2011-090 RES APPROVING AGREEMENT WITH TX PARKS & WILDLIFE FOR RECREATIONAL TRAILS GRANT

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TEXAS PARKS AND WILDLIFE DEPARTMENT NATIONAL RECREATIONAL TRAILS FUND AGREEMENT This agreeinent between Texas Parks and Wildlife Depai-tment, Recreational Ti°ails Program (hereinafter TPWD) and City of Paris (hereinafter• Sponsor) for constniction of recreational trail iinpi°ovements in Lamar County, Texas is made under Texas Recreational Trails Ftmd. BACKGROUND The TPWD Recreational Trails Progi•am, which administers the Texas Recreational Trails Fund (hereinafter TRTF) Tnade available under the National Recreational Trails Act (hereinafter The Act), awards reimbursement-type g•ants to eligible public entities and private organizations to be used on trails and h•ail- related projects. To be eligible, the project must have been planned and developed undei• existing federal and state laws, and all related policies and administrative procedures; and The Gity of Paris, eligible under The Act, made a grant application for a suitable trail project aiid was awarded a TRTF grant. THEREFORE. for aiid in consideration of the mutual covenants aiid benetits hereof, TPWD and the Sponsor hereby agree as follows: TERMS Sponsor will conshlict 0.8 linear miles of recreational h•ail, culverts, and signing and project engineering and design to extend the Trail de Paris in accordance with approved plan (hereinafter the Project) by .it~ 15, 2015. While doing any work under the tenils of this agreement, Sponsor will adhere to all requiremeiits established for tlie National Recreational Trials Ftind including those set out in Procedural Guidelines, Project Developnient aiid Grant Reimbursement Proczdures, and Acquisition Project Procedtues and by the signariire of its authorized agent below asserts that it had read all of the foregoing requirements. The undersigned is subject to Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, Section 504 or Rehabilitation Act of 1973, Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990, the Age Discriiilination Act of 1975, Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972, and offers all persons the opporhinity to participate in programs or activities regardless of race, color, national origin, age, sex or disability. Further, it is agreed that no individual will be hirned away or otherwise denied access to or benefit from any program or activity that is directly associated with a program on the basis of race, color, national origin, age, sex or disability. Sponsor will properly aiid adequately maintain the Project for at least 20 yeais so that it is available aiid safe for use by the publrc. EXHIBIT