RESOLUTION NO. 2024-33
A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF LOMITA,
CALIFORNIA, ALLOCATING FUNDS FOR THE CYPRESS GAC
PROJECT, MISCELLANEOUS COVID EXPENDITURES, JOB
CREATION AND BUSINESS INCENTIVE PROGRAM, BUILDING
IMPROVEMENT PROGRAM, SMALL BUSINESS TRAINING WITH THE
SBWIB, WORKPLACE SAFETY INFRASTRUCTURE UPGRADES, AND
DIGITAL INFRASTRUCTURE UPGRADES AND FINDING THE SAME
EXEMPT FROM CEQA
Section 1. Recitals.
1. The American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 (ARPA) was signed by the President on March 11, 2021, which provides approximately $350 billion in new federal fiscal assistance for states, territories, tribes, counties, and municipalities.
2. The City is entitled to $4,860,976 under the State and Local Fiscal Recovery Fund, which expenditures are limited to respond to the Covid-19 pandemic and its negative health and economic impacts.
3. On July 13, 2021, the City received the first half of its allocation of monies from the ARPA in the amount of $2,430,488.
4. On July 21, 2022, the City received the second half of its allocation of monies from the ARPA in the amount of $2,430,488.
5. The staff report presented to the City Council on September 21, 2021, in conjunction with this Resolution detailed the requested approval to appropriate $4,860,976 in ARPA funding for the Cypress GAC Project, Miscellaneous Covid Expenditures, Job Creation and Business Incentive Program, Facade Improvement Program, Workforce Development Training with the SBWIB, Workplace Safety Infrastructure Upgrades, and Digital Infrastructure Upgrades.
THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF LOMITA, CALIFORNIA, DOES HEREBY FIND, ORDER AND RESOLVE AS FOLLOWS:
Section 2. The above recitals are true and correct and are incorporated herein by this reference.
Section 3. The American Rescue Plan funding is to be re-allocated as follows:
Category Proposed
Allocation
Cypress GAC Project Critical Infrastructure $3,000,000
Job Creation & Business Incentive
Program
Economic & Small Business
Development
$30,000
Facade Improvement Program
Economic & Small Business
Development
$62,703
Workforce Development with the South
Bay WIB
Workforce Development
$100,000
Public Safety Expenditures Public Safety
$1,336,976
Digital Infrastructure Upgrades Critical Infrastructure and Broadband $331,297 Total American Rescue Plan Act Funds $4,860,976
Section 4. The Council finds and determines that adoption of this Resolution is exempt from the California Environmental Quality Act pursuant to Section 15378 (b)(5) of the CEQA Guidelines as this is an organizational or administrative activity of government that will not result in the direct or indirect physical change to the environment.
Section 5. This Resolution will become effective immediately upon adoption.
Section 6. The City Clerk shall certify the passage and adoption of this resolution and enter it into the book of original resolutions.
PASSED, APPROVED AND ADOPTED, this 15th day of October 2024. ________________________________
Bill Uphoff, Mayor
APPROVED AS TO FORM: ATTEST:
City Attorney Kathleen Horn Gregory, City Clerk