Legislation Details

File #: 2026-0974    Version: 1
Type: Mayor Order Status: Passed
File created: 5/5/2026 In control: City Council
On agenda: 5/13/2026 Final action: 5/13/2026
Title: Message and order authorizing the City of Boston to accept and expend the amount of One Hundred Fifty Thousand Three Hundred Twenty-Seven Dollars And Ninety-Six Cents ($150,327.96) in the form of a grant, the FY25 Violence Against Women Act, a STOP Grant, awarded by United States Department of Justice, passed through the MA Executive Office of Public Safety & Security, to be administered by the Police Department. The grant would fund a Civilian Domestic Violence Advocate to provide services for victims in Jamaica Plain and East Boston, as well as for Spanish-speaking victims citywide and also supporting overtime for all Civilian Domestic Violence Advocates citywide. On motion of Councilor Santana, the rules were suspended; the order was passed: yeas 12 (Breadon, Culpepper, Durkan, FitzGerald, Flynn, Louijeune, Mejia, Murphy, Pepén, Santana, Weber, Worrell), not present 1 (Coletta Zapata).
Attachments: 1. BPD - $150.327.96

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Message and order authorizing the City of Boston to accept and expend the amount of One Hundred Fifty Thousand Three Hundred Twenty-Seven Dollars And Ninety-Six Cents ($150,327.96) in the form of a grant, the FY25 Violence Against Women Act, a STOP Grant, awarded by United States Department of Justice, passed through the MA Executive Office of Public Safety & Security, to be administered by the Police Department. The grant would fund a Civilian Domestic Violence Advocate to provide services for victims in Jamaica Plain and East Boston, as well as for Spanish-speaking victims citywide and also supporting overtime for all Civilian Domestic Violence Advocates citywide.

On motion of Councilor Santana, the rules were suspended; the order was passed: yeas 12 (Breadon, Culpepper, Durkan, FitzGerald, Flynn, Louijeune, Mejia, Murphy, Pepén, Santana, Weber, Worrell), not present 1 (Coletta Zapata).