Board of Estimate & Contract:
RESOLVED, that a resolution adopted by the City Council on March 12, 2025, and signed by the Mayor on March 13, 2025, authorizing the amendment of Ordinance No. 4, Adopted by the City Council on September 11, 2024, Entitled "An Ordinance Authorizing Mayor Shawyn Patterson-Howard to Commit a Local Match for the Green Innovation Grant Program (CIGP) for the South Fourth Street Park Green Infrastructure Project," and Confirming the Project's Type II Exemption Under ECL Article 8- (the source of the local match and any amount above the required match shall be the $675,000 in State funds awarded to the City by the New York State Office of Parks, Recreation, and Historic Preservation. The minimum local match required is $199,000 based upon a total estimated maximum project cost of $1,790,000); be, and the same is hereby approved.
City Council:
AN ORDINANCE AMENDING ORDINANCE
NO. 4, ADOPTED BY THE CITY COUNCIL ON
SEPTEMBER 11, 2024, ENTITLED "AN
ORDINANCE AUTHORIZING MAYOR SHAWYN
PATTERSON-HOWARD TO COMMIT A
LOCAL MATCH FOR THE GREEN INNOVATION
GRANT PROGRAM (GIGP) FOR THE SOUTH FOURTH
STREET PARK GREEN INFRASTRUCTURE PROJECT,"
AND CONFIRMING THE PROJECT'S TYPE II
EXEMPTION UNDER ECL ARTICLE 8
The City of Mount Vernon, in City Council convened, does hereby ordain and enact:
Section 1. The first decretal paragraph and the 4th and 5th Whereas paragraphs of Ordinance No. 4, adopted on September 11, 2024, entitled "AN ORDINANCE AUTHORIZING MAYOR SHAWYN PATTERSON-HOWARD TO COMMIT A LOCAL MATCH FOR THE GREEN INNOVATION GRANT PROGRAM (GIGP) FOR THE SOUTH FOURTH STREET PARK GREEN INFRASTRUCTURE PROJECT," and Confirming the Project's Type II Exemption Under ECL Article 8, is hereby amended as follows:
Whereas, by letter dated [August 9, 2024] March 6, 2025, the Commissioner of the Department of Public Works has requested legislation amending Ordinance No. 4, adopted by the City Council on September 11, 2024, auth...
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