CITY OF
REGULAR CITY
COUNCIL MEETING AND SPECIAL JOINT MEETING
OF THE CITY
COUNCIL AND THE REDEVELOPMENT AGENCY
CITY HALL
COUNCIL CHAMBERS -
TUESDAY,
SEPTEMBER 12, 2006
MEETING BEGINS AT 5:45 P.M.
CALL TO ORDER
PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE
ROLL CALL
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 June 27, July 3, and July 11, 2006, City Council meetings.
1-B: Exposition
Corridor Bicycle and Pedestrian Path - recommendation to authorize the City
Manager to negotiate and execute an Agreement with Crain & Associates, in
the amount of $537,000, for design, bid preparation and construction monitoring
of the Exposition Corridor Bicycle and Pedestrian Path.
1-C: Gang
intervention program grant funds - recommendation that the City Council accept
U.S. Department of Justice grant funds, in the amount of $246,807, over a
three-year period for a focused gang intervention program, Night Bridges, at Virginia Avenue Park; authorize the City Manager
to execute necessary agreements; and appropriate funds and make necessary
budget changes.
1-D: Heal
the Bay Aquarium re-roofing project – recommendation to authorize the City
Manager to award a construction contract to John S. Meek Company, Inc., in the
amount of $212,840, for the re-roofing project; and, authorize the City Manager
to negotiate and execute a reimbursement agreement with Heal the Bay in the
amount of $78,808.
1-E:
1-F:
1-G: Community
Energy
1-H: Operations,
financial, and rate review of Solid Waste Services - recommendation to authorize the City Manager
to negotiate and execute a second amendment to Contract No. 8524 (CCS) with
Gershman, Brickner and Bratton, in the amount of $240,000, for review of solid
waste services.
1-I: Water
infrastructure Reliability Project - recommendation to accept U.S. Environmental
Protection Agency Grant Funds in the amount of $529,900 for the project; and
authorize the necessary budget appropriations, as proposed in the report.
2. CLOSED SESSIONS:
2-A: Conference with
real property negotiator:
Property:
City Negotiator: Miriam Mack
Under negotiation: Interest in Real Property
Owner of Record:
Felcor Hotel Asset Company LLC
2-B: Conference with real property negotiator:
Property:
City
Negotiator: Miriam Mack
Under
negotiation: Interest in Real Property
Owner
of Record: Jandy, LLC
2-C: Conference with real property negotiator:
Property: 1640 5th Street
City
Negotiator: Miriam Mack
Under
negotiation: Interest in Real Property
Owner
of Record: Martin H. Waldman, et. al.
2-D: Conference with real property negotiator:
Property:
City
Negotiator: Miriam Mack
Under
negotiation: Interest in Real Property
Owner of
Record: Virginia Tegner Spurgin Investments Company
2-E: Conference with real property negotiator:
Property:
City
Negotiator: Miriam Mack
Under
negotiation: Interest in Real Property
Owner of
Record: Mark S. Romney
2-F: Conference with real property
negotiator:
Property: 1437 5th Street
City
Negotiator: Miriam Mack
Under
negotiation: Interest in Real Property
Owner
of Record: PRU/JSM Trino
2-G: Conference with real property negotiator:
Property: 1334 5th
Street
City
Negotiator: Miriam Mack
Under
negotiation: Interest in Real Property
Owner
of Record: Sunnyside Group, et. al.
2-H: Conference with real property negotiator:
Property:
City
Negotiator: Miriam Mack
Under
negotiation: Interest in Real Property
Owner
of Record: Bryan Family Trust
2-I: Conference with real property negotiator:
Property: 1324 5th
Street
City
Negotiator: Miriam Mack
Under
negotiation: Interest in Real Property
Owner
of Record: Taking 5th
LLC/HILD
2-J: Conference
with real property negotiator:
Property:
City Negotiator: Miriam Mack
Under negotiation: Interest in Real Property
Owner of Record: Richlar Partnership Lease
2-K: Conference with Legal Counsel - Existing Litigation: City of
2-L: Conference with Legal Counsel - Existing Litigation: City adv. Shell Oil Company (arbitration
regarding compliance with settlement agreement in City of Santa Monica v.
Shell Oil Co., Case No. 01CC4331).
2-M: Conference with Legal Counsel - Existing Litigation: Abraham Supino v. City of
2-N: Conference with Legal Counsel - Existing Litigation: Palisades Beach Property Owners
Association, Inc. v. City of
2-O: Conference with Legal Counsel - Existing Litigation: Fifth/Arizona Investors, LLC v. City of
2-P: Conference with Legal Counsel - Existing Litigation: Russell Barnard v. City of
2-Q: Anticipated
Litigation: Anticipate significant exposure to litigation pursuant to
Government Code Section 54956.9(b): one matter involving real property at
161 Ocean Park Boulevard; one matter involving a challenge to Ordinance Number
2191 (CCS) (affordable housing requirements); Claim of
Stephanie Barbanell regarding Seaview Terrace; Claim of R. Demetriou regarding Woodlawn Cemetery; and Claims of
reimbursement for parking citation overpayments.
6:45 P.M. RETURN TO AGENDA ACTION ITEMS:
4. SPECIAL AGENDA ITEMS:
4-A: Commendation to Little League California
District 25 Girls Minor League “Angels”
Softball Team – Tournament of Champions winners.
7. ORDINANCES: (No public discussion is
permitted on ordinances for second reading and adoption.)
7-A: Introduction
and adoption of an ordinance of the City of Santa Monica setting the FY 2006-07
tax rate for the 1990 and 2002 Library General Obligation Bonds.
7-B: Introduction
and first reading of an ordinance amending Article 9 of the Municipal Code to
modify project design and property development standards for specified uses in
certain residential, commercial and industrial districts in the city including,
but not limited to, standards related to permitted building heights, exceptions
to the height limit, unit density, parcel coverage, floor area and
architectural design review criteria.
The City Council may also consider modifications related to other
administrative and discretionary review procedures and possible changes to the
City's Affordable Housing Production Program.
7-C: Introduction and first reading of an ordinance modifying the
development standards and review processes in the R1 Sunset Park and north of
Wilshire neighborhoods including, but not limited to, standards and review
related to setbacks, stepbacks, maximum parcel coverage, second floor parcel
coverage, garages and garage doors, architectural projections, balconies and
porches, and architectural review of specified structures and clarifying the
second floor parcel coverage standard as it applies in these and in the North
of Montana neighborhoods. The City
Council may also consider extending these or similar modifications to the R1
District located north of
(NOTE:
ITEM 7-C MAY BE CONSIDERED BEFORE ITEM 7-B.)
8.
STAFF ADMINISTRATIVE ITEMS:
JOINT
MEETING WITH THE REDEVELOPMENT AGENCY:
ROLL CALL OF THE
REDEVELOPMENT AGENCY
8-A: Village
Housing in Civic Center – recommendation that Council support flexibility
in the design of the Village component of the Civic Center Specific Plan by allowing
some building heights up to 65 feet, to allow modifications to building setback
and step back requirements and to allow reconfigured public open spaces.
ADJOURNMENT
OF SPECIAL JOINT MEETING
13.
COUNCILMEMBER DISCUSSION ITEMS:
13-A: Appointment to one special vacancy on the Social Services Commission
for
a term ending June 30, 2007. (Continued from August 8, 2006.)
13-B: Annual appointments to the following
boards and commissions: (Continued
from August
8, 2006.)
|
Board/Commission |
No. of Appts. |
Term Ending |
|
Bayside District Corporation |
1 |
06/30/2010 |
|
Commission for the Senior Community |
2 |
06/30/2010 |
|
Commission on the Status of Women |
1 |
06/30/2010 |
|
Convention & Visitors Bureau |
1 |
06/30/2010 |
|
Recreation & Parks Commission |
1 |
06/30/2010 |
13-C: Recommendation
to rescind the July 11, 2006, appointment of Jacob Samuel to the Arts
Commission; and, consider new appointment to the vacancy on the Commission with
a term ending June 30, 2010.
13-D: Request
of Councilmember McKeown that in order to preserve Santa Monica's local
jurisdictional power to responsibly monitor and control the use of environmentally
damaging products, the Council oppose the Governor's signing of AB 2449 as
amended, which usurps local control over regulating plastic carry-out bags.
13-E: Request
of Councilmember Bloom that the City Council adopt the proposed resolution in support
Proposition 86, the Tobacco Tax Act of 2006 which if passed by voters in
November 2006 would raise the state’s tobacco tax by an additional $2.60/pack
to reduce smoking, especially among children, and fund critical health care
priorities, thereby reducing the healthcare cost burden on state and local
governments; and reduce tobacco use.
13-F: Request
of Mayor Holbrook and Councilmember Katz that Council direct staff to prepare
an ordinance amending the Santa Monica Zoning Code to increase minimum required
lot sizes and dimensions on neighborhood streets of the R1 District, North of
Montana, that have historically contained larger lot sizes, including direction to prepare the ordinance in advance
of the comprehensive update to the Zoning Ordinance.
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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