T h e C i t y o f B e l l f l o w e r
Families. Businesses. Futures.
16600 Civic Center Drive, Bellflower, CA 90706
Tel 562.804.1424 Fax 562.925.8660 www.bellflower.org
Next CC Resolution No. 23-16
Next CC Agreement No. 992
Next Ordinance No. 1425
In compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act, if you need special assistance to participate in this meeting, please contact the City Clerk’s Office at (562) 804 -1424, extension 2220 or [email protected]. Notification 48 hours prior to the meeting will enable the City to make reasonable arrangements to ensure accessibility to this meeting.
Agenda Items are on file in the Office of the City Clerk and are available for public inspection during normal business hours. For your convenience, the Agenda is also posted on the City’s Website at www.bellflower.org with links to each Agenda Item (unless they are too lengthy or unavailable at the time of posting). Any supplemental material distributed to a majority of the members of the City Council/Successor Agency after the posting of this Agenda will be made available for public inspection during normal business hours in the City Clerk’s Office at City Hall, 16600 Civic Center Drive, Bellflower. (Privileged documents and Closed Session documents are exempted.)
REGULAR MEETING OF THE BELLFLOWER CITY COUNCIL
MONDAY, APRIL 24, 2023
BELLFLOWER CITY HALL - COUNCIL CHAMBERS
5:30 P.M. CLOSED SESSION / 7:00 P.M. OPEN SESSION
5:30 P.M. – CLOSED SESSION
1 CALL TO ORDER
2 ROLL CALL: Mayor Sonny R. Santa Ines
Mayor Pro Tem Raymond Y. Hamada
Council Member Ray Dunton
Council Member Dan Koops
Council Member Victor A. Sanchez
AGENDA
Bellflower City Council Agenda
April 24, 2023
3 RECESS TO CLOSED SESSION
A CONFERENCE WITH LEGAL COUNSEL - ANTICIPATED LITIGATION Significant exposure to litigation pursuant to Government Code Section 54956.9(d)(2): One Matter
B CONFERENCE WITH LEGAL COUNSEL – INITIATION OF LITIGATION - GOVERNMENT CODE § 54956.9(d)(4). Number of Cases: One
4 RECONVENE FOR OPEN SESSION
7:00 P.M. – OPEN SESSION
5 CALL TO ORDER
6 ROLL CALL: Mayor Sonny R. Santa Ines
Mayor Pro Tem Raymond Y. Hamada
Council Member Ray Dunton
Council Member Dan Koops
Council Member Victor A. Sanchez
7 INVOCATION: Council Member Dan Koops
8 PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE: Elizabeth Oba, Director of Planning and Building Services
9 CITY COUNCIL ANNOUNCEMENTS / PRESENTATIONS
A City Council Announcements
B Update on Simms Park Projects: Youth and Senior Center, Stormwater Capture and Field Renovation
10 PUBLIC COMMENTS
This is the time set aside for the public to address the City Council on matters not listed on the Agenda. Anyone wishing to address the City Council should come to the podium, be recognized by the Mayor, and state your name for the record. If you wish to address the City Council on an Agenda Item, you may do so by approaching the podium as we review that particular item. You will be given three 3) minutes to address the City Council.
11 PUBLIC HEARINGS
None
Bellflower City Council Agenda
April 24, 2023
12 ORDINANCES AND RESOLUTIONS FOR CONSIDERATION
None
13 CONSIDERATION ITEMS
A Consideration and possible action to provide staff direction related to the naming of the new youth and senior center.
Recommendation to City Council: 1) Consider the proposed options and recommendation in naming the new youth and senior center and provide direction to staff for moving forward; or 2) Alternatively, discuss and take other action related to this item.
B Consideration and possible action to approve the Art in Public Places proposals for “The Edgeway” project located at 16411 Bellflower Boulevard, 9742 Mayne Street, and 9735 Oak Street.
CEQA: Pursuant to the authority and criteria of the California Environmental Quality Act ("CEQA"), it has been determined that this project does not have the potential to cause significant effects on the environment that had not been adequately analyzed in the Mitigated Negative Declaration approved on June 22, 2020 or the Addendum approved on Septembe r 12, 2022. No new significant impacts would occur with the proposed art work.
Recommendation to City Council: 1) Approve the art in public places proposals submitted by the developer to install decorative light poles and complete a mural at “The Edgeway” project (16411 Bellflower Boulevard, 9742 Mayne Street and 9735 Oak Street), as fulfillment of the Art in Public Places requirement; 2) Authorize the City Manager to take reasonable actions to implement the City Council’s action; or 3) Alternatively, discuss and take other action related to this item.
C Consideration and possible action to reconsider development impact fee increases and other related matters.
Recommendation to City Council: 1) Discuss and reconsider the development impact fee increases on residential developments; or 2) Alternatively, discuss and take other action related to this item.
14 CONSENT CALENDAR
All items under the Consent Calendar are considered by the City Council to be routine and will be enacted by one motion. Specific items may be removed from the Consent Calendar at the request of any member of the City Council for separate consideration.
A Consideration and possible action to receive and file City Council Warrant Register No. 23-102, dated April 24, 2023.
Recommendation to City Council: 1) Receive and file Warrant Register No. 23-102; or 2) Alternatively, discuss and take other action related to this item.
Bellflower City Council Agenda
April 24, 2023
14 CONSENT CALENDAR – Continued
B Consideration and possible action to receive and file the Treasurer’s Report for the Month of March 2023.
Recommendation to City Council: 1) Receive and file Treasurer’s Report ; or 2) Alternatively, discuss and take other action related to C Consideration and possible action to approve the 2023 Fireworks Permits._____________________________________
Recommendation to City Council: 1) Approve fourteen (14) Fireworks Permits; or 2) Alternatively, discuss and take other action related to this item.
D Consideration and possible action to adopt Resolution No. 23-14 – A Resolution authorizing the destruction of obsolete records from all City Departments.
Recommendation to City Council: 1) Adopt Resolution No. 23-14; or 2) Alternatively, discuss and take other action related to this item.
E Consideration and possible action to adopt Resolution No. 23-15 – A Resolution approving the request by Bellflower Noon Lions Club to temporarily close Bellflower Boulevard on October 7, 2023, for a car show, a third-party special event subject to Resolution No. 09-77, and approving the concurrent request for the City to provide financial support or in-kind services to assist with the event.
Recommendation to City Council: 1) Adopt Resolution No. 23-15; and incorporate all items outlined in the Staff Report into the Third -Party Special Event permit for a car show in 2023; or 2) Alternatively, discuss and take other action related to this item.
F Consideration and possible action to receive and file the notice of ineffective agreement regarding License Agreement AFN 943, between Greencore EV Services, LLC and the City of Bellflower, regarding the use of a portion of the City-owned parking lot at 16600 Civic Center Drive to construct an 8-stall electric vehicle (EV) fast-charging station.
Recommendation to City Council: 1) Receive and file the attached notice of ineffective agreement regarding License Agreement AFN 943; or 2) Alternatively, discuss and take other action related to this item.
G Consideration and possible action to authorize the City Manager to execute Agreement File No. 39.4 with Southern California Edison Company (SCE), in a form approved by the City Attorney, for the continued use of SCE right-of- way for landscaping, beautification, and park purposes as Caruthers Park North.
Recommendation to City Council: 1) Authorize the City Manager to execute Agreement File No. 39.4, in a form approved by the City Attorney; or 2) Alternatively, discuss and take other action related to this item.
Bellflower City Council Agenda
April 24, 2023
14 CONSENT CALENDAR – Continued
H Consideration and possible action to receive and file a letter of support for Senate Bill 747 and a letter of opposition for Assembly Bill 480.
Recommendation to City Council: 1) Receive and file a letter of support for Senate Bill 747 and a letter of opposition for Assembly Bill 480; or 2) Alternatively, discuss and take other action related to this item.
I Consideration and possible action to approve the Minutes of the April 10, 2023, Regular Meeting of the City Council.
Recommendation to City Council: 1) Approve the April 10, 2023, Regular Meeting Minutes; or 2) Alternatively, discuss and take other action related to this item. 15 COUNCIL REPORTS
16 ADJOURNMENT
Adjourn to the next Regular Meeting of the Bellflower City Council at 5:30 p.m. on Monday, May 8, 2023.
STATE OF CALIFORNIA
COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES ) SS
CITY OF BELLFLOWER )
I, Dakota Wallace, Management Assistant, of the City of Bellflower, do hereby declare under penalty of perjury, that the Agenda for the Regular Meeting of the Bellflower City Council to be held on Monday, April 24, 2023, at 5:30 p.m., was posted Thursday, April 20, 2023, at the following locations in the City of Bellflower:
City Hall Lobby and Doors, 16600 Civic Center Drive
City Website at www.bellflower.orq
Clifton M. Brakensiek Library
Executed this 20th day of April 2023 at Bellflower, California.
As.
D: ko Wall:ce, Management Assistant