04-07-1975 - Regular Meeting - MinutesMINUTES OF THE ADJOURNED REGULAR MEETING OF CITY COUNCIL
CITY OF WEST COVINA, CALIFORNIA
APRIL 7, 1975.
The adjourned regular meeting of the.City Council called to order
• at 4:34 P.M. in the City Manager's Conference Room at City Hall
by Mayor Ken Chappell.
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Present:
Absent:
Mayor Chappell; Councilmen: Browne,
Miller, Tice
Chester Shearer
Others Present: George Aiassa, City Manager
Lela Preston, City .Clerk
Fire Chief Wetherbee
Leonard Eliot, Controller
Bat. Chief Harold Schwartz
Chuck Bahn - Firemen's Assoc;
Mark Landsbaum - Staff Reporter, S.G.V.D.T.
PRESENTATION BY REPRESENTATIVES OF THE LOS ANGELES COUNTY FIRE
DEPARTMENT RE POSSIBILITY OF A CITY -COUNTY MERGER OF FIRE
DEPARTMENTS.
Batt. Chief Raymond Brunston: Gentlemen, we are here this evening
County Fire District at your request to answer any
questions that.you may have regard-
ing the services of the Consolidat-
ed Fire Protection District of Los Angeles County. The County Fire
District serves 36 cities, has an assessed value of approximately
five billion dollars; accounts for about two-thirds of the County
Fire Departments; the other one-third being the forestry and fire
warden. Anytime we appear in a city as we are here this evening,
we appear as your guests and we are here at your pleasure strictly
to answer questions, to sell nothing. We provide fire protection to
cities and the unincorporated areas of the county and the mountainous
brush areas of the county.
It is my understanding that the general
idea of this meeting is for you to gain information as to how a sur-
vey is made by the Consolidated Fire District for an independent
city and what processes are used for annexing to the District. Do I
understand the nature of the meeting?
Mayor Chappell: Yes, the nature of the meeting is to
provide us with material to see if we
are interested in pursuing further or
continuing,on with whato we are doing now. And also' we are interested
in the process of how.you go about making this study.
Batts Chief Brunston: It has been our experience that the
most important aspect of a city
analyzing its fire protection needs
and the ways of fulfilling those needs is an economic.comparison in
_•general. You have one very hard fact and that is the -economics of
it and on the other hand you have a very emotional aspect and that is
called "local control". It is my position and the Department's
position that local control does not suffer at the handsof the County
Fire Department. We believe in -cities and local political repre-
sentation of people. I live in a city and the people with me live in
cities and we like to be represented at the local level. The citizens
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needthat kind of representation. Whether or not you buy your service
f_om the County Fire District, Sears & Roebuck, or anybody else who
provides fire service., including yourself, really is almost immaterial
as it relates to local control.. It is very very material as it
relates to the economics. I ran off just before I left tonight, what
the district tax rate would have generated in your city for this
• year and based on your assessed value it comes out just almost exactly
one and one—fourth million dollars. Now I do not know what the cost
of your city fire protection is therefore I cannot make a comparison,
but I thought it would be interesting for you to have what the district
tax levy would have been for this year.
Our Department in the last 6 months has
done a lot of studying in terms of mutual aid and automatic aid.
Those studies have caused us to look at cities such as West Covina,
Covina and Azusa and try and imagine how they would fit in to the
response patterns and complement the Consolidated Fire District and
how the District could complement the fire equipment within these
cities. The major conclusion from the comparisons is always that
the fire service in the L. A. metropolitan area is.interdependent,
whether you admit it or not.- You maybe an independent city and may
want to spend two, three or twenty times more than you would if you
were in the District, and I..don't know what you do spend, but regard—
less of what you do you are dependent upon your neighbors for fire
protection, especially during the fall months of the year when the
winds are strong from the north, or if you have a fire in one of
your major structures within the city. That is the reality of the
situation. Fire service is interdependent. You get out on the
freeway and you go through five cities and in three of those cities
you can get a paramedic on the freeway to help you and in two you
can't. You don't know when you are in the three cities or in the.
two cities. And that is another reason.on the side of interdependence
in emergency service in the metropolitan area.
I am reasonatrly familiar with the
boundaries of your city, I`do know that about 75% is contiguous
with the boundariesof th.e Consolidated Fire District. That tells
me that your fire service and our fire service are Ivery closely
related — whether you like. it or not and whether we -like it or not,
that is a fact. Your citizens walk across the boundaryline, they
don't really care where they are as long as when they need help
somebody helps them. So the fire service is inter —related.
The eoonomic facts involved you must determine for yourself.
If you show interest and have any
desire of obtaining service from the Consolidated Fire District
for your citizens the first move you would make would be to send a
Resolution of Intent to the Board of Supervisors of L. A. — they
are the governing body of the Fire District. The District serves
approximately two million people. The conditions 'underwhich you
would annex to the District in general have been the same since
Signal Hill came into the District in 1957. The independent cities
that have annexed to the District in the last 15 years are: Signal
Hill, Glendora, Maywood, Bell, Huntington Park and we•have a
scheduled target date of May 1 for the City of South Gate. And the
City of Whittier, Claremontand Lynwood are presently very seriously
considering annexing to .the District. I believe it would be fair
• in most cases to say that the city administration has looked at it
from a straight hard line of economics. Almost every city
emotionally would like to own their own, but again they cannot
divorce themselves from interdependence. They can make their streets
as wide or narrow as.they want to; build what kind of buildings they.
want — local controlis still there — fire engines have wheels and
can go 20 miles down the road, most of them are painted red and do
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the same job whAn they get there and the citizensreally don't
know the difference. After the Resolution of Intent comes an
agreement specifying the conditions of annexation to the District.
That is a legal agreement between you gentlemen -'the City
Council of West Covina and the Board of Supervisors_.act_ing as the
governing body of the Consolidated Fire District.. .The.areement
• specifies the blanketing in or absorption of your fire�9090-artment
personnel, it specifies deeding your fire stations to .the`Consoli-
dated District with a reversionary clause that says if the District
ceases to use any particular fire station or the city withdraws from
the District that property or fire station reverts to the city.
The agreement calls for maintenance of the station in good condition
by. the District. The agreement calls for the apparatus in service
within the city to be appraised, a specific amount articulated within
the agreement and a paragraph that says if the city withdraws you
may either take that specified amount articulated in the agreement or
you may take fire apparatus of comparable make, size, model and age.
The agreement tries to provide for the ins and outs, There is a time
requirement.
In the past the Board of Supervisors
has utilized -the Health and Safety Code -and required that a city be
in the District for. ten years. I think we all understand that in a
period of ten years you may build one fire station or'change the
alignment of stations so it really is not too long of a.,,time. With
the City of South Gate we have provided an exception to that policy,
which rather than an exception I am sure will become a general rule,
that being that.the city must annex for a period of five years. To
put it very plainly if you are in five years and satisfied I don't
think it is any different than being in ten years... .The only thing
ten years seemed to do was scare people. The provision for
South Gate states that after five years by a 4/5ths vote of the
governing body of the City or the District the City.may be forced to
withdraw from the District. Which means if for some reason during
the second five years that city became an economic burden on the
District the Board by a 4/5ths vote could have that city withdraw
from the District and require you to start your own fire department
again. Probably the best current example of what could become an
economic burden would be a Community Redevelopment.Agency where the
funds from the various taxing agencies are drained into the
Redevelopment Agency. It is becoming a moderate problem for us.
That would be one small example.
I think I have fairly well capsulized
what we provide, how a city,gets into the District and some of the
conditions, that I am sure have raised questions in your minds.
Ass't. Chief Fry: I would like to clarify one thing.
County Fire Department He did mention we are.here at the
request of you gentlemen but before
we can go any further on this matter we have to have specific
official direction from the Board of Supervisors. So the normal
procedure, if you are interested in an annexation proposal, you
would direct a •letter to the Board of Supervisors requesting that
the Consolidated Fire District submit a proposal for.'f.ire services
for the City of West. Covina and then ifthe Board so acts they would
direct us to initiate this study and that would be our authority.
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Councilman Browne:
economic costs answering some
may be interested in without
parties and at great cost - I
Before such action is taken by
eitherbodies, have you in the past
had surface studies relative to the
of the pertinent questions that we
delving in depth on the part of both
am sure .basically we would want to
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know what the dollar cost would be based on assessed evaluation; how
you go about assuming the capital investments that we have — the
transfer of it; —it was stated it could revert back at like cost
and like equipment, however we have an inflationary situation on our
hands right now and today's value would be far different in five or
ten years from now. Another is the integration of personnel. We
• have some pretty long tenured people. I would want to see them pro—
tected. When they are absorbed into your body I understand they have
to go through rigid physical examinations and in the City of
Huntington Park I know there were two or three that were just
absolutely retired on the spot with possibly five to. eight years
more to go on the Huntington Park Department. These things are
very pertinent matters; it is not only the economics but also the
welfare of the city. Will we get like. protection at equal cost?
It relates into the management personnel also — how they are absorbed,
etc. I think all of these questions should be answered before we as a
body pass a resolution asking for a complete study.
Batt. Chief Brunston: I think we got the Resolution of Intent
and the study a bit mixed up here
because everything you just asked would
be answered. The study we are talking about is not a complicated
thing. It answers just exactly what you just asked and that. is what
it is for — it is something for you to consider so you have
something in writing rather than what we are doing this evening —
verbally discussing the subject in generalities.
Councilman Tice:
I am interested in one factor — some
of the specific elements that go into
this study.
Ass't. Chief Fry: As stated it is not a complicated
thing but it does require time and
effort to put a package together,
and we have to compile it by securing data from your. city. We
have to have your fire department budget before we -can make any
cost estimates and cost projections. We have to make an estimate
of your fire protection configuration coverage now,'the location of
your stations, the type of buildings you have and what would be the
best use of these with what we have available. These points that
you mentioned are very significant and they do make up the major
parts of the study. The blanketing of personnel,the rank distribu—
tion, and what we are saying is we don't have the resources, the
personnel to make.up.this type of package for you without the
authority of the Board of Supervisors directing us to do it. It is
time consuming and we hope that you would be serious about this
before we embark on.it, that you would be seriously considering
annexing to the Fire District and we would not be preparing a big
study for you to use to compare with something and you are not
really interested in annexing.
Councilman Tice: Of course you are aware that we have
been looking into a tri=city fire
operation.
Ass't Chief Fry: Yes. These questions of financing the amount of revenue that would be
. generated by the District tax rate in
your city — with your City Manager and your fire department budget
he could provide some of these basic estimates for you relating to
comparable costs. And the comparison of blanketing in personnel —
we have set a pretty general pattern in annexing these other cities,
we assure you that the personnel will be treated fairly. It is our
policy, however, that we won't bring in officers or promoted positions
into the Department to the extent they would exceed those officers or
promoted positions that would be required to maintain fire protection
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within the city once annexed. In other words if we were to keep
only three stations in the city we would keep.only the number of
captains necessary to maintain those three stations. Most of the
Chiefs of the smaller communities, depending on the type of fires
we would be fighting, in South Gate for example the Chief is coming
over as a Batt. Chief, and their Assistant Chief is coming in as a
captain.
Councilman Tice:
year period?
In your projected cost projections
do you have anything.in there as an
inflationary factor for the next five
Ass't. Chief Fry: The only thing we can do is make an
estimate based on the information we
have and this is very, difficult to do.
We don't know what will happen with the Fair Labor. Standards Act — if
this is implemented.next year this may mean as much as 5o on our tax
rate. We don't know what the total impact of inflation will be on
our tax rate next year. It is very difficult to project an estimated
tax rate for next year; we do know if the Fair Labor Standards Act
is implemented this could run as much as 5o on our tox rate. This is
being reviewed now by the Supreme Court and the optimistic thinking
is that there Will be a decision out by early summer.
Councilman Browne:
What is your current charge back to a
city?
Batt. Chief Brunston: .7587o per hundred for this year.
That is the Consolidated Fire Protec—
tion District tax rate and that covers
everything. Forestry and fire warden is about one-third of the
Department and is a general fund function of the County of L.A. and
is a legally separate organization, budgeted separately, the District
and the Fire Warden are however operated a's a single..operational
agency to the benefit of the citizens in the District and the benefit
of the citizens of the County of L.A. In general you pay a general
fund tax which you are now paying.
Mayor Chappell: You have taken in a number of cities
and I am sure they had all levels of
proficiency, response time, and things
of that nature — then you throw them all in a hat and bring them to
a level and then down to a level — what level do you use in that
instance?
Batt. Chief Brunston: The easiest way to state is to say to
a dwelling fire we respond with a
minimum of two engine companies of
twelve men and a Batt..Chief and a paramedic squad.. That is the
minimum. Now because of our manning configuration it usually works
out to three engines, a paramedic squad and a chief. Our engine
companies are manned by three and four men. In a commercial area we
send.a minimum of three engines, a ladder truck, a squad, and a
Batt. Chief, for a total of eighteen men. That is our general stand—
ard of response to structural fires in the basin area south of the
San Gabriel mountains. The insurance industrials gauges what you
should be able to respond or what your total response.capabi.lity
should be based on the required fire flow in your city. For
instance, if you have a required fire flow of 5,000 gallons a
minute then in general your city should have five engine companies
and either one or two ladder trucks depending on the nature of the
buildings in the city, The Consolidated Fire District does not
have the problem of considering fire flow because of :its size. The
District is required to have about 90 engine companies and I believe
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we have 89 in service. So we meet the engine company requirement
almost 100%. The requirement that concerns us the most is the average
distance from the station to where the fire might occur. In general
the best average to keep in mind for the metropolitan area where you
have buildings of the same nature as you have in your city, is a mile
and a half. You can stretch that to two miles in the residential
areas. If you get past three miles you will be p.ena.lized by a
reduction of two protection classes. If your city is a Class 4 pro-
tection class and a station is not within three miles of the area then
it will go back to a 6. So from one and a half to 3 miles you have
some leeway, past three you will be penalized.
Councilman Tice: Have you noticed any changes up or down
in the fire classifications in the cities
you have taken over?
Batt. Chief Brunston: Nobody has gone back. Three cities
have improved. Signal Hill, Glendora
and Maywood have improved. They are all
4 now', they were 5. The Consolidated Fire District in the basin area
is nearly all 4. Those areas with superior water supplies now have
the capability of being a 3. Huntington Park was a 3 when annexed
and they are still 3. Probably within the next twelve months I expect
two or three other areas to become Protection Class 3. We have a
problem with the insurance service offices in that they have a great
deal of rate book revisions to make before those things are publicized
and also confirmations to make,in San Francisco on ratings. So we
don't even know yet when this would be confirmed. It.is potentially
based on the grading schedules that exist now. You could have a
Class 3 providing your Water is superior. The District is a Class 2
fire department, it is very close to a Class 3. If we dropped twelve
points we would be a 3.. We are right there at the breaking point.
Councilman Browne: You maintain all of the hydrants and
the payment of the water bills, etc.?
Batt. Chief Brunston: Presently for the private water
companies we do that. We have indivi-
dual contracts with each water purveyor.
Our policy at this time is we do not pay hydrant rental to public
water systems. We are in court presently with the Los ----, a
water district which is a municipal type water district out along the
Ventura Freeway in Malibu. We don't know if we will win or lose.
Our position is that fire departments should not pay hydrant rental.
We take that position because the boundaries covered.by a superior
water system receive the benefit of lower insurance costs. The
benefits of that system do not extend beyond its boundary therefore
paying hydrant rental, either average or higher than average, is
illogical. It is a double taxation. Loney comes out of the citizens'
pocket into the i;;Srt-me department and then into the water district
when it should go right out of the citizen's pocket into. the water
company to provide the benefits he gets from that water company.
Our fire engines have wheels, we can run them down the freeway twenty
miles in twenty to twenty-five minutes so the tax basis of the District
is very logically.spread at the same rate. You can't say that about
water systems. We do pay water companies.
Mayor Chappell:
In talking with a supervisor recently he
was saying that the county perhaps is
going to have to cut. back on stations
rumor or is this fact?
I think the county will have
back probably about the same
.that every fire protection agency within the county of L.A.
and personnel. Is this a
Batt. Chief Brunston:
to cut
distance
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outside has to cut back based on Fair Labor Standards or any new laws
that take place in bargaining on the Ayers—Millias—Brown Act. or any
other benefits that fire fighters receive that increases the economic
burden of fire protection.. All it is going to do is say you are more
independe.nt than you ever were.
Councilman Tice: You foresee a day of reckoning — then,
so to speak?
Batt. Chief Brunston: There is no doubt in my mind and the
one thing that concerns me and has con—
cerned many and the Chief has voiced his
opinion loud and strong and that is for the fire service to work
together and pull together and we cannot afford boundary lines. They
hamper our operation, it is ridiculous. You gentlemen have a station
a half mile from one of ours, that is.illogical. You have another one
probably a mile .and.a quarter — again .illogical. What we don't need
are fire fighters that don't get enough experience and we have to keep
training them and We have a bigger standby force than we need. What we
do need are well spaced stations with active fire fighters that get
adequate experience, adequate training and are doing a good job when
called upon with well manned companies.' It could be coordinated as
far over an area as possible so if you needed one engine company or
fifteen you get them, and you get a uniformed system os command
dispatched from a uniform dispatch center and the chain of command
works. mutual aid is about a 60% patch for the 100% job. I am now
speaking from the standpoint of fire protection viewpoint.
Councilman Browne:You do use the mutual aid system, do you
not?.
Batt. Chief Brunston* We do have a mutual aid system with
every city in the county that says if
itu,t on that is or is you have a s
likely to be beyond your control you may call upon us, we will respond
with assistance if available, which it usually is, and in return we
will absolutely depend on you when we have serious.situations and we
are not a bit bashful about calling.
Councilman Browne: Of course if we had mutual aid agree—
ments with surrounding 'cities it would
be up to them if we decided to go with
the county if they wanted to go to the county, and I think totally
up to them if they Wanted to continue that mutual aid agreement.
Batt. Chief Brunston: Our policy agreement dated from June of
last year is that we will write agree—
ments with almost any o.ne that can
reciprocate.. If you can't reciprocate — and I am not saying you have
to have eighty fire engines but that you have to have the ability to
respond your equipment outside of your city to assist..us and we will
do the same. The Chief is under Board order to do. that.
Bob Lampson
County Division Chief
regardless of the Board order
Councilman Browne:
Yes, but past that point if you have
existing agreements with cities around
you we will honor those agreements
of last June.— we have -done that.
Irregardless if they want them honored
or not?
Ass't. Chief Fry: No, all we are saying is that we will
honor any agreements you have that will
reciprocate. We.offered one city this and they turned us down. We
will not force any one to do anything.
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Councilman Miller: Does the city itself have the say as to
what extent or where the fire stations
would be cut or added to the new area
or is this up to the Board of Supervisors to determine at this point?
Batt. Chief. Brunston: I would say it is 50/50.
Ass't. Chief Fry: That is a good answer and if you annex
to the District you can make that election.
We want to work as closely with the city
as possible and meet the needs of the city as much as we possibly can.
We assign an Assistant Chief to this area, who is for all practical
purposes your Fire.Chief. He reports to the city manager, attends the
staff meetings,.makes himself available for Council meetings and to all
practical purposes is your Fire Chief. Our goal is to meet this need
of representative.service, to be responsive to the local needs of the
City.of West Covina. Now if there is a fire protection problem in the
city and you see it we certainly want to work with. -you on that. Maybe
you are going to bring a big industrial complex in and you need advice
on water systems and fire protection planning, this. is a part of our
regular on —going service that we have in o.ur Department. The con—
figurations and locations of the stations, once you, are annexed, our
firm policy is that we'would not change without first of all having
approval from a recognized fire protection grading agency that this
will not unreasonably affect the fire protection coverage or insurance
problems of the city. That is one of our stipulations. The second
part we have to have the city's sanction along the way somewhere, at
least that they are aware and knowledgeable and become a part of this
and they have an option to sanction.
Batt. Chief Brunston: That is in the agreement — we have a
standard paragraph that says realignment
or relocations or closures would be
through joint agreement of the District and the City. and the fire pro—
tection grading agency that has jurisdiction. Now that is reasonable
compliance with fire protection standards.
Ass't. Chief Fry: This agreement is not cast in stone that
it can't be modified.., For instance, in
the City of Glendora we had to relocate
and close a station there recently. So we met again with the City
Council and amended our agreement and they approved it and then we
took it to the Board of Supervisors and they in turn approved it.
We closed the station in the best interests of the City and the Dis—
trict.
Mayor Chappell: When you do something like that do they
get a tax reduction?
Batt. Chief Brunston: Just like the school system — the same
way.
Mayor Chappell: In our city we found that we do it more
than other communities, the fact that we
do fire prevention inspectiong,, have our
personnel out in the city making inspections. Do you continue our
standards in that area, because this is an area we feel is very
• important.
Ass't. Chief Fry: We have an on —going fire:prevention
program which does consist of commercial
occupancy inspections., industrial target
hazard inspections. We try to hit the industrial target hazard
inspections quarterly; the commercials are once a year. We also have
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business license inspections which are an on -going part of our pro-
gram. We also respond to any special requests for inspecting a
home or any special problem that someone might have. In addition to
that we have special details with specialized fire prevention
personnel thatprovide the prevention work for oil fume installations,
liquids, hospitals, institutions, educational facilities,
schools and they also work closely with the State.Fire Marshall in
cleaning establishments and these kinds of facilities. If the city
were to want some`t.ype of special clean-up campaign possibly with
regard to problem areas we would be happy to work with you to solve
any special problems.
Councilman Browne:' You also work on the enforcement pro-
gram to enforce the fire regulations
within the city?
Ass't. Chief Fry: Yes, and you have an option. You can
either maintain your own code, however,
we recommend that you adopt our fire
prevention code, which you may already have, and then you have the
arson investigation which is from the Sheriff's Department.
.Councilman Tice: A question regarding the personnel.
You have your own retirement system and
I wonder how this compares with the
State Retirement System which we have in the City now.
Ass't. Chief Fry: Our county system is comparable to the
State PERSCHP system. We have 20 year
service, 2/ per year up to age 50 and
approximately 5% per year after that.
Councilman Tice: How does this affect the personnel
when you take over fire departments?
Ass't. Chief Fry: They will receive retirement from (both
systems.
Batt, Chief Brunston: Looking at it for the guy that is
older the percentage is .based on total
service rather than some giant leap of
5% per year. There is a cost factor applied to his total service and
generally he would retire with more if he entered county service for
ten years than if he stayed the other way. I don't masquerade as
a retirement specialist and those are the type of questions that the
guys have to hear from somebody ietimately familiar with the retire-
ment system.
Ass't. Chief Fry: The State reoiprob}ty law applies.
Total time in both agencies is con-
sidered when the final rate is con-
sidered for retirement. How:'ever, the time your people have in the
State System will be computed on a proportionate share for that
system and the way the final rate will be determined the highest
or the last 36 months of pay applies to the State System. So
supposing a man came to the county and stayed one year with us, that
one year with the county and the two years he had with West Covina
before annexation Would be used to compute a final compensation.
However he would receive two separate retirement checks, one from the
county andone from the State.
Mayor Chappell: We appreciate your attendance here
tonight - you certainly answered our
questions. We will consider this at another time and our findings
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will be relayed to you through our City Manager. We thank you for
coming out and visiting with us.
Bob Lampson
May I just emphasize.one
point. We
County Division
Chief
touched on it briefly but
I would like
to be sure that everybody
understands
it. There are
actually two
different actions required
for you to be—
come part of
the District.
The first one is just an intent
on your
part to get
a study from us.
That does not constitute
an intent to
annex to the
District. That
is where you will get all
the detailed
information
you are asking for.
The second was cost.
There is no
cost to the
city for that survey.
I wasn't sure that point
was made
clear.
PROCLAMATIONS Hearing no objections from Council the
Mayor proclaimed "April U.D. Awareness
Month."
Mayor Chappell: I also received a letter from
Phillip Gordon who is with the Rotary
Club of West Covina asking us to proclaim
Pan—American Week'- April 14, 1975. If there are no objections I would
so proclaim.
So moved by Councilman Browne, seconded
by Councilman Tice and carried.
ADJOURNMENT
ATTEST:
CITY CLERK
Motion by Councilman Browne to adjourn
this meeting at 5:25 P.M. Seconded by
Councilman Tice and carried.
APPROVED:
MAYOR