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                                  6320

                       2009-2010 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                              March 2, 2009
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Introduced  by M. of A. RUSSELL -- read once and referred to the Commit-
  tee on Cities

AN ACT to authorize the city of Watertown, county of Jefferson, to lease
  certain parklands

  THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  Section  1.  Subject to the provisions of this act but notwithstanding
chapter 308 of the laws of  1998,  the  city  of  Watertown,  county  of
Jefferson, is hereby authorized, acting by and through its city council,
to  lease  to  the Watertown Family YMCA, Inc.  for a term not to exceed
twenty-five years, the  municipally  owned  parkland  more  particularly
described  in  section  three of this act, consisting of a public indoor
sports facility with indoor athletic  fields,  exercise/weight  training
areas, concession facilities and related facilities.
  S  2.  The  authorization provided in section one of this act shall be
effective only upon the condition that the city of Watertown, county  of
Jefferson,  dedicate  an  amount equal to the fair market value of those
interests being transferred by this act, for the  acquisition  of  addi-
tional  parklands  and/or  for capital improvements to existing park and
recreational facilities.
  S 3. The lands referred to in section one of  this  act  are  located,
bounded and described as follows:
  BEGINNING  at  a  3/4"  iron pipe found in the westerly margin of Rand
Drive, said iron pipe also marking the most northeasterly corner of P.N.
829103, said iron pipe being  situate  N  34°-50'-00"  E  a  direct  tie
distance of 414.00± feet from the northerly margin of Coffeen Street;
  THENCE  N  54°-47'-00"  W  along  the  northerly property line of P.N.
829103 passing through a 3/4"  iron  pipe  found  at  450.00±  feet  and
continuing  on  the  same  bearing a total distance of 516.00± feet to a
3/4" iron pipe set in the easterly property line of P.N. 829101.2;

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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  THENCE N 34°-50-00"  E  along  the  easterly  property  line  of  P.N.
829101.2 a distance of 205.67± feet to a railroad spike set at the point
of  intersection  of the easterly property line of P.N. 829101.2 and the
easterly property line of the Western  Outfall  Trunk  Sewer  (W.O.T.S.)
P.N.  829102;
  THENCE  N  42°-01'-24"  E  along  the  easterly  property  line of the
W.O.T.S.  P.N. 829102 a distance of 224.41± feet  to  a  railroad  spike
set;
  THENCE  S  54°47'-00"  E along the newly created lease dividing line a
distance of 487.91± feet to a 3/4" iron pipe set;
  THENCE S 34°-50'-00" W along  a  prolongation  line  of  the  westerly
margin  line  of  Rand  Drive, passing through a 3/4" iron pipe found at
123.41± feet and continuing on the same bearing along the actual wester-
ly margin line of Rand Drive, a total distance of 428.50±  feet  to  the
point and place of beginning.
  CONTAINING 217,971.71± square feet (5.00 acres) of land more or less.
  SUBJECT to and including any and all rights or restrictions of record.
  S 4. Should the interests described in section three of this act cease
to  be operated as a public indoor sports facility, such interests shall
revert to the city of Watertown, county of Jefferson,  for  public  park
and  recreational  purposes. Such public indoor sports facility shall be
made available to the general public on an equitable basis. Where avail-
ability of public facilities are limited, the  use  of  such  facilities
must  be  determined by a reservation policy which provides priority use
to the general public.
  S 5. If the parkland that is the subject  of  this  act  has  received
funding  pursuant  to  the federal land and water conservation fund, the
discontinuance of parkland authorized by  the  provisions  of  this  act
shall  not  occur  until  the municipality has complied with the federal
requirements pertaining to the conversion of parklands, including satis-
fying the secretary of the interior that the discontinuance will include
all conditions which the secretary of the interior  deems  necessary  to
assure  the  substitution  of  other  lands  shall be equivalent in fair
market value and recreational usefulness to the lands  being  discontin-
ued.
  S 6. This act shall take effect immediately.