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B-168174 1 (1970-08-04)

handle is hein.gao/gaobabjhi0001 and id is 1 raw text is: -~34'e/Z21 V, COMPTRO _ER GENERAL OF TH2 UNITfED STATES S¥WASIWIfGTO. D.C. ZC540 couN Accnz CiP - th L,2SF3 c a pc 3,-apoa by the IlIIIIIIIiN 088634 B-6874 4RELEASED AUG 4 Ift Dear Mr. Derwinski: C (l&ej Pursuant to your re__q~uest of October 16, 1969, we have examined into the possibility that public funds may have been misused in the sale of park land by the Oak Lawm Park Board, Oak Lawn, Illinois. The park land had been acquired, in part, with funds provided by the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) under the Open-Space Land Program. In February 1965, the Oak Lawn Park District applied for a HUD grant, under title VII of the Housing Act of 1.961, as amended (42 U.S.C. 1500), to assist in acquiring several pro- posed park sites. HUD approved a revised version of the Park District's application and allocated a grant of $724,082 to the Park District in November 1966. The grant covered 50 percent of the estimated park site costs of $1,442,564, plus a relocation grant of $2,800. The estimated costs comprised $1,048,288 for land acquisition, $374,712 for land develop- ment, and $19,564 for administrative expenses. The grant ap- plied retroactively to land acquisitions made after Febru- ary 12, 1965, the date of HUD's tentative approval of the original application submitted by the Park District. One of the proposed park sites--Simmons Park--a rectan- gular tract of land consisting of about 57.5 acres, is lo- cated about 280 feet north of 95th Street and about 615 feet west of Ridgeland Avenue in Oak Lawn, Illinois. The sale of the land in question involved part of Simmons Park. Prior to the establishment of Simmons Park, Mr. Christ Mitchell, a private landowner, owned a 7.5-acre tract of un- developed land about 330 feet wide, extending about 943 feet north from 95th Street. The rectangular area planned for Simmons Park included the northern 663 feet of this land; however, Mr. Mitchell refused to sell the entire 663 feet and on March 25, 1966, sold only the northern 363 feet to the Park District. p Hf e /, PP_/

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