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File #: 25-0018    Version: 1
Type: Mayor's Request Status: Approved
File created: 12/30/2024 In control: City Council
On agenda: 1/9/2025 Final action: 1/28/2025
Enactment date: 1/23/2025 Enactment #: 218246
Title: Requesting approval to accept and expend a $100,000 grant with no new match required, from the Barr Foundation to the Office of Sustainability and Environment for a Community Heat Resilience Pilot Grant Program.
Indexes: Finance-Assessing, Finance-Auditing, Finance-Budget, Finance-Grants Development, Finance-Procurement & Contracting Services, Finance-Treasury, Mayor-Sustainability & Environment
Code sections: Grant/Gift -
Attachments: 1. Request for Heat Resilience Pilot Program Grant Acceptance_memo, 2. Barr_Foundation_Grant_Agreement_Somerville_signed

Agenda Summary

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Requesting approval to accept and expend a $100,000 grant with no new match required, from the Barr Foundation to the Office of Sustainability and Environment for a Community Heat Resilience Pilot Grant Program.

 

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To the Honorable City Council:

 

The Mayor respectfully requests that this Council accept and approve expending a grant of $100,000 from the Barr Foundation to the Office of Sustainability and Environment, 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 Community Heat Resilience Pilot Grant Program.

 

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