Docket 0503
Roll call 3 of 3 at the meeting of July 13, 2022: 12 yes, 0 no, 1 not present.
The motion
Council Discusses and Approves Accepting $349.5 Million Grant for COVID-19 Recovery and Green Initiatives.
The City's own summary of the docket.
yeas 12, not present 1 (Fernandes Anderson).
The clerk's full description
On the motion and order, referred on April 13, 2022, Docket #0503, message and order authorizing the City of Boston to accept and expend the amount of Three Hundred Forty Nine Million Five Hundred Thousand Dollars ($349,500,000.00) in the form of a grant, awarded by the United States Department of Treasury, to be administered by the City of Boston’s Chief Financial Officer/Collector Treasurer. This grant payment is made from the Coronavirus State and Local Fiscal Recovery Fund (SLFRF) in the Treasury of the United States established by Section 9901 of the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 (ARPA) Pursuant to the requirements of the ARPA, the grant payment would fund COVID-19 response and recovery efforts and accelerate a Green New Deal for Boston through once-in-a-generation, transformative investments that address the systemic health and economic challenges in the areas of affordable housing, economic opportunity and inclusion, behavioral health, climate and mobility, arts and culture and early childhood, the committee submitted a report recommending the order ought to pass in a new draft. The report was accepted; the order was passed in a new draft; yeas 12, not present 1 (Fernandes Anderson). The report was accepted; the order was passed in a new draft.