2005 Lease between WLA and the City of Fond du Lac

Included in the July 27, 2015 Advisory Parks Board Agenda packet was a lease executed in 2005 between WLA and the city of Fond du Lac.  Below you will find that lease.

Several things about this document are interesting. 

1. It is not dated or notarized.  
2. The lease was executed because the city needed an easement to cross the north end of  WLA's property.  This easement was for a utility pipe that was needed for the proposed surface water blending plant that was slated for McDermott Park.  This plant was never built due to opposition by neighbors and other citizens.   
3. This explains why the current ball field at WLA extends into McDermott Park.  The west side of that field is in McDermott Park.  The lease essentially gives WLA rights to a 60 ft wide by 750 ft long piece of McDermott Park.  That is about 1 acre of the park.   Click here to see another post with a map of McDermott park and this leased area.
4. Section 2a of this lease gives WLA the ability to build a parking lot in that area with only the approval of the Director of the City Department of Public Works.
5. Citizens have noticed that WLA has a sign next to the tennis courts on McDermott Park property.  This sign is a concern because there is not an official sign on the south end of the park showing that this is McDermott Park.