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The
Fort Ord Reuse Authority (FORA is governed by a board of 13 voting
board members as follows: three members of the Monterey County Board
of Supervisors, two city council members each from the cities of
Marina and Seaside, ad one city council member each from the cities
of Carmel, Del Rey Oaks, Sand City, Monterey, Pacific Grove and
Salinas. |
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The
FORA Board includes ex-officio non-voting members as follows:
Congressman Sam Farr, State Senator Bruce McPherson, Assemblyman
Fred Keeley, Transportation Agency of Monterey County (TAMC),
Monterey Peninsula Unified School District (MPUSD), University
of California (UC), California State University (CSU), US Army,
Monterey Peninsula College (MPC), and Monterey Salinas Transit
(MST).
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FORA's
mission is to prepare, adopt, finance, and implement a Base Reuse
Plan. |
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FORA
is also the authorized recipient of property (5300 acres) to be
used for economic redevelopment purposes under federal law (Economic
Development Conveyance) or "EDC". |
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Most
of the land at the former Fort Ord base is currently still under
the jurisdiction of the U.S. Department of the Army. |
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Land
formerly under military control can be conveyed through a Public
Benefit Conveyance (PBC) to state and local government agencies
and to non-profit institutions that benefit the public. These agencies
and institutions can receive the property at no or low cost. |
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Property
has already been directly conveyed (or agreed to conveyance) by
the Army to the California State University system as an EDC for
CSU-Monterey Bay; to the University of California as an EDC for
UC-Monterey Bay Science and Technology Center (UCMBEST); to the
City of Marina as a PBC for its municipal airport; and to the California
Department of Parks and Recreation as a PBC for creation of the
Fort Ord Dunes State Park. Several homeless service providers have
received property through Public Benefit Conveyances. The
City of Seaside has purchased the two existing golf courses from
the Army. |
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About
two-thirds (63%) of the former Fort Ord is being or has been conveyed
to the Bureau of Land Management, partially for habitat management. |
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A
portion of the former military base will remain under Army control
(Presidio of Monterey Annex). |
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The
balance of properties being planned for reuse through FORA are within
the city limits of the cities of Del Rey Oaks, Marina and Seaside,
or Monterey County. The City of Monterey intends to annex property
on the former Fort Ord at some future point. |
