Boston City Council, MA / March 2021

Boston City Council Meeting on March 31, 2021

Docket #0165 - Hearing to discuss ways for the City to prevent and investigate incidents of hate crimes and discrimination

Docket #03331 - Hearing regarding the state of affordable housing as to Boston’s Inclusionary Development Polic

Docket #0212 - Hearing regarding zoning relief for 100% affordable and deeply affordable housing projects.

Docket #0352 - Petition of A Yankee Line, for a license to operate motor vehicles for the carriage of passengers for hire over certain streets in Boston

Docket #0261 - Ordinance requiring equitable COVID-19 vaccine distribution in the City of Boston

Docket #0303 - Ordinance extending paid sick leave for City of Boston employees to receive the COVID-19 vaccine

Docket #0220 - Hearing regarding Green and Social Bonds

DOCKET #0263 - Grant appropriation of Eighty Thousand Dollars ($80,000.00) grant for the FY21 Sustainable Materials Recovery Program/Recycle Dividend, awarded by the MA Department of Environmental Protection

Docket #0346 - Funding appropriation order in the amount of Twenty-Five Million Five Hundred Thousand Three Hundred Seventy-Four Dollars ($25,500,374.00) from the Fiscal Year 2021 Preservation Fund revenues for community preservation projects at the recommendations of the City of Boston Community Preservation Committee ("CPC"). The CPC is recommending $13,617,850.00 in affordable housing projects, $5,598,569.00 in historic preservation projects and $6,283,955.00 in recreational use and open space projects

Docket #0216, an ordinance to establish guidelines for permitting retail residential kitchens and;
Docket #0415, an order regarding a text amendment for the Boston Zoning Code to add retail residential kitchens as an accessory home occupation

Boston City Council Meeting on March 24, 2021

Docket #0166 - Hearing regarding the implementation of the #BPSReady reopening plan

Docket #0329 - Regarding police contracts as policy documents

Docket #0198 - Message and order for the confirmation of the reappointment of John Fernandez, as a member of the Boston Public Health Commission’s Board of Health, for a term expiring January 6, 2024.

Docket #0199 - Message and order for the confirmation of the reappointment of Dr. Jennifer Childs-Roshak, as a member of the Boston Public Health Commission’s Board of Health, for a term expiring January 6, 2024.

Docket #0215 - Hearing discussing commercial vacancies in Boston

Boston City Council Meeting on March 17, 2021

Docket #0182 - Hearing regarding a supplemental sidewalk clearance program during snowstorms in Boston

Docket #0167 - Hearing regarding the fiscal year 2020 Boston Public Schools transportation budget

Docket #0213 - Hearing regarding Boston Police Overtime

Docket #0179 - Hearing regarding ensuring all Boston Public Schools have a full-time mental health and social emotional support specialist

Boston City Council Meeting on March 10, 2021

Docket #0297 - Regarding a City-Level Conservation Corps for Boston

Docket #0216 - Ordinance to establish guidelines for permitting retail residential kitchens

Docket #0143 - Hearing regarding the Boston Police Department’s gang database

Docket #0348 - Message and order authorizing the City of Boston to accept and expend the amount of Two Hundred Forty-Five Thousand Nine Hundred Dollars ($245,900.00) in the form of a grant for the FY21 Local Culture Council Program, awarded by the Massachusetts Cultural Council to be administered by the Office of Arts & Culture. The grant will fund the Boston Cultural Council sub-grants.

Docket 0164 - To discuss property taxes and assistance programs for seniors and long-term residents facing difficulties during COVID-19.

Docket #0239 - Order regarding a text amendment for Boston Zoning Code relative to affordable housing and jobs training exactions

Boston City Council Meeting on March 3, 2021

Dockets #0262 - Twenty Million Six Hundred Seventy Thousand Eight Hundred Ten Dollars ($20,670,810.00) in the form of a grant for the Emergency Rental Assistance, awarded by the United States Department of the Treasury to be administered by the Department of Neighborhood Development. The grant will fund assistance to household that are unable to pay rent and utilities due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Docket #0104 – Message and order to declare surplus City-owned former Public Works Department parcel property known as Windsor Street in the Roxbury District (Ward 09 Parcel 02025020) will transfer the care, custody, management and control of said property to the Public Facilities Commission.

Docket #0105 – Message and order to declare surplus two City-owned former Public Works Department parcels, to transfer the care, custody, management, and control of said properties to the Public Facilities Commission. The parcels are located in the Roxbury District at: Tremont Street (Ward 09 Parcel 02240020) and Melnea Cass Boulevard (Ward 9 Parcel 02225005).

Docket #0307 - Hearing regarding implementation of the Boston Police Reform task Force’s recommendations and the State Police Reform Bill