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HomeMy WebLinkAbout2012-12-11; City Council; 21078; Appointments to Oversight BoardCITY OF CARLSBAD - AGENDA BILL 10 AB# 21.078 Appointments to the Oversight Board for the Successor Agency to the Carlsbad Redevelopment Agency DEPT. DIRECT0RQ}K6$ MTG. 12/11/12 Appointments to the Oversight Board for the Successor Agency to the Carlsbad Redevelopment Agency CITY ATTORNEY DEPT. HNS Appointments to the Oversight Board for the Successor Agency to the Carlsbad Redevelopment Agency CITY MANAGER "/f^ RECOMMENDED ACTION: Approve City Council Resolution No. 2012-277 approving two appointments by the Mayor to the Oversight Board for the Successor Agency to the Carlsbad Redevelopment Agency. ITEM EXPLANATION: As a result of State legislation adopted in June, 2011, the Carlsbad Redevelopment Agency was dissolved as of February 1, 2012. The City of Carisbad has been designated as the Successor Agency to the Carlsbad Redevelopment Agency and must implement required activities to close down the agency and ensure the payment of recognized obligations as soon as possible. The Health and Safety Code for the State of California was amended to establish rules and regulations for the dissolution of redevelopment agencies throughout the State of California. One of the required actions, per Health and Safety Code, Section 34179, is for each successor agency to have an Oversight Board composed of seven members. The initial members appointed by the Mayor to serve on the Oversight Board to represent the Successor Agency were: Lisa Hildabrand (City Manager) and Debbie Fountain (Housing and Neighborhood Services Director). These members were appointed as set forth in Health and Safety Code, Section 34179 to represent: (1) One member appointed by the mayor for the city that formed the redevelopment agency; and (2) One member representing the employees of the former redevelopment agency appointed by the mayor. With the recent retirement of the City Manager, Lisa Hildabrand, a new Oversight Board Member must be appointed by the Mayor to represent the former redevelopment agency. It is staff's recommendation that the Mayor appoint the Interim City Manager, John Coates, to replace the previous appointment. In addition, Debbie Fountain has requested that she be replaced as the representative of the employees of the former redevelopment agency on the board. Staff is recommending that Chuck McBride, the City's Finance Director and alternate to the board, be appointed as a member of the Oversight Board. Ms. Fountain will subsequently replace Mr. McBride as the staff liaison to the Oversight Board, and continue to coordinate the activities of the Oversight Board and to report to the State on activities of the Successor Agency and the Oversight Board. It is staff's opinion that this reassignment of responsibilities will assist in more efficient and effective implementation of dissolution activities for the former redevelopment agency. DEPARTMENT CONTACT: Debbie Fountain 760-434-2815; debbie.fountain@carisbadca.gov FOR CITY CLERKS USE ONLY. COUNCIL ACTION: APPROVED • CONTINUED TO DATE SPECIFIC • DENIED • CONTINUED TO DATE UNKNOWN • CONTINUED • RETURNED TO STAFF • WITHDRAWN • OTHER-SEE MINUTES • AMENDED • Page 2 The Oversight Board may direct the staff of the successor agency to perform work in furtherance of the board's duties and responsibilities. The successor agency pays for all of the costs of the meetings of the board and has included these costs in its administrative budget. Oversight board members serve without compensation or reimbursement for expenses. The oversight board is a local entity for purposes of the Ralph M. Brown Act, the California Public Records Act, and the Political Reform Act of 1974. The Mayor is asked at this time to make the new appointment to replace the previously appointed City Manager with the Interim City Manager, John Coates, and to replace the initial representative of the employees of the former redevelopment agency, Debbie Fountain (Housing and Neighborhood Services Director), with Chuck McBride, Finance Director for the City of Carisbad and the Successor Agency. These appointments are necessary and appropriate to ensure that the work of the Oversight Board continues as required and as efficiently and effectively as possible. FISCAL IMPACT: There is no fiscal impact associated with this action to appoint members to the Oversight Board for the Successor Agency to the former Carlsbad Redevelopment Agency. The legislation for dissolution of the redevelopment agency allows for a minimum of $250,000 in administrative allowance to be paid from tax increment funds. This funding is being used to implement the required activities to close down the agency and ensure payment of all recognized financial obligations, including any costs associated with activities of the Oversight Board. EXHIBITS: 1. City Council Resolution No. 2012-277 appointing John Coates, Interim City Manager, and Chuck McBride, Finance Director, to the Oversight Board for the Successor Agency to the former Carisbad Redevelopment Agency. 1 RESOLUTION NO. 2012-277 2 A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF CARLSBAD, CALIFORNIA, APPROVING TWO ^ APPOINTMENTS BY THE MAYOR TO THE OVERSIGHT 4 BOARD FOR THE SUCCESSOR AGENCY TO THE CARLSBAD REDEVELOPMENT AGENCY 5 6 WHEREAS, the State of California adopted legislation in June, 2011 that 7 dissolved all redevelopment agencies within the State as of February 1, 2012; and ^ WHEREAS, the City of Carisbad has been designated as the Successor Agency to the Carisbad Redevelopment Agency to implement all required activities to dissolve said Agency; and WHEREAS, per Health and Safety Code, Section 34179, an Oversight Board must be appointed to oversee the activities of the Successor Agency to the Carisbad Redevelopment Agency and shall be composed of seven members as set forth within 9 10 11 12 13 14 j5 the noted code; and 16 WHEREAS, the Mayor for the City of Carisbad may appoint two members to the 17 Oversight Board, one of which must be a member representing the employees of the 1^ former redevelopment agency, and has previously done so as required; and WHEREAS, one of the previous appointments (Lisa Hildabrand, City Manager) has recently retired and the other (Debbie Fountain, Housing and Neighborhood Services Director), desires to be replaced on the Board in order to better and more appropriately serve as staff to the Board and the Successor Agency. 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 1 2 NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the City Council of the City of ^ Carisbad, California, as follows: 4 1. That the above recitations are true and correct. 5 2. With the consensus of the City Council, the Mayor does hereby appoint the 6 ^ following two members to the Oversight Board for the Successor Agency to g the Carisbad Redevelopment Agency to replace the previously appointed 9 members: 10 John Coates. Interim Citv Manager 11 Chuck McBride. Finance Director 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 // // // // // // 20 // 21 // // // // // // 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 PASSED, APPROVED AND ADOPTED at a Regular Meeting of the City Council of the City of Carisbad on the 11th day of December 2012, by the following vote to wit: AYES: NOES: Council Members Hall, Kulchin, Blackburn, Douglas and Packard. None. ABSENT: None. MAPTCHALL, Mayor ATTEST: (SEAL)