Bill Text: NY A07429 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Authorizes the commissioner of general services to transfer and convey certain unappropriated state land to the Cedarmore Corporation for community programs.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-06-15 - held for consideration in ways and means [A07429 Detail]

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         7429
                              2015-2016 Regular Sessions
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                     May 12, 2015
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       Introduced by M. of A. HOOPER -- read once and referred to the Committee
         on Governmental Operations
       AN ACT to authorize the commissioner of general services to transfer and
         convey  certain unappropriated state land to the Cedarmore Corporation
         for community programs
         THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section  1.  Subject to the provisions of this act but notwithstanding
    2  any other provision of law to the contrary, the commissioner of  general
    3  services  is  hereby  authorized to transfer and convey to the Cedarmore
    4  corporation, in consideration of one dollar and upon such other  consid-
    5  eration  as  the commissioner may deem proper, the state land located at
    6  63 Babylon Turnpike, Freeport, in the county of  Nassau,  known  as  the
    7  Freeport  Armory, declared to be abandoned state land by the division of
    8  military and naval affairs.
    9    S 2. The lands authorized by section one of this act to be transferred
   10  and conveyed are as follows:
   11    ALL that piece or parcel of land, situate,  lying  and  being  in  the
   12  Village  of  Freeport,  in the County of Nassau, State of New York, more
   13  particularly bounded and described as follows:
   14    BEGINNING at a point where the easterly line  of  Lakeview  Avenue  is
   15  intersected  by  the  southerly  line  of Hempstead-Babylon Turnpike and
   16  running from said Point of  Beginning  thence  southeasterly  along  the
   17  southerly line of Hempstead-Babylon Turnpike about six hundred forty-six
   18  (646)  linear  feet  to  the  land  of the City of New York and the Long
   19  Island State Park Commission; thence running southwesterly and along the
   20  lands of the City of New York and  along  the  Long  Island  State  Park
   21  Commission  two  hundred (200) linear feet; thence running northwesterly
   22  and parallel with the southerly line of Hempstead-Babylon Turnpike about
   23  four hundred thirty (430) linear feet to a point which would be ten (10)
   24  feet easterly from the center line of the 18 inch  diameter  water  main
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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    1  tank  header  pipe;  thence running northwesterly about fifty-eight (58)
    2  linear feet and parallel with the 18 inch diameter water main tank head-
    3  er pipe, to a point which would be about one hundred  sixty-eight  (168)
    4  linear feet southerly from the southerly line of Hempstead-Babylon Turn-
    5  pike, when measured at right angles thereto; thence running southwester-
    6  ly  and ten (10) feet parallel with and northerly from the 12 inch diam-
    7  eter water main tank header pipe, when measured at right angles thereto,
    8  about one hundred seven (107) linear feet to a  point  in  the  easterly
    9  line of Lakeview Avenue; thence running northerly and along the easterly
   10  line  of Lakeview Avenue about two hundred fifty-eight (258) linear feet
   11  to a point in the southerly  line  of  Hempstead-Babylon  Turnpike,  the
   12  point  or  place of beginning, containing within said bounds about three
   13  (3) acres.
   14    BEING the same lands described in a deed from the Village of  Freeport
   15  to the People of the State of New York, dated June 13, 1949 and recorded
   16  in  the  Nassau  County  Clerk's Office on June 20, 1949 in Book 3857 of
   17  Deeds at page 384.
   18    S 3. The description in section two of this act  of  the  land  to  be
   19  conveyed  is  not  intended to be a legal description but is intended to
   20  identify the parcel to be conveyed. As a condition of the purchase,  the
   21  Cedarmore   corporation  may  submit  to  the  commissioner  of  general
   22  services, for his or her approval, an accurate survey and description of
   23  the lands to be conveyed, which may be used in the conveyance thereof.
   24    S 4. The office of general services shall not transfer or  convey  the
   25  aforesaid  land unless application in a form acceptable to the office of
   26  general services is made to the office of general services by the Cedar-
   27  more corporation which application must be made within  one  year  after
   28  the  effective  date of this act. As part of that application the Cedar-
   29  more corporation must submit to the office of general services a  report
   30  containing  a  master plan setting forth a proposed use and occupancy of
   31  such land pursuant to an advertised public hearing  that  conforms  with
   32  the  public  purpose  set  forth  in section five of this act, including
   33  letters of commitment from not less than six community organizations not
   34  affiliated with the Cedarmore corporation or  its  parents  and  subsid-
   35  iaries. The Cedarmore corporation is situated to help develop, maintain,
   36  and  operate the facility as a refuge focusing on educational endeavors,
   37  excluding public/private institutes of education  as  described  by  the
   38  state education department, state university of New York, city universi-
   39  ty  of  New York, et al. but have specialized programs for at-risk youth
   40  and will house the following organizations, free of  charge,  for  their
   41  youth  programs: the Long Island Youth Foundation, Inc. "Imani Dancers",
   42  the Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc.
   43    The Nassau County American Legion shall have free of  charge,  private
   44  office space large enough to accommodate a large number of people and to
   45  store  a vast amount of equipment, and the use of the main floor twice a
   46  year for a stand-down for homeless veterans by such Legion.
   47    The Quonset Hut will be used by the Freeport police department and the
   48  Freeport Armory will also be accessible to EOC of Freeport/Roosevelt and
   49  Freeport NAACP.
   50    Such report shall also contain a health and safety assessment, includ-
   51  ing but not limited to, possible asbestos contamination  and  abatement,
   52  air  and  soil and groundwater quality, clean drinking water and healthy
   53  creeks, the structural integrity of the buildings performed by a  certi-
   54  fied structural engineer, and any health and safety improvements includ-
   55  ing  such  environmental  remediation  as  may be necessary. Such report
   56  shall also contain an independent audit of the financial  operations  of
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    1  the  Cedarmore  corporation  for the past three years, and the record of
    2  three public hearings documenting  community  response  for  educational
    3  purposes.
    4    S  5.  The  land described in section two of this act shall be used by
    5  the Cedarmore corporation exclusively for voluntary youth  associations,
    6  educational  and  recreational  programs to assist at-risk youth, public
    7  safety purposes.
    8    Upon termination of such use title to the lands so  transferred  along
    9  with  any  improvements  made  thereto  shall revert to the state of New
   10  York.
   11    S 6. This act shall take effect immediately.