Boston City Council Approves FEMA Grants, Passes SNAP Resolution at October Session

Uncategorized 2026-07-22 clip6078 · Meeting of July 22, 2026

Boston City Council approves federal firefighter grants and urges state to close SNAP gap at October 28 session. Presided over by Vice President Michael Flaherty in the absence of Council President Kim Janey and Councilor Lydia Edwards, the council voted unanimously to accept $397,057.92 from FEMA for Fire Department PPE, passed a $75,000 FEMA pre-disaster mitigation grant for Moon Island, and approved a $60,000 TD Bank community garden grant. Councilor Andrea Campbell, chair of the Committee on Public Safety and Criminal Justice, moved all three grants under suspension of rules, noting that federal funding "has been a really challenging" environment for the city.

Councilor Michelle Wu's resolution urging the Baker administration to streamline MassHealth-to-SNAP enrollment also passed unanimously, with Wu citing a gap of more than 70,000 Boston residents eligible for but not receiving federal food benefits. The council referred three education hearing orders — including one on an ethnic studies curriculum backed by the Boston Teachers Union's Ethnic Studies Now Committee — and a hearing order on speeding cars as a public health emergency to their respective committees.

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Source: the Uncategorized 2026-07-22 clip6078 meeting of July 22, 2026, reported from the official video recording and transcript.