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City of San Leandro <br />Meeting Date: March 16, 2015 <br />Oral/Discussion Item <br />Agenda Section:File Number:15-087 ACTION ITEMS <br />Agenda Number:10.A. <br />TO:City Council <br />FROM:Chris Zapata <br />City Manager <br />BY:Keith Cooke <br />Acting Engineering & Transportation Director <br />FINANCE REVIEW:Not Applicable <br />TITLE:Staff Report for an Update on the Status of the Selection Process for a <br />Potential Lessee of the Theater at the Helen Lawrence Building <br />SUMMARY AND RECOMMENDATIONS <br />This report is for information only. <br />BACKGROUND <br />The theatre at the Helen Lawrence Building at 999 East 14th Street was leased by the <br />California Conservatory Theatre (CCT) from 1998 until 2012. In October 2012, Curtain Call <br />Performing Arts, Inc. (CCPA) was added as a party to CCT’s lease due to financial difficulties <br />that prevented CCT from fulfilling its lease obligations of providing fifty live theatrical <br />productions per calendar year. Upon expiration of the original lease term, in June 2013, the <br />City entered into a five year lease with CCPA, with the continued mandate to provide fifty live <br />theatrical productions per year. <br />In February 2014, staff received information that the theatre was vacated and CCPA posted <br />notice on its website that it closed and ceased operations in January 2014. Staff sent <br />correspondence to CCPA’s Executive Director, Andrea Gorham (who was the only signatory <br />on the theatre lease) on February 14th and March 5th to confirm CCPA’s status and its <br />intentions for the lease. Staff received responses on February 27th and March 27th to these <br />inquiries from Dan Dillman on behalf of CCPA, although Mr. Dillman was not a party to the <br />lease nor identified by CCPA as a member of the organization’s leadership or its Board of <br />Directors. Staff never received return correspondence from Ms. Gorham. On April 14, 2014, <br />due to abandonment of premises and default of the lease terms, notice was sent to Ms. <br />Gorham that the City was terminating the lease with CCPA. CCPA was notified it had until <br />May 15, 2014 to remove from the premises any fixtures, furnishings and other personal <br />property. The theater has been vacant ever since. <br />DISCUSSION <br />Page 1 City of San Leandro Printed on 3/11/2015