The Revere City Pocket Advisory Committee voted on April 16 to approve spending up to $24,000 from BPD funds to hire Roca crews for weekly beautification and maintenance of main corridors including Broadway and Shirley Avenue.

The money will fund one day per week of on‑street work by a Roca crew — described in the agenda as five young workers plus one supervisor — to maintain tree pits, clean meter areas, paint parking meters and address visible curb and catch‑basin buildup. The presenter said crew members would be paid $30.50 per hour and that Roca provides itemized billing used by other city departments.

Committee members discussed account balances and overlapping work with the Department of Public Works. Committee member Councilor Genzio asked about the balance available; the presenter said roughly $54,000 remained in the account after a recent deposit of “a little over $5,800” and an earlier expenditure of “a little over $9,000” for signage and wayfinding.

One member asked whether the Roca crew would be separate from DPW crews; the presenter said Roca is the same organization that currently works with DPW two days a week and would be assigned one additional day for parking‑department work. The presenter also said the city would manage work requests through parking staff and that councilors could flag specific locations for that weekly service.

After a brief period for review, a committee member moved to approve the contract and another seconded. The committee then voted to approve the request; the motion carried with no individual roll call recorded in the transcript.

The committee moved next to a separate parking pilot; no members of the public were present to comment.

What the committee approved is a funds authorization to engage Roca for the described scope; the contract terms shown to the committee begin April 1 and run through November (the agenda text cited "November 31," which does not exist; the presenter described the term as through the November timeframe). No formal contract start or signature dates were recorded in the meeting transcript.