City of Gainesville - File #: 181001.

• File #: 181001.
• Version: 3
• Type: Ordinance
• Status: Adopted
• File created: 4/24/2019
• In control: City Attorney
• On agenda: 9/5/2019
• Final action: 9/5/2019
• Title: Ordinance Dissolving the Gainesville Community Redevelopment Agency and Creating the Gainesville Community Reinvestment Area (B) Ordinance No. 181001 An ordinance of the City of Gainesville, Florida, deleting in its entirety existing Chapter 2, Article V, Division 9 titled Community Redevelopment Agency, and replacing it with a new Chapter 2, Article V, Division 9 titled Gainesville Community Reinvestment Area in the City of Gainesville Code of Ordinances; providing directions to the codifier; providing a severability clause; providing a repealing clause; providing an effective date; and providing for dissolution of the Gainesville Community Redevelopment Agency and transfer to and acceptance of its assets and liabilities by the City.

Date	Ver.	Action By	Action	Result
9/5/2019	3	City Commission	Adopted on Final Reading, as amended (Ordinance)	Pass
8/15/2019	2	City Commission	Adopted on First Reading, as amended (Ordinance)	Pass
5/2/2019	1	City Commission	Approved, as shown above	Pass

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Ordinance Dissolving the Gainesville Community Redevelopment Agency and Creating the Gainesville Community Reinvestment Area (B)

Ordinance No. 181001
An ordinance of the City of Gainesville, Florida, deleting in its entirety existing Chapter 2, Article V, Division 9 titled Community Redevelopment Agency, and replacing it with a new Chapter 2, Article V, Division 9 titled Gainesville Community Reinvestment Area in the City of Gainesville Code of Ordinances; providing directions to the codifier; providing a severability clause; providing a repealing clause; providing an effective date; and providing for dissolution of the Gainesville Community Redevelopment Agency and transfer to and acceptance of its assets and liabilities by the City.

explanation
The City Commission, at its meeting of May 2, 2019, directed the City Attorney to draft and advertise this proposed ordinance.

After discussion at several meetings (Agenda Item #170788 heard at the February 12, 2018; March 12, 2018; April 30, 2018 and May 31, 2018 Joint City/County Commission Meetings), the City Commission and County Commission each approved an Interlocal Agreement that requires the County's annual contributions to the CPUH Redevelopment Trust Fund to be calculated using the City's millage rate; and 2) expressed the parties agreement to actively engage in a collaborative process to rethink, envision and design the future of the CRA with a goal to reach consensus and develop a mutually agreeable solution. The executed Interlocal Agreement was recorded on July 18, 2018, in Official Record Book 4615, Page 591, of the Public Records of Alachua County.

After work by City and CRA staff, discussions by the City Commission and County Commission (Agenda Item #180389 heard at the October 11, 2018 General Policy Committee meeting; the November 1, 2018 City Commission meeting; the December 10, 2018 Joint City/County Commission meeting; the January 15, 2019 County Commission meeting and the February 11,...