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1 <br />2 <br />3 <br />4 <br />5 <br />6 <br />7 <br />8 <br />9 <br />10 <br />11 <br />12 <br />13 <br />14 <br />15 <br />16 <br />17 <br />18 <br />19 <br />20 <br />21 <br />22 <br />23 <br />24 <br />25 <br />26 <br />27 <br />28 <br />CITY ATTORNEY'S OFFICE <br />3900 MAIN STREET <br />RNERSID2, CA 97522 <br />(951) 825 -5557 <br />RESOLUTION NO.2 <br />A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF <br />RIVERSIDE, CALIFORNIA, AS THE SUCCESSOR AGENCY TO THE <br />REDEVELOPMENT AGENCY OF THE CITY OF RIVERSIDE, <br />AUTHORIZING THE CITY OF RIVERSIDE TO SUBSTITUTE AS <br />PLAINTIFF FOR THE REDEVELOPMENT AGENCY IN AN ONGOING <br />ACTION ENTITLED CITY OF RIVERSIDE ET AL. V. BAND OF <br />AMERICA N.A. ET AL. <br />WHEREAS, on November 12, 2009, the Redevelopment Agency of the City of Riverside, <br />together with the City of Riverside and the Public Finance Authority of the City of Riverside filed an <br />action entitled City of Riverside et al. v. Bank of America, N.A. et al., United States District Court, <br />Central District of California, Eastern Division, Case No. CV 09 -08284 SJD; to seek the recovery of <br />damages incurred as a result of alleged violations of the Sherman Act, 15 USC 31, and the <br />Cartwright Act, California Business and Professions Code § 16720, et seq. This case has since been <br />consolidated with other similar cases in the United States District Court for the Southern District of <br />New York, as Master Docket No. 08 -02516 (VM); and <br />WHEREAS, the state legislature recently enacted Assembly Bill 1X 26, the Redevelopment <br />Agency Dissolution Act ( "AB 1X 26 "), intended to stabilize school funding by reducing or <br />eliminating the diversion of property tax revenues from school districts to the state's community <br />redevelopment agencies; and <br />WHEREAS, AB 1X 26, recently upheld by the state Supreme Court in California <br />Redevelopment Association v. Matosantos, bars redevelopment agencies from engaging in new <br />business and provides for their winding down and dissolution; and <br />WHEREAS, AB 1X 26 provides for successor agencies to both enforce the rights of <br />redevelopment agencies, and to wind down their affairs (Health and Saf. Code § 34177.); and <br />WHEREAS, on March 15, 2011, the City Council adopted Resolution No. 22184, <br />authorizing the City of Riverside to become a successor agency to the Redevelopment Agency of the <br />City of Riverside pursuant to legislation then proposed as the Redevelopment Agency Dissolution <br />and Succession Act; and <br />