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08-20-2013 - RegularI CERTIFY THAT. A COPY OF THE COUNCIL AGENDA FOR THE MEETING OF W12o 113 WAS POSTED IN A RDANE VjIITH THE 01187 BROWN ACT AMENDMENT DA :fir/� /3 ' OFF E THE ITY CLERK CITY OF WEST COVINA CITY COUNCIL TUESDAY AUGUST 20, 2013, 7:00 PM REGULAR MEETING CITY HALL COUNCIL CHAMBERS,. 1444 W. GARVEY AVENUE WEST COVINA, CALIFORNIA 91790 Mayor Shelley Sanderson Mayor Pro Tem Steve Herfert Councilmember Andrew McIntyre Councilmember Robert Sotelo Councilmember Fredrick Sykes Please turn off all cell phones and other electronic devices prior to entering the Council Chambers AMERICANS WITH DISABILITIES ACT 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. AGENDA MATERIAL 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.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 will regularly convene on the first and third Tuesday of the month': The West Covina Community Development Commission, 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 these as PUBLIC COMMENTS ADDRESSING THE CITY COUNCIL (Per WCMC 2-48, Ordinance No. 2150) Any person wishing to address the City Council 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. 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 limitedto 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 agenda. Tuesday August 20, 2013 AGENDA, CITY OF WEST COVINA CITY COUNCIL TUESDAY AUGUST 20, 20135 7:00 PM REGULAR MEETING INVOCATION Reverend Susan Oeffler West Covina United Methodist Church PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE ROLL CALL REPORTING OUT FROM CLOSED SESSION CHANGES TO THE AGENDA PRESENTATIONS 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 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 City Council Meeting Minutes of July 2, 2013 Regular City Council Meeting Minutes of July 2, 2013 APPROVAL OF FINAL MAP 2) Approval of Final Map for Tract Map No. 71960 Location: 512 S. Valinda Avenue Subdivider: Waverly Group 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 FINAL MAP OF TRACT MAP NO. 71960 LOCATED AT 5.12 S. VALINDA AVENUE AND DIRECTING THE RECORDATION THEREOF (WAVERLY GROUP) 2 Agenda material is available at www.westcovina.org Tuesday August 20, 2013 POLICE DEPARTMENT 3) Resolution Supporting the Efforts of'the League of California Cities and California Police Chiefs' Association to Discuss Public Safety Realignment with the Governor and Legislature from a Local Municipal Law Enforcement Perspective 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, CALLING UPON THE GOVERNOR AND LEGISLATURE TO ENTER INTO DISCUSSION WITH THE LEAGUE OF CALIFORNIA CITIES AND CALIFORNIA POLICE CHIEFS' ASSOCIATION REPRESENTATIVES TO IDENTIFY AND ENACT STRATEGIES THAT WILL ENSURE THE SUCCESS OF PUBLIC SAFETY REALIGNMENT FROM A LOCAL MUNICIPAL LAW ENFORCEMENT PERSPECTIVE ACTION ON CONSENT CALENDAR Motion by second by toapprove all items listed on the Consent Calendar as presented except: ROLL CALL: Herfert, McIntyre, Sotelo, Sykes, Sanderson ITEMS REMOVED FROM THE CONSENT CALENDAR FOR DISCUSSION OR SEPARATE ACTION END OF CONSENT CALENDAR 3 Agenda material is available at www.westcovina.org Tuesday August 20, 2013 MAYOR/COUNCILMEMBERS REPORTS COUNCILMEMBER ANDREW MCINTYRE 4) Consideration of Adopting an Ordinance Requiring the Vote of the Electorate Approving the Transaction Prior to the Sale, Lease or Rent of Civic Center Property to a Private Party It is recommended that the City Council take the following action. Adopt at second reading the following ordinance 'adding.a new Article X - Section 2-500 of the City of West Covina Municipal Code requiring that any sale, lease or rent of any portion of land in the Civic Center complex be approved by a majority of West Covina voters at regular City election. - ORDINANCE NO. I - AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF WEST COVINA, CALIFORNIA, ADDING ARTICLE X - SECTION 2- 500 REQUIRING THE VOTE OF A MAJORITY OF WEST COVINA VOTERS IN ORDER TO APPROVE ANY TRANSACTION INVOLVING THE SALES, LEASE OR RENT TO A PRIVATE PARTY OF PROPERTY LOCATED IN THE CIVIC CENTER OF WEST COVINA, WHICH IS BORDERED BY WEST COVINA PARKWAY, SUNSET AVENUE, AND GARVEY AVENUE Motion by second by adopt . disapprove hold over ROLL CALL: Herfert, McIntyre, Sotelo; Sykes, Sanderson 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.) CITY COUNCIL REQUESTS FOR 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. CITY COUNCIL COMMENTS ADJOURNMENT Next Tentative City Council Meeting Regular Meeting CC 09/03/2013 7:00 PM 4 Agenda material is available at www.westcovina.org Tuesday August 20, 2013 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. E 5 Agenda material is available at www.westcovina.org