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Our government should consistently be reassessing the paths to increase accessibility for all Bostonians, by asking itself:
How can we remove the unnecessary barriers to our city’s resources and services, and prioritize equity for all communities?
What are we doing to include all perspectives and voices in government decision-making?
What systems do we have in place to protect and uphold accessibility and inclusion?
ADDRESSING ACCESSIBLITY
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BOSTON'S LANGUAGE ACCESS ORDINANCE
By expanding on existing laws this ordinance pushes a language access plan to increase accessibility to city services and programs. This ordinance mandated vital city documents be provided in a range of languages and interpreted by "cultural competency" guidelines. This also ensures community meeting are made avaibile in multiple languages, to increase civic engagement, transparency, and accessibility to all communities.
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BOSTON FAIR CHANCE
Julia Mejia, working alongside Ricardo Arroyo pushed the Boston Fair Chance Act to ensure the City of Boston enforces efficient hiring and promotion processes that are equitable and merit-based. The purpose of this ordinance is to eliminate conflicts of interest and implicit biases in the hiring and promotional practices and to establish rules and regulations for the hiring, employment, compensation, or promotion of employees by prioritizing merit, experience, and job performance. This Act pushes job and promotion accessibility, and is a direct effort combatting systematic injustices in the work place.
"The City of Boston is filled with motivated, intelligent, competent, caring, and experienced employees and the Boston City Council has an obligation to ensure that hirings and promotions are merit-based and equitable"
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HOUSING INITATIVES
Addressing affordability, tenant protections, and equitable developments has increased housing accessibility and continues to be a key focus for policy making by Mejia. Advocacy for the Boston's Inclusionary Development Policy has increased affordable housing, while pushing for a public housing database would ensure equitable housing programs.
Also the #DYINGTOLIVETOUR allowed Mejia to highlight living conditions in Boston Housing Authority properties and advocate for improvement and tenant protections.