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Meeting date/time:
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4/3/2025
2:00 PM
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Minutes status:
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Final
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Meeting location:
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Labor, Workforce and Economic Development Committee Hearing on Dockets #0294-0295, #0400, #0405, #0454, #0526, #0529, #0531, & #0642-0643
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2025-0295
| 1 | | Committee Reports | On the message and order, referred on January 29, 2025, Docket #0295, authorizing the City of Boston to accept and expend the amount of Seventy-Five Thousand Dollars ($75,000.00) in the form of a grant, for the Boston Tax Help Coalition Santander Bank Grant, awarded by Santander Bank, N.A. to be administered by the Office of Workforce Development. The grant will fund the Boston Tax Help Coalition to provide pathways from poverty to financial empowerment by maximizing the impact of tax credits through free tax preparation, financial education, and economic stability opportunities, the committee submitted a report recommending the order ought to pass.
The report was accepted; the order was passed. | | |
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2025-0294
| 1 | | Committee Reports | On the message and order, referred on January 29, 2025, Docket #0294, authorizing the City of Boston to accept and expend the amount of One Hundred Thousand Dollars ($100,000.00) in the form of a grant, from the Volunteer Income Tax Assistance (VITA) program, awarded by the United States Department of the Treasury to be administered by the Office of Workforce Development. The grant will fund services to underserved populations in the hardest-to-reach areas, both urban and non-urban, in basic tax return preparation to qualified individuals, the committee submitted a report recommending the order ought to pass.
The report was accepted; the order was passed. | | |
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2025-0400
| 1 | | Committee Reports | On the message and order, referred on February 5, 2025, Docket #0400, authorizing the City of Boston to accept and expend the amount of Four Hundred Ten Thousand Dollars ($410,000.00) in the form of a grant, for the Volunteer Income Tax Assistance Funding, awarded by the MA Executive Office for Administrative & Finance to be administered by the Office of Workforce Development. The grant will fund to support the Center for Working Families’ Boston Tax Help Coalition in assisting low-income taxpayers with personal income tax filing for the 2024 tax session, the committee submitted a report recommending the order ought to pass.
The report was accepted; the order was passed. | | |
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2025-0405
| 1 | | Committee Reports | On the message and order, referred on February 5, 2025, Docket #0405, authorizing the City of Boston to accept and expend the amount of Fifty Thousand Dollars ($50,000.00) in the form of a grant for the Friends of Youth Opportunity Boston Grant, awarded by The Baupost Group to be administered by the Office of Workforce Development. The grant will fund opportunities for young people ages 12-24 to work and learn along with intensive staff support, the committee submitted a report recommending the order ought to pass.
The report was accepted; the order was passed. | | |
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2025-0454
| 1 | | Committee Reports | On the message and order, referred on February 12, 2025, Docket #0454, authorizing the City of Boston to accept and expend the amount of Forty-Three Thousand Three Hundred Twelve Dollars and Fifty Cents ($43,312.50) in the form of a grant for the FYOB MLK Scholars Program Grant, awarded by the Boston Foundation, passed through the Philanthropic Initiative, to be administered by the Office of Workforce Development. The grant will fund summer jobs, financial education, and professional development opportunities for Boston youth, the committee submitted a report recommending the order ought to pass.
The report was accepted; the order was passed. | | |
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2025-0526
| 1 | | Committee Reports | On the message and order, referred on February 26, 2025, Docket #0526, authorizing the City of Boston to accept and expend the amount of One Million One Hundred Ninety Thousand Seventy-One Dollars and Sixty-Four Cents ($1,190,071.64) in the form of a grant for the Carry-in WIOS Adult Program, awarded by the United States Department of Labor, passed through the MassHire Department of Career Services, to be administered by the Office of Workforce Department. The grant will fund services to help job seekers access employment, education, skills, training, apprenticeships and support services, the committee submitted a report recommending the order ought to pass.
The report was accepted; the order was passed. | | |
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2025-0529
| 1 | | Committee Reports | On the message and order, referred on February 26, 2025, Docket #0529, 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 the Workforce Training Fund Grant, awarded by MassHire Department of Career Services to be administered by the Office of Workforce Development. The grant will fund programming to help address business productivity and competitiveness by providing resources to Massachusetts businesses for training current and newly hired employees, the committee submitted a report recommending the order ought to pass.
The report was accepted; the order was passed. | | |
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2025-0531
| 1 | | Committee Reports | On the message and order, referred on February 26, 2025, Docket #0531, authorizing the City of Boston to accept and expend the amount of Forty-One Thousand Eight Hundred Twenty-Eight Dollars and Sixty Cents ($41,828.60) in the form of a grant for the Shelter Supplemental Funding Grant, awarded by MassHire Department of Career Services to be administered by the Office of Workforce Development. The grant will fund MassHire career centers with supplemental funding to support emergency assistance (EA) shelters residents with training and employment opportunities, the committee submitted a report recommending the order ought to pass.
The report was accepted; the order was passed. | | |
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2025-0642
| 1 | | Committee Reports | On the message and order, referred on March 12, 2025, Docket #0642, authorizing the City of Boston to accept and expend the amount of Three Hundred Eighty-Two Thousand One Hundred Sixty-Three Dollars and Fifty-Nine Cents ($382,163.59) in form of a grant, for the Carry-In Wagner Peyser Program Grant, awarded by the United States Department of Labor, passed through the MassHire Department of Career Services, to be administered by the Office of Workforce Development. The grant will fund the individual reemployment needs of Unemployment Insurance claimants, as well as prevent and detect improper benefit payments, and application assistance for, training and education resources and programs, the committee submitted a report recommending the order ought to pass.
The report was accepted; the order was passed. | | |
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2025-0643
| 1 | | Committee Reports | On the message and order, referred on March 12, 2025, Docket #0643, authorizing the City of Boston to accept and expend the amount of One Hundred Forty Thousand Dollars ($140,000.00) in the form of a grant, for the Uncornered Grant, awarded by the Massachusetts Department of Public Health, passed through the Economic Development & Industrial Corporation of Boston to be administered by the Office of Workforce Development. The grant will fund coaching, mentorship, and other workforce development training opportunities for at-risk, violence-involved youth and reentering citizens, the committee submitted a report recommending the order ought to pass.
The report was accepted; the order was passed. | | |
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