R2023-40 Resolution Authorizing an Agreement between the Staley Family Foundation and the City of Decatur

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Appendix to Agreement with the Staley Family Foundation This document is attached to the Agreement approved and executed by the Decatur City Council on April 3, 2023 with the Staley Family Foundation, and is made a part of this same Agreement as if fully set forth therein, and is intended to provide additional detail on lake improvements in the Staley Basin to be made by the City with funds provided by the Staley Family Foundation, as they are received by the City in 2023, 2024 & 2025, all in accordance with the provisions of the April 3, 2023 Agreement. 1. Signage The city will fabricate and install, using outside contractors and vendors, two (2) decorative signs looking substantially like the ones pictured below and labelled as "inset #1," the first to be placed at the new Staley Boat Ramp in the Staley Basin adjacent to Country Club Road, and the second in Nelson Park on the edge of Basin #2, between the lake and the pedestrian path linking the Boathouse Restaurant and the Devon Amphitheater, as more precisely determined by the Decatur Park District. These signs will explain the history of Lake Decatur, and the role of A.E. Staley in the lake's creation and other Decatur community projects he sponsored during his lifetime (with historic and content oversight provided by the staff of the Staley Museum). The city will also fabricate signage visible to boaters and mounted on bridge piers denoting that they are entering the Staley Basin, and erect other signage labelling the Staley Basin at places where the general public can access the Staley Basin. The city will also fabricate historical signage at the lake's edge in the Staley Basin near the site of the former Staley Pump House and hot water drainage ditch explaining how these features supported A.E. Staley's business (see example as "inset #5). The city will also, in accordance with its existing rules for designating honorary street names, re-name the four street sections surrounding the city block where the Staley Museum is located as "Staley Square." 2. Boat ramp area adjacent to Country Club Road The city will reconstruct and improve the existing boat ramp area on the edge of the Staley Basin adjacent to Country Club Road and as shown on the attached diagram, labelled as "inset #2," and add lake-edge protection, known as "Flexamat" (illustrated here as "inset#4), insofar as funds provided by the Staley Foundation allow. Thereafter this boat ramp and lake access will be relabeled, signed and identified as the "Staley Boat Ramp." 3. Lookout points on the southwest side of the Staley Basin The city will reconstruct and improve existing properties between the Lake Shore Drive right-of-way and the edge of the Staley Basin on the southwest side of the Staley Basin,