RES-ORA-0420 Cooperation & Reimbursement Agreement For Construction of Public ImprovementsRESOLUTION NO. ORA-
0420 A RESOLUTION OF THE
ORANGE REDEVELOPMENT AGENCY APPROVING
AND AUTHORIZING THE EXECUTION OF
A COOPERATION AND
REIMBURSEMENT AGREEMENT BY AND BETWE:EN THE CITY
OF ORANGE AND THE ORANGE
REDEVELOPMENT AGENCY FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF
PUBLIC IMPROVEMENTS - WIDENING OF WEST CHAPMAN
AVENUE BETWEEN THE ORANGE FREEWAY (SR57)
AND MAIN STREET
W'HEREAS, the Orange Redevelopment Agency (the Agency) is a duly constituted
redevelopment agency under the laws of the State of California, and pursuant to such laws is
responsible for redevelopment of the redevelopment project areas within the City of Orange (the
City); and
W"HEREAS, the City, in accordance with its Seven Year Capital Improvement Program,
desires to implement a plan to widen West Chapman Avenue from the Orange Freeway (SR57)
to Main Street within the Orange Merged and Amended Redevelopment Project Area (the Project
Area); such widening activities constitute the Public Improvements as generally described in the
Scope of Improvements attached as Exhibit B to the Cooperation and Reimbursement
Agreemtmt By and Between the City of Orange and the Orange Redevelopment Agency for the
Construction of Public Improvements of Benefit to the Orange Merged and Amended
Redevelopment Project Area (the Agreement); and
VHEREAS, pursuant to Section 33445 of the California Community Redevelopment
Law (Health and Safety Code Section 33000 et seq.), the Public Improvements are provided for
in the Redevelopment Plan for the Project Area, and the Agency desires to cause their
implementation; and
VHEREAS, the Agency and the City have determined that the Public Improvements are
of benefit to the Project Area and the immediate neighborhoods in which the Project Area is
located; that the Agency's financial participation in the construction of the Public Improvements
will benefit the City and that the City has or will have th{: ability to maintain such improvements;
and
VHEREAS, the City and the Agency have similar public purposes for the construction
of the Public Improvements; and
WHEREAS, in furtherance of the public purposes of the Agency and the City, the
Agency and the City desire to enter into the Agreement under which the City will pay the cost of
constructing the Public Improvements, and thereafter, the Agency will reimburse the City for the
Agency's share of the costs of the Public Improvements in the amount not to exceed Six Hundred
Forty-Nine Thousand Thirty-Seven Dollars ($649,037.
00); and WHEREAS, there are no other reasonable means of funding the Agency's portion
of the costs of the construction of the Public Improvements other than the funds provided
by
the Agency.NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the Orange Redevelopment
Agency
as follows:Sfdion 1. The Agency hereby determines that the Agreement is of benefit to
the Project Area, that no other reasonable means of financing the actions contemplated by the
Agreement are available to the community, and that the Public Improvements will assist in the
elimination of one or more blighting conditions inside the Project Area and are consistent
with the Implementation Plan adopted for the
Project Area.S(dion 2. The Agency hereby finds and determines that the Agreement is
exempt from the applieation of the California Environmental Quality Act (Public Resource
Code Section 21000 et seq.) pursuant to a Class 1 categorical exemption as set forth in Section 15301
of Title 14 of the California Code
of Regulations.S.~ction 3. The Agreement between the Agency and the City, a copy of which is
on file with the Agency Clerk, is hereby approved, and the Agency Chairman is authorized
and directed to execute, and the Agency Clerk is authorized to attest, said Agreement on behalf of
the Agency.Section 4. Agency staff is hereby authorized and directed to take any
appropriate action consistent with the purposes of this Resolution and the Agreement approved hereby to
carry out the Agre(:ment on behalf of
the Agency.ADOPTED this 25th day of
February, 2003.J!1lLJ/1!i!{;Mark A. Murphy,
ATTEST:
4.r.,fA'~~""'A<'.d"'-'lt Cassandra
J. Cathc , lerk I,
CASSANDRA J. CATHCART, Clerk of the Orange Redevelopment Agency, 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 25th day of February, 2003 by the following
vote:AYES:
DIRECTORS: AMBRIZ, ALVAREZ, MURPHY, COONTZ, CAVECCHE NOES:
DIRECTORS: NONE ABSENT:
DIRECTORS: NONE ABSTAIN:
DIRECTORS: NONE Cassandra
J. Cat , Clerk
EXHIBIT B
SCOPE OF IMPROVEMENTS
The West Chapman Avenue Widening Project is identified as Project No. 4038 in the City of
Orange Seven Year Capital Improvement Program for Fiscal Years 2002-2003 to
2008-2009.The projec:;t consists of widening West Chapman Avenue from SR57 to Main Street
to enhance and facilitate traffic flow on West Chapman Avenue. Project design
and right-of-way acquisition are complete, Construction will begin in September 2003 and
will be