Remarks by Julia M. Mejia
59 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 3 of 3
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“Thank you, Madam President. I want to rise in support of this resolution. As someone who actually lives in Codman Square and I walked every day to Dorchester High from Four Corners to Dorchester High, I had to walk down Washington Street. in the 80s. And so, for me, it is really exciting to see this renewed energy regarding making sure that the merchants understand the role that they've played in not only just keeping our neighborhoods together, because back in the day, you could go into any merchants, be like, hey, I owe you. They'd be like, okay, I know you walk by here every day, so I know…”
City Council · Sep 23, 2026
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“Thank you, Madam President. I'm curious, just for my own edification here, did we already have a hearing on establishing a commission? Because I may have missed that one. So a lot of the questions that my council colleague from District 1 asked, were related to the end of workings of what this particular commission could be. And are we supporting, are we voting on supporting the resolution because we've already done the working sessions? I may have missed that because so much has been going on in my life over the last few months. So just for the sake of the exercise. Did I miss a hearing? Was…”
City Council · Sep 23, 2026
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“Thank you, Madam President. I want to thank Councillor Pepin for sending it to committee for a hearing because I was going to ask questions myself. I'm glad that we're able to participate that way I think decisions like this really do give us an opportunity to really get into the weeds of things and so thank you for doing that I also think counselor district 9 counselor is really going to be one of the beneficiaries if we can get this off the ground and I think that also in Brighton given the housing prices that were in I think we This is a priority hearing, and I would hope that we can get…”
City Council · Sep 23, 2026
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“Thank you, Madam President. Working night too fast. What a way to make a living. We need a little joy here, guys. So everyone already said all the amazing things about Dolly. And the only thing that I'd like to just add is that a lot of people probably did not take her serious, just because oftentimes her demeanor and just women who tend to be voluptuous or who tend to be a little bit more animated or whatever the case may be, oftentimes people don't see their serious side. Dolly did a great job at recognizing her power and utilizing it in ways that help other women understand that they could…”
City Council · Sep 23, 2026
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“Thank you chair recognizes comes from here counselor. You have the floor Thank you, Madam President, and I want to thank Councillor Calera-Zapata for bringing all of herself into this chamber and celebrating your heritage and inviting us to do so alongside you, so thank you for that. I'm going to have to go to dinner with you in the North End, just so, you know, Councillor Durkan is up in here going too. I'm going to go with you one day. But no, seriously, all jokes aside, and I really do appreciate how You have managed to really help people understand the parallel process of immigrating to…”
City Council · Sep 23, 2026
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“Just what I ended up, what I got up to say, I don't know where my head went today, but I went to the McKay and to the Umana. So I grew up in the 70s and the 80s being bused to the other side of town and got to, there were still Italians left, there during that time, and so got to learn some bad words. So thank you for that.”
City Council · Sep 23, 2026
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“Concha, you have the floor. Thank you, Madam President. I'd like to be on the record in favour of the following dockets. Docket 1778, 1779, 1780, 1781, 1782, 1783, 1784, 1789, and 1790.”
City Council · Sep 23, 2026
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Not quoted here: it may name a member of the public. Hear it at the meeting.
City Council · Sep 23, 2026
- Play at 4:27:16
“Yes. He was affectionately known as Cuff, but his last name was Ferguson.”
City Council · Sep 23, 2026