Explanation
Background:
To allow the Director to enter into the Agreement for Installation and Shared Use of the Dave Andrews Memorial Pumptrack (Agreement) between the City of Columbus (City), Recreation and Parks Department, the Worthington City School District Board of Education (WCSD), and TrailGators Booster Association (TrailGators), a 501(c)(3) organization, to define the responsibilities of each of the parties for the Dave Andrews Memorial Pumptrack.
1. City owns and manages real property known as Hard Road Park located at 1190 Hard Road, Columbus, Ohio 43235 (Franklin County Tax Parcel No. 610-2636440) (referred to as the “City Property” or “Hard Road Park”).
2. WCSD is the owner of the adjacent real property at 1490 Hard Road, Columbus, Ohio 43235, on which is located the Granby Elementary School building and related improvements, including parking areas (Franklin County Tax Parcel Nos. 610-146472, 610,119941, 610-146469, and 610-11892) (referred to as the WCSD Property).
3. TrailGators is a community volunteer group organized to enhance student health and wellness education and to add safe attractive public recreation spaces for healthy exercise and play; TrailGators maintains the existing Gators Bike Park on WCSD Property for public use and proposes to raise funds ($78k) for installation of a “pumptrack”, which consists of a single biking pumptrack structure manufactured by Bikeparkitect Modular Pumptrack, to be placed on a portion of Hard Road Park. The pumptrack will be known as the Dave Andrews Memorial Pumptrack . Upon completion, TrailGators will donate the Pumptrack to the City.
4. WCSD proposes to permit the use of the WCSD property for access to the Pumptrack in Hard Road Park and to allow parking for community use of the Pumptrack in the WCSD parking lots located on WCSD property, so long as it does not interfere with the daily operations of WCSD.
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