Riverside City Council
June 7, 2022

RESOLUTION NO. 22139
1 A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
2 RIVERSIDE, CALIFORNIA, AMENDING SECTION 5 OF RESOLUTION NO. 20825 TO CHANGE THE NUMBER OF MILLS ACT HISTORIC
3 PRESERVATION CONTRACT APPLICATIONS THAT WILL BE
ACCEPTED AND PROCESSED FOR EACH YEAR.
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WHEREAS, California Government Code, Article 12, Section 50280 more commonly 6 known as the Mills Act, established legislation providing property tax relief for owners of qualified 7 historic properties who contract with a city to abide by reasonable preservation requirements; and 8 WHEREAS, the City of Riverside established an application process, review procedures, and 9 contract provision requirements for the City of Riverside Mills Act Program ("Program") by 10 Resolution No. 20825; and
11 WHEREAS, Section 5 of Resolution No. 20825 currently allows for no more than seven (7) 12 Program agreements to be awarded each year; and
13 WHEREAS, since its implementation, only thirty (30) Program agreements have been 14 recorded where a total of thirty-five (35) would be allowed; and 15 WHEREAS, to allow for flexibility for those times when the contracts awarded in a given 16 year are less than seven (7), the Council desires to amend Section 5 of Resolution No. 20825 to 17 allow for more than seven (7) agreements to be awarded to make up for the short fall, but never more 18 than ten (10) in any one year.
19 NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the City Council of the City of Riverside, 20 California, as follows:
21 Section 1: Section 5 of Resolution No. 20825 is hereby amended as follows:
22 "Section 5: To limit the fiscal impact of the Mills Act to the City of Riverside, the 23 City of Riverside shall not enter into or execute more than seven (7) Preservation Agreements 24 ("Agreements") per calendar year. Applications will be accepted during the month of June only, 25 during normal business hours. The seven (7) applicants will be randomly selected from all eligible 26 applications submitted. Notwithstanding the above, should the number of Agreements in any one 27 year fall below seven (7), in the subsequent years more than seven (7) Agreements may be awarded 28 CrY ATTORNEY'S OFFICE
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1 to make up for the deficiency, but never more than ten (10) in any one year, and never more than 2 would be the overall average of seven (7) per year since implementation." 3 4 ADOPTED by the City Council this 14th day of December, 2010. •
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6 RONALD O. LOVERIDGE
Mayor of the City of Riverside
7 Attest:
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NICOL
10 City Clerk of the City of Riverside
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13 I, Colleen J. Nicol, City Clerk of the City of Riverside, California, hereby certify that the 14 foregoing resolution was duly and regularly adopted at a meeting of the City Council of said City at 15 its meeting held on the 14th day of December, 2010, by the following vote, to wit:
16 17 Ayes: Councilmembers Gardner, Melendrez, Davis, Mac Arthur, Hart, and Adams Noes: None
18 Absent: None
19 Disqualified: Councilmember Bailey
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the official seal of the 22 City of Riverside, California, this 16th day of December, 2010. 23 24 for pical
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