Remarks by Ruthzee Louijeune
94 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 4 of 4
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“I'll wait for a second because I have more.”
City Council · Sep 25, 2026
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“Thank you. My first question is for Maroney. What does it look like in Macy obviously has this backlog. What does it look like right now in terms of getting additional, the necessary funding from the legislature to further fund and support Macy? Yeah, because the six month backlog is too much. So what are the conversations, are there conversations happening now to help mitigate some of that backlog?”
City Council · Sep 25, 2026
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“Yeah. I mean, it's a lot of hand-holding, right? Like, we can't let anyone fall through the cracks. I mean, we've got to, by hook or by crook, find people, attorneys in these situations. I'm wondering if DOJ accreditation is also something that we've been looking into. I think you had touched on it too, Moroni. you know, or DOJ accreditation so that there's not just beyond, it could just be beyond lawyers, right, because there's... Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, exactly.”
City Council · Sep 25, 2026
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City Council · Sep 25, 2026
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“There's never going to be enough to like meet the full extent of the need. And so you talked about the human element, but I do think, I don't actually know if people really understand, like, I don't think that unless you are in it, that they give it, that you understand, like we are really literally talking about life and death on one of the, 4 PM calls, I couldn't be on the call because we were having a council meeting. My chief of staff texted me who was on the call and said, oh my gosh, a woman in another state, pregnant woman just drank a bottle of bleach because she lost her TPS status.…”
City Council · Sep 25, 2026
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“Louis, you're on finish, and then we'll come to you. Thank you. Brian, I'm wondering if you could talk a little bit more around the long-term strategy around this TPS effort. I know, where do we go from here? How are we using this, you know, uplifting, you know, the recent meeting between President Trump and Mayor Mamdani? Like, how is this all going to work together? You know, and I know there are efforts in the fall about who's going to be leading the House thereafter, if you could talk a little about. Because I get these calls from people about like, why is this your focus? Because…”
City Council · Sep 25, 2026
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“Oh, I remember talking to y'all, then having to talk to our congresswomen, and this is what the coalition is saying, and the congressman was like, believe we got this, and she had us.”
City Council · Sep 25, 2026
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City Council · Sep 25, 2026
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“Excellent, thank you. Oh, thank you, gotta bring a little sunshine every now and then.”
City Council · Sep 23, 2026
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“Yeah, and I also believe that it's at the request of Thadine Brown and her leadership. It is the money, it's not even just being reallocated, it's being used for the same exact purpose. So the hearings will happen the same way that the CPC hearings happened already for the three purposes for which we can use Community Preservation Act funds, open space, affordable housing, and historic preservation. It will still be those three categories. The money will be allocated for those same purposes, and it's actually probably a net good because we will have more money to allocate towards those three…”
City Council · Sep 23, 2026
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“Thank you, Madam Chair. This is a grant similar to the grants that we suspended and passed last week in support of Boston Family Days to support the program. I also meant to say this last week, and I was remiss, that one of the participants of the program, the Museum of Fine Arts, had a celebratory moment. Their board elect is the first black woman, first black person to chair their board. So I want to give a big thank you to Michelle Corden Brown. I want to say a continued thank you to all of the entities that participate in Boston Family Days so that our kids can have access and their…”
City Council · Sep 23, 2026
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“Councillor, you have the floor. Thank you, Madam Chair. I rise again for suspension and passage of this $150,000 grant to support the Boston Family Days program. The James M. and Kathleen D. Stone Foundation have been early supporters of this program since its inception, and it's great to see their continued support. So I just ask my colleagues to join me in supporting this grant for the Boston Family Days program. Thank you so much.”
City Council · Sep 23, 2026
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“Thank you, Madam Chair. I rise to introduce this resolution in support of ballot question number four, which will be on the ballot in November. That would establish election day voter registration, which would allow someone to also vote on the day of the election. I am not seeking suspension in passage. At this moment, because we have a hearing scheduled for next Friday where we will include this resolution and bring advocates and talk about this, I want to say thank you to MassVote and the entire coalition of folks who are behind and who have been supporting for measures to make it easier…”
City Council · Sep 23, 2026
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“Councillor Louis-Jean, you have the floor.”
City Council · Sep 23, 2026
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“wanted to clarify that i will be seeking a vote on this after we have our hearing but i want us to have a conversation and hopefully the council can come on record um in supporting this measure so that no one is not able to uh vote on election day simply because of a clerical error moving or any other issues so thank you i will ask for a vote but not today thank you thank you councillor um would anyone else like to add their name the chair recognizes councillor culpepper council jerkin council fitzgerald council of flynn council mejia”
City Council · Sep 23, 2026
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“Thank you, the Chair recognizes Councilor Lujan. Thank you, Madam Chair. Can I please, may I please suspend the rules to add Councilor Mejia as the third original co-sponsor? Seeing and hearing no objections, she is so added. Thank you, many of us were here this morning when we saw the doctors from Boston Medical Center come and take a photo with us as they fight for a fairer contract. The Committee of Interns and Residents represents over 700 unionized physicians at BMC, and it's dedicated to improving the lives and the livelihood and resident training and our broader health care system…”
City Council · Sep 23, 2026
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“Thank you. No, because I did plan on speaking on Dolly Parton. She was such an incredible figure and an incredible person who cared deeply about the rights of others. It was interesting. I watched an interview that they did with her sister, and her sister talked about how she left, you know, intentionally left her politics sort of vague, but it was very clear where she stood on the issues. And when I was working... On a presidential campaign prior to this, Senator Warren's, this was the soundtrack to our work, making sure that we were centering the needs of workers, thinking about how too…”
City Council · Sep 23, 2026
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“You have the floor. Thank you. As an at-large Councillor, I too represent a very large Italian community here and just want to thank Councillor Coletta Zapata for your work in making sure that your culture is uplifted and celebrated and there are also so many business owners who said who participate in the events who just wanted to just uplift your advocacy and also Wanted to just think all of the residents who do other it's true to Italiano and my hood of Hyde Park or the other many wonderful Italian restaurants around the city that we uplift all of our entrepreneurs our businesses and…”
City Council · Sep 23, 2026
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“Thank you. We all share our condolences to you. I know that I've heard from many who've lost their parent that it feels really unanchoring. And so just continued condolences. I'd like to uplift the name of Marvin Zantuan, who was a football player at UMass Dartmouth and who was very, very tragically killed in Rhode Island from Fall River. But I've just reached, heard, and received outreach from so many who knew him or who affected the entire UMass Dartmouth community. He comes from a beloved Haitian-American family. My condolences to Marvin's Antoine and the entire UMass Dartmouth community…”
City Council · Sep 23, 2026