AN ORDINANCE relating to the Department of Parks and Recreation; authorizing the acquisition of real property commonly known as 7900 10th Avenue South; authorizing acceptance of a recording of the deed for open space, park, and recreation purposes; and ratifying and confirming certain prior acts.
The Report of the Civic Development to Public Assets and Native Communities Committee. Jan Item one Council. Bill one 1 to 582 related to the Department of Parks Recreation authorizing acquisition of real property property commonly known as 70/910 Avenue South. Authorizing acceptance of a recording of the deed for open space, park and recreation purposes. And ratifying confirming certain prior acts. The committee recommends the bill pass. That's was. Thank you. Today I think we have three items up and I'm really happy to say and thank Councilmember Gonzalez and Cashmere Bagshaw that the city actually can grow some property every now and then. And they the dual brush park requisition and I've been wanting to say this for a long time, what I've done speaking, I believe the good lady from District One, Councilmember Herbold, would like to say a few words. This ordinance authorizes the purchase of a parcel of land located within the Duwamish Waterway Park is currently owned by King County. The purchase price is about $1,000,000. The park will serve the South Park community. City staff performed due diligence, which included obtaining soil samples that revealed low level arsenic and soil below the grass and some discrete hotspots with higher concentrations in soil below the grass at the north end. The city will promptly perform a remedial action upon acquisition of the parcel to remove the contamination, even though the locations and concentrations currently do not present excuse me, do not present an immediate public hazard. King County was notified and they agreed to reduce the purchase price by $100,000 and sufficient funds. These are sufficient funds for the city to perform the remediation. This is compliant with the requirement to pay fair market value for the property. While the city remains responsible for any park remediation costs exceeding $100,000, the results of the due diligence investigation indicate that exceeding the cost estimate is very unlikely. In addition, city staff with the assistance of the law department, negotiated that King County retained all liability associated with contaminant releases from the property. They're being remediated through EPA's Lower Duwamish Waterway Superfund Sentiment Cleanup, The Civic Development, Public Asset and Native Communities Committee recommends full council pass this ordinance. Thank you, Councilmember. Whereas, Councilmember Herbold. Thank you so much. I want to thank. King County for its consideration of. Reducing the. Price of the the property in consideration for the needs around site. Remediation. I also want to thank the Seattle Parks Foundation because of their effort. In leading a fundraising campaign. For future improvements at the park. I want to take this opportunity to flag a couple of. Issues. That we learned about at a recent South Park. Community safety walk and. Talk with the executive. Departments. Those two items that have been flagged is a request from the Danish Rowing Club to add some sand. And or rocks to the beachfront. Area. So it's easier for them to take the rowing equipment in and out of the park. And the. Executive. Is looking at use working with the Army Corps of Engineers to get a permit to do so. And it looks like we're making. Some good, good progress there. The other item that was flagged in the the executive walking talk in South Park in July. Relates. Specifically to. Ongoing graffiti tagging in the park and looking. For the fact that in the past, using murals to dissuade. Graffiti tagging has been very. Effective. In in South Park. So we're. Looking at more opportunities to work with youth and. Create art. On the surfaces around the park in order to discourage future graffiti. Thank you. Thank you. Councilman Herbold, any other comments or questions? If not, please call the rule on the passage of the bill. Pacheco I so on i Bexar Gonzalez Herbold. I was Macheda O'Brien High Harrell. Hi nine in favor and unopposed. The bill passed and chair of the Senate. Please read agenda item number two.