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Home My WebLink About1990 03 07 CC MIN1990 03 07 CC MINòw @˜vOCC MIN MAR 7 1990[Þ›[H98 REGULAR MEETING OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF BALDWIN PARK, CITY HALL, 14403 EAST PACIFIC AVE, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 7, 1990, AT 7:00 P.M. The City Council of the City of Baldwin Park met in regular session in the Council Chambers at 7:00 p.m. ROLL CALL: PRESENT: COUNCILMEMBERS IZELL, KEYSER, ROLL CALL MCNEILL AND MAYOR PRO TEN LOWES ALSO PRESENT: City Manager Penman, City Attorney Flandrick, Acting Dir. of Administrative Serv. Schuld, Dir. of Community Services Rangel, Dir. of Housing & Economic Dev. Pearce, Dir. of Human Serv. Lucas, Chief of Police Lanza Acting Deputy City Clerk Branek and City Clerk Gair 00- City Treasurer Montenegro's absence was excused. ABSENCE EXCUSED 00- Councilman Izell was presented with a Ten Year City Pin TEN YEAR for his service as a City Councilman following a brief AWARD description of some of the highlights of his career by City Clerk Gair. Chief of Police Lanza introduced new Dare Officers, DARE Rhonda Wood and Jim Kolbach. He gave a biographical OFFICERS sketch of each of the officers and also told about the Dare Program. 00- ORAL COMMUNICATIONS Mayor pro tern Lowes declared Oral Communications open ORAL COMMU and invited those wishing to speak on any subject to NICATIONS come forward. OPEN Mrs. Saiz, 3248 Athol, spoke regarding a permit she is MRS. SAIZ required to have for her garage and the treatment of her family after her daughter was molested. Z Eli Roca, 14637 California Street, inquired about the ELI ROCA 2500 substandard houses that are referred to in the General Plan and about upgrade these homes. In response to answers received from staff he stated that he felt twenty-two home improvement loans was a small number compared to the actual number of substandard homes. Hillel Arkin, 4347 Stewart Street, announced the HILLEL Candidate's Forum, sponsored by the Mid-Valley ARKIN Democratic Club, that is to be held at Morgan Park on March 27th. Joanne Watkins, 14524 Hallwood Street, inquired about JOANNE Council action against malathion spraying. WATKINS BIB] 37175-U01 CC-U02 MIN-U02 MAR-U02 7-U02 1990-U02 LG1-U03 LI1-U03 FO3794-U03 FO3795-U03 FO3802-U03 DO3803-U03 C4-U03 MINUTES1-U03 10/11/2001-U04 ADMIN-U04 BIB] 37252-U01 1990-U02 03-U02 07-U02 CC-U02 MIN-U02 LG1-U03 LI1-U03 FO3794-U03 FO8599-U03 DO3803-U03 C4-U03 MINUTES1-U03 10/11/2001-U04 ADMIN-U04 CITY-U05 COUNCIL-U05 MINUTES-U05 1990 03 07 CC MINòw @˜vOCC MIN MAR 7 1990[Þ›[H98REGULAR MEETING OF THE CITY COUNCIL MARCH 7, 1990 OF THE CITY OF BALDWIN PARK PAGE TWO Frank Ramirez, 4924 Wimmer Avenue, commented on the FRANK Federal Government allowing imports that brought in the RAMIREZ medfly and the protesting that should be done against that action, not just malathion spraying. Bill Van Cleave, 13232 Emery, stated that he had talked BILL VAN to 500 people who came into his place of business and CLEAVE they were against district elections. He felt that those in favor of districting should circulate petitions and that Council should not give in to a single group over this issue. Anthony Bejarano, 3508 Big Dalton, spoke regarding ANTHONY giving the people the right to vote on the district BEJARANO election issue. Alma Agbashian, 12853 Ledfor, commented on the tactics ALMA being used by an animal rights group in calling AGBASHIAN registered voters. She did not like being called in this manner and spoke against it. There being no other speakers, Mayor pro tem Lowes CLOSED declared Oral Communications closed. 00- City Clerk Gair presented the Consent Calendar: CONSENT CALENDAR 1. Approval of Certificate of Posting for March 7, 1990 2. Approve Minutes of February 7, 1990 3. Waive Further Reading and Adopt RESOLUTION NO. 90-17 ALLOWING CLAIMS AND DEMANDS AGAINST THE CITY OF BALDWIN PARK 4. Deny Claims against the City Noel Wychico et al Dale Daniels 5. Approve Policy Council Initiatives- Agenda Items The following item was removed from the Consent Calendar ITEM NO. 5 for separate consideration: Item No. 5 at the request REMOVED of Councilwoman McNeill. It was moved and seconded to approve Items No. 1-4 of CONSENT the Consent Calendar as presented. M/S/C: CALENDAR MCNEILL/IZELL. There were no objections. APPROVED It was moved and seconded to approve Item No. 5 of the ITEM NO. 5 Consent Calendar with the understanding that agenda APPROVED items must be approved in advance at a Council meeting by a majority of the Council present at that meeting. Issues introduced for discussion that are emergency items may be added to an agenda by the Council pursuant to provisions of state law. M/S/C: MCNEILL/IZELL. There were no objections. 00- REPORTS OF OFFICERS, COMMISSIONS AND COMMITTEES City Manager Penman explained the lawsuit against LEGAL twenty-eight other public entities that has been filed SERVICES BIB] 37175-U01 CC-U02 MIN-U02 MAR-U02 7-U02 1990-U02 LG1-U03 LI1-U03 FO3794-U03 FO3795-U03 FO3802-U03 DO3803-U03 C4-U03 MINUTES1-U03 10/11/2001-U04 ADMIN-U04 BIB] 37252-U01 1990-U02 03-U02 07-U02 CC-U02 MIN-U02 LG1-U03 LI1-U03 FO3794-U03 FO8599-U03 DO3803-U03 C4-U03 MINUTES1-U03 10/11/2001-U04 ADMIN-U04 CITY-U05 COUNCIL-U05 MINUTES-U05 1990 03 07 CC MINòw @˜vOCC MIN MAR 7 1990[Þ›[H98 REGULAR MEETING OF THE CITY COUNCIL MARCH 7, 1990 OF THE CITY OF BALDWIN PARK PAGE THREE by sixty-four major corporations in an attempt to AGREEMENT recover costs for toxic clean-up at the Operating 011 Industries, Inc. 011) landfill in Monterey Park. The LANDFILL City doesn't believe that it should be party to the suit LAWSUIT as no municipal waste was dumped at 011 landfill. One law firm has been selected to represent all participating cites in this suit and costs will be shared by all. Staff will attempt to dismiss the City from the suit and should they be successful there is a mechanism to terminate the agreement Council is being asked to approve. In response to Council inquiries, City Attorney Z Flandrick stated that every effort is being made to have the City dismissed from this suit. Representatives of Webster's have stated that they have never used the 011 landfill. It was moved and seconded to approve an agreement for LEGAL legal services with Richard, Watson & Gershon including SERVICES the cost sharing arrangement. M/S/C: MCNEILL/IZELL. APPROVED There were no objections. 00- COUNCIL INITIATIVES Councilman Izell stated that the people of Baldwin Park MUNICIPAL have given him the privilege to sit on the Council and ELECTION vote on all different kinds of issues and since there DISTRICT- are several people in town that would like to vote on ING districting he felt that it was his obligation to give them the privilege of voting on what they would like to vote on. He stated that the proponents of districting have told him that will get signatures and deliberately time the filing so that an election on districting cannot be incorporated with any other election. He was opposed to this happening because of the cost to the City and the low voter turnout that could cause this to pass. He stated that he was personally against districting, because the City is too small, but he would make a motion so that people can vote on this and decide. Councilman Izell made a motion to place districting on MOTION the November ballot as an advisory vote. Motion died for lack of a second. DIES Councilwoman McNeill stated that she felt that to COMMENT attempt to cut a City the size of Baldwin Park into districts would be disastrous, therefore she did not second the motion, because it would not be doing the City a favor. The people who would like to have the districting will go and get the signatures and that will be fine, but she cannot second this. 00- It was moved and seconded to adjourn the regular meeting MEETING of the City Council at 7:36 p.m. M/S/C: IZELL/LOWES. ADJOURNED There were no objections. 7:36 P.M BIB] 37175-U01 CC-U02 MIN-U02 MAR-U02 7-U02 1990-U02 LG1-U03 LI1-U03 FO3794-U03 FO3795-U03 FO3802-U03 DO3803-U03 C4-U03 MINUTES1-U03 10/11/2001-U04 ADMIN-U04 BIB] 37252-U01 1990-U02 03-U02 07-U02 CC-U02 MIN-U02 LG1-U03 LI1-U03 FO3794-U03 FO8599-U03 DO3803-U03 C4-U03 MINUTES1-U03 10/11/2001-U04 ADMIN-U04 CITY-U05 COUNCIL-U05 MINUTES-U05