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Finance Committee approves $500,000 bridge grant, tree-inventory funding and several donations to DPW and parks
Summary
The Brockton Finance Committee on July 21 recommended acceptance of a $500,000 MassDOT bridge construction grant for Newbury Street, a $40,000 DCR grant toward a city tree inventory, a $247,383.46 beautification grant from MassDOT, and two small donations for topsoil and field seed to Public Works and Parks and Recreation.
The Brockton Finance Committee on July 21 recommended favorably several grants and donations for the Department of Public Works and Parks and Recreation.
The committee authorized acceptance and expenditure of $500,000 from the Massachusetts Department of Transportation’s municipal small bridge program. DPW Commissioner Pat Hill said the money will be used for Newbury Street bridge reconstruction, a construction-ready project that the commissioner said came in at $1,700,000.
Commissioner Hill also described a $40,000 grant from the Massachusetts Department of Conservation and Recreation to begin a citywide tree inventory, with an early focus on downtown. Hill said the grant will cover a portion of the work and that the city expects to provide an in‑kind match of about $10,000 (staff time). He said a full, “real, robust” inventory would cost substantially more than the grant amount and described the types of data the inventory collects — tree species, canopy size, defects and a risk/rating assessment to estimate potential damage if a tree failed.
The committee also recommended acceptance of $247,383.46 from MassDOT to beautify a city-owned parcel tied to a recent two-way conversion project at Warren Avenue and Pleasant Street. Commissioner Hill described plans for landscaping and a rain-garden-style treatment on the parcel that sits behind the former McMenemy site.
Two smaller donations were recommended for acceptance: $1,200 from EMOS Recycling, which Commissioner Hill described as a topsoil donation available first-come, first-serve at the city recycling center; and $1,321 from the Seoul and Sabora Youth Organization to Parks and Recreation. Parks Superintendent Tim Carpenter said the $1,321 will buy about nine 50‑pound bags of seed, enough for “about 2 and a half fields” of overseeding in the fall.
All of the orders were recommended favorably by voice vote and forwarded to the full City Council.
