2001-107-RES EXERCISING CITY'S OPTION TO TERMINATE IN PART THAT LEASE BY/BETWEEN COP AND RED RIVER VALLEYFAIR ASSN

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RESOLUTION NO. 2001-107 A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF PARIS, PARIS, TEXAS, EXERCISING THE CITY'S OPTION TO TERMINATE IN PART THAT LEASE BY AND BETWEEN THE CITY OF PARIS AND RED RIVER VALLEY FAIR ASSOCIATION, INC. TO DESIGNATE PROPERTY AT THE FAIR GROUNDS AS THE SITE OF THE NEW ANIMAL SHELTER; DESIGNATING THAT PORTION OF THE FAIR PROPERTY TO BE USED FOR THE CITY'S NEW ANIMAL SHELTER; PROVIDING NOTICE TO THE RED RIVER VALLEY FAIR ASSOCIATION, INC.; MAKING OTHER FINDINGS AND PROVISIONS RELATED TO THE SUBJECT; AND DECLARING AN EFFECTIVE DATE. WHEREAS, the City Council has previously directed the City Manager to locate a site for a proposed animal shelter; and, WHEREAS, the City Council finds and determines that the most practical and efficient location for the proposed new animal shelter is on a site currently within the confines and boundaries of the City Fairgrounds; and, WHEREAS, the City has previously entered into a lease agreement with the Red River Valley Fair Association, Inc. for the operation of the Fairgrounds; and, WHEREAS, paragraph seventeen of the aforesaid lease agreement provides that the City as Lessor shall have the right and privilege at its sole option to terminate the lease as to any part of the realty not improved with buildings to convert the aforesaid property to necessary municipal functions; and, WHEREAS, the City Council finds and determines it is necessary to terminate in part the existing lease agreement with the Red River Valley Fair Association, Inc. as to that property designated as the future site of the new animal shelter; NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF PARIS, PARIS, TEXAS: Section 1. That the findings set out in the preamble to this resolution are hereby in all things approved. Section 2. That, pursuant to paragraph seventeen of the existing Lease Agreement dated March 10, 1997, by and between the City of Paris as Lessor and the Red River Valley Fair Association, Inc. as Lessee, the City does hereby exercise its right and privilege at its option to terminate the aforesaid Lease as said Lease applies to that property identified by metes and bounds and exhibit attached hereto as Exhibit A for the purpose of utilizing said property now terminated from the existing Lease Agreement for a necessary municipal function, that is, the siting of a new animal shelter.