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Recommendation to authorize City Manager, or designee, to execute all documents necessary for the First Amendment to Lease Number 34078 between the City of Long Beach and Mental Health America to increase the amount of City participation in the cost of tenant improvements at the City-owned premises located at 1955-1965 Long Beach Boulevard from $1,200,000 to $2,800,000 and broaden the scope of allowed uses to include seismic renovation and additional parking;
Increase appropriations in the General Fund (GF) in the Citywide Activities Department (XC) by $1,600,000, offset by City funds received from the sale of former Redevelopment Agency-owned parcels for transfer to the Capital Projects Fund (CP); and
Increase appropriations in the Capital Projects Fund (CP) in the Public Works Department (PW) by $1,600,000, offset by a General Fund transfer of City funds received from the sale of former Redevelopment Agency-owned parcels. (District 6)
DISCUSSION
Since 2006, the City has been pursuing the transfer and redevelopment of the 4.73-acre former U.S. Army Reserve Center, also known as Schroeder Hall, through the Base Realignment and Closure (BRAC) Act, for use as the new Police Department East Division substation. The transfer of land has occurred, the East Division substation redevelopment has been completed and the Police Department now occupies the facility.
A Housing and Urban Development (HUD) prerequisite for the transfer of the land is a Reuse and Homeless Assistance Plan, providing certain services to the homeless community. The City's identified homeless services provider under the BRAC process is MHA.
In order to comply with the HUD prerequisite, on March 19,2013, the City Council authorized the City Manager to purchase the Premises and, subsequently, to lease the Premises to MHA for a period of ten years, with an option for MHA to acquire the Premises for one dollar. Conditions set forth in the Lease require certain services now bein...
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