On the message and order, referred on May 13, 2026, Docket #0970, authorizing the City of Boston to accept and expend the amount of One Million Seventy-Three Thousand Two Hundred Thirty-Nine Dollars and Thirty-Four Cents ($1,073,239.34) in the form of a grant, the FY26 Senator Charles E. Shannon Jr. Community Safety Initiative, awarded by MA Executive Office Of Public Safety & Security to be administered by the Police Department. The grant would fund regional and multi-disciplinary approaches to combat gang violence through coordinated prevention and intervention, law enforcement, prosecution, and reintegration programs, the committee submitted a report recommending that the order ought to pass.

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$1.07M

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Type

award

Field

Public safety

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Committee

Committee on Public Safety and Criminal Justice

Introduced

May 5, 2026

On agenda

July 8, 2026

Passed

July 8, 2026

Where it was heard

City Council Jul 8, 2026 The report was accepted; the order was passed. City Council Jul 2, 2026 City Council May 13, 2026 Referred to

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