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. 23-47 Next CC Agreement No. 1021 Next Ordinance No. 1424
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, DECEMBER 11, 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
None
2 ROLL CALL
None
3 RECESS TO CLOSED SESSION
None
4 RECONVENE FOR OPEN SESSION
None
AGENDA
Bellflower City Council Agenda
December 11, 2023
7:00 P.M. – OPEN SESSION
5 CALL TO ORDER
6 ROLL CALL: Mayor Sonny R. Santa Ines
Mayor Pro Tem Dan Koops
Council Member Ray Dunton
Council Member Wendi Morse
Council Member Victor A. Sanchez
7 INVOCATION: Mayor Sonny R. Santa Ines
8 PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE: Elizabeth Oba, Director of Planning and Building Services
9 CITY COUNCIL REORGANIZATION
10 CITY COUNCIL ANNOUNCEMENTS / PRESENTATIONS
None
11 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.
12 PUBLIC HEARINGS
A Consideration and possible action to conduct the annual public hearing to consider whether the 5% Utility Users’ Tax (UUT) should continue in effect or be modified or repealed.__________________________________________ Recommendation to City Council: 1) Open the public hearing; take testimonial and documentary evidence; and after considering the evidence, approve the continuance of the UUT and fund the Community Policing Program with revenues generated from the UUT; or 2) Alternatively, discuss and take other action related to this item.
13 ORDINANCES AND RESOLUTIONS FOR CONSIDERATION
None
14 CONSIDERATION ITEMS
None
Bellflower City Council Agenda
December 11, 2023
15 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. 24-061, dated December 11, 2023.
Recommendation to City Council: 1) Receive and file Warrant Register No. 24-061; or 2) Alternatively, discuss and take other action related to this item.
B Consideration and possible action to receive and file the City’s Development Impact Fee Annual Report for Fiscal Year 2022 -23 pursuant to Government Code Section 66006.
Recommendation to City Council: 1) Receive and file the Development Impact Fee Annual Report for Fiscal Year 2022-2023 pursuant to Government Code § 66006; or 2) Alternatively, discuss and take other action related to this item.
C Consideration and possible action to approve the Minutes of the November 27, 2023, Regular Meeting of the City Council.
Recommendation to City Council: 1) Approve the November 27, 2023, Regular Meeting Minutes; or 2) Alternatively, discuss and take other action related to this item.
D Consideration and possible action to authorize the City Manager to execute Easement Agreement File No. 837.8, in a form approved by the City Attorney, with 16411 Bellflower LLC for a portion of private property located at 16411 Bellflower Boulevard for the purpose of constructing an ADA curb ramp at the southwest corner of Bellflower Boulevard and Mayne Street.
Recommendation to City Council: 1) Authorize the City Manager to execute Easement Agreement File No. 837.8, in a form approved by the City Attorney, with 16411 Bellflower LLC, property owner at 16411 Bellflower Boulevard; or 2) Alternatively, discuss and take other action related to this item.
E Consideration and possible action to authorize the Director of Public Works, or designee, to convert the existing 2-way ‘Stop’ controls to 4-way ‘Stop’ controls on Virginia Avenue at Olive Street, Virginia Avenue at Mayne Street, Virginia Avenue at Oak Street, and Virginia Avenue at Laurel Street (C.E. #23-15).
Recommendation to City Council: 1) Authorize the Director of Public Works, or designee, to convert the existing 2-way ‘Stop’ controls to 4-way ‘Stop’ controls on Virginia Avenue at Olive Street, Virginia Avenue at Mayne Street, Virginia Avenue at Oak Street, and Virginia Avenue at Laurel Street; or 2) Alternatively, discuss and take other action related to this item.
F Consideration and possible action to authorize the Director of Public Works, or designee, to install red curb parking restrictions at 9349 Rose Street (C.E. #23-14).
Recommendation to City Council: 1) Authorize the Director of Public Works, or designee, to install red curb parking restrictions at 9349 Rose Street; or 2) Alternatively, discuss and take other action related to this item.
Bellflower City Council Agenda
December 11, 2023
15 CONSENT CALENDAR – Continued
G Consideration and possible action to authorize the Director of Public Works, or designee, to install red curb parking restrictions on Ramona Street east of Bellflower Boulevard (C.E. #23-18).
Recommendation to City Council: 1) Authorize the Director of Public Works, or designee, to install red curb parking restrictions on Ramona Street east of Bellflower Boulevard; or 2) Alternatively, discuss and take other action related to this item.
H Consideration and possible action to authorize the Director of Public Works, or designee, to convert the existing time-restricted parking (green curb) to red curb parking restrictions at 16302 Clark Avenue (C.E. #23 -19).
Recommendation to City Council: 1) Authorize the Director of Public Works, or designee, to convert the existing time-based parking (green curb) to red curb parking restrictions at 16302 Clark Avenue; or 2) Alternatively, discuss and take other action related to this item.
I Consideration and possible action to authorize the City Manager to execute Agreement File No. 51.95, in a form approved by the City Attorney, with the Los Angeles County Flood Control District for the installation and maintenance of trash excluders on County-owned catch basins in Bellflower.
Recommendation to City Council: 1) Authorize the City Manager to execute Agreement File No. 51.95, in a form approved by the City Attorney; or 2) Alternatively, discuss and take other action related to this item.
J Consideration and possible action to contribute $2,324 in Cannabis Education Funding for the 2023 Christmas with a Cop Event to take place on December 14, 2023.
Recommendation to City Council: 1) If appropriate, approve $2,324 in Cannabis Education Funding for the 2023 Christmas with a Cop event; or 2) Alternatively, discuss and take other action related to this item.
16 COUNCIL REPORTS
17 ADJOURNMENT
Adjourn to the next Regular Meeting of the Bellflower City Council at 3:00 p.m. on Thursday, January 11, 2024.
[Note: The Bellflower City Council will be recessed on the fourth Monday in December pursuant to Bellflower Municipal Code Section 2.04.020.]
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, December 11, 2023, at 5:30 p.m., was posted Thursday, December 7, 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 7th day of December 2023 at Bellflower, California. lig
o to Wall. ce, Management Assistant
S