City of Madison - File #: 61898

• File #: 61898
• Version: 1
• Name: 11929 - Hawthorne Library Lease
• Type: Resolution
• Status: Passed
• File created: 8/25/2020
• In control: FINANCE COMMITTEE
• On agenda: 10/6/2020
• Final action: 10/6/2020
• Enactment date: 10/13/2020
• Enactment #: RES-20-00703
• Title: Authorizing the Mayor and City Clerk to execute a lease with MESC, LLC, for space at 2707 East Washington Avenue for the continued operation of Hawthorne Library. (6th AD)
• Sponsors: Marsha A. Rummel, Syed Abbas

Date	Ver.	Action By	Action	Result
10/6/2020	1	COMMON COUNCIL	Adopt Unanimously	Pass
9/10/2020	1	MADISON PUBLIC LIBRARY BOARD	Return to Lead with the Recommendation for Approval	Pass
9/8/2020	1	FINANCE COMMITTEE	RECOMMEND TO COUNCIL TO ADOPT - REPORT OF OFFICER	Pass
9/1/2020	1	FINANCE COMMITTEE	Referred
9/1/2020	1	COMMON COUNCIL	Refer	Pass
8/25/2020	1	Economic Development Division	Referred for Introduction

Fiscal Note
Annual rent payable by the City of Madison for the first year of the lease, being a period from January 1, 2021 to December 31, 2021, shall be $51,817.15. An annual 3.0% increase in rent shall be applied each year thereafter of the term of the lease. Annual rent payment for the space is already included in Library’s 2020 Adopted Operating Budget and 2021 Operating Request. No additional City appropriation is required.
Title
Authorizing the Mayor and City Clerk to execute a lease with MESC, LLC, for space at 2707 East Washington Avenue for the continued operation of Hawthorne Library. (6th AD)
Body
WHEREAS, MESC, LLC (the “Lessor”) is the owner of the commercial building located at 2707 East Washington Avenue in the City of Madison, Dane County, Wisconsin (the “Building”); and

WHEREAS, beginning September 3, 1999, the City began leasing a portion of the Building, as lessee, under a lease memorialized by the recording of a Memorandum of Lease dated September 3, 1999, and recorded September 8, 1999 with the Dane County Register of Deeds as Document No. 3153462; as amended by First Notice of Lease Renewal dated September 1, 2010, and recorded September 13, 2010 with the Dane County Register of Deeds as Document No. 4690888; as amended by an unrecorded Assignment and Assumption of Leases dated April 15, 2014; as amended by Second Notice of Lease Renewal dated October 16, 2015, and recorded October 21, 2015 with the Dane County Register of Deeds as Document No. 5192484 (collectively, “1999 Lease”); and

WHEREAS, the final renewal term of the 1999 Lease expires on December 31, 2020; and

WHEREAS, the City desires to continue to lease of a portion of the Building for the operation of Hawthorne Library; and

WHEREAS, the terms of a new lease have been negotiated between the Office of Real Estate Services and the Lessor; and

WHEREAS, Madison Public Library staff have reviewed and approved the terms and conditions of the new lease agreement.

NOW, THEREFO...