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RESOLUTION NO. 728
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Seri es of 1981
TITLE: RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING MAYOR TO EXECUTE AGREEMENTS WITH THE JEFFERSON
COUNTY COMMISSIONERS WHICH CONTAIN CONDITIONS OBLIGATING THE CITY OF
WHEAT RIDGE TO KEEP AND MAINTAIN PROPERTIES PURCHASED WITH OPEN SPACE
FUNDS FOR AUTHORIZED OPEN SPACE PURPOSES, AND PROVIDING FOR A REVERSION
OF TITLE TO JEFFERSON COUNTY IN THE EVENT ANY SUCH PROPERTIES ARE NOT
SO KEPT AND MAINTAINED.
WHEREAS, the Wheat Ridge City Council has previously adopted
Resolution 705, requesting Jefferson County to reimburse the City of Wheat
Ridge from Wheat Ridge's attributable share of Open Space Funds for the
purchase of properties previously owned by Denning, Van Hooser and Weller; and
WHEREAS, normal accepted procedure for such purposes is to allow Jefferson
County to purchase said properties and thereafter convey the same by deed to
Wheat Ridge; and
WHEREAS, because of the necessity for promot purchase of said parcels by
the City of Wheat Ridge, Jefferson County allowed the City of Wheat Ridge to
negotiate and purchase said properties directly; and
WHEREAS, the accepted and required practice of Jefferson County, to preserve
the integrity of the Open Space Fund, is to include in all deeds from Jefferson
County to municipalities a reverter clause providing for reversion of title to
Jefferson County of any orooerties purchased with Ooen Space Funds in the event
the municipality utilizes any such properties so purchased for purposes other
than those sanctioned and specified by the Jefferson County Open Space Resolution;
and
WHEREAS, the City of Wheat Ridge and the Jefferson County Commissioners
have agreed, in order to provide for administrative expediency, to deviate from
the normal accepted procedure in this instance only, so long as agreements
containing reversion language acceptable to the Jefferson County Commissioners,
and consistent with known and accepted oractices and constraints of Jefferson
County, are executed by the City of Wheat Ridge and recorded against any
properties purchased by the City of Wheat Ridge with Open Space funds;
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the Mayor of the City of Wheat
Ridge is authorized hereby to negotiate and execute any agreements or documents
necessary and required to effect the purchase of, or reimbursement for the
purchase of, the properties above described from Wheat Ridge's attributable
portion of Jefferson County Open Soace Funds, said agreements to contain
aporopriate reversion of title clauses, and said agreements to be recorded
upon their execution.
DONE AND RESOLVED this 19th day of January
vote of 3 to 0
, A.D. 1981, by a
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FRANK STITES, MAYOR
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