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Agenda Item
P.-16 19-1695 Approval by the Board of Education of Lease Agreement between the District and The City of Oakland, Head Start Program, Oakland, CA, for the latter to lease classrooms 1, 2 and 3 at Brookfield Elementary School, 401 Jones Avenue, Oakland, CA 94603, to house and operate a Head Start program serving infants, toddlers, and preschoolers, and their families, and to serve as office/meeting space for staff and families, with payment to District of $1 per month for 12 months plus $18,048.00 for Improvements to premises and Custodial services, for the period August 1, 2019 through June 30, 2020.
As much as I support Head Start, I believe they should pay fair rent. Here is another OUSD give away that can't be stopped because the lease year already started. One dollar per month and OUSD picks up the utliities even! The improvements are not specified: are they something that OUSD can use? How can you ask the public to pay for more bond money and potentially endorse more leasing of OUSD property when you do not assure the current agreements actually benefit the district's finances.
As much as I support Head Start, I believe they should pay fair rent. Here is another OUSD give away that can't be stopped because the lease year already started. One dollar per month and OUSD picks up the utliities even! The improvements are not specified: are they something that OUSD can use? How can you ask the public to pay for more bond money and potentially endorse more leasing of OUSD property when you do not assure the current agreements actually benefit the district's finances.