Yeas & NaysBoston City Council votes

Docket 1968

Roll call 4 of 9 at the meeting of December 3, 2025: 12 yes, 0 no.

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The motion

City Council Vote on Police Appropriation - FY26

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

1968 On the message and order, referred on November 19, 2025, Docket #1968, for a supplemental appropriation order for the Boston Police Department for FY26 in the amount Six Million Seven Hundred Thirty Three Thousand One Hundred Ninety Six Dollars ($6,733,196.00) to cover the FY26 cost items contained within the collective bargaining agreement between the City of Boston and the Boston Police Patrolmen’s Association (BPPA). The terms of the contract are July 1, 2025 through June 30, 2026. The major provisions of the contract include a base wage increase of 2% and a 1% increase to hazardous duty differential. The contract also contains reforms relating to police performance evaluations and will require officers to wear nametags, the committee submitted a report recommending that the order ought to pass. The report was accepted; the order was passed; yeas 12 (Breadon, Coletta Zapata, Durkan, FitzGerald, Flynn, Louijeune, Mejia, Murphy, Pepén, Santana, Weber, Worrell).

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.