03-18-2014 - RegularCITY OF WEST COVINA
CITY COUNCIL
TUESDAY MARCH 18, 2014, 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
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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.ivestcovina.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 itent or non -agenda. Requests to
speak on agenda items will be heard prior to requests to speak on non -agenda items. All conunents are
limited to five (5) minutes per speaker.
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.
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Tuesday March 18, 2014
AGENDA
CITY OF WEST COVINA
CITY COUNCIL
TUESDAY MARCH 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
Presentation
Gas Company - Advance Meters
Presentation
Institute for Local Government
Beacon Award for Energy Savings
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 Councillcommunity
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 February 18, 2014
Regular City Council Meeting Minutes of February 18, 2014
CITY CLERK'S OFFICE
2) Destruction of Documents as Prescribed by Law
It is recommended that the City Council adopt the following resolution authorizing the
destruction of specific records:
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RESOLUTION NO. - A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF
THE CITY OF WEST COVINA, CALIFORNIA, AUTHORIZING THE
DESTRUCTION OF CERTAIN DOCUMENTS AS PRESCRIBED BY LAW
CITY MANAGER'S OFFICE
3) Letter of Opposition to Assembly Bill 1980 (Hernandez) - Public Safety Services
It is recommended that the City Council oppose Assemblymember Roger Hernandez'
Assembly Bill 1980, which seeks to eliminate local government control, specifically over
public safety services.
PUBLIC WORKS
4) Lot Line Adjustment No. 181
1221 S. Montezuma Way
It is recormmended that the City Council adopt the following resolution:
RESOLUTION NO. - A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF
THE CITY OF WEST COVINA, CALIFORNIA, APPROVING LOT LINE
ADJUSTMENT NO. 181 AT 1221 S. MONTEZUMA WAY AND DIRECTING THE
RECORDATION THEREOF (SOUTH HILLS COUNTRY CLUB AND ELS14AZLY
FATHALL)
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
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DEPARTMENTAL REGULAR`MATTERS
CITY CLERK'S OFFICE
5) Appointment of Human Resources Commissioner
It is recommended that the City Council adopt the following resolution appointing an
individual to the Human Resources Commission to serve the remaining three-year term
that expires on March 31, 2016.
RESOLUTION NO. - A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF
THE CITY OF WEST COVINA, CALIFORNIA, APPOINTING TO
THE WEST COVINA HUMAN RESOURCES COMMISSION
Motion by
adopt
PUBLIC WORKS
second by
disapprove hold over
6) Consideration of a Rental Housing Inspection and Regulatory Program
It is recommended that the City Council provide staff direction on this matter.
Motion by second by
to
MAYOR/COUNCILMEMBERS REPORTS
COUNCILMEMBER FRED SYKES
7) Code Amendment to Prohibit Medical Marijuana Dispensaries
It is recommended that the City Council direct staff accordingly.
Motion by second by
to
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
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ADJOURNMENT
Next Tentative City Council Meeting
Regular Meeting - CC 04/01/2014 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 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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