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CMA 2025 #99 : Transmitting Communication from Yi-An Huang, City Manager, relative to the appropriation and authorization to borrow $7,500,000 to provide funds for the sewer Capital Repairs Program and projects related to climate change preparedness efforts. PASSED TO A SECOND READING AND REFERRED TO THE FINANCE COMMITTEE IN COUNCIL APRIL 28, 2025 ELIGIBLE FOR ADOPTION MAY 19, 2025
City of Cambridge
Calendar Item Number 15
Agenda Item Number 9
IN CITY COUNCIL
April 28, 2025
June 2, 2025
ORDERED:
that $7,500,000 is appropriated, to be expended in addition to any amounts previously
appropriated, for the purpose of financing the sewer Capital Repairs Program and
projects related to 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 $7,500,000 and issue bonds or notes of the City therefor under G.L. c.44 and/or
c. 29C 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 G.L. c. 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 G.L. c. 29C
(the “Trust”) or from the Massachusetts Water Resources Authority (“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 MWRA and the Department of Environmental Protection (“DEP”) 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 DEP, to expend all
funds available for the projects and to take any other action necessary to carry out the
projects.
In City Council June 2, 2025.
Adopted by a yea and nay vote:-
Yeas 8; Nays 0; Absent 1.
Attest:- Paula M. Crane, Interim City Clerk.
A true copy;
ATTEST:-
Paula M. Crane
Interim City Clerk