City of Lawrence

DEPARTMENT OF LEGAL SERVICES

MEMORANDUM

TO:	David Corliss, Assistant City Manager & Director of Legal Services
FROM:	R. Scott Wagner, Legal Assistant
DATE:	9 November 2005
CC:	Philip Ciesielski, Dept. of Utilities
RE:	North Lawrence Pump Station Improvement Project, 1SS-104

City legal staff has been working with the Department of Utilities on the above North Lawrence pump station improvement project, currently being designed by Bartlett & West Engineers and funded through the Utilities Department capital improvement reserve fund and the 2005 water and sewage revenue bond issuance.  The project plans call for the improvement of several North Lawrence pump stations, including the existing pump station no. 3, located at 720 Grant Street (see attached photos).  The reconstruction of this station requires the purchase of additional property to the west of the existing site (see attached map).  The property to be acquired is a 4,960 sq. ft. vacant tract, currently zoned M-2.

The City contracted with Keller & Associates to provide a valuation of this tract.  The property owner, Beckett Ministries International, Inc. has accepted the appraised value of $10,000 for the fee simple purchase of this parcel (legally described as Lot 1 in Block 4, Smith’s Subdivision).

Authorization is requested to approve purchase of this parcel from Beckett Ministries International in the amount of $10,000.  The City will purchase this tract on contract, pending approval of a replat, a use permitted upon review (UPR) and needed rezoning of the entire pump station site which the City is submitting on behalf of the property owner.