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Deeding land at Baker Community Center and Highwood Hills to the Saint Paul School District in exchange for land at the Rice/Wellstone School site.
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WHEREAS, pursuant to an agreement dated August 21, 1979, (hereinafter "Joint Use and Lease Agreement"), INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 625 (hereinafter "DISTRICT") leased to the CITY OF SAINT PAUL (hereinafter "CITY") for a term of ninety-nine (99) years certain DISTRICT owned real property located at the site of DISTRICT's Cherokee Heights Elementary School and certain spaces within Cherokee Heights Elementary School for the purpose of the CITY's use and construction of improvements for its Baker Recreation Center (formerly known as the Upper West Side Multi-Service Center) which at that time and presently adjoins Cherokee Heights Elementary School; and
WHEREAS, pursuant to the Joint Use and Lease Agreement CITY and DISTRICT agreed to the joint use of the aforesaid leasehold property in addition to the joint use of real property owned by CITY lying adjacent to DISTRICT's aforesaid real property; and
WHEREAS, CITY and DISTRICT desire to terminate the Joint Use and Lease Agreement; and
WHEREAS, upon termination of the Joint Use and Lease Agreement the Baker Recreation Center and the real property underlying the Baker Recreation Center building will automatically by operation of law revert to the unfettered ownership of DISTRICT except for a portion thereof legally described as the east half of vacated Waseca Street, adjoining Lot 8, Block 17, Nelson Stevens and Kings Addition to West Saint Paul, Ramsey County, Minnesota (hereinafter "Baker property"); and
WHEREAS, it is in the best interest of the CITY and the community that the capital liability and programming responsibilities at the Baker Community Center be transgerred to the DISTRICT
WHEREAS, the aforesaid Baker property consists of 4,500 square feet and has an appraised value of $23,000; and
WHEREAS, CITY and DISTRICT formerly had a joint use agreem...
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