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RESOLUTION 92-1
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A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF TUSTIN
SUPPORTING AND AGREEING TO PARTICIPATE IN THE FORMATION
OF AN ORANGE COUNTY FIRE PROTECTION DISTRICT AND
RESOLUTION OF APPLICATION FOR THAT CHANGE OF ORGANIZATION
WHEREAS, the service area and financial structure of the
Drange County Fire Department has dramatically changed since its
inception in 1980, growing to a program that now includes 16
=ontract cities comprising 83 percent of the total population
served by the County department, and
WHEREAS, the 1989 Orange County Fire DeDartment Master Plan
raised concerns regarding the cities' inability to control rising
costs and service levels, and the financial inequities inherent in
the current system, and
WHEREAS, a Steering Committee of County and city
representatives recommended in May, 1991, that organizational
alternatives and funding strategies, including a Fi. re Protection
District, be studied for the future, and
WHEREAS, the Local Government Reorganization Act of 1985
(Government Code Section 56000 et al.), and the Fire Protection
District Law of 1987, were deemed necessary largely in response to
a need for greater flexibility in the organization and financing of
local fire services, and
WHEREAS, the recently completed Evaluation of Financial
Feasibility for an Orange County Fire Protection District concluded
that a fire district will be practical and feasible to achieve,
among other things, the following goals:
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Retain a regional approach to fire services to realize
economies of scale and continue with the present, excellent
service:
Provide equal agency representation on a governing board,
regardless of participant size, to address cost, expenditure,
equity and service level issues;
Provide a mechanism for future additions/deletions of agencies
to the district; and
Provide continued use of mechanisms for development fee
programs, and/or development agreements, for fire stations and
capital equipment requirements.
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NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED AS FOLLOWS:
The city of Tustin agrees to participate in the steps
necessary to pursue formation of an Orange County Fire
Protection District, with boundaries to include the cities of
Cypress, Dana Point, Irvine, Laguna Hills, Laguna Niguel, Lake
Forest, La Palma, Los Alamitos, Mission Viejo, San Juan
Capistrano, Villa Park and Yorba Linda, and the County
unincorporated area, including but not limited to the
following:
Accept the findings included in the November, 1991 report
entitled An Evaluation of the Financial Feasibility for
an Oranqe County Fire Protection Distriqt~_
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Develop, as a cash contract City, a pro forma contract
with the proposed fire district limiting rate adjustments
to a predetermined formula for a two-to-five-year period
immediately following district implementation;
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Financially participate in Phase II implementation of the
fire district study;
d. Participate in City/County negotiations of key fire
district issues, including but not limited to the
following.
- Transfer of assets from the County to the district;
- Sale of fire headquarters property;
Cash contract and unincorporated area fire service cost
calculations;
Make-up of the Fire Protection District's Governing
Board;
- Transfer of liabilities from the County to the District;
- Legislative changes.
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PASSED AND ADOPTED this 6th day of January 1992.
ATTEST:
day of January __, 1992.
Charles E. Puckett
Mayor
Mary'W~.'n
City Cl~erk
City of Tustin
STATE OF CALIFORNIA)
COUNTY OF ORANGE) SS
CITY OF TUSTIN)
CERTIFICATION FOR RESOLUTION NO. 92-1
Mary E. Wynn, City Clerk and ex-officio Clerk of the City
Council of the City of Tustin, California, does hereby
certify that the whole number of the members of the City
Council is five; that the above and foregoing Resolution
was duly and regularly passed and adopted at a regular
meeting of the City Council held on the 6th day of
January, 1992 by the following vote:
COUNCILMEMBER AYES: Puckett, Pont. ious, Edgar, Ports, Prescott
COUNCILMEMBER NOES: None
COUNCILMEMBER ABSTAINED: None
COUNCILMEMBER ABSENT: None
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Mary E. Wynn, C~ty
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