Boston City Council Passes Four Police Grants in First Virtual Hybrid Meeting

Uncategorized 2026-07-22 clip6068 · Meeting of July 22, 2026

Boston City Council passes four police grants totaling more than $455,600 in first-ever hybrid virtual meeting. The council met March 23, 2020, with roughly half its members in the City Hall chamber and the rest on Zoom as COVID-19 forced a new operating model, with Council President Kim Janey warning it would likely be the last in-person session for the foreseeable future. Councilor Andrea Campbell, chair of the Committee on Public Safety and Criminal Justice, moved all four grants on suspension of the rules: $250,000 for the FY20 Community Policing Earmark, $140,000 for the Safe and Successful Youth Initiative bringing that program to $2.3 million over two years, $50,000 for naloxone supplies, and $15,600 for a household medicine collection program.

The council also unanimously adopted a resolution honoring Corporal John Alfred Moreau of Mission Hill, killed in Vietnam in January 1970, with a commemorative plaque at Fisher Avenue and Parker Street, and passed a second resolution formally responding to the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education's district review of Boston Public Schools — which stopped short of recommending a state takeover but identified schools requiring significant improvement.

In the full story:

• Docket 0484 — Commemorative Plaque for Corporal John Alfred Moreau
• Who Was There
• Organizations And Documents Referenced
• The complete report — 2,365 words

Source: the Uncategorized 2026-07-22 clip6068 meeting of July 22, 2026, reported from the official video recording and transcript.