Occupy LA Office: City Proposes Office Space For $1 A Year, Farmland and Housing In Exchange For Clearing City Hall Lawn (VIDEO)

The city is offering Occupy LA protestors 10,000 square feet of office space for just $1 a year, farmland and housing for the homeless--in exchange for the occupiers leaving City Hall.

As the Los Angeles Times reports, Jim Lafferty, a National Lawyers Guild attorney who has been advocating for the protestors since they began seven weeks ago, relayed the proposal Monday evening at the encampment's nightly general assembly meeting.

The offer was met with mixed emotions from the occupiers. While some protestors thought the offer was worth taking, others said that the movement would be forgotten without its presence in front of City Hall. Others still were shocked and angry that negotiations had been going on with the city, unbeknownst to many protestors. One woman told the LA Times, "I don't appreciate people appointing themselves to represent me, to represent us. Who was in those meetings?"

In response to the offer, Occupy LA's Press Relations & Media Relations Committee released this statement to The Huffington Post:

We appreciate the city's generosity and desire to work with us and the General Assembly of the OccupyLA movement. The General Assembly, as sole decision making body for Occupy LA, will hold a special session tonight to discuss the details of this draft proposal. At this point, it is not clear how many Occupiers are for or against the offer.

HuffPost will follow up on this story after the general assembly meeting this evening.