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File #: 24-1491    Version: 1
Type: Mayor's Request Status: Approved
File created: 10/10/2024 In control: City Council
On agenda: 10/24/2024 Final action: 12/19/2024
Enactment date: 12/12/2024 Enactment #: 218067
Title: Requesting approval to accept and expend a $500,000 grant with no new match required, from MA Department of Conservation and Recreation to the Public Space and Urban Forestry Division for the Blessing of the Bay MassTrails improvement project.
Indexes: Finance-Assessing, Finance-Auditing, Finance-Budget, Finance-Grants Development, Finance-Procurement & Contracting Services, Finance-Treasury, SPCD Administration, SPCD-Public Space and Urban Forestry
Code sections: Grant/Gift -
Attachments: 1. Mass Trails Grant Agreement

Agenda Summary

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Requesting approval to accept and expend a $500,000 grant with no new match required, from MA Department of Conservation and Recreation to the Public Space and Urban Forestry Division for the Blessing of the Bay MassTrails improvement 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 $500,000 from MA Department of Conservation and Recreation to the Public Space and Urban Forestry 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 community path improvements at Blessing of the Bay park under the MassTrails Priority Trails Network 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