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Home My WebLink AboutCC Resolution 12357 (Recreation Trails Program Funds)RESOLUTION NO. 12357 A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SAN RAFAEL APPROVING THE APPLICATION FOR GRANT FUNDS FROM THE RECREATION TRAILS PROGRAM WHEREAS, the "Safe, Accountable, Flexible, Efficient Transportation Equity Act: A Legacy for Users" provides funds to the State of California for Grants to federal, state, local and non-profit organizations to acquire, develop and/or maintain motorized and non -motorized trail Projects; and WHEREAS, the State Department of Parks and Recreation has been delegated to the responsibility for the administration of the program within the State, setting up necessary procedures governing Project application under the program; and WHEREAS, said procedures established by the State Department of Parks and Recreation require the Applicant to certify by resolution the approval of Application before submission of said Application to the State; and WHEREAS, the City of San Rafael will enter into a Contract with the state of California to complete the Project; NOW, THEREFORE, THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SAN RAFAEL DOES RESOLVE, DETERMINE AND ORDER AS FOLLOWS: 1. Approves the filing of an Application for the Recreational Trails Program; and 2. Certifies that the Project is consistent with the City's General Plan 2020; and 3. Certifies that the City has or will have available prior to commencement of any work on the Project included in this application, sufficient funds to operate and maintain the Project; and 4. Certifies that the City has reviewed, understands, and agrees to the General Provisions contained in the Contract shown in the Procedural Guide; and 5. Appoints the City Manager as agent to conduct all negotiations, execute and submit all documents, including, but not limited to Applications, agreements, amendments, payment requests and so on, which may be necessary for the completion of the Project; and 6. Agrees to comply with all applicable federal, state and local laws, ordinances, rules, regulations and guidelines. I, Jeanne M. Leoncini, Clerk of the City of San Rafael, hereby certify that the foregoing Resolution was duly and regularly introduced and adopted at a regular meeting of the City Council of the City of San Rafael, held on Monday, the 1 st of October, 2007 by the following vote, to wit: AYES: Councilmembers: Cohen, Heller, Miller, Phillips and Mayor Boro NOES: Councilmembers: None ABSENT: Councilmembers: None ?ei"nnAe4M. L Leoncini, City Clerk State of California —The Resources Agency DEPARTMENT OF PARKS AND RECREATION RECREATIONAL TRAILS PROGRAM APPLICATION ikon-Notorned Project (Each site shall be considered a Project. Each Project must have its own Application.) PROJECT NAME Starkweather Shoreline Park Interpretive Signage PROJECT TYPE Non -Motorized Project (Check 1 box only) Acquisition ❑ Development x❑ APPLICANT (Agency name, address, and zip code) City of San Rafael 618 B Street P.O.Bosc 151560 San Rafael, CA 94915-5160 APPLICANT'S REPRESENTATIVE AUTHORIZED IN RESOLUTION Ken Nordhoff, City Manager Name (typed or printed) and Title Grant Request Amount $97,530 Required Match Amount $13,300 TOTAL PROJECT COST $110,830 COUNTY NEAREST CITY Marin Novato PROJECT ADDRESS (including zip code) N/A Starkweather Shoreline Park @ Pelican Way Ken.norhoff@cityofsanrafael.org 415.485.3055 Email address Phone PERSON with DAY-TO-DAY RESPONSIBILITY for ADMINISTRATION of the GRANT (if different from Authorized Representative) Carlene McCart, Director, Community Services Carlene. mccart@cityofsanrafael. 415.485.3340 o rg Name (typed orprinted) and Title Email address Phone GRANT SCOPE: (Items of work to be completed with RTP Funds and the required Match amount. Do not include Project merits.) The proposed project consists of implementation of the Park Interpretive Signage Masterplan approved Spring 2007 for the San Francisco Bay Trail. The plan calls for two complementary types of interpretive features: 1) orientation signs at the six points of entry to the park; and 2) twelve content signs interpreting particular sites, species, experiences and process, while continuing to orient park visitors along the 2.3 mile path on the San Rafael and San Pablo Bay fronts. For Development Project, Land Tenure is 1.74 acres 1.74 Acres owned in fee simple by Applicant Recordation Number(s): 84-57765 (12/17/84) Acres available under a year lease Acres of other interest (explain) For Acquisition Projects, Project Land will be acres Acres to be acquired in fee simple by Applicant Acres to be acquired in other than fee simple (explain) I certify that the information contained in this Application, including required attachments, is accurate. Signed 1817-1848 Connected to the Bay Boats navigue San Rafael Crack through salt marsh as fm as C Stmt, anying hay ard other supplies o the Malan 'ill -se at Mission San RdwJ Archangel. 1892 Underwater Subdivision After a half century ofAmcrican ermaprise, raised railroad td, and toads crisscross the marsh, facilitating fill. underwater lou oraplatted for fill all the woy to the Matin Islands 1940 Poised for Development Tucorola Marsh maks original shoreline in lowm left foreground. L.. behind mush assists drainage of much are. flu Imrd south of San Rafael Creek and Carta. Downtown San Rnrael is in the distance Iiscornia Marsh What happened to San Rafael's salt marsh? ' i .. h yam, 'd. ] 'g• fix': This remnant salt marsh is among the most productive lands in San Rafael. These 10 acres of pickleweed and cordgrass convert up to 80 tons of carbon dioxide into plant tissue each year. That's 8 times more productive than wheat. When the plants die back in autumn, they release a rich soup of nutrients into the Bay, feeding millions of small creatures —plankton, mussels, crabs, clams, shrimp and fish. These in tum feed predators of all sizes, from snails to sturgeon to seals — including a flood of nesting, wintering and migrating birds. The natural community of San Francisco Bay depends on the productivity of salt marshes. But Tiscornia Marsh is among the last of over 1,000 acres of marsh that once stretched from here to downtown San Rafael. 1965 Drawing the Line With the Golden Gate Bridge finished in 1977 and World Wu II over in 1945, development pressure spurs rapid fill ofremaini.g marsh and adjacent .ademter Ings. In 1965, the Bay Conservation and Development Commlssim moves to halt fill u the current shorelioe, where today Shoreline Park begins to reraonect the city to the Bay. Salt Marsh Preservation BCOC and other groups work regionally and locally to preserve the 40,000 acro of alt marsh remaining in the Day, and to restore some of the 150,000 acres filled prim to 1965 Sign Panel Prototype (Shown at reduced size) A N N -------------- Sign Face ------------ Plan from Above Front Section F Sign Face Rolled 3/8" Steel Plate with Welded Base Plate - Sign Support Galvanized after Fabrication. 1 Sign Face t2" Equal —� Radii I 1 I 1 Concrete Footing Side Section Sign Support Design in O"N --do Views of Sign Design in Park Viewed frontally as one pauses to read, the signs have the visual v weight to hold their own in the expansive shoreline environment (while the galvanized steel surface picks up the mottled hues of water and sky). IN All , A -*4 Viewed from the side as one walks along the shoreline, the signs' thin profile recedes from view (while their curved shape echoes the linearity of the walk and the energy of waves and wind).