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File #: 23-1234    Version: 1
Type: Mayor's Request Status: Approved
File created: 8/14/2023 In control: City Council
On agenda: 8/24/2023 Final action: 10/5/2023
Enactment date: 9/28/2023 Enactment #: 216057
Title: Requesting approval to accept and expend a $250,000 grant with no new match required, from MA Department of Housing and Community Development to the Office of Strategic Planning and Community Development Mobility Division for the study/design of sound walls for interstate-93 near the Mystic housing developments.
Indexes: Finance-Assessing, Finance-Auditing, Finance-Budget, Finance-Grants Development, Finance-Procurement & Contracting Services, Finance-Treasury, SPCD-Mobility
Code sections: Grant/Gift -
Attachments: 1. Mystic Sound Walls

Agenda Summary

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Requesting approval to accept and expend a $250,000 grant with no new match required, from MA Department of Housing and Community Development to the Office of Strategic Planning and Community Development Mobility Division for the study/design of sound walls for interstate-93 near the Mystic housing developments.

 

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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 $250,000 from MA Department of Housing and Community Development to the OPSCD Mobility 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 the study/design of sound walls for interstate-93 in vicinity of Somerville Housing Authority's Mystic housing development.

 

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