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The committee recommended approving $2,630,071 for Somerville’s Affordable Housing Trust, along with a $212,842.26 public health grant, a $128,500 police security grant, and other funding requests. A $1.1 million grant for Union Square Plaza and streetscape work was discharged without a recommendation, while a $240,664.10 Vision Zero appropriation was withdrawn for correction.
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The recommended housing appropriation would provide the Affordable Housing Trust with Somerville’s Fiscal Year 2026 50 percent Community Preservation Act allocation. Other approved recommendations support public health staffing, police headquarters security, crisis intervention and jail diversion programs, youth programming, and prior-year invoices. The committee did not take a position on the $1.1 million Union Square grant and expects the Vision Zero funding request to be resubmitted.
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