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File #: 25-0013    Version: 1
Type: Mayor's Request Status: Approved
File created: 12/19/2024 In control: City Council
On agenda: 1/9/2025 Final action: 1/14/2025
Enactment date: 1/9/2025 Enactment #: 218170
Title: Requesting approval to accept a gift valued at $3,594 with no new match required, of an evacuation chair from the Estate of Thomas F. Cahill to the Fire Department.
Indexes: Finance-Assessing, Finance-Auditing, Finance-Budget, Finance-Grants Development, Finance-Procurement & Contracting Services, Finance-Treasury, Fire
Code sections: Grant/Gift -
Attachments: 1. Fire Sharp_20241219_081431, 2. Fire Sharp_20241219_083045

Agenda Summary

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Requesting approval to accept a gift valued at $3,594 with no new match required, of an evacuation chair from the Estate of Thomas F. Cahill to the Fire Department.

 

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Official Text

To the Honorable City Council:

 

The Mayor respectfully requests that this Council accept and approve a gift of an evacuation chair valued at $3594.00 from the Estate of Thomas F. Cahill to the Fire Department, under the provisions of MGL Chapter 44, Section 53A. This grant does not require the commitment of any matching funds.

 

The purpose of this gift is to provide the Fire Department with an updated piece of equipment to assist in the evacuation of patients from a building.

 

Appropriate staff will be available to answer any questions you may have. Thank you for your consideration of this item.

 

Respectfully submitted,

 Katjana Ballantyne, Mayor