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Meeting Name: City Council Agenda status: Final
Meeting date/time: 4/15/2025 2:00 PM Minutes status: Final  
Meeting location: Ways & Means Committee Hearing on Dockets #0822-0830 & #0833 - FY26 Budget - BPS, BPS Revolving Funds
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2025-0822 1 Mayor OrderOn the message and order, approving the Annual Appropriation and Tax Order for FY2026, the committee submitted a report recommending that the order ought to pass in a new draft. The report was accepted, the order was passed in a new draft; yeas 13.   Action details Not available
2025-0823 1 Mayor OrderOn the message and order, approving the Annual Appropriation for the School Department for FY2026, the committee submitted a report recommending that the order ought to pass. The report was accepted, the order was passed; yeas 11, nays 2 (Mejia, Murphy).   Action details Not available
2025-0824 1 Mayor OrderOn the 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, the committee submitted a report recommending that the order ought to pass. The report was accepted, the order was passed.   Action details Not available
2025-0825 1 Mayor OrderOn the message and order, approving an appropriation of Five Million Dollars ($5,000,000.00) 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, the committee submitted a report recommending that the order ought to pass. The report was accepted, the order was passed.   Action details Not available
2025-0826 1 Mayor OrderOn the message and order, approving an appropriation order in the amount of Three Million Five Hundred Thousand Dollars ($3,500,000.00) from Surplus Property Disposition Fund, credited to the Capital Fund for planning, design, and construction, for Dorchester Field House, General Parks Improvements, Restroom Facility Improvements at the Boston Common, and the Municipal Animal Shelter, the committee submitted a report recommending that the order ought to pass. The report was accepted, the order was passed.   Action details Not available
2025-0827 1 Mayor OrderOn the message and order, approving an appropriation order in the amount of Five Million Dollars ($5,000,000.00) from the Parking Facility Fund, credited to the Capital Fund for planning, design, maintenance and construction, for the parking facilities, the committee submitted a report recommending that the order ought to pass. The report was accepted, the order was passed.   Action details Not available
2025-0828 1 Loan OrderCouncilor Worrell called Docket #0828, approving an appropriation order in the amount of Two Hundred Sixty-Six Million One Hundred Thousand Dollars ($266,100,000.00) 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 and Culture, Parks and Recreation, Police, Property Management, Public Health Commission, Public Works, and the Transportation Department, from the Committee on Ways and Means. Hearing no objection, the matter was before the body. On motion of Councilor Worrell, the order was read a second time and again passed; yeas 11, nays 2 (Breadon, Mejia).   Action details Not available
2025-0829 1 Loan OrderCouncilor Worrell called Docket #0829, appropriation order in the amount of One Hundred Ninety-Six Million Nine Hundred Thousand Dollars ($196,900,000.00) for various capital improvements purposes for the Boston Public Schools, from the Committee on Ways and Means. Hearing no objection, the matter was before the body. On motion of Councilor Worrell, the order was read a second time and again passed; yeas 11; nays 2 (Breadon, Mejia).   Action details Not available
2025-0830 1 Loan OrderCouncilor Worrell called Docket #0830, authorizing the City of Boston to enter into one or more leases, lease-purchase or installment sales agreements in Fiscal Year 2026 in an amount not to exceed Forty Million Dollars ($40,000,000.00). 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, from the Committee on Ways and Means. Hearing no objection, the matter was before the body. On motion of Councilor Worrell, the order was read a second time and again passed; yeas 11; nays 2 (Breadon, Mejia).   Action details Not available
2025-0833 1 Mayor OrderOn the message and order, authorizing a limit for the Boston Public Schools Revolving Fund for Fiscal Year 2026 to repair and purchase Boston Public Schools computer technology, including computers, mobile devices, and instructional software. This revolving fund shall be credited with any and all receipts from equipment sales and repair fees for Boston Public School technology. Receipts and resulting expenditures from this fund shall not exceed Two Million Dollars ($2,000,000.00), the committee submitted a report recommending that the order ought to pass. The report was accepted; the order was passed.   Action details Not available