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File #: 24-0201    Version: 1
Type: Mayor's Request Status: Approved
File created: 2/16/2024 In control: City Council
On agenda: 2/22/2024 Final action: 3/20/2024
Enactment date: 3/14/2024 Enactment #: 216809
Title: Requesting authorization to borrow $2,240,740 in a bond, and to appropriate the same amount to participate in the Drinking Water State Revolving Fund for the Lead Line Service Replacement program.
Indexes: Finance-Assessing, Finance-Auditing, Finance-Budget, Finance-Grants Development, Finance-Procurement & Contracting Services, Finance-Treasury, Infrastructure-Engineering
Code sections: Bond/BAN -
Attachments: 1. Appropriation Order (Lead Lines) - February 2024, 2. Lead Line Service Replacement_SRF_Capital Program Request Sheet_FY24 CIP

Agenda Summary

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Requesting authorization to borrow $2,240,740 in a bond, and to appropriate the same amount to participate in the Drinking Water State Revolving Fund for the Lead Line Service Replacement program.

 

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Official Text

To the Honorable City Council:

 

The Mayor respectfully requests that this Council appropriate $2,240,740 in order to participate in the Drinking Water State Revolving Fund (SRF). These funds will be applied to phase four of the Lead Line Service Replacement program. To meet this appropriation, the Treasurer will be authorized to borrow $2,240,740 as provided by MGL Chapter 44. Debt service will be paid from the Water Enterprise Fund.

 

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

 

Respectfully,

Katjana Ballantyne, Mayor