Redevelopment Agency dissolved to the disappointment of city council
“Tonight is your last meeting as the Redevelopment Agency,” said Redondo Beach City Manager Bill Workman at last Tuesday’s City Council meeting. “I have previously reported to you actions by the Governor, the legislature and the courts that effectively eliminate the RDA in about five hours from now.” For Redondo Beach and 400 other cities around the state, time was ticking for councils to make their ultimate decisions and dissolve the agency before the Feb. 1 deadline, to the chagrin and disapproval of all city council members. “All efforts to extend the life of RDAs failed in Sacramento,” Councilman Steven Diels said. The agency was created in the 1950s and was formed as a mechanism to help cities capture funding from local property taxes to help create projects and redevelop blighted parts of towns. Recently, a court ruling from the State upheld an earlier bill dissolving RDAs to help fill a $24.5 billion hole in the State budget. Alleged abuses of RDAs across the state had brought accusations of corruption and financial mismanagement tainted redevelopment efforts and prompted investigations that questioned the necessity of such agencies. For Redondo Beach, the RDA meant more…
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