City Council Roll Call Votes - Beta
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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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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.
