CPA Projects Database

This grant will allow the NRC to begin the first phase of a project at the vernal pool located in the tract of land, the North 40, purchased by the Town from Wellesley College in 2015. This phase will include further study of the vernal pool area as well as the development of schematic designs and bid documents for a boardwalk and overlook are with educational signage.

This project will assist the NRC with the purchase of a small weed harvester for use in the Town's smaller ponds for the removal of rooted plant material to maintain the ponds for recreational use and preserve the wildlife habitats.

These funds will allow the Department of Public Works to acquire mobile trail monitoring equipment, TrfX, which will provide the Town with accurate counts of trail usage to help with planning for trail maintenance, preservation and improvement efforts.

This grant will allow the NRC to purchase a mobile phosphorus inactivation unit, equipment that will deliver aluminum polychloride to the smaller ponds in Wellesley to limit the phosphorous which allows unwanted plant growth in the ponds.

This grant funds the extension of a program under the control of the Wellesley Historical Commission which provides historic date markers for structures in Wellesley constructed more than 100 years ago. The Historical Commission estimates approximately 200 additional structures will qualify by 2019 and this grant will fund the research on the history of those buildings as well as the manufacturing of the plaques.

This study will be an in-depth analysis of a location identified by the Housing Production Plan undertaken by the Town of Wellesley for the possible development of affordable housing and diverse housing opportunities, including options for transportation and economic development.

This comprehensive analysis of the programmatic and facility needs at Morses Pond, including land surveys, site evaluation, schematic site planning and design, and cost estimates will allow the Recreation Department to take the next step in a possible rehabilitation of Morses Pond, an important Town recreation facility.

This project will develop schematic designs and construction drawings for the rehabilitation of two softball fields at the Hunnewell Fields complex. The improvements to the fields will include better drainage, regulation backstops and fencing, provisions to meet MIAA standards and make the fields ADA accessible.

Preliminary analysis has identified some structural issues with the pedestrian footbridge over Cold Spring Brook at the entrance to Town Hall. This project will entail a complete structural analysis and develop design and permitting for a new bridge, including bid documents.

This project will involve the processing and preservation of additional business and organization archival collections at the Wellesley Historical Society. The archiving process preserves and organizes materials and makes them accessible to researchers, students and the community and prepares the collections for eventual digitization.

The project calls for the construction of a "fish ladder" or a stone ramp to replace the concrete spillway located in the Fuller Brook just above Grove Street. This will facilitate the journey of alewife and other species of fish who journey upstream to the State Street Pond to spawn.

This funding will take the softball fields improvement project from schematic designs to bid documents and construction. The two fields will remain in their current locations with some adjustments to current conditions and will address drainage and safety issues. The completed fields will be MIAA compliant and handicap accessible.

This grant allows for the digitization of 90 historic maps and atlased by the Northeast Document Conservation Center. The digitized materials will be housed by Digital Commonwealth.

This grant will fund Phase I of a three-year plan for the remediation of the shoreline erosion around Morses Pond. A study funded with a CPA grant was undertaken by Horlsey Witten three years ago. The study identified 22 sites around the pond iin need of attention due to erosion. Eleven of those sites are on Town-owned land. This first phase of work will adress four of those sites.

The second phase of the reconstruction of the Lee and Hunnewell II softball fields to improve safety as well as drainage issues at the fields. The project will result in MIAA complaint, handicap accessible fields.

This appropriation will fund consultant fees to study the existing lights on the tennis courts, the multi-purpose field and Reidy Field at the Hunnewell Fields Complex to see how improvements can be made to the amount of hazardous glare and light trespass emitted and to improve the energy efficiency of the lights. In addition, the consultant will examine what possibilities exist for lighting the high school track and field.

This appropriation will fund the replacement of the original bathroom facility at the Hunnewell Fields, built in 1950. This facility serves the main athletic field facility in the town.

This appropriation will fund consulting and engineering work for Phase II of the Morses Pond Bathhouse and Beachfront Project to determine the feasibility of the masterplan study and to move the potential project to design drawings and cost estimates.

This appropriation will fund a two-year program to convert a traditional grass, power-mowed lawn on town-owned land to a more ecologically valuable landscape with native grasses and wildflowers. The goal is to demonstrate the potential for pollinator friendly, low maintenance landscapes that can be used on public and private land, both residential and institutional, that are more environmentally friendly.

This appropriation will fund the completion of the restoration of two historic town atlases utilized by the Planning Department. The initial funding for this project was approved at the 2020 ATM.

This appropriation will allow for the construction of bathrooms at teh Sprague Fields in Wellesley, one of the most actively-used playing fields complex in town. The project is modeled after the Hunnewell Field aqueduct bathroom project where pre-fab construction was used and has been a very successful project.

To help fund the construction of 5 affordable homes.

To the Affordable Housing Trust Fund to establish a centralized information coordination system to promote affordable housing projects in Wellfleet

To contribute to the costs of construction and to acquire an affordable housing deed restriction on the Paine Hollow Rd affordable housing development