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                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                         5950--A
            Cal. No. 1447
 
                               2015-2016 Regular Sessions
 
                    IN SENATE
 
                                      June 12, 2015
                                       ___________
 
        Introduced  by  Sen. RITCHIE -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules  --  recommitted  to
          the  Committee  on Investigations and Government Operations in accord-
          ance with Senate Rule 6, sec. 8 -- committee discharged and said  bill
          committed  to  the  Committee  on Rules -- ordered to a third reading,
          amended and ordered reprinted, retaining its place  in  the  order  of
          third reading
 
        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.
    17    § 2. The land authorized by this act to be conveyed  consists  of  two
    18  parcels  of  land at the St. Lawrence Psychiatric Center, in the city of
    19  Ogdensburg, St. Lawrence county, and is generally described as follows:
 
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD10157-15-6
        S. 5950--A                          2
 
     1    Parcel B: 50 acres for residential development bounded  by  the  Saint
     2  Lawrence  River to the northwest, on the south by River Drive, northeast
     3  of Bridgeview, to include all of the surplus  land  abutting  the  Saint
     4  Lawrence  River  between Bridgeview and Trinity buildings NOT to include
     5  building numbers 65, 66, 67, 225 or 226, but to include building numbers
     6  10, 13, 17, 31, 62, 63, 64, 88 and 89.
     7    Parcel  A-3:  6.4 acres for commercial development adjacent to Parcels
     8  A-1 and A-2 and south of property under the jurisdiction of the  depart-
     9  ment  of  corrections  and  community  supervision,  to include building
    10  numbers 48, 68 and 76.
    11    § 3. Any subsequent solicitation for residential  development  by  the
    12  city  of  Ogdensburg  on  Parcel B shall include a requirement that said
    13  development will provide at least fifteen  percent  of  proposed  rental
    14  dwelling  units  to  office  of  mental  health  recipients  in  need of
    15  supported housing, with service  provision  to  be  coordinated  by  the
    16  office  of  mental  health  and a voluntary provider and with said units
    17  subject to OMH Supported Housing Guidelines.   Certain matters  relating
    18  to  this  conveyance  shall  be  determined  pursuant to a memorandum of
    19  understanding between the city of Ogdensburg and the commissioner of the
    20  office of mental  health,  including  but  not  limited  to,  the  exact
    21  percentage  of  set aside units, the dispersal of these units throughout
    22  the proposed residential development so  as  to  avoid  any  clustering,
    23  payment  of  survey costs, and utility connection and road access to the
    24  parcels described in section two of this act. In addition to the  afore-
    25  mentioned,  the state may assist the city in marketing and promoting any
    26  of the parcels described in section two of this act to private  develop-
    27  ers.
    28    §  4.  The  description  in section two of this act of the lands to be
    29  conveyed is not intended to be a legal description, but it  is  intended
    30  only  to  identify  the  premises  to  be  conveyed.  As  a condition of
    31  purchase, the city of Ogdensburg shall submit to the commissioner of the
    32  office of general services for said commissioner's approval an  accurate
    33  survey  and  description of the lands generally described in section two
    34  of this act, which may be used in the conveyance thereof.
    35    § 5. The commissioner of the office  of  general  services  shall  not
    36  grant  the  land described in section two of this act unless application
    37  is made therefor by the city of Ogdensburg within  one  year  after  the
    38  effective date of this act.
    39    § 6. This act shall take effect immediately.