Mayor's directive

Accept $75,000 Dorchester elder programs grant

Last activity March 19, 2026 (6 months ago)

  1. Introduced

    March 12, 2026

  2. In committee

  3. Council vote

  4. Adopted

The City of Boston would accept and expend a $75,000 grant awarded by the Massachusetts Office of Travel & Tourism to the Age Strong Commission, for Dorchester. The City Council transmitted the order on 03-12-2026 and passed it on 03-18-2026. Funds would support older adult programs in the Dorchester neighborhood.

Affects older adults

In Dorchester

Now with the City Council

About Health & Human Services and Budget & Finance

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Official title

Message and order authorizing the City of Boston to accept and expend the amount of Seventy-Five Thousand Dollars ($75,000.00) in the form of a grant, FY26-Earmark - Dorchester, awarded by MA Office of Travel & Tourism to be administered by the Age Strong Commission. The grant would fund older adult programs in the Dorchester neighborhood.

Timeline

  1. March 18, 2026

    The rules were suspended; the order was passed.

    City Council

    On motion of Councilor Murphy, the rules were suspended; the order was passed: yeas 13 (Breadon, Coletta Zapata, Culpepper, Durkan, FitzGerald, Flynn, Louijeune, Mejia, Murphy, Pepén, Santana, Weber, Worrell).