ORDER-2021-35 : Request acceptance of donation from Winthrop School PTO in the amount of $22,438.90 for playground equipment.

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▶ 3:57 Speaker 1: Madam clerk on favor sure. Chairman Thomas. Yes, vice chair Garipay pay counselor.

▶ 4:05 Speaker 1: Yes, Councilor McMaster. Council, yes, present Grigoraitis.

▶ 4:16 Cory Thomas: Or, yes, suspension of rules and we're speaking under order 2021 dash 35 is the request of acceptance of donation from winter schools parent teacher organization in the month of 22,438 dollars and 90 cents a playground equipment.

▶ 4:33 Speaker 1: Shall I bring in the invited guests? That would be great. Thank you.

▶ 4:41 Speaker 1: Sure, can you hear us? You are muted and then unmute you. Yep, I can hear you. Great. And we have Ms. Frederick. Can you hear us? Yes, thank you. Okay, floor is yours. Okay. Hi, thanks, everyone. I am here tonight, and good news, not bad, which is always a good thing. Winthrop School PTO had approached me a year ago to replace some playground equipment that was kind of aging out. They wanted to upgrade and add a few other pieces to it and having the PTO make a donation towards that. Then COVID hit and we all kind of went silent and in the meantime one of the pieces of equipment that we were thinking of changing split. The triple slide got a big slice in it which was a safety issue so we took down the slide we went back to the pto and after some discussion we decided that the city would put in the amount of money it would have cost us to replace the slide if they were willing to make a substantial contribution you know with other upgrades that they had planned on doing which they agreed to and i think you guys all have it in the packet the pieces of equipment that they're going to upgrade to which is the um net the tri-net in the erratic climber so amanda i don't know if you want to add to

▶ 6:23 Speaker 1: no i think you covered everything thanks john um jen was also involved in our conversations as the um city um counselor for the ward business could raise thank you counselor thomas and thank

▶ 6:39 Jen Grigoraitis: you ms bell and ms frederick for being here tonight i just wanted to reiterate that i'm really appreciative of the partnership between the city and the pto to not just replace the unsafe piece of the structure but actually be able to work together to make it better for um the winthrop school and our surrounding community i know it gets a lot of use especially during covid um so i'm really happy that we're able to do this and unless there's other comments from my fellow committee members i would make a motion to recommend for passage second any

▶ 7:19 Cory Thomas: discussion seeing none um madam clerk would you like to call the role please chairman thomas yes

▶ 7:35 Speaker 1: vice chair Garipay yes counselor eccles yes council of tram and tozy yes president Grigoraitis

▶ 7:42 Cory Thomas: yes or yes thank you madam clerk thank you miss Frederick and mrs. Bell thank you so much for being here I hope you both you and yours have great holidays

▶ 7:56 Speaker 3: thank you for coming in thank you very much you too and with that motion to