Every One of Boston City Council's FY25 Veto Override Votes

On June 26 the Boston City Council took a total of 14 veto override votes in an effort to keep the $15.3M worth of changes - just 0.33% of $4.6B total budget - that they passed back on June 5. This video has each of those overrides, along with the outcome, plus what the Council called each partial override and the time the vote took place in BPI’s AI-generated transcript.

The Council meeting on June 26 was so long that the video and therefore transcript were broken up into two sections:

• Part 1 of 2 - eleven of the fourteen votes can be found in this transcript

• Part 2 of 2 - three of the fourteen votes can be found in this transcript

In addition to this video, check out each of the individual vote graphics below. Here is how all the votes shook out:

As a reminder, 9 Councilors must vote for an override in order to successully defeat a Mayoral veto.

The first and most important vote was the first one, where the Council voted on whether or not to override all of the Mayor’s vetoes to the budget they passed on June 5. The budget passed 10-3 on June 5, which was enough to override a veto. Three of the Councilors who voted in favor of the budget on June 5 - Henry Santana, Enrique Pepen, and Sharon Durkan - flipped their vote and rejected the same budget on June 26.

This vote can be found in Part 1 of 2

The rest of the votes that took place on June 26 were so-called “partial overrides” where packages of different budget actions were put together and voted on. Here are the next nine votes the Council took, all of which can be found in Part 1 of 2.

This was the last vote to take place on Part 1 of 2:

Then the transcript switches to Part 2 of 2 and there are three more votes then:

There will be more budget fallout in the coming weeks:

• The Wu administration’s claims they do not need to comply with a number of the Council’s actions contained within these 14 votes;

• The Home Rule Petition to hike taxes on commercial real estate property, which was proposed by Mayor and approved by the City Council, is now before the state legislature.

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