The sale price of the Hamilton recreational facility used by the YMCA may be affected by a possible city council obligation to give the Y first option to buy the building.
The city bought the Pembroke St facility 20 years ago, and staff are now investigating an apparent agreement to offer it back to the YMCA at market value if it was ever sold.
An email last week from council executive Sean Murray alerted councillors to the newly discovered "first-option" arrangement.
He also warned them that their decision in June to sell the building only for recreational and related purposes had lowered the number of interested parties and could "dramatically affect an ultimate sale price".
At the time of the council's 7-6 vote, the site's combined three titles had a value of $3 million.