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REQUEST FOR <br />COUNCIL ACTION <br />CITY COUNCIL MEETING DATE: <br />FEBRUARY 19, 2019 <br />TITLE: <br />APPROVE A LEASE AGREEMENT WITH <br />ALDRIDGE GROUP FOR OFFICE SPACE <br />AT THE SANTA ANA REGIONAL <br />TRANSPORTATION CENTER <br />(STRATEGIC PLAN NO. 3,2C) <br />CITY MANAGER <br />RECOMMENDED ACTION <br />CLERK OF COUNCIL USE ONLY: <br />APPROVED <br />❑ As Recommended <br />❑ As Amended <br />❑ Ordinance on 1s' Reading <br />❑ Ordinance on 2nd Reading <br />❑ Implementing Resolution <br />❑ Set Public Hearing For <br />CONTINUED TO <br />FILE NUMBER <br />1. Authorize the City Manager and Clerk of the Council to execute a site lease agreement with <br />Aldridge Group to compensate the City $4,082 per month, with any partial month prorated at <br />$134 per day, for the lease of 2,041 square feet of office space located at the Santa Ana <br />Regional Transportation Center, for a two-year term beginning on February 20, 2019 through <br />February 19, 2021, with an option for twelve month-to-month extensions, for a total of <br />$144,771 in lease revenue for the entire term of the agreement, including optional extensions, <br />subject to nonsubstantive changes approved by the City Manager and City Attorney. <br />2. Approve an appropriation adjustment recognizing Fiscal Year 2018-19 lease income in the <br />amount of $16,328 into the Santa Ana Regional Transportation Center Operations Rental - <br />Aldridge Group Revenue Account and appropriating the same amount to the Santa Ana <br />Regional Transportation Center Operations Contractual Services expenditure account. <br />DISCUSSION <br />The Santa Ana Regional Transportation Center (SARTC) is a regional transportation hub that <br />brings together Amtrak, Metrolink, Orange County Transportation Authority (OCTA), and <br />interstate bus services. In addition, when completed, the OC Streetcar will have a platform stop <br />at SARTC. The facility is open to the public seven days a week from 5:00 a.m. to midnight and <br />contains approximately 35,000 square feet of total rental space, including ten bus bays. <br />The OC Streetcar is the first modern streetcar project to be built in Orange County and will <br />service Santa Ana's historic downtown, which includes federal, state, and local courthouses; <br />government offices; colleges; an artists' village; and a thriving restaurant scene. The OC <br />Streetcar will operate along a 4.15 -mile route that connects the SARTC and a new transit hub at <br />Harbor Boulevard and Westminster Avenue in Garden Grove. With construction scheduled to <br />begin shortly, it is expected to begin carrying passengers in 2021. <br />20A-1 <br />