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Home My WebLink About2012-11-27 - AGENDAS - JOINT REGULAR (2)CITY OF SANTA CLARITA JOINT CITY COUNCIL/BOARD OF LIBRARY TRUSTEES REGULAR MEETING Tuesday, November 27, 2012 6:00 PM City Council Chambers 23920 Valencia Blvd. I St Floor Santa Clarita, CA 91355 ETMAL 1 , PUBLIC FINANCING AUTHORITY — No New Business How to Address the City Council You may address the Council during Public Participation on any matter within the Council's jurisdiction that is not listed on the agenda. Each person wishing to speak should prepare a presentation of not more than three (3) minutes. Public Participation speaker's cards must be submitted to the City Clerk BEFORE this portion of the meeting begins. The maximum time allowed per person will be three (3) minutes per meeting. Anyone wishing to address an item on the agenda should fill out a speaker's card 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. Each presentation may not exceed three (3) minutes. 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 - Kellar 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 Assembly Member Cameron Smyth Sister Cities Recognition of City Manager PUBLIC PARTICIPATION This time has been set aside for the public to address the City Council on items NOT on the agenda. The City Council will not act upon these items at this meeting other than to review and/or provide direction to staff. ALL speakers must submit a speaker's card to the City Clerk PRIOR to the beginning of this portion of the meeting. Thirty minutes are allotted for public input at this time. The FIRST TEN people to submit a speaker card prior to the beginning of Public Participation will be heard. Speaker cards will be accepted beginning at 5:45 p.m. Any speaker cards received once the first speaker has begun will be heard at the end of the meeting regardless if the ten person limit has been met. Speakers may not exceed three (3) minutes and may only be heard once per meeting under Public Participation. STAFF COMMENTS (Matters of Public Participation) 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 Joint City Council/ Board of Library Trustees/Successor Agency meeting are submitted for approval. RECOMMENDED ACTION: City Council/ Board of Library Trustees/Successor Agency: Approve the minutes of the November 13, 2012, regular meeting. 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. LOCAL APPOINTMENTS LIST - Section 54970 of the Government Code, also known as "The Maddy Act" requires that the legislative body must cause to be prepared a list of appointments of all ongoing boards, commissions and committees which are appointed by .. the City Council. RECOMMENDED ACTION: City Council approve the Local Appointments List and designate all branches of the Santa Clarita Public Library to receive a copy of the list. 4. ASSIGNMENT AGREEMENT WITH STATE OF MINNESOTA AND CONTRACT WITH GILLIG FOR THE PURCHASE OF 11, 40 -FOOT COMPRESSED NATURAL GAS (CNG) BUSES - Enter into an assignment agreement with the State of Minnesota, and contract with Gillig Corporation for the purchase of 11, 40 -foot compressed natural gas vehicles. RECOMMENDED ACTION: City Council authorize the City Manager or designee to execute an Assignment Agreement with the State of Minnesota, and waive the formal bid process; authorize the City Manager or designee to negotiate and execute a contract with Gillig for the purchase of 11, 40 -foot CNG buses, in an amount of $5,339,559, or modify the award in the event issues of impossibility of performance arise, subject to City Attorney approval; appropriate funds in the amount of $5,339,559 to account 12400.5201.003, increase the grant revenue account 700.4424.009 by $4,271,647, increase Proposition 1 B account 700.4621.001 by $1,716,057, and reduce MOSIP account 700.4422.007 by $648,145. 5. CHECK REGISTER NO. 23 - Approval of the Check Register. RECOMMENDED ACTION: City Council approve and ratify for payment the demands presented in Check Register No. 23. El PUBLIC HEARINGS 6. APPEAL OF PLANNING COMMISSION'S DENIAL OF A REQUEST FOR A TENTATIVE PARCEL MAP TO SUBDIVIDE A 2.01 -ACRE RESIDENTIAL PARCEL INTO TWO NEW RESIDENTIAL PARCELS IN THE RESIDENTIAL LOW ZONE. AN OAK TREE PERMIT IS REQUESTED TO ENCROACH INTO THE PROTECTED ZONES OF EIGHT OAK TREES AND TO ALLOW FOR THE REMOVAL OF TWO NON -HERITAGE OAK TREES - Appeal of Planning Commission's denial of a request for a Tentative Parcel Map to subdivide a 2.01 -acre residential parcel into two new residential parcels in the Residential Low zone. An Oak Tree Permit is requested to encroach into the protected zones of eight oak trees and to allow for the removal of two non -heritage oak trees. RECOMMENDED ACTION: City Council conduct a public hearing and direct staff to return with a resolution for the City Council granting the appeal and approving the proposed project. 7. MASTER CASE 10-135: FIRST READING OF AMENDMENTS TO SECTION 17.03.145 OF THE SANTA CLARITA UNIFIED DEVELOPMENT CODE - HISTORIC PRESERVATION - On September 9, 2008, the City Council of the City of Santa Clarita adopted Ordinance 08-14 establishing the City's first Historic Preservation Ordinance and directed staff to return with a more comprehensive ordinance. RECOMMENDED ACTION: City Council conduct a public hearing and introduce and pass to second reading an ordinance entitled: AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF SANTA CLARITA, CALIFORNIA APPROVING MASTER CASE 10-135, UNIFIED DEVELOPMENT CODE AMENDMENT 10-008, TO ADOPT A NEGATIVE DECLARATION AND AMEND SECTION 17.03.145, HISTORIC PRESERVATION. PUBLIC PARTICIPATION This time has been set aside for any speakers that have turned in speaker cards and were not heard in the first thirty minutes allotted to address the City Council on items that are NOT on the agenda. No further speaker cards will be accepted once Public Participation begins. Speakers may not address items that have been considered this evening. Speaker cards may not be submitted relating to any items listed on the agenda. STAFF COMMENTS (Matters of Public Participation) ADJOURNMENT FUTURE MEETINGS The next regular meeting of the City Council will be held Tuesday, December 11, 2012, at 6:00 p.m. in the Council Chamber, 1st floor of City Hall, 23920 Valencia Blvd., Santa Clarita, CA. CERTIFICATION I, Armin& Chaparyan, Interim City Clerk, do hereby certify that I am the duly appointed and qualified City Clerk for the City of Santa Clarita and that on November 21, 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. d� - , Armin& Chapar5ran Interim City Clerk Santa Clarita, California