Providence Committee on Urban Redevelopment, Renewal & Planning-7/1/24-5:00 PM

Oh, it's okay. Remember me? So whenever we get street readings, he originally answered me and saw no conflicts, but it's also supposed to send me a map.

So much time we... So we got four minutes. I need to go back and get him a drink. I left it in the freezer. Bad habit.

Good afternoon, everyone. We are now joining the committee on urban redevelopment renewal and planning. Today is Monday, July 1. Madam clerk, please call the roll. Chair of the name, Mary Kay Harris.

Present. Vice chairman,. Please ask.. Present.. Present.

We have three questions to ask. We have a problem. Thank you so much. I would like to entertain a motion to take two items out of, out of order, which is item three and four. May I have the, motion, please?

So hold. Second. Motion made and second. All in favor? Aye.

So, madam clerk, would you please read item three into the right? Item number three, resolution establishing a ceremonial designation bylaws equals to the end act has. And let the record reflect that our council president is here with us today. Certainly. And these two items are actually located in her ward, and we'd like to start with Angela Way and hear about that one of the restaurants.

Sure. So this spring, they celebrated one hundred years in operation. And so it's been a family business for a hundred years. They have been very much, like, seeing the growth and change in Federal Hill has been a part of the immigrant community, the Italian immigrant community in Federal Hill. And as part of their centennial hundredth anniversary are asking for ceremonial designation.

It is a part of the street without any other houses along that little part of Peacock Street and would be a wonderful way to honor the, like, legacy and cornerstone of this family and their very long tradition in the neighborhood.

It's beautiful. Hundred years. Do anybody have any questions for the president around this item.

Well, I like I like household. Garden. I like the food. And, also, the location really is very important. So, yeah, very good location so people can go there, especially the the chicken makers.

I can't but I, you know, I I always go there. Mhmm. And the Oliver Garden. The Oliver is always there. Mhmm.

And the bread.

Very good bread. I love to travel.. Okay. Alright. Anymore?

No. I have this. Okay. I

would like to... Are we gonna vote on

the two of them, or we're gonna separate them? I will separate them. And, counsel, at this point, I would like to ask the clerk, is there any any other addition to this?

Although I didn't receive the official memos from the Urso over in traffic engineer who checks the locations for us to ensure that there are no other designations, I did get a brief email from him stating that they reviewed the three locations that are on the agenda, and there are no conflicts with doing these ceremonial designations.

Okay. And please identify those three agenda items that's needed to

be mentioned.

Absolutely. Two, three, and four. Two, three, and four. Correct. Thank you so much.

Oh, okay. If there is no other conversation around this, grievance. Ain't no other conversations around this. We really love making sure we honor people who have trailblazers who have been able to keep our city so strong and, you know, introduce all these nice restaurants. So I will take a motion.

Motion to approve those three items. I'm writing for three. Yes. Oh, can I?

Is she

a second three here? Yeah. Yeah. Okay. I didn't break that down.

Can start it. 15. Sorry. I was like Yeah. Good job.

Yeah. I have a motion, and there's a second by council member Graves. All in favor? Aye. So moved.

Okay. So item four have been read already into the, into the record. And so at this time, we're gonna call on council president again and let the record show that council is also present. Thank you.

So I got a chance to learn more about Tara Laura through this process. His son reached out to me, and shared a lot about his father's history, his experience in the neighborhood, his experience as a teacher at, Central High School. He had... So he was a... Carl was a second generation Italian immigrant.

He grew up on Federal Hill. He went to the now Carl Laurel Elementary School, but was the Kennedy Street School at the time. And when he was a teacher at Central, he, felt like a lot of the students that he was teaching did not, like, have enough, like, role models in communities of color, in the black community. He made it a point to, like, publish a book. I think it's in the resolution that I

I think did.

He sort of

Mhmm. But to publish a book about, like, scientific translators in the black community. He led... Volunteered, led, with his school team to the wrestling champs. The first time, Central got that championship.

He he just sounds like a truly remarkable and dedicated person dedicated to the city, dedicated to the young people of the city. He unfortunately died very young, was likely to be... Like, was about to be named superintendent. He was acting superintendent when he passed. The school community saw fit to rename Kenyon Street School to Carl Laurel School, and it would be a beautiful entering the tradition to rename just that that small portion...

That one block portion of Kenyon Street. Again, there's no other buildings that have that address as Carlora Lake. Wonderful.

Any other statements? It... How's the moment of this? When I'm working

for the school department, so many people wanna go into the Carlora because it was a model, was as a safety, and also for better education in that particular school. So I don't know if because the person or... Yeah. Very different whenever we mentioned... People mentioned, I'm like, okay.

My kids go to that particular school. So we have a long way of the leads, you know, that people want to be participating in that. And I gladly you can do. Know.

That's like

a. I didn't know him personally, but my. He was a teacher. Several of them

had problems, and they all thought he was

a wonderful person. They thought he he could be strict when he needed to be. But but he definitely made them want to learn and more, and and he definitely made sure that he instilled pride and and into them. So I think this has been Yeah.

And That's excellent. Thank you, chairwoman. I would say this is great, and we get to honor his legacy even further. I know he's got the school named after him, and that's something that just came before this council. So extending the honorary designation sounds great.

So with that, I would make a motion to Before you do, I'd like

to make my statement, and I'm gonna Okay. Okay. I'm sorry. One of the things I wanted to say because so much became my favorite... Back in the day, George Washington cover and book to Washington have hysterical times.

And I didn't understand where that came from because I was at Central when I started to get this love. Like, I know... I wanna know more about Black history. And it's funny that he was a trailblazer of this writing and making sure that, especially the black people understood the leaders and the heroes that we are, you know, riding on the shoulders off. Mhmm.

And when I was reading the resolution, I thought about the young black men that were running for the school board now and what would they say, you know, as a man that really seemed that there was disparity among, you know, education and everything else. I am so excited about this. I am going... Unless you got something else to say, council president, I am gonna willily jump on your motion. What was your motion?

My motion was to approve and very, excitingly and enthusiastically.

And I have a second from Councilwoman Graves and also Councilwoman Barbies. All in favor? Aye. So second, we have this approved. We also have on, the, docket tonight is item number one.

Madam Clerk, could you please read that into the second? I don't have my one. Resolution support. I was so excited to hear about this, ma'am, because I I was trying to figure out exactly where did it come from, and we understand that that was definitely at one point a very large catering community. In fact, there was a book or not a movie that was made after the displacement of Boston.