TO:
Honorable Mayor and Members of the City Council
THROUGH:
Talyn Mirzakhanian, City Manager
FROM:
Erick Lee, Public Works Director
Katherine Doherty, City Engineer
Jeff Fijalka, Principal Civil Engineer
SUBJECT:Title
Consideration of a Resolution Authorizing a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) Between the Cities of Manhattan Beach, Hermosa Beach, Redondo Beach, and Torrance, Regarding the Implementation of the Beach Cities Green Streets Project (Public Works Director Lee).
ADOPT RESOLUTION 24-0128
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RECOMMENDATION:
Staff recommends that the City Council adopt Resolution 24-0128, authorizing the City Manager and/or his or her designee to approve a MOU between the Beach Cities for the Green Streets Project (Project).
FISCAL IMPLICATIONS:
As described within the MOU, the Project will be funded in part by two separate grant programs, and all grant funds will be disbursed to, and managed by, the City of Torrance. The City of Manhattan Beach's share of the required local match is anticipated to be approximately $355,000. Sufficient funds are currently available for the Green Streets Project within the Measure W fund.
BACKGROUND:
Per the 2012 Los Angeles Regional Water Quality Control Board's (Regional Board) 2012 NPDES Permit, cities were provided the opportunity to establish a regional approach to address stormwater pollution through an Enhanced Watershed Management Program (formerly EWMP, now WMP).
In 2016, the cities of Manhattan Beach, Torrance, Redondo Beach, Hermosa Beach, and the Los Angeles County Flood Control District formed a Watershed Management Group (WMG) and submitted a WMP document to the Regional Board, which identified projects and programs that would be implemented to comply with established limits for bacteria and toxics discharges to Santa Monica Bay. That WMP included a number of individual "green streets" projects within each of the four participating cities. Green streets...
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