City Council Roll Call Votes

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0642 Councilors Durkan, Santana, Breadon, Coletta Zapata, Culpepper, FitzGerald, Flynn, Louijeune, Mejia, Murphy, Pepén, Weber and Worrell offered the following: Resolution recognizing March 31, 2026 as Transgender Day of Visibility.
On motion of Councilors Durkan and Santana, Rule 12 was invoked to include Councilor Breadon as an original co sponsor.
On motion of Councilors Durkan, Santana, and Breadon, the rules were suspended; the resolution was adopted: yeas 13 (Breadon, Coletta Zapata, Culpepper, Durkan, FitzGerald, Flynn, Louijeune, Mejia, Murphy, Pepén, Santana, Weber, Worrell).

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On the message and order, a home rule petition to the General Court
entitled "Petition for a Special Law Re: An Act Relative to Property Tax
Classification in the City of Boston," the committee submitted a report
recommending the petition ought to pass.
On motion of Councilor Coletta Zapata, the rules were suspended; the
petition was passed. yeas 8, nays 4 (FitzGerald, Flynn, Murphy, Worrell),
present 1 (Mejia).

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Councilors Essaibi-George, Arroyo, Bok, Baker, Breadon, Edwards, Campbell, Flynn, Flaherty, Mejia, Wu and O’Malley offered the following: Resolution recognizing Teacher Appreciation Week. On motion of Councilor Essaibi-George, the rules were suspended; the resolution was adopted; yeas 12.

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On the message and order, referred on April 10, 2019 Docket #0642, authorizing a limit for the Boston Police Department revolving fund for Fiscal Year 2020 to support the Canine Unit's training program for officers and police dogs from non-City of Boston law enforcement agencies. The Special Operating Division will charge tuition and other fees to outside law enforcement agencies for the Canine Unit. The tuition and other fees by outside agencies will be used to purchase training equipment, certify instructors, update facilities and provide funds for other training needs not otherwise budgeted. The Special Operations Division will be the only unit authorized to expend from the fund and such expenditures shall be capped at Seventy-Five Thousand Dollars ($75,000.00), the Committee submitted a report recommending the order ought to pass. The report was accepted; the order was passed; yeas 13.

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Councilor Ciommo called Docket #0642, message and order for a loan of Twelve Million One Hundred Seventy-Five Thousand Dollars ( $12,175,000.00) for the construction of municipal recreational athletic facilities, including the acquisition and development of land and the construction and reconstruction for facilities; and/or for developing land for burial purposes and for constructing paths and avenues embellishing the grounds in city-owned cemeteries the grounds in city-owned cemeteries; and/or for the constructions or reconstruction of public wharves; and/or for cost engineering or architectural services for plans and specifications, for the purpose of city departments including the Parks and Recreations Department, from the Assignment sheet. Hearing no objection, the matter was before the body. On motion of Councilor Ciommo, the order was read a second time and again passed; yeas 13.

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On the message and order referred on April 9, 2014 Docket #0642, for a loan of Twelve Million One Hundred Seventy-Five Thousand Dollars ($12,175,000.00) for the construction of municipal recreational athletic facilities, including the acquisition and development of land and the construction and reconstruction for facilities; and/or for developing land for burial purposes and for constructing paths and avenues embellishing the grounds in city-owned cemeteries the grounds in city-owned cemeteries; and/or for the constructions or reconstruction of public wharves; and/or for cost engineering or architectural services for plans and specifications, for the purpose of city departments including the Parks and Recreations Department, the Committee submitted a report recommending the order ought to be read once and passed. The report was accepted; the order was read once and passed; yeas 13. Assigned for further action.

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