Mayor's directive

Accept $8,500 Percheron horse for Boston Parks

Last activity July 9, 2026 (2 months ago)

  1. Introduced

    July 6, 2026

  2. In committee

  3. Council vote

  4. Adopted

City Council approved a mayoral order to accept and expend a gift: a Percheron gelding valued at $8,500 from the Friends of the Boston Park Rangers Mounted Unit. The horse would be used by the Boston Park Rangers Mounted Unit in the Parks and Recreation Department. The action occurred July 8, 2026, with supporting materials including the Parks Horse Donation attachment.

Affects City residents

Now with the City Council

About Parks & Public Space

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Official title

Message and order authorizing the City of Boston to accept and expend a gift of a Percheron Gelding Horse, valued at Eight Thousand Five Hundred Dollars ($8,500.00) from the Friends of the Boston Park Rangers Mounted Unit. This gift is awarded to the City of Boston through the Parks and Recreation Department for use by the Mounted Unit of the Boston Park Rangers.

Timeline

  1. July 8, 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 10 (Breadon, Culpepper, Durkan, FitzGerald, Flynn, Murphy, Pepén, Santana, Weber, Worrell), not present 2 (Louijeune, Mejia), absent 1 (Coletta Zapata).