Docket 1701
Roll call 11 of 11 at the meeting of December 13, 2023: 12 yes, 0 no, 1 not present.
The motion
City Council Discusses Grant for Firefighter Safety Equipment and Health Programs.
The City's own summary of the docket.
yeas 12, absent 1 (Fernandes Anderson).
The clerk's full description
On the message and order, referred on November 13, 2023, Docket #1701, authorizing the City of Boston to accept and expend the amount of One Million Three Hundred Fifty Eight Thousand One Hundred Dollars ($1,358,100.00) in the form of a grant for the FY22 Assistance to Firefighters Grant Operation and Safety, awarded by the Federal Emergency Management Agency to be administered by the Fire Department. The grant will fund the procurement of Personal Protective Equipment / bailout systems and the training required to use this PPE safely, as well as fund cancer and cardiac screening programs to provide early clinical detection of members, the committee submitted a report recommending the order ought to pass. The report was accepted; the order was passed; yeas 12, absent 1 (Fernandes Anderson).