08/27/90 Board of Public Works Minutes

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2551 REGULAR MEETING AUGUST 27, 1990 RESOLUTION NO. 19-1990 A RESOLUTION OF THE BOARD OF PUBLIC WORKS OF THE CITY OF SOUTH BEND, INDIANA EXPRESSING ITS DESIRE TO PURCHASE REAL PROPERTY WHEREAS, The City of South Bend, Indiana is owner of certain real property and improvements located at 701 West Sample Street and known as the City's Municipal Services Building, which building houses the City's vehicle maintenance facility; and WHEREAS, said vehicle maintenance facility is used and staffed by the City's Equipment Services division and houses the City's vehicle repair and maintain operations; and WHEREAS, said vehicle maintenance facility comprises approximately 25,900 square feet, which area is insufficiently large to accommodate all of the City's vehicle repair and maintenance needs, which insufficiency results in the inefficient operation of the City's vehicle maintenance operations and added cost of such operations; and WHEREAS, said vehicle maintenance facility is plagued with structural and operational.problems, the most serious of which is an inadequate ventilation and exhaust system which results in the build-up of gas fumes and exhaust during the engine operation which occurs constantly throughout the work day; and WHEREAS, the existing ventilation system at said vehicle maintenance facility is inadequate and contributes to a substandard work environment for the City's equipment services personnel; and WHEREAS, the most efficient and cost effective allocation of resources warrants the relocation of the City's vehicle repair and maintenance operations from said vehicle maintenance facility to a new facility that is both adequately sized to house all of the City's vehicle repair and maintenance operations and which shall be properly ventilated and otherwise equipped; and WHEREAS, the owners of the real estate and improvements at 1045 West Sample Street, South Bend, formerly housing the National Mill Supply operations warehouse are desirous of selling such real estate and improvements to the City for use as the City's vehicle maintenance facility; and WHEREAS, the Director of the Department of Public Works has inspected said National Mill Supply property and has found it to be adequately sized and, with improvements, otherwise suited for use as the City's vehicle maintenance facility; and WHEREAS, the Director of the Department of Public Works has commissioned and obtained two (2) appraisals of the National Mill Supply property prepared by two (2) appraisers professionally engaged in making appraisals; and WHEREAS, said appraisals have been returned to the Director of the Department of Public Works, who has, on the 27th day of August, 1990, filed them with the Board of Public Works; and WHEREAS, said appraisals have appraised the National Mill Supply property at $600,000.00 and $615,000.00; and WHEREAS, the Director of the Department of Public Works has recommended to the Board of Public Works that it offer to purchase the National Mill Supply property for $580,000.00, subject to compliance with I.C. 36-1-10.5 and subject to the transfer and appropriation of adequate finds by the Common Council for the City of South Bend, Indiana.