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A communication transmitted from Louis A. DePasquale, City Manager, relative to an order requesting the appropriation and authorization to borrow $28,500,000 to provide funds for the construction of sewer separation, storm water management and combined sewer overflow reduction elimination improvements within River Street and Harvard Square areas as well as the Sewer Capital Repairs Program and climate change preparedness efforts. PASSED TO A SECOND READING IN COUNCIL MAY 10, 2021 TO BE ADOPTED ON OR AFTER MAY 24, 2021
City of Cambridge
Agenda Item Number 8
IN CITY COUNCIL
May 10, 2021
ORDERED:
ORDERED:
That $28,500,000 is appropriated, in addition to any amounts previously appropriated,
for the purpose of financing the design and construction of various water pollution
abatement projects, including but not limited to:
Construction of sewer separation, storm water management and combined sewer
overflow reduction elimination improvements within River Street and Harvard Square
areas as well as the Sewer Capital Repairs Program and climate change preparedness
efforts;
including without limitation all costs thereof as defined in Section 1 of Chapter 29C
of the General Laws; that to meet this appropriation the Treasurer with the approval of
the City Manager is authorized to borrow $28,500,000 and issue bonds or notes
therefore under G.L. c.44 and/or Chapter 29C of the General Laws or any other
enabling authority; that such bonds or notes shall be general obligations of the City
unless the Treasurer with the approval of the City Manager determines that they should
be issued as limited obligations and may be secured by local system revenues as defined
in Section 1 of Chapter 29C; that the Treasurer with the approval of the City Manager is
authorized to borrow all or a portion of such amount from the Massachusetts Clean
Water Trust established pursuant to Chapter 29C or the Massachusetts Water Resources
Authority and in connection therewith to enter into a loan agreement and/or a security
agreement and/or financial assistance agreement with the Trust or the Authority and
otherwise to contract with the Trust and the Authority and the Department of
Environmental Protection with respect to such loan and for any federal or state aid
available for the projects or for the financing thereof; and that the City Manager or any
other authorized City official is authorized to enter into a project regulatory agreement
with the Department of Environmental Protection, to expend all funds available for the
projects and to take any other action necessary to carry out the projects.
Any premium received by the City upon the sale of any bonds or notes approved by this
vote, less any premium applied to the costs of preparing, issuing and marketing them,
may be applied to the payment of project costs approved by this vote in accordance with
M.G.L. c.44, §20, thereby reducing the amount authorized to be borrowed to pay such
costs by a like amount.
In City Council June 7, 2021.
Adopted by a yea and nay vote:-
Yeas 9; Nays 0; Absent 0.
Attest:- Anthony I. Wilson, City Clerk
A true copy;
ATTEST:-
Anthony I. Wilson
City Clerk