HomeMy WebLinkAbout2011-25 - Watersmart GrantRESOLUTION NO. 2011 -25
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 UNITED STATES
BUREAU OF RECLAMATION (USBR) WATERSMART GRANT
PROGRAM.
WHEREAS, the Bureau of Reclamation has announced a funding opportunity
entitled "WaterSMART: Water and Energy Efficiency Grants for FY 2011" (the "Grant');
and
WHEREAS, City of Newport Beach has developed a targeted outreach program
to conserve water and reduce dry- weather runoff from residential and commercial sites
tributary to Newport Bay and Areas of Special Biological Significance along Newport
Coast; and
WHEREAS, funding from the Grant will facilitate the implementation of measures
proven to significantly reduce urban landscape water use, over- irrigation runoff and
over - infiltration; and
WHEREAS, this effort will build on work successfully performed by the City under
previous USBR Grants (CALFED Water Use Efficiency and Water 2025);
NOW, THEREFORE, THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF NEWPORT
BEACH DOES RESOLVE AS FOLLOWS:
Section 1. The City Council has reviewed and supports the WaterSMART Grant
proposal, and hereby authorizes the City Manager or his designee to submit the
proposal on behalf of the City of Newport Beach.
Section 2. The City of Newport Beach 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 awarded the WaterSMART grant.
Section 3. If awarded a WaterSMART grant, the City of Newport Beach agrees
to work with the USBR to meet established deadlines.
Section 4. This resolution shall become effective immediately upon its passage
and adoption.
HEREBY CERTIFY that the foregoing resolution was duly and regularly
adopted at a Regular Meeting of the City Council of the ity of Newp rt Beach on this
8th day of March, 2011.
Mayor
City Clerk
STATE OF CALIFORNIA
COUNTY OF ORANGE
CITY OF NEWPORT BEACH
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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; that the foregoing resolution,
being Resolution No. 2011 -25 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 8th day of
March, 2011, and that the same was so passed and adopted by the following vote, to wit:
Ayes: Hill, Rosansky, Gardner, Selich, Curry, Daigle, Mayor Henn
Noes: None
Absent: None
Abstain: None
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed the
official seal of said City this 9th day of March, 2011.
9UV "'V � NM"-
City Clerk
Newport Beach, California
(Seal)