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JW F 11 /03/08 <br />ORDINANCE NO. NS- <br />AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY <br />OF SANTA ANA AMENDING THE CENTRAL CITY, <br />INTER-CITY AND BRISTOL REDEVELOPMENT PLANS <br />OF THE CITY OF SANTA ANA TO ELIMINATE THE TIME <br />LIMIT IN EACH PLAN FOR THE INCURRENCE OF DEBT. <br />THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SANTA ANA DOES ORDAIN AS <br />FOLLOWS: <br />SECTION 1: The City Council of the City of Santa Ana hereby, finds, <br />determines and declares as follows: <br />A. California Health & Safety Code Section 33333.6(a) & (b), part of <br />the Community Redevelopment Law, was amended by Assembly <br />Bill 1290 in 1993 to impose time limits on incurring debt, receipt of <br />tax increment and effectiveness of the plan. The outside time limit <br />for incurring debt under AB 1290 for plans adopted prior to 1994 <br />was the later of 20 years after plan adoption or January 1, 2004. <br />B. Senate Bill 211 (effective January 2002) permits the amendment of <br />a pre-1994 plan to completely delete the debt incurrence deadline, <br />with the result that an agency can incur debt under such a plan up <br />to the deadline for the effectiveness of the plan. <br />C. The City of Santa Ana wishes to utilize the procedure set forth in <br />California Health and Safety Code section 33333.6(e)(2)(B) to <br />eliminate the date that debt can be incurred in three of its six <br />redevelopment plans so that the Redevelopment Agency can incur <br />new debt until the end of the active life of the each of these three <br />project areas so that the Agency can continue to meet its long term <br />goals and objectives. <br />D. The City of Santa Ana is cognizant that under Health and Safety <br />Code section 33607.7, by adopting this ordinance amending the <br />redevelopment plans in order to eliminate the debt incurrence time <br />limit, the Redevelopment Agency will be required to pay the <br />statutory pass-through payments to each affected taxing entity with <br />which the Agency does not already have apre-1994 pass-through <br />agreement. <br />E. The Community Redevelopment Agency of the City of Santa Ana <br />(the "Agency") is considering issuing approximately $88,000,000 in <br />tax allocation bonds in early 2009 to restructure existing debt of the <br />11 A-1 <br />