#12 - University of Minnesota Grass Study

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LA515\1\1029344.v1 LICENSE AGREEMENT This License Agreement (this “License Agreement”) is made and effective on __________, 2025, by and between the City of Lake Elmo, a Minnesota municipal corporation, located at: 3880 Laverne Avenue N., Lake Elmo, Minnesota, 55402 (the “City”) and the University of Minnesota, a public land-grant research institution in the State of Minnesota located at: 100 Church Street SE, Minneapolis, MN 55455-0213 (the “University”). WHEREAS, the City is the fee owner of the property containing the City’s Water Tower #3 which is located at 120 Lake Elmo Avenue N., Lake Elmo, legally described on the attached Exhibit A (the “City Property”); and WHEREAS, the University has requested that it be able to complete research by planting multiple species of drought-resistant grass on the City Property and observing and maintaining the grass for a period of three years; and WHEREAS, the City is willing to allow the University to plant and maintain multiple species of drought-resistant grass and install a temporary irrigation system and public informational signage on the City Property subject to the terms and conditions of this License Agreement; and NOW, THEREFORE in consideration of the mutual promises contained in this License Agreement, the parties agree as follows: 1. The City hereby grants to the University a non-exclusive license to keep and maintain multiple species of drought-resistant grass on the City Property in the location that is shown on the attached Exhibit B. This may include the use of a seeding blanket. The University may place signs on the City Property educating the public about its grass research. The University shall be responsible for the costs of purchasing the grass seed, planting the grass, watering the grass, installing the temporary irrigation system and hooking it up to the City’s water system, installing the signs and any other supplies needed in order to maintain the grass on the City Property. The University shall be responsible for maintaining the grass and all of the improvements permitted under this License Agreement and shall remove the improvements at the end of the term of this License Agreement. The University shall be responsible for mowing the grass. The University may perform data collection activities with respect to the grass planted on the City Property. The University may invite the public onto the City Property in order to educate the public about the grass. The public must be supervised by the University when they are on the City Property. 3. The University shall pay to the City a gross license fee for the use of the City Property in the amount of $1.00 (“License Fee”). 4. The University agrees that the use of the City Property is with the City’s permission and is not open, continuous, notorious, or in any other manner supportive of a claim of adverse possession, prescriptive easement, or other entitlement to the City Property. The parties acknowledge that this License Agreement is a license for the University to use the City Property