Yeas & NaysBoston City Council votes

Docket 0773

Roll call 10 of 21 at the meeting of June 7, 2023: 12 yes, 0 no.

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The motion

City Council Discussed and Approved Funds for Renewable Energy and Reducing City Greenhouse Gases in Fiscal Year 2024.

The City's own summary of the docket.

yeas 12.

The clerk's full description

On the message and order, referred on April 12, 2023 Docket #0773, authorizing a limit for the Distributed Energy Resource Revolving Fund for Fiscal Year 2024 to facilitate the purchase of offsets of greenhouse gas emissions which shall be associated with a portion of the electricity consumed by the City annually; and to operate, maintain, monitor and expand the City's existing solar arrays and Boston Public Schools' combined heat and power facilities. This revolving fund shall be credited with any and all receipts from the sale of renewable and alternative energy certificates and demand response program revenues produced by combined heat and power units located at Boston Public Schools sites and solar renewable energy certificates produced by the City's photovoltaic arrays. Receipts and resulting expenditures from this fund shall not exceed One Hundred Fifty Thousand Dollars ($150,000.00), the committee submitted a report recommending the order ought to pass. The report was accepted; the order was passed; yeas 12.

How each councillor voted

12 recorded

How this record was read

The City's data gives surnames and short vote codes. These changes were made to read it, and nothing else:

  • Dropped a vacant seat recorded as 'Not Present'.