While large and small communities ringing Culver City frantically scramble to think up creative ways to protect the possibly doomed funds for hometown redevelopment agencies — Long Beach is trying to keep $1.2 billion from going to Sacramento — Culver City is sitting back and awaiting the outcome of Legislative maneuvers.
At City Hall, from City Manager John Nachbar on down, predicting whether California lawmakers will grant Gov. Brown his cost-saving wish to eliminate all redevelopment agencies is totally guesswork.
The length of the state, no one in authority has publicly gauged the governor’s chances of getting his way.
“We are confident and hopeful,” Mr. Nachbar said in the wake of last Saturday afternoon’s special Redevelopment Agency meeting to fend off a state raid. In one dashing liquid move, the Agency signed and delivered approximately $400 million worth of deals spanning perhaps two dozen development projects that could take up to 20 years to complete.
“We did everything we thought was possible,” said Mr. Nachbar of the longest range planning ever seen at City Hall. “The essence of our actions was an obligation that was established on behalf of the city to the Agency. The city, as a legal entity, has taken on the obligations that were identified.”
