2009-027-RES-AWARDING THE BID FOR HAY LEASE @ LAKE GIBBONS

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HAY LEASE AGREEMENT STATE OF TEXAS ) ) KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS: COUNTY OF LAMAR ) THIS LEASE AGREEMEIVT is made this 23rd day of March, 2009, by and between the CITY OF PARIS, TEXAS, a home-rule municipal corporation of the County of Lamar, State of Texas, acting by and through its City Manager, duly authorized, hereinafter referred to as LESSOR, and Drew Crawford, dba CK Hay Farms, 832 CR 32260, Sumner, Texas, 75486, Lamar County, Texas, hereinafter referred to as LESSEE. WITNESSETH For and in consideration of the sum of Sixteen Thousand Two Hundred Seventy Five and no/100 Dollars ($16,275.00) cash, payable in five (5) equal annual installments of $3,275.00 each, the first of which will be due and payable on or before the 1st day of April, 2009, with a like payment being due and payable on or before the 1st day of April of each year thereafter during the term of this Lease (the "Rental Fee"), the LESSOR has bargained and sold, and does by these presents bargain and sell, unto LESSEE all the grasses and hay now standing and growing, and to be grown, and the right to cut and bale the same upon all that certain tract of land owned by the City of Paris, situated in Lamar County, Texas, and known as the Lake Gibbons property, consisting of approximately 250 acres of land in hay meadows, and as further depicted by the green shaded area as Exhibit A, attached hereto and incorporated herein by reference (the "Leased Premises"), for a period of five (5) years, beginning April 1, 2009. LESSOR does hereby further grant and sell unto the said LESSEE the right of ingress and egress to and from said Leased Premises at any time during the period of this lease for the purposes of cutting, mowing, baling, removing, inspecting, improving, or fertilizing such lands. HAY LEASE AGREEMENT - Page 1 EXHIBITA..