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03-05-2019 - Regular Session AgendaW 51 A CITY OF WEST COVINA CITY COUNCIL/SUCCESSOR AGENCY MARCH 5, 2019, 7:00 PM REGULAR MEETING CITY HALL COUNCIL CHAMBERS 1444 W. GARVEY AVENUE SOUTH WEST COVINA, CALIFORNIA 91790 Mayor Lloyd Johnson Mayor Pro Tent Tony Wu Councilman Dario Castellanos Councilwoman Letty Lopez-Viado Councilmember Jessica C. Shewmaker Please turn off all cell phones and other electronic devices prior to entering the Council Chambers AMERICANS WITHDISABILITIESACT 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 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 South, 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) person wishing to address the City Council on any matter listed on the agenda or on any other matter within their sdiction should complete a speaker card that is provided at the entrance to the Council Chambers and submit the card to City Clerk. rse identify on the speaker card whether you are speaking on an agenda item or non -agenda. Requests to speak on agenda is will be heard prior to requests to speak on non -agenda items. All comments are limited to five (5) minutes per speaker. d Communications may be limited to thirty (30) minutes, unless speakers addressing agenda items have not concluded. 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. AGENDA CITY OF WEST COVINA CITY COUNCIL/SUCCESSOR AGENCY TUESDAY MARCH 5, 2019, 7:00 PM L_ REGULAR MEETING INVOCATION Led by Pastor & West Covina Police Chaplain Kelly Dupee Faith Community Church PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE Led by Councilmember Jessica C. Shewmaker ROLL CALL REPORTING OUT FROM CLOSED SESSION PRESENTATIONS Recognition of Jan Poirier for 41 Years of Service with the West Covina Police Department Recognition of Bravery presented to Pete Aguilar of the West Covina Fire Department and wife Priscilla Aguilar Recognition of Student Government Day 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 ofthese 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. CLAIMS AGAINST THE CITY 1) GOVERNMENT TORT CLAIM DENIALS It is recommended that the City Council deny the following Government Tort Claims and the claimants be notified: Estate of Juan Marin vs. The City of West Covina Carmen Piceno vs. The City of West Covina ORDINANCES FOR ADOPTION - Procedural Waiver. Waive full reading of each ordinance on the agenda and authorize the approval of each ordinance by title only. COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT 2) APPROVAL OF FINAL PARCEL MAP NO.74787 LOCATION: 845 S. SUNKIST AVENUE SUBDIVIDER: SILVERADO PROPERTY GROUP, LLC It is recommended that City Council adopt the following resolution: RESOLUTION NO. 2019-11- A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF WEST COVINA, CALIFORNIA, APPROVING FINAL PARCEL MAP NO. 74787 LOCATED AT 845 S. SUNKIST AVENUE (SILVERADO PROPERTY GROUP, LLC) STANDARD SPECIFICATION FOR PUBLIC WORKS CONSTRUCTION 2018 EDITION — ORDINANCE INTRODUCTION It is recommended that the City Council introduce the following ordinance: ORDINANCE NO.2448 — AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF WEST COVINA, CALIFORNIA, REPEALING AND REENACTING SECTION 19-1 OF ARTICLE 1 OF CHAPTER 19 OF THE MUNICIPAL CODE RELATED TO STANDARDS FOR CITY STREETS AND CONSTRUCTION FIRE DEPARTMENT 4) FIRE STATION PRE -ALERTING SYSTEM It is recommended that the City Council take the following actions: 1. Approve a purchase order for US Digital Designs, Inc., in the amount of $420,637.80 (including sales tax, delivery, installation, and warranty) for the purchase of a fire station pre -alerting system and waive formal contract procedures based upon a finding that the requirements of West Covina Municipal Code Chapter 2, Article VII, Division 2, Sec. 2-333(i)(2), which allows such waivers are met because another local agency originally obtained the bid pursuant to formal contract procedures at least as rigorous as those of the city. 2. Appropriate $420,637.80 from the General Fund Balance to Account No. 160.80.7003.7900; and 3. Approve the following resolution: RESOLUTION NO.2019-12 - A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF WEST COVINA, CALIFORNIA, ADOPTING A BUDGET AMENDMENT FOR THE FISCAL YEAR COMMENCING JULY 1, 2018, AND ENDING JUNE 309 2019 (US DIGITAL DESIGNS, INC.) PUBLIC SERVICES APPROVAL OF SECOND AMENDMENT TO MV TRANSPORTATION, INC. AGREEMENT FOR TRANSIT SERVICES It is recommended that the City Council approve the Second Amendment to the Agreement for transit services with MV Transportation, Inc. effective March 3, 2019 through March 2, 2020 (Attachment No.1). END OF CONSENT CALENDAR MAYOR/COUNCILMEMBERS REPORTS AB 1234 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) 6) DEPARTMENT HEAD CONTRACT SURVEY It is recommended that the City Council institute a process where the City Manager provides courtesy notice to the City Council prior to making an employment offer to any new Department Head. 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/Successor Agency agenda as items of business and must be approved by a majority of the City Council/Successor Agency Board.) 7) REQUEST FROM COUNCILMAN DARIO CASTELLANOS REQUESTING THE CITY COUNCI12S CONSIDERATION TO HAVE CITY STAFF CONTACT SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA EDISON TO DETERMINE COSTS AND BENEFITS OF CONVERTING STREET LIGHTS TO LED It is recommended that the City Council provide staff direction. CITY COUNCIL COMMENTS ADJOURNMENT Next Tentative City Council Meeting Regular Meeting 3/19/19 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 maybe swom. 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 shall preserve order and decorum, and a member shall neither, by conversation or otherwise, delay or disrupt the proceedings or the peace of the council nor interrupt any member while speaking or refuse to obey the orders of the council or its presiding officer, except as otherwise herein provided. b. Members of the public shall not willfully disrupt the meeting or act in a manner that actually impairs the orderly conduct of the meeting. For the purposes of this code, "willfully disrupt" includes, but is not limited to, continuing to do any of the following after being warned by the Mayor that continuing to do so will be a violation of the law: a. Addressing the Mayor and City Council without first being recognized. b. Persisting in addressing a subject or subjects, other than that before the Mayor and City Council. C. Repetitiously addressing the same subject. d. Failing to relinquish the podium when directed to do so. e. From the audience, interrupting or attempting to interrupt, a speaker, the Mayor, a council member, or a staff member or shouting or attempting to shout over a speaker, the Mayor, a council member or a staff member. f. As a speaker, interrupting or attempting to interrupt the Mayor, a council member, or a staff member, or shouting over or attempting to shout over the Mayor, a council member, or a staff member. Nothing in this section or any rules of the council shall be construed to prohibit public criticism of the policies, procedures, programs, or services of the City or of the acts or omissions of the City Council. It shall be unlawful to violate the provisions of this Section. If any subsection, sentence, clause, or phrase or word of this Section 2-50 is for any reason held to be invalid or unconstitutional, such decision shall not affect the validity of the remaining portions of this Section. The City Council hereby declares that it would have passed this section and each subsection, sentence, clause and phrase thereof, irrespective of the fact that any one or more subsections, sentences, clauses, phrases or words had been declared invalid or unconstitutional. 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. 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.