Edward M. Flynn

Context

Associated municipality: Boston.

District 2 Councilor. From the city website (retrieved 2026-10-22); verify.

Issues

Log

2026-10-21 - 2026-10-21 - City Council - Official minutes: voted no on the Blue Bikes grant and the Election Day holiday, yes on the MBTA summons; offered the retiree COLA, water commission verdict and veterans items.
2026-09-30 - 2026-09-30 - City Council - Offered hearing orders on the lead replacement program, MCAS scores, South Boston resident parking and a West Broadway garage.
2026-09-23 - 2026-09-23 - City Council - Co-sponsored the Tremont Street hearing order and the gas tax resolution; sent a communication on the Army Corps coastal storm study; offered a resolution for a police hiring and retention commission, which was referred after an objection.
2026-10-21 - 2026-10-21 - City Council - Voted no on the Blue Bikes grant and the Election Day holiday resolution; filed the retiree COLA and water and sewer verdict hearing orders and resolutions on veterans' dental care and lung cancer awareness; supported the MBTA summons.
2026-10-08 - 2026-10-08 - Ways and Means Committee - Joined the Docket No. 0586 hearing; raised 10% and 13% tax increases on long-time owners, asked whether challenging an assessment raises taxes (no) and whether another 10% rise is likely.
2026-10-08 - 2026-10-08 - Government Operations Committee - Joined the Docket No. 1099 hearing; supported quarterly reports, asked whether reporting could have caught school fund misappropriation found by the state Inspector General and whether other cities have a 17F-style information request, and objected to being cut off.
2026-10-15 - 2026-10-15 - Labor, Workforce & Economic Development Committee - Said he has attended every one of these hearings in nine years; pressed on low resident shares and read a 1985 executive order barring permits without certified compliance.
2026-10-15 - 2026-10-15 - Government Operations Committee - Backed Docket No. 0807 as a basic city services issue, mentioned a related Chinatown private alley water and sewer problem, and asked how the pothole repair process works and who pays on a private way.
2026-10-16 - 2026-10-16 - Planning, Development and Transportation Committee - Joined the Zoning Board of Appeal nominations hearing; asked about mentoring, in-person hearings, language access and asthma and air quality.
2026-10-20 - 2026-10-20 - Education Committee - Called for a task force and release of de-identified incident data, criticized BPS transparency, and pressed for the BPS-police memorandum of understanding.
2026-10-20 - 2026-10-20 - Community Preservation Act Committee - Questioned the planning behind a higher housing share and argued against changing a formula that is working.
2026-10-19 - 2026-10-19 - Planning, Development and Transportation Committee - Listened to both sides on Docket No. 1718, noted a data center in his district serving hospitals and universities, asked how the city balances institutions and labor against environmental groups, and asked about off-site hospital data and maintenance jobs.
2026-10-14 - 2026-10-14 - Civil Rights, Racial Equity, and Immigrant Advancement Committee - Attended as a non-district councilor; called it a civil rights issue, asked how to get city officials to treat it that way, and said he stands against the plan and for a resident-led alternative.
2026-10-13 - 2026-10-13 - Education Committee - Said BPS has no public district-wide plan for native-language access; pressed BPS on years-long IEP evaluation delays reported by mothers, and called cutting paraprofessionals a mistake.
2026-10-22 - Page created from public sources.