City Council

Strong Women, Families, & Communities Committee Hearing on Docket #0293

Agenda — 2 items

1. 1 Strong Women, Families, & Communities Committee Hearing on Docket #0293
2. 2 The Committee on Strong Women and Families and Communities, to which was referred on January 29, 2025, Docket #0293, message and order authorizing the City of Boston to accept and expend the amount of One Hundred Forty-Five Thousand Six Hundred Eighty-Seven Dollars and Seventy-Two Cents ($145,687.72) in the form of a grant, for the FY24 Violence Against Women’s Act, a STOP Grant, awarded by the United States Department of Justice, passed through the MA Executive Office of Public Safety and Security, to be administered by the Police Department. The grant will fund a Civilian Domestic Violence Advocate who provide services for victims in Jamaica Plain, as well as for Spanish-speaking victims citywide and also supporting overtime for all Civilian Domestic Violence Advocates citywide, submits a report recommending that the order ought to pass. The report was accepted; the order was passed. 2025-0293