City Council Budget and Finance Committee Meeting

The Budget & Finance Committee meeting agenda centered on routine organizational items and two substantive finance orders. Committee business included appointment of a chair and vice chair, approval of the 2024 schedule, and a slot for communications and public comment. The two substantive agenda items were Order 2024-014 (creation of an Opioid Settlement Special Revenue Fund and an appropriation of $114,123.63 from Free Cash) and Order 2024-015 (a request for the City Council to authorize the Department of Public Works to overspend the FY2024 snow and ice appropriation of $250,000).

Order 2024-014, as described on the agenda, would establish a special revenue fund to receive opioid settlement monies and appropriate the certified Free Cash amount to that fund for uses aligned with the Massachusetts State-Subdivision for Statewide Opioid Settlement Fund (prevention, harm reduction, treatment, and recovery). Order 2024-015 references M.G.L. c.44 §31D and notes that snow-and-ice expenditures through January 18, 2024 totaled $142,563.34; the agenda item requests authorization to exceed the current appropriation, as has been necessary in prior years. The posted agenda does not record action outcomes or votes; a public comment period was listed on the agenda but no speaker details or discussion outcomes are included in this record.