HomeMy WebLinkAbout2006-33 - Water Use Efficiency GrantRESOLUTION NO. 2006- 33
A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY
OF NEWPORT BEACH AUTHORIZING AND
SUPPORTING THE SUBMISSION OF A GRANT
PROPOSAL FOR FUNDING UNDER THE CALFED
WATER USE EFFICIENCY AND WATER 2025
CHALLENGE GRANT PROGRAMS TO PROMOTE
WATER USE EFFICIENCY
WHEREAS, the Bureau of Reclamation is currently offering two separate grant
opportunities: the CALFED Water Use Efficiency Grants Program and the Water 2025
Challenge Grant Program; and
WHEREAS, City of Newport Beach is developing a targeted outreach program to
reduce dry- weather runoff from residential and commercial sites tributary to critical coastal
areas and Areas of Biological Significance along Newport Coast and surrounding the
Newport Bay; and
WHEREAS, funding from either of these grants will allow the implementation of
program elements that have been proven to significantly reduce urban landscape water
use and non -point source water pollution; and
WHEREAS, these program elements were pilot tested by the City from December
15, 2005 to February 15, 2006 and met with overwhelming success including installation of
over 200 weather -based irrigation controllers and associated upgraded irrigation systems
to reduce water use and urban runoff.
NOW, THEREFORE the City Council of the City of Newport Beach hereby resolves
as follows:
Section 1: The City Council has reviewed and supports the proposal, and hereby
authorizes the City Manager or his designee to submit the proposal.
Section 2: The City of Newport is capable of providing the amount of funding
and/or in -kind contributions, specified in the funding plan and agrees to provide necessary
funding and /or in kind contributions if selected for a CALFED Water Use Efficiency Grant
agreement or a Water 2025 Challenge Grant.
Section 3: If selected for a CALFED Water Use Efficiency Grant agreement or a
Water 2025 Challenge Grant, the City of Newport agrees to work with the Bureau of
Reclamation to meet established deadlines.
Section 4: 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 25th day of April 2006.
ATTEST:
Yattx, M. A��
CITY CLERK
STATE OF CALIFORNIA }
COUNTY OF ORANGE } ss.
CITY OF NEWPORT BEACH }
I, LaVonne M. Harkless, City Clerk of the City of Newport Beach, California, do
hereby certify that the whole number of members of the City Council is seven; that the foregoing
resolution, being Resolution No. 2006 -33 was duly and regularly introduced before and adopted by
the City Council of said City at a regular meeting of said Council, duly and regularly held on the
25th day of April 2006, and that the same was so passed and adopted by the following vote, to wit:
Ayes: Curry, Selich, Rosansky, Ridgeway, Daigle, Nichols, Mayor Webb
Noes: None
Absent: None
Abstain: None
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed the
official seal of said City this 26th day of April 2006.
(Seal)
City Clerk
Newport Beach, California