Docket 1796
Roll call 7 of 11 at the meeting of December 13, 2023: 6 yes, 6 no, 1 not present.
The motion
City Council Discusses and Votes on Accepting Grant for Emergency Management and Terrorism Prevention.
The City's own summary of the docket.
yeas 6, nays 6 (Arroyo, Breadon, Lara, Louijeuene, Mejia, Worrell), absent 1 (Fernandes Anderson).
The clerk's full description
On the message and order, referred on November 27, 2023, Docket #1796, authorizing the City of Boston to accept and expend the amount of Thirteen Million Three Hundred Seventeen Thousand Two Hundred Dollars ($13,317,200.00) in the form of a grant from the FY2023 Urban Area Security Initiative, awarded by the United States Department of Homeland Security, passed through the MA. Executive Office of Public Safety & Security, to be administered by the Mayor’s Office of Emergency Management. The grant will fund planning, exercise, trainings, and operational needs, that will help prevent, respond to and recover from threats of acts of terrorism, including chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear and explosive incidents, the committee submitted a report recommending the order ought to pass. The order failed to pass; yeas 6, nays 6 (Arroyo, Breadon, Lara, Louijeuene, Mejia, Worrell), absent 1 (Fernandes Anderson).