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Final Passage of Ordinance Approving a Lease with Friends of the Alameda Animal Shelter (FAAS). (City Manager 2110)
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CITY OF ALAMEDA ORDINANCE NO. ______
New Series
APPROVING A LEASE WITH FRIENDS OF ALAMEDA ANIMAL SHELTRE, LOCATED AT 1590 FORTMANN WAY ALAMEDA CALIFORNIA
WHEREAS, the City and Friends of Alameda Animal Shelter (FAAS) entered into a 15 year contract for animal care services which included lease of a City owned building at 1590 Fortmann Way, Alameda, CA, starting in January 2011; and
WHEREAS, in early 2016, four years into the contract, FAAS approached the City indicating they were having financial difficulties and asked if the City could provide additional funding; and
WHEREAS, in August of 2016, FAAS provided the City with a revised contract proposal; and
WHEREAS, on June 6, 2017 City Council approved a new business arrangement with FAAS documented through two agreements, an Alameda Animal Shelter Services Agreement and a separate Lease Agreement; and
WHEREAS, the base rent over the twenty four (24) month of the lease is $1 per year; and
WHEREAS, the Lease Agreement contains a two-year extension option.
NOW THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED by the City Council of the City of Alameda that by four affirmative votes that:
Section 1. The City Manager of the City of Alameda or her designee is hereby authorized to negotiate, execute, for and on behalf of the City of Alameda, a lease with Friends of Alameda Animal Shelter, Inc. a California nonprofit public benefit corporation for 1590 Fortmann Way for two years with one two-year option to renew, subject to such technical or clarifying revisions as are reasonably determined necessary by the City Manager and approved by the City Attorney, and the City Clerk is hereby authorized and directed to attest to the same.
Section 2. If any section, subsection, sentence, clause or phrase of this ordinance if, for any reason, held to be invalid or unconstitutional, such decision shall not affect the validity or constitutionality of the remaining portions of this ordinance. The City Council of the City of Alameda hereby declares that it would have passed this ordinance, and each section, subsections, clause, or phrase hereof, irrespective of the fact that any one or more sections, subsections, sentences, clauses and phrases are declared to be invalid and unconstitutional.
Section 3. This ordinance shall be in full force and effect from and after the expiration of thirty (30) days from the date of its final passage.
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Presiding Officer of the City Council
Attest:
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Lara Weisiger, City Clerk
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I, the undersigned, hereby certify that the foregoing Ordinance was duly and regularly adopted and passed by the Council of the City of Alameda in a regular meeting assembled on the 18th day of July, 2017, by the following vote to wit:
AYES:
NOES:
ABSENT: ABSENTIONS:
IN WITNESS, WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the official seal of said City this 19th day of July, 2017.
Lara Weisiger, City Clerk
City of Alameda
APPROVED AS TO FORM:
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Janet C. Kern, City Attorney
City of Alameda