Boston City Council split on police intel funding
The Boston City Council is split on releasing $3.4 million in grant funding to the investigative arm of the city’s police department.
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The Boston City Council is split on releasing $3.4 million in grant funding to the investigative arm of the city’s police department.
The City Council voted to fund a $27.35 million collective bargaining agreement with the Boston firefighters union that includes a roughly 10.6% bump in pay over a three-year period.
The City Council approved a labor agreement reached between the Wu administration and the city’s firefighters union, Local 718. The sign-off, which came at Wednesday’s Council meeting and sent the agreement to Mayor Wu’s desk, was unanimous. The agreement, which Wu announced at the Greater Boston Labor Council’s Labor Day breakfast earlier this month, runs from July 2021
Anthony Hellis, at the time the youngest officer on the Muncie Police Department, was fatally shot while searching for a suspect on Sept. 30, 1923.
Administration officials were peppered with questions about the efficacy of Mayor Michelle Wu’s proposal, which is aimed at giving police increased authority to clear tents and ramshackle street shelters.