Meeting Details

Meeting Name: City Council Agenda status: Final
Meeting date/time: 8/3/2016 12:00 PM Minutes status: Final  
Meeting location: Christopher A. Iannella Chamber, City Hall
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2016-1048 1 HistoricalNotice was received from the City Clerk in accordance with Chapter 6 of the Ordinances of 1979 re: action taken by the Mayor on papers acted upon by the City Council at its meeting of July 13, 2016.adopted  Action details Not available
2016-1040 1 HistoricalNotice was received from the Mayor of the appointment of Amy Yandle, as Interim Director of Mayor's Office of Tourism, Sports and Entertainment effective May 23, 2016.adopted  Action details Not available
2016-1042 1 HistoricalNotice was received from the Mayor of the re-appointment of William Sinnott, as a member to the Boston Compensation Advisory Board, for a term expiring June 30, 2021.adopted  Action details Not available
2016-1044 1 HistoricalNotice was received from the Mayor of the re-appointment of Amy Sheridan, as a member to the Boston Compensation Advisory Board, for a term expiring June 30, 2021.adopted  Action details Not available
2016-1045 1 HistoricalNotice was received from the Mayor of the appointment of John Tobin, as a member to the Boston Compensation Advisory Board, for a term expiring June 30, 2021.adopted  Action details Not available
2016-1073 1 HistoricalCouncilor LaMattina offered the following: Resolution recognizing The Boston Colombian Committee.adopted  Action details Not available
2016-1036 1 HistoricalMessage and order authorizing the City of Boston to accept and expend a grant in the amount of Ninety-Six Thousand Dollars ($96,000.00) on behalf of the Boston Police Department for the Harvard-Allston Public Realm Flexible Fund. This award will be used to purchase four speed alert display trailer units for District 14.adopted  Action details Not available
2016-1065 1 HistoricalCouncilor Flaherty offered the following: Resolution recognizing Alicia Meyers.adopted  Action details Not available
2016-1066 1 HistoricalCouncilor Flaherty offered the following: Resolution recognizing Sandy Sergant.adopted  Action details Not available
2016-1068 1 HistoricalCouncilors Flaherty and Linehan offered the following: Resolution in memory of Robert P. Donovan.adopted  Action details Not available
2016-1033 1 HistoricalMessage and order amending grant order authorizing the City of Boston to accept and expend as additional Sixty-Five Thousand Dollars ($65,000.00), increasing a grant award order passed by your Honorable Body on August 12, 2015 for and amount not to exceed Three Hundred Thousand Dollars ($300,000.00). This Order will increase the total grant award administered by Rockefeller Philanthropies Advisors, Inc. on behalf of the 100 Resilient Cities Initiative to an amount not to exceed Three Hundred Sixty-Five Thousand Dollars ( $365,000.00)adopted  Action details Not available
2016-1063 1 HistoricalCouncilor McCarthy offered the following: Resolution in memory of Joseph L. Owensadopted  Action details Not available
2016-1069 1 HistoricalCouncilors Ciommo and Linehan offered the following: Resolution recognizing Jean Evans.adopted  Action details Not available
2016-1039 1 HistoricalNotice was received from the Mayor of his absence from the City from 9:30 A.M. on Sunday July 24, 2016 until 10:30 P.M. on Tuesday, July 26, 2016.adopted  Action details Not available
2016-1041 1 HistoricalNotice was received from the Mayor of the appointment of Andrew Grace, Director of Economic and Strategic Planning, as the City of Boston's Alternate Representative to the Metropolitan Area Planning Counciladopted  Action details Not available
2016-1043 1 HistoricalNotice was received from the Mayor of the re-appointment of Carol Fulp, as a member to the Boston Compensation Advisory Board, for a term expiring June 30, 2021.adopted  Action details Not available
2016-0412 1 HistoricalThe Committee on Government Operations, to which was referred on March 16, 2016, Docket #0412, an ordinance establishing language and communications access for city services, submits a report recommending the ordinance ought to pass in a new draft.adopted  Action details Not available
2016-1074 1 HistoricalCouncilor Ciommo offered the following: Resolution recognizing Dennis Leary for being a longtime community advocate for the neighborhood.adopted  Action details Not available
2016-1076 1 HistoricalCouncilor Ciommo offered the following: Resolution in memory of Aurora Salbucci.adopted  Action details Not available
2016-1046 1 HistoricalNotice was received from the City Clerk in accordance with Chapter 6 of the Ordinances of 1979 re: action taken by the Mayor on papers acted upon by the City Council at its meeting of June 22, 2016.adopted  Action details Not available
2016-1054 1 HistoricalCouncilors Wu and Jackson offered the following: Order for a hearing regarding Tobacco Regulations in the City of Boston.adopted  Action details Not available
2016-1032 1 HistoricalMessage and order approving an appropriation of One Million Two Hundred Thousand Dollars ($1,200,000.00) from the income of the George Francis Parkman Fund for the maintenance and improvement of the Boston Common and Parks.adopted  Action details Not available
2016-1035 1 HistoricalMessage and order authorizing the City of Boston to accept and expend a grant in the amount One Hundred Thirty-Seven Thousand Twenty Dollars ($137,020.00) from the office of Public Safety and Security (EOPSS). This award in made for the purpose of expanding the Boston Police Department's infrastructure/network capabilities as it prepares to engage on a 6 month body-worn camera (BWC) pilot with multiple vendors to include 100 officers.adopted  Action details Not available
2016-1037 1 HistoricalMessage and order authorizing the City of Boston to accept and expend a grant of Thirty-Five Thousand Dollars ($35,000.00) in the form of the fiscal year 2017 renewed Municipal Energy Manager grant awarded by the Green Communities of the Massachusetts Department of Energy Resources(DOER), to be administered by the City of Boston's Office of Environment, Energy, and Open Space.adopted  Action details Not available
2016-1059 1 HistoricalCouncilor Ciommo offered the following: Resolution in memory of Donald J. Baia.adopted  Action details Not available
2016-1061 1 HistoricalCouncilor Ciommo offered the following: Resolution recognizing Jean Powers and Theodora Keiber.adopted  Action details Not available
2016-1070 1 HistoricalCouncilors Ciommo and McCarthy offered the following: Resolution recognizing Gloria Rice-Stuart.adopted  Action details Not available
2016-1053 1 HistoricalCouncilor Wu offered the following: Order that the Boston City Council establishes a working group charged with studying and proposing opportunities to eliminate plastic bag pollution from Boston's Streets.adopted  Action details Not available
2016-1077 1 HistoricalCouncilor Wu on behalf of all Councilor offered the following: Resolution in memory of Margaret J. "Peggy" Flaherty.adopted  Action details Not available
2016-1056 1 HistoricalCouncilor Baker offered the following: Resolution congratulating Daniela Schmit.adopted  Action details Not available
2016-1081 1 HistoricalCouncilor LaMattina offered the following: Resolution recognizing Hugo Ramirez.adopted  Action details Not available
2016-1082 1 HistoricalCouncilor LaMattina offered the following: Resolution Maria Alejandra Jimenez (ALEA).adopted  Action details Not available
2016-1084 1 HistoricalCouncilor Ciommo offered the following: Resolution in memory of William S. Gincauskis.adopted  Action details Not available
2016- 1 HistoricalCouncilor Wu for CouncilorCampbell offered the following: Order for the appointment of temporary employee Cheryl R. Harding in City Counciladopted  Action details Not available
2016- 1 HistoricalCouncilor Wu on behalf of all Councilors offered the following: Resolution in memory of Anette Papa.adopted  Action details Not available
2016-1052 1 HistoricalCouncilor Essaibi-George offered the following: Order for a hearing regarding the transition of families sheltered in Brighton Motels.adopted  Action details Not available
2016-1075 1 HistoricalCouncilor Ciommo offered the following: Resolution in memory of Dennis M. Leary.adopted  Action details Not available
2016-1047 1 HistoricalNotice was received from the City Clerk in accordance with Chapter 6 of the Ordinances of 1979 re: action taken by the Mayor on papers acted upon by the City Council at its meeting of June 29, 2016.adopted  Action details Not available
2016-1071 1 HistoricalCouncilors Ciommo and Essaibi-George offered the following: Resolution recognizing Helen Connolly.adopted  Action details Not available
2016-0822 1 HistoricalThe Committee on Government Operations, to which was referred on June 8, 2016 Docket #0822, message and ordinance amending the City of Boston Code, Ordinances, Chapter V, Section 5-9.8 Boston Cultural Council, Applications for Funds, submits a report recommending the ordinance ought to pass.adopted  Action details Not available
2016-1067 1 HistoricalCouncilor Baker offered the following: Resolution congratulating Kenneth Hurley.adopted  Action details Not available
2016-1051 1 HistoricalCouncilor LaMattina offered the following: Order for a hearing regarding the North End Nursing Home.adopted  Action details Not available
2016-1064 1 HistoricalCouncilor Flaherty offered the following: Resolution in memory of Bertha M. Zarnoch.adopted  Action details Not available
2016-1031 1 HistoricalMessage and order requesting the approval of supplemental appropriation of Four Million Dollars ($4,000,000.00) to provide funding to the Boston Housing Authority to sustain public safety staffing levels and continues to operate public housing developments appropriately next year.adopted  Action details Not available
2016-1027 1 HistoricalMessage and order approving an acceptance of the provisions of of G.L. c.44, 53F 3/4, as added by Chapter 352 of the Acts of 2014. This local option allows municipalities to separately account for those fees received under cable franchise agreements in support of public, educational, and government (PEG) access.adopted  Action details Not available
2016-1034 1 HistoricalMessage and order authorizing the City of Boston to accept and expend a grant in the amount of One Hundred Forty-Nine Thousand Five Hundred Dollars ($149,500.00) from the Executive Office of Public Safety and Security. This ward will fund overtime traffic mobilization at the City of Boston's most dangerous intersections as well as twelve months funding of a Traffic Data Analyst for the Boston Police Department.adopted  Action details Not available
2016-1038 1 HistoricalMessage and order authorizing the City of Boston through the Mayor's Office of New Urban Mechanics, to accept and expend a grant of Thirty Thousand Dollars ( $30,000.00) from Arbella Insurance Charitable Foundation, Inc. to support the city's efforts to develop the Boston's Safest Driver program, an app-based contest that will encourage drivers to practice safe driving habits.adopted  Action details Not available
2016-1072 1 HistoricalCouncilors Ciommo and Essaibi-George offered the following: Resolution recognizing The Faneuil Gardens Task Force.adopted  Action details Not available
2016-1060 1 HistoricalCouncilor O'Malley offered the following: Resolution in memory of Mary Rizzuto.adopted  Action details Not available
2016-1058 1 HistoricalCouncilor Zakim offered the following: Resolution recognizing John Clifford.adopted  Action details Not available
2016-1028 1 HistoricalMessage and order to reduce the FY16 appropriation for the Reserve for Collective Bargaining by Two Million Seven Hundred Eighty-Three Thousand Eight Hundred Forty-One Dollars ($2,783,841.00) to provide funding for the Boston Public Schools for the FY16 impact of the collective bargaining agreement between the vendor, Transdev and its bus drivers union on the City's Transportation contract with the vendor, Transdev.adopted  Action details Not available
2016-1029 1 HistoricalMessage and order approving a supplemental appropriation order for the Boston Public Schools for FY16 in the amount of Two Million Seven Hundred Eighty-Three Thousand Eight Hundred Forty-One Dollars ($2,783,841.00) to cover the impact of the collective bargaining agreement between Transdev and its bus drivers on the City's transportation contract with the vendor, Transdev.adopted  Action details Not available
2016-1030 1 HistoricalMessage and order authorizing the Department of Neighborhood Development to apply for, accept and expend Federal FY16 Continuum of Care Grant Funds of Twenty-Five Million Dollars ($25,000,000.00) from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development to support programs that provide services and housing to the homeless. adopted  Action details Not available
2016-1055 1 HistoricalCouncilor Baker offered the following: Resolution congratulating Ruben Manuschewski.adopted  Action details Not available
2016-1050 1 HistoricalCouncilors Jackson and O'Malley offered the following: Resolution Against The 2016 Ballot Initiative Regarding Lifting The Cap On Commonwealth Charter Schools.adopted  Action details Not available
2016- 1 HistoricalCouncilor Wu on behalf of all Councilors offered the following: Resolution in memory of Anette Papa.adopted  Action details Not available
2016-1086 1 HistoricalCouncilor LaMattina on behalf of all Councilor offered the following: Resolution in memory of Annette Papa.adopted  Action details Not available
2016-1085 1 HistoricalCouncilor Wu for Councilor Campbell offered the following: Order for the appointment of temporary employee Cheryl R. Harding in City Council.adopted  Action details Not available
2016-1062 1 HistoricalCouncilor Zakim offered the following: Resolution recognizing The Pour Houseadopted  Action details Not available
2016-0000 1 HistoricalLegislative Calendar for the August 3, 2016.adopted  Action details Not available
2016-1057 1 HistoricalCouncilor Wu offered the following: Resolution recognizing the Bosfield Yancey family reunion.adopted  Action details Not available
2016-1026 1 HistoricalMessage and order approving an Ordinance Regulating Letter Grading of Food Establishments and Food Trucks CBC Chapter 16, Section 61. This ordinance establishes regulations for food establishments and food trucks to post its Inspectional Services Department issued letter grades. Filed in the Office of the City Clerk on August 1, 2016.adopted  Action details Not available
2016-1049 1 HistoricalCommunication was received from the Department of Environmental Protection approving MATEP Limited Partnership's proposed construction and operation of a new 14.4 megawatt nominal combined heat and power combustion turbine/heat recovery steam generator to be located at 474 Brookline Avenue in Boston.adopted  Action details Not available
2016-1078 1 HistoricalCouncilor Flaherty offered the following: Resolution in memory of Natalie Marie Cannon.adopted  Action details Not available
2016-1079 1 HistoricalCouncilor O'Malley offered the following: Resolution in memory of Thomas Walsh.adopted  Action details Not available
2016-1080 1 HistoricalCouncilor O'Malley offered the following: Resolution recognizing Theodore Paul MacDonald.adopted  Action details Not available
2016-1083 1 HistoricalCouncilor LaMattina offered the following: Resolution recognizing 10 people for their dedication to the META culture in the City of Boston.adopted  Action details Not available