City Council Committee on Boston's COVID-19 Recovery Working Session on Dockets #0503, #0504, #0265, #0436, #0511, #0512, #0547, #0590, #0638, #0640, #0652

Message and order authorizing the City of Boston to accept and expend the amount of Three Hundred Forty Nine Million Five Hundred Thousand Dollars ($349,500,000.00) in the form of a grant, awarded by the United States Department of Treasury, to be administered by the City of Boston’s Chief Financial Officer/Collector Treasurer, from the Coronavirus State and Local Fiscal Recovery Fund (CSLFRF) in the Treasury of the United States established by Section 9901 of the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 (ARPA), and pursuant to the requirements of the ARPA, the grant payment would fund COVID-19 response and recovery efforts and accelerate a Green New Deal for Boston through once-in-a-generation, transformative investments that address the systemic health and economic challenges in the areas of affordable housing, economic opportunity and inclusion, behavioral health, climate and mobility, arts and culture and early childhood.

Message and order authorizing the City of Boston to accept and expend the amount of Forty Million Dollars ($40,000,000.00) in the form of a grant, awarded by the United States Department of the Treasury to be administered by the City of Boston’s Chief Financial Officer/Collector Treasurer, from the Coronavirus State and Local Fiscal Recovery Fund (CSLFRF) in the Treasury of the United States established by Section 9901 of the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 (ARPA), and pursuant to the requirements of the ARPA the grant payment would fund provision of government services to the extent of the reduction in revenue of such State, territory, or Tribal government due to the COVID-19 public health emergency relative to revenues collected in the most recent full fiscal year of the State, territory or Tribal government prior to the emergency.

Order authorizing the City of Boston to accept and expend a grant funded through the Coronavirus State and Local Fiscal Recovery Fund (CSLFRF) in the Treasury of the United States established by Section 9901 of the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 (ARPA).

Order for a hearing on the state of Boston’s non-governmental, nonprofit social sector and charting a post-pandemic recovery.

Order for a hearing to utilize federal COVID recovery funds to construct municipal composting infrastructure.

Order for a hearing regarding allocating ARPA funds to a homeownership voucher program

Order for a hearing to utilize American Rescue Plan Act federal and state Covid recovery funds to create housing options for returning citizens.

Order for a hearing to discuss ways in which ARPA funding can support an ecosystem of non-profit holistic wraparound health services for disenfranchised populations.

Order for a hearing to discuss the possibility of allocating ARPA funds for the expansion of South Boston Community Health Center.

Order for a hearing on appropriating federal relief funds to stabilize and expand public sector personnel capacity beyond pre-pandemic levels.

Order for a hearing to discuss utilizing American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) funding to improve digital equity in the City of Boston.

These matters were sponsored by the Administration (#0503 #0504), Councilor Frank Baker (#0265), Councilor Liz Breadon (#0436), Councilors Kenzie Bok, Frank Baker, and Kendra Lara (#0511), Councilors Brian Worrell, Michael Flaherty, and Kenzie Bok (#0512), Councilors Ruthzee Louijeune, Brian Worrell, and Kenzie Bok (#0547), Councilors Tania Fernandes Anderson, Erin Murphy, and Ruthzee Louijeune (#0590), Councilors Ed Flynn, Erin Murphy, and Michael Flaherty (#0638), Councilor Liz Breadon (#0640), and Councilors Kenzie Bok, Julia Mejia, and Ed Flynn (#0652). The dockets were referred to the Committee on February 9, 2022, March 30, 2022, April 13, 2022, April 27, 2022, May 4, 2022, and May 18, 2022.

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