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02-18-2014 - RegularCITY OF WEST COVINA CITY COUNCIL TUESDAY FEBRUARY 18, 20149 7:00 PM REGULAR MEETING CITY HALL COUNCIL CHAMBERS 1444 W. GARVEY AVENUE WEST COVINA, CALIFORNIA 91790 Mayor Steve Herfert Mayor Pro Tem Fredrick Sykes Councilmember Mike Spence Councilmember James Toma Councilmember Corey Warshaw 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.org. 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 boards, as necessary. 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 maybe 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. I CERTIFY THAT A COPY OF THE COUNCIL AGENDA FOR THE MEETING OF Ll j?l l WS POSTED IN ACCORD T�13M THE 01187 BROWN ACT AMENDMENT' DATED: OFFICE OF THE CITY CLERK Tuesday February 18, 2014 AGENDA CITY OF WEST COVINA CITY COUNCIL TUESDAY FEBRUARY 18, 2014, 7:00 PM REGULAR MEETING INVOCATION Pastor Samuel Martinez Christian Faith Center PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE ROLL CALL REPORTING OUT FROM CLOSED SESSION CHANGES TO THE AGENDA PRESENTATIONS ORAL COMMUNICATIONS - Five (5) minutes per sneaker 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 January 21, 2014 Regular City Council Meeting Minutes of January 21, 2014 COMMISSION SUMMARY OF ACTIONS (receive & file) 2) Planning Commission - February 11, 2014 TREASURER'S REPORT 3) City Treasurer's Report for the Quarter Ended December 31, 2013 It is recommended that the City Council receive and file this report. 2 Agenda material is available at www.westcovina.org Tuesday February 18, 2014 PLANNING DEPARTMENT 4) Grant Application for Sustainable Communities Planning Grant and Incentives Program It is recommended that the City Council take the following action: 1. Adopt the following resolution authorizing the City to apply for a California Strategic Growth Council "Sustainable Communities Planning Grant and Incentives Program" grant. RESOLUTION NO. - A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF WEST COVINA, CALIFORNIA, APPROVING THE APPLICATION FOR GRANT FUNDS FOR THE SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITIES PLANNING GRANT AND INCENTIVES PROGRAM UNDER THE SAFE DRINKING WATER, WATER QUALITY AND SUPPLY, FLOOD CONTROL, RIVER AND COASTAL PROTECTION BOND ACT OF 2006 (PROPOSITION 84) 2. Appropriate funds in the amount of $12,300 from the General Plan Maintenance Fund (550-22222) to the Planning Department Other Contractual Services account (110.21.2110.6120) to allow for payment to the consultant. COUNCILMEMBER/COMMISSIONER REPORTS 5) Co -Sponsorship of Lions Club Night on the Town Event It is recommended that the City Council take the following actions: 1. Approve the co-sponsorship of the West Covina Lions Club 2014 Night on the Town event on May 21, 2014; and 2. Authorize the City Manager to waive the Temporary Use Permit and Street Banner Permit fees for the West Covina Lions Club Night on the Town event ACTION ON CONSENT CALENDAR Motion by second by to approve all items listed on the Consent Calendar as presented except: ROLL CALL: Spence, Sykes, Toma, Warshaw, Herfert END OF CONSENT CALENDAR 3 Agenda material is available at www.westcovina.org Tuesday February 18, 2014 DEPARTMENTAL REGULAR MATTERS CITY MANAGER'S OFFICE 6) City Council Goals and Objectives 1. It is recommended that the City Council direct staff to coordinate a study session to discuss and set City Council goals and objectives; and, 2. Approve a consultant agreement with Ray Patchett with Patchett & Associates for consulting services to facilitate and support a City Council goal setting study session process not to exceed $8,500. Motion by approve SUCCESSOR AGENCY disapprove SEE SEPARATE AGENCY AGENDA Recess the City Council meeting at Reconvene the City Council meeting at second by hold over p.m. to convene the Successor Agency meeting. MAYORICOUNCILMEMBERS REPORTS No reports. p.m. 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.) COUNCILMEMBER COREY WARSHAW 7) Request from Councilmember Corey Warshaw Requesting City Council's Consensus to Instruct City Staff to Prepare a Report on the Costs to Televise City Council and Planning Commission Meetings on WCCT It is recommended that the City Council direct staff accordingly. Motion by second by to CITY COUNCIL COMMENTS 4 Agenda material is available at www.westcovina.org Tuesday February 18, 2014 ADJOURNMENT Next Tentative City Council Meeting Regular Meeting - CC 03/04/2014 7:00 PM 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. Agenda material is available at www.westcovina.org