AVALON SPECIAL CITY COUNCIL MEETING
THURSDAY, JULY 24, 2025
MINUTES
CALL TO ORDER - 4:30 p.m.
ROLL CALL - Present via Teleconference and In-Person: Mayor Anni Marshall, Councilmembers Lisa Lavelle, Michael Ponce and Yesenia De La Rosa. Also present: Assistant City Manager Jocelyn Francis, City Attorney Scott Campbell and City Clerk Gabrielle Morones.
Absent: City Manager David Maistros and Councilmember Mary Schickling.
WRITTEN CORRESPONDANCE-City Staff received one written communication regarding Item #1 Advance Payment of Measure C Funds to the Catalina Island Medical Center (CIMC). Copies were distributed to City Council and is filed in the City Clerk's office.
GENERAL BUSINESS
1. Advance Payment of Measure C Funds to the Catalina Island Medical Center (CIMC)
1. Approved the Intergovernmental Transfer (IGT) Agreement with the Department of Health Care Services (DHCS), which obligates the City to make an IGT transfer in the amount of ap-proximately $1,106,450.00 (including a DHCS Administrative Fee described below) and subject to reconciliation by DHCS for Catalina Island Medical Center's (CIMC) participation in the Voluntary Rate Range Intergovernmental Transfer Program, which CIMC believes will result in increased funding for CIMC. 2. Approved the transfer of approximately $1,106,450.00 to DHCS on or before November 21, 2025 in accordance with the IGT Agreement. 3. Approved an advance payment agreement with CIMC, whereby CIMC would allow the City to offset the amount of the IGT transfer of $1,106,450.00 plus City Attorneys' fees incurred in connection with the advance payment and certain administrative and lost opportunity fees, through Measure C funds, and, if necessary, any other available and permissible CIMC revenues over the course of eighteen months.
Motion to approve made by Michael Ponce, seconded by Lisa Lavelle. (4 Ayes-Marshall, Lavelle, De La Rosa and Ponce; 1 Absent-Schickling) Mayor Marshall adjourned the meeting at 4:50 p.m.
1, Gabrielle Morones, City Clerk, do hereby certify that the DVD videotape of the Special City Council Meeting on July 24, 2025, is the official record of the Council Meeting and is on file and maintained in City Hall.
Labilla Mernes
Gabrielle Morones, City Clerk