CITY OF
REGULAR CITY
COUNCIL MEETING AND SPECIALL
JOINT MEETING
WITH THE REDEVELOPMENT AGENCY
CITY HALL
COUNCIL CHAMBERS -
TUESDAY,
DECEMBER 14, 2004
MEETING BEGINS AT 5:45 P.M.
CALL TO ORDER
PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE
ROLL CALL
(Item
4 will be heard at the beginning of the meeting, before the Consent Calendar.)
1.
CONSENT CALENDAR: (All items will be
considered and approved in one motion unless removed by a Councilmember for
discussion.)
1-A: Approval
of minutes of the November 9, 2004, City Council meeting.
1-B:
1-C: Mills
Act Historical Property Agreements between the City and various owners of properties designated as City landmarks
recommendation to adopt eleven resolutions for eleven properties and
authorize the City Manager to execute Historical Property Preservation
Agreements with each of the property owners.
1-D: Resolution
approving Final Tract Map No. 54033 for an 8-unit condominium project at
1-E: Lease
of office space at
1-F: Plan
check and inspection consultant services recommendation to authorize the
City Manager to negotiate and execute a contract with California Code Check, in
the amount of $200,000, for construction plan review and inspection services;
execute a contract with Scott Fazekas &
Associates, in the amount of $100,000, for construction plan review services;
an amendment to Contract No. 7742 (CCS) with Bing Yen & Associates, in the
amount of $120,000, for geotechnical and engineering geology services; and an
amendment to Contract No. 8155 (CCS) with JAS Pacific Corporation, in the
amount of $113,000, for inspection and field review services.
1-G: Rejection
of bids for construction of the Fluoridation Project recommendation to
reject all bids received for the project, waive formal bidding procedures, and
authorize the City Manager to negotiate a contract on the open market to
construct the water fluoridation project.
1-H: Demolition of old police building and construction of
temporary courtyard recommendation to activate Phase II of Design-Build
Contract Number 8306 (CCS) with SKS Construction, Inc. and approve a Guaranteed
Maximum Price in the amount of $2,250,000, for the demolition of the vacant
former Police Building and construction of an interim courtyard at the rear of
City Hall.
1-I: Employee
Benefits consulting services recommendation to authorize the City Manager
to negotiate and execute an amendment to existing contract with AON Consulting,
in the amount of $50,000 per year, to fiscal year 2004-2006.
1-J: Agreement
with
1-K: Convention
and Visitors Bureau funding recommendation to authorize the City Manager
to negotiate and execute an amendment to existing agreement with the Convention
and Visitors Bureau, and appropriate $500,000 set aside to promote Santa Monica
as a destination and to assist visitors to the City.
SPECIAL JOINT MEETING OF THE CITY COUNCIL AND THE
REDEVELOPMENT
AGENCY:
1-L: Annual
Report for Fiscal Year 2003-2004 for the Redevelopment Agency
recommendation that the City Council receive and file information and that the
Redevelopment Agency direct the Executive Director to transmit the report to
the Controller of the State of
ADJOURNMENT OF SPECIAL
JOINT MEETING
2. CLOSED SESSIONS:
2-A: Conference with Legal Counsel Existing Litigation: Fifth/Arizona
Investors, LLC v. City of
2-B: Conference with Legal
Counsel Existing Litigation: Amalia Hernandez v. City of
2-C: Conference with Legal
Counsel Existing Litigation: City
of
2-D: Conference with Legal
Counsel Existing Litigation: Abraham
Supino v. City of
2-E: Conference with Legal
Counsel Existing Litigation: City
of
2-F: Conference with Legal
Counsel Existing Litigation:
2-G: Conference with Legal
Counsel Existing Litigation:
2-H: Conference with Legal Counsel Anticipated Litigation.
Number of
cases: Three.
6:45
P.M. RETURN TO AGENDA ACTION ITEMS:
4.
SPECIAL AGENDA ITEMS:
(To be
heard at the beginning of the meeting, before the Consent Calendar.)
ELECTION OF MAYOR AND MAYOR PRO TEM: (Continued
from December 7, 2004)
4-A: Election of Mayor for the ensuing two
years.
4-B: Election of Mayor Pro Tem for the
ensuing two years.
6. ADMINISTRATIVE PROCEEDINGS:
6-A: Appeal
of Planning Commission's CEQA determination for project unmanned wireless
communications facility at 3010 Wilshire Boulevard - recommendation to deny
appeal and uphold the Planning Commission's CEQA determination exempting the
proposed project from further environmental review based on the findings in the
report. Applicant: Infranext, for
AT&T Wireless.
Appellant:
Matthew Baird. (Continued from
September 28, 2004.)
Item 6-A to
be continued to; new date to be determined.
7.
ORDINANCES: (No public
discussion is permitted on ordinances for second reading and adoption.)
8. STAFF ADMINISTRATIVE ITEMS:
8-A: Update
on proposed rehabilitation and adaptive reuse of 415 Pacific Coast Highway
recommendation that contingent upon receipt of a funding commitment from
Annenberg Foundation, authorize the City Manager to negotiate and execute all
necessary agreements and documents with the Foundation and the State of
California related to the project; approve an amendment to existing contract
with Rincon Associates; approve proposed budgetary actions; and authorize staff
to proceed as recommended in the report.
8-B: Defining
community strategies to reduce gang activity and related crime in the Pico
Neighborhood recommendation that staff work with institutional and
community partners to organize a workshop with Pico Neighborhood residents to
be held in January or early February of 2005 as an initial step in defining
strategies and establishing relationships that will lead to elimination of gang
affiliation and gang violence in the community.
8-C: Civic
Center Village Housing -
recommendation that the City Council provide massing guidelines and tenure
characteristics for the residences, so that a Request for Proposals for the development
of the Village can be issued to the developer-design teams of Bridge Housing,
Castle and Cook, Inc., and The Related Companies.
10.
REPORTS OF BOARDS AND COMMISSIONS:
10-A: Presentation
of the Report on the Status of Women and Girls in Santa Monica by the
Commission on the Status of Women, and recommendations for action.
13.
COUNCILMEMBER DISCUSSION ITEMS:
13-A: Annual and special vacancy appointments to
the following boards and commissions:
(Continued from November 23, 2004.)
|
Commission for the Senior Community Special |
1 |
Term ending
06/30/07 |
|
Personnel Board Special
|
1 |
Term ending
06/30/06 |
|
Pier Restoration Corporation Annual Special |
1 1 |
Term ending
11/11/08 Term ending
11/08/05 |
13-B: Appointment
to one special vacancy on the Accessibility Appeals Board for a term ending
June 30, 2005.
13-C: Appointment
to one special vacancy on the Architectural Review Board for a term ending June
30, 2005.
13-D: Appointment
to one special vacancy on the Arts Commission for a term ending June 30, 2006.
13-E: Appointment to one special vacancy on the Disabilities
Commission for a term ending June 30, 2007.
13-F: Request of Mayor Pro Tem McKeown that the Council
allocate from its discretionary fund a matching grant of $25,000 to the Choral
Parents Association of
13-G: Request
of Councilmembers Shriver, Katz, and Holbrook to direct staff to return on an
expedited basis with recommendations regarding the creation of a sobering
center, perhaps in the City jail.
14. 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.)
ADJOURNMENT.
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