Agenda Information Sheet
DATE: October 18, 2016
DEPARTMENT: Parks and Recreation
CM/ACM: John Cabrales, Jr.
SUBJECT
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Consider adoption of an ordinance of the City of Denton authorizing the City Manager, or his designee, to execute on behalf of the City of Denton a lease of office space located in the North Lakes Annex Building, 1117 Riney Road between the City of Denton and Denton Explorium; and providing for an effective date.
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BACKGROUND
The North Lakes Annex is a Parks and Recreation Department facility located at 1117 Riney Road, and is also the future site of the 2014 CIP-approved Tennis Center Complex. The North Lakes Preschool is presently housed there, as was Keep Denton Beautiful prior to its recent relocation to The Railyard. Pending City Council's approval, the Parks and Recreation Department would like to offer Explorium Denton a low-cost-lease to allow them to occupy the vacated office space in the West Meeting Room.
Parks staff raised the prospect of the Parks Department leasing vacant office space in the North Lakes Annex to Denton Explorium with Parks, Recreation and Beautification Board at their monthly meeting on September 12, 2016. Board Members expressed their support of the Denton Explorium mission, endorsed their use of the space, and favored the arrangement. Proposed terms of the agreement were conveyed to members of City Council via Informal Staff Report 2016-048, dated June 25, 2016, and supplemental Informal Staff Report 2016-087, dated October 7, 2016.
The Parks and Recreation Department has partnered with the Legal Department to develop a one-year lease agreement with an annual option to renew. Explorium Denton will commit to pay the sum of $5 per year to the City of Denton Parks and Recreation Department to secure the use of the West Meeting Room located in the North Lakes Annex for office space; an agreement which will lapse and/or not be renewed upon the start of CIP-funded construction of the Tennis Center C...
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