HomeMy WebLinkAbout2025-7 - Creating the Community Development Block Grant Ad Hoc Advisory CommitteeRESOLUTION NO. 2025-7
A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY
OF NEWPORT BEACH, CALIFORNIA, CREATING THE
COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT BLOCK GRANT AD HOC
ADVISORY COMMITTEE
WHEREAS, Section 200 of the Charter of the City of Newport Beach ("Charter")
vests the City Council with the authority to make and enforce all laws, rules and
regulations with respect to municipal affairs subject only to the restrictions and
limitations contained in the Charter and the State Constitution, and the power to
exercise, or act pursuant to any and all rights, powers, and privileges or procedures
granted or prescribed by any law of the State of California;
WHEREAS, the City of Newport Beach ("City") participates in the United States
Department of Housing and Urban Development's ("HUD") Community Development
Block Grant ("CDBG") program;
WHEREAS, HUD requires the City to adopt a Citizen Participation Plan ("Citizen
Participation Plan") to ensure citizens within the community have an opportunity to
participate in the identification of the City' s housing and community development goals
and policies, a Five Year Consolidated Plan ("Consolidated Plan") outlining the use of
CDBG funds and the strategic vision for housing and community development in the
City, and an Annual Action Plan ("Annual Action Plan") for the appropriation of the
CDBG funds for each fiscal year,
WHEREAS, on April 23, 2024, the City Council adopted Resolution 2024-30,
approving the current 2024-2025 Annual Action Plan, and on May 12, 2020, the City
Council adopted Resolution 2020-51, updating the Citizen Participation Plan and
approving the current 2020-2024 Consolidated Plan which will expire on June 30, 2025;
and
WHEREAS, the City Council desires to create the Community Development
Block Grant Ad Hoc Advisory Committee ("Committee") to make recommendations to
the City Council regarding the City's participation in the HUD CDBG program including,
but not limited to, the development of the 2025-2029 Five -Year Consolidated Plan, the
Citizen Participation Plan, the review of applications for public service programs for the
2025-2026 CDBG program year, and any other matters related to the City's participation
and administration of the CDBG program.
Resolution No. 2025-7
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NOW, THEREFORE, the City Council of the City of Newport Beach resolves as
follows..
Section 1: The City Council hereby creates the Committee, which shall be
comprised of two Councilmembers appointed by the Mayor and confirmed by the City
Council. The term of the appointed members of the Committee shall be indefinite
pending City Council action or termination of the Committee as set forth in this
resolution.
Section 2: The sole purpose and responsibility of the Committee shall be to
make recommendations to the City Council regarding the City's participation in the HUD
CDBG program including, but not limited to, the development of the 2025-2029 Five -
Year Consolidated Plan, the Citizen Participation Plan, the review of applications for
public service programs for the 2025-2026 CDBG program year, and any other matters
related to the City's participation and administration of the CDBG program.
Section 3: The Committee shall function as an ad hoc committee and shall not
be subject to the Ralph M. Brown Act codified in California Section 54950 et seq.
Section 4: The Committee shall expire upon making its recommendations to
the entire City Council, at a noticed public meeting of the City Council, or July 1, 2025,
whichever occurs first.
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 recitals provided in this resolution are true and correct and are
incorporated into the substantive portion of this resolution.
Resolution No. 2025-7
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Section 7: 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.
Section 8: This resolution shall take effect immediately upon its adoption by
the City Council, and the City Clerk shall certify the vote adopting this resolution.
ADOPTED this 11 th day of February, 2025.
ATTEST:
Leilani I. Brown
City Clerk
APPROVED AS TO FORM:
CITY TTORNEY'S OFFICE
Aaroh 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. 2025-7 was duly introduced before and adopted by the City Council of said City at a regular meeting of
said Council held on the 11th day of February, 2025; and the same was so passed and adopted by the
following vote, to wit:
AYES: Mayor Joe Stapleton, Mayor Pro Tem Lauren Kleiman, Councilmember Michelle Barto,
Councilmember Noah Blom, Councilmember Robyn Grant, Councilmember Sara J.
Weber, Councilmember Erik Weigand
NAYS: None
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed the official seal of said
City this 121h day of February, 2025.
, <of
Leilani I. Brown
City Clerk
Newport Beach, California