CC RES 1997-024RESOLUTION NO. 97 - 24
A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY OF RANCHO PALOS VERDES
AMENDING THE LIST OF SPECIFIED PROJECTS APPROVED
FOR GRANT FUNDS FROM THE COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES
REGIONAL PARK AND OPEN SPACE DISTRICT SPECIFIC
PROJECT GRANT PROGRAM
WHEREAS, the people of the County of Los Angeles on November 3, 1992
enacted Los Angeles County Proposition A, Safe Neighborhood Parks, Gan
Prevention, Tree - Planting, Senior and Youth Recreation, Beaches and Wildlife
Protection (the Proposition), which provides funds to the Count of Los Angeles and
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other public agencies in the County for the purposes of acquiring and /or developing
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facilities for public recreational facilities and open space; and
WHEREAS, the Proposition also created the County of Los Angeles Regional
Park and Open Space District (the District) to administer said funds; and
WHEREAS, the District's procedures require the City as the Applicant to certify
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by resolution a request to amend the list of specified projects approved for the use of
said grant funds; and
WHEREAS, the City applied for seven million seven hundred fifty thousand
dollars ($7,750,000) for interpretive center expansion, parking lot, landscaping, senior
center, amphitheater, athletic courts /fields, trails /vista points, and public art at Point
Vicente Regional Park; and
WHEREAS, the City was awarded two million four hundred eighty thousand
dollars ($2,480,000) for development of trails, vista point, parking, athletic field paddle
tennis court, amphitheater, interpretive center and senior center at Point Vicente
Regional Park; and
WHEREAS, with the reduction of funds granted, the City Council recognized the
need to establish funding priorities, directed the Recreation and Parks Committee to
review the projects and to recommend specific funding priorities; and
WHEREAS, public meetings were conducted at which people had the
opportunity to be heard and where it was determined by the Recreation and Parks
Committee, and later approved by City Council, that the community's needs would be
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most beneficially served by an expansion of the Point Vicente Interpretive Center at
Point Vicente Regional Park, including the building enlargement, a terrace addition,
additional parking, an amphitheater, additional trails /paths, interpretive si na e,
landscaping, and picnic and adjacent grass area which could be used for la ; and
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WHEREAS, it was understood that the approval of this project by the public and
City Council would eliminate certain elements from the list of eligible specified projects;
athletic field, paddle tennis court, senior center, and add elements; landscaping, grass
picnic and play area, interpretive signage; and
WHEREAS, Section 18 of the Proposition allows for the City to submit to the
County Board of Supervisors a new plan of expenditure of the funds, changing some of
the eligible projects and that the Board of Supervisors, in its capacity as governing
body of the District, shall approve the changes by a majority vote.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED THAT THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE
CITY OF RANCHO PALOS VERDES:
Approves filing this Amendment to the previous Application with the County of
Los Angeles Regional Park and Open Space District which defines the change of
projects eligible for funds under Section 8.b.2 of the Proposition.
PASSED, APPROVED, AND ADOPTED ON T
ATTEST
CITY CLERK
State of California )
County of Los Angeles )ss
City of Rancho Palos Verdes
I, JO PURCELL, City Clerk of the City of Rancho Palos Verdes, hereby certify that the
above Resolution No. 97 - 24 was duly and regularly passed and adopted by the said
City Council at a regular meeting thereof held on April 1, 1997.
CITY CLERK
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