To: Board of Supervisors
From: Public Works
Agenda Section: Public Hearing
SUBJECT:
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Notice of Intention to Purchase Real Property at 1017 Fourth Street, 1023 & 1025 Fourth Street, and 1031, 1035, & 1039 Fourth Street, Eureka
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RECOMMENDATION(S):
Recommendation
That the Board of Supervisors:
1. Introduce Notice of Intention to purchase real property, the purchase price of which is in excess of $50,000;
2. Open the public hearing; and
3. Close the public hearing.
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SOURCE OF FUNDING:
General Fund (1100)
DISCUSSION:
On January 19, 2016, your Board approved the first stage in a comprehensive finance package to move the county in the direction of having campuses where like functions are grouped together for better public services.
The Public Defender building located at 1001 4th Street, Eureka is a key component in the finance package, campus concept. The properties next door to the Public Defender building, 1017 4th Street, 1023 & 1025 4th Street, and 1031, 1035, & 1039 4th Street, Eureka, are for sale (Exhibit B - Site Plan). Should the county purchase these real properties, it would provide significant benefits to the campus complex concept. The optimal long-term use of these properties will be evaluated as part of the county's facilities master plan. Currently, the anticipated initial use of these properties, if acquired, is to develop a parking area that would off-set the parking capacity to be lost with development of the Humboldt County Community Corrections Re-entry Resource Center.
On December 6, 2016, the Board authorized the County Administrative Officer and designees to negotiate terms to purchase the real properties located at 1017 4th Street, 1023 & 1025 4th Street and 1031, 1035, & 1039 4th Street.
On January 6, 2017, the owner of the parcels, Gerald Rush and Belinda Rush, Trustees of the Gerald D. Rush and Belinda M. Rush Revocable Trust of 2007, authorized Community Realty to represent them and create a Listing Ag...
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