Yeas & NaysBoston City Council votes

Docket 0774

Roll call 9 of 21 at the meeting of June 7, 2023: 12 yes, 0 no.

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The motion

City Council Discusses Money for Experts to Help Protect Wetlands 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 #0774, authorizing a limit for the Environment Conservation Commission revolving fund for the Fiscal Year 2024 for the purpose of securing outside consultants including engineers, wetlands scientist, wildlife biologists or other experts in order to aid in the review of proposed projects to the Commission, per the city’s ordinance protecting local wetland and promoting climate change adaptation. The revolving fund shall be funded by receipts from fees imposed by the Commission for the purpose of securing outside consultants. The Environment Department will be the only department authorized to expend from the fund and such expenditures shall be capped at Fifty Thousand Dollars ($50,000.00), 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'.