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Council refers Community Preservation Act appropriations and reappropriation orders to finance committee
Summary
The council read multiple Community Preservation Committee (CPC) appropriation orders—including a $1.45 million reappropriation for park revitalizations—and unanimously referred those orders to the finance committee for detailed review.
The Malden City Council read a series of Community Preservation Act funding and reappropriation orders on Feb. 4 and unanimously referred them to the finance committee for detailed review.
Highlights included an order reappropriating $1,450,000 to pay the cost of park revitalizations: $450,000 for Deva Park and $1,000,000 for Riverworks Park. The order proposed funding the appropriation from a portion of previously borrowed funds tied to a now-abandoned Roosevelt Park project, citing General Laws chapter 44, section 20.
Councilor Karin…
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