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Subcommittee narrows Prop 39 lease terms, asks attorney to clarify repair and fire-watch language
Summary
Subcommittee members reviewed attorney Eric Stevens’s feedback on a draft Proposition 39 facilities lease for an Agua Dulce charter site and recommended shortening the proposed lease term to two years with renewal options while asking for clearer maintenance timelines and fire-watch language tied to California code.
S5 summarized subcommittee suggestions and attorney Eric Stevens’s feedback on the Prop 39 draft lease, including a timeline for the annual Prop 39 process: “November 1 … February 1 … April 1,” and explained that the Agua Dulce site is subject to Prop 39 obligations.
S5 described several amendment requests from the earlier draft: reduce the proposed six-year lease term to 12 months with renewal options, reconsider a maintenance cost-recovery model, clarify responsibility for timelines on repairs, and add explicit language tying a 24-hour fire watch to the California fire code during system impairments. S5 reported Mr. Stevens’s counsel that a 12-month term may create operational and financial instability for a charter school and that the attorney prefers at least a two-year term: “The recommendation from the subcommittee currently is 2 years with an option of renewal.”
The committee debated maintenance and operations arrangements. Mr. Stevens reportedly recommended reverting to the district’s prior maintenance approach rather than an explicit cost-recovery model for routine custodial and vendor services. The subcommittee asked staff to return language to Mr. Stevens for clarity on Prop 39 compliance, timelines for repairs, and fire-watch triggers tied to the California fire code.
Next steps: staff will work with the attorney to refine lease language (term length, maintenance responsibilities, fire-watch language) and return with a revised draft for the subcommittee and eventual board consideration.
