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City Council

Wednesday, February 11, 2026, 12 p.m. (Boston time), Council Chambers

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Roll-call votes

Resolution in support of reopening the South End Branch of the Boston Public Library and recognizing the contributions and efforts of Marleen Nienhuis to Improving the South End Branch Library.: Adopted 9-0
Resolution in support of establishing a crossing guards corps at Trotter Elementary School.: Adopted 11-0
Resolution supporting U.S. Discharge Petition No. 15 to advance federal legislation providing Temporary Protected Status for Haiti.: Adopted 11-0
Resolution recognizing Irish-American Heritage Month.: Adopted 11-0
Resolution to embrace and extend heartfelt wishes to the beloved Muslim community in Boston, Massachusetts, throughout the United States, and across the globe, invoking blessings upon them as they embark upon the sacred journey of Ramadan, a month revered for its rituals of prayer, fasting, charity, and deep reflection.: Adopted 11-0
Councilor Santana called Docket #0130, message and order authorizing the City of Boston to accept and expend the amount of One Million Seven Hundred Thousand Dollars ($1,700,000.00) in the form of a grant, the FY26 Training Academy Earmark Grant, awarded by Massachusetts Department of Fire Services to be administered by the Fire Department. The grant would fund the Boston Fire Department Training Academy to provide training and instruction for public safety agencies in the City of Boston and municipal and political subdivisions across the Commonwealth, per line item 8324-0000 of the FY26 General Appropriations Act, from the Committee on Public Safety and Criminal Justice. No objection being heard, the matter was properly before the body.: Accepted 11-0
Councilor Santana called Docket #0136, message and order authorizing the City of Boston to accept and expend the amount of One Hundred Thousand Dollars ($100,000.00) in the form of a grant, the FY26 Delta Unit Earmark Grant, awarded by Massachusetts Department of Fire Services to be administered by the Fire Department. The grant would fund the Boston Fire Department to conduct dedicated emergency services through its Delta Units, consisting of 3 Delta Unit vehicles assigned to Castle Island, Pleasure Bay and Carson Beach respectively, within the Old Harbor Reservation in the South Boston section of the City of Boston, seasonally from Memorial Day to Labor Day, inclusive, per line item 8324-0050 of the FY26 General Appropriations Act, from the Committee on Public Safety and Criminal Justice. No objection being heard, the matter was properly before the body.: Accepted 11-0
Message and order for your approval an Order appropriating from the Edward Ingersoll Browne Fund in the sum of Six Hundred and Fifty Thousand Dollars and Zero Cents ($650,000.00) for projects described in the attached order. The Edward Ingersoll Browne Fund Commissioners voted to approve these projects. On motion of Councilor Flynn, the rules were suspended; the order was passed: yeas 11 (Breadon, Coletta Zapata, Culpepper, Durkan, FitzGerald, Flynn, Louijeune, Murphy, Santana, Weber, Worrell), absent 2 (Mejia, Pepén).: Passed 11-0

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