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Resolution 2011-45 RESOLUTION NO. 2011-45 A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF GILROY DECREASING THE PUBLIC FACILITIES IMP ACT FEE WHEREAS, the City has committed itself to a sustainable budgeting structure to ensure the financial viability of the organization for residents reliant on city services and infrastructure. Each future policy decision of the council is to continue this commitment to sustainable financial decisions; and WHEREAS, without impact fees the City would be left without a major financing mechanism through which the community could afford to build necessary public infrastructure in a sustainable manner to accommodate new growth; and WHEREAS, master plans set forth community infrastructure standards and are adopted as policy documents by the City Council and are consistent with the City's General Plan, the City's ultimate council adopted development policy document; and WHEREAS, pursuant to Section 21.163 (b) of the Gilroy Municipal Code, the City prepared a 2011 Adjustment Report for the public facilities impact fee (PFIF) which included a detailed review of the cost assumptions associated with the PFIF master plan and a re-costing of the projects consistent with the current pricing experienced in this area resulting from the recession's effect on items such as materials, property values and labor rates are consistent with current industry indicators and the City's own experiences bidding out various projects over the past two years, providing the basis for a significant decrease in the PFIF; and WHEREAS, this cost adjustment is based on new cost data only, and does not affect the statutory findings made by the City Council at adoption of the PFIF in 2004. No changes are proposed that would change the original analysis of the reasonable relationship between new -1- RESOLUTION NO. 2011-45 development, the PFIF, and facilities to be funded and is in accordance with Section 21.163 (b) of the Gilroy Municipal Code; and WHEREAS, the resulting financial model, based on the original 2004 PFIF Study horizon, only produces a sustainable and balanced result with annual debt service increases of 4% for 8 years, 2014 through 2021 and that these anticipated fee increases are separate from fee increases related to the CCI and must be applied regardless of the CCI to ensure fees keep pace with anticipated changes in short term interest rates for debt service payments on financed projects and to ensure the PFIF impact fund does not slide into a deficit position in future years; and WHEREAS, certain projects in the PFIF master plan have been identified for completion by developers as part of individual development agreements negotiated subsequent to the 2004 PFIF Study. The projects should be separated from the PFIF with the recognition that in doing so the only means by which these projects will be completed is through strict adherence to the provisions of the individually negotiated development agreements within which the requirement to complete these projects for the benefit of the residents of Gilroy has been previously negotiated and identified as valuable consideration in exchange for the private development approvals provided within the individual development agreements; and WHEREAS, the City Council by resolution may adjust the amount of the PFIF from time to time based on new data and now wishes to adjust the PFIF in accordance with the results of the 2011 Adjustment Report. NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED THAT: A. The Public Facilities Impact Fees are hereby decreased as described in the attached Exhibit A. -2- RESOLUTION NO. 2011-45 B. The Public Facilities Impact Fees shall include a 4% debt service fee increase for 8 years, effective July 1,2013 (FY 14) in order to ensure sustainable funding necessary for debt financing over time to pay for the projects included in the plan. C. The Public Facilities Impact Fees shall be reviewed periodically to appropriately account for cost increases, in addition to 4% debt service increases, to provide the City with the opportunity to make fee adjustments within the public facilities impact fee structure over time to ensure the fees are reacting to existing economic conditions and provide for a sustainable financing plan for public infrastructure. D. The below projects have been identified for completion by developers as part of individual development agreements negotiated subsequent to the 2004 Study and shall be separated from the PFIF master plan with the recognition that in doing so the only means by which they will be completed is through strict adherence to the provisions of the individually negotiated development agreements within which the requirement to complete these projects for the benefit of the residents of Gilroy has been previously negotiated and identified as valuable consideration in exchange for the private development approvals provided within the individual development agreements. Projects to be removed that are covered by Development Agreements Project Name Project Cost Hecker Pass Park Land $828,000 Glen Lorna Ranch Parks Land 1,656,000 Fourth Fire Station - Land 276,000 Fourth Station - Construction 3,600,079 Hecker Pass Park - Construction 793,800 Glen Lorna Ranch Parks Construction 1,587,600 Total $8,741,479 -3- RESOLUTION NO. 2011-45 E. The decrease to the Public Facilities Impact Fees approved by this Resolution shall be effective sixty (60) days after the date of approval. PASSED AND ADOPTED this 21st day of November, 2011 by the following vote: AYES: COUNCILMEMBERS: ARELLANO, BRACCO, LEROE-MUNOZ, TUCKER, WOODWARD and PINHEIRO NOES: COUNCILMEMBERS: NONE ABSENT: COUNCILMEMBERS: NONE APPROVED: A =-------- ert Inheiro, Mayor -4- RESOLUTION NO. 2011-45 EXHIBIT A The following Public Facilities Impact Fee schedule is established for the City of Gilroy: FUND 440: PUBLIC F ACILITIES IMPACT FEE Residential- Low Density Residential- High Density Commercial Industrial (Note: ksf represents per 1,000 square feet) $/unit $/unit $/ksf $/ksf $16,200 $13,630 $2,440 $1,080 -5- RESOLUTION NO. 2011-45 I, SHA WNA FREELS, City Clerk of the City of Gilroy, do hereby certify that the attached Resolution No. 2011-45 is an original resolution, or true and correct copy of a city resolution, duly adopted by the Council of the City of Gilroy at a special meeting of said Council held on the 21 st day of November, 2011, at which meeting a quorum was present. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Official Seal of the City of Gilroy this 22nd d ~ of November, 2011. (Seal)