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SPECIAL MEETING OF THE BELLFLOWER CITY COUNCIL
TUESDAY, MAY 2, 2023, 2:00 P.M.
BELLFLOWER CITY HALL - COUNCIL CHAMBERS
1 CALL TO ORDER
2 ROLL CALL: Mayor Sonny R. Santa Ines
Mayor Pro Tern Raymond Y. Hamada
Council Member Ray Dunton
Council Member Dan Koops
Council Member Victor A. Sanchez
3 PUBLIC COMMENTS
Pursuant to Government Code Section 54954.3(a), the public may address the City Council on matters listed on the Agenda. Those wishing to speak on a listed item should come to the podium, be recognized by the Mayor, and state your name for the record. Each speaker will be given three (3) minutes to address the City Council.
Bellflower City Council Special Meeting Agenda
May 2, 2023
4 BUDGET STUDY SESSION
A Consideration and possible action to conduct a City Council Study Session concerning 2023-2025 Proposed Budget.
Recommendation to City Council: 1) Open the City Council Study Session for budget discussions including the follow-up items from the budget study session on April 25, 2023; take no formal action; or 2) Alternatively, discuss and take other action related to this item.
5 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.
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4 REVISED
Follow-up Items from Budget Study Session on April 25, 2023 2023-24 2024-25
Budget Budget
Public Safety
1 Add a no-call traffic car $ 363,287 $ 381,451 2 Add Automated License Plate Reader cameras (5)to cover all City entrances $ 51,000 $ 3 Add a vehicle ($40,000 in FY 2022-23 with FY 2022-23 budget savings) $ - $ Economic Development
4 Update/upgrade the Town Center blade sign at the northeast corner of Sufficient budget exists Bellflower Blvd. and Belmont Street
5 Investigate/research color changing LED café lights for Bellflower Blvd Sufficient budget exists 6 Illuminate the trees and median - Install landscape lighting for the trees and vegetation planted as part of the south Bellflower Blvd. Street Improvement Sufficient budget exists Project, south of Artesia Blvd. to the City boundary.
Public Works
7 Tree Master Plan TBD TBD
Staff has made an inquiry to the Urban Forester that represents the City's area to find out when the next round of grants will become available. To provide examples, staff has reviewed award recipients from the last 2 cycles for grants awarded for Urban Forestry Plans. The awards have gone to cities for either creating/updating a plan and they typically include planting of hundreds of trees, so it's tough to determine the cost of just a plan. In 2021/22, Fremont was awarded $850k, Napa $510k, and Maywood $450k. In 2019/20, Watsonville received $700k, Eastvale $250k, Los Banos$162k, Fresno $307k, Vallejo $500k, and Fullerton $377k. CalFire currently does not have a grant available for urban tree projects.
8 Cost to replace the trees that were removed $ 87,500 $ The City's current contract with WCA has the rate of planting a new tree of $350/tree. If we do a mass planting with them (250 trees), then the cost would be$87,500.
9 Duratherm crosswalks— Bellflower and Alondra $ 150,000 $ Staff is currently working with the engineering firm (Tait) that is designing the Alondra Rehab project to get a proposal for the added design work. To do the intersection, it would require a complete re-pave of the intersection (and we just re did it a couple of years ago) because the Duratherm product is only recommended be installed on pavement less than 6 months old—otherwise we risk it failing. So in essence, there would be design cost, cost to re-pave the whole intersection and then the cost to install the Duratherm. Conservative estimate is approx. $150k more to the overall project that is already funded/budgeted.
REVISED
Follow-up Items from Budget Study Session on April 25, 2023 2023-24 2024-25
Budget Budget
10 Bellflower and Alondra—Traffic Signal $ 100,000 $ Staffs understanding is to restore the look of the existing traffic signal poles by painting them black, change out the standard streetlight fixture current on the traffic signal poles to the decorative"bell" light fixture similar to Bellflower/ Harvard fixture and then find the fluted skirt for the base of the traffic signal poles. Staff is seeking a cost estimate from the company that does this type of work.
11 Traffic measures- Rosecrans between Clark & Bellflower $ 25,000 $ Purchase of additional solar-powered radar feedback signs 12 Café lighting—take it to 91 freeway TBD TBD Staff has confirmed with Santa Fe Springs (the City's maintenance contractor for the downtown lights) that we only have power capability to do the café lights down to Walnut. South of Walnut, the streetlights are owned by SCE and their marblelite poles do not have a plug on top (like the city-owned poles). Staff will speak with SCE and ask if it is possible that the City somehow can tap into their power source for the light and create a plug on their poles that we could use. It is uncertain whether SCE would allow this or not. If they do allow it, then there is the possibility that when we do the street rehab project from Flower to the 91 freeway, we could add this component to the project. As for the cost of lights:
similar to what we have already (P/W), or color changing light system (ED).
Public Works /Capital Projects
13 Refurbishment of the Simms Park tot soccer area within the playground $ 20,000 $ 14 Access to Riverview Park from the Butterfly Garden Park Not possible Not possible (see photos). Even if the City were to do a path around the pipelines, the open space between the bridge structure and existing ground is about 4 ft. In order to create a space high enough for pedestrians and bikes, it would required LA County Flood Control and the Army Corp of Engineers to re- design and lower the river bank several feet.
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Follow-up Items from Budget Study Session on April 25, 2023 2023-24 2024-25
Budget Budget
Parks & Recreation
17 Parks Master Plan — add Carpenter House Museum programming assessment $ 50,000 $ $50,000 increase to the Park Master Plan budget will allow staff the flexibility needed to assess RFP proposals and add on the additional consideration to evaluate the underutilization of the Carpenter House Museum at Caruthers Park. This will increase the Park Master Plan budget from $150,000 to $200,000.
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18 Increase the General Fund contingency reserve to $10M Fund balance set-aside 19 Set-aside $5M for property acquisition including current property purchase value Fund balance set-aside or Property purchases are currently in two Funds - General Fund and Public transfer out Projects Fund. Should the $5M property acqusition set-aside be accounted for in the General Fund or Public Projects Fund?
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TO: Honorable Mayor and Members of the City Council
ATTENTION: Jeffrey L. Stewart, City Manager
FROM: Tae Rhee, Director of Finance/City Treasurer SUBJECT: Consideration and possible action to conduct a City Council Study Session concerning 2023-2025 Proposed Budget.
DATE: May 2, 2023
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
The City Council adopts the Operating Budget biennially. For the upcoming budget cycle covering two fiscal years of 2023-2024 and 2024-2025, the Council held a budget study session on April 25, 2023 with certain follow-up items to be discussed at the budget study session on May 2, 2023.
RECOMMENDATION TO CITY COUNCIL
1) Open the City Council Study Session for budget discussions including the follow-up items from the budget study session on April 25, 2023; take no formal action; or 2) Alternatively, discuss and take other action related to this item.
FISCAL IMPACT
The proposed 2023-2025 budget contains $111 million in expenditures for fiscal year 2023-2024 and $77 million in expenditures for fiscal year 2024-2025. 2023-2024 2024-2025
PROPOSED PROPOSED
Legislative, Administrative, General $ 7,942,473 $ 8,714,855 Public Safety 18,474,862 19,279,604
Economic Development 7,928,607 3,064,049 Planning 3,119,676 3,031,415
Public Works 12,676,845 13,239,553
Parks and Recreation 4,991,249 5,411,901
Capital Projects 52,565,002 21,122,999
Staff Report— Study Session re. 2023-2025 Proposed Budget May 2, 2023
Debt Service 2,593,527 2,604,149
IT & Equipment Replacement 742,909 861,578
Total $ 111,035,150 $ 77,330,103
The follow-up items from the budget study session on April 25, 2023, contain certain addtional cost items to be budgeted.
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Follow-up items from the budget study session on April 25, 2023 3
Follow-up Items from Budget Study Session on April 25, 2023 2023-24 2024-25
Budget Budget
Public Safety
1 Add a no-call traffic car $ 363,287 $ 381,451 2 Add Automated License Plate Reader cameras (5) to cover all City entrances $ 51,000 $ 3 Add a vehicle ($40,000 in FY 2022-23 with FY 2022-23 budget savings) $ - $ Economic Development
4 Update/upgrade the Town Center blade sign at the northeast corner of Sufficient budget exists Bellflower Blvd. and Belmont Street
5 Investigate/research color changing LED café lights for Bellflower Blvd Sufficient budget exists 6 Illuminate the trees and median - Install landscape lighting for the trees and vegetation planted as part of the south Bellflower Blvd. Street Improvement Sufficient budget exists Project, south of Artesia Blvd. to the City boundary.
Public Works
7 Tree Master Plan TBD TBD
Staff has made an inquiry to the Urban Forester that represents the City's area to find out when the next round of grants will become available. To provide examples, staff has reviewed award recipients from the last 2 cycles for grants awarded for Urban Forestry Plans. The awards have gone to cities for either creating/updating a plan and they typically include planting of hundreds of trees, so it's tough to determine the cost of just a plan. In 2021/22, Fremont was awarded $850k, Napa $510k, and Maywood $450k. In 2019/20, Watsonville received $700k, Eastvale $250k, Los Banos $162k, Fresno $307k, Vallejo $500k, and Fullerton $377k. CalFire currently does not have a grant available for urban tree projects.
8 Cost to replace the trees that were removed $ 87,500 $ The City's current contract with WCA has the rate of planting a new tree of $350/tree. If we do a mass planting with them (250 trees), then the cost would be $87,500.
9 Duratherm crosswalks— Bellflower and Alondra $ 150,000 $ Staff is currently working with the engineering firm (Tait) that is designing the Alondra Rehab project to get a proposal for the added design work. To do the intersection, it would require a complete re-pave of the intersection (and we just re did it a couple of years ago) because the Duratherm product is only recommended be installed on pavement less than 6 months old —otherwise we risk it failing. So in essence, there would be design cost, cost to re-pave the whole intersection and then the cost to install the Duratherm. Conservative estimate is approx. $150k more to the overall project that is already funded/budgeted.
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Follow-up Items from Budget Study Session on April 25, 2023 2023-24 2024-25
Budget Budget
10 Bellflower and Alondra—Traffic Signal $ 100,000 $ - Staffs understanding is to restore the look of the existing traffic signal poles by painting them black, change out the standard streetlight fixture current on the traffic signal poles to the decorative "bell" light fixture similar to Bellflower/ Harvard fixture and then find the fluted skirt for the base of the traffic signal poles. Staff is seeking a cost estimate from the company that does this type of work.
11 Traffic measures - Rosecrans between Clark & Bellflower $ 25,000 $ - Purchase of additional solar-powered radar feedback signs 12 Café lighting—take it to 91 freeway TBD TBD Staff has confirmed with Santa Fe Springs (the City's maintenance contractor for the downtown lights)that we only have power capability to do the café lights down to Walnut. South of Walnut, the streetlights are owned by SCE and their marblelite poles do not have a plug on top (like the city-owned poles). Staff will speak with SCE and ask if it is possible that the City somehow can tap into their power source for the light and create a plug on their poles that we could use. It is uncertain whether SCE would allow this or not. If they do allow it, then there is the possibility that when we do the street rehab project from Flower to the 91 freeway, we could add this component to the project. As for the cost of lights:
similar to what we have already(P/W), or color changing light system (ED).
Public Works /Capital Projects
13 Refurbishment of the Simms Park tot soccer area within the playground TBD TBD Currently working on a price estimate by P&R & P/W
14 Access to Riverview Park from the Butterfly Garden Park Not possible Not possible (see photos). Even if the City were to do a path around the pipelines, the open space between the bridge structure and existing ground is about 4 ft. In order to create a space high enough for pedestrians and bikes, it would required LA County Flood Control and the Army Corp of Engineers to re- design and lower the river bank several feet.
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Parks & Recreation
17 Repurposing of the Carpenter House—add to the Park Master Plan N/A N/A Finance
18 Increase the General Fund contingency reserve to $10M Fund balance set-aside 19 Set-aside $5M for property acquisition including current property purchase value Fund balance set-aside or Property purchases are currently in two Funds - General Fund and Public transfer out Projects Fund. Should the $5M property acqusition set-aside be accounted for in the General Fund or Public Projects Fund?
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TO: Honorable Mayor and Members of the City Council ATTENTION: Jeffrey L. Stewart, City Manager
FROM: P.J. Mellana, Director of Parks and Recreation
SUBJECT: Consideration and possible action to provide staff direction related to the naming of the new youth and senior center.
DATE: May 2, 2023
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
On April 24, 2023, staff introduced an item for the City Council to consider providing staff direction related to the naming of the new youth and senior center. At that time, the City Council requested that the item be revisited at a future meeting. Attached is the original report.
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.
FISCAL IMPACT
None
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TO: Honorable Mayor and Members of the City Council ATTENTION: Jeffrey L. Stewart, City Manager
FROM: P.J. Mellana, Director of Parks and Recreation
SUBJECT: Consideration and possible action to provide staff direction related to the naming of the new youth and senior center.
DATE: April 24, 2023
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
The City is currently in the planning phase of the new youth and senior center that is scheduled to break ground at the end of 2023 and slated to open to the public in the summer of 2025.
The design team is approaching the phase where brand and name will need to be addressed to finalize signage design.
Staff has generated a list of potential options and recommends naming the facility as The Oak Center. Additionally, staff is recommending that a branding tag line be coupled with the official name of the facility and is recommending some variation of "Where Connections Build Community"or "A Community Built by Connections", e.g.
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.
FISCAL IMPACT
None
DISCUSSION
The Oak Center
The name "The Oak Center" reflects Bellflower's history as well as the symbolism seen in the oak tree. Oak Street connects downtown Bellflower with John S. Simms Park and the community neighborhoods up to the City's western border at Lakewood Boulevard. The street has been part of the City's history, including the highs, lows, and now the revitalization with many new developments touching upon Oak Street.
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April 24, 2023
DISCUSSION — Continued
The reference to the oak tree is full of symbolism that will also reflect the vision for the center — serving and providing a safe and supportive space for two distinctly different generations to come together to socialize, learn, grow, and connect. Here are some specific ways in which the oak tree is a symbol of that vision:
• Strength: Oak trees are strong and resilient, and they can withstand even the harshest weather conditions. This reflects the center's commitment to providing a safe and supportive space for the two generations that will be served, regardless of their circumstances.
• Stability: Oak trees are rooted deeply in the ground, and they provide a sense of stability for the plants and animals that live around them. This reflects the center's commitment to providing a stable and supportive environment for the two generations that will be served, where they can feel safe and secure.
• Longevity: Oak trees can live for hundreds of years, and they continue to grow and thrive even as they age. This reflects the center's commitment to providing a long-term resource for the community, where the two generations that will be served can come together to learn, grow, and connect.
• Community: Oak trees can grow in groves, and the trees in a grove are connected by their roots. This reflects how the community center is a place where the two generations that will be served can come together and connect. It will be a place where the groups can build relationships and create a sense of community.
Potential Alternatives
Staff also generated a list of potential alternative names; below is what made the cut:
• Heritage Center: Refers to the history, traditions, and qualities that are passed down or inherited in a society over time.
• The Bridge: Suggests that the center is a place where individuals from different generations can come together and build bridges between them.
• The Crossroads: This name suggests that the center is a place where individuals from different walks of life can come together to learn, grow, and connect. • The Village: This name evokes a sense of community and belonging. It suggests that the center is a place where individuals can come together to support each other and build strong relationships.
• The Oasis: This name is refreshing and inviting, and it suggests that the center is a place where individuals can come together to relax, rejuvenate, and connect. • TAG (Together Across Generations) Center
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