ORDER-2022-19 : Authorization to Accept a Grant in the amount of $101,108 from the Massachusetts Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs (EEA) Municipal Vulnerability Preparedness (MVP) Program; and Authorize the Mayor to Execute a Contract with EEA

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▶ 2:48:41 Shawn M. MacMaster: seeing none mr president we just have a proffer on the reason for um for uh media consideration this is now the second before us tonight just so we have some sense it's hard to say if we're going to object if we don't know the reason why something's being sought for immediate consideration so if the profit can be made by the movement department i think denise would you want to speak to as to why immediate consideration um yes good evening denise gaffey director of planning

▶ 2:49:05 Denise Gaffey: and community development i'm here actually to fill in for martha grover who couldn't be here she's on vacation this was a grant that she applied for and um the grant funding agency actually was is holding up the contract signing for for us right now they were hoping to get this contract signed by the end of july and they um they would really like to kick off the project in september it's about a 10-month process and the completion is required to be before the end of the fiscal year thank you mr president okay thank you so this matter is now before us i don't know if you have anything else to add to that um to the grant itself or uh happy to yeah just briefly this is um this is the same program that you just heard from from engineering the municipal vulnerability preparedness program we applied for this grant in collaboration with the cities of malden and medford and melrose is taking the lead on this grant initiative it is primarily technical assistance that will be provided by the metropolitan area planning council and the purpose of the grant is to develop sustainable and resilient um building design guidelines by working with the three communities and there's no cast a cash match for the grant we the essentially this program will will help us develop guidelines for sustainable buildings in support of our net zero goals and it's coming at a really interesting time for us because having just gone through the zoning process with incentive zoning developing sustainable design guidelines was actually a little bit of a challenge there's not a lot of we didn't have a lot of great information at our disposal so this is going to be a really important effort to help us develop those kind of guidelines which will also help homeowners renters and and developers as they endeavor to build in more sustainability and resiliency into new buildings and retrofitted buildings. So it's also great for us in terms of the housing production plan that we're in the process of completing too, because there are goals around affordability and equity tied to this effort. So we're really excited about it. think ultimately what um the grant funding agency is hoping for what mapc is hoping for and we're excited to contribute to is like a best practices manual that other communities can also take advantage of all right any questions what is the will of the council councilor Grigoraitis motion

▶ 2:52:06 Christopher Cinella: to approve second motion to approve by councilor Grigoraitis seconded by councillor Migliorelli any other further discussion wait a minute i think it's a motion for passage oh sorry motion

▶ 2:52:21 Speaker 2: for passage yes thank you for the clarification no further discussion madam clerk please call the roll councillor eccles yes councillor Garipay yes councillor Grigoraitis yes councillor jamal adin yes councillor mcmaster yes councillor mcnaught yes councillor Migliorelli yes councillor stewart yes councillor thomas yes councillor trey montozzi yes president sanella yes 11 yes