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On the message and order authorizing the City of Boston to accept and expend the amount of Forty Million Dollars ($40,000,000.00) in the form of a grant, awarded by the United States Department of the Treasury to be administered by the City of Boston’s Chief Financial Officer/Collector Treasurer. This grant payment is made from the Coronavirus State and Local Fiscal Recovery Fund (CLFRF) in the Treasury of the United States established by Section 9901 of the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 (ARPA). Pursuant to the requirements of ARPA, the grant payment would fund provisions of government services to the extent of the reduction in revenue of such State, territory, or Tribal government due to the COVID-19 public health emergency relative to revenues collected in the most recent full fiscal year of the State, territory or Tribal government prior to the emergency, the committee submitted a report recommending that the order ought to pass. The report was accepted; the order was passed; yeas 13.

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Message and order authorizing the City of Boston to accept and expend the amount of Three Hundred Forty Nine Million Five Hundred Thousand Dollars ($349,500,000.00) in the form of a grant, awarded by the United States Department of Treasury, to be administered by the City of Boston’s Chief Financial Officer/Collector Treasurer. This grant payment is made from the Coronavirus State and Local Fiscal Recovery Fund (SLFRF) in the Treasury of the United States established by Section 9901 of the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 (ARPA) Pursuant to the requirements of the ARPA, the grant payment would fund COVID-19 response and recovery efforts and accelerate a Green New Deal for Boston through once-in-a-generation, transformative investments that address the systemic health and economic challenges in the areas of affordable housing, economic opportunity and inclusion, behavioral health, climate and mobility, arts and culture and early childhood. Councilor Baker offered a motion to Amend Docket #0503 by reducing the Mayor's Office of Housing by $5,000,000.00 dollars and adding $5,000,000.00 dollars for the Dorchester Fieldhouse. Second by Councilor Murphy. The motion was passed; yeas 8, nays 5 (Bok, Breadon, Coletta, Lara and Louijeune). Docket # 0503, as amended, was referred back to the Committee on Boston's COVID-19 Recovery.

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Message and order for Amended Annual Appropriation and Tax Order for FY2023. On motion of Councilor Fernandes Anderson as Chair of the Committee on Ways and Means will be recommending overrides to the Mayor's Annual Appropriation and Tax Order return and modification as follows: Partial override #1: 1. Increase Black Male Advancement Personnel Services, $600,000 to expand the office capacity (adding $400,000 to the line on the tax order). 2. Increase Office of Human Services (Office of Returning Citizens) Contractual Services, $800,000 to increase capacity in the Office of Returning Citizens (adding $500,000 to the line on the tax order). 3. Increase OEOI Contractual Services, $100,000 to commission a citywide life insurance study. 4. Increase City Clerk Contractual Services, $200,000 to procure codification services for the review and recodification of the City of Boston Code-Ordinances and the Special Acts relating to the City of Boston, including the City Charter. 5. Increase BCYF Personnel Services, $120,000 for youth workers to support programming for youth residents of BHA Commonwealth Apartments and BHA Faneuil Gardens. 6. Increase BPHC (Special Appropriation), $160,000 to provide salary increases of $20,000 for each FTE at Boston Youth Development Network. 7. Increase MOH Special Appropriation, $400,000 to BHA for the city housing voucher program, with set asides for project-basing at IDP units to buy deeper affordability, returning citizens, and BHA homeownership pilot launch, with the additional direction that this funding be used for a pilot for housing stipends for young people aged 19-24. 8. Increase Parks & Recreation Department Personnel Services, $688,373 for departmental capacity regarding tree maintenance (adding $144,186 to the line on the tax order). The increase overrides will be balanced by the following decrease overrides: 1. BFD Equipment: $400,000 2. BFD Equipment: $750,000 3. Law Contractual: $250,000 4. OBM Personnel: $130,000 5. DoIT Personnel: $160,000 6. BFD Contractual: $400,000 Councilor Fernandes Anderson requested a roll call of Partial Override #1 Recess President Flynn asked the Clerk to read Partial Override # 1 into the recorded. President Flynn asked the Clerk for a roll call vote of Partial Override #1 yeas 13. Councilor Lara offered a motion to Amend the Committee on Ways and Means recommended Overrides by: (a) striking out Partial Override #2 (b) in Partial Override #3, striking out "Decrease BPD Personnel Services (line 51200, Overtime) to"; and adding "The additional $2,410,000 will be offset by the following decrease overrides: BPD Contractual Services - $688,373, BPD Contractual Services - $100,000 and BPD Equipment - $1,700,000." so that the revised Partial Override #3 reads as follows: "increase YEE Contractual Services $4,606,667 to fully fund 6000 youth summer jobs and account for a pay adjustment ($2,746,667) and to fully fund 1,500 youth year-round jobs ($1,860,000), with the additional direction that $500,000 of the YEE contractual services funds be used for experiential learning opportunities for youth and the rest to be used for a partnership program between area high schools and colleges to create employment for low-income college students and academic support and employment opportunities for high school students (adding $2,410,000 to the line on the tax order, restoring the Council's $8,689,453). The additional $2,410,000 will be offset by the following decrease overrides: BPD Contractual Services - $688,373, BPD Contractual Services - $100,000 and BPD Equipment - $1,700,000. Second by Councilor Arroyo. The motion was passed; yeas 8, nays 5 (Baker, Bok, Flaherty, Flynn Murphy). Councilor Fernandes Anderson moves to proceed with Revised Partial Override Number #3. Councilor Fernandes Anderson requested a roll call vote on Revised Partial Override #3; yeas 8, nays 5 (Baker, Bok, Flaherty, Flynn and Murphy). Override Failed. Dockets #0762 and #0763 are overridden in Part and Constitute Approval of the FY22 Budget.

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On the message and order, referred on March 30, 2022, Docket #0435, Petition for a Special Law re: An act authorizing the City of Boston to grant four additional licenses for the sale of alcoholic beverages to be drunk on the specified premises, the committee submitted a report recommending the petition ought to pass in a new draft. The report was accepted; the petition was passed in a new draft; yeas 13.

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Communication was received from Council President Ed Flynn calling for the election of City Clerk for the City of Boston on June 29, 2022, and ending on February 3, 2025. President Flynn nominates Alex Geourntas. Councilor Flaherty moved to second. Motion Prevailed. On motion of President Flynn, a roll was called with the following result. For Alex Geourntas- Councilors Arroyo, Baker, Bok, Breadon, Coletta, Fernandes Anderson, Flaherty, Flynn, Lara, Louijeune, Mejia, Murphy and Worrell -13. Alex Geourntas, having received thirteen unanimous votes, was declared elected City Clerk for a three year term ending on February 3, 2025. Placed on file.

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Councilors Fernandes Anderson, Louijeune, Lara, Mejia, Arroyo, Bok, Baker, Flynn, Coletta, Flaherty and Murphy offered the following: Resolution to Acknowledge, Condemn and Apologize for the Role Played by the City of Boston in the Trans Atlantic Slave Trade and the Ongoing Detrimental Impacts Experienced by the Black People of Boston. On motion of Councilor Fernandes Anderson, Rule 12 was invoked to include Councilors Louijeune and Lara as co sponsors. On motion of Councilors Fernandes Anderson, Louijeune and Lara, the rules were suspended, the resolution was adopted; yeas 12.

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On the message and order, referred on May 25, 2022, Docket #0653, for your approval an Order authorizing the Parks and Recreation Commission, on behalf of the City of Boston, to acquire by an eminent domain taking two parcels on the western shore of Sprague Pond at 0 4 Lakeside Avenue in Hyde Park as a permanently protected parkland to be known as the Sprague Pond Shoreline Reserve and to use Community Preservation Fund monies appropriated to the Parks and Recreation Department to award damages as determined by the Commission, the committee submitted a report recommending the order ought to pass. The report was accepted; the order was passed; yeas 12.

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On the motion and order, referred on March 30, 2022, Docket #0432, for your approval a home rule petition to the General Court entitled “Petition for a Special Law Re: An Act relative to 30B,” the committee submitted a report recommending the petition ought to pass in a new draft. The report was accepted; the petition was passed in a new draft; yeas 12.

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On the message and order, referred on April 13, 2022 Docket #0480, for Annual Appropriation and Tax Order for FY2023, the committee submitted a report recommending the order ought to pass in an amended draft. The report was accepted; the order was passed as amended; yeas 13.

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On the message and order, referred on April 13, 2022 Docket #0488, approving an appropriation of Five Hundred Fifty Million Three Hundred Seventy Thousand Dollars ($550,370,000.00) for the acquisition of interests in land or the acquisition of assets, or the landscaping, alteration, remediation, rehabilitation improvement of public land, the construction, reconstruction, rehabilitation, improvement, alteration, remodeling, enlargement, demolition, removal or extraordinary repairs of public buildings, facilities, assets, works or infrastructure; for the cost of feasibility studies or engineering or architectural services for plans and specifications; for the development, design, purchase and installation of computer hardware or software and computer-assisted integrated financial management and accounting systems; and any and all cost incidental or related to the above described projects; for the purposes of various city departments included Boston Center for Youth and Families, Department of Innovation and Technology, Environment, Fire, Neighborhood Development, Office of Arts and Culture, Parks and Recreation, Police, Property Management, Public Works and Transportation Departments, Boston Public Library, Boston Redevelopment Authority and Public Health Commission, the Committee submitted a report recommending the order ought to be read once and passed; yeas 13. Assigned for further action.

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