Land Use Committee
Amendment
June 21, 2004
IN THE COUNTY LEGISLATURE OF JACKSON COUNTY, MISSOURI
Title
A RESOLUTION authorizing the County Executive to execute a Revised Cooperation and Use Agreement with Reorganized School District No. IV of Jackson County (Blue Springs), regarding property in Fleming Park.
Intro
RESOLUTION #15051, June 14, 2004
INTRODUCED BY Rhonda L. Shoemaker, County Legislator
Body
WHEREAS, by Resolution 7968, dated July 31, 1989, the County did convey by warranty deed to Reorganized School District No. IV (Blue Springs) a certain nine-acre tract of land in Fleming Park, adjacent to Liggett Road, subject to the restrictions contained in a contemporaneously executed Cooperation and Use Agreement between the County and the School District; and,
WHEREAS, under the terms of this Cooperation and Use Agreement, the School District was to construct a public school and/or related facilities on the property, with the County having the right to use any gymnasium, multipurpose room, and soccer fields that might be developed on the property for County recreation programs; and,
WHEREAS, the Agreement provided that, if the District did not begin construction of the proposed school on the property within ten years of the date of the Agreement's execution, by August 29, 1999, then the property would revert back to the County; and,
WHEREAS, by Resolution 12574, dated March 8, 1999, the County approved a one-year extension of this date to August 29, 2000; and,
WHEREAS, by Resolution 13331, dated August 28, 2000, the Legislature did approve a second extension of this date to August 29, 2003; and,
WHEREAS, this date passed without the commencement of construction on the property; and,
WHEREAS, due to population changes within the District, the site on Liggett Road is no longer adequate for the District's purposes; and,
WHEREAS, over the past several months, District and County personnel ha...
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