HomeMy WebLinkAboutResolution No. 14-C52RESOLUTION NO. 14-052
RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF AZUSA
APPROVING RATIFICATION AND AMENDMENT AGREEMENTS FOR
LOAN AGREEMENTS BETWEEN THE CITY OF AZUSA AND THE
FORMER REDEVELOPMENT AGENCY OF THE CITY OF AZUSA
WHEREAS, Health and Safety Code Section 34172, as modified by the opinion of the
Supreme Court of the State of California in California Redevelopment Association, et al. v. Ana
Matosantos, et al., Case No. 5194861 ("Legal Action"), provides that all redevelopment
agencies, including the Redevelopment Agency of the City of Azusa ("Redevelopment
Agency"), were dissolved as of February 1, 2012; and
WHEREAS, well in advance of the Redevelopment Agency's dissolution, the City of
Azusa ("City") and Redevelopment Agency entered into various loan agreements, as further
described in Attachment A to this Resolution (collectively, "Loan Agreements"), whereby the
City agreed to provide the Redevelopment Agency with various loans in order to assist the
Redevelopment Agency to carry out its functions under the Community Redevelopment Law and
to assist with implementation of the redevelopment plans ("Redevelopment Plans") for the
Merged Central Business District & West End Redevelopment Project Areas; and
WHEREAS, Assembly Bill 1X 26 ("AB 26"), enacted as part of the 2011-2012 State of
California budget bill, and as modified by the Legal Action, dissolved and set out procedures for
the wind -down of all redevelopment agencies throughout the State effective February ll, 2012,
and in June 2012, the California Legislature adopted Assembly Bill 1484 ("AB 1484," and
collectively with AB 26, the "Dissolution Act") further modifying some of the procedures set
forth in AB 26, and adding certain other procedures and requirements for the dissolution and
wind -down of redevelopment agencies; and
WHEREAS, The City of Azusa elected to serve as the successor agency to the
Redevelopment Agency ("Successor Agency"), as provided in Oversight Board Resolution No.
OB -O1-12, dated May 3`d 2012; and
WHEREAS, the Successor Agency is the successor entity to the former Redevelopment
Agency and, pursuant to the Dissolution Act, is responsible for the wind -down of the former
Redevelopment Agency, including without limitation the performance and repayment of all
enforceable obligations of the former Redevelopment Agency; and
WHEREAS, Health and Safety Code Section 34171(d)(2), as modified by AB 1484,
provides, with a few exceptions, that "enforceable obligation" does not include any agreements,
contracts, or arrangements between the city, county, or city and county that created the
redevelopment agency and the former redevelopment agency; and
WHEREAS, Health and Safety Code Section 34179.7, added by AB 1484, provides that
upon completion of certain requirements and payment of certain amounts as required by Sections
34179.6 and 34183.5, the Department of Finance ("DOF") issued on May 31, 2013, a finding of
completion of the requirements of Section 34179.6 to the successor agency; and
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WHEREAS, Health and Safety Code Section 34191.4, also added by AB 1484, provides
in part that, following issuance of a finding of completion by DOF, and upon application by the
successor agency and approval by the oversight board, loan agreements entered into between the
redevelopment agency and the city, county or city and county that created the redevelopment
agency shall be deemed to be enforceable obligations provided that the oversight board makes a
finding that the loan was for legitimate redevelopment purposes; and
WHEREAS, in addition to establishing when a loan agreement will be deemed;to be an
enforceable obligation, Section 34191.4 further establishes certain restrictions and limitations on,
among other things, the calculation of interest on the remaining principal amount of the loan, the
amounts that can be repaid from time to time under the loan agreement, and requires that twenty
percent of any loan repayment shall be deducted from the loan repayment amount andshall be
transferred to a Low and Moderate Income Housing Asset Fund; and
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WHEREAS, the City and Successor Agency have agreed to enter into a Ratification and
Amendment Agreement for each of the Loan Agreements in order to ratify the existence and
validity of the Loan Agreements, and to establish their understanding and agreement as to the
limitations and restrictions that will apply to the repayment to the City of all amounts :due and
owing the City by the former Redevelopment Agency under the Loan Agreements pursuant to
the Dissolution Act;
NOW, THEREFORE, THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF AZUSA DOES
HEREBY RESOLVE AS FOLLOWS:
Section 1. Recitals. The Recitals set forth above are true and correct `•and are
incorporated into this Resolution by this reference.
Section 2. CEQA Compliance. The approval of the Loan Agreements through this
Resolution does not commit the City to any action that may have a significant effect on the
environment. As a result, such action does not constitute a project subject to the requirements of
the California Environmental Quality Act. The City Clerk is authorized and directed to file a
Notice of Exemption with the appropriate official of the County of Los Angeles, California,
within five (5) days following the date of adoption of this Resolution.
Section 3. Approval of Loan Agreements. The City Council hereby approves the
execution of a Ratification and Amendment Agreement for each of the Loan Agreement, as
listed in Attachment A to this Resolution, and authorizes and directs the City Managerto enter
into a Ratification and Amendment Agreement for each of the Loan Agreements on behalf of the
City in order to allow for the Loan Agreements to be recognized enforceable obligations in
accordance with the Dissolution Act.
Section 4. Transmittal of Loan Agreements to Oversight Board. The City
Manager is hereby authorized and directed to take any action necessary to carry out the purposes
of this Resolution, including without limitation, cooperating with the Successor Agency to
provide any documentation and evidence to the Oversight Board as necessary to obtain from the
Oversight Board approval of the Loan Agreements, together with a finding that the loan bf funds
by the City to the former Redevelopment Agency under the Loan Agreements was for legitimate
redevelopment purposes.
Section 5. Severability. If any provision of this Resolution or the application of any
such provision to any person or circumstance is held invalid, such invalidity shall not affect other
provisions or applications of this Resolution that can be given effect without the invalid
provision or application, and to this end the provisions of this Resolution are severable. The City
Council declares that it would have adopted this Resolution irrespective of the invalidity of any
particular portion of this Resolution.
Section 6. Effectiveness. This Resolution shall take effect immediately upon its
adoption.
PASSED, APPROVED and ADOPTED this 2"d day of September, 2014.
ILIJ oseph i26mero Rocha
Mayor
ATTEST:
Ae�:ence - -City Clerk
STATE OF CALIFORNIA )
COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES ) ss.
CITY OF AZUSA )
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I HEREBY CERTIFY that the foregoing Resolution No. 14-052 was duly adopted by
the City Council of the City of Azusa at a regular meeting thereof, held on the 2"d day of
September, 2014, by the following vote of Council:
AYES: COUNCILMEMBERS: GONZALES, CARRILLO, MACIAS, ALVAREZ, ROCHA
NOES: COUNCILMEMBERS: NONE
ABSENT: COUNCILMEMBERS: NONE
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effrey nce Cornejo, r.,
City Clerk