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-/.. 2 - / PORT To the Honorable Mayor and City Council · From the City Manager March 25, 2002 Subject Urban Streams Restoration Grant Funding from the Califomia Department of Water Resources for Cordilleras Creek restoration Recommendation Adopt resolution endorsing application for an Urban Streams Restoration Grant and determining appropriate environmental impact document, conditionally accepting grant if offered, and designating contract manager and fiscal agent. Background In February 2000, City Council adopted the Flood Strategy, which recommended seeking grant funding assistance to address flooding in the lower reaches of Cordilleras Creek. The Strategy further recommended hiring a Cordilleras Creek Program Coordinator to work with residents to organize a "Friends of Cordilleras Creek" group to help creekside property owners and residents learn creek conservation practices. The City is app!ying for a grant of $354,195 from the California Department of Water Resources' Urban Streams Restoration Grant program. The City will provide a matching contribution in the form of volunteers from City Trees, residents and science students at Redwood High School valued to be $28,125. Additionally, the City will provide cash contribution of $11,298 for the proposed project. The Urban Streams Restoration Program objective is to address flooding and bank erosion problems along urban streams by applying environmentally sensitive design and planting of native riparian vegetation. The approach is consistent with the recommendation by Cordilleras Flood Committee and the Flood Strategy. Funding will also pay for the Cordilleras Creek Program Coordinator, Whitney Knueppel, who prepared the grant application. Her principle charge is to obtain funding to sustain a stewardship program. The proposed project site is Cordilleras Creek on the Redwood High School property. It offers a public, visible and easily accessible location where residents and students can learn the art of creek stewardship. City Trees is a co-sponsor on the grant proposal and has already submitted a resolution indicating their co-sponsorship of the project. The Sequoia Union High School District and the Centennial Neighborhood Association have submitted letters of support for the project. Alternative Without grant funds it is unlikely that this project can go forward.