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Boston equity cabinet outlines FY26 priorities, centralizes operations to protect programming
Summary
City equity leaders told the City Council ways and means committee they will keep core community programs intact for FY26 while centralizing communications and operations to guard against possible federal funding losses.
Boston City Council Committee on Ways and Means Chair Brian Worrell convened a public hearing April 28 on the FY26 budgets for the city's equity cabinet offices, where the chief of equity and inclusion said the administration will centralize some operations while keeping community programs intact.
Mariangeli Solis Rivera, chief of equity and inclusion, told councilors the cabinet will shift some administrative functions (communications, policy, finance and admin) out of individual offices and into shared positions so front-line…
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