Speaker 1: Submits a report recommending the order of the test and number 0166. The Committee on Public Safety and Criminal Justice, to which was referred on January 26, 2022. Number 0166 message in order authorizing the City of Boston to accept and expand the amount of $125,000 in the form of a grant for federal fiscal year 21. Violence Against Women Act stock grant awarded by the United States Department of Justice as passed through the Massachusetts Executive Office of Public Safety and Security to be administered by the Police Department. The grant will fund civilian violence, if you could, who provide services for victims in Jamaica Plain, East Boston Child's Time and overtime for all domestic violence advocates submits. A report recommended that the order author pass.
Speaker 0: Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Clarke. The Chair recognizes counsel for each year of the Committee on Public Safety, Criminal Justice. Counsel for Charity of the Floor.
Speaker 3: Mr. President. Then, thanks to the clerks, you'll make my job much easier and shorter. We get six dockets that we're looking at. So these matters are sponsored by Mayor Wu and referred to committee on January 26th. We held a public hearing Thursday, February 17th. Thank my colleagues for attending us to the great questions. We heard testimony that's 0159 and 0163 together for those of the fire departments. Commissioner john dempsey and deputy commissioner, administration finance kathleen judge are coming to testify and the safer program ensures it will be a recruit class of 85 for the Boston Fire Department. The commission reports that the grant is the largest grant in the country and will save our city over 24 million in the next three years. The salary benefits for these new recruits. And with respect to docket 0163 is so eloquently described. This obviously is to help our first responders over in the mass and CAS area. It'll be a collaborative effort between the fire department, first responders, the mayor's Office of Recovery Services, Boston Public Health Commission, Boston Police to help improve response times to opioid overdose calls and events. So with that, she was asking that both of those dockets. And it's again, it's a year for a four year agreement with respect to the remaining four dockets docket 0161. That's Captain three because Mesquite and Lieutenant Richard Driscoll came in and testified on behalf of the police department. This grant will improve the police department's capacity to respond to violent crimes and assist in the review inventory and follow up investigations of up to 100 unsolved sexual assault cases that pose the most significant risk and threat to public safety. Docket 0162. With respect to Emergency Services Best Team, this grant is intended to support law enforcement, behavioral health system, collaboration, and to improve public safety responses and outcomes for individuals with mental health, illness, substance abuse who also come in contact with the criminal justice system with respect to Docket 0164. Those funds will assist the crime laboratories to increase their capacity to process more DNA samples and to reduce the number of forensic DNA and DNA database samples awaiting analysis and to prevent a backlog with respect to forensics in DNA samples in Docket 0166. That grant obviously targeting Jamaica Plain, East Boston and Charlestown. Civilian positions, civilian advocates working in partnership with BPD to help provide victims of violent crime with protections and services they need. And so as a result of that, as chair of the Committee on Public Safety, moving for passage of docket 01590161016201630164 and 0166. Thank you, Mr. President.
Speaker 0: Thank you, counsel. Already. At this time. The at this time the chair recognizes Counselor Edwards, counsel Edwards. Do you have the floor?
Speaker 4: Just for my clarification to the to the chair. Counsel Flaherty We had hearings on every one of these. Correct. Thank you.
Speaker 0: Thank you, Councilor Edwards. Anyone else want to talk before we vote on this? Any further discussion? Counsel of Clarity. The Chair and the Committee on Government Operations seeks acceptance of the Committee report and passage. We'll do each, each one individually. The first one is docket 0159. All those in favor say aye. Aye, oppose. Say nay. The ayes have it. Docket 0159 has passed. Counsel of Clarity, the chair of the Committee on Government. Coming up on public safety six acceptance of the committee report and passage of docket 0161. All those in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed, say no. The ayes have it. 0161 has passed the Council with clarity. The chair of the Committee on Public Safety, Criminal Justice, seeks acceptance of the Committee report and passage of docket 0162. All those in favor say I post-Sandy the ayes have it 0162 has passed. Council of Florida, Chair of the Committee on Public Safety Criminal Justice seeks acceptance of the Committee report passage of docket 0163. All those in favor say aye. Aye, oppose. Nay, the ayes have it. 0163 has passed counsel priority. The Chair of the Committee on Public Safety Criminal Justice seeks acceptance and passage of the Committee report passage of docket 0164. All those in favor say I am opposed. Nay, the ayes have it. And finally, Council of Florida, the chair of the Committee on Public Safety, Criminal Justice, seeks acceptance of the committee report and passage of docket 0166. All those are all those in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed nay. The ayes have it. 0166 has passed. Mr. Clerk, please read docket 0222.
On the message and order, referred on January 26, 2022 Docket #0166, authorizing the City of Boston to accept and expend the amount of One Hundred Twenty Five Thousand Dollars ($125,000.00) in the form of a grant for the Federal FY21 Violence Against Women Act Stop grant, awarded by the United State Department of Justice, passed through the MA Executive Office of Public Safety & Security, to be administered by the Police Department. The grant will fund a Civilian Violence Advocate who provides services for victims in Jamaica Plain, East Boston, Charlestown and overtime for all Domestic Violence Advocates, submits a report recommending that the order ought to pass.