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eliminate and prevent blight (including remediation of buildings and structures that are unhealthy or unsafe to occupy or properties affected by hazardous substances), stimulate and expand economic growth in the Project Areas, create and develop job opportunities within the City and alleviate deficiencies in public infrastructure within the City. (c) Blighting conditions in the Project Areas constitute substantial threats to the public peace, health and safety, and are so prevalent that they cannot be eliminated without Agency action, including implementation of Agency programs and expenditure of tax increment revenue of the Agency. (d) During the current economic crisis, the City needs the Agency to immediately continue the Agency's redevelopment activities in the Project Areas. As of May 2011, the unemployment rate in the City is approximately 14.2%, compared with 13.2% for San Bernardino County, 11.4% for the State of California and 8.7% for the nation. The following activities of the Agency are necessary for the City to continue to combat high unemployment: Acquiring land for projects to generate local job creation, business expansion and/or retention; building or rehabilitating infrastructure; making low-cost loans to small businesses for physical improvements to their properties; clearing existing blight or environmental hazards that make projects infeasible; improving quality of life by building or rehabilitating libraries, parks and community centers; improving public safety and reducing crime by building police and fire stations; building affordable housing; and funding the rehabilitation of existing housing for working families. (e) The Agency is actively engaged in efforts to rehabilitate housing units, provide assistance for property improvements and provide safe and affordable housing. Adoption of this Urgency Ordinance will permit the Agency to continue these housing efforts within the City immediately. Section 4. Participation in the Alternative Voluntary Redevelopment Program. In accordance with Health and Safety Code Sections 34192, et seq., subject to the conditions and reservations set forth in this Urgency Ordinance, the City Council hereby determines that the City shall participate in the Alternative Voluntary Redevelopment Program for Fiscal Year 2011-2012 and subsequent fiscal years, subject to annual City budget appropriations and the City Council's reserved legislative discretion and other rights, and pay the community remittance amounts payable pursuant to California Health and Safety Code Section 34194. The City's participation in the Alternative Voluntary Redevelopment Program, including all community remittance payments made related to such program shall be under protest, subject to the City's reserved rights and without prejudice to the City's right to recover any or all amounts of such payments and interest on the amounts of such payments in the future, if all or any portion of California Health and Safety Code Sections 34161, et seg., or California Health and Safety Code Sections 34192, et seq., are determined by a court of competent jurisdiction to be unconstitutional, illegal, invalid or otherwise unenforceable or inapplicable, for any reason or in any manner. Section 5. Statement of Additional Intent. The intent ofthe City Council is that, once the Agency is again authorized to enter into agreements under the California Community Redevelopment Law, the City will enter into an agreement with the Agency, as authorized pursuant to California Health and Safety Code Section 34194.2, whereby the Agency will transfer a portion ofthe 2