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REQUEST FOR <br />COUNCIL ACTION <br />CITY COUNCIL MEETING DATE: <br />NOVEMBER 17, 2015 <br />TITLE: <br />LEASE AGREEMENT WITH RIO WEST LLC <br />FOR WESTEND SUBSTATION OFFICE <br />{STRATEGIC PLAN NO.1, 1F} <br />RECOMMENDED ACTION <br />CLERK OF COUNCIL USE ONLY: <br />/_1 a U ZiIT /iii] <br />❑ As Recommended <br />❑ As Amended <br />❑ Ordinance on 1s' Reading <br />❑ Ordinance on 2ntl Reading <br />❑ Implementing Resolution <br />❑ Set Public Hearing For <br />CONTINUED TO <br />[ -11-Al fflff,00 <br />Authorize the City Manager and Clerk of the Council to enter into a one -year lease agreement <br />with Rio West, LLC, for period of November 1, 2015 to October 31, 2016, for the use of the <br />Westend Substation located at 3750 W. McFadden Unit I in an amount not to exceed $29,664, <br />subject to non - substantive changes approved by the City Manager and City Attorney. <br />DISCUSSION <br />The Santa Ana Police Department has operated the Westend Substation located at the corner of <br />Harbor and McFadden for over 17 years. This location has become a community engagement <br />center and is well known to area residents. During this engagement, the Department entered into <br />a recurring no cost lease with the owner that has equated to a monetary of savings to the City of <br />well over $400,000. Based on changing economic conditions the owner is no longer able to offer <br />this space at no cost. <br />This one -year agreement will allow the Police Department to continue our "Community Oriented <br />Policing" mission with area residents with no interruption of services. As the location has been in <br />use for many years, an expensive infrastructure has already been established and an <br />examination of relocation costs found it to be cost prohibitive to move the substation this year. <br />The Police Department intends to seek out alternative locations for the substation in the future to <br />lower costs and ensure limited impact to the residents the substation serves. <br />STRATEGIC PLAN ALIGNMENT <br />Approval of this item supports the City's efforts to meet Goal #1 Community Safety, Objective #1 <br />(Modernize the Community Policing philosophy to improve customer service, crime prevention <br />and traffic / pedestrian / bicycle safety), Strategy F (Enhance the Police Department's community <br />policing philosophy to balance both traditional policing and problem solving strategies to address <br />and reduce violent, property and gang related crimes.) <br />25F -1 <br />