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July
12, 2006 At the
special meeting of Wednesday, July
12, 2006 the Council considered and
took action on the following four
administrative items:
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Council approved an amendment of
the General Plan Land Use Map to
correct a mapping error
concerning the area along Pico
Boulevard from 11th
Street to Euclid Street.
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Council approved the Santa
Monica Watershed Management
Plan, directed staff to issue a
notice for a public hearing for
July 25, 2006 on proposed
stormwater parcel fee increases
and directed staff to prepare
materials required for official
Council action on July 25 to
place a Clean Beaches and Ocean
Funding measure on the November
ballot (the measure would fund
more than $40 million in
stormwater projects over 10
years, resulting in a cleaner,
healthier, safer beach and bay,
through an average $79 parcel
tax annually.) Council also
gave other direction to staff,
including to meet with the
school district on issues
related to both the district and
the city having tax or bond
measures on the ballot in
November and to provide
information on what bond or tax
measures the district, college
and city have placed on ballots
in the past few years.
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Council directed staff to
prepare a ballot measure
intended to correct the defects
of Article XXII of the City
Charter, entitled “Taxpayer
Protection”, also known as the
Oaks Initiative passed by the
voters in 2000, while
maintaining the intent of
Article XXII to protect good and
open government. Council
directed that staff include the
best ideas from a Vista
ordinance that overrode the Oaks
Initiative there, the Pasadena
approach and “clean money”
campaign financing reform. The
measure will be presented to
Council on July 25 or August 8
for a determination about
placing it on the November
ballot.
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Council approved an extension to
an existing agreement with Santa
Monica College for motor vehicle
egress from the SMC Bundy Campus
to Airport Avenue and to allow
pedestrian access from that
campus to the SMC facility to
the west on Airport. The
agreement was extended to
February 28, 2007, with the
option for an extension to July
31, 2007 if sufficient progress
has been made on the
installation of a signal at the
Bundy Drive entrance to the
college campus. Council
requested that staff report to
the Airport Commission prior to
February 28 and return to
Council in February for action
on the extension to July ‘07.
SHOTGUN HOUSE At the request of the
Santa Monica Conservancy, the
Council directed staff to pursue
city ownership of the “Shotgun
House” (an 1890s house formerly
located on 2nd Street in
Ocean Park and stored for the last
few years at the Airport and now the
former Fisher Lumber site), identify
an appropriate site on a designated
city property for the permanent
relocation of the house back to
Ocean Park, initiate an RFP process
to select a nonprofit organization
to raise funds and potentially lease
the house for a public benefit
purpose and create a lease agreement
that clearly delineates
responsibilities of both lessor and
lessee.
COUNCILMEMBER ITEMS
Council adopted a resolution
requesting the Foothill/Eastern
Transportation Corridor Agency
immediately and permanently withdraw
its plans to construct a toll road
through the San Onofre State Beach
and across the Trestles State Surf
Beach, maintaining the permanent,
original designation of park land.
The project has been unanimously
opposed by the State Park &
Recreation Commission and the state
has filed two suits against the
project.
Council directed the City Clerk,
City Attorney and City Manager, or
appropriate designees, to report
back to Council as soon as possible
on the feasibility and potential
costs of instituting “clean money”
campaign finance reform for City
Council elections, with the intent
of placing the matter before the
voters on the November 7 ballot.
APPOINTMENTS The Council rescinded
with regret the reappointment of
Karen Gunn to the Social Services
Commission, at Ms. Gunn’s request,
and appointed Christopher Taylor and
Leigh Brumberg to the Social
Services Commission.
Council voted to cancel the regularly scheduled August 22, 2006
Council meeting, as is customary.
ADJOURNMENT Council adjourned in
memory of female body builder and
acrobat Pudgy Stockton who was very
active with her husband, Les (who
passed away a few years ago), in the
hey day of Muscle Beach in Santa
Monica, where the country’s physical
fitness movement was born. She and
her husband advised on the rehab of
Muscle Beach in the ‘90s as part of
the city’s Beach Improvement Group
(BIG) Project. Council adjourned
“in memory of her exuberance and the
wonderful way she enhanced the
history of this community.”
The
next regular meeting of the Santa
Monica City Council is scheduled for
Tuesday, July 25, 2006, beginning at
5:45 p.m. (although Council expects
to take a half hour break at 6 p.m.)
in the wheelchair-accessible Council
Chamber at City Hall. Council meetings are aired live on
CityTV Channel 16 and on the Netcast
on the city's website and, for
regularly scheduled meetings, from 8
p.m. to midnight on KCRW 89.9 FM.
NOTE:
This wrap-up is not an official
record of Council action. The
official record is posted by the
City Clerk on this website at
http://www.smgov.net/cityclerk/council/agendas/2006/
as soon as possible after the
meeting. (Click on the July 12,
2006 agenda link.)
SPECIAL NOTE:
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