DATE: July 8, 2025
TO: Board of Supervisors
SUBMITTED BY: Steven E. White, Director
Department of Public Works and Planning
SUBJECT: Retroactive and Proposed Modifications to Two County-Funded Affordable Housing Properties in Mendota, CA
RECOMMENDED ACTION(S):
TITLE
1. Retroactively authorize and ratify the Director's execution of the "Consent by Lender/Lienholder" on December 20, 2021, which was used to execute a Facilities Use Agreement for the Mendota RAD property (recorded on April 17, 2024 as Document No. 2024-0034756, Original Records Fresno County) on behalf of the Housing Authority of Fresno County, California and its affiliates Mendota RAD, LP and Mendota Esperanza Commons, LP, and benefitting the residents of the Mendota Esperanza Commons property by enabling them to utilize the Community Room on the Mendota RAD property for 15 years ($0);
2. Approve and authorize the Chairman to execute the "Omnibus Agreement Restating Legal Description" to revise the legal description of the Mendota Esperanza Commons property in multiple previously executed and/or recorded documents including Mendota RAD to consent to the Facilities Use Agreement, modify the legal description of the land to include only the parcel of property occupied by the Mendota Esperanza Commons project's buildings, and remove from the project's legal descriptions two non-project parcels ($0);
3. Approve and authorize the Chairman to execute the "Substitution of Trustee and Partial Reconveyance" to facilitate the release of two non-project parcels (1.74 acres) from the Mendota Esperanza Commons project using a combined parcel value ($114,018) identified in a 2022 appraisal at the request of and benefitting the Housing Authority of Fresno County California through its affiliated Limited Partnership ($0); and
4. Delegate authority to the Director of Public Works, or his designee, to approve any further documents necessary to close the construction loan for Mendota Esperanza Commons and eff...
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