Title
Authorize the Resource Management Agency Director to issue a Request for Proposals (Referral Number 2017.15) seeking proposals for the adaptive reuse of the Old Monterey County Jail, 142 W. Alisal Street, Salinas from qualified interested parties.
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RECOMMENDATION:
It is recommended that the Board of Supervisors authorize the Resource Management Agency Director to issue a Request for Proposals (Referral Number 2017.15) seeking proposals for the adaptive reuse of the Old Monterey County Jail, 142 W. Alisal Street, Salinas from qualified interested parties.
SUMMARY
The RMA received referral number 2017.15 from Supervisor Alejo dated August 29, 2017 for a resolution to approve a Request for Proposals (RFP) for adaptive reuse of the historic Old Monterey County Jail at 142 W. Alisal Street (sometimes referred to as "facility" or "building"). The site is historic as the location where farmworker leader Cesar Chavez was incarcerated in 1970. The RFP would require respondents to economically analyze, plan, direct, program, finance, construct and lease out the facility.
There have been numerous planning meetings with the public and a major feasibility study, the Adaptive Reuse Feasibility Study, Old Monterey County Jail was completed by Page and Turnbull on October 28, 2014 and expanded in 2015 (hereafter, "feasibility study"). That feasibility study identified nine (9) options for adaptive reuse. A copy of the feasibility study is available by request or at the following location: http://www.co.monterey.ca.us/Home/ShowDocument?id=12387. Following months of seeking key community stakeholder responses to the adaptive reuse options proposed by the feasibility study, the Board of Supervisors selected Scheme 9 (removal of the Jail) for the purposes of establishing a project description suitable for pursuing an Environmental Impact Report (EIR). The EIR would include an environmental analysis for the removal of the Old Monterey County Jail and replaceme...
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