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RESOLUTION NO. 1043
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A RESOLUTION OF THE COMMISSION OF THE CITY OF BOZEMAN,
MONTANA, AUTHORIZING THE FILING OF APPLICATION FOR A
FEDERAL GRANT TO ACQUIRE OPEN SPACE LAND. I
WHEREAS Title VII of the Housing Act of 1961 provides for the making
of trants by the Housing and Home Finance Administrator to States and local
public bodies to assist them in the acquisition of permanent interests in
land for open-space purposes where such acquisition is demmed essential to
the proper long-range development and welfare of urban areas in accordance
with plans for the allocation of land to such purposes; and
WHEREAS, the City of Bozeman desires to acquire a fee s~ple title
interest in and to certain land known as the Elks' Country Club, which land,
in accordance with the park Cemetery open space land program approved by the
City Commission of the City of Bozeman, Montana, is to be held and used for
permanent open-space land as a park, recreational and cemetery use; and
WHEREAS it 1s estimated that the total consideration to be paid for
the acquisition of said fee simple title interest w111 be the sum of Fifty
Thousand and nO/lUO Dollars ($50,UOO.UO):
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE CITY COMMISSION OF THE CITY OF
BOZEMAN, MONTANA, AS FOLLOWS:
1. That an application be made to the Housing and Home Finance Agency
for a grant in an amount authorized by Title VII of the Housing Aot of 1961,
which amount is presently estimated to be Fifteen Thousand and nO/lOa
Dollars ($15,UOO.00), and that the City of Bozeman, Montana, will pay the
balance of the consideration for the aoquisition of such interest and the
total of all related costs from other funds available to it.
2. Tnat the Mayor of the City of Bozeman is hereby authorized and
direoted to execute and to file such application with the Housing and Home
Finance Agenoy, to provide additional information and to furnish such doou-
ments as may be required by said Agenoy, to execute such contracts as are I
required by said Agency, and to act as the authorized correspondent of the
City of Bozeman, Montana.
3. That the proposed acquis 1 tion is in accordance with the Park
Recreational and Cemetery Plan adopted by the City Commission of the City
of Bozeman for the preservation of permanent open-space land, and that,
should said grant be made, the City of Bozeman will retain said land for
the uses designated in said application and approved by the Housing and
Home Finance Agenoy.
PASSED AND ADOPTED by the Commission of the City of Bozeman, at a
regular session thereof held on the 3rd day of July , 1962.
S/ Fred M. Staudaher
Mayor
ATTEST:
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Clerk of the C1 ty . ommlss1on
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