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• ; A RESOLUTION
Authorizing the City Manager
to Contract for and Complete
the Purchase of Property adjacent
to Gilbert Park
WHEREAS, the City Council of the City of Evanston on March 24,
1980, by voice vote did determine just compensation and did authorize the
purchase of property adjacent to Gilbert Park; and
WHEREAS, subsequent to said determination and authorization the j
owner
of said property has agreed to a purchase price of Twelve Thousand
Five
Hundred Dollars ($12,500); and 1
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WHEREAS, the acquisition of land for the purpose of establishing
and
expanding the Evanston park system is a goal of the Evanston City Coun-
the Housing Community
cil
and and Development Act Committee; and
WHEREAS, funds for the purchase of said land were allocated in the,
1979
Community Development Block Grant application which was submitted to t
and
approved by the United States Department of Housing and Urban Develop- j
ment
on June 28, 1979; and
WHEREAS, acquisition of the said property adjacent to Gilbert
Park
legally described.as follows:
That part of lots 9, 10, 11, 12 and 13 lying
easterly of the easterly right-of-way line
of the Mayfair Division of the Chicago and
Northwestern Railway Company in Block 4, Grant
and Jackson's addition to Evanston in the N.E.
1/4 of the N.E. 1/4 of Section 13, Township
41 North, Range 13 East of the Third Principal
Meridian, all in the City of Evanston, Cook
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County, Illinois
' has
been determined to be in interest
appropriate and the best of the City
for
expansion of Gilbert Park._
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�► NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
�i EVANSTON that the City Manager be and hereby is authorized and directed to
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1� enter into a contract for, negotiate additional terms as necessary and take
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title to the above legally described property for the sum of Twelve Thousand:
�! Five Hundred Dollars ($12,500).
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ATTEST:
City Clerk
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