City Council

Strong Women, Families, & Communities Committee Hearing on Docket #0138

Agenda — 2 items

1. 1 Strong Women, Families, & Communities Committee Hearing on Docket #0138
2. 2 On the message and order, referred on January 24, 2024, Docket #0138, authorizing the City of Boston to accept and expend the amount of One Hundred Forty-Six Thousand Eighty-Nine Dollars and Seventy-Seven Cents ($146,089.77) in the form of a grant for the FY23 Violence Against Women 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 provides services for victims in Jamaica Plain, East Boston, and Charlestown, as well as overtime for all civilian domestic violence advocates citywide. The committee submitted a report recommending the order ought to pass. The report was accepted; the order was passed; yeas 9, nays 0, absent 4 (Fernandes Anderson, Mejia, Pepén, Santana). 2024-0138