Read Boston Mayor Michelle Wu's first State of the City address, delivered Wednesday evening.
Boston Mayor Michelle Wu delivered her first State of the City address on Wednesday, speaking before a crowd at the MGM Music Hall next to Fenway Park.Good evening, Boston! Tonight weʼre at the beautiful new MGM Music Hall, and I want to thank the Red Sox and Fenway Music Company for hosting us, and for your commitment to our city.
Our city is carried by so many people whose faces most of us never see. Who arenʼt on the news, or on stage accepting awards, but after a full day of serving our constituents, still find time to coach little league at McConnell Park or volunteer at the East Boston soup kitchen. Our Cabinet is two-thirds people of color! Weʼre BPS parents, and graduates. We speak Spanish and Arabic, Vietnamese, Haitian Creole, and more. We speak honestly about Bostonʼs past, present, and future, because we've lived the challenges and shared the dreams of the families we now get to serve.
The girl who watched her refugee parents wash dishes at restaurants so their kids could lead a better life—now leads our efforts to ensure that all workers, no matter where they were born or what language they speak, have health, safety, and dignity on the job, as our new Chief of Worker Empowerment: Trinh Nguyen.
When Omicron spiked and pushed our hospitals to the brink, we didn't turn away: taking decisive action for public health, because, no matter the backlash, Boston will never compromise on protecting our people. And I want to thank everyone at the Boston Public Health Commission, Executive Director Dr. Bisola Ojikutu, and all of our public health and healthcare workers.
Our Office of Early Childhood made dozens of new Pre-K classrooms free for our littlest learners and launched a professional development program to help early educators teach in Boston, debt-free. We fought off a state takeover of Boston Public Schools, onboarded a new district leadership team, and just welcomed our first electric school buses at the Readville bus yard.
We've invested in longstanding Legacy Businesses and are helping new entrepreneurs fill vacant retail spaces to revitalize our neighborhood commercial districts. And weʼre excited that Lego is building their North American headquarters in Boston this fall. Itʼs thanks to the people of Boston that I can stand here tonight and say—the state of the City is strong.As we look to the year ahead, our administration is focused on building a green and growing city for everyone.
Now, stronger storms and hotter summers raise the stakes. The pandemic has thinned our usual Downtown crowd, and inflation has forced many workers to balance two or three jobs just to keep milk in the fridge or make rent. In this moment of need, we have an opportunity and an obligation to change how we plan for Bostonʼs future.
Together, these changes will, for the first time since the 1960s, restore planning as a central function of City government. We will prioritize keeping residents in their homes, and closing the racial wealth gap by boosting home ownership. Our neighborhoods must be climate resilient and community focused. This year we will launch a civic and green space master plan, and begin design for new community centers in Grove Hall and the North End.
Together, we can build a Boston thatʼs more green than concrete. Where housing is a given, not a godsend, and mobility is the minimum, not a miracle. Where the things we build inspire—but donʼt define—us; and where each generation shines brighter than the last. Weʼre making changes to speed up not just individual schools, but our whole district. Our school design study will take a full year off the planning process for every new school in the City, and weʼll get more projects going at once than ever before.
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