broken into that.

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Anyway, a pleasure for me to be here with all my colleagues.

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We worked very hard on education, but I should start with the ice issue that Tommy had brought up.

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So in my neighborhood, we had the Austin Cow wash, so on an election day, not to want to go.

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Nine people were arrested, put down on the ground, handcuffed behind it.

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Bad, so it was just an awful, awful thing.

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And I know all the people who owned that gas station in the Cow wash.

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So I went over with the local city council and a check in on them, but it was just disgraceful.

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because the people who were there worked so hard,

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and they can't do this country for a better life,

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and there's a rest of the chair of it.

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So if there are a number of,

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well, a couple of bills up there,

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the Protect Act and the State Communities Act,

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which were all co-sponsors up,

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and they're still developing,

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trying to keep ice up,

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schools out of religious institutions,

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medical institutions,

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and we're still developing it. We have in meetings pretty regularly to develop a final proposal of the House on that and I'm sure you're working on that to on the Senate.

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I'm on the steering policy.

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Yeah, I have no doubt.

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So we're working on protecting people who want to live here.

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And I was the chair of housing 17 years, and that's when I was working with Val.

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So who was at the Ulster Brighton Community Development Corporation.

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And we put through the MBTA Communities Act as a chief sponsor of that, and that's made

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a lot of progress.

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There was a resistance to affordable housing and basically any kind of housing here in Massachusetts

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and where it is over underdubbed, you know, this is what we need to be.

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So that's the zoning piece of housing.

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And it went through a few years ago with Charlie Baker, who had his proposal,

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which was the two-thirds vote one, the housing choices bill.

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So if his bill sought to allow the municipal level,

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Bill's that used to have a two-thirds vote, but his bill, which for a simple majority,

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and that went through, and when that was going through, we reported out favorably pushed it.

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We tacked on the MBTA community set to try to help in that area.

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And that was a pretty successful thing.

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I had a bill that became a law last year on cameras on school buses because it was passing.

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And it's a local option built, and the number of communities have adopted that one.

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And the thing that impresses me always about Brookline is your school system is fabulous.

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You just had an article in the globe about one-third of the Boston students are not reaching

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compliance to the graduate.

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So every time I'm here, I hear more in Brookline that we need to make more progress.

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So you folks always have your foot on the accelerator and it never happened.

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You always want things to be better, which is a lesson for other communities.

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And many of the bills that Tommy had mentioned and the senator had mentioned,

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you're already doing the changes in learning how to teaching reading and comprehension.

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You're ahead of us.

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I also have a sponsor of a bill, the congressman had mentioned vocational education, and maybe

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you can talk when you do about vocational education.

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We have, it used to be the Duke at Huffrey Occupational Resource Center, which is now in Madison

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Park.

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And it might be receiving.

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Location, bill, and so on. But I had sponsor the bill to teach two students how to be bus drivers. And I think there's a good career with a pension. I meant it's mass transit. So it's something that's pretty important. I part to two different headmasters of Madison Park. In the last five years and others, a third headmasters. So this is kind of an issue that needs to be

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worked on, but the stability of the school, but it's wonderful. They teach

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everything over there. Maybe you can talk to me about what Brookline is doing on

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that area. I am very impressed with your sports. I went to a basketball field

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recently. Brookline, I against Burntree High, I like the school spirit.

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It's

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I'm sorry, I said the past Dean of the Education School and he said one of the things that was

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most rewarding to him was to come to the Brookline Schools and he spoke at the

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Council of the Class and said, I think you should reach out to him again, right Tommy? Tommy,

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you're at your PhD or I did. So I met his panel for his PhD.

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Anyway, they were wanting to

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volunteer over here. So you reunite that partnership of robots and the students are very

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enthusiastic. I think that could be a good partnership. So on the reading bill that was mentioned,

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you're already there. You're already doing it. You've already implemented it before. The

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graduation requirements, the states working on that since there's no MCAS. So there's a bill

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We'll put the oil on that, and we all know that in almost every area of government, now

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people will consider about financing and getting revenue from the stage.

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So we'll all work together to try to help get 70 and other things we've made for our

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last budget.

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So we'll continue to work with you on that issue.

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And, yeah, the one we mentioned was net goals.

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So, net goal, look at birth 3.1 million dollar increase over last year.

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There's 60 of the anniversaries coming up, and I know you have a wonderful relationship with net goal.

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So, we would look forward to helping net goal.

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Thank you.

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Thank you.

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Thank you, Madam Chair.

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Thank you.

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Well, great to be here with everyone.

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So for those of you who don't know me, this is actually my third one here.

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But the number of the 10th St. Representative, so I covered my journey to West Rocks,

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or half a rosemary, for instance, and Jamaican plain,

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and one precinct, precinct, 16 in total, so for five.

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So I'm proud to have that precinct.

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I was hoping to take a couple of them from Rup Schwartz,

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but that's okay.

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So for five in total, obviously,

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and I think I've mentioned this since that's near and dear

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to my heart, I actually am also a for five school graduate.

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I went to Driscoll and in Washington Square I haven't visited the new building yet so I

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got to get it over there but and then my sister was a Brooklyn school teacher and for special

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edit and you know I just have a lot of family history and so yeah you know but so I am happy

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to be here. I think I want to score a few things. Obviously, let's say I mentioned the

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cell phone ban, which I think is very important. My nephew, who actually goes to, he's a freshman

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at Brookline High. Southmore. Southmore. Southmore.

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Southmore. Southmore. Southmore. Southmore.

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Southmore. Southmore. Southmore. Southmore.

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Southmore. Southmore. Southmore.

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Southmore.

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he is actually one of the people that needs to make sure he has his phone on,

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it monitors his insulin and whatnot. So I wanted to make sure that was something that was in the

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center. So before I came to the house and you know I appreciate this senator and all this I was

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working for making sure that's in there because you know many medical exemptions they have to make

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you know we have to make sure that there wouldn't be a complete bill about having that amendment in

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there. So the book band, ProLiberty having book fans is something that I'm

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supportive of. The rapper Moran, John Moran, who came in with me. He is the sponsor

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on the house side. And, you know, you know, anything that I can do to like support

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that. I've been very supportive of my girls as you see Ellie's milling. I actually

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And there is one of the books that I read into their class recently, it would be one book that would probably be a book that was just, you know, like, so I want to make sure I picked out a book that was, you know, important to just show that, you know, families can be different.

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So I will go into all that and I know that the center mentioned the social media

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Bill so I was I was very excited that she let me partner with her. She's really been leading on that charge and

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I'm

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I'm her Robin

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On that and

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But it's been a lot of fun

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Maybe I'm running dog, but it's, but it's been it's been great to see all the work that's going on and seeing how far it's moving.

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I know that the governor mentioned in her state of the Commonwealth that is one of her priorities.

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She called both of our offices to let us know that, you know, she liked the legislation so much that she wanted to bring something forward.

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That is, you know, social media is really affecting kids, they say it's, you know, that,

448
00:36:41,450 --> 00:36:48,610
what type on average a child will be scrolling through rails five hours a day, which is about

449
00:36:48,610 --> 00:36:50,110
72 days a year.

450
00:36:51,250 --> 00:36:58,570
And when I went to go testify on this bill, I brought an intern with me who wanted to really

451
00:36:58,570 --> 00:36:59,190
speak on it.

452
00:36:59,290 --> 00:37:01,810
And I give her a lot of credit for being so courageous.

453
00:37:01,810 --> 00:37:08,390
just, but her testimony was mentioning how social media worsened her eating disorder.

454
00:37:09,810 --> 00:37:15,310
And you know, these are the reasons why that, you know, we need, I know if he wants to

455
00:37:15,310 --> 00:37:20,350
do that at a national level, but I have something that we don't want to delay on a state level.

456
00:37:20,730 --> 00:37:22,550
We don't want to wait for someone else to do it.

457
00:37:22,690 --> 00:37:25,930
So I'm happy to partner the center on that.

458
00:37:25,930 --> 00:37:32,670
I did do a bill, as you might imagine, to have two kids and day care to deliver expensive.

459
00:37:34,270 --> 00:37:41,310
And I know that we do a child tax credit, one myself and Rupp's Book of Read proposed

460
00:37:41,310 --> 00:37:46,910
doing a tax credit for child care and dependent care.

461
00:37:46,910 --> 00:37:57,210
So I know she is a person that her mother depends on, and it's sometimes hard to find

462
00:37:57,210 --> 00:38:02,910
a assistant, but you know, she and myself, obviously my kids go to the daycare.

463
00:38:03,370 --> 00:38:08,770
What this bill would do is kind of mirror what the federal government does unless the administration

464
00:38:08,770 --> 00:38:15,910
takes what, but it would give like a pop and all tax credit for those that have to use

465
00:38:15,910 --> 00:38:21,590
child care at the end of the year. It's no, that's not a lot. I know, you know, the child care

466
00:38:21,590 --> 00:38:31,170
for me is over 55,000 dollars a year for two kids. So it's, but you know, every little bit helps for

467
00:38:31,170 --> 00:38:38,370
everyone. And so, you know, that bill has been extended in committee. So I'm looking forward to

468
00:38:38,370 --> 00:38:44,590
working with the committee and seeing how far we can get it going. In regards to ICE,

469
00:38:44,590 --> 00:38:52,410
I know that I won't spoke on it and I actually recently had an incident in my district in

470
00:38:52,410 --> 00:38:58,790
Rosendale, which many of you might have heard where they took someone who was in a car

471
00:38:59,530 --> 00:39:06,690
and they took them and they left the car idling in the middle of the road and that was

472
00:39:06,690 --> 00:39:16,490
I believe Thursday and, you know, I have spoken out on, you know, on ice. I've been, I think

473
00:39:16,490 --> 00:39:22,590
among Ari and Kai is legislation. And the Black and Latino caucus, you know, will protect

474
00:39:22,590 --> 00:39:31,170
that. I mean, we still have to do a hearing and, you know, and just have it reported on. But we've

475
00:39:31,170 --> 00:39:44,030
met with leadership, we met with the black only team of caucus and, you know, I'm a sponsor on that and it was important to get met through the house and, yeah, so, honestly, that was very important.

476
00:39:45,010 --> 00:39:51,950
I proposed a bill on telehealth, and I know I still see this very quickly.

477
00:39:53,190 --> 00:40:00,410
The one thing, when I was Jordan, when I went in for the seat, I remember going to some of this house and she mentioned how her child,

478
00:40:00,410 --> 00:40:03,090
was going to the University of Connecticut

479
00:40:03,550 --> 00:40:05,550
and how she conceived her state of therapists

480
00:40:06,190 --> 00:40:07,490
because of the state of clients.

481
00:40:08,370 --> 00:40:11,950
So I know that there are a few other elected

482
00:40:12,530 --> 00:40:14,010
that have proposed similar bills,

483
00:40:14,450 --> 00:40:16,450
which I mean I wasn't aware of that at the time,

484
00:40:16,550 --> 00:40:20,330
but this is something that I think would be very important,

485
00:40:20,470 --> 00:40:21,010
very beneficial.

486
00:40:21,010 --> 00:40:25,490
I know personally how hard it is to grow a relationship

487
00:40:25,490 --> 00:40:29,490
with a therapist or a doctor in a general.

488
00:40:29,490 --> 00:40:33,350
I don't know, so I would love to make sure that we can,

489
00:40:33,590 --> 00:40:35,850
I trust that we do an industry, one, and say,

490
00:40:36,150 --> 00:40:39,330
and yeah, following regards to the budget,

491
00:40:40,750 --> 00:40:45,010
I don't think I need to tell anyone that's gonna be a top year,

492
00:40:45,270 --> 00:40:48,850
but we're gonna do our best to be as helpful as we can.

493
00:40:50,390 --> 00:40:54,310
You know, I have dual citizenship in Brookline,

494
00:40:56,370 --> 00:40:57,730
and that's what it's all like.

495
00:41:01,110 --> 00:41:11,370
And I want to just make sure, you know, we can help every, every name of it or every town in the city as much as possible.

496
00:41:11,750 --> 00:41:16,050
You know, we got the federal government style, you know, but whatever we can do right here.

497
00:41:17,030 --> 00:41:24,930
Thanks, Billy, and last but not least, I'm afraid it is going to be a glee because everybody said everything already.

498
00:41:24,930 --> 00:41:28,530
But I'll do my best to play clean up here.

499
00:41:28,710 --> 00:41:29,890
Thank you so much for having me.

500
00:41:29,890 --> 00:41:31,030
I was really thrilled for a couple of years,

501
00:41:31,190 --> 00:41:33,150
so I'm on that table.

502
00:41:33,410 --> 00:41:35,150
I'm used to being the youngest at the table

503
00:41:35,150 --> 00:41:37,250
and the fourth question is, I'm going to all set.

504
00:41:40,370 --> 00:41:43,910
But yeah, so Greg Schwartz represented from Metal 612,

505
00:41:44,110 --> 00:41:49,310
which is pre-615, 14, 13A, and parts of five

506
00:41:49,910 --> 00:41:51,950
as well as parts of Newton.

507
00:41:52,910 --> 00:41:54,730
really glad to be here for my second year.

508
00:41:55,170 --> 00:41:58,070
It's very nice to see some folks from before

509
00:41:58,070 --> 00:41:59,470
and miss some new places as well.

510
00:42:00,410 --> 00:42:02,930
Hoping to continue this conversation

511
00:42:02,930 --> 00:42:04,490
not just today, but throughout the year.

512
00:42:05,730 --> 00:42:08,170
Ellen, with mention Ellen Gibson is my legislative age.

513
00:42:08,230 --> 00:42:10,250
She's available anytime that we get into a vehicle.

514
00:42:11,870 --> 00:42:15,170
So I'm just going to touch on a couple of the points that have been made

515
00:42:15,170 --> 00:42:17,010
and just add a couple of my priorities.

516
00:42:18,070 --> 00:42:21,170
First of all, as a father of a high schooler and a recent high schooler

517
00:42:21,170 --> 00:42:24,410
in Newton, I can tell you that a lot of the issues that we've just been talking about

518
00:42:24,410 --> 00:42:31,730
are near and dear to me, whether it's primarily it's social media, like we've been saying,

519
00:42:32,490 --> 00:42:41,430
to mental health, and the impacts of both of those on our students, our children's development.

520
00:42:43,850 --> 00:42:49,450
And it doesn't stop at high school, obviously we're focusing on that today, but the college

521
00:42:49,450 --> 00:42:56,430
experience is also very important and I have a recent graduate, so she's in college and I can

522
00:42:56,430 --> 00:42:59,910
tell you that the issues don't stop at the graduation.

523
00:43:02,130 --> 00:43:04,930
One of the things that I want to thank

524
00:43:04,930 --> 00:43:10,870
Senator Cream and my colleagues, Dean Bonin and Tommy, and Bill, for all their leadership. I'm

525
00:43:10,870 --> 00:43:16,610
learning from them every day and I appreciate their leadership and especially Senator Cream, we really

526
00:43:16,610 --> 00:43:21,290
depend on you on the Senate side and we've got four of us and just one of you but you've got

527
00:43:21,290 --> 00:43:25,950
a big gaville over there and a really big job and you've been incredibly helpful when it comes

528
00:43:25,950 --> 00:43:31,470
to every issue but also budget budgets especially so we've got to say that I'm sure of all of it.

529
00:43:37,290 --> 00:43:44,910
So if we found that point budget is very important we're right in the middle of budget right now

530
00:43:44,910 --> 00:43:50,510
we're just getting started. And as has been mentioned, the Student Opportunity Act funds really

531
00:43:50,510 --> 00:43:55,870
important for districts, such as Brookline. I know the Glassager and the governor came in with a

532
00:43:55,870 --> 00:44:03,090
low ball for the minimum eight communities, $75. We got up to 150, which is a really, you know,

533
00:44:03,270 --> 00:44:10,310
big impact, $17 million for the district. So this year also has come in 75 from what I understand.

534
00:44:10,590 --> 00:44:13,610
So we're going to have to do a little bit of fancy footwork, especially in the difficult

535
00:44:13,610 --> 00:44:16,290
a whole bunch of times, but hoping that we'll get that back up.

536
00:44:17,550 --> 00:44:23,870
You know, outside of budget though, there's literacy bills that we passed.

537
00:44:24,950 --> 00:44:26,570
You've heard enough about that.

538
00:44:26,930 --> 00:44:30,050
The data privacy and cell phone bills, really important.

539
00:44:30,950 --> 00:44:35,590
As I mentioned, for mental health, as a health provider myself for many years,

540
00:44:35,830 --> 00:44:39,750
more than 20 years as a private care physician, mental health, super important.

541
00:44:40,430 --> 00:44:47,670
and we are, there's much more to do on that, and so if we can get the cell phone bill through

542
00:44:47,670 --> 00:44:52,690
the house, the Senate has already gotten there, we can get that on the desk of the governor.

543
00:44:53,490 --> 00:44:59,490
As far as data privacy, you know, in addition to the location privacy that was mentioned, we did pass

544
00:44:59,490 --> 00:44:59,890
That's in the house.

545
00:45:00,000 --> 00:45:29,500
It's a health care privacy piece of this, which I think Senator Green alluded to, which is when folks come to vestuces for things that are legal in vestuces, whether it's reproductive care and gender care, they should not have those records be available to folks back in their own states if they're going to be prosecuted. So our legislation made the medical record more explosive and more of how it helps.

546
00:45:30,040 --> 00:45:35,720
I'm sorry, opt in so that people will not be subject to persecution when they go back

547
00:45:35,720 --> 00:45:36,100
home.

548
00:45:37,640 --> 00:45:43,480
As far as some of the other issues on the medical side, I might say, you know, we talked about

549
00:45:44,060 --> 00:45:51,500
some of the non-education specific issues like immigration and I don't know if we touched

550
00:45:51,500 --> 00:45:57,620
on housing, but that's a very important factor, obviously, but another is health and with

551
00:45:57,620 --> 00:46:03,080
If the cuts coming from the federal government on the Medicaid budget, which can be, you

552
00:46:03,080 --> 00:46:09,160
know, we're talking 250 to 300,000 people may lose their Medicaid coverage in 2027,

553
00:46:09,800 --> 00:46:16,140
we're going to be affected by that, both more people to take care of at the state by the

554
00:46:16,140 --> 00:46:20,780
providers, but also the funding that we get from the federal government has reimbursements

555
00:46:20,780 --> 00:46:25,160
for that care that we provide through the Medicaid program will be reduced, so that's going

556
00:46:25,160 --> 00:46:27,260
to be a big noxic cracked down the road.

557
00:46:29,400 --> 00:46:31,500
One of my priorities being health care

558
00:46:31,500 --> 00:46:35,020
has been to try to improve the primary care crisis

559
00:46:35,020 --> 00:46:39,360
that we have and that be a sponsor of my,

560
00:46:39,740 --> 00:46:42,540
the author of one of the house bills on this issue

561
00:46:42,540 --> 00:46:45,220
that's a Senate bill by Senator Creeper,

562
00:46:45,420 --> 00:46:50,540
City Freedman that both of our bills would,

563
00:46:50,760 --> 00:46:53,000
if I were to improve the access to primary care

564
00:46:53,000 --> 00:47:01,040
by increasing the expenditures in the global spending on health care, just to increase the

565
00:47:03,160 --> 00:47:07,620
rebalance some of the growth and spending so that primary care actually does not become

566
00:47:07,620 --> 00:47:11,720
a smaller, smaller proportion, but actually it comes with a large proportion of the total

567
00:47:11,720 --> 00:47:16,640
and that will affect the availability of providers to patients.

568
00:47:16,640 --> 00:47:22,840
Just a couple of other things, I think that, you know, as I mentioned, college is also

569
00:47:22,840 --> 00:47:23,420
very important.

570
00:47:23,720 --> 00:47:27,960
And so very happy that we've been able to support the Bright Act and pass that through the

571
00:47:27,960 --> 00:47:36,380
House, which is a large funding bill that will give $1.5 billion to the state colleges and

572
00:47:36,380 --> 00:47:36,880
UMass.

573
00:47:37,800 --> 00:47:42,820
It has an environmental impact as well because it's largely for rebuilding their physical

574
00:47:42,820 --> 00:47:49,980
plant and many of those buildings are very large carbon footprints. On the carbon side there's a

575
00:47:49,980 --> 00:47:54,380
bill that I've been a supporter of by colleagues from Newton, Amy Central and I,

576
00:47:54,960 --> 00:47:59,420
the supporters of the EV school bus bill to try to improve and take away some of the

577
00:47:59,420 --> 00:48:04,600
distance centers for buying EV school buses by reducing the sale tax on them.

578
00:48:06,140 --> 00:48:12,800
And, just, you know, finally, you know, we can touch on mental health a couple of times,

579
00:48:13,000 --> 00:48:18,000
but it's really important to continue to work with students, make sure that they have

580
00:48:18,000 --> 00:48:24,420
available counselors, no matter where they live, like Bill would say, and make sure that

581
00:48:24,420 --> 00:48:27,600
those relationships aren't interrupted when they move.

582
00:48:29,140 --> 00:48:34,180
I guess I'd be remiss if I didn't mention in this community as well as you can say the

583
00:48:34,180 --> 00:48:39,460
recommendations that we received from the Special Commission on Antisemitism, which will

584
00:48:39,460 --> 00:48:45,520
be implemented by Dessie and those include trying, among other things, but trying to make sure

585
00:48:45,520 --> 00:48:52,360
that part of the understanding that we're trying to create among students includes and understanding

586
00:48:52,360 --> 00:49:01,200
the Jewish experience in America and what Antisemitism looks like. So I think it's part of the

587
00:49:02,160 --> 00:49:07,980
And I hope that they handle the very challenging issue with a lot of care.

588
00:49:08,720 --> 00:49:12,980
And when that can implement it, we will see sort of improvements to that throughout the software.

589
00:49:13,200 --> 00:49:17,000
So thank you for your time. I know that I'm the last to five.

590
00:49:17,460 --> 00:49:18,360
Oh, thank you.

591
00:49:18,700 --> 00:49:21,660
I appreciate you. That's you before I do any further.

592
00:49:22,180 --> 00:49:23,780
Was was our document posted?

593
00:49:24,560 --> 00:49:28,120
Yes, okay. I'm just not going to read it and go through everything.

594
00:49:28,120 --> 00:49:33,700
it that's been posted for the public. Our legislative leaders clearly know what included,

595
00:49:33,880 --> 00:49:39,240
so I just want to highlight a couple of pieces. Of course, as a minimum eight community,

596
00:49:39,400 --> 00:49:44,880
the chapter 70 that you're all talking about is hugely important to us, eliminating

597
00:49:44,880 --> 00:49:50,480
that inflation capital in a long way. It's a big group line from a little special edge.

598
00:49:51,580 --> 00:49:56,520
Moving the circuit breaker, a random return percentage to 90 percent would be, again,

599
00:49:56,520 --> 00:50:00,720
and something that would be incredibly important

600
00:50:00,720 --> 00:50:03,780
and helpful for our budget, as a minimum aid community.

601
00:50:05,060 --> 00:50:08,700
We are covering the majority of this

602
00:50:08,700 --> 00:50:10,480
as opposed to other communities where we can say,

603
00:50:10,720 --> 00:50:11,900
you know, hold on a good portion.

604
00:50:12,600 --> 00:50:14,520
So that would be extremely helpful

605
00:50:14,520 --> 00:50:18,020
as with lowering the thresholds of costs

606
00:50:18,020 --> 00:50:21,000
that are available for circuit free,

607
00:50:21,060 --> 00:50:22,060
very diverse things.

608
00:50:24,480 --> 00:50:27,000
So, I've also gone back to our state of technology,

609
00:50:29,720 --> 00:50:33,900
so I want to label those, I've

610
00:50:33,900 --> 00:50:34,940
already pre-payed.

611
00:50:35,000 --> 00:50:39,900
We've heard from some of the trainers talk about these lovely daughters who are pouring

612
00:50:39,900 --> 00:50:40,540
away over there.

613
00:50:40,820 --> 00:50:46,320
So, yeah, I've probably done that really, it's basically blabbered in laws, and I've been

614
00:50:47,560 --> 00:50:51,520
It's 5 or 5 now from here, so I hope this is all volunteer hours.

615
00:50:53,920 --> 00:50:58,360
I'll open it up to questions from the committee or let me show you story here.

616
00:50:59,980 --> 00:51:03,240
Okay, so these are questions that they said in the comments.

617
00:51:04,340 --> 00:51:06,800
I want to go shout out to some people.

618
00:51:07,060 --> 00:51:10,780
So I want to start by saying, I hope it's okay if I do this because you're terrible.

619
00:51:10,780 --> 00:51:15,760
But so I would love to invite people to come and see some of the programs all legislated.

620
00:51:16,080 --> 00:51:17,960
So, you know, I've seen the high school.

621
00:51:18,120 --> 00:51:19,100
We love showing it off.

622
00:51:19,500 --> 00:51:23,240
I want to see a public thing when I go back, and this is just going wherever it is.

623
00:51:23,480 --> 00:51:24,880
We'd love to take you through.

624
00:51:25,180 --> 00:51:27,280
So, we can make that happen, for sure.

625
00:51:27,720 --> 00:51:31,420
But just a few names that happen very recently.

626
00:51:31,960 --> 00:51:34,720
So, Magibirah is a head school psychologist.

627
00:51:35,080 --> 00:51:39,260
It teaches us to receive national recognition for the work that he has been doing here.

628
00:51:39,260 --> 00:51:44,340
and it has made a huge difference in terms of talking about our students in a sense of

629
00:51:44,340 --> 00:51:44,620
the law.

630
00:51:44,900 --> 00:51:49,500
That is not part of our daily goal carry limit, and so it was probably set up that.

631
00:51:49,960 --> 00:51:54,020
Ritz Stevens does a lot for our career in technology, and she's working on pathways

632
00:51:54,460 --> 00:52:00,000
so that students can start to think about not just a single force, but how is that a pathway

633
00:52:00,000 --> 00:52:05,660
to something beyond secondary education, or anybody who's a secondary education or technical

634
00:52:05,660 --> 00:52:09,440
call a phone call and whatever they want. So she's doing some really incredible work.

635
00:52:09,860 --> 00:52:15,400
And her cafe is really fabulous. And that's what I'm just seeing. So I'm taking over the

636
00:52:15,400 --> 00:52:20,360
end for some lunch if you come to visit. Sasha Palmer is doing great stuff in our food services.

637
00:52:21,300 --> 00:52:26,240
So we're very thankful for the money that we get, you know, that it's universal three breakfast

638
00:52:26,240 --> 00:52:31,660
and lunch. It's a huge difference to our children, our students. And these treatments in the high

639
00:52:31,660 --> 00:52:36,680
school, I think, in particular, because everybody gets it, you don't have to worry about

640
00:52:36,680 --> 00:52:40,680
spending money on that kind of thing. And then I went as much as Patricia Laham, who is

641
00:52:40,680 --> 00:52:46,920
our head nurse, and she really has been working on our wellness plan for the last couple of

642
00:52:46,920 --> 00:52:50,940
years with the whole team of people. I have to be on that subject, but we have a received

643
00:52:50,940 --> 00:52:56,120
recognition that's a model wellness plan certainly within the state and even in the region.

644
00:52:56,500 --> 00:52:59,860
So I just wanted to get some shout out, because some of the things that are going on

645
00:53:00,420 --> 00:53:06,960
I'd like to invite you to come, and we'll work something out with a diversity of children

646
00:53:06,960 --> 00:53:08,700
and we'd love to show along with it.

647
00:53:08,920 --> 00:53:11,260
Also, we should introduce Bella Wong.

648
00:53:11,580 --> 00:53:18,180
The rest of you guys have been here for five years at this point that you need no introduction.

649
00:53:18,400 --> 00:53:19,380
At least since July.

650
00:53:22,180 --> 00:53:24,400
Would you like to introduce yourself to the legislators?

651
00:53:24,640 --> 00:53:26,560
Sorry that we're doing this part so late.

652
00:53:26,560 --> 00:53:36,160
That fabulous. I have seven. I think I'm good fun. So I'm also a bookline alum. I

653
00:53:36,160 --> 00:53:41,980
would want a Boston and my family came here when I was in second grade and I have always

654
00:53:41,980 --> 00:53:55,100
been really proud of being an alum. That's stuff to describe. And I have served as superintendent

655
00:53:55,100 --> 00:54:00,440
other districts, but I think this one is I'm just so very pleased to have this opportunity

656
00:54:01,020 --> 00:54:08,400
and feel quite privileged to be able to serve this role. And I have a wonderful team that's

657
00:54:08,400 --> 00:54:14,760
sitting around the table. So Deputy Superintendent Dr. Karen Schmeckler is over there on one end

658
00:54:14,760 --> 00:54:20,020
and then circling around to Robin the noise who's the Deputy Superintendent of Teaching and Learning.

659
00:54:20,020 --> 00:54:28,680
And the three of us, Karen, Robin and myself started in this year from the spring

660
00:54:28,680 --> 00:54:29,200
future.

661
00:54:29,420 --> 00:54:35,900
So we are anchored by the veteran, Susan Gibbons, Deputy Superintendent of the Office of

662
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Administration of Finance, who is in her third year.

663
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So we are a new team, but I feel we are working very well and I would agree with all email,

664
00:54:46,460 --> 00:54:55,420
First, I'll email leadership team for the Ten of us, and proud to be able to be here to work with you all.

665
00:54:55,920 --> 00:55:04,560
And I'm really impressed to hear all that, you know, share today about the different projects that you're on in the field that you are waiting for.

666
00:55:04,900 --> 00:55:14,320
That by my, just please, I understand, I understand there are a lot of pressures that everyone wants something.

667
00:55:14,320 --> 00:55:26,720
and the budget. But there is nothing like our pre-K-12 opportunity to play the groundwork

668
00:55:26,720 --> 00:55:37,340
for equitable outcomes for all students. Nothing like the pre-K-12 model to do. We have

669
00:55:37,340 --> 00:55:43,640
all the students all the way from the beginning to the end. And it is our purpose, our mission

670
00:55:43,640 --> 00:55:50,980
to lay the groundwork for them, to have best outcomes, to be best citizens, to be autonomous.

671
00:55:52,040 --> 00:55:57,380
But you know in the early education, the more we invest in the early years,

672
00:55:58,060 --> 00:56:03,480
the less we're chasing the gaps later. So if you think about all the programs that you are

673
00:56:03,480 --> 00:56:10,400
looking at and the challenges, the best place to invest is early in the pre-taxable.

674
00:56:11,240 --> 00:56:13,080
Thank you for letting me say that.

675
00:56:18,240 --> 00:56:20,060
I'm really not thinking about what's the difference.

676
00:56:20,500 --> 00:56:20,900
Oh, Carol.

677
00:56:23,300 --> 00:56:28,080
Carol's, oh again, I'm thinking about what's the difference.

678
00:56:28,080 --> 00:56:31,120
Thinking of some of what's the difference in terms of things

679
00:56:31,120 --> 00:56:32,920
we're proud of.

680
00:56:33,600 --> 00:56:37,680
I think that was a point you talked about going to a Zask of all games.

681
00:56:37,900 --> 00:56:42,820
We also have a fabulous, and I feel really proud about this,

682
00:56:42,820 --> 00:56:50,000
unified sports program. Maybe Dr. Schmuckler can describe more of what that is and then

683
00:56:50,000 --> 00:56:56,040
if that's something I'm really just proud and it's wonderful and I think we'll try to grow it,

684
00:56:56,120 --> 00:57:02,900
yeah. So you're going to find sports and it's really good and my school will be current

685
00:57:02,900 --> 00:57:09,240
for you on duty. So that's inclusive sports for students with disabilities with disabilities

686
00:57:09,240 --> 00:57:16,120
opportunities and the current year, the possible teams, the ball team, the track team, and

687
00:57:16,120 --> 00:57:17,200
the game for five.

688
00:57:22,940 --> 00:57:31,300
It's an amazing opportunity for all students where you participate in and where a

689
00:57:31,840 --> 00:57:36,080
I don't think we should be able to develop this for our middle school as well to really

690
00:57:36,080 --> 00:57:38,100
invite a group of students to do this.

691
00:57:39,240 --> 00:57:44,320
And so in terms of shout-out, a lot of that shout-out goes to our high school step-in-room

692
00:57:44,880 --> 00:57:49,460
special education director, Robert Fabiano, who was really scared at the start of this work

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in the district.

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So we are very proud of that.

695
00:57:52,880 --> 00:57:53,400
Great.

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00:57:53,720 --> 00:57:56,820
I have the legislation to more influence the sports as well.

697
00:57:56,820 --> 00:58:04,480
So Alex, Alex is my aide, I know there's a lot of state aids around, but I have, I have

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00:58:04,480 --> 00:58:10,280
help to sleep to produce more of that, yeah, with the special 100 others, but we'll

699
00:58:10,280 --> 00:58:17,180
get back to being able to speak one more time. So I did housing, as I mentioned, and three

700
00:58:17,180 --> 00:58:24,760
of the last four housing bond bills, well, I sponsored to get in there, just mentioning it,

701
00:58:24,760 --> 00:58:29,260
you went passing it will be helpful probably to the delegation at the school

702
00:58:29,260 --> 00:58:32,940
committee members just you don't have to ask this question just tell us which

703
00:58:32,940 --> 00:58:37,400
your priorities are and it's like us to work on it. Yeah and Kevin all right check.

704
00:58:37,860 --> 00:58:45,060
Yeah you got it you're the doctor but I don't say any chance. You're right

705
00:58:56,300 --> 00:59:05,540
I have a bill and I have someone that was very interested in changing the public school

706
00:59:05,540 --> 00:59:14,120
through social media, through social-emotional learning particularly in sports and I don't

707
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know what I'd be interested in seeing how maybe you feel about that, but this bill would require

708
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a desi to issue guidance, to help school districts create middle and high school,

709
00:59:26,080 --> 00:59:34,420
curriculum creating safe and supportive bias routine, because we've had instances in light of

710
00:59:34,420 --> 00:59:43,700
the discussion of antisemitism. We had the football team at Andrew. We had various

711
00:59:43,700 --> 00:59:52,900
incidents in sports and this field will deal with that and I just wonder what

712
00:59:52,900 --> 00:59:59,800
The point has, if you love a God, I'm asking the question, well, no, but if it's helpful.

713
01:00:00,000 --> 01:00:06,140
It's been, I mean, I think what I think it's really important, and I think we try and throw in socially

714
01:00:06,140 --> 01:00:13,440
much more earnings or everything we do. And so sports is such an unique opportunity to do that outside

715
01:00:13,440 --> 01:00:19,500
of the day as well, and to really continue to sort of bridge and make those connections. You know,

716
01:00:19,520 --> 01:00:26,740
it's a competitive environment. And so I think that is a wonderful idea. We also have our

717
01:00:26,740 --> 01:00:34,200
Our high school athletics director, Kyle Williams is another, I think, huge asset in the

718
01:00:34,200 --> 01:00:40,260
district, also Brooklyn-born and raised, married to Brooklyn-born and raised, who runs

719
01:00:40,260 --> 01:00:52,360
our food bank, so, and he's always innovative and wants to do more and more and so, very

720
01:00:53,020 --> 01:01:00,160
I would think he would be really interested in something like that, just to make it interesting.

721
01:01:02,770 --> 01:01:05,170
I also, sorry, can I ask a question too?

722
01:01:05,390 --> 01:01:10,050
And without getting too much, just unfortunately, go back to the ice.

723
01:01:12,090 --> 01:01:19,170
My son was very excited to run into Mayor Wu in Brutucci's in Westrop Surrey, a Friday night.

724
01:01:19,170 --> 01:01:27,330
and it was there in just a friend he'd send a picture around to everybody and she I don't

725
01:01:27,330 --> 01:01:35,430
know if you have it guys but she said that Boston was talking to Brookline maybe Brookline

726
01:01:35,430 --> 01:01:44,650
just wondering sort of what kinds of cross what are we doing oh I'm sorry I'm going to talk

727
01:01:44,650 --> 01:01:52,690
my schoolgirl and talent was the, I don't know, they were in the lab now, the mayor of

728
01:01:52,690 --> 01:02:01,110
New York, the mayor, there was an executive order, the governor didn't, which was great

729
01:02:01,890 --> 01:02:08,950
for Massachusetts, and then two parties, she filed a bill to, it includes certain things

730
01:02:08,950 --> 01:02:18,350
that we can make same places in schools and she signed it and accepted water. I know because

731
01:02:18,350 --> 01:02:26,970
the mayor of Newton has publicized that he was with Mayor Wolfe and they filed, he also filed an

732
01:02:26,970 --> 01:02:34,270
executive order that says that ICE couldn't go into public spaces such as schools and without a warrant

733
01:02:34,270 --> 01:02:38,070
but they couldn't use those public spaces.

734
01:02:38,450 --> 01:02:40,790
I don't know that what you're talking about,

735
01:02:40,850 --> 01:02:42,370
but I know that they're that.

736
01:02:42,650 --> 01:02:45,730
And then we're so several towns there as well.

737
01:02:46,030 --> 01:02:48,770
I was town administrator, I tried to do a very much after.

738
01:02:48,890 --> 01:02:51,270
So yeah, so I attended and yeah.

739
01:02:53,410 --> 01:02:57,070
But yes, and a lot of times I tried to stop in a park,

740
01:02:57,670 --> 01:02:59,410
which is part of the public.

741
01:02:59,670 --> 01:03:02,270
So that's something that, like, you know,

742
01:03:02,270 --> 01:03:18,510
And, you know, like the sellers that tried to find every avenue, we can do the federal government, you know, this is, we can't get involved, or it won't happen.

743
01:03:18,510 --> 01:03:25,610
So an interesting thing, I just, I didn't think we were going to talk about this, but obviously,

744
01:03:25,730 --> 01:03:27,410
this is what everybody's interested.

745
01:03:28,310 --> 01:03:37,130
But it relates to representative Owens' discussion about the car wash, because I use that

746
01:03:37,130 --> 01:03:39,910
car wash, so I'm familiar with it.

747
01:03:39,910 --> 01:03:55,170
so there's a law that when ice comes into a business, they give the employer three days notice that there's no law that the employer has to give the employees three days notice.

748
01:03:55,770 --> 01:04:01,610
And many employees are, they just haven't updated their papers.

749
01:04:01,610 --> 01:04:20,490
I'm not we're not talking about the cartel. We're not talking about criminals here. We're talking about ordinary people that might have been here on the temporary status or they needed to upgrade their papers and they're being picked up because they have done that. And if they didn't have that notice, they could.

750
01:04:20,490 --> 01:04:27,890
and so I'm on a steering and policy committee that's responding to the

751
01:04:27,890 --> 01:04:33,670
comes at 2025s on one of the things we're looking at is that the prior

752
01:04:33,670 --> 01:04:36,970
is the three days to be placed. I don't know if that would have helped.

753
01:04:39,370 --> 01:04:40,050
It's an

754
01:04:40,050 --> 01:04:44,570
interesting concept that they don't have to be placed really. One thing I would add

755
01:04:44,570 --> 01:04:49,210
and I think that it's really important to with messaging because there are people in

756
01:04:49,210 --> 01:04:53,130
in our communities who don't understand exactly what this

757
01:04:53,130 --> 01:04:55,270
station is, which is a very working station,

758
01:04:55,450 --> 01:04:58,150
between criminal activity or criminal warrants

759
01:04:58,150 --> 01:05:02,110
and civil enforcement of our immigration laws,

760
01:05:02,790 --> 01:05:05,850
almost all of the efforts that we've been talking about,

761
01:05:06,070 --> 01:05:09,470
whether it's the governor's executive order,

762
01:05:09,850 --> 01:05:12,150
governor's post-language or the supplemental budget,

763
01:05:12,930 --> 01:05:17,670
the bills that we're looking at right now

764
01:05:17,670 --> 01:05:24,390
protect acts that the legislative, Hispanic, and Black Caucus, but forward are all about

765
01:05:25,000 --> 01:05:31,550
trying to clarify that with non-priminal violations of the immigration laws,

766
01:05:32,390 --> 01:05:39,750
there just cannot be a coordination with a low law enforcement. It is not required by federal law,

767
01:05:39,870 --> 01:05:43,760
and it is not the precedent of the Supreme Court to require it. And there's

768
01:05:43,760 --> 01:05:52,260
investments that this city and towns and states can refuse to cooperate, as long as it's not a criminal, serious criminal activity.

769
01:05:52,860 --> 01:06:01,200
So this is about public safety because when ICE operates in those situations without judicial warrants, on civil matters,

770
01:06:01,540 --> 01:06:03,640
they create more havoc that helps.

771
01:06:04,460 --> 01:06:10,800
And in fact, when it's court houses, and this is one of the main points that our legislation that we're looking at

772
01:06:10,800 --> 01:06:16,820
that with the Protect Act points to is that when it's pork houses, people who are needed

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01:06:16,820 --> 01:06:23,820
to go as victims or as witnesses and to drives need to have that safety to come without

774
01:06:23,820 --> 01:06:26,880
the threat of being picked up and deported.

775
01:06:27,240 --> 01:06:33,560
That actually improves public safety when they come without fear and not stay home and not

776
01:06:33,560 --> 01:06:35,480
be absent from those proceedings.

777
01:06:35,880 --> 01:06:39,100
So all about public safety, this is if you're angry.

778
01:06:39,100 --> 01:06:44,540
So, if you're saying that you're for publicization, you should actually put your mind behind

779
01:06:44,540 --> 01:06:50,040
it, which is protecting the people who need to be there to enhance and protect public

780
01:06:50,040 --> 01:06:50,280
safety.

781
01:06:51,060 --> 01:07:00,120
So, I was very, I need to say, give credit here, as part of steering on policy, we, the

782
01:07:00,120 --> 01:07:06,460
members of that committee of the Senate, reached out to Lord Wilson and Lord to see how they

783
01:07:06,460 --> 01:07:14,660
felt about things we could do because I'm telling you that it might, in Brookline, Newton

784
01:07:14,660 --> 01:07:19,540
and Wellesley were of one line, but when I talked to some of my colleagues in the

785
01:07:19,540 --> 01:07:23,960
House field for as the same issue, out in the western private state, out of the

786
01:07:23,960 --> 01:07:29,820
passing state, you have legislators who've lost in Brookline, Newton, there are all on board,

787
01:07:30,260 --> 01:07:34,780
but then you talk to the legislators that represent the middle part of the state, the western

788
01:07:34,780 --> 01:07:42,980
part of the state. They're constituents. I know where my constituent died, but I did reach out to

789
01:07:42,980 --> 01:07:52,080
chief pastor in Verkline who might think it's ready and she sent me the policies that Verkline has

790
01:07:52,080 --> 01:08:01,700
and they're pretty strong about doctor operating. It's pretty impressive and we went through I went

791
01:08:01,700 --> 01:08:08,600
to do endless, who's been at least advised that those, you know, I said to my colleagues

792
01:08:08,600 --> 01:08:13,800
that were on my committee to say, well, you can, you know, why can't you go to town

793
01:08:13,800 --> 01:08:14,360
instead of that?

794
01:08:14,960 --> 01:08:15,680
Two weeks.

795
01:08:16,000 --> 01:08:17,940
I'm going to graduate, a little bit later.

796
01:08:18,400 --> 01:08:18,680
Brooklyn.

797
01:08:19,080 --> 01:08:19,760
Yes, she's great.

798
01:08:20,320 --> 01:08:23,140
Senator, another thing to report, hopefully, it's a sentence.

799
01:08:23,360 --> 01:08:27,420
There were three days notice the workers at the car washroom said they had to pay the lives,

800
01:08:27,580 --> 01:08:31,420
pay the visits with them, said they were in a locker and they would let them go get them.

801
01:08:31,420 --> 01:08:34,860
Right. Right. Eight out of the ninth. Eight out of the ninth.

802
01:08:35,420 --> 01:08:37,660
A haveling of papers. A haveling of papers.

803
01:08:38,100 --> 01:08:38,560
Thank you. Thank you.

804
01:08:40,020 --> 01:08:41,820
Bob and Superhead of all.

805
01:08:42,180 --> 01:08:43,580
Yeah. The quick question in the comment.

806
01:08:43,960 --> 01:08:47,460
County manager and general. So I'm just wondering, I know that it was some

807
01:08:47,460 --> 01:08:50,720
interference with tape. Can you add some administration?

808
01:08:50,980 --> 01:08:53,840
What's the status of that? So the interference was with

809
01:08:53,840 --> 01:08:58,660
Vingerman and the most recent court

810
01:08:58,660 --> 01:09:10,520
decision was that when could the wind blades on the turbine for the several remaining unfinished

811
01:09:10,520 --> 01:09:16,640
turbines and the expectation is that we will be complete by the end of this month and all

812
01:09:16,640 --> 01:09:24,720
16 or 16 or 16 of the course decisions? Yes and my comment is just my family and friends

813
01:09:24,720 --> 01:09:32,260
frequently say we are so appreciative that we live in Massachusetts in this rather dark time

814
01:09:32,920 --> 01:09:37,800
in our nation's history and I just I just want to say to all of the presenters and their

815
01:09:37,800 --> 01:09:45,820
representatives here that you will have a reason that we feel so we're sure it is safe and

816
01:09:45,820 --> 01:09:50,620
satisfied to live in the state of Massachusetts and I want personally thanking to one of you

817
01:09:50,620 --> 01:09:58,500
We're up everything that you're doing, your aspirations today are incredibly positive and helpful, and so thank you.

818
01:09:59,000 --> 01:10:03,120
It seems to me all of the success of Massachusetts government starts with school committees.

819
01:10:03,560 --> 01:10:04,360
So right back yet.

820
01:10:05,200 --> 01:10:06,240
Right back yet.

821
01:10:08,560 --> 01:10:12,840
Since we were talking about it and also the mentioning a chief pastor,

822
01:10:12,840 --> 01:10:22,140
I just want to say how much I appreciate Chief Pastor and also collaboration with the

823
01:10:22,140 --> 01:10:29,700
10 Administrator, Charles Kerry, and also our Chief John Sullivan, our safety officers,

824
01:10:30,180 --> 01:10:31,860
and I'll also argue to help you.

825
01:10:32,320 --> 01:10:38,260
But on the issue of ICE, it's something that I have talked about with our 10 Administrator.

826
01:10:38,420 --> 01:10:39,400
We have our protocols.

827
01:10:39,400 --> 01:10:44,980
I mean, we meet as a senior leadership team with our principles, generally on those

828
01:10:44,980 --> 01:10:50,400
Monday afternoons, and it has been on our agenda the last few times, mostly assurance

829
01:10:50,400 --> 01:10:56,140
that everyone knows what the protocols are, what to do, but also take knowledge that it

830
01:10:56,140 --> 01:11:06,380
ever had to initiate our protocols, that things that may not always go as orderly, and to

831
01:11:06,380 --> 01:11:14,920
to even talk about that, and to make sure that they do their best, even if a warrant is

832
01:11:14,920 --> 01:11:21,080
present, even with a warrant present, that they can't wait until someone has registered

833
01:11:21,080 --> 01:11:25,740
office for the peace department, and then we will be there to support that.

834
01:11:26,000 --> 01:11:30,520
So it's something that our community will want to love out.

835
01:11:30,520 --> 01:11:42,320
I also want to make clear that anyone who works for the public schools, actually has to have citizenship paper.

836
01:11:42,900 --> 01:11:50,800
So, everyone that works for the district has that, but there is still some concern that, despite what you may have,

837
01:11:50,800 --> 01:11:58,640
this documentation, the vulnerability that our colleagues build as they live and do what

838
01:11:58,640 --> 01:12:07,820
they need to do to expand themselves. So it's a very real, it's kind of an air, unfortunately.

839
01:12:08,540 --> 01:12:14,840
And so I appreciate all that you have said and come out your samples and know that we,

840
01:12:15,500 --> 01:12:23,180
I feel supported by the other town leaders and our leadership in the schools, but we still

841
01:12:23,180 --> 01:12:26,620
feel, we still feel vulnerable.

842
01:12:29,020 --> 01:12:34,080
It's a national feeling, but I thank you for all that you have said.

843
01:12:35,820 --> 01:12:39,800
So we are a little bit overtime, I know you all have other things to do, but I want to thank

844
01:12:39,800 --> 01:12:40,480
all of you.

845
01:12:40,640 --> 01:12:46,000
We are so fortunate that year after year, our fire state delegation shows up for this event

846
01:12:46,500 --> 01:12:52,480
And you know, we don't think that for granted, that you all show up and sit with us for an hour and a half to go for a priority.

847
01:12:52,620 --> 01:12:55,760
You're really, really good at taking our calls.

848
01:12:55,760 --> 01:12:57,900
So we pick up the phone at that other time.

849
01:12:58,660 --> 01:13:02,020
And we're sending one and your team. I want to thank you.

850
01:13:02,400 --> 01:13:04,720
And then I'm talking to close time.

851
01:13:04,960 --> 01:13:13,280
Yeah, I'm going to have that on Tuesday, March 3rd at 7 p.m. at the Coolidge Corner Branch Library.

852
01:13:13,280 --> 01:13:19,060
online practice hosting a conversation with Brookline's legislators and so it's a wonderful

853
01:13:19,060 --> 01:13:25,500
opportunity for follow-up questions on education or any other topic that'll be at the

854
01:13:25,500 --> 01:13:31,460
coolest corner of the French Library at 7 o'clock, so you wouldn't welcome to follow-up.

855
01:13:31,980 --> 01:13:37,280
Thank you, and thanks, and thanks for as always for working on it, thank you very much.

856
01:13:40,420 --> 01:13:41,760
Thank you, and have a great evening.

857
01:13:42,020 --> 01:13:42,880
I'll tell you what's going on.

858
01:13:42,880 --> 01:13:43,800
I'll tell you that.

859
01:13:43,900 --> 01:13:44,620
I'm going to leave myself.