Yeas & NaysBoston City Council votes

Docket 0916

Roll call 14 of 19 at the meeting of June 24, 2026: 12 yes, 0 no, 1 not present.

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The motion

Authorizing Boston to accept and spend a federal grant for homelessness services.

The City's own summary of the docket.

the order was passed: yeas 12 (Breadon, Culpepper, Durkan, FitzGerald, Flynn, Louijeune, Mejia, Murphy, Pepén, Santana, Weber, Worrell), absent 1 (Coletta Zapata).

The clerk's full description

0916 On the message and order, referred on May 6, 2026, Docket #0916, authorizing the City of Boston to accept and expend the amount of One Million Four Hundred Eighty Nine Thousand Six Hundred Sixteen Dollars ($1,489,616.00) in the form of a grant, the Federal FY26 Emergency Solutions Grant, awarded by the United States Department of Housing & Urban Development to be administered by the Mayor's Office of Housing. The grant would fund street outreach, emergency shelter, homelessness prevention, rapid re housing assistance and shelter services. The award amount is estimated from prior years, the committee submitted a report that the order ought to pass. The report was accepted; the order was passed: yeas 12 (Breadon, Culpepper, Durkan, FitzGerald, Flynn, Louijeune, Mejia, Murphy, Pepén, Santana, Weber, Worrell), absent 1 (Coletta Zapata).

How each councillor voted

13 recorded