City Council Roll Call Votes - Beta
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Roll Call votes
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Amendment of Councilor Tobin that Docket #0986 be amended by adding the following language after the first sentence:- "this approval shall expire one year after the effective date. However, this local hotel tax may be renewed annually, in the manner provided by MGL Chapter 4, Section 4, following a review by the City of local hotel tax revenue received and how such revenue was used."
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Amendment of Councilor Tobin that Docket #0985 be amended by adding the following language after the first sentence:- "this approval shall expire one year after the effective date. However, this local meals excise tax may be renewed annually, in the manner provided by MGL Chapter 4, Section 4, following a review by the City of local meals excise revenue received and how such revenue was used."
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Order filed by the Mayor to declare as surplus the proposed area of 27A Lawrence Street, approximately 125.12+- square feet through the Public Improvement Commission, which will allow for sale of the same to Mr. Guy Grassi, under the terms and conditions deemed most appropriate for the City of Boston. Second Reading to approve order. First Reading of this order took place on July 8, 2009. All Councilors voted in the affirmative on both dates.
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The Committee on Government Operations to which was referred on July 8, 2009, message and order approving a petition for a Special Law relative to An Act Further Defining the Membership of the Franklin Foundation, submits a report recommending the order ought to pass in a new draft.
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The Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred on April 8, 2009, that the provisions of Massachusetts General Law, Chapter 32B, Section 20, as added by Chapter 479 of the Acts of 2008 -An Act Providing for the establishment of Other Post Employment Benefits Liability Trust Funds in Municipalities and Certain Government Units -is hereby accepted by the City of Boston. Be it further ordered that the sum of $25,000,000.00 be, and same hereby is, appropriated to the Other Post Employment Benefits Liability Trust Fund established under Section 20 of the MGL Chapter 32B, and said sum to be met from available fund on hand as certified by the Director of Accounts pursuant to Section 23 of Chapter 59 of the General Laws, is passed.
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The Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred on April 8, 2009, current operating expenses of the School Department in the fiscal period commencing July 1, 2009 and ending June 30, 2010, the sum of $817,121,930.00 be, and the same hereby is, appropriated, said sum to be raised by taxation pursuant to Section 23 of Chapter 59 of the General Laws, is passed.
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The Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred on April 8, 2009, Appropriation and Tax Order for Fiscal Year commencing July 1, 2009 and ending June 30, 2010, is passed.
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Second Reading-Capital Budget-FY2010 - The Committee on Ways and Means to which was referred on April 8, 2009; an order authorizing the City of Boston to enter into one or more lease, lease-purchase or installment sales agreements in Fiscal Year 2010 in an amount not to exceed $8,800,000.00, and in Fiscal Year 2011 in an amount not to exceed $10,560,000.00. These funds are to be used by various city departments for acquisition of equipment in furtherance of their respective governmental functions. The list of equipment includes computer equipment (hardware and software), motor vehicles and trailers, firefighting equipment, office equipment, photocopying equipment, telecommunications equipment, medical equipment, school and educational equipment, school buses, parking meters, street lighting installation, traffic signal equipment and equipment functionally related to, and components of, the foregoing, submits a report recommending the order be read a second time and passed.
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Second Reading-Capital Budget-FY2010 - The Committee on Ways and Means to which was referred on April 8, 2009; an appropriation order in the amount of $305,000.00 for the purposes of planting shade trees, planning, designing, acquiring land for, construction and originally equipping structures and facilities; it is authorized to construct, and for remodeling, reconstructing, or making major alterations, additions and repairs to existing facilities including original equipment and landscaping, paving and other site improvements incidental or directly related to such remodeling, reconstruction or repair, for the purposes of the Parks and Recreation Department, submits a report recommending the order be read a second time and passed.
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Second Reading-Capital Budget-FY2010 - The Committee on Ways and Means to which was referred on April 8, 2009; an appropriation order in the amount of $15,655,000.00 for the development, design, purchase, installation and operation of computer hardware, computer software, other data processing equipment and computer assisted integrated financial management and accounting systems, for the acquisition of departmental equipment, for fire alarm or police communication installations and for the purpose of extending and improving such installations, and/or remodeling, reconstructing or making extraordinary repairs to public buildings owned by the City, including original equipment and landscaping, paving and other site improvements incidental or directly related to such remodeling, reconstruction or repair, for the purposes of city departments including the Management and Information Services Department, submits a report recommending the order be read a second time and passed.
