Kennedy funeral cost city $431,000

City officials said a federal grant for “urban areas security’’ would cover $400,000 of the cost.

According to the city’s tabulation, Boston spent $359,714 on 629 police officers, $36,748 on 48 firefighters, $29,572 on 55 public health and emergency medical workers, $4,350 on 27 transportation workers, and $1,293 on six public works employees.

The city workers were used to provide security and crowd control during three days of events marking Kennedy’s death: a motorcade with the hearse that carried the late senator’s body through the city on Aug. 27; a public vigil that drew about 50,000 mourners to the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum on Aug. 27 and 28; and a funeral Mass at the Basilica of Our Lady of Perpetual Help in Mission Hill on Aug. 29, which drew 1,200 mourners, including President Obama and many other dignitaries requiring protection.

“It was a major, unprecedented security operation for the city of Boston, so I think it’s definitely a reasonable cost,’’ said Donald E. McGough, director of the Mayor’s Office of Emergency Preparedness.

The Boston Police Department was stretched thin that week because it had sent officers to the funeral of a Weymouth police officer who was struck and killed by a car, and to the city’s annual Caribbean festival, which had been the scene of gang tensions in previous years.

Other law enforcement agencies also helped provide security for the Kennedy memorial events. Massachusetts State Police disclosed last month that it had spent nearly $115,000 on overtime costs for Kennedy’s funeral, according to a tabulation released in response to a public records request from the Associated Press.

Michael Levenson can be reached at mlevenson@globe.com.