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CITY COUNCIL
COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT COMMISSION
TUESDAY APRIL 05, 2011, 7:00 PM
REGULAR JOINT MEETING
CITY HALL COUNCIL CHAMBERS
1444 W. GARVEY AVENUE
WEST COVINA, CALIVORNIA 91790
Mayor/Chairman Steve Herfert
Mayor Pro Tem/Vice Chairman Michael Touhey
Councilmember/Commissioner Karin Armbrust
Councilmember/Commissio'ner Sherri Lane
Councilmember/Commissioner Shelley Sanderson
Please turn off all cell phones, and other. electronic devices prior to entering the Council Chambers
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AGENDA MATERIAL
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Avenue, West Covina and at www.westcovina.ore. Any writings or documents regarding any item on this agenda,
not exempt from public disclosure, provided to a majority of the City Council that is distributed less than 72 hours
before the meeting, 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...
NOTICE
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
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PUBLIC COMMENTS
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 may 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.
RULES OF DECORUM
Excerpts from the West Covina Municipal Code and Penal Code pertaining to the Rules of Decorum will be
found at the end of the agenda.
Tuesday April 05, 2011
AGENDA
CITY OF WEST COVINA
CITY COUNCIL
COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT COMMISSION
TUESDAY APRIL 05, 2011, 7:00 PM
REGULAR JOINT MEETING
INVOCATION
Pastor Mary Minor
Murph Chapel AME Church
PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE
ROLL CALL
REPORTING OUT FROM CLOSED SESSION
CHANGES TO THE AGENDA
PRESENTATIONS
* Proclamation
Arbor Day _- Saturday, April 23, 2011
ANNOUNCEMENTS
* Community Unity
An Opportunity for Community exCHANGE
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.
CONSENT CALENDAR - City Council/CDC
All matters listed under 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/Community
Development Commission request specific items to be removed from the Consent Calendar for separate discussion or
action.
APPROVAL OF.MEETING MINUTES (receive & file)
1) Special Joint City Council/CDC Minutes of March 15, 2011
Regular Joint City Council/CDC Minutes of March 15, 2011
Special Joint City Council/CDC Minutes of March 16, 2011
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COMMISSION SUMMARY OF ACTIONS (receive & file)
2) Planning Commission - 03/22/11
CLAIMS AGAINST THE CITY
3) Government Tort Claim Denials (deny & notify claimant)
It is. recommended. that the following Government Tort Claims be denied and the
claimants and/or their, respective attorneys be so notified.
Rosa Velasquez vs. City of West Covina
Kenneth Hyonjin Pak vs. City of West Covina
Victor Dial vs. City. of West Covina
Fire Insurance Exchange/Jeffrey Graham vs. City of West Covina
Susan Williams vs. City of West Covina
TREASURER'S REPORT (receive & file)
4) City Treasurer's Report for the Month of February 2011
5) CDC Treasurer's Report for the Month of February 2011
FIRE DEPARTMENT - Miscellaneous
6) Purchase of VHF Portable Radios Utilizing Grant Funds
It is recommendedthat the City Council waive the formal contract procedure and
approve the purchase of thirty-four (34) XTS5000 VHF Portable Radios and five (5)
XTL5000 VHF Mobile Radios from Motorola', Inc. at a total cost of $109,224.92
including sales tax per Los Angeles County Contract No. 43070.
PUBLIC WORKS —Miscellaneous
7) Landscape Maintenance District No. 4
Preliminary Approval of the Engineer's Report
It is recommended that the City Council adopt the following resolution:
RESOLUTION NO. - A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF
THE CITY OF WEST COVINA, CALIFORNIA, PRELIMINARILY APPROVING
THE CERTIFIED ENGINEER'S REPORT AND DECLARING ITS INTENTION TO
HOLD A PUBLIC HEARING ON JUNE 7, 2011 FOR LANDSCAPE
MAINTENANCE DISTRICT NO. 4 COMMENCING IN FISCAL YEAR 2011-2012
TO FUND THE OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE OF CERTAIN LANDSCAPING
AND APPURTENANT FACILITIES WITHIN THE BOUNDARIES OF THE
DISTRICT
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Tuesday April 05, 2011
8) Landscape Maintenance District No. 6
Preliminary Approval of the Engineer's Report
It is recommended that the City Council adopt the following resolution:
RESOLUTION NO. -A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF
THE CITY OF WEST COVINA, CALIFORNIA, PRELIMINARILY APPROVING
THE CERTIFIED ENGINEER'S REPORT AND DECLARING ITS INTENTION TO
HOLD A PUBLIC HEARING ON JUNE 7, 2011 FOR LANDSCAPE
MAINTENANCE DISTRICT NO. 6 COMMENCING IN FISCAL YEAR 2011-2012
TO FUND THE OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE OF CERTAIN LANDSCAPING
AND APPURTENANT FACILITIES WITHIN THE BOUNDARIES OF THE
DISTRICT
9) Landscape Maintenance District No. 7
Preliminary. Approval of the Engineer's Report
It is recommended that the City Council adopt the following resolution:
RESOLUTION NO. A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF
THE CITY OF WEST COVINA, CALIFORNIA, PRELIMINARILY APPROVING
THE CERTIFIED ENGINEER'S REPORT AND DECLARING ITS INTENTION TO
HOLD A PUBLIC HEARING ON JUNE 7, 2011 FOR LANDSCAPE
MAINTENANCE DISTRICT NO. 7 COMMENCING IN FISCAL YEAR 2011-2012
TO FUND THE OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE OF CERTAIN LANDSCAPING
AND APPURTENANT FACILITIES WITHIN THE BOUNDARIES OF THE
DISTRICT
ACTION ON CONSENT CALENDAR
Motion by second by
to approve all items listed.on the Consent Calendar as presented
except:
ROLL CALL: Armbrust, Lane, Sanderson, Touhey, Herfert
ITEMS REMOVED FROM THE CONSENT CALENDAR FOR DISCUSSION OR
SEPARATE ACTION
Tuesday April 05, 2011
HEARINGS
PUBLIC HEARINGS
10) Public Hearing
Code Amendment No. 09-02
Temporary Signs
Applicant: City of West Covina
Location: Citywide
The proposed code amendment consists of certain amendments to the Zoning section of
the West Covina Municipal Code as it relates to temporary signs in commercial zones
and is exempt from the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) pursuant to
Section 15061 (b) (3).'
a) Verification of publication "
b) Open hearing
c) Staff presentation
d) Public testimony
e) Close hearing
f) Council discussion
g) Recommendation The Planning Commission and staff recommend that the City
Council introduce the following ordinance:
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF WEST COVINA,
CALIFORNIA, AMENDING CHAPTER 26 (ZONING) OF THE WEST COVINA
MUNICIPAL CODE RELATED TO TEMPORARY SIGNS
Motion by second by
to waive further reading of the ordinance, read by title only, and
introduce disapprove holdover
ROLL CALL: Armbrust, Lane, Sanderson, Touhey, Herfert
MAYOR/COUNCILMEMBER/COMMISSIONER REPORTS
No reports for this meeting.
AB1234 Conference and Meeting Report (verbal, if any)
(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)
COUNCIL/COMMUNITY D
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(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)
.No reports for this meeting:
CITY COUNCIL/COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT COMMISSION COMMENTS
ADJOURNMENT
Next Tentative City Council/CDC Meeting
:Regular Meeting - CC and CDC 04/19/2011 7:00 PM
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RULES OF DECORUM
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
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.
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