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Mayor's directive

Accept $130,000 Harvard grant to fund Mayor's Office

Last activity August 6, 2026 (about 1 month ago)

  1. Introduced

    July 29, 2026

  2. In committee

  3. Council vote

  4. Adopted

The City Council approved an order to accept and spend a $130,000 Harvard Business School Leadership Fellow grant awarded to the Mayor's Office. The funds would support one year of the Leadership Fellow position. The action was taken after suspending the rules on 2026-08-05. An attachment provides details; one Legistar record noted a 404 fetch.

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Message and order authorizing the City of Boston to accept and expend the amount of One Hundred Thirty Thousand Dollars ($130,000.00) in the form of a grant, the HBS Leadership Fellow Grant, awarded by Harvard Business School to be administered by the Mayor's Office. The grant would fund the HBS Leadership Fellow position which will provide 1 year of support to the Mayor's Office. On motion of Councilor Worrell, the rules were suspended; the order was passed: yeas 10 (Breadon, Culpepper, Durkan, FitzGerald, Flynn, Mejia, Murphy, Santana, Weber, Worrell), not present 2 (Louijeune, Pepén), absent 1 (Coletta Zapata).

Timeline

  1. August 5, 2026

    The rules were suspended; the order was passed.

    City Council