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HomeMy WebLinkAbout2020-54 - Authorizing an Application for, and Receipt of, Local Government Planning Support Grants Program FundsRESOLUTION NO. 2020-54 A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF NEWPORT BEACH, CALIFORNIA, AUTHORIZING AN APPLICATION FOR, AND RECEIPT OF, LOCAL GOVERNMENT PLANNING SUPPORT GRANTS PROGRAM FUNDS WHEREAS, pursuant to Health and Safety Code 50515 et seq., the Department of Housing and Community Development ("Department") is authorized to issue a Notice of Funding Availability ("NOFA") as part of the Local Government Planning Support Grants Program (hereinafter referred to by the Department as the Local Early Action Planning Grants Program or "LEAP"); WHEREAS, the City Council of the City of Newport Beach ("City") desires to submit a LEAP grant application package on the forms provided by the Department ("Application"), for approval of grant funding for projects that assist in the preparation and adoption of planning documents and process improvements that accelerate housing production and facilitate compliance to implement the sixth cycle of the regional housing needs assessment; and WHEREAS, the Department issued a NOFA on January 27, 2020, in the amount of $119,040,000 for assistance to all California jurisdictions. NOW, THEREFORE, the City Council of the City of Newport Beach resolves as follows: Section 1: The City Council does hereby authorize and direct the City Manager to apply and submit to the Department the Application. Section 2: In connection with the LEAP grant, if the Application is approved by the Department, the City Manager is authorized to enter into, execute, and deliver on behalf of the City, a State of California Agreement ("Standard Agreement") for the amount of three hundred thousand dollars ($300,000), and execute all other documents required or deemed necessary or appropriate that are related in any way thereto, including but not limited to, amendments to the standard LEAP grant agreement, subject to form approved by the City Attorney. Resolution No. 2020-54 Page 2 of 3 Section 3: The City shall be subject to the terms and conditions as specified in the NOFA, and the Standard Agreement provided by the Department after approval. The Application and any and all accompanying documents are incorporated in full as part of the Standard Agreement. Any and all activities funded, information provided, and timelines represented in the Application will be enforceable through the fully executed Standard Agreement. The City hereby agrees to use the funds for eligible uses and allowable expenditures in the manner presented and specifically identified in the approved Application. Section 4: The recitals provided in this resolution are true and correct and are incorporated into the operative part of this resolution. Section 5: 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 6: 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, Division 6, Chapter 3, because it has no potential for resulting in physical change to the environment, directly or indirectly. Resolution No. 2020-54 Page 3 of 3 Section 7: 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 9th day of June, 2020. ATTEST: City Clerk APPROVED AS TO FORM: CITY ATTORNEY'S OFFICE Aaron C. Harp City Attorney Will O'Neill Mayor 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. 2020-54, was duly introduced before and adopted by the City Council of said City at a regular meeting of said Council held on the 91h day of June, 2020; and the same was so passed and adopted by the following vote, to wit: AYES: Mayor Will O'Neill, Mayor Pro Tem Brad Avery, Council Member Joy Brenner, Council Member Diane Dixon, Council Member Duffy Duffield, Council Member Jeff Herdman, Council Member Kevin Muldoon NAYS: None IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed the official seal of said City this 10th day of June, 2020. so,l�w1a, ,I! I11 =I Leilani I. Brown City Clerk Newport Beach, California �LIT0