North Station

Mayor's directive

Approve $384.7M capital budget and $28.5M leases

Last activity July 6, 2026 (3 months ago)

  1. Introduced

    April 2, 2026

  2. In committee

  3. Council vote

  4. Adopted

The City Council committee report covers FY27 capital budget actions, including a $384,705,000 appropriation for City departments and a $28,500,000 lease-purchase authorization for equipment. The report, prepared by the Ways and Means Committee, describes hearings and project lists across agencies such as BCYF, schools, fire, and housing, and explains how these authorizations fit the FY27 Capital Plan.

In Hyde Park and North End

Now with the Committee on Ways and Means

About Budget & Finance , Technology & Privacy and Public Safety

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Official title

Councilor Weber called Docket #0740, message and order authorizing the City of Boston to enter into one or more lease, lease-purchase or installment sales agreements in Fiscal Year 2027 in an amount not to exceed Twenty-Eight Million Five Hundred Thousand Dollars ($28,500,000.00). These funds are to be used by various City departments for the acquisition of equipment in furtherance of their respective governmental functions. The list of equipment includes: computer equipment (hardware and software), motor vehicles and trailers, ambulances, firefighting equipment, office equipment, telecommunications equipment, photocopying equipment, medical equipment, school and educational equipment, school buses, parking meters, street lighting installation, traffic signal equipment and equipment functionally related to, and components of, the foregoing, from the Committee on Ways and Means. No objection being heard, the matter was properly before the body. On motion of Councilor Weber, the order was read a second time and again passed: yeas 11 (Breadon, Culpepper, Durkan, FitzGerald, Flynn, Louijeune, Murphy, Pepén, Santana, Weber, Worrell), nays 1 (Mejia), absent 1 (Coletta Zapata).

Timeline

  1. April 8, 2026

    Referred to

    City Council

    Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.

    Watch the meeting City video Minutes, April 8, 2026

  2. June 3, 2026

    The report was accepted; the order was read once and passed.

    City Council

    The report was accepted; the order was read once and passed: yeas 13 (Breadon, Coletta Zapata, Culpepper, Durkan, FitzGerald, Flynn, Louijeune, Mejia, Murphy, Pepén, Santana, Weber, Worrell). Assigned for further action.

    Minutes, June 3, 2026

  3. June 24, 2026

    The order was read a second time and again passed.

    City Council

    Minutes, June 24, 2026