1 RESOLUTION NO. 23921
2 A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF RIVERSIDE, CALIFORNIA, AMENDING RESOLUTION NO. 20825 TO CHANGE THE MILLS 3 ACT HISTORIC PRESERVATION CONTRACT APPLICATION PROCESS
INCLUDING THE APPLICATION PERIOD AND NUMBER OF CONTRACT 4 APPLICATIONS ACCEPTED AND PROCESSED.
5 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 historic properties who contract with a city to abide by reasonable preservation 8 requirements; and
9 WHEREAS the City of Riverside established an application process, review procedures, 10 and contract provision requirements for the City of Riverside Mills Act Program ("Program") by 11 Resolution No. 20825 on November 23, 2004; and
12 WHEREAS Resolution No. 20825, Section 5, was amended by Resolution No. 22139 on 13 December 14, 2010, and provided for Program flexibility for those times when the contracts 14 awarded in a given year are less than seven (7) to allow for more than seven (7) agreements to 15 be awarded to make up for the short fall, but never more than ten (10) in any one year; and 16 WHEREAS, since its implementation, ninety-one (91) Program agreements have been 17 recorded where a total of 119 would be allowed; and
18 WHEREAS Section 5 of Resolution No. 20825 currently only allows applications to be 19 submitted in the month of June; and
20 WHEREAS on June 7, 2022, the City Council passed a motion to temporarily change the 21 rules of the Program to allow applications be submitted through July 2022 and to accept the 22 number of applications received by the City for 2022 only. 23 1 NOW, THEREFORE, BEIT RESOLVED by the City Council of the City of Riverside, :2 California, as follows:
3 Section 1: Section 5 of Resolution No. 20825 is hereby amended as follows:
4 "Section 5: To limit the fiscal impact of the Mills Act to the City of Riverside, the City 5 of Riverside shall not enter into or execute more than fifteen (15) Preservation Agreements 6 ("'Agreements") per calendar year. The fifteen (15) applicants will be randomly selected from all 7 eligible applications submitted if more than fifteen (15) applications are submitted. 8 Notwithstanding the above, should the number of Agreements in any one year fall below fifteen 9 (15), in the subsequent years more than fifteen (15) Agreements may be awarded to make up for 10 the deficiency, but never more than twenty (20) in any one year, and never more than would be 11 the overall average of fifteen (15) per year since implementation. Applications will be accepted 12 between January 1 and May 31 of the calendar year."
13 ADOPTED by the City Council this 1st day of November, 2022. 14 Patrici Sornlaun
PATRICIA LOCK DAWSON
Mayor of the City of Riverside
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18 DONESIA GAUSE
19 City Clerk of the City of Riverside
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1 I, Donesia Gause, City Clerk of the City of Riverside, California, hereby certify that the 2 foregoing resolution was duly and regularly adopted at a meeting of the City Council of said City 3 at its meeting held on the 1st day of November, 2022, by the following vote, to wit:
4 Ayes: Councilmembers Conder, Cervantes, Fierro, Perry, and Hemenway and Councilwoman Plascencia
5 Noes:
6 Absent:
7 Abstain: Councilmember Edwards
8 IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the official seal of 9 10
DONESIA GAUSE
City Clerk of the City of Riverside
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