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File #: 24-0774    Version: 1
Type: Mayor's Request Status: Placed on File
File created: 5/19/2024 In control: City Council
On agenda: 5/23/2024 Final action: 6/27/2024
Enactment date: 6/27/2024 Enactment #: 217345
Title: Requesting approval to accept and expend a $75,000 grant with no new match required, from the MA Department of Conservation and Recreation to the Office of Strategic Planning and Community Development Public Space and Urban Forestry Division for a multi-use trail at Blessing of the Bay park.
Code sections: Grant/Gift -
Attachments: 1. Standard Contract Form- Blessing of the Bay Earmark

Agenda Summary

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Requesting approval to accept and expend a $75,000 grant with no new match required, from the MA Department of Conservation and Recreation to the Office of Strategic Planning and Community Development Public Space and Urban Forestry Division for a multi-use trail at Blessing of the Bay park.

 

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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 $75,000 from MA Department of Conservation and Recreation  to the OSPCD PSUF , 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 a multi-use trail at Blessing of the Bay park.

 

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