Good Morning, – I have just spoken with Cordelia Staton at the City Clerk’s Office.
Donations to help defray the City’s cost of this year’s holiday tree may be made by writing a check to the “City of Trenton.” Notation should be written as “2013 Holiday Tree.”
If you mail the checks to her attention, she will “make sure they are properly deposited and accounted for”…
As you do so, please note it with a , so we can keep a running total of the amount.
FYI. It was an interesting conversation. I asked her how one could make a donation to help pay for the tree. She told me, “The City isn’t accepting donations because it found the funds to pay for the tree.”
I told her that I understood that to be the case, but since the funds so “found” were from our Federal CDBG grant, I wanted to reimburse the City so that the Federal expenditure was unnecessary. Since the City had been so active in seeking funds for the Thanksgiving Parade, I said, surely it would accept donations for this worthy cause.
Then she laughed, said she understood, and then told me the above information.
Remember, send your checks to Cordelia’s attention. She will “make sure they are properly deposited and accounted for…”
My $60 is written and ready to be mailed.
Per Jim Carlucci (thanks, Jim!), mailing info is as follows:
Deputy Clerk Cordelia Staton