TITLE
Recommendation to authorize City Manager to execute a First Amendment to Joint Use of Facilities Agreement No. 20659 with Long Beach Unified School District for the shared use and maintenance of LBUSD-owned property, commonly known as the Blair Field parking lot, which will suspend the term of the Agreement and will guarantee LBUSD’s future use of Blair Field for its high school baseball games for as long as Lease No. 32223, between the City of Long Beach and the Trustees of California State University Long Beach, regarding the operation of Blair Field, is in effect. (District 3)
DISCUSSION
On March 28, 1989, the City Council authorized the sale of City-owned property located adjacent to 4700 Deukmejian Drive, commonly known as the Blair Field parking lot (Parking Lot), to the Long Beach Unified School District (LBUSD). As a condition of this sale, Joint Use of Facilities Agreement No. 20659 (Agreement), between the City of Long Beach (City) and LBUSD, was established to provide for the City’s continued use and shared maintenance of the Parking Lot. In FY 09, due to budgetary constraints, the Department of Parks, Recreation and Marine was instructed to cut expenditures associated with the use and operation of Blair Field beginning in FY 10, which included researching its potential leasing to a third party.
In FY 09, the City began negotiations with the Trustees of California State University Long Beach (CSULB) to enter into a long-term lease for Blair Field, and on August 10, 2010, the City Council authorized Lease No. 32223 (Lease) for this purpose. Effective September 1, 2010, the City ceased all operations at Blair Field. Although the Lease is in effect, the Parking Lot remains under the control of LBUSD. Because CSULB is now the primary operator of Blair Field under the Lease, CSULB shall enter into a joint-use agreement with LBUSD for the use and maintenance of the Parking Lot. CSULB's joint-use agreement with LBUSD will supersede the City's ...
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