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Consider recommendations regarding the Transitions Growing Grounds II Lease at Foster Road, located in Santa Maria, ORES Folio No. 003343, Fifth District, as follows:
a) Determine that the services provided to seriously mentally ill adult clients of Santa Barbara County by Transitions Mental Health Association (TMHA) are necessary to meet the social needs of the County, and that TMHA therefore qualifies for a rent subsidy pursuant to Government Code §26227;
b) Determine that the County-owned unimproved property located at the corner of California and Foster Roads, in the City of Santa Maria, within the County of Santa Barbara, will not be needed for County purposes in the foreseeable future; and
c) Approve and authorize the Chair to execute a Ground Lease Agreement between Transitions Mental Health Association and the County of Santa Barbara granting TMHA the right to lease a portion of approximately 2 acres of County-owned unimproved property located at the Foster Road Campus, APN 111-230-004, for the purpose of a farming operation that will provide a structured, supervised environment to enable seriously mentally ill adult clients of Santa Barbara County for a period of approximately five (5) years from the date of approval through August 1, 2014, at no cost to the County of Santa Barbara.