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File #: 25-0299    Version: 1
Type: Mayor's Request Status: Approved, Awaiting Mayoral Review
File created: 2/20/2025 In control: City Council
On agenda: 2/27/2025 Final action: 3/13/2025
Enactment date: 3/13/2025 Enactment #: 218536
Title: Requesting approval to accept and expend a $100,000 grant with no new match required, from the City of Boston Office of Emergency Management to the Elections Department for security of elections vault.
Code sections: Grant/Gift -
Attachments: 1. grant vault

Agenda Summary

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Requesting approval to accept and expend a $100,000 grant with no new match required, from the City of Boston Office of Emergency Management to the Elections Department for security of elections vault.

 

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Official Text

To the Honorable City Council:

 

The Mayor respectfully requests that this Council accept and approve expending a grant of $100,000 from the Boston's Office of Emergency Management to the Elections Department, under the provisions of MGL Chapter 44, Section 53A. This grant does not require the commitment of new matching funds.

 

The purpose of this grant is to pay for security of our vault room for election materials and voting equipment.

 

Appropriate staff will be available to answer any questions you may have. Thank you for your consideration of this item.

 

Respectfully submitted,

Katjana Ballantyne, Mayor