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REQUEST FOR CITY COUNCIL AGENDA ITEM Stephen L. Ba Appropriation Requested By: Source of Funds: Park Zone Funds & Council Discretionary Funds Department: Parks & Recreation Acc't Number: Report: _Resolution: _Ordinance: ......K- Amount Budgeted: Exhibits: Agreement Amount Requested: $32,854 Exhibits: Attestation by SLHOA Bud eted Item: YES X N SUMMARY & RECOMMENDATION As the City Council may recall, staff has been working with the Spencer Landing Homeowner's Association to utilize funds from the Park Zone 5 to provide a play area for the subdivision. Earlier in the year, playground and park service equipment was purchased for this site in the amount of $18,996. The agreement before you provides for the City of La Porte to purchase and install the equipment on the detention area owned by the Spencer Landing Homeowner's Association. Councilmember Moser and Mayor Porter have been working with the Spencer Landing Homeowner's Association to develop an agreement that is workable and protects both parties' interests. In addition to the available Park Zone funds of $19,854, the Mayor is recommending that and additional $13,000 be earmarked from Council Discretionary Funds, to fund the purchase of additional equipment. The Spencer Landing Homeowner's Association will contribute an additional $7,500 for equipment for a total expenditure of earthmoving and equipment of$59,350 for the site, including the equipment already purchased. The agreement calls for the City to maintain the equipment only, for a period of twenty years, at which time the equipment would revert to the Spencer Landing Homeowner's Association. The Association will maintain the grounds of the detention basin. Since the last time Council reviewed the agreement, the following items have been changed or added: . The detention site will be available for use by the public, including citizens of La Porte that do not live in the Spencer Landing subdivision. . The boardwalk has been lengthened to 80' and will be engineered and installed by others, but maintained by the Spencer Landing Homeowner's Association. . Lighting and irrigation systems will be installed by others, but maintained by the Spencer Landing Homeowner's Association. . Additional play equipment has been identified that may be added in the future as matching funding by both parties becomes available. City Council is asked to consider approval of the agreement and funding as described here and in the agreement. Action Required by Council: Consider an Ordinance authorizing and approving an Agreement between the City of La Porte and the Spencer Landing Homeowner's Association, Inc. regarding installation and maintenance of playground and park service equipment for use by the public in a detention basin facility owned by the Association, and approving additional funding as described. II;/'/ hi I D~te