To: Honorable Mayor and Members of City Council
From: Julie Lucido, Public Works Director
Prepared By: Jeff Freitas, Property Manager
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City's Emergency Communications Site Lease
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RECOMMENDED ACTION:
Recommendation
Adopt a resolution authorizing the City Manager to finalize and execute a lease agreement with John Tuteur and Mary Holman Tuteur, Co-Trustees of the Tuteur Family Irrevocable Trust Dated 12/22/1979, for the Sugarloaf communications site located on property in Napa County (near 1393 Green Valley Rd; APN 045-350-004), for operation of the City's emergency communications system at an initial rental rate of $32,000.00 per year, with an annual CPI adjustment, for an initial term of five years with options to extend for an additional twenty-five years; and determining that the actions authorized by this resolution are exempt from CEQA.
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DISCUSSION:
The City of Napa has an existing communications site in the rural southeast part of Napa County, at the Solano County line and known as "Sugarloaf," where the City's 911 emergency communications are routed. The site is accessed by use of a private road, contains approximately 40,000 square feet (.92 acre) in size, and is improved with a small concrete block building, a communications tower, and related communications equipment necessary to operate the City's communication system.
The existing site has been under lease with the Tuteur family since 1966 pursuant to City Agreement No. 1387. The lease, which was also recorded June 22, 1966 in Volume 748 at page 485, Napa County Official Records, had an initial term of 20 years but has been amended and extended over the years by the City exercising its options to extend the lease. The City has no more options to extend the existing lease.
The proposed lease will allow the City to continue operating its communication site in its present location in substantially the same manner that the City has operated the communications site f...
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