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Home My WebLink About2012-01-10 - AGENDAS - JOINT REGULAR (2)CITY OF SANTA CLARITA JOINT CITY COUNCIUREDEVELOPMENT AGENCY/BOARD OF LIBRARY TRUSTEES REGULAR MEETING Tuesday, January 10, 2012 6:00 PM City Council Chambers 23920 Valencia Blvd. 1st Floor Santa Clarita, CA 91355 AGENDA PUBLIC FINANCING AUTHORITY — No New Business Public Participation Process During the Public Participation portion of the meeting, each person wishing to speak should prepare a presentation of not.more than three (3) minutes. Public Participation speaker's slips must be submitted to the City Clerk BEFORE this portion of the meeting begins. Anyone wishing to address an item on the agenda should fill out a speaker's slip and submit it to the City Clerk BEFORE the Mayor announces the item. Each person addressing the Council is given three (3) minutes to speak indicated by a colored light system on the Council dais; a green light appears when the speaker begins; a yellow light appears when 30 seconds remain and a red light appears when time has expired. Comments should be complete at this time. In compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act, if you need special assistance to participate in this meeting, please contact the City Clerk's Office, {661) 255-4391. Notification 48 hours prior to the meeting will enable the City to make reasonable arrangements to ensure accessibility to this meeting. (28CFR 35.102-35.104 ADA Title tI) INVOCATION - Ender CALL TO ORDER ROLL CALL FLAG SALUTE EXECUTIVE MEETING This time has been set aside for Councilmembers to review the agenda and obtain any further information that may be needed. Council will also discuss each individual item during the course of the meeting with the exception of the Consent Calendar, which may be approved in its entirety by one motion, unless there is a request to pull an item for discussion. No action will be taken on public agenda items during the Executive Meeting. APPROVAL OF AGENDA - Mayor to inquire whether there are any changes to the Agenda or if any member of the Council or the public would like to pull for discussion, any item on the Consent Calendar. AWARDS AND RECOGNITIONS Saugus High girls cross country for winning sixth CIF state championship in a row Golden Valley High boys cross country for winning 2011 CIF state championship PRESENTATIONS TO THE CITY None scheduled. COMMITTEE REPORTS/COUNCILMEMBER COMMENTS 2 CONSENT CALENDAR All matters listed under the Consent Calendar are considered routine and will be enacted by one motion by the City Council. The items are not individually discussed by the City Council unless a request is made by a member of the public or the Council, in which case, the item(s) will be removed from the Consent Calendar and will be considered separately. 1. APPROVAL OF MEETING MINUTES - The minutes of the previous City Council, Redevelopment Agency, and Board of Library Trustees meetings are submitted for approval. RECOMMENDED ACTION: City Council: Approve the minutes of the December 13, 2011 special meeting. City Council, Redevelopment Agency, and Board of Library Trustees: Approve the minutes of the December 13, 2011, special reorganization and regular meetings. 2. READING OF ORDINANCE TITLES - Government Code Section 36934 requires that all ordinances be read in full prior to Council taking action on the ordinance. By listing the ordinance title on the Council agenda, Council may determine that the title has been read. RECOMMENDED ACTION: City Council determine that the titles to all ordinances which appear on this public agenda have been read and waive further reading. 3. FEDERAL ADVOCACY SERVICES: MURRAY, MONTGOMERY, & O'DONNELL - The City utilizes the professional services of Murray, Montgomery & O'Donnell for federal advocacy services on behalf of the City of Santa Clarita. RECOMMENDED ACTION: City Council authorize the City Manager or designee to execute, subject to City Attorney approval, a contract for continuation of professional services with Murray, Montgomery & O'Donnell, Inc. for the period of January 1, 2012 through December 31, 2012, with the option to renew annually for a maximum of two additional years. 4. AWARD CONTRACT FOR OPERATION OF THE SANTA CLARITA WORKSOURCE CENTER FROMYEBRUARY 1, 2012, THROUGH JUNE 30, 2012 - Consideration of contract award for a vendor to operate the staffing component of the Santa Clarita WorkSource Center. RECOMMENDED ACTION: Award a contract to Santa Clarita Community College District (COC) for the operation of the Santa Clarita WorkSource Center, RFP ED -11-12-07, in an amount not to exceed $150,000; and authorize the City Manager or designee to execute all contract documents and renewals, or modify the award in the event that issues of impossibility of performance arise, subject to City Attorney approval; and make the line item account changes to the WIA budget as outlined. 5. VALENCIA MEADOWS POOL RENOVATION, M0080- PROJECT ACCEPTANCE - To address water seepage that had worsened in recent years, this project replaced the original pool plaster, tile, and plumbing system at the Valencia Meadows Park pool. All construction work and start-up maintenance were completed on December 9, 2011. RECOMMENDED ACTION: City Council accept the work performed by California Commercial Pools, Inc. for the Valencia Meadows Pool Renovation, Project M0080; direct the City Clerk to file the Notice of Completion with the County Recorder; direct staff to release the balance of the retention 35 days after Notice of Completion is recorded, provided no stop notices, as defined by law, have been filed. 6. RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING SUBMITTALS OF CHAPTER 8 AGREEMENTS TO PURCHASE TAX -DEFAULTED PROPERTIES FOR OPEN SPACE PRESERVATION - Resolution authorizing staff to submit Chapter 8 Agreements to the County of Los Angeles Tax Collector to acquire tax -defaulted properties for open space. RECOMMENDED ACTION: City Council adopt a resolution authorizing submittals of a Chapter 8 Agreements to the County of Los Angeles Treasurer and Tax Collector to purchase tax -defaulted properties for open space preservation. 2 7. JOINT RESOLUTION OF THE CITY OF SANTA CLARITA CITY COUNCIL AND THE LOS ANGELES COUNTY BOARD OF SUPERVISORS APPROVING THE NEGOTIATED EXCHANGE OF PROPERTY TAX REVENUE RESULTING FROM THE PROPOSED ELSMERE CANYON ANNEXATION - This item is for the City Council to adopt a Joint Resolution of the City Council of the City of Santa Clarita and the Board of Supervisors of the County of Los Angeles for the negotiated exchange of property tax revenue resulting from the proposed annexation of Elsmere Canyon. RECOMMENDED ACTION: City Council adopt a joint Resolution of Negotiated Exchange of Property Tax Revenue resulting from the proposed Elsmere Canyon Annexation. 8. CHECK REGISTER NOS. 24, 25, and 26 -Approval of the Check Register. RECOMMENDED ACTION: City Council approve and ratify for payment the demands presented in Check Register No. 24, 25, and 26. PUBLIC HEARINGS 9. A REQUEST TO AMEND THE DOWNTOWN NEWHALL SPECIFIC PLAN (DNSP) TO ADDRESS VARIOUS ISSUES INCLUDING SIGNS, OUTDOOR DISPLAY OF MERCHANDISE, ALCOHOL USES, NON -CONFORMING USES, ALONG WITH OTHER GRAMMATICAL AMENDMENTS - This is a request to amend the Downtown Newhall Specific Plan (DNSP) to address various issues identified in working with the code language since adoption of the DNSP. This would be the third update to the DNSP, but would be the first comprehensive update. RECOMMENDED ACTION: City Council introduce and pass to second reading an ordinance entitled "AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF SANTA CLARITA, CALIFORNIA APPROVING MASTER CASE 11-129, UNIFIED DEVELOPMENT CODE AMENDMENT 11-004, TO ADOPT A NEGATIVE DECLARATION AND AMEND THE DOWNTOWN NEWHALL SPECIFIC PLAN." 5 PUBLIC PARTICIPATION This time has been set aside for the public to address the City Council on items that are NOT on the agenda. Council will not act upon those items at this meeting other than to review and return without action or provide direction to staff. ALL speakers must submit a speaker's slip to the City Clerk prior to this portion of the meeting and prepare a presentation not to exceed three (3) minutes. The number of people wishing to speak will divide the thirty minutes allowed for public input, maximum time allowed per person will be three (3) minutes. STAFF COMMENTS (Matters of Public Participation) ADJOURNMENT In memory of Jeri Bronstrup FUTURE MEETINGS The next regular meeting of the City Council will be held Tuesday, January 24, 2012, at 6:00 p.m. in the Council Chamber, 1 st floor of City Hall, 23920 Valencia Blvd., Santa Clarita, CA. CERTIFICATION I, Sarah P. Gorman, City Clerk, do hereby certify that I am the duly appointed and qualified City Clerk for the City of Santa Clarita and that on January 5, 2012, between the hours of 9:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m., the foregoing agenda was posted at City Hall and the Santa Clarita Sheriffs Station. Sarah P. Gorman, Esq. City Clerk Santa Clarita, California 3