09-30-2014 - SpecialCITY OF WEST COVINA
CITY COUNCIL
PLANNING COMMISSION
TUESDAY SEPTEMBER 30, 20149 6:00 PM
SPECIAL JOINT MEETING
CITY HALL COUNCIL CHAMBERS
1444 W. GARVEY AVENUE
WEST COVINA, CALIFORNIA 91790
CITY COUNCIL PLANNING COMMISSION
Mayor Steve Herfert Chairman Gerald Menefee
Mayor Pro Tem Fredrick Sykes Vice Chairman Paul Blackburn
Councilmember Mike Spence
Councilmember James Toma
Councilmember Corey Warshaw
Commissioner Dario Castellanos
Commissioner Don Holtz
Commissioner Betty Valles
Please turn off all cell phones and other electronic devices prior to entering the Council Chambers
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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
as
PUBLIC COMMENTS
ADDRESSING THE CITY COUNCIL/PLANNING COMMISSION
(Per WCMC 2-48, Ordinance No. 2150)
If you wish to address the City Council during this Special Meeting, you may only address the City
Council/Planning Commission concerning the item(s) that are described on the agenda and in the notice for the
Special Meeting per Government Code Section 54954.3(a). Please complete a speaker card that is provided at the
entrance and submit to the City Clerk
Please identify on the speaker card the agenda item you wish to address to the City Council. All comments 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.
RULES OF DECORUM
Excerpts from the West Covina Municipal Code and Penal Code pertaining to the Rules of Decorum will be
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Tuesday September 30, 2014
AGENDA
CITY OF WEST COVINA
CITY COUNCIL/PLANNING COMMISSION
TUESDAY SEPTEMBER 30, 20149 6:00 PM
SPECIAL JOINT MEETING
PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE
ROLL CALL
1) WEST COVINA GENERAL PLAN UPDATE
A. Introduction of the consulting team and the overall project team organization.
B. Review the purpose and responsibilities of the Technical Advisory Committee
(TAC).
C. Review the scope and schedule.
D. Discuss the civic engagement strategy.
E. Identify ongoing or current issues that the City is struggling with and that might
be addressed to varying degrees in the Central Business District area and the
Focused General Plan update.
2) PUBLIC COMMENTS
3) SELECTION OF TAC MEMBERS
4) CLOSING COMMENTS
ADJOURNMENT
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Agenda material is available at www.westcovina.org
Tuesday September 30, 2014
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