Letter from Young Kim regarding Oral Comment regarding City Manager's Agenda #1 and #2 and Policy Order 1

1 Crane, Paula From: Young Kim <[email removed]> Sent: Monday, May 1, 2023 6:02 PM To: City Clerk Subject: My Oral Comment re City Manager’s Agenda #1 & #2 and Policy Order 1 Dear City Clerk LeBlanc, Here is my oral comment Young Kim 17 Norris Street As you know, I have raised a red flag over lack of transparency, accountability and compliance to law and established procedures. City Manager’s Agenda #1 & #2 and Policy Order 1 are no different. If the cost of implementing the CSO is open ended and can be changed year to year, accept City Manager’s Agenda #1 and #2. If you can discuss the proposed FY24 budget and authorization to borrow money to fund a capital project without having time to review budget books and back-up material, accept City Manager’s Agenda #1 and #2. Doesn’t it bother you that the requested appropriation and authorization to borrow $50 million for Mass Ave Harvard Square to Alewife Brook Parkway is $10 million over what was approved in FY23 capital plan and the total cost of CSO implementation is reaching 100 million dollars? If check and balance in running the City is of no importance anymore and that the City Council can write zoning ordinance amendments by a Policy Order, with consultation with affordable housing developers in this AHO amendment, instead of by the zoning specialists at the CDD, adopt Policy Order #1. Shouldn’t the role of City Council be to order CM to investigate the need to amend the Zoning Ordinance to address an issue and the role of the CM to task the CDD to assess the issue and craft appropriate amendments if needed? To put it another way, could the City Manager introduce a Policy Order for City Council to execute? I, as a taxpayer, certainly don’t believe these are good governance. Please reject CM’s Agenda #1 &2 and AHO Amendment that is before the Ordinance Committee and Policy Order #1. Thank you for your attention and consideration.

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