Meeting Details

Meeting Name: City Council Agenda status: Final
Meeting date/time: 8/1/2018 12:00 PM Minutes status: Final  
Meeting location: Christopher A. Iannella Chamber, City Hall
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2018-1174 1 HistoricalCouncilor Edwards offered the following: Resolution in memory of Milena Ciancio.adopted  Action details Not available
2018-1204 1 HistoricalCouncilor Zakim offered the following: Resolution recognizing Bill Dinneen.adopted  Action details Not available
2018-1191 1 HistoricalCouncilors Flynn, Flaherty, Pressley, Essaibi-George and Wu offered the following: Resolution recognizing Hsu Hsin Yuan.adopted  Action details Not available
2018-1192 1 HistoricalCouncilors Flynn, Flaherty, Pressley, Essaibi-George and Wu offered the following:Resolution recognizing Min-Lin Chiu.adopted  Action details Not available
2018-1194 1 HistoricalCouncilors Flynn, Flaherty, Pressley, Essaibi-George and Wu offered the following: Resolution recognizing Vanessa Calderon-Rosado.adopted  Action details Not available
2018-1195 1 HistoricalCouncilors Flynn, Flaherty, Pressley, Essaibi-George and Wu offered the following; Resolution recognizing Inquilinos Boricuas en Accion.adopted  Action details Not available
2018-1196 1 HistoricalCouncilors Flynn, Flaherty, Pressley, Essaibi-George and Wu offered the following: Resolution recognizing OCAC Officer Hung-Wei.adopted  Action details Not available
2018-1197 1 HistoricalCouncilors Flynn, Flaherty, Pressley, Essaibi-George and Wu offered the following; Resolution recognizing Adam Nguyen.adopted  Action details Not available
2018-1198 1 HistoricalCouncilor Campbell offered the following: Resolution recognizing Tiago Moraes.adopted  Action details Not available
2018-1200 1 HistoricalCouncilor Campbell offered the following: Resolution recognizing Bernis Tavaras.adopted  Action details Not available
2018-1201 1 HistoricalCouncilor Campbell offered the following: Resolution recognizing Alaila Muhammad.adopted  Action details Not available
2018-1202 1 HistoricalCouncilor Campbell offered the following: Resolution recognizing Nequita Ayuso.adopted  Action details Not available
2018-1203 1 HistoricalCouncilors O'Malley, Flynn, Baker, Ciommo, Edwards, Essaibi-George, Flaherty, Janey, McCarthy, Pressley, Wu, Zakim and Campbell offered the following: Resolution in support of the locked out United Steelworkers Local 12003 and 12012 workers.adopted  Action details Not available
2018-1205 1 HistoricalCouncilor Janey offered the following: Resolution congratulating six people for receiving the high school equivalency credential.adopted  Action details Not available
2018-1156 1 HistoricalMessage and order authorizing the City of Boston to accept and expend the amount of Three Thousand Five Hundred Dollars ($3,500.00) in the form a grant for the Connecting the Peaces, awarded by the United States Department of Justice, passed through the Boston Public Health Commission, to be administered by the Police Department. The grant will fund participants to learn and develop peaceful resolutions to prevent and de-escalate Youth Violence.adopted  Action details Not available
2018-1180 1 HistoricalCouncilor O'Malley offered the following: Resolution in memory of Fatima Breton.adopted  Action details Not available
2018-1153 1 HistoricalMessage and order authorizing the City of Boston to accept and expend the amount of Ninety-Five Thousand Dollars ($95,000.00) in the form of a grant for a HBS Service Leadership Fellow, awarded by Harvard Business School to be administered by the Mayor's Office. The grant will fund the Harvard Business School Fellow as a full-time employee in the Mayor's Office.adopted  Action details Not available
2018-1184 1 HistoricalCouncilor McCarthy offered the following: Resolution congratulating Octavia Kelly.adopted  Action details Not available
2018-1187 1 HistoricalCouncilors Flynn, Flaherty, Pressley, Essaibi-George and Wu offered the following; Resolution recognizing Wen Ting Lin.adopted  Action details Not available
2018-1208 1 HistoricalCouncilor McCarthy offered the following: Resolution congratulating Paul A. Hourihan.adopted  Action details Not available
2018-1207 1 HistoricalCouncilor Wu offered the following: Resolution recognizing Officer Michael Healey.adopted  Action details Not available
2018-1161 1 HistoricalNotice was received from the Mayor of his absence from the City from 8:40 A.M. on Thursday, July 19, 2018 until 8:30 P.M. on Friday, July 20, 2018.adopted  Action details Not available
2018-1151 1 HistoricalMessage and order authorizing the City of Boston to accept and expend the amount of Three Million Two Hundred Fifty-Three Thousand Three Hundred Seventeen Dollars ($3,253,317.00) in the form of a grant for the FY19 PSAP Grant awarded by the MA Executive Office of Public Safety and Security to be administered by the Police Department. The grant will fund the cost associated with providing Enhanced 911 Public Safety Answering Point services.adopted  Action details Not available
2018-1219 1 HistoricalCouncilor Flynn offered the following: Resolution recognizing Boston Emergency Medical Services.adopted  Action details Not available
2018-1212 1 HistoricalCouncilors O'Malley and Baker offered the following: Resolution in memory of Mary Lovett.adopted  Action details Not available
2018-1148 1 HistoricalMessage disapproving an ordinance amending Chapter 2 of the City of Boston Code, Ordinances, Regarding Lobbyist Registration and Regulation, (Docket #0987), passed by the City Council July 27, 2018. Along with this veto, I am filing a redrafted ordinance that I urge you to approve expeditiously. Filed in the Office of the City Clerk on July 13, 2018.adopted  Action details Not available
2018-1149 1 HistoricalMessage and order approving a Home Rule Petition to the General Court entitled An Act to regulate Lobbying Activities before the City of Boston. This Home Rule Petition modifies Docket #0101, passed by your Honorable Body on June 27, 2018, which remains unsigned and will not be submitted to the General Court for consideration.adopted  Action details Not available
2018-1214 1 HistoricalCouncilor Edwards offered the following: Resolution recognizing Serena Rizzo.adopted  Action details Not available
2018-1189 1 HistoricalCouncilor Edwards offered the following: Resolution recognizing ten individuals for outstanding contributions and commitment to the Colombian community in Boston.adopted  Action details Not available
2018-1188 1 HistoricalCouncilors Flynn, Flaherty, Pressley, Essaibi-George and Wu offered the following; Resolution recognizing Alex Lin.adopted  Action details Not available
2018-1185 1 HistoricalCouncilor Ciommo offered the following: Resolution in memory of Dorothy Spellman.adopted  Action details Not available
2018-1183 1 HistoricalCouncilor McCarthy offered the following: Resolution congratulating Lance Norwood.adopted  Action details Not available
2018-1209 1 HistoricalCouncilor McCarthy offered the following: Resolution in memory of Stephen F. Zozula.adopted  Action details Not available
2018-1181 1 HistoricalCouncilor O'Malley offered the following: Resolution congratulating Patrick Flaherty.adopted  Action details Not available
2018-1178 1 HistoricalCouncilors Flynn and Wu offered the following; Resolution in memory of Caroline Chang. adopted  Action details Not available
2018-1175 1 HistoricalCouncilor Essaibi-George offered the following: Resolution in memory of Lieutenant Commander Saman Kunan.adopted  Action details Not available
2018-1199 1 HistoricalCouncilors Flynn, Flaherty, Pressley, Essaibi-George and Wu offered the following; Resolution recognizing Fran V. Postudensek.adopted  Action details Not available
2018-1218 1 HistoricalCouncilor Flynn offered the following: Resolution recognizing Boston Fire Company Engine 21.adopted  Action details Not available
2018-1220 1 HistoricalCouncilor Flynn offered the following: Resolution recognizing Boston Fire Department Ladder 19.adopted  Action details Not available
2018-1221 1 HistoricalCouncilor Flynn offered the following: Resolution recognizing Boston Fire Department District 6.adopted  Action details Not available
2018-1222 1 HistoricalCouncilor Flynn offered the following: Resolution recognizing Boston Fire Department Ladder 18.adopted  Action details Not available
2018-1211 1 HistoricalCouncilor McCarthy offered the following: Resolution recognizing Cappy's Tavern.adopted  Action details Not available
2018-1172 1 HistoricalCouncilor Campbell for Councilor McCarthy offered the following: Order for the appointment of temporary employee Stephen Maguire, Elizabeth Blasi and Walter Apperwhite in City Council effective July 28, 2018.adopted  Action details Not available
2018-1076 1 HistoricalMessage and order approving the appropriation of Five Million Four Hundred Twenty Nine Thousand Three Hundred and Four Dollars ($5,429,304.00) for the purpose of paying for the costs associated with window replacement project at the John Marshall Elementary School (UP Academy). This includes the payment of all costs incidental or related thereto, and for which the City of Boston may be eligible for a grant from the Massachusetts School Building Authority (“MSBA”), said amount to be expended under the direction of the Public Facilities Department on behalf of the Boston Public Schools.adopted  Action details Not available
2018- 1 HistoricalOFH Pressley and McCarthy; equity practices for marijuana services.adopted  Action details Not available
2018- 1 HistoricalPressley and Edwards, Resolution to support violence against women.adopted  Action details Not available
2018- 1 HistoricalPO Orderadopted  Action details Not available
2018- 1 HistoricalPOadopted  Action details Not available
2018- 1 HistoricalConsentadopted  Action details Not available
2018-1228 1 HistoricalCouncilor Campbell for Councilor Pressley offered the following: Order for the appointment of temporary employees Ronald Claude, Luz Villar, Eric White, Lynese Wallace and Colin Remal in City Council.adopted  Action details Not available
2018-0807 1 HistoricalMessage and order to declare surplus City-owned former Public Facilities Department parcels with vacant building and transfer the care, custody, management and control of said property to the Public Facilities Commission. The land is located at 48 Tileston Street in the North End District (Ward 3 Parcel 02295000) and 50 Tileston Street in the North End District (Ward 03 Parcel 02294000).adopted  Action details Not available
2018-1164 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 27, 2018.adopted  Action details Not available
2018- 1 HistoricalLegislative Calendar for August 1, 2018.adopted  Action details Not available
2018-1150 1 HistoricalMessage and ordinance amending CBC Ordinances, Chapter XVIII, 18-1.16 (Parkway or Street Occupancy Permit for Delivery Vehicles). Filed in City Clerk's Office on July 30, 2018.adopted  Action details Not available
2018-1171 1 HistoricalCouncilor O'Malley offered the following: Order for a hearing to discuss how the City of Boston can improve its wireless infrastructure.adopted  Action details Not available
2018-1225 1 HistoricalCouncilors Janey, Pressley, Campbell and Edwards offered the following: Resolution Declaring July 25, 2018 as International Afro-Latin American and Afro-Caribbean Diaspora Women's Day in the City of Boston.adopted  Action details Not available
2018-1230 1 HistoricalCouncilor Essaibi-George offered the following: Resolution in memory of Joan M. O'Leary.adopted  Action details Not available
2018-1227 1 HistoricalCouncilors Pressley, Edwards, Baker, Essaibi-George, O'Malley, Flaherty, Flynn, Janey, McCarthy, O'Malley, Wu, Zakim, Campbell and Ciommo offered the following: Resolution urging Congress to Reauthorize the Violence Against Women Act.adopted  Action details Not available
2018-1229 1 HistoricalCouncilor Campbell offered the following: Order for the appointment of temporary employee Kyle Neill in City Council.adopted  Action details Not available
2018-1173 1 HistoricalCouncilor Campbell for Councilor McCarthy offered the following: Order for the appointment of temporary employee Stephen Maguire, Elizabeth Blasi and Walter Apperwhite in City Council effective August 4, 2018.adopted  Action details Not available
2018-1162 1 HistoricalNotice was received from the Mayor of his absence from the City from 4:00 P.M. on Saturday, July 28, 2018 until 12:00 P.M. on Sunday, August 5, 2018.adopted  Action details Not available
2018-1224 1 HistoricalCouncilor Flynn offered the following: Resolution recognizing Boston Fire Company Engine 2.adopted  Action details Not available
2018-0980 1 HistoricalMessage and order to declare surplus City-owned former Boston Redevelopment Authority parcels of vacant land and courthouse and the transfer the care, custody, management and control of said property to the Public Facilities Commission. The land located at: A portion of 135 Dudley Street, Roxbury, MA being Ward 12 Parcel 001180000, consisting of approximately 156,788 square feet of vacant land and courthouse, but specifically excluding the portion of the Assessor's parcel retained for library use. A portion of 2406 Washington Street, Roxbury being Ward 12 Parcel 01263000 consisting of approximately 4,480 square feet of land adjacent to 135 Dudley Street but specifically excluding the portion of the Assessor's parcel retained for police use.adopted  Action details Not available
2018-1024 1 HistoricalMessage and order authorizing a sale of a certain portion of public way known as Everett Street, Allston, as shown on a plan of land entitled "City of Boston, Public Works Department, Engineering Division, Discontinuance Plan, Everett Street, Allston, dated March 22, 2018, specifically containing about 4,417 sq. ft. (the Discontinued Parcel").adopted  Action details Not available
2018-1167 1 HistoricalCommunication was received from Brian P. Golden, Director of the Boston Planning and Development Agency regarding the Proposed Eminent Domain Taking of City of Boston-owned Property in Boylston Street, St. Cecilia Street, Scotia Street and Cambria Street.adopted  Action details Not available
2018-1157 1 HistoricalMessage and order for the confirmation of the appointment of Rebecca Gutman as a member of the Boston Public Health Commission's Board of Health, for a term expiring January 15, 2020.adopted  Action details Not available
2018-1155 1 HistoricalMessage and order authorizing the City of Boston to accept and expend the amount of Thirty-Two Thousand Nine Hundred Thirty-Two Dollars and Seventy-Four Cents ($32,932.74) in the form of a grant, for the FFY2018 Step Grant, awarded by the United States Department of Transportation, passed through the MA Executive Office of Public Safety and Security, to be administered by the Police Department. The grant will fund the Traffic Enforcement Program: high-visibility, year-round enforcement, using data to focus sharply on specific dates and locations where crashes occur most frequently.adopted  Action details Not available
2018-1170 1 HistoricalCouncilors Flaherty and Flynn offered the following: Order for a hearing regarding the South Boston Interim Planning Overlay District and Neighborhood-Wide Zoning.adopted  Action details Not available
2018-1226 1 HistoricalCouncilors Pressley, McCarthy, Janey, O'Malley, Baker, Flaherty, Edwards, Essaibi-George, Wu, Zakim, Campbell, Ciommo and Flynn offered the following: Order for a hearing to examine and discuss best equity practices in the City's marijuana licensing process & potential for a social equity program.adopted  Action details Not available
2018-1193 1 HistoricalCouncilors Flynn, Flaherty, Pressley, Essaibi-George and Wu offered the following: Resolution recognizing Yun Liu.adopted  Action details Not available
2018-1190 1 HistoricalCouncilors Flynn, Flaherty, Pressley, Essaibi-George and Wu offered the following; Resolution recognizing Ying Tzu Wu.adopted  Action details Not available
2018-1186 1 HistoricalCouncilor Ciommo offered the following: Resolution in memory of Donato Mazzola.adopted  Action details Not available
2018-1182 1 HistoricalCouncilor Edwards offered the following: Resolution in memory of Frances Conti.adopted  Action details Not available
2018-1154 1 HistoricalMessage and order authorizing the City of Boston to accept and expend the amount of Eighty Thousand Dollars ($80,000.00) in the form of grant for Early Childhood Innovation, awarded by The Piton Foundation to be administered by the Mayor's Office. The grant will fund the Early Educator Space Project, which will retain and expand the supply of child care homes.adopted  Action details Not available
2018-1169 1 HistoricalCouncilor O'Malley offered the following: Order for a hearing regarding dockless mobility and electric scooters in the City of Boston.adopted  Action details Not available
2018-0808 1 HistoricalMessage and order for your approval to authorize a sale of certain portion of public way known as 90 Cottage Street, East Boston, as shown on a plan of land entitled "City of Boston, Public Works Department, Engineering Division, Discontinuance Plan, Vertical, 90 Cottage Street, East Boston, dated November 21, 2017" specifically containing about 16.9 sq. ft. and 533 cubic ft. (The Discontinued Parcel").adopted  Action details Not available
2018-1215 1 HistoricalCouncilor Edwards offered the following: Resolution in memory of Marie Ann Deneumoustier.adopted  Action details Not available
2018-1165 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 11, 2018.adopted  Action details Not available
2018-1152 1 HistoricalMessage and order authorizing the City of Boston to accept and expend the amount of Four Hundred Seventy-two Thousand Sixty-Three Dollars ($472,063.00) in the form of a grant for the FY18 State 911 Training Grant, awarded by the MA Executive Office of Public Safety and Security to be administered by the Police Department. The grant will fund the training and certification of Enhanced 911 telecommunications staff.adopted  Action details Not available
2018-1160 1 HistoricalNotice was received from the Mayor of the appointment of Zary Amirhosseini, as a Commissioner of the Persons With Disabilities Advisory Board, for a term expiring May 1, 2019.adopted  Action details Not available
2018-1206 1 HistoricalCouncilor Janey offered the following: Resolution recognizing Luis Borrero.adopted  Action details Not available
2018-1179 1 HistoricalCouncilor Edwards offered the following: Resolution in memory of Hector Conde.adopted  Action details Not available
2018-1177 1 HistoricalCouncilors Flynn, Wu. Flaherty, Essaibi-George and Pressley offered the following: Resolution recognizing Consul General Valery Freland.adopted  Action details Not available
2018-1176 1 HistoricalCouncilors Flynn, Wu. Flaherty, Essaibi-George and Pressley offered the following; Resolution recognizing Shaw Pong Liu.adopted  Action details Not available
2018-0506 1 HistoricalMessage and order to declare surplus City-owned former Public Works Department parcel property known as Leo M. Birmingham Parkway in the Allston/Brighton to transfer care, custody, management and control of said property to the Public Facilities Commission.adopted  Action details Not available
2018-1077 1 HistoricalMessage and order approving appropriations of Six Hundred Thousand Dollars ($600,000.00) for the purpose of paying for the costs of a feasibility study and schematic design work associated with projects at the following schools: Rafael Hernandez School– boiler replacement, Patrick Lyndon School – boiler replacement, Donald McKay K-8 School – boiler replacement, James Otis School – window replacement, Josiah Quincy Elementary School – boiler replacement, Snowden International School at Copley- roof replacement and the John D. O'Bryant School of Mathematics and Science-window replacement. This includes the payment of all costs incidental or related thereto, and for which the City of Boston may be eligible for a grant from the Massachusetts School Building Authority (“MSBA”), said amount to be expended under the direction of the Public Facilities Department on behalf of the Boston Public Schools.adopted  Action details Not available
2018-1210 1 HistoricalCouncilor McCarthy offered the following: Resolution recognizing Raymond Capobianco.adopted  Action details Not available
2018-1163 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 20, 2018.adopted  Action details Not available
2018-1166 1 HistoricalCommunication was received from Brian P. Golden, Director of the Boston Planning and Development Agency regarding the Report and Decision on the Application on the Trinity Orient Heights Phase Two Chapter 121A Project.adopted  Action details Not available
2018-1213 1 HistoricalCouncilor Edwards offered the following: Resolution recognizing Deandra Russo.adopted  Action details Not available
2018-1084 1 HistoricalMessage and order authorizing the City of Boston to accept and expend the amount of Ninety Thousand Dollars ($90,000.00) in the form of a grant for the Community Gardens Grant, awarded by TD Bank to be administered by the Mayor's Office. The grant will fund the activation of community gardens and green spaces located in the City of Boston.adopted  Action details Not available
2018-1217 1 HistoricalCouncilor Flynn offered the following: Resolution recognizing the Women and Men of Boston Police District C-6adopted  Action details Not available
2018-1216 1 HistoricalCouncilor Janey offered the following: Resolution congratulating the Garrison Trotter Neighborhood Association.adopted  Action details Not available
2018-1223 1 HistoricalCouncilor Flynn offered the following: Resolution recognizing Boston Fire Department Engine 39.adopted  Action details Not available