Message and order 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.
Filed in the Office of the City Clerk on April 10, 2023.
Message and order approving an appropriation of One Million Eight Hundred Thousand Dollars ($1,800,000.00) 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.
Filed in the Office of the City Clerk on April 10, 2023.
Message and order for your approval an order authorizing the City of Boston to enter into one or more leases, lease-purchase or installment sales agreements in Fiscal Year 2024 in an amount not to exceed Thirty Nine Million Dollars ($39,000,000.00). 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.
Filed in the Office of the City Clerk on April 10, 2023.
Message and order approving an appropriation of Twenty-Nine Million Four Hundred Five Thousand Dollars ($29,405,000.00) from the City’s Capital Grant Fund in order to provide funding for various transportation and public realm improvements. The funds shall be credited to the Capital Grant Fund form the Parking Meter Fund.
Filed in the Office of the City Clerk on April 10, 2023.
Message and order authorizing an appropriation Order in the amount of Twenty Seven Million Five Hundred Thousand Dollars ($27,500,000.00) from Surplus Property Disposition Fund, credited to the Capital Fund for planning, design, and construction, for projects, the Animal Shelter, Old State House, BHA decarbonization, and Harrison Avenue BWSC Operations.
Filed in the Office of the City Clerk on April 10, 2023.
Message and order for your approval an appropriation order in the amount of Six Hundred Fifty-Seven Million One Hundred Ten Thousand Dollars ($657,110,000.00) for various capital improvement purposes for city departments including the Boston Center for Youth and Families, Department of Innovation and Technology, the Environment, Fire, Parks and Recreation, Police, Property Management, Public Works, and Transportation departments, Mayor's Office of Housing, Mayor's Office of Arts and Culture, Boston Public Library, Boston Housing Authority, Boston Planning and Development Agency, and the Boston Public Health Commission.
Filed in the Office of the City Clerk on April 10, 2023.
Message and order authorizing an appropriation order in the amount of Three Hundred Twenty-Eight Million One Hundred Sixty Thousand Dollars ($328,160,000.00) for various capital improvement purposes for the Boston Public Schools.
Filed in the Office of the City Clerk on April 10, 2023.
Message and order 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.
Filed in the Office of the City Clerk on April 10, 2023.
Message and order approving an appropriation of One Million Eight Hundred Thousand Dollars ($1,800,000.00) 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.
Filed in the Office of the City Clerk on April 10, 2023.
Message and order for your approval an order authorizing the City of Boston to enter into one or more leases, lease-purchase or installment sales agreements in Fiscal Year 2024 in an amount not to exceed Thirty Nine Million Dollars ($39,000,000.00). 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.
Filed in the Office of the City Clerk on April 10, 2023.
Message and order approving an appropriation of Twenty-Nine Million Four Hundred Five Thousand Dollars ($29,405,000.00) from the City’s Capital Grant Fund in order to provide funding for various transportation and public realm improvements. The funds shall be credited to the Capital Grant Fund form the Parking Meter Fund.
Filed in the Office of the City Clerk on April 10, 2023.
Message and order authorizing an appropriation Order in the amount of Twenty Seven Million Five Hundred Thousand Dollars ($27,500,000.00) from Surplus Property Disposition Fund, credited to the Capital Fund for planning, design, and construction, for projects, the Animal Shelter, Old State House, BHA decarbonization, and Harrison Avenue BWSC Operations.
Filed in the Office of the City Clerk on April 10, 2023.
Message and order for your approval an appropriation order in the amount of Six Hundred Fifty-Seven Million One Hundred Ten Thousand Dollars ($657,110,000.00) for various capital improvement purposes for city departments including the Boston Center for Youth and Families, Department of Innovation and Technology, the Environment, Fire, Parks and Recreation, Police, Property Management, Public Works, and Transportation departments, Mayor's Office of Housing, Mayor's Office of Arts and Culture, Boston Public Library, Boston Housing Authority, Boston Planning and Development Agency, and the Boston Public Health Commission.
Filed in the Office of the City Clerk on April 10, 2023.
Message and order authorizing an appropriation order in the amount of Three Hundred Twenty-Eight Million One Hundred Sixty Thousand Dollars ($328,160,000.00) for various capital improvement purposes for the Boston Public Schools.
Filed in the Office of the City Clerk on April 10, 2023.
Message and order 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.
Filed in the Office of the City Clerk on April 10, 2023.
Message and order approving an appropriation of One Million Eight Hundred Thousand Dollars ($1,800,000.00) 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.
Filed in the Office of the City Clerk on April 10, 2023.
Message and order for your approval an order authorizing the City of Boston to enter into one or more leases, lease-purchase or installment sales agreements in Fiscal Year 2024 in an amount not to exceed Thirty Nine Million Dollars ($39,000,000.00). 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.
Filed in the Office of the City Clerk on April 10, 2023.
Message and order approving an appropriation of Twenty-Nine Million Four Hundred Five Thousand Dollars ($29,405,000.00) from the City’s Capital Grant Fund in order to provide funding for various transportation and public realm improvements. The funds shall be credited to the Capital Grant Fund form the Parking Meter Fund.
Filed in the Office of the City Clerk on April 10, 2023.
Message and order authorizing an appropriation Order in the amount of Twenty Seven Million Five Hundred Thousand Dollars ($27,500,000.00) from Surplus Property Disposition Fund, credited to the Capital Fund for planning, design, and construction, for projects, the Animal Shelter, Old State House, BHA decarbonization, and Harrison Avenue BWSC Operations.
Filed in the Office of the City Clerk on April 10, 2023.
Message and order for your approval an appropriation order in the amount of Six Hundred Fifty-Seven Million One Hundred Ten Thousand Dollars ($657,110,000.00) for various capital improvement purposes for city departments including the Boston Center for Youth and Families, Department of Innovation and Technology, the Environment, Fire, Parks and Recreation, Police, Property Management, Public Works, and Transportation departments, Mayor's Office of Housing, Mayor's Office of Arts and Culture, Boston Public Library, Boston Housing Authority, Boston Planning and Development Agency, and the Boston Public Health Commission.
Filed in the Office of the City Clerk on April 10, 2023.
Message and order authorizing an appropriation order in the amount of Three Hundred Twenty-Eight Million One Hundred Sixty Thousand Dollars ($328,160,000.00) for various capital improvement purposes for the Boston Public Schools.
Filed in the Office of the City Clerk on April 10, 2023.
Message and order authorizing the City of Boston Department of Innovation and Technology to enter into a contract for payment processing services for a term of up to Five (5) years.
Referred to the Committee on City Services and Innovation Technology.
Message and order for your approval of the receipt of a Preservation Restriction on St. James African Orthodox Church, located at 50 Cedar Street, Boston, Massachusetts, 02119-1431.
Message and order for your approval an Order to reduce the FY23 appropriation for the Reserve for Collective Bargaining by Eighty-Five Thousand Six Hundred Dollars ($85,600.00) to provide funding for the Boston Public Health Commission for the FY23 increases contained within the collective bargaining agreements between the Boston Public Health Commission and the SENA. Local 9158.
Referred to the Committee on City Services and Innovation Technology.
Message and order for your approval a supplemental appropriation Order for the Public Health Commission for FY23 in the amount of Eighty-Five Thousand Six Hundred Dollars ($85,600.00) to cover the FY23 cost items contained within the collective bargaining agreement between the Boston Public Health Commission and SENA, Local 9158. The terms of the contracts are October 1, 2021 through September 30, 2022 and October 1, 2022 through September 30, 2025. The major provisions of the contracts include base wage increases of 1.5% in January of 2022, 2% in January 2023, 2% in January 2024, and 2% in January 2025. The agreements also contain other benefits including increased hazardous duty differentials.
Filed in the Office of the City Clerk on May 22, 2023.
Referred to the Committee on City Services and Innovation Technology.
Message and order for your approval an Order to reduce the FY23 appropriation for the Reserve for Collective Bargaining by Thirty-Two thousand Three Hundred Thirty-Four Dollars ($32,334.00) to provide funding for the Parks and Recreation Department for the FY23 increases contained within the Collective bargaining agreement between the City of Boston and the Boston Park Rangers’ Association.
Referred to the Committee on City Services and Innovation Technology.
Message and order for your approval a supplemental appropriation Order for the Parks and Recreation Department for FY23 in the amount of Thirty-Two Three Hundred Thirty-Four Dollars ($32,334.00) to cover the FY23 cost contained within the collective bargaining agreements between the City of Boston and the Boston Park Rangers’ Association. The terms of the contract are July 1, 2020 through June 30, 2023. The major provisions of the contract include base wage increases of 2%, 1.5% and 2%, to be given in October of each fiscal year of the contract term.
Filed in the Office of the City Clerk on May 22, 2023.
Referred to the Committee on City Services and Innovation Technology.
Message and order authorizing the City of Boston to accept and expend the amount of Fifteen Thousand Dollars ($15,000.00) in the form of a grant, for the development of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) training for CERT programs within the region, awarded by the United States Department of Homeland Security, passed through the Massachusetts Emergency Management Agency, to be administered by the Mayor's Office of Emergency Management. The grant will fund FY22 HSGP Citizen Corp. Program (CCP).
Message and order authorizing the City of Boston through its Property Management Department to accept the equipment itemized in the attached order that is being donated from the Boston Planning and Redevelopment Agency (BPDA).The BPDA is vacating its space at 22 Drydock Avenue, Boston, MA 02210 and it no longer has any need of the equipment.
Message and order authorizing the City of Boston to accept and expend an amount not to exceed One Million Six Hundred Thousand Dollars ($1,600,000.00) in the form of a grant from the Federal Emergency Management Agency grant pass through the United Way Worldwide to be administered by the Mayor’s Office of Housing. The grant will fund humanitarian services for individuals and families encountered by the Department of Homeland Security at the Southern border, through the Emergency Food and Shelter Program.
Message transmitting certain information under Section 17F: Relative to BPS Student Enrollment, Docket 0915, passed by the City Council on May 8, 2023.
Communication was received from Timothy J. Smyth, Executive Officer of the Boston Retirement Board re: the follow-up to FY24 Retiree Cost of Living Adjustment ("COLA") Base Vote.
The Committee on Government Operations, to which was referred on April 5, 2023, Docket #0710, Message and order for your approval an Ordinance Governing Construction and Demolition Operations in the City of Boston, submits a report recommending that the ordinance ought to pass.
The report was accepted; the ordinance was passed.
Notice was received from Adam Cederbaum, Corporation Counsel, providing an update on the lawsuit that was filed against the Boston City
Council in U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts - Case Number 1:22-cv-12048: Rasheed Walters, et al vs. Boston City Council, et al.
Communication was received from Councilor Liz Breadon submitting documents regarding minutes of the Committee on Redistricting and
messages of disapproval.
On the ordinance, referred on May 17, 2023 Docket #0942, amending City Council Electoral Districts, the Committee submitted a report on recommending the ordinance ought to pass in a new draft.
The report was accepted; the ordinance, in its new draft, was passed; yeas 10, nays 2 ( Lara and Mejia).
Resolution in support of Recreational Equipment Inc. (REI) Workers.
On motion of Councilor Flynn, the rules were suspended; the resolution was adopted.
Councilor Flynn for Councilor Breadon offered the following: Order for the appointment of temporary employees Deborah Glennon, Anne Mazzola, Moira McCrave Carragee, Patricia Mullaney and Wayne Yeh in City Council, effective May 27, 2023.
Councilor Flynn Councilor Breadon offered the following: Order for the appointment of temporary employees Deborah Glennon, Anne Mazzola, Moira McCrave Carragee, Patricia Mullaney and Wayne Yeh in City Council, effective June 3, 2023.
Councilor Flynn for Councilor Mejia offered the following: Order for the appointment of temporary employee Sarah Lawton in City Council, effective May 20, 2023.
Councilor Flynn for Councilor Lara offered the following: Order for the appointment of temporary employee Sean Waddington in City Council, effective June 3, 2023.
Councilor Flynn for Councilor Lara offered the following: Order for the appointment of temporary employees Jacqueline Celestino, Clara Goldberg, My'Kell McMillen, Lee Nave Jr. and Chukwuemeka Osuagwu in City Council, effective May 27, 2023.
Councilor Flynn for Councilor Lara offered the following: Order for the appointment of temporary employees Jacqueline Celestino, My'Kell McMillen, Lee Nave Jr. and Chukwuemeka, effective June 3, 2023.
Resolution recognizing the contributions of the Boston Emergency Medical Services and recognizing Boston Emergency Medical Services Week.
On motion of Councilor Murphy, the rules were suspended; the resolution was adopted.
Councilor Flynn for Councilor Arroyo offered the following: Order for the appointment of temporary employees Jean Frias, Justin Gardner, Jamie Leveque-Beon, Jesus D. Linares Marrero and Faarooq Sahabdeen in City Council, effective May 27, 2023.
Councilor Flynn for Councilor Arroyo offered the following: Order for the appointment of temporary employees Jean Frias, Justin Gardner, Jamie Leveque-Beon, Jesus D. Linares Marrero and Faarooq Sahabdeen in City Council, effective June 3, 2023.
Councilor Flynn for Councilor Fernandes Anderson offered the following: Order for the appointment of temporary employee Ali ABY Muhammed in City Council.
Councilor Flynn for Councilor Flaherty offered the following: Order for the appointment of temporary employees Clare Brooks, Tricia A. Kalayjian, Mary Karski and Paul Sullivan in City Council, effective May 27, 2023.
Councilor Flynn for Councilor Flaherty offered the following: Order for the appointment of temporary employees Clare Brooks, Tricia A. Kalayjian, Mary Karski and Paul Sullivan in City Council, effective June 3, 2023.
Councilor Flynn for Councilor Mejia offered the following: Order for the appointment of temporary employees Dulce M. Bernal-Sandoval, Julisa Curet, Luz Johanna Perez Borbon and Millie Rivera in City Council, effective May 27, 2023.
Councilor Flynn for Councilor Mejia offered the following: Order for the appointment of temporary employees Dulce M. Bernal-Sandoval, Julisa Curet, Luz Johanna Perez Borbon and Millie Rivera in City Council, effective June 3, 2023.
Councilor Flynn for Councilor Mejia offered the following: Order for the appointment of temporary employee Lybille Rocher in City Council, effective May 27, 2023.
Councilor Flynn for Councilor Mejia offered the following: Order for the appointment of temporary employee Lybille Rocher in City Council, effective June 3, 2023.
Message and order 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.
Filed in the Office of the City Clerk on April 10, 2023.
Message and order approving an appropriation of One Million Eight Hundred Thousand Dollars ($1,800,000.00) 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.
Filed in the Office of the City Clerk on April 10, 2023.
Message and order for your approval an order authorizing the City of Boston to enter into one or more leases, lease-purchase or installment sales agreements in Fiscal Year 2024 in an amount not to exceed Thirty Nine Million Dollars ($39,000,000.00). 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.
Filed in the Office of the City Clerk on April 10, 2023.
Message and order approving an appropriation of Twenty-Nine Million Four Hundred Five Thousand Dollars ($29,405,000.00) from the City’s Capital Grant Fund in order to provide funding for various transportation and public realm improvements. The funds shall be credited to the Capital Grant Fund form the Parking Meter Fund.
Filed in the Office of the City Clerk on April 10, 2023.
Message and order authorizing an appropriation Order in the amount of Twenty Seven Million Five Hundred Thousand Dollars ($27,500,000.00) from Surplus Property Disposition Fund, credited to the Capital Fund for planning, design, and construction, for projects, the Animal Shelter, Old State House, BHA decarbonization, and Harrison Avenue BWSC Operations.
Filed in the Office of the City Clerk on April 10, 2023.
Message and order for your approval an appropriation order in the amount of Six Hundred Fifty-Seven Million One Hundred Ten Thousand Dollars ($657,110,000.00) for various capital improvement purposes for city departments including the Boston Center for Youth and Families, Department of Innovation and Technology, the Environment, Fire, Parks and Recreation, Police, Property Management, Public Works, and Transportation departments, Mayor's Office of Housing, Mayor's Office of Arts and Culture, Boston Public Library, Boston Housing Authority, Boston Planning and Development Agency, and the Boston Public Health Commission.
Filed in the Office of the City Clerk on April 10, 2023.
Message and order authorizing an appropriation order in the amount of Three Hundred Twenty-Eight Million One Hundred Sixty Thousand Dollars ($328,160,000.00) for various capital improvement purposes for the Boston Public Schools.
Filed in the Office of the City Clerk on April 10, 2023.
Message and order 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.
Filed in the Office of the City Clerk on April 10, 2023.
Message and order approving an appropriation of One Million Eight Hundred Thousand Dollars ($1,800,000.00) 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.
Filed in the Office of the City Clerk on April 10, 2023.
Message and order for your approval an order authorizing the City of Boston to enter into one or more leases, lease-purchase or installment sales agreements in Fiscal Year 2024 in an amount not to exceed Thirty Nine Million Dollars ($39,000,000.00). 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.
Filed in the Office of the City Clerk on April 10, 2023.
Message and order approving an appropriation of Twenty-Nine Million Four Hundred Five Thousand Dollars ($29,405,000.00) from the City’s Capital Grant Fund in order to provide funding for various transportation and public realm improvements. The funds shall be credited to the Capital Grant Fund form the Parking Meter Fund.
Filed in the Office of the City Clerk on April 10, 2023.
Message and order authorizing an appropriation Order in the amount of Twenty Seven Million Five Hundred Thousand Dollars ($27,500,000.00) from Surplus Property Disposition Fund, credited to the Capital Fund for planning, design, and construction, for projects, the Animal Shelter, Old State House, BHA decarbonization, and Harrison Avenue BWSC Operations.
Filed in the Office of the City Clerk on April 10, 2023.
Message and order for your approval an appropriation order in the amount of Six Hundred Fifty-Seven Million One Hundred Ten Thousand Dollars ($657,110,000.00) for various capital improvement purposes for city departments including the Boston Center for Youth and Families, Department of Innovation and Technology, the Environment, Fire, Parks and Recreation, Police, Property Management, Public Works, and Transportation departments, Mayor's Office of Housing, Mayor's Office of Arts and Culture, Boston Public Library, Boston Housing Authority, Boston Planning and Development Agency, and the Boston Public Health Commission.
Filed in the Office of the City Clerk on April 10, 2023.
Message and order authorizing an appropriation order in the amount of Three Hundred Twenty-Eight Million One Hundred Sixty Thousand Dollars ($328,160,000.00) for various capital improvement purposes for the Boston Public Schools.
Filed in the Office of the City Clerk on April 10, 2023.
Message and order 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.
Filed in the Office of the City Clerk on April 10, 2023.
Message and order approving an appropriation of One Million Eight Hundred Thousand Dollars ($1,800,000.00) 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.
Filed in the Office of the City Clerk on April 10, 2023.
Message and order for your approval an order authorizing the City of Boston to enter into one or more leases, lease-purchase or installment sales agreements in Fiscal Year 2024 in an amount not to exceed Thirty Nine Million Dollars ($39,000,000.00). 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.
Filed in the Office of the City Clerk on April 10, 2023.
Message and order approving an appropriation of Twenty-Nine Million Four Hundred Five Thousand Dollars ($29,405,000.00) from the City’s Capital Grant Fund in order to provide funding for various transportation and public realm improvements. The funds shall be credited to the Capital Grant Fund form the Parking Meter Fund.
Filed in the Office of the City Clerk on April 10, 2023.
Message and order authorizing an appropriation Order in the amount of Twenty Seven Million Five Hundred Thousand Dollars ($27,500,000.00) from Surplus Property Disposition Fund, credited to the Capital Fund for planning, design, and construction, for projects, the Animal Shelter, Old State House, BHA decarbonization, and Harrison Avenue BWSC Operations.
Filed in the Office of the City Clerk on April 10, 2023.
Message and order for your approval an appropriation order in the amount of Six Hundred Fifty-Seven Million One Hundred Ten Thousand Dollars ($657,110,000.00) for various capital improvement purposes for city departments including the Boston Center for Youth and Families, Department of Innovation and Technology, the Environment, Fire, Parks and Recreation, Police, Property Management, Public Works, and Transportation departments, Mayor's Office of Housing, Mayor's Office of Arts and Culture, Boston Public Library, Boston Housing Authority, Boston Planning and Development Agency, and the Boston Public Health Commission.
Filed in the Office of the City Clerk on April 10, 2023.
Message and order authorizing an appropriation order in the amount of Three Hundred Twenty-Eight Million One Hundred Sixty Thousand Dollars ($328,160,000.00) for various capital improvement purposes for the Boston Public Schools.
Filed in the Office of the City Clerk on April 10, 2023.
Notice was received from Adam Cederbaum, Corporation Counsel, providing an update on the lawsuit that was filed against the Boston City
Council in U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts - Case Number 1:22-cv-12048: Rasheed Walters, et al vs. Boston City Council, et al.
Communication was received from Councilor Liz Breadon submitting documents regarding minutes of the Committee on Redistricting and
messages of disapproval.
On the ordinance, referred on May 17, 2023 Docket #0942, amending City Council Electoral Districts, the Committee submitted a report on recommending the ordinance ought to pass in a new draft.
The report was accepted; the ordinance, in its new draft, was passed; yeas 10, nays 2 ( Lara and Mejia).
Message and order 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.
Filed in the Office of the City Clerk on April 10, 2023.
Message and order approving an appropriation of One Million Eight Hundred Thousand Dollars ($1,800,000.00) 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.
Filed in the Office of the City Clerk on April 10, 2023.
Message and order for your approval an order authorizing the City of Boston to enter into one or more leases, lease-purchase or installment sales agreements in Fiscal Year 2024 in an amount not to exceed Thirty Nine Million Dollars ($39,000,000.00). 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.
Filed in the Office of the City Clerk on April 10, 2023.
Message and order approving an appropriation of Twenty-Nine Million Four Hundred Five Thousand Dollars ($29,405,000.00) from the City’s Capital Grant Fund in order to provide funding for various transportation and public realm improvements. The funds shall be credited to the Capital Grant Fund form the Parking Meter Fund.
Filed in the Office of the City Clerk on April 10, 2023.
Message and order authorizing an appropriation Order in the amount of Twenty Seven Million Five Hundred Thousand Dollars ($27,500,000.00) from Surplus Property Disposition Fund, credited to the Capital Fund for planning, design, and construction, for projects, the Animal Shelter, Old State House, BHA decarbonization, and Harrison Avenue BWSC Operations.
Filed in the Office of the City Clerk on April 10, 2023.
Message and order for your approval an appropriation order in the amount of Six Hundred Fifty-Seven Million One Hundred Ten Thousand Dollars ($657,110,000.00) for various capital improvement purposes for city departments including the Boston Center for Youth and Families, Department of Innovation and Technology, the Environment, Fire, Parks and Recreation, Police, Property Management, Public Works, and Transportation departments, Mayor's Office of Housing, Mayor's Office of Arts and Culture, Boston Public Library, Boston Housing Authority, Boston Planning and Development Agency, and the Boston Public Health Commission.
Filed in the Office of the City Clerk on April 10, 2023.
Notice was received from Adam Cederbaum, Corporation Counsel, providing an update on the lawsuit that was filed against the Boston City
Council in U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts - Case Number 1:22-cv-12048: Rasheed Walters, et al vs. Boston City Council, et al.
Communication was received from Councilor Liz Breadon submitting documents regarding minutes of the Committee on Redistricting and
messages of disapproval.
On the ordinance, referred on May 17, 2023 Docket #0942, amending City Council Electoral Districts, the Committee submitted a report on recommending the ordinance ought to pass in a new draft.
The report was accepted; the ordinance, in its new draft, was passed; yeas 10, nays 2 ( Lara and Mejia).
Message and order 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.
Filed in the Office of the City Clerk on April 10, 2023.
Message and order approving an appropriation of One Million Eight Hundred Thousand Dollars ($1,800,000.00) 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.
Filed in the Office of the City Clerk on April 10, 2023.
Message and order for your approval an order authorizing the City of Boston to enter into one or more leases, lease-purchase or installment sales agreements in Fiscal Year 2024 in an amount not to exceed Thirty Nine Million Dollars ($39,000,000.00). 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.
Filed in the Office of the City Clerk on April 10, 2023.
Message and order approving an appropriation of Twenty-Nine Million Four Hundred Five Thousand Dollars ($29,405,000.00) from the City’s Capital Grant Fund in order to provide funding for various transportation and public realm improvements. The funds shall be credited to the Capital Grant Fund form the Parking Meter Fund.
Filed in the Office of the City Clerk on April 10, 2023.
Message and order authorizing an appropriation Order in the amount of Twenty Seven Million Five Hundred Thousand Dollars ($27,500,000.00) from Surplus Property Disposition Fund, credited to the Capital Fund for planning, design, and construction, for projects, the Animal Shelter, Old State House, BHA decarbonization, and Harrison Avenue BWSC Operations.
Filed in the Office of the City Clerk on April 10, 2023.
Message and order for your approval an appropriation order in the amount of Six Hundred Fifty-Seven Million One Hundred Ten Thousand Dollars ($657,110,000.00) for various capital improvement purposes for city departments including the Boston Center for Youth and Families, Department of Innovation and Technology, the Environment, Fire, Parks and Recreation, Police, Property Management, Public Works, and Transportation departments, Mayor's Office of Housing, Mayor's Office of Arts and Culture, Boston Public Library, Boston Housing Authority, Boston Planning and Development Agency, and the Boston Public Health Commission.
Filed in the Office of the City Clerk on April 10, 2023.
Message and order authorizing an appropriation order in the amount of Three Hundred Twenty-Eight Million One Hundred Sixty Thousand Dollars ($328,160,000.00) for various capital improvement purposes for the Boston Public Schools.
Filed in the Office of the City Clerk on April 10, 2023.