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Recommendation that three separate votes be taken:
1. Reaffirm approval of the reuse of the entire Schroeder Hall site for
an East Division Police Substation;
2. Rescind the approval of the offsite homeless assistance
accommodation at the 1-acre City’s Public Health and
Human Services Department-owned site; and
3. Rescind an alternate proposal that would provide onsite homeless
assistance accommodation in conjunction with an East Division
Police Substation.
DISCUSSION
Transfer of Surplus Military Property
The City of Long Beach has filed an application to reuse approximately 5 acres of land now occupied at Willow and Grand Avenue by the U.S. Army Schroeder Reserve Hall.
As a condition of the reuse, the City of Long Beach was informed that it was required to accommodate homeless services providers by either providing land on the site or another site that was approved by the selected homeless services provider. In this instant matter, Mental Health America of Los Angeles was the selected provider and it agreed to use a one-acre lot within the campus of the City's Department of Health and Human Services on Burnett and Grand, just steps from the Schroeder Hall site.
The City Council approved the application for reuse of Schroeder Army Reserve Hall as a police substation and use of the one acre property within the campus of the City's Department of Health and Human Services as the City's required accommodation of the homeless, on an 8-1 vote.
Three separate votes were taken on December 18, 2007:
1) Approve the reuse of the entire Schroeder Hall site for an
East Division Police Substation;
2) Approve the offsite homeless assistance accommodation
at the 1-acre Health Department-owned site; and
3) Approve an alternate proposal that would be used in the
case that the offsite accommodation is not provided for,
that provides onsite homeless assistance accommodation
in conjunc...
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