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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         8821--A
 
                   IN ASSEMBLY
 
                                    February 19, 2014
                                       ___________
 
        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.
                                                                   LBD14079-03-4
        A. 8821--A                          2
 
     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.