ORDER-2017-121 : Acceptance of CZM Grant in the amount of Six Thousand, Seven Hundred Dollars ($6,700) from the Commonwealth of Massachusetts office of Coastal Zone Management (CZM). Said funds to be deposited into Fund Number 4028, CMZ Grant.

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▶ 1:18:16 Peter D. Mortimer: correct very good thank you alderman inferno i'm seeing no further alderman wishing to be heard on this order is there a motion to recommend alderman mary beth mcintyre margolis has made a motion to recommend this order for passage duly seconded by alderman Boisselle seeing no further discussion All in favor, please say aye. Aye. Any opposed? Hearing none, this order will be recommended for passage to our full board.

▶ 1:18:41 Speaker 7: Thank you very, very much.

▶ 1:18:43 Peter D. Mortimer: At our next full board meeting. Thank you very much, Mr. Delarusso. Thank you. The next order we have before us is order 2017-121. Acceptance of the CZM grant in the amount of $6,700 from the Commonwealth of Massachusetts Office of Coastal Zone Management, CZM, said funds to be deposited into fund number 4028CMZ grant. It should be CZM grant.

▶ 1:19:21 Speaker 5: Please proceed, Mr. Shenna.

▶ 1:19:25 Speaker 6: Good evening again.

▶ 1:19:30 Speaker 6: So the department is respectfully requesting the acceptance of this grant. um this grant builds on the work that was done last year with our 604b grant from mass dep i'm not sure certain if many of you remember that but our engineering division and atp consultant tom paulina from melrose were successful in obtaining a grant that studied the the drainage watershed north of el pond the focus was in flood remediation the focus of that grant was stormwater quality and it took a lot of samples of various watersheds that empty into l pond to identify um you know where's the storm water dirty where of most pollutants located the end product the deliverable was a was a report that's in engineering right now that identified pockets throughout that watershed where improvements could be made so this this grant follows up on that this um this grant through the coastal zone management group of the commonwealth of massachusetts is going to look to design rain gardens and select locations to pilot the use of green infrastructure to enhance stormwater quality nip these

▶ 1:20:53 Speaker 6: stormwater regulations is something that is now common in in the public works industry and construction storm water quality storm water protection and construction projects a second phase of that is looming and that second phase focuses on storm water quality so the work we did last year through a dep grant the work that we continue to do this year through this grant will set us up for for that next regulatory act that sooner or later the the state will pass down

▶ 1:21:30 Peter D. Mortimer: on to municipalities thank you very much mr shanna ultimate voice l please well john this evening we

▶ 1:21:34 Robert A. Boisselle: heard about community gardens could you tell us a little about this rain garden that you're

▶ 1:21:46 Speaker 6: referring to what what what is it so what they do again very in a very common explanation what they try to do is intercept the drainage system and run it in the grass strip from the street run it through some type of natural greenscape filtering system and then take that water and reintroduce it back into the drain system they like to do this in grass strips an area that they've they've looked at the the engineering team with our consultant has looked at possibly doing this is orient out because we have a drain line that comes down there so this funding will give them the opportunity to go out to that neighborhood explain this to the neighborhood and design the system and show that neighborhood and the rest of the city what something like this could look like if this is something we want to entertain in the future moving forward when that regulation comes into

▶ 1:22:42 Robert A. Boisselle: play okay so doing a rain situation you're sort of pounding the water and filtering it is this going to cause a mosquito problem during the summer in any any way that's a good question

▶ 1:22:54 Speaker 6: that's something i'm sure will come up during the public the public outreach piece of it the intent is to clean the water not to create further health hazards so that's something i'm sure they'd vet out during the design process that this grant funds okay so when will this

▶ 1:23:10 Robert A. Boisselle: outreach be occurring to the public we orient av you said yeah we orient we're ready to sign

▶ 1:23:16 Speaker 6: the contract as soon as we we have authorization from the board to to accept the grant we'll sign the contract they'll go to work so at some point this summer this will um this will this will take place and obviously it's in ward force and that's something that will keep you abreast of but when

▶ 1:23:33 Speaker 3: will the outreach occur to the public oh right away right away right away all right thank you

▶ 1:23:40 Peter D. Mortimer: Thank you, Walderman Boycelle. Walderman McAteer-Margolis, please.

▶ 1:23:44 Mary Beth McAteer-Margolis: Thank you, Mr. Chairman. This sounds very intriguing. I like the idea of it. I do think you're going to need to do some outreach to the public. But it does look like we have to put some in-kind funds towards this in terms of staffing and design. Is that something you feel like your office can manage, the design piece, or bring someone in?

▶ 1:24:08 Speaker 6: yeah we have to put I think about 50 $1,500 of staff time uh-huh we have to dedicate to the to the project and the actual direct contribution is $700 which we can handle as part of our own highway budget we have funds for these type of

▶ 1:24:28 Mary Beth McAteer-Margolis: these type of projects and it just say it doesn't actually this grant and what we're contributing doesn't actually fund the construction if you get to that

▶ 1:24:37 Speaker 6: point that's correct Thorp a Thorp a third phase to the grant program it's called a 319 non-point source grant that you go back to the dep to apply for that grant with a design this is new to melrose we don't have this but it's this is something in terms of storm water that's coming in the future um and before it gets regulated upon us i think it's good and and i i commend our engineering group and our city engineer and her consultant teams for finding these grants to pilot these type of programs people may like it people may not but we if we don't try we won't know so this is a great opportunity to pilot something so that we can get some hands-on experience off

▶ 1:25:25 Mary Beth McAteer-Margolis: the budget and then so presuming this gets approved tonight you would go forward with some outreach and some design and then apply for the next phase of the grant which would actually hopefully cover most of the construction unless we have some obligation towards that correct that would be the game plan and ultimately the goal of this is to improve the water quality in el pon from the waters that drain from wherever this gets put

▶ 1:25:54 Peter D. Mortimer: in the city this is exactly the case great thank you alderman MacMaster margolis so maybe i'll get

▶ 1:26:01 Peter D. Mortimer: my fountains seeing no further alderman wishing to be heard on this order is there a motion please motion to recommend mcintyre margolis has made a motion to recommend this order for passage said motion was duly seconded by alderman boy cell all in favor please say aye any opposed hearing none the motion passes and this order will be recommended for passage at our next full board