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Home My WebLink About14981 1 RESOLUTION NO. 14,981 2 3 A RESOLUTION TO DONATE THE TITLE TO PROPERTIES 4 LOCATED AT 2016 SOUTH PULASKI STREET, 2020 SOUTH PULASKI 5 STREET AND 2022 SOUTH PULASKI STREET TO HOUSEABOUTIT 6 COMMUNITY & ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AGENCY FROM THE 7 CITY OF LITTLE ROCK, ARKANSAS, BY QUITCLAIM DEED, TO BE 8 USED FOR NEIGHBORHOOD REVITALIZATION PROGRAMS; AND 9 FOR OTHER PURPOSES. 10 11 WHEREAS, the Board of Directors has stated as one of its goals a desire to provide for 12 neighborhood revitalization, and has taken special efforts to accomplish this goal through its use of 13 various City and Federal Funds, and in affirmative actions such as the creation of a Land Bank 14 Commission;and, 15 WHEREAS, in order to accomplish this goal is it required that properties be obtained by the City in 16 areas that are appropriate for revitalization;and, 17 WHEREAS,Houseaboutit Community& Economic Development Agency has indicated their desire 18 to accept donations from the City of Little Rock for the properties located at 2016 South Pulaski Street, 19 2020 South Pulaski Street and 2022 South Pulaski Street and, 20 WHEREAS,the City wishes to accept the property for use in its neighborhood revitalization efforts; 21 and, 22 WHEREAS, City Staff has acquired the property through the Arkansas State Land Commissioner 23 and no significant title issues;and, 24 WHEREAS, the City has performed an environmental assessment of the property pursuant to 24 25 C.F.R. § 58,et seq. (2003),which revealed no environmental problems; and, 26 WHEREAS,in consideration for the donation of the property for the public purpose of neighborhood 27 revitalization,the City has not agreed to pay Property Taxes;and, 28 WHEREAS,the City of Little Rock will provide with a Quitclaim Deed to the properties, a copy of 29 which is attached as Exhibit A; and, 30 WHEREAS,Arkansas State Law requires that the City donate the property by resolution adopted by 31 the Board of Directors; 32 NOW,THEREFORE,BE IT RESOLVED BY THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF THE CITY 33 OF LITTLE ROCK,ARKANSAS: [Page 1 of 5] 1 Section 1. The Board of Directors hereby will donate properties by quitclaim deed to the properties 2 described in Exhibit A, in favor of Houseaboutit Community&Economic Development Agency. 3 Section 2. The property shall be used for a public purpose, specifically for City revitalization 4 programs. 5 Section 3. Severability. In the event any title, section, paragraph, item, sentence, clause, phrase, or 6 word of this resolution is declared or adjudged to be invalid or unconstitutional, such declaration or 7 adjudication shall not affect the remaining portions of the resolution which shall remain in full force and 8 effect a if the portion so declared or adjudged invalid or unconstitutional were not originally a part of the 9 ordinance. 10 Section 4.Repealer. All laws, ordinances, resolutions, or parts of the same that are inconsistent with 11 the provisions of this resolution are hereby repealed to the extent of such inconsistency. 12 ADOPTED: May 7,2019 13 • `i: APPROVED: 14 � 41 4...)401.% 15 «turi, ltU+ 16 Su•.n City Clerk Frank Scott Jr., 17 AP'`'O =S TO LEGAL FORM: 18 19 i 20 Thomas M.Carpenter,City Attorne 21 // 22 // 23 // 24 // 25 // 26 // 27 // 28 // 29 // 30 // 31 // 32 // 33 // 34 // 35 // [Page 2 of 5] 1 EDIT A 2 3 4 Prepared By: 5 City of Little Rock 6 500 West Markham Street 7 Little Rock,AR 72201 8 9 Representative: 10 Kevin Howard,Interim Redevelopment Administrator 11 12 13 WARRANTY DEED 14 (Donation by Government Agency) 15 16 KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS THAT: 17 City of Little Rock, GRANTOR, for and in consideration of the sum of Ten Dollars ($10.00) and 18 otherood valuable gconsideration paid by the Houseaboutit Community & Economic Development 19 Agency, ARKANSAS, a non-profit organization, GRANTEE, the receipt of which is hereby 20 acknowledged, does hereby grant, convey and warranty unto the Grantee, and unto its heirs and assigns 21 forever,the following described lands in the County of Pulaski, State of Arkansas: 22 2016 South Pulaski Street,Little Rock,AR 72202 23 2020 South Pulaski Street,Little Rock,AR 72202 24 2022 South Pulaski Street,Little Rock,AR 72202 25 To have and to hold the same unto the Grantee and unto its heirs,and assigns forever,with all 26 tenements,appurtenances,and hereditaments thereunto belonging. 27 City of Little Rock,hereby releases and relinquishes unto the Grantee, and unto its heirs and assigns 28 forever,all rights and possibility of curtsey,dower, and homestead in and to such lands. 29 WITNESS,my hand and seal the day of 2019. 30 31 City of Little Rock,GRANTOR 32 500 West Markham Street 33 Little Rock,AR 72201 34 35 36 By: Frank D.Scott Jr.,Mayor 37 [Page 3 of 5] 1 ACKNOWLEDGEMENT 2 3 STATE OF ARKANSAS) 4 )SS 5 COUNTY OF PULASKI) 6 7 On this day came before me, the undersigned, a notary public within and for the county and state 8 aforesaid, duly commissioned and acting personally appeared, Frank D. Scott, Jr., known to me as the 9 Grantor in the foregoing Deed, and acknowledged that he has executed the same for the consideration and 10 purposes therein mentioned and set forth. 11 WITNESS my hand and seal as such notary public this day of ,2019 12 13 14 Notary Public 15 16 My Commission expires: 17 18 19 Houseaboutit Community&Economic Development 20 Agency,GRANTEE 21 3805 West 12th Street 22 Little Rock,AR 72204 23 24 25 By: Susan Forte,President&Executive Director 26 27 ACKNOWLEDGEMENT 28 29 STATE OF ARKANSAS) 30 )SS 31 COUNTY OF PULASKI) 32 33 On this day came before me, the undersigned, a notary public within and for the county and state 34 aforesaid, duly commissioned and acting personally appeared, Susan Forte, known to me as the Grantee 35 in the foregoing Deed, and acknowledged that he has executed the same for the consideration and 36 purposes therein mentioned and set forth. 37 [Page 4 of 5] 1 WITNESS my hand and seal as such notary public this day of ,2019 2 3 4 Notary Public 5 6 My Commission expires: 7 8 DOCUMENTARY TAX STATEMENT 9 10 I certify under penalty of false swearing that the legally correct amount of documentary stamps have 11 been placed on this instrument. (If none shown,exempt or no consideration paid.) 12 13 City of Little Rock 14 500 West Markham Street 15 Little Rock,Arkansas 72201 16 17 18 By: Kevin Howard 19 Acting Redevelopment Administrator 20 21 22 ACKNOWLEDGEMENT 23 24 STATE OF ARKANSAS) 25 )SS 26 COUNTY OF PULASKI) 27 28 On this day came before me, the undersigned, a notary public within and for the county and state 29 aforesaid, duly commissioned and acting personally appeared, Kevin Howard, duly authorized to act on 30 behalf of City of Little Rock. 31 WITNESS my hand and seal as such notary public this day of ,2019 32 33 34 Notary Public 35 36 My Commission expires: [Page 5 of 5]