|
Meeting Details
|
Meeting date/time:
|
4/30/2026
2:00 PM
|
Minutes status:
|
Final
|
|
|
Meeting location:
|
Ways & Means Committee Hearing on Dockets #0733-0740, 0751-0753, FY27 Budget: Consumer Affairs & Licensing, Tourism, Arts & Culture, Revolving Funds
|
|
2026-0733
| 1 | | Mayor Order | Message and order for Annual Appropriation and Tax Order for FY2027.
Filed in the Office of the City Clerk on April 6, 2026. | | |
Action details
|
Not available
|
|
2026-0734
| 1 | | Mayor Order | Message and order for Annual Appropriation for the School Department for FY2027.
Filed in the Office of the City Clerk on April 6, 2026. | | |
Action details
|
Not available
|
|
2026-0735
| 1 | | Mayor Order | Message and order approving an appropriation of Forty Million Dollars ($40,000,000.00) to the Other Post-Employment Benefits (OPEB) Liability Trust Fund authorized under Chapter 32B, §20, as added by Chapter 479 of the Acts of 2008. The latest available OPEB actuarial valuation as of June 30, 2023 estimated the City’s unfunded liability at $2.68 Billion Dollars.
Filed in the Office of the City Clerk on April 6, 2026. | | |
Action details
|
Not available
|
|
2026-0736
| 1 | | Mayor Order | Message and order approving an appropriation order authorizing the City of Boston to appropriate the amount of Three Million Five Hundred Thousand Dollars ($3,500,000.00) from the City’s Capital Grant Fund to address the impact of transportation network services on municipal roads, bridges, and other transportation infrastructure or any other public purpose substantially related to the operation of transportation network services in the City. Such funds will be transferred and credited to the Capital Grant Fund from revenue received from the Commonwealth Transportation Infrastructure Enhancement Trust Fund.
Filed in the Office of the City Clerk on April 6, 2026. | | |
Action details
|
Not available
|
|
2026-0737
| 1 | | Mayor Order | Message and order approving an appropriation order in the amount of Five Million Dollars ($5,000,000.00) from the Surplus Property Disposition Fund, credited to the Capital Fund for planning, design, and construction of coastal resilience solutions around the City.
Filed in the Office of the City Clerk on April 6, 2026. | | |
Action details
|
Not available
|
|
2026-0738
| 1 | | Mayor Order | Message and order approving an appropriation order in the amount of Three Hundred Eighty-Four Million Seven Hundred Five Thousand Dollars ($384,705,000.00) for various capital improvement purposes for city departments including the Boston Center for Youth and Families, Boston Housing Authority, Boston Planning and Development Agency, Boston Public Library, Innovation and Technology, Environment, Fire, Mayor’s Office of Housing, Office of Arts & Culture, Parks and Recreation, Planning, Property Management, Public Health Commission, Public Works, and the Transportation Departments.
Filed in the Office of the City Clerk on April 6, 2026. | | |
Action details
|
Not available
|
|
2026-0739
| 1 | | Mayor Order | Message and order approving an appropriation order in the amount of Thirteen Million Eight Hundred Fifty-Five Thousand Dollars ($13,855,000.00) for various capital improvement purposes for the Boston Public Schools.
Filed in the Office of the City Clerk on April 6, 2026. | | |
Action details
|
Not available
|
|
2026-0740
| 1 | | Mayor Order | Message and order authorizing the City of Boston to enter into one or more lease, lease-purchase or installment sales agreements in Fiscal Year 2027 in an amount not to exceed Twenty-Eight Million Five Hundred Thousand Dollars ($28,500,000.00). These funds are to be used by various City departments for the acquisition of equipment in furtherance of their respective governmental functions. The list of equipment includes: computer equipment (hardware and software), motor vehicles and trailers, ambulances, firefighting equipment, office equipment, telecommunications equipment, photocopying equipment, medical equipment, school and educational equipment, school buses, parking meters, street lighting installation, traffic signal equipment and equipment functionally related to, and components of, the foregoing. | | |
Action details
|
Not available
|
|
2026-0751
| 1 | | Mayor Order | Message and order approving an order authorizing a limit for the Mayor’s Office of Arts & Culture revolving fund for Fiscal Year 2027 to purchase goods and services to support public art to enhance the public realm throughout the City of Boston. This revolving fund shall be funded by receipts from easements within the public way granted by the Public Improvement Commission. The Mayor’s Office of Arts & Culture will be the only unit authorized to expend from the fund and such expenditures shall be capped at Eight Hundred Thousand Dollars ($800,000.00). | | |
Action details
|
Not available
|
|
2026-0752
| 1 | | Mayor Order | Message and order approving an order authorizing a limit for the Mayor’s Office of Arts & Culture revolving fund for Fiscal Year 2027 to purchase goods and services to support the operation of the Strand Theatre. This revolving fund shall be funded by receipts from rental fees for the use of the Strand Theatre. The Mayor’s Office of Arts & Culture will be the only unit authorized to expend from the fund and such expenditures shall be capped at Three Hundred Thousand Dollars ($300,000.00). | | |
Action details
|
Not available
|
|
2026-0753
| 1 | | Mayor Order | Message and order approving an order authorizing a limit for the Mayor’s Office of Tourism revolving fund for Fiscal Year 2027 to purchase goods and services to support events and programming on and around City Hall Plaza to advance tourism and promote participation in public celebrations and civic and cultural events. This revolving fund shall be funded by receipts from payments for the use of City Hall Plaza pursuant to CBC Chapter 11, section 7-14. The Mayor’s Office of Tourism will be the only unit authorized to expend from the fund and such expenditures shall be capped at One Hundred Fifty Thousand Dollars ($150,000.00). | | |
Action details
|
Not available
|
|
|