Title
Dept/ Agency: Recreation, Cultural Affairs and Senior Services
Action: (X) Ratifying (X) Authorizing ( ) Amending
Type of Service: Accepting a Gift
Gift: To accept assorted gift baskets.
Purpose: Senior Meeting at TRECC Center
Entity Name: Essex County Commissioner, President, Wayne Richardson, DDA Pioneer Investment Group and Health Benefit Advisors
Entity Address: Newark, New Jersey 07106
Gift Value: $350.00
City Contribution: $0.00
Other Funding Source/Amount: $0.00
Contract Period: Not Applicable
Additional Information:
Essex County Commissioner, President, Wayne Richardson, DDA Pioneer Investment Group and Health Benefit Advisors would like to donate gift baskets at a health education discussion during a senior meeting that will be held at the City of Newark TRECC Center on November 22, 2022.
The gift baskets will be given out based on a raffle event.
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WHEREAS, Essex County Commissioner President Wayne Richardson, DDA Pioneer Investment Group and Health Benefit Advisors, 275 Ellery Avenue, Newark, New Jersey 07106, would like to donate gift baskets during a health education discussion during a senior meeting to the City of Newark (the “City”) to raffle out to seniors attending the meeting. The gift baskets have a value of approximately Three Hundred Fifty Dollars and Zero Cents ($350.00); and
WHEREAS, Essex County Commissioner President Wayne Richardson, DDA Pioneer Investment Group and Health Benefit Advisors, as part of this donation would like to provide a healthcare discussion and provide gifts baskets for the upcoming “Thanksgiving Season”; and
WHEREAS, the Director of the Department of Recreation, Cultural Affairs and Senior Services (the “Department”) desires to accept the gift baskets to raffle out to seniors during the senior meeting that will be held at the City of Newark TRECC Center; and
WHEREAS, Essex County Commissioner President Wayne Richardson, DDA Pioneer Investment Group and Health Benefit Advisors fully understands and agrees that it is not entitled to receive any direct benefit from the City of Newark, Mayor Ras J. Baraka, or any other personnel affiliated with the City of Newark in exchange for the gift; and
WHEREAS, pursuant to Local Public Contracts Law, N.J.S.A. 40A:5-29, a local unit is authorized and empowered to accept bequests, legacies and gifts made to it and is empowered to utilize such bequests, legacies and gifts in the manner set forth in the conditions of the bequest, legacy or gift provided, however, that such bequest, legacy, or gift shall not be put to any use which is inconsistent with the laws of the State of New Jersey and the United States of America.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE MUNICIPAL COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF NEWARK, NEW JERSEY, THAT:
1. The Mayor of the City of Newark and/or the Director of the Department of Recreation, Cultural Affairs and Senior Services are authorized to accept the gift from Essex County Commissioner President Wayne Richardson, DDA Pioneer Investment Group and Health Benefit Advisors, 275 Ellery Avenue, Newark, New Jersey 07106 of Gift Baskets to raffle out to seniors during the senior meeting that will be held at the City of Newark TRECC Center.
2. Thegift baskets have a value of approximately Three Hundred Fifty Dollars and Zero Cents ($350.00).
3. The acceptance of the gift is ratified from approximately November 22, 2022, to the date of adoption of this authorizing Resolution.
4. No municipal funds will be expended for the acceptance of this gift.
STATEMENT
This Resolution ratifies and authorizes the Mayor of the City of Newark and/or the Director of the Department of Recreation, Cultural Affairs and Senior Services to accept the gift from Essex County Commissioner President Wayne Richardson, DDA Pioneer Investment Group and Health Benefit Advisors of Gift Baskets to raffle out to seniors during the senior meeting that will be held at the City of Newark TRECC Center on November 22, 2022. Thegift baskets have a value of approximately $350.00. No municipal funds will be expended for the acceptance of this gift