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File #: 23-0377    Version: 1
Type: Mayor's Request Status: Approved
File created: 3/13/2023 In control: City Council
On agenda: 3/23/2023 Final action: 4/20/2023
Enactment date: 4/13/2023 Enactment #: 215245
Title: Requesting approval to accept and expend a $28,000 grant with no new match required, from MassDEP to the Office of Sustainability and Environment for the Recycle Dividend 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. Somerville SMRP Grant Award Signed, 2. Somerville 2022 SMRP Grant Award Letters

Agenda Summary

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Requesting approval to accept and expend a $28,000 grant with no new match required, from MassDEP to the Office of Sustainability and Environment for the Recycle Dividend Program.

 

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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 $28,000 from MassDEP to the DPW via OSE, 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 Sustainable Material Recovery 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