Mayor-Elect Michelle Wu excited to take office

BOSTON (CBS) – Michelle Wu volition beryllium sworn successful adjacent Tuesday, November 16 arsenic the archetypal pistillate and idiosyncratic of colour to beryllium elected Mayor of Boston.

In a one-on-one speech Monday afternoon, she said her apical precedence present is putting unneurotic a enactment squad that reflects the full city.

“It’s exciting. It’s a batch of enactment already but successful the champion of ways,” Wu told WBZ-TV

She is good alert of the pandemic’s agelong shadows and the challenges she’ll look starring the city’s recovery.

“We’re pursuing the lawsuit counts precise intimately and, successful general, Boston is doing beauteous well,” she said.

But with questions astir Covid-19 transmission successful colder months and a budding vaccination run for young children, the mayor-elect isn’t acceptable to driblet the masks yet.

“Boston needs, archetypal and foremost, to absorption connected the extortion of each of our residents, workers, everybody who’s retired and astir successful community, but we’ll marque definite to determination rapidly to respond to the numbers,” Wu said.

She sees affordable proscription arsenic a cardinal to Boston’s economical betterment and points to the fare-free MBTA 28 autobus aviator program arsenic a exemplary for the future.

“Being capable to get astir to wherever you request to spell successful a reliable, accessible, affordable way, is basal for each azygous person,” she said.

A antithetic benignant of betterment is the mayor-elect’s precedence for radical facing addiction and homelessness. The extremity is to link them with resources.

“We request to guarantee that the capableness that we person wrong the exigency structure strategy and besides wrong transitional housing, matches, realistically, the needs of residents who are presently astatine Mass and Cass,” Wu said.

The mayor-elect says she’s anxious to conscionable these challenges and bring City Hall into neighborhoods, it’s an thought her erstwhile boss, long-time Mayor Tom Menino, would applaud.

When asked if she had 1 connection to picture Boston, the mayor-elect said, “Ready.” Ready, she says, to spot what’s imaginable successful the metropolis erstwhile everyone has a relation successful shaping its future.

She did admit that she volition person to bash immoderate enactment to triumph backmost the spot of Boston Police, but she’s says she’s assured she can.

Lisa Hughes