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File #: 24-1082    Version: 1
Type: Mayor's Request Status: Approved
File created: 8/7/2024 In control: City Council
On agenda: 8/22/2024 Final action: 9/19/2024
Enactment date: 9/12/2024 Enactment #: 217632
Title: Requesting approval to accept and expend a $959,500 grant with no new match required, from the Massachusetts Gaming Commission to the Office of Strategic Planning & Community Development Mobility Division for the Transit Pass Pilot Program, Traffic Signal Pre-emption for Emergency Services and Middlesex Ave - Mystic Ave Intersection Project.
Indexes: Finance-Assessing, Finance-Auditing, Finance-Budget, Finance-Grants Development, Finance-Procurement & Contracting Services, Finance-Treasury, SPCD Administration, SPCD-Mobility
Code sections: Grant/Gift -
Attachments: 1. 2025 BlockGrantSomerville - Transit Pass - Middlesex- Mystic Ave

Agenda Summary

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Requesting approval to accept and expend a $959,500 grant with no new match required, from the Massachusetts Gaming Commission to the Office of Strategic Planning & Community Development Mobility Division for the Transit Pass Pilot Program, Traffic Signal Pre-emption for Emergency Services and Middlesex Ave - Mystic Ave Intersection Project.

 

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Official Text

To the Honorable City Council:

 

The Mayor respectfully requests that this Council accept and approve expending a grant of $959,500 from the Massachusetts Gaming Commission to the Office of Strategic Planning & Community Development Mobility Division, under the provisions of MGL Chapter 44, Section 53A. This grant does not require the commitment of new matching funds.

 

The purpose of this grant is to pay for the Transit Pass Pilot Program, Traffic Signal Pre-emption for Emergency Services and Middlesex Ave - Mystic Ave Intersection Project .

 

Appropriate staff will be available to answer any questions you may have. Thank you for your consideration of this item.

 

Respectfully submitted,

Katjana Ballantyne, Mayor