CITY OF SANTA MONICA

 

REGULAR CITY COUNCIL MEETING AND SPECIALL

 

JOINT MEETING WITH THE REDEVELOPMENT AGENCY

 

CITY HALL COUNCIL CHAMBERS - 1685 MAIN STREET

 

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.

 

            MINUTES

 

1-B:     Short Range Transit Plan – recommendation to authorize the City Manager to file the Plan with the L. A. County Metropolitan Transportation Authority, and to file applications and execute grant documents for funds made available.

 

            STAFF REPORT

 

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.

 

            STAFF REPORT

 

1-D:     Resolution approving Final Tract Map No. 54033 for an 8-unit condominium project at 1528 Princeton Street.

 

            STAFF REPORT

 

1-E:     Lease of office space at 1717 4th Street – recommendation to authorize the City Manager to negotiate and execute a third amendment to existing ease agreement with Santa Monica HSR Limited Partnership for lease of space for the City’s finance Department.

 

            STAFF REPORT

 

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.

 

            STAFF REPORT

 

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.

 

            STAFF REPORT

 

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.

 

            STAFF REPORT

 

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.

 

            STAFF REPORT

 

1-J:      Agreement with Unified School District for community use programs – recommendation to authorize the City Manager to negotiate and execute a Master Agreement and sub agreements with the Santa Monica-Malibu Unified School District that provide for community use of District property.

 

            STAFF REPORT

 

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.

 

            STAFF REPORT

 

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 California.

 

            STAFF REPORT

 

ADJOURNMENT OF SPECIAL JOINT MEETING

 

2.   CLOSED SESSIONS:

 

2-A:     Conference with Legal Counsel – Existing Litigation:  Fifth/Arizona Investors, LLC v. City of Santa Monica, Case No. SC 083 204.

 

2-B:     Conference with Legal Counsel – Existing Litigation:  Amalia Hernandez v. City of Santa Monica, Case No. SC 078 840.

 

2-C:     Conference with Legal Counsel – Existing Litigation:  City of Santa Monica v. City of Los Angeles, Case No. BS 093 791.

 

2-D:     Conference with Legal Counsel – Existing Litigation:  Abraham Supino v. City of Santa Monica, Case No. SC 080 283 and related cases.

 

2-E:     Conference with Legal Counsel – Existing Litigation:  City of Santa Monica v. Baron & Budd, P.C., Case No. BC 315 186.

 

2-F:     Conference with Legal Counsel – Existing Litigation:  Santa Monica Food Not Bombs v. City of Santa Monica, Case No. CV 03-0032 R.

 

2-G:     Conference with Legal Counsel – Existing Litigation:  Santa Monica Housing Council v. City of Santa Monica, Case No. SC 074 683.

 

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.

 

            STAFF 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.

 

            STAFF REPORT

 

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.

 

            STAFF REPORT

 

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.

 

            STAFF REPORT


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 Santa Monica High School, to assist in scholarship fundraising so 42 low-income family students can join their peers at March's National High School Choral Festival in Honolulu.

 

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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