| | | | | | | | BUSINESS OF THE CITY COUNCIL
YAKIMA, WASHINGTON
AGENDA STATEMENT |
| | | | | | | | Item No. 7.
For Meeting of: August 4, 2020 |
| | | | | | | | | ITEM TITLE: | Resolution authorizing termination of lease agreement with Sunrise Outreach Center of Yakima, a religious organization, to lease property adjacent to the wastewater treatment plant for a temporary homeless encampment and to enter into a lease agreement with Grace City Outreach, a religious organization, to lease property adjacent to the wastewater treatment plant for a temporary homeless encampment | | SUBMITTED BY: | Sara Watkins, Senior Assistant City Attorney |
| SUMMARY EXPLANATION: | | The City has a current lease agreement with Sunrise Outreach Center of Yakima to lease property adjacent to the wastewater treatment plant to be used as a temporary homeless encampment. Sunrise Outreach no longer wishes to run the encampment, but the people who worked for Sunrise Outreach in operating the encampment have formed a new religious organization non-profit (501(c)(3)) corporation that can operate the encampment. Sunrise Outreach seeks to terminate the current lease agreement and Grace City seeks to enter into a new lease agreement, for the same land and under the same general conditions, with Grace City as the lessee. |
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| | | | | | | | | ITEM BUDGETED: | NA | | STRATEGIC PRIORITY: | Neighborhood and Community Building |
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| | | | | | | | APPROVED FOR SUBMITTAL BY THE CITY MANAGER
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| | | | | | | | | RECOMMENDATION: | | Adopt resolution. |
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