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Resolution authorizing the Mayor, the Director of Finance, and the Director Parks and Recreation to enter into agreements with the Clayton Corporation and/or the Frick Art and Historical Center, Inc. to 1) confirm the assignment of the 1968 License Agreement for the Frick Art Museum from the Helen Clay Frick Foundation to the Clayton Corporation, and 2) to amend the 1968 License Agreement for the Frick Art Museum to allow for the imposition of admission fees for special or temporary exhibitions of works of art and other objects within the Museum while keeping admission to the Museum itself and the Museum's permanent exhibitions free and open to the public.
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WHEREAS, on August 20, 1968, with the consent of City Council, the City of Pittsburgh (the "City"), The Helen Clay Frick Foundation (the "Foundation"), and with the consent of Helen Clay Frick ("Miss Frick") entered into a license agreement (the "Agreement") a License Agreement pursuant to which the City granted to the Foundation under certain terms and conditions the right to use certain real property of the City (the "Premises") to construct thereon an art museum and appurtenances; and
WHEREAS, the Foundation constructed an art museum on the Premises as contemplated by the Agreement and the museum (the "Frick Art Museum") has been operating the same since September 1970; and
WHEREAS, the Foundation caused the incorporation of the Clayton Corporation on July 11, 1988 under the Pennsylvania Nonprofit corporation Law of 1972 (the "Clayton Corporation"); and
WHEREAS, Miss Frick conveyed certain real property to the Foundation during her lifetime and at her death devised other real property to it, her intention being that the Foundation hold and operate such property; and
WHEREAS, on June 26, 1990, the Foundation passed a resolution approving the assignment of the Agreement to the Clayton Corporation; and
WHEREAS, on July 16, 1990, at No. 1013 of 1985, the Orphan's cour...
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