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A communication transmitted from Louis A. DePasquale, City Manager, relative to the appropriation and authorization to borrow $78,500,000 to provide funds for the construction of sewer separation, storm water management and combined sewer overflow reduction elimination improvements within the Port, Alewife and Central Square areas as well as the Sewer Capital Repairs Program and climate change preparedness efforts. PASSED TO SECOND READING IN COUNCIL MAY 2, 2022 TO BE ADOPTED ON OR AFTER MAY 23, 2022
City of Cambridge
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Agenda Item Number 4
IN CITY COUNCIL
May 2, 2022
June 6, 2022
ORDERED:
That $78,500,000 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 all costs incidental or related thereto, including but not
limited to:
Construction of sewer separation, storm water management and combined sewer
overflow reduction elimination improvements within the Port, Alewife and Central
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 $78,500,000 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 (the “Trust”) established pursuant to Chapter 29C or the Massachusetts
Water Resources Authority (the “MWRA”) 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 MWRA and otherwise to contract with the Trust and the MWRA 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.
In City Council June 6, 2022.
Adopted by a yea and nay vote:-
Yeas 9; Nays 0; Absent 0.
Attest:- Paula M. Crane, Interim City Clerk
A true copy;
ATTEST:-
Paula M. Crane
Interim City Clerk