What's happening
This bill authorizes the village of Phoenix to sell certain parklands to the Phoenix Central School District for campus expansion.
Why it matters
Ensures no net loss of parkland or funding. The bill requires the village to dedicate at least the fair market value from the sale toward acquiring new parkland or improving existing recreational facilities, helping maintain community access to green space.
Mandates compliance with federal requirements. If federal funds were used for the park, the village must meet all federal rules—including replacing parkland with lands of equal value and usefulness—before the sale can proceed, protecting federal investments and public interests.
Specifies the exact parcel affected. The legislation includes a detailed legal description of the land to be sold, providing transparency and preventing confusion or disputes about which parkland is being transferred.
Allows for local decision-making. The village’s governing body retains the authority to set terms and conditions for the sale, giving the local community a measure of control over how the transfer is managed and ensuring local needs are considered.
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Who cares
Village of Phoenix officials
The bill would authorize the village to sell roughly 11.765 acres of parkland at fair market value, conditioned on dedicating at least that value to new parkland or capital improvements to existing parks and recreational facilities.
Phoenix Central School District
The district could purchase the land to expand its nearby school campus, sports and recreational facilities.
Phoenix park and recreation users
The transfer would remove the parcel’s parkland status while requiring investment in new parkland or improvements to existing recreational facilities.
U.S. Department of the Interior
If the parkland received federal funding, the village would have to meet federal conversion requirements, including satisfying the interior secretary that substitute land would be equivalent in fair market value and usefulness.
Headline styles
Sell Parkland to School
Plain English, a few words. Used as the page title.
Sponsors
No co-sponsors yet.
History
- Substituted by S7166C
- Ordered to third reading rules cal.411
- Rules report cal.411
- Reported
- Reported referred to rules
- Reported referred to ways and means
- Print number 10030b
- Amend and recommit to local governments
- Print number 10030a
- Amend and recommit to local governments
- Referred to local governments
Companion bill
The same bill in the other chamber. A bill becomes law when one version passes both houses and the governor signs it, so either number can carry it.
Sell Parkland to School
Signed by Governor · Sponsor Patty Ritchie
Full text
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STATE OF NEW YORK
10030--B
IN ASSEMBLY
March 7, 2018
Introduced by M. of A. BARCLAY -- read once and referred to the Committee on Local Governments -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee -again reported from said committee with amendments, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee
AN ACT authorizing the village of Phoenix to alienate and convey parklands to the Phoenix Central School District
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:
Section 1. Subject to the provisions of this act, the village of Phoenix, located in the town of Schroeppel, county of Oswego, acting by and through its governing body and upon such terms and conditions as determined by such body, is hereby authorized to discontinue as parklands and alienate the lands more particularly described in section three of this act, and to sell and convey such parklands at fair market value to the Phoenix Central School District, county of Oswego, for the purposes of extending the nearby school campus, sports and recreational facilities.
§ 2. The authorization provided in section one of this act shall be effective only upon the condition that the village of Phoenix, dedicates an amount equal to or greater than the fair market value of such parklands being discontinued towards the acquisition of new parklands and/or capital improvements to existing park and recreational facilities.
§ 3. The lands to be discontinued as parklands are more fully described as follows:
ALL THAT TRACT OR PARCEL OF LAND, situate in the Village of Phoenix, in the County of Oswego and State of New York and being more particularly bounded and described as follows:
BEGINNING at a point on the northwesterly line of Park Street at its intersection with the division line between the lands now or formerly of the Phoenix Central School District on the west and the lands now or formerly of the Village of Phoenix as described in Book 524 of Deeds at Page 191 on the east, said point being North 57 deg. 30 min. 00 sec. East along said northwesterly line of Park Street, a distance of 389.25 feet from its intersection with northeasterly line of Main Street;
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
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thence along the said division line between the Phoenix Central School District and Village of Phoenix, the following four (4) courses and distances: 1.) North 34 deg. 48 min. 00 sec. West a distance of 177.07 feet to a point; thence 2.) North 14 deg. 55 min. 21 sec. West a distance of 178.61 feet to a point; thence 3.) North 54 deg. 05 min. 21 sec. West a distance of 150.00 feet to a point; and 4.) North 57 deg. 30 min. 00 sec. East a distance of 1093.29 feet to a point on the division line between the said lands of the Village of Phoenix on the west and the lands now or formerly of New York Central Lines, LLC as described in Book 1487 of Deeds at Page 37 on the east; thence South 24 deg. 09 min. 00 sec. East along said division line, a distance of 140.08 feet to a point on the division line between the said lands of the Village of Phoenix on the west and the lands now or formerly of Rodney & Diane Thomas as described in Deed Instrument No. R2011-007044 on the east; thence South 06 deg. 11 min. 00 sec. East along said division line, a distance of 427.38 feet to a point on the division line between the said lands of the Village of Phoenix on the north and the said lands of Thomas, the lands now or formerly of D & L Realty of CNY, LLC as described in Deed Instrument No. R2008-000126 on the east and the lands now or formerly of Carl P. Richardson, Jr. as described in Deed Instrument No. R2015-008266, in part by each, on the south; thence South 56 deg. 31 min. 03 sec. West along said division line, a distance of 686.44 feet to a point; thence through the said lands of the Village of Phoenix, the following two (2) courses and distances: 1.) North 32 deg. 30 min. 00 sec. West a distance of 46.77 feet to a point; and 2.) South 57 deg. 30 min. 00 sec. West a distance of 188.78 feet to the Point of Beginning. Containing 11.765 acres of land, more or less.
The above described parcel being the a portion of the lands conveyed to the Village of Phoenix as described in Book 524 of Deeds at Page 191.
§ 4. In the event that the village of Phoenix received any funding support or assistance from the federal government for the purchase, maintenance or improvement of the parklands set forth in section three of this act, the discontinuance and alienation of such parkland authorized by the provisions of this act shall not occur until the village of Phoenix has complied with any federal requirements pertaining to the alienation or conversion of such parklands, including satisfying the secretary of the interior that the alienation or conversion complies with all conditions which the secretary of the interior deems necessary to assure the substitution of other lands shall be equivalent in fair market value and usefulness to the lands being alienated or converted.
§ 5. This act shall take effect immediately.
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