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Home My WebLink About1991 02 20 CC MIN1991 02 20 CC MINòw @˜wvCC MIN FEB 20 1991à›[H2^8 REGULAR MEETING OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF BALDWIN PARK, CITY HALL, 14403 EAST PACIFIC AVE, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1991 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 GALLEGOS, IZELL ROLL CALL KEYSER, MC NEILL AND MAYOR LOWES ALSO PRESENT: City Manager Penman City Attorney Bower, Acting Dir. of Administrative Ser. Cole, Police Chief Lanza, Acting Dir. of Human Serv. Rose, City Planner Onaga, City Treasurer Montenegro, Deputy City Clerk Branek, City Clerk Gair 00- Mayor Lowes read a proclamation declaring the month of PROCLAMA- February, 1991, as National Community College Month TION and presented the proclamation to Mr. Stu Van Horn, Mount San Antonio College. ORAL COMMUNICATION Mayor Lowes declared Oral Communication open and invited ORAL COMMU those wishing to speak on any subject to come forward. NICATIONS OPEN Barney Flam, 1 Palermo, Long Beach, commercial property FLAM! owner in the City) asked the Council to consider recending Ordinance 904 pertaining to security bars on the outside of commercial and industrial buildings. He stated the difficulty in renting a building without the bars, that business owners could not get their license or renewals and the selective process used to have businesses comply. He presented several signatures from business owners and pictures of businesses with security bars. City Clerk Gair clarified that the businesses are issued their license and renewals but not their occupancy permit until all conditions are met. Pam Schnabel, 14217 Los Angeles, stated that the Senior SCHNABEL Citizens have a dance once a month and explained where the dance is conducted. Rod Hubbartt, 1412 Craig Dr., West Covina, owner of K's HUBBARTT Shop N Stop, stated that his building was broken into several times with security bars, but, feels the bars are a deterent. Robert Anderson, 14426 Dalewood #B, described the ANDERSON security bars on his building and the times his building was broken into with the bars in place. He stated that it is a big issue about nothing.. Mayor Lowes requested that staff report to the Council REPORT on March 20, 1991 the reasons for the removal of window REQUESTED bars on the outside of commercial and industrial buildings and Council reevaluate. Council concurred. 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He is concerned about the drivers that work for La Pizza Loca located on Francisquito Avenue, they drive 50 m.p.h. down the street and he fears that a child will be hit. Raul Martinez, 14465 Cavette Pl, described the grafitti MARTINEZ at the American Legion and asked that it be removed. Mayor Lowes declared the Oral Communications closed. CLOSED 00- City Clerk Gair stated that due to illness, Andrew REQUEST TO Steiner was unable to attend the Council meeting and CONTINUE asked that the appeal for Unreinforced Masonry APPEAL Building" be continued to March 6, 1991. It was moved and seconded to continue the appeal for APPROVED Unreinforced Masonry Building" 14362 Ramona Boulevard, Baldwin Park. MIS/C: MCNEILL/GALLEGOS. There were no objections. 00- City Clerk Gair presented the Consent Calendar: CONSENT CALENDAR 1. Approval of Certificate of Posting for February 20, 1991 2. Approve Minutes of February 6, 1991 3. Waive Further Reading and Adopt RESOLUTION NO. 91-6 ALLOWING CLAIMS AND DEMANDS AGAINST THE CITY OF BALDWIN PARK 4. Receive and File Treasurer's Report January 31, 1991 5. Deny Claim Against the City Mino Itahara 6. Approve Budget Amendment Engineering Services Dwight French 7. Approve Final Tract Map 48404 Owen Development 8. Approve 1990-91 Contract Bassett Little League Syhre Park It was moved and seconded to approve the Consent CONSENT Calendar as presented. fl/S/C: GALLEGOS/MCNEILL. There CALENDAR were no objections. APPROVED 00- REPORTS OF OFFICERS, COMMISSIONS AND COMMITTEES City Manager Penman explained his report summarizes the MID-YEAR results of staff's mid-year revenue and expenditure BUDGET review and provides the City Council with a status REPORT report regarding the City's financial position in the General Fund half-way through the fiscal year. 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It was moved and seconded to receive and file the Mid- REPORT Year Report. N/S/C: IZELL/GALLEGOS. There were no RECEIVED & objections. FILED Assistant to the City Manager Volmert summarized the LEGISLA- legislative advocacy activities for 1991 and recommended TIVE the Council take a position on several important bills ADVOCACY recently introduced. She presented additional information as stated in the staff report and listed the bills that were recommended to be supported and those that should be opposed. Councilman Gallegos questioned if SB 52 is sponsored by DISCUSSION Sally Tanner, then he opposed taking any position at this time. It was moved and seconded to support SB 1x, SB 2x, SB BILLS OF 5x, SB 29 SB 30, SB 61, SB 63, SB 72, SB 169, AB 26, and INTEREST the Sher waste management bill; oppose SB 203, and AB 3; APPROVED and authorize the Mayor to communicate these positions to the appropriate individuals. M/S/C: GALLEGOS/IZELL. There were no objections. It was moved and seconded to wait for a decision on SB SB 52 52. M/S/C: GALLEGOS/IZELL. There were no objections. Assistant to the City Manager Volmert presented a CHAMBER OF proposal for a monthly community newsletter as presented COMMERCE by the Chamber of Commerce and asked for Council NEWSLETTER direction regarding the request. She stated that due to budget constraints the City had planned only two issues of NOW" this year. There would be three agencies, the City, School District, and the Chamber of Commerce that would share the same amount of space in the newsletter and advertising would be sold to off set the expense of publication. President of the Chamber, Dick Nichols, confirmed that NICHOLS the three agencies would share equal space in the newsletter and he outlined the cost to each agency. He briefly stated the advertisements that would be sold. He listed cities in the area that had the same type of periodicals. He stated that the Chamber would be responsible for the sale of advertisements and the costs incurred for publishing the newsletter if all the advertisements could not be sold. He referred to the possibility of using remaining AB 1693 funds as a source of funding. It was moved and seconded to approve the proposal to COMMUNITY give staff permission to pursue a monthly community NEWSLETTER newsletter, with additional conditions of an expenditure APPROVED cap of $9,000, and to explore alternative funding, and commit the City to only a one year of funding. MIS/C: GALLEGOS/MCNEILL. There were no objections. 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She listed several overall goals that included composting, diverting hazardous waste from disposal in landfills, implementing green waste collection by 1995 and to meet the diversion requirements mandated by the Integrated Waste Management Act of 1989 AB 939). She outlined educating the public about special waste and household hazardous waste. She requested that Council adopt goals and objectives for the City's waste reduction and recycling plans and authorize staff to communicate these goals and objectives to the planning consultant. It was moved and seconded to adopt goals and objectives GOALS & for the City's waste reduction and recycling plans and OBJECTIVES authorize staff to communicate these goals and objectives to the planning consultant. MIS/C: IZELL/GALLEGOS. There were no objections. 00- COUNCIL/STAFF REQUESTS AND COMMUNICATIONS City Engineer Tcharkhoutian provided the Council with a COMMUNITY background for the traffic signs and improvements CENTER recently installed at the new Community Center. He TRAFFIC stated that a committee was formed to study the traffic related activities and considered input from residents. He listed the reasons that Morgan Street had one-way traffic and described four hazardous situations that were considered in restricting the left turn from the Community Center. In response to Mayor Lowes questions, City Engineer ROBIN & Tcharkhoutian explained that a device could be installed RAMONA at Robin and Ramona that would allow the signal to SIGNAL change as a vehicle approaches the corner. CHANGE City Manager Penman stated that City Engineer Kev ANNOUNCE- Tcharkhoutian has accepted a position with the City of MENT Sierra Madre as Director of Public Works. 00- The regular meeting of the City Council was recessed at RECESSED 8:11 p.m. 8:11 P.M. The regular meeting of the City Council reconvened at RECONVENED 8:19 p.m. Roll call remained the same. 8:19 P.M. 00- CLOSED SESSION The regular meeting of the City Council was adjourned to CLOSED a Joint Closed Session with the Redevelopment Agency at SESSION 8:19 p.m. to consider matters relating to Personnel and Pending Litigation authorized by the Government Code 00- BIB] 37175-U01 CC-U02 MIN-U02 FEB-U02 20-U02 1991-U02 LG1-U03 LI1-U03 FO3433-U03 FO3751-U03 FO3755-U03 DO3757-U03 C4-U03 MINUTES1-U03 10/11/2001-U04 ADMIN-U04 BIB] 37256-U01 1991-U02 02-U02 20-U02 CC-U02 MIN-U02 LG1-U03 LI1-U03 FO3433-U03 FO3751-U03 DO3757-U03 C4-U03 MINUTES1-U03 10/11/2001-U04 ADMIN-U04 CITY-U05 COUNCIL-U05 MINUTES-U05 1991 02 20 CC MINòw @˜wvCC MIN FEB 20 1991à›[H2^8 REGULAR MEETING OF THE CITY COUNCIL FEBRUARY 20, 1991 OF THE CITY OF BALDWIN PARK PAGE FIVE Mayor Lowes declared the regular meeting of the City MEETING Council adjourned at 10:35 p.m. There were no ADJOURNED objections. 10:35 P.M. 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