10-04-1971 - Regular Meeting - MinutesMINUTES OF THE ADJOURNED REGULAR MEETING OF THE CITY COUNCIL -
CITY OF WEST COVINA, CALIFORNIA
OCTOBER 4, 1971.
The adjourned regular meeting of the City Council called to oxder at
7:31 P.M., by Mayor Ken Chappell in the West Covina Council Chambers.
The Pledge of Allegiance was redited. The invocation was given by
Mr. Herman R. Fast.
ROLL CALL
Present: Mayor Chappell; Councilmen Shearer, Nichols,
Young, Lloyd
Others Present: George Aiassa, City Manager
George Wakefield, City Attorney
Lela Preston, City Clerk
H. R. Fast, Assistant City Manager
George Zimmerman, City Engineer
Richard Munsell, Planning Director
Bert Yamasaki, Ass't. Planning Director
William Fowler, Director of Building & Safety
Leonard Eliot, Controller
Ross Nammar, Administrative Assistant
PRESENTATION OF AWARD TO JOHN OVERHOLT
Mayor Chappell: The City Council is presenting a Resolution
of Appreciation to.John Overholt, a long-time
member of our Human Relations Commission. It
is citizens like John that really help make West Covina an outstanding
community. They take time off from their busy schedules of work and
give untold hours to the City. In fact it amounts to weeks and months
when you add it up over a period of years. So the City Council, upon
Mr. Overholt indicating he could no longer serve as a member of the
Commission due to business problems, wanted to show their appreciation
for his efforts on behalf of the City. (Read Resolution No. 4419 and
presented to Mr. Overholt.)
Mr. Overholt: It was a privilege serving on the Commission
and this is indeed an honor. Thank you.
EXECUTIVE SESSION Mayor Chappell: If there are no
objections from my fellow
members the City, Council
will move into an Executive Session at this time to make the final
appointments for our Youth Advisory Commission.
CITY COUNCIL RECESSED.- :TO AN. EXECUTIVE SESSION* AT 7:35 P.M. COUNCIL
RECONVENED AT 7:58 P.M.
YOUTH ADVISORY Mayor Chappell: At this -time it is my
COMMISSION privilege on behalf of
the City Council and the
City to announce the names of those applicants appointed from our
City to serve on the first Youth Advisory Commission, that Council
• recently formed. We are not picking them in the.order of preference
but picking the first five on the list of thirteen possible
appointees: Susan Woodward, Keith Weber, Kenneth Stokes, Sheree Wilson
and Martha Lewis. All are to be congratulated. In making these
appointments we are not taking away anything from the other candidates,
there wasn't one on our selection list that couldn't handle the job
and in an outstanding manner. The alternates we have numbered as
follows: 1 - Dallas Knutsen; 2 - Richard Ames; and 3 - Lisa -Lacey.
We certainly congratulate all of these young students, and I will be -
writing each a letter and they will be appearing before the City
Council at the next meeting to be sworn in and accept their
responsibilities.
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Councilman Lloyd: Mr. Mayor, I think it is important to note
and I think you should be the one to do it,
that in the decision process we felt that
we should have had more people from the different schools.
Mayor Chappell: Yes, there was one item of interest to the
Council. We have a number of schools where
the applicants came from in our community:
South Hills High, West Covina High, Edgewood High, Bishop Amat High,
Nogales High, Hollencrest Intermediate School, Sunset Continuation
School and the Tri-Community Adult School. The only limitation on
this was age and not from location within the City. We hope the
next time around to get far more representation from the other
schools than we received this time, because they didn't all participate
in the manner we thought they might. We feel once this Commission
starts performing and doing things that we will get many more
applications. I do want to congratulate Seth Rhiner and his
Committee for their outstanding job. They worked over a period of a
year on this in setting up the qualifications, screening the
applications and presenting the Selection List. We hope we can call
on them next year for screening the applications because it is a
burden that no small group can handle along with other responsibilities.
CONSENT CALENDAR
(Mayor Chappell stated 'the procedure of the Consent Calendar and asked
if any member of the City Council had any item of discussion.)
Councilman Young: Item 5 (b) Tentative Tract No. 23308 - Bauer
Developments Company. The question I have is
that somehow it indicates an increase in
density of residential development as opposed to the original
agreement when this property was annexed to the City, and I question
the advisability, if I am correct.. If. I am incorrect, I would
appreciate clarification of increased density at this location at this
time in light of other zoning that exists throughout the City at this
time. My basic question is,are we reducing our community standards
here with this tract?
Mr. Munsell: Mr. Mayor and members of Council, the Planned
Residential Development under this tract has
no influence at all on the density. The
multiple family zone MF-15, which this is, cannot get a density bonus
under the PRD Overlay. This particular development is about 14.5
dwellings per acre:which is less than the normal MF-15 would allow.
The main advantage of the Overlay zone is that it allows a certain
amount of flexibility in the type of development. I have a slide or
two if you are interested in seeing it. It is a development which
has peripheral streets and short cul-de-sacs with a privately owned
31-2 acre park in the middle of the 36 acre development.
Mayor Chappell:
Did you want to see the slidesjCouncilman
Young?
Councilman Young:
No, I wanted to just toss the ball out and
see what the response is. I think Council
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should be satisfied that we are maintaining
rather than reducing
any kind of quality as density relates to
quality,
Mr. Munsell:
The zone at time of annexation was the R-2,
now called MF-15, allowing 15 dwellings per
acre. This development falls well within
that. Staff and the
Planning Commission felt this development plan
was consistent with
the expression of the concern.'that the Council
and the Commission gave
to the Donald L. Bren Company on its
cluster development
and we are satisfied with the quality of the
development.
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Councilman Young: You are satisfied in terms of the later dis-
cussion with the performance of the Bren
Company with respect to the usable open
space being provided? (Mr. Munsell answered
• "Yes"). .
Councilman Shearer: This I believe was one of the areas we dis-
cussed at a joint meeting of the Council and
the Planning Commission. At that time it
was more or less a:. unanimous opinion that the original proposal'of
this tract was nothing more or less than a number of substandard
lots. At that time the number of units was 445 versus as a result of
our comments and redesign, are now 383. Is that correct, Mr. Munsell?
(Answered: "Yes".) So like the tract before us for approval, it is
of lower density than originally proposed, and for that I would
compliment the staff for running up the flag and bringing it to our
attention.
Councilman Young: In doing some quick mathematics here I agree
with Councilman Shearer's statement.
Mayor Chappell: If Council has no further items to discuss
on the Consent CalendarrI will now ask if
anyone in the audience would like to step
forward and discuss any item of the Consent
Calendar?
Alexander Pacifico Item 4 - Administrative Items, (d) referring
3327 Quinnel Drive specifically to Item No. 8 of the Traffic
West Covina Committee minutes. There are three members
in the audience that propose to discuss this,
I being the last. The first two are Mrs. Mead, and Mrs. Squires.
Councilman Nichols: Mr. Mayor, a point of order. We have only
in recent months come to the matter of the
use of a Consent Calendar. It is relatively
new to all of us and I don't believe Council has discussed or staff
has recommended a basis for handling items which are-of:.ptiblic cdn-
cern. Normally the traditional function of the Council has been to
establish public hearings on items of concern to the public, or allow
the public to make comments that they desire to make to the Council
on any subject during the period of Oral Communications. There is
some concern in my mind about the procedure which would halt the
Consent Calendar at anytime anyone in the audience would desire to
express a concern or present a point of view on a recommendation
within the Consent Calendar. On the other hand obviously it would
be improper for the Council to ram through items on.the Consent
Calendar, so it seems therefore to me as a matter of policy and not
particularly pertinent to the matter this evening, that the Council
would be advised to come up with an appropriate method for handling
the Consent Calendar items, whereby those items are not being
adopted on the basis of a:. unanimity of viewpoint either on the
Council or the audience. I think the approach properly would be
where there is a contested item:- that item be pulled from the
agenda and rescheduled in a fashion where all can present their
viewpoints, both staff and the proponents in a proper fashion.
Elsewise we will place ourselves in a position of creating a debate
and a public hearing on each and every Consent Calendar item that
comes before us, whereas in reality the basis for the use of the
Consent Calendar was to expedite the Council's business.
Mayor Chappell: Any other thoughts along this line? I think
then for tonight we will continue as we have
and make changes at our next meeting.
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CONSENT CALENDAR: Traffic. Committee Minutes Item 8
Mrs. Pat Mead(:- We would like to bring this to your attention
3833 Nea.rpoint.`.:Dr. tonight, the stop sign at Sentous and
West Covina Hollingworth. We have three schools in that
area: Hollingworth, Rincon and Nogales. We
• have had a death in late May, a boy on a bike on Sentous, which we
feel if there had been a stop sign there )it could have been avoided.
We now have 6th, 7th and 8th grade children going to Rincon School,
which means these children are still quite young to be crossing this
street. The kids use the street as a drag street because it is
straight through . There is no stop for almost a mile. We feel if
there was a stop sign it would halt this and it would give our
children a chance to cross over because we now have a tract of homes
built and we have kindergarten through 5th grade crossing the other
way to go to Hollingworth Elementary School. We had thought of a
crossing guard but we voided this because we have so much recreation
for our children here and we don't want to stop them from using these
facilities such as)the pool at Nogales during the summer time and we
don't want to stop the use of the ballet, tap and.instrumental
at Rincon. We would like to continue this but the traffic has
become more and we would like to bring this to your attention that we
would like to have the stop sign put there. Thank you.
Mrs. Glenn Squires I am the Chairman of 'the Safety Committee for
3221 Goodwick Drive the Junior.'Womed,8 Club.,of West Covina.
West Covina Recently we did a Hazard Hunt and this was one
of the intersections we felt was badly in
need of a 4-way stop sign. Since this is a main thoroughfare for
the children of Galaxie Tract and Sunshine Homes going to and from
Hollingworth, Rincon and Nogales Schools, we., as a group, would
like to see a 4-way stop installed there. Thank you.
Mr. Pacifico: Gentlemen, I have read the statistics on
the report and while we don't need the sta-
tistics and I don't know whose these are,
but it is pretty difficult to equate statistics with the life of a
child. There are children going back and forth across there every
day and the cost of a stop sign �I believe.is insignificant.
The coordination that may be necessary with the County may not be
insignificant but I believe it is warranted and imperative. We are
parents and we have children and we want them to live. It seems
to me regardless of the cost, regardless of the statistics,
regardless of the feeling of some people, a stop sign there if it
will prevent just one accident, it is well worth all the effort put
into it. And I charge you to consider this when you make your
final decision on this item. Thank you.
Mayor Chappell: For the benefit of the audience the
recommendation of the Traffic Committee is
that this item be held over for further study
pending the completion of the County's investigation. This is
part County and part West Covina and it has to be a coordinated effort
between the two before these signals can be installed. So the
Council is accepting the recommendation that it be held over, if we
vote on it tonight, and it will be taken up at a later date when we
receive all the information from the County and the staff reevaluation.
• Councilman Young: Mr. Mayor, two points. It is noted here that
we expect to hear from the County tomorrow.
Could we reasonably anticipate this on our
next agenda?
Mr. Aiassa: Our next agenda will be on the 12th of October
and we will attempt to get it on.
Councilman Young: Another question, Mr. Mayor. I had intended
to ask the question previously but didn't
have it in the right place. This is regarding the removal of the 4-way
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stop sign at Valinda and Service. Valinda is a busy street at that
location, Service not so busy. The accident rate there is excellent
and I wonder if we might not leave the stop sign 4-way and preserve
the lower accident statistic that presently exists. Traffic would
tend to speed up, I think,between the stop lights at Cameron and
coming on around, the next stop would be Glendora which is a very
substantial distance and basically a residential area through there.
I would like to have further consideration of that particular item.
I use that street a great deal. That would be Item 1 (b).
Councilman Shearer: I was prepared to pull back my objection to
this as I was the one that raised the question
several months ago. However, in view of the
testimony of the three citizens we heard this evening, I think we
should at least temporarily withdraw final action on this, because
actually we are doing just the opposite here. We are creating a
two-way stop out of a four-way, which has perhaps greater potential
speed and potential accident location, than the location at Sentous
and Hollingworth, and at the same time we are being asked to add stop
signs somewhere else. I would like to see this withdrawn also until
we reach an agreement on the other location. I would hate to solve one
and create another. It doesn't bother me to stop as I come up
Valinda at that location and as the gentleman saidlit may save a life
even though it is contrary to traffic manual books that say a 4-way
is not warranted here.
Motion by Councilman Young, seconded.by Councilman Lloyd and carried,
to remove from the Consent Calendar Item 1 (b) of the Traffic Committee
minutes.
Mayor Chappell: We have a recommendation to take action on
the Consent Calendar Items 1 through 7 with the
exception of the withdrawal of Item 1 (b)
of the Traffic Committee minutes regarding Service and Valinda.
Councilman Lloyd: I move approval with the exception as noted.
Seconded by Councilman Young, and carried on
roll call vote as follows:
AYES: Councilme.n Shearer, Nichols, Young. :'.Lloyd, 'Chappell,
NOES: None :.
ABSENT: None
ABSTAIN:...Councilman Shearer on Item 4(d) No. X
RESOLUTIONS FOR ADOPTION
MISCELLANEOUS TRANSFER LOCATION: Southwesterly corner of Amar
DRAIN NO. 328 Road and Temple Avenue.
RESOLUTION NO. 4450 The City Attorney presented:
ADOPTED "A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE
CITY OF WEST COVINA ACCEPTING A GRANT OF
EASEMENT EXECUTED BY THE DONALD L. BREN COMPANY FOR STORM DRAIN
PURPOSES AND DIRECTING THE RECORDATION THEREOF."
• RESOLUTION NO. 4451
ADOPTED
JOSEPH K. EICHENBAUM FOR
RECORDATION THEREOF."
IRREVOCABLE OFFERS OF
DEDICATION
Mr. Wakefield:
will be back on your
time the Resolutions
already recorded the
"A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF
THE CITY OF WEST COVINA ACCEPTING A
GRANT OF EASEMENT EXECUTED BY
STORM DRAIN PURPOSES AND DIRECTING THE
LOCATION: Southerly terminus of Temple
Avenue, easterly of Azusa Avenue.
The next two items are Resolutions
which need to be withdrawn .and they
agenda at your next regular meeting. At the
were prepared I had forgotten that we had
irrevocable offers of dedication so the
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RESOLUTIONS FOR ADOPTION - Cont°d.
Resolutions need to be modified with respect to the recording
instructions. I would request that Items (c) and (d) be withdrawn
from the Consent Calendar.
So moved by Councilman Lloyd, seconded by
• Councilman Young and carried.
STORM DRAIN EASEMENT'S LOCATION: South Frontage Road between
Grand Avenue and Monte Verde Drive.
RESOLUTION NO. 4452 The City Attorney presented:
ADOPTED "A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE
CITY OF WEST COVINA ACCEPTING A GRANT
OF EASEMENT EXECUTED BY THE CITRUS VALLEY
JEWISH CENTER FOR STORM DRAIN PURPOSES AND DIRECTING THE RECORDATION
THEREOF."
RESOLUTION NO. 4453 "A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE
ADOPTED CITY OF WEST COVINA AUTHORIZING THE
EXECUTION OF A CORPORATION QUITCLAIM DEED
FOR STORM DRAIN PURPOSES AND DIRECTING THE RECORDATION THEREOF."
Motion by Councilman Lloyd,seconded by Councilman Young, to_waive.
further reading of the body of said Resolutions... Motion carried on
roll call vote as follows:
AYES:.Councilmen Shearer, Nichols, Young,.T;loyd, Chappell
NOES: None
ABSENT: None
Motion by Councilman Lloyd, seconded by Councilman Young, to adopt
the foregoing Resolutions. Motion carried on roll call vote as
follows:
AYES: Councilmen Shearer, Nichols, Young, Lloyd, Chappell
NOES: None
ABSENT: None
ORDINANCES FOR ADOPTION
ORDINANCE NO. 1176 The City,Attorney presented:
ADOPTED "AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF
THE CITY OF WEST COVINA, CALIFORNIA,
APPROVING THE ANNEXATION TO THE CITY OF WEST COVINA OF CERTAIN
INHABITED TERRITORY DESIGNATED AS "SOUTHERLY ANNEXATION DISTRICT NO.
213" PURSUANT TO A SPECIAL ELECTION HELD IN SAID TERRITORY ON
AUGUST 24, 1971.11
Motion by Councilman Lloyd, seconded by Councilman Shearer, to waive
further reading of the body of said Ordinance. Motion carried on
roll call vote as follows:
AYES: Councilmen Shearer, Nichols, Young, Lloyd, Chappell
NOES: None
ABSENT: None
Motion by Councilman Shearer, seconded by Councilman Young, to
adopt said Ordinance. Motion carried on roll call vote as follows:
• AYES: Councilmen Shearer, Nichols, Young, Lloyd, Chappell
NOES: None
ABSENT: None
Mayor Chappell: Mr. Wakefield, is it necessary to have, a
roll call motion on the waiving of the reading
of the body of a Resolution or Ordinance?
Mr. Wakefield: No sir, that can be done on the basis of an
order by the Mayor.
Mayor Chappell: Let's have the agenda set up that way in the
future Mr. Aiassa, in order to save a little
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GENERAL AGENDA ITEMS
AWARD OF BIDS
BID NO. 72-03 Bids received in the Office of the Purchas-
FIRE APPARATUS ing Agent up to 10:00 A.M., Wednesday
August 25, 1971, and thereafter publicly
• opened and read. Held over from September 13,
1971.
BID NO. 72-10 Bids received in the Office of the Purchasing
PORTABLE FREQUENCY Agent up to 10:00 A.M. Wednesday, September 22,
METER -SIGNAL 1971, and thereafter publicly opened and read.
GENERATOR MODULA-
TION METER
Mr. Aiassa: Mr Mayor, I would like to make a recommendation
that we hold these two items to our next meeting
on October 12th.
Councilman Lloyd: Mr. Mayor, can we ask why?
Mr. Aiassa: On Bid No. 72-03 we have a couple of technical
points I would like to review with the City
Attorney and we have one bidder protesting
and this I would like to discuss with the City Attorney. On Item 72-10
this is one we are working with the County and I would like to review
some of the detail work with the County through the City Attorney.
Motion by Councilman Lloyd, seconded by Councilman Young, that
Bid No. 72-03 and 72-10 be returned to staff and brought back to the
Council.
Councilman Young: I take it there is no problem with regard to
a time limit on opening the bids, etc.
Mr. Wakefield: No sir, we are within the limits established.
City Attorney The bids have been opened and it is simply a
question of resolving the technical problems
that exist.
Councilman Shearer: I assume that our bids do contain some type
of time limit?
Mr. Wakefield: Our bid specification generally does not fix a
City Attorney time within which the City will accept or
reject the bids. We follow the rule that we are
bound to act within a reasonable time and
generally speaking a reasonable time is 30 days and because the meetings
of the City Council come only twice a month.it is not always possible
to fit the receipt of the bids and the bid analysis and the report back
to City Council within the 30 day period, but normally that is done.
Councilman Young: Mr. Mayor, could I request when this comes
back before the Council, how much if anything
we have budgeted for this outlay - could that
be explained?
Mr. Aiassa: Yes we will give you a breakdown at the next
meeting.
Motion carried.
PERSONNEL BOARD
EMERGENCY EMPLOYMENT ACT Mr. Aiassa: This is a recommondation
OF 1971 from the Personnel
Board to the City Council,
recommending that Council authorize the staff to implement the guide-
lines established by the U. S. Civil Service Commission for the
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PERSONNEL BOARD: Emergency Employment Act of 1971
recruitment, testing, and certification of potential candidates under
this Act. As Council is aware, we are applying for Federal partici-.
pation under this Act to hire certain employees we need in our City,
to fill vacancies in the Departments that can use the added staff.
This is being done under the Emergency Employment Act which has been
highly recommended for use by the President. Our application has
been accepted and approved and we are now following the legal pro-
cedures.
Councilman Young: What will .the City's participation be in this
program?
Mr. Aiassa: The City's participation in dollars and cents,
the total cost will be borne by the grant.
We have a formal application and 10% is
required to be provided by the City which can be in supervision and
training services. We will actually train these people.
Councilman Lloyd: How many people will be involved?
Mr. Fast: 21 or 22.
Councilman Lloyd: That is a lot of man hours to be getting for
free and I am willing to bet that Mr. Aiassa
has worked it out to where we are getting
something for free. The only thing we must be cautious of is the
creation of the use of these people and create a demand by staff or a
reliance by the staff. I know this will be taken into consideration.
Mr. Aiassa: We have made it quite clear to all Department
Heads that will receive the supplemental
help under this program that it is being
supplied to us and when it ends from there onethat's it.
Councilman Young: If a recommendation is in order, I would like
to see us get a meter maid under a different
title than "meter" to check our overtime
parking..
Motion by Councilman Lloyd, seconded by Councilman Shearer and
carried, to authorize staff to implement the guidelines established
by the U.S. Civil Service Commission for the recruitment, testing,
and certification of potential candidates under this Act.
RECREATION COORDINATOR Mr. Aiassa: This is a classification
CLASS SPECIFICATIONS title change and there is
no salary change involved.
This was recommended by
our Consultants.
Motion by Councilman Young, seconded by Councilman Lloyd, to adopt the
attached class specification for Recreation Coordinator.
Councilman Lloyd:
Mr. Fast:
SPECIAL SERVICES AND
ABATEMENT OFFICER CLASS
SPECIFICATION
When this individual is implemented in this
job.,will his next step be higher than what
it would have been had we not created this?
Mr. Mayor and City Council members, the
salary structure is exactly identical, and
the job tasks being performed are the same.
Motion carried.
Mr. Aiassa: This item is one we
have been experimenting
with for about 3% years.
we are now at the point
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PERSONNEL BOARD: SPEC. SERV. & ABATEMENT
OFFICER - Class Specification
where we are getting more demands and needs to administrate this.
There are two positions now being filled: gun. S"ta.nford and
Dick Bonaparte. This also ties in with weed abatement, sign abate-
ment and all other abatements. This position will have to be met
by examination and full qualification in lines with our Civil Service
hiring rules. Council will be notified when this position is filled.
Councilman Young: There is no intention to fill it now?
Mr. Aiassa: Not within the next 30 to 60 days.
Councilman Young: Is that because of existing personnel?
Mr. Aiassa: There are two categories and I would like to do
a little more analysis of the job and
the responsibilities of the Bureau and the
actual assignments of the Bureau.
Councilman Young: The reason I ask I don't see any point in
creating a pressure point here.
Mr. Aiassa: We have one man now working but of. -classifica-
tion. He is actually a Public Works Inspector
and we have transferred him to Weed Abatement
and other types of abatement and eventually we have to provide the
classification that will cover the job he is now performing. The
question in my mind is that I want to be sure of the job total before I
fill the position, but I need the position just as we needed the
position of criminalist for the lab. We have to establish qualifica-
tions, minimum standards and salary.
Mayor Chappell: It is important that we keep these classifi-
cations up to date and current, because we
never know when we have to fill and if it is
written down there is no chance of changing to gear to a particular
person.
Mr. Aiassa: We did not gear this job description to any
employee now on staff. The qualifications
are on the job to be filled and the work to
be done, and the employee will have to meet the requirements and
pass the test.
Motion by Councilman Lloyd, seconded by Councilman Shearer and
carried, tb.addpt the class specification for Special Services
and Abatement Officer.
CITY ATTORNEY
C. A. PIERSON REQUEST Mr. Wakefield: This is a request for a
FOR MAIL ORDER BUSINESS mail order business
LICENSE license received by
the City Clerk from a
Mr. C. A. Pierson. He proposes to use his home address as a mail
. address for the purpose of receiving orders for the purchase of
used books. The matter was of some concern to the staff and it
has been investigated by the License Inspector and it has also been
investigated by the Police Department. Apparently the license and
the application is in order. Mr. Pierson has been engaged in this
sort of business for a number of years without any prior problems
with respect to the material he offers for sale. It is my
recommendation that the license be issued.
Councilman Shearer: Mr. Mayor, a question. Can the license be
revoked by Council if it is found to be
an unsatisfactory operation?
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Mr. Wakefield: Yes sir.
Motion by Councilman Shearer and seconded by Councilman Nichols,
to approve the issuing of a mail order business license to
Mr. C. A. Pierson.
Councilman Lloyd: I am always concerned over this type of
application from the point of view while this
may be a reasonable issuance at this time I
fear the situation of pornography in the handling of literature of
this type. First of all �I.really don't understand fully, and I am
not asking for an explanation right now, what we can do to prevent
these things, actually it is in the hands of the courts. I am not
sure if we allow this for one man that we then don't open the door.
I am not sure we have the right to turn him down because it is a
valid reasonable request, but on the other hand these things have
almost historic tradition of turning into this type of thing.
So I am not bringing up something that hasn't happened. We can
discuss the situation, which indeed happened in West Covina, and yet
whatever assurances can they give - I don't know. Mr. Wakefield, do
you have a comment?
Mr. Wakefield: Yes, Councilman Lloyd. It was approximately
a year and a half ago when our Business
License Ordinance was amended to place
applications for a business license for mail order businesses in
the restricted category. Since that time every application that
has gone in has been investigated and a report made to the City
Council and the City Council then in turn authorizes the issuance
of the license. Mail Order Business Licenses are relatively common
within the City. We must have had 8 or 10 applications for
Business Licenses of one sort or another involving a mail order use
of residential property this year. This particular application was
specially investigated because of the nature of the business the
individual proposed to carry on. Under our existing ordinance the
City Council would have the power to set the matter for a public
hearing to require the applicant to produce for the Council the
kinds of publications he proposes to sell. There are a number of
controls built in to our existing ordinance. However, the
investigation made in this case lead us to believe there really was
no necessity for that complicated type of procedure. The application
was in order and the applicant is a person of good character and has
been engaged.in this type of business before. Apparently he purchases
books at State auctions and sells them privately.
Councilman Lloyd: I have no further questions, Mr. Mayor.
Councilman Young: This license is renewed on an annual basis?
Mr. Wakefield: Yes sir.
Councilman Young: Is it within the discretion of the City
Council to withhold renewing the license if
we find a situation developing that is
unhealthy?
Mr. Wakefield: Oh yes. We need not renew it because the
man had a prior license.
Councilman Young: So in the event of pornography or some
question is brought before us we could
reject the issuance of a license.
Mr. Wakefield: That is correct. This license would be
issued for the balance of this calendar year.
Motion carried.
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CITY ATTORNEY
ADJ. REG. MEETING
- Cont'd.
10-4-71
Page Eleven
BURKE, WILLIAMS & Mr. Wakefield: This refers to the City
SORENSEN STATEMENT of West Covina versus
..... ........ .....
Guarantee Savings & Loan
Association of Whittier and apparently this item, which is our
statement for a portion of the legal fees involved in preparing the
• complaint and obtaining the order of immediate possession and the
action brought to condemn the actual property of the Guarantee Savings
and Loan Association for the California off -ramp was in the total
amount of $433.00. The reason the invoice was submitted at this time
was because I felt the probability was we would be able to settle the
case and there would be no further costs to the City incurred. If
there are further proceedings necessary and the matter has to go to
trial then the additional fees will be billed to the City. On the
other hand this represents the bill for the services performed to
date.
Councilman Young, apparently raised some
question about the $13.00 fee which was involved. The City is exempt
from the payment of filing fees in both the Superior and Municipal
Court; however, in the Superior Court the City and all other public
agencies, are required to pay a fee designated as a "Reporter's Fee",
and it goes into a special fund for court reporters and that fee is
in the same amount in the Municipal Court as in the Superior Court.
Councilman Young: I learned something brand new just now and
I will ask you a personal question a little
later.
Motion by Councilman Lloyd,.'.seconded by Councilman Young, to approve
payment of Burke, Williams & Sorensen statement in the amount of
$433.00 and authorize payment of same. Motion carried on roll call
vote as follows:
AYES: Councilmen Shearer, Nichols, Young, Lloyd, Chappell
NOES: None
ABSENT: None
FIRE STATION NO. 6 Mr. Wakefield: Pursuant to the direction
of the City Council,
escrow has been opened for the purchase by the City of Fire Station
No. 6 property at Azusa Avenue and Maplegrove Street. In order to
complete the escrow proceedings,it is necessary for the City Council
to accept the Deed and deposit the certificate of the City Council
and the appropriate resolution with the escrow, so the recording can
be made at the time the escrow closes. I have prepared a resolution.
RESOLUTION NO. 4454 The City Attorney presented:
ADOPTED "A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY
OF WEST COVINA ACCEPTING GRANT DEED EXECUTED
BY DONALD L. BREN COMPANY AND DIRECTING THE RECORDATION THEREOF."
Mayor Chappell: Hearing no objections/waive further reading
of the body of said Resolution.
Motion by Councilman Shearer, seconded by Councilman Lloyd, to
adopt said Resolution.
• Councilman Shearer: To refresh my memory what did we actually
pay for it?
Mr. Aiassa: $35,000/ and we also received some. physical
improvements.
Motion carried on roll call vote as follows:
AYES: Councilmen Shearer, Nichols, Young, Lloyd, Chappell
NOES: None
ABSENT: None
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CITY ATTORNEY - Cont'd.
PRIVATE PATROLS Mr. Wakefield: Recently the City Clerk
has received three or four
applications for business
licenses for the operation of private patrols in the City. This has
become a matter of serious concern to the Police Chief. A week or so
ago he asked that I draft regulations..!. which would end up in an
ordinance covering private patrols in the City. I have prepared such
an ordinance and I submitted copies of it to the Chief of Police last
week. Mr. Brammer, who is one of the licensees and operator of a
private patrol within the City has raised some questions about the draft
of the Ordinance and there has not been an opportunity to review his
comment or suggestions with the Police Chief and the staff of the City.
It would be my recommendation that this matter be continued to your
next regular meeting which will give us a chance to iron out whatever
problems may be inherent in the draft which I prepared.
So moved by Councilman Lloyd, seconded by
Councilman Young.
Councilman Young:: A question. I note the three applications
and what I am curious about, and: I know Mr. Perry
is in the audience this evening - he is renting
a space in the building where my office is - what is the discretion of
the City right now to withhold the granting of a business license for
this type of activity? It would seem generally our licensing
ordinances are not regulatory as a rule. Right?
Mr. Wakefield: No, the State Law specifically authorizes the
City to license both for regulation and for
revenue. It happens thatr"primarily our
business licenses are of a revenue -producing statute, however) it does
have some regulatory aspects in many fields.
Councilman Young:
system?
Mr. Wakefield:
Do we now have the authority in the West Covina
Municipal Code to withhold the granting of a
license for someone who desires a security
private patrol issued.by
license fee�and he would
license.
No sir, the present provision of our Code
would require the applicant to demonstrate
that he possesses a license to operate a
the State of California and pay his
be entitled to the issuance of a business
Councilman Young: I presume Mr. Brammer, who is also here,
already has a business license and in the event
an ordinance like this is passed would that
be retroactive? Would it apply to.existing licensed security patrol..
systems in the City?
Mr. Wakefield: The proposed Ordinance is drafted.strictly as
a regulatory Ordinance. The draft provides
that no person or company shall be issued a
patrol -system license until they have applied for and received a
special permit from the Chief of Police. When that permit is issued
then they would be entitled to the issuance of.a business license
and the draft also provides that it applies not only to persons
already licensed but to those who are licensed in the future. This
was one of the points which was included as a result of my discussion
with the Chief of Police, so we would have a uniform system of
regulation that applied to everyone in the business.
Councilman Young: And we wouldn't run into some kind of
constitutional problem or pre-emption problem?
Mr. Wakefield: There are some pre-emption problems in this
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CITY ATTORNEY: Private Patrols
Page Thirteen
area, although the State Law.itself)specifically authorizes a City to
regulate certain aspects of the patrol business and we have tried to
tailor the regulations to fit within the limits the State has speci-
fically conferred upon cities. However, one of the points Mr. Brammer
raises with reference to the draft is that the State requires a bond
to be filed by applicants for State Permitspand I have included a
paragraph in our regulatory Ordinance which would also require a bond
and Mr. Brammer raises the question as to whether or not the State
might have pre-empted the field as far as the bond requirement. This
is a matter I want to look into.
Councilman Young: This is a very pointed question, I know. In
withholding a license at this particular time
from any applicant otherwise licensed by the
Statelthe City is actually exceeding its powers or its legal authority?
Is that true?
Mr. Wakefield: So far as Mr. Pe.rry's application is concerned,
under the state of our existing Ordinance he
would be entitled to the issuance of a
business license. However, because of the questions which have been
raised in connection with his application, also the fact that the
other applicant has not been able yet to demonstrate that he holds the
appropriate license from the State, neither Mr. Perry nor the other
applicant have been acted upon to this date.
Councilman Young: I think if that comes in and he meets the
requirements imposed by the State and there
is no regulatory Ordinance on the books of
the City he should be granted a license. What it boils down to is
we feel like we need to regulate this so we are denying a license to
someone otherwise entitled to one because we want to get a new
Ordinance in here first. This particular gentleman has leased space
and is in the business and it seems to be almost an arbitrary act at
the moment - in fact)it is.
Councilman Nichols: If I could address myself to the matter,
Mr. Mayor. I recognize the concern our
Police Department has over the problems that
are inherent in private patrol systems operating in a community such
as ours. We have all read recently the problems that developed in
the area south of us. But I very seriously question if the route of
this community.'is to vest sole and complete authority in the Chief of
Police to decide who, will get a business license and actually control
the operation to the extent of requiring that individual to get
permission from the Chief of Police to increase his work force,
change his location, modify his business in anyway. The Council, to
my knowledge, has never before attempted to delegate such a broad
spectrum of authority to any individual even in the matter of
alcoholic beverages. We have provided an opportunity for our Law
Enforcement officials to counsel the Council, to advise us and make
recommendations. I feel very uncertain about the prospect of
delegating the total authority in this area. Earlier this evening
we discussed the capability of the Council to withhold a business
license or renew a license if we thought it was necessary and I
. think the same principles would hold here if we ran into that. I
think we are creating an excessive mechanism which does not yet,
at least in our community, present itself to that extent. I would
like to see this go back with a lot more thought given to it before
it comes back again to Council. The only thought I would leave is
if these types of requirements that might be incidental to the
issuance of a business license were present and if these data were
required to be presented to the Chief of Police simply for his
information, I think much the same thing would be achieved. Because
then he would have the information he seeks and if he were to feel
it was a dangerous or hazardous thing then he could indicate this
to the City Council. I, for myself, do not want to delegate this
broad area of authority to a Police function at this time.
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CITY ATTORNEY: Private Patrols
Councilman Shearer: Mr. Mayor, I agree. I had a question on my
notes - - how do you appeal a decision of the
Police Chief? I felt that somehow that
should be in the Ordinance, not to take anything away from the
. Chieff but we don't know who we will have in 30 or 40 years. Secondly,
on Page 3, there is a statement that concerns me. Section 6391,
"if the Chief of Police determines the applicant is of good moral
character and never been convicted of any felony, etc., the Police
Chief shall issue an identification card.'w Is this saying in effect
if a man has been convicted of a felony�he cannot be issued a card?
If it is�then for my own vote I don't want it written that way.
A person can be convicted of a felony, stealing a car at age 16 or
18, and -at age 30 he may be a very upstanding law abiding citizen.
So that alone should not disqualify him.
Mayor Chappell: We do have a motion .....
Mr. Wakefield: In view of the comments made /I would suggest
a substitute motion be offered.
Councilman Lloyd: I would offer a substitute motion that this
matter be referred back to the City Attorney
and the Chief of Police.
Seconded by Councilman Young and carried.
Councilman Young: Mr. Mayor - we just voted on the Ordinance
draft, but there is an application here,
a communication to the City Manager regarding
Perry°s Security System with a recommendation from the Chief of Police
to decline the issuing of a permit, which my understanding now is that
this is not within the purview o.f '.the ..C.i.ty, Counc.i.l?
Mr. Wakefield: That is correct. Normally the license would
be issued by the City Clerk as the licensing
agent.
Councilman Young: So as the matter stands nowanyotherwise
qualified applicant should go to the City
Clerk's office and get a license?
Mr. Wakefield: That is correct.
REDEVELOPMENT AREA `. Mr. Wakefield: This is the first step
in establishing a
redevelopment area for
the Central Business District area. This step is preliminary in the
sense it establishes a Survey Area, which simply is.a.n area for
further study with reference to the necessity for redevelopment.
When this area is established :.by the City Council�,it will go to the
Planning Commission and they shall review it, designating a portion
of the Survey Area for actual redevelopment and prepare a preliminary
plan for the redevelopment of the specified area. The Resolution
when adopted would have the effect of designating the area outlined
in the Williams &'Mocine report dated September 1971'. as the
Survey Area, the map of the area is found between Pages 5 and 6 of
that publication..
RESOLUTION NO. 4455 The City Attorney presented:
ADOPTED "A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE
CITY OF WEST COVINA, CALIFORNIA, DESIGNATING
REDEVELOPMENT SURVEY AREA NO. 1 FOR STUDY
PURPOSES."
Mayor Chappell: Hearing no objections/ waive further reading
of the body of said Resolution.
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CITY ATTORNEY: Resolution No. 4455
Page Fifteen
Motion by Councilman Shearer, seconded by Councilman Young, to adopt
said Resolution. Motion carried on roll call vote as follows:
AYES: Councilmen Shearer, Nichols, Young, Lloyd, Chappell
NOES: None
ABSENT: None
• ORAL COMMUNICATIONS None.
THE CHAIR CALLED A RECESS AT 9:07 P.M. COUNCIL RECONVENED AT 9:20 P.M.
CITY MANAGER
REQUEST AUTHORIZATION TO Mr. Aiassa: Staff has submitted a
ENTER INTO AGREEMENT WITH rather complete report
THE CITY OF LOS ANGELES on this item. This is
RE. AWWS (Staff-:Repbrt) a system that has been
adopted and we find it
works very well. We do have a provision on Page 4 whereby we can
terminate the agreement by giving adequate notice to the party
concerned. My recommendation is that Council authorize the City
Manager to negotiate this agreement and we try it for a year and then
report back to Council the results. This cost was placed in -the budget
for 1971-72.
Motion by Councilman Nichols, seconded by Councilman Young and carried,
to authorize the .City Manager to sign the agreement with the City of
Los Angeles to obtain the services of the AWWS.
REVISIONS TO WEST COVINA Mr. Aiassa: This is the revisions of
ELECTRICAL CODE the Electrical Code. I
would advise Council that I
didn't have an opportunity to notify Council because the notice came
rather late Friday, but we have a Class 4 rating from the Fire
Underwriters. And one of the reason5for receiving less deficiency
points was the upkeeping and updating of all our codes and
administrating them likewise. This was one of the provisions that
helped us to gain a better'classification.
Mayor Chappell: I think our Chief and your staff is to be
commended for securing this reduction because
it will be a tremendous savings in our area
on the fire rates because of this new rate. A commendation is to be
made to all of those involved.
Mr. Aiassa: Chief Wetherbee has been working on this thing
for 10 years and we have actually taken all
of the various deficiencies that the City
has been given prior to 1958 and we have actually dollarwise
evaluated each one as to how we could reduce them.. We also want to
give a lot of credit to the representatives of the various water
comp anies,.which through some city expense, were finally able to
continue some of the deadends into loop systems and increased pipe
capacities to give us the water pressures we needed and the hydrant
capacity we needed. Also with Council support, we actually rebuilt
the Fire Department and established stations where they were important
and also the manpower in the capacity we have maintained, including
the Snorkel. All of which has helped us to get to this point. This
will probably be of material benefit to all people of the City, depend-
ing on the value and the type of structure of the houses and the
commercial area. I believe Mr. Chappell can speak on that much
better than I can; he is in the insurance business. Council should be
commended for allowing us the funds to do the things we have been able
to do in the Fire Department to achieve the Class 4 rating.
Mayor Chappell: Fine, Mr. Aiassa. That is a real feather in
our City°s cap.
Motion by Councilman Shearer,.. seconded, by' .Councilman Lloyd, to direct
the City Attorney to prepare a revision to the Electrical Code of the
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CITY Manager:.Electrical Code Revisions
City of West Covina as outlined in the report dated September 8, 1971.
Councilman Shearer: Question. Now that we have gotten through the
plaudits of 4 versus,this take:.anythi.ng
away from it? We are making our requirements
• slightly less restrictive than the present electrical code. Will that
have any effect on the fire rating?
Mr. Aiassa: We have reviewed most of these with the
engineers of the Pacific Board of Fire Under-
writers and after a City has reached the
population of 50,000 you are automatically put under the National
Board of Raters instead of the Pacific, but due to the number of cities
in California that reached the capacity of 50,000, it was impossible
for the National Board to handle it, so the Pacific Board has
continued to rate these cities, with the sanction and approval of the
National Board. I would say some of our codes adopted were a little
restrictive. Mr. Fowler, Director of our Building and Safety
Department/ is present and he might answer the question.
Mr. Fowler, Director
Building & Safety Dept. To specifically answer Councilman Shearer's
question. This requirement placed in the
code adopted in March was really in excess
of the requirements of the surrounding communities and the National
Board of Fire Underwriters. It was pointed out by the staff of an
electrical contractor in the Pomona area, that it was in excess of
the surrounding communities requirements. We, in our weekly staff
meetings, felt it was too, so as a consequence the entire section
we"..took under .study and,..this revision -request was agreeable with staff.
In fact�I think if the letter hadn't come from the electrical contractor)
the staff would have proposed the change.
Councilman Shearer: You say the Ordinance as it is right now is
in accordance with the Fire Underwriters
requirements?
Mr. Fowler: Yes as it is right now we would be equal to
all the surrounding municipalities. We are
not in excess of their requirements.
We are trying to maintain our requirements with those of surrounding
area because of construction costs.
Councilman Shearer: If we adopt this Ordinance ewe don't jeopardize
our fire rating?
Mr. Fowler: No, not in anyway.
Motion carried.
JOHN DE TULLIO FETTER Mr. Aiassa: This is in answer to the
RE WEED ABATEMENT letter addressed to the
Council.
Motion by Councilman Nichols, seconded by Councilman Young and
carried, to receive and file staff report.
CIVIC CENTER PARKING Mr. Aiassa: We are now negotiating
STRUCTURE AGREEMENT a contract amendment
WITH LOS ANGELES COUNTY under the Joint Powers
Authority with the County
in connection with the parking structure. As you knowjthe staff has
submitted to the Council and the Public Authority a rendering of the
parking structure model. At the present time our agreements with the
County are based on surface parking/and we will now have to go into a
more formal agreement for structural parking, which will increase the
rental charge. I would like authorization from the Council to proceed
with negotiations with the County and bring forth to Council a formal
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City Manager: Civic Center PaAking Structure Agreement
agreement at your meeting of October 12th.
We have been meeting with the County now for
at least 90 or 120 days.and because of vacation schedules in both
areas/we have had delays. I think the County has pretty well consented
to what we propose to do and.their staff has reviewed the parking
structure model. I think we have come to a favorable conclusion as
far as cost and fees are concerned,,and I now need authorizatim from the
Countil to proceed in the preparation of the formal agreement.
Motion by Councilman Young, seconded by Councilman Lloyd, that
authorization be granted.
Councilman Lloyd: Mr. Aiassa, what kind of an increase in our
indebtedness or costs on the Joint Powers
thing, will this entail?
Mr. Aiassa: Actually the estimate that was given to the
Council for the parking structure will be
amortized over a period of 25 years. The
fees we are proposing to.charge will be based on the amortization
of the investment for the parking structure.
Councilman Lloyd: You haven't answered my question. What kind
of .money is it going to cost?
i
Mr. Fast: Stone and Youngberg has supplied the City with
their estimate that the bond issue will have
to approximate 1% million dollars.
Councilman Lloyd: What are we paying per year on the City Hall?
Mr. Aiassa: $200,400 per year.
Councilman Lloyd: What kind of increase will this be per year?
Mr. Fast: The City will not pay anything; it will be
based on a lease with the County. The County
will reimburse the City and the payment will
be made on that basis and it will amount to approximately $100,000.
Councilman Lloyd: In other words
,,the cost of this situation now
goes to $300,400?
Mr. Aiassa: No, we also rent 3000 square feet at 45(,' per
square foot which is a deduction of several
thousand dollars, plus the $100,000--for.the
parking structure is paid for by the County solely.
Councilman Lloyd:
Mr. Eliot:
Controller
• Councilman Lloyd:
Mr. Aiassa:
Councilman Lloyd:
Mr. Eliot:
This then will not cost the City in cold hard
cash a penny?
That is correct.
We don It have to pay anything and at the end
of 25 years,it is ours?
That is correct.
So we are really getting something for nothing.
The City is supplying the land.
Councilman Lloyd: We are accomplishing this without expending
any monies from the City and this is a very
important point that I am trying to make.
Some along the line, we are going to be.,.censuredy so I think it is
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CITY MANAGER: Civic Center Parking Structure Agreement
time to say that it is not costing the City anything. We end up with
a structure which has a value of a million dollars or more at the end
of 25 years, plus the fact we alleviate a parking problem in the
Civic Center and I wanted to point this out.
Mr. Aiassa: I think Mr. Lloyd has made a point and the
only reason we are going into the parking
structure at this time was due to the
additional development of the Court which made it quite essential
that we provide this parking now. We are also at the same basis with
the Public Library/and they will be doubling their capacity and they
also will be leasing parking spaces from the City. So actually we
are doing our best to make this self-supporting.
Motion carried.
CITY CLERK
PARADE PERMIT APPLICATION Motion by Councilman Nichols, seconded by
EDGEWOOD HIGH SCHOOL Councilman Young and carried, that the
Edgewood High School parade permit
application be granted and that the fee be waived.
MAYOR'S REPORTS (Youth Commission appointments, already taken
care of.)
COUNCIL COMMITTEE
REPORTS Councilman Lloyd: I would like to report on
my attendance at the
League of California.Cities conference in San Francisco. I think in
the total time I have been in attendance, which has been the past four
years, this was by -far the best meeting. I thought the speakers and
presentations were better than they had been, what the reasons are, I
don't know. I noted with a certain amount of interest that Revenue
Sharing seemed to be the major consideration, to the extent that the
President of the United States saw fit to send the Vice -President
to that meeting over and above anything that had been planned so
response could be made to Congressman Wilbur Mills, Chairman of the
Ways and Means Committee and Mills had said Revenue Sharing was not
the way to go and the President saw fit to send his people both in
Casper Weinberger and Vice -President Agnew, to at least respond very
vehemently that Revenue Sharing is indeed the way to go. So)of course,
this affects the cities of California as well as the rest of the
Nation. It was a very informative conference. I think there is a new
wind upon the land and that something is in the process of happening
to cities. I think we should be very acutely aware of what is going
on and I certainly think Bud Carpenter, Director of the League,put
together a very fine presentation. His report was extremely informative
and if any of you would like, I think we can get a copy of his comments.
I think this should be done, because this is the year that we should be
very informative because of what is happening to our State/ and what is
going to happen was depicted in the presentation of the League.
I would further like to report to the Council
that I did indeed see our City Manager in Sacramento, pounding the
ear of several people up there, achieving those things that had to be
done. I think it was quite a shock for him to find me in the same
arena with him, but he relented and allowed me. to go to dinner with
him that evening, so all is well.
Councilman Young: Two points. While you were up at San Francisco,
I went to the Methodist Church locally and
participated in a program, the background of which briefly was a
Methodist Youth Organization participating over a period of a year
in an area in the City of LaPuente in tutoring young people. Helping
them develop reading.skills. This would come close to the
educationally handicapped children. They had something like 25
youth participating for a full year. They would take their Saturdays
for a full year and work with these youngsters. Somebody wrote an
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COUNCIL COMMITTEE REPORTS
article to Parents Magazine about it and as a result of that they won
a second prize of $300,as a service reward, plus recognition in the
magazine for their work.. I would like to suggest to Council, and this
is a point Councilman Lloyd oftentimes makes and I think very
correctly, that we don't recognize these type of things often enough,
• and I would like to suggest that staff further research this and that
we make some sort of suitable recognition of this group. That is a
motion, Mr. Mayor.
Seconded by Councilman Lloyd and carried.
Councilman Young: The second point. I would like a later report
on it and perhaps this would be an area for
the Special Enforcement Officer to enforce, but
I observed that we have a few timed parking zones around the City.
One happens to be in front of my office and periodically the squad car
comes by, the police officer gets outs and marks tires and then goes
on,and in a way it is a bit of a traffic hazard, and then he comes
back later and writes tickets. I am wondering how many parking zones
we have and if it would be worthy of a full-time enforcement person.
Maybe we should have some staff follow up report on this.
Mayor Chappell: Mr. Aiassa, will you have your staff make a
report on this?
Mr. Aiassa: Yes, we have that under surveillance and will
make a report on it.
Mayor Chappell: I do want to agree with Councilman Lloyd on
the League of California Cities meeting. Of
those I attended this was by far the best.
We certainly had some good dialogue, Chairman Mills of the Ways and
Means Committee, actually allowed a question period at the end of his
talk and it brought some good questions that let us understand exactly
where we stood and it certainly wasn't in our favor, but with the
Vice -President coming back and explaining this was the President's
proposal and they are going to try and work it out so it would be a
law in the future, well, we will probably see some action on it -and by
reading our newspapers„will know the final outcome..
Those that have read the papers in the past
and seen the editorials jesting around that perhaps when you go to
these conferences you put your hand in the trough - 1.have been in
conference with the editor of the Tribune and explained to him the
viewpoint of the layman as he looks at this type of meeting. We
have Commissioners and ourselves and full-time employees who take
time from their busy schedules to go to these meetings and as I look
at it I don't believe any of us would waste our time going if these
meetings were not adequate. So he is going to allow me to write a
letter to him, looking at our side of the picture, people giving
up more than we receive and perhaps we can get a little positive
thinking on it. We have Commissioners that we ask to -go on these
things and they read these articles in the newspaper and they
say who needs the action? And we need these people to go to these
meetings and get the input from the other cities in the State.
I think Dick Tracy had an idea which is a positive one and I am going
to follow up on it, so those of us who attend these things and give
up 3 or 4 days of our own work time can be recognized and not
criticized.
DEMANDS: Motion by Councilman Young, seconded by
Councilman Shearer, to approve Demands
totalling $486,439.96 as listed on Demand
Sheets B499 through 502. This total includes payroll. Motion carried
on roll call vote as follows:
AYES: Councilmen Shearer, Nichols, Young, Lloyd, Chappell
NOES: None
ABSENT: None
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ADJOURNMENT
ATTEST:
CITY CLERK
ADJ. REG. MEETING 10-4-71 Page Twenty
Motion by Councilman Lloyd, seconded by
Councilman Young and carried, to adjourn
meeting at 9:41 P.M.
APPROVED:
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MAYOR