RES-ORA-0383 Cooperation & Reimbursement Agreement For Rehabilitation of Portion of Taft AveRESOLUTION NO. ORA-
0383 RESOLUTION OF THE
ORANGE REDEVELOPMENT AGENCY APPROVING
AND AUTHORIZING THE EXECUTION OF
A COOPERATION AND
REIMBURSEMENT AGREEMENT BY AND BETWEEN THE CITY
OF ORANGE AND THE ORANGE
REDEVELOPMENT AGENCY FOR THE REHABILITATION OF
A PORTION OF TAFT
AVENUE WHEREAS, 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 WHEREAS, the City, in accordance with its Seven Year Capital Improvement
Program,desires to implement a multi-phase plan to rehabilitate that portion of Taft
Avenue between Glassell Street and Tustin Street which connects the Northwest and Tustin
Street Redevelopment Project Areas (the "Project Areas"); such rehabilitation activities constitute
the "Public Improvements" as generally described in the Scope of Improvements attached as Exhibit B
to the Cooperation and Reimbursement Agreement By and Between the City of Orange and
the Orange Redevelopment Agency for the Provision of Public Improvements of Benefit to the
Northwest and Tustin Street Redevelopment Project Areas (the "
Agreement"); and WHEREAS, 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 WHEREAS, the Agency and the City have determined that the Public
Improvements are of benefit to the Project Areas and the immediate neighborhoods in which the Project
Areas are located; that the Agency's financial participation in the engineering and construction
of the Public Improvements will benefit the City and that the City has or will have the
ability to maintain such
improvements; and WHEREAS, 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 engineering and 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 Four Hundred Twenty-Three Thousand Eight
Hundred Twenty-Five Dollars
WHEREAS, there are no other reasonable means of funding the Agency's portion of the
costs of the engineering and 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:
Section 1. The Agency hereby determines that the Agreement is of benefit to the Project
Areas, 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 Areas and are consistent with the
Implementation Plans adopted for the Project Areas.
Section 2. The Agency hereby finds and determines that the Agreement is exempt from
the application of the California Environmental Quality Act (Public Resource Code Section
21000 et seq.) pursuant to a "Class I" categorical exemption as set forth in Section 15301 of
Title 14 of the Califomia Code of Regulations.
Section 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 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 Agreement on behalf ofthe Agency.
ADOPTED this 28th day of November, 2000.
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I c.--J-.-.tY " / _-?.d-r: /- .(...'r;r J()anneCoontz,
Chairman, Or4Ji'ge Redevelopment Agency ATTEST:C erk,
Orange
Redevelopment Agency
I hereby certify that the foregoing Resolution was duly and regularly adopted by the
Orange Redevelopment Agency at a regular meeting thereof held on the 28th day of November,
2000 by the following vote:
AYES:
NOES:
ABSENT:
ABSTAIN:
DIRECTORS: MURPHY, SLATER, COONTZ, SPURGEON, ALVAREZ
DIRECTORS: NONE
DIRECTORS: NONE
DIRECTORS: NONE
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EXHIBIT B
SCOPE OF IMPROVEMENTS
CIP Project No. 3911: Rehabilitation of Taft Avenue from Glassell Street to Tustin Street in
three segments (Glassell to Shaffer, Shaffer to Cambridge, and Cambridge to Tustin)
Pavement removal and replacement and traffic rechannelization (total cost $846,026,
Agency share $423, 825)