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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 and 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 FY23 Budget.