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Resolution Number SACRA 16-09-06-01SACRA RESOLUTION N0.16-09-06-01 A RESOLUTION OF THE SUCCESSOR AGENCY TO THE SAN JUAN CAPISTRANO COMMUNITY REDEVELOPMENT AGENCY DESIGNATING CERTAIN REAL PROPERTY AS A GOVERNMENTAL USE PROPERTY AND APPROVING THE TRANSFER OF SUCH PROPERTY TO THE CITY OF SAN JUAN CAPISTRANO PURSUANT TO HEALTH & SAFETY CODE SECTION 34181(a) WHEREAS, prior to February 1, 2012, the San Juan Capistrano Community Redevelopment Agency (herein referred to as the "Agency") was a community redevelopment agency duly organized and existing under the California Community Redevelopment Law (Health and Safety Code Section 33000, et seq.), and was authorized to transact business and exercise the powers of a redevelopment agency pursuant to action of the City Council ("City Council") of the City of San Juan Capistrano ("City"); and WHEREAS, Assembly Bill 1x 26, chaptered and effective on June 28, 2011, added Parts 1.8 and 1.85 to Division 24 of the California Health and Safety Code, which caused the dissolution of all redevelopment agencies and winding down of the affairs of former agencies, including as such laws were amended by Assembly Bill 1484, chaptered and effective on June 27, 2012 (together, the "Dissolution Act"); and WHEREAS, as of February 1, 2012 the Agency was dissolved pursuant to the Dissolution Act and as a separate legal entity the City serves as the Successor Agency to the San Juan Capistrano Community Redevelopment Agency ("Successor Agency"); and WHEREAS, Successor Agency administers the enforceable obligations of the Agency and otherwise unwinds the Agency's affairs, all subject to the review and approval by a seven-member oversight board ("Oversight Board"); and WHEREAS, the Successor Agency holds title to certain real property described as APN 124-160-22 and APN 124-160-121 (collectively, the "Property"), which Property is in use as public parking lots; and WHEREAS, Health & Safety Code Section 34181 (a)(1) provides, among other things , that "[t]he oversight board shall direct the successor agency to do all of the following: (a) Dispose of all assets and properties of the former redevelopment agency; provided, however, that the oversight board may instead direct the successor agency to transfer ownership of those assets that were constructed and used for a governmental purpose, such as roads, school buildings, parks, police and fire stations, libraries, parking facilities and lots dedicated solely to public parking, and local agency administrative buildings, to the appropriate public jurisdiction pursuant to ·any existing agreements relating to the construction or use of such an asset" (emphasis added); and WHEREAS, Health and Safety Code Section (a)(2) provides that "[p]arking facilities and lots dedicated solely to public parking" do not include properties that generate revenues in excess of reasonable maintenance costs of the properties; and WHEREAS, there is no charge or fee imposed for the right to use the parking spaces at the Property and therefore the Property does not generate revenues in excess of reasonable maintenance costs of the Property; and WHEREAS, the Property was not included in the Successor Agency's Long Range Property Management Plan which was approved by the Oversight Board and the California Department of Finance; and WHEREAS, the Successor Agency now desires to confirm that the Property is "constructed and used for a governmental purpose" within the meaning of Health & Safety Code Section 34181 (a) and to direct the Executive Director to transfer by quitclaim or grant deed any remaining interest the Successor Agency may have in the Property to the City pursuant to the Oversight Board's authority under Health & Safety Code Section 34181(a). NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the Successor Agency to the San Juan Capistrano Community Redevelopment Agency hereby finds, determines, and resolves as follows: Section 1. The foregoing recitals are true and correct and constitute a substantive part of this Resolution. Section 2. The Successor Agency hereby finds and determines, based on all the evidence in the record before it, that the Property is constructed and used for a governmental purpose, specifically parking facilities and lots dedicated solely to use as public parking facilities, and that no charge or fee is imposed for the use of the Property by the public. The Successor Agency further finds and determines that the Property does not generate revenues in excess of reasonable maintenance costs of the Property. Section 3. The Successor Agency hereby directs the Executive Director or his designee to transfer and/or assign, as applicable, any remaining interest it may have in the Property to the City at no charge pursuant to Health & Safety Code Section 34181 (a). Section 4. The Successor Agency hereby authorizes and directs the Executive Director or his designee to take all actions necessary and appropriate to accomplish the transfer of title to the Property to the City, to the satisfaction of any title company issuing a title policy with respect to the Property, including without limitation executing and delivering an additional quitclaim or grant deed or other instrument as appropriate or as may be required by any title company insuring title to the Property. Section 5. The Chair of the Successor Agency Board shall sign the passage and adoption of this Resolution and thereupon the same shall take effect and be in force. Section 6. The Executive Director or his designee is hereby directed to transmit this Resolution and the accompanying staff report and all exhibits thereto, each of which is incorporated herein, to the Oversight Board and the Department of Finance pursuant to Health & Safety Code Sections 34179(h) and 34181(f). ATTEST: APPROVED AND ADOPTED this 6th day of September 2016 . SUCCESSOR AGENCY TO THE SAN JUAN CAPISTRANO COMMUNITY REDEVELOPMENT AGENCY STATE OF CALIFORNIA ) COUNTY OF ORANGE ) ss. CITY OF SAN JUAN CAPISTRANO ) I, Maria Morris, Secretary of the Successor Agency to the San Juan Capistrano Community Redevelopment Agency, hereby certify that the foregoing resolution was duly adopted by the Successor Agency at its regular meeting held on the 61h day of September, 2016, and that it was so adopted by the following vote: AYES: Patterson, Reeve, Allevato, Perry and Chair Ferguson NOES: None ABSENT: None ABSTAIN: None Y SECRETARY