2071 - Legislative findings. - New York Statutes

§ 2071. Legislative findings. It is hereby found and determined that the construction and operation of a civic center located within the city of Peekskill at a location deemed suitable by the common council of the city, which will provide adequate facilities for the conduct of meetings, exhibits, the housing of municipal departments and functions including a department of public safety, court rooms and supporting services, a library, a museum, meeting rooms and other functions which have relationship to the civic, community and general public interest essential to the health, welfare and prosperity of the people of the city of Peekskill and its neighbors, is in the public interest; that the construction and maintenance of such a center in the city of Peekskill is beneficial to its overall community rehabilitation and improvement programs and is in all respects beneficial to the people of the city in that it will further their welfare, recreation, health, education and prosperity and that such purposes are all public purposes which cannot be adequately obtained except by the exercise of the powers of government and that the authority will perform this essential function in the exercise of powers confirmed upon it by this title.