CITY OF SANTA MONICA

REGULAR CITY COUNCIL MEETING AGENDA

CITY HALL COUNCIL CHAMBERS - 1685 MAIN STREET

TUESDAY, JUNE 27, 2000

OPEN SESSION BEGINS AT 6:15 P.M.

CALL TO ORDER

PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE

INSPIRATION

ROLL CALL

4. SPECIAL AGENDA ITEMS:

4-A: Municipal Water Supply Study Session.

6. CONSENT CALENDAR: (Public discussion permitted. All items will be considered and approved in one motion unless removed by a Councilmember for discussion.)

6-A: Approval of minutes of March 22, 2000 (continued from June 13, 2000), and March 28, 2000, City Council meeting.

6-B: Earthquake Recovery Resolution declaring the continuing existence of a local emergency (January 1994 Earthquake Damage).

6-C: Resolutions consolidating the Board of Education Election with the Santa Monica General Municipal Election and calling a special election.

6-D: Resolution authorizing the City Manager to execute an agreement with the State of California, Department of Transportation for grant funding in the amount of $428,000, for pavement, sidewalk, curb, gutter, and retaining wall repair on Appian Way between Moss Avenue and Seaside Terrace.

6-E: Contract for organizational development services - recommendation to authorize the City Manager to negotiate and execute a contract with Innovative Resources Consultant Group, Inc., in the amount of $260,000, to provide organizational development services for the Environmental and Public Works Management Department.

6-F: Purchase of customer on-board information stations for the Big Blue Buses - recommendation to award a purchase order to Transit Information Products, in the amount of $27,312.20, to purchase on-board information stations for the Transportation Department.

6-G: Design and construction administration services for the Airport Park Project - recommendation to authorize the City Manager to negotiate and execute a contract with Calvin R. Abe Associates, Inc., in the amount of $757,000, for full design and construction administration services for the Airport Park Project; and, a contract with Komex H2O Science, Inc., in the amount of $114,100, for a Phase II environmental investigation for the project.

8. ORDINANCES: (Public discussion permitted on emergency ordinances and ordinances for introduction and first reading. No public discussion is permitted on ordinances for second reading and adoption.)

8-A: Introduction and adoption of Interim Ordinance extending the modifications to development standards, uses subject to a performance standards permit, uses subject to a use permit, prohibited uses and the development review threshold within the C2 neighborhood commercial district along Montana Avenue and modifying the permitted uses on Montana Avenue to include existing cinemas and the maximum floor area ratio for existing cinemas; and declaring the presence of an emergency.

9. STAFF ADMINISTRATIVE ITEMS:

9-A: Proposed Community Events Policy - recommendation to approve the proposed Community Event Policy and to direct staff to proceed with documents necessary to implement the policy.

10. PUBLIC HEARINGS:

10-A: Public hearing and recommendation to approve Stormwater Parcel Report and Management User Fee for FY 2000-01 - recommendation to hold a public hearing, receive public input, and approve the Stormwater Parcel Report describing each parcel in the City and the amount of each parcel's Stormwater Management User Fee for FY 2000-01.

13. WRITTEN COMMUNICATIONS:

13-A: Request of Jerry Rubin and Pro Se, representing the Coalition for a Santa Monica Disabilities Commission, to request that Council go on record opposing HR 3590 - relative to Americans with Disabilities Act compliance.

14. COUNCILMEMBER DISCUSSION ITEMS:

14-A: Appointment to one unscheduled vacancy on the Social Services Commission for a term ending June 30, 2003. (Continued from May 23, 2000.)

14-B: Request of Councilmembers Bloom and Feinstein to direct staff to conduct a public process to prepare a text amendment regarding incidental food uses on Main Street.

14-C: Acceptance of resignation letter of Nancy Greenstein from the Pier Restoration Corporation, and authorization for City Clerk to publish vacancy.

14-D: Request of Councilmembers Holbrook and Feinstein to direct staff to transfer $5,100 from the General Fund's contingency account to a grant to the Santa Monica Historical Society to provide an exhibit of historical photographs of the City of Santa Monica on the occasion of the City's 125^th Birthday. The display will be at City Hall.

14-E: Request of Councilmember McKeown for the Council to resolve that this City's commitment to fundamental fairness and justice in labor relations is reaffirmed, that the community's stated aversion to union-busting is shared by this Council, and that we call upon local businesses to respect worker dignity, management neutrality and the right to choose union representation without intimidation by means such as card-check elections.

15. PUBLIC INPUT: (Public comment is permitted only on items not on the agenda that are within the subject matter jurisdiction of the City. Please note that State law prohibits the City Council from taking any action on items not listed on the agenda, including issues raised under this agenda item.)

16. CLOSED SESSIONS:

16-A: Conference with Legal Counsel - Existing Litigation: Ring Trading Corporation v. City of Santa Monica, Case No. BC 172044 (consolidated with Mountain View Mobile Inn Residents Association, Inc., v. City of Santa Monica, Case No. SC 052672).

16-B: Conference with Legal Counsel - Existing Litigation: Santa Monica Housing Council v. City of Santa Monica, Case No. BC 230106.

16-C: Conference with Legal Counsel - Existing Litigation: Susan Galloway v. City of Santa Monica, Case No. B 202772.

16-D: Conference with Legal Counsel - Existing Litigation: Foodmaker, Inc., v. City of Santa Monica, Case No. SS 007078.

16-E: Conference with Legal Counsel - Anticipated Litigation: Number of cases: Four.

16-F: Conference with Labor Negotiator: City Negotiator: Karen Bancroft, Personnel Director. Bargaining Units: Santa Monica Police Officers Assn. (POA)

ADJOURNMENT.