Bpda Board of Directors - Regular Meeting

2:22 – 3:05•PRPriscilla Rojas

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3:09 – 3:49•PRPriscilla Rojas

Mr. Shepard? Here. Mr. O'Malley? Here. And I, the chair, I am present. Item number one, request authorization for the approval of the minutes of the August 13th, 2026 board meeting. A motion is in order. All those in favor? Aye. Opposed? The ayes have it. Item number two, request authorization to amend the engineering design services contract with Child's Engineering for construction documents to repair defects at birth 10, increase the contract amount by $49,315, and further execute a 10% design contingency in the amount of $4,931.50 for an aggregate contract amount not to exceed $54,246.50 and the total aggregate contract amount of $189,090. Tyler.

5:31•PRPriscilla Rojas

Okay, thank you. Any questions or comments from the board? Hearing and seeing none, a motion is in order.

5:40 – 6:15•PRPriscilla Rojas

Oh, gosh, yeah, second. All those in favor? Aye. Aye. The opposed? The ayes have it. Motion passes. Item number three. Request authorization to amend the engineering services contract with Gale Associates Incorporated for the repair of the platform and canopy at 12 Channel Street within the Raymond L. Flynn Marine Park and to increase the contract amount by $25,000 and a 10% contingency for a total contract amount not to exceed five hundred eighty-six thousand three hundred sixty-five dollars. Tyler.

7:30•PRPriscilla Rojas

Okay, thanks, Tyler. Any questions or comments from the board? Hearing and seeing none, a motion is in order.

7:37 – 8:16•PRPriscilla Rojas

Second. Roll call for a vote. Oh, no, we're not going to do that. I can't get the votes right. All those in favor? Aye. Opposed? The ayes have it. Motion passes. Okay, item number four, request authorization to amend the contract with DBI Waste Systems Incorporated for trash removal services in the Raymond L. Flynn Marine Park in the amount of $25,000 for a total contract amount. of $140,087. No, $140,087. Please take over from here, Chris. I will. Thank you, Madam Chair.

9:11•PRPriscilla Rojas

Okay. Any questions or comments from the board? All right, hearing and seeing none, a motion is in order.

9:19 – 9:35•PRPriscilla Rojas

All those in favor? Aye. Opposed? The ayes have it. Motion passes. Thanks, Chris. Item number five, request authorization to issue an invitation for bids for trash removal in the Raymond L. Flynn Marine Park for a period of three years with two one-year term renewal options. Chris.

10:26 – 10:57•PRPriscilla Rojas

Okay. Any questions or comments from the board? All right. Hearing and seeing none, a motion is in order. So, 2nd, all those in favor opposed the ice habit motion passes item. Number 6. I was like, all Chris request authorization to issue an invitation for bids for inspection, testing, servicing and full preventative maintenance of heating ventilation and air conditioning systems at 12 channel street. And the Raymond alpha marine park for a period of 3 years with 2, 1 year term extension options. Chris.

12:01 – 12:42•PRPriscilla Rojas

Okay. Any questions or comments from the board? Okay, hearing and seeing none, a motion is in order. Second. All those in favor? Aye. Opposed? The ayes have it. Motion passes. Thanks so much, Chris. All right. Item number seven. Request authorization to execute a contract with the Peterson School to deliver instruction in hot works, commercial, and industrial refrigeration prep, HVAC R, ESCO, HVAC, NAIT, and construction math for the Power Corps Boston Building Operations Training Program for a period of six months and a and in a contract amount not to exceed $130,000. David.

12:59•PRPriscilla Rojas

No, can you maybe just tell us a little bit about the program?

13:33•PRPriscilla Rojas

Wow, that's amazing. Any other questions or comments from the board? Hearing and seeing none, a motion is in order.

13:45 – 14:10•PRPriscilla Rojas

All those in favor? Aye. Opposed? The ayes have it. Motion passes. Thank you, guys. Take care. Item number eight. Request authorization to execute a pass-through contract with the Massachusetts Department of Transportation for the Link Up Greater Boston Congestion Relief Program grant. in an amount not to exceed 11,448, wait, no, $11,448,556 to support neighborhood shuttle and microtransit services in Alston-Brighton, Charlestown, Mattapan, Roxbury, and the Seaport. Jim.

20:30•PRPriscilla Rojas

Thank you. Questions or comments from the board?

24:30 – 24:44•KBKate Bennett

Hi, it's Kate. I agree. This is fantastic. I just was curious, is there any expectation that any BPS students will be using this service or not so much?

25:06 – 25:30•PRPriscilla Rojas

I do have a couple of questions. So I just want to get a sense of a lot of different players here. Who are the roles? Who's doing all this stuff? And particularly, I would like you to explain the pass-through concept and want to make sure that there's awareness of what that really means and kind of why we do it in that structure.

26:41•PRPriscilla Rojas

Got it. Now it makes sense. And who's going to be doing that community outreach? Does that go into our processes, our people, or is that in a different area department?

27:08 – 28:19•PRPriscilla Rojas

Got it. Okay. Let me see if I have any other questions. I scribbled them everywhere. Well, I do want to thank you, and it wasn't lost on me, the accounting and the risk management and the financial controls slide and, you know, the risk that comes with pass-throughs. And I'm glad that you deliberately put that there. So thanks for reading my mind on that one. I am an auditor, that's what I do for a living. So this is, it was all there and financial controls. I'm glad that we've kind of set up the infrastructure already, that we have a program grant management with like new tools and new proces

28:48 – 29:48•PRPriscilla Rojas

Thank you. Okay, good. And okay, the last thing, I know we haven't done, I know we have gone with the community process. It does make me nervous that the two that were less sure about the routes are Roxbury and Mattapan. So I know you've got lots of work and outreach and stuff like that to do that. but Yeah Any kind of update I mean I just wanted to say that that you know that worries me for that But I know why and I know that you know the city staff will do their proper community outreach and due diligence to really find out like a what are those paths, right? Like some of those paths I'm on

30:28 – 30:44•PRPriscilla Rojas

Exciting. Okay, great. Any other questions or comments? All right. Hearing and seeing none, a motion is in order. All those in favor? Aye. Opposed? Guys have it motion passes thanks Jim thank you all so much all right item number nine personnel Teresa

31:18 – 31:56•PRPriscilla Rojas

Okay. All right. Any questions or comments from the board? We'll definitely want to welcome our new intern and, you know, new contractor consultants that are working with us. And to, again, thank Emily for all your contributions here at the city and the research department. You guys just churn out these, like, analysis and reports that and make them really available. And I just really appreciate that, too. So I just want to say that. And any further questions or comments? Did I already make a motion? No.

32:06•PRPriscilla Rojas

Opposed? The ayes have it. Motion passes. Thanks, Teresa. And finally, I need a motion to adjourn the EDIC meeting.

32:17 – 34:21•PRPriscilla Rojas

All those in favor? Aye. Opposed? The ayes have it. EDIC meeting adjourned. Okay, we're going to start the next portion of the meeting. Thank you for joining the September 17, 2026 Boston Redevelopment Authority board meeting. At this time, the Boston Planning and Development Agency is hosting public meetings in a hybrid setting for the health, safety, and accessibility of Boston residents. Hybrid means that our board meetings are conducted in person at City Hall in our boardroom on the ninth floor and virtually via Zoom and Boston City TV at the same time. For more information and updates, vi

36:03 – 36:40•PRPriscilla Rojas

Okay, any questions or comments from the Board? Hearing and seeing none, a motion is in order. All those in favor? Aye. Opposed? The ayes have it, motion passes. Thanks, Ben. And great progress on that project. I'm excited. Item number three, request authorization to convey parcel number 0202822010, located at the corner of Mount Vernon Street and Loney Way in the Charleston neighborhood, also known as Charleston Peace Park. to the City of Boston Parks and Recreation Department. Stephanie.

38:37 – 39:07•PRPriscilla Rojas

Excellent. Thank you. Any questions or comments from the board? All right. Hearing and seeing none, a motion is in order. All those in favor? Aye. Opposed? The ayes have it. Motion passes. Thanks, Stephanie. Item number four, request authorization to issue a request for proposals to hire a licensed design consultant. to provide landscape and engineering design services resulting in construction documents for the Shipyard Park Landscape and Infrastructure Repairs Project in the Charlestown Navy Yard in Boston, Massachusetts.

40:06 – 40:28•PRPriscilla Rojas

Thank you. Any questions or comments from the board? Hearing and seeing none, a motion is in order. All those in favor? Aye. Opposed? The ayes have it. Motion passes. Thank you, Tyler. Item number five, request authorization to issue an invitation for bids for the construction of the China Trade Center roof replacement located at 2 Boylston Street. Tyler.

41:42 – 42:12•PRPriscilla Rojas

Thank you. Questions or comments from the board? I'm just going to, so with a roof, are there opportunities to like, I'm getting into Matt, your zone here. I thought you were going to ask the question, but yes, opportunities to get it, you know, ready for solar ready or just, you know, replacing it in a way that is like forward looking. So that way it's, you know, ready if we wanted to do something like that, or I don't even know what the roof looks like if you can't.

42:27 – 42:41•PRPriscilla Rojas

Just something to think about when we're going through all these, like I just saw a roof and I thought, Matt always wants to throw some stuff up on a roof, so I thought I'd ask. All right, no, but it's good stuff.

42:45 – 43:27•PRPriscilla Rojas

Okay, any further questions or comments? Hearing and seeing none, a motion is in order. All those in favor? Aye. Opposed? The ayes have it. Motion passes. Thanks, Tyler. Thank you. Item number six, requests authorization to issue a certificate of completion for the successful completion of 1003 through 1013 Harrison Avenue project in accordance with section C.4 of the cooperation agreement buying between the Boston Redevelopment Authority and doing businesses of Boston Planning and Development Agency and the Benjamin Franklin Cummings Institute of Technology, dated November 29th, 2023. This is a certificate of completion that we'll hear about at the closing remarks, but there's n

43:30 – 43:55•PRPriscilla Rojas

All those in favor? Aye. Opposed? The ayes have it. Motion passes. Item number seven, informational update on our one-year progress of A Place to Thrive, an anti-displacement action plan for Boston. outlining targeted policies, programs, and resources city departments committed to advance on a two-year implementation timeline to mitigate residential, small business, and cultural displacement.

54:02•PRPriscilla Rojas

Great, thank you. Questions or comments?

54:30 – 54:41•PRPriscilla Rojas

Additional questions or comments. Well, this is informational update. Go ahead. Please. Yeah. Kate, the floor is yours. Sorry, I can't see this.

54:41 – 54:56•KBKate Bennett

I know. Should I go ahead? Yes. I'm just wondering what the disclosure notice, like can you just briefly summarize what that says and does the city provide that language or do the developers?

56:32 – 56:46•KBKate Bennett

That's great. Thanks Catherine. And. So, if I understood what you said, it sounds like it's too early to know. If there are, are you measuring actually actual displacements through that process?

58:08 – 59:30•PRPriscilla Rojas

Great. Just a couple of questions. So I think it's great. This is more just on the process of the Planning and Advisory Council. I love that it's there, that it's in place. But I'm just curious, right? Like who, from an ownership and roles and responsibilities structure, like how do you manage that? And I just love, love, love this, you know, this annual report, right? of the pilot. It shows great transparency and accountability of what we're, you know, of what we're doing, all the things that we're doing, and gives us the kind of the working definition so that we can have kind of these nuance

1:00:10 – 1:00:34•PRPriscilla Rojas

All right. Oh, last thing. I hope I'll be seeing some more, like, Instagram reels and stories and stuff about this with the peas and all of that. Like, I want to just also commend everybody on their social media, like, pages. And those little videos to kind of explain some of these definitions to explain those concepts I think are just really great. So, you know.

1:01:04 – 1:01:35•PRPriscilla Rojas

Yeah, that's so great. All right. Any other questions or comments? All right. This is informational update. I feel very informed. So thank you so much. Really appreciate it. Keep up the awesome work. Okay. Item number eight. Request authorization to execute an amended and restated cooperation agreement for the Alston Green project located at 20 Linden Street in Alston. to adjust the payment schedule for mitigation and public benefits funds from the project. Aaron.

1:04:11 – 1:05:18•PRPriscilla Rojas

I'm happy to entertain any of your questions okay questions or comments from the board I think it's just an excellent an excellent catch right or just an excellent illustration of how our processes our internal processes work to identify right to stay on those milestones and stick to the what we contractually agreed agreed upon and then you know if not then we yeah I mean me and to talk about it and do one of these so that you can figure it out. But again, I'm, I guess I'm really like process and control focused today, but just want to highlight that that's that working and, and it's not at th

1:05:30 – 1:06:03•PRPriscilla Rojas

Yeah, good stuff. All right any other questions or comments hearing and seeing none emotion is an order. So move 2nd, all those in favor. Opposed the eyes habit motion passes. Thanks, Aaron item. Number 9, request authorization to issue a certification of approval pursuant to article 80 E, small project review of the zoning code for the proposed construction of 42 residential rental units, including 7 units, 24 car parking spaces and 44 bicycle spaces located at 697 Cambridge street. and to execute a community benefits agreement and to take all related actions. Dan.

1:11:03 – 1:11:22•PRPriscilla Rojas

Thank you. Thank you. Questions or comments from the board? Can you go back to, I think at the beginning you said something about the Brazilian Women's Group and like the, so can you, I just didn't hear the sentence and I couldn't find anything.

1:11:57 – 1:12:28•PRPriscilla Rojas

Yeah, yeah. Just want to highlight that it's a major concern of mine as well. This organization provides some really vital services to you. large and targeted populations, not only here in the Boston area, but across Massachusetts. So, you know, I don't know if that gets codified in anything in any way. But I just kind of want to make sure that there is like a follow up and that happens. And if not, like that, that would be something I'd want to know about.

1:12:49 – 1:13:03•PRPriscilla Rojas

Yeah, perfect. And thank you for doing that. And we just came off of the displacement, you know, anti-displacement, and that's for our organizations and for people. And so this is that working in that. But yes, please.

1:13:38 – 1:13:56•PRPriscilla Rojas

Yeah, no, thank you. And I'm glad again, we're just having the conversation on the record and all of that stuff that these are the kind of things that we intentionally look out for. So that's, I think, the end of my questions. Any further questions or comments? Hearing and seeing none, a motion is in order.

1:13:57 – 1:14:36•PRPriscilla Rojas

All those in favor? Aye. Opposed? The ayes have it. Motion passes. Thank you so much and good luck with the project. I appreciate it. Item number 10. Request authorization to enter into an affordable rental housing agreement and restriction and affordable housing contribution agreement by and between the BPDA and Berkeley 176 Lincoln Holdings LLC, care of Berkeley Investments Incorporated, if necessary, or require the same be executed by and between the proponent and the mayor's office of housing in connection with the proposed development located at 176 Lincoln Street, and to take all related

1:15:39 – 1:15:54•PRPriscilla Rojas

Thank you. Questions or comments from the board? All right. Hearing and seeing none, a motion is in order. Second. All those in favor? Aye. Opposed? The ayes have it. Motion passes. Thanks, Andy. Item number 11 is Tufts. Mr. O'Malley?

1:15:55 – 1:16:28•PRPriscilla Rojas

Okay. Well, we will see you later. Item number 11. Request authorization to waive further review of the Tufts Medical Center Institutional Master Plan Notification Form dated August 10, 2026 for the renewal and extension of its 2012 Institutional Master Plan for a period of five years until 2031 and to approve the renewal and extension of the Tufts Medical Center Institutional Master Plan pursuant to Section 80D-5.2E, Section 80D-6, and Section 80D-8 of the Zoning Code, and to take all related actions. Tyler.

1:17:25•PRPriscilla Rojas

Thank you. Questions or comments for the board? Hearing and seeing none, a motion is in order.

1:17:32 – 1:18:15•PRPriscilla Rojas

Second. All those in favor? Aye. Opposed? The ayes have it. Motion passes. Thank you, Tyler. Item number 13, request authorization. Oh, can someone get, yeah. I'll still read it. Or did I move it wrong? Oh, item number 12. I turned my page too fast. Request authorization to issue a certification of approval pursuant to Article 80E Small Project Review of the Zoning Code for the proposed construction of 20 residential home ownership units, including four IZ units, five car parking spaces, and 26 bicycle parking spaces located at 2062 Dorchester Avenue. and to execute a community benefits agreem

1:22:29•PRPriscilla Rojas

Okay, thank you. Any questions or comments from the board?

1:22:51 – 1:23:05•PRPriscilla Rojas

Don't have the four four four no no but are they are they one bedroom there's studios one bedroom studio two one studio two one bedrooms two compact one bedrooms and two and one compact two bedrooms Those are the four.

1:23:15•PRPriscilla Rojas

Sorry, it just says compact, so I don't know if that's like...

1:27:56•PRPriscilla Rojas

Thank you. Additional questions or comments? Or do you want to say something?

1:28:23•PRPriscilla Rojas

Do you want to just give us the, like... Sure. Three sentence.

1:29:03 – 1:29:37•PRPriscilla Rojas

Yeah, no, that's really helpful. This was a good slide to kind of just put it all into perspective of what it's replacing. But I think the design is being, you know, is well informed by the rest of the, you know, houses on that street and kind of, yeah, no, I think it's a good use of that space. So anyway, if there are no other further questions or comments, the motion is in order. All those in favor? Aye. Opposed? The ayes have it. Motion passes.

1:29:39 – 1:30:09•PRPriscilla Rojas

Item number 13, request authorization to wait for the review of the Boston University Charles River Campus Institutional Master Plan Notification Form for the renewal and extension of the Institutional Master Plan for a period of five years until 2031 and to approve the renewal of the Boston University Charles River Campus Institutional Master Plan pursuant to Section 80D-5.2 , Section 80D-6 and Section 80D-8 of the Zoning Code and to take all related actions. Tyler.

1:31:10 – 1:31:26•PRPriscilla Rojas

Okay, thank you. Any questions or comments from the board? Hearing and seeing none, a motion is in order. Second. All those in favor? Aye. Opposed? The ayes have it. Motion passes. Item number 14, contractual payments. I need a motion to pay our bills.

1:31:30 – 1:31:43•PRPriscilla Rojas

Right? All those in favor. Opposed the eyes have it motion passes. Please pay the bills. And finally, item number 15 director. Chief, the floor is yours.

1:39:08 – 1:39:29•PRPriscilla Rojas

Thank you. Awesome. With that, I need a motion to adjourn this meeting. Second. All those in favor? Aye. Opposed? The ayes have it. Motion passes. Thanks, everyone. Great work, and have a good month. We'll see you next month. Same time, same place.