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Resolution 24-31

The City of Monticello, Iowa

RESOLUTION #2024-31

APPROVING A REAP GRANT AWARD AND AUTHORIZING THE

 MAYOR TO EXECUTE THE REAP GRANT AGREEMENT

WHEREAS,                the City of Monticello, Iowa is an incorporated city within Jones County, Iowa; and

WHEREAS,                the City of Monticello, Iowa, proposes to purchase land for a future trail on the west 42.55 feet of Parcel 2023-79, located along the east side of Highway 151; and

WHEREAS,                the City of Monticello, Iowa believes this trail will have significant environmental, social and fiscal benefits; and

WHEREAS,                the first phase of the trail will consist only of seeding the land with prairie seed and maintaining a mowed path through the land; and

WHEREAS,                the City authorized application for the grant for purchase of future trail land by Resolution 2023-11, with said application being approved for funding by the Iowa Department of Natural Resources.

NOW THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the City Council of Monticello, Iowa does hereby do the following:

  1. Accept the grant award in the amount of $75,000 for the acquisition of the west 42.55 feet of Parcel 2023-79, and
  2. Authorize the Mayor to execute, and the City Clerk to attest, the grant agreement, attached hereto as Exhibit A.

IN THE TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto subscribed my name and caused the Great Seal for the City of Monticello, Iowa to be affixed.  Done this  5th day of February, 2024.

Mayor Wayne Peach

Attest:

Sally Hinrichsen, City Clerk/Treasurer