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CITY OF SANTA CLARITA

CITY COUNCIL / BOARD OF LIBRARY TRUSTEES AND CITY COUNCIL ACTING AS THE GOVERNING

BOARD OF THE SUCCESSOR AGENCY TO THE FORMER SANTA CLARITA REDEVELOPMENT AGENCY

JOINT REGULAR MEETING

 

Tuesday, February 24, 2015

6:00 PM

City Council Chambers

23920 Valencia Blvd. Santa Clarita, CA 91355

citylogo_sealAGENDA

 

 

PUBLIC FINANCING AUTHORITY – No New Business

 

 

How to Address the City Council

 

You may address the Council during Public Participation on any matter within the Council’s jurisdiction that is not listed on the agenda. Each person wishing to speak should prepare a presentation of not more than three (3) minutes. Public Participation speaker’s cards must be submitted to the City Clerk BEFORE this portion of the meeting begins. Public Participation takes place before the consideration of the agenda items and following the consideration of agenda items. However, each person will be allowed to speak only one time during Public Participation per meeting.

Anyone wishing to address an item on the agenda should fill out a speaker’s card and submit it to the City Clerk BEFORE the Mayor announces the item. Each person addressing the Council is given three (3) minutes to speak indicated by a colored light system on the Council dais; a green light appears when the speaker begins; a yellow light appears when 30 seconds remain and a red light appears when time has expired. Comments should be complete at this time. Each presentation may not exceed three (3) minutes.

 

 

In compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act, if you need special assistance to participate in this meeting, please contact the City Clerk’s Office, (661) 255-4391. Notification 48 hours prior to the meeting will enable the City to make reasonable arrangements to ensure accessibility to this meeting. (28CFR 35.102-35.104 ADA Title II)

 

 

 

 

INVOCATION – MCLEAN CALL TO ORDER

ROLL CALL FLAG SALUTE

 

EXECUTIVE MEETING

This time has been set aside for Councilmembers to review the agenda and obtain any further information that may be needed. Council will also discuss each individual item during the course of the meeting with the exception of the Consent Calendar, which may be approved in its entirety by one motion, unless there is a request to pull an item for discussion. No action will be taken on public agenda items during the Executive Meeting.

 

 

APPROVAL OF AGENDA – Mayor to inquire whether there are any changes to the Agenda or if any member of the Council or the public would like to pull for discussion, any item on the Consent Calendar.

 

 

AWARDS AND RECOGNITIONS

Recognize Jimmy Warshawsky for being a contestant on MasterChef Junior

 

Recognition of new Saugus High School Z Club officially chartered by Zonta International

 

 

PRESENTATIONS

Presentation from UCLA Health, Santa Clarita

 

 

 

PUBLIC PARTICIPATION

This time has been set aside for the public to address the City Council on items NOT listed on the agenda. The City Council will not act upon these items at this meeting other than to review and/or provide direction to staff. All speakers must submit a speaker’s card to the City Clerk PRIOR to the beginning of this portion of the meeting. Thirty minutes are allotted for public input at this time. The FIRST TEN people to submit a speaker card prior to the beginning of Public Participation will be heard. Speaker cards will be accepted beginning at 5:45 p.m. Any speaker cards received once the first speaker has begun will be heard at the end of the meeting regardless if the ten person limit has been met. Speakers may not exceed three (3) minutes and may only be heard once per meeting under Public Participation.

 

 

 

 

 

STAFF COMMENTS

 

COMMITTEE REPORTS/COUNCILMEMBER COMMENTS

 

 

 

CONSENT CALENDAR

All matters listed under the Consent Calendar are considered routine and will be enacted by one motion by the City Council. The items are not individually discussed by the City Council unless a request is made by a member of the public or the Council, in which case, the item(s) will be removed from the Consent Calendar and will be considered separately.

 

 

 

  1. APPROVAL OF MINUTES – The minutes of the Joint City Council and Board of Library Trustees meeting are submitted for

RECOMMENDED ACTION:

City Council and Board of Library Trustees: Approve the minutes of the February 10, 2015, special and regular meetings.

 

 

  1. GOLDEN VALLEY ROAD BRIDGE WIDENING OVER STATE ROUTE 14, PROJECT S3028 – AWARD CONSTRUCTION CONTRACT – This project will widen the Golden Valley Road bridge over State Route 14 to provide two through lanes in each direction, two dedicated left-turn lanes onto northbound State Route 14, and one dedicated left-turn lane onto southbound State Route 14. Improvements will also include a six-foot-wide sidewalk on the north side of the bridge and a Class 1 bicycle trail on the south side of the

RECOMMENDED ACTION:

City Council:

 

  1. Approve the plans and specifications for the Golden Valley Road Bridge Widening over State Route 14, Project S3028.
  2. Award the construction contract to Security Paving Company, Inc., in the amount of

$6,437,715, and authorize a contingency in the amount of $965,700, for a total contract amount not to exceed $7,403,415.

  1. Award professional services contract for construction support to MNS Engineers, Inc., in the amount of $1,412,210 for the resident engineer, bridge inspector for night work and peak work load, surveying, material testing, source inspection, and construction
  2. Authorize Reimbursable Letter of Agreement with the California Highway Patrol in the amount of $100,000 for the Construction Zone Enhanced Enforcement Program

 

during construction.

  1. Authorize the following transactions to fund the Golden Valley Road Bridge Widening Over State Route 14, Project S3028:
    • Appropriate $3,980,146 to Proposition C Grant revenue account 265-4422.008 and appropriate $3,980,146 to Golden Valley Road over State Route 14 Bridge Widening project expenditure account S3028265-5161.001.
    • Authorize the transfer of project savings in the amount of $95,000 in Landscape Maintenance District funds (Fund 357) from Sand Canyon Road/State Route 14 Beautification project, expenditure account B3003357-5161.001, to Golden Valley Road over State Route 14 Bridge Widening project, expenditure account S3028357-5161.001.
    • Authorize the appropriation of $5,473,711 in Eastside Bridge and Thoroughfare funds (Fund 301) to Golden Valley Road over State Route 14 Bridge Widening project expenditure account S3028301-5161.001.
  2. Authorize the City Manager or designee to execute all necessary documents, subject to the approval of the City

 

 

 

  1. DEMOLITION OF 22520 LYONS AVENUE – This item will authorize the expenditure to allow for the demolition of the building located at 22520 Lyons Avenue using rental income received from the previous tenant of the

RECOMMENDED ACTION:

City Council appropriate $66,000 from Fund 393 City Housing Successor fund balance to expenditure account 13405-5161.001 in order to demolish the existing structure located at 22520 Lyons Avenue.

 

 

 

  1. AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE CITY OF SANTA CLARITA AND THE SUCCESSOR AGENCY TO THE FORMER REDEVELOPMENT AGENCY OF THE CITY OF SANTA CLARITA AUTHORIZING THE REPAYMENT OF LOANS MADE FROM THE CITY TO THE REDEVELOPMENT AGENCY – Throughout the course of the existence of the Redevelopment Agency, the City has loaned funds to the Redevelopment Agency for administrative purposes and to fund redevelopment projects undertaken by the Agency. As part of the dissolution process of the Redevelopment Agency, a new agreement for repayment must be entered in to in order for the City to be

RECOMMENDED ACTION:

  1. City Council adopt a resolution approving an “Agreement Regarding Reinstatement of Loan,” and direct the City Manager to execute the agreement; and

 

  1. Successor Agency Board adopt a resolution approving an “Agreement Regarding Reinstatement of Loan,” direct staff to bring this action to the Oversight Board for their approval, and upon concurrence from the Oversight Board and the Department of Finance, direct staff to execute the

 

 

 

  1. CHECK REGISTER NO. 4 FOR THE PERIOD 01/23/15 THROUGH 02/05/15 AND 02/12/15. ELECTRONIC FUNDS TRANSFERS FOR THE PERIOD 01/30/15 THROUGH 02/12/15. – Check Register No. 4 for the Period 01/23/15 through 02/05/15 and 02/12/15.

Electronic Funds Transfers for the Period 01/30/15 through 02/12/15.

RECOMMENDED ACTION:

City Council approve and ratify for payment the demands presented in Check Register No. 4.

 

 

 

NEW BUSINESS

 

 

 

  1. FIRST READING OF AN ORDINANCE ENTITLED AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SANTA CLARITA, CALIFORNIA, AMENDING CHAPTER 6.02 OF MANUFACTURED HOME PARK RENT ADJUSTMENT PROCEDURES – An update process has been completed for Santa Clarita Municipal Code 6.02 – Manufactured Home Park Rent Adjustment These updates include the re-ordering of sections for ease of use and understanding, removal of some little-used sections, clarification of the language in some sections, broadening of the Manufactured Home Rental Adjustment Panel’s discretion in some areas, and a reduction in the types of space rent increases allowed in a non-standard space rent increase.

RECOMMENDED ACTION:

City Council discuss, approve, and pass to second reading an ordinance entitled “SANTA CLARITA MUNICIPAL CODE 6.02 – MANUFACTURED HOME RENT ADJUSTMENT PROCEDURES.”

 

 

 

PUBLIC PARTICIPATION

This time has been set aside for any speakers that have turned in speaker cards and were not heard in the first thirty minutes allotted to address the City Council on items that are NOT on the agenda. No further speaker cards will be accepted once Public Participation begins. Speakers may not address items that have been considered this evening. Speaker cards may not be submitted relating to any items listed on the agenda.

 

 

 

 

STAFF COMMENTS

 

ADJOURNMENT

In memory of Ruth Levine and Ralph Edward Gray, Sr.

 

 

FUTURE MEETINGS

The next Joint Regular Meeting of the City Council will be held Tuesday, March 10, 2015, at 6:00 p.m. in the Council Chambers, 1st floor of City Hall, 23920 Valencia Blvd., Santa Clarita, CA.

 

 

CERTIFICATION

I, Kevin Tonoian, City Clerk, do hereby certify that I am the duly appointed and qualified City Clerk for the City of Santa Clarita and that on February 19, 2015, between the hours of 9:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m., the foregoing agenda was posted at City Hall and the Santa Clarita Sheriff’s Station.

 

 

 

 

Kevin Tonoian City Clerk

Santa Clarita, California

 

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12 Comments

  1. Eric Baker says:

    That body shop screwed up my truck. They were busted doing insurance scams too.

  2. Is it auto collision repair ???

  3. Bring on the Laemmle Theater!

  4. Insurance auto collision center Douglas Castillo

  5. Where you use to wash cars , sorry I forgot about it.

  6. Frank Lopez says:

    Bring on the parking structure!

  7. The end of an era… for what was formally (many decades ago) Tom Carroll Chevrolet.

  8. Travis Wiese says:

    Yes Butch Hampton, then my grandfather brought it in the 70’s and it was Vince Wiese Chevrolet, which we then moved and built the Chevy dealership currently on Creekside. Both places bring back many memories from my childhood.

  9. Travis Wiese says:

    Yes Butch Hampton, then my grandfather brought it in the 70’s and it was Vince Wiese Chevrolet, which we then moved and built the Chevy dealership currently on Creekside. Both places bring back many memories from my childhood.

  10. Brad James says:

    Wonderful! Keep it up!

  11. Brad James says:

    Wonderful! Keep it up!

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