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Recommendation to authorize City Manager, or designee, to execute all documents necessary for a lease between Douglas Park Associates III, LLC (Landlord), and the City of Long Beach (Tenant), for office and warehouse space at 3861 Worsham Avenue for the Long Beach Department of Health and Human Services, for a period of five years, with the option to extend for an additional two five-year periods, at the discretion of the City Manager. (District 5)
DISCUSSION
On March 17, 2020, the City Council authorized the execution of the Second Amendment to Lease No. 30102 to expand the City’s current lease area at 3205 Lakewood Boulevard to include a vacant hangar space for use by the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) in response to the declared local health emergency due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The current lease term is scheduled to terminate on June 30, 2021.
In any pandemic event, DHHS as the City’s Public Health Agency will be tasked to provide medical countermeasures (MCM) to the local community. The use of midlevel warehouses, or Local Distribution Site(s) (LDS), enhance capabilities to rapidly deliver MCM and supplies to the local population. LDS operations are advantageous to participating jurisdictions because they provide further control of the distribution of MCM to their respective populations and/or dispensing sites. The City’s early action to institute LDS operations during the COVID-19 pandemic strengthened the City’s preparedness and ability to support operations critical to response. Further, maintaining a local LDS has allowed the City to emerge as a leader in the region for vaccination distribution and provide a faster response benefitting underserved communities.
To ensure continuity for LDS operations beyond the current lease term, staff from DHHS and the Economic Development Department evaluated options that would allow the City to continue the response to the COVID-19 pandemic as well as any other local health crisis that...
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