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SPECIAL COUNCIL MEETING
PADRE ISLES COUNTRY CLUB
14353 COMMODORE
FEBRUARY 13, 2003
12:00 P.M.
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Mayor Samuel L. Neal to call the meeting to order.
Roll check.
Ordinance approving and authorizing the Mayor to execute a Project Cooperation
Agreement for Final Design, Bidding, and Construction Funding for Packery
Channel Dredging for Beach Nourishment with the General Land Office,
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Adjournment. . '.
POSTING STATEMENT;
This agenda was posted on the City's official bulletin board at the front entrance to City
Hall, 1201 Leopard Street, at 2.:~O a.m~, February, 2003.
Armando Chapa
City Secretary
CITY COUNCIL
AGENDA MEMORANDUM
City Council Action Date: February 11, 2003
AGENDA ITEM: Ordinance approving and authorizing the Mayor to execute a Project
Cooperation Agreement for Final Design, Bidding, and Construction Funding for Packery
Channel Dredging for Beach Nourishment with the General Land Office.
ISSUE: In order to effectuate and process the previously proposed $1,275,000 of Coastal
Erosion Planning and Response Act (CEPRA) cooperative funding from the General Land
Office, the staff of the General Land Office under the direction of Land Commissioner Jerry
Patterson has finalized a Project Cooperation Agreement. This agreement is now before
the Council for consideration.
BACKGROUND: Under the leadership of the General Land Office and with the very
substantial support of our legislative delegation, the Texas Legislature in 2001 passed the
Coastal Erosion Planning and Response Act. Cooperative funding in the amount of $15
million for the biennium with local partial match was approved under the Act. A number
of local projects were approved this biennium including Corpus Christi Beach restoration,
Sunfish Island restoration, McGee beach restoration, a new beach at TAMU--Corpus
Christi and assistance for the Congressionally-approved North Padre Island Storm
Damage Reduction and Environmental Restoration Project (Packery Channel) at
$1,275,000 CEPRA funding and a $450,000 local match.
As we are nearing the end of the long overall funding process for the Packery Channel
Project, it is now appropriate timing to execute the formal Project Cooperation Agreement
between the City and GLO for the CEPRA funding. Under this agreement, the City will
provide $450,000 (part of the upcoming first Packery Channel tax-increment financing bond
issue) to the GLO who will combine that local match with CEPRA funding of $1,275,000
and transmit the total amount to the Corps of Engineers upon Corps advertising the project
for bid (the GLO has a memorandum of understanding with the Corps on all CEPRA-
assisted projects undertaken by the Corps which dictates the manner in which CEPRA
funding is transmitted to the Corps for the benefit of the project.) Upon award of the bid
by the Corps, the GLO under its MOA with the Corps, considers the conditions of the
CEPRA funding to be complete.
REQUIRED COUNCIL ACTION: Only the City Council can approve a project
cooperation agreement such as the one presented.
FUTURE COUNCIL ACTION: As we near the end of the Packery Channel process
culminating in the beginning of construction, several actions still remain as follows:
publication of the final environmental impact statement by the Corps (scheduled within the
next weeks); execution of a Project Cooperation Agreement with the Corps (scheduled in
late March); project bidding; and award of the project (Summer 2003).
FUNDING: Under the agreement, $1,275,000 of CEPRA funding will be provided by the
GLO and the $450,000 local match required will be funded out of the first tax-increment
financing backed bond issue.
CONCLUSlON ANDRECOMMENDATION: Staff recommends approval of the
ordinance as presented and commendation of Land Commissioner Patterson and his
excellent staff for their tremendous assistance in reaching this point in the Packery
Channel process.
W. Thomas Utter
Special Assistant to City Manager