BOSTON, Mass. — Boston 25 sat down with Boston Mayor Michelle Wu as she hits her 100th day in office. “I’d like to think that what we’re trying to is change issues but really change how we do business in government in this city by opening the doors wide to city hall,” said Wu.
The first woman elected into the position has navigated a global pandemic, a health crisis at Mass and Cass and several major winter storms. She told us one of her priorities right now is finding both a police commissioner and school superintendent. “For every role in city hall it’s important that we reflect our communities and we are creating the direct ties to the vision and expertise coming out of our neighborhood. Knowing Boston is a core part of the job,” said Wu.
Mayor Wu is also feeling the pressure to lift the indoor mask mandate. She told us her team will have a definitive timeline for doing it by next week. Her vaccine mandate has turned into a protest outside her house for 8 weeks. “I’m not going to try to get into the minds of folks who show up at 7a.m. in someone’s resident neighborhood,” said Wu, “it is 8 weeks now and counting at this point and so it is for my neighbor and my family it is a reminder of the misinformation that is out there. The deep emotion that is attached to our politics and policies”
One of Mayor Wu’s biggest selling points in the election was free public transportation in the city of Boston. She has already done that on several bus lines and plans to do it on a larger scale. “We need it to be reliable convenient to get people to where they need to go and it has to be affordable,” Wu explained.
Mayor Wu says she does the work for the city she loves and her boys future. “They are my motivation every morning and every evening for how I want to make sure we are moving fast to give them and all their peers all the kids who come after them the best possible opportunity in this city,” said Wu.
On the lighter side, we joked with Wu asking if she is on team Dunks or Starbucks. “Oh Dunks for sure. I’m not a coffee drinker but I get ice tea there or I’m always good for a dozen munchkins,” Wu said.
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