RES-9362 Cooperation and Reimbursement Agreement Rehabilitation of Portion of Taft Avenuen
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RESOLUTION NO. 9362
RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE
CITY OF ORANGE 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 423,
825.
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 City Council of the City of Orange
as follows:
Section 1. The City Council hereby determines that the Agreement is of benefit to the
Project Areas, that no other reasonable means of fmancing the actions contemplated by the
Agreement are available to the community, and that the Public Improvements win 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 City Council hereby fmds and detennines 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 California Code of Regulations.
Section 3. The Agreement between the Agency and the City, a copy ofwbich is on file
with the City Clerk, is hereby approved, and the Mayor is authorized and directed to execute said
Agreement on behalf of the City.
Section 4. City 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 of the Agency.
ADOPTED this 28th day of November, 2000.
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ATTEST:
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Cassandra J. Ca , City Clerk of the City of Orange
I hereby certify that the foregoing Resolution was duly and regularly adopted by the City
Council of the City of Orange at a regular meeting thereof held on the 28th day of November,
2000, by the following vote:
AYES:
NOES:
ABSENT:
ABSTAIN:
COUNCILMEMBERS: MURPHY, SLATER, MAYOR COONTZ, SPURGEON, ALVAREZ
COUNCILMEMBERS: NONE
COUNCILMEMBERS: NONE
COUNCILMEMBERS: NONE
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EXBIBITB
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)