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City Council meeting

The City Council is holding a meeting on November 7 at 12 p.m.

All meetings are open to the public. You can also watch meetings on Comcast channel 8, RCN channel 82, Verizon channel 1964, and online at Boston.gov.

PLEASE NOTE

The schedule for meetings is subject to change at the call of the City Council president.

Discussion Topics

  1. APPROVAL OF THE MINUTES:
  2. COMMUNICATIONS FROM HIS HONOR, THE MAYOR:

    1612 Message and order for your approval an order authorizing the City of Boston to appropriate the amount of Six Million Five Hundred Thousand Dollars ($6,500,000.00) from the City's Capital Grant Fund to address the impact of transportation network services on municipal roads,bridges, and other transportation infrastructure or any other public purpose substantially related to the operation of transportation network services in the city.

    1613 Message and order authorizing the City of Boston to accept and expend the amount of Nine Hundred Sixty-Six Thousand Nine Thirty-Two Dollars ($966,932.00) in the form of the FFY19 Title lll-B: Supportive Services, awarded by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, passed through the MA Executive Office of Elder Affairs, to be administered by the Elderly Commission.The grant will fund a comprehensive and coordinated health and social service system, which assists elders to maintained independent living on their communities as long as desired.

    1614 Message and order for your approval a Declaration of Trust entitled " The Make Boston Shine Trust Fund". This trust will further promote the public health, safety, convenience and welfare by encouraging civic engagement, unity, and a sense of neighborhood pride and ownership by supporting residents and community group in service projects to beautify.

    1615 Message and order authorizing the City of Boston to accept and expend the amount of Seventy-Eight Thousand Nine Hundred Eight-Four Dollars ($78,984.00) in the form grant, Title III-D Preventive Health, awarded by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, passed through the MA Executive Office of Elder Affairs, to be administered by the Elderly Commission. The grant will fund information and services to improve the health of seniors in Boston.

    1616 Message and order authorizing the City of Boston to accept a donation of Thirty Thousand Dollars ($30,000.00) worth of Naloxone kits from AETNA via the Boston Public Health Commission (BPHC). BPHC staff in conjunction with the Mayor's Office of Recovery Services will engage in a series of overdose prevention training with staff from the City's Property Management Department, Inspectional Services Department, Parks & Recreation Department and the Boston Fire Department. The training will be part of a pilot program that the City envisions expanding to other City department, so that staff are trained in overdose prevention and have access to overdose reversal kits.

    1617 Message and order to reduce the FY19 appropriation for the Reserve for Collective Bargaining by Sixteen Thousand Seventy-Seven Dollars ($16,077.00) to provide funding for the  for the FY19 increases contained within the collective bargaining agreements between the Boston School Committee and AFSCME Council 93, Local 230A (Storekeepers)

    1618 Message and order approving a supplemental appropriation of Sixteen Thousand Seventy -Seven Dollars ($16,077.00) for the Boston Public Schools for FY19, to cover the FY19 cost items contained within the collective bargaining agreements between the Boston School Committee and AFSCME Council 93, Local 230A (Storekeepers). The terms of the contracts are September 1, 2016 through August 31, 2017 and September 1, 2017 through August 31, 2020. The major provisions of the contract include base wage increases of 2% effective the first pay period of December of each fiscal year. The agreements also contain other benefits including new steps.  As originally presented to you, the FY19 budget request included a Reserve for Collective Bargaining- a separate appropriation to fund projected collective bargaining increases.

    1619 Message and order authorizing the City of Boston to accept and expend the amount of Fourteen Thousand Seven Hundred Sixty-Five Dollars and Fifty-Six Cents ($14,765.56) in the form of a grant, Title lll-D Preventive Health, awarded by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, passed through the Ma Executive Office of Elder Affairs, to be administered by the Elderly Commission. The grant will fund information and services to improve the health of seniors in Boston. This Council Order supplements the preliminary FY17 allocation referenced in Docket #0142, with the final FY17 allocation of $12,544.00 plus $2,221.56 carried over from 2017.

    1620 Message and order authorizing the Mayor's Office to accept a donation of a two wooden city seal from the Massachusetts College of Art and Design.  The seal will be laser cut by student technicians. The seal will be used daily in City programs as part of the Mayor's podium in furtherance of our efforts to continue supporting the development of the local creative economy.

  3. REPORTS OF COMMITTEES:

    1094 The Committee on Government Operations, to which was referred on July 11, 2018 Docket #1094, an ordinance regarding repayment of back taxes, submits a report recommending the ordinance ought to pass in a new draft.

  4. MOTIONS, ORDERS AND RESOLUTIONS:

    1621 Councilor Ciommo offered the following:Order that pursuant to Chapter 40, section 56, the residential factor in the City of Boston for FY2019 shall be the minimum residential factor as determined by the Commissioner of Revenue pursuant to M. G. L. Chapter 58, section 1A and be it further that pursuant to Chapter 59, section 5C, as amended, a residential exemption in the amount of value equal to thirty five percent (35%) of the average assessed value of all Class One-Residential parcels in the City of Boston be, and hereby is approved for Fiscal Year 2019.

    1622 Councilors Edwards and Wu offered the following: Order for a hearing regarding pension fund disclosure, socially responsible investment and reinvestment.

    1623 Councilor Zakim offered the following: Order for a hearing regarding the use of Public Ways.

  5. PERSONNEL ORDERS:

    1624 Councilor Campbell for Councilor Ciommo offered the following: Order for the appointment of temporary employees Deborah Glennon, Thomas R. Jackson, Kevin McLaughlin, and Daniel Polanco in City Council effective November 3, 2018.

    1625 Councilor Campbell for Councilor Ciommo offered the following: Order for the appointment of temporary employees Deborah Glennon, Thomas R. Jackson, Kevin McLaughlin, and Daniel Polanco in City Council effective November 10, 2018.

    1626 Councilor Campbell for Councilor Flynn offered the following: Order for the appointment of temporary employee Charles Levin in City Council.

    1627 Councilor Campbell for Councilor Janey offered the following: Order for the appointment of temporary employee Makayla Parkin in City Council.

  6. GREEN SHEETS:

    Legislative Calendar for November 7, 2018.

  7. CONSENT AGENDA:

    1628 Councilor Ciommo offered the following: Resolution in memory of Eileen Cummings.

    1629 Councilor Flynn and Flaherty offered the following: Resolution congratulating Trillium Brewing.

    1630 Councilor Flynn and Flaherty offered the following: Resolution recognizing The Family of the Late William Miller.

    1631 Councilor Pressley offered the following: Resolution recognizing, thirteen people for your humility in serving, honoring and learning from refugees, the emerging leaders of a peaceful world.

    1632 Councilor Janey offered the following: Resolution recognizing Catherine Hardaway.

    1633 Councilors O'Malley and McCarthy offered the following: Resolution in memory of Michael W. Duggan.

    1634 Councilor Ciommo offered the following: Resolution recognizing Patricia Delahanty.

    1635 Councilor O'Malley offered the following: Resolution recognizing the 100th anniversary of Corporal William E. Canary's passing.

    1636 Councilor McCarthy offered the following: Resolution in memory of Edward J Paris.

    1637 Councilor McCarthy offered the following: Resolution in memory of Stephen Zaylor.

    1638 Councilors Flynn and Flaherty offered the following resolution: Recognizing Arelis Arias.

    1639 Councilors Flynn, Flaherty, Wu, Pressley and Essaibi-George offered the following: Resolution recognizing Christopher Gayle.

    1640 Councilors Flynn, Flaherty, Wu, Pressley and Essaibi-George offered the following: Resolution recognizing Katie Donovan.

    1641 Councilors Flynn, Flaherty, Wu, Pressley and Essaibi-George offered the following: Resolution recognizing Taryn Mahoney Powers.

    1642 Councilor Pressley offered the following: Resolution recognizing seven people  for your ongoing dedication to the Urban Farming Institute's mission of Growing Food, Growing People and Growing Farm Sites and for your overall love of the people in our communities.

    1643 Councilors Flynn and Flaherty offered the following: Resolution recognizing Joe Cook.

    1644 Councilors Flynn, Flaherty, Essaibi George, Wu, and Pressley offered the following: Resolution recognizing Wang YMCA.

    1645 Councilors Flynn, Flaherty, Essaibi George, Wu, and Pressley offered the following: Resolution recognizing IBA.

    1646 Councilors Flynn, Flaherty, Wu, and Pressley offered the following: Resolution recognizing Sarah Hutt.

    1647 Councilor Pressley offered the following: Resolution recognizing the Federation for children with special needs.

    1648 Councilors Flynn and Flaherty offered the following: Resolution congratulating Dien Hong Foundation.

    1649 Councilors Flaherty and Flynn offered the following: Resolution congratulating Johendry Gonzalez.

    1650 Councilors Flaherty and Flynn offered the following: Resolution congratulating William Higgins Sr.

    1651 Councilors Flaherty and Flynn offered the following: Resolution congratulating Phyllis Fandel.

    1652 Councilor Ciommo offered the following: Resolution recognizing Susan Ruth Pearce.

    1653 Councilor Flaherty offered the following: Resolution in memory of Boston Police Sargent Daniel P. Bausemer.

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