Docket 0320
Roll call 11 of 13 at the meeting of April 15, 2026: 13 yes, 0 no.
The motion
City Council Discussed and Voted on Accepting a Grant for Police Department Boats and Training.
The City's own summary of the docket.
the order was passed: yeas 13 (Breadon, Coletta Zapata, Culpepper, Durkan, FitzGerald, Flynn, Louijeune, Mejia, Murphy, Pepén, Santana, Weber, Worrell).
The clerk's full description
0320 On the message and order, referred on February 11, 2026, Docket #0320, authorizing the City of Boston to accept and expend the amount of Five Hundred Seventy Seven Thousand Five Hundred Dollars ($577,500.00) in the form of a grant, the FY25 Port Security Grant Program, awarded by United States Department of Homeland Security to be administered by the Police Department. The grant would fund the purchase of a new 31' LifeProof boat, the replacement of engines on the 31' Safeboat and 38' Safeboat, and finally, the re collaring of the Kvichak patrol boat, and ice rescue training, the committee submitted a report recommending that the order ought to pass. The report was accepted; the order was passed: yeas 13 (Breadon, Coletta Zapata, Culpepper, Durkan, FitzGerald, Flynn, Louijeune, Mejia, Murphy, Pepén, Santana, Weber, Worrell).