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RESOLUTION NO. 10536
CITY OF SAN RAFAEL
PRESENTS THIS
RESOLUTION OF APPRECIATION
TO
The City of Novato — Recipient of the California Cities
Helen Putnam Award for Excellence — for Hamilton Base Re -Use
WHEREAS, the City of Novato has struggled for over twenty five years over the closure and Re -
Use of the Hamilton Army Air Field involving four separate branches of the Military, The General Services
Administration, the Department of Defense, and the Housing And Urban Development Department, and
WHEREAS, Novato has endured six ballot measures, endless lawsuits, and political battles
involving twenty million dollars in City taxpayer cost and
WHEREAS, the City of Novato has steadfastly sought the conversion of the Hamilton Army Air Field
to rapid and productive Re -Use to provide a wide range of community needs from jobs to affordable housing;
and
WHEREAS, the City included all special interests and government agencies in an organized
fashion; and
WHEREAS, the Hamilton Re -Use Plan is a fifteen hundred acre mixed-use plan encompassing
federal, local government, education, residential, commercial, industrial, non-profit, affordable housing,
homeless, social services and environmental programs and uses, and
WHEREAS, the Re -Use Plan was crafted to use and blend private sector, local, state and federal
government, and non-profit entities to efficiently implement the Re -Use Plan; and
WHEREAS, the Re -Use plan will provide over twenty one hundred homes including low and
moderate income family homes, transitional housing, affordable senior housing, assisted living, and an
eighty -bed homeless rehabilitation center, as well as provide for over five thousand jobs, a regional
transportation center, child-care center, art -center, restoration of former tidal Wetlands and historic buildings,
as well as extensive community facilities, and
WHEREAS, the City of Novato has been awarded the Grand Prize in the 2000 California Cities
Helen Putnam Award for excellence, competition;
NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that the City of San Rafael does commend and
congratulate the City Novato on its Hamilton Re -Use Plan and the prestigious Helen Putnam Grand Prize
Award for 2000.
MAYOR
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COUNCI ERS
CITY MANAGER
ATTESTED BY MY HAND THIS 57
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