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Dept/ Agency: Recreation, Cultural Affairs and Senior Services
Action: ( ) Ratifying (X) Authorizing ( ) Amending
Type of Service: Accepting a Gift Donation
Gift: Futsol Soccer Court for Bo Porter Sports Complex
Purpose: To furnish equipment, materials and labor to enhance Bo Porter Sports Complex.
Entity Name: Urban Initiative, LLC
Entity Address: Summit, New Jersey 07901
Gift Value: $65,000.00
City Contribution: $0.00
Other Funding Source/Amount: $0.00
Contract Period: N/A
Additional Information:
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WHEREAS, the City of Newark ("City") is the owner of the park located at 378 Lyons Avenue, Newark, New Jersey 07112 and commonly known as Bo Porter Sports Complex ("Park"); and
WHEREAS, the City is desirous of improving the Park for the use and enjoyment of the public; and
WHEREAS, Urban Initiative, LLC, of Summit, New Jersey 07901 ("Urban Initiative"), is a charitable organization located in New Jersey whose mission is to create more socioeconomic and ethnic diversity within the sport of soccer by providing premier soccer turf facilities and free coaching instruction to children living in underserved communities across the State of New Jersey; and
WHEREAS, Urban Initiative in partnership with Newark Beth Israel Medical Center and Children's Hospital of New Jersey, a RWJ Barnabas health facility, is gifting equipment, materials and labor valued at approximately Sixty Five Thousand Dollars and Zero Cents ($65,000.00), to the City of Newark (preliminary estimate attached as Exhibit A) for the construction of a Futsol Soccer Court at the Park ("Soccer Court"); and
WHEREAS, Urban Initiative has selected Athletic Fields of America as its vendor for the Soccer Court; and
WHEREAS, the location of the Soccer Court at the Park will be in the area behind the batting cage consistent with the aerial Photograph as marked in ye...
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