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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