City Council Meeting

0323    Message and order for your approval a proposed Act to Improve and 

    Modernize Planning and Community Development in the City of Boston.

    0324    Message and order temporarily extending Urban Renewal Plans in the City 

    of Boston until March 31, 2025 or passage of a proposed relevant Home 

    Rule Petition.

    0325    Message and order authorizing the City of Boston to accept and expend the 

    amount of One Million Seven Hundred Twenty Two Thousand Seven 

    Hundred Sixty Four Dollars and Twenty Cents ($1,722,764.20) in the form 

    of a grant for the Local Fire Department Projects and Grants Line Item 

    83240050 of the FY23 State Budget, awarded by Massachusetts 

    Department of Fire Services to be administered by the Fire Department. The 

    grant will fund decontamination equipment, vehicle and maintenance 

    expenses for the Hazard Response Team at the Boston Fire Department.

    0326    Message and order authorizing the City of Boston to accept and expend the 

    amount of Three Hundred Thousand Dollars ($300,000.00) in the form of a 

    grant for the Local Fire Department Project and Grants for the FY23 State 

    Budget Line Item 8240050 awarded by Massachusetts Department of Fire 

    Services to be administered by the Boston Fire Department. The grant will 

    fund renovations at Engine 8/Ladder 1 in the North End, to improve the 

    safety, health and wellness of firefighters.

0327    Message transmitting certain information under Section 17F: relative to the 

    Department of Public Works, Docket #1397), passed by the Council on 

    November 9, 2022.

    0328    Message transmitting certain information under Section 17F: relative to the 

    BPS Transportation, Docket #1421), passed by the Council on November 

    13, 2022.

    0329    Message transmitting certain information under Section 17F: relative to the 

    BPS Facilities, Docket #1396), passed by the Council on November 9, 

    2022.

    0330    Message transmitting certain information under Section 17F: relative to the 

    Mayor's Office of Housing, Docket #1395), passed by the Council on 

    November 9, 2022.

0331    Notice was received from the Mayor of the appointment of Bernadine 

    Desanges as Director of Diversity of the City of Boston.

    0332    Communication was received from the City Clerk of the filing by the 

    Boston Planning and Development Agency of the New Boston Food Market 

    Chapter 121A Project, Certificate of Project Termination.

0114    The Committee on Public Safety and Criminal Justice to which was referred 

    on January 11, 2023, Docket #0114, message and order authorizing the City 

    of Boston to accept and expend the amount of Five Million Dollars 

    ($5,000,000.00) in the form of a grant for the Presidentially Declared 

    Disaster, awarded by Federal Emergency Management Agency, passed 

    through the Massachusetts Emergency Management Agency, to be 

    administered by Risk Management, submits a report recommending that the 

    order ought to pass.

    0115    The Committee on Public Safety and Criminal Justice to which was referred 

    on January 11, 2023, Docket #0115, message and order authorizing the City 

    of Boston to accept and expend the amount of Two Million Two Hundred 

    Fifty Thousand Dollars ($2,250,000.00) in the form of a grant for the FY23 

    State Training Grant, awarded by the Massachusetts Department of Fire 

    Services to be administered by the Fire Department, submits a report 

    recommending that the order ought to pass.

0100    Message and order for your approval an Ordinance establishing the Office 

    of Participatory Budgeting, amending the City of Boston Code, Chapter V, 

    with the insertion of a new Section 5 1.11.

    Filed in the City Clerk's office on December 12, 2022.

    0111    Message and order for your approval an order authorizing the City of 

    Boston to appropriate an amount of Twenty One Million Six Hundred 

    Thousand Dollar ($21,600,000.00) for the purpose of paying the cost of a 

    design and construction associated with boiler, windows and door 

    replacement projects at the following schools: Boston Day and Evening 

    Academy, Henderson Upper School, Rafael Hernandez School and William 

    E. Russell School.

 

0333    Councilor Baker offered the following: Petition for a Special Law RE: An 

    act directing the City of Boston Police Department to waive the maximum 

    age requirement for Police Officers for Wendy Pierre Louis.

    0334    Councilor Lara offered the following: Order for a hearing regarding 

    winter placemaking and Boston as a 'Winter City'.

    0335    Councilor Worrell offered the following: Order for a hearing to bring the 

    2026 NBA All Star Weekend to Boston.

    0336    Councilor Worrell offered the following: Order for a hearing to 

    preemptively plan summer violence mitigation strategies.

    0337    Councilor Worrell offered the following: Order for a hearing regarding 

    efforts to increase housing affordability for long term residents.

    0338    Councilor Worrell offered the following: Order for a hearing regarding 

    equity in city contracts.

    0339    Councilor Flynn offered the following: Order for a meeting to review the 

    Boston City Council rules.

    0340    Councilor Lara offered the following: Order for a hearing to discuss the 

    rise in public consumer energy costs.

    0341    Councilor Murphy offered the following: Order for a hearing to discuss 

    the payroll concerns of many of our Boston Public School teachers who are 

    owed back pay.

    0342    Councilor Lara and Baker offered the following: Order for a hearing to 

    discuss the recovery and revitalization of the taxi industry.

    0343    Councilor Fernandes Anderson and Louijeune offered the following: 

    Order for a hearing regarding calling for a moratorium on all development 

    on all city owned land in district seven prior to the request for proposal 

    process.

    0344    Councilor Flynn offered the following: Resolution to support the 

    Economic Census and to promote response rates in the City of Boston.

    0345    Councilor Lara and Flynn offered the following: Resolution designating 

    a Memorial Hero Square at the intersection of Glen Road and Forest Hills 

    Street in Jamaica Plain in memory of Paul Xavier Hogan.

    0346    Councilor Lara and Mejia offered the following: Resolution recognizing 

    February 27th, 2023 as Dominican Independence Day.

 

0347    Councilor Flynn for Councilor Arroyo offered the following: Order for the 

    appointment of temporary employee Jesus David Linares Marrero in City 

    Council, effective February 4, 2023.

1/23    Legislative Calendar for February 1, 2023.

 

0348    Councilor Flynn offered the following: Resolution recognizing Tufts 

    Medical Center in the Year of the Rabbit.

    0349    Councilor Baker offered the following: Resolution declaring Maurice 

    Le'Tour Winston II day in Boston.

    0350    Councilor Louijeune offered the following: Resolution in memory of 

    Cornelia A. Kelley.

    0351    Councilor Louijeune offered the following: Resolution recognizing 

    Abbot Gilman.

    0352    Councilor Lara offered the following: Resolution Congratulating Bill and 

    Ann Downey.

    0353    Councilor Worrell offered the following: Resolution recognizing Faithful 

    Church of Christ's 90th Anniversary.

    0354    Councilor Worrell offered the following: Resolution in memory of 

    Sandra Porter.

    0355    Councilor Worrell offered the following: Resolution in memory of Willie 

    Hicks, Sr.

    0356    Councilor Flynn offered the following: Resolution recognizing 

    International Holocaust Remembrance Day.

    0357    Councilor Flynn offered the following: Resolution recognizing 7 school 

    teachers and administrators for their coordination of the Student Exchange 

    Program between Boston Latin School and Lycée André Argouges.

    0358    Councilor Flynn offered the following: Resolution recognizing 

    Masai Maliek King.

    0359    Councilor Flynn offered the following: Resolution recognizing Pao Arts 

    Center.

    0360    Councilor Flynn offered the following: Resolution recognizing January 

    27th as International Holocaust Remembrance Day.

    0361    Councilor Baker offered the following: Resolution congratulating Joyce 

    Judge.