HOUSE DOCKET, NO. 5152        FILED ON: 7/28/2010

HOUSE  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  No. 4949

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts

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In the Year Two Thousand Ten

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An Act authorizing the city of Gardner to convey certain land under the control of the Gardner Conservation Commission.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:
 

SECTION 1.  The City of Gardner, acting through its mayor and city council, may convey a certain parcel of land under the control and administration of the Gardner Conservation Commission to the Greater Gardner Industrial Foundation.  Said parcel is described as 3.497 Acres on State Highway, Route #2, and more particularly described in a PLAN OF LAND TO BE CONVEYED BY THE CITY OF GARDNER (Owner: Book 28116, Page 331), Gardner, MA, dated July 20, 2009, prepared by Szoc Surveyors.  Said parcel further described in a Deed dated November 18, 2002 to the Inhabitants of the City of Gardner in Book 28116, page 331. 

SECTION 2.  In consideration for the conveyance authorized in section 1, the city of Gardner shall convey to the Gardner conservation commission a certain parcel of land acquired by the city from Wedgewood Heights Realty Trust by a deed excecuted on May 6, 2010, containing approximately 7.11 acres of land off Clark street and identified on Gardner assessors’ map LL-31, block 57E, lot 15A, which was conveyed to the city for conservation purposes.  The city of Gardner has accepted the conveyance of that property by vote of the city concil on June 7, 2010, and the approval by the mayor on June 8, 2010. 

SECTION 3. The conveyance of said parcel of land shall be subject to the following terms and conditions:

1.  The Greater Gardner Industrial Foundation shall assume all costs related  to the conveyance, including but not limited to appraisals, surveys, legal and filing fees.

2.  Consideration paid for said parcel shall be $7,000.

3.  The consideration paid for said parcel shall be used by the Gardner Conservation Commission to support the Commission’s efforts to preserve additional open space within the City’s Water Supply Protection Districts.

SECTION 4.  This act shall take effect upon its passage.