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HomeMy Public PortalAbout02198 O R D I N A N C E NO. 2198 AN ORDINANCE authorizing and directing the Executive Director to lease certain real property of The Metropolitan St. Louis Sewer District, lying in St. Louis County, Missouri, to the Great Lakes Carbon Corporation and to execute a leasehold agreement upon the conditions hereinafter set out. WHEREAS, The Metropolitan St. Louis Sewer District, hereinafter called Lessor, has acquired certain improved real property in St. Louis County incident to its public functions and responsibilities, said property being for anticipated future expansion of existing facilities and located in the County of St. Louis, State of Missouri, on the water front of the Mississippi River in said County, and WHEREAS, Great Lakes Carbon Corporation, a Delaware corporation with its principal office in the City of New York, State of New York, hereinafter called Lessee, is desirous of leasing from Lessor a portion of said improved real property on terms and conditions as hereafter generally set forth, and Lessor is willing so to lease and believes the terms to be advantageous and in the public interest so to do. NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE METROPOLITAN ST. LOUIS SEWER DISTRICT: Section One. The Metropolitan St. Louis Sewer District does hereby lease to the Great Lakes Carbon Corporation, upon the general terms and conditions hereinafter set forth, the following described real property: "A tract of land in U.S. Survey 904, Township 44 North, Range 7 East, and accretions hereto in St. Louis County, Missouri, being more particularly described as follows: Beginning at a point in the North line of the Jefferson Barracks Reservation at an intersection with the Eastern line of the right-of-way of the Missouri Pacific Railroad Company, 80 feet wide; thence in a northerly direction along said Railroad right-of- way, which is parallel and 40 feet distant from the centerline of the right-of-way which centerline is more particularly described as follows: On a 1 degree curve to the right 795.55 feet total angle of 7 degrees 57 minutes to a point of curve; thence along said right-of-way which is parallel and 40 feet distant from the centerline of said right-of-way which centerline is more particularly described as follows: On a tangent 423.17 feet to a point of tangent of a 2 degree curve; thence along said right-of-way to a stone, said right-of-way which is parallel and 40 feet distant from centerline of right-of-way which centerline is more particularly described as follows: On a 2 degree curve to the left 188.88 feet total angle of 3 degrees 47 minutes; said stone being on a prolongation Westwardly of the South line of Lot No. 1 of John C. Ivory's Subdivision of South Carondelet Suburbs; thence along the South line of Lot No. 1 East 111.33 feet to a point; thence leaving said lot line and running South 67 degrees 49 minutes East 835 feet to a point in the meandering line of the Mississippi River from which point the standard low water mark of the Mississippi River is distant 50 feet Eastwardly; thence along the meandering line beginning at the point above referred to, South 23 degrees 35 minutes West 121 feet at which point the standard low water mark is 52 feet Eastwardly, South 27 degrees 44 minutes West at 300 feet to a point from which the standard low water mark of the Mississippi River is distant Eastwardly 67 feet, at 578.69 feet to a point from which the standard low water mark is distant 100 feet East, South 14 degrees 22 minutes West 488.80 feet to a point in the Northern line of the Jefferson Barracks Reservation from which point the standard low water of the Mississippi River is distant Eastward 138 feet; thence along the North line of said Jefferson Barracks Reservation North 89 degrees 01 minutes West 485.18 feet to a stone; thence North 89 degrees 01 minutes West 51.46 feet to the point of beginning, containing 23.77 acres, more or less." and WHEREAS, SCHOOL SISTERS OF NOTRE DAME, (Lessor's predecessor in title to said described property), under date of February 24, 1953 leased the riverfront rights of said tract of land and accretions thereto to Lessee to maintain and to moor barges owned and operated by Lessee to certain wood pile clusters and concrete deadmen along the river front of said described property, and WHEREAS, Lessor has demised and leased, and does hereby demise and lease to Lessee the riverfront rights of said above- described property, and accretions thereto, (hereinafter called "the leased premises"), to be occupied and used for the period 4 hereinafter specified for the mooring of barges in the river adjacent to said above described property and the maintenance therein and thereover of the necessary wood pile cluster and concrete deadmen. This lease pertains only to river front with no use of the described property by Lessee. Section Two. The lease term shall commence on May 1, 1971, and continue for five (5) years to May 1, 1976, at the rental of Five Thousand Dollars ($5,000.00) per year, paid in quarterly installments of Twelve Hundred Fifty Dollars ($1,250.00) each on the first day of May, 1971; on the first day of August, November and February, thereafter. Section Three. Should Lessor, at any time during the term of the lease or any extension thereof, receive an offer to purchase subject real property and desire to accept such offer, then Lessee shall be given the first option to purchase such premises upon the same terms, said Lessee being given reasonable notice of such offer and adequate time to exercise such option. Section Four. The Executive Director is hereby authorized and directed to execute in behalf of the District a Lease giving effect to Sections One, Two, Three and Four hereof and embodying such general terms and conditions. The foregoing Ordinance was adopted August 11, 1971.