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.
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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.
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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.
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Leilani I. Brown
City Clerk
Newport Beach, California
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