Docket 1539
Roll call 2 of 9 at the meeting of October 25, 2023: 13 yes, 0 no.
The motion
City Council Discusses Funding for Migrant Shelter and Support Services Program
The City's own summary of the docket.
yeas 13.
The clerk's full description
Councilor Lara called Docket #1539, message and order authorizing the City of Boston to accept and expend the amount of One Million Nine Hundred Eighty Three Thousand Eight Hundred Thirty Three Dollars ($1,983,833.00) in the form of a grant, for the Shelter & Services Program 23, awarded by the United States Department of Homeland Security to be administered by the Mayor’s Office of Housing. The grant will fund services to non citizen migrants recently released from DHS custody to provide shelter, food, transportation, acute medical care, personal hygiene supplies, and case management services, and to provide funding to non federal entities to increase their capacity to shelter non citizen migrants recently released from DHS custody, including renovations and modifications to existing facilities, from the Committee on Housing and Community Development. Hearing no objection, the matter was before the body. Committee members polled; yeas 5. On motion of Councilor Lara, the order was passed; yeas 13.