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0759 On the message and order, referred on April 8, 2026, authorizing the City of Boston to accept and expend the amount of Ten Million Nine Hundred Twenty Five Thousand One Hundred Forty Dollars and Seven Cents ($10,925,140.07) in the form of a grant, FY26 Counter Unmanned Aircraft Systems (C UAS) Grant Program, awarded by United States Department of Homeland Security, passed through the MA Executive Office of Public Safety & Security, to be administered by the Police Department. The grant would fund increasing BPD's ability to detect, identify, track and monitor unmanned aircraft systems within the City of Boston, the committee submitted a report recommending that the order ought to pass.
The report was accepted; the order was passed: yeas 12 (Breadon, Coletta Zapata, Culpepper, Durkan, FitzGerald, Flynn, Louijeune, Murphy, Pepén, Santana, Weber, Worrell), present 1 (Mejia).

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Councilor Murphy offered the following: Order requesting certain information under section 17F re: regarding Redistricting Correspondence Shared with Attorney John Lyons. On motion of Councilor Murphy, the rules were suspended; the order failed to pass; yeas 6, nays 6 (Arroyo, Coletta, Fernandes Anderson, Lara, Louijeune, Mejia). Placed on file.

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Councilor Wu called Docket #0759, a resolution urging the MBTA to protect free movement and peaceful assembly with reliable public transit services during public demonstrations. No objection being heard, the matter was before the body. On motion of Councilor Wu the rules were suspended; the resolution was adopted; yeas 12, nays 1(Baker)

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Councilors Wu, Mejia, Bok, Breadon, Essaibi-George, Flynn, Arroyo, Janey, Mejia, O’Malley and Wu offered the following: Resolution urging the MBTA to protect free movement and peaceful assembly with reliable public transit services during public demonstrations. Councilors Wu and Mejia invoked Rule 12 to include Councilor Bok as an original co-sponsor. Referred to the Committee on Planning, Development and Transportation; yeas 12, nays 2. (Baker, Flaherty)

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