HomeMy WebLinkAbout2024-68 - Accepting The FY 2023 Operation Stonegarden Grant from the United States Department of Homeland Security, Administered by the County of Riverside, and Designating the Chief of Police as the City's Authorized Agent to Execute Grant DocumentsRESOLUTION NO. 2024-68
A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY
OF NEWPORT BEACH, CALIFORNIA, ACCEPTING THE
FY 2023 OPERATION STONEGARDEN GRANT FROM
THE UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND
SECURITY, ADMINISTERED BY THE COUNTY OF
RIVERSIDE, AND DESIGNATING THE CHIEF OF
POLICE AS THE CITY'S AUTHORIZED AGENT TO
EXECUTE GRANT DOCUMENTS
WHEREAS, the City of Newport Beach ("City") by and through its Police
Department desires to accept a grant in the amount of one hundred twenty five thousand
dollars ($125,000.00) from the County of Riverside as the pass through administrative
agency of funds made available through the FY 2023 Operation Stonegarden program
("Grant") from the United States Department of Homeland Security to support the City's
operational readiness along land and sea borders;
WHEREAS, the terms of the Grant require that the City Council provide written
authorization of authority for an authorized agent to execute Grant documents on behalf
of the City, and for said written authorization to include certain standard assurances; and
WHEREAS, the City Council desires to authorize the City's Chief of Police to act
as the City's authorized agent to execute Grant documents, subject to approval as to form
by the City Attorney, provide written standard assurances, and desires to approve a
budget amendment to account for the Grant.
NOW, THEREFORE, the City Council of the City of Newport Beach resolves as
follows:
Section 1: The City Council does hereby accept the Grant made available
through the Operation Stonegarden program.
Section 2: That the Chief of Police is hereby authorized to act as the City's
authorized agent with the authority to execute Grant documents and take any further
actions necessary to secure payment of, and implementation of, Grant funds
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Section 3: That in accordance with the terms of the Grant, the City agrees: (a)
to provide all matching funds required, if any, and that any cash match will be appropriated
as required by the terms of the Grant; (b) that any liability arising out of the performance
of the Grant activities shall be the responsibility of the City; (c) that Grant funds shall not
be used to supplant expenditures controlled by the City; (d) that the City is authorized to
apply for federal assistance, and the institutional, managerial and financial capability to
ensure proper planning, management and completion of the project (including funds
sufficient to pay the non-federal share of project cost, if any, or to retroactively repay and
reimbursement found out of compliance which was paid to City, for as long as the grant
is active); and, (e) the official herein designated by the City to execute Grant documents
is authorized to do so.
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, 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 10th day of September, 2024.
Will O'Neill
Mayor
ATTEST:
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Leilani I. Brown
City Clerk
APPROVED AS TO FORM:
CITY A TORNEY'S OFFICE
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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. 2024-68 was duly introduced before and adopted by the City Council of said City at a regular meeting
of said Council held on the loth day of September, 2024; and the same was so passed and adopted by the
following vote, to wit:
AYES: Mayor Will O'Neill, Mayor Pro Tern Joe Stapleton, Councilmember Brad Avery,
Councilmember Noah Blom, Councilmember Robyn Grant, Councilmember
Lauren Kleiman, Councilmember Erik Weigand
NAYS: None
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed the official seal of said
City this 1 lth day of September, 2024.
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