04-03-2012 - RegularCITY OF WEST COVINA
CITY COUNCIL
TUESDAY. APRIL 03, 2012, 7:00 PM
REGULAR MEETING
CITY HALL COUNCIL CHAMBERS
1444 W. GARVEY AVENUE
WEST COVINA, CALIFORNIA 91790
Mayor Michael Touhey
Mayor Pro Tem Shelley Sanderson
Councilmember Steve Herfert
Councilmember Fredrick Sykes
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PUBLIC COMMENTS
ADDRESSING THE CITY COUNCIL
(Per WCMC 2-48, ;Ordinance No. 2150)
ress the City Council on any matter listed on the agenda or on any other matter within
)mplete a speaker card that is provided at the entrance to the Council Chambers and
Clerk.
RULES OF DECORUM
Excerpts from the West Co
found at the end of agenda.
r card whether you are speaking on an agenda item or non -agenda. Requests to
be heard prior to requests to speak on non -agenda items. All comments. are
speaker.
be limited to thirty (30) `minutes, unless speakers addressing agenda items have
regarding a matter set for a Public Hearing will be heard during the hearing.
Municipal Code and Penal Code pertaining to the Rules of Decorum will be
Tuesday April 03, 20121
INVOCATION
Andrew Pasmant
City Manager I
ROLL CALL
AGENDA.
CITY OF WEST COVINA
CITY COUNCIL
TUESDAY APRIL 03, 2012, 7:00 PM
REGULAR MEETING
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PRESENTATIONS
Proclamation I
100th Anniversary of Girl Scouting
- Girl Scouts of America Daisy Troop #4054
- Girl Scouts of America Troop #1154
Proclamation
Armenian Genocide Remembrance Day
Presentation
West Covina High School Varsity Wrestling Team
Proclamation
Welcome Home Vietnam Veterans Day
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 request specific items to
be removed fi-om the Consent Calendar for separate discussion or action.
APPROVAL OF MEETING MINUTES (receive & file)
1) Special City Council Meeting Minutes of February 13, 2012
COMMISSION SUMMARY OF ACTIONS (receive & file)
2 Senior Citizens Commission - December 8, 2011
3), Community Services Commission - January 10, 2012
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4) Planning C
- March 27, 2012
CLAIMS AGAINST THE CITY
5) Government Tort Claim Denials (deny & notify claimant)
It is recommended that the City Council deny the following Government Tort Claims,
and the claimants and/or their respective attorneys be so notified.
• Mercedez Nolasco vs. City of West Covina
• Efren Tirado vs. City of West Covina
• Rex K. Il eadingham vs. City of West Covina
• Sylvia M. Campos vs. City of West Covina
AWARD OF BID
6) Del Norte Park Splashpad Construction (Project No. PP-12206)
It is recommended that the City Council take the following actions:
1. Authorize the construction of a new Splashpad facility at Del Norte Park per the
design of Vortex Aquatic Structures International, Inc. dated March 5, 2012.
2. Accept the bid of Micon Construction in the amount of $498,448 as submitted at the
bid opening) on March 22, 2012, and authorize the Public Works Director/City
Engineer and City Clerk to execute the contract to build the designed improvements
at Del Norte iPark.
3. Authorize the adjustment of current and future Fiscal Year budgets to include the
costs needed for ongoing operating and maintenance of this new park feature, using
either General Funds or Park Bond funds (if approved), in an annual recurring
amount of $30,000.
4. Find the project categorically exempt' under CEQA.
PUBLIC WORKS -
7) Participation in' the Institute for Local Government's Beacon Award: Local
Leadership Toward Solving Climate Change Recognition Program
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, APPROVING PARTICIPATION IN
THE INSTITUTE FOR LOCAL GOVERNMENT'S RECOGNITION PROGRAM, THE
BEACON AWARD: LOCAL LEADERSHIP TOWARD SOLVING CLIMATE
CHANGE
ACTION ON CONSENT CALENDAR
Motion by second by
to approve all items listed on the Consent Calendar as presented
except:
ROLL
ITEMS REMOVED
SEPARATE ACTION
: Herfert, Sanderson, Sykes, Touhey
M THE CONSENT CALENDAR FOR DISCUSSION OR
END OF CONSENT CALENDAR
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No reports for this
AB1234 Conference and Meeting Report (verbal, if any)
(In accordance with A6 1234, Councilmembers shall make a brief report or file a written report on any
meeting/event/conference attended at City expense.)
(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 agenda as items of business and must be approved by a majority of the
City Council.)
MAYOR PRO TEM SHELLEY SANDERSON
8) Request from Mayor Pro Tem Shelley Sanderson to Discuss Use of Public Art funds
for West Covina's Veterans' Memorial
It is recommended that the City Council direct staff accordingly.
Motion by I second by
to
ADJOURNMENT
Regular Meeting - CC
Next Tentative City Council Meeting
04/17/2012 7:00 PM
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I ! RULES OF DECORUM I
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The following are excerpt i front 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 front 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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