Authorizes the commissioner of general services to transfer and convey certain unappropriated state land to the Cedarmore Corporation for community programs.
NEW YORK STATE ASSEMBLY MEMORANDUM IN SUPPORT OF LEGISLATION submitted in accordance with Assembly Rule III, Sec 1(f)
BILL NUMBER: A8821A
SPONSOR: Hooper TITLE OF BILL: An act to authorize the commissioner of general
services to transfer and convey certain unappropriated state land to the
Cedarmore Corporation for community programs
PURPOSE: To direct the commissioner of the Office of General Services
to transfer and convey land formerly used as the Freeport Armory to the
Cedarmore Corporation
SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS: Section 1 authorizes the Commissioner of Gener-
al Services to transfer and convey to the Cedarmore Corporation in the
consideration of one dollar and other terms the Commissioner decides the
Freeport Armory,
Section 2 gives the meets and boundary of the armory property to be
conveyed.
Section 3 requires the Cedarmore Corporation to submit to the Office of
General Services a survey of the parcel to be conveyed.
Section 4 describes the conditions which the Cedarmore Corporation
application is made to the Office of General Services, including adver-
tised public hearings, a master plan that meets the public purposes set
for in this legislation, reports on the air, soil, and ground water
quality, among others. Also, names the organizations that will be housed
for their youth programs.
Section 5 sets forth the authorized public purposes which the Cedarmore
Corporation may use the parcel for, including: voluntary youth associ-
ations, educations and recreational programs to assist at-risk youth,
and public safety. Upon the termination of said use, the land and any
improvements shall revert to the State.
JUSTIFICATION: There is a severe lack of focused learning facilities
that are community-oriented and serve the entire populace of the Free-
port-Roosevelt areas. There is also no educational program that is
focused on the unique needs of the many at-risk youth in those two
communities. There is also no facility that is open to and serves as an
affordable business space for the activities and operations of the many
nonprofit groups that serve our youth in those communities. In addition,
there is a large nature preserve with two interconnecting lakes and
unexplored trails that is an untapped civic and academic treasure trove.
The Freeport Armory can serve as a vehicle to fill all of those voids.
The dollar conveyance contemplated in this act provides the opportunity
to develop the property for the public good. The Cedarmore Corporation
is situated to help develop, maintain, and operate the facility as a
refuge focusing on educational endeavors that have specialized programs
for at-risk youth and will house the following organizations for their
youth programs: the Long Island Youth Foundation, Inc. "Imani Dancers",
the Delta Sigma Theta sorority, Inc.
The Quonset Hut will be used by the Freeport Police Department and the
Freeport Armory would also be accessible to EOC of Freeport/Roosevelt.
LEGISLATIVE: A8821
FISCAL IMPLICATIONS: None to the State
EFFECTIVE DATE: This act shall take effect immediately
STATE OF NEW YORK
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8821--A
IN ASSEMBLY
February 19, 2014
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Introduced by M. of A. HOOPER -- read once and referred to the Committee
on Governmental Operations -- committee discharged, bill amended,
ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee
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 § 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
25 tank header pipe; thence running northwesterly about fifty-eight (58)
26 linear feet and parallel with the 18 inch diameter water main tank head-
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 er pipe, to a point which would be about one hundred sixty-eight (168)
2 linear feet southerly from the southerly line of Hempstead-Babylon Turn-
3 pike, when measured at right angles thereto; thence running southwester-
4 ly and ten (10) feet parallel with and northerly from the 12 inch diam-
5 eter water main tank header pipe, when measured at right angles thereto,
6 about one hundred seven (107) linear feet to a point in the easterly
7 line of Lakeview Avenue; thence running northerly and along the easterly
8 line of Lakeview Avenue about two hundred fifty-eight (258) linear feet
9 to a point in the southerly line of Hempstead-Babylon Turnpike, the
10 point or place of beginning, containing within said bounds about three
11 (3) acres.
12 BEING the same lands described in a deed from the Village of Freeport
13 to the People of the State of New York, dated June 13, 1949 and recorded
14 in the Nassau County Clerk's Office on June 20, 1949 in Book 3857 of
15 Deeds at page 384.
16 § 3. The description in section two of this act of the land to be
17 conveyed is not intended to be a legal description but is intended to
18 identify the parcel to be conveyed. As a condition of the purchase, the
19 Cedarmore corporation may submit to the commissioner of general
20 services, for his or her approval, an accurate survey and description of
21 the lands to be conveyed, which may be used in the conveyance thereof.
22 § 4. The office of general services shall not transfer or convey the
23 aforesaid land unless application in a form acceptable to the office of
24 general services is made to the office of general services by the Cedar-
25 more corporation which application must be made within one year after
26 the effective date of this act. As part of that application the Cedar-
27 more corporation must submit to the office of general services a report
28 containing a master plan setting forth a proposed use and occupancy of
29 such land pursuant to an advertised public hearing that conforms with
30 the public purpose set forth in section five of this act, including
31 letters of commitment from not less than six community organizations not
32 affiliated with the Cedarmore corporation or its parents and subsid-
33 iaries. The Cedarmore corporation is situated to help develop, maintain,
34 and operate the facility as a refuge focusing on educational endeavors
35 that have specialized programs for at-risk youth and will house the
36 following organizations for their youth programs: the Long Island Youth
37 Foundation, Inc. "Imani Dancers", the Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc..
38 The Quonset Hut will be used by the Freeport police department and the
39 Freeport Armory would also be accessible to EOC of Freeport/Roosevelt.
40 Such report shall also contain a health and safety assessment, including
41 but not limited to, possible asbestos contamination and abatement, air
42 and soil and groundwater quality, the structural integrity of the build-
43 ings performed by a certified structural engineer, and any health and
44 safety improvements including such environmental remediation as may be
45 necessary. Such report shall also contain an independent audit of the
46 financial operations of the Cedarmore corporation for the past three
47 years, and the record of three public hearings documenting community
48 response for educational purposes.
49 § 5. The land described in section two of this act shall be used by
50 the Cedarmore corporation exclusively for voluntary youth associations,
51 educational and recreational programs to assist at-risk youth, and
52 public safety purposes and upon termination of such use title to the
53 lands so transferred along with any improvements made thereto shall
54 revert to the state of New York.
55 § 6. This act shall take effect immediately.
