HomeMy WebLinkAbout2000-25 - Water Quality Education PlanRESOLUTION 2000 -25
A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL
OF THE CITY OF NEWPORT BEACH
RELATING TO A WATER QUALITY EDUCATION PLAN
FOR THE NEWPORT -MESA AREA
WHEREAS, the waters of Upper and Lower Newport Bay and the Pacific Ocean
are important and valued resources to the City of Newport Beach, its residents,
businesses, and visitors; and
WHEREAS, these waters are generally very safe for water contact sports like
swimming, except during storm events and after illegal discharges into storm drains
throughout the City; and
WHEREAS, urban runoff or "non point source pollution' is a major contaminant
to the nation's bays, estuaries, and shoreline; and
WHEREAS, many people remain unaware that the region's storm drains take
• storm flows and urban runoff directly into the Bay and the Ocean without any type of
treatment; and
WHEREAS, water quality throughout the region can be improved if residents,
business owners, and visitors adopt Ocean- and Bay - friendly habits that keep harmful
materials out of storm drains; and
WHEREAS, experts agree that the most cost - effective method of improving water
quality in a region is to educate people about how they can adopt these habits; and
WHEREAS, the City of Newport Beach's Harbor Quality Citizens Advisory
Committee has been tasked by the City Council with developing a Water Quality
Education Plan that would help inform residents about Bay - friendly habits; and
WHEREAS, the Water Quality Education Plan developed by the Committee is
directed towards the up to 1,600 51h Grade students throughout the Newport -Mesa
Unified School District in the hopes that these students will encourage their families to
adopt Bay - friendly habits at home and at work; and
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• WHEREAS, this Plan will be conducted in a partnership with the Newport Harbor
Nautical Museum, the Surfrider Foundation, CoastKeepers, the Newport -Mesa
Unified School District, local corporate and individual sponsors, and the City of
Newport Beach itself;
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the City Council of the City of
Newport Beach that the City hereby supports the Water Quality Education Plan
developed by the Harbor Quality Committee and urges its implementation during the
2000 -2001 school year; and, be it also
RESOLVED by the City Council of the City of Newport Beach that it hereby
authorizes the solicitation of sponsorship and donations for this Plan as the primary
source of funding for this effort. Should the level of donations fail to meet the Plan's
budget, the Council also resolves to consider this matter further within the FY 2000-
2001 budget process.
ADOPTED this 141h Day of March, 2000.
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ATTEST:
LaVONNE HARKLESS
CITY CLERK
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MAYOR OF NEYtWPORT BEACH
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. 2000 -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
14th day of March, 2000, and that the same was so passed and adopted by the following vote, to wit:
Ayes: Thomson, Glover, Adams, Debay, Ridgeway, O'Neil, Mayor Noyes
Noes: None
Absent: None
Abstain: None
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed the
• official seal of said City this 15th day of March, 2000.
(Seal)
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City Clerk
Newport Beach, California