2022/09/27 City Council Resolution 2022-098 RESOLUTION NO. 2022-098
A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF ROHNERT PARK
AMENDING THE FISCAL YEAR 2022-23 CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT PROGRAM
(CIP) BUDGET TO ADD AUTONOMOUS FIRE WATCH SYSTEM PROJECT
(CIP2304) WITH A PROJECT BUDGET OF $226,783.40, FUNDED BY $152,837.25 IN
HAZARD MITIGATION GRANT PROGRAM FUNDS AND $73,946.15 FROM THE
INFRASTRUCTURE RESERVE FUND
WHEREAS, on November 23, 2021, the City Council of the City of Rohnert Park
adopted the Five-Year Capital Improvement Plan (CIP) for Fiscal Years 2021-22 through 2025-
26, and the Finance Director was authorized to appropriate funds to projects in the approved CIP
Budget for Fiscal Years 2021-22 and 2022-23; and
WHEREAS, in August 2021, the City submitted an application for grant funding from
the Hazard Mitigation Grant Program (HMGP) for the Autonomous Fire Watch System
("Project"), a fire-detection surveillance system to monitor fire and hotspot activity along the
eastern wildland-urban interface of Rohnert Park; and
WHEREAS, on July 14, 2022, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)
notified the State of California Governor's Office of Emergency Services (CalOES) that it
approved $152,837.25 in HMGP funds for the Project, which is 75% of the total Project costs of
$203,783.00, not including project management costs; and
WHEREAS, $50,946.15 in City funds is required for the 25% grant match, as well as
$23,000.00 in additional funding for project management and administration costs, totaling
$73,946.15 needed from City funding for the Project; and
WHEREAS, the Project is not yet included in the approved CIP Budget for Fiscal Year
2022-23 and an approved project budget and funding are needed for Project design, equipment
procurement, construction and system installation.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the City Council of the City of Rohnert
Park that it does hereby authorize and approve the following:
Section 1. The above recitals are true and correct and material to this Resolution.
Section 2. In making its findings the City Council relied upon and hereby incorporates
by reference all of the correspondence, staff reports and all other related materials.
Section 3. The Project is categorically exempt from the requirements of the California
Environmental Quality Act ("CEQA") pursuant CEQA Guidelines section 15303.
Section 4: The Assistant City Manager or designee is authorized to create a new CIP
project Autonomous Fire Watch System (CIP2304) with a project budget of$226,783.40 in
Fiscal Year 2022-23, funded by $152,837.25 in HMGP grant funds and funding appropriation
from the Infrastructure Reserve Fund in the amount of$73,946.15.
Section 5. This Resolution shall become effective immediately.
Section 6. All portions of this Resolution are severable. Should any individual
component of this Resolution be adjudged to be invalid and unenforceable by a body of
competent jurisdiction, then the remaining Resolution portions shall continue in full force and
effect, except as to those Resolution portions that have been adjudged invalid. The City Council
of the City of Rohnert Park hereby declares that it would have adopted this Resolution and each
section, subsection, clause, sentence, phrase and other portion thereof, irrespective of the fact
that one or more section, subsection, clause, sentence,phrase or other portion may be held
invalid or unconstitutional.
DULY AND REGULARLY ADOPTED this 27th day of September, 2022.
CITY OF ROHNERT PARK
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ATTEST:
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Resolution 2022-098
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