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CITY OF LODI
COUNCIL COMMUNICATION
AGENDA ITEM
C-9
AGENDA TITLE: Adopt Resolution Appropriating $35,000 for Lodi Lake Park Nature Area
Interpretive Panels
MEETING DATE: March 20, 2019
PREPARED BY: Parks, Recreation and Cultural Services Director
RECOMMENDED ACTION Adopt a resolution appropriating $35,000 for Lodi Lake Park Nature
Area interpretive panels.
BACKGROUND INFORMATION The State last year awarded the City a $249,525 grant to renovate
the Lodi Lake Nature Area amphitheater and educational facilities.
The City's Environmental Education Facilities Grant Program application specified that Parks, Recreation
and Cultural Services would work with the Acorn Group on creating interpretive panels to support an
outdoor education component of the project. The Acorn Group previously worked with the City on high-
quality interpretive panels elsewhere at Lodi Lake Park. Although the onsite construction elements of the
projects won't be done until 2020 at the earliest, PRCS is moving forward with developing the panels.
The grant requires the City to expend funds on behalf of the project and submit for reimbursement. The
interpretive panel expense was included in the project budget. The City Manager has executed the
contract with the Acorn Group, which is prepared to begin its work on developing the interpretive panels,
but the Fiscal Year 201-8/19 budget does not include an appropriation for the Nature Area project.
The contract with the Acorn Group is for $34,255.25, but the final sales tax amount is subject to change.
Staff requests the City Council appropriate $35,000 in Account No. 20599000.77020 for the initial project
costs. Actual costs will be reimbursed by the State of California through the Outdoor Environmental
Education Facilities Grant (award letter attached).
FISCAL IMPACT: None. Costs will be reimbursed through the Outdoor Environmental
Education Facilities Grant, Project No. 0E-39-001.
FUNDING AVAILABLE: Grant funding by State of California.
JH:tI
Andrew Keys
Deputy City Manager/Internal Services Dire or
s, Recd -tion, and Cultural Services Director
APPROVED
Stephen Sc
auer, City Manager
State of California • Natural Resources Agency Edmund G. Brown Jr., Governor
DEPARTMENT OF PARKS AND RECREATION
P.O. Box 942896 • Sacramento, CA 94296-0001
(916) 653-7423
lig 03 MS
Jeff Hood, Parks and Recreation Driector
City of Lodi
PO Box 3006
Lodi, CA 95241
Re: LODI LAKE PARK NATURE AREA IMPROVEMENTS
$249,525
Dear Jeff Hood:
Lisa Ann L. Mangat, Director
RECEIVED
MAY 072018
PARKS & RECREATION
The Office of Grants and Local Services (OGALS) completed the application review
process for the Outdoor Environmental Education Facilities (OEEF) Program. OGALS
is pleased to inform you that the project identified above has been selected for funding.
Congratulations!
As an OEEF grant recipient, a representative from your agency must attend an OEEF
Grant Administration workshop to learn more about the contract and grant
administration process. Workshop attendance is mandatory prior to receiving a grant
contract. Information on the mandatory workshop will follow in a separate letter.
The contract performance period for this project began on July 1, 2017. Project costs
are not reimbursable until you receive a fully executed grant contract. OGALS will
initiate a contract and send it to you for signature after your agency has attended the
mandatory workshop.
The liquidation date for this project is June 30, 2025. Therefore, the Project Completion
Packet is due to OGALS by March 31, 2025. This OGALS due date allows time for the
final site inspection and processing of the final payment prior to the liquidation date.
Each OEEF grantee must record a Deed Restriction on the project property (if owned by
the grantee). The Deed Restriction ensures that the property is used for a purpose
consistent with the grant scope for the length of the contract performance period. The
Deed Restriction is required prior to any grant payment.
If you have questions about your project or the OEEF Program, please contact your
Project Officer, Mary Baum, at (916) 651-8581 or Mary.Baum@parks.ca.gov. Additional
OEEF grant program information is available on OGALS website at
http://www.parks.ca.gov/grants. Click on the "Outdoor Environmental Education
Facilities" link.
Jeff Hood
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Congratulations again on your successful application! OGALS looks forward to working
with o deliver quality recreation opportunities in your community.
Sincerely,
Sedric it hell, Deputy Director
External Affairs
cc: Project file
RESOLUTION NO. 2019-41
A RESOLUTION OF THE LODI CITY COUNCIL APPROPRIATING FUNDS
FOR LODI LAKE PARK NATURE AREA INTERPRETIVE PANELS
WHEREAS, the City of Lodi has been awarded a $249,525 grant by the State of
California to renovate the Lodi Lake Park Nature Area amphitheater and related educational
facilities; and
WHEREAS, the City's Environmental Education Facilities Grant application specified the
Acorn Group would develop eight interpretive panels to educate visitors to the Nature Area
about the local environment; and
WHEREAS, the City has entered into a contract with the Acorn Group to develop the
panels at a cost of $34,255.25, plus final adjustments for sales tax; and
WHEREAS, the City's Fiscal Year 2018/19 budget does not include funding for this
project, due to the grant funding notification occurring after the fiscal year's budget adoption;
and
WHEREAS, the grant requires the City to expend funds on behalf of the project and
submit for reimbursement from the State.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the Lodi City Council does hereby
appropriate $35,000 for development, fabrication, and delivery of eight interpretive panels for
the Lodi Lake Park Nature Area from Account No. 20599000.77020.
Dated: March 20, 2019
I hereby certify that Resolution No. 2019-41 was passed and adopted by the City
Council of the City of Lodi in a regular meeting held March 20, 2019, by the following vote:
AYES: COUNCIL MEMBERS — Johnson, Kuehne, Mounce, Nakanishi, and
Mayor Chandler
NOES: COUNCIL MEMBERS — None
ABSENT: COUNCIL MEMBERS — None
ABSTAIN: COUNCIL MEMBERS — None
JENNIFER MJ FERRAIOLO
City Clerk
2019-41