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(See Companion Resolution CDC/2006-37)
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RESOLUTION NO. 2006-301
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RESOLUTION OF THE MAYOR AND COMMON COUNCIL OF THE CITY
OF SAN BERNARDINO SUPPORTING THE CONSTRUCTION BY THE
STATE OF CALIFORNIA OF A NEW JUSTICE CENTER AND
COURTHOUSE FACILITY ('PROJECT) AND THE CONTRIBUTION OF
THE NECESSARY LAND OWNED BY THE REDEVELOPMENT AGENCY
OF THE CITY OF SAN BERNARDINO LOCATED AT 247 WEST 3RD
STREET, DOWNTOWN SAN BERNARDINO, WITHIN THE CENTRAL
CITY EAST REDEVELOPMENT PROJECT AREA, TO FACILITATE
DEVELOPMENT OF THE PROJECT
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9 WHEREAS, the present Courthouse facility for the Superior Court of the County of San
10 Bernardino, Main Branch, is located at 351 North Arrowhead Avenue and was constructed in 1927
11 as an unreinforced masonry structure and consists of several courtrooms in the original structure
12 thereof (the "San Bernardino Courthouse"); and
13 WHEREAS, additional courtrooms were constructed after 1927 as a then modern addition
14 to the San Bernardino Courthouse to better serve the public and the residents of the County of San
15 Bernardino, and such addition has since fallen into a state of disrepair and is in dire need of seismic
16 retrofit and major structural upgrades for its continued use as a public facility; and
17 WHEREAS, a grant from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (in addition to other
18 funding sources) has been obtained by the County of San Bernardino in the amount of $5,000,000
19 to provide funds for the seismic retrofit to the San Bernardino Courthouse as required for a public
20 use facility, and the County of San Bernardino has commenced the preparation of engineering and
21 architectural plans and specifications in connection with such upgrade; and
22 WHEREAS, both the City of San Bernardino (the "City") and the Redevelopment Agency
23 of the City of San Bernardino (the "Agency") have a successful history of working in cooperation
24 with the State of California to maintain State offices in the downtown area of the City in
2S furtherance of the State providing more cost effective services to the residents of the State and to
26 promote economic development and redevelopment opportunities for the Agency within the
27 downtown area of the City; and
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1 WHEREAS, commencing in 1993, the State through the Department of General Services
2 ("DGS") and the California Department of Transportation ("Caltrans") initiated the process to
3 consolidate State offices from outlying locations to a single site within the area of the downtown
4 San Bernardino commonly referred to as the "SuperBlock" on "E" and 4th Streets, downtown San
5 Bernardino, for which the Agency had acquired land during a 20 year period of time and initiated
6 the architectural and engineering design and site planning efforts for two (2) high rise State office
7 buildings, and appurtenant parking structures, to encourage the consolidation of DGS State office
8 tenants and Caltrans offices into a single downtown San Bernardino location; and
9 WHEREAS, as part of the incentives offered by the Agency to the State to encourage the
10 development of new State office facilities in downtown San Bernardino in the "SuperBlock" and to
11 reuse obsolete State office facilities, the Agency agreed to (i) acquire the former Caltrans building
12 site located at 247 West 3'd Street with the structures demolished and the site cleared (the "Former
13 Caltrans Site") and (ii) assist a developer with a financial loan package to acquire and remediate
14 environmental issues with the former DGS State office building located at 303 West 3'd Street (the
15 "303 Building"), and such actions of the Agency effectively expedited several levels of real estate
16 transactions required to cause the "SuperBlock" development of the State to be economically viable
17 in downtown San Bernardino; and
18 WHEREAS, in or about 2000, a San Bernardino area committee was formed comprised of
19 local community leaders, business people and elected officials who desired to assure that all
20 necessary studies were undertaken and financing options were reviewed to determine the feasibility
21 of constructing a new courthouse facility in downtown San Bernardino (the "San Bernardino
22 County Justice Center and Courthouse Facility") as such location was determined to best serve the
23 needs ofthe residents of the local community and the State; and
24 WHEREAS, the Agency and the City have intended that the Former Caltrans Site, presently
25 owned by the Agency, which is located in the block immediately across the street and to the south
26 of the San Bernardino Courthouse, should become the site of the new San Bernardino County
27 Justice Center and Courthouse Facility, and the Agency, with the concurrence of the Mayor and
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1 Common Council, intends on transferring fee title to the Former Caltrans Site to the State for the
2 construction and development of such new San Bernardino County Justice Center and Courthouse
3 Facility without cost to the State; and
4 WHEREAS, the County of San Bernardino has recently acquired the fee title ownership of
5 the 303 Building with the intent of utilizing a portion of such 303 Building for interim courtroom
6 facilities during the remodeling and seismic retrofit of the San Bernardino Courthouse and
7 thereafter to convert said 303 Building into a County of San Bernardino administrative office
8 building; and
9 WHEREAS, the San Bernardino County Justice Center and Courthouse Facility was
10 previously a low priority project for new courthouse construction when compared to other counties
11 on a State-wide basis, but as a result ofthe addition of other evaluation criteria and the inclusion of
12 a category for "Access to Justice", the San Bernardino County Justice Center and Courthouse
13 Facility ascended to the top priority group when new prioritization criteria was applied due in large
14 part to the currently recognized need for additional judges, and thus, the corresponding need for
15 additional courtrooms; and
16 WHEREAS, the Mayor and Common Council by the adoption of this Resolution do hereby
17 declare their intent to assist and support the State in the development of the San Bernardino County
18 Justice Center and Courthouse Facility on the Former Caltrans Site, currently owned by the
19 Agency, for the benefit of the residents of the City and the taxpayers of the State and to cause the
20 Agency to transfer title to the Former Caltrans Site to the State for the immediate construction and
21 development of the San Bernardino County Justice Center and Courthouse Facility.
22 NOW, THEREFORE, IT IS HEREBY RESOLVED, DETERMINED AND ORDERED BY
23 THE MAYOR AND COMMON COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SAN BERNARDINO, AS
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Section 1.
The Mayor and Common Council of the City of San Bernardino do hereby
26 confirm and ratify their intent to support the approval by the Community Development
27 Commission of the City of San Bernardino (the "Commission") of the transfer of the Former
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1 Caltrans Site, for the reasons set forth in the Recitals hereto, to the State of California for the
2 construction and development of the San Bernardino County Justice Center and Courthouse Facility
3 on such Former Caltrans Site. The Mayor and Common Council find and determine that the value
4 of such transfer to the State of California for the construction and development of the San
5 Bernardino County Justice Center and Courthouse Facility thereon has a current market value of
6 approximately $5,000,000 which dollar amount shall represent a financial contribution by the
7 Agency on behalf of the City for the purposes of the construction and development of the San
8 Bernardino County Justice Center and Courthouse Facility.
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Section 2.
The Mayor and Common Council further commit City Staff resources to
10 further the construction and development of the San Bernardino County Justice Center and
11 Courthouse Facility and to expedite the site planning process, engineering review, utility
12 connections, including City of San Bernardino water and sewer utilities, and all other development
13 related issues that may need to be addressed to cause the San Bernardino County Justice Center and
14 Courthouse Facility to be completed and to become functional in an expeditious manner.
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Section 3.
This Resolution shall take effect upon its adoption by the Mayor and
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2006-301
RESOLUTION OF THE MAYOR AND COMMON COUNCIL OF THE CITY
OF SAN BERNARDINO SUPPORTING THE CONSTRUCTION BY THE
STATE OF CALIFORNIA OF A NEW JUSTICE CENTER AND
COURTHOUSE FACILITY ('PROJECT) AND THE CONTRIBUTION OF
THE NECESSARY LAND OWNED BY THE REDEVELOPMENT AGENCY
OF THE CITY OF SAN BERNARDINO LOCATED AT 247 WEST 3RD
STREET, DOWNTOWN SAN BERNARDINO, WITHIN THE CENTRAL
CITY EAST REDEVELOPMENT PROJECT AREA, TO FACILITATE
DEVELOPMENT OF THE PROJECT
I HEREBY CERTIFY that the foregoing Resolution was duly adopted by the Mayor and
8 Common Council of the City of San Bernardino at a joint regular
9 the 21st day of
10 Council Members:
11 ESTRADA
12 BAXTER
13 VACANT
14 DERRY
15 KELLEY
16 JOHNSON
17 MC CAMMACK
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meeting thereof, held on
August
, 2006, by the following vote to wit:
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21 The foregoing resolution is hereby approved this ;:};:} ~day of August
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