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HomeMy WebLinkAboutcc min 1997/06/10 RDA MINUTES OF A JOINT MEETING OF THE REDEVELOPMENT AGENCY AND CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF CHULA VISTA Tuesday, June 10, 1997 Council Chambers 6:30 p.m. Public Services Building CALL TO ORDER 1. .ROLL CALL: PRESENT: Agency/Councihnembers: Moot, Padilla, Rindone, Salas, and Chair/Mayor Horton ABSENT: Agency/Councillnelnbers: None ALSO PRESENT: Executive Director/City Manager, John D. Goss; Legal Counsel/City Attorney, John M. Kaheny; and City Clerk/Acting Secretary, Beverly A. Authelet 2. APPROVAL OF MINUTES: May 20, 1997 (ioint meeting) MSUC (Moot/Padilla) to approve the Muy 20, 1997 minutes. ORAL COMMUNICATIONS There were none. PUBLIC HEARINGS AND RELATED RESOLUTIONS AND ORDINANCES 3. PUBLIC HEARING PURSUANT TO CALIFORNIA HEALTH AND SAFETY CODE SECTIONS 33431 AND 33433 CONSIDERING SALE OF AGENCY PROPERTY TO AND APPROVING AN AGREEMENT WITH THE SAN DIEGO UNIFIED PORT DISTRICT FOR PURCHASE AND SALE AND ESCROW INSTRUCTIONS FOR 980 LAGOON DRIVE - A Purchase and Sale Agreement for 980 Lagoon Drive (Shangri-La property), including a meet and cont~r provision, is presented tbr consideration. Staff recommends approval of the resolution. (Director of Connmmity Development) Cnntinued frnm the meeting of 6/3/97. JOINT AGENCY RESOLUTION 1543 AND COUNCIL RESOLUTION 18690 MAKING REQUIRED REDEVELOPMENT ACT FINDINGS AND APPROVING A PURCHASE AND SALE AND ESCROW INSTRUCTIONS WITH THE SAN DIEGO UNIFIED PORT DISTRICT WITH RESPECT TO PROPERTY LOCATED AT 980 LAGOON DRIVE, CHULA VISTA, AND AUTHORIZING THE CHAIRMAN TO EXECUTE SAME Community Development Director, Chris Salomone, stated this item involves the sale of Agency owned property to the San Diego Unified Port District. in some ways, this is nnique because it oi"t~rs us an opportunity to clean a site that has some known soil contamination on it. To accomplish this, the Port is allowing $500,000 to be deposited into an escrow account in order to allow the Agency to conduct the clean up of the site and deliver a clean parcel to the Port and be paid the remaining balance of the total, $981~000 that the site was appraised at. In addition we had some agreements to negotiate and some duties to perlbrm nnder the proposed sale documents. We feel confident that we will be able to accomplish the intent of the agreement, and we are happy to have been able to accomplish a very difficult negotiation. Deputy City Attorney, Glen Googins, stated that whenever property is acquired with tax increment monies and disposed of for redevelopment or whenever Agency property is sold without competitive bidding, a public hearing Minutes June 10, 1997 Page 2 must be held and certain findings must be made in support of that land transaction. The findings which are required are: sale of the property will eliminate and help prevent the spread of blight deterioration in the project area, the sale of the property must be consistent with the redeveIopment plan and implementation plan fi)r the project, and the sale of the property must be not less than its fair market value or its lhir reuse value. The fitctual basis and support of these findings are contained in the Resolution. This being the time and place as advertised, the public hearing was opened. There being no one wishing to address the item, the public hearing was closed. Agency/Councilmember Moot stated that it was important when the City finds out that property within its jurisdiction is contaminated that it make its best eftbrts to clean up that property, especially when that property is located at such an important site on the Bayfront. He also i'~lt it was good that the Port District has agreed to cooperate with us in a manner in which this property can be cleaned up. RESOLUTIONS 18690 AND 1543 OFFERED BY AGENCY/COUNCILMEMBER MOOT, headings read, texts waived, passed and approved 5-0. 4. PUBLIC HEARING CONSIDERATION OF THE ADOPTION OF FINAL OPERATING BUDGET, CAPITAL BUDGETS, AND REDEVELOPMENT AGENCY BUDGET FOR THE FISCAL YEAR BEGINNING JULY 1, 1997 AND ENDING JUNE 30, 199g--Staff requests that this item be continued to a Joint Meeting of the Redevelopment Agency/City Council on June 17, 1997 at a TIME CERTAIN OF 6:00 (Administration) MSUC (Hortnn/Padilla) to continue the item to a joint Agency/City Cnnnci[ meeting nn June 17, 1997. OTHER BUSINESS 5. DIRECTOR'S/CITY MANAGER'S REPORT{S) - none. 6. CHAIR'S/MAYOR'S REPORT{S) - none. 7. AGENCY/COUNCIL MEMBER COMMENTS Agency/Councilmember Rindone stated he had made a referral to staff some time ago regarding Redevelopment Agency properties that had been purchased for the five redevelopment projects, what the purchase price was paid by the City and what the saIe price was when the City sold those properties. He wanted to add to that referral to include any redevelopment agency property that is anticipated to be sold within the next two years and the price that was originally paid for that. He asked staff when they anticipated snch an update would be available. Mr. Salomone replied that staff could do that in a fairly expeditious fashion probably within three weeks. ADJOURNMENT The meeting adjourned at 6:40 p.nl. Respectfully subrifitted, Beverly A. Authelet, CMC/AAE City Clerk