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A RESOLUTION
Authorizing the City Manager to
Execute an Agreement with the Lighthouse Rotary Foundation of
Evanston for their Donation to the City of Ten Exercise Stations along
the Lakefront between Northwestern University and the
Lee Street Beach
WHEREAS, the Lighthouse Rotary Club has been providing services to
Evanston since 1985; and
WHEREAS, the Lighthouse Rotary Club's mission of "Service above self"
and generous civic involvement includes the intensive rehabilitation of homes of persons
who could not otherwise effect maintenance and repairs, the clean-up four times a year
along Golf Road between Crawford Avenue and McCormick Boulevard as an anti -litter
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effort, and making grants to local agencies and programs such as YOU, the YMCA,
Connections for the Homeless, and First Night Evanston; and
WHEREAS, the City's lakefront parks are improved with a system of
pathways used by walkers, joggers, and bicycle riders; and
WHEREAS, exercise stations are located at certain areas of the lakefront
pathway system; and
WHEREAS, these exercise stations are the few remaining from the original
installation of a set of such stations designed to provide various exercise opportunities at
intervals along the lakefront pathway system; and
WHEREAS, the Lighthouse Rotary Club has generously offered to remove
• existing exercise stations and to install and donate to the City ten exercise stations along
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the lakefront pathway system between Northwestern University and the Lee Street Beach; •
and
WHEREAS, the Lighthouse Rotary's estimated cost of this donation is
between $25,000.00 (twenty-five thousand and no/100 dollars) and $50,000 (fifty thousand
and no/100 dollars); and
WHEREAS, the Lighthouse Rotary Club is a corporation organized under the
laws of Illinois and is a 501(c)6 corporation; and
WHEREAS, the Lighthouse Rotary Club's generosity will provide a significant
monetary and civic benefit to the citizens of the City; and
WHEREAS, the Lighthouse Rotary Club created the Lighthouse Rotary
Foundation as a 501(c)(3) corporation to assist with fundraising efforts; and
WHEREAS, the Lighthouse Rotary Foundation is desirous of entering into an •
Agreement with the City to effect the donation; and
WHEREAS, the Lighthouse Rotary Foundation will enter into an agreement
with contractor(s) to effect all phases of the construction of the exercise stations; and
WHEREAS, an agreement between the City and Lighthouse Rotary
Foundation to memorialize the donation and set forth the respective rights and obligations
of the parties, is in the best interests of the City,
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE
CITY OF EVANSTON, COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS:
SECTION 1: That the City Council finds the aforedescribed recitations as
facts and makes them a part hereof. •
SECTION 2: That the City Council accepts the aforedescribed donation.
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• SECTION 3: That the City Manager is hereby authorized and directed to
sign, and the City Clerk hereby authorized and directed to attest on behalf of the City of
Evanston the Agreement between the City and Lighthouse Rotary Foundation of Evanston
in substantial conformity with that marked as Exhibit A attached hereto and incorporated
herein by reference.
SECTION 4: That the City Manager is hereby authorized and directed to
negotiate any additional terms and conditions of the Agreement as may be determined to
be in the best interests of the City.
SECTION 5: This Resolution shall be in full force and effect from and after
its passage, approval, and publication in the manner provided by law.
. Lorraine H. Morton, Mayor
Attest:
Mary P. �Jbrr,O-ty Clerk
Adopted: FttX� �f , 2005
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