City Council Roll Call Votes

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On the motion and order, referred on April 13, 2022, Docket #0503, message and order authorizing the City of Boston to accept and expend the amount of Three Hundred Forty Nine Million Five Hundred Thousand Dollars ($349,500,000.00) in the form of a grant, awarded by the United States Department of Treasury, to be administered by the City of Boston’s Chief Financial Officer/Collector Treasurer. This grant payment is made from the Coronavirus State and Local Fiscal Recovery Fund (SLFRF) in the Treasury of the United States established by Section 9901 of the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 (ARPA) Pursuant to the requirements of the ARPA, the grant payment would fund COVID-19 response and recovery efforts and accelerate a Green New Deal for Boston through once-in-a-generation, transformative investments that address the systemic health and economic challenges in the areas of affordable housing, economic opportunity and inclusion, behavioral health, climate and mobility, arts and culture and early childhood, the committee submitted a report recommending the order ought to pass in a new draft. The report was accepted; the order was passed in a new draft; yeas 12, not present 1 (Fernandes Anderson). The report was accepted; the order was passed in a new draft.

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Message and order authorizing the City of Boston to accept and expend the amount of Three Hundred Forty Nine Million Five Hundred Thousand Dollars ($349,500,000.00) in the form of a grant, awarded by the United States Department of Treasury, to be administered by the City of Boston’s Chief Financial Officer/Collector Treasurer. This grant payment is made from the Coronavirus State and Local Fiscal Recovery Fund (SLFRF) in the Treasury of the United States established by Section 9901 of the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 (ARPA) Pursuant to the requirements of the ARPA, the grant payment would fund COVID-19 response and recovery efforts and accelerate a Green New Deal for Boston through once-in-a-generation, transformative investments that address the systemic health and economic challenges in the areas of affordable housing, economic opportunity and inclusion, behavioral health, climate and mobility, arts and culture and early childhood. Councilor Baker offered a motion to Amend Docket #0503 by reducing the Mayor's Office of Housing by $5,000,000.00 dollars and adding $5,000,000.00 dollars for the Dorchester Fieldhouse. Second by Councilor Murphy. The motion was passed; yeas 8, nays 5 (Bok, Breadon, Coletta, Lara and Louijeune). Docket # 0503, as amended, was referred back to the Committee on Boston's COVID-19 Recovery.

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Councilors Bok, Edwards, Breadon, Wu, Flynn, Essaibi-George, Arroyo, Mejia, Flaherty, Campbell and O’Malley offered the following: Resolution in support of An Act to Guarantee a Tenant's Right of First Refusal (HD2984/SD 1672). On motion of Councilors Bok and Edwards, Rule 12 was invoked to include Councilor Breadon as a co-sponsor. On motion of Councilors Bok, Edwards and Breadon, the rules were suspended; the resolution was adopted; yeas 11.

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Second Reading-Capital Budget-FY2010 - The Committee on Ways and Means to which was referred on April 8, 2009; an appropriation order in the amount of $305,000.00 for the purposes of planting shade trees, planning, designing, acquiring land for, construction and originally equipping structures and facilities; it is authorized to construct, and for remodeling, reconstructing, or making major alterations, additions and repairs to existing facilities including original equipment and landscaping, paving and other site improvements incidental or directly related to such remodeling, reconstruction or repair, for the purposes of the Parks and Recreation Department, submits a report recommending the order be read a second time and passed.

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The Committee on Ways and Means to which was referred on April 8, 2009; an appropriation order in the amount of $305,000.00 for the purposes of planting shade trees, planning, designing, acquiring land for, construction and originally equipping structures and facilities; it is authorized to construct, and for remodeling, reconstructing, or making major alterations, additions and repairs to existing facilities including original equipment and landscaping, paving and other site improvements incidental or directly related to such remodeling, reconstruction or repair, for the purposes of the Parks and Recreation Department, submits a report recommending the order to be read once, passed and assigned for further action.

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