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HomeMy WebLinkAbout2013-01-08 - AGENDAS - JOINT REGULAR (2)CITY OF SANTA CLARITA JOINT CITY COUNCIL/ BOARD OF LIBRARY TRUSTEES REGULAR MEETING Tuesday, January 08, 2013 6:00 PM City Council Chambers 23920 Valencia Blvd. 1st Floor Santa Clarita, CA 91355 AGENDA 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. Public Participation takes place before the consideration of the agenda items and following the consideration of agenda items. However, each person will be allowed to speak only one time during Public Participation 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 - Boydston 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 School Girls Cross Country Team for winning their 7th in a row CIF State Cross Country Championship Saugus High School Boys Cross Country Team for their record breaking season Certificate of Excellence Awards PRESENTATIONS Arts Commission update PUBLIC PARTICIPATION This time has been set aside for the public to address the City Council on items NOT listed 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 City Council and Board of Library Trustees meetings are submitted for approval. RECOMMENDED ACTION: City Council: Approve the minutes of the December 11 and December 20, 2012, special meetings. City Council and Board of Library Trustees: Approve the minutes of the December 11, 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. MASTER CASE 10-135: SECOND READING AND ADOPTION 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 second reading and adopt 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. 4. AWARD PURCHASE AND DELIVERY OF 300 CUBIC YARDS (ANNUALLY) OF MULCH FOR LANDSCAPE MAINTENANCE DISTRICTS - Award of contract for the purchase and delivery of 300 cubic yards of mulch annually to areas throughout the City's 50 Landscaped Maintenance Districts. RECOMMENDED ACTION: City Council award a one-year contract to Foothill Soils, Inc. for the delivery of mulch to all Landscape Maintenance District (LMD) Zones, as specified in Bid No. LMD-12-13-14, for an amount not to exceed $163,125; authorize the City Manager or designee to execute all contracts and associated documents, or modify the award in the event issues of impossibility of performance arise, and execute up to two (2) annual renewal options not to exceed the annual bid amounts, plus Consumer Price Index (CPI) adjustments, contingent upon the appropriation of funds by the City Council in the annual budget for such Fiscal Year, and execute all documents subject to City Attorney approval. 5. RESOLUTIONS TRANSFERRING LANDSCAPE MAINTENANCE DISTRICT (LMD) ADMINISTRATION AND MAINTENANCE RESPONSIBILITIES FOR LMD ZONE T-20 (EL DORADO VILLAGE), ZONE T44 (BOUQUET CANYON), ZONE T-48 (SHADOW HILLS), ZONE T-62 (CANYON HEIGHTS), ZONE T-67 (MIRAMONTES), ZONE T-71 (HASKELL CANYON RANCH), AND ZONE T-72 (COPPER HILL TWENTY-TWO) FROM THE COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES TO THE CITY OF SANTA CLARITA - Joint City County resolutions to transfer seven LMD zones to the City and existing landscape maintenance contracts. RECOMMENDED ACTION: City Council adopt seven resolutions transferring Landscape Maintenance District (LMD) administration and maintenance responsibilities for LMD Zone T-20 (El Dorado Village), Zone T-44 (Bouquet Canyon), Zone T-48 (Shadow Hills), Zone T-62 (Canyon Heights), Zone T-67 (Miramontes), Zone T-71 (Haskell Canyon Ranch), and Zone T-72 (Copper Hill Twenty -Two) from the County of Los Angeles to the City of Santa Clarita. 6. CHECK REGISTER NO. 25 - Approval of the Check Register. RECOMMENDED ACTION: City Council approve and ratify for payment the demands presented in Check Register No. 25. PUBLIC HEARINGS 7. ANNEXATION OF PARCELS INTO STREETLIGHT MAINTENANCE DISTRICT NO. I (ANNEXATION L-92) - Consideration of annexing 11 parcels receiving benefit into Streetlight Maintenance District No. 1. RECOMMENDED ACTION: City Council conduct public hearing, and open and review the ballots. If no majority protest exists, adopt a resolution ordering said annexation and authorize the annual levy and collection of assessments within the District. If a majority protest exists, no action will be required. NEW BUSINESS 8. MAYOR SELECTION - When the City incorporated in 1987, the City Council adopted a policy of rotating the role of the mayor between each of the councilmembers on an annual basis in December. In April 1999, the City Council reviewed this item and chose to change the selection of a mayor and mayor pro tem to a majority vote of the City Council. The majority vote process has been in place for the past 13 years. RECOMMENDED ACTION: City Council discuss the current system of letting the City Council decide by a majority vote who is the next mayor and mayor pro tem and provide direction to staff. 9. LOS ANGELES COUNTY CLEAN WATER, CLEAN BEACHES MEASURE - The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors is proposing a fee to fund stormwater pollution reduction projects and programs throughout Los Angeles County (County). This fee would affect all property owners within the County. The County area encompasses 85 municipalities and approximately 2.2 million parcels of land. This fee would provide a dedicated funding source to pay for costs to comply with the requirements of the National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System Permit. RECOMMENDED ACTION: City Council receive information and direct staff to file a protest form on all properties owned by the City prior to the January 15, 2013, Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors Public Hearing; and if the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors votes to proceed with a ballot election, direct staff to vote against the Los Angeles County Clean Water, Clean Beaches Measure on all City -owned parcels. 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 - In memory of Gary Lee Thornhill, Dr. Robert Mark Ragsdale, and Harry Carey Jr. FUTURE MEETINGS The next regular meeting of the City Council will be held Tuesday, January 22, 2013, at 6:00 p.m. in the Council Chamber, l st 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 January 3, 2013, 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. Armin& Chaparyan Interim City Clerk Santa Clarita, California