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Owasso staff warns of legal risk as council weighs rent hike for food charity
Summary
City staff proposed formal leases for nonprofit occupants; the city attorney warned charging far-below-market rent risks taxpayer litigation, and council directed staff to draft a one-year lease for Wasatch Community Resources starting at $900 a month with a modest utilities contribution for immediate relief and options to renew.
City staff told the Owasso City Council on Feb. 1 that the city must formalize leases for nonprofits occupying municipal property after identifying decades-long lapses, and that correcting long-outdated rents could impose sharp increases on organizations that provide community services.
The discussion focused on Wasatch Community Resources (OCR), which now occupies roughly 4,938 square feet at 109 North Birch with no valid lease covering that footprint since 2010. "When they had the original lease they were leasing about 1,800 square feet; today they're occupying just shy of 5,000 square feet," staff said, noting a straight inflation adjustment to the old rate would have produced…
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