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Recommendation to receive and file report on the physical condition and operation of the Long Beach Courthouse;
Authorize City Manager to execute a professional services contract with Beverly Prior Architects for a period of 12 months, in the amount of
$157,758, for a Courthouse Site Feasibility Study in Downtown Long Beach; and
Increase appropriations in the General Fund in the Department of Community Development by $157,758. (District 2)
DISCUSSION
In 2002, Senate Bill 1732 shifted the governance of California's courthouses from the counties to the State, allowing more than 450 court facilities in California to transfer jurisdiction between October 2004 and June 2007. Trial court and county leaders collaborated with the State Offtce of Court Construction and Management (OCCM) to develop a 20-year facility master plan. Potential rehabilitation projects were rated using a procedure approved by the State Judicial Council, and were subsequently consolidated in the State's Administrative Office of the Courts (AOC), Trial Courts Five- Year Capital Outlay Plan (Capital Outlay Plan). The Capital Outlay Plan evaluated over 200 court facilities and ranked them according to the pressing need for substantial improvements. It identified the need for two new courthouses in Long Beach; a criminal courthouse to replace the existing Los Angeles County Superior Courthouse on Ocean Boulevard (County Courthouse), and a new civil courthouse. The Capital Outlay Plan currently ranks construction of a replacement criminal courthouse in Long Beach 30" on its priority list, and a new civil courthouse in Long Beach is ranked 103d. Although the Capital Outlay Plan has established a project priority list for all courthouse projects, the State only has the financial resources to complete the first two or three projects. It is unclear at this time how the additional projects would be completed. In November 2003, the AOC completed a seismic assessment of court buildings in Califor...
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