DEPARTMENT: Building and Equipment Services
DEPARTMENT HEAD: Jorge A. Perez
COUNCIL DISTRICTS IMPACTED: 1
SUBJECT:
Health Department - 4th Renewal and Extension of Lease Agreement with Schaffer Properties - 814 McCullough
SUMMARY:
This ordinance authorizes the execution of the Fourth Renewal and Extension of Lease Agreement with Schaffer Properties and the City of San Antonio for the continued use by the San Antonio Metropolitan Health District (SAMHD) for property located at 814 McCullough Avenue for a one-year term, effective December 1, 2013, at the annual rental amount of $97,200.00. The City will have the option to terminate the lease without cause upon 60-days notice.
BACKGROUND INFORMATION:
Since 1997 under the auspices of the SAMHD's Tuberculosis (TB) Control Project the City has provided clinical and health prevention services at the subject building. The TB Control Project, funded primarily through grants from the Texas Department of Health, operates a clinic within this 5,400 square foot facility for the diagnosis, treatment and prevention of tuberculosis, and has an active therapy staff that delivers daily doses of prescribed TB medications to patients.
In an effort to enhance service delivery to constituents with TB needs or populations susceptible to TB, SAMHD has been pursing alternative methods of reaching out to the community most in need of these services. Those efforts have indicated that a clinic located in the south east quadrant of San Antonio would be more suitable for this program. As a result, a facility has been identified at the Texas Center for Infectious Diseases on SE Military Highway that is suitable and discussions are underway with the State to relocate these functions with the expectation that Council consideration of a lease for that facility will be presented in the near future. In the meantime, we have negotiated a short term tenancy to allow SAMHD to operate from the subject bu...
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