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6/18/2003
38-R-03
A RESOLUTION
Authorizing City Manager to Execute An Agreement
With the Chicago Botanic Garden for Horticultural
Therapy Programming Services for the Levy Senior Center
WHEREAS, the City owns, maintains, and operates the Evanston Levy Senior
Center (the "Center"), a recreation center located at 300 Dodge Avenue in Evanston;
and
WHEREAS, the Levy Center is the site of leisure activities and life improvement
services for Evanston's older adults; and
WHEREAS, the courtyard is an important resource of the Levy Center
0 appropriate for development into a barrier -free garden known as an "enabling garden";
and
WHEREAS, the Botanic Garden is a public garden which provides programs and
services in the Chicago area which includes horticultural therapy education programs
and;
WHEREAS, the Botanic Garden has obtained a generous grant from the Hulda
B. and Maurice L. Rothschild Foundation in the amount of $36,135.00 to provide
horticultural therapy programming services for the City in the enabling garden and
courtyard; and
WHEREAS, the Botanic Garden is desirous of providing such services to users
of the Center; and
WHEREAS, the provision of said services is in the best interests of the citizens of
Evanston,
38-R-03
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY
OF EVANSTON, COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS:
SECTION 1: That the City Manager is hereby authorized and directed to sign
and the City Clerk, hereby authorized and directed to attest, on behalf of the City of
Evanston, an Agreement with the Chicago Botanic Garden to provide horticultural
therapy services, at the Levy Senior Center in substantial conformity with the
Agreement attached in Exhibit A, made a part hereof.
SECTION 2: That the City Manager is hereby authorized and directed to
negotiate any additional terms and conditions of the said Agreement.
SECTION 3: That this Resolution shall be in full force and effect from and after
the date of its passage and approval in the manner required by law.
w Lorraine H. Morton, Mayor
ATTEST:
ty Clerk
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Adopted: �,�_ U Z , 2003
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