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Dept/ Agency: Recreation, Cultural Affairs and Senior Services
Action: ( ) Ratifying (X) Authorizing ( ) Amending
Type of Service: Accepting a Gift
Gift: To provide physical interventions which consist of a temporary, modular system of platforms, seats, tables, and planters and a series of solar lights mounted on mobile bases and related maintenance services
Purpose: To activate Washington Park with modular non-permanent physical improvements and related maintenance to facilitate event programming for the 2019 outdoor season
Entity Name: Audible, Inc.
Entity Address: 1 Washington Park, Newark, New Jersey 07102
Gift Value: $200,000.00 to $300,000.00
City Contribution: $0.00
Other Funding Source/Amount: $0.00
Contract Period: May 1, 2019 through October 31, 2019
Additional Information:
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WHEREAS, Audible, Inc. (hereinafter "Audible"), proposes to activate Washington Park (hereinafter the "Park") with modular, non-permanent physical improvements to the Park to facilitate special event programing in the Park during the 2019 outdoor season; and
WHEREAS, Audible proposes to transform the current condition of the Park by temporarily creating a new sensory-rich experience that will encourage people to come to and stay in the Park and enjoy the outdoors; and
WHEREAS, Audible is gifting the physical interventions, with an estimated value of Two Hundred Thousand Dollars to Three Hundred Thousand Dollars and Zero Cents ($200,000.00 to $300,000.00), and related maintenance services, to the City of Newark and may seek additional private-sector funding; and
WHEREAS, the intent of this effort is to encourage broad use of one of Newark's finest public parks - Washington Park - by neighborhood residents, employees, visitors to Newark Museum and Public Library, and all Newark residents; and
WHEREAS, pursuant to Local Public Contracts Law, N.J.S.A. 40A:5-2...
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