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File #: 25-1740    Version: 1
Type: Mayor's Request Status: Agenda Ready
File created: 11/19/2025 In control: City Council
On agenda: 11/25/2025 Final action:
Enactment date: Enactment #:
Title: Requesting approval to accept and expend a $22,570 grant with no new match required, from the Executive Office of Public Safety and Security to the Police Department for mobile data terminals.
Code sections: Grant/Gift -
Attachments: 1. Somerville Executed Contract, 2. SFY2025 BJAG Attachment A_Local Municipalities_03112025 (2), 3. SFY2025 Byrne JAG Grant Application - Somerville Police Department - Submitted 06.12.25
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Requesting approval to accept and expend a $22,570 grant with no new match required, from the Executive Office of Public Safety and Security to the Police Department for mobile data terminals.

 

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To the Honorable City Council:

 

The Mayor respectfully requests that this Council accept and approve expending a grant of $22,570 from Executive Office of Public Safety and Security to the Somerville Police Department, 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 three new Mobile Data Terminals for police cruisers.

 

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