STATE OF NEW YORK
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6519--D
2015-2016 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
March 26, 2015
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Introduced by M. of A. RUSSELL -- read once and referred to the Commit-
tee on Governmental Operations -- committee discharged, bill amended,
ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee --
again reported from said committee with amendments, ordered reprinted
as amended and recommitted to said committee -- again reported from
said committee with amendments, ordered reprinted as amended and
recommitted to said committee -- recommitted to the Committee on
Governmental Operations in accordance with Assembly Rule 3, sec. 2 --
committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and
recommitted to said committee
AN ACT authorizing the commissioner of general services to convey real
property at the St. Lawrence psychiatric center to the city of Ogdens-
burg
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. The commissioner of the office of general services is
2 authorized and empowered to transfer and convey to the city of Ogdens-
3 burg the state property described in section two of this act, said prop-
4 erty being a portion of the St. Lawrence Psychiatric Center located in
5 the city of Ogdensburg, St. Lawrence county. Such transfer and convey-
6 ance shall be for fair market value and upon such other terms and condi-
7 tions as said commissioner may determine. Due to the proximity of the
8 land and improvements to be transferred and conveyed to existing mental
9 health and correctional facilities, said terms and conditions of any
10 transfer and conveyance, including the proposed use of said land and
11 improvements and the retention, or replacement in kind, of existing
12 staff housing serving the St. Lawrence Psychiatric Center and located on
13 the lands to be conveyed, shall be subject to the approval of the
14 commissioner of the office of mental health, the commissioner of the
15 department of corrections and community supervision, and the director of
16 the division of budget.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 § 2. The land authorized by this act to be conveyed consists of two
2 parcels of land at the St. Lawrence Psychiatric Center, in the city of
3 Ogdensburg, St. Lawrence county, and is generally described as follows:
4 Parcel B: 50 acres for residential development bounded by the Saint
5 Lawrence River to the northwest, on the south by River Drive, northeast
6 of Bridgeview, to include all of the surplus land abutting the Saint
7 Lawrence River between Bridgeview and Trinity buildings NOT to include
8 building numbers 65, 66, 67, 225 or 226, but to include building numbers
9 10, 13, 17, 31, 62, 63, 64, 88 and 89.
10 Parcel A-3: 6.4 acres for commercial development adjacent to Parcels
11 A-1 and A-2 and south of property under the jurisdiction of the depart-
12 ment of corrections and community supervision, to include building
13 numbers 48, 68 and 76.
14 § 3. Any subsequent solicitation for residential development by the
15 city of Ogdensburg on Parcel B shall include a requirement that said
16 development will provide at least fifteen percent of proposed rental
17 dwelling units to office of mental health recipients in need of
18 supported housing, with service provision to be coordinated by the
19 office of mental health and a voluntary provider and with said units
20 subject to OMH Supported Housing Guidelines. Certain matters relating
21 to this conveyance shall be determined pursuant to a memorandum of
22 understanding between the city of Ogdensburg and the commissioner of the
23 office of mental health, including but not limited to, the exact
24 percentage of set aside units, the dispersal of these units throughout
25 the proposed residential development so as to avoid any clustering,
26 payment of survey costs, and utility connection and road access to the
27 parcels described in section two of this act. In addition to the afore-
28 mentioned, the state may assist the city in marketing and promoting any
29 of the parcels described in section two of this act to private develop-
30 ers.
31 § 4. The description in section two of this act of the lands to be
32 conveyed is not intended to be a legal description, but it is intended
33 only to identify the premises to be conveyed. As a condition of
34 purchase, the city of Ogdensburg shall submit to the commissioner of the
35 office of general services for said commissioner's approval an accurate
36 survey and description of the lands generally described in section two
37 of this act, which may be used in the conveyance thereof.
38 § 5. The commissioner of the office of general services shall not
39 grant the land described in section two of this act unless application
40 is made therefor by the city of Ogdensburg within one year after the
41 effective date of this act.
42 § 6. This act shall take effect immediately.