On the message and order, referred on June 30, 2021 Docket #0825, authorizing the City of Boston to accept and expend the amount of Six Hundred Seventy Two Thousand Six Hundred Eighty Five Dollars and Sixty Cents ($672,685.60) in the form of a grant for the FY22 YouthWorks, awarded by the MA Executive Office of Labor and Workforce Development, passed through the Economic Development & Industrial Corporation of Boston, to be administered by the Youth Engagement & Employment. The grant will fund the Summer 2021 Success Link Employment Program, the committee submitted a report recommending the order ought to pass. The report was accepted; the order was passed.
Thank you, Councilor Woo! Moving right along to docket zero 8 to 5, I believe. Correct. Thank you. Yes. Docket 0 to 5. Mr. Schneider authorizing the city of Boston to accept an extended amount of $672,685.60 in the form of a grant for the FBI. 22 Youth Works awarded by the Mass Executive Office of Labor and Workforce Development, passed to the Economic Development and Industrial Corporation of Boston to be administered by the Youth Engagement and employment. The grant will fund the summer 2021 Success Link Employment Program. Thank you, Madam Clark. The Chair now recognizes the chair of the Committee on Strong Women, Families and Communities, counselor Liz Braid and Floor is yours. Thank you, Mr. President. On Monday, October 18th, the Committee on Strong Women, Families and Communities heard a hearing on Docket 100825. We were joined by Rashad Kolb, director of the Youth Employment, Engagement and Employment. We provided testimony on behalf of the Administration Youth Works Grant six 672,000 to reimburse the city. This money has already been spent in this past summer on the Youth Success Linked Youth Jobs program from July 25 to August 27th. The Youth Works is Subsidized Youth Employment Program, administered by the Massachusetts Commonwealth Corporation, designed to provide low income teens and young adults 14 to 21 years of age with their first employment experiences, work readiness , training and skills to find and keep an unsubsidized job. In financial year 21, 372 eligible youth were identified as youth work participants and were employed across over 25 community based organizations and 13 seasonal staff were hired in support of this program. It is the recommendation, my recommendation to the Council that this matter ought to pass. Thank you. Thank you very much, counselor Liz Braden, chair of the Committee on Strong Women, Families and Communities, seeks passage of Docket 0825. All those in favor, please indicate by saying I oppose. No, the ayes have it. The docket has passed. Moving right along to docket. 0826.0826 message an order authorizing the city of Boston to accept and expend an amount of $476,666 in the form of a grant for nutrition services for Boston. Elders awarded by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, passed to the mass executive office of Elder appears to be administered by the Strong Commission.