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REGULAR MEETING OF THE BELLFLOWER CITY COUNCIL
MONDAY, APRIL 22, 2024
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 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
April 22, 2024
3 RECESS TO CLOSED SESSION
A CONFERENCE WITH REAL PROPERTY NEGOTIATOR
(Pursuant to Government Code Section 54956.8)
Property: Assessor Parcel Nos. 7109-013-900, 7109-013-036, and 7109-013-037
Agency Negotiator: Ryan Smoot, City Manager
Negotiating Party: Christopher Beck, Newmark
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 Dan Koops
Mayor Pro Tem Ray Dunton
Council Member Wendi Morse
Council Member Victor A. Sanchez
Council Member Sonny R. Santa Ines
7 INVOCATION: Mayor Pro Tem Ray Dunton
8 PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE: Len Gorecki, Assistant City Manager / Director of Public Works
9 CITY COUNCIL ANNOUNCEMENTS / PRESENTATIONS
A City Council Announcements
B Donate Life Month Proclamation
C Update on City’s Information Technology (IT) Systems
D Metropolitan Water District of Southern California’s Pure Water Southern California Program and Recommended Pipeline Alignment
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.
Bellflower City Council Agenda
April 22, 2024
11 PUBLIC HEARINGS
None
12 ORDINANCES AND RESOLUTIONS FOR CONSIDERATION
None
13 CONSIDERATION ITEMS
A Consideration and possible action to reconsider Planning Commission approval of Conditional Use Permit Case No. CU 23-03 modifying Conditional Use Permit Case No. CU 86-28 by converting an existing full-service carwash to an automated express carwash within the General Commercial (“C-G”) zone on property located at 14755 Bellflower Boulevard / 9765 Somerset Boulevard (the “Subject Property”).
Recommendation to City Council: 1) Consider Council Member Morse's request to consider the Planning Commission approval of Conditional Use Permit Case No. CU 23-03; 2) Provide direction to staff on whether to schedule a de novo public hearing; or 3) 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 Warrant Register No. 24-102, dated April 22, 2024.
Recommendation to City Council: 1) Receive and file Warrant Register No. 24-102; 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 March 2024.
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 authorize the City Manager to execute Agreement File No. 714.4, in a form approved by the City Attorney, with Avant-Garde Corporation, to provide Housing Consultant Services.
Recommendation to City Council: 1) Authorize the City Manager to execute Agreement File No. 714.4, 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 22, 2024
14 CONSENT CALENDAR – Continued
D Consideration and possible action to approve the 2024 Fireworks Permits.
Recommendation to City Council: 1) Approve fourteen (14) Fireworks Permits; 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 Linden Street and Leahy Avenue and install red curb parking restrictions at 15561 Leahy Avenue (C.E.# 24-03).
Recommendation to City Council: 1) Authorize the Director of Public Works, or designee, to convert the existing 2-way ‘Stop’ control to 4-way ‘Stop’ control on Linden Street at Leahy Avenue; and 2) Authorize the Director of Public Works, or designee, to install red curb parking restrictions at 15561 Leahy Avenue; or 3) Alternatively, discuss and take other action related to this item.
F Consideration and possible action to approve the Minutes of the April 8, 2024, Regular Meeting of the City Council.
Recommendation to City Council: 1) Approve the April 8, 2024, 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 13, 2024.
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I, Jennifer Poole, 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 22, 2024, at 5:30 p.m., was posted Thursday, April 18, 2024, 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 18th day of April 2024 at Bellflower, California. i,'
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