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File #: FP-R-25-03-3148   
Type: FP Resolution Status: Passed
File created: 2/27/2025 In control: Forest Preserve District Commission
On agenda: 3/11/2025 Final action: 3/11/2025
Title: Resolution Authorizing a Purchase of Parcels Totaling Approximately 84 +/- Acres in Rutland Township
Attachments: 1. Reid Map 2025.jpg, 2. Reid-UpdatedMap2-28-25.jpg

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Resolution Authorizing a Purchase of Parcels Totaling Approximately 84 +/- Acres in Rutland Township

 

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WHEREAS, the Forest Preserve District of Kane County, Kane County, Illinois, is
organized and existing under “An Act of the General Assembly of the State of Illinois entitled “An Act to Provide for the Creation and Management of Forest Preserve Districts” approved June 27, 1913, as amended; and

 

WHEREAS, it has been deemed advisable, necessary and in the best interests of said Forest Preserve District that the Board of Commissioners of Forest Preserve District acquire additional lands for forest preserve purposes, which said lands, together with all lands heretofore acquired, will not exceed 55,000 acres; and

                     

NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED AS FOLLOWS:

 

1.                     That it has been determined that a forest preserve should be laid out, established, constructed and maintained on certain real property hereinafter described, said real property being located within the corporate boundaries of the Forest Preserve District of Kane County, Kane County, Illinois, and that said forest preserve be used, occupied, improved and developed for forest preserve purposes in a manner necessary and convenient for public use.

 

2.                     District of Kane County, Kane County, Illinois, shall acquire title to or any interest in and possession of the real property which is described on Exhibit A attached hereto, and which real property meets the criteria established by the Forest Preserve District for property to be acquired by it.

 

3.                     That the Forest Preserve District of Kane County, Illinois, agrees to purchase approximately 84+/- acres for approximately $3,500,280.00 ($41,670 per surveyed acre) pursuant to the terms of the Purchase Contract tendered to the District by Seller.

 

4.                     The Board of Commissioners of the Forest Preserve District of Kane County hereby authorizes the President of the District and the District's attorney, with the consent of the Forest Preserve Commission of the District, to execute any and all documents necessary to acquire title to or any interest in and possession of property for said Forest Preserve District of Kane County, Kane County, Illinois in accordance with the Purchase Contract approved hereby.

 

 

 

 

 

NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the Board of Commissioners of the Forest Preserve District of Kane County, Kane County, Illinois that the District be, and hereby is, authorized to purchase the real estate described in Exhibit A, under such terms and conditions as included in the Purchase Contract.

 

APPROVED AND PASSED on this 11th day of March 2025.

 

___________________________                           ____________________________

Bill Lenert                                                                     Mohammad Iqbal

President, Kane Forest Preserve                              Secretary, Kane Forest Preserve

Kane County, Illinois                                                   Kane County, Illinois