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File #: 24-0719    Version: 1
Type: Mayor's Request Status: Approved
File created: 5/16/2024 In control: City Council
On agenda: 5/23/2024 Final action: 6/28/2024
Enactment date: 6/27/2024 Enactment #: 217340
Title: Requesting approval to accept a gift valued at $18,000, from Boston's Office of Emergency Management to the Department of Public Works for a generator.
Indexes: Finance-Assessing, Finance-Auditing, Finance-Budget, Finance-Grants Development, Finance-Procurement & Contracting Services, Finance-Treasury, Public Works
Code sections: Grant/Gift -
Attachments: 1. Donation

Agenda Summary

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Requesting approval to accept a gift valued at $18,000, from Boston's Office of Emergency Management to the Department of Public Works for a generator.

 

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Official Text

To the Honorable City Council:

 

The Mayor respectfully requests that this Council accept and approve to accept a gift valued at $18,000 from Boston's Office of Emergency Management to the DPW Buildings Division for a 2012 Generator, under the provisions of MGL Chapter 44, Section 53A. This gift does not require the commitment of new matching funds.

 

The purpose of this gift is to use for Emergency Generated back up power at all City Buildings.

 

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