City Council Roll Call Votes - Beta
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On the message and order, referred on April 13, 2022 Docket #0484, authorizing the City of Boston to enter into one or more leases, lease-purchase or installment sales agreements in Fiscal Year 2023 in an amount not to exceed Thirty Six Million Dollars ($36,000,000.00). These funds are to be used by various City departments for the acquisition of equipment in furtherance of their respective governmental functions. The list of equipment includes: computer equipment (hardware and software), motor vehicles and trailers, ambulances, firefighting equipment, office equipment, telecommunications equipment, photocopying 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, 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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On the message and order, referred on April 13, 2022 Docket #0483, approving an appropriation of One Million Six Hundred Thousand Dollars ($1,600.000.00) 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. Such funds will be transferred and credited to the Capital Grant Fund from revenue received from the Commonwealth Transportation Infrastructure Enhancement Trust Fund; the committee submitted a report recommending the order ought to pass. The report was accepted; the order was passed; yeas 13.
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0482 On the message and order, referred on April 13, 2022 Docket #0482, approving an appropriation of Forty Million Dollars ($40,000,000.00) to the Other Post-Employment Benefits (OPEB) Liability Trust Fund established under Section 20 of Massachusetts General Law Chapter 32B, the committee submitted a report recommending the order ought to pass. The report was accepted; the order was passed; yeas 13.
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0481 On the message and order, referred on April 13, 2022 Docket #0481, for Annual Appropriation for the School Department for FY2023, the committee submitted a report recommending the order ought to pass. The report was accepted; the order was passed in a new draft yeas 10 nays 3 (Baker, Flaherty and Murphy).
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Councilors Mejia, Arroyo, Bok, Breadon, Fernandes Anderson, Flynn, Lara, Louijeune, Murphy and Coletta offered the following: Resolution Opposing State Receivership for Boston Public Schools. On motion of Councilor Mejia, Rule 12 was invoked to include Councilors, Arroyo and Louijeune as co sponsors. On motion of Councilor Mejia, the rules were suspended; the resolution was adopted; yeas 10, nays 1(Baker), absent 1(Flaherty).
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Councilors Mejia, Arroyo, Bok, Breadon, Fernandes Anderson, Flynn, Lara, Louijeune, Murphy and Coletta offered the following: Resolution Opposing State Receivership for Boston Public Schools. On motion of Councilor Mejia, Rule 12 was invoked to include Councilors Arroyo and Louijeune as co sponsors. On motion of Councilor Mejia, the rules were suspended; the resolution was adopted; yeas 10, nays 1(Baker), absent 1(Flaherty).
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Councilors Breadon, Arroyo, Baker, Bok, Fernandes Anderson, Flaherty, Flynn, Lara, Louijeune, Mejia, Murphy and Worrell offered the following: Resolution supporting the naming of the Children's Room in the Faneuil Branch of the Boston Public Library as "JaiJai's Room" in memory of Jairam Miguel Rodrigues Rao. On motion of Councilor Breadon, the rules were suspended; the resolution was adopted; yeas 12.
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On the message and ordinance referred on March 2, 2022, Docket #0312, for your approval an Ordinance regarding targeted residential picketing, to protect the quality of residential life in our city, the committee submitted a report recommending that the order ought to pass in a new draft. Councilor Arroyo moved for substitution. Motion prevailed. The report was accepted; the ordinance as substituted was passed in a new draft; yeas 9 nays 4 (Baker Lara, Mejia and Murphy).
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0314 On the message and order referred on March 2, 2022 Docket #0314, for you approval an Order for a short term extension of nine (9) of the fourteen (14) remaining urban renewal plans in Boston, the committee submitted a report recommending that the order ought to pass in a new draft. Councilor Baker moved for substitution. Motion prevailed. The report was accepted; the order, as substituted was passed in a new draft; yeas 13.
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The Committee on Government Operations, to which was referred on February 2, 2022, Docket #0222, message and order for your approval a Home Rule petition to the General Court entitled “Petition for a Special Law Re: An Act Relative to Real Estate Transfer Fees and Senior Property Tax Relief”, submits a report recommending that the home rule petition ought to pass in a new draft. The report was accepted; the order was passed; yeas 11, nays 1 (Baker).
