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REGULAR MEETING OF THE BELLFLOWER CITY COUNCIL
MONDAY, JULY 10, 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
July 10, 2023
3 RECESS TO CLOSED SESSION
A CONFERENCE WITH LABOR NEGOTIATOR
(Pursuant to Government Code Section 54957.6)
Agency Negotiator: Jeffrey L. Stewart, City Manager
Employee Organization: • AFSCME Local 1511 – Mid Managers • BCEA – Executive Assistants
• BCEA – Part Time Community Services Officers and
Part Time Maintenance Workers
• AFSCME Local 3745 – Maintenance Workers and
Community Services Officers
B CONFERENCE WITH REAL PROPERTY NEGOTIATOR
(Pursuant to Government Code Section 54956.8)
Property: 8833 Cedar Street, Bellflower, CA 90706 Agency Negotiator: Jeffrey L. Stewart, City Manager
Negotiating Party: Vickie Dewey, Senior Property Manager, Meltdown Management, LLC
Under Negotiation: Price and terms of payment
C CONFERENCE WITH REAL PROPERTY NEGOTIATOR
(Pursuant to Government Code Section 54956.8)
Property: 2,000 acre feet of groundwater Agency Negotiator: Jeffrey L. Stewart, City Manager Negotiating Party: Steve Lenton, Bellflower Somerset Mutual Water Company
Under Negotiation: Price and terms of payment
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 Victor A. Sanchez
8 PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE: Len Gorecki, Assistant City Manager / Director of Public Works
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July 10, 2023
9 CITY COUNCIL ANNOUNCEMENTS / PRESENTATIONS
A City Council Announcements
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
A Consideration and possible action to conduct a public hearing to consider delinquent refuse service charges; and adopt Resolution No. 23 -25 – A Resolution ordering delinquent refuse service charges be assessed against the property owners and properties and such charges be transferred to the County tax rolls.
Recommendation to City Council: 1) Open the public hearing; take testi monial and documentary evidence; after considering the evidence, adopt Resolution No. 23-25; or 2) Alternatively, discuss and take other action related to this item.
B Consideration and possible action to conduct a public hearing to consider adopting Resolution No. 23-26 – A Resolution adopting a Comprehensive Fee Schedule to recover costs incurred from providing various public services and superseding Resolution No. 17-16.
Recommendation to City Council: 1) Open the public hearing; take testimonial and documentary evidence; and after considering the evidence, adopt Resolution No. 23-26; or 2) Alternatively, discuss and take other action related to this item.
12 ORDINANCES AND RESOLUTIONS FOR CONSIDERATION
None
13 CONSIDERATION ITEMS
None
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.
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14 CONSENT CALENDAR – Continued
A Consideration and possible action to receive and file Warrant Register No. 24-011, dated July 10, 2023.
Recommendation to City Council: 1) Receive and file Warrant Register No. 24-011; or 2) Alternatively, discuss and take other action related to this item.
B Consideration and possible action to adopt Resolution No. 23-23 – A resolution approving the specifications for the Local Streets Grind and Cap (Specifications No. 22/23-01), pursuant to Government Code §830.6, establishing a project payment account; and a uthorizing solicitation of bids.
CEQA: Pursuant to the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) (Public Resources Code §§ 21000, et seq.) and CEQA Guidelines (California Code of Regulations, Title 14, §§ 15000, et seq.), the City conducted an environmen tal assessment. Based on the environmental assessment, the project was determined to be categorically exempt pursuant to CEQA Guidelines § 15303 (Class 1 – Existing Facilities).
Recommendation to City Council: 1) Adopt Resolution No. 23-23; or 2) Alternatively, discuss and take other action related to this item.
C Consideration and possible action to authorize the Director of Public Works, or designee, to remove the time-based parking restrictions (green curb) on the north side of Artesia Boulevard just west of Lakewood Boulevard (C.E.#23-09).
Recommendati on to City Council: 1) Authorize the Director of Public Works, or designee, to remove the time-based parking restrictions (green curb) on the north side of Artesia Boulevard just west of Lakewood Boulevard ; or 2) Alternatively, discuss and take other action related to this item.
D Consideration and possible action to authorize the Director of Public Works, or designee, to install an on-street disabled parking space (blue curb) at 9627 Olive Street (C.E. #23-10).
Recommendation to City Council: 1) Authorize the Director of Public Works, or designee, to install an on-street disabled parking space (blue curb) at 9627 Olive Street; or 2) Alternatively, discuss and take other action related to this item.
E Consideration and possible action to authorize the Mayor to execute Agreement File No. 665.1, in a form approved by the City Attorney, with the City of Downey for Traffic Signal Modification Project at Lakewood Boulevard and Gardendale Street and Lakewood Boulevard and Rosecrans Avenue.
Recommendation to City Council: 1) Authorize the Mayor to execute Agreement File No. 665.1, in a form approved by the City Attorney; or 2) Alternatively, discuss and take other action related to this item.
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14 CONSENT CALENDAR – Continued
F Consideration and possible action to approve the Minutes of the June 26, 2023, Regular Meeting of the City Council.
Recommendation to City Council: 1) Approve the June 26, 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, August 14, 2023.
[Note: The Bellflower City Council will be recessed on the fourth Monday in July pursuant to Bellflower Municipal Code Section 2.04.020 .]
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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, July 10, 2023, at 5:30 p.m., was posted Thursday, July 6, 2023, at the following locations in the City of Bellflower:
City Hall Lobby and Doors, 16600 Civic Center Drive
City Website at www.bellflower.org
Clifton M. Brakensiek Library
Executed this 6th day of July 2023 at Bellflower, California.
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