20.093 An Order to Accept 3,000 Gift from Ruggles Center for Park Street Cemetery Gravestone RepairsCity of Northampton
MASSACHUSETTS
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In City Council July 9, 2020
Upon recommendation of the Mayor
20.093 An to Accept $3,000 Gift from Ruggles Center for Park Street Cemetery Gravestone Repairs
Whereas,
The David Ruggles Center, a project of the Committee for Northampton, Inc., would like
to provide funding for repair work, materials and professional oversight of repairs for the
deteriorated gravestones of Basil Dorsey, Laura Washington, Louisa Dorsey, Nancy Jones and
Charles & Gertrude Burleigh in the Park Street Cemetery,
Ordered that,
The Northampton City Council gratefully appropriates the donation of the $3,000 gift to
the City of Northampton to be used toward the repair work, materials and professional oversight
of repairs for these five gravestones in the Park Street Cemetery, in accordance with
Massachusetts General Law Chapter 44, Section 53 A (Grants and gifts; acceptance and
expenditure).