Yeas & NaysBoston City Council votes

Docket 1690

Roll call 8 of 9 at the meeting of October 8, 2025: 12 yes, 0 no.

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The motion

City Council Vote: Ruth Batson Academy Feasibility Study

The City's own summary of the docket.

the order was read once and passed: yeas 12 (Breadon, Coletta Zapata, Durkan, FitzGerald, Flynn, Louijeune, Mejia, Murphy, Pepén, Santana, Weber, Worrell).

The clerk's full description

On the message and order, referred on September 24, 2025, Docket #1690, for your approval an Order authorizing the City of Boston to appropriate the amount of Two Million Five Hundred Thousand Dollars ($2,500,000.00) for the purpose of paying the cost of a feasibility study and schematic design associated with a project for the Ruth Batson Academy, formerly known as the John W. McCormick School, located at 315 Mount Vernon Street, Dorchester, MA 02125. This includes the payment of all costs incidental or related thereto, and for which the City of Boston may be eligible for a grant from the Massachusetts School Building Authority (“MSBA”), said amount to be expended under the direction of the Public Facilities Department on behalf of the Boston Public Schools, the committee submitted a report recommending the order ought to be read once and passed. The report was accepted; the order was read once and passed: yeas 12 (Breadon, Coletta Zapata, Durkan, FitzGerald, Flynn, Louijeune, Mejia, Murphy, Pepén, Santana, Weber, Worrell). Assigned for further action.

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:

  • The City's record lists Fernandes Anderson with no vote; left out of the count.