By Anna Burgess
Sentinel and Enterprise
FITCHBURG -- The City Council accepted more than $65,000 in grant funds to help make the city a safer, more environmentally responsible place.
At their first meeting of the new year, councilors approved the expenditure of two separate grants totaling $65,370. They heard descriptions of both grants from Health Director Stephen Curry.
The first grant is $40,670 from the state Department of Environmental Protection to create a districtwide school recycling program as part of the DEP Sustainable Materials Recovery Program.
About $19,000 of the grant is for “time spent educating and providing for what our needs are,” Curry said, and $21,000 is to purchase the recycling equipment necessary to achieve school goals.
Asked by council Vice President Amy Green what “recycling equipment” might mean, Curry said, “We’re going to identify exactly where the biggest problem is in our schools and purchase whatever is needed to address that problem.”
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