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HomeMy WebLinkAbout2025-14 - Authorizing and Approving the Submittal of a Grant Proposal for Funding Under the Orange County Transportation Authority Environmental Cleanup Tier 1 Grant ProgramRESOLUTION NO. 2025-14 A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF NEWPORT BEACH, CALIFORNIA, AUTHORIZING AND APPROVING THE SUBMITTAL OF A GRANT PROPOSAL FOR FUNDING UNDER THE ORANGE COUNTY TRANSPORTATION AUTHORITY ENVIRONMENTAL CLEANUP TIER 1 GRANT PROGRAM WHEREAS, the Orange County Transportation Authority ("OCTA") has announced funding available through the Environmental Cleanup Tier 1 Grant Program ("Program") under the Renewed Measure M Transportation Ordinance and Investment Plan (Orange County Local Transportation Ordinance No. 3, dated July 24, 2006), to help protect Orange County beaches and waterways from transportation generated pollution and to improve overall water quality; WHEREAS, the Program consists of funding to purchase and install "street -scale" Best Management Practices, such as catch basin screens and filters and trash collection devices; WHEREAS, the OCTA has established the procedures and criteria for reviewing Program proposals; WHEREAS, the City of Newport Beach ("City") desires to submit a proposal for funding under the Program to finance and install a floating trash/debris collection device ("Project"); WHEREAS, the City Council for the City ("City Council") possesses the authority to nominate water quality improvement projects that have a transportation pollution nexus for funding through the Program; WHEREAS, by this resolution, the City Council intends to authorize the nomination of the Project, including all understandings and assurances contained therein, and authorize the City Manager of the City, or their designee, to act in connection with the nomination and to provide such additional information as may be required; WHEREAS, the City will maintain and operate the Project equipment acquired and installed, or as otherwise defined within an agreement that assigns and obligates that responsibility to another party(s); WHEREAS, if the Project is funded, the City will give OCTA's representatives access to and the right to examine all records, books, papers or documents; Resolution No. 2025-14 Page 2 of 3 WHEREAS, the City will commence work on the Project within a reasonable time after receipt of notification from OCTA and the Project will be carried out to completion with reasonable diligence; WHEREAS, the City will comply, where applicable, with provisions of the California Environmental Quality Act, the National Environmental Policy Act, the Americans with Disabilities Act, and any other federal, state and/or local laws, rules and/or regulations applicable to the Project; WHEREAS, the City Council intends to authorize a formal amendment to the seven-year Capital Improvement Program to add the Project for funding upon approval from OCTA's Board of Directors to fund the Project as part of the Program; WHEREAS, the City must include all projects funded by net revenues in the seven-year Capital Improvement Program as part of the Renewed Measure M Ordinance eligibility requirement; and WHEREAS, the City Council intends to provide twenty percent (20%) in matching funds for the Project as required by the OCTA Funding Program Guidelines. NOW, THEREFORE, the City Council of the City of Newport Beach resolves as follows: Section 1: The City Council does hereby approve the submission of the City's Project for funding under the Program, will accept funds for the Project under the Program and agrees to fund the City's share of the Project costs and any additional costs over the identified programmed amount. Additionally, the City Council authorizes the City Manager, or their designee, to act in connection with Program requirements and to provide such additional information as may be required. Section 2: The City Council does hereby authorize a formal amendment to its seven-year Capital Improvement Program to add the Project for funding upon approval from OCTA's Board of Directors to fund the Project as part of the Program. Section 3: The City Council does hereby agree to provide twenty percent (20%) in matching funds for the Project as required by the OCTA Funding Program Guidelines. Section 4: The recitals provided in this resolution are true and correct and are incorporated into the operative part of this resolution. Resolution No. 2025-14 Page 3 of 3 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 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 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 29t" day of April, 2025. ATTEST: [A I /. rA- v v • v - Leilani I. Brown _H City Clerk U APPROVED AS TO FORM: CITY TORNEY'S OFFIC C., C. vCam'-__ 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. 2025-14 was duly introduced before and adopted by the City Council of said City at a regular meeting of said Council held on the 29th day of April, 2025; and the same was so passed and adopted by the following vote, to wit: AYES: Mayor Joe Stapleton, Mayor Pro Tern 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 301h day of April, 2025. r Leilani I. Brown City Clerk Newport Beach, California