File #: 19-1553    Version: 1 Name:
Type: Informational Report Status: Passed
File created: 10/17/2019 In control: Public Works
On agenda: 11/12/2019 Final action: 11/12/2019
Title: Lease at 555 H Street, Eureka, Suite A
Attachments: 1. Staff Report, 2. Attachment No. 1 - Lease, 3. Attachment No. 2 - Lease Option No. 1, 4. Attachment No. 3 - ADA Access Compliant Assessment

To: Board of Supervisors

From: Public Works

Agenda Section: Consent

SUBJECT:
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Lease at 555 H Street, Eureka, Suite A
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RECOMMENDATION(S):
Recommendation
That the Board of Supervisors:
1. Authorize Public Works Real Property Division to send a notice to PWM. Inc. and Fred Lundblade that the county is continuing the lease on a month to month tenancy holdover period under all the terms and conditions of the lease; and
2. Authorize the increase of lease payment amounts to continue during the holdover period pursuant to the terms of the lease.

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SOURCE OF FUNDING:
2011 Public Safety Realignment (1100-294)

DISCUSSION:
On October 6, 2015, the county entered into a lease agreement with PWM. Inc. and Fred Lundblade ("Lessor") for seven hundred twenty (720) square feet of office space at 555 H Street, Eureka, Suite A for a period beginning December 1, 2015, through November 30, 2018, with annual rent increases of 3 percent throughout the duration of the lease and its options to extend (Attachment No. 1 - Lease). The monthly rent amount was One Thousand Ninety-Four Dollars and Forty Cents ($1,094.40) or One Dollar and Fifty-two Cents ($1.52) per square foot.

On October 16, 2018, the county exercised its First Option to extend the lease for a period beginning on December 1, 2018 through November 30, 2019 (Attachment No. 2 - Lease Option No.1). The monthly rent amount was One Thousand One Hundred Ninety-Five Dollars and Eighty-Eight Cents ($1,195.88) or One Dollar and Sixty-Six Cents ($1.66) per square foot.

A prerequisite of exercising the county's one (1) year option to extend the lease to November 30, 2020, requires the Lessor to provide a facility that complies with the Americans with Disability Act (ADA) and other accessibility requirements. The premises have been surveyed by the Independent License Architect (ILA) as part of the Consent Decree with the United States Department of Justice (Attachment No. 3 - ADA Access Compliant Asse...

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