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0321 Councilor Santana called Docket #0321, message and order authorizing the City of Boston to accept and expend the amount of One Hundred Forty Thousand Four Hundred Twenty Six Dollars ($140,426.00) in the form of a grant, the FY25 Port Security Grant, awarded by Federal Emergency Management Agency to be administered by the Fire Department. The grant would fund strengthened port wide risk management and protection of critical surface transportation infrastructure from acts of terrorism, major disasters, and other emergencies, from the Committee on Public Safety and Criminal Justice.
No objection being heard, the matter was properly before the body.
On motion of Councilor Santana, the order passed: yeas 13 (Breadon, Coletta Zapata, Culpepper, Durkan, FitzGerald, Flynn, Louijeune, Mejia, Murphy, Pepén, Santana, Weber, Worrell).

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0707 Councilors Flynn, Breadon, Coletta Zapata, Culpepper, Durkan, FitzGerald, Louijeune, Mejia, Murphy, Pepén, Santana, Weber and Worrell offered the following: Resolution in support of renaming the West Broadway Community Garden in honor of Kimberly Parker.
On motion of Councilor Flynn, 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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0706 Councilors Louijeune, Breadon, Coletta Zapata, Culpepper, Durkan, FitzGerald, Flynn, Mejia, Murphy, Pepén, Santana and Worrell offered the following: Resolution recognizing the independence of The Republic Of Senegal and the raising of the Senegal Flag at Boston City Hall.
On motion of Councilor Louijeune, 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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0705 Councilors Culpepper, Flynn and Murphy offered the following: Resolution urging the Governor to suspend the gas tax.
Councilor Breadon in the chair.
On motion of Councilor Culpepper, the rules were suspended; the resolution was not adopted: yeas 4 (Culpepper, Flynn, Murphy, Worrell), nays 8 (Breadon, Coletta Zapata, Durkan, FitzGerald, Louijeune, Pepén, Santana, Weber), present 1 (Mejia).

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0704 Councilors Worrell, Louijeune, Breadon, Coletta Zapata, Culpepper, Durkan, FitzGerald, Flynn, Mejia, Murphy, Pepén, Santana and Weber offered the following: Resolution recognizing April as Fair Housing Month.
Councilor Coletta Zapata in the chair.
On motion of Councilor Worrell, Rule 12 was invoked to include Councilors Louijeune and Breadon as original co sponsors.
On motion of Councilors Worrell, Louijeune, 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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0703 Councilors Mejia, Pepén, Santana, Breadon, Coletta Zapata, Culpepper, Durkan, FitzGerald, Flynn, Louijeune, Murphy, Weber and Worrell offered the following: Resolution declaring April 2, 2026 "Cardi B Day" in the City of Boston.
On motion of Councilor Mejia, Rule 12 was invoked to include Councilors Pepén and Santana as original co sponsors.
On motion of Councilors Mejia, Pepén, and Santana, 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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0702 Councilors Culpepper, Mejia, Worrell, Breadon, Coletta Zapata, Durkan, FitzGerald, Louijeune, Pepén, Santana and Weber offered the following: Resolution demanding that the United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement does not staff vacant TSA positions at Boston Logan International Airport.
On motion of Councilor Culpepper, Rule 12 was invoked to include Councilors Mejia and Worrell as original co sponsors.
On motion of Councilors Culpepper, Mejia, and Worrell, the rules were suspended; the resolution was adopted: yeas 12 (Breadon, Coletta Zapata, Culpepper, Durkan, FitzGerald, Louijeune, Mejia, Murphy, Pepén, Santana, Weber, Worrell), nays 1 (Flynn).

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0701 Councilors Culpepper, Mejia, Worrell, Breadon, Coletta Zapata, Durkan, FitzGerald, Louijeune, Murphy, Pepén, Santana and Weber offered the following: Resolution in support of the "DHS Use of Force Transparency Act."
On motion of Councilor Culpepper, Rule 12 was invoked to include Councilors Mejia and Worrell as original co sponsors.
On motion of Councilors Culpepper, Mejia, and Worrell, 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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0620 On the message and order, referred on March 25, 2026, Docket #0620, for a supplemental appropriation order for the Boston Public Schools Department for FY26 in the amount of One Million, Forty Six Thousand, One Hundred Seventy Eight Dollars ($1,046,178.00) to cover the FY26 cost items contained within the collective bargaining agreements between the School Committee of the City of Boston and the United Steelworkers 2936 (Bus Monitors). The terms of the contracts are July 1, 2025 through June 30, 2028. The major provisions of the contracts include base wage increases of 2% to be given in July of each fiscal year of the contract term, as well as a
$1/hr flat increase in January, 2026 and a $0.70/hr flat increase (for assigned monitors only) in January, 2028, the committee submitted a report recommending that the order ought to be passed.
The report was accepted; the order was passed: yeas 13 (Breadon, Coletta Zapata, Culpepper, Durkan, FitzGerald, Flynn, Louijeune, Mejia, Murphy, Pepén, Santana, Weber, Worrell).

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0619 On the message and order, referred on March 25, 2026, Docket #0619, to reduce the FY26 appropriation for the Reserve for Collective Bargaining by One Million, Forty Six Thousand, One Hundred Seventy Eight Dollars ($1,046,178.00) to provide funding for the Boston Public Schools for the FY26 increases contained within the collective bargaining agreements between the School Committee of the City of Boston and the United Steelworkers 2936 (Bus Monitors), the committee submitted a report recommending that the order ought to be passed.
The report was accepted; the order was passed: yeas 13 (Breadon, Coletta Zapata, Culpepper, Durkan, FitzGerald, Flynn, Louijeune, Mejia, Murphy, Pepén, Santana, Weber, Worrell).

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