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HomeMy WebLinkAbout2021-22 - Authorizing a Request for the Orange County Transportation Authority to Delay Measure M2 Comprehensive Transportation Funding Program Project V Funds for the Balboa Island/Corona del Mar Microtransit Feasibilty Study Project to Fiscal Year 2023RESOLUTION NO. 2021-22 A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF NEWPORT BEACH, CALIFORNIA AUTHORIZING A REQUEST FOR THE ORANGE COUNTY TRANSPORTATION AUTHORTY TO DELAY MEASURE M2 COMPREHENSIVE TRANSPORTATION FUNDING PROGRAM PROJECT V FUNDS FOR THE BALBOA ISLAND/CORONA DEL MAR MICROTRANSIT FEASIBILTY STUDY PROJECT TO FISCAL YEAR 2023 WHEREAS, the Orange County Transportation Authority ("OCTA") conducted a Call for Projects under its Comprehensive Transportation Funding Program's ("CTFP") Community -Based Transit/Circulators Program ("Project W) under the Renewed Measure M ("M2"); WHEREAS, the City of Newport Beach ("City") has received an allocation of $58,500.00 in Project V funds for the Balboa Island/Corona del Mar Microtransit Feasibility Study Project; WHEREAS, the City initially established Fiscal Year 2021 as the program year for the Project; WHEREAS, the COVID 19 crisis has delayed the Balboa Island/Corona del Mar Microtransit Feasibility Study Project because the ability for data collection and the public outreach necessary has been limited; and WHEREAS, CTFP Guidelines require agencies to request authorization from their governing board if delays are expected to be incurred beyond the allocated funding Fiscal Year. NOW, THEREFORE, the City Council of the City of Newport Beach resolves as follows: Section 1: The City of Newport Beach hereby authorizes the request for a 24 month delay of Project V funding for the Balboa Island/Corona del Mar Microtransit Feasibility Study Project and that OCTA reprogram the funding to Fiscal Year 2023. Section 2: The recitals provided in this resolution are true and correct and are incorporated into the operative part of this resolution. Resolution No. 2021-22 Page 2 of 2 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 exempt from the requirements of 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. 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 23rd day of March, 2021. ATTEST: Leilani 1. :. City Clerk APPROVED AS TO FORM: CITY ATTORNEY'S OFFICE a on 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. 2021-22 was duly introduced before and adopted by the City Council of said City at a regular meeting of said Council held on the 23rd day of March, 2021, and the same was so passed and adopted by the following vote, to wit: AYES: Mayor Brad Avery, Mayor Pro Tem Kevin Muldoon, Council Member Noah Blom, Council Member Joy Brenner, Council Member Diane Dixon, Council Member Will O'Neill NAYS: None ABSENT: Council Member Duffy Duffield IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed the official seal of said City this 241h day of March, 2021. Leilani I. Brown City Clerk Newport Beach, California