Docket 1036
Roll call 23 of 28 at the meeting of December 16, 2020: 13 yes, 0 no.
The motion
City Council Discusses Grant for Opioid Overdose Response Program with Fire Department.
The City's own summary of the docket.
yeas 13.
The clerk's full description
On the message and order, referred on October 7, 2020 Docket #1036, authorizing the City of Boston to accept and expend the amount of Four Hundred Ninety-Eight Thousand Two Hundred Ninety-one Dollars ($498,291.00) in the form of a grant for the First Responders-Comprehensive Addiction and Recovery Act Cooperative Agreement, awarded by the U.S. Health and Human Services to be administered by the Fire Department. The grant will fund a collaborative effort between Boston Fire Department first responders, the Mayor’s Office of Recovery Services, the Boston Public Health Commission, and community-based organizations to improve the City’s response to opioid overdoses. Year 3 of a 4-year grant, the committee submitted a report recommending the order ought to pass. The report was accepted; the order was passed; yeas 13.