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C'q<IFORRP City Council Staff Report Agenda Item No. 4
March 8, 2011
TO: HONORABLE MAYOR AND MEMBERS OF THE CITY COUNCIL
FROM: Public Works Department
Stephen G. Badum, Public Works Director
949 - 644 -3311, sbadum @newportbeachca.gov
PREPARED BY:QOJohn Kappeler
APPROVED:
TITLE: RESOLUTION SUPPORTING A WATERSMART PROGRAM
GRANT
ABSTRACT:
Staff is submitting a grant application to the United States Bureau of Reclamation's
(USBR) WaterSMART program. The application requires the City Council to adopt a
resolution endorsing the grant proposal.
RECOMMENDATION:
Adopt a Resolution authorizing and supporting the submission of a grant application to
the USBR WaterSMART grant program.
The USBR grant application will request $667,000 in Fedural funding. The grant
requires matching funds of at least 50% or greater of the award amount. Should the
City be successful and be awarded the grant, the City's identified share of the match will
be funded from $750,000 of Proposition 84 State funding that has already been
awarded to the City for water quality related improvements associated with the Newport
ASBS, as well as the City's match fund commitment to the Prop 84 grant of $150,000
(comprised of a combination of in -kind services and professional service funding out of
account 0330 -8080 in the current and future budgets).
DISCUSSION:
The City is applying for grant funding under the USBR WaterSMART program. This
program will provide supplemental funding for the City's efforts to significantly reduce
dry- weather flows to Newport Bay and protected areas along Newport Coast. In
addition, the program will conserve water and reduce costs for the City by reducing the
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March 08, 2011
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amount of runoff that may require treatment. Program elements include removal of
high -water use turf and replacement with water - thrifty turf and irrigation system
upgrades (smart irrigation controllers and high efficiency nozzles).
A resolution adopted by City Council must be submitted with the grant application. The
resolution must state that:
1. The City Council has reviewed and supports the submitted proposal,
2. The City. of Newport Beach is capable of providing the required matching funding
and /or in -kind contributions, and
If awarded a grant, the City of Newport Beach agrees to work with USBR to meet
established deadlines.
ENVIRONMENTAL REVIEW:
Staff recommends the City Council find this action 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, Chapter 3, because it
has no potential for resulting in physical change to the environment, directly or
indirectly.
NOTICING:
The agenda item has been noticed according to the Brown Act (72 hours in advance of
the meeting at which the City Council considers the item).
Submitted by:
Public Works Director
Attachments: Resolution - USBR WaterSMART Grant Proposal
Location Map of Proposed Projects
RESOLUTION NO. 2011-
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 City of Newport Beach on this
8`" day of March, 2011.
City Clerk