Moving Oxnard Forward v. City of Oxnard CA2/6

FACTS AND PROCEDURAL HISTORY

The Joint Exercise of Powers Act (Gov. Code,2 § 6500 et seq.) (the Act) “provides a means by which governmental agencies may join together to accomplish goals that they could not accomplish alone, or that they might more efficiently and more effectively accomplish together.” (Robings v. Santa Monica Mountains Conservancy (2010) 188 Cal.App.4th 952, 962.) Under the Act, two or more public entities may enter into a joint powers agreement to create a joint powers authority, which is a separate entity vested with the power to exercise powers common to the contracting parties and also those conferred by state law. (§§ 6502, 6503.5, 6507-6508; 6547; (Rider v. City of San Diego (1998) 18 Cal.4th 1035, 1050-1054 (Rider).) In 1991, the City, the Oxnard Community Development Commission (as successor to the Redevelopment Agency of the

1 Moving Oxnard Forward is a nonprofit organization representing citizens of Oxnard, and Starr is a resident of Oxnard.

2 Further unspecified statutory references are to the Government Code.

2 City of Oxnard), and the Housing Authority of the City of Oxnard entered into a joint powers agreement to create the Financing Authority…