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Home My WebLink About2012-01-24 - AGENDAS - JOINT REGULAR (2)CITY OF SANTA CLARITA JOINT CITY COUNCIL/REDEVELOPMENT AGENCY/BOARD OF LIBRARY TRUSTEES REGULAR MEETING Tuesday, January 24, 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 II) INVOCATION - Weste 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 APWA 2011 Project of the Year PRESENTATIONS TO THE CITY None scheduled. COMMITTEE REPORTS/COUNCILMEMBER COMMENTS 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: Approve the minutes of the January 10, 2012, regular meeting. 01 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: Determine that the titles to all ordinances which appear on this public agenda have been read and waive further reading. 3. MCBEAN REGIONAL TRANSIT CENTER PARK-AND-RIDE, PROJECT T1012 - AWARD DESIGN CONTRACT - The final design phase of the proposed park-and-ride facility will consist of 285 parking spaces, five bus canopies, landscape enhancements, low -impact site lighting, public art installations, and transit operation service features. In addition, the design will feature sustainable design elements such as permeable pavement, bio-swales, and bio -detention basins. RECOMMENDED ACTION: Award the design contract to Tetra Tech, Inc., for the McBean Regional Transit Center Park -and -Ride, Project T1012, in the amount of $331,995, and authorize a contingency in the amount of $50,000, for a total contract amount not to exceed $381,995; and authorize the City Manager or designee to execute all documents, subject to City Attorney approval. 4. SANTA CLARITA PERFORMING ARTS CENTER AT COLLEGE OF THE CANYONS MEMORANDUM OF UNDERSTANDING - The City of Santa Clarita and the Santa Clarita Community College District have entered into a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) regarding the Santa Clarita Performing Arts Center at College of the Canyons (PAC) since before the venue opened in 2004. The latest MOU is for three years and includes a payment to the College to continue to allow community users to hold public performances in the PAC. RECOMMENDED ACTION: Approve Memorandum of Understanding. 3 5. SECOND READING AND ADOPTION OF AN ORDINANCE TO AMEND THE DOWNTOWN NEWHALL SPECIFIC PLAN TO ADDRESS VARIOUS ISSUES INCLUDING SIGNS, OUTDOOR DISPLAY OF MERCHANDISE, ALCOHOL USES, NON -CONFORMING USES, ALONG WITH OTHER GRAMMATICAL AMENDMENTS - This is the second reading of an ordinance 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: Conduct the second reading and adopt 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." 6. CHECK REGISTER NO. 1 - Approval of the Check Register. RECOMMENDED ACTION: Approve and ratify for payment the demands presented in Check Register No. 1. NEW BUSINESS 7. COUNCIL COMMITTEE APPOINTMENTS - On an annual basis, the City Council updates the Council Committee Appointments List. Mayor Ender transmitted a memo to each Councilmember with the 2012 Draft Council Committee Appointments list for discussion at this time. RECOMMENDED ACTION: Review, discuss, make changes to, and approve the City Council Committee Appointments list for 2012. 9 8. A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SANTA CLARITA, CALIFORNIA, DESIGNATING THE CITY OF SANTA CLARITA AS THE SUCCESSOR HOUSING AGENCY OF THE REDEVELOPMENT AGENCY OF THE CITY OF SANTA CLARITA AND ADOPTION OF AN AMENDED ENFORCEABLE OBLIGATION PAYMENT SCHEDULE - As a result of ABX 1 26, Redevelopment Agencies will be dissolved and replaced with Successor Agencies responsible for winding down the affairs of the Redevelopment Agencies on February 1, 2012. While the City automatically defaults to be the Successor Agency for non -housing related matters, ABX1 26 provides the City an opportunity to become the Successor Agency for the housing functions previously held by the Redevelopment Agency. Additionally, the Redevelopment Agency adopted an Enforceable Obligation Payment Schedule (EOPS) on August 23, 2011. As a result of the Supreme Court's decision and the subsequent deadline extensions, it becomes necessary to adopt an amended EOPS. RECOMMENDED ACTION: City Council adopt "A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SANTA CLARITA, CALIFORNIA, DESIGNATING THE CITY OF SANTA CLARITA AS THE SUCCESSOR HOUSING AGENCY OF THE REDEVELOPMENT AGENCY OF THE CITY OF SANTA CLARITA" and direct staff to transmit appropriate notification of this action as required by ABX1 26. Redevelopment Agency adopt the amended Enforceable Obligation Payment Schedule and direct staff to comply with the reporting and posting requirements of the Enforceable Obligation Payment Schedule statute. 9. RESOLUTIONS REGARDING FORGIVENESS OF LOANS TO PUBLIC BODIES AS REQUIRED BY ASSEMBLY BILL 936 - On September 26, 2011, Governor Brown signed Assembly Bill (AB) 936 which requires that all cities and redevelopment agencies adopt a resolution, on or before February 1, 2012, declaring whether they have forgiven the repayment of a loan, advance or indebtedness owed by a public body or an agency to the public body during January 1, 2010, and December 31, 2011. RECOMMENDED ACTION: Redevelopment Agency adopt "A RESOLUTION OF THE REDEVELOPMENT AGENCY OF THE CITY OF SANTA CLARITA, CALIFORNIA, REGARDING THE FORGIVENESS OF LOANS TO PUBLIC BODIES AS REQUIRED BY ASSEMBLY BILL 936" and direct staff to transmit an executed copy of the resolution to required agencies. City Council adopt "A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SANTA CLARITA, CALIFORNIA, REGARDING THE FORGIVENESS OF LOANS TO PUBLIC BODIES AS REQUIRED BY ASSEMBLY BILL 936" and direct staff to transmit an executed copy of the resolution to required agencies. 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 FUTURE MEETINGS The next regular meeting of the City Council will be held Tuesday, February 14, 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 19, 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. V — arah P. Gorman, Esq. City Clerk Santa Clarita, California 2