HomeMy WebLinkAbout2018-14 - Specifying Uses For The City's Apportionment Of Fiscal Year 2018-19 Road Maintenance And Rehabilitation Account Funding From The Road Repair And Accountability Act Of 201RESOLUTION NO. 2018-14
A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
NEWPORT BEACH, CALIFORNIA, SPECIFYING USES FOR
THE CITY'S APPORTIONMENT OF FISCAL YEAR 2018-19
ROAD MAINTENANCE AND REHABILITATION ACCOUNT
FUNDING FROM THE ROAD REPAIR AND
ACCOUNTABILITY ACT OF 2017
WHEREAS, on April 28, 2017, the Governor signed Senate Bill 1 (Beall, Chapter
5, Statutes of 2017) ("SB 1 "), known as the Road Repair and Accountability Act of 2017,
into law to address basic road maintenance, rehabilitation, and critical safety needs on
State highway and local street road systems;
WHEREAS, pursuant to SB 1, beginning November 1, 2017, the State Controller
will deposit portions of new funding from increases to certain fuel excise and sales taxes
and vehicle registration fees into the Road Maintenance and Rehabilitation Account
("RMRA") of which a percentage will be apportioned by formula to eligible cities and
counties for basic road maintenance, rehabilitation, and critical safety projects on local
streets and roads systems;
WHEREAS, the City of Newport Beach ("City") uses local, county, state, federal,
and grant funding to maintain and improve the streets within its jurisdiction;
WHEREAS, City taxpayers contributed to funding RMRA, and the City is eligible for
an apportionment of RMRA funding;
WHEREAS, the City Council is willing to accept its apportionment of RMRA funding
to recover the intended benefit of taxes paid by City taxpayers and to continue to maintain
and improve City streets;
WHEREAS, the City Council's acceptance of RMRA funding is not intended to be
an endorsement of SB 1 or any future increase in fuel excise and sales taxes or vehicle
registration fees;
WHEREAS, SB 1 includes accountability and transparency provisions that will
ensure the City's residents are aware of the projects proposed for RMRA funding in our
community and which projects have been completed each fiscal year;
WHEREAS, the City must include a list of all projects proposed to receive RMRA
funding in the City budget, which must also include a description and the location of each
proposed project, a proposed schedule for the project's completion, and the estimated
useful life of the improvement;
WHEREAS, the City will receive an estimated One Million Four Hundred Fourteen
Thousand Six Hundred Dollars and 00/100 ($1,414,600.00) in RMRA funding in Fiscal
Year 2018-19 from SB 1; and
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WHEREAS, the RMRA funding from SB 1 will supplement the City's efforts to
maintain and rehabilitate the San Joaquin Hills Road Pavement Rehabilitation project,
add active transportation infrastructure throughout the City this fiscal year, and
supplement similar projects in the future.
NOW, THEREFORE, the City Council of the City of Newport Beach resolves as
follows:
Section 1: The City Council does hereby approve the following proposed project
for Fiscal Year 2018-19 to receive funding from the RMRA, created by SB1, in the City's
Fiscal Year 2018-19 Capital Improvement Program budget:
San Joaquin Hills Road Pavement Rehabilitation: This project is located on San
Joaquin Hills Road from Jamboree Road to MacArthur Boulevard and involves
coldmilling and overlaying the existing asphalt concrete pavement with rubberized
asphalt concrete. Deteriorated concrete improvements will also be reconstructed.
Impacted utilities will be adjusted to grade. The new pavement will also be restriped.
Final design is scheduled to be completed by Summer 2019 and construction will
be completed by Winter 2020. The estimated useful life of this project is 15 years
minimum.
Section 2: The recitals provided in this resolution are true and correct and are
incorporated into the operative part of this resolution.
Section 3: If any section, subsection, sentence, clause or phrase of this
resolution is, for any reason, held to be invalid or unconstitutional, such decision shall not
affect the validity or constitutionality of the remaining portions of this resolution. The City
Council hereby declares that it would have passed this resolution, and each section,
subsection, sentence, clause or phrase hereof, irrespective of the fact that any one or
more sections, subsections, sentences, clauses or phrases be declared invalid or
unconstitutional.
Section 4: The City Council finds the adoption of this resolution is not subject to
the California Environmental Quality Act ("CEQA") pursuant to Sections 15060(c)(2) (the
activity will not result in a direct or reasonably foreseeable indirect physical change in the
environment) and 15060(c)(3) (the activity is not a project as defined in Section 15378) of
the CEQA Guidelines, California Code of Regulations, Title 14, Chapter 3, because it has
no potential for resulting in physical change to the environment, directly or indirectly.
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Section 5: 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 13th day of March, 2018.
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Marshall4D� Duffield
Mayor
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City Clerk
APPROVED AS TO FORM:
CITY ATTORNEY'S OFFICE
Aaron C. Harp
City Attorney
STATE OF CALIFORNIA }
COUNTY OF ORANGE } ss.
CITY OF NEWPORT BEACH }
I, Leilani I. Brown, City Clerk of the City of Newport Beach, California, do hereby certify that the
whole number of members of the City Council is seven, the foregoing resolution, being Resolution
No. 2018-14 was duly introduced before and adopted by the City Council of said City at a regular meeting
of said Council held on the 13th day of March, 2018; and the same was so passed and adopted by the
following vote, to wit:
AYES: Council Member Jeff Herdman, Council Member Kevin Muldoon, Council Member Diane
Dixon, Council Member Scott Peotter, Council Member Brad Avery, Mayor Pro Tem Will
O'Neill, Mayor Duffy Duffield
NAYS: None
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed the official seal of
said City this 14th day of March, 2018.
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Leilani I. Brown
City Clerk
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