TITLE
Recommendation to authorize City Manager, or designee, to execute all documents necessary to enter into a Lease with Camp Fire Angeles, to operate and maintain DeForest Park Community Center and Discovery Trails at 6255 DeForest Avenue, for a period of twenty years, from June 1, 2021 through May 31, 2041, with one ten-year option to renew.
(District 9)
DISCUSSION
Camp Fire Angeles (Camp Fire), a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, has been serving young people and their families in the greater Long Beach area since 1923. The original Camp Fire volunteer-led groups continue to be the oldest, continuously operating program of the Council. Camp Fire is chartered to serve Long Beach, Artesia, Bellflower, Cerritos, and Signal Hill and recently has assumed jurisdiction of additional Los Angeles County cities. Camp Fire offers a variety of programs through community collaborations, including the WRAP (Winners Reaching Amazing Potential) afterschool program at six Long Beach Unified School District campuses and an afterschool program at DeForest Park. Camp Fire, located at 7070 East Carson Street, opened in 1969 through a lease with the City of Long Beach (City) as a result of property lost to the Artesia (91) Freeway in North Long Beach. Services provided at the Carson Street facility include day and inter-session camps and overnights, Camp Fire groups, Challenge Course trainings, and outdoor education as well as staff and volunteer training.
In 2018, the Parks and Recreation Commission (Commission) approved a right-of-entry permit to Camp Fire at DeForest Park to provide out-of-school programming, and subsequently to make improvements to the Community Center. On October 20, 2020, the City Council approved a right-of-entry permit to allow for the design and construction of the DeForest Park Discovery Trails (Discovery Trails). The right-of-entry permit allows Camp Fire to begin their construction process with the anticipation that the Parks, Recreation and Marine Departme...
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