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1683 Message and order authorizing the City of Boston to accept and expend the amount of Fifty Thousand Dollars ($50,000.00) in the form of a grant, Tuition Free Community College Expansion, awarded by the United States Department of Labor to be administered by the Office of Workforce Development. The grant would fund the Community Project Tuition Free Community College Initiative.
On motion of Councilor Worrell, the rules were suspended; the order was passed: yeas 13 (Breadon, Coletta Zapata, Culpepper, Durkan, FitzGerald, Flynn, Louijeune, Mejia, Murphy, Pepén, Santana, Weber, Worrell).

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1682 Message and order authorizing the City of Boston to accept and expend the amount of Fifty Thousand Dollars ($50,000.00) in the form of a grant, Food, Fuel and Shelter, awarded by The Boston Foundation to be administered by the Office of Food Justice. The grant would fund the expansion of the Boston Double Up Food Bucks Program to more communities.
On motion of Councilor Murphy, the rules were suspended; the order was passed: yeas 13 (Breadon, Coletta Zapata, Culpepper, Durkan, FitzGerald, Flynn, Louijeune, Mejia, Murphy, Pepén, Santana, Weber, Worrell).

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1681 Message and order authorizing the City of Boston to accept and expend the amount of Fifty One Thousand Nine Hundred Eighty Dollars and Thirty Cents ($51,980.30) in the form of a grant, FFY26 State Administrative Matching Grants for SNAP, awarded by USDA Food & Nutrition Service, passed through the MA Executive Office of Health & Human Services, to be administered by the Age Strong Commission. The grant would fund costs incurred to operate SNAP, including outreach and application assistance.
On motion of Councilor Murphy, the rules were suspended; the order was passed: yeas 13 (Breadon, Coletta Zapata, Culpepper, Durkan, FitzGerald, Flynn, Louijeune, Mejia, Murphy, Pepén, Santana, Weber, Worrell).

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1679 Message and order authorizing the City of Boston to accept and expend the amount of Two Hundred Thousand Dollars ($200,000.00) in the form of a grant, BHCCI/Connect, Learn, Explore & CEF, awarded by Boston Children's Hospital to be administered by the Office of Early Childhood. The grant would fund the BHCCI/Connect, Learn & Explore and Child Entrepreneur Fund (CEF) Grant.
Referred to the Committee on Human Services.
Later in session, Councilor Murphy moved for reconsideration of Docket #1679. Seconded by Councilor Flynn.
Reconsideration prevailed: yeas 12 (Breadon, Coletta Zapata, Culpepper, FitzGerald, Flynn, Louijeune, Mejia, Murphy, Pepén, Santana, Weber, Worrell), not present 1 (Durkan).
On motion of Councilor Murphy, the rules were suspended; the order was passed: yeas 12 (Breadon, Coletta Zapata, Culpepper, FitzGerald, Flynn, Louijeune, Mejia, Murphy, Pepén, Santana, Weber, Worrell), not present 1 (Durkan).

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1677 Message and order authorizing the City of Boston to accept and expend the amount of Seven Hundred Fifty Thousand Dollars ($750,000.00) in the form of a grant, FY26 Fair Share Supplemental Funds, awarded by Massachusetts Department of Transportation to be administered by the Transportation Department. The grant would fund the ongoing support of street operations in the City of Boston.
On motion of Councilor Durkan, the rules were suspended; the order was passed: yeas 13 (Breadon, Coletta Zapata, Culpepper, Durkan, FitzGerald, Flynn, Louijeune, Mejia, Murphy, Pepén, Santana, Weber, Worrell).

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1676 Message and order authorizing the City of Boston to accept and expend the amount of One Million Dollars ($1,000,000.00) in the form of a grant, the BPS Sundays Support Grant, awarded by The Barr Foundation to be administered by the Office of Arts & Culture. The grant would fund MOAC's Cultural Access Program (Museum Sundays), allocating 60% of the funds to the Innovation Fund and 40% to unrestricted project expenses.
On motion of Councilor Louijeune, the rules were suspended; the order was passed: yeas 13 (Breadon, Coletta Zapata, Culpepper, Durkan, FitzGerald, Flynn, Louijeune, Mejia, Murphy, Pepén, Santana, Weber, Worrell).

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1552 Councilor Pepén called Docket #1552, resolution calling for an immediate housing stabilization response system for Boston residents who involuntarily lose work authorization due to federal changes in immigration policy, from the Committee on Housing and Community Development.
No objection being heard, the matter was properly before the body.
On motion of Councilor Pepén, the resolution was adopted: yeas 9 (Breadon, Coletta Zapata, FitzGerald, Flynn, Louijeune, Murphy, Pepén, Santana, Worrell), not present 1 (Culpepper), absent 3 (Durkan, Mejia, Weber).

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1616 Councilors Flynn and Murphy offered the following: Resolution in support of an investigation by the Massachusetts Secretary of State into incorrect ballots distributed during Early Voting in Boston and maintaining state receivership of Boston Election Department through the 2028 election.
Coletta Zapata in the chair.
On motion of Councilor Flynn, the rules were suspended; the resolution failed to be adopted: yeas 2 (Flynn, Murphy), nays 7 (Breadon, Coletta Zapata, FitzGerald, Louijeune, Pepén, Santana, Worrell), present 1 (Culpepper), absent 3 (Durkan, Mejia, Weber).

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Councilor Worrell, on behalf of the Committee on Environmental Justice, Resiliency, and Parks, submitted the following:

1402 On the message and order, referred on July 22, 2026, Docket #1402, approving the receipt of a Conservation Restriction on land at 190 198 West Eighth Street, Boston, MA 02127. The Grantor’s title of the land is located at Suffolk County Registry of Deeds at Book 71757, Page 35. That description of the land includes all the land in Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts containing the entirety of the parcels of land, totaling 4,655 square feet of land, more or less, known as the Sister Mary Veronica Park, shown as “Lot 5, Lot 6, Lot 7, Lot 8, and Lot 9” on a survey dated August 12, 2025 titled “Plot Plan 190 198 West Eighth Street, South Boston, MA,” and prepared by Joyce Consulting Group, Braintree, Massachusetts, the committee submitted a report recommending that the order ought to pass.
The report was accepted; the order was passed: yeas 10 (Breadon, Coletta Zapata, Culpepper, FitzGerald, Flynn, Louijeune, Murphy, Pepén, Santana, Worrell), absent 3 (Durkan, Mejia, Weber).

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Councilor Worrell, on behalf of the Committee on Environmental Justice, Resiliency, and Parks, submitted the following:

1401 On the message and order, referred on July 22, 2026, Docket #1401, approving the receipt of a Conservation Restriction on land at 0 Dale Street, Boston, MA 02136. The Grantor’s title of the land is located at Suffolk County Registry of Deeds at Book 70459, Page 316. That description of the land includes all the land in Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts containing the entirety of a 44,137± square foot (1.013± acre) parcel of land (“Premises”), which Premises is which land is located at Unnumbered (aka “0”) Dale Street in the Hyde Park District of the City of Boston (numbered in the records of the Assessing Department as Parcel 1808198000), and formerly the property of the former Boston and Providence Railroad Company further bounded and described according to a plan of survey made by Harry R. Feldman, Inc., Civil Engineers and Land Surveyors, Joseph L. Calabro, Jr., Registered Land Surveyor No. 15998, dated January 18, 1993 and recorded at Suffolk County Registry of Deeds Book 24453, Page 302, the committee submitted a report recommending that the order ought to pass.
The report was accepted; the order was passed: yeas 10 (Breadon, Coletta Zapata, Culpepper, FitzGerald, Flynn, Louijeune, Murphy, Pepén, Santana, Worrell), absent 3 (Durkan, Mejia, Weber).

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