Miniard Culpepper
Context
District 7 Councilor. From the city website (retrieved 2026-10-22); verify. Lead sponsor of Docket No. 1718 (data center ban).
Issues
- English learner services and spending in Boston Public Schools
- Community Preservation Act Affordable Housing Allocation
- Bullying, sexual harassment and sexual misconduct in Boston Public Schools
- Proposed ban on data centers
- Data center electricity costs for ratepayers
- Civil rights and rapid transit equity in Boston
- Blue Hill Avenue Transportation Action Plan
- Orange Line extension along Blue Hill Avenue
- Quarterly Revenue Reports
- Residential Property Assessment Equity
- Neighborhood Based Affordability Standards
- Fields Corner Post Office Closure
- MBTA General Manager Summons - sponsor
- Central Booking Agreement with Suffolk County Sheriff - sponsor
- Edison Building Fire Relief - sponsor
- Gas Tax Suspension Resolution - sponsor
- Section 17F Information Requests - Boston Reparations Task Force order
- Global Cities Fund Grant - presented the committee report
Log
- 2026-10-21 - 2026-10-21 - City Council - Official minutes: sponsor of the MBTA summons (8-2-3) and the central booking hearing order; reported the Civil Rights committee's grant (13-0).
- 2026-09-30 - 2026-09-30 - City Council - Sponsor of the Edison Building fire emergency resolution and the 17F request on the Boston Reparations Task Force; in the chair for the tenant first-right-of-refusal resolution.
- 2026-09-23 - 2026-09-23 - City Council - Co-sponsored the gas tax resolution; voted against reconsideration of the stretch energy code referral.
- 2026-10-21 - 2026-10-21 - City Council - Sponsored the MBTA general manager summons and the central booking hearing order; added to the neighborhood affordability ordinance; presented the immigrant home care cooperative grant as committee chair.
- 2026-10-08 - 2026-10-08 - Ways and Means Committee - Lead sponsor of Docket No. 0586; opened with sale-to-assessment gaps on high-end homes, pressed the interim assessing commissioner repeatedly on why they recur, asked the panelists about remedies, the $83 million figure and the renter burden, and said the question was still unresolved.
- 2026-10-08 - 2026-10-08 - Government Operations Committee - Co-sponsor of Docket No. 1099; tied it to the last budget cycle, asked the Florida panelist about records-request enforcement and the Connecticut commission, and asked the budget director about sharing departmental monthly reports.
- 2026-10-20 - 2026-10-20 - Education Committee - Asked each parent what is needed, urged BPS to work with one family to return a child to learning, and asked students and BPS about restorative practices and a hotline.
- 2026-10-20 - 2026-10-20 - Community Preservation Act Committee - Co-sponsor of Docket No. 1601; asked about bonding against CPA revenue and where 10% more for housing could come from, citing the loss of about $240 million in ARPA funds.
- 2026-10-19 - 2026-10-19 - Planning, Development and Transportation Committee - Lead sponsor of Docket No. 1718; said Boston should act proactively, pressed the Planning Department on the C40 pact, the zoning definition, licensing fees and community engagement, and asked panelists about frameworks and expansion risk.
- 2026-10-14 - 2026-10-14 - Civil Rights, Racial Equity, and Immigrant Advancement Committee - Chair; lead sponsor of Docket Nos. 1340 and 1341. Said residents have opposed a center-running bus lane, that the construction money is not yet obligated, and that the MBTA general manager (who did not attend) will be subpoenaed; framed the hearing as civil rights.
- 2026-10-13 - 2026-10-13 - Education Committee - Co-sponsor of Docket No. 0276; joined at about 50:35 and asked for dropout and proficiency trends and benchmarks, then for emotional and physical support and the Alliance's top priorities before leaving for a meeting.
- 2026-10-22 - Page created from public sources.