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CITY OF NEWPORT BEACH
CITY COUNCIL STAFF REPORT
Agenda Item No. S 3 0
April 25, 2006
TO: HONORABLE MAYOR AND MEMBERS OF THE CITY COUNCIL
FROM: Public Works Department
Robert Stein
949 - 644 -3311
rstein@city.newport-beach-ca.us
SUBJECT: RESOLUTION SUPPORTING THE GRANT PROPOSAL FOR FUNDING
TO PROMOTE WATER USE EFFICIENCY
RECOMMENDATION:
Adopt a Resolution endorsing the grant application for funding under the CALFED
Water Use Efficiency and Water 2025 Challenge Grant Programs.
•DISCUSSION:
The City is applying for grant funding under the CALFED Water Use Efficiency and
Water 2025 Challenge Grant Programs to provide supplemental funding for the City's
efforts to significantly reduce dry- weather flows in Newport Coast and around the bay
due to excessive irrigation and wash -down activities. The City's proposed runoff
reduction program will encourage property owners to implement common sense ideas
such as fixing leaking irrigation systems, installing weather -based irrigation controllers,
and using water - thrifty, drought tolerant plants. The City's Water Quality Division in
coordination with the Public Works Department will implement the runoff reduction
program through meetings with HOAs, inspections and enforcement. A successful
runoff reduction program will reduce water costs for our residents, reduce polluted flows
running to the Bay and the sensitive marine life areas, and protect hillside slopes and
street subgrades from over - saturation. The grant application will request $200,000 to
$300,000. Matching funds are already proposed in the FY 06/07 budget.
An approved resolution from the City must accompany the grant application. The
resolution must state that:
1. The City Council has reviewed and supports the submitted proposal,
2. The City of Newport Beach is capable of providing the amount of funding and /or
in -kind contributions, specified in the funding plan, and
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SUBJECT: Resolution Supporting The Grant Proposal For Funding To Promote Water Use Efficiency
April 25, 2006
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3. If selected for a CALFED Water Use Efficiency Grant agreement or a Water •
2025 Challenge Grant, the City of Newport Beach will work with the Bureau of
Reclamation to meet established deadlines.
The application is in preparation for the May 5th deadline and will be distributed to each
Council person at that time.
Prepared by: ` Submitted by:
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Principal Civil Engineer Pub orks Director
Attachments: Resolution
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• RESOLUTION NO. 2006-
A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY
OF NEWPORT BEACH AUTHORIZING AND
SUPPORTING THE SUBMISSION OF A GRANT
PROPOSAL FOR FUNDING UNDER THE CALFED
WATER USE EFFICIENCY AND WATER 2025
CHALLENGE GRANT PROGRAMS TO PROMOTE
WATER USE EFFICIENCY
WHEREAS, the Bureau of Reclamation is currently offering two separate grant
opportunities: the CALFED Water Use Efficiency Grants Program and the Water 2025
Challenge Grant Program; and
WHEREAS, City of Newport Beach is developing a targeted outreach program to
reduce dry- weather runoff from residential and commercial sites tributary to critical coastal
areas and Areas of Biological Significance along Newport Coast and surrounding the
• Newport Bay; and
WHEREAS, funding from either of these grants will allow the implementation of
program elements that have been proven to significantly reduce urban landscape water
use and non -point source water pollution; and
WHEREAS, these program elements were pilot tested by the City from December
15, 2005 to February 15, 2006 and met with overwhelming success including installation of
over 200 weather -based irrigation controllers and associated upgraded irrigation systems
to reduce water use and urban runoff.
NOW, THEREFORE the City Council of the City of Newport Beach hereby resolves
as follows:
Section 1" The City Council has reviewed and supports the proposal, and hereby
• authorizes the City Manager or his designee to submit the proposal.
Section 2: The City of Newport is capable of providing the amount of funding
and /or in -kind contributions, specified in the funding plan and agrees to provide necessary
funding and /or in kind contributions if selected for a CALFED Water Use Efficiency Grant
agreement or a Water 2025 Challenge Grant.
Section 3: If selected for a CALFED Water Use Efficiency Grant agreement or a
Water 2025 Challenge Grant, the City of Newport agrees to work with the Bureau of
Reclamation to meet established deadlines.
Section 4: This resolution shall take effect immediately upon its adoption by the
City Council, and the City Clerk shall certify the vote adopting the resolution.
ADOPTED this day of
ATTEST:
Lavonne Harkless,
City Clerk
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Don Webb, Mayor
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