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Council approves emergency transfers for ISD, summer youth jobs and school apprenticeship grants
Summary
Ways and Means committee authorized multiple fiscal transfers on May 27, including $640,000 from free cash to ISD for barrels, $355,828 for FY26 summer youth work jobs, $30,000 each to school apprenticeship and early-college grants, and other payroll/expense transfers.
The Ways and Means committee on May 27 approved several budget transfers and emergency transfers to cover expenses across city departments and programs.
Committee members approved $640,000 from free cash to the Inspectional Services Department (ISD) to fund the purchase of additional barrels; $251,000 from ISD payroll to ISD expense; $50,000 from the reserve to IT expenses; $50,000 from Council on Aging payroll to fund FY25 operations; and smaller transfers to cover a prior-year IFC bill. The committee also certified $355,828 for FY26 summer youth work jobs.
The council approved two $30,000 transfers to the school department for a FY25 teacher apprenticeship grant and the Mass Alliance for Early College Grant Program. Committee members voted to treat the transfers as emergency measures and approved them by roll call.
Councilors completed the roll-call approvals for the listed transfers; no additional public discussion of program details was recorded in the committee excerpt.
