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HomeMy WebLinkAboutMINUTES - 10252005 - C79 • Contra �'�� Costa County TO: REDEVELOPMENT AGENCY FROM: John Sweeten Executive Director DATE: October 25,2005 SUBJECT: Pleasant Hill BART Parking Structure SPECIFIC REQUEST(S)OR RECOMMENDATIONS(S)&BACKGROUND AND JUSTIFICATION RECOMMENDATIONS APPROVE&AUTHORIZE the Redevelopment Director to execute a Second Amendment to Public Improvements Design Funding Agreement with Pleasant Hill Transit Village Associates, LLC, to increase the payment limit by $500,000 to a new payment limit of $1,500,000 for design, engineering, and related work for the BART patron replacement parking structure, Pleasant Hill/Contra Costa Centre BART Station Area. FISCAL IMPACT None. No general funds are involved, The Agency has budgeted funds for the Parking Structure project. The recommended action will allow the Agency, BART,and the developer(Pleasant Hill Transit Village Associates,LLC formed by Millennium Partners)to continue final design work to construct a replacement parking structure beginning in 2006. This action is a precedent step to positioning the County for general fund returns in an amount estimated in excess of$500 million over the next 100 years. BACKGROUND On September 9,2003 the Board of Supervisors,acting in its capacity as the legislative body for the County,and as the governing Board of the Redevelopment Agency, approved the establishment of a joint powers agency with the Bay Area Rapid Transit District(BART). The JPA,the Pleasant Hill BART Station Leasing Authority,will be the legal entity that will enter into a ground lease with the Millennium Partners development entity— Pleasant Hill Transit Village LLC. The JPA Agreement,among other things provides for the Redevelopment Agency to pay for the costs of the BART Replacement Parking program. In order to move this program forward in an expeditious fashion the Agency, by its action of May 11,2004, agreed to fund preliminary design and engineering.A First Amendment was approved on January 18,2005. This Second Amendment will allow the parties to complete the final design and for the JPA to confirm that the costs of the parking structure will be within the range provided for in the JPA Agreement. In order to move to construction of the BART Replacement parking Garage in early 2006 the Agency has been requested to provide additional funding for the final design development phase. The recommended action will allow the parking garage final design/engineering to progress in a timely fashion, CONTINUED ON ATTACHMENT: X YES SIGNATURE: RECOMMENDATION OF EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR CO MENDATI OF AGENCY CO ITTEE �(PPROVE OTHER SIGNATURE(S): ACTION a, 4 OF AGENCY ON 10 125 1 OG APPROVED AS RE OMMENDED O HER V VOTE OF COMM STONERS I HEREBY CERTIFY THAT THIS IS A UNANIMOUS(ABSENT TRUE AND CORRECT COPY OF AN AYES: NOES: ACTION TAKEN AND ENTERED ON THE ABSENT: ABSTAIN: MINUTES OF THE REDEVELOPMENT AGENCY ON THE DATE SHOWN. Contact: Jim Kennedy 335-1255 ATTESTED_.i �� IR orig: Redevelopment Agency cc: County Administrator's Office JOHN SWEETEN County Counsel AGENCY SECRETARY Auditor-Controller Community Development Via: Redevelopment Agency *BART B& DEPUTY *Millennium Partners 0 Goldfarb&Lipman G:\CDBG-REDEV\redev\LNoble\Personal\Board Orders and G reenies\BOAR D.RDA.parkingstructu res.1 0.05.doc