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Councilor Baker called Docket #0265, An order authorizing the City of Boston to accept and expend a grant funded through 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) awarded by the United States Department of the Treasury for $10,000,000.00, from the Committee on Boston's COVID-19's Recovery. No objection being heard the matter was before the body. Councilor Baker moved to amend Docket #0265 from $10,000,000.00 to $5,000,000.00. Second by Councilor Murphy Motion Prevailed; yeas 12; (Absent 1 Mejia). Docket #0265 as amended did not Pass; yeas 5 (Baker, Flaherty, Flynn Murphy and Worrell), nays 7 (Arroyo, Bok, Breadon, Coletta, Fernandes Anderson, Lara and Louijeune). (Absent 1 Mejia)

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Message and Ordinances Amending City of Boston Code, Ordinances, Chapter XV, Section X and Establishing the Boston Fair Chance Act. Referred to the Committee on Government Operations. Councilor Arroyo seeks suspension of rule 33 to vote on this matter today. Hearing no objection, the matter was before the body. On motion of Councilor Arroyo, the rules were suspended; the ordinance was passed; yeas 10; nays 0. The rules were suspended; the ordinance was passed.

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Councilors Mejia, Arroyo, Baker, Bok, Breadon, Coletta, Fernandes Anderson, Flaherty, Flynn, Lara, Louijeune and Murphy offered the following: Resolution recognizing August 14, 2022 as Dominican Cultural Day in the City of Boston. On motion of Councilor Mejia, the rules were suspended, the resolution was adopted; yeas 12.

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On the motion and order, referred on April 13, 2022, Docket #0503, 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, the committee submitted a report recommending the order ought to pass in a new draft. The report was accepted; the order was passed in a new draft; yeas 12, not present 1 (Fernandes Anderson). The report was accepted; the order was passed in a new draft.

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Councilor Fernandes Anderson called Docket #0486, message and order, referred on April 13, 2022 Docket #0486, approving an appropriation One Hundred Thirty Eight Million Five Hundred Thirty Five Thousand Dollars ($138,535,000.00) for the acquisition of interests in land or the acquisition of assets, or the landscaping, alteration, remediation, rehabilitation, or 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 the Boston Public Schools, from the Committee on Ways and Means. Hearing no objection, the matter was before the body. On motion of Councilor Fernandes Anderson, the order was read a second time and again passed; yeas 13.

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Councilor Fernandes Anderson called Docket #00485, 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, from the Committee on Ways and Means. Hearing no objection, the matter was before the body. On motion of Councilor Fernandes Anderson, the order was read a second time and again passed; yeas 13.

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Councilor Fernandes Anderson called Docket #0484, 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, from the Committee on Ways and Means. Hearing no objection, the matter was before the body. On motion of Councilor Fernandes Anderson, the order was read a second time and again passed; yeas 13.

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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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