Resolution 025-1966
RESOLUTION NO. 25-1966
WHEREAS, The Girl Scouts of America is a n<l>n-profit organization
dedicated to the service of and improvement of youth, and
WHEREAS, Girl Scout Camp Wesumke, on West Summerland Key,
serves and benefits the youth of Monroe County, and
WHEREAS, additional land must be added to the camp in order to
qualify it as a national camp and in order to complete the camp's programs
and round out its activities, and
WHEREAS, it is to the advantage of Monroe County to attract campers
to the Florida Keys to study marine life and the natural habitat of the area,
and in order to encourage the continuation and expansion of a program so
valuable to our youth, now, therefore,
BE IT RESOLVED BY THE BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS
OF MONROE COUNTY, FLORIDA, as follows:
1. That the County lease to the Girl Scout Council of Tropical Florida,
Inc. the following described lands, situate in Monroe County, Florida, to-wit:
A tract of land northerly of U. S. Highway No. 1 on West
Spanish Harbor Key, Monroe County, Florida, and being
more particularly described by metes and bounds as
follow s :
Commencing at the intersection of the northerly right-of-
way line of U. S. Highway No. 1 and the easterly property
line of Camp Sawyer (existing Boy Scouts of Allnerica prop-
erty), extended northerly, bear easterly along the northerly
right-of-way line of U. S. Highway No. 1 for a distance of
1000 feet, more or less, to the point of beginning of the tract
of land hereinafter described; from said Point of Beginning
continue bearing easterly along said northerly tight-of-way
of U. S. Highway No. 1 for a distance of 1000 feet, more or
less, to a point; thence at right angles and in a northwesterly
direction for a distance of 100 feet, more or le:ss, to a point
on the shoreline; thence meander the shoreline in a westerly
direction for a distance of 1300 feet, more or less, to a point
which is bearing North 18 degrees and 30 minut,es West from
the Point of Beginning; thence bear South 18 degrees and 30
minutes East on a line which is also radial to the curve of
U. S. Highway No. 1 for a distance of 500 feet, more or less,
back to the Point of Beginning.
ALSO
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All of Government Lot 1 in Sections 32 and 33, I~ownship 66
South, Range 30 East, on the Island of West SUx1Pmerland Key,
Monroe County, Florida. "
2. That a lease be approved by the County Attorney, which lease
will contain the following provisions, to-wit:
(a) That the lease provide for a term of 99 years.
(b) That the rental charged shall be $1. 00 per year.
(c) That the lease provide that in the event the Girl
Scouts do not use the lands for a Girl Scout Camp
such lease shall terminate forthwith and the title
to all improvements shall pass to the County.
3. That Gerald Saunders, Mayor of Monroe County and Chairman of
the Board of County Commissioners, and Earl R. Adams, Clerk of the Cir-
cuit Court of Monroe County, Florida and ex officio Clerk of the Board of
County Commissioners of Monroe County, Florida, execute such lease when
so approved.
Dated May 10th, 1966.