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HomeMy WebLinkAbout20011450.tiff Banks and Gesso, LLC Appendix F: Proof of Water Supply r 2001-1450 Green/CroissantSandAndGravelMineAndReadyMixConcretePlant 20023 Loveland Ready Mix Concrete,Inc. 19 March 2001 6 _ - LEASE OF FULLY CONSUMABLE WATER THIS LEASE is made and entered into this /2 day of ,� 1998, by and between the City of Loveland, Colorado, a Colorado home rule municipality ("City") , whose address is 500 East Third Street, Loveland, Colorado 80537, and Loveland Ready Mix, a Colorado corporation ("Lessee"), whose address is 1811 West 12" Street, Loveland, Colorado 80537 . WHEREAS, the City owns certain water which, pursuant to the water laws of the state of Colorado, may be used, re-used and successively used to extinction (the "Fully Consumable Water") ; and WHEREAS, the Lessee wishes to lease from the City the right to use a portion of the City' s Fully Consumable Water; and WHEREAS, the City is willing to lease to Lessee a portion of its Fully Consumable Water pursuant to certain terms and conditions as set forth in this Lease, NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the mutual promises and covenants contained herein and other good and valuable consideration, the receipt of which is hereby acknowledged, the parties agree as follows: 1 . The City hereby leases to the Lessee the right to receive two hundred acre feet of the City' s Fully Consumable Water, as defined in paragraph 4 of this Lease, on an annual basis . This Lease shall be for a term of twenty-five (25) years, ending on Ljzc.3I, 2DZ2, However, Lessee shall have the option to renew this Lease for successive terms of twenty-five years, which option shall terminate only if Lessee is in default of its payment obligations under paragraphs 6 or 7 of this Lease or if Lessee elects not to exercise its option to renew by giving notice to the City pursuant to paragraph 13 of this Lease not . later than three (3) months prior to the end of any twenty-five (25) year term. In the event Lessee is not in default of its payment obligations and elects to renew the Lease for any successive twenty-five year period, Lessee shall not be required to pay any additional amounts under this Lease for the right to receive its allotted amount of the City' s Fully Consumable Water as set forth above. 2 . The two hundred acre feet of Fully Consumable Water which the Lessee shall be entitled to receive annually is hereinafter referred to as the "Leased Water. " The parties EXHIBIT I Olt. recognize that, simultaneously with the execution of this Lease, the City has leased the right to receive one hundred acre feet of its Fully Consumable Water to Coulson Excavating Company and that the City may, in the future, lease additional portions of its Fully Consumable Water to persons other than Lessee. The Lessee' s right to receive two hundred acre feet of the City' s Fully Consumable Water pursuant to this Lease shall be equal to the right of Coulson Excavating Company to receive its one hundred acre feet of Fully Consumable Water such that in the event less than three hundred acre feet of Fully Consumable Water is available in any year, Lessee and Coulson Excavating Company shall each be entitled to receive a proportionate share of the available Fully Consumable Water. The right of Lessee to receive two hundred acre feet of the City's Fully Consumable Water under this Lease shall be deemed to be a first right relative to all others, such that in the event the available Fully Consumable . Water in any year is in excess of three hundred acre feet but is not sufficient to meet the needs of all persons holding leases of Fully Consumable Water, Lessee shall receive up to its entire two hundred acre feet allotment from the first three hundred acre feet of Fully Consumable Water available. 3 . In consideration of the right to receive the Leased Water, Lessee shall, upon execution of this Lease; pay City the sum of Dollars in certified funds . By entering into this Lease with the Lessee, the City is and shall be under no obligation to file an application for a change of water rights or for a plan of augmentation concerning the use of the Leased Water by the Lessee. The City shall not be responsible for the implementation of any temporary substitute supply plan or augmentation plan concerning the use of the Leased Water. The cost and expense of any such proceeding shall be that of the Lessee. The City agrees to furnish sufficient Leased Water so that, subject to the provisions of this Agreement, the net usable first use or subsequent use water obtained by the Lessee shall be 200 acre feet . The City shall not be obligated to deliver Leased Water to Lessee unless Lessee shall have first provided written notice to the City that Leased Water will be required in a given year by April 1 of the preceding year. The City shall deliver the Leased Water under this Lease in a total annual quantity as specified by the Lessee and at specific monthly delivery times and in specific monthly quantities according to the evaporation table, attached hereto as Exhibit A, or as otherwise agreed by the City and the Lessee in writing. In no event shall the monthly deliveries exceed the monthly amounts shown on Exhibit A unless hereafter agreed in writing by the City and the Lessee. The Lessee shall not hate the right to carryover from month to month or from year to year any Leased Water which was deliverable, but not requested for delivery, in a prior time period. If the maximum allowable delivery under this Lease is not requested by Lessee in any month, the right of Lessee to call for the delivery of such water shall lapse and all such water shall remain the sole property of the City. 4 . In'supplying the Leased Water pursuant to this Lease, the City may use any water, including, but not limited to the following sources of water which may be used to extinction (the "Fully Consumable Water") : a. Native water from the Big Thompson River basin which, when stored within the City's reservoir system, may be totally consumed pursuant to the terms and conditions of the Decree for Change of Water Rights for the City of Loveland, dated June 18, 1985, Case No. 82-CW-202A, Water Court Division One, State of Colorado or subsequent actions; and • b. Water under an Allotment Contract with the Municipal Sub-District of the Northern Colorado Water Conservancy District (the "Northern District") , commonly known as Windy Gap Water; and c. Any water subsequently acquired by the City and determined by Water Court Decree to be totally consumable. 5 . The City shall have the right to deliver the Leased Water to Lessee from any of the sources of Fully Consumable Water, at the City' s sole discretion, and shall have the right to determine if any or all of the Leased Water shall be first use water or subsequent use water. The City shall never be required to deliver first use water, even if it is the only Fully Consumable Water available to meet the terms of this Lease. In the event the only water available to the City to meet the terms of this Lease is first use Windy Gap Water and the City is willing to deliver such first use water, the City shall notify the Lessee prior to delivering such water and the Lessee shall have the option to accept the first use Windy Gap Water and pay the costs of delivering such water pursuant to the terms of paragraph 6 of this Lease. In the event the Lessee refuses to accept the delivery of the first use Windy Gap Water, the City shall be deemed to have met its obligations under this Lease, until such time as a source of Fully Consumable Water, other than first use Windy Gap Water, becomes available. In the event the City is reasonably able to but fails to exercise its rights under Case No. 82CW202A sufficient to meet the demands under this Agreement, (unless the exercise of such rights would impair the City' s ability to meet the normal domestic needs of the City) , and the only water available to the City to meet the terms of this Lease is first use Windy Gap Water, the Lessee shall not be required to pay the delivery charges provided in paragraphs 5 or 6 for the delivery of such first use Windy Gap Water. 6 . In the event the Lessee agrees to accept the delivery of first use water from the City' s allotment of Windy Gap Water, Lessee shall pay to the City, the total costs of all pumping and conveyance charges, plus any assessments and fees for administrative, operating, maintenance and any other fees or costs charged by the Sub-District for delivery of the water to the City. The Lessee shall pay the City the total estimated costs in advance, and the City shall not be obligated to deliver any such water until it has received the full estimated payment. In the event the estimated costs paid by the Lessee are less than the actual costs incurred by the City in delivery of Windy Gap Water to the Lessee, Lessee shall pay the City any additional amounts owed within thirty days of receipt of an invoice from the City setting forth the amount owed. In the event the Lessee shall fail to pay such additional amounts upon receipt of an invoice from the City, the City shall have the right, in addition to any other legal or equitable remedies it may have, to refuse to deliver any Leased Water until such time as all additional amounts owed pursuant to this paragraph have been paid in full . In the event the estimated costs paid by the Lessee are greater than the actual costs incurred by the City in delivery of Windy Gap Water to the Lessee, the City shall refund any excess within thirty days of the City' s receipt of an invoice from the Northern District . 7 . Lessee shall pay the City' s reasonable costs incurred in administering the terms of this Lease. For the first five years of this Lease, the administrative costs shall be One Thousand and 00/100 Dollars ($1, 000 . 00) per year, payable in advance . The City shall recalculate the reasonable administrative costs every five years and inform the Lessee in writing of the change at least thirty days prior to the start of the new five .— year period. In the event the Lessee does not require the delivery of any of the Leased Water in a given 'year, there shall be no administrative costs charged. The City shall invoice the Lessee for the annual administrative costs in January of each year and Lessee shall pay said costs within thirty days of the invoice date. In the event the Lessee shall fail to pay its accrued administrative costs in any year, the City shall have the right, in addition to any other legal or equitable remedies it may have, to refuse to deliver the Leased Water until such time as all accrued administrative fees have been paid in full . 8 . At the option of the City, delivery of the Leased Water shall be made at the City' s Waste Water Treatment Plant, 700 South Boise Avenue, Loveland, CO, or at such other downstream location or locations above the Lessee' s original point of need as agreed by and between the Lessee and City in writing. Lessee shall not unreasonably withhold its approval of any request by the City to move the point of delivery. 9. Subject to the provisions of paragraph 5, the City shall only be obligated to deliver the Leased Water to the Lessee if water meeting the requirements of this Lease is reasonably available to the City. In the event of a drought or other conditions, restrictions or emergency situations beyond the control of the City which limit the City's ability to receive or deliver all or a portion of the Leased Water to the Lessee, the ' City shall be relieved of its obligations to deliver such water under the terms of this Lease until such time as conditions ' permit the City' s receipt and delivery of the Leased Water. 10 . The Lessee shall take the Leased Water AS IS and the City makes no express or implied warranties of any kind or nature, including the warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose, concerning the water quality of the Leased Water. 11 . In the event the Lessee wishes to assign, encumber or exchange its rights to receive all or any portion of the Leased Water not already used to satisfy a temporary substitute supply plan or permanent augmentation decree to a third party, the City shall have the first right of refusal to reacquire said rights . In such event, Lessee shall notify the City in writing and shall provide the City with a copy of the signed agreement between the Lessee and the third party. The City shall have the right to reacquire the water rights within ninety days from receipt of the notice, by informing Lessee of its intent to exercise its first right of refusal and by paying Lessee the contract price as set forth in the agreement between the Lessee and the third party. If the City does not exercise its right of first refusal, the Lessee may assign or transfer its rights to a third party, and the third party shall be bound by all terms and conditions of this Lease, including the obligation to allow the City the first right of refusal on any transfer or assignment of the Leased Water, it being the intent of this Lease that the City' s right of first refusal shall apply to each and every transfer of the Leased Water which may arise at any time during the existence of this or any subsequent Lease. The right of first refusal set forth in this paragraph shall not apply in the event the Lessee wishes to assign, encumber or exchange its rights to receive all or any portion of the Leased Water to a third party pursuant to an exchange which is a transfer, sale or assignment of all or substantially all of Lessee' s assets to said third party. 12 . After the City has increased the storage capacity of Green Ridge Glade Reservoir to at least five thousand (5, 000) acre feet, and upon sufficient advance written notice so as to permit the City to place appropriate orders for replacement water, the Lessee may temporarily sub-lease the Leased Water or portions thereof to third parties without activating the City' s right of first refusal as set forth in paragraph 11, so long as the length of the sub-lease term and the amounts and times of discharge required by the Sub-lessee are acceptable to the City. Any such lease arrangement shall first_be provided to the City for its review and approval, which approval shall not be unreasonably withheld. 13 . All notices shall be in writing and shall be deemed given if personally delivered or mailed, certified mail, return receipt requested, to the following addresses : If to City, to: City of Loveland Water & Power Department Attn: Ralph Mullinix, Director 200 North Wilson Avenue Loveland, Colorado 80537 with a copy to: City of Loveland Attn: City Attorney 500 East Third Street Loveland, Colorado 80537 If to Lessee, to: Loveland Ready Mix. 1811 West 12th Street Loveland, Colorado 80537 . 14 . No alteration or other modification of this Lease shall be effective unless such modification shall be in writing and signed by the parties. 15 . In the event any portion of this Lease should become invalid, the remainder of the Lease shall remain in full force and effect . 16. This Lease shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the State of Colorado. This Lease shall inure to the benefit of, and be binding upon, the successors in interest of the respective parties. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties have executed this Lease on the day and year first above written. CITY OF LOVELAND OF 1.OVEt .--riteknGE)911.1a,--ct (S AisL • Mayor ATTE •,•COL�•' .04 City Cler —' (APPROVED AS TO FORM: Cv A torneeyy', 1 LESSEE LOVELAND READY MIX Its : President ATTEST :AC", r _ • Secret • EXHIBIT A TO LEASE OF FULLY CONSUMABLE WATER �-. BETWEEN THE CITY OF LOVELAND AND LOVELAND READY MIX EVAPORATION BY MONTHS MONTH PERCENT EVAPORATION January 3 . 0% February 3 .5 March 5 . 5 April 9 .0 May 12 .0 June 14 . 5 July 15 . 0 August 13 . 5 September 10 . 0 October 7 .0 November 4 . 0 December 3 . 0 Hello