R2016-36 AUTHORIZING LEASE AGREEMENT Board of Library Trustees

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EXHIBIT C City of Decatur Maintenance Responsibilities for 130 N. Franklin Street, Decatur, Illinois The City, as set forth in this Exhibit, and as additionally set forth in the Lease, carries out various housekeeping and maintenance responsibilities for the Library. In addition to the obligations set forth in the Lease, the City shall undertake the following specific operational, housekeeping, maintenance, and repair obligations: 1. The City will make every reasonable effort to maintain temperature and humidity control throughout the facility with special emphasis within the Local History and Archival. Target temperature and humidity levels for the Local History and Archival areas are between 69 and 72 degrees Fahrenheit with relative humidity maintained between 40% and 50%. The target temperatures in all other areas are between 68 to 73 degrees Fahrenheit when occupied by, and between 64 and 80 degrees when unoccupied. This will be maintained as close to target within the limits of existing HVAC equipment that have currently established and demonstrated parameters necessary to meet these targets. This provision specifically requires the City to physically operate the HVAC system to achieve the target temperatures. 2. The City shall provide all housekeeping labor and materials necessary to keep spaces used by the Library, clean, attractive, and fully functional at the highest standards. 3. The City shall make available housekeeping and maintenance staff services during all hours that the Library is open to the public, and all hours that shared meeting spaces are in use during normal hours of operation. The City shall cause one (1) member of the staff to be in the building during all hours that the Library is open to the public, as those hours change from time to time in the Library's sole discretion. The City shall provide the Library a method of contacting housekeeping and maintenance staff during all hours and housekeeping and maintenance staff shall respond to reasonable service requests during the Library's currently established normal hours of operation. The City shall additionally make available housekeeping and maintenance staff as reasonably necessary to allow the building to open to the public as scheduled by the Library. This shall require at a minimum that the Leased Premises are cleaned and ready to open at least 15 minutes prior to the scheduled opening time. 4. The City shall make every reasonable effort to furnish trash receptacles as directed by the tenants strategically throughout the Leased Premises and Common Area and emptied daily. 5. Every reasonable effort will be made for pavements and grounds to be maintained free of litter, trash, debris, and graffiti, with signage and pavement marking kept clean, and easily seen and in good repair. The City shall, or shall contract to, provide snow and ice removal from the Common Area, when reasonably necessary. 6. Every reasonable effort will be made to maintain all exterior areas and professional appearance with regard to landscaping, yards and grounds and pavements.