.key-messages li {margin-bottom: 10px;} For example, a recent redesign proposal for Melnea Cass Boulevard would have decimated tree cover in Roxbury, even as communities of color have experienced a long-term decline in their tree canopy. Build a resilient food system. .large-date { text-align: center; margin-top: 30px; margin-bottom: 20px; font-size: 20px; font-weight: 600;} Build trust in immigrant communities. And then when my brothers were intertangled with it, I was often the first person that got called as the sister, as the next of kin. Click here to contact our editorial staff, and click here to report an error. Dismiss. While we know that training alone does not equal operational or cultural change within these systems, we do want to ensure that every city employee learns about implicit biases, how to use a racial equity lens in their work, and is educated on the history of racism in our city. Build Pathways To High-Quality Green Economy Jobs And Invest In Our Green Infrastructure. font-weight: bold; Meanwhile, our summers will become unbearably hot, hurricanes will become more frequent, inland flooding has started, and storms will become stronger. Education and training materials to help prevent and address elder fraud or neglect, and provide answers and resources. Housing } The BPDA in its current state and its predecessor, the BRA, have struggled to win the trust of the community and stakeholders. Boston must maintain its treasured greenspaces and prepare them for the next century of extreme heat, storms, and changes in climate with public-private investment and clear maintenance accountability at the City level. font-size: 12px; Through a transparent, community-engaged process, Andrea will create a city-wide plan that allows our City to grow in a way that also benefits and protects current and long-time Boston residents. Invest in training a new transportation workforce. Andrea will provide that leadership for Boston. Campbell lives in the Mattapan neighborhoo Our enrollment process and welcome centers deserve a top to bottom review with the goal of increasing customer satisfaction and equity at each point of interaction with parents. Grassroots, neighborhood-level, resident organizing on important issues from neighborhood parks, to traffic calming measures, to block parties have led to incredible enhancements to our citys quality of life. Support both schools and partners to enable enrichment and out-of-school learning. At 9, a teacher invited her to join the city schools Advanced Work Classes, the accelerated academic program that put her on track to compete for entry into one of Bostons elite exam schools. She was also clear about her intent to pursue police reform and reduce the Boston Police Departments budget. Andrea will partner with the State to close the digital divide, including advocating for the Commonwealth to require insurers to provide coverage and ensure equitable access for individuals with disabilities and limited English proficiency through standardized procedures and accommodation services. We must invest in our school buildings to improve learning environments, while also increasing access to greenspace, incorporating trees and permeable surfaces for stormwater management, improving building efficiency, and converting fossil fuel heating systems to renewable sources. And far too many families are not able to afford basic necessities for themselves and their children despite their hard work and best efforts. With city-led investments and intentional zoning, Andrea believes Boston can adopt the globally renowned gold standard of sustainability of a 15-minute city, where residents have the amenities they need within 15 minutes of their doorsteps, that cuts commutes, reduces reliance on fossil fuels, and improves the health of residents and the environment alike. Chinatown has the worst air quality in Massachusetts while communities of color in our city face the highest exposure to pollution statewide. Utilize the Attorney Generals authority to review zoning by-laws to ensure they promote thriving, diverse communities. $('.pastResponses').show(); left: 0; }) Andrea believes that every City employee, regardless of department, should participate in mandatory and continual racial equity training to ensure that anti-racism is centered in their work and that employees understand the implicit biases they may have. } This critical resident-led forum helped bring forward issues facing Bostonians and empowered them to effect change. As the backbone of our Citys health, Andrea will support healthcare workers and create innovative pathways to join the sector. Combating the climate crisis and protecting the environment are top priorities for Andrea, and she will fight for environmental justice across the state. She will also deploy anti-racism tools for all city departments and Commissions to use in their day-to-day work and explore how a truth and reconciliation process for Boston could be implemented. p.survey-response {white-space: pre-line;} "When I was eight months old, my mom actually died in a car accident going to visit my father who was incarcerated at the time," she shared. Invest in training a new transportation workforce. A great school is built by caring adults who are close to our children, paired with the resources and flexibilities they need to get things done. As Attorney General, Andrea will ensure that Massachusetts is climate resilient, and that no community endures a disproportionate share of environmental pollution and corresponding health impacts. Boston is a wealthy and resource-rich city, with the most recent City budget at $3.6 billion. Despite their efforts, access to quality schools and a quality education is still too inconsistent and often limited based on race, class, and geography. Generate green dividends for residents. Andrea will regularly convene the Sheriff, District Attorney, Police, Public Defenders, Trial Courts and Probation Officers, the Department of Youth Services, public health and education community partners to talk about what is working and how we can continue to reduce racial and ethnic disparities. Protect coverage under the Affordable Care Act and our universal coverage law. As Mayor, she will work to improve language access in City Hall, in our schools, and in our institutions, and make it easier for immigrants to participate and make their voices heard. While rezoning is a multi-year process, TDR can more efficiently and quickly grow the pie of available housing across the city. In 2012 she returned to Boston for good, to be with her boyfriend now husband Matthew Scheier, and to be closer to Andre, who needed her. But in the midst of my returning, he passed away. Campbell with her twin brother, Andre, around 1999. Andre died of an illness while in jail, awaiting trial. This approach will be more in sync with how residents live our lives not in silos of individual service areas, but comprehensively throughout each neighborhood. This is why I love this city. Andrea will lead the efforts to increase TNC fees to generate funding for transportation improvements and call for the Legislature to further regulate TNCs to ensure protections for both riders and drivers and increase transparency. Andrea will center communities of color in planning and development, and expand our capacity to proactively plan and implement street improvements that result in tangible benefits to quality of life for all Bostonians. She was one of those students who would get mad if she got an A minus, Savage said. } Andrea will ensure that any data initiatives protect our immigrant communities by not releasing sensitive information on our undocumented residents. Every resident deserves the opportunity to live in a healthy and safe community, especially those in poor, rural communities and communities of color who suffer the worst environmental devastation and are disproportionately harmed by pollution. She will explore updated zoning that allows for ADU projects by right, a streamlined permitting process to enable homeowners to take on these smaller projects, and ADU project eligibility for density bonuses. That is a lot, she said. As the largest City in New England, the ability for Bostonians to move around the region efficiently should be treated as an economic and environmental priority for the State government. Andrea will work to make permitting faster, easier, more predictable, and cheaper which in turn, means more affordable housing available sooner for the community. Andrea will push for new pedestrian and bike connections across I-90 and a new buffer park. The pandemic has laid bare long-standing health inequities as we have all experienced unprecedented illness and death, prolonged shutdown, and a decimated economy. Andrea will embrace TDR as an equitable approach that enables small and mid-sized property owners, Community Development Corporations, and other affordable housing entities to participate more actively in the market. As City Council President, she hosted the first city-wide Civic Leaders Summit in more than a decade to facilitate connections and collaboration with community organizers and civic leaders across Boston. Andrea envisions Boston creating affordable units in unexpected or underutilized places, such as carriage houses, tiny homes, finished basements, and attics. Until that tweet from the union, Campbell had seemed politically untouched by her proximity to violence. } The new Boston streets created as a result of this project must prioritize pedestrians, bicyclists, and neighborhood cohesion. Successfully managing the Citys budget is an essential foundation to Bostons recovery, allowing the City to avoid layoffs of personnel, sustain services to residents, and maintain the Citys credit rating. Make city government transparent, accountable, accessible, and equitable. $('.hideResponses').show(); Establish A Dedicated Mass & Cass First Responder Unit. @media screen and (max-width: 350px) { } Its staggering to think that Massachusetts has some of the best hospitals in the country, while also some of the greatest disparities in health care. Andrea believes in giving the right tools including more resources and decision-making to school leaders, teachers, and school communities to make decisions that are right for their students. She understands that the challenges at Mass & Cass are complex and have developed over many years which means solutions must be multifaceted and results can not be achieved overnight. It was traumatic in so many different ways, she said. Reimagine the BPDA. Implement a Housing First approach. Her father, Alvin R. Campbell Sr., spent half his life in prison. In 2020, Andrea spearheaded legislation to create an independent civilian review board to investigate and provide accountability for police misconduct, and partnered with Mayor Walsh based on recommendations from the Boston Police Reform Task Force to establish an Office of Police Accountability and Transparency. Improvements to our city streets will be guided by a goal of improving quality of life and preventing traffic related fatalities and serious injuries. The City of Boston has a responsibility to equitably distribute the vaccine and develop strategies to engage the community so that all Bostonians are safely and efficiently vaccinated as soon as possible. Ave. All of this was only exacerbated by COVID-19. Strengthen Massachusetts common sense gun laws: Step up enforcement of assault weapons ban: Work with the Massachusetts Legislature to identify dangerous semi-automatic rifles that currently evade the assault weapons ban, including identifying guns by lethal characteristics rather than by brand names. 2020 changed us. Our future green economy cannot reflect those same disparities, and that will take a leader in City Hall who works every day to proactively combat those trends. Push for reforms that will not only make our criminal justice system more equitable, but also keep people safe in our communities. Campbell, whom the organization criticized, pointed to the unions virtual silence regarding its former president being credibly accused of child abuse. This is public land that should be used for the greatest public good. The twin crises of COVID-19 and climate change have made painfully clear that our transportation system just doesnt meet the needs of Bostonians, whether its a grueling bus commute, gridlocked roadways, poor sidewalks, or ancient trains. Build Trust beyond COVID-19. These individuals and institutions are an indispensable piece of the Citys lifeblood and have helped establish Boston as a regional and national hub of creative energy. ", Excerpt: "Convene District 4 working groups, stakeholders, clergy, school officers, street workers, and organizations that support families and youth involved in violence to develop a plan to have a more coordinated response to violent incidents within our community with the goal of clarifying our roles and having a greater impact. Get Operations Right, So Schools Can Focus On What Really Matters. According to our Database, She has no children. Under Andreas leadership, thats how the City will do business all the time especially since it has proven it can. Andrea will ensure the City continues to assist tenants in Housing Court with applications for financial assistance and wrap-around services, and increase coordination with the Boston Municipal Court and the Trial Courts Probation Department and special services sessions to ensure that the Commonwealths efforts to find housing, wrap-around services and other placements for Boston-based defendants is more seamless and consistent. Andrea believes we must make it easier for every family, regardless of income, language or neighborhood, to choose a school. .results_row.winner { Her current term ends on Support the provision of drivers licenses to all eligible residents of the Commonwealth, including those without documented legal status. To fully connect our communities and bring Bostonians together, we must consider alternate modes of transportation and fully leverage all of Bostons unique assets, including the Inner Harbor and the Boston Harbor Islands State and National Park. As Mayor, Andrea will: Incumbent Andrea Joy Campbell ran unopposed in the general election for District 4 on the Boston City Council. Andrea also sees first-hand the disproportionate impact of fossil-fuel pollution on neighborhoods like her own and knows that Bostons transportation system drives and reinforces the deep inequities in the city. She started off in education law, representing students as young as 6, and helping them gain a voice in the education system. } Create the conditions for businesses to bounce back. We must also use the lessons from COVID-19 to scale creative delivery models like telehealth and mobile solutions, which will require closing the digital divide, coverage for telehealth by all insurers, and use of standardized procedures and accommodation services for individuals with disabilities and limited English proficiency. In partnership with local employers and community leaders, Andrea would work to build Boston into a model for affordable childcare. That process will include gathering input from Bostonians and civic leaders. Opponents dismiss ferries due to concerns about weather and emergencies, but comparable New England cities run ferries year-round, operate on-site infirmaries and use helicopters for medical emergencies in remote locations Boston can deploy similar best practices. Invest in our dedicated teachers. Andrea believes college students and recent graduates who need employment opportunities are ideal candidates to support the highest need students through a district-wide paid tutoring program. } display: table; margin: 8px auto; She will lead the charge on expanding bike lane networks, pedestrian paths, and active alternatives to driving. Push federal leaders to pass Congresswoman Pressleys Peoples Justice Guarantee. In order to truly reform these systems and end mass incarceration, we need bold, progressive criminal legal reform at the national level. Owning an electric vehicle should not be exclusive to those that have access to off-street parking and a private charger. As Mayor, Andrea will activate these resources and lead collaborative, innovative, and equity-driven solutions to end our housing crisis. All Bostonians must be able to access and trust in the safety and efficacy of the COVID-19 vaccine. background-color: white; She envisions a city of 15-minute neighborhoods, so that all Bostonians can share in the benefits of a safe, walkable, and prosperous city. Andrea has partnered with the community and public health and public safety experts to develop a comprehensive response: she met with civic resident leaders in September 2020 and subsequently offered recommendations to Mayor Walsh and Governor Charlie Baker, participated in a dedicated City Council hearing in November 2020, and has continued to engage community leaders since. Her current term ends on January 6, 2027. We saw firsthand how the Trump Administrations Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) was led by people who targeted our immigrant communities and tear families apart. I think it falls on the gender line and I think that affects how people see you and treat you.. This will include an annual State of the Climate meeting that brings together leaders from across Boston to share progress and commit to future action. Andrea supports recent state efforts to raise revenue for investments in transportation through the Transportation and Climate Initiative (TCI). As Mayor, Andrea will ensure all historically marginalized groups have designated liaisons within the Mayors office. Andrea will also consider non-traditional approaches and best practices from other cities that have had success and advocate for sustainable funding sources to make this possible. Double-down on the success of street patios. display: block; p.survey-question {font-weight:bold;} This would include working to ensure that all eligible women and people who menstruate have continuous MassHealth coverage to include the entire 21-month period from the beginning of pregnancy to a year after delivery. This transformation will start with the Fairmount Line as it provides crucial rail service to long underserved communities. Enhance gun-tracing and centralized reporting of gun crimes in order to identify violence hotspots and to prosecute those who traffic in illegal guns. Under Andreas leadership, Bostons economy will be more dynamic, vibrant, and inclusive than ever before. margin-bottom: 1px; As a result, she spent the first eight years of her life living with relatives and in foster care. Ferries could finally give bicyclists from East Boston a safe, direct route to the rest of Boston and give residents in Harbor Point a way to bypass congestion and the busy Red Line. if (typeof $ != 'undefined') { When her brother began exhibiting behavior problems, he was sent to the McKinley School, which handles students with emotional issues, and later to the Jeremiah E. Burke High School, a huge school that had lost its accreditation. And we know in our criminal legal system that does not happen.. As Mayor, she will advocate for State leaders accountable for their commitment to invest 35% of TCI revenues on improving transit options in environmental justice communities while pushing them to increase this investment to 40% of revenue in line with commitments made by the Biden-Harris Administration. Expanded efforts to address the housing crisis will also ensure residents who often struggle to find safe, affordable housing, including LGBTQ+ elders and veterans, have access to safe housing. Advocate for the state to move ambitiously on climate policies that benefit Boston. Bostons neighborhoods are home to a diverse array of business districts, and Andrea envisions them serving as destinations not throughways. .race_header.republican { Campbell emphasized that she was the first Black woman to serve as city council president and that she defeated a 32-year incumbent to win a seat on the council. How to vote | top: 2px; Andrea will work with state and federal officials to transform our legacy commuter rail network into a regional rail network that meets the needs of a 21st century economy. As the product of five public schools, Andreas life exemplifies the transformative power of education. Support Youth, Working Parents, and Families. As one of the industries hardest hit, they deserve extra resources and support through the pandemic. Growing up in Boston, Andrea saw how our education system sets some children up for a lifetime of success and leaves far too many behind. Boston spends too much money on transportation, our students spend too much time on buses and buses are too often late, leading to lost learning time. top: -1px; Build a pipeline of hospitality leaders through BPS vocational education programs and leading local nonprofits. Andrea knows this area well, growing up just blocks away in Roxbury and the South End. 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