City Council Meeting

0323    Message and order for your approval a proposed Act to Improve and 
    Modernize Planning and Community Development in the City of Boston.

    0324    Message and order temporarily extending Urban Renewal Plans in the City 
    of Boston until March 31, 2025 or passage of a proposed relevant Home 
    Rule Petition.

    0325    Message and order authorizing the City of Boston to accept and expend the 
    amount of One Million Seven Hundred Twenty Two Thousand Seven 
    Hundred Sixty Four Dollars and Twenty Cents ($1,722,764.20) in the form 
    of a grant for the Local Fire Department Projects and Grants Line Item 
    83240050 of the FY23 State Budget, awarded by Massachusetts 
    Department of Fire Services to be administered by the Fire Department. The 
    grant will fund decontamination equipment, vehicle and maintenance 
    expenses for the Hazard Response Team at the Boston Fire Department.

    0326    Message and order authorizing the City of Boston to accept and expend the 
    amount of Three Hundred Thousand Dollars ($300,000.00) in the form of a 
    grant for the Local Fire Department Project and Grants for the FY23 State 
    Budget Line Item 8240050 awarded by Massachusetts Department of Fire 
    Services to be administered by the Boston Fire Department. The grant will 
    fund renovations at Engine 8/Ladder 1 in the North End, to improve the 
    safety, health and wellness of firefighters.

0327    Message transmitting certain information under Section 17F: relative to the 
    Department of Public Works, Docket #1397), passed by the Council on 
    November 9, 2022.

    0328    Message transmitting certain information under Section 17F: relative to the 
    BPS Transportation, Docket #1421), passed by the Council on November 
    13, 2022.

    0329    Message transmitting certain information under Section 17F: relative to the 
    BPS Facilities, Docket #1396), passed by the Council on November 9, 
    2022.

    0330    Message transmitting certain information under Section 17F: relative to the 
    Mayor's Office of Housing, Docket #1395), passed by the Council on 
    November 9, 2022.

0331    Notice was received from the Mayor of the appointment of Bernadine 
    Desanges as Director of Diversity of the City of Boston.

    0332    Communication was received from the City Clerk of the filing by the 
    Boston Planning and Development Agency of the New Boston Food Market 
    Chapter 121A Project, Certificate of Project Termination.

0114    The Committee on Public Safety and Criminal Justice to which was referred 
    on January 11, 2023, Docket #0114, message and order authorizing the City 
    of Boston to accept and expend the amount of Five Million Dollars 
    ($5,000,000.00) in the form of a grant for the Presidentially Declared 
    Disaster, awarded by Federal Emergency Management Agency, passed 
    through the Massachusetts Emergency Management Agency, to be 
    administered by Risk Management, submits a report recommending that the 
    order ought to pass.

    0115    The Committee on Public Safety and Criminal Justice to which was referred 
    on January 11, 2023, Docket #0115, message and order authorizing the City 
    of Boston to accept and expend the amount of Two Million Two Hundred 
    Fifty Thousand Dollars ($2,250,000.00) in the form of a grant for the FY23 
    State Training Grant, awarded by the Massachusetts Department of Fire 
    Services to be administered by the Fire Department, submits a report 
    recommending that the order ought to pass.

0100    Message and order for your approval an Ordinance establishing the Office 
    of Participatory Budgeting, amending the City of Boston Code, Chapter V, 
    with the insertion of a new Section 5 1.11.
    Filed in the City Clerk's office on December 12, 2022.

    0111    Message and order for your approval an order authorizing the City of 
    Boston to appropriate an amount of Twenty One Million Six Hundred 
    Thousand Dollar ($21,600,000.00) for the purpose of paying the cost of a 
    design and construction associated with boiler, windows and door 
    replacement projects at the following schools: Boston Day and Evening 
    Academy, Henderson Upper School, Rafael Hernandez School and William 
    E. Russell School.
 

0333    Councilor Baker offered the following: Petition for a Special Law RE: An 
    act directing the City of Boston Police Department to waive the maximum 
    age requirement for Police Officers for Wendy Pierre Louis.

    0334    Councilor Lara offered the following: Order for a hearing regarding 
    winter placemaking and Boston as a 'Winter City'.

    0335    Councilor Worrell offered the following: Order for a hearing to bring the 
    2026 NBA All Star Weekend to Boston.

    0336    Councilor Worrell offered the following: Order for a hearing to 
    preemptively plan summer violence mitigation strategies.

    0337    Councilor Worrell offered the following: Order for a hearing regarding 
    efforts to increase housing affordability for long term residents.

    0338    Councilor Worrell offered the following: Order for a hearing regarding 
    equity in city contracts.

    0339    Councilor Flynn offered the following: Order for a meeting to review the 
    Boston City Council rules.

    0340    Councilor Lara offered the following: Order for a hearing to discuss the 
    rise in public consumer energy costs.

    0341    Councilor Murphy offered the following: Order for a hearing to discuss 
    the payroll concerns of many of our Boston Public School teachers who are 
    owed back pay.

    0342    Councilor Lara and Baker offered the following: Order for a hearing to 
    discuss the recovery and revitalization of the taxi industry.

    0343    Councilor Fernandes Anderson and Louijeune offered the following: 
    Order for a hearing regarding calling for a moratorium on all development 
    on all city owned land in district seven prior to the request for proposal 
    process.

    0344    Councilor Flynn offered the following: Resolution to support the 
    Economic Census and to promote response rates in the City of Boston.

    0345    Councilor Lara and Flynn offered the following: Resolution designating 
    a Memorial Hero Square at the intersection of Glen Road and Forest Hills 
    Street in Jamaica Plain in memory of Paul Xavier Hogan.

    0346    Councilor Lara and Mejia offered the following: Resolution recognizing 
    February 27th, 2023 as Dominican Independence Day.
 

0347    Councilor Flynn for Councilor Arroyo offered the following: Order for the 
    appointment of temporary employee Jesus David Linares Marrero in City 
    Council, effective February 4, 2023.

1/23    Legislative Calendar for February 1, 2023.
 

0348    Councilor Flynn offered the following: Resolution recognizing Tufts 
    Medical Center in the Year of the Rabbit.

    0349    Councilor Baker offered the following: Resolution declaring Maurice 
    Le'Tour Winston II day in Boston.

    0350    Councilor Louijeune offered the following: Resolution in memory of 
    Cornelia A. Kelley.

    0351    Councilor Louijeune offered the following: Resolution recognizing 
    Abbot Gilman.

    0352    Councilor Lara offered the following: Resolution Congratulating Bill and 
    Ann Downey.

    0353    Councilor Worrell offered the following: Resolution recognizing Faithful 
    Church of Christ's 90th Anniversary.

    0354    Councilor Worrell offered the following: Resolution in memory of 
    Sandra Porter.

    0355    Councilor Worrell offered the following: Resolution in memory of Willie 
    Hicks, Sr.

    0356    Councilor Flynn offered the following: Resolution recognizing 
    International Holocaust Remembrance Day.

    0357    Councilor Flynn offered the following: Resolution recognizing 7 school 
    teachers and administrators for their coordination of the Student Exchange 
    Program between Boston Latin School and Lycée André Argouges.

    0358    Councilor Flynn offered the following: Resolution recognizing 
    Masai Maliek King.

    0359    Councilor Flynn offered the following: Resolution recognizing Pao Arts 
    Center.

    0360    Councilor Flynn offered the following: Resolution recognizing January 
    27th as International Holocaust Remembrance Day.

    0361    Councilor Baker offered the following: Resolution congratulating Joyce 
    Judge.