HomeMy WebLinkAbout2025-16 - Creating the Integrated Pest Management Ad Hoc Advisory CommitteeRESOLUTION NO. 2025-16
A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY
OF NEWPORT BEACH, CALIFORNIA, CREATING THE
INTEGRATED PEST MANAGEMENT AD HOC ADVISORY
COMMITTEE
WHEREAS, Section 200 of the City of Newport Beach ("City") 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 follows an Integrated Pest Management ("IPM") program to
manage pests including, but not limited to, weeds, fungi, insects, rodents, and mollusks,
through the use of a combination of practices and procedures to effectively and
economically manage such pests over the long term with the least possible hazard to
people, property, and the environment;
WHEREAS, the IPM procedures include pest identification, evaluation and
assessment, guidelines for management and prevention, use of management tools, and
monitoring the success and effectiveness of management practices;
WHEREAS, the IPM program prioritizes the use of cultural, organic, and
mechanical management methods first, and use of synthetic pesticides secondarily and
only where practical and cost-effective;
WHEREAS, the City is required by its National Pollutant Discharge Elimination
System ("NPDES") permit to implement and maintain its IPM program and comply with
regulatory reporting requirements; and
WHEREAS, the City Council desires to create the Integrated Pest Management
Ad Hoc Advisory Committee ("Committee") to review the City's IPM program and make
recommendations to the entire City Council regarding revisions thereto.
NOW, THEREFORE, the City Council of the City of Newport Beach resolves as
follows..
Resolution No. 2025-16
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Section 1: The City Council hereby creates the Integrated Pest Management
Ad Hoc Advisory Committee ("Committee"), which shall be comprised of Mayor Pro Tern
Lauren Kleiman, and Councilmembers Sara J. Weber and Noah Blom.
Section 2: The sole purpose and responsibility of the Committee shall be to
review the City's Integrated Pest Management program and make recommendations to
the entire City Council regarding revisions thereto.
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 final recommendations
to the entire City Council at a noticed public meeting of the City Council or December
31, 2026, 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.
Section 7: The City Council finds the adoption of this resolution is not subject
to the California Environmental Quality Act ("CEQX) 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 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 29th day of April, 2025.
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Leilani I. Brown
City Clerk
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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; the foregoing resolution, being Resolution
No. 2025-16 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 30th day of April, 2025.
Leilani I. Brown
City Clerk
Newport Beach, California