On the message and order, referred September 29, 2021 Docket 1011, authorizing the City of Boston to accept and expend the amount of One Million Seven Hundred Sixty Eight Thousand Three Hundred Seventy Eight Dollars and Fifty Six Cents ($1,768,378.56) in the form of a grant for the FY22 State Elder Lunch Program, awarded by the MA Executive Office of Elder Affairs to be administered by the Age Strong Commission. The grant will fund nutrition services for up to 284,394 meals for older adults in the City of Boston at $6.24 per meal, the committee submitted a report recommending the order ought to pass. The report was accepted; the order was passed.
Madam Clerk, would you now please read docket 1011. Thank you. Do I get 1011 message? An order authorizing the city of Boston to accept and extend an amount of $1,768,378.56 in the form of a grant for the FBI. 22 state elder lunch program awarded by the Mass Executive Office of Elder appears to be administered by the Eight Strong Commission. The grant will fund nutrition services for up to 240 284,394 older adults in the city of Boston at a cost of $6 or $0.24 per meal. Thank you, Madam Clerk. The chair recognizes a very busy council is Braden, chair of the Committee on Strong Women, Families and Communities. Chair Berrien, you have the floor. Thank you, Mr. President. I think there's a slight correction. It is not 206 elders, individual people, elders. It is that's the number of of lunches that will be delivered, not the number of people we're serving. So I think that's a correction that we should probably. Make a fair point. We will, uh. That's. Yeah, yeah, whatever. Thank you. Thank you for the correction. Thanks for those paying attention. Just to provide a clarity sake that in the packet it says Docket 1011 will find nutrition services for up to 284,000 1390 for older adults. And that is actually about meals. Meals rather than individual older. Adults. Thank you. But I. Think we have ballooned the population of Boston significantly for that. Number. Absolutely. Absolutely. Thank you. So again, we have this hearing on October 18th. And so we were joined again by Commissioner Shea and the administration and finance director Francis Thomas of age strong. And it's sort of self-evident this this these monies were a grant from the Massachusetts Executive Office of Elder Affairs, which will also provide funding for the city's elder nutrition program in addition to the previously mentioned Grant. At this time, it's my recommendation to the council that this matter ought to pass. Thank you. Thank you, Madam Chair. Councilor Braden, chair of the Committee on Strong Women, Families and Communities, seeks passage of Docket 1011. All those in favor, please indicate by saying I oppose nay. The ayes have it. Docket 1011 has passed. Madam Clerk, would you now please read docket 0849?