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CITY OF WEST COVINA
CITY COUNCIL
COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT COMMISSION
REGULAR MEETING AGENDA
MONDAY, AUGUST 9, 2010
7:00 PM
CITY HALL COUNCIL CHAMBERS
1444 W. GARVEY AVENUE
WEST COVINA, CALIFORNIA 91790
Agenda material is available for review at the City Clerk's Office, Room 317 in City Hall, 1444 W. Garvey Avenue,
West Covina and at www.westcovina.org The City complies with the Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA). If
you will need special assistance at Council meetings, please call (626) 939-8433 (voice) or (626) 960-4422 (TTY)
from 8 to 5 Monday through Thursday. Do call at least one day prior to the meeting date to inform us of your
particular needs and to determine if accommodation is possible. For sign language interpreter services at Council
meetings, please request no less than four working days prior to the meeting.
Any writings or documents, not exempt from public disclosure, provided to a majority of the City Council regarding
any item on this agenda will be made available for public inspection in the City Clerk’s Office, Room 317 of City
Hall located at 1444 W. Garvey Avenue, West Covina, during normal business hours.
CITY COUNCIL/COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT COMMISSION – The City Council/Community
Development Commission will regularly convene in joint session on the first and third Tuesday of the month. The
West Covina Public Financing Authority and The West Covina Community Services Foundation are agencies on
which the City Council serves as members. Agendas may contain items for these boards, if necessary.
The following are excerpts from the West Covina Municipal Code:
Sec. 2-48. Manner of addressing council; time limit; persons addressing may be sworn.
(a) Each person addressing the council shall step up to the rostrum, shall give his or her name and city of
residence in an audible tone of voice for the record and unless further time is granted by the council, shall
limit his or her address to five (5) minutes.
(b) The city council may establish a limit on the duration of oral communications.
(c) All remarks shall be addressed to the council as a body and not to any member thereof. No person, other than
the council and the person having the floor, shall be permitted to enter into any discussion, either directly or
through a member of the council, without the permission of the presiding officer. No question shall be asked of
a councilmember except through the presiding officer.
(d) The presiding officer may require any person to be sworn as a witness before addressing the council on any
subject. Any such person who, having taken an oath that he or she will testify truthfully, willfully and contrary
to such oath states as true any material matter which he knows to be false may be held to answer criminally
and subject to the penalty prescribed for perjury by the provisions of the Penal Code of the state.
Sec. 2-50. Decorum--Required.
(a) While the council is in session, the members must preserve order and decorum, and a member shall neither, by
conversation or otherwise, delay or interrupt the proceedings or the peace of the council nor disturb any
member while speaking or refuse to obey the orders of the council or its presiding officer, except as otherwise
herein provided.
(b) Any person making personal, impertinent or slanderous remarks or who shall become boisterous while
addressing the council shall be forthwith, by the presiding officer, barred from further audience before the
council, unless permission to continue be granted by a majority vote of the council.
Sec. 2-52. Persons authorized to be within council area.
No person, except city officials, their representatives and members of the news media shall be permitted within the
rail in front of the council chamber without the express consent of the council.
The following are excerpts from the Penal Code
RULES OF DECORUM
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148(a) (1) Every Person who willfully resists, delays, or obstructs any public officer, peace officer, or an
emergency medical technician, as defined in Division 2.5 (commencing with Section 1797) of the Health
and Safety code, in the discharge or attempt to discharge any duty of his or her office or employment, when
no other punishment is prescribed, shall be punished by a fine not exceeding one thousand dollars ($1,000),
or by imprisonment in a county jail not to exceed one year, or by both that fine and imprisonment.
403 Every person who, without authority of law, willfully disturbs or breaks up any assembly or meeting that is
not unlawful in its character, other than an assembly or meeting referred to in Section 303 of the Penal
Code or Section 18340 of the Elections Code, is guilty of a misdemeanor.
ADDRESSING THE CITY COUNCIL/COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT COMMISSION
(Per WCMC 2-48, Ordinance No. 2150)
Any person wishing to address the City Council/Community Development Commission on any
matter listed on the agenda or on any other matter within their jurisdiction should complete a
speaker card that is provided at the entrance to the Council Chambers and submit the card to the
City Clerk/Secretary.
Please identify on the speaker card whether you are speaking on an agenda item or non-
agenda. Requests to speak on agenda items will be heard prior to requests to speak on non-
agenda items. All comments are limited to five (5) minutes per speaker.
Oral Communications shall be limited to thirty (30) minutes, unless speakers addressing
agenda items have not concluded.
Any testimony or comments regarding a matter set for a Public Hearing will be heard during the
hearing.
A. INVOCATION
Andrew Pasmant
City Manager
B. PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE
Councilmember
C. COUNCIL ROLL CALL
Mayor/Chairman Shelley Sanderson
Mayor Pro Tem/Vice Chairman Steven Herfert
Councilmember/Commissioner Roger Hernandez
Councilmember/Commissioner Sherri Lane
Councilmember/Commissioner Michal Touhey
D. REPORTING OUT FROM CLOSED SESSION
E. CHANGES TO THE AGENDA
F. PRESENTATIONS
Presentation 1
- West Covina Blah
- West Covina Double Blah
Presentation 2
- This is another West Covina Presentation
- Yet another presentation
G. ANNOUNCEMENTS
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H. ORAL COMMUNICATIONS - Five (5) minutes per speaker
Please step forward to the podium and state your name and city of residence for the record when
recognized by the Mayor.
I. UPDATES/REPORTS FROM CONSULTANTS
J. ITEMS CARRIED OVER FROM PREVIOUS COUNCIL MEETINGS
K. CONSENT CALENDAR - City Council/CDC
All matters listed under the Consent Calendar are considered to be routine and can be acted on by one
roll call vote. There will be no separate discussion of these items unless members of the City Council
request specific items to be removed from the Consent Calendar for separate action.
Motion by __________ second by __________
to approve all items listed on the Consent Calendar as presented
except:__________
ROLL CALL:
1. Ordinance for Adoption
a. Ordinance Amending Section 2-68 and 2-69(c) of the West Covina
Municipal Code to Eliminate Staggering of City Commissioner’s Term of
Office
This is an ordinance
I WANT TO MAKE SURE THIS IS CAPITALIZED
END CONSENT CALENDAR - City Council/CDC
L. ITEMS REMOVED FROM THE CONSENT CALENDAR FOR DISCUSSION
OR SEPARATE ACTION
M. PUBLIC HEARINGS
Motion by __________ second by __________
to __________
1. Test Item
1. Verification of publication
2. Open hearing
3. Staff presentation
4. Public testimony
RESOLUTION BLAH BLAH BLAH
N. COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT COMMISSION
O. DEPARTMENTAL MATTERS
P. MAYOR'S/COUNCILMEMEBERS/COMMISSIONER REPORTS
1. AB1234 Conference and Meeting Report
(In accordance with AB 1234, Councilmembers shall make a brief report or file a written report on any
meeting/event/conference attended at City expense.)
Q. CITY COUNCIL/COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT COMMISSION REQUESTS
FOR REPORTS, STUDIES OR INVESTIGATION
(Per City of West Covina Standing Rules 4.f - Requests for reports, studies, or investigations that are not
readily available must be placed on the City Council/Community Development Commission agenda as
items of business and must be approved by a majority of the City Council/Community Development
Commission.)
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R. CITY COUNCIL/COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT COMMISSION
COMMENTS
S. ADJOURNMENT
Next Tentative City Council Meeting
Regular Meeting - CC &
CDC
Friday, August 27, 2010 7:00 PM CITY HALL COUNCIL CHAMBERS
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