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Dept/ Agency: Economic & Housing Development
Action: ( x ) Ratifying (X) Authorizing ( ) Amending
Type of Service: EUS Contract
Purpose: To improve the quality of preserved open space by enhancing existing community parks, developing urban gardens and farms and otherwise beautifying abandoned lots in the City’s Central Ward
Entity Name: Greater Newark Conservancy
Entity Address: 32 Prince Street, Newark, NJ, 07103
Contract Amount: $180,000.00
Funding Source: $105,000.00 from the Community and Economic Development Trust Fund and $75,000.00 from the Neighborhood Program Fund.
Contract Period: May 1, 2011 to April 30, 2012
Contract Basis: ( ) Bid ( ) State Vendor ( ) Prof. Ser. ( x ) EUS
( ) Fair & Open ( ) No Reportable Contributions ( ) RFP ( ) RFQ
( ) Private Sale ( ) Grant ( ) Sub-recipient ( ) n/a
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WHEREAS, under the Local Public Contracts Law, N.J.S.A. 40A:11-1 et seq. (the “LPCL”), a municipality may enter into a contract for the performance of goods and services without competitive public bidding if the goods and services being procured qualify as professional services and/or extraordinary unspecifiable services; and
WHEREAS, the City of Newark, Department of Economic and Housing Development has implemented the Clean & Green Jobs Neighborhood Program which promotes environmental stewardship to improve the quality of life in New Jersey's urban communities through the development of urban gardens and farms (the “Program”); and
WHEREAS, the services necessary to implement and perform the Program qualify as extraordinary unspecifiable services because the services to be provided are of such a qualitative nature that the performance of the services cannot be reasonably described by written specifications because they involve subjective artistic design of gardens and public open space to provide visual improveme...
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