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Home My WebLink About2013-02-26 - AGENDAS - REGULAR (2)CITY OF SANTA CLARITA JOINT CITY COUNCIL/BOARD OF LIBRARY TRUSTEES REGULAR MEETING Tuesday, February 26, 2013 6:00 PM City Council Chambers 23920 Valencia Blvd. 1 st 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 11) 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 American Heart Association PRESENTATIONS Canyon Country Optimist Club 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 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 and City Council acting as the Governing Board of the Successor Agency to the former Santa Clarita Redevelopment Agency and the Joint City Council and Board of Library Trustees meetings are submitted for approval. RECOMMENDED ACTION: City Council and City Council acting as the Governing Board of the Successor Agency to the former Santa Clarita Redevelopment Agency: Approve the minutes of the February 12, 2013, special meeting; and City Council and Board of Library Trustees: Approve the minutes of the February 12, 2013, 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. AWARD PURCHASE OF JOHN DEERE 444K LOADER - City Council authorized the replacement of a Dresser, 520B Wheel Loader nock during the Fiscal Year 2012-2013 budget process. The Dresser, 520B Wheel Loader is used by the Streets Division to move large quantities of materials. The current Wheel Loader, a Dresser 5206, is 22 -years -old and meets the City's criteria for replacement of equipment older than 12 years. RECOMMENDED ACTION: City Council approve the purchase of a John Deere 444K Loader from Coastline Equipment using California Multiple Awards Schedule (CMAS) contract #4-08-23-0023A in an amount not to exceed $135,375.82; approve increase to expenditure budget account 14504-5201.002 Street Maintenance by $5,376, to account for the additional funding needed to complete the purchase, and increase Gas Tax Sales of Property & Equipment account 230-4621.006 by $13,500 to account for the revenue generated from the sale of the existing Dresser, 5208 Wheel Loader. 4. COMMUNITY SERVICES AND ARTS GRANTS FOR FISCAL YEAR 2012-13 - For approximately 22 years, the City of Santa Clarita has provided funds for community organizations through the Community Services and Arts Grant program. Each year, a Grant Committee is assembled to determine funding categories, review and rate applications, and make final funding recommendations for community service projects and arts projects throughout Santa Clarita. RECOMMENDED ACTION: City Council approve Community Services Grant Committee's project recommendations for Fiscal Year 2012-13, in an amount not to exceed $72,000 for Community Services Grants and $40,500 for Arts Grants; in a separate vote, per Council -adopted policy/process, City Council approve Canyon Theatre Guild City of Santa Clarita Presents art grant in an amount not to exceed $7,500; direct staff to execute agreements approved for funding; and authorize City Manager, or designee, to sign all documents pursuant to City Attorney approval. 5. CHECK REGISTER NO. 3- Approval of the Check Register. RECOMMENDED ACTION: City Council approve and ratify for payment the demands presented in Check Register No 3. UNFINISHED BUSINESS 6. SIGN ORDINANCE - At the June 12, 2012 City Council meeting, the City Council directed staff to return to the City Council with a draft amendment to the City's Municipal Code that would provide that any signs removed from public property be stored by the City until after the event to which they relate occurs, after which the owner of the sign can retrieve any such sign without paying any fine. RECOMMENDED ACTION: City Council conduct a first reading and pass to a second reading "AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SANTA CLARITA, CALIFORNIA, AMENDING CHAPTER 11.12 OF THE SANTA CLARITA MUNICIPAL CODE PERTAINING TO SIGNS PLACED ON PUBLIC PROPERTY." NEW BUSINESS MEMORANDUM OF UNDERSTANDING FOR BRIDGEPORT MARKETPLACE PARK - The Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) is an attempt to serve multiple needs while fulfilling the documented desire to have an open public green space in this portion of the Bridgeport Marketplace. RECOMMENDED ACTION: City Council approve the Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) for Bridgeport Marketplace Park; authorize City Manager, or designee, to sign all documents pursuant to City Attorney approval. 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, March 12, 2013, at 6:00 p.m. in the Council Chamber, I st floor of City Hall, 23920 Valencia Blvd., Santa Clarita, CA. CERTIFICATION I, Armine 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 February 21, 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. /�L 112 J'n - -I/ Armine Ch an Interim City Clerk Santa Clarita, California