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Home My WebLink About2012-02-14 - AGENDAS - JOINT REGULAR (4)CITY OF SANTA CLARITA JOINT CITY COUNCILBOARD OF LIBRARY TRUSTEES REGULAR MEETING Tuesday, February 14, 2012 6:00 PM City Council Chambers 23920 Valencia Blvd. 1st Floor Santa Clarita, CA 91355 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 - Ferry 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 None scheduled. 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. 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. 2. 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 24, 2012, regular meeting. 3. CITIZENS' OPTION FOR PUBLIC SAFETY (COPS) GRANT - FISCAL YEAR 2011-12 - Assembly Bill 1913 (Schiff -Cardenas Crime Prevention Act), signed into law in 2000, provides funding to cities and counties for frontline law enforcement officers and juvenile justice initiatives. With the passage of AB 118, the State of California amended Government Code 30061 as part of the recent criminal justice realignment plan, which provided financing for the Citizens' Option for Public Safety (COPS) program. Fiscal Year 2011-12 marks the 16th year the City of Santa Clarita has been eligible to receive grant funding from this program. RECOMMENDED ACTION: Accept the Fiscal Year 2011-12 Citizens' Option for Public Safety (COPS) Grant from the County of Los Angeles Chief Executive Office (CEO); approve the request from the Los Angeles County Sheriffs Department - Santa Clarita Valley Station to use the Fiscal Year 2011-12 COPS funds to continue funding the COBRA Team; establish estimated revenues in account 234-4461.003, Supplemental Law Enforcement Grant, by $335,833; appropriate $335,833 to account 16100-5161.001 (Contractual Services); and authorize the City Manager, or designee, to execute any contracts, agreements, or change orders arising out of this program, subject to City Attorney approval. 4. AWARD CONTRACT FOR TRANSPORTATION DEVELOPMENT PLAN UPDATE - This project will update the long—range transit needs study, completed November 2006, that will project future service requirements. The Transportation Development Plan (TDP) Update is intended to present the service needs and corresponding financial plan necessary to meet projected needs. The TDP will encompass a ten year period, covering Santa Clarita Transit's fiscal years 2013 to 2023. RECOMMENDED ACTION: Appropriate funds in the amount of $148,571 from Transit Fund 700 to Account 12400.5161.002; award a contract to Moore & Associates for a Transportation Development Plan Update, Bid No. TR -11-12-08, in the amount of $135,015, and authorize a contingency of 10% of the award, or $13,502, for a total of $148,517; and authorize the City Manager or designee to execute all contract documents, or modify the award in the event.issues of impossibility of performance arise, subject to City Attorney approval. 3 5. CHECK REGISTER NO.2 - Approval of the Check Register. RECOMMENDED ACTION: Approve and ratify for payment the demands presented in Check Register No. 2. 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 28, 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 February 9, 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. 4s-" V Sarah P. Gorman, Esq. City Clerk Santa Clarita, California rd