RES-ORA-0490 Mobile Home Park Rental Assistance Program Renewal FY 2008-09RESOLUTION NO. ORA-
0490 A RESOLUTION OF THE ORANGE
REDEVELOPMENT AGENCY CONFIRMING AND RENEWING
THE MOBILE HOME PARK RENTAL
ASSISTANCE PROGRAM FOR QUALIFIED VERY LOW
INCOME MOBILE HOME PARK RESIDENTS OF THE CITY
OF ORANGE FOR FY 2008-09 AND
MAKING CERTAIN FINDINGS IN
CONNECTION THEREWITH.WHEREAS, California Health and Safety Code Section 33334.2 and
the Amended and Restated Redevelopment Plan for the Orange Merged and
Amended Redevelopment Project Area, which merged and amended the Tustin Street, Northwest,
and Southwest Redevelopment Project Areas (collectively referred to herein as the Project Area),
as adopted by the City Council of the City of Orange (the City Council), authorize and direct
the Orange Redevelopment Agency (the Agency) to expend not less than twenty percent (20%)
of all taxes which are allocated to the Agency pursuant to California Health and
Safety Code Section 33670 for the purposes of increasing, improving, and preserving the
community's supply of Low and Moderate Income housing available at affordable housing cost
to persons of Low or Moderate Income and Very Low
Income; and WHEREAS, pursuant to California Health and Safety CodeSection 33334.
2, the Agency has established a Low and Moderate Income Housing Fund (the Housing
Fund) in connection with the Project
Area; and WHEREAS, pursuant to California Health and Safety Code Section 33334.2
and in carrying out its Low and Moderate Income housing activities, the Agency is
authorized to provide subsidies to, or for the benefit of, Very Low Income, Lower Income and
Low or Moderate Income households and to maintain the community's supply of mobile
homes; and WHEREAS, Section 33334.2 of the California Health and Safety Code
provides that Housing Fund monies may be used outside the Project Area if a finding is made
by resolution of the Agency and the City Council that such use will be of benefit to the Project
Area; and WHEREAS, pursuant to Resolution No. ORA-0019 and
Resolution No. 6026 adopted by the Agency and the City Council, respectively, on November 22,
1983 for the Tustin Street Redevelopment Project Area; Resolution No. ORA-
OI13 and Resolution No.7079 adopted by the Agency and the City Council, respectively, on June
14, 1988 for the Amended Tustin Street Redevelopment Project Area;
Resolution No. ORA-0058 and Resolution No. 6654 adopted by the Agency and the City
Council, respectively, on July 8,1986 for the Southwest Redevelopment Project Area;
Resolution No. ORA-O 117 and Resolution No. 7097 adopted by the Agency and the
City Council, respectively, on June 28,1988 for the Amended Southwest Redevelopment
Project Area; and Resolution No. ORA-0115 and Resolution No. 7086 adopted by the Agency
and the City Council, respectively, on June 21, 1988 for the Northwest Redevelopment Project
Council found that the use of taxes allocated from specific redevelopment project areas for
the purpose of increasing, improving and preserving housing outside the Project Area would
be of benefit to the Project Area; and
WHEREAS, pursuant to Resolution No. ORA-0193 adopted December 12, 1989,
the Agency approved on a one-year pilot basis a Mobile Home Park Rental
Assistance Program the Program) authorizing the expenditure of Housing Fund monies to finance
the Program and provide rental subsidies to Very Low Income mobile home park
residents; and WHEREAS, pursuant to Resolution No. ORA-0220 adopted on
January 8, 1991,Resolution No. ORA-0237 adopted on January 28, 1992,
Resolution No. ORA-0256 adopted on November 10, 1992, Resolution No. ORA-
0274 adopted on December 14, 1993,Resolution No. ORA-0283 adopted
on December 13, 1994, Resolution No. ORA-0298 adopted on December 12, 1995,
Resolution No. ORA-0325 adopted on November 26, 1996,Resolution No. ORA-0334
adopted on June 24, 1997, Resolution No. ORA-0341 adopted on May 26, 1998,
Resolution No. ORA-0345 adopted on June 8, 1999, Resolution No. ORA-0374 adopted
on June 27, 2000, Resolution No. ORA-0395 adopted on June 26, 2001,
Resolution No. ORA-0412 adopted on June 25, 2002, Resolution No. ORA-0427 adopted
on June 24, 2003, Resolution No. ORA-0434 adopted on June 22, 2004, Resolution No.
ORA-0443 adopted on June 28, 2005, Resolution No. ORA-0455 adopted on
June 27, 2006, and Resolution No. ORA-0466 adopted on June 26, 2007
the Agency
approved the continuation of the Program. The aforementioned resolutions are collectively
referred to as the Prior Resolutions; and WHEREAS, in implementing the Program, the Agency
has successfully
assisted up to fifty (50) qualified Very Low Income mobile home park residents
annually since its inception; and WHEREAS, funding is available from the
Housing Fund to continue the Program to assist the one (1) current Program
participant during FY 2008-09; and WHEREAS, the Agency desires to confirm and renew
the Program for FY 2008-09,as more particularly described in Exhibit
A attached hereto, and to authorize the expenditure of
additional Housing Fund monies pursuant thereto as
more particularly described below.NOW, THEREFORE, THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF THE
ORANGE REDEVELOPMENT AGENCY DOES HEREBY RESOLVE AS FOLLOWS:1. The Agency finds and
determines that the expenditure of Housing Fund monies for rental subsidies to eligible and qualified "
Very Low Income households" (as defined by Section 50105 of the California Health and
Safety Code) residing in mobile home parks, as contemplated by the Program, shall directly
and specifically benefit and protect the community's supply of Low and Moderate Income
housing, particularly the supply of mobile homes, available at affordable housing cost to
persons and families of Low and Moderate Income, reducing the housing costs otherwise paid by
Very
Low Income mobile home residents, all within the meaning of Section 33334.
2 of the California Health and Safety Code.2. The Agency finds and determines
that the commitment
authorized by paragraphs (8) and (10) of subdivision (e) of California Health and Safety
Code Section 33334.2.
3. The Agency hereby finds that the expenditure of Housing Fund monies in the
aggregate sum of Five Thousand Five Hundred Dollars ($5,500) from the Project Area to
fund the Program will be of benefit to the Project Area.
4. The provisions of the Prior Resolutions, except to the extent inconsistent with
the provisions of this Resolution, are hereby ratified and confirmed.
5. Based on the above findings and determinations, the Agency hereby confirms
and renews for FY 2008-09 the Program, as described in Exhibit A hereto, and further
directs and authorizes staff to administer the Program as described
therein.ADOPTED this 8th day of July,
2008.
ATTEST:Ma~.
Clerk -
I, MARY E. MURPHY, City Clerk of the City of Orange, California, do hereby certify
that the foregoing Resolution was duly and regularly adopted by the Orange Redevelopment
Agency at a regular meeting thereof held on the 8th day of July, 2008 by the following vote:
AYES:
NOES:
ABSENT:
ABSTAIN:
DIRECTORS: Smith, Murphy, Cavecche, Bilodeau
DIRECTORS: None
DIRECTORS: Dumitru
DIRECTORS: None
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