RESOLUTION NO. 26-91
A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SAN CLEMENTE, CALIFORNIA, RATIFYING AND AUTHORIZING AN APPLICATION FOR FUNDS FOR THE ENVIRONMENTAL CLEANUP, TIER 1 GRANT PROGRAM UNDER ORANGE COUNTY LOCAL TRANSPORTATION ORDINANCE NO. 3 FOR THE NORTHERN SAN CLEMENTE ROADWAYS RUNOFF TREATMENT PROJECT WHEREAS, Orange County Local Transportation Ordinance No. 3, dated July 24, 2006, is known and cited as the Renewed Measure M Transportation Ordinance and Investment Plan and makes funds available through the Environmental Cleanup Program to help protect Orange County beaches and waterways from transportation-generated pollution (urban runoff) and improve overall water quality; and WHEREAS, the Environmental Cleanup, Tier 1 Grant Program consists of funding purchases and installation to catch basins with Best Management Practices, such as screens, filters, inserts, and other "street-scale" low flow diversion projects; and WHEREAS, the Orange County Transportation Authority (OCTA) has established the procedures and criteria for reviewing proposals; and WHEREAS, the City of San Clemente possesses authority to nominate water quality improvement projects that have a transportation pollution nexus to finance and construct the proposed project; and WHEREAS, by formal action the City Council authorizes the nomination of the Northern San Clemente Roadways Runoff Treatment Project, including all understanding and assurances contained therein, and authorizes the person identified as the official representative of the City of San Clemente to act in connection with the nomination and to provide such additional information as may be required; and WHEREAS, the City of San Clemente will maintain and operate the equipment acquired and installed; and WHEREAS, the City of San Clemente will give OCTA's representatives access to and the right to examine all records, books, papers or documents related to the funded Tier 1 Grant Project; and WHEREAS, the City of San Clemente will cause work on the project to be commenced within a reasonable time after receipt of notification from OCTA and that the project will be carried to completion with reasonable diligence; and WHEREAS, the City of San Clemente will comply where applicable with provisions of the California Environmental Quality Act, the National Environmental Policy Act, the American with Disabilities Act, and any other federal, state, and/or local laws, rules and/or regulations; and WHEREAS, the City of San Clemente must include all projects funded by Net Revenues in the seven-year Capital Improvement Program as part of the Renewed Measure M Ordinance eligibility requirement; and WHEREAS, the City of San Clemente authorizes a formal amendment to the seven-year Capital Improvement Program to add projects approved for funding upon approval from the Orange County Transportation Authority Board of Directors; and WHEREAS, the City of San Clemente will provide a minimum of 20% in matching funds for the Northern San Clemente Roadways Runoff Treatment Project as required by the Orange County Comprehensive Transportation Funding Program Guidelines.
NOW, THEREFORE, the City Council of the City of San Clemente hereby finds, determines and resolves as follows:
SECTION 1. The recitals above are true and correct and incorporated fully herein as findings.
SECTION 2. That the proposed Northern San Clemente Roadways Runoff Treatment Project is categorically exempt from the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) under Class 1 (Existing Facilities, 14 CCR section 15301) of the State CEQA Guidelines because it consists of the repair of existing public facilities involving no expansion of an existing use.
SECTION 3. The application submitted on May 1, 2026 to the Orange County Transportation Authority (OCTA) Project X Environmental Cleanup Program, Tier 1 Grant Program, for the Northern San Clemente Roadways Runoff Treatment Project is hereby ratified and approved.
SECTION 3. The City Manager, or his designee, as the official representative of the City of San Clemente, is hereby authorized and directed to accept funds for the Environmental Cleanup, Tier 1 Grant Program for the Northern San Clemente Roadways Runoff Treatment Project from OCTA.
SECTION 4. The City Manager, or his designee, is hereby authorized and directed to agree to fund the City's share of the project costs and any additional costs over the identified programmed amount for the Northern San Clemente Roadways Runoff Treatment Project.
SECTION 5. Staff is hereby authorized and directed to take such other and further actions and execute and submit such documents as may be necessary and proper to accomplish the purposes of this resolution.
SECTION 6. The City Clerk shall certify to the passage and adoption of this resolution and enter it into the book of original resolutions.
PASSED AND ADOPTED this _____ day of May, 2026.
ATTEST:
__________________________ _________________________ CITY CLERK of the City of Rick Loeffler, Mayor
San Clemente, California City of San Clemente, California STATE OF CALIFORNIA )
COUNTY OF ORANGE ) §
CITY OF SAN CLEMENTE )
I, LAURA CAMPAGNOLO, City Clerk of the City of San Clemente, California, do hereby certify that Resolution No. 26-91 was adopted at a regular meeting of the City Council of the City of San Clemente held on the 19th day of May, 2026, by the following vote:
AYES:
NOES:
ABSENT:
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the official seal of the City of San Clemente, California, this _____ day of _________________, ________.
ADVANCE \X 317.30_______________________
CITY CLERK of the City of
San Clemente, California
Approved as to form:
___________________________
Elizabeth A. Mitchell, City Attorney
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