Boston City Council, MA / May 2020

Dockets #0588-0596 - Fiscal Year 2021 Budget: Public Testimony Session

Dockets #0588-0596 - Fiscal Year 2021 Budget: Boston Planning & Development Agency

Dockets #0588-0596 - Fiscal Year 2020 Budget: Department of Innovation & Technology (DoIT, Inspectional Services Department (ISD), including PEG Access Fund

Dockets#0588-0596 - Fiscal Year 2021 Budget: Boston Public Schools (BPS) - Cultivate Trust and Activate Partnerships, including ESSA MOU.

Docket #0505 - Petition for a Special Law re: An Act regarding the Disability Pension for Scott O’Brien, Ryan Lenane, Harry Jean, Terry Cotton, Kurt Stokinger, Matthew Morris and Richard Cintolo

Boston City Council Meeting on May 20, 2020

Dockets #0588-0596, 0606-0608, FY21Budget: Boston Public Schools - Amplification of Voices and Expansion of Opportunity, BPS Revolving Funds

Docket #0621 - Hearing regarding all City department FY20 budget surpluses

Docket #0640 - Hearing Concerning Language Access and Information Parity During the COVID-19 Outbreak

Docket #0663 - Hearing to discuss the impact of delivery commission fees on restaurants during the COVID-19 pandemic

Dockets #0588-0596, 0597, 0604, FY21 Budget: Parks, Parkman Fund, Parks Revolving Fund

Dockets #0588-0596, 0597, 0603, FY21 Budget: Environment Department, ConCom, Environment Department Revolving Funds

Dockets #0588-0596, FY21 Budget: Landmarks Commission

Boston City Council Meeting on May 13, 2020

Dockets #0588 - 0596 - Fiscal Year 2021 Budget: Department of Neighborhood Development (DND)

Dockets #0588-0596, 0613 - Fiscal Year 2021 Budget: Office of Economic Development including Boston Equity Fund

Dockets #0588 - 0596 - Fiscal Year 2021 Budget: Boston Public Library/ Boston Centers for Youth & Families including Revolving Fund

Dockets #0588 - 0596 - Fiscal Year 2021 Budget: Youth Engagement & Employment

Docket #0407, Message and order for an appropriation order in the amount of Twenty-Four Million Three Hundred and Nine Thousand Dollars ($24,309,000.00) from the Fiscal Year 2020 Community Preservation Fund revenues for community preservation projects at the recommendations of the City of Boston Community Preservation Committee ("CPC"). The CPC is recommending $15,750,000.00 in affordable housing projects, $3,440,000.00 in historic preservation projects and $5,119,000.00 in recreational use and open space projects. This matter was referred to the Committee on February 26, 2020; and,

Docket #0614, Message and order authorizing the appropriations of Seven Hundred Eighty-Two Thousand Three Hundred Ninety-Two Dollars ($782,392.00) for the administrative and operating expenses of the City of Boston Preservation Committee (“CPC”) for Fiscal Year 2021, and a further appropriation order in the amount of Twenty-Five Million Five Hundred Seventeen Thousand Six Hundred Eight Dollars ($25,517,608.00) from the Community Preservation Fund’s (“the Fund”) estimated annual revenues for Fiscal Year 2021, to be appropriated and reserved for future appropriation. The Fund was created upon the adoption of the Community Preservation Act (the “Act”) in November 2016 and is funded in part by the 1% property tax-based surcharge on residential and business property tax bills that took effect in July 2017 and an annual state distribution from the Massachusetts community preservation trust fund.

Dockets #0588 - 0596 - FY21 Budget for the Boston Public Schools (BPS) - Commitment #1 (Pt. I): Eliminate Opportunity & Achievement Gaps - Overall Alignment & Wraparound Supports

Docket #0588-0596 - FY21Budget: Boston Public Schools (BPS) - Commitment #1 (Pt. II): Eliminate Opportunity & Achievement Gaps - Specialized Academic Supports.

Docket #0649 - Message and order authorizing the City of Boston to accept and expend the amount of One Hundred Twenty Million Eight Hundred Fifty-Three Thousand Three Hundred Fifty-Nine Dollars and Ten Cents ($120,853,359.10) in the form of a grant, awarded by the United States Department of the Treasury to be administered by the City of Boston, from the Coronavirus Relief Fund established by section 5001 of the CARES ACT