06/24/91 Board of Public Works Minutes

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REGULAR MEETING JUNE 24, 1991 RESOLUTION NO. 25-1991 A RESOLUTION OF THE BOARD OF PUBLIC WORKS OF THE CITY OF SOUTH BEND, INDIANA, APPROVING AND ACCEPTING THE TRANSFER OF REAL PROPERTY AND LAND LEASE ASSIGNMENT FROM THE BOARD OF PARK COMMISSIONERS OF THE CITY OF SOUTH BEND, INDIANA WHEREAS, the City of South Bend, Indiana, received certain lands from the Veterans of Foreign Wars, Inc., South Bend Post No. 1167, by way of Warranty Deed dated October 31, 1951, such lands being deeded to the City for the use of its Park Department and/or Board of Park Commissioners; and WHEREAS, on May 18, 1952, the Park Board executed with the United States of America a fifty (50) year Land Lease ("Land Lease") for a portion of said lands, to be used by the United States of America for construction and occupancy of an organized reserve corps armory building and appurtenances, which structures were subsequently constructed; and WHEREAS, that portion of the lands deeded to the City that was leased to the United States of America is more commonly known as the Northside Boulevard Armory; and WHEREAS, the City of South Bend has been engaged in discussions with the United States Army concerning its vacation of the Northside Boulevard Armory and its relocation to another facility and the release by the United States Army of its leasehold interest in the Northside Boulevard Armory; and WHEREAS, Indiana University has expressed interest in acquiring the Northside Boulevard Armory for use in the expansion of the campus of Indiana University at South Bend; and WHEREAS, the City of South Bend, acting by and through its Board of Public Works, acquired on March 20, 1989, title to the former Maple Lane School and has proposed that site to the United States Army as a location to which the reserve corps armory currently housed at the Northside Boulevard Armory could be relocated, to which proposal the United States Army has consented, in principal; and WHEREAS, the exchange with the United States Army of the former Maple Lane School for the release by the United States Army of its leasehold interest in the Northside Boulevard Armory would be facilitated by the transfer of the Northside Boulevard Armory from the City of South Bend for the use of its Park Department and/or Board of Park Commissioners to the City of South Bend, Indiana; and WHEREAS, in its resolution dated November 20, 1989, the Board of Park Commissioners declared and found it to be in the best interest of the City and the City's Park Department to transfer title to the Northside Boulevard Armory so as to facilitate the relocation of the Army Reserve Corps housed there and to facilitate the acquisition of Northside by Indiana University for the expansion of its South Bend campus, the Northside Boulevard Armory no longer being used, and use of it not being contemplated, for park purposes; and WHEREAS, by Ordinance No. 8188-91, the Common Council of the City of South Bend approved the transfer of the Northside Boulevard Armory to the City of South Bend, Indiana; and WHEREAS, the Board of Park Commissioners in its Resolution dated June 17, 1991, expressed its intent to assign said Land Lease to the City of South Bend, Indiana, and the City of South J 1 1