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RESOLUTION NO. 94 356
RESOLUTION OF THE MAYOR AND COMMON COUNCIL
OF THE CITY OF SAN BERNARDINO, CALIFORNIA,
MAKING FINDINGS AND DETERMINATIONS AS TO THE
BENEFIT TO THE VARIOUS REDEVELOPMENT PROJECT
AREAS OF MAKING CERTAIN LEASE PAYMENTS ON
BEHALF OF THE CITY OF SAN BERNARDINO (CITY
HALL PROJECT)
WHEREAS, the City of San Bernardino, California (the
"City"), is a municipal corporation and a charter city duly
created and existing pursuant to the Constitution and the laws of
the State of California; and
WHEREAS, the Community Development Commission of the
City of San Bernardino (the "Commission") on behalf of the
Redevelopment Agency of the City of San Bernardino (the
"Agency"), is a redevelopment agency, a public body, corporate
and politic of the State of California, organized and existing
16 pursuant to the Community Redevelopment Law (Part 1 of
17 Division 24 commencing with Section 33000) of the Health and
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18 Safety Code of the State of California (the "Act"); and
WHEREAS, pursuant to Section 33445 of the Act, the
Agency may, with the consent of the Mayor and Common Council of
the City (the "Council"), pay all or a part of the cost of
installation and construction of any building,
facility,
structure or other improvement which is publicly owned either
within or without the boundaries of a redevelopment project area
if the Council determines: (1) that such buildings, facilities,
structures or other improvements are of benefit to the
redevelopment project area or the immediate neighborhood in which
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1 the project is located, regardless of whether such improvement is
2 within another project area, or in the case of a project area in
3 which substantially all the land is publicly owned that the
4 improvement is of benefit to an adjacent project area of the
5 Agency, (2) that no other reasonable means of financing such
6 buildings, facilities, structures or other improvements is
7 available to the community, and such determination by the Agency
8 and the Council shall be final and conclusive, and (3) that the
9 payment of funds for the cost of the facilities, structures or
10 other improvements will assist in the elimination of one or more
11 blighting conditions inside the project; and
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13 WHEREAS, the City and the Commission have previously
14 approved and adopted Redevelopment Plans (collectively
15 hereinafter referred to as the "Redevelopment Plans") for various
16 redevelopment project areas within the City which project areas
17 include: the Meadowbrook-Central City Project Area, Central City
18 North Project Area, Central City East Project Area, Central City
19 South Project Area, Central City West Project Area, Tri-Cities
20 proj ect Area, Southeast Industrial Park Redevelopment proj ect
21 Area, South Valle Project Area, State College Project Area,
22 Northwest Project Area and the Mt. Vernon Project Area; and
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24 WHEREAS, it is in the interests of the present
25 landowners wi thin the various proj ect areas subj ect to the
26 Redevelopment Plans (the "Project Areas") and the residents, both
27 within the Project Areas and within the City generally, that the
28 Agency causes the funding of certain lease payments on behalf of
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1 the City in order that the City be entitled to the continued
2 occupancy of the City Hall Building which is located within the
3 downtown central business district of the City; and
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5 WHEREAS, the Project Areas presently suffer from a high
6 degree of impaired investments and depreciated values along with
7 high business vacancies which conditions are being exacerbated by
8 the lack of economic opportunities within the various Project
9 Areas; and
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11 WHEREAS, the City, through its various departments
12 located at City Hall is continually attempting to create economic
13 activities and development within the various Project Areas and
14 the City generally and thereby eliminate blighting conditions
15 within such Project Areas; and
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17 WHEREAS, City Hall and the City's various departments
18 located therein provide a full range of social and economic
19 services and opportunities to the community which services are
20 relied upon by residents and occupants of the Project Areas and
21 the City generally; and
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23 WHEREAS, City Hall is located within a portion of the
24 central city area which suffers from a lack of business
25 opportunities as well as inadequate and deteriorating office
26 space facilities and which area is patronized by residents and
27 occupants of the proj ect Areas who pursue employment, seek
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1 social and civic services provided by governmental departments;
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4 WHEREAS, the central city area suffers from high
5 vacancy rates and the continued occupancy by the City departments
6 within such area will help alleviate such vacancy rates both from
7 its own occupancy of office space as well as the occupancy of
8 nearby space by businesses and offices that typically congregate
9 in proximity to City Hall offices; and
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11 WHEREAS, the payment of the City's lease obligation in
12 order to ensure the City's continued occupancy of City Hall in
13 the downtown area of the City, wherein residents of the Project
14 Areas and the City generally may avail themselves of economic
15 opportunities as well as civic and commercial services, will
16 provide a benefit for the Project Areas and the residents of the
17 adjacent neighborhoods who participate in activities or who are
18 employed in the downtown area; and
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20 WHEREAS, in order to promote the City's health, safety
21 and welfare, it is important that the Agency fund the City's
22 lease obligations in order to ensure the orderly development of
23 the Project Areas and neighboring areas; and
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25 WHEREAS, it is appropriate at this time for the Council
26 to make certain findings and determinations and take certain
27 action with respect to the Agency's funding of the City's lease
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1 NOW, THEREFORE, THE MAYOR AND COMMON COUNCIL OF THE
2 CITY OF SAN BERNARDINO, CALIFORNIA, DO HEREBY FIND, RESOLVE,
3 DETERMINE AND ORDER AS FOLLOWS:
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5 Section 1. The Recitals hereinabove are true and
6 correct and are incorporated herein by this reference.
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8 Section 2. The Council approves the payment by the
9 Agency of the costs of the City's lease obligations which is of
10 benefit to the Project Areas and other neighborhoods within the
11 City for the reasons set forth in the Recitals hereinabove. The
12 Council also finds and determines that no other reasonable means
13 of financing the City's lease payments is presently available to
14 the City and that the City and the Agency require the use of
15 revenues generated from the various Project Areas in order to
16 fund the City's lease payment obligations. The Agency further
17 finds that the payment of the City's lease obligations will
18 enhance the desirability of the City for economic investment
19 which in turn will enhance economic viability in the Project
20 Areas thereby eliminating existing blighting conditions in the
21 Project Areas.
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23 Section 3. The Agency's payment of the City's lease
24 obligations in the downtown area will make the central business
25 district more economically viable through the reduction of
26 otherwise high vacancy rates and elimination of factors hindering
27 the economic viability of downtown buildings which will thereby
28 make the entire City and the proj ect Areas more desirable for
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1 development which will in turn help eliminate blight within the
2 Project Areas and other areas of the City.
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4 Section 4. The City Clerk is hereby authorized and
5 directed to cause this Resolution to be transmitted to the Agency
6 for consideration in connection with appropriate action by that
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RESOLUTION OF THE MAYOR AND COMMON COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SAN
BERNARDINO, CALIFORNIA, MAKING FINDINGS AND DETERMINATIONS AS TO
THE BENEFIT TO THE VARIOUS REDEVELOPMENT PROJECT AREAS OF MAKING
CERTAIN LEASE PAYMENTS ON BEHALF OF THE CITY OF SAN BERNARDINO
(CITY HALL PROJECT)
Section 5.
The findings and determinations herein
shall be final and conclusive. This Resolution shall take effect
upon the date of its adoption.
I HEREBY CERTIFY that the foregoing Resolution was duly
adopted by the Mayor and Common Council of the City of
San Bernardino at a
reaular
meeting
November
day of
thereof, held on the
21st
1994, by the following vote, to wit:
Council Members
NEGRETE, CURLIN, OBERHELMAN,
AYES:
POPE-LUDLAM AND MILLER
DEVLIN
NAYS:
ABSENT:
ABSTAIN:
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ity Clerk
The foregoing resolution is hereby approved this
day of November
, 1994.
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M~yor of the City of
San Bernardino
Approved as to form and legal content:
BY:j~~~~~~
SBEO\OOOl\DOC\1057
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94 356
STATE OF CALIFORNIA
COUNTY OF
On before me,
(here insert name and title of the officer), personally appeared
, personally known to me (or proved to
me on the basis of satisfactory evidence) to be the person(s)
whose name (s) is/are subscribed to the within instrument and
acknowledged to me that he/she/they executed the same in
his/her/their authorized capacity(ins), and that by his/her/their
signature(s) on the instrument the person(s), or the entity upon
behalf of which the person(s) acted, executed the instrument.
WITNESS my hand and official seal.
Signature
(Seal)