No more threats of police and teacher layoffs???

The City Council yesterday received notice from the Mayor that he had received about 22 million dollars in grants to retain police officers. Since we have previously "found" enough money to not lay off any police officers and we are down to about 12 million short to retain all of our full time teachers shouldn't we be to where I have always said we would be: No layoffs of police officers or teachers? Heck, we may even have enough to not get rid of the mounted unit.

The fact remains that the Mayor has too many staff doing 'god knows what' instead of concentrating on the core functions of city government: education and public safety.



ORDER OF BUSINESS FOR MATTERS PRESENTED TO THE CITY CLERK PRIOR TO 12:00 P.M. ON TUESDAY MAY 19, 2009 FOR CONSIDERATION BY THE CITY COUNCIL AT A REGULAR MEETING ON WEDNESDAY MAY 20, 2009 AT 6:30 P.M.

APPROVAL OF THE MINUTES:

COMMUNICATIONS FROM HIS HONOR, THE MAYOR: The following were received:

0719 - Message and order authorizing the Police Department to accept and expend a grant of $15,869,888.00 from the U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Community Oriented Policing Services Recovery Act, for the purpose of retaining the Boston Police Department Officers.

0720 - Message and order authorizing the Police Commissioner to accept and expend a grant of $3,907,220.99 from the U.S. Department of Justice, for the FY09 Edward Byrne Memorial Justice Assistance Program Recovery Act, for the purpose of retaining the Boston Police Department Officers.

0721 - Message and order authorizing the Police Commissioner to accept and expend a grant of $1,293,194.47 from the U.S. Department of Justice, for the FY09 Edward Byrne Memorial Competitive Grant Recovery Act, for the purposes of retaining the Boston Police Department Officers.

0722 - Message and order authorizing the Police Commissioner to accept and expend a grant of $1,255,620.15 from the U.S. Department of Justice, for the FY09 Edward Byrne Memorial Competitive Grant Recovery Act, for the purposes of retaining the Boston Police Department Officers.