Oxnard-- The Community Services, Public Safety, Housing & Development Committee, Tuesday, June 14, approved license agreement A-8457 for the Oxnard Housing Authority to operate the property at 1500 Camino Del Sol.
THE agreement is for $564,000 and has a five-year term for the Multi-Service Center. The committee also authorized an increase in the operational subsidy to $184,000 for the current fiscal year to cover financial losses at the location.
The funding will help the $22,000 monthly operating cost, groundskeeping, general services, plumbing, electrical, heating, air conditioning, and other expenses.
Housing Programs Manager Brenda Lopez said the Muti-Service Center was originally leased to the Oxnard Housing Authority in 1994 to implement the Family Investment Center (FIC)), a five-year program by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). It allowed the Housing Authority to provide programs that provided participants with self-proficiency skills.
“When the program ended, the Housing Authority signed a new lease agreement and continued to operate the building,” she said. “It was determined that it was more cost-efficient for the Housing Authority to do so than the city.”
For the past two decades, she said the building served as the operational base for the Resident Services Program,…
