Yeas & NaysBoston City Council votes

Docket 0138

Roll call 2 of 2 at the meeting of February 7, 2024: 9 yes, 0 no, 4 not present.

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The motion

City Council Discusses and Votes on Grant for Domestic Violence Prevention Programs

The City's own summary of the docket.

yeas 9, nays 0, absent 4 (Fernandes Anderson, Mejia, Pepén, Santana).

The clerk's full description

On the message and order, referred on January 24, 2024, Docket #0138, authorizing the City of Boston to accept and expend the amount of One Hundred Forty Six Thousand Eighty Nine Dollars and Seventy Seven Cents ($146,089.77) in the form of a grant for the FY23 Violence Against Women Act, a STOP Grant, awarded by the United States Department of Justice, passed through the MA Executive Office of Public Safety and Security, to be administered by the Police Department. The grant will fund a Civilian Domestic Violence Advocate who provides services for victims in Jamaica Plain, East Boston, and Charlestown, as well as overtime for all civilian domestic violence advocates citywide. The committee submitted a report recommending the order ought to pass. The report was accepted; the order was passed; yeas 9, nays 0, absent 4 (Fernandes Anderson, Mejia, Pepén, Santana).

How each councillor voted

13 recorded

The City's open dataset records this vote differently

This page follows boston.gov. The City's 2008–2024 dataset has the same roll call with these differences:

  • Breadon: not listed in the dataset, yes on boston.gov.
  • Fernandes Anderson: not present in the dataset, yes on boston.gov.

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:

  • Fernandes Anderson appears more than once in this roll call.