BOSTON (CBS) – Michelle Wu might be sworn in subsequent Tuesday, November 16 as the primary girl and particular person of shade to be elected Mayor of Boston.
In a one-on-one dialog Monday afternoon, she mentioned her high precedence now could be placing collectively a management workforce that displays the entire metropolis.
“It’s thrilling. It’s plenty of work already however in the most effective of how,” Wu advised WBZ-TV
She is properly conscious of the pandemic’s lengthy shadows and the challenges she’ll face main the town’s restoration.
“We’re following the case counts very carefully and, generally, Boston is doing fairly properly,” she mentioned.
However with questions on Covid-19 transmission in colder months and a budding vaccination marketing campaign for younger kids, the mayor-elect isn’t able to drop the masks but.
“Boston wants, initially, to deal with the safety of all of our residents, employees, everyone who’s out and about in group, however we’ll be sure that to maneuver shortly to reply to the numbers,” Wu mentioned.
She sees reasonably priced transportation as a key to Boston’s financial restoration and factors to the fare-free MBTA 28 bus pilot program as a mannequin for the long run.
“With the ability to get round to the place you want to go in a dependable, accessible, reasonably priced manner, is primary for each single particular person,” she mentioned.
A unique form of restoration is the mayor-elect’s precedence for folks going through dependancy and homelessness. The objective is to attach them with assets.
“We have to make sure that the capability that we now have inside the emergency shelter system and likewise inside transitional housing, matches, realistically, the wants of residents who’re at present at Mass and Cass,” Wu mentioned.
The mayor-elect says she’s keen to satisfy these challenges and produce Metropolis Corridor into neighborhoods, it’s an concept her former boss, long-time Mayor Tom Menino, would applaud.
When requested if she had one phrase to explain Boston, the mayor-elect mentioned, “Prepared.” Prepared, she says, to see what’s attainable within the metropolis when everybody has a task in shaping its future.
She did acknowledge that she must do some work to win again the belief of Boston Police, however she’s says she’s assured she will.
