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January 13, 1995 TO: Mayor and City Council FROM: J. R. Medlin, Public Works Maintenance SUBJECT: TRANSFER OWNERSHIP TO CHILD CARE INCORPORATED, THOMASON LANE LOTS 700 & 800 OF MAP NO: 17- 04 -25 -13 This memo was prepared at the request of the Council Officer's to give Council a short briefing on the relocation proposal from Child Care Incorporated (CCI). The policy question for Council is whether or not 0.6 acres of city owned land should be deeded at no cost to CCI to facilitate moving their operation out of Skinner's Park. The Council Officer's have scheduled this item for the January 23, 1995 consent calendar. A full copy of CCI's proposal and associated background material will be included in the January 23rd Council Packet. CCI is a community, non - profit 501(C)(3) preschool care center which has been "temporarily" operating from a surplus residential structure on city park property at 169 N. Washington since 1967. The purpose of the school is to provide high quality child care services at an affordable cost for all families, with an emphasis on low income families. CCI claims to be the only center open to all families in the Eugene /Springfield area which provides tuition based on a true sliding scale, with payment according to family size and income. CCI's use of this structure within Skinner's Park is not in conformance with Federal Park and Recreation requirements imposed due to federal funding having been used in the acquisition of the park. This old residential structure is aging and in need of approximately $120,000 in repairs and modifications to meet current ADA and building safety regulations. In addition, CCI has found the "temporary" nature of their use of this park property for their operation is viewed as a negative factor by grant reviewers and has been detrimental to their efforts to obtain financial grants to expand their services to the community. Two undeveloped park land lots on Thomason Lane totalling 0.6 acres have been determined as not being needed for the development of Maurie Jacobs Park and have been identified as a possible site for CCI's relocation. CCI is .asking the City Council to support their relocation by transferring ownership of the two lots to CCI at no cost. This would be contingent on CCI agreeing to fully relocate their operation within five years. No construction would be allowed on the Thomason Lane site until CCI could show 80% of the funding needed for the relocation project had been raised. If after five years CCI had failed to relocate their operation title to the parcels would revert to the City.