Achievement House, which helps the developmentally disabled, expected to get contract to handle concessions at county facility
A
nonprofit aimed at helping the developmentally disabled will take over
the concession stand at San Luis Obispo County Regional Airport, should
the Board of Supervisors give the go-ahead Tuesday.
Airport
officials are recommending that Achievement House get the job after the
contract of concessionaire Alexis Enterprises expires in January.
Alexis has been the second concessionaire since 2006.
Airport
Manager Richard Howell said Alexis owners had told him they didn’t have
time to manage this as well as their several other business operations.
Among its other goals, Achievement House seeks to develop workplace skills, according to Howell.
He
said the group already operates food and beverage concessions at Camp
Roberts, the Laguna Lake Golf Course, Atascadero’s Colony Park and the
Santa Maria Transportation Hub.
Because the location
will have an Achievement House staff member on hand, the concession will
have two people to serve the public rather than the current single
clerk. That will increase the level of service to customers, Howell
wrote in a staff report to the Board of Supervisors.
“A real win-win situation for everyone,” Howell told The Tribune in an email.
The
county plans to give the nonprofit a break on its first-year rent. It
is inserting a contract provision that says it won’t have to pay rent
for any month when gross receipts are less than $15,000, a figure it
does not expect the concessionaire to reach.
After
Alexis, which took over the snack bar and gift shop in 2010, said it
would not renew its contract, the county sought someone else to run the
operation, which Howell describes as “popular and needed.”
Achievement House was the only one to step up.
The
Board of Supervisors meeting begins at 9 a.m. at the county government
center, 1055 Monterey St., San Luis Obispo. It has placed this contract
on its so-called “consent agenda,” which is where it puts
noncontroversial items it does not intend to discuss.
Story: http://www.sanluisobispo.com
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