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Hagerstown notified of $50,000 Chesapeake Bay Trust award for tree planting; city match budgeted
Summary
City staff reported Aug. 12 that Hagerstown was awarded a $50,000 Chesapeake Bay Trust grant for tree planting; the proposal includes a $27,000 local match budgeted from the stormwater fund.
City staff informed the Mayor and City Council on Aug. 12 that the city has been awarded a $50,000 grant from the Chesapeake Bay Trust for urban tree-planting projects. Jim Bender, presenting the award notification, said the city applied under a program supporting Maryland’s initiative to plant five million trees by 2031 and requested council guidance on formally accepting the award.
Funding and match: Bender said the grant award requires a local match; the city’s proposal included a $27,000 match that the presenter said was already budgeted from the stormwater fund. Bender requested council’s sense on accepting the award and said, if accepted, the acceptance would be brought back for formal action at a regular session at the end of the month.
Next steps: Staff will place the acceptance on the regular-session agenda for formal approval and coordinate implementation of the tree-planting project with city departments and grant conditions.
Provenance: The award announcement and discussion are documented in the Aug. 12 meeting transcript.
