ORDER-2022-9 : Appointment of Thais De Marco, 323 Grove Street, to the Affordable Housing Trust, for a two-year term, said term to expire the last day of January 2023.

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▶ 1:02:22 Maya Jamaleddine: next we have order 2022-9 appointment of thais de marco 323 grove street to the affordable housing trust for for a two-term year term set term to expire the last day of january 2023. we have

▶ 1:02:43 Paul Brodeur: madam chair WHEREAS still under suspension isaac we have outstanding so in the um in the parade of all stars that i'm bringing before you this evening i am very pleased to introduce to you taista marco i hope you've had a chance to to take a look at her resume because the qualifications are are quite stunning i would um there are quite frankly of several places within the boards and commission or or elected office where mr marco would be an outstanding uh addition to the to the city um but focusing on the affordable housing trust as you know we have a not huge pool of money that we with your support augmented with free cash and it is time to quite frankly to staff the trust to put folks to work and we are tapping experts in the field this is the first of several appointments so you're gonna come before you in fairly short order but as you can see extensive mr. Marco has extensive experience in affordable housing nonprofit nonprofit management and really I couldn't think of anyone better suited to help us guide our decisions about where to wisely invest these monies to make you know to make real progress in terms of the challenges many quite frankly many of our residents face

▶ 1:04:21 Speaker 2: in terms of affordability in the community I've been in this country now for 16 years actually 16 years this month I'm originally from Brazil and my my first my first job was as a tutor at Bunkerville Community College but shortly after that I started working at Somerville Community Corporation the cdc in somerville that develops affordable housing my charge at the the corporation as you saw in my resume was asset building which included a variety of programs it was five separate tracks three of those were housing related one was foreclosure prevention one was housing stabilization one was first-time home buyer education so i i've been committed to affordable housing as a guiding principle in a community for a long time because i see the effect that

▶ 1:05:23 Speaker 2: housing instability has on the lives of individuals and families and i think there's a lot of work to be done there are many different ways to go about the work that has to be done and i am very excited

▶ 1:05:43 Maya Jamaleddine: to do whatever i can to serve thank you marco we have uh counselor eccles awesome thank you

▶ 1:05:47 Jack Eccles: so much for stepping up i've had the good fortune to serve with mr marco on the housing production plan advisory committee so i wholeheartedly support your nomination and thanks so much

▶ 1:06:01 Leila Migliorelli: for stepping up i have um vice chair mcguirelli thank you madam chair um thank you mr marco and thank you mr mayor broder for um nominating mr marco and getting this affordable housing trust board going i um come to know mr marco as i had thought was just a fellow winter parent and a phenomenal photographer and then seeing her resume was surprised and i pleasantly surprised and i think it speaks to this city and it's his hidden treasures of professional expertise in lots of different areas so i'm delighted that um we can have mr marco join our new affordable housing trust board and i make a motion to recommend second before we have councilor thomas

▶ 1:06:46 Cory Thomas: thank you madam chairwoman mr michael welcome um before council migliari offer to recommend uh i just want to say thank you uh there's no shortage of qualified volunteers in ward seven and as a representative from ward seven i'm very thankful to see you coming forward and volunteering for the community so thank you very much i do want to note that you don't have to be

▶ 1:07:10 Maya Jamaleddine: a photographer to be it's great feel free it doesn't hurt i wanted to echo all my fellow counselors i myself know miss marco and her work volunteer work in the community and engagement is outstanding i wanted to thank you for all the great work especially during the pandemic and volunteering in the vaccination clinic um thank you so much and thank you for stepping forward we have a motion on floor made by vice chair migliorelli and seconded by councillor eccles