Special Notice / Hearing: None__
Vote Required: Majority
To: Honorable Board of Supervisors
From: Michael P. Callagy, County Executive
Subject: Agreement with San Mateo County Historical Association
RECOMMENDATION:
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Adopt a resolution authorizing an agreement with the San Mateo County Historical Association ("Association") for architectural and engineering work on the Carriage House, for the term of June 1, 2022 through June 30, 2023 for an amount not to exceed $40,620.31.
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BACKGROUND:
The County is the owner of the San Mateo County History Museum ("Museum") previously known as the Old Courthouse, located at 2200 Broadway Street, in Redwood City. As approved and authorized by this Board under Resolution No. 59166, the County has leased the Museum to the Association since March 1995, for a term of 30 years, and the Association operates the Museum. The Association was granted the authority to expand the Museum by constructing a carriage museum ("Carriage House") adjacent to the existing Museum building. The Carriage House will be a 3-story, 15,000 square foot building. It will include a ground floor gallery for changing carriage and automotive exhibits, a second floor dedicated to the permanent display of the Museum's Brewster Carriage collection, and a roof-top terrace that can be used for public events.
To support construction of the Carriage House, on December 10, 2019, this Board approved an agreement with the Association (Resolution No. 077119) to provide funding for pre-construction work associated with the Carriage House in an amount not to exceed Four Hundred Thousand Seventy-Five Dollars and Zero Cents ($475,000.00) for the term December 10, 2019, through December 31, 2021 (the "first agreement"). In addition, on September 14, 2021, this Board approved a second agreement with the Association (Resolution No. 078376) to provide funding for architectural and engineering costs associated with the Carriage House in an amo...
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