City Council

BOSTON — May 14, 2026 — Boston Ways and Means Committee rejects rationale for double-digit cuts to veterans, senior, and reentry services in FY27 budget hearing. Committee Chair Ben Weber convened a roughly three-and-a-half-hour hearing Thursday on Mayor Michelle Wu's proposed FY27 budgets for the

BOSTON — May 13, 2026 — Boston City Council Ways and Means Committee advances $3.3 million in police detective union contracts. The committee, chaired by District 6 Councilor Ben Weber and joined by Councilors Ed Flynn, John Fitzgerald, and Murphy, held a virtual hearing Wednesday on four dockets covering one-year

BOSTON — May 13, 2026 — Boston City Council approves $3.3 million in retroactive police detective contracts and clears more than a dozen grant dockets. The council voted 12-0 on all four dockets covering new collective bargaining agreements with the Boston Police Detectives Benevolent Society and its Superior Officers Unit,

BOSTON — May 12, 2026 — Boston equity cabinet offices defend deep grant cuts at City Council budget hearing. The Committee on Ways and Means, chaired by District 6 Councillor Ben Weber, heard testimony Tuesday from the Mayor's Office for Immigrant Advancement, the Office of Language and Communication Access, the

BOSTON — May 12, 2026 — Boston City Council budget hearing draws packed room over equity office grant cuts. The Committee on Ways and Means, chaired by District 6 Councillor Ben Weber, convened a nearly three-hour hearing Tuesday on proposed fiscal year 2027 budgets for four equity-focused city offices, where

BOSTON — May 12, 2026 — Boston's Equity and Inclusion Cabinet faces a $3 million budget cut in fiscal year 2027, eliminating all community grant programs. The Committee on Ways and Means heard testimony Tuesday from Chief of Equity and Inclusion Mariangeli Solis Servera, who said the cabinet — which grew

BOSTON — May 11, 2026 — Boston City Council questions fire department on $1.4 million cancer screening funding gap. The Ways and Means Committee, chaired by District 6 Councilor Ben Weber, heard from newly installed Fire Commissioner Rodney Marshall and department staff Monday on the FY2027 operating budget, with the sharpest

BOSTON — May 8, 2026 — Boston City Council reviews pothole repair operations, downtown repaving, and a 311 system overhaul ahead of FIFA matches. At a Thursday hearing on Docket 0515, Chair Ed Flynn and Councilor John FitzGerald heard from Chief of Streets Nick Gove, who reported an 18-hour average resolution

BOSTON — May 7, 2026 — Boston's City Council Ways and Means Committee pressed Police Commissioner Michael Cox and command staff on overtime spending, the long-delayed civilian flagger program, and officer wellness at a May 7 fiscal year 2027 budget hearing. Chief of the Bureau of Administration and Technology

BOSTON — May 7, 2026 — Boston City Council presses BPD on overtime and civilian flaggers during FY27 budget hearing. The Ways and Means Committee, chaired by District 6 Councilor Ben Weber, spent nearly three hours Thursday questioning Police Commissioner Michael Cox and command staff on overtime costs that have exceeded the