File #: 19-003    Version: 1 Name:
Type: Order Status: Passed
File created: 1/9/2019 In control: Town Council
On agenda: 3/12/2019 Final action: 3/12/2019
Title: To approve applications for watershed protection grants, such funding to be paid from fiscal year 2018-2019 watershed protection funds in account 11500-46930.
Attachments: 1. 19-003 Cover Sheet, 2. Award History of Watershed Grant, 3. Collins Pond Improvement Assoc Grant Application fy19, 4. Forest Lake Assoc 2019 Windham Grant Application, 5. Highland Lake Association Grant Application FY19, 6. Little Sebago Lake Assoc Watershed Grant Application FY19, 7. Presumpscot River Land Trust Grant Application FY19

I.                     Council Action Requested.

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To approve applications for watershed protection grants, such funding to be paid from fiscal year 2018-2019 watershed protection funds in account 11500-46930.

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II.                     Basis for Council Action.

 

Council approval of this item is required because;

 

a.                     Article III, Section 3(I) of the Charter authorizes the Council to “exercise all the legislative, financial, borrowing and other powers now or hereafter given by statute to inhabitants of towns acting in Town Meeting except as otherwise provided herein, and also exercise all the powers now or hereafter given by statute to municipal officers of towns.”

 

III.                     Issue Summary.

 

The Council heard presentations on the applications at its meeting of March 5, 2019.

 

Please find the attached award history from FY08 to FY18 and five applications.

 

Please note, that we are looking to make some changes to this grant process for next fiscal year.