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Boston City Council
How the Boston City Council voted, from the City Clerk's official minutes. 13 councilors: 4 elected at large and one from each of the city’s 9 districts. Sworn in January 1, 2024. Council President: Ruthzee Louijeune (elected January 1, 2024, with all 13 votes). John FitzGerald (District 3), Enrique Pepén (District 5), Benjamin Weber (District 6) and Henry Santana (at-large) joined the council. During 2024 the minutes begin calling Gabriela Coletta by the name Coletta Zapata. Tania Fernandes Anderson (District 7) resigned effective July 4, 2025; the seat stayed empty for the rest of the term, so 12 councilors served from July 2025. Covers 67 meetings, January 1 to December 10, 2025.
A monthly email on what it voted on, starting in November.
What does the City Council do? It is the city’s lawmaking body. It passes local laws (ordinances), votes on the yearly budget, and approves borrowing.
The mayor runs the city day to day and proposes the budget.
Sources: Mass. General Laws c. 44 § 32 (city budgets)Council sessions
Coming up
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From the agendas Boston posts on its official site. Agendas can change; the posted agenda is the official one.
Councilors
Liz BreadonCouncilor · District 9 · at 64 of 67 meetings
Gabriela Coletta ZapataCouncilor · District 1 · at 64 of 67 meetings
Sharon DurkanCouncilor · District 8 · at 65 of 67 meetingsTania Fernandes AndersonCouncilor · District 7 · at 46 of 53 meetings · until Jun 2025
John FitzGeraldCouncilor · District 3 · at 67 of 67 meetings
Edward FlynnCouncilor · District 2 · at 66 of 67 meetings
Julia MejiaCouncilor · At-large · at 65 of 67 meetings
Erin MurphyCouncilor · At-large · at 67 of 67 meetings
Enrique PepénCouncilor · District 5 · at 63 of 67 meetings
Henry SantanaCouncilor · At-large · at 66 of 67 meetings
Benjamin WeberCouncilor · District 6 · at 67 of 67 meetings
Brian WorrellCouncilor · District 4 · at 64 of 67 meetings"At X of Y meetings" counts the roll call at the start of each meeting in this record. Councilors who step out are listed on each meeting page.
Meetings
About missing minutes
Loaded: every full City Council meeting with minutes on the city’s Legistar site, from September 15, 2021 through September 30, 2026 (159 meetings, regular and special). The Legistar calendar also lists committee hearings and working sessions; those are not loaded, and committee polls taken during council meetings are not shown as council votes. Not here: City Council minutes before September 2021, which are not on Legistar (the city’s older website had text minutes for 2005 to 2010; minutes from 2011 to August 2021 are not online; MassVoter is asking the City Clerk for January 2018 to August 2021). Some meetings are missing from Legistar altogether even though later minutes approve their minutes, including September 14, October 5 and December 7, 2022; April 26, May 17, June 7, August 9 and September 27, 2023; January 28 and August 5, 2026. Boston’s minutes list each docket item and what the council did with it. Items referred to committee, placed on file or left in committee are not votes and are not listed. Most actions are written without a count (“the rules were suspended; the order was passed”, “Passed under suspension of the rules”); for those MassVoter shows the result only and never assumes the vote was unanimous. Roll calls are written as a count, often with names (“yeas 11, nays 2 (Flynn, Murphy)”; since 2026 every yes voter is named too). When the names and the count add up to the councilors present, we show each councilor’s vote; councilors listed as “not present” or “absent” for a vote are left out of it. When they do not add up, or a councilor named in the vote is not on the attendance line, we show the count only and add a note. Elections of the Council President and of the City Clerk show the result only, with a note quoting who voted for whom. We will ask the City Clerk to confirm any noted vote.
Votes where councilors disagreed
Most council votes are unanimous. These are the ones where at least one councilor voted no or abstained, newest first.
Dec 10Message and order authorizing the City of Boston to…Motion: On motion of Councilor Santana, the rules were suspended; the order…Passed · see note
December 10, 2025: Message and order authorizing the City of Boston to accept and expend the amount of One Million Four Hundred Eighty-Five Thousand Two Hundred Sixty-Four Dollars And...
On motion of Councilor Santana, the rules were suspended; the order was passed.
The minutes give the result only, with no count, so MassVoter does not show how each councilor voted.
From the minutes
“On motion of Councilor Santana, the rules were suspended; the order was passed..” (Motion: Santana)
Dec 10Message and order authorizing the City of Boston to…Motion: On motion of Councilor Breadon, the rules were suspended; the order…Passed · see note
December 10, 2025: Message and order authorizing the City of Boston to accept and expend the amount of $1,000,000.00 in the form of a grant for the NU Housing Stabilization Fund...
On motion of Councilor Breadon, the rules were suspended; the order was passed.
The minutes give the result only, with no count, so MassVoter does not show how each councilor voted.
From the minutes
“On motion of Councilor Breadon, the rules were suspended; the order was passed..” (Motion: Breadon)
Dec 10Message and order authorizing the City of Boston to…Motion: On motion of Councilor Weber, the rules were suspended; the order…Passed · see note
December 10, 2025: Message and order authorizing the City of Boston to accept and expend the amount of $95,000.00 in the form of a grant, the Workforce Training Fund Grant, awarded by...
On motion of Councilor Weber, the rules were suspended; the order was passed.
The minutes give the result only, with no count, so MassVoter does not show how each councilor voted.
From the minutes
“On motion of Councilor Weber, the rules were suspended; the order was passed..” (Motion: Weber)
Dec 10Message and order authorizing the City of Boston to…Motion: The report was accepted, the order was passed.Passed · see note
December 10, 2025: Message and order authorizing the City of Boston to accept and expend the amount of $3,966,900.00 in the form of a grant, for the FY26 Safe and Successful Youth...
The report was accepted, the order was passed.
The minutes give the result only, with no count, so MassVoter does not show how each councilor voted.
From the minutes
“The report was accepted, the order was passed..”
Dec 10Message and order authorizing the City of Boston to…Motion: The report was accepted, the order was passed.Passed · see note
December 10, 2025: Message and order authorizing the City of Boston to accept and expend the amount of Ten Thousand Dollars and One Cent ($10,000.01) in the form of a grant, for the...
The report was accepted, the order was passed.
The minutes give the result only, with no count, so MassVoter does not show how each councilor voted.
From the minutes
“The report was accepted, the order was passed..”
Dec 10Message and order authorizing the City of Boston to…Motion: The report was accepted, the order was passed.Passed · see note
December 10, 2025: Message and order authorizing the City of Boston to accept and expend the amount of $4,125,000.00 in the form of a grant, for the FY26 Public Safety Answering Point...
The report was accepted, the order was passed.
The minutes give the result only, with no count, so MassVoter does not show how each councilor voted.
From the minutes
“The report was accepted, the order was passed..”
Dec 10Message and order authorizing the City of Boston to…Motion: The report was accepted, the order was passed.Passed · see note
December 10, 2025: Message and order authorizing the City of Boston to accept and expend the amount of $528,156.32 in the form of a grant, for the FY26 State 911 Training Grant, awarded...
The report was accepted, the order was passed.
The minutes give the result only, with no count, so MassVoter does not show how each councilor voted.
From the minutes
“The report was accepted, the order was passed..”
Dec 10Message and order authorizing the City of Boston to…Motion: The report was accepted, the order was passed.Passed · see note
December 10, 2025: Message and order authorizing the City of Boston to accept and expend the amount of $400,000.00 in the form of a grant, for the Boston MVP Action Grant, awarded by...
The report was accepted, the order was passed.
The minutes give the result only, with no count, so MassVoter does not show how each councilor voted.
From the minutes
“The report was accepted, the order was passed..”
Dec 10Resolution rededicating the Thomas Irving Atkins RoomMotion: On motion of Councilor Louijeune, the rules were suspended; the resolution…Passed · see note
December 10, 2025: Resolution rededicating the Thomas Irving Atkins Room
On motion of Councilor Louijeune, the rules were suspended; the resolution was adopted.
The minutes give the result only, with no count, so MassVoter does not show how each councilor voted.
From the minutes
“On motion of Councilor Louijeune, the rules were suspended; the resolution was adopted..” (Motion: Louijeune)
Dec 10Resolution rededicating the Gabriel Francis Piemonte RoomMotion: On motion of Councilor Louijeune, the rules were suspended; the resolution…Passed · see note
December 10, 2025: Resolution rededicating the Gabriel Francis Piemonte Room
On motion of Councilor Louijeune, the rules were suspended; the resolution was adopted.
The minutes give the result only, with no count, so MassVoter does not show how each councilor voted.
From the minutes
“On motion of Councilor Louijeune, the rules were suspended; the resolution was adopted..” (Motion: Louijeune)
From the Boston City Council’s official minutes, posted on the city’s Legistar meeting calendar (linked from the City Council page on boston.gov). We check every vote against the councilors present and quote the exact wording. MassVoter never grades or scores officials. Councilor photos: City of Boston (boston.gov), from the official headshots on the City Council page. Former councilors show initials.
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