Docket 1971
Roll call 3 of 5 at the meeting of November 19, 2025: 12 yes, 0 no.
The motion
FY26 Age Strong Commission Grant Approval
The City's own summary of the docket.
yeas 12 (Breadon, Coletta Zapata, Durkan, FitzGerald, Flynn, Louijeune, Mejia, Murphy, Pepén, Santana, Weber, Worrell).
The clerk's full description
Message and order authorizing the City of Boston to accept and expend the amount of One Million Eight Hundred Fifty-Two Thousand Two Hundred Eighty-Eight Dollars ($1,852,288.00) in the form of a grant, for the State FY26 Council on Aging formula allocation, awarded by the MA Executive Office of Elder Affairs to be administered by the Age Strong Commission. The grant will fund social and health care services for 115,768 older adults in the City of Boston at $15 per person, according to 2020 Census data from the UMass Boston Donahue Initiative. On motion of Councilor Murphy, the rules were suspended; the order was passed; yeas 12 (Breadon, Coletta Zapata, Durkan, FitzGerald, Flynn, Louijeune, Mejia, Murphy, Pepén, Santana, Weber, Worrell).
How each councillor voted
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.