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DATE:
SUBJECT:
DEPARTMENT:
Agenda Item:
CITY OF SANTA CLARITA
AGENDA REPORT
City Manager Approval:
Item to be presented by:
December 9, 2008
Rick Gould
RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING SUBMITTAL OF A GRANT
APPLICATION TO LOS ANGELES REGIONAL PARK AND
OPEN SPACE DISTRICT FOR ACQUISITION OF REAL
PROPERTY.
Parks, Recreation, and Community Services
RECOMMENDED ACTION
City Council adopt a resolution authorizing submittal of an application for grant funds from the
Los Angeles County Regional Park and Open Space District Specified Grant Project.
BACKGROUND
The Los Angeles County Regional Park and Open Space District Specified Grant Project
provides funds under Proposition A, Safe Neighborhood Parks, Gang Prevention, Tree -Planting,
Senior and Youth Recreation, Beaches and Wildlife Protection, to public agencies and nonprofit
organizations in the County to acquire and/or develop open space properties for public recreation.
The grant amount is $250,000, and the submittal requires a resolution by the City Council
authorizing the application for funds.
Staff is interested in seeking out this grant opportunity to augment activity via the City's Open
Space Preservation District. Upon approval of the resolution, a copy will be sent to the County
of Los Angeles to authorize submittal of the grant application by the City of Santa Clarita for
Fiscal Year.2008-09.
ALTERNATIVE ACTIONS
Other action as determined by the City Council.
Adopted ?Pso- 0� - I or7
FISCAL IMPACT
Upon consideration, approval of the resolution will authorize staff to submit an application for up
to $250,000 in grant funding.
ATTACHMENTS
Resolution
RESOLUTION 08-
A RESOLUTION OF THE- CITY COUNCIL OF THE
CITY OF SANTA CLARITA, CALIFORNIA, APPROVING THE APPLICATION FOR
GRANT FUNDS FROM THE LOS ANGELES COUNTY REGIONAL PARK AND OPEN
SPACE DISTRICT SPECIFIED GRANT PROJECT AND ACCEPTING SPECIFIED GRANT
FUNDS FROM THE COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES DEPARTMENT OF PARKS AND
RECREATION
WHEREAS, the people of the County of Los Angeles on November 3, 1992, and on
November 5, 1996, enacted Los Angeles County Proposition A, Safe Neighborhood Parks, Gang
Prevention, Tree -Planting, Senior and Youth Recreation, Beaches and Wildlife Protection (the
Proposition), which among other uses, provides funds to public agencies and nonprofit
organizations in the County for the purposes of acquiring and/or developing facilities and open
space for public recreation; and
WHEREAS, The Proposition also created the Los Angeles County Regional Park and
Open Space District (the District) to administer said funds; and
WHEREAS, the District has set forth the necessary procedures governing
applications for grant funds under the Proposition; and
WHEREAS, the District's procedures require the Applicant to certify, by resolution,
the approval of the application(s) before submission of said application(s) to the District; and
WHEREAS, the application form contains assurances that the Applicant must
comply with; and
WHEREAS, the Applicant certifies through this resolution; that the application is
approved for submission to the District; and
WHEREAS, the Applicant will enter into a Project Agreement with the District for
the performance of the project as described in the application; and
NOW, THEREFORE, the City Council of the City of Santa Clarita does hereby
resolve as follows:
SECTION 1. Approves the filing of an application with Los Angeles County
Regional Park and Open Space District for funds allocated under Section(s) (8) Subsection (A),
Paragraph (2), Subsection (GG) of the Proposition for the above-named project; and
SECTION 2. Certifies that said Applicant understands the assurances and
certifications in the application form; and
SECTION 3. Certifies that said Applicant understands its obligation to operate and
maintain the property(s) in perpetuity; and
SECTION 4. Certifies that said Applicant will sign and return, within 30 days, both
copies of the project agreement sent by the District for authorizing signature; and
SECTION 5. Authorizes the the City Manager, or his/her designee, as agent of the
City of Santa Clarita, to conduct all negotiations, and to execute and submit all documents
including, but not limited to, applications, agreements, amendments, payment requests and so
forth, which may be necessary for the completion of the project as described in the application.
SECTION 6. The City Clerk shall certify to the adoption of this Resolution.
PASSED, APPROVED, AND ADOPTED this **** day of,******, 2008.
ATTEST:
CITY CLERK
2
MAYOR
STATE OF CALIFORNIA )
COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES ) ss.
CITY OF SANTA CLARITA)
I, Sharon L. Dawson, MMC, City Clerk of the City of Santa Clarita, do hereby certify that
the foregoing Resolution was duly adopted by the City Council of the City of Santa Clarita at a
regular meeting thereof, held on the' day of **,***=*, 2008, by the following vote:
AYES: COUNCILMEMBERS:
NOES: COUNCILMEMBERS: None
ABSENT: COUNCILMEMBERS: None
CITY CLERK
M
STATE OF CALIFORNIA )
COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES ) ss. i
CITY OF SANTA CLARITA )
CERTIFICATION OF
CITY COUNCIL RESOLUTION
I, Sharon L. Dawson, City Clerk of the City of Santa Clarita, do hereby certify that this is a true
and correct copy of the original Resolution 08-:,, adopted by the City Council of the City of
Santa Clarita, California on **�*,***,, 2008, which is now on file in my office.
Witness my hand and seal of the City of Santa Clarita, California, this day of
, 2008.
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Sharon L. Dawson, MMC
City Clerk
By
Susan Caputo, CMC
Deputy City Clerk