City Manager's Agenda 2019 #184

Official designation: CMA 2019-184

Transmitting Communication from Louis A. DePasquale, City Manager, relative to the appropriation of a grant from the State’s Municipal Vulnerability Preparedness (MVP) Regional Action Grant program in the amount of $350,000 to the Public Investment Fund Public Works Extraordinary Expenditures account The grant was submitted by Cambridge on behalf of the Resilient Mystic Collaborative (RMC), which is a 14-member municipal partnership working on watershed-scale climate resiliency in the Mystic Watershed and will allow the Collaborative to identify and pursue site-specific green infrastructure opportunities in the individual communities for regional stormwater management and evaluate additional flood management strategies to mitigate precipitation flooding from the 10-year storm event in 2070