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RESOLUTION NO .4<;;72 (CCS ~
(CITY COUNCIL SERIES)
A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SANTA
MONICA DECLARING A FIRE DEP~RTMENT PUMPER TO BE SURPLUS
PROPERTY AND AUTHORIZING THE DONATION OF SAID PUMPiill TO
THE CITY OF MAZATLAN
WHEREAS, the City of Santa Monica and the City of Mazatlan, Mexico are
sister cities, and
WHEREAS, in connection with that sister city program, the City of
Santa Monica and the City of Mazatlan have entered into a program of
mutual cooperation, commerce, and friendship; and
WHEREAS, the City of Santa Monica now owns a 195~ G.H.C. Van Pelt
1000 GPM pumper which was purchased in 1954; and
'iHEREAS, this pumper has pa,ssed the point of reasonable maintenance
costs and parts are difficult and costly to obtain and the City of Santa
Monica no longer has use for that equl.pnent; and
WHEREAS, the value of that pumper does not exceed the amount of
Seven Hundred ($700) Dollars to the City of Santa Monica, but that
pumper ."hould be of much greater value to the City of Mazatlan, Mexico;
and
WHEREAS, it is the desire of the City of Santa Monica to declare
that property "surplus property" and dispose of it; and
WHEREAS, the donab.on of that property would benefit the mutual
exchange, commerce and friendship between the sister cit~eB:
NOW THEREFORE, THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SANTA MONICA DOES
RESOLVE AS FOLLOWS:
SECTION 1. The subject 1954 G.M.C. Van Pelt 1000 GPM pumper is
hereby declared to be surplus property.
SECTION 2. The C~ty Council finds and determines that the transfer
of said property to the City of Mazatlan will benefit the City of Santa
Monica in the furtherance of commerce, foreign trade and mutual frienjahip.
SECTION 3. All right, title and interest to said 1954 G.M.C. pumper
is transferred from the City of Santa Monica to the City of Mazatlan.
SECTION 4. The City Manager is authoriz.ed and directed to execute
any and all documents necessary to complete said transfer.
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ADOPTED AND APF'OVED this 17th day of Dece~ber, 19747.
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Mayor
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I hereby certify that the foregoing resolution was duly adopted at a
regular Council meeting on the 17th day of December 1974, by the following
vote of the City Council:
AYES:
Councilmen: Judson, Lawson, McCloskey, Swink, Trives,
van den Steenhoven, Hoover
NOES: Councilmen: None
ABSENT: Councilmen: None
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APPROVED AS TO FORM:
City Attorney
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CONFiDEiV TlAL
Santa Monlca, California
December 2, 1974
TO: Mayor and C~ty Council
FROM: C~ty Attorney
SUBJECT: Acqu~sition of An~mal Shelter Site
INTRODUCTION:
This staff report transmits an agreement and a
resolution pertalning to the acqulsltion of property for a
new animal shelter for the C1ty.
BACKGROUND:
The sUbJect property, Wh1Ch 15 proposed to be
acqulred for the construction of a new anlmal shelter 15 located
at 1640 - 9th Street 1n Santa Mon1ca. Technlcally, it
compr15es Lots 107, 108 and 109 of the Towner Terrace Tract.
This property, upon reVlew of all avallable property for the
new anlrnal sight, was determlned by city staff to be the Most
sUltab1e and ava21able for the needs of the city. Inltial
negotlatlons were undertaken by Clty staff wlth the owner of
the property, Fred Nason, WhlCh proved unsuccessful. ?herefore,
as a preliminary step to the condemnatlon of the subJect
property, the city authorlzed preparat~on of an appralsal report,
utl11z1ng the services of LeW1S J. Miller, eRE, ASA.
Mr. Ml11er revlewed the property, and made the
followlng determinat1ons, among others. The total lot area
of the subject property 1S 23,590, plus or minus, square feet,
Sllghtly lrregular ln shape. The subject pro~erty does not
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involve any bUlldlng lmprovements and lS baslcally vacant,
except for a gated s~x foot high cha~n llnk fence wlth a 0
foot high three strand barbed Wlre security top along the ~
and alley sides of the lot, two wooden fence posts and some
gravel ground cover~
Based upon a study of the subJect property, and a
study of comparable sales in the area, Mr. Mlller determlned
an appraisal value of the subJect property to be in the sum c
One Hundred Twenty Four Thousand ($124,000) Dollars.
After recelvlng the report of Mr. Miller, the owners
of the subJect property were made an offer by the Clty to acqu
said property for the sum therein stated. The owners refused
thlS offer, but subsequently lndicated a willlngness to sell
the subject property to the city for the sum of One Hundred Thll
Five Thousand ($135,000) Dollars.
ALTERNATIVE SOLUTIONS:
The alternative solutions with regard to the subject
property are:
1. To authorize the acquisltion of sald propert:
for the sum of One Hundred Thirty Flve ?hous~nd ($135,000) Dolle
2~ To proceed with formal condemnation proceedl1
based upon the appra~sal valuatlon of One Hundred Twenty Four
Thousand ($124,OOO) Dollars.
3. A thlrd alternative would be to seek other
avallable property and dlscontlnue any further attempt to
acqulre the subJect property.
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RECOMMENDATION:
It 15 reco~ended that the City Council adopt the
attached resolution authorizing the Clty Manager to enter into
the attached agreement with Fred Nason and V10lette Nason, owner~
in ]Olnt tenancy, and also thereby authorize the City Controller
to issue a warrant 1n the1r behalf 1n the sum of One Hundred
Thlrty Five Thousand ($135,000) Dollars for full payment for
the subject property. The additional Eleven Thousand ($11,000)
Dollars, 1n compar1son to the total purchase pr1ce, does not
appear to be sufficient to compel the city elther to d1scontinue
efforts toward acquisition of the subject property or to
lnstitute condemnat1on proceedings, because such proceed1ngs
would be in and of themselves, expensive, and any possible
Jury award could certainly exceed One Hundred Twenty Four Thousand
($124,000) Dollars and ffilght exceed One Hundred Thirty Five
Thousand ($135,000) Dollars.
PREPARED BY:
RICHARD L. KNICKERBOCKER
City Attorney
S~~UEL I. STREICH:1AN
Assistant Clty Attorney
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