To: Board of Supervisors
From: Warren Lai, Public Works Director/Chief Engineer
Report Title: Approve and authorize the Public Works Director, or designee, to approve and authorize relocation payments and to execute relocation claims to relocate Fred Finch Youth Center, 2523 El Portal Drive, San Pablo.
?Recommendation of the County Administrator ? Recommendation of Board Committee
RECOMMENDATIONS:
APPROVE and AUTHORIZE the Public Works Director, or designee, to approve and authorize relocation payments following allowable relocation claims by Fred Finch Youth Center, in an amount not to exceed $72,000, in connection with the County's acquisition of 2523 El Portal Drive, San Pablo for a mental health urgent care and therapeutic residential facility.
FISCAL IMPACT:
100% Realignment Funds. The allowable relocation claims are not expected to exceed $72,000.
BACKGROUND:
The County acquired the real property located at 2523 El Portal Drive, in San Pablo, (the "Property") for the operation of a mental health urgent care facility and a therapeutic residential facility for behavioral health clients, in recognition of the County's need to increase the number of its urgent care and longer-term residential treatment facilities, both secure and voluntary, for adults with serious mental illness.
Due to the County's acquisition of the property, the existing tenant, Fred Finch Youth Center, will be required to relocate from their current office space and is entitled to relocation assistance under the Uniform Relocation Assistance and Real Property Acquisition Policies Act of 1970, as amended also referred to as the Uniform Act. The Uniform Act requires the County to provide financial assistance to the displaced business to help offset any moving and related expenses and costs to reestablish its business.
The Uniform Act specifies what kinds of relocation claims are reimbursable and the level of reimbursement allowed. The Public Works Director, or designee, will rev...
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