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07-15-2015 - SpecialCITY OF WEST COVINA CITY COUNCIL/SUCCESSOR AGENCY WEDNESDAY DULY 15, 2015, 6:00 PM SPECIAL MEETING CITY HALL COUNCIL CHAMBERS 1444 W. GARVEY AVENUE SOUTH WEST COVINA, CALIFORNIA 91790 Mayor Fredrick Sykes Mayor Pro Tem James Toma Councilman Mike Spence Councilmember Corey Warshaw Councilmember Ben Wong Please turn off all cell phones and other electronic devices prior to entering the Council Chambers AMERICANS WITH DISABILITIESACT 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 South, West Covina and at wrvw.tvestcovino.orp. 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. I CERTIFY THAT A COPY OF THE COUNCIL AGENDA FOR THE MEETING OF 711-9 /SWAS POSTED IN ACCORDANCE BROWN AC7AMDMWX OFFIC OF/THE Wednesday July 15, 2015 PUBLIC COMMENTS ADDRESSING THE CITY COUNCIL (Per WCMC 2-48, Ordinaoce No. 2750) If you wish to address the City Council during this Special Meeting, you may only address the City Council 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 found at the end of the agenda. Agenda material is available at www.westcovina.org Wednesday July 15, 2015 CITY OF WEST COVINA CITY COUNCIL WEDNESDAY JULY 15, 2015, 6:00 PM SPECIAL MEETING PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE ROLL CALL PUBLIC COMMENTS ON ITEMS ON THE AGENDA Public Comments are limited to items on the agenda only. 2015-2016 FISCAL YEAR BUDGET STUDY SESSION 1.) Staff Presentation of Proposed 2015-2016 Budget FINANCE AND ADMINISTRATIVE SERVICES DEPARTMENT 2.) Appropriations Limit for Fiscal Year 2015-2016 It is recommended that the City Council adopt the following resolution: RESOLUTION NO. 2015-55 — A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF WEST COVINA, CALIFORNIA, SETTING THE ANNUAL APPROPRIATIONS LIMIT FOR THE FISCAL YEAR ENDING JUNE 30, 2016 3.) Adoption of the City of West Covina Fiscal Year 2015-2016 Annual Operating and Capital Improvement Program Budget It is recommended that the City Council take the following actions: a. Review and approve the Fiscal Year 2015-2016 Proposed Operating and Capital Improvement Program Budget, and take action as appropriate; and b. Adopt the following resolution: RESOLUTION NO. 2015-56 — A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF WEST COVINA, CALIFORNIA, ADOPTING A BUDGET FOR THE CITY 3 Agenda material is available at www.wtstcovina.org Wednesday July 15, 2015 OF WEST COVINA, THE SUCCESSOR AGENCY TO THE FORMER WEST COVINA REDEVELOPMENT AGENCY, THE WEST COVINA COMMUNITY SERVICES FOUNDATION, INCORPORATED, AND THE LOCAL ENFORCEMENT AGENCY OPERATING BUDGETS AND THE CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT PROGRAM FOR FISCAL YEAR 2015-2016 Or alternatively, adopt the following resolution: RESOLUTION NO. 2015-57 — A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY OF WEST COVINA, CALIFORNIA, TO CONTINUE APPROPRIATIONS CONSISTENT WITH THE 2014- 2015 FISCAL YEAR CITY OF WEST COVINA, THE SUCCESSOR AGENCY TO THE FORMER WEST COVINA REDEVELOPMENT AGENCY, THE WEST COVINA COMMUNITY SERVICES FOUNDATION, INCORPORATED, AND THE LOCAL ENFORCEMENT AGENCY OPERATING BUDGETS AND THE CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT PROGRAM FOR FISCAL YEAR 2015-2016 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. (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 lie 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. See. 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. Agenda material is available at www.westcovina.org Wednesday'July 15, 2015 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 availahle at www.wevicovina.org