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Recommendation to authorize City Manager, or designee, to execute any and all documents necessary for the Second Amendment to Lease No. 30102, with Long Beach Airport Hangar Owner, LLC (Landlord), to expand the lease area to include a vacant hangar for use by the Department of Health and Human Services at 3205 Lakewood Boulevard, for a period of one year, with the option to renew for one additional one-year period, at the discretion of the City Manager. (District 5)
DISCUSSION
On March 4, 2020, the City of Long Beach (City) declared local health and city emergencies to strengthen the City’s preparedness and ability to respond to COVID-19, commonly known as novel coronavirus. The City’s Department of Health and Human Services (Health Department) requires a location to meet the COVID-19 response, and suitable vacant hangar space is available at 3205 Lakewood Boulevard.
The ability to support mass prophylaxis and supply operations is critical to COVID-19 pandemic response. In a pandemic event, the Health Department as the City’s Public Health Agency, will be tasked with having to provide medical countermeasures to the local community. The use of midlevel warehouses, or Local Distribution Site(s) (LDS), may enhance capabilities to rapidly deliver medical countermeasures (MCM) and supplies to the local population. LDS operations are advantageous to the City because they diversify channels to deliver MCM and provide additional resource options for support of the MCM distribution mission. LDS operations are also advantageous to participating jurisdictions because they provide further control of the distribution of MCM to their respective populations and/or dispensing sites.
On April 24, 2007, the City Council authorized the execution of Lease No. 30102 for the relocation and co-location of the Long Beach Fire Department Headquarters and the Long Beach Police Department Field Support Division at 3205 Lakewood Boulevard, at the Long Beach Airport. On Septem...
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