HomeMy WebLinkAbout22609 - RESOLUTIONS - 10/7/2009RESOLUTION NO. 22609
A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
PALM SPRINGS, CALIFORNIA, TEMPORARILY WAIVING
CERTAIN BUILDING FEES FOR THE HIGH EFFICIENCY
POOL PUMP REPLACEMENT PROGRAM
ADMINISTERED BY THE COACHELLA VALLEY
ASSOCIATION OF GOVERNMENTS.
THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF PALM SPRINGS FINDS AS FOLLOWS:
A. On June 11, 2008 the
approving user fees and charges and
adopted by Resolution No. 21578.
City Council adopted Resolution No. 22239
modifying the Comprehensive Fee Schedule
B. The Coachella Valley Association of Governments (CVAG) is initiating and
administering a High Efficiency Pool Pump Replacement Program, providing grants to
Palm Springs residents to replace existing inefficient swimming pool pumps.
C. CVAG has requested member Cities waive building permit fees to
participants in the High Efficiency Pool Pump Replacement Program-
D. The City Council has established and endorsed sustainability goals and
the Palm Sprinas Path to a Sustainable Communitv, and continues to further establish
sustainability goals, and encourage private conservation projects.
E. It is in the public interest and to the public benefit for the City Council to
encourage pool pump upgrades that cause the substantial reduction in energy use, by
the waiver of building permit fees.
THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF PALM SPRINGS DOES HEREBY
RESOLVE AND APPROVE AS FOLLOWS:
SECTION 1. Notwithstanding any other requirements in City Council Resolution
No. 22239, adopting a Comprehensive Fees Schedule, as amended, the City Manager
shall have the authority to waive Building Fees for Pool Pump Replacement for
participants in the CVAG High Efficiency Pool Pump Replacement Program.
SECTION 2. The City Manager or his designee is authorized to waive fees in
Section 1 of this Resolution upon the submittal of a CVAG approved application for
participation in the CVAG High Efficiency Pool Pump Replacement Program.
SECTION 3. This Resolution shall automatically expire and be of no force and
effect on the earlier of: the funding of the CVAG High Efficiency Pool Pump
Replacement Program has elapsed, or December 31, 2009, unless the City Council
shall have first acted to extend or otherwise alter the provisions of the Resolution prior
to that time.
Resolution No. 22609
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SECTION 4. Nothing contained in this Resolution shall be deemed to authorize
or permit the waiver of payment of any other fee or charge within the City except for the
Building Permit Fee expressly enumerated in Section 1 of this Resolution.
SECTION 5. Nothing contained in this Resolution shall be deemed to create any
new fee or charge, or increase any existing fee or charge, to which the procedures
specified in Section 66017 of the Government Code of the State of California would be
applicable.
ADOPTED THIS 7TH DAY OF OCTOBER, 2009.
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David H. Read}Glanager
ATTEST:
mes Thompson, City Clerk
CERTIFICATION
STATE OF CALIFORNIA )
COUNTY OF RIVERSIDE ) ss.
CITY OF PALM SPRINGS)
I, JAMES THOMPSON, City Clerk of the City of Palm Springs, hereby certify that
Resolution No. 22609 is a full, true and correct copy, and was duly adopted at a regular
meeting of the City Council of the City of Palm Springs on the 7th day of October, 2009,
by the following vote:
AYES: Councilmember Foat, Councilmember Hutcheson, Councilmember
Weigel, Mayor Pro Tern Mills, and Mayor Pougnet.
NOES: None.
ABSENT: None.
ABSTAIN: None.
mes Thompson, City Clerk
City of Palm Springs, California