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Resolution authorizing the Mayor and the Director of the Department of Finance to enter into a Lease Agreement with the Oakland Planning and Development Corporation for use of the City's former Oakland Senior Community Center facility located on the corner of Semple and Louisa Streets in Oakland.
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WHEREAS, the City's former Oakland Senior Community Center is currently vacant, and, due to limited financial resources, the City has no current plans to reopen it at this time; and
WHEREAS, the Oakland Planning and Development Corporation ("OPDC") has offered to lease this facility from the City in order renovate said facility at no cost to the City to facilitate provision of a career center, community meeting space and related programming to benefit the general public and the entire community; and
WHEREAS, OPDC and the City of Pittsburgh now wish to enter into a Lease Agreement to facilitate this purpose.
Be it resolved by the Council of the City of Pittsburgh as follows:
Section 1. The Mayor and the Director of the Department of Finance are hereby authorized to enter into a lease agreement with the Oakland Planning and Development Corporation for the former Oakland Senior Community Center facility. The Lease Agreement shall be for an initial term not to exceed five (5) years, with an option to renew for one additional five (5) year period. Rent shall be $1 per year, and OPDC shall be responsible for all renovation, maintenance and prorated share of utility payments associated with its use of the Premises. The Lease Agreement shall be approved by the City Solicitor as to form and substance.
Section 2. Any Resolution or Ordinance of part thereof conflicting with the provisions of this Resolution is hereby repealed so far as the same affects this Resolution.