RES-ORA-0389 Cooperation Agreement For Public ImprovementsRESOLUTION NO. ORA-
0389 A RESOLUTION OF THE
ORANGE REDEVELOPMENT AGENCY AUTHORIZING
THE EXECUTION OF A FIRST AMENDMENT
TO COOPERATION AGREEMENT WITH THE
CITY OF ORANGE RELATING TO
PUBLIC IMPROVEMENTS (PUBLIC PARKING
AND LANDSCAPING) AT 345 EAST
CHAPMAN
AVENUE.WHEREAS, by Ordinance No. 37-84 adopted on November 20, 1984,
the City Council of the City of Orange adopted and approved a certain Redevelopment
Plan (the Redevelopment Plan") for the Southwest Redevelopment Project Area,
which was thereafter amended by (i) Ordinance No. 20-86 adopted on July 15,
1986, (ii) Ordinance No. 24-88 adopted on July 12, 1988, and (iii) Ordinance No. 17-
96 adopted on July 9,
1996 (the "Redevelopment Project"); and WHEREAS, pursuant to the Community Redevelopment
Law of the State of California (Health and Safety Code Sections 33000
et seq.), the Orange Redevelopment Agency (the "Agency") is carrying out the
Redevelopment Plan for the Redevelopment Project in the redevelopment
area (the "Project Area"); and WHEREAS, in furtherance of the Redevelopment
Project, the Agency and the City entered into a Cooperation Agreement dated as of
November 17, 1999 pursuant to which the City agreed to cause to be designed,
installed, and constructed certain public parking and landscaping improvements on real property owned by
the City at 345 East Chapman Avenue (the "Improvements"), and the Agency agreed
to pay the City for certain
costs of such Improvements; and WHEREAS, the City Council and the Board of
Directors of the Agency adopted Resolutions No. 9193 and ORA-0359, respectively,
at their regular meeting held on November 9, 1999, approving the
Cooperation Agreement and making certain findings under Section 33445 of the California Health and Safety
Code in support thereof; to wit,that (1) the Improvements would be of benefit to the Project
Area in that they will enhance the area and contribute to the elimination of blight
throughout the Project Area; (2) no other reasonable means of financing such
Improvements was available to the community in that the cost of the Improvements exceeded the financial ability
of the City to pay, no private sources of funding were available. and all
state and federal grant alternatives had been exhausted; and (3) the payment of funds for
the cost of the Improvements would assist in the elimination of one or more blighting
conditions inside the Project Area, and were consistent with the Implementation Plan adopted by
the
WHEREAS, the City recently ascertained that the cost of the Improvements
would exceed the estimate available to it when the Cooperation Agreement was approved
and no other reasonable means of financing the increased cost of such Improvements are
available to the community in that the increased cost exceeds the financial ability of the
City to pay, no private sources of funding are available, and all state and federal grant
alternatives have been exhausted; and
WHEREAS, in furtherance of the Redevelopment Project, the Agency and the
City desire to enter into a First Amendment to Cooperation Agreement in the form
presented at this meeting pursuant to which the City will complete the construction of the
Improvements, and the Agency will pay the City an additional sum of money for the
increased costs of such Improvements; and
WHEREAS, the Board of Directors of the Agency has duly considered all of the
terms and conditions of the proposed First Amendment to Cooperation Agreement and
believes that it is in the best interests of the City and the health, safety, morals and welfare of
its residents, and in accord with the public purposes and provisions of applicable State and
local law and requirements.
NOW, THEREFORE, the Orange Redevelopment Agency does hereby resolve
as follows:
Section 1. The Agency hereby determines that no other reasonable means of
financing the additional costs of the Improvements are available to the community except
as provided in the First Amendment to Cooperation Agreement.
Section 2. The provisions of Resolution No. ORA-0359, except to the
extent inconsistent with the provisions ofthis Resolution, are hereby ratified and
confirmed.Section 3. The Chairman is hereby authorized and directed to execute the
First Amendment to Cooperation Agreement on behalf of the Agency and to execute on
behalf of the Agency all documents necessary and appropriate to carry out and implement
the First Amendment to Cooperation Agreement and to administer the Agency's
obligations,responsibilities and duties to be performed
thereunder.ADOPTED this 8th day of May,
2001.
ATTEST:
lerk, 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 8th day of
May, 2001 by the following vote:
AYES: DIRECTORS: SLATER, MAYOR MURPHY, COONTZ
NOES: DIRECTORS: NONE
ABSENT: DIRECTORS: ALVAREZ
ABSTAIN: DIRECTORS: NONE
rk, Orange Redevelopment Agency
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