04/02/19 CC Closed Agenda(Amended)
CITY OF WEST COVINA
CITY COUNCIL/SUCCESSOR AGENCY
APRIL 2, 2019, 6:00 PM
AMENDED REGULAR MEETING - CLOSED SESSION
CITY MANAGER'S CONFERENCE ROOM
1444 W. GARVEY AVENUE SOUTH
WEST COVINA, CALIFORNIA 91790
Mayor Lloyd Johnson
Mayor Pro Tem Tony Wu
Councilman Dario Castellanos
Councilwoman Letty Lopez-Viado
Councilmember Jessica C. Shewmaker
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AGENDA
ROLL CALL
PUBLIC COMMENTS ON ITEMS ON THE AGENDA
CLOSED SESSION
CONFERENCE WITH REAL PROPERTY NEGOTIATORS
Pursuant to Government Code § 54956.8
Property: 811 S. Sunset Ave APN No. 8468016904
Agency Negotiator: Bresciani, Porter
Negotiating Parties: Intero Real Estate Service
Under Negotiation: Price and Terms
CONFERENCE WITH LABOR NEGOTIATORS
Pursuant to Government Code § 54957.6
City Negotiators: Pinon, Bresciani, Porter
Employee Organizations
- Confidential Employees - General Employees
- Maintenance & Crafts Employees - Mid-Management Employees
- Non-Sworn - W.C. Police Management Association
- W.C. Police Officers’ Association
- W.C. Firefighters’ Management Assoc.
- W.C. Firefighters’ Association, I.A.F.F., Local 3226
Unrepresented Employee Group
- Department Heads
CONFERENCE WITH LEGAL COUNSEL - ANTICIPATED LITIGATION
Significant exposure to litigation pursuant to Government Code 54956.9(d)(2). Number of Potential Cases: 2
ADJOURNMENT
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.
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.
a.
The city council may establish a limit on the duration of oral communications. b.
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.
c.
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.
d.
Sec. 2-50. Decorum--Required.
While the council is in session, the members shall preserve order and decorum, and a member shall neither, by conversation or
otherwise, delay or disrupt the proceedings or the peace of the council nor interrupt any member while speaking or refuse to obey the
orders of the council or its presiding officer, except as otherwise herein provided.
a.
Members of the public shall not willfully disrupt the meeting or act in a manner that actually impairs the orderly conduct of the meeting.
For the purposes of this code, “willfully disrupt” includes, but is not limited to, continuing to do any of the following after being warned
by the Mayor that continuing to do so will be a violation of the law:
Addressing the Mayor and City Council without first being recognized. a.
Persisting in addressing a subject or subjects, other than that before the Mayor and City Council.b.
Repetitiously addressing the same subject.c.
Failing to relinquish the podium when directed to do so. d.
From the audience, interrupting or attempting to interrupt, a speaker, the Mayor, a council member, or a staff member or
shouting or attempting to shout over a speaker, the Mayor, a council member or a staff member.
e.
As a speaker, interrupting or attempting to interrupt the Mayor, a council member, or a staff member, or shouting over or
attempting to shout over the Mayor, a council member, or a staff member. Nothing in this section or any rules of the council
shall be construed to prohibit public criticism of the policies, procedures, programs, or services of the City or of the acts or
omissions of the City Council. It shall be unlawful to violate the provisions of this Section.
f.
b.
If any subsection, sentence, clause, or phrase or word of this Section 2-50 is for any reason held to be invalid or unconstitutional, such decision
shall not affect the validity of the remaining portions of this Section. The City Council hereby declares that it would have passed this section
and each subsection, sentence, clause and phrase thereof, irrespective of the fact that any one or more subsections, sentences, clauses, phrases
or words had been declared invalid or unconstitutional.
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.