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REGULAR MEETING OF THE BELLFLOWER CITY COUNCIL
MONDAY, JANUARY 22, 2024
BELLFLOWER CITY HALL
5:00 P.M. OUTGOING MAYOR’S CEREMONY – GREEN ROOM
7 P.M. OPEN & CLOSED SESSIONS – COUNCIL CHAMBERS
5:00 P.M. – OUTGOING MAYOR’S CEREMONY
1 CALL TO ORDER
2 ROLL CALL: Mayor Dan Koops
Mayor Pro Tem Ray Dunton
Council Member Wendi Morse
Council Member Victor A. Sanchez
Council Member Sonny R. Santa Ines
AGENDA
Bellflower City Council Agenda
January 22, 2024
3 INVOCATION: Mark A. Santa Ines
4 PLEDGES OF ALLEGIANCE: Pastor A.D. Gartley
5 PRESENTATIONS TO OUTGOING MAYOR SONNY R. SANTA INES
Following the Outgoing Mayor’s Ceremony, the Meeting will recess and reconvene at 7:00 p.m., or as soon thereafter as possible.
7:00 P.M. – OPEN SESSION & CLOSED SESSION
6 RECONVENE
7 CITY COUNCIL ANNOUNCEMENTS / PRESENTATIONS
A City Council Announcements
8 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.
9 PUBLIC HEARINGS
None
10 ORDINANCES AND RESOLUTIONS FOR CONSIDERATION
None
11 CONSIDERATION ITEMS
A Consideration and possible action to issue an encroachment permit to Jacobs Engineering for purposes of soil and groundwater sampling at Caruthers Park on behalf of Kinder Morgan and the development of a licensing agreement with Kinder Morgan for the installation and long -term access to monitoring wells at Caruthers Park.
Recommendation to City Council: 1) Authorize the City Manager, or designee, to issue an encroachment permit to Jacobs Engineering for boring on City property (Caruthers Park) for soil and groundwater sampling; and 2) Authorize the City Manager to negotiate a license agreement with Kinder Morgan, in a form approved by the City Attorney, for the installation and access for ongoing monitoring of three monitoring wells on City property and access through City property to one monitoring well on Caltrans property; or 3) Alternatively, discuss and take other action related to this item.
Bellflower City Council Agenda
January 22, 2024
11 CONSIDERATION ITEMS – Continued
B Consideration and possible action to consider extending Dynasty Alliance Grow Inc.’s Cannabis Business Permits (“CBPs”) to continue operating cultivation and distribution facilities at 8832 Ramona Street through December 31, 2024.
Recommendation to City Council: 1) Consider extending Dynasty Alliance Grow, Inc.’s CBPs for cultivation and distribution uses at 8832 Ramona Street through December 31, 2024; or 2) Alternatively, discuss and take other action related to this item.
12 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. 24-072, dated January 22, 2024.
Recommendation to City Council: 1) Receive and file Warrant Register No. 24-072; or 2) Alternatively, discuss and take other action related to this item.
B Consideration and possible action to receive and file Treasurer’s Report for the Month of December 2023.
Recommendation to City Council: 1) Receive and file the Treasurer’s Report; or 2) Alternatively, discuss and take other action related to this item.
C Consideration and possible action to approve the Minutes of the December 14, 2023, Special Meeting of the City Council.
Recommendation to City Council: 1) Approve the December 14, 2023, Special Meeting Minutes; or 2) Alternatively, discuss and take other action related to this item.
D Consideration and possible action to approve the Minutes of the January 11, 2024, Adjourned Regular Meeting of the City Council.
Recommendation to City Council: 1) Approve the January 11, 2024, Adjourned Regular Meeting Minutes; or 2) Alternatively, discuss and take other action related to this item.
Bellflower City Council Agenda
January 22, 2024
12 CONSENT CALENDAR – Continued
E Consideration and possible action to adopt Resolution No. 24-02 – A Resolution approving application(s) for specified grant funds from Budget Act 2022/23, 19.561(b)(34) for $2,700,000 to the City of Bellflower, for the City of Bellflower capital outlay related to The Oak Center.
CEQA: The City has budgeted $12,369,449 for The Oak Center project in Fiscal Year 2023/2024, in account nos. 010-47604-9000, 030-47604-9000, and 070- 47604-9000. If adopted, the resolution will allow the City to obtain additional grant funding in the amount of $2,700,000 from the Department, on a reimbursable basis, which will further reduce the overall financial burden to the City.
Recommendation to City Council: 1) Adopt Resolution No. 24 -02; or 2) Alternatively, discuss and take other action related to this item.
F Consideration and possible action to authorize the City Manager to execute Amendment No. 5 to Agreement File No. 714.1, in a form approved by the City Attorney, with Advanced Avant-Garde Corporation, for Housing Consultant Services. _______________________________
Recommendation to City Council: 1) Authorize the City Manager to execute Amendment No. 5 to Agreement File No. 714.1, in a form approved by the City Attorney; or 2) Alternatively, discuss and take other action related to this item.
13 COUNCIL REPORTS
14 RECESS TO CLOSED SESSION
None
15 RECONVENE FOR OPEN SESSION
None
16 ADJOURNMENT
Adjourn to the next Regular Meeting of the Bellflower City Council at 5:30 p.m. on Monday, February 12, 2024.
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CITY OF BELLFLOWER )
I, Jennifer Poole, Management Assistant, of the City of Bellflower, do ereby declare under penalty of perjury, that the Agenda for lie Regular Meeting the B,DI:fiower City Council to be held on Monday, January 22, 2024, at 5:00 p.m., was posted Thursday, January 18, 2024, at the following locations in the City of Bellflo, ,+er:
City Hall Lobby and Doors, 16600 Civic Center Drive
City Website at www.bellflower.org
Clifton M. Brakensiek Library
Executed this 18th day of January 2024 at Bellflower, California.
Jenni ,; ' ool anagement Assistant