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SPRING <strong>2022</strong> | 17<br />
Chapter 61 process, which is complicated.<br />
It also gave us time to find the<br />
funding; otherwise we would have had<br />
to ask Town Meeting to fund the whole<br />
thing, but it never came down to that."<br />
Cademartori said state Rep. Bradley<br />
Jones was a key player in acquiring the<br />
final piece of funding in September<br />
2021 — a $1.6-million-plus Municipal<br />
Vulnerability Preparedness grant (MVP)<br />
from the Baker-Polito administration<br />
combined with $200,000 from the Conservation<br />
Commission; $300,000 from<br />
Greenbelt and $571,000 from the town's<br />
American Rescue Plan Act to fund 100<br />
percent of the cost of the project.<br />
The parcel is a key element of the<br />
Vision for Willis Woods project, a<br />
collaborative effort to plan and protect<br />
approximately 600-700 acres of undeveloped<br />
land along the Ipswich River at<br />
the intersection of Lynnfield, Middleton,<br />
North Reading, and Peabody.<br />
"It's a key piece because it will provide<br />
good access to the Willis Woods<br />
property," Cademartori said. "Willis<br />
Woods is bound by private properties<br />
and the river and there is no parking.<br />
The Richardson Green parcel will<br />
allow us to start with a small parking<br />
area, which we never had."<br />
A Beverly native, Cademartori<br />
earned a bachelor of science degree<br />
from the University of Vermont's<br />
(UVM) School of Natural Resources<br />
and a master's in marine-environment<br />
science from the State University of<br />
New York at Stony Brook.<br />
Cademartori and her husband, Greg,<br />
who is the City of Gloucester's director<br />
of planning, attended graduate school<br />
together and originally thought their<br />
mission in life was to "save the world."<br />
"We were ocean people and we<br />
thought our focus would be on saving<br />
water resources so we thought we<br />
would move to Maine, doing the right<br />
thing for the planet, but we realized<br />
that the jobs in environmental science<br />
were all in regulatory roles, not things<br />
like coastal-water planning," Cademartori<br />
said. "So we decided to move back<br />
to the North Shore thinking we would<br />
probably end up working at a regulatory<br />
agency in Boston."<br />
As far as the whirlwind events of<br />
the past year are concerned, Cademartori<br />
said it's all in a day's work.<br />
"We were lucky in that our regulatory<br />
work was down at the time, so we<br />
just slugged away at the permits and<br />
the drudgery that is paperwork," she<br />
said. "It was amazing that all of these<br />
things were teeing up at the same time.<br />
It was pretty crazy and a little nutty at<br />
times in the office, but in the end, it<br />
was fun and extremely rewarding."<br />
Dolan said the timing of Cademartori's<br />
arrival in Lynnfield couldn't have<br />
been better.<br />
"Lynnfield has had many citizens and<br />
dedicated staff working on important<br />
conservation and planning issues. but<br />
Emilie's professional guidance to our<br />
excellent Planning Board and Select<br />
Board is invaluable in a time when development<br />
is so aggressively pursued and<br />
the enforcement of environmental and<br />
zoning bylaws are so key in preserving<br />
the quality of life in Lynnfield," he said.<br />
The Cademartoris live in Beverly with<br />
their son Connor, a senior at Boston<br />
College, and daughter, Corinna, a sophomore<br />
at the University of Vermont.
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