Title
Accepting temporary construction easements, authorizing payment for the easements, and declaring a trail easement related to the Cherokee Regional Bicycle Trail Project.
Body
WHEREAS, on June 1, 2011 the City Council approved Council File Number RES 11-540, a Final Order authorizing the acquisition of property rights along the northerly side of Ohio Street between Plato Boulevard and Cherokee Regional Park for the Cherokee Regional Bicycle Trail project (the "Project"); and
WHEREAS, the City has secured signed Purchased Agreements with private property owners for the purchase of temporary construction easements on, over, under and across five parcels of land whose addresses are as follows: 539 Ohio St., 215 Ohio St., 210 Ohio St., 185 Ohio St. and 218 Ohio St.; and
WHEREAS, the City has agreed to pay Twenty Thousand Seven-Hundred Seventy-Seven 00/100 Dollars ($20,777.00) for said easements, this being a fair and reasonable value as determined by an appraisal and negotiated and agreed to between the City and property owners; and
WHEREAS, the Real Estate Manager has recommended purchase of said easements at the agreed-upon value, plus other considerations as outlined in the Purchase Agreements attached hereto as Exhibit A; and
WHEREAS, the City is required to establish permanent easements for the portion of the bicycle trail that will lie within Cherokee Regional Park and Harriet Island Regional Park; now, therefore be it
RESOLVED, that the Mayor and Council of the City of Saint Paul do hereby approve said Purchase Agreements and accept said temporary easements in a form and content substantially as set forth in Exhibit B attached hereto; and further authorize and direct the proper city officials to pay the property owners the above-listed amount, said sum to be charged to Activity Code C08-3C054-0883-34255; and be it further
RESOLVED, that the proper city officials are authorized to execute the Declaration of Trail Easement in a form and content substantially as set forth in Exhibit C attached hereto.
Financial Analysis
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