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CITY OF CATHEDRAL CITY
68-700 Avenida Lalo Guerrero
Cathedral City, CA 92234
(760) 770-0396 – Phone
(760) 770-0399 - Fax
SPECIAL USE PERMIT FOR DOWNTOWN CATHEDRAL CITY
Please Read: It is advisable to submit applications for review 60 days prior to commencement of the use or event to ensure adequate review of the application. We must have a minimum of 30 days prior to the event. If you have any questions while completing this application, please ask a member of the Planning Department for assistance. In addition to this application, you must reserve a date for your event with the Communications/Events Manager. For recurring events, a schedule must be submitted every 3 months. In order for the City to process a Special Use Permit Application, the application fee must be submitted with the completed application. Depending on the type of event, you may also be required to provide a Cleanup/Damage Deposit. Please review the Downtown Fee Schedule for event use in the downtown area. The appropriate fee must be paid prior to the event. Incomplete applications will not be accepted (or process may be delayed). (PLEASE PRINT OR TYPE)
Name of Event:
__________________________________________________________________________________________
CHECK TYPE OF EVENT
_____ Festival
_____ Parade / Race / Marathon
_____ Concert / Performance
_____ Art Show / Outdoor Market
_____ Political Rally / Protest
_____ Other _________________(type)
AREA OF DOWNTOWN CATHEDRAL CITY TO USE (check all that apply) _____ Civic Center Plaza
_____ Civic Center Paseo
_____ Town Square Park
_____ Amphitheater Park
_____ Festival Lawn
_____ Festival Lawn Annex
_____ Avenida Lalo Guerrero
_____ George Montgomery Trail
_____ City Council Chambers
_____ 3rd Floor Parking Structure
_____ City Employee Parking Lot
DATE(S) OF EVENT: ___ /___ /___ through ___ / ___ / ___ HOURS OF EVENT: ___ :___ AM/PM through ___:___ AM/PM (If multiple days, please indicate dates and times below)
_____________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________ EVENT SET-UP DATE: ___ / ___ /___ TIME: ___ : ___ AM/PM TEAR DOWN DATE: ___ / ___ / ___ TIME: ___ : ___ AM/PM
DESCRIPTION OF EVENT (This should be promotional in nature and cannot exceed 250 words):
_____________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________ EXPECTED ATTENDANCE PER DAY (List all that apply):
DAY 1: _______________ Morning _______________ Afternoon _______________ Evening DAY 2 _______________ Morning _______________ Afternoon _______________ Evening DAY 3 _______________ Morning _______________ Afternoon _______________ Evening Will your event sell beverages? ______ Yes ______ No
If yes, please know that all events in Downtown Cathedral City must serve Pepsi products and must be purchased through the City of Cathedral City. Please contact Chris Parman (760) 770-0396 for more details.
Is your event open to the general public? _____ Yes _____ No Will your event sell concessions or food items? _____ Yes _____ No If yes, please know that the Cathedral City Community Amphitheater Concession Stand has an exclusive operator and has exclusivity on popcorn, kettle korn, regular hot dogs, and candy.
Do you have a business license with the City of Cathedral City? _____ Yes _____ No If no, you must obtain an annual business license or a special event business license with the City.
Do you have subcontractors and vendors providing a service or selling a product? _____ Yes _____ No
If yes, each subcontractor and vendor must hold an annual business license or a temporary special event business license with the City.
Do you or a vendor of yours plan to serve or prepare food? _____ Yes _____ No If yes, you must obtain proper permits from Riverside County Department of Environmental Health.
If yes, the Cathedral City Fire Department life safety / fire inspections must be conducted prior to food being served. Call (760) 770-8200 Mon. - Thurs. 7:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. to schedule inspections.
Will alcohol be served? _____ Yes _____ No
If yes, you must obtain proper permits from California Department of Alcohol Beverage Control.
If yes, you must obtain Liquor Liability Insurance naming the City of Cathedral City, 68-700 Avenida Lalo Guerrero, Cathedral City, CA 92234 as an additional insured.
If yes, you must have a minimum of one security officer checking identifications for proper age, one security officer per entrance and exit, and one security guard for crowd monitoring (a minimum of three security guards during all alcohol serving times).
If yes, who will be pouring and serving the alcohol? ___________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________ Will your event utilize tents or canopies? _____ Yes _____ No If yes, proper permits must be obtained by the Cathedral City Fire Department and life safety / fire inspections must be conducted prior to their use. Call (760) 770-8200 Mon. - Thurs. 7:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. to schedule inspections.
The organizer of the event must ensure that all tents and canopies are properly weighted against wind gusts.
Will your event utilize bouncy houses, inflatables, slides, amusement rides or hot air balloons? _____ Yes _____ No
If yes, the Cathedral City Fire Department life safety / fire inspections must be conducted prior to their use. Call (760) 770-8200 Mon. - Thurs. 7:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. to schedule inspections.
If yes, you must obtain liability Insurance denoting coverage for inflatables and naming the City of Cathedral City, 68-700 Avenida Lalo Guerrero, Cathedral City, CA 92234 as an additional insured.
If hot air balloons, each hot air balloon must obtain insurance of no less than a $1 million in liability coverage naming the City of Cathedral City, 68-700 Avenida Lalo Guerrero, Cathedral City, CA 92234 as an additional insured. A copy of the insurance certificate must be presented to the City before the hot air balloon can be utilized for the event.
Will your event have amplified sound and/or music? _____ Yes _____ No If yes, the City’s policy allows amplified sound and/or music between 7 am and 10 pm Fridays, Saturdays, and certain Sundays if the following Monday is a recognized national holiday. All other days, the hours of amplified sound and/or music are between 7 am and 9 pm. Amplified sound or music should be normalized to 89 decibels at the perimeter of the reserved area.
Will your event bring in a temporary stage, truss rig system, and/or lighting? _____ Yes _____ No
If yes, the stage installer and/or owner must obtain liability insurance of no less than $1 million in coverage that names the City of Cathedral City, 68-700 Avenida Lalo Guerrero, Cathedral City, CA 92234 as an additional insured.
Will your event use searchlights or laser lights?_____ Yes _____ No If yes, searchlights and/or laser lights that shoot above 50 feet in the air need F.A.A. approval as Downtown Cathedral City is under the flight path of Palm Springs International Airport.
Will your event use fireworks or pyrotechnics? _____ Yes _____ No If yes, proper permits must be obtained by the Cathedral City Fire Department and life safety / fire inspections must be conducted prior to their use. Call (760) 770-8200 Mon. - Thurs. 7:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. to schedule inspections. Additional liability insurance must be obtained.
SECURITY, PUBLIC SAFETY, AND SANITATION
Are you hiring security for your event? _____ Yes _____ No If yes, the security company must have a valid Private Patrol Operator’s License issued by the State of California. A copy of the license must be presented to the City prior to the event.
Please describe your security plan including crowd control, internal security or venue safety, age identification checks (if applicable) and or attach your plan to this application. _____________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________ • Please note that if you plan to use Cathedral City Police Department, the billable rate for police officers is $135 per hour per officer. CCPD will bill the event directly. Partial or all anticipated payments may be due prior to the event. The availability of CCPD police officers for your event may not be guaranteed without prior notification of at least 30 days.
What is your First Aid or Medical Plan for your event?
_____________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________ Do you plan to provide portable toilets? _____ Yes _____ No If yes, the number of portable toilets: __________
If yes, the number of ADA accessible portable toilets: __________ If yes, when are the portable toilets being delivered (Date and time): _____________________ If yes, when are the portable toilets being picked-up (Date and time): ____________________ If yes, will the portable toilets be serviced during your event? _____ Yes _____ No How do you plan to collect and remove trash and debris during the event? _____________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________ • A clean-up/damage deposit of $600 or more may be required.
EVENT ENTERTAINMENT
Do you plan to have any musical or speaking entertainment for your event? _____ Yes _____ No If yes, please list the names of the band/performers, genre of music:
Name of Band / Performer/ Speaker Genre of Music
________________________ ______________________
________________________ ______________________
________________________ ______________________
________________________ ______________________
________________________ ______________________
A complete list must be provided to the City prior to the event. The City reserves the right to deny the performance of any band or act that has a history of creating public safety concerns. The City
Title ___________________________________________________________________________ Signature ___________________________________________________________________________ Date _____________________________
SUBMITTAL REQUIREMENTS:
_____ Application Fee: $510 – payable to “City of Cathedral City” _____ Non-profit certification (if applicable)
_____ Clean-up / Damage Deposit (if applicable)
_____ Copy of site plan using map attached to this application (show stage, fencing, canopy/tent placement, food vendor locations, merchandise vendor locations, portable restroom locations, generators, etc….)
_____ Provide all necessary insurance coverages (must be submitted prior to the event) _____ Proof of Insurance with a minimum of $1,000,000 in liability coverage naming City of Cathedral City, 68-700 Avenida Lalo Guerrero, Cathedral City 92234 as an additional insured (must be submitted prior to the event)
_____ Proof of all applicable licenses and permits required by local, state and federal agencies (must be submitted prior to the event)
_____ Proof of Cathedral City Fire Department inspections and permits, if applicable (must be submitted prior to the event)
Downtown Map (Please mark the area you will be using)
Staff Report
City Council
Item No. 5.B
Meeting Date: May 8, 2024
From: John A. Corella, Director of Public Works
Title: Award Subrecipient Agreement to Fair
Housing Council of Riverside County
RECOMMENDATION:
To award a subrecipient agreement to the Fair Housing Council of Riverside County, in the amount of $20,000 to provide fair housing services for Cathedral City’s CDBG Program; and, authorize a budget allocation in the amount of $20,000 from CDBG Funds; and, authorize the City Manager to execute the required contract documents; and, authorize the City Engineer to request insurance policies.
BACKGROUND:
The Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) program funding awarded from U.S.
Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), allows Cathedral City to carry out a wide range of community development activities directed toward revitalizing neighborhoods, economic development, and improving community facilities and services, principally for lowto-moderate (low-mod) income individuals.
As an entitlement city, Cathedral City receives annual entitlement funds to address the priority needs of our community outlined in the 5-Year Consolidated Plan (Con Plan). Within the Con Plan is the Annual Action Plan (AAP), identifying how CDBG funds will be allocated for the upcoming fiscal year as part of the Con Plan objectives.
At the City Council study session meeting on March 27, 2024, city staff introduced the fiscal year (FY) 2024-2025 AAP. This annual plan includes the allocation of CDBG funds for program administration, public services, and public infrastructure. The CDBG program administration includes a fair housing component providing housing related services support for low-mod income individuals. In accordance with CDBG program requirements, retaining outside services for these housing related support services requires a competitive solicitation process to secure a provider each year.
DISCUSSION:
Following the CDBG Program requirements to secure a fair housing related services support, city staff contacted the following three service providers offering housing related support services within the City’s jurisdiction:
Coachella Valley Housing Coalition
Fair Housing Council of Riverside County
Inland Fair Housing and Mediation Board
The city received two proposals from the Fair Housing Council of Riverside County (FHCRC) and Inland Fair Housing and Mediation Board (IFHMB).
The proposals were reviewed by a panel consisting of three members of the City Engineering division. The panel determined that both companies provided proposals that were responsive, qualified, and knowledgeable about the requirements for the various tasks and understanding of Cathedral City and the community. The scores from the reviews ranked Fair Housing Council of Riverside County (FHCRC) with the highest ratings. FHCRC’s submitted proposal provided assurance that, if selected, the performance of fair housing related services for Cathedral City residents would be comprehensive and effective.
City staff recommends the City Council award a subrecipient agreement to the Fair Housing Council of Riverside County, in the amount of $20,000 to provide fair housing support services for Cathedral City’s CDBG Program; and, authorize a budget allocation in the amount of $20,000 from CDBG Funds; and, authorize the City Manager to execute the required contract documents; and, authorize the City Engineer to request insurance policies.
FISCAL IMPACT:
Funding for Fair Housing Council of Riverside County, in the amount of $20,000, will be provided through the City’s FY 2024-2025 CDBG Program. All funding through the CDBG Program is on a reimbursement basis based on the Annual Action Plan entitlement amounts.
DESCRIPTION GENERAL LEDGER
ACCOUNT CODES
PROJECT CODE AMOUNT ONE TIME
or
ONGOING
2024-2025
CDBG Fair
Housing
Services
251-100-150-156-
8600-8601
G04016-GRANTCDBG-PROF SVCS $20,000 ONGOING
2024-2025 Total $20,000
FIVE-YEAR STRATEGIC PLAN:
Goal F: Embracing, Inclusive City
Objective: Cathedral City is valued and respected as a community that welcomes and embraces diversity, has an abundance of high quality and affordable housing options, and vibrant businesses. Our neighborhoods are attractive and well-maintained and issues surrounding homelessness have been compassionately addressed with thoughtful, coordinated, and collaborative programs.
ATTACHMENTS:
1. Fair Housing Council of Riverside County Subrecipient Agreement
2. Fair Housing Council of Riverside County Proposal
2022-2023 Subrecipient Agreement Cathedral City CDBG Program
COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT BLOCK GRANT
SUBRECIPIENT AGREEMENT
FOR
FAIR HOUSING COUNCIL OF RIVERSIDE COUNTY
FOR
FAIR HOUSING AND RELATED SERVICES
This Agreement, is entered in duplicate on the dates set forth below by and between the CITY of CATHEDRAL CITY, a California charter city, as RECIPIENT, (hereinafter referred to as “CITY”), and Fair Housing Council of Riverside County (FHCRC), (hereinafter referred to as “SUBRECIPIENT.”)
PURPOSE
This Agreement sets forth the responsibilities of CITY and SUBRECIPIENT in accomplishing the objectives of the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Community Development Block Grant as set forth in the Housing and Community Development Act of 1974, (hereinafter referred to as “CDBG”), as amended, Public Law 93-383. The CDBG program and funds related thereto are referred to from time to time as the “CDBG” PROGRAM or “CDBG FUNDS”.
CITY agrees to engage the services of SUBRECIPIENT, and SUBRECIPIENT agrees to perform the services for CITY hereinafter described, for the compensation, during the term, and otherwise subject to the covenants and conditions hereinafter set forth.
1. SUBRECIPIENT’’s Services
SUBRECIPIENT agrees to perform during the term of this Agreement, all tasks, obligations, and services set forth in the “Scope of Services” attached to this Agreement as Exhibit A and incorporated into this Agreement by this reference.
2. Payment for Services
CITY shall pay SUBRECIPIENT for the services performed by SUBRECIPIENT pursuant to the terms of this Agreement the compensation set forth in the “Schedule of Compensation” attached hereto as Exhibit “B.” The compensation shall be paid at the time and manner set forth in Exhibit “B.”
3. Availability of Funds/Modifications
CITY’s provision of funding to SUBRECIPIENT pursuant to this Agreement is contingent on the availability of CDBG FUNDS and continued federal authorization for CDBG PROGRAM activities and is subject to amendment or termination due to lack of funds or authorization. This Agreement is subject to written modification and termination as necessary by CITY in accordance with requirements contained in any future Federal legislation, regulations or CITY policy. All other modifications must be in written form and approved by both parties.
2022-2023 Subrecipient Agreement Cathedral City CDBG Program
4. Obligation of Funds
SUBRECIPIENT shall not obligate any funds, incur any costs, or initiate identified project(s), which are the subject of the Agreement, until all environmental review has been completed and certified by CITY’s Community Development Department and CITY has issued a written “Authorization to Obligate Funds and Incur Costs.”
5. Term of Agreement
The term of this Agreement shall be from July 1, 2024 to June 30, 2025.
6. Time for Performance
SUBRECIPIENT shall not perform any work under this Agreement until (i) SUBRECIPIENT furnishes proof of insurance as required under Section 20 of this Agreement, and (ii) CITY gives SUBRECIPIENT a written, signed and numbered purchase order or other Authorization to obligate funds and incur costs. All services required of SUBRECIPIENT under this Agreement shall be completed on or before the end of the term of the Agreement.
7. Designated Representative
(a) The CITY’s representative is as follows:
Name and Title: Charles P. McClendon, City Manager
Address: 68700 Avenida Lalo Guerrero, Cathedral City, CA 92234 E-mail Address: [email protected]
Telephone No.: 760-770-0372
(b) The SUBRECIPIENT’s representative, who shall be responsible for job performance, negotiations, contractual matters, coordination with the CITY Representative is as follows:
Name and Title: Rose Mayes, Executive Director
Post Office Address: 3933 Mission Inn Avenue, Suite 100 Riverside, CA 92501
E-mail Address: [email protected]
Telephone No.: (951) 682-6581
The SUBRECIPIENT’s professional services shall be actually performed by, or shall be immediately supervised by, the SUBRECIPIENT’s representative.
8. Compliance
SUBRECIPIENT agrees that it undertakes hereby the same obligations to CITY that CITY has undertaken to HUD pursuant to CITY’s CDBG application and certifications. The obligations undertaken by SUBRECIPIENT include, but are not limited to, the obligation to comply with all federal laws and regulations describe in Subpart K of 24 CFR Part 570 except, 2022-2023 Subrecipient Agreement Cathedral City CDBG Program however, that the SUBRECIPIENT does not assume the CITY's environmental responsibilities or the responsibility for initiating the environmental review process under 24 CFR Part 52. and specifically, with each of the following:
a) The Housing and Community Development Act of 1974 (Public Law 93-383) as amended, and legislative changes contained in the Housing and Urban-Rural Recovery Act of 1983; and the Housing and Community Development Act of 1987; b) Final regulations of the Department of Housing and Urban Development relating to Community Development Block Grants (Title 24, Chapter V, Part 570 of the Code of Federal Regulations commencing with Section 570.1) dated September 6,1988; and revisions to 24 CFR Part 570 at Subpart J entitled “Grant Administration” and dated March 11, 1988;
c) Regulations of the Department of Housing and Urban Development relating to environmental review procedures for the Community Block Grant program (Title 24, Subtitle A, Part 58 of the Code of Federal Regulations, commencing at Section 58.1) except that SUBRECIPIENT does not assume CITY’s environmental responsibilities; d) Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (Public Law 88-352); Title VIII of the Civil Rights Act of 1968 (Public Law 90-284); Section 109 of the Housing and Community Development Act of 1974; Section 3 of the Housing and Urban Development Act of 1968; Executive Order 11246 as amended by Executive Order 12086; Executive Order 11063 as amended by Executive Order 12259; and HUD regulations heretofore issued or to be issued to implement these authorities relating to civil rights; e) The Uniform Relocation Assistance and Real Property Acquisition Policies Act of 1970 and regulations adopted to implement the Act in the Code of Federal Regulations, Title 24, Part 42;
f) Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action (EEO/AA); The SUBRECIPIENT will, in all solicitations or advertisements for employees placed by or on behalf of the SUBRECIPIENT, state that it is an Equal Opportunity or Affirmative Action employer;
g) Administrative regulations, including, but not limited to, 2 CFR Part 200, Uniform Administrative Requirements, Cost Principles, and Audit Requirements for Federal Awards, Final Guidance applicable to HUD Federal Award Recipients the uniform guidance supersedes, consolidates, and streamlines requirements from eight OMB circulars:
1) OMB Circular A-21, Cost Principles for Educational Institutions; 2) OMB Circular A-87 entitled “Cost Principles Applicable to Grants and Contracts with State and Local Governments”;
3) OMB Circular A-89, Catalog of Domestic Assistance; OMB Circular A-102, Grants and Cooperative Agreements with State and Local Governments; 2022-2023 Subrecipient Agreement Cathedral City CDBG Program 4) OMB Circular A-110 entitled “Grants and Agreements with Institutions of Higher Education, Hospitals, and Other Non-Profit Organizations”; 5) OMB Circular A-122 entitled “Cost Principles for Non-Profit Organizations”;
6) OMB Circular A-133 entitled “Audits of States, Local Governments, and Non-Profits”;
7) OMB Circular A-50, Audit follow-up on Single Audit Act follow-up h) 24 CFR Part 84 entitled “Administrative Requirements for Grants and Cooperative Agreements to State, Local and Federally Recognized Indian Tribal Governments,” as modified by 24 CFR 570.502(a);
i) 24 CFR Part 85 entitled “Uniform Administrative Requirements for Grants and Cooperative Agreements to State, Local, and Federally Recognized Indian Tribal Governments” and referred to as the “Common Rule”;
j) A-128 entitled “Audits of State and Local Governments” (implemented at 24 CFR part 44);
k) The following laws and regulations relating to preservation of historic places: Public Law 89-665 the Archaeological and Historical Preservation Act of 1974 (Public Law 93-291), and Executive Order 11593 including the procedures prescribed by Advisory Council on Historic Preservations in 36 Code of Federal Regulations, Part 800; l) The Labor Standards Regulations set forth in Section 570.603 of 24 CFR Part 570; and HUD Handbook 1344.1;
m) Section 3 of the Housing and Urban Development Act of 1968 related to HUD funded activities, to the greatest extent feasible, be directed to create jobs to local low-income residents and the businesses that employ them;
n) The Architectural Barriers Act of 1968 (42 U.S.C. Section 4151 and the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (ADA);
o) The Hatch Act relating to the conduct of political activities (Chapter 15 of Title 5, U.S.C.);
p) The Flood Disaster Protection Act of 1973 (Public Law 93-234 and the regulations adopted pursuant thereto) Section 202(a) and the regulations in 44 CFR parts 59 through 79; q) The Clean Air Act (42 U.S.C. Chapter 85) and the Federal Water Pollution Control Act, as amended (33 U.S.C. Section 1251 et seq.) and the regulations adopted pursuant thereto;
2022-2023 Subrecipient Agreement Cathedral City CDBG Program r) Executive Order 12372, which requires State Clearinghouse review and comment of any CDBG project for the planning, construction, reconstruction, and/or installation of water or sewer facilities;
s) Section 401(b) of the Lead-Based Paint Poisoning Prevention Act (42 U.S.C. 4831 (b))
t) Provision of 24 CFR Part 24 regarding use of debarred, suspended, or ineligible contractors or subcontractors; and
u) Provision 24 CFR 570.200(j) regarding equal protection of faith-based organizations.
SUBRECIPIENT further agrees to comply with any environmental, procurement, construction, and other guidelines provided by CITY. As required by Section 30, SUBRECIPIENT shall obtain any necessary permits, licenses and certificates that may be necessary for its performance under this Agreement. Failure to meet established performance goals and standards and/or noncompliance with applicable rules and regulations shall constitute non-compliance with the terms of this Agreement. The CITY is entitled to use one or more of the following remedies for non-compliance, temporarily withhold cash payments pending correction of deficiencies by SUBRECIPIENT; disallow all or part of the cost of the activity or action not in compliance; wholly or partly suspend or terminate the current award for the SUBRECIPIENT’s program; withhold further awards for the program; and/or take other remedies that may be legally available.
9. Subcontracts
SUBRECIPIENT shall incorporate the same or substantially equivalent requirements as are contained in this Agreement in all subcontracts which utilize any CDBG FUNDS and/or support any CDBG PROGRAMS(s) covered by this Agreement; when PROGRAMS(s) utilize(s) from CDBG FUNDS and other funding sources, all FUNDS shall be subject to CDBG regulations. SUBRECIPIENT, by entering into any such subcontract for performance of any portion of its CDBG PROGRAM, is not relieved of its responsibilities to CITY as set forth in this Agreement.
10. Non-Discrimination/Grievance Procedures
No person with responsibilities in the operation of any project under this Agreement will discriminate because of race, creed, color, national origin, age, sex, political affiliation, handicap, beliefs, or marital or familial status. SUBRECIPIENT will ensure that every effort is made to provide equal opportunity to every potential minority and women’s business vendor, contractor and subcontractor.
11. Standard of Conduct/Conflict of Interest and Lobbying No member, officer or employee of SUBRECIPIENT or its designee or agents, no member of the governing body of the locality in which the program is situated, and no other public official of such locality or localities who exercises any functions or responsibilities with respect to the program during his/her tenure or for one year thereafter, shall have any interest, 2022-2023 Subrecipient Agreement Cathedral City CDBG Program direct or indirect, in any contract or subcontract, or the process thereof, for work to be performed in connection with the program activities assisted under this Agreement.
No member, officer or agent of the SUBRECIPIENT shall participate in the selection of in the award, or administration of, a contract supported by Federal funds if a conflict of interest, real or apparent, would be involved.
No covered persons who exercise or have exercised any functions or responsibilities with respect to CDBG-assisted activities, or who are in a position to participate in a decisionmaking process or gain inside information with regard to such activities, may obtain a financial interest in any contract, or have a financial interest in any contract, subcontract, or agreement with respect to the CDBG-assisted activity, or with respect to proceeds from the CDBGassisted activity, either for themselves or those with whom they have business or immediate family ties, during their tenure or fora period of one (1) year thereafter. For purposes of this Section, a “covered person” includes any person who is an employee, agent, consultant, officer, or elected or appointed official of the Grantee, the SUBRECIPIENT, or any designated public agency.
By entering into this Agreement, SUBRECIPIENT certifies:
a) No federal appropriated funds have been paid or will be paid, by or on behalf of SUBRECIPIENT, to any person for influencing or attempting to influence an officer or employee of any agency, a Member of Congress, an officer or employee of Congress, or an employee of a Member of Congress in connection with the awarding of any Federal contract, the making of any Federal grant, the making of any Federal loan, the entering into a cooperative agreement, and the extension, continuation, renewal, amendment, or modification of any Federal contract, grant loan, or cooperative agreement.
b) If any funds other than federal appropriated funds have been paid or will be paid to any person for influencing or attempting to influence an officer or employee of any agency, a Member of Congress, an officer or employee of Congress, or an employee of a member of Congress in connection with this federal contract, grant, loan, or cooperative agreement, SUBRECIPIENT shall complete and submit Standard Form LL, “Disclosure Form to Report Lobbying,” in accordance with its instructions, and other federal disclosure forms as requested. c) SUBRECIPIENT shall require that the language of this certification be included in the award documents for all sub awards at all tiers (including subcontracts, subgrants, and contracts under grants, loans, and cooperative agreements) and that all SUBRECIPIENTS shall certify and disclose accordingly.
12. Fiscal Control
The SUBRECIPIENT shall be responsible for the internal control and monitoring of fiscal and programmatic/operational goals and procedures. The SUBRECIPIENT shall establish such fiscal controls and fund accounting procedures as required by Federal regulations, or as may be deemed necessary by HUD and CITY to ensure the proper 2022-2023 Subrecipient Agreement Cathedral City CDBG Program disbursal of, and accounting for, funds paid to the SUBRECIPIENT under the CDBG PROGRAMS.
a) Disbursement of Funds: CDBG FUNDS shall generally be disbursed by CITY to SUBRECIPIENT on a reimbursement for actual expenses basis. b) Deposit of Funds: SUBRECIPIENT shall maintain separate accounts within established bookkeeping systems for the deposit of CDBG FUNDS. All cash advances must be deposited in an interest-bearing account; any interest earned in excess of $100 per year (which may be retained for related administrative expenses) must be returned at least quarterly to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) via the CITY. Deposits in minority banks are encouraged.
SUBRECIPIENT subject to 2 CFR Part 200, Uniform Administrative Requirements, Cost Principles, and Audit Requirements for Federal Awards:
1) Shall deposit funds in an account requiring two signatures for disbursement and shall submit to CITY specimen signatures for all authorized signatories prior to receipt of funds;
CITY agrees to pay SUBRECIPIENT progress payments at the time and in the manner set forth in the Schedule of Compensation, Exhibit B. Payment by CITY is not to be construed as final in the event HUD disallows reimbursement for the project or any portion thereof.
Reasonable back-up documentation, as specified by CITY, shall be submitted by SUBRECIPIENT with request for payment.
SUBRECIPIENT shall be liable for all amounts which are determined to be due by HUD including, but not limited to, disallowed cost which are the result of SUBRECIPIENT’s or its contractor’s conduct under this Agreement. SUBRECIPIENT shall be notified in writing and shall be permitted to respond regarding any controversy or proceeding between CITY and HUD arising from this Agreement.
This certification is a material representation of fact upon which reliance was placed when this transaction was made or entered into. Submission of this certification is a prerequisite for making or entering into this transaction imposed by Section 1352, Title 31, U.S. Code. Any person who fails to file the required certification shall be subject to a civil penalty of not less than $10,000 and not more than $100,000 for each such failure.
All financial transactions must be supported by complete and verifiable source documents. Records shall provide a clear audit trail and shall be maintained as specified in Section 17 of this Agreement.
13. Program Income
Program Income is defined in Subpart J of 24 CFR Part 570.504 and is described as gross income received by SUBRECIPIENT and directly generated from the use of CDBG FUNDS.
2022-2023 Subrecipient Agreement Cathedral City CDBG Program Program income includes, but is not limited to, the following:
a) Proceeds from the disposition by sale or long-term lease of real property purchases or improved with CDBG FUNDS;
b) Proceeds from the disposition of equipment purchased with CDBG FUNDS; c) Gross income from the use or rental of real or personal property acquired by SUBRECIPIENT with CDBG FUNDS, less costs incidental to generation of the income;
d) Gross income from the use or rental of real property owned by the SUBRECIPIENT, that was constructed or improved with CDBG FUNDS, less costs of the non-CDBG portion.
e) Payment of principal and interest on loans made using CDBG FUNDS except as provided in 24 CFR Part 570.500(a)(3);
f) Proceeds from the sale of loans or obligations secured by loans made with CDBG FUNDS;
g) Interest earned on program income pending its disposition; and h) Funds collected through special assessments made against properties owned and occupied by households not of low or moderate income where the assessments are used to recover all or part of the CDBG PROGRAMS portion of a public improvement.
During the effective term of this Agreement, SUBRECIPIENT shall report all program income as defined in 24 CFR 570.500(a), generated by activities carried out with CDBG funds under this Agreement. All Program Income shall be paid to the CITY and shall be remitted to the CITY on a quarterly basis, when earned, and shall remit any and all income balances accrued by June 30 of this Program Year. Program income attributable to projects funded under this Agreement and on hand with SUBRECIPIENT when Agreement expires, is terminated with or without cause, or received after the Agreement expiration, shall be paid to CITY as required by 24 CFR Part 570.503(b)(8) when the SUBRECIPIENT ceases to be under continuous Agreement with CITY for the operation of CDBG PROGRAMS. As long as there is no break in the Agreement period, program income shall be governed by the provisions of Section 3.
14. Reversion of Assets
Upon expiration of this Agreement, SUBRECIPIENT shall transfer to the CITY any CDBG FUNDS in SUBRECIPIENT’s control at the time of expiration and any accounts receivable attributable to the use of CDBG FUNDS. Further, any real property under SUBRECIPIENT’s control that was acquired and/or improved in whole or in part with CDBG 2022-2023 Subrecipient Agreement Cathedral City CDBG Program FUNDS (including CDBG funds provided to the SUBRECIPIENT in the form of a loan) in excess of $25,000 shall be either:
a. Used to meet one of the national objectives in 24 CFR Part 570.208 until five (5) years after expiration of this Agreement, the length of time to be further prescribed by mutual agreement of the parties and delineated in Section 33, of this Agreement.
b. Disposed of in such manner that CITY is reimbursed in the amount of the fair market value of the property at the time of disposition of the property less any portion of the value attributable to expenditures of non-CDBG FUNDS for acquisition and/or improvement of such property. The payment is Program Income to the recipient.
If SUBRECIPIENT is a private non-profit organization, SUBRECIPIENT further agrees to a voluntary lien on above-reference property as to any CDBG FUNDS received and that such lien will be notarized and recorded in the Office of the County Recorder, will utilized form specified by CITY, and will be subject to provisions listed in Section 33 of this Agreement.
15. Equipment
Equipment, which shall be defined as tangible, nonexpendable, personal property having a useful life of more than one (1) year and an acquisition cost of $1,000 or more per unit, is eligible for purchase using CDBG FUNDS only upon prior approval of CITY and subject to 24 CFR Part 570.207(b)(1). Such equipment shall be used by SUBRECIPIENT in the project for which it was acquired as long as needed, regardless of whether such project continues to be supported by Federal funds; at the time, equipment may be used in other activities currently or previously supported by a Federal agency. Use of such equipment is also subject to provisions of 24 CFR Part 85.32(c)(2)(3) and (4). SUBRECIPIENT shall also be establish procedures for managing equipment, which meet the requirements of 24 CFR Part 85.32(d). Further, proceeds from disposition of such equipment shall be treated as program income as specified in Section 13 and 14 of this Agreement.
16. Records and Reports
SUBRECIPIENT agrees to supply to CITY, on a minimum monthly basis (or a more stringent period designated in Exhibit A – Scope of Services), any progress reports and/or other documentation as may be required by CITY to audit performance of this Agreement and/or to enable CITY to analyze and evaluate utilization of SUBRECIPIENT’s program.
SUBRECIPIENT shall maintain separate accounting and financial records for each funding (revenue) source in support of the project(s).
a) Expenditure Summary and Payment Request (ESPR); SUBRECIPIENT shall submit ESPR supporting documents for a reimbursement to CITY’s Community Development Department by the 10th of each month. The reimbursement request shall be provided on an official invoice with the supporting ESPR documents. An invoice shall include the total reimbursement amount, a description of services rendered, the period of services rendered, and invoice number. An invoice and 2022-2023 Subrecipient Agreement Cathedral City CDBG Program ESPR’s may be submitted no more often than once a month and no less often that once every three (3) months. An exception would only be in the event that no expenditures occurred, which shall be documented in the quarterly report. b) Progress Reports: Progress reports shall be made on a form substantially similar to Exhibit A – Scope of Services, Attachment 1 “Progress Report” and shall address project status and, if applicable, explanation of any problems/delays encountered and/or anticipated and measures to be taken to correct such problems; revised milestones including anticipated schedule for project completion; direct benefit statistics; and a summary of expenditures, obligations, program income, and drawdown to date. In addition, SUBRECIPIENT shall provide as part of the progress report any citizen comments received during the reporting period relative to the project(s), and responses to such comments, and additional project information, as needed. SUBRECIPIENT shall submit such report quarterly within thirty (10) days of the close of report period.
c) Completion Report: SUBRECIPIENT shall prepare and submit to CITY a Completion Report within thirty (10) days of project completion. Said report shall consist of an overview and evaluation of the project, a comparison of milestones’ progress, total costs incurred, listing of files, listing of personnel, and other reasonable information requested by CITY. The completion of the project or program shall consist of the fourth quarterly report, Attachment 1 “Progress Report”
d) HUD/CITY Reports: SUBRECIPIENT shall submit to CITY in a timely manner other reports as requested/required CITY for HUD compliance including, but not limited to the Contractor/Subcontractor, EEO-4, and Minority Financial Institution Reports (if applicable), and provide, as requested by HUD and/or CITY, information necessary to prepare the Consolidated Plan, Final Statement of Community Development Objectives, Grantee Performance Report (GPR), and other such reports and/or plans.
e) Audit: SUBRECIPIENT shall be responsible for conducting an annual audit of its CDBG PROGRAM in compliance with 2 CFR Part 200, which supersedes, consolidates, and streamlines requirements from eight OMB Circulars, including the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Circular No. A-133 issued pursuant to the Single Audit Act of 1984 and the Single Audit Amendments of 1996, P.L. 98- 502, OMB Circular A-110, and 24 CFR Part 85, as applicable. A copy of said audit shall be forwarded to CITY upon completion. Any costs associated with the annual audit shall be the responsibility of and paid for by SUBRECIPIENT.
17. Agreement Responsibility for Monitoring and Records HUD, the Office of the Inspector General (OIG), and the designated representatives of CITY, and other appropriate officials shall have access to all personnel records, management information, and fiscal data of SUBRECIPIENT and any agency or contractor with whom SUBRECIPIENT executes a subcontract necessary to carry out any CDBG PROGRAM(s) for monitoring purposes (24 CFR 85.40(a) and 84.51-84.53). The 2022-2023 Subrecipient Agreement Cathedral City CDBG Program SUBRECIPIENT shall respond in a timely manner to all identified corrective action needs as a result of HUD, County, or other monitoring. The SUBRECIPIENT shall submit to CITY all required reports and monitoring corrective action plans on a timely basis, as delineated by CITY. Records shall be maintained as follows:
a) SUBRECIPIENT agrees to retain all pertinent records under CDBG PROGRAM, including financial records, until advised by CITY that further retention is unnecessary. Generally, records shall be retained for a period for five (5) years from the end of the fiscal year in which the last project covered by CITY’s annual agreement with HUD is completed. Records shall be open and available for inspection by auditors and/or other staff assigned by HUD and/or CITY during the normal business hours of SUBRECIPIENT. If at the end of such five-year period, there is ongoing litigation, claims, negotiations, audit or other action involving SUBRECIPIENT’s or the CITY’s records, which has started before expiration of the five (5) year period, SUBRECIPIENT will retain the records until the completion of the action and resolution of all issues which arise from it (24 CFR 85.42 as modified by 570.502(a)(16), or 24 CFR 84.53(b) as modified by 570.502(b)(3)(ix)(A) and (B), as appropriate).
b) Consistent with applicable state and local laws regarding privacy and obligations of confidentiality, the SUBRECIPIENT also must provide citizens with reasonable access to records on the past use of CDBG funds (24 CFR 570.508). c) Records for nonexpendable property shall be retained for a period of five (5) years after final disposition of the property, if applicable.
18. Inspection Rights
SUBRECIPIENT agrees to allow CITY to inspect physical premises of any project(s) upon 24-hour advance notice.
19. Request for Technical Assistance
SUBRECIPIENT shall refer to the Community Development Department any regulatory or procedural questions regarding operation of its CDBG PROGRAM. All formal requests for technical assistance shall be submitted in writing. Requests should specify the problem area, particular assistance being requested, and proposed solution if applicable.
Informal questions regarding day-to-day program operation may be directed to the designated CITY representative.
20. Insurance
Prior to commencing performance of the services required by this Agreement, and at all other times this Agreement remains in effect, the SUBRECIPIENT shall procure and maintain in full force and in effect all of the insurance required by Exhibit C attached hereto and by this reference incorporated herein.
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21. Hold Harmless
SUBRECIPIENT shall hold City and City’s officers, employees, agents and volunteers harmless and free from any and all claims, liabilities or expenses, including attorney’s fees, arising out of or relating to any negligent act, negligent omission, or other wrongful conduct related in any way to SUBRECIPIENT’S performance of its services pursuant to this Agreement. In the event City and/or any of City’s officers, employees, agents or volunteers are named in any lawsuit, or should any claim be made against it or any of them by lawsuit or otherwise arising out of or relating to such negligent act, negligent omission or other wrongful conduct, SUBRECIPIENT shall indemnify them for any judgment rendered against them, any sums paid out in settlement or otherwise, and all costs incurred by them in their defense, including, but not limited to attorney’s fees.
SUBRECIPIENT also understands and agrees that it is being employed to perform the services provided for by this Agreement because of SUBRECIPIENT’S professed expertise and experience in performing the services provided for under this Agreement. In addition, the SUBRECIPIENT understands and agrees that while City and City’s officer’s agents, may elect to do so, they have no duty to review, inspect, or supervise the work performed by SUBRECIPIENT pursuant to this Agreement, except as otherwise expressly provided for by this Agreement. As a consequence, the SUBRECIPIENT waives any right of contribution against City or any of City’s officers, employees, agents and volunteers arising out of such failure to inspect, review, monitor or supervise the work performed by SUBRECIPIENT pursuant to this Agreement.
22. Covenants and Conditions
Each term and each provision of this agreement to be performed by SUBRECIPIENT shall be construed to be both a covenant and a condition.
23. Effect of Termination
a) Termination of Agreement for Convenience: In accordance with 24 CFR Part
85.44, the Agreement may be terminated by either party after thirty (30) days written notice of intention to terminate, setting forth the reasons and the effective date of such termination, has been given to the other party, provided, however, that no notice of termination given by SUBRECIPIENT shall be effective unless HUD has agreed to release CITY from its obligations pursuant to the Program Activity(ies). Alternatively, the agreement will automatically terminate in the event that United States Government terminates the CDBG PROGRAMS or terminates the Program Activity(ies) which is the subject of the Agreement. b) Termination of Agreement for Cause: In accordance with 24 CFR Part 85.43, the parties hereto understand that pursuant to CITY's execution of the HUD application, CITY assumed responsibility as to the performance of the projects. If through any cause SUBRECIPIENT fails to fulfill in a timely and proper manner its obligations under this Agreement to undertake, conduct or perform the project(s) identified in this Agreement, or if SUBRECIPIENT violates any of the covenants, agreements, or stipulations of this Agreement, CITY shall thereupon have the right 2022-2023 Subrecipient Agreement Cathedral City CDBG Program to terminate this Agreement by giving written notice of such termination and specifying the effective date thereof at least (5) days before the effective date of such termination. Notwithstanding the above, SUBRECIPIENT shall not be relieved of liability to CITY for damages sustained by CITY by virtue of any payments to SUBRECIPIENT for the purpose of set-off until such time as the exact amount of damages due CITY from SUBRECIPIENT is determined.
SUBRECIPIENT hereby expressly waives any and all claims for damages for compensation arising under this Agreement except as set forth in this Section in the event of such termination.
24. Effect of Termination
Upon termination, as stated in Section 3 or 23 of this Agreement, the CITY shall be liable to SUBRECIPIENT only for work done by SUBRECIPIENT up to and including the date of termination of this Agreement, unless the termination is for cause, in which event SUBRECIPIENT need be compensated only to the extent required by law.
25. Ownership of SUBRECIPIENT’s Work Product
CITY shall be the owner of any and all computations, plans, correspondence and/or other pertinent data and information gathered or prepared by SUBRECIPIENT in performance of this Agreement and shall be entitled to immediate possession of the same upon completion of the work under this Agreement, or at any earlier or later time when the same may be requested by CITY.
26. Taxpayer Identification Number
SUBRECIPIENT shall provide CITY with a complete Request for Taxpayer Identification Number and Certification, Form W-9 (Rev. 2007), as issued by the Internal Revenue Service.
27. Modification of Agreement
Except as provided in Section 3, the tasks described in this Agreement and all other terms of this Agreement may be modified only upon mutual written consent of CITY and SUBRECIPIENT.
28. Use of the term “CITY”
Reference to “CITY” in this Agreement includes CITY Manager, the designated CITY representative, or any authorized representative acting on behalf of CITY.
29. Notices
All notices given, or required to be given, pursuant to this Agreement shall be in writing and may be given by personal delivery or by mail. Notice sent by mail shall be addressed to each party’s designated representative as set forth above. When addressed in accordance 2022-2023 Subrecipient Agreement Cathedral City CDBG Program with this Section, such notice shall be deemed given upon deposit in the United States mail, postage prepaid. In all other instances, notices shall be deemed given at the time of actual delivery. Changes may be made in the names or addresses of persons to whom notices are to be given by giving notice in the manner prescribed in this Section.
30. Permits and Licenses
SUBRECIPIENT, at its sole expense, shall obtain and maintain during the term of this Agreement, all appropriate permits, licenses, and certificates that may be required in connection with the performance of services under this Agreement.
31. Waiver
A waiver by the CITY of any breach of any term, covenant, or condition contained in this Agreement shall not be deemed to be a waiver of any subsequent breach of the same or any other term, covenant, or condition contained in this Agreement whether of the same or different character.
32. Governing Law
The terms of this Agreement shall be interpreted according to the laws of the State of California. Should litigation occur, venue shall be in the Superior Court of Riverside County.
33. Specific Conditions
The SUBRECIPIENT agrees to the following specific conditions:
a) Must assist the CITY in achieving, at least one (1), of the goals described in the City’s Assessment of Fair Housing (AFH).
34. Integrated Agreement
This Agreement represents the entire Agreement between the CITY and the SUBRECIPIENT and all preliminary negotiations and agreements are deemed a part of this Agreement. No verbal agreement or implied covenant shall be held to vary the provisions of this Agreement. This Agreement shall bind and inure to the benefit of the parties to this Agreement and any subsequent successors and assigns.
2022-2023 Subrecipient Agreement Cathedral City CDBG Program In Witness Whereof, the parties have signed this agreement on the dates set forth below.
Grantee Subrecipient
CITY OF CATHEDRAL CITY FAIR HOUSING COUNCIL OF RIVERSIDE COUNTY
By: _________________________ By: _________________________ Charles P. McClendon, City Manager Rose Mayes, Executive Director ATTEST:
____________________________
Tracey R. Hermosillo, CMC
City Clerk
APPROVED AS TO FORM:
____________________________
Eric S. Vail
City Attorney
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EXHIBIT A
COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT BLOCK GRANT
SUBRECIPIENT AGREEMENT BETWEEN
THE CITY OF CATHEDRAL CITY
AND
FAIR HOUSING COUNCIL OF RIVERSIDE COUNTY
FOR
FAIR HOUSING AND RELATED SERVICES
SCOPE OF SERVICES
SUBRECIPIENT shall be responsible for administering the following eligible activities under the Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) Program and for the City of Cathedral City in a manner satisfactory to the Grantee and consistent with any standards required as a condition of providing these funds:
1. Fair housing and related services that assist approximately 200 persons/households (including education, mediation, complaints, outreach and enforcement as set forth below) designed to further the fair housing objectives of the Fair Housing Act and goals described in the Cathedral City Analysis of Impediments. a) Education/outreach Services - Workshops and presentations to provide fair housing education and outreach to the general public (at least two (2) during the term of the Agreement); and Education/Outreach Workshops or presentations to property management and/or banking/lending institutions (at least one (1) during the term of this Agreement).
b) Distribute fair housing educational literature to various mobile home parks, apartment complexes and community centers located in Cathedral City. c) Investigate and resolve housing discrimination complaints. d) Legal services relating to fair housing issues.
2. Landlord and tenant education and mediation within Cathedral City.
3. Mediation, enforcement, and/or related services to reduce fair housing complaints based on disability.
As part of the Services, SUBRECIPIENT will prepare and deliver the following tangible work products to the City:
1. Copies of all educational literature and materials distributed and/or used in providing the services detailed above.
2. Annual audits with regards to the Analysis of Impediments including surveys, testing or other method(s) to obtain required information.
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3. Monthly Mobility Counseling report.
4. Reports and information as may be required by the City.
During performance of the Services, SUBRECIPIENT will keep the City appraised of the status of performance by delivering the following status reports:
1. Monthly accomplishment reports, July 2024 through June 2025.
2. Monthly direct benefit activity reports, July 2024 through June 2025.
The tangible work products and status reports will be delivered to the City pursuant to the following schedule:
1. Within 10 days of the end of the month, for monthly reports.
2. As agreed upon at the time of request.
SUBRECIPIENT will utilize the following personnel to accomplish the Services:
1. Fair Housing Council of Riverside County (FHCRC) Staff as necessary to provide services requested.
SUBRECIPIENT may utilize the following agencies/or subcontractors to accomplish the Services provided, subject to the provisions of Section 9 and other applicable provisions of this Agreement:
1. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD)
2. Department of Justice (DOJ), Civil Rights Division
3. California State Department of Fair Employment and Housing (DFEH)
4. Private Attorneys
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EXHIBIT B
Fair Housing Council of Riverside County
for
Fair Housing and Related Services
SCHEDULE OF COMPENSATION
1. AMOUNT OF COMPENSATION. For performing and completing all work and services described in Exhibit A, and for providing all materials required therefore, CITY shall pay SUBRECIPIENT the total amount of:
NOT TO EXCEED: $20,000.00
The above total amount listed shall include all out–of–pocket expenses incurred by SUBRECIPIENT in the performance of such services.
2. BILLING. At the end of each calendar month in which services are performed or expenses are incurred under this Agreement, and prior to the 10th day of the following month, SUBRECIPIENT shall submit an invoice to the CITY at the following address:
The SUBRECIPIENT may also opt to submit billing on a quarterly basis, accompanying the quarterly report. In the event a quarterly report is not submitted on a timely basis, the reimbursement a submitted invoice may be upheld until the SUBRECIPIENT complies with the terms stated in Section 16 of this Agreement.
3. METHOD OF PAYMENT. Payment to SUBRECIPIENT of the compensation specified in Section 1 of this Exhibit shall be made as follows:
a) Subject to the maximum allowable compensation set forth in Section of this Exhibit, the CITY shall pay the SUBRECIPIENT, based on the submittal and approval of an invoice, on the basis determined by this Agreement during the term of this Agreement.
b) Terms shall be pay immediately.
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EXHIBIT C
Fair Housing Council of Riverside County
for
Fair Housing and Related Services
LIABILITY AND INSURANCE REQUIREMENTS
1. Types and Amounts of Insurance Coverage. Subrecipient shall provide the following types of insurance designated in this section by a check mark that includes coverage limits complying, at a minimum, with the limits set forth herein:
Type of Insurance Limits (comb. single)
Errors and omission $1,000,000
Commercial gen. liability $1,000,000
Business auto liability $1,000,000
Workers compensation Statutory Limit
2. Insurance Policy Forms and Provisions. The insurance policies provided by SUBRECIPIENT in compliance with the requirements of this Section shall conform to all of the following requirements regarding policy forms and provisions. a) Commercial Liability Insurance shall be provided on ISO-CGL Form No. CG 00 01 11 85 or 88. Aggregate limit endorsements shall be evidenced on either ISO Form No. CG 25 03 11 85 or ISO Form No. CG 25 04 11 85. City and all of City’s officers, employees, agents and volunteers shall be named as additional insureds under such insurance coverage using the City’s standard form endorsement or ISO Form No. CG 20 10 11 85 (in no event with an edition date later than 1990).
Coverage shall apply on a primary non-contributing basis in relation to any other insurance or self-insurance, primary or excess, available to City or any officer, employee, agent or volunteer of City.
Coverage shall not be limited to the vicarious liability or supervisory role of any additional insured. There shall be no cross-liability exclusion and no contractor limitation endorsement. In addition, there shall be no endorsement or modification limiting the scope of coverage for liability arising from pollution, explosion, collapse, underground property damage or employment-related practices, except for a provision or endorsement limiting liability arising from pollution to liability caused by sudden or accidental pollution.
Any umbrella liability insurance over primary insurance provided to meet primary limits shall apply to bodily injury, personal injury and property damage, at a minimum. Coverage shall be as broad as any required underlying primary coverage, and shall include a “drop down” provision providing primary coverage for liability not covered by primary policies but covered by the umbrella policy. Coverage shall be provided with defense costs payable in addition to policy limits. Coverage shall have starting and ending dates concurrent with the underlying coverages.
2022-2023 Subrecipient Agreement Cathedral City CDBG Program b) Errors and Omissions Insurance shall be provided covering liability for professional malpractice. Such coverage shall be on an “occurrence basis” if such coverage is available, or on a “claims made” basis if not available. When coverage is provided on a “claims made basis, Subrecipient shall continue to maintain the insurance in effect for a period of three (3) years after this Agreement expires or is terminated (hereinafter the “extended insurance”). Such extended insurance shall have the same coverage and limits as the policy that was in effect during the term of this Agreement, and shall cover Subrecipient for all claims made by City arising out of any errors or omissions of Subrecipient, or the officers, employees or agents of Subrecipient during the time this Agreement was in effect. c) Business Auto Coverage shall be provided on ISO Business Auto Coverage Form No. CA 00 01 06 92 including symbol 1 (any auto). As in the case of general liability insurance requirement, City and all of City’s officers, employees, agents and volunteers shall be named as additional insureds under such insurance coverage using City’s Standard form endorsement or ISO Form No. CG 20 10 11 85 (in no event with an edition date later than 1990). The insurance policy providing such coverage shall be scheduled as underlying insurance to any umbrella policy required above meeting general liability insurance requirements. d) Workers’ Compensation/Employer’s Liability Coverage shall provide workers’ compensation statutory benefits as required by law. Unless otherwise agreed, this policy shall be endorsed to waive any right of subrogation as respects to the City and City’s officers, employees, agents and volunteers. Employer’s liability coverage provided by such insurance shall be scheduled under any primary or umbrella policy described above to meet general liability insurance requirements.
3. Additional Insurance Requirements. SUBRECIPIENT agrees to comply with the following additional requirements with respect to the insurance provided pursuant to this Section:
a) Unless otherwise approved by the City, Subrecipient’s insurance shall be written by insurers authorized to do business in the State of California, and with a minimum “Best’s” Insurance Guide rating of “A: VII.” Self-insurance will not be considered to comply with these insurance specifications.
b) Subrecipient shall provide evidence of the insurance required herein, satisfactory to City, consisting of certificate(s) of insurance (separate additional insured endorsement) evidencing all of the coverages required, copies of the insurance policies themselves or any portions thereof, and any required endorsements.
Certificate(s) are to reflect that the insurer will provide 30 days’ notice of any cancellation of coverage. Subrecipient shall require its insurer to modify such certificates to delete any exculpatory wording stating that failure of the insurer to mail written notice of cancellation imposes no obligation, and to delete the word “endeavor” with regard to any notice provisions.
c) Requirements of specific coverage features or limits contained in this Section are not intended as a limitation on coverage, limits or other requirements, or a waiver 2022-2023 Subrecipient Agreement Cathedral City CDBG Program of any coverage normally provided by any insurance. Specific reference to a given coverage feature is for purposes of clarification only and is not intended by any party to be all inclusive, or to the exclusion of other coverage, or a waiver of any type. Coverage shall not be limited to the specific location, individual or entity designated as the address of the project or services provided for by this Agreement.
d) Subrecipient shall ensure that coverage provided to meet these requirements is applicable separately to each insured, and that there will be no cross-liability exclusions that preclude coverage for suits between Subrecipient and City, between Subrecipient and any other named insureds or additional insureds under the insurance policy, or between City and any party associated with City or City’s officers, employees, agents or volunteers.
e) All general or auto liability insurance coverage provided pursuant to this Agreement, or any other agreements pertaining to the performance of this Agreement, shall not prohibit Subrecipient, and Subrecipient’s employees or agents, from waiving the right of subrogation prior to a loss. By these presents, Subrecipient waives its right of subrogation against the City. f) Any failure on the part of City or any other additional insured under these requirements to obtain proof of insurance required under this Agreement in no way waives any right or remedy of City or any other additional insured in this or any other regard.
g) In the event any policy of insurance required under this Agreement does not comply with these requirements or is canceled and not replaced, City has the right, but not the duty, to obtain the insurance it deems necessary to meet the requirements of this Agreement, and any premium paid by City for such insurance will be promptly reimbursed by Subrecipient, or, if not promptly reimbursed, deducted from any compensation to be paid by City to Subrecipient pursuant to this Agreement.
h) Subrecipient will provide proof that policies of insurance required herein expiring during the term of this Agreement have been renewed or replaced with other policies providing at least the same coverage. Such proof will be furnished at least 72 hours before expiration of coverage.
i) Subrecipient shall require all subcontractors or other parties hired by Subrecipient to perform any part of the services required by this Agreement to purchase and maintain all of the insurance specified above and all such commercial general liability insurance and business automobile insurance shall name as additional insureds all parties to this Agreement. Subrecipient shall obtain certificates evidencing such coverage and make reasonable efforts to ensure that such coverage is provided as required herein. No contract used by any Subrecipient, or contracts Subrecipient enters into on behalf of City, will reserve the right to charge back to City the cost of insurance required by this Agreement. When requested, Subrecipient shall provide City will all agreements with subcontractors or others 2022-2023 Subrecipient Agreement Cathedral City CDBG Program with whom Subrecipient contracts with on behalf of City, and with all certificates of insurance obtained in compliance with this Section. Failure of City to request copies of such documents will not impose any liability on City, or its employees. j) Subrecipient shall provide immediate notice to City of any claim against Subrecipient or any loss involving Subrecipient that could result in City or any of City’s officers, employees, agents or volunteers being named as a defendant in any litigation arising out of such claim or loss. City shall not incur any obligation or liability by reason of the receipt of such notice. However, City shall have the right, but not the duty, to monitor the handling of any such claim or loss that is likely to involve City.
k) In the event of any loss that is not insured due to the failure of Subrecipient to comply with these requirements, Subrecipient will be personally responsible for any and all losses, claims, suits, damages, defense obligations and liability of any kind attributed to City, or City’s officers, employees, agents or volunteers as a result of such failure.
Staff Report
City Council
Item No. 5.C
Meeting Date: May 8, 2024
From: Kevin Biersack, Financial Services Director
Title: Annual Renewal of the Lighting and Landscaping District Budget for Fiscal Year 2024/2025
RECOMMENDATION:
To adopt three Resolutions to renew the annual assessments with Street Lighting and Landscape Maintenance District No. 1 (Zones 1 through 54, non-sequential) BACKGROUND:
In August 2001, City Council adopted Resolution 2001-57 approving the formation of an assessment district created under the Street Landscaping and Lighting Maintenance District Act of 1972. The original district was initiated with six proposed benefit zones, but after the required Proposition 218 ballot process, only four benefit zones were approved. Since the initial formation, annexations of additional zones have been approved by City Council and passed by property owners through the Proposition 218 ballot process, making a total of sixteen (16) current zones (Zones 1 thru 54, non-sequential).
The 1972 Act provides that assessments may be levied annually. Proposition 218 laws provide assessment increase limitations. Assessments for labor, material and utility increases cannot exceed an amount greater than the Consumer Price Index (CPI) for the previous year. Reballoting is required if increases exceed the CPI limitations or if the scope of work accomplished by the LLD Zone were to change. Under the preliminary engineer’s report, there are no LLD zone levy increases exceeding the CPI limitation nor are there any scope changes as currently proposed.
DISCUSSION:
As stated in the recommendation above, the prescribed process includes the City Council adopting resolutions. To meet the time requirements to levy the parcels for the FY 2024-2025 tax year, the resolutions need to be approved by May 8, 2024. A public hearing will be scheduled on June 26, 2024, duly published and made available at least 10 days prior to the public hearing. The final engineer’s report and levy for LLD Zones 1 through 54 (nonsequential) will be presented at the June 26th meeting. At that time, the council shall consider passing a resolution approving the engineer’s report and a resolution regarding the establishment of the maximum assessment and ordering the levy and collection of the assessment.
In the most recent biennial budget, the Fiscal Year 2024-2025 budget for the Landscape and Lighting Fund (261) identified budget revenues of $695,000 and budgeted expenditures of $679,137. The attached preliminary engineer’s report has identified FY 2024-2025 revenues totaling $721,180 and associated expenditures totaling $714,714 resulting in the proposed budget adjustments listed below.
FY 2024-25 FY2024-25 FY 2024-25
Adopted
Budget
Engineers
Estimate
Budget
Adjustment
Revenues $ 695,000 $ 721,180 $ 26,180
Expenditures $ 679,137 $ 714,714 $ 35,577
Regarding the individual LLDs, zone 20 (Cimarron) is the only one with a negative balance of $4,015 at the end of the fiscal year, down from $6,147 at the beginning of the fiscal year.
FISCAL IMPACT:
FISCAL
YEAR
DESCRIPTION
GENERAL
LEDGER
ACCOUNT
CODES
PROJECT
CODE
AMOUNT ONE TIME or
ONGOING
2024-2025 LLD Budget 261-6500-
6571
All non-park
LLDs
$26,180 One time for
revenue
2024-2025 LLD Budget 261-8300-
8301
All non-park
LLDs
$35,577 One time for
expenditures
FIVE-YEAR STRATEGIC PLAN:
This action will further Goal C – Fiscal Stability and Sustainability Objective - Cathedral City has economically prospered by facilitating the investment of private dollars in high quality development which benefits the community. We remain financially solvent by instituting prudent fiscal policies and transparent financial practices.
ATTACHMENTS:
1. Initiate Proceedings Resolution
2. Intention to Levy Resolution
3. Preliminary Engineers Report Resolution
4. Preliminary Engineers Report
RESOLUTION NO. _____________
A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF CATHEDRAL CITY,
CALIFORNIA INITIATING PROCEEDINGS FOR THE ANNUAL LEVY OF
ASSESSMENTS FOR THE CITY OF CATHEDRAL CITY STREET LIGHTING AND LANDSCAPING MAINTENANCE DISTRICT NO. 1 FOR FISCAL YEAR 2024/2025 The City Council of the City of Cathedral City (hereafter referred to as the “City Council”) does resolve as follows:
WHEREAS, The City Council of the City of Cathedral City, California has, by previous Resolutions, formed the District known and designated as the City of Cathedral City Street Lighting and Landscaping District No. 1 (hereafter referred to as the “District”) pursuant to the provisions of the Landscaping and Lighting Act of 1972, Part 2 of Division 15 of the Streets and Highways Code of California, beginning with Section 22500 (hereafter referred to as the “Act”), that provides for levy and collection of assessments by the County of Riverside for the City of Cathedral City to pay the maintenance and services of street lighting, landscaping, and all appurtenant facilities and operations related thereto; and,
WHEREAS, the City Council has retained Willdan Financial Services for the purpose of assisting with the annual levy of the Districts, and to prepare and file a “Engineer’s Annual Levy Report” (hereafter referred to as the “Report”) report with the Deputy City Clerk in accordance with the Act.
NOW, THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED, DETERMINED, AND ORDERED BY THE CITY COUNCIL FOR THE DISTRICT, AS FOLLOWS:
Section 1: The City Council hereby orders Willdan Financial Services to prepare the Report concerning the levy of assessments for the Districts in accordance with Chapter 3, Section 22622 of the Act.
Section 2: The descriptions of the District boundary and the Zones therein are outlined in the Report and by reference are made part of this Resolution. The District consists of sixteen (16) Benefit Zones. The District is designated as “City of Cathedral City Street Lighting and Landscaping Maintenance District No. 1.”
Section 3: The improvements within the District include but are not limited to: turf, ground cover, shrubs and trees, irrigation systems, street lighting, graffiti removal, drainage systems and all appurtenant facilities and operations related thereto. The Report describes all new improvements or substantial changes in existing improvements.
Section 4: That the City Clerk shall certify to the passage and adoption of this Resolution; shall enter the same in the book of original Resolutions of said City; and shall make a minute of passage and adoption thereof in the records of the proceedings of the City Council of said City, in the minutes of the meeting at which Resolution is passed and adopted.
RESOLUTION NO. _____________
PASSED, APPROVED, AND ADOPTED THIS ___________ DAY OF ________________, 2024.
AYES:
NOES:
ABSENT:
ABSTAINED:
___________________________
Mayor
ATTEST:
____________________________
City Clerk
APPROVED AS TO FORM: APPROVED AS TO CONTENT:
_____________________________ ____________________________ City Attorney Department Head
REVIEWED:
_____________________________
City Manager
RESOLUTION NO. _____________
A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF CATHEDRAL CITY,
CALIFORNIA, INITIATE PROCEEDINGS AND DECLARING ITS INTENTION TO LEVY
AND COLLECT ASSESSMENTS FOR THE CITY OF CATHEDRAL CITY STREET LIGHTING AND LANDSCAPING MAINTENANCE DISTRICT NO. 1 FOR FISCAL YEAR 2024/2025
The City Council of the City of Cathedral City (hereafter referred to as the “City Council”) does resolve as follows:
WHEREAS, The City Council has by previous Resolutions formed the City of Cathedral City Street Lighting and Landscaping Maintenance District No. 1 (hereafter referred to as the “District”), and initiated proceedings for Fiscal Year 2024/2025, pursuant to the provisions of the Landscaping and Lighting Act of 1972, Part 2, Division 15 of the California Streets and Highways Code (commencing with section 22500) (hereafter referred to as the “Act”) that provides for the levy and collection of assessments by the County of Riverside for the City of Cathedral City to pay for the maintenance and services of improvements and facilities related thereto; and, WHEREAS, the assessments for the District were previously approved in accordance with the requirements of the California State Constitution, Article XIIID; and, WHEREAS, the City Council has retained Willdan Financial Services for the purpose of assisting with the Annual Levy of the District, and to prepare and file an “Engineer’s Annual Levy Report” (hereafter referred to as the “Report”) with the City Clerk in accordance with the Act; and, WHEREAS, the Report for Fiscal Year 2024/2025 has been filed with the City Clerk, presented to the City Council and preliminarily approved by the City Council, as required by Chapter 3 Sections 22623 and 22624 of said act.
NOW, THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED, DETERMINED, AND ORDERED BY THE CITY COUNCIL FOR THE DISTRICT, PURSUANT TO CHAPTER 3, SECTION 22624 OF THE ACT, AS FOLLOWS:
Section 1: The above recitals are true and correct.
Section 2: Intention: The City Council hereby desires to initiate proceedings and declares its intention to seek the annual levy and collection of assessments within the District pursuant to the Act, over and including the land within the District boundary, and to levy and collect assessments on such land to pay the annual costs and expenses of the improvements and services described in Section 4 of this Resolution, for Fiscal Year 2024/2025.
Section 3: Boundaries and Designation: The description of the District boundary and the Zones therein are outlined in the Report and by reference made part of this Resolution. The District consists of sixteen (16) Benefit Zones. The District is designated as “City of Cathedral City Street Lighting and Landscaping Maintenance District No. 1.” Section 4: Description of Improvements: The improvements within the District include but are not limited to: turf, ground cover, shrubs and trees, irrigation systems, street lighting, RESOLUTION NO. _____________
graffiti removal, drainage systems and all appurtenant facilities and operations related thereto. The Report describes all new improvements or substantial changes in existing improvements.
Section 5: Proposed Assessment Amounts: The proposed district assessments are within the limits previously approved by the property owners and do not constitute an increased assessment. The assessments outlined in the Report have not been increased over the Consumer Price Index as previously approved by the property owners, and do not require additional property owner approval in accordance with the requirements of the California Constitution, Articles XIIIC and XIIID.
Section 6: Public Hearing(s): The City Council hereby declares its intention to conduct a Public Hearing concerning the levy of assessments for the District in accordance with Chapter 3, Section 22626 of the Act.
Section 7: Notice: The City shall give notice of the time and place of the Public Hearing to the property owners within the District by causing the publishing of this Resolution once in the local newspaper not less than ten (10) days before the date of the public hearing, and by posting a copy of this resolution on the official bulletin board customarily used by the Council for the posting of notices.
Section 8: Notice Of Public Hearing: Notice is hereby given that a Public Hearing on these matters will be held by the City Council on June 26, 2024 at 5:30pm, or as soon thereafter as feasible in the Council Chambers at City Hall, 68-700 Avenida Lalo Guerrero, Cathedral City, CA 92234.
Section 9: The City Clerk is hereby authorized and directed to give notice of such hearing as provided by law.
Section 10: That the City Clerk shall certify to the passage and adoption of this Resolution; shall enter the same in the book of original Resolutions of said City; and shall make a minute of passage and adoption thereof in the records of the proceedings of the City Council of said City, in the minutes of the meeting at which Resolution is passed and adopted.
RESOLUTION NO. _____________
PASSED, APPROVED, AND ADOPTED THIS ___________ DAY OF ________________, 2024.
AYES:
NOES:
ABSENT:
ABSTAINED:
___________________________
Mayor
ATTEST:
____________________________
City Clerk
APPROVED AS TO FORM: APPROVED AS TO CONTENT:
_____________________________ ____________________________ City Attorney Department Head
REVIEWED:
_____________________________
City Manager
RESOLUTION NO. _____________
A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF CATHEDRAL CITY, CALIFORNIA FOR PRELIMINARY APPROVAL OF THE ENGINEER’S REPORT FOR THE CITY OF
CATHEDRAL CITY STREET LIGHTING AND LANDSCAPING MAINTENANCE DISTRICT NO. 1 FOR FISCAL YEAR 2024/2025
The City Council of the City of Cathedral City, California (hereafter referred to as the “City Council”) does resolve as follows:
WHEREAS, the City Council of the City of Cathedral, California has, by previous Resolution, ordered the preparation of the Fiscal Year 2024/2025 Engineer’s Report for the District known and designated as the City of Cathedral City Street Lighting and Landscaping Maintenance District No. 1 (hereafter referred to as the “District”) pursuant to the provisions of the Landscaping and Lighting Act of 1972, Part 2 of Division 15 of the Streets and Highways Code of California, beginning with Section 22500 (hereafter referred to as the “Act”); and, WHEREAS, there has now been presented to this City Council the “Engineer’s Annual Levy Report” (hereafter referred to as the “Report”) as required by Chapter 1, Article 4, Section 22566 of said Act; and,
WHEREAS, this City Council has examined and reviewed the Report as presented, and is preliminarily satisfied with the District, each of the budget items and documents as set forth therein, and is satisfied that the assessments have been spread in accordance with the special benefits received from the improvements, operation, maintenance and services to be performed within each Benefit Zone of the District, as set forth in said Report.
NOW, THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED, DETERMINED, AND ORDERED BY THE CITY COUNCIL FOR THE DISTRICT, AS FOLLOWS:
Section 1: That the above recitals are true and correct.
Section 2: That the Report as presented, consists of the following:
a) A Description of Improvements (Plans & Specifications). b) The Annual Budget (Costs and Expenses of Services, Operations and Maintenance)
c) A Description of the Method of Apportionment resulting in an Assessment Rate per Levy Unit for each said District for Fiscal Year 2024/2025. d) District Assessment Diagrams showing the exterior boundaries of the Assessment District and/or the Benefit Zones therein.
e) The 2024/2025 Assessment Collection Roll with the proposed assessment apportioned to each lot or parcel.
Section 3: That the Report is hereby approved on a preliminary basis pending a public hearing, and ordered to be filed in the Office of the City Clerk as a permanent record, and remains open to public inspection.
RESOLUTION NO. _____________
Section 4: That the City Clerk shall certify to the passage and adoption of this Resolution and the minutes of this meeting shall so reflect the presentation of the Report.
Section 5: That the City Clerk shall certify to the passage and adoption of this Resolution; shall enter the same in the book of original Resolutions of said City; and shall make a minute of passage and adoption thereof in the records of the proceedings of the City Council of said City, in the minutes of the meeting at which Resolution is passed and adopted.
PASSED, APPROVED, AND ADOPTED THIS ___________ DAY OF ________________, 2024.
AYES:
NOES:
ABSENT:
ABSTAINED:
___________________________
Mayor
ATTEST:
____________________________
City Clerk
APPROVED AS TO FORM: APPROVED AS TO CONTENT:
_____________________________ ____________________________ City Attorney Department Head
REVIEWED:
_____________________________
City Manager
City of Cathedral City
Street Lighting and Landscaping
Maintenance District No.1
2024/2025 ENGINEER’S ANNUAL LEVY REPORT
Intent Meeting: May 8, 2024
Public Hearing: June 12, 2024
27368 Via Industria
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Temecula, CA 92590
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ENGINEER'S REPORT AFFIDAVIT
Street Lighting and Landscaping Maintenance District No. 1 City of Cathedral City,
County of Riverside, State of California
This Engineer’s Report and the enclosed diagrams showing the exterior boundaries of the City of Cathedral City Street Lighting and Landscaping Maintenance District No. 1; any relevant zones therein; and the lines and dimensions of each lot, parcel, and subdivision of land within said District, as the same existed at the time of the passage of the Resolution of Intention. Reference is hereby made to the Riverside County Assessor’s maps for a detailed description of the lines and dimensions of parcels within the District.
The undersigned respectfully submits the enclosed Report as directed by the City Council.
Dated this ____________ day of ______________, 2024.
Willdan Financial Services
Assessment Engineer
On Behalf of the City of Cathedral City
By: ________________________________
Josephine Moses, Vice-President and Assistant Director (Special District Services) District Administration Services
By: ________________________________
Tyrone Peter
P.E. # C 81888
TABLE OF CONTENTS
I. OVERVIEW........................................................................................................... 1 II. DESCRIPTION OF THE DISTRICT .............................................................. 1 A. Improvements Within the District .......................................................1 B. District Zone Boundaries and Improvements .....................................2 C. Improvements Authorized By The 1972 Act.......................................8 III. Method of Apportionment ............................................................................. 9 A. General..............................................................................................9 B. Methodology ....................................................................................10 C. Assessment Adjustment Formula to Offset Inflation.........................12 IV. DISTRICT BUDGET......................................................................................... 13 A. Description of Budget Items.............................................................13 APPENDIX A............................................................................................18 APPENDIX B............................................................................................19 2024/2025 Cathedral City Street Lighting and Landscaping Maintenance District No.1 Page 1 I. OVERVIEW
The City of Cathedral City (“City”) annually levies and collects special assessments in order to provide and maintain improvements within the Street Lighting and Landscaping Maintenance District No. 1 (“District”). In August 2001, the District was formed by passage of City Council Resolution No. 2001-57, after a public hearing and protest ballot process in accordance with Article XIIID of the California Constitution (“Article XIIID”). The District was originally formed with four (4) benefit zones (“Zones”) and, along with all subsequent annexations of additional Zones, is described herein. The District assessment is levied annually pursuant to the Landscape and Lighting Act of 1972, Part 2 of Division 15 of the California Streets and Highways Code (the “1972 Act”) and Article XIIID.
This Engineer’s Annual Levy Report (“Report”) describes the District and improvements, any proposed changes to the District or improvements and the proposed budgets and assessments for Fiscal Year (“FY”) 2024/2025. The assessments are based on the City’s estimated cost to maintain the improvements that provide a special benefit to properties assessed within the District. The improvements within the District and the corresponding costs and the annual levy are budgeted and assessed for each separate Zone, including expenditures, deficits, surpluses, revenues, and reserves.
For the purposes of this Report, the word “parcel” refers to an individual property assigned its own Assessor’s Parcel Number by the Riverside County (“County”) Assessor’s Office.
The County Auditor/Controller uses Assessor’s Parcel Numbers and specific Fund Numbers to identify properties assessed for special district benefits on the County tax roll.
Following consideration of public comments and written protests at a noticed public hearing, the City Council may order amendments to the Report or confirm the Report as submitted. Following final approval of the Report and confirmation of the assessments, the City Council may then order the levy and collection of assessments for FY 2024/2025 pursuant to the 1972 Act. In such case, the assessment information will be submitted to the County Auditor/Controller and included on the property tax roll for each benefiting parcel in FY 2024/2025.
II. DESCRIPTION OF THE DISTRICT
A. Improvements Within the District
The improvements in each of the Zones of the District include the operation, maintenance, rehabilitation and servicing of landscaping, lighting and appurtenant facilities including but not limited to, the cost of personnel, electrical energy, water service, materials, equipment, contracting services, and other items necessary for the satisfactory operation of these services described as follows:
2024/2025 Cathedral City Street Lighting and Landscaping Maintenance District No.1 Page 2 Landscaping and Appurtenant Facilities
Landscaping improvements include but are not limited to: ground cover, shrubbery, trees, irrigation systems, hardscapes, fixtures; sidewalk maintenance resulting from landscape growth, drainage basin cleaning and maintenance, graffiti removal, and related facilities; and work in public rights-of-way, medians, parkways and dedicated easements within the boundaries of said District.
Lighting and Appurtenant Facilities
Street lighting improvements include but are not limited to: energy costs, poles, fixtures, bulbs, conduits, conductors, equipment (including guys, anchors, posts and pedestals), metering devices and appurtenant facilities required to provide safety lighting and landscape lighting in public rights-of-way, medians, parkways and dedicated easements.
The public lighting system in each of the Zones is maintained to provide adequate illumination. Power for streetlights is furnished by the Southern California Edison Company. Rates for power are those authorized by the California Public Utilities Commission.
“Maintenance” means the furnishing of services, materials and labor for the ordinary and usual operation, maintenance, care and servicing of the landscaping, public lighting facilities and appurtenant facilities, including repair, removal or replacement of all or part of any of the landscaping, public lighting facilities or appurtenant facilities; providing for the life, growth, health and beauty of the landscaping, including cultivation, irrigation, trimming, spraying, fertilizing and treating for disease or injury; and the removal of trimmings, rubbish, debris and other solid waste; the replacement of dead or dying vegetation, plants and (50%) trees; the cleaning, sandblasting, and painting of walls and other improvements to remove graffiti; and the cleaning, grading, disking, and maintenance of drainage basins to maintain their appearance, percolation, and storage volume. “Servicing” means the furnishing of water for the irrigation of the landscaping and the furnishing of electric current, gas, or other illuminating agent for the public lighting facilities, or for the decorative lighting or operation of landscaping or appurtenant facilities.
The plans and specifications for the improvements are on file in the office of the City Engineer and are by reference herein made a part of this Report.
B. District Zone Boundaries and Improvements
The District is presently divided into sixteen (16) Zones, based on the special benefit received by the property within each of the respective Zones. 2024/2025 Cathedral City Street Lighting and Landscaping Maintenance District No.1 Page 3 Zone One (Vista Del Rey, Tract 29664)
Zone One consists of seventy-two (72) single-family residential parcels located south of 30th Avenue east of Date Palm Drive. There are two (2) arterial streetlights located on 30th Avenue and nine (9) located within the interior streets of the development. The improvements maintained in the Zone include the landscaping and maintenance of the parkway on 30th Avenue associated with the development.
Zone Two (La Paloma, Tract 29584)
Zone Two consists of sixty-five (65) single-family residential parcels located on the northwest corner of 30th Avenue and Da Vall Drive. There are six (6) arterial streetlights located on 30th Avenue and Da Vall Drive and eight (8) located within the interior streets of the development. The improvements maintained in the Zone include the landscaping and maintenance of the parkways on 30th Avenue and on Da Vall Drive associated with the development. Also included is the graffiti removal from the perimeter walls along both 30th Avenue and Da Vall Drive and maintenance of a drainage basin.
Zone Five (Tapestry, Tract 29487 and Tract 29487-1)
Zone Five consists of eighty (80) single-family residential parcels, located at the southwest corner of 30th Avenue and Santoro Drive. There are three (3) arterial streetlights located on 30th Avenue and Santoro Drive and nine (9) located within the interior streets of the development. The improvements maintained in the Zone include the landscaping and maintenance of the parkways on 30th Avenue and on Santoro Drive associated with the development. Also included is the graffiti removal from the perimeter walls along both 30th Avenue and Santoro Drive.
Zone Seven (Montage, Tract 29771)
Zone Seven consists of one hundred twenty-eight (128) single-family residential parcels, located at the southwest corner of Gerald Ford Drive and Da Vall Drive, of which 50% is in the City of Cathedral City and the other 50% is in the City of Rancho Mirage. The City of Rancho Mirage’s landscape contractor maintains the landscaping and irrigation. There are twelve (12) arterial streetlights located on Gerald Ford Drive and Da Vall Drive. The improvements maintained in the Zone include the landscaping and maintenance of a raised median island on Gerald Ford Drive and on Da Vall Drive associated with the development. Also included is the graffiti removal from the perimeter walls along both Gerald Ford Drive and Da Vall Drive.
Zone Eight (Baristo, Tract 30256 and Tract 30256-1)
Zone Eight consists of forty-two (42) single-family residential parcels, located south of McCallum Way and west of Santoro Drive, at the ends of Victor Road, Neuma Road, and El Toro Road. Tract 30256 has twenty-two (22) single-family residential parcels and Tract 30256-1 has twenty (20) single-family residential parcels. The 2024/2025 Cathedral City Street Lighting and Landscaping Maintenance District No.1 Page 4 improvements maintained for this residential subdivision include four (4) interior streetlights on the four streets of the development.
Zone Nine (La Pasada Neighborhood, Tract 27097-8)
Zone Nine consists of eighty-six (86) single-family residential parcels, located on interior public streets, abutting Vista Chino, an arterial highway, and bisected by Avenida Maravilla, a collector street which intersects Vista Chino and is also the main entryway into the La Pasada development.
The improvements maintained in this Zone include the streetlights on the interior streets of Tract 27097-8, and the Zone’s proportional special benefit from the maintenance and upkeep of the Vista Chino and Avenida Maravilla landscaping, street lighting improvements, and graffiti removal. Zone Nine represents 27.4% of the total number of parcels in the La Pasada Neighborhood that benefit from improvements on Vista Chino and Avenida Maravilla. These properties are assessed proportionately for the cost of those improvements based on 27.4%.
There are three (3) arterial streetlights and six (6) interior streetlights within this Zone.
Zone Eleven (Downtown Core Area, Tract 28339)
Zone Eleven consists of eleven (11) parcels. Ten (10) parcels in the Zone are commercial/industrial development with a combined acreage of 14.77. One (1) parcel in the Zone is a multi-family residential development comprised of sixty-one (61) units. The Downtown Core area is designated in the Downtown Specific Plan.
It includes the Cathedral City Civic Center, a parking structure, theaters, Town Square and Downtown commercial-retail development sites. The properties within this Zone benefit from five (5) arterial streetlights located along the sidewalk and parkway areas of both East Palm Canyon and Cathedral Canyon Drive, as well as forty-six (46) interior streetlights located in the Core area.
Zone Twelve (Mercy Housing Project)
Zone Twelve consists of two (2) multi-family residential parcels comprised of a total of seventy-five (75) units. The Mercy Housing project is an affordable housing project on the block between “A” Street and “C” Street, and between Cathedral Canyon Drive and West Buddy Rogers Avenue. The project site was originally comprised of fifteen (15) parcels, which were combined into one large parcel that was subsequently split into two (2) parcels. The Zone also includes a 5,000 Sq. Ft. senior center area. The improvements maintained by the Zone include streetlights and landscaping. The operators of the development maintain the landscaping improvements around the site and in the street parkways. There are six (6) streetlights around the perimeter of the site; one (1) arterial streetlight is on Cathedral Canyon Drive and the other five (5) are within the interior of the Zone. 2024/2025 Cathedral City Street Lighting and Landscaping Maintenance District No.1 Page 5 Zone Fifteen (Landau Homes, Tract 21491 & 24982)
Zone Fifteen consists of one hundred eleven (111) single-family residential parcels located in the subdivision known as Landau Homes. Zone Fifteen is located within the boundaries of the City, generally south of 30th Avenue, north of Vega Road and west of Landau Boulevard.
The improvements maintained in the Zone include the landscaping and maintenance of the parkways along the west of Landau Boulevard, between 30th Avenue and Vega Road and the graffiti removal along a block wall on Landau Boulevard’s west side. A total of twenty-nine (29) streetlights, including eighteen (18) interior and eleven (11) arterial, are maintained.
Zone Sixteen (Century Park, Tract 20765-1 thru 8 & 29139) Zone Sixteen consists of five hundred ninety-nine (599) single-family residential parcels located in the subdivision collectively known as Century Park. Zone Sixteen is located within the boundaries of the City, bordered by 30th Avenue to the north, Da Vall Drive to the east, McCallum Way to the south, and Santoro Drive to the west. The parcels within the Zone consist of only residential parcels in addition to a neighborhood park owned by the City. The improvements maintained in this Zone include all streetlights and maintenance of Century Park. There are a total of two hundred (200) streetlights within the Zone, including forty-eight (48) arterial, one hundred forty (140) interior, and twelve (12) within the park.
Zone Sixteen provides for a one hundred percent (100%) contribution from the City’s General Fund for the maintenance of the public park. In addition, the arterial street lights in this zone are funded with a fifty percent (50%) contribution from the City's General Fund.
Zone Seventeen (Panorama Park, Tract 2040 & 2232)
Zone Seventeen consists of two thousand four hundred two (2,402) parcels and is comprised of the following:
• Sixty-one (61) commercial/industrial parcels with 15.15 cumulative acreage. • One hundred twenty-two (122) multi-family residential parcels comprised cumulatively three hundred twenty-seven (327) units.
• Four (4) Mobile Home Park parcels.
• Two thousand one hundred and twenty-six (2,126) single-family residential parcels.
• Eighty-nine (89) single-family vacant residential parcels.
Zone Seventeen consists of the parcels located in the subdivisions collectively known as Panorama Park. Zone Seventeen is located within the boundaries of the City, bordered by Vista Chino to the north, Date Palm Drive to the east, 30th Avenue to the 2024/2025 Cathedral City Street Lighting and Landscaping Maintenance District No.1 Page 6 south, and Landau Boulevard to the west. The improvements maintained in Zone Seventeen include the maintenance and landscaping of facilities located within Panorama Park and the maintenance and servicing of one hundred seventy-three (173) streetlights within the Zone, including sixty-one (61) arterial, one hundred eight (108) interior, and four (4) within the park.
Zone Seventeen provides for a one hundred percent (100%) contribution from the City’s General Fund for the maintenance of the public park. In addition, the arterial streetlights in this zone are funded with a fifty percent (50%) contribution from the City's General Fund.
Zone Eighteen (Landau Manor, Tracts 27962, 27962-1 & 30744) Zone Eighteen contains eighty one (81) parcels. There are eighty (80) single-family residential parcels and one (1) vacant single-family residential parcel. Zone Eighteen consists of the parcels located in the subdivision known as Landau Manor. Zone Eighteen is located within the boundaries of the City, generally south of Vega Road, north of McCallum Way, east of Keith Avenue and west of Landau Boulevard. The properties within the Zone also include open space retention basins.
The improvements maintained in the Zone includes streetscape maintenance, including graffiti removal along the 6 foot high block wall on Landau Boulevard’s west side between Vega Road and McCallum Way; retention basin maintenance including clean out of debris and weed control at the three sites located at the southwest sections of each development; all street lighting within the residential subdivisions in the Zone; street lights at Vega Road, McCallum Way and Landau Boulevard; and public street lighting and other public lighting facilities on the streets surrounding or adjacent to the development and other public areas associated or necessary for development of properties within the Zone. A total of twenty (20) streetlights, including eight (8) interior and twelve (12) arterial, are maintained.
Zone Nineteen (Alicante, Tract 24035-1)
Zone Nineteen consists of sixty-three (63) single-family residential parcels located in the subdivision known as Alicante Neighborhood. The Zone is located in the northwest quadrant of the intersections of McCallum Way and San Eljay Drive.
More specifically, this includes properties that are south of Rosemount Road, west of San Eljay Drive, and north of McCallum Way.
The improvements maintained in the Zone include the landscaping and maintenance of parkways on the north side of McCallum Way from San Eljay west approximately 600 linear feet; parkways on the west side of San Eljay Drive from McCallum Way to Rosemont Road; graffiti removal, paint and wall repairs along the masonry block wall on McCallum Way and San Eljay Drive; lighting and servicing of four (4) interior streetlights located at the end of each of the cul-desacs located within the tract, and nine (9) arterial streetlights located along 2024/2025 Cathedral City Street Lighting and Landscaping Maintenance District No.1 Page 7 McCallum Way, San Eljay Drive, and Rosemount Road.
Zone Twenty (Cimarron, Tract 25804-1)
Zone Twenty consists of thirty-two (32) single-family residential parcels located in the subdivision known as Cimarron Neighborhood. The Zone is located in the northeast quadrant of the intersection of 30th Avenue and Santoro, the interior streets of Borrego Road, Santa Rosa Street and Cimarron Court.
The improvements maintained in the Zone include the landscaping and maintenance of two (2) landscaped parkways to include a total of 16,000 square feet in the north side of 30th Avenue (Santoro Drive to east tract limits) and the east side of Santoro Drive (30th Avenue to the north tract limit); and lighting and servicing of six (6) interior streetlights located throughout the tract and three (3) arterial streetlights located along Santoro Drive and 30th Avenue.
Zone Twenty-One (Santoro Estates, Tract 25804-1)
Zone Twenty-One consists of thirty-six (36) single-family residential parcels located in the subdivision known as Santoro Estates Neighborhood. The Zone located in the southwest corner of Santoro Drive and Tortuga Road. This includes properties east of Santoro Drive, west of Da Vall Drive, south of Tortuga Road, north of Borrego Road and the interior streets of Santa Rosa Street, Anza Court and Manzanita Court.
The improvements maintained in the Zoneinclude a landscaped parkway on the east side of Santoro Drive (from Tortuga Road south to the Cimarron tract line just north of Borrego Road), pedestrian safety streetlights, graffiti removal and litter control along Santoro Drive; lighting and servicing of six (6) interior streetlights located throughout the tract; and three (3) arterial streetlights located along Santoro Drive. In addition, the assessment, includes the landscape maintenance associated with a retention basin (on two (2) of the parcels) servicing this Zone.
Zone Fifty-Four (Jack-in-the-Box, Tract 019196)
Zone Fifty-Four is one (1) commercial parcel with a Chevron gas station and a Jack-inthe-Box within the Zone. The Zone is located on Palm Drive just east of the I-10 freeway.
The improvements maintained in this Zone include a streetlight on Palm Drive and Paul Road, and the landscaped median on Palm Drive. The maintenance and servicing of landscaping within the public right-of-way, includes the trimming, fertilizing, weeding and replanting of trees, shrubs, grass and other ornamental vegetation. The maintenance and servicing of irrigation and electrical facilities associated with the landscaping, including but not limited to electricity for operation of the irrigation system and water for irrigation; and the provision of electricity to all streetlights within the public right-of-way, including incidental costs and expenses. 2024/2025 Cathedral City Street Lighting and Landscaping Maintenance District No.1 Page 8 C. Improvements Authorized By The 1972 Act
As applicable or may be applicable to this proposed District, the 1972 Act defines improvements to mean one or any combination of the following:
• The installation or planting of landscaping.
• The installation or construction of statuary, fountains, and other ornamental structures and facilities.
• The installation or construction of public lighting facilities. • The installation or construction of any facilities which are appurtenant to any of the foregoing or which are necessary or convenient for the maintenance or servicing thereof, including, but not limited to, grading, clearing, removal of debris, the installation or construction of curbs, gutters, walls, sidewalks, or paving, or water, irrigation, drainage, or electrical facilities. • The maintenance or servicing, or both, of any of the foregoing. • The acquisition of any existing improvement otherwise authorized pursuant to this section.
Incidental expenses associated with the improvements including, but not limited to:
• The cost of preparation of the report, including plans, specifications, estimates, diagram, and assessment;
• The costs of printing, advertising, and the publishing, posting and mailing of notices;
• Compensation payable to the County for collection of assessments; • Compensation of any engineer or attorney employed to render services; • Any other expenses incidental to the construction, installation, or maintenance and servicing of the improvements;
• Any expenses incidental to the issuance of bonds or notes pursuant to Section 22662.5.
• Costs associated with any elections held for the approval of a new or increased assessment.
The 1972 Act defines "maintain" or "maintenance" to mean furnishing of services and materials for the ordinary and usual maintenance, operation, and servicing of any improvement, including:
• Repair, removal, or replacement of all or any part of any improvement. • Providing for the life, growth, health, and beauty of landscaping, including cultivation, irrigation, trimming, spraying, fertilizing, or treating for disease or injury.
• The removal of trimmings, rubbish, debris, and other solid waste. • The cleaning, sandblasting, and painting of walls and other improvements to remove or cover graffiti.
2024/2025 Cathedral City Street Lighting and Landscaping Maintenance District No.1 Page 9 III. METHOD OF APPORTIONMENT
A. General
Part 2 of Division 15 of the 1972 Act, permits the establishment of assessment districts by cities for the purpose of providing certain public improvements which include operation, maintenance, rehabilitation and servicing of streetlights, parks and landscaping.
The 1972 Act requires that maintenance assessments be levied according to the special benefit received. Section 22573 provides that:
“The net amount to be assessed upon lands within an assessment district may be apportioned by any formula or method which fairly distributes the net amount among all assessable lots or parcels in proportion to the estimated benefits to be received by each such lot or parcel from the improvements”.
The 1972 Act permits the designation of zones of benefit within any individual assessment district if "by reasons or variations in the nature, location and extent of the improvements, the various areas will receive different degrees of benefit from the improvement" (Sec. 22574). In addition, Article XIIID requires that a parcel's assessment may not exceed the reasonable cost of the proportional special benefit conferred on that parcel. Article XIIID provides that only special benefits are assessable and the City must separate the general benefits from the special benefits.
General Benefit: Articles XIIIC and XIIID of the California Constitution require that the benefit to the public at large be identified for any improvements being funded through an assessment district. This general benefit may not be assessed to the parcels through an assessment district. The following Method of Assessment for the District analyzes the benefit to the public at large from the landscaping and lighting improvements provided by the City for the District.
Special Benefit: Article XIIID of the California Constitution defines special benefit as “a particular and distinct benefit over and above the general benefits conferred on real property located in the district or to the public at large.” General enhancement of property values does not constitute ‘special benefit’. The following Method of Assessment for the District analyzes the special benefit each parcel receives from the improvements funded in each Zone of the District. The cost of the landscaping maintenance is distributed to parcels in each Zone based on the special benefit each parcel receives. The District has an assessment formula based on spreading the costs associated with each Zone over the parcels within the Zone. The costs are spread to the individual parcels based on their proportional special benefit utilizing an Equivalent Dwelling Unit Method of Apportionment. 2024/2025 Cathedral City Street Lighting and Landscaping Maintenance District No.1 Page 10 The City determined that 50% of the collector/arterial lighting is considered general benefit with the remaining 50% of the costs (the special benefit component) to be apportioned to each parcel based on the established Equivalent Dwelling Unit calculations.
B. Methodology
Each parcel is assigned a weighting factor known as an Equivalent Dwelling Unit (EDU) to identify the parcel’s proportionate special benefit from the improvements.
Each parcel’s EDU is calculated based on the parcel’s land use, development status and/or size as compared to other parcels that are associated with the improvements. All single-family residential properties are assigned an EDU of 1.0, and all other property types are assigned an EDU proportionate to the special benefits they receive as compared to this single-family residential property. For each Zone, the total EDU’s are divided into the total amount to be assessed to establish the Assessment per EDU (Rate). This Rate is then multiplied by each parcel’s individual EDU to establish the parcel’s levy amount.
The following is a list of EDU’s by land use type:
Single-Family Residential (SFR): This land use is defined as a fully subdivided residential home site with or without a structure. This land use is assessed 1.0 EDU per parcel.
Condominium: Condominium units will be treated the same as Single-Family Residential units, and therefore these parcels will be assessed 1.0 EDU per dwelling unit.
Multi-family Residential (Apartments), Mobile Home Parks, and Recreational Vehicle Parks: Studies have consistently shown that the average apartment unit impacts infrastructure approximately 80% as much as a single-family residence, and the average mobile home or recreational vehicle (RV) unit impacts infrastructure approximately 50%. This equivalency factor is in general use in the State of California. Therefore, multi-family residential parcels (parcels with more than one dwelling on the parcel) will be assessed 0.8 EDU per dwelling unit and mobile home and RV parks 0.5 EDU per dwelling unit due to the higher population density of these types of dwelling units and reduced unit size compared to the typical density and size of single-family units.
The EDU's assigned to a multi-residential or a mobile home/RV parcel is calculated based on the number of dwelling units and the appropriate EDU factor. For example, the 0.8 EDU factor for multi-residential is multiplied by the number of dwelling units or apartments on the parcel to determine the total EDU's for the parcel. Similarly, the total EDU's for a mobile home or a RV park parcel are calculated by multiplying the 0.5 EDU factor by the number of mobile home spaces or RV spaces on the parcel.
2024/2025 Cathedral City Street Lighting and Landscaping Maintenance District No.1 Page 11 Commercial/Industrial: In converting improved Commercial/Industrial properties to EDU's, the factor used is the City’s average single-family residential density of 6 dwelling units per acre. Therefore, the Commercial/Industrial parcels, including institutional uses and vacant Multi-family parcels, will be assessed 6.0 EDU per acre or any portion thereof.
Vacant Residential: This land use is defined as property currently zoned for single-family detached or multi-family residential development, but a tentative or final tract map has not been submitted and/or approved. Parcels designated as vacant residential land-use will be assessed 0.5 EDU per dwelling unit including vacant subdivided residential parcels.
Vacant-rural: Parks and vacant parcels with no immediate development potential will be designated vacant-rural. These parcels will be assigned EDU's at the rate of 12.5% of the developed Commercial/Industrial properties, or 0.75 EDU per acre, up to a maximum of 5 acres per parcel. Vacant parcels with approved subdivision maps will be assessed based on the approved future designated use.
Public Property: Public property, which is developed and used for residential or business purposes will be assessed the same as private property with the same use. Schools will be assessed as Commercial/Industrial uses for those portions of the parcels with building improvements on them, and the playground and athletic fields will not be assessed. Parks will be assessed as vacant-rural property.
Exempt: Public streets, public alleys, public easements and rights-of-ways, public greenbelts, and parkways are exempt from assessment. An exception to this is where the public agency owning the otherwise exempt property chooses to participate and to pay its assessment. Also exempt from assessment are utility rights-of-way, common areas (such as in condominium complexes) and landlocked parcels that do not benefit from the improvements. 2024/2025 Cathedral City Street Lighting and Landscaping Maintenance District No.1 Page 12 A summary of Equivalent Dwelling Unit (EDU) rates is shown in the table below:
Land-Use Category EDU Factor
Exempt 0.0 EDU
Single-Family Residential (SFR) 1.0 EDU
Condominium 1.0 EDU
Multi-Family Residential (MFR) 0.8 EDU/UNIT
Mobile Home Park 0.5 EDU/SPACE
Recreation Vehicle park 0.5 EDU/SPACE
Commercial/Industrial 6.0 EDU/ACRE
Vacant Residential, SFR or MFR 0.5 EDU/UNIT
Vacant Rural / Parks 0.75 EDU/ACRE
5 acres max.
Public Property
Residential / Business use
School building parcels
School playground / fields
Public Parks
Same as Private
Same as Comm./Ind.
Not assessed
Same as Vac./Rural
The following formulas are used to calculate each property’s assessment for each Zone:
Total Budget FY 2024/2025 / Total EDUs = Assessment per EDU (Rate) Parcel EDU x Assessment Rate per EDU = Parcel Levy Amount C. Assessment Adjustment Formula to Offset Inflation
It is recognized that the cost of maintaining the improvements may increase slightly every year as a result of inflation.
New or increased assessments require certain noticing, meeting, and balloting requirements. However, Government Code Section 54954.6(a) provides that a “new or increased assessment” does not include “an assessment which does not exceed an assessment formula or range of assessments...previously adopted by the agency or approved by the voters in the area where the assessment is imposed.” This definition of an increased assessment was later confirmed by Senate Bill 919 (The Implementing Legislation for Proposition 218).
The Zone assessments include a formula for increasing assessments for each fiscal year to offset increases in costs due to inflation. This assessment adjustment formula complies with the above referenced Government Code Section and was adopted by the City Council as approved by the property owners when they were balloted for their assessments. The increase to the maximum assessment amount 2024/2025 Cathedral City Street Lighting and Landscaping Maintenance District No.1 Page 13 will be applied to each zone within the Street Lighting and Landscape Maintenance District No.1 except Zone 54.
Starting with Fiscal Year 2019/2020, the maximum assessment amount allowed for each fiscal year shall be increased by an amount equal to the annual percentage increase of the Local Consumer Price Index (“CPI”) for Riverside - San Bernardino - Ontario Counties Southern Region (new region created). For the prior fiscal years, the CPI index used was within the region generally known as the Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim County Area. The calculation of the allowable maximum assessment rate is calculated independently from the budgeted annual assessment and may be increased each fiscal year even if the budgeted annual assessment rate is unchanged.
Each fiscal year the City shall identify the percentage difference between the CPI for the current January and the CPI for the previous January. This percentage difference shall then establish the range of increased assessments allowed based on CPI. Should the Bureau of Labor Statistics revise such index or discontinue the preparation of such index, the City shall use the revised index or comparable system as approved by the City Council for determining fluctuations in the cost of living.
The percentage difference for the CPI for the Riverside - San Bernardino - Ontario Counties Southern Region applicable for FY 2024/2025 is 2.88%. Therefore, the maximum assessment rates allowed for FY 2024/2025 have been adjusted over the prior year’s maximum assessment rates. For the rates per Zone, see Section IV, District Budget.
If the budget and assessments for a given Zone require an increase greater than the adjustment set forth in the formula, then the proposed increase would be subject to the procedural requirements of Section 4 of Article XIIID.
IV. DISTRICT BUDGET
A. Description of Budget Items
The following describes the services and costs that are funded through the District, shown in the budget:
Maintenance & Operations: Includes third-party maintenance labor, materials and equipment required to properly maintain the authorized improvements and services within the District. Also, graffiti removal may be included, which can vary from minor to major in the scope and removal.
Public Works Maintenance Labor: Includes Cathedral City employee maintenance labor required to properly maintain the authorized improvements and services within the District.
2024/2025 Cathedral City Street Lighting and Landscaping Maintenance District No.1 Page 14 Water: The cost of irrigation water for the landscape to be maintained is based upon actual Desert Water Agency and Coachella Valley Water District billings on public landscaped areas being maintained within the District.
Arterial and Interior Streetlights: Energy costs for streetlights. For streetlights on arterial highways and collectors where there is some general benefit, 50% of this cost is levied to the parcels within the benefit zones and 50% is general contribution from the City. Interior residential streetlights are a full benefit of the adjacent parcels and are assessed at 100% of the cost for their energy and maintenance.
Electrical energy: Energy costs included are those necessary for the operation of irrigation controls.
Incidental costs: Costs for special items, such as costs of levying the assessments with the County Tax Collector and Assessment Engineering services. This includes costs of performing annual assessment engineering, determining existing or estimated costs, retaining of consultants, preparation of the Engineer’s Report, and other related costs, such as publication of notices, mailings, etc. per Section 22526 of the Streets and Highways Code.
Reserve Fund: A reserve is authorized under the provisions of Section 22569(a) of the Streets and Highways Code in an amount not to exceed the estimated costs of maintenance and servicing to December 10 of the fiscal year in question, or whenever the City expects to receive its apportionment of special assessments from the County, whichever is later. Consistent with this authority, during the 2001 District formation proceedings, Council set a general policy of establishing the reserve amount for each Zone at 25% of the total estimated maintenance costs for that Zone, subject to the Zone’s ability to fund the reserve through the assessments. The reserve amount is also authorized to be used for any unanticipated, ordinary and usual “maintenance”, as that term is defined in Section 22531 of the Streets and Highways Code. Repairs required by unanticipated, extraordinary and catastrophic occurrences would not fall within the definition of ordinary and usual “maintenance” and thus could not be paid for with reserve monies.
To the extent reserve amounts are not expended in a particular fiscal year, then they will be carried over to the next fiscal year and included as surplus in the Engineer’s Report, as required by Section 22656 of the Streets and Highways Code. The amount of any surplus shall be credited against the amount of any authorized reserve for each fiscal year. So, for example, to the extent 25% of the estimated costs of the improvements for the upcoming fiscal year already exist in the fund for a particular zone, no collection for a reserve would be required for that zone. (Note: This section was modified by action of the City Council on July 31, 2002).
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STREET LIGHTING & LANDSCAPING
MAINTENANCE DISTRICT NO. 1
PROPOSED BUDGET FOR FY 2024/2025
ZONE 1
Tract 29664
Vista Del Rey
ZONE 2
Tract 29584
La Paloma
ZONE 5
Tract 29487 &
29487-1
Tapestry
ZONE 7
Tract 29771
Montage
ZONE 8
Tract 30256 &
30256-1
Baristo
County Fund Number 68-2222 68-2212 68-2213 68-2214 68-2215 Equivalent Dwelling Units 72 65 80 128 42
Total Parcels Levied 72 65 80 128 42
Maintenance & Operations $ 10,400.00 $ 20,975.00 $ 25,700.00 $ 4,608.00 $ 0.00 Public Works Maintenance Labor 3,516.84 0.00 2,007.36 0.00 0.00 Professional & Technical $ 0.00 $ 0.00 $ 0.00 $ 0.00 $ 0.00 Water $ 380.11 $ 1,842.58 $ 1,406.09 $ 0.00 $ 0.00
Interior Street Lights $ 1,622.31 $ 1,441.50 $ 1,616.91 $ 0.00 $ 665.30 Arterial Street Lights $ 356.95 $ 1,082.62 $ 782.48 $ 2,163.36 $ 0.00 Less: 50% General Fund Contribution (Arterial only) (178.47) (541.31) (391.24) (1,081.68) 0.00 Electricity 230.83 473.90 429.63 0.00 0.00
Less: General Fund Contribution to Park Maintenance Costs Subtotal Maintenance Costs: $ 16,328.56 $ 25,274.29 $ 31,551.22 $ 5,689.68 $ 665.30 Assessment Engineering $ 770.93 $ 1,280.55 $ 1,776.07 $ 868.66 $ 199.43 City Admin Fees 1,408.71 1,295.09 1,538.57 600.00 921.75 County Fees for Assessment Collection 121.07 117.78 124.83 147.39 106.97 Subtotal Incidental Costs: $ 2,300.71 $ 2,693.42 $ 3,439.47 $ 1,616.05 $ 1,228.15 Total Operating Budget FY 2024/2025 $ 18,629.28 $ 27,967.71 $ 34,990.69 $ 7,305.73 $ 1,893.45 Reserve Fund
July 1, 2024 Estimated Beginning Balance ¹ $ 23,249.20 $ 11,429.40 $ 22,869.52 $ 1,287.79 $ 4,498.94 FY 2024/2025 Reserve Fund Collection/(Contribution) (4,229.28) 2,257.29 (590.69) 1,331.71 404.79 June 30, 2025 Estimated Ending Balance $ 19,019.92 $ 13,686.69 $ 22,278.83 $ 2,619.50 $ 4,903.73 Maximum 25% Reserve of Maintenance costs for FY 2024/2025 ² $ 4,082.14 $ 6,318.57 $ 7,887.80 $ 1,422.42 $ 166.33 Balance To Levy $ 14,400.00 $ 30,225.00 $ 34,400.00 $ 8,637.44 $ 2,298.24 2023/2024 Maximum Assessment Rate ³ $ 287.81 $ 933.48 $ 835.80 $ 65.60 $ 53.19 2023/2024 Applied Assessment Rate $ 214.00 $ 460.00 $ 420.00 $ 65.60 $ 53.18 2024/2025 Maximum Assessment Rate ³ $ 296.10 $ 960.34 $ 859.85 $ 67.48 $ 54.73 2024/2025 Applied Assessment Rate $ 200.00 $ 465.00 $ 430.00 $ 67.48 $ 54.72 Applied Rate Over/Under Maximum Rate $ (96.10) $ (495.34) $ (429.85) $ 0.00 $ (0.01) Consumer Price Index Adjustment
CPI Adjustment 2.88% 2.88% 2.88% 2.87% 2.90%
Difference between Applied 2023/2024 and Applied 2024/2025 per parcel $ (14.00) $ 5.00 $ 10.00 $ 1.88 $ 1.54 Difference between Max 2023/2024 and Max 2024/2025 per parcel $ 8.29 $ 26.86 $ 24.05 $ 1.88 $ 1.54 Total Budget FY 2024/2025 $ 14,400.00 $ 30,225.00 $ 34,400.00 $ 8,637.44 $ 2,298.24 ¹ Beginning Reserve Fund Balances are estimated.
² In 2001, Council set a general policy of establishing the reserve amount at 25% of total estimated maintenance costs (see Reserve Fund in Description of Budget Items). ³ For Fiscal Year 2018/2019 and prior, Maximum Assessment Rate was increased by the Consumer Price Index (CPI), Los Angeles-Riverside-Orange County Area, for all Urban Consumers from February to February. Starting Fiscal Year 2019/2020 New CPI region Riverside/San Bernardino Counties Southern Region will be used from January to January because this region is only availble on odd months.
CPI increases will affect all zones within the District except Zone 54. 2024/2025 Cathedral City Street Lighting and Landscaping Maintenance District No.1 Page 16
STREET LIGHTING & LANDSCAPING
MAINTENANCE DISTRICT NO. 1
PROPOSED BUDGET FOR FY 2024/2025
ZONE 9
Tract 27097-8
La Pasada
Neighborhood
ZONE 11
Tract 28339
Downtown Core
ZONE 12
Mercy Housing
Project
ZONE 15
Tract 21491 &
24982
Landau Homes
ZONE 16
Tract 29139
Century Park
Zone
ZONE 17
Tract 2040 &
2232
Panorama Park
County Fund Number 68-2216 68-2217 68-2218 68-2219 68-2220 68-2221 Equivalent Dwelling Units 86 137.42 60 111 599 2,526.54 Total Parcels Levied 86 11 2 111 599 2,402
Maintenance & Operations $ 9,240.00 $ 0.00 $ 2,000.00 $ 34,500.00 $ 66,963.93 $ 72,440.18 Public Works Maintenance Labor 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 $ 73,077.44 84,656.28 Professional & Technical $ 0.00 $ 0.00 $ 0.00 $ 0.00 $ 0.00 $ 0.00 Water $ 0.00 $ 0.00 $ 921.72 $ 697.17 $ 20,285.32 $ 35,328.82 Interior Street Lights $ 1,081.84 $ 2,613.00 $ 0.00 $ 2,866.98 $ 9,708.17 $ 21,100.41 Arterial Street Lights $ 591.58 $ 706.20 $ 0.00 $ 2,060.48 $ 7,076.25 $ 12,488.11 Less: 50% General Fund Contribution (Arterial only) (295.79) (353.10) 0.00 (1,030.24) (3,538.12) (6,244.06) Electricity 0.00 0.00 0.00 224.08 3,595.94 3,509.61
Less: General Fund Contribution to Park Maintenance Costs (133,345.77) (217,035.30) Subtotal Maintenance Costs: $ 10,617.63 $ 2,966.10 $ 2,921.72 $ 39,318.46 $ 43,823.15 $ 6,244.06 Assessment Engineering $ 1,822.73 $ 630.17 $ 183.00 $ 1,838.12 $ 8,227.09 $ 14,870.80 City Admin Fees 600.00 418.55 272.46 2,041.77 9,963.05 39,229.60 County Fees for Assessment Collection 127.65 92.40 88.17 139.40 368.76 1,216.17 Subtotal Incidental Costs: $ 2,550.38 $ 1,141.13 $ 543.63 $ 4,019.29 $ 18,558.91 $ 55,316.56 Total Operating Budget FY 2024/2025 $ 13,168.00 $ 4,107.22 $ 3,465.35 $ 43,337.75 $ 62,382.06 $ 61,560.62 Reserve Fund
July 1, 2024 Estimated Beginning Balance ¹ $ 41,525.49 $ 18,916.71 $ 1,527.98 $ 55,907.46 $ 66,728.26 $ 152,211.96 FY 2024/2025 Reserve Fund Collection/(Contribution) 12,632.00 702.48 (958.55) (10,037.75) 9,497.94 (11,029.82) June 30, 2025 Estimated Ending Balance $ 54,157.49 $ 19,619.19 $ 569.43 $ 45,869.71 $ 76,226.20 $ 141,182.14 Maximum 25% Reserve of Maintenance costs for FY 2024/2025 ² $ 2,654.41 $ 741.52 $ 730.43 $ 9,829.62 $ 10,955.79 $ 1,561.01 Balance To Levy $ 25,800.00 $ 4,809.70 $ 2,506.80 $ 33,300.00 $ 71,880.00 $ 50,530.80 2023/2024 Maximum Assessment Rate ³ $ 446.06 $ 146.38 $ 40.63 $ 346.83 $ 274.51 $ 83.37 2023/2024 Applied Assessment Rate $ 325.00 $ 35.00 $ 40.62 $ 280.00 $ 125.00 $ 26.00 2024/2025 Maximum Assessment Rate ³ $ 458.90 $ 150.59 $ 41.79 $ 356.81 $ 282.41 $ 85.77 2024/2025 Applied Assessment Rate $ 300.00 $ 35.00 $ 41.78 $ 300.00 $ 120.00 $ 20.00 Applied Rate Over/Under Maximum Rate $ (158.90) $ (115.59) $ (0.01) $ (56.81) $ (162.41) $ (65.77) Consumer Price Index Adjustment
CPI Adjustment 2.88% 2.88% 2.86% 2.88% 2.88% 2.88%
Difference between Applied 2023/2024 and Applied 2024/2025 per parcel $ (25.00) $ 0.00 $ 1.16 $ 20.00 $ (5.00) $ (6.00) Difference between Max 2023/2024 and Max 2024/2025 per parcel $ 12.84 $ 4.21 $ 1.16 $ 9.98 $ 7.90 $ 2.40 Total Budget FY 2024/2025 $ 25,800.00 $ 4,809.70 $ 2,506.80 $ 33,300.00 $ 71,880.00 $ 50,530.80 ¹ Beginning Reserve Fund Balances are estimated.
² In 2001, Council set a general policy of establishing the reserve amount at 25% of total estimated maintenance costs (see Reserve Fund in Description of Budget Items). ³ For Fiscal Year 2018/2019 and prior, Maximum Assessment Rate was increased by the Consumer Price Index (CPI), Los Angeles-Riverside-Orange County Area, for all Urban Consumers from February to February. Starting Fiscal Year 2019/2020 New CPI region Riverside/San Bernardino Counties Southern Region will be used from January to January because this region is only availble on odd months.
CPI increases will affect all zones within the District except Zone 54. 2024/2025 Cathedral City Street Lighting and Landscaping Maintenance District No.1 Page 17
STREET LIGHTING & LANDSCAPING
MAINTENANCE DISTRICT NO. 1
PROPOSED BUDGET FOR FY 2024/2025
ZONE 18
Tract 27962,
27962-1 & 30744
Landau Manor
ZONE 19
Tract 24035-1
Alicante
ZONE 20
Tract 25804-1
Cimarron
ZONE 21
Tract 25804-1
Santoro
Estates
Zone 54
Jack in the Box
Total
County Fund Number 68-2200 68-2210 68-2211 68-2209 68-1247 Equivalent Dwelling Units 80.5 63 32 36 1 4,119.46
Total Parcels Levied 81 63 32 36 1 3,811
Maintenance & Operations $ 13,120.00 $ 14,250.00 $ 7,600.00 $ 12,400.00 $ 3,000.00 $ 297,197.11 Public Works Maintenance Labor 0.00 507.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 $ 163,764.92 Professional & Technical $ 0.00 $ 0.00 $ 0.00 $ 0.00 $ 0.00 $ 0.00 Water $ 938.04 $ 741.98 $ 608.46 $ 879.04 $ 0.00 $ 64,029.31 Interior Street Lights $ 1,277.32 $ 670.43 $ 1,051.23 $ 618.68 $ 0.00 $ 46,334.07 Arterial Street Lights $ 1,591.94 $ 1,596.01 $ 501.76 $ 207.07 $ 401.83 $ 31,606.64 Less: 50% General Fund Contribution (Arterial only) (795.97) (798.01) (250.88) (103.54) (200.92) $ (15,803.32) Electricity 298.63 216.16 107.80 324.47 0.00 $ 9,411.03 Less: General Fund Contribution to Park Maintenance Costs (350,381.07) Subtotal Maintenance Costs: $ 16,429.96 $ 17,183.57 $ 9,618.36 $ 14,325.72 $ 3,200.92 $ 246,158.69 Assessment Engineering $ 928.02 $ 1,395.50 $ 478.23 $ 781.58 $ 186.03 $ 36,236.93 City Admin Fees 1,554.80 1,262.62 759.43 824.36 256.23 62,947.00 County Fees for Assessment Collection 125.30 116.84 102.27 104.15 87.70 3,186.85 Subtotal Incidental Costs: $ 2,608.12 $ 2,774.97 $ 1,339.93 $ 1,710.09 $ 529.96 $ 102,370.78 Total Operating Budget FY 2024/2025 $ 19,038.08 $ 19,958.54 $ 10,958.29 $ 16,035.81 $ 3,730.88 $ 348,529.47 Reserve Fund
July 1, 2024 Estimated Beginning Balance ¹ $ 10,237.30 $ 31,080.21 $ (6,147.29) $ 29,927.78 $ 13,243.73 $ 478,494.44 FY 2024/2025 Reserve Fund Collection/(Contribution) 378.52 5,241.46 2,132.27 1,964.19 (3,230.88) 6,465.67 June 30, 2025 Estimated Ending Balance $ 10,615.82 $ 36,321.67 $ (4,015.02) $ 31,891.97 $ 10,012.85 $ 484,960.11 Maximum 25% Reserve of Maintenance costs for FY 2024/2025 ² $ 4,107.49 $ 4,295.89 $ 2,404.59 $ 3,581.43 $ 800.23 $ 61,539.67 Balance To Levy $ 19,416.60 $ 25,200.00 $ 13,090.56 $ 18,000.00 $ 500.00 $ 354,995.14 2023/2024 Maximum Assessment Rate ³ $ 234.45 $ 404.38 $ 397.64 $ 911.53 $ 5,000.00 2023/2024 Applied Assessment Rate $ 234.44 $ 404.38 $ 397.64 $ 520.00 $ 500.00 2024/2025 Maximum Assessment Rate ³ $ 241.20 $ 416.02 $ 409.08 $ 937.77 $ 5,000.00 2024/2025 Applied Assessment Rate $ 241.20 $ 400.00 $ 409.08 $ 500.00 $ 500.00 Applied Rate Over/Under Maximum Rate $ 0.00 $ (16.02) $ 0.00 $ (437.77) $ (4,500.00) Consumer Price Index Adjustment
CPI Adjustment 2.88% 2.88% 2.88% 2.88% 0.00%
Difference between Applied 2023/2024 and Applied 2024/2025 per parcel $ 6.76 $ (4.38) $ 11.44 $ (20.00) $ 0.00 Difference between Max 2023/2024 and Max 2024/2025 per parcel $ 6.75 $ 11.64 $ 11.44 $ 26.24 $ 0.00 Total Budget FY 2024/2025 $ 19,416.60 $ 25,200.00 $ 13,090.56 $ 18,000.00 $ 500.00 $ 354,995.14 ¹ Beginning Reserve Fund Balances are estimated.
² In 2001, Council set a general policy of establishing the reserve amount at 25% of total estimated maintenance costs (see Reserve Fund in Description of Budget Items). ³ For Fiscal Year 2018/2019 and prior, Maximum Assessment Rate was increased by the Consumer Price Index (CPI), Los Angeles-Riverside-Orange County Area, for all Urban Consumers from February to February. Starting Fiscal Year 2019/2020 New CPI region Riverside/San Bernardino Counties Southern Region will be used from January to January because this region is only availble on odd months.
CPI increases will affect all zones within the District except Zone 54. 2024/2025 Cathedral City Street Lighting and Landscaping Maintenance District No.1 Page 18
APPENDIX A
District Assessment Diagrams
The Assessment Boundary Map (attached) shows the exterior boundaries of the Assessment District and/or the benefit Zones therein. The lines and dimensions of each lot or parcel within the Assessment District are those lines and dimensions shown on the maps of the Assessor of the County of Riverside, for the year when this Report was prepared, and are incorporated by reference herein and made part of this Report.
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APPENDIX B
2024/2025 Collection Roll
Parcel identification, for each parcel within the District, shall be the parcel as shown on the Riverside County Assessor's map for the year in which this Report is prepared. The land use classification for each parcel is based on the Riverside County Assessor’s Roll.
A listing of parcels assessed within this District, along with the proposed assessment amounts, shall be submitted to the City Clerk, under a separate cover, and by reference is made part of this Report.
Non-assessable parcels may include areas of public streets and other roadways (typically not assigned an APN by the County); dedicated public easements, open space areas and rights-of-ways including public greenbelts and parkways; utility rights-of-ways; common areas; landlocked parcels, small parcels vacated by the County, bifurcated parcels, and any other property that cannot be developed. These types of parcels are considered to receive little or no benefit from the improvements and are therefore exempted from assessment. Properties outside the District boundary receive no direct or special benefits from the improvements provided by the District and are not assessed.
Approval of this Report (as submitted or as modified) confirms the method of apportionment and the maximum assessment rate to be levied against each eligible parcel and thereby constitutes the approved levy and collection of assessments for the fiscal year. The parcels and the amount of assessment to be levied shall be submitted to the County Auditor/Controller and included on the property tax roll for the fiscal year.
If any parcel submitted for collection is identified by the County Auditor/Controller to be an invalid parcel number for the current fiscal year, a corrected parcel number and/or new parcel numbers will be identified and resubmitted to the County Auditor/Controller. The assessment amount to be levied and collected for the resubmitted parcel or parcels shall be based on the method of apportionment and assessment rate approved in this Report.
Therefore, if a single parcel has changed to multiple parcels, the assessment amount applied to each of the new parcels shall be recalculated and applied according to the approved method of apportionment and assessment rate rather than a proportionate share of the original assessment.
Staff Report
City Council
Item No. 5.D
Meeting Date: May 8, 2024
From: John Corella, Director of Public Works and Engineering Title: Cooling Center - Cathedral City Library
RECOMMENDATION:
To review the establishment of a Cooling Center at the Cathedral City Library in partnership with both the Riverside County Community Action Partnership (CAP) and Riverside County Library System - Cathedral City Library.
BACKGROUND:
Cooling Centers serve as drop-in sites for vulnerable individuals, seniors, persons with disabilities, and others in need of temporary relief from extreme heat. The Riverside County Community Action Partnership (CAP) coordinates with other county and local agencies to activate these centers, typically at libraries, senior centers, community centers, and other non-profit or faith-based organizations. CAP monitors temperatures throughout Riverside County daily. When temperatures are expected to reach 100 degrees or higher, an official heat warning will be issued by CAP and the Riverside University Health System of Public Health. When this occurs, all cooling centers must officially activate until the temperature subsides or operating hours end.
Cathedral City has not had a cooling center within the city for the past several years. At Councilmember Gregory’s request and the City Council’s concurrence, staff was asked to work with Riverside County to help develop a cooling center this year at the library to serve Cathedral City residents.
DISCUSSION:
The City of Cathedral City is working jointly with CAP and the Cathedral City Library to develop a Cooling Center Site at the Cathedral City Library. CAP is in the final stages of their evaluation and coordination process with the Cathedral City Library staff. Once finalized, the Cooling Center will become active starting June 1st.
Hours of Operation - The Cooling Center will be open during normal library hours:
o Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday: 10:00am - 6:00pm. o Wednesday: 12:00pm - 8:00pm.
o Sunday: 1:00pm - 5:00pm.
o Friday: Closed.
Supplies: CAP will supply the Cooling Center with snacks, water, mini fans, etc. Supervision: The Cathedral City Library staff will supervise and ensure the Cooling Center is operating as intended.
FISCAL IMPACT:
There is no fiscal impact for this item. There are no direct costs for the city to operate the Cooling Center.
FIVE-YEAR STRATEGIC PLAN:
Goal F – Embracing, Inclusive Community
Objective: Cathedral City is valued and respected as a community that welcomes and embraces diversity, has an abundance of high quality and affordable housing options and vibrant businesses. Our neighborhoods are attractive, well-maintained, and issues surrounding homelessness have been compassionately addressed with thoughtful, coordinated, and collaborative programs.
F-11: Establish a Cooling Center by June 2024.