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CC Resolution 2011-017770-123-002, 003, 004 770-123-006, 010 770-124-002, 003 770-124-009 770-124-007 RESOLUTION NO. 2011 - 017 A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY OF LA QUINTA APPROVING PURCHASE AND SALE AGREEMENTS BY THE LA QUINTA REDEVELOPMENT AGENCY AND FIVE PROPERTY OWNERS, CONSENTING TO THE EXPENDITURE OF FUNDS BY THE AGENCY TO ACQUIRE CERTAIN REAL PROPERTY, AND MAKING CERTAIN FINDINGS PURSUANT TO HEALTH AND SAFETY CODE SECTION 33445 WITH RESPECT TO THE AGENCY'S EXPENDITURE WHEREAS, the La Quinta Redevelopment Agency ( "Agency ") is a redevelop- ment agency organized and existing under the California Community Redevelopment Law ( "Health & Safety Code § 33000 et seq.) ( " CRL ") and has been authorized to transact business and exercise the powers of a redevelopment agency pursuant to action of the City Council of the City of La Quinta ( "City Council" or "City," as applicable); and WHEREAS, pursuant to the CRL, the City Council approved and adopted the Redevelopment Plan ( "Redevelopment Plan ") for La Quinta Project Area No. 1 ( "Project Area") on November 29, 1983, by Ordinance No. 43; and WHEREAS, Agency staff have negotiated purchase and sale agreements (collectively, the "Agreements") with five (5) independent owners of residential real property located in the Village area of the City (collectively, the "Properties ") for future public parking and /or road realignment purposes (collectively, the "Infrastructure Improvements "), to facilitate access to the Village; and WHEREAS, the Properties are located within the Project Area; and WHEREAS, the Agreements would provide for the Agency's expenditure of Three Million Eight Hundred Sixty -Nine Dollars ($3,869,000) plus closing costs to acquire the Properties; WHEREAS, with the legislative body's consent and the satisfaction of certain specified requirements set forth in Health and Safety Code Section 33445, the CRL authorizes redevelopment agencies to expend tax increment funds to acquire real property for, and to fund the cost of the installation and construction of, publicly owned buildings, facilities, and improvements; and WHEREAS, the Agreements are in accordance with the Redevelopment Plan and is of benefit: to the Project Area and the City of La Quinta; and WHEREAS, the Agency's financial contribution pursuant to the Agreements is necessary to effectuate the purposes of the Redevelopment Plan; Resolution No. 2011 -017 Village Land Acquisition - P &S Agreements Adopted: March 15, 2011 Page 2 NOW THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the City Council of the City of La Quinta, as follows: SECTION 1. The above recitations are true and correct. SECTION 2. Pursuant to Health and Safety Code Section 33445(a), the City Council of the City of La Quinta finds and determines that: A. The acquisition of publicly owned land pursuant to the Agreements for the future development of the Infrastructure Improvements is of benefit to the Project Area, by helping to eliminate blight within the Project Area, in that the Infrastructure Improvements consist of public infrastructure improvements, and the Redevelopment Plan provides for the elimination, and prevention of the spread, of blight and blighting influences through the installation, construction, or re- construction of streets, utilities, and other public facilities and improvements. B. No other reasonable means of financing the Infrastructure Improvements are available to the community, for the following reasons: (i) City monies are dedicated to critical police, fire, and other necessary expenditures, including other capital improvement projects; (ii) the only practical means of paying for the Infrastructure Improvements is to use Agency funding; (iii) without Agency funding for the Infrastructure Improvements, the Infrastructure Improvements would not be completed, all to the detriment of the Project Area. C. The Infrastructure Improvements are consistent with the Agency's implementation plan adopted pursuant to Health and Safety Code Section 33490 ( "Implementation Plan "), in that improving public infrastructure and facilities within the Project Area are goals set forth in the Implementation Plan. SECTION 3. The Agency's expenditure for the Properties for future development with the Infrastructure Improvements is necessary to effectuate the purposes of the Redevelopment Plan and is in the best interests of the City of La Quinta. SECTION 4. The Agreements are hereby approved. The City Council directs its City Manager to make final modifications to the Agreements that are consistent with the substantive terms of the Agreements approved hereby, and to thereafter sign the Agreements on behalf of the City. SECTION 5. The City Council directs its City Manager to (i) sign such other and further documents that require the City's signature, and (ii) take such other and further actions as may be necessary and proper to carry out the terms of the Agreements. Resolution No. 2011 -017 Village Land Acquisition - P &S Agreements Adopted: March 15, 21011 Page 3 SECTION 6. The City Manager is authorized to accept the conveyances of the Properties, and to take such other actions and execute such other documents as may be necessary to implement and effect this Resolution on behalf of the City. PASSED, APPROVED and ADOPTED at a regular meeting of the La Quinta City Council held on this 15th day of March, 2011, by the following vote to wit: AYES: Council Members Evans, Franklin, Henderson, Sniff, Mayor Adolph NOES: None ABSENT: None ABSTAIN: None DON ADO PH, M or City of La Quinta U City of La Ouinta (City Seal) ECINO, CMC, CITY CLERK APPROVED AS TO FORM: V f— M NE JENSO Cit Attorney ey City of La Quinta