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Ordinance in the Amount of $600,000 Amending General Capital Projects Fund Budget for Intersection Relocation at Davie-Summit-Bellemeade Street
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Department: Legal
Council District: 3
Public Hearing: Not Applicable
Advertising Date/By: Not Applicable
Contact 1 and Phone: Tom Carruthers, City Attorney, ext 2320
Contact 2 and Phone: Ted Partrick, Chief Engineer, ext. 2308
PURPOSE:
The City is contributing up to $1,748,826 toward the intersection relocation at Davie-Summit-Bellemeade Street and related street/streetscape improvements. An ordinance amendment is needed to appropriate $600,000 in unbudgeted revenue toward this project, with the balance funded from appropriations in the General Capital Projects Fund Budget of $150,000 and Street Improvement Bond Fund of $998,826.
BACKGROUND:
Carolyn Weill LeBauer, a resident of Greensboro, died March 8, 2012, and through her estate, she made provisions through the Community Foundation of Greater Greensboro ("CFGG") to use $10 million of her estate to develop an "outstanding public park" in the City of Greensboro ("City") to be named the Carolyn and Maurice LeBauer Park. The City, through its Parks & Recreation Department, has been working with CFGG on the development of a new city park in the downtown area of the City in accordance with the Last Will and Testament of Carolyn W. LeBauer. The CFGG and the City's Parks & Recreation Department have identified a site consisting of a 5.38? acre tract of land in downtown Greensboro, on North Davie Street, which includes the existing Festival Park and the former site of the YWCA building in downtown Greensboro for the park envisioned by Carolyn W. LeBauer. On April 1, 2014, the City adopted a Resolution in Support of the Carolyn and Maurice LeBauer City Park wherein the City agreed to accept the gift of a new park named the Carolyn and Maurice LeBauer City Park on the site described in the attached Lease Agreement. In order to facilitate...
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