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File #: 25-0057    Version: 1
Type: Mayor's Request Status: Approved
File created: 1/6/2025 In control: City Council
On agenda: 1/23/2025 Final action: 2/24/2025
Enactment date: 2/13/2025 Enactment #: 218324
Title: Requesting the appropriation of $300,000 from the Community Preservation Act (CPA) Fund to the CPA Open Space Land Acquisition Fund.
Indexes: Finance-Assessing, Finance-Auditing, Finance-Budget, Finance-Grants Development, Finance-Procurement & Contracting Services, Finance-Treasury, SPCD-Community Preservation
Code sections: Appropriation/Budget -
Attachments: 1. CPC Funding Rec Open Space Acquisition Fund FY25, 2. CPA FY25 Full App - Open Space Acquisition Fund

Agenda Summary

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Requesting the appropriation of $300,000 from the Community Preservation Act (CPA) Fund to the CPA Open Space Land Acquisition Fund.

 

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Official Text

To the Honorable City Council:

 

The Mayor respectfully requests that this Council appropriate $300,000 from the Community Preservation Act Fund to the CPA Open Space Land Acquisition Fund so that open space parcels can be acquired. The appropriation will be allocated to the Open Space and Recreational Land CPA category (Fund #3251).

 

The following funding conditions have been placed on the project: A perpetual conservation restriction will be recorded on all properties acquired with CPA funds per the requirement of the CPA enabling legislation. Details of this request are available in the attached funding recommendation from the Community Preservation Committee.

 

Appropriate staff will be available to address any questions you may have. Thank you for your consideration of this item.

 

Respectfully Submitted,

Katjana Ballantyne, Mayor