RESOLUTION NO. _____________

BOARD OF SUPERVISORS, COUNTY OF SAN MATEO, STATE OF CALIFORNIA

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RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING THE PRESIDENT OF THE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS TO EXECUTE AN AMENDMENT TO THE AMENDED MEMORANDUM OF UNDERSTANDING BETWEEN THE COUNTY OF SAN MATEO AND THE FRIENDS OF HUDDART AND WUNDERLICH PARKS

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RESOLVED, by the Board of Supervisors of the County of San Mateo, State of California, that:

 

WHEREAS, the County and Friends previously entered into an Amended Memorandum of Understanding on October 21, 2008 (“Amended MOU”) to document and memorialize their mutual intent to cooperatively work to oversee completion of the Folger Stable Renovation and implementation of ongoing public and equestrian programs at the Stable Building and to allow Friends to enter County property and to perform the renovation work; and

 

WHEREAS, in paragraph C. of Section V. Restoration Project of the Amended MOU, the County agreed to contribute specific in-kind services to the renovation project unless otherwise agreed by the parties; and

 

WHEREAS, the parties desire to modify the Amended MOU to add a paragraph D to Section V to allow the County, at its sole option, through the County Parks Director, to contribute in-kind services and/or funding not to exceed $500,000 as it has come to the County’s attention that the Friends, through its contractor, are able to perform certain specific items of work, which are County’s responsibility under the existing Amended MOU, much more efficiently and cost-effectively than could the County by bidding and procuring the work through a separate contract; and

 

WHEREAS, the work described by the Amended MOU as County responsibility is being done as part of the larger project being donated to County by Friends, economies of scale dictate that seeking bids for this work as a separate contract would not produce an advantage to the County or serve any purpose, as a better price could not be secured for this work.

 

WHEREAS, this proposed Amendment to the Amended MOU provides for either in-kind services and funding up to $500,000 from the County in fulfillment of County’s responsibility for certain tasks listed in the Amended MOU as items 1 through 7 under paragraph C of Section V. Restoration Project, as specifically described in the Amendment; and

 

WHEREAS, there is $300,000 in the Wunderlich Park Trust Fund, from which funds for checks payable to the Friends to pay its contractor to perform work at County’s discretion, through the Parks Director, for items 1-7 as referenced as County’s responsibility will be issued from that Fund; and

 

WHEREAS, the County and the Friends mutually desire to enter into this Amendment to the Amended MOU regarding renovation and operation of the Folger Stable Building; and

 

WHEREAS, this Board has been presented with a form of such amendment and said Board has examined and approved same as to both form and content and desires to enter into the amendment.

 

NOW, THEREFORE, IT IS HEREBY DETERMINED AND ORDERED that the Board of Supervisors authorizes the President of the Board to execute the Amendment to the Amended Memorandum of Understanding between the County of San Mateo and the Friends of Huddart and Wunderlich Parks; and the Clerk of this Board shall attest his signature thereto.

 

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