Mayor's directive
Authorize accepting $2.52M YouthWorks grant for youth jobs
Last activity May 21, 2026 (4 months ago)
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Introduced
May 12, 2026
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In committee
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Council vote
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Adopted
The City would accept and expend a YouthWorks grant of $2,520,000 from the MA Executive Office of Labor and Workforce Development. The funds would support a Summer and School Year jobs program for low-income at-risk youth ages 14–25, with leadership development, skills training, and career exploration, administered by the Office of Workforce Development. The Council passed the order on May 20, 2026.
Affects low-income at-risk youth
Now with the City Council
About Labor & Workforce , Education and Budget & Finance
Compare with the government's own wording
Official title
Message and order authorizing the City of Boston to accept and expend the amount of Two Million Five Hundred Twenty Thousand Dollars ($2,520,000.00) in the form of a grant, YouthWorks Grant, awarded by MA Executive Office of Labor and Workforce Development to be administered by the Office of Workforce Development. The grant would fund a Summer and School Year jobs program that will provide leadership development, skills training, and career exploration for low-income at-risk youth ages 14-25 years old.
Timeline
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May 20, 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 12 (Breadon, Culpepper, Durkan, FitzGerald, Flynn, Louijeune, Mejia, Murphy, Pepén, Santana, Weber, Worrell), absent 1 (Coletta Zapata).