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CITY OF WEST COVINA
CITY COUNCIL
NITY DEVELOPMENT COMMISSION
SDAY FEBRUARY 07, 2012, 7:00 PM
REGULAR JOINT MEETING
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Mayor/Chairman Michael Touhey Oi I E CLERK
Mayor Pro TemNice Chairman Sherri Lane
Councilmember/Commissioner Steve Herfert
er/Commissioner Shelley Sanderson
ber/Commissioner Fredrick Sykes
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Development Commission will regularly convene in joint session on the first and
The West Covina Public Financing Authority and The West Covina Community
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PUBLIC COMMENTS
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the agenda or on any other matter within their jurisdiction shobld 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
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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.
R ULES 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 February 07, 2012
AGENDA
CITY OF WEST COVINA
CITY COUNCIL
COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT COMMISSION
TUESDAY FEBRUARY 07, 2012, 7:00 PM
REGULAR JOINT MEETING .
INVOCATION
Andrew Pasmant
City Manager
ROLL CALL
THE AGENDA
PRESENTATIONS
South Coast Air Quality Management District Update
Governing Board Member Michael Cacciotti
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.
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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 Council Meeting Minutes of December 20, 2011
Regular Joint Council/CDC Meeting Minutes of December 20, 2011
COMMISSION SUMMARY OF ACTIONS (receive & file)
2) Planning Commission - January 24, 2012
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material is available at www.westcovina.org
Tuesday February 07, 2012
ORDINANCES FOR ADOPTION
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3) Ordinance to Reduce Speed Limit on a Portion of Orange Avenue from Garvey
Avenue North to Puente Avenue from 40 Miles per hour to 35 Miles per Hour
This ordinance was introduced at the Joint City Council/CDC meeting of January 17,
2012. This ordinance will reduce the speed limit on Orange Avenue from Garvey
Avenue North lto Puente Avenue from 40 miles per hour to 35 miles per hour in
compliance with California Manual of Uniform Traffic Control Devices and the
California Vehicle Code. The ordinance will become effective 30 days after adoption on
March 9, 2012. 1 It is recommended that the City Council adopt the following ordinance:
ORDINANCE NO. - AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF
THE CITY OF� WEST COVINA, CALIFORNIA, AMENDING SECTION 22-131 OF
THE WEST COVINA MUNICIPAL CODE RELATING TO INCREASES OF STATE
LAW MAXIMUM SPEEDS (ORANGE AVENUE)
4) Ordinance Declaring the Need for the Community Development Commission to
Function as the City Housing Authority
This ordinance was introduced at the Joint Council/CDC meeting of January 17, 2012.
This ordinance will make it possible for the West Covina Community Development
Commission to retain housing functions as the "legal" housing authority for the City of
West Covina and assume the duties and responsibilities as the City's Housing Authority.
The ordinance will become effective 30 days after its adoption on March 9, 2012. It is
recommended that the City Council adopt the following ordinance:
ORDINANCE NO. - AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF
THE CITY OF WEST COVINA, CALIFORNIA, DECLARING THE NEED FOR THE
COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT COMMISSION IN THE CITY OF WEST COVINA,
TO FUNCTION AS THE CITY OF WEST COVINA HOUSING AUTHORITY AND
TRANSFERRING ALL DUTIES, POWERS AND RESPONSIBILITIES OF THE
WEST COVINA HOUSING AUTHORITY TO THE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT
COMMISSION.
CITY MANAGER'S OFFICE - Miscellaneous
5) Video Web Casting of City Council Meetings
It is recommended that the City Council receive and file this informational report.
6) General Fund Subsidy of 4th of July Celebration
It is recommended that the City Council cancel the 2012 City of West Covina 4th of July
Celebration.
FINANCE DEPARTMENT - Miscellaneous
7) 2011-12 Fiscal Year Mid -Year Budget Update
It is recommended that the City Council receive and file this report.
AB1234 Conference and Meeting Report (receive & file)
8) AB 1234 Conference and Meeting Report - League of California Cities
It is recommendedl that the City Council receive and file this report.
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Agend� material is available at www.westcovina.org
Tuesday February 07, 2012
ACTION ON CONSENT CALENDAR
Motion by second by
to approve all items listed on the Consent Calendar as presented
except: I
ROLL CALL: Herfert, Lane, Sanderson, Sykes, Touhey
ITEMS REMOVED FROM THE CONSENT CALENDAR FOR DISCUSSION OR
SEPARATE ACTION
END OF CONSENT CALENDAR
COUNCILMEMBER SITEVE HERFERT
9) Review of Cost Saving Opportunities of City Commissions
It is recommended that the City Council review City staffs cost saving recommendations
contained in the report and direct staff accordingly.
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.)
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.)
No reports for this
ADJOURNMENT
Next Tentative City Council/CDC Meeting
Regular Meeting - CC and CDC 02/21/2012 7:00 PM
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material is available at www.westcovina.org
Tuesday February 07, 2012
I I RULES OF DECORUM I
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 islin 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 byI 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 Il 8340 of the Elections Code, is guilty of a misdemeanor.
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