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Report regarding a resolution authorizing the City Manager to enter into a short-term lease agreement with the Boys and Girls Club of the Peninsula for the former Main Library space at 840 West Orange Avenue. (Sharon Ranals, City Manager)
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Staff recommends that the City Council adopt a resolution authorizing the City Manager to enter into a short-term lease agreement with the Boys and Girls Club of the Peninsula (BGCP) for the former Main Library space at 840 West Orange Avenue. The former Main Library will be used by BGCP while they remodel their Orange Avenue Clubhouse. Entitlements and Ground Lease Amendment for the Orange Avenue Clubhouse project will be presented to City Council for consideration in late summer 2025.
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BACKGROUND
The former Main Library at 840 W. Orange (the "Property") was vacated in October 2023 when Library services were relocated to the new Library | Parks and Recreation (LPR) Center at 901 Civic Campus Way. Since then, the parking lot at the Property has been used twice monthly for the YMCA Community Resource Center's food distributions, and on an ongoing basis for limited storage for YMCA's diaper distribution program.
In 2024, the City issued a Request for Proposals soliciting a childcare user or other community-serving use to lease the Property and utilize it for the benefit of the community; however, the City received no responses to that solicitation. At this time, there is no long-term use, reuse, or redevelopment of the Property that has been approved by the City Council. It should be noted that future conversion of the Property for use as a licensed preschool/childcare facility has been considered for the future pending demand and available funding.
BGCP has been pursuing planning entitlements for a substantial remodel and expansion of their Clubhouse on Orange Avenue over the past year. Staff anticipates that the Planning Commission will consider these entitlements on August 21...
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