AGENDA PROPERTY MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE MEETING ...

Staff Project EvaluationStaff has met several times with Caltrans, City of Anaheim, and Southern CaliforniaEdison staffs to review the plans, perform site walks and discuss changes to the plans.OCWD staff’s evaluation of the project is that the road widening project will not impactDistrict operations at Warner Basins and will have minor temporary impact on Districtoperations during construction of the City of Anaheim’s water pipeline due to thelocation of the pipeline under the levee access road. Staff will work with Caltrans, theCity of Anaheim and SCE to minimize any construction impacts.District staff and General Counsel have reviewed the Right of Way Contracts andEasement Deeds and find the Right of Way Contracts to be acceptable and that theEasement Deeds require minor changes regarding relinquishing abutter and accessrights, use of water during and after construction, and responsibility to restore damagedareas adjacent to the easement areas at the end of construction. Staff is working withCaltrans to revise the easement deed language. Staff recommends that the GeneralManager be authorized to negotiate the terms of the Easements and to execute theEasement Deed, subject to District General Counsel approval.Doug Elliott, President of Corona Recreation, who has a lease for the fishingconcession at Warner Basin, has been advised of this project and kept up to date withthe project status.Imperial Highway PropertyThe Board of Directors directed District staff to investigate the potential acquisition ofthe parcel of land east of and adjacent to the District’s 19 acre parcel at the 91 Freewayand Imperial Highway, as well as the parcel on the east side of Imperial Highway. Staffdiscussed with Caltrans the possibility to either a “swap” or purchase of the parcels.Caltrans advised staff that the District may apply to Caltrans to have the propertiesreviewed for “decertification”, with a deposit of $25,000, to which the cost of the processis charged against. The deposit is not applied to the purchase price of the properties.On January 23, 2013, staff sent an application with a check for $25,000 to Caltrans tostart the process to study the option of selling their properties along the westerly andeasterly edges of Imperial Highway next to the Santa Ana River to the District.However, Caltrans is required to offer property of notable environmental value and thatqualifies for park or recreational use to local agencies before offering the property to thegeneral public. If the property has access to a public street, it will be offered viacompetitive bid to the general public. If it does not have access to a public street, it maybe offered to the adjoining property owners. Therefore, there is no guarantee that afterdecertification that the District would become the property owner.