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File #: 06122    Version: 1 Name: Authorizing the Mayor and City Clerk to execute a lease with Community Action Coalition of South Central Wisconsin, Inc. for a portion of the public greenway located at 3501 Hargrove Street for use as community gardens.
Type: Resolution Status: Passed
File created: 4/10/2007 In control: BOARD OF PUBLIC WORKS
On agenda: 5/15/2007 Final action: 5/15/2007
Enactment date: 5/18/2007 Enactment #: RES-07-00551
Title: Authorizing the Mayor and City Clerk to execute a lease with Community Action Coalition of South Central Wisconsin, Inc. for a portion of the public greenway located at 3501 Hargrove Street for use as community gardens.
Sponsors: Larry Palm
Attachments: 1. 8637 Exhibit A.pdf
Fiscal Note
$200 Administrative Fee to be deposited into Account No. GN01-78220. Annual Rent of $1.00 to be deposited into Account No. GN01-78220.
Title
Authorizing the Mayor and City Clerk to execute a lease with Community Action Coalition of South Central Wisconsin, Inc. for a portion of the public greenway located at 3501 Hargrove Street for use as community gardens.
Body
WHEREAS Community Action Coalition for South Central Wisconsin, Inc. ("CAC") desires to lease from the City of Madison a portion of the public greenway located at 3501 Hargrove Street for community gardening purposes; and

WHEREAS Engineering Division staff has reviewed such request and recommends leasing an approximately .23-acre parcel within such public greenway to CAC; and

WHEREAS the City's Real Estate Section has negotiated the terms of a lease with CAC.

NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the Mayor and City Clerk are authorized to execute a lease with Community Action Coalition for South Central Wisconsin, Inc. ("CAC") for a .23-acre parcel within the City greenway located at 3501 Hargrove Street (the “Leased Premises”), subject to the following conditions:

1. The term of the lease shall be 5 years commencing as of January 1, 2007 and expiring on December 31, 2011. Thereafter, the lease term will automatically continue for successive terms of one year each until terminated by either party. The City shall have the right to terminate in the event of a default by CAC upon 30 days notice or, at its sole option upon 180 days notice. CAC shall have the right to terminate at its sole option upon 60 days notice.

2. CAC shall pay to the City a one-time administrative fee of $200 and annual rent of $1.00.

3. The Leased Premises are to be used solely for community gardening purposes. CAC shall have the right to sublease the individual garden plots within the Leased Premises to the public for non-commercial use only.

4. CAC shall provide proof of commercial general li...

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