BOSTON - Tuesday,
August 10, 2021 - Mayor Kim Janey today announced the launch of the
“Let’s Go Better” listening campaign and a new taskforce for Boston’s
equitable recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic, which will help inform the
investment of an additional $400 million in federal funds from the
American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA). As part of Mayor Janey’s commitment to
an open and inclusive community process to support Boston’s recovery
needs, residents will be able to participate through completing an initial
survey, joining an issue-based community meeting and visiting the boston.gov/recover webpage to learn more.
“COVID-19 has had
and continues to have public health impacts on our city. It has also
worsened many of the economic and health disparities that have persisted
in Boston across race and ethnicity, gender, and neighborhood. It also
caused deep economic pain in our city, especially for working-class
families and communities of color,” said Mayor Janey. “That’s why I am
committed to lead Boston not only out of this public health crisis but
also to a stronger, more equitable city, using the federal funds that the
City has received through the American Rescue Plan Act. I look forward to
working with the community, the Equitable Recovery Taskforce and the
Boston City Council as we move forward.”
This listening
campaign will help inform the City’s plans for long-term recovery,
building on the Mayor’s $3.76 billion FY22 Operating Budget and the first $81.5 million in ARPA emergency relief
funding for Boston
residents, workers and small businesses. As part of Boston’s equitable
recovery, the City will use these federal funds for transformative
investments in public health, wealth building, and job development
programs that will close the gap for those most impacted by the pandemic.
This is one way the City of Boston is implementing the Health Equity Now Plan, which was presented to the Mayor by the
COVID-19 Health Inequities Task Force in July.
The City of Boston
will host the following virtual community meetings:
Affordable Homeownership - August 26 & September 16 from 5:30
- 7:30pm
Supporting Small Businesses - August 31 & September 14 from 3 -
4pm
Substance Use Disorders - September 1 from 12 - 2pm
Access to Internet & Career Training - September 1 from 5:30 - 7:30pm
Career Training for Quality Jobs (i.e. green jobs, life sciences) - September
8 from 5:30 - 7:30pm
Quality Jobs & Childcare - September 15 from 12 - 2pm
Additional
community meetings to be announced for October.
The Mayor also
today announced the formation of Boston’s Equitable Recovery Taskforce, a
12-month advisory group composed of community members and leaders who
will help coordinate our recovery efforts across the public, private and
nonprofit sectors. The Taskforce will meet in the coming weeks and months
to advise the Mayor on investment recommendations and ensure that the
City leverages federal resources for the short- and long-term benefit of
Boston residents, with an intentional focus on those who have been hurt
most by the pandemic.
Boston’s Equitable
Recovery Taskforce:
Aisha Francis,
CEO, Benjamin Franklin Institute of Technology
Andrea Swain,
Executive Director, Yawkey Club of Roxbury
Ayele Shakur, CEO,
BUILD
Bob Giannino, CEO,
United Way of Massachusetts Bay and Merrimack Valley
Bob Luz, CEO, Mass
Restaurant Association
Catherine D’Amato,
President & CEO of Greater Boston Food Bank
Corey Thomas, CEO,
Rapid7
Daniel J. Hunt,
State Representative, 13th Suffolk District; Chairperson, House Committee
on Federal Stimulus and Census Oversight
Darlene Lombos,
Executive Secretary and Treasurer, Greater Boston Labor Council
Elsie Taveras,
Pediatrician and Chief Community Health Equity Officer, Mass General
Brigham
Emilio Dorcely,
CEO, Urban Edge
Frederica
Williams, CEO, Whittier Street Health Center
Glynn Lloyd,
Executive Director, Foundation for Business Equity
Gustavo Quiroga,
Director of Neighborhood Strategy and Development, Graffito
Jacquetta Van
Zandt, Vice President of Engagement-The Partnership, Inc
Jaimie McNeil,
General Agent, UNITE HERE Local 26
Jim Rooney,
President & CEO, GB Chamber of Commerce
Joel Sklar, Board
Chair, Boston Main Streets; Principal, Samuels & Associates
Karen Chen,
Executive Director, Chinese Progressive Association
Lew Finfer,
Co-director, Massachusetts Communities Action Network
Manny Lopes,
President and CEO, East Boston Neighborhood Health Center
Michael Curry,
President & CEO, Mass League of Community Health Centers; Co-Chair,
COVID 19 Health Inequities Task Force
Michael Flaherty,
Boston City Councilor, At-Large, Chair, Committee on COVID-19 Recovery
Pam Kocher,
President, Boston Municipal Research Bureau
Quincy Miller,
President, Eastern Bank
Sam Acevedo,
Executive Director, Boston Higher Education Resource Center
Segun Idowu,
Executive Director, Black Economic Council of MA (BECMA)
Stacy Thompson,
Executive Director, Liveable Streets
Suzanne Lee,
Former Principal, Josiah Quincy School; President Emeritus, Chinese
Progressive Association
Symone Crawford,
Director of Homeownership Education, MAHA
Tomas Gonzalez,
COO, Core Cannabis
Vanessa
Calderon-Rosado, CEO, Inquilinos Boricuas en Acción
Willie Broderick
II, Senior Pastor, Twelfth Baptist Church
Throughout this
public engagement campaign, the City’s senior leadership, represented on
the internal Equitable Recovery Coordinating Committee (ERCC), will
continue to be informed by residents and community stakeholders. The
Equitable Recovery Taskforce will provide their investment
recommendations to the Mayor in October. Then, following further input
from the public, a finalized plan for investments will be published in
late fall and filed with the Boston City Council.
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