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Page 1 of 2 SARATOGA CITY COUNCIL MEETING DATE: March 2, 2011 AGENDA ITEM: DEPARTMENT: City Manager’s Office CITY MANAGER: Dave Anderson PREPARED BY: Crystal Morrow DIRECTOR: Barbara
Powell Administrative Analyst II Assistant City Manager SUBJECT: Letter of Support for Children’s Heritage Trail, Farm, and Garden Clean Safe Creeks Grant Application RECOMMENDED ACTION:
Accept report and determine whether or not to approve attached letter of support for the Children’s Heritage Trail, Farm, and Garden’s application for Santa Clara Valley Water District
Clean Safe Creeks grant funding. BACKGROUND: In 2000, voters in Santa Clara Valley approved a special tax to allow the Santa Clara Valley Water District to establish the Clean, Safe
Creeks and Natural Flood Protection (Clean Safe Creeks) Program. Through the Clean Safe Creeks Program, the special tax funds flood protection and stream stewardship projects. This includes
grants for trail development along creeks in the Santa Clara Valley. Residents and interested community members leading the effort to build the Children’s Heritage Trail, Farm, and Garden
are planning to submit an application for a Watershed Stewardship Grant, funded through the Clean Safe Creeks Program. The group is seeking funds to construct a trail from Walnut Avenue
along Saratoga Creek to Saratoga-Sunnyvale Road. The proposed trail is approximately .25 miles long and is part of the City’s Existing and Proposed Trail Master Plan. Though not required
for the Clean Safe Creeks grant application, approval of the attached letter of support will demonstrate community support for construction of the trail. FISCAL IMPACTS: There are no
direct fiscal impacts associated with approval of the attached letter of support.
Page 2 of 2 CONSEQUENCES OF NOT FOLLOWING THE RECOMMENDED ACTIONS: The City will not provide a letter of support for the Children’s Heritage Trail, Farm, and Garden Clean Safe Creeks
grant applications. ALTERNATIVE ACTION(S): N/A FOLLOW UP ACTION(S): Implement Council direction. ADVERTISING, NOTICING AND PUBLIC CONTACT: Pursuant to Government Code 54954.2, this item
was properly posted as a City Council agenda item and was included in the packet made available on the City’s web site in advance of the meeting. A copy of the agenda packet is also
made available at the Saratoga Branch Library each Monday in advance of the Council meeting. ATTACHMENTS: Attachment A: Letter of Support for Children’s Heritage Trail, Farm, and Garden
Watershed Stewardship Grant application