Mayor's directive

Authorize $38,229 Literacy Grant Funding

Last activity March 19, 2026 (6 months ago)

  1. Introduced

    March 12, 2026

  2. In committee

  3. Council vote

  4. Adopted

A City Council order authorizes the City of Boston to accept and spend 38,229.30 in a State Literacy Program grant from the Massachusetts Department of Education. The funds will be administered by the Office of Workforce Development to cover infrastructure costs for Adult Community Learning Services at Mass Hire Career Centers. Introduced March 12, 2026 and passed March 18, 2026.

Affects Adult learners

Now with the City Council

About Education and Budget & Finance

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Official title

Message and order authorizing the City of Boston to accept and expend the amount of Thirty-Eight Thousand Two Hundred Twenty-Nine Dollars and Thirty Cents ($38,229.30) in the form of a grant, the State Literacy Program Grant, awarded by MA Department of Education to be administered by the Office of Workforce Development. The grant would fund the infrastructure costs for the Adult Community Learning Services at the MassHire Career Centers.

Timeline

  1. March 18, 2026

    The rules were suspended; the order was passed.

    City Council

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