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Orange County School of the Arts Board Resolution 05-29-19 WHEREAS, the Orange County School of the Arts wishes to expand its arts instructional offerings to include a Design Conservatory and WHEREAS, the City of Santa Ana has offered the community an opportunity to secure the historic YMCA building which would provide a perfect site for our proposed campus expansion and WHEREAS, the Orange County School of the Arts has secured the support and cooperation of two other Santa Ana community groups, The Wooden Floor and RelTmpago del Cielo to partner with the school in creating a community center for the City of Santa Ana and WHEREAS, the City of Santa Ana has two groups interested in securing the YMCA building and the City has asked the groups to work together to determine if there is a possibility for a shared use option and WHEREAS, the school has held multiple meetings to explore the possibility of sharing the building with Caribou Industries and its proposed hotel project and WHEREAS, the meetings to explore a shared use option have attempted to address the school's concerns related to student safety and program integrity and WHEREAS, the school has established a policy of either owning its own campus property or in leasing its facility from the Legacy Fund, a 5016 non-profit established to purchase and hold property exclusively for the benefit of the school NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the Orange County School of the Arts Board of Trustees has determined that any shared facility option will not address the contnluing concern for both student safety or the ability to adequately program the building to meet the needs of both the school and of our community partners. In addition, should the building be awarded to Caribou Industries by the City of Santa Ana, for the above reasons, the school will have no interest in leasing any of the facility from Caribou Industries now or in the future. Signed, Attest: