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02-17-2009 - RegularTuesday February 17, 2009 REGULAR MEETING OF THE WEST COVINA CITY COUNCIL AGENDA 7:00 pm Council Chambers 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. INVOCATION Pastor Doug Wilson Bethany Baptist Church PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE Councilmember Lane ROLL CALL Mayor Hernandez, Mayor Pro Tern Sanderson, Councihnembers Herfert, Lane, Touhey REPORTING OUT FROM CLOSED SESSION CHANGES TO THE AGENDA PRESENTATIONS * Resolution of Commendation & City Tile Presentation Retiring Police Sergeant Walt Hauser * Check Presentation Award of Target Stores Grant West Covina Police Department * Certificates of Recognition Volunteers of the Year Irene Fleck Glenn Kennedy * Presentation Valley Light Industries ANNOUNCEMENTS * Certificates of Recognition Junior High & High School Counselors AGn� pF 1a IV A C City Council Agenda for February 17, 2009 RULES OF DECORUM The following are excerpts fr•orn the West Covina Municipal Code: Sec. 2-48. Manner of addressing council; time limit; persons addressing may be sword. (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 malting 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 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 countyjail 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 ite"n or non - agenda. Requests to speak on agenda items will be heard prior to requests to speak on non - agenda items. All continents 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. 02/ 17/09 2 Agenda material is available at www.westcovitia.org City Council Agenda for February 17, 2009 A) 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. B) UPDATES/REPORTS FROM CONSULTANTS No reports for this meeting. C) ITEMS CARRIED OVER FROM PREVIOUS COUNCIL MEETINGS No reports for this meeting. D) CONSENT CALENDAR 1) City Council Meeting Minutes (receive & file) • Special Meeting of November 4, 2008 • Regular Meeting of November 4, 2008 • Regular Meeting of November 18, 2008 2) Claims Against the City of West Covina Government Tort Claim Denials (deny & notify claimant) It is recommended that the following Govermnent Tort Claims be denied and the claimants and/or their respective attorneys be so notified. • Progressive Insurance vs. City of West Covina • Johnathan De La Cruz vs. City of West Covina • Steven J. Lynn, Trustee of the Lynn Family Trust vs. City of West Covina • Alethea Davis -Smith vs. City of West Covina • Suchen Lee Lo vs. City of West Covina 3) Award of Bid Rejection of Bids for Maintenance Contract for Heating, Ventilation, and Air Conditioning Equipment at 23 City Locations (Project No. WCM-HVAC-09) It is recormnended that the City Council take the following actions: 1. Reject all bids. 2. Direct Staff to return to the City Council with HVAC service program options that may reduce maintenance and operational costs. 3. Authorize Public Works to continue its current service contract on a month -to - month basis with Allison Mechanical, the current vendor, at a negotiated cost of $9,000 per month. This extension shall use existing available funding, and be for a period of three to six months. 02/17/09 3 Agenda material is available at www westcovina. org City Council Agenda for February 17, 2009 D) CONSENT CALENDAR (continued) 4) Miscellaneous - Finance Department a) Surplus Equipment It is recommended that the City Council authorize the sale of 52 City surplus vehicles by public auction company, US Auctions, in accordance with Section 2-316 of the West Covina Municipal Code. Miscellaneous — Fire Department b) Appropriation of Fire Department Training Funds It is recorrunended that the City Council appropriate $11,947.63 from the Fund Balance in the Fire Training Fund (Fund 219) into the Fire Training Account (219.32.3210.6551) so these funds can be used for training purposes this fiscal year. Miscellaneous - Police Department c) Los Angeles Radio Interoperable Communications System (LA-RICS) Joint Powers Authority (JPA) It is recommended that the City Council authorize the City Manager to execute the agreement to join the Los Angeles Radio Interoperable Conununications System (LA -RIGS) Joint Powers Authority. d) Appropriation of Private Grant from Target Corporation for Computer Investigations It is recommended that the City Council appropriate the Target Corporation grant, as follows: 0 $2,000 into 221.31.3130.6220. ACTION ON CONSENT CALENDAR ITEMS NUMBER D-1 THROUGH D-4d: Motion by second by approve all items except: ROLL CALL: Herfert, Lane, Sanderson, Touhey, Hernandez END OF CONSENT CALENDAR to 02/ 17/09 4 Agenda material is available at www.westcovina.org City Council Agenda for February 17, 2009 E) PUBLIC HEARINGS 1) Development of a Draft FY 2009-2010 Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) Action Plan a) Verification of publication b) Open hearing c) Staff presentation d) Public testimony e) Close hearing f) Council discussion g) Recominendation: It is recommended that the City Council direct staff to develop a draft FY 2009-2010 CDBG Action Plan, which incorporates the recommendations of the Commmunity Services and Senior Citizens Cominissions, as detailed in Attaclunent No. 1 of the report. Motion by 2nd by to 2) Voluntary Ambulance Subscription Fee a) Verification of publication b) Open hearing c) Staff presentation d) Public testimony e) Close hearing f) Council discussion g) Reconunendation: It is recommended that the City Council take the following actions: 1. Approve the Voluntary Ambulance Subscription Program in concept, 2. Adopt the following resolution: RESOLUTION NO. - A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF WEST COVINA, CALIFORNIA, SETTING THE VOLUNTARY AMBULANCE SUBSCRIPTION FEE 3. Direct staff to implement the program as described. Motion by 2nd by to. waive further reading of the resolution, read by title only and adopt, and approve the Program in concept and implement as described approve disapprove hold over COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT COMMISSION Recess the City Council meeting at p.m. to convene the CDC. Reconvene the City Council meeting at p.m. 02/ 17/09 5 Agenda inaterial is available at www.westcovina.org City Council Agenda for February 17, 2009 G) DEPARTMENTAL MATTERS No reports for this meeting. H) MAYOR'S/COUNCILMEMBERS REPORTS No reports for this meeting. AB 1234 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.) I) COUNCILMEMBERS' REQUEST FOR REPORTS, STUDIES OR INVESTIGATIONS (Per City of West Covina Standing Rules 4.f — Requests by Councilbnembers for reports, studies, or investigations that are not readily available must be placed on the City Council agenda as items of business and must be approved by a majority of the City Council) No reports for this meeting. COUNCILMEMBER COMMENTS ADJOURNMENT Motion by Tuesday Tuesday 02/17/09 2nd by to adjourn the meeting at Tentative City Council Meetings March 3 7:00 p.m. Council Chambers Regular Meeting March 17 7:00 p.m. Council Chambers Regular Meeting 6 Agenda material is available at www.westcoviiia.org p.m.