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05-22-1972 - Regular Meeting - MinutesMINUTES OF THE REGULAR MEETING OF THE CITY COUNCIL CITY OF WEST COVINA, CALIFORNIA MAY 22, 1972. The regular meeting of the City Council was called to order at 7:34 P.M., •in the West Covina Council Chambers by Mayor Robert Young. The Pledge of Allegiance was given. The invocation was given by Councilman Shearer. ROLL CALL Present: Mayor Young; Councilmen: Shearer, Nichols, Lloyd, Chappell Others Present: George Aiassa, City Manager Herman R. Fast, Asset. City Manager George Wakefield, City Attorney Lela Preston, City Clerk Richard Munsell, Planning Director Bert Yamasaki, Asset. Planning Director Leonard Eliot, Controller George Zimmerman, City Engineer John Lippitt, Asset. City Engineer Bert Yamasaki, Asset. Planning Director Yvonne Calmes, City Treasurer Wm. Fowler, Dir. Bldg. & Safety Dept., Barry Konier, Park Superintendent Ray:' -Silver, Administrative Analyst, Jr. Dick Bonaparte, Special Services Officer Chas. Bahm, Firemen's Association Sheree Wilson, Youth Advisory Comm. Susan Woodward, Youth Advisory Comm. Herb Tice, Personnel Board PRESENTATIONS Mayor Young: I might say we just had a delightful musical presentation by a group of youngsters from our Sister City - Toluca, Mexico - down by the fountain and that is why we are a little bit late at this time. We do have a couple of presentations to make to two of the former Mayors of this City. I don't know why Mayor Gleckman has been neglected this long, having been a little more than 2 years now since he served as our Mayor. I think it would be appropriate however that his immediate successor as Mayor make the presentation to him. This certainly would have been the normal order of events if it hadn't taken the engraver 2 years to figure out how to spell "Gleckman". That has now all been worked out and it would certainly be a pleasure for me to make the presentation, but I feel it comes a bit more appropriately from our immediate past Mayor, Ken Chappell. Councilman Chappell: Thank you. Mr. Gleckman, if you will step forward. The real reason we are late on this is that you get two for the price of one if you wait long enough and you know the position of our City financially and that is the reason we are late. It was my pleasure to serve with you on the Council for two years as Mayor, serving one year under your leadership as Mayor Pro tem. Your dedication.to duty and the time you gave to this City is really unbelievable. Not many men can afford that amount of time nor are they willing to give it. You certainly can be commended for the way you conducted yourself while serving as our Mayor for the two years of your term. It is with real pleasure that I am allowed to present this gavel to you, Len, because I think - 1 - CITY COUNCIL 5/22/72 Page Two Presentations - Cont°d. our friendship has gone on for many years and I feel privileged to make this presentation to you. Mr. Gleckman: Thank you, Ken. I would like to thank the • Council and the Mayor for this nice gift. Two years isn't too long to wait, I am quite sure there are many people who have waited a lot longer than that for an honor of this type. I will say,though� that when I was first sworn in as a Councilman, -.Judge Martin at the time; said twenty-four hours after you are out of office they will forget your name, and it was a real pleasure when George°s secretary called me and said "Mr. what's your name...." I do want to commend the Council on the job they have done. I have watched the Council for the past two years since I have been out of office and I want to congratulate each and every one of you. And those of you that have been re-elected, I think the citizens made a wise choice and I wish you all the luck in the world. Thank you. Mayor Young: And then we have had two more years! I came on this Council two years ago, a real green horn in City politics at this level and had the good fortune to serve; these past two years under the leadership of Ken Chappell. I have spoken warmly of Ken on so many occasions that anything I would say right now would be, I am sure,repetif louse Ken has provided excellent leadership. He has provided a forum in which each of us on the Council and the citizens in the audience have had the opportunity to participate fully and I think the greatest compliment to Ken°s leadership was demonstrated in the most recent election when he was returned to office along with the other Councilmen up for re-election at that time, by an overwhelming vote. It is a hard act for me to followybut I hope our Council can continue as it has in the past couple of years and perhaps in the last four years. I wasn't here when Len Gleckman was the Mayor Jbut I do know that some of the projects that we are working on now and that we are vitally interested in, began during the period of time that Mr. Gleckman was a member of the Council and the Mayor, and we are carrying many of these projects forward now and we would not have these projects at the stage they are in if we had not had this past leadership. Ken. has certainly contributed a continuing source of inspiration Lo these projects and I hope we can continue the same way. Ken, it is a real honor to be able to hand you this gavel. Councilman Chappell: Thank you very much. Councilman Nichols-. Mr. Mayor, if I may be privileged to comment and I don't know what the significance will be but perhaps it will add an additional touch of! humility to the gentlemen who received their gavels. At the conclusion of my own mayorality .I received a gavel and I mounted it on the wall in my den and was very proud of it as I still am, and then one day my house was burglarized and three or four elderly teenagers broke in and stole a transistor radio, a considerable: amount of jewelry and some money and other personal belongings and my gavel. Then they went on down the street, broke into another house and went through it and left my gavel there. I never got the rest of it back. i sayor Young: Well, Councilman Nichols, it is good to know that you are not the one that broke into, my house and you can have your gavel. CONSENT CALENDAR Mayor Young explained the procedure of the Consent Calendar items and asked if either the Council or any member of the audience had any comments on the following items: - 2 - • CITY COUNCIL 5/22/72 CONSENT CALENDAR - Cont°d. 1. WRITTEN COMMUNICATIONS a) WEST COVINA BEAUTIFUL INC., b) WEST COVINA PARADE COMMITTEE c) AMERICAN LEGION WEST COVINA POST 790 Page Three Request that City consider a free large trash pickup (one time only) in lieu of annual "Clean -Up Week" campaign. (Refer to Staff) Re need for financial assistance. (Refer to Staff) Request for approval of 3 firework stands. (Approved in prior years) (Approve subject to Temporary Use Permit) d) DISABLED AMERICAN Request for approval of 3 firework VETERANS (Frank Marpe stands. (Approved in prior years. Chapter) Approve subject to Temporary Use Permit.) e) CALIFORNIANS AGAINST--7 (Receive and file) THE: POLUUTION..TN.ITIATIVE f) JUNIOR WOMAN°S CLUB OF Request for permission to place WEST COVINA canisters in various business locations for fund raising campaign. (Approve subject to staff review) g) WEST COVINA DISPOSAL COMPANY 2. PLANNING COMMISSION 3. RECREATION & PARKS COMM. a) Summary of Action b) Additional Tennis Court Lighting 4. TRAFFIC SAFETY MINUTES 5. CITY TREASURER'S REPORT 6. YOUTH ADVISORY COMM. a) Summary of Action b) Refer to City Manager Agenda Request for increase in rates. (Refer to Staff) Summary of Action of May 17, 1972. (Accept and file) May 9, 1972. (Adj. Mtg ) (Accept and file) Interim report. (Receive and file) May .16, 1972. (Accept and file) Month of April, 1972. May 16, 1972. (Receive and file) for Action Item #1. Councilman Nichols: Mr, Mayor, perhaps I missed the signifi- cant event of communications and contents relative to Item #1, the possibility of a "Clean-up, Fix -up Week" for West Covina this year, but I don't have any recollection of it comirg to Council for discussion. There is a comment which assumes that there is no "Clean-up" planned in 1972 and in that this item is being referred at this ,campaign time to Staff I would appreciate it if Staff when responding to Council would indicate how this decision came about and why it did not come to Council at some appropriate time for discussion and comment and perhaps action. Mayor Young: Thank you, Councilman Nichols. Any further comments on any of the items? Councilman Lloyd: I note that Item l (f) says we are going to have some sort of a contest for 7 year olds and that we are going - 3 - CITY COUNCIL 5/22/72 CONSENT CALENDAR - Cont Id. Page Four to vote with a penny apiece. The only comment I have on that is that somebody must have a lot of pennies at home, fathers and mothers. I gather, Mr. Aiassa, that we the City are not involved in this directly. Is that correct? •Mr. Aiassa: Yes. Councilman Lloyd: Item 1 (g) is a request for an increase by the Disposal Company. Will we receive a briefing on this before anything happens? Mr. Aiassa: Councilman Lloyd you will have a full report from Staff as to the status of the West Covina Disposal Company along with a recommendation from staff. Mayor Young: Mr. Aiassa, is it desirable to have a City Council Committee participate with Staff? Mr. Aiassa: Yes I would like that, Mayor Young. If you will appoint two Councilmen. Mayor Young: We discussed this earlier today and I would suggest that Councilman Nichols and myself work with Staff in such a fashion as you desire so that we can get the fullest possible input back to Council on any action taken. Is that agreeable? (Councilman Nichols and Mr. Aiassa agreed.) Councilman Lloyd: It meets with my approval Mr. Mayor, but I really want a strong review on this. Mayor Young: I am sure you will see to it. Is there any further comments on any of the items on the Consent Calendar? With regard to the Youth Advisory Commission please note in the summary of action that a West Covina, Dodger Ni4t is coming up. Perhaps we can all participate and make this a successful eveningo Councilman Lloyd: On the Recreation and Parks Commission summary of action with regard to the Kindergarten Cultural program m the rest of the Council may not be interested in it, but I was interested in knowing how the program came along last year. Not right now)but at some later time, Mr. Aiassa. Mr. Aiassa: I will. see that you get a full report. Motion by Councilman Shearer, seconded by Councilman Chappell, to approve Consent Calendar'Items 1 through 6. Motion carried on roll call vote as follows: AYES: Councilmen. Shearer, Nichols, Lloyd, Chappell, Young NOES: None ABSENT: None RESOLUTIONS FOR ADOPTION 1970 STORM. DRAIN .BOND ISSUE LOCATIONS-. 8450®Sunset Avenue, Sunset PROJECT NO. 8450, UNIT 1 Place to Walnut Creek Wash, 8451'Willow & PROJECT NO. 8451, UNIT 2 Avenue, South Garvey Avenue to Walnut Creek Wash. (Council reviewed Engineer's report) - 4 - CITY COUNCIL 5/22/72 Page Five RESOLUTIONS FOR ADOPTION. Project Nos. 8450 &8451 RESOLUTION NO. 4568 The City Attorney presented: ADOPTED "A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF WEST COVINA, CALIFORNIA, APPROV- ING CERTAIN SPECIFICATIONS FOR THE CON- *STRUCTION OF 1970 STORM DRAIN BOND ISSUE PROTECT NO. 8450, UNIT 1, AND PROJECT NO. 8451, UNIT 2, IN THE CITY OF WEST COVINA, CALIFORNIA, AND AUTHORIZING USE OF PUBLIC STREETS FOR OPERATION AND .MAINTENANCE OF THESE FACILITIES." PRECISE PLAN #618 LOCATION: Northwest corner Sentous FREDRICKS DEVELOPMENT CORP., Avenue and Valley Boulevard. (Council reviewed Engineer's report) RESOLUTION NO. 4569 ADOPTED RESOLUTION NO. 4570 ADOPTED The City Attorney presented: "A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF WEST COVINA ACCEPTING A CORPORATION GRANT DEED EXECUTED BY FREDRICKS DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION." "°A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF .T_"E -.C1TY OF WEST COVINA AUTHORIZING. THE -EXECUTION OFT -A CORPORATION QUITCLAIM DEED AND DIRECTING THE RECORDATION THEREOF. 00 Motion by Councilman Lloyd, seconded by Councilman Chappell and carried, to waive reading of the bodies of the three foregoing Resolutions. Motion by Councilman Chappell, seconded by Councilman Shearer, to adopt said Resolutions. Motion carried on roll call vote as follows. AYES: Councilmen: Shearer, Nichols, Lloyd, Chappell, Young NOES: None ABSENT: None GENERAL AGENDA ITEMS AWARD OF BIDS PROJECT NO. SP`72010 COOPERATIVE PROJECT contract held over from April (Council reviewed Engineer's LOCATION. Francisquito Avenue between Sunset and Broadmoor Avenues. Bids received in the Office of the City Clerk on April 5, 1972. Award of 10 and April 24, 1972, to this date. report.) Motion by Councilman Shearer, seconded by Councilman Lloyd, that the City release all bid bonds and cash deposits and table this matter until such time as the City receives the developer's .financial contribution to the project. Councilman Shearer: A question, Is there an� ay that projects of this nature in the future that we can require a cash deposit before the City goes to the expense of designing the project. Can We require a deposit in advance? Mr. Aiassa: This has been our basic rule for a number of years but in this case there was a contractor involved that Staff felt the situation was favorable and everything looked to a favorable completion and then we got involved in some legal require- ments, but from here on we will attempt full cash deposits before we even try to put it on the drafting board. Motion carried. 5 - CITY COUNCIL 5/22/72 AWARD OF BIDS - Cont°d. Page Six BID NO. 72-83 LOCATION: Civic Center (SPECIFICATION NO. 100) Bids received and read in the Office of the (L.A.County/W.C. Civic City Clerk on Wednesday, April 19, 1972. Center) Award of Contract held over from April 24 • and May 8, 1972, to this date for Staff evaluation. (Council reviewed Recreation and Parks Department Staff Report.) Mayor Young: Mrs. Preston, would you care to recite the bids? City Clerk stated five bids were received and checked and all found to be valid bid proposals as follows: WHITE°s LANDSCAPE SERVICE, Los Angeles -,.PROP. A 12 Mo. $36,601.44 Mo. 3,050.12 PROP. B 24 Moo 71,960.00 Moo 2998.33 ROBERTS & ASSOC.-MILTON SLADE & ASSOC., Los Angeles PROP. A. 12 Moo 37,200.00 Mo. 3,100.00 PROP. B. 24 Mom 71,640.00 Moo 2,985.00 DUKE°S LANDSCAPE SERVICE, San Gabriel PROP. A. 12 Moo - Moo 3,450.00 PROP. B. 24 Moo - Mo. 3,450.00 MAZON LANDSCAPE CO., Carson PROP. A. 12 Moo - Mo a 3, 580 0 00 PROP. B. 24 Moo — Mo. 30289.85 ENVIRONMENTAL CARE, INC., Santa Ana PROP. Ao 12 Moo - MO. 39705.00 PROPo B. 24 Mo. - Mo. 3,625.00 Motion by Councilman Lloyd, seconded by Councilman Chappell, that the City Council authorize the Mayor 'and City Clerk to execute an agreement for the landscaping/sprinkler maintenance of the Los Angeles County/ West Covina Civic Center site with the low bid of. Roberts & Associates - Mi.lton Slade & Associates of South El Monte for a period of twenty-four months at a cost of $2,985 monthly with the total cost being divided equally between the City of West Covina and Los Angeles County. Councilman Lloyd: Mr. Aiassa, this really is a requirement of the agreements prior? In other words we are carrying forward something that had been agreed on a few years ago? Mr. Aiassa: It was agreed under the Joint Powers Agreement that the County would participate 50% for the maintenance cost and upkeep and we are just proceeding on that basis. Councilman Lloyd: How long ago were we first involved in this type of maintenance agreement? Mr. Aiassa: Last year. Councilman Shearer: What is the advantage or reason for a con- tract versus using our own additional park people? Mr. Aiassa: Staff has brought this matter to my atten- tion and would probably prefer to undertake the.'project but we do have to provide billing to the County and I feel if we have an outside contractor whom we pay .for specific services and the County has approved the con- s:2E CITY COUNCIL 5/22/72 Page Seven AWARD OF BIDS: NO. 72-83 tract and they know what the services are and I don't have to keep a set of extra accounts nor hire additional people fulltime, I feel is the better way to go. It is also a good advantage to have a contracting firm maintain certain landscaping, especially some of • the specimen trees that we have warranties on. If you have a professional contractor doing the maintenance and upkeepjit is a lot simpler for us to have that item replaced if it needs replacing. We also feel that in the number of personnel and staff needed to show a real true cost I would have to go into cost accounting at this time and at this time I would not want to start that when we are opening negotiations with the employees on fringe benefits and salaries. Also under this present plan both the County and the City know what their share of the cost will be so they can plan that amount in their budgets for the coming fiscal year. Motion carried, PUBLIC WORKS LIGHTING ASSESSMENT LOCATION: The Villas Annexation. DISTRICT 72-76 (Council reviewed the Engineer's report.) RESOLUTION NO. 4571 The City Attorney presented: ADOPTED 01A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF WEST COVINA, CALIFORNIA, APPROVING AND ORDERING THE FILING OF THE REPORT OF THE TRAFFIC AND LIGHTING .ENGINEER OF SAID CITY FOR THE INSTALLATION, THE FURNISHING OF ELECTRIC CURRENT, AND THE MAINTENANCE OF CERTAIN LIGHTING FIXTURES AND APPLIANCES IN STREET LIGHTING ASSESSMENT DISTRICT LAD 72-760 °° RESOLUTION .NO, 457.2 "A RESO.LUTION.OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF WEST COVINA, CALIFORNIA, DECLARING ITS INTENTION TO ORDER CERTAIN LIGHTING FIXTURES AND APPLIANCES ON CERTAIN STREETS AND PUBLIC PLACES IN THE CITY OF WEST COVINA, TO BE INSTALLED AND MAINTAINED, AND ELECTRIC CURRENT TO BE FURNISHED .FOR LIGHTING SAID FIXTURES FOR A.PE.RIOD OF FOUR (4) YEARS, COMMENCING JULY 1, 1972, and APPOINTING A TIME AND PLACE FOR HEARING PROTESTS IN RELATION THERETO." Motion by Councilman Chappell, seconded by Councilman Lloyd and carried, to waive full reading of the body of said Resolutions. Motion by Councilman Chappell, seconded by Councilman Lloyd, to adopt said Resolutions. Motion carried on roll call vote as follows; AYES: Councilmen: Shearer, Nichols, Lloyd, Chappell, Young NOES: None ABSENT: None HE AR T N(I- S UNCLASSIFIED USE PERMIT LOCATION: A .55 acre parcel on the north NO. 176/ VARIANCE side of Puente Avenue, 125 feet east of APPLICATION NO. 674 Azusa Avenue. MAX M. NEWMAN REQUEST: Approval of an unclassified use permit for a day care center for 114 children and approval of a variance to waive the required six-foot landscaping buffer strip adjacent to residential property for a pro posed day care center. Recommended by Planning Commission Resolution No. 2394. Called up by Council on April 24, 1972. Mr. Munsell, Planning Director, summarized Planning Commission Resolution No. 2394; slides shown of location and proposed building; also slides shown of traffic surveys made with regard to number of accidents at that location, number of cars at peak times of the day; also a comparison survey made at Sullivan Pre -School Center with regard to peak time of arrival, number attending, etc. 7 CITY COUNCIL 5/22/72 HEARINGS: UUP #176 & Var. #674 Page Eight THIS IS THE TIME AND PLACE FOR THE PUBLIC HEARING ON UNCLASSIFIED USE PERMIT NO. 176 and VARIANCE NO. 674a IN FAVOR • Gerald Ducott (Sworn in by City Clerk) 13906 Fuji Way Generally when we plan to put in a pre=school Marina del Rey in a neighborhood we usually have two main objections, 'one is noise and the other is traffic consideration. Historically we have found after we have our schools located that the neighbors find it is not a problem. In this case noise was never a problem due to the way we designed the building. On the east there is the building and parking lot and the easement separating us from the residential portion of the neighborhood, so consequently noise was never a problem. Traffic seems to be the main objection from the neighbors. A few points which will substantiate and tie in with the Engineering Department report. Our school opens at 6:30 A.M. The children arrive from 6:30 until 9 A.M. The majority arrive at 9 A.M. That is the beginning of our class period. Prior to that we are a child care center and we have the working mothers who bring their children prior to 9 A.M. This arrival time is spread over a period and basically we find between 6:30 and 7:30 A.M. is a peak period and between 8:30 and 9 A.M. the heaviest. We probably have 70/ of the children arriving at 9. At 12 the half day children are picked up and this is probably 30 to 40% of the children,° Then between 3 and 6 P.M. the balance of the children are picked up. We close at 6 P.M. Consequently traffic is spread over a large period of time' There is no big peak period for pick-up. The main traffic congestion according to your Engineers is around 8 A.M. Apparently due to the high school. We'have no conflict with this time. The recommendations and comments made by the Planning Commission,I feel are fair and reasonable and we have no comments with those. f IN OPPOSITION Howard Hatten (Sworn in by City Clerk) 4533 Roxburgh I have a letter from another man - a Covina resident of West Covina who lives on .Puente. This letter is from John Lawrence, 1814 East .Puente, West Covina and he asked that I read this' he is in Ohio. It may take a few minutes longer than. the 3 minutes, if I may be permitted to read this letter. (Permission granted ."Mr. Mayor and members of Council.,. Initially my neighbors and I would like to thank you for calling up the approval of the Unclassified Use Permit.' 'It is unfortunate that.I am unavoidably out of town during this hearing, However, I would hope that my feelings on this matter will be givEn the same consideration when read by proxy as if I were in attendance.' 9I certainly appreciate your giving con- sideration to this letter regarding my views on the proposed 100 plus Child Day Care Center being constructed directly across the street from my residence. I am not as certain as I might be on the procedure of the City Planning Commission, but it appears to me that the Com- mission had no jurisdiction for the approval of this permit, I have based this statement of the schedule of requirements listed on the form entitled "Public Hearing Items", issued by the Planning Commission, which must be met .in order to issue the permit. Three of the five re- quirements cannot be met by the applicant in his request for issuance of the permit.' 'Requirement A states "that the proposed use is both desirable and necessary at the proposed location." It is 8 CITY COUNCIL 5/22/72 Page Nine HEARINGS: UUP ##176 & Var. ##6 74 my feeling that a business of this type is not desirable in our neighborhood and the following facts prove that it is certainly not necessary. 1. Pioneer Elementary School, located at 3/10 of a mile from the property in question has been closed due to lack of enrollment. This school is now being used as an adult education center. 2. This Day Care Center is being proposed in an older, established area, where there will be little or no growth in the future. Although it is felt in the Analysis of Population Data which appeared in the Planning Commission agenda of April 19, 1972, that pDpulation in the West Covina area will be substantially increased by 1990, the growth will not be taking place within the area of the proposed Center.' This fact has already been pointed out by two members of the Planning Commission, who have both stated that future growth in West Covina shall be in the area South of the San Bernardino Freeway and that the Day Care Center should be considered for that area. 3. There are 65 Child Day Care Centers ,listed in the Yellow pages of the telephone book for the San Gabriel Valley. 31 of these were contacted by the Planning Commission telephone survey and 25 gave the information request- ed. 56% have openings. However, the most interesting aspect of this survey was not pointed out in the summary, that being; 5 of these Day Care Centers fall within a radius of 1 mile of the applicant's proposed Center. Further, 4 of these 5 have openings at the present time. Names and addresses of these Centers can be furnished if verification of this fact is necessary.' 'These facts would certainly tend to rule out the necessity of another Child Day Care Center in the immediate area.' 'Requirement B states "that the proposed use will not adversely affect the surrounding neighborhood." I feel that should this permit be approved, it will definitely have an adverse affect to our neighborhood® A business of this type could do nothing but depreciate the value of our property. A potential buyer of a home in our neighborhood, being of the average age of the current residents, would not likely have any pre-school age children and would not purchase in the area of a Child Day Care Center unless the purchase price were most reasonable., 'The only statement of fact that I can offer in support of this is the following., I phased our home on Puente Avenue 10 months ago. Prior to that purchase I investigated the zoning of the vacant lot across the street. It was zoned O-P. If, at that time, an Unclassified Use Permit had been previously issued, or had there already been a Day Care Center at that location, I most definitely would not have purchased my property, but would have looked elsewhe.reo° 'In summary, I wish to say, that if there was wisdom in zoning this parcel of land O-.P originally then I fail to see the wisdom of changing it over the objections of all the nearby residents. RL spectfully, J.W. Lawrence." Earl Cridland (Sworn in by City Clerk) 1826 East Puente Ave., I think 'the previous man stole some of West Covina the thunder I had written down. I am opposed to the Day Care Center for the following reasons: I think it is a definite traffic hazard as this is a single lane residential street. Traffic is heavy in the morning and afternoon because of the two schools. Last Tuesday I personally made a traffic count from 4:30 to 5 and counted more than -251 cars - which is more than 8 per minute. On top of that I feel there is no need for this Center in this area. The average family has been there for 8 to 12 years and their children have grown up and are past the age of elementary school. It is a settled area and no expansion will take place because the area is already developed; there is no more 9 CITY COUNCIL 5/22/72 HEARINGS: UUP #176 & Var. #674 Page Ten vacant land. The Planning Commission made a statement that in 1964 10% of the children in West Covina were under 52 years of age; in 1970 they said only 6.5 were under 5 years of age. Pioneer School is an adult school now, Coronado is to be closed at the end of the school year due to the declining enrollment. The School Board is • reducing staff by 25 teachers. This is the third year in a row that they have done this. Simiaar.Day Care Schools are finding it difficult to maintain a profitable student count. The largest one is Sullivan Pre -School and is only one-third full. They are forced to advertise constantly. I also understand that the mothers have to personally sign in the students each morning which means they just don't drop them off and take off, they will have to be there for 5 minutes at least. This is time consuming and will create a traffic tie up. I believe this type of building will depreciate property values in the area. I respectfully request that the City Council deny Unclassified Use Permit No. 176. John Pocius (Sworn in by City Clerk) 703 N. LaBreda I have heard a lot of things here today West Covina about this and one of the reasons I am opposed to it is that I live east of the building and I am tired of people - parking.`.by my place. I hear that 94 to 114 kids will be arriving - where are they going to park? In front of my house? If it goes through may I have a red curb there for no parking during business hours? And I understand the Palm trees are not going to come down so how can they get out7...1.,The only place left is in the backyard of Abbey Rentals and trucks are going in and out of there all day long. He mentioned there would be no noise and maybe it won't be noisy if they have a soundproof building, but with all those kids playing out all day long. My'main problem is the parking because they will be parking on the side of my house. Mrs. Sue Hatten (Sworn in by City Clerk) 4533 Roxburgh I also have a. letter that I would like Covina to read by proxy. This letter is from Mrs. Clarann Lawrence, 184.0 East Puente Avenue, West Covina. "Mr. Mayor and members of the Council: I would like to thank you for having sufficient interest in this matter to call it up and schedule this public hearing in order that I may voice my opinion., °In addition to the objections already voiced this evening, there is one more serious aspect to the approval. of the Unclassified Use Permit, that being the traffic situation on Puente Avenue. Prior to the public hearing by the Planning Commission on April 5, 1972, a traffic survey was conducted. The results were submitted in the Staff Report of April 5, 1972, and further broken down in the addendum to the Unclassified Use Permit Staff Report of April 1.9, 1972. The reports show that between 7 and 8 A.M. there are 424 automobiles traveling both east and westbound on Puente Avenue. Between 7:30 and 8:30 A.M. there are a total of 522.1 'While I feel that traffic surveys are extremely beneficial, they certainly are not indicative.of the actual situation on this street. Meters do not record bicycle or foot traffic and this must be done in order to see a true picture of the conditions as they exist today. I am quite sure that all of you are aware of the fact that Covina High School is a mere 2/10 of a mile from the proposed location of the Day Care Center and also that Puente Avenue and Hollenbeck Avenue are the two main arteries leading to the school. Our high school students walking or riding bicycles are already placed in an extremely hazardous position as Puente Avenue, east of Azusa Avenue�is almost totally void of sidewalks, forcing them to either ride or walk in the street. Any additional - 10 m CITY COUNCIL 5/22/72 HEARINGS: UUP #176 & Var. #674 Page Eleven traffic, in either direction can only put these children in a more dangerous position than now exists.' °In addition to this there are the resi- dents who face the daily problem of attempting to back out of their • driveway to go to work each morning. As mentioned above, there are totals of 424 and -522 automobiles on -Puente Avenue between 7 and 8 and 7:30 and 8:30. The present enrollment at Covina High School is 1,837. I would say, as a very conservative estimate that 350 of these students would constitute the bicycle and foot traffic on our street. When this figure is added to the automobile figures we come up with totals of 774 and 872 in two one -hour periods with the end result as follows: Between 7 and 8 A.M. a resident has exactly 5 seconds in which to back out of his driveway safely; between 7:30 and 8:30 A.M. he has less than 4% seconds.' "Requirement D of the conditions that must be met in order to obtain the Unclassified Use Permit states "that adjacent streets are adequate in size for the traffic that will be generated by the proposed use." I feel that the above figures clearly prove that Puente Avenue is not adequate in size for the existing traffic, let alone another 100 cars.' 'At this point I can only state that I sincerely wish we were gathered here to discuss providing sidewalks for our children°s safety rather than more automobiles to add to our children°s danger. Respectfully, Mrs. Clarann Lawrence." Mrs. Norman Goodheim (Sworn in by City Clerk) 709 LaBreda This is directly in back of the school, West Covina I have a particular problem in that I have a large swimming pool in my backyard which is fenced off but not insurmountable so far as industrious children are concerned. I have the problem now with the alley going in back of the pool, the kids going down the alley constantly toss things into the pool. This is bad enough but what really concerns me is a confrontation of youngsters directly in back of the pool. I can also foresee a problem in getting insurance right now. If I were the insurance company�I would not consider insuring my pool because of its :being directly in back of a school. Mrs. George Shahbaz (Sworn in by City Clerk) 715 N. LaBreda I am definitely against this school West Covina because we live directly back of Abbey Rentals; our back fence joins their fence. When they.showed the plan they stated the alley - which is an alley and not a street m that -here would be plenty of room for the mothers to park there, but that is a driveway and where are these cars going to turn around if they go up that alley -it leads to Abbey's Rentals? Also we will get a lot of noise. .Further we live on a cul-de-sac so these cars will be turning up our street and right now we have a problem of cars turning into the driveways. We have had our sprinklers broken many times by autos running over them. I am very much against it because of the noise and the traffic situation. REBUTTAL Mr. Ducott With regard to the lady with the,swimming pool. These are small children, ages 2 to 6 and they are enclosed in a fenced area and they are physically incapable of climbing over our fence, Also we do maintain a student teacher, ratio of 1 to 12, and they are closely supervised. Regarding the noise problem which wasn't brought up at the Planning Commission meeting so I didn't touch upon it. Basically when people think of'these children they think of a mom CITY COUNCIL 5/22/72 HEARINGS: UUP #176 & Var. #674 Page Twelve noisy playground and they see children playing organized games and screaming and yelling and they see the interplay by the children. Now we are dealing with pre-school children who tend to play by themselves in that they ride their tricycles, they play in the sand and they use water colors. There is some interaction but not • organized games. And the concern for the 114 children all outside at one time is wrong. The children do not go outside until 9 and we organize the schedule of the school so that half are inside at one time and half outside except in inclement weather when they are all inside. The reason for this is we have four groups in each classroom and generally we have two to two and a half classrooms. We leave two groups inside and they have the full use of a class room and the other half have the full use of the playground. We are forced by State requirements to have sufficient room inside for all the children. One group plays outside from 9 to 10:30 and the other group goes outside until approximately 11:30 or 11:45,at which time we begin to serve lunch. This takes approximately 1 hour. Some of the parents start picking up their children at 12 to 12:30. The nap takes place then to approximately 2:30 and they then have juice and then parents start picking up the children at 4:30 P.M. So basically you only have 4 to 6 hours with children playing outside and no more than half of our number would be outside at one time. The parking situation has been discussed with the.:.-P-lanning-., Department and they feel that it is adequate and I comply with this mainly, because we do not have full enrollment arriving all at -one time. When the mothers drop their children offs, they walk in, the Director meets the child and the process takes about a minute. The reason for the Planning Department moving our entrance 401 westward is they were concerned with the cars backing up onto the street and they felt they could add an additional four parking stalls, which I felt was a. good point. The traffic noiseI believe/has been covered. Demand - I appreciate the people's concern on the lack of demand. The Planning Department made a survey and they determined there was a demand and need for good pre-schools. Our facilities cost about $200,000 including the land, obviotis'ly we feel there must be a demand or we wouldn't be willing to spend this type of money. Thank you. THERE BEING NO FURTHER PUBLIC TESTIMONY PUBLIC HEARING CLOSED. THE CHAIR CALLED A RECESS AT 8:40 P.M. COUNCIL RECONVENED AT 8:55 P.M. COUNCIL DISCUSSION FOLLOWED, Councilman Lloyd: I am sure that the Council will remember my stand on the Sullivan School, which was a bit negative and I haven't changed my attitude on this. I am not disposed at --the present moment to go forward on this for several reasons, not the least of which is that any business that comes into the City of West Covina has to have a viable base. I am not really sure that this exists until there .is an overwhelming demand by the.people whose children reside in the reasonably close area coming in to this Council saying we really need this as a service to ourselves.and our community. Until such time I would have to say I am not favorably disposed to this and I will have to vote against it. Councilman Shearer: A number of arguments brought up this evening, most of which is in opposition and which I don't agree with. The question of traffic seems to be foremost on everyone's mind. The only difference between the proposed development and say a medical building or real estate office is that the pre-school,,by law/ requires an unclassified use permit. The owner of that property could go in and build a medical center. I made some calculations - 12 - CITY COUNCIL 5/22/72 Page Thirteen HEARINGS: UUP #176 & VAR. #674 here and the Planning Director has indicated based on the size of the property and the building requirements perhaps 7 medical suites could be built. If we assume an 8 hour day and two patients per hour that is 16 per day times 7 or 112. And if each doctor only has one nurser that is 14 more people or 126 minimum. Then you count the salespeople that come in and out and the doctors and nurses going to lunch, I think you come up with a figure equal to or in the same neighborhood of the number of vehicles that come into the school. Granted they will be distributed somewhat differently. The point I am trying to make is that someday there will be development on that property and it will generate vehicles, there is no question about that. There seemed to be an objection to noise perhaps somewhat less than traffic. Last night I visited a number of homes in the neighborhood of the Sullivan Pre-school, introduced myself and asked if they had experienced any noise problems and they said no they had not. One did say, like the lady with the swimming pool, that some of the children seemed to delight in throwing things over the wall into the pool, which I think would be an administrative supervision problem. The layout of the proposed school would make this a little difficult and if any'6 year old could throw from the play yard into the swimming pool I would like to have him come over and see me, I would like to sign him up for my Little League Baseball Team. The Sullivan School backs directly on to the adjacent property and even with that there was no adverse effect from the standpoint of noise. The only question that really I feel is yet unanswered is the one of need. An unclassified use permit does require the establishment of need for this type of facility. I frankly had not been convinced that there is a need for this type of facility - another pre-school. I read the information that was presented to`'._ the Planning Commission hearing with regards to vacancies in the various pre-schools in the area and it seemed to me there was quite a high precentage of vacancies throughout the existing pre-schools in the area. At this time on that basis and that basis alone, without regard to traffic or noise, because to me that is not an over-riding factor, but on the basis of lack of establishment for the need of this type of a facility I will vote "no". Councilman Chappell: I�too,have checked with some of the people in the Sullivan Pre-school area and there was no adverse comments, although we had a tremendous amount of it at the time of the hearing, people were really concerned. I would say if a development was being built for a profit I think I would like it to be a little closer to Amar and Azusa rather than up in this area due to the fact that it is a declining area for youth of" -this age. We know that from the various school attendances, a tremendous decline.in young children, due to the cost of residences. Young people can't move in and buy these homes. But in driving the street there could be a traffic problem. The street is laid out to the point where you could line up 6 or 8 cars waiting to get in and unload the children, but I don't think that would be of any great concern, as Council- man Shearer pointed out, if there was a real need for this facility ,anywhere in this area. Mayor Young: Is there any further comment? I believe the issue is settled. I think personally I would be somewhat inclined to go along although I am persuaded by the arguments of my fellow Councilmen, but I do feel the time will come when the development of that property will take place and whatever goes in there will cause a traffic problem and noise, but under the circumstances at present I would go along with Councilmen Shearer, Chappell and Lloyd. - 13 - CITY COUNCIL 5/22/72 HEARINGS: UUP #176 & VAR. #674 Page Fourteen Councilman Shearer: Mr. Mayor, one further comment. At such time that an application is made for approval of a precise plan for an office professional building, I would like to point out to the people who 10 have the concern for traffic and also parking, that a certain development can be built there as a matter of right and it will not be a matter for public hearing at that time. Motion by Councilman Lloyd, seconded by Councilman Chappell, to deny approval of Unclassified Use Permit No. 176 and Variance No. 674. Motion carried on roll call vote as follows: AYES: Councilmen: Shearer, Nichols, Lloyd, Chappell, Young NOES: None ABSENT: None ZONE CHANGE APPLICATION LOCATION: Northwesterly corner of Cameron NOS 4,67 and Glendora Avenues. VON°S GROCERY COMPANY REQUEST: Approval of a change of zone from C-2 (General Commercial) to S-C (Service Commercial) for a 51,300 square foot shopping center. Recommended by Planning Commission Resolution No. 2404. Mr. Munsell, Planning Director, summarized Planning Commission Resolution No. 2404; slides shown and explained with regard to location, building proposed, parking layout, etc. Mr. Munsell further stated that the zone change is at the request of staff to bring this up to the present code and the particular use could be placed in the C-2 zone which is now on the property. THIS IS THE TIME AND PLACE FOR THE PUBLIC HEARING ON ZONE CHANGE APPLICATION NO. .46.7. IN FAVOR James Stewart (Sworn in by City Clerk) 10150 Lower Azusa Rd. I represent Von°s Grocery Company and I E1 Monte would like to tell you that Von°s is the owner of the property; the development as proposed would consist of a Von°s Market and a Long°s Drugstore. We have developed our plan in compliance with the requirements of the City, having incorporated the Planning Staff°s recommendations and including more than the required parking. I have a rendering showing the type of architecture and construction we would have. Subject to approval by Council we are ready to proceed to build the Center. This would be something that would happen almost immediately after approval. (Showed rendering and explained materials and architecture.) So we are committing ourselves to build what we are representing. THERE BEING NO FURTHER PUBLIC TESTIMONY PUBLIC HEARING CLOSED. COUNCIL DISCUSSION. Councilman Lloyd: I think it looks like a good development and I am very pleased to see it come in, Councilman Shearer: I agree. I move that Zone Change Application No. 4.3 be approved. :Seconded by Councilman Chappell. Mayor Young: A question of Mr. Munsell. Is this going to have another of those model parking lots from the standpoint of landscaping that we viewed recently on a tour of the City? Mr. Munsell: Yes, this parking lot will have far in excess of what is normally required. We 14 CITY COUNCIL 5/22/72 HEARINGS: ZC #468 think it will be exceptionally nice. Page Fifteen Motion carried on roll call vote as follows: AYES: Councilmen: Shearer, Nichols, Lloyd, Chappell, Young NOES: None ABSENT: None 1971-72 SUPPLEMENTAL WEED & RUBBISH ABATEMENT PROGRAM PROTEST HEARING LOCATION: Various throughout the City. Set for hearing on this date for protests or objections from property owners and other interested parties by Resolution of Intention No. 4562 adopted May 8, 1972. (Council reviewed Engineer's report.) Mayor Young: 'Madam City Clerk, I don't have the exact format as to this particular hearing, I assume a motion is in order to receive and file affidavit of mailing. So moved by Councilman Chappell, seconded by Councilman Lloyd and carried. Mayor Young: Madam City Clerk, are there any written protests or objections? Lela Preston No, I have received none, City Clerk THIS IS THE TIME AND PLACE FOR THE PUBLIC HEARING OF TESTIMONY FOR OR AGAINST THE 1971-72 SUPPLEMENTAL WEED & RUBBISH ABATEMENT PROGRAM. THERE BEING NO PUBLIC TESTIMONY FOR OR AGAINST PUBLIC HEARING CLOSED. Moti.on..by..Counc-ilman Chappell, seconded by Councilman Lloyd and carried, to authorize City Engineer to proceed with abatement of weeds and rubbish on those properties described in Resolution of Intention No. 4562. AZUSA AVENUE SLOPE LOCATION: Azusa Avenue, adjacent to Tract EASEMENT No. 29126, PROTEST HEARING Set for hearing this date for protests by Resolution No. 4550 adopted April 24, 1972. (Council reviewed Engineer's report.) Mayor Young: Mrs. Preston, do you have the affidavits of posting and publication? Lela Preston: Yes, I do. City Clerk Motion by Councilman Chappell, seconded by Councilman Lloyd and carried, to receive and file affidavits of posting and publication. Motion by Councilman Lloyd, seconded by Councilman Chappell and carried to receive and file the Engineer's report. Mayor Young: Madam City Clerk, are there any written protests or objections? Lela Preston: No, I have not received any. City Clerk THIS IS THE TIME AND PLACE FOR THE PUBLIC HEARING ON THE AZUSA AVENUE SLOPE EASEM.ENTo THERE BEING NO PUBLIC TESTIMONY FOR OR AGAINST PUBLIC HEARING CLOSED. - 15 - CITY COUNCIL 5/22/72 Page Sixteen HEARINGS: Azusa Avenue Slope Easement RESOLUTION NO, 4573 The City Attorney presented: ADOPTED "A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF WEST COVINA ORDERING THE VACATION OF CERTAIN SLOPE EASEMENT ADJACENT TO AZUSA AVENUE . " Motion by Councilman Chappell, seconded by Councilman Lloyd and carried, to waive full reading of the body of said Resolution. Motion by Councilman Chappell, seconded by Councilman Lloyd, to adopt said Resolution. Motion carried on roll call vote as follows: AYES: Councilmen: Shearer, Nichols, Lloyd, Chappell, Young NOES: None ABSENT: None ORAL COMMUNICATIONS Harry Kaelin, Jr., Mr. Mayor and Councilmen - I hope I can 611 So. St. Malo get through this. I was asked to write it West Covina up and send it in to Council, however it is quite lengthy and I would like to read it to you. I might run over the three minute period. (No objections, permission granted.) In approximately 1965, various neighbors of mine in the 600 block of St.Malo St' -'..complain6d to the people in City Government a street drainage problem that we were having. The water drained from south Sandy Hook and Christopher Street entering an opening on Sandy Hook Road and after negotiating to approximately a 45 degree turn empties onto South Ste Malo Street. There are two catch basins underground, one at the second turn and the other just prior to the water entering onto St. Malo Street. Our calls to the City only instigated a program whereby the Street Department is supposed to flush out the system on Friday of each week. This problem also occurs whenever St. Christopher°s Church waters the playground. The water falls into the first 45 degree turn catch basin and does not completely drain. Likewise the St. Malo catch basin exit,: thereby setting up a perfect situation whenever it rains or the church waters their property, for mosquitoes to breed in the immediate area. At times when there are long periods of no rain and the weekly ? flushing action is not accomplished due to other priorities within the City, it has at times been neglected for periods of at least three weeks. I have personally contacted the City Engineer and the Street Main- tenance Department head for a solution but no action has been taken up until recently when I personally brought it to the attention'of Mr. Lippitt, the acting City Engineer, who in turn brought in Mr. Mayer to listen to my problem. They brought out City maps that showed the drain for Sandy Hook is not in its present position but according to the maps shows it running directly under properties in a westerly direction under the properties serving on St. M.alo Street and then going underground . of , S't�..:'.M'ald° Stieetciand going underground again and exiting on California Street, either into the drainage system or onto the street, they weren't sure. On the attached diagram, which is not to scale, it will show you various interesting things about the problem and my recommendation to the Engineering Department for two possible solutions and their solution which they think is the best and least costly, plus the fact they think they have enough money in some fund to complete the project except for one or two other problems which I will, go into when I give you their solution. My suggested solutions: 1 - to increase the opening on Sandy Hook from approximately 1 by 31 to 1 by 61. 2 - to raise the bottom of the first catch basin to the level of the two pipe exits towards St. Malo Street and install a directional flow wall from Sandy Hook pipe, which is approximately 1811 in diameter. 3 - raise the bottom of the second catch basin so it. -empties onto e1�:2E CITY COUNCIL 5/22/72 ORAL COMMUNICATIONS m Cont'd. Page Seventeen St. Malo Street, which is its natural gravitational flow. 4 (a) - install a leeching hole approximately 12 to 18" in diameter to the St. Malo basin to approximately 201 in depth. Soil samples will show this area, is very sandy, thereby eliminating standby water .in the catch basin thus eliminating the mosquitoes° b) my estimation that there is an 811 drop from point b ' whi\ch-:.- aould be the :first catch basin down to St. Malo Street which is approximately 1301 in length, there- fore the gravitational flow could be increased 2B1 prior to reaching St. Malo Street. There is also approximately a 6" drop from Sandy Hook to the first catch basin which could be increased 11' prior to reaching the first catch basin, increasing its gravitational flow and by increasing the opening on Sandy Hook from 1 by, 3 ° to 1 by) 61 would allow the water to run off faster thereby eliminating a back up of water at that corner. There is only one pipe approximately 18" in diameter carrying water from Sandy Hook and Christopher Street to the first catch basin and the two pipes approximately 12" in diameter carrying water from the first catch basin to St. Malo Street. My recommendation would be to increase these angles of flow approximately 101 from Sandy Hook entrance to the first catch basin and 21' from the first catch basin to St. M.alo Street with a directional flow installed at the first catch basin to divert the water in its proper direction and increasing its flow from its present condition at both points by at least 40 to 60%o Anytime water is diverted from its normal gravitational flow there is an appreciable reduction in its current speed unless it is given help and even then it is reduced somewhat. But under its present condition when the water reaches the first catch basin it must again build up a head of water to continue itsjourney. c) Mr. Lippitt and Mr. Mayer have come up with the following solution which they say has only three possible chances of not being able to be accomplished, 1. - make an opening in the junction of Sandy Hook Road and St. Christopher Street in the corner where those two streets would naturally drain into and then installing an underground pipe under Sandy Hook under existing property going north on the north side of Blue Ash Road and into the Flood Control. basin between Blue Ash Road and Walnut Creek Parkway. This would mean they would have to do what you would call make water run uphill, which -can be done, I agree. Their problems were as follows: 1 They need to get an easement from the property owners to go under the property. 2 m Get permission from the Flood Control District to empty into it at that point. 3 - Could they get the money for the project? And they both agreed there was enough money available for the project to be paid for out of city funds since it was strictly a city street and could get no funds from any.other agency for its own street problems. They figure the entire project would not run over four figures in cost or as they put it $26.00 per running foot. Conclusion: that the City Engineer's solution would take care of the fast running water situation but the delayed water action and free standing water problem with the mosquitoes would remain. My additional recommendation would be if the City Engineer's solution, is approved that the following recommendations be .included: A leeching pipe be .installed at the first catch basin and at the second catch basin. 2 - Along both sides of St. Malo Street smaller leeching pipes be installed wherever the gravitational flow on St. Malo is negligible-enough.:to require one. I. have talked to all my neighbors and they are wholeheartedly in agreement with this. Mayor Young: Thank you, Mr. Kaelino Frankly, a lot of this is way over my head, not being an engineer, I suspect maybe only Councilman Shearer gets the full import, I wonder .if it would be appropriate to have this report referred to staff for a study and a -. 1 CITY COUNCIL 5/22/72 ORAL COMMUNICATIONS - Cont°d. Page Eighteen report back to Council at an early date. We are talking about capital outlays here and a problem that I am sure exists and your report is certainly thorough. Motion by Councilman Lloyd, seconded by Councilman Chappell and carried, that the report submitted by Mr. Kaelin be referred to staff. Mayor Young: Mr. Kaelin, will you please type that report up and make it available to staff very shortly? (Mr. Kaelin agreed to do so.) CITY ATTORNEY ORDINANCE The City Attorney presented: INTRODUCTION "AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF WEST COVINA AMENDING THE WEST COVINA MUNICIPAL CODE SO AS TO REZONE CERTAIN PREMISES. (Zone change Application No. 465 ® Donald L. Mellman.) Motion by Councilman Chappell, seconded by Councilman Lloyd and carried, to: waive further--rea:dink if'-the_body­ mf-,the 'idihanceo Motion by Councilman Chappell, seconded by Councilman Lloyd,.to introduce said Ordinance. Councilman Lloyd: A question of staff. Hasn't Mr. Mellman been in before on this? Mr. Munsell: This is the property that the Tin L.izzie Restaurant is now being constructed on. The Zone Change was approved at the last Co.urici:l meeting to bring it in line with the new zoning requirement. Mr. kellman has been in on other pieces of property, mostly around Fairway Lane. Motion carried. ORDINANCE The City Attorney presented: INTRODUCTION 00AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF WEST COVINA AMENDING THE WEST COVINA MUNICIPAL CODE SO AS TO REZONE .CERTAIN PREMISES. (Zone Change Application No. 466 City Initiated.)" Motion by Councilman Chappell, seconded by Councilman Lloyd and carried, to waive- iirthef, eiAding_ of "the body of the ordinance. Motion by Councilman Chappell, seconded by Councilman Shearer, to}\ introduce said Ordinance. Motion carried. ORDINANCE NO. 1192 The City Attorney presented: ADOPTED "AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF WEST COVINA AMENDING SECTION 3190 OF THE WEST COVINA MUNICIPAL CODE .RELATING TO AN INCREASE IN MAXIMUM SPEED LIMITS, (Azusa Avenue.1B1 Motion by Councilman Chappell, seconded by Councilman Lloyd and carried, to waive further- reading of the -;body 'Of- -the ordinance. Motion by Councilman Chappell, seconded by Councilman Lloyd, to adopt said Ordinance. Motion carried on roll call vote as follows: AYES: Councilmen: Shearer, Nichols, Lloyd, Chappell, Young NOES: None ABSENT: None 18 -� CITY COUNCIL 5/22/72 CITY ATTORNEY - Cont°d. Page Nineteen ORDINANCE NO. 1193 The City Attorney presented: ADOPTED "AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF WEST COVINA AMENDING SECTION 3191 OF THE WEST COVINA MUNICIPAL CODE RELATING TO A DECREASE IN MAXIMUM SPEED LIMITS. (Azusa Avenue, Montezuma Way, Sandy Hill Drive, Golden Vista Drive.) Motion by Councilman Shearer, seconded by Councilman Chappell and carried, to waive full reading of the body of said Ordinance. Motion by Councilman Shearer, seconded by Councilman Chappell, to adopt said Ordinance. Motion carried on roll call vote as follows: AYES: Councilmen: Shearer, Nichols, Lloyd, Chappell, Young NOES: None ABSENT: None Mr. Wakefield: Mr. Mayor and Councilmen, this item is GUARANTEE SAVINGS & LOAN ASSDT. one which has arisen in connection with CALIFORNIA AVE. OFF�.RANY the condemnation proceedings presently, underway with reference to the Guarantee,: Savings and Loan.prbperty. The title report which the City pr:ig•inally received from the Title Insurance and Trust Company, indicated if the property which will be affected by the construction of the California off -ramp lying immediately to the west of the present Guarantee(. Savings & Loan were to be vacated it would all revert to Guarantee Savings and Loan and that Guarantee Savings actually own the underlying fee. At the first pre-trial hearing the attorneys for Guarantee Savings produced a title report by the Title Insurance and Trust Company which indi- cated that the underlying fee and a portion of that property would on vacation revert to Union Oil, which sometime past was the owner of this and a considerable amount of other property in the immediate vicinity. As a result the hearing which you held many months ago with reference to the vacation of the entire parcel of property that was proposed to be vacated would not accomplish its purpose because part of the property would then become owned by Union Oil rather than Guarantee Savings. So pursuant to a preliminary decision of the court I prepared a Resolution to vacate that portion of the property only which will revert to Guarantee Savings and Loan upon the completion of the condemnation proceedings. The vacati.on:i ll be effective when the final order of condemnation in the Guarantee Savings case is filed for record because the 'area to be vacated will result from the relocation of the street. It is not necessary to hold a public hearing. The resolution is before you this evening and Staff has prepared a slide if you would like to see it. From that it can be pointed out rather quickly what the problem is and what area is proposed to be vacated. . Mayor Young: Mr. Wakefield: So what is b proposed I' immediately west of the Mayor Young::: Mr. Wakefield: Is this resolution essentially a part of the litigation process or concurrent with it? It is the adoption of a resolution and the vacation of this property which is a part and parcel really of the litigation itself. (Slide shown and explained.) the resolution is the vacation of the area white parcel. (Pointed area out on slide.) without it their access to And this operates to the advantage of the City at this time to take this action? Yes, Mr. Mayor. The basic contention of Guarantee Savings is'that they are not required to accept this property, that (� California Avenue will be completely cut 19 m CITY COUNCIL 5/22/72 Page Twenty CITY ATTORNEY: Vacation of Property off and that they will be entitled to substantial severance damages which they claim exceed $40,000. So we think the adoption of this resolution will have the effect of restoring the title in the portion to be vacated to Guarantee Savings and leave the,remainder of the .parcel in the condition in which it is now with the public easement for street and highway purposes over it and Guarantee Savings will have the benefit of the use of that property as if it were a parkway strip. Mayor Young: Does that cut into Guarantee Savings claim for severance damage then? Mr. Wakefield: We hope so. Mayor Young: Are there any further questions by Council, or comments? RESOLUTION NO. 4574 The City Attorney presented: ADOPTED "A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF.THE CITY OF WEST COVINA VACATING AND ABANDONING A PORTION OF A STREET WHICH HAS BEEN SUPERSEDED BY RELOCATION (California Avenue)." Motion by Councilman Chappell, seconded by Mayor Young, to waive full reading of the body of said Resolution. Motion carried. - Motion by Councilman Chappell, seconded by Councilman Shearer, to adopt said Resolution. Motion carried on roll call vote as follows: AYES: Councilmen: Shearer, Nichols, Lloyd, Chappell, Young NOES: None ABSENT: None YOUTH ADVISORY COMMISSION Mayor Young: With the indulgence of the (City Mgr. Agenda Item) Counci..l,I see we have a long suffering Youth Advisory Commissioner in the audience awaiting the item that appears under the City Manager's agenda involving the request for $30,00 to cover the expense of two Commissioners to attend a conference in Berkeley. Councilman Shearer: Mr. Mayor, a question of the Commissioner. Is that going to get you there and back with the money you got from the Security Bank? (The Youth Advisory Commissioner stated it would.) At their meeting they were talking about slightly more than that and I want to make sure that this is enough. Sue Woodward We are taking the bus and it is only Youth Advisory Comm. $24.00 for the round trip. Councilman Shearer: Mr. Mayor, I would like to move that we appropriate sufficient money to fly the two Commissioners to Berkeley, unless these girls are afraid to fly. If you would rather ride the bus, I will be so guided. Having satthrough the meeting I think the project they have is very well worthwhile and I am glad to see them approach it in the manner they are and I don't believe it really supports the dignity of any Commissioner of the City to ride the bus. Councilman Chappell: I certainly agree. Councilman Lloyd: I agree aviation is the only way to fly. Councilman Shearer: I am sure the City .Manager can find enough money to supplement the $60.00 they are going to be given, and I would like to move that $70.00 be appropriated for this trip. 20 m CITY COUNCIL 5/22/72 CITY MGR.: Youth Advisory Commission Page Twenty-one Seconded by Councilman Chappell. Councilman Lloyd: Mr. Mayor, now we have to ask the key question. Mr. Aiassa, we can't fund any funds until you say they are there since this was not an original appropriation. Mr. Aiassa: That is right.. We would have to re- -apportion.:, funds from their salary account because we did not activate the Commission early enough. We do have a little reserve in that account. I personally can't recommend additional funds because I was trapped once before in this area. Councilman Shearer: Mr. Aiassa, you mean you can't find $40.00 additional out of a budget of seven million? I did not attend the League of California Cities and there was $125.00 in there for that and if you spent it somewhere else without my permission think you can dig up $40.00. Mr. Aiassa: That is not the question. I can raise the $40.00 but I need two motions from Council. One is to take the reserve funds still left in the Commissioners, salary account and transfer an adequate amount of money to cover the $70.00 into their expense account. Council is the only body that can authorize this. Mayor Young: When that money is transferred - you are not saying we will take away the $15.00 per month that they receive? Mr. Aiassa: No, they have enough to complete the fiscal year and all monies not appropriated fall back into the unappro- priated General Fund and normally we don't transfer funds from the salary account to goneral expenses unless it is an extreme emergency. So if I have a motion from Council authorizing the City Manager to transfer adequate funds from the salary appropriation account to the expense appropriation account of the Youth Advisory Commission that is the only motion I need. Councilman Shearer: Mr. Mayor, I will make a substitute motion that Council approve and direct the City Manager to transfer $70.00 from whatever funds he chooses to allow the'Youth Advisory Commission: to go to Berkeley. Seconded by Councilman Chappell. Mr. Aiassa: Mr. Mayor, I would like to have the City Attorney rule on the motion. Don't I have to identify the transfer? Councilman Shearer: Mr. Aiassa, you may fill in the blank spot. Mr. Wakefield: The motion would be to transfer the funds from the salary account for the Youth Advisory Commission to the expense account of the Youth Advisory Commission. Motion carried on roll call vote as follows: AYES: Councilmen: Shearer, Nichols, Lloyd, Chappell, Young NOES: None ABSENT: None 21 CITY COUNCIL 5/22/72 Page Twenty-two CITY MGR.: Youth Advisory Commission Councilman Shearer: Mr. Mayor, I have a further comment. All of this perhaps could have been avoided if our Youth Advisory Commission, whoever talked to Mr. Blake, had not been so conservative in their request. I know Mr. Blake personally® he is the father of.a very fine baseball player who plays on my team and he made a very generous offer on the part of the Security Bank last Monday night to assist within reason and he said last night at the ball game that he called up and said - what do you need, remember I said whatever was reason- able - and the answer was about $30.00. "1 jumped at the chance and said I would take it, fully expecting a much greater request on the part of the Commission." He went on further to say that he was surprised that the Youth Commission didn't feel well here we have a Bank let's hold them up for more and he made some very favorable comments about the attitude of the Youth Advisory Commission° I think we have a fine group there, not only in the matter of this project that they are working on, but their attitudes and their willingness to ride, the bus and their willingness to be very conserva- tive in their request of funds. It all .goes to show that we made a fine choice in selecting the five that were selected. Mr. Aiassa: Mr. Mayor, one further motion is needed authorizing the two members of the Youth Advisory Commission to attend the Berkeley meeting at City expense. So moved by Councilman Shearer, seconded by Councilman Lloyd and carried. CITY ATTORNEY AGENDA UMARK, INC., Mr. Wakefield: Mr. Mayor and members of BILL OF SALE Council, in connection with this item I have a Resolution pertaining to the Bill of Sale for the water transmission Lines. RESOLUTION NO. 4575 "A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE ADOPTED CITY OF WEST COVINA ACCEPTING A BILL OF SALE FROM UMARK, INC., A DELAWARE CORPORATION, FOR WATER LINE FACILITIES AND DIRECTING THE RECORDATION THEREOF.06 Motion by Councilman Chappell, seconded by Councilman .Lloyd and carried, to waive full reading of the body of said Resolution. Mr. Wakefield: These are additional facilities which have now been constructed. The water transmission ,lines in question are in Shadow Oak Drive to Amar Road and on Amar Road to Gemini Street. These are a part of the Master Plan of Development of the water system and are included within the terms of the original agreement between the City and Umark, Inc. Motion by Councilman Chappell, seconded by Councilman Lloyd, to adopt said Resolution. Motion carried on roll call vote as follows: AYES: Councilmen: Shearer, Nichols, Lloyd, Chappell, Young DOES: None ABSENT: None AT 9:50 P.M. THE CHAIR DECLARED A RECESS IN THE COUNCIL MEETING IN ORDER TO CONDUCT THE REDEVELOPMENT AGENCY MEETING. COUNCIL RECONVENED AT 9:59 P.M. CITY MANAGER AGENDA MILLS BILL FOR FEDERAL Mayor Young: A telegram was REVENUE SHARING (H.R.11950) sent to our local 22 - 0 CITY COUNCIL 5/22/72 Page Twenty-three CITY MGR.: MILLS BILL (H..R.11950) Congressmen regarding the Mills Bill m are there any further comments? Motion by Councilman Shearer, seconded by Councilman Chappell, to receive and file. Councilman Lloyd: A question of Mr. Aiassa. Does this require any further action? (Mr. Aiassa answered: No, it does not.) Motion carried. REQUEST FOR LEAVE OF Motion by Councilman Shearer, seconded ABSENCE WITHOUT PAY by Councilman Lloyd and carried, to BY IRENE HARDIN approve the request for Leave of Absence without pay for Communications Operator Irene Hardin for the period beginning June 1, 1972, and ending June 1, 19730 Councilman Chappell: Mr. Mayor m may we add ;td!-hat^moton that we wish her God speed in her recovery. Mayor Young: Thank you, Councilman Chappell, I am sure that echoes all of our sentiments. AUTHORIZATION TO DIRECT Mayor Young. Mr. Aiassa, I don't STAFF & PERSONNEL BOARD believe we have a staff TO CREATE THE POSITION report on this item. OF DEPUTY FIRE CHIEF Mr. Aiassa: No, Mr. Mayor. A very brief report to Council that the Personnel Board will be working directly with staff to prepare a job descrip- tion and it will be approved by the Personnel Board and the City Council and this will not be effective until the 1972-73 budget. As Council knows, our present Fire Chief is .recovering from a serious knee operation and I do need somebody in second command as I have in the Police .Department and other Departments'of the City. We have held off on this because of the three platoon system© The position of the Deputy Fire Chief will also carry the responsibilities and duties of the Battalion Chief,; so he is actually a working Chief. Mayor Young: There will be a differential in pay and a classification all of its own? Mr® Aiassa: Yes,,,and eventually it will'be a position of its own. Mayor Young: Are there further comments or questions from Council? Councilman Shearer: Yes, I don't like the process, and that is not to say that at some point in is time I won't vote to establish the position of Deputy Fire Chief. But the recommendation to direct the staff and Personnel Board to create the position of Deputy Fire Chief, that phraseology just rubs me the wrong way. We are directing the Personnel Board to do something. I think the Board should initiate it and if their recommendation, after hearing the position of the Fire Chief, the City Manager and everyone concerned, is ffor Council to create this position then let them make it, but not that we first direct them to do something. I don't think that should be the role between the Council and the various Boards and Commissions. 23 0 I CITY COUNCIL 5/22/72 Page Twenty-four CITY MGR.: Deputy Fire Chief Positiai Mr. Aiassa: All we are really doing is asking Council to authorize Staff to present to the Personnel Board the need to create this position and we are outlining all the needs and demands of the position. The purpose of this is the Personnel Board does review all job classifications and positions. If you want to reword it just authorize staff to submit to the Personnel Board the creation of a position of Deputy Fire Chief. Mayor Young: Is that necessary, Mr. Aiassa? (Answered: Yes) Ordinarily wouldn't the Staff, if they felt this need, initiate something without direction from City Council? Mr. Aiassa: is created in necessary. If position then Mayor Young: it and then we that there is the future? The normal procedure is that I would not do this until budget time and I want to save some time, so if the position the 1972-73 budget I can allocate the appropriations the Personnel Board and Council does not approve the there would be no point in setting up any allocations. Well l isn't your purpose served by Council simply receiving this as an informational item and receive and file won't be jolted out of our skulls when we find out such a recommendation when it comes to the Council in Mr. Aiassa: All right- The only thing is the Board is an agency to the Council and not to the City Manager in the line of command. Mayor Young: So you would want a.motion to authorize the Staff to bring it before the Personnel, Board. So moved by Councilman Lloyd. Councilman Shearer: I don't want to belabor the point but not long ago we set up the position of Apprentice Fireman and we didn't authorize Staff to do that. If that is a requirement of our Ordinances,I would like to have it changed. If we have to authorize Staff to make a recommendation as important as.this/ . it seems like we are getting the cart before the horse. I am going to vote "no" as a matter of principle. Councilman Chappell: I will second the motion. Councilman Nichols: Mr. Mayor - I was going to say the point that Councilman Shearer has raised is a very valid point. It is not a minor thing at all. It hits at the heart of the Council°s relationship with all the various Boards and Commissions of the.City and if these bodies must receive directives from the Council in the form this was submitted to us/there is room for misunderstanding. On the other hand,I don't exactly concur that Staff should move ahead with these bodies that are agents of the Council and make proposals to them without maintaining communication with Council. So I think the issue raised here is between the two areas. I, think it is Staff°s obligation to provide this information to Council as an advisory item, that they would like to go before a Board or Commission with certain recommendations which in due time will come back to the Council. At that point if we have an objection ewe can speak up, otherwise the normal course of events can occur. So I would like to see these things come before the Council as advisory in nature and not as a directive. - 24 - CITY COUNCIL 5/22/72 CITY MGR.: Deputy Fire Chief Position Mayor Young: the Personnel Board. • to authorize the City this issue. If there call vote on this. Motion carried on AYES: Councilmen: NOES: Councilman ABSENT: None AUDIT REPORT 1970-71 Page Twenty-five We11JI am sure from all these comments that the city management would feel secure at this point in approaching We have a motion before us which is essentially Staff to proceed to the Personnel Board with is no further comment,, I: will tequest a'.toll roll call vote as follows: Nichols, Lloyd, Chappell, Young Shearer Mayor Young: The ,next item before you is the Audit Report. Is there comment or'question? Councilman Lloyd: I•have no discussion. It is a beautiful audit report, but I am a little bit like you while listening to the St. Malo flow of water, I understand it about the same as I understand the St. Malo report. I am sure it is all reasonable and correct and this outfit in San Francisco has done an extremely fine job except simply stated Mr. Aiassa - did we end up with money or didn't we end up with doney? What is our financial position? Mr. Aiassa: We are in the black. I will be happy to sit down with one or two Councilmen at a time and briefly state the details of the audit report. This does tie in with your budget hearings, because most of the accounts shown and the breakdowns shown from last year's fiscal year are in relation to the budget. Councilman Nichols: Mr Mayor - would it be inappropriate to hold this over to the first budget session and have a briefing at that time on this? Mayor Young: I think we could receive and file it now and have it brought before us at the budget hearing and explained further. So moved by Councilman Nichols,. seconded by Councilman Lloyd and carried. PRESENTATION OF Mayor Young asked if all Councilmen -had PRELIMINARY BUDGET a copy of the proposed budget hearing AND SCHEDULE OF BUDGET schedule? Mr. Eliot, Controller, passed HEARINGS out copies to those that did not have their copy with them. Prior to getting into a discussion on the scheduled dates the Chair called a recess. COUNCIL RECESSED AT 10:10 P.M. COUNCIL RECONVENED AT 10:19 P.M. Council discussed proposed schedule for budget hearings; some dates had to be changed due to other commitments by Councilmen. Final Budget Hearing Schedule: Thursday, May 25, 1972 at 4 P.M. in the Council Chambers; June 5 at 4 P.M., and June 8 at 4 P.M. If Budget Hearing not completed on those three dates a tentative date of June 15th was set for final hearing. EMERGENCY MEDICAL Mayor Young: Council has received a SERVICES - PARA-MEDICS written report on this PROGRAM FOR FIRE DEPT. item. - 25 - iCITY COUNCIL 5/22/72 Page Twenty-six i,CITY MGR. AGENDA - Cont°d. Councilman Nichols: I think it is an excellent proposal and I move that authorization be given to staff to tentatively reserve the next available time at Harbor General Hospital for training firemen • for one rescue unit. This action is subject to Council approval in the 1972-73 budget. Seconded by Councilman Shearer and carried. ADMINISTRATIVE ANALYST Mr. Aiassa: This is just informa- POSITION VACANCY tional. I am short two Analysts on my staff so if Council will have patience with the processes in my office - I am recruiting for one Analyst's position. RESOLUTION NO. 4576 The City Attorney presented: ADOPTED "A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF WEST COVINA COMMENDING RICK OAKLEY FOR HIS SERVICES TO THE CITY..? RESOLUTION NO. 4577 "A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF WEST COVINA COMMENDING ALEC ANDRUS FOR HIS SERVICES TO THE CITY." Motion by Councilman Chappell, seconded by Councilman Lloyd and carried, to waive full reading of the body of said Resolutions. Motion by Councilman Chappell, seconded'by Councilman Lloyd, to adopt said Resolutions and that they be perma plaqued. Motion carried on roll call vote as follows: AYES: Councilmen: Shearer, Nichols, Lloyd, Chappell, Young NOES: None ABSENT: None Councilman Nichols: Mr. Mayor, I would like to bring up the thought that if we move for the adoption of a resolution commending someone that the resolution automatically be perma-plaqued, and this would save this question coming up constantly. I move that the Council consider all roll call resolutions of commendation adopted be perma�plaqued unless otherwise stated. Seconded by Councilman Lloyd and carried. MAYORS REPORTS REVISED COUNCIL Mayor Young: I think most of you LIAISON APPOINTMENTS have had an opportunity to review the most recently suggested appointments. Are there any objections to these appointments as they now stand? Councilman Nichols: I might make one point, Mr. Mayor. It is late enough in my year now, since we have hesitated around for a month or longer, that I could take the Planning Commission meetings, and if Councilman Lloyd will just flat out trade with my Human Relations assignment I would be happy to accept the Planning Commission assignment. Councilman Lloyd: Fine, the only problem I face is in the summer I am free to attend because I teach a class on Wednesday night during the balance of the year. I have exactly the same problem you have. - 26 - CITY COUNCIL 5/22/72 Page Twenty-seven MAYOR'S REPORTS - Cont°do Councilman Nichols: Well)I am overdue and if the Mayor will accept that one additional . modification placing Nichols on the Planning Commission and Lloyd on the Human Relations Commission? • Mayor Young: That is certainly acceptable to me. We might shift the alternate then and put Councilman Lloyd on the Planning Commission as alternate and then you two gentlemen can trade it back and forth. So this will.. -be the appointments as modified. Councilman Lloyd: With regard to the West Covina School Board - I see that it is included again and it may be your personal desire to attend, but I thought we had a recognition of the fact that there was more than one school board that impinges in the City of West Covina? Mayor Young: It seemed like the polite thing to keep it on the list and put the person down that would least likely attend the meetings, which would be myself, except I would attend if there was an item of importance, which my wife will keep me informed on. I thought this better than abruptly dropping it. Councilman Lloyd: Fine, but didn't we have a discussion on this? Mayor Young: Yes, informally we did. Mr. Aiassa: Mr. Mayor when you and I discussed it, it was that you would take the initiative on what Board meetings you would attend and report back to the Council items of importance. (Mayor Young agreed.) (.Mr. Aiassa questioned .if Mr. Shearer was to be removed as Planning Commission alternate and Mayor Young said "yes" and he could become the Human Relations Commission alternate.) Councilman Shearer: Then I have a question which only con- cerns tomorrow night. Councilman Chappell,.are you planning on attending Recreation & Parks Commission meeting tomorrow night - I was but as of now I am no longer there. Councilman Chappell: No, I was not planning on attending tomorrow night because I had another appointment set up prior to this change received today. Councilman Shearer: If Councilman Nichols has no objection as the alternate ,I will plan on being there. (Councilman Nichols agreed.) Mayor Young: Of course) we can all attend any of the meetings. Councilman Lloyd: I think something further should be expressed here, Mr. Mayor. Whatever the intent was in the appointing of these various meetings.since none of us happen to be the Fire Commissioner or Police Commissioner or whatever© it is strictly a - t27 - CITY COUNCIL 5/22/72 Page Twenty-eight MAYOR'S REPORTS - Cont°d. liaison thing, the intent is to provide some sort of a liaison concept wherein this Council will have greater exposure to the Commissions. I don't fEE1 any hesitation whatsoever if I should attend a Planning Commission meeting at the same time Mr. Nichols • does and don't show up at a Human Relations Commission meeting if I feel it is more important to do so. (Council agreed.) Mr. Aiassa: One further comment. I am going to make all.mailings to the person that is the representative the responsibility of that Department. Councilman Lloyd: Peace. Don't mail me anything. I am tired of receiving a packet with 54(,' postage paid on it,, -It is just a waste of money,- I am here in City Hall often enough. Mr. Aiassa: I thought we hand delivered them, but maybe you are a special case. Councilman Lloyd: No, I don't think so, I get them from the Planning Department..by mail. TRAFFIC COMMITTEE Mayor Young: One item brought to DIRECTIVE my attention which I would like to have referred to Staff and specifically the Traffic Committee/ is the intersection where Roseway opens out onto Sunset Avenue. The citizen complaint is that owing to the parking at the medical center there, when you come out of Roseway during normal business hours you have to edge quite way out on the street and it is a very fast street, in order to determine whether or not it is clear and sometimes you edge out too far and accidents occur. The request has been made that parking be eliminated far enough back on Sunset Avenue to give a good view to the traffic coming from the south. I would appreciate the Traffic Committee looking into that. and doing a survey on it. Mr. Aiassa: Will Council direct the Traffic Committee to doing a survey on that location? So moved by Mayor Young, seconded by Councilman Lloyd and carried. Mayor Young: One further comment. I think you had it brought to your attention that the Maddox horse problem is solved. The horse is gone. (Read from the report.) We do have a suggestion from staff regarding Council liaison to SCAG and Mr. Lloyd is the SCAG representative on the annual appointment. Mr. Aiassa: Mr. Mayor, we have no problem. I just related to you the issues that were going to be of major importance. We just wanted to keep Mr Lloyd posted, Mayor Young: That is all I have, except I will request a Personnel session a little bit later this evening regarding the appointment of Commissioners. COUNCILMEN°S REPORTS/COMMENTS None. CITY COUNCIL 5/22/72 Page Twenty-nine DEMANDS Motion by Councilman Lloyd, seconded by Councilman Shearer, to approve Demands totalling $605,151.31 as .listed on Demand Sheets C824 through 827 and B529(a). This total. includes payroll and time deposits. Motion carried on roll call vote as follows: AYES: Councilmen: Shearer, Nichols, Lloyd, Chappell, Young NOES: None ABSENT: None THE MAYOR CALLED A ,PERSONNEL SESSION TO DISCUSS APPOINTMENT COMMISSIONERS AT 10:48 P.M. COUNCIL RECONVENED AT 10:57 P.M. ADJOURNMENT Motion by Councilman Shearer, seconder` by Councilman Chappell and carried, to adjourn at 10:58 P.M. to May 23, '97? at 4 P.M., in the Council Chambers. ATTEST: CITY CLERK APPROVAL: MAYOR - 29 -