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Roll Call votes
Description:
Resolution in support of
MCAS.
On motion of Councilor Murphy, the rules were suspended; the resolution
was not adopted; yeas 1, nays 7 (Fernandes Anderson, Louijeune, Mejia,
Pepén, Santana, Weber and Worrell), present 3 (Breadon, Coletta Zapata,
FitzGerald), absent 2 (Durkan, Flynn).
Votes:
Description:
Councilor Worrell called Docket #0678, an order authorizing the City of
Boston to enter into one or more lease, lease purchase or installment sales
agreements in Fiscal Year 2025 in an amount not to exceed Forty Million
Dollars ($40,000,000.00). 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 Worrell, the order was read a second time and
again passed; yeas 11; nays 2 (Breadon, Mejia).
Votes:
Description:
Councilor Worrell called Docket #0677, authorizing an appropriation order
in the amount of Two Hundred Forty Million Three Hundred Seventy Five
Thousand Dollars ($240,375,000.00) for various capital improvement
purposes for the Boston Public Schools, from the Committee on Ways and
Means.
Hearing no objection, the matter was before the body.
On motion of Councilor Worrell, the order was read a second time and
again passed; yeas 11; nays 2 (Breadon, Mejia).
Votes:
Description:
Councilor Worrell called Docket #0676, an appropriation order in the
amount of One Hundred Eighty Four Million Seven Hundred Eighty
Thousand Dollars ($184,780,000.00) for various capital improvement
purposes for city departments including the Boston Center for Youth and
Families, Boston Housing Authority, Boston Planning and Development
Agency, Boston Public Library, Environment, Fire, Mayor’s Office of
Housing, Office of Arts and Culture, Parks and Recreation, Police, Property
Management, Public Works, and the Transportation Departments, from the
Committee on Ways and Means.
Hearing no objection, the matter was before the body.
On motion of Councilor Worrell, the order was read a second time and
again passed; yeas 12, nays 1 (Breadon).
Councilor Mejia motioned to reconsider her vote; Yeas 12, present
1 (Pepen).
Docket #0676 received a second reading and again passed; yeas 11, nays 2
(Breadon, Mejia).
Votes:
Description:
Councilors Fernandes Anderson, Breadon, Coletta Zapata, Durkan,
FitzGerald, Flynn, Louijeune, Mejia, Murphy, Pepén, Santana, Weber
and Worrell offered the following: Resolution to recognize and celebrate
the independence of Cabo Verde and to declare July as Cabo Verdean
Heritage Month.
On motion of Councilor Fernandes Anderson, the rules were suspended; the
resolution was adopted; yeas 13.
Votes:
Description:
Councilor Murphy called Docket #0401, order for a resolution calling for
"Sundays for All", from the Committee on Education.
Pursuant to Rule 24, the matter was properly before the Council; yeas 9,
nays 1 (Durkan), absent 3 (Breadon, Coletta Zapata, Mejia).
On motion of Councilor Murphy, the order failed to pass; yeas 6, nays 2,
present 3 (Breadon, Louijeune, Santana), not present 2 (Coletta Zapata,
Mejia).
Votes:
Description:
Councilor Worrell called Docket #0671, message and order for Annual
Appropriation for the School Department for FY2025, from the Committee
on Ways and Means. No objection being heard, the matter was before the
body.
On motion of Councilor Worrell, the order was passed; yeas 10, nays 3
(Breadon, Mejia, Murphy).
Votes:
Description:
Councilors Flynn, Breadon, Coletta Zapata, Durkan, Fernandes
Anderson, FitzGerald, Louijeune, Murphy, Pepén, Santana, Weber and
Worrell offered the following: Resolution celebrating Flag Day.
On motion of Councilor Flynn, the rules were suspended; the resolution was
adopted; yeas 12, not present 1 (Mejia).
Votes:
Description:
Message and order authorizing the City of Boston to accept and expend the
amount of Sixty Five Thousand Dollars ($65,000.00) in the form of a grant
for the Racial Equity Fund, awarded by the Boston Charitable Trust to be
administered by the Office of Equity. The grant will fund the City’s efforts,
in partnership with the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, to update the 2015
Color of Wealth in Boston report and create a data driven action agenda to
address the racial equity wealth gap in the City of Boston.
The rules were suspended; the order was passed; yeas 13.
Votes:
Description:
Councilors Louijeune, Weber, Breadon, Coletta Zapata, Durkan,
Fernandes Anderson, FitzGerald, Mejia, Murphy, Pepén, Santana and
Worrell offered the following: Resolution in support of H.4356, An Act
Promoting Housing Opportunity And Mobility Through Eviction Sealing.
Councilor Worrell in the Chair
On motion of Councilors Louijeune and Weber, Rule 12 was invoked to
include Councilor Breadon as an original co sponsor.
On motion of Councilors Louijeune, Weber and Breadon, the rules were
suspended; the resolution was adopted; yeas 12, not present 1 (Flynn).
