to: Roger L. Stancil, Town Manager
from: Butch Kisiah, Parks and Recreation Director
Bill Webster, Assistant Parks and Recreation Director
subject: Proposed Extension of a Lease of a Building on Homestead Road to Sport Art Gymnastics, LLC
date: October 27, 2008
The attached resolution would authorize the Manager to execute a two-year lease extension agreement with Sport Art Gymnastics that would allow the existing gymnastics school to continue to operate in a Town-owned building until the end of 2010.
The Homestead Road building was constructed as a private gymnasium in 1974.
On June 25, 2001, the Council approved a Special Use Permit application for the Vineyard Square development that included a requirement that the developer deed a 14.91-acre recreation area to the Town. The recreation area includes the 6,000 square-foot building currently being used by Sport Art Gymnastics. Ownership of the land and building was transferred to the Town on December 23, 2002.
The Council has leased the building for the purpose of running a gymnastics school since the Town assumed ownership of the building in 2002.
North Carolina General Statute 160A-272 states that public property may be rented or leased by a municipality pursuant to a resolution of the Council authorizing the execution of the lease, adopted at a regular meeting, and upon 10 days public notice. We published such notice in the Chapel Hill News on October 12, 2008.
The proposed extension of the lease agreement would contain the following main points:
That the Council adopt the attached resolution authorizing the Manager to execute a lease extension with Sport Art Gymnastics for operation of a gymnastics school at 2200 Homestead Road from January 1, 2009 until December 31, 2010.