HomeMy WebLinkAboutApproving the Lease of the Storyland Zoo Property within Rum Village Park to Orphan Animal Care Facility RESOLUTION
NO. 969-82
Passed by the Common Council of the City of South Bend, Indiana.
June 28 , �9 82
Attest: City Clerk
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Attest: (11(Z President f Common Council
Presented by me to the Mayor of the City of South Bend, Indiana
June 29 , X982
City Clerk
Approved and signed by me Fe a 9 19 r
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RESOLUTION OF THE COMMON COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
SOUTH BEND APPROVING THE LEASE OF THE STORYLAND
ZOO PROPERTY WITHIN RUM VILLAGE PARK TO ORPHAN
ANIMAL CARE FACILITY
WHEREAS, the City of South Bend, Indiana, owns a facility known
as Storyland Zoo which is located within Rum Village Park in the City
of South Bend; and
WHEREAS , said facility has been closed by the Board of Park
Commissioners and is no longer operated for a public purpose due to
the lack of funds ; and
WHEREAS, the Board of Park Commissioners has continued to
maintain the vacant facility in order to prevent deterioration and
vandalism of said facility and the Board of Park Commissioners does
not intend to reopen the facility for a public purpose within the
reasonably foreseeable future; and
WHEREAS, it is in the City' s best interest that the facility be
occupied and maintained in order to prevent deterioration and
vandalism of said facility; and
WHEREAS, the Orphan Animal Care Facility is an Indiana not-for-
profit corporation with tax exempt status , organized for the purpose
of rehabilitating injured wild animals and it desires to lease the
Storyland Zoo facility to be used as an animal refuge and re-
habilitation center; and
WHEREAS, the City of South Bend desires to encourage and
facilitate the care and rehabilitation of injured wild animals within
the City of South Bend; and
WHEREAS, it is in the best interest of the Board of Park
Commissioners to enter into a lease agreement with Orphan Animal
Care Facility for the use and maintenance of the Storyland Zoo
property as a wild animal refuge and rehabilitation center.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the Common Council of the
City of South Bend as follows :
SECTION 1 . That this lease, a copy of which is attached hereto,
dated June 21, 1982, for the lease of the Storyland Zoo property
between the Board of Park Commissioners and the Orphan Animal Care
Facility is hereby approved.
SECTION 2. That this Resolution shall be in full force and
effect from and after its passage by the South Bend Common Council
and approval by the Mayor.
FILED ID CLERK'S OF CE 7 67
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PRESENTED embe•Y` 9 the Common Council
NW APPROVED JUN 2 3 1982 I signed only to provid an
opportunity for public d_-ecuz,s!.0)
ADOPTED Irene Gammon and Council action on the is ue.
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