Memorandum
Date: March 26, 2024
To: The Honorable Bruno Sabatier, Chair, Lake County Board of Supervisors
From: Lars Ewing, Public Services Director
Subject: A) Receive Update on Armory Repurposing Project and Provide Direction to Staff for Next Steps
B) Consideration of Amendment Two to the Agreement between the County of Lake and Dewberry Architects, Inc., for Architectural Engineering Design Services
Background
In April 2022, your Board approved the final amendment to the property exchange agreement with the State of California for a land swap of vacant County-owned property in Clearlake in exchange for the California Army National Guard Armory adjacent to the Hill Road Correctional Facility in Lakeport. The armory had been vacant since approximately 2016 as part of a cost-reduction program for the National Guard. The property exchange was intended to provide a dual public benefit - to help meet affordable housing needs through a future housing development on the land in Clearlake, and to provide the Lake County Sheriff's Department with an expanded space and an improved operations and administration center location.
In April 2023 your Board approved an architectural engineering agreement with Dewberry Architects for the design of an adaptive reuse of the armory for the Sheriff's Department. Dewberry's initial scope of work was to complete the preliminary phase of design, which included an evaluation of the existing armory building, analysis of Lake County Sheriff's Department operations and staffing levels, and recommended future staffing and facility needs to accommodate community growth projections over a 20-30 year projection. Renovation recommendations were then developed to incorporate best practices related to law enforcement facility design and in support of the Lake County Sheriff's Department mission. Specific design deliverables from Dewberry included a facility assessment, a staffing needs analysis, a space needs program, three conceptual ...
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