Mayor's directive

Accept a $50,978 Nutrition Services Grant for Older Adults

Last activity July 23, 2026 (about 2 months ago)

  1. Introduced

    July 16, 2026

  2. In committee

  3. Council vote

  4. Adopted

The City Council order would authorize the City of Boston to accept and expend a Federal FY26 Title III-C Nutrition Services Program grant of $50,978. Funds administered by the Age Strong Commission would support nutrition services for older adults in Boston. The Mayor transmitted the request on 07-16-2026; the matter passed on 07-22-2026.

Affects older adults

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Official title

Message and order authorizing the City of Boston to accept and expend the amount of Fifty Thousand Nine Hundred Seventy-Eight Dollars ($50,978.00) in the form of a grant, the Federal FY26 Title III-C Nutrition Services Program Grant, awarded by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, passed through the Massachusetts Executive Office of Elder Affairs, to be administered by the Age Strong Commission. The grant would fund nutrition services for older adults in the City of Boston.

Timeline

  1. July 22, 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 10 (Breadon, Culpepper, Durkan, FitzGerald, Flynn, Louijeune, Murphy, Pepén, Weber, Worrell), not present 1 (Mejia), absent 2 (Coletta Zapata, Santana).