8B
Date: June 17, 2025
To: Honorable Mayor and Members of the City Council
From: Danny E. Santana, Assistant City Manager | [email protected] Subject: Material Available #1 for Agenda Item 8B
DISCUSSION
Please see attached RESOLUTION which was not readily available at the time that the agenda was posted.
The City Manager still recommends that the City Council adopt the CEQA Categorical Exemption per Guideline Section 15301, approve the security agreement, adopt the associated RESOLUTION and approve the Second Amendment to Lease.
ATTACHMENT
1. Resolution
1 RESOLUTION NO. 2025
A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE
CITY OF TORRANCE DETERMINING CERTAIN
CITY-OWNED PROPERTY NOT REQUIRED FOR
CITY PURPOSES AND THAT LEASING THE
PROPERTY IS IN THE PUBLIC INTEREST.
WHEREAS, the City of Torrance (CITY) is the owner in fee of approximately 14-acres of real property (PROPERTY) located at for reference purposes 2600 Skypark Drive; and WHEREAS, the PROPERTY has been leased since August 1, 2004 pursuant to the lease dated July 27, 2004 (as subsequently amended) and is currently developed with an aerospace light industrial building and ancillary structures that compromise portions of the Torrance Municipal Airport Parcel 7377-006-906; and WHEREAS, the lease of the PROPERTY by CITY has and will continue to benefit the CITY by providing services, jobs, and revenue to the CITY; and WHEREAS, as a part of an overall settlement of litigation between the City and Hi-Shear Corporation (“Consent Decree”) over environmental contamination on and migrating from the PROPERTY, and effective upon final approval of the U.S. District Court of the Consent Decree, the CITY has negotiated an amendment (AMENDMENT) to the lease of the PROPERTY with HI-SHEAR CORPORATION (LESSEE) that provides the best ECONOMIC CONSIDERATIONS OF THE CITY given the additional public benefits that will result from market adjustments to minimum base rent, signing fee payment, additional percentage rent increases and additional fair market valuations over the extended term that will BENEFIT THE PUBLIC in the form of continued local employment and rental revenue to fund public services; and
NOW THEREFORE, THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF TORRANCE HEREBY FINDS AND DETERMINES AS FOLLOWS:
1. That, pursuant to the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA), the Second Amendment to Lease is exempt under CEQA (2025) Categorical Exemption 15301, Class 1 – Existing Facilities, as the subject request is the letting of property involving existing facilities with no expansion of an existing use currently planned; and
2. That the PROPERTY is not required for CITY purposes; and
3. That it is in the BEST INTERESTS of the public and the City that the non-competitive bid AMENDMENT between the CITY and HI-SHEAR CORPORATION be executed by the City and delivered to the LESSEE as it represents a substantial immediate revenue increase and additional on-going rental revenue growth for the City; and
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4. That the pursuant to CALIFORNIA GOVERNMENT CODE SECTION 37280 (b)(1) the subject AMENDMENT percentage rent provisions allow for City rental revenue to respond to market conditions without the necessity of discretionary review by a City officer; and
5. That the AMENDMENT, by its own terms, will not become unless and until the Consent Decree entered into between the City and Hi-Shear Corporation over environmental contamination on and migrating from the PROPERTY, has been finally approved by the U.S. District Court; and
6. That the Mayor is authorized to execute the AMENDMENT on behalf of the CITY and the City Clerk shall attest to the Mayor’s signature and deliver the AMENDMENT to the LESSEE.
INTRODUCED, APPROVED AND ADOPTED this 17th day of June 2025.
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George K. Chen
Mayor
ATTEST:
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Rebecca Poirier, MMC
City Clerk
APPROVED AS TO FORM:
PATRICK Q. SULLIVAN
CITY ATTORNEY
By__________________________________
Tatia Y. Strader
Assistant City Attorney
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