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Transmitting Communication from Louis A. DePasquale, City Manager, requesting the appropriation and authorization to borrow $6,500,000 to provide funds for the design and construction of various water pollution abatement projects, including but not limited to Sewer Capital Repairs Program and climate change preparedness efforts. ON OR AFTER JUNE 15, 2020 THE QUESTION COMES ON ADOPTION
City of Cambridge
Agenda Item Number 3
IN CITY COUNCIL
May 18, 2020
ORDERED:
That $6,500,000 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:
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 $6,500,000 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 Water
Pollution Abatement 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; and be it further
ORDERED:
Any premium received by the City upon the sale of any bonds or notes approved by
this vote, less the cost of preparing issuing and marketing them, and any accrued
interest received upon the delivery of such bonds or notes, shall be applied to the
payment of project costs approved by this vote, thereby reducing the amount
authorized to be borrowed to pay such costs by a like amount.
In City Council June 15, 2020.
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