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Recommendation to authorize City Manager to execute any and all documents necessary for the first amendment to lease with the Judicial Council of California, Administrative Office of the Courts (collectively, AOC), for 162 parking spaces located within the Long Beach Courthouse parking lot at Ocean Boulevard and Magnolia Street for the continued use by the Long Beach Police Department for an additional five-year term at an initial monthly base rent of $10,976. (District 1)
DISCUSSION
In accordance with the current Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between the City of Long Beach (City) and the Long Beach Police Officers Association, the City is required to provide conveniently located parking spaces for the Police Department's sworn staff.
In July 1992, the County Board of Supervisors approved a five-year lease between the County of Los Angeles (County), predecessor in interest to the AOC, and the City of Long Beach, for the use of 162 parking spaces located in the County parking lot (Premises), which is situated north of the County Courthouse in the City of Long Beach. At the end of the initial five-year term, the City exercised a five-year option to renew the Lease and continued to occupy the Premises on a month-to-month holdover status thereafter.
On October 14, 2003, the City Council authorized the City Manager to execute an agreement with the County to extend the Lease for an additional five-year term. The current Lease expired on August 3, 2009, and both parties are currently operating under a holdover status.
Negotiations between the City of Long Beach Redevelopment Agency (Agency) and the AOC are being finalized for an Exchange of Real Property and Escrow Instructions (Exchange), wherein the AOC shall grant all of its right, title, and interest in the Long Beach Courthouse facility for all of the Agency's right, title, and interest in approximately 5.917 acres of property bounded on the north and south by Broadway Boulevard and the developme...
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