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REGULAR MEETING OF THE BELLFLOWER CITY COUNCIL
MONDAY, APRIL 14, 2025
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
April 14, 2025
7:00 P.M. – OPEN SESSION
5 CALL TO ORDER
6 ROLL CALL: Mayor Ray Dunton
Mayor Pro Tem Sonny R. Santa Ines
Council Member Dan Koops
Council Member Wendi Morse
Council Member Victor A. Sanchez
7 INVOCATION: Mayor Ray Dunton
8 PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE: Jim DellaLonga, Director of Economic Development
9 CITY COUNCIL ANNOUNCEMENTS / PRESENTATIONS
A City Council Announcements
B Presentation: Donate Life Month Proclamation
C Presentation: Cerritos College Update
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 adopt Resolution No. 25-14 – A Resolution approving a Substantial Amendment to the Fiscal Year 2020-2021 (“FY”) Annual Action Plan to reprogram unused Community Development Block Grant Coronavirus Relief funds (“CDBG-CV”) for the redesign of the public sidewalk located at TownCenter Gateway Plaza on the northeast corner of Belmont Street and Bellflower Boulevard to encourage social distancing.
Recommendation to City Council: 1) Open the public hearing; take testimonial and documentary evidence; and after considering the evidence, adopt Resolution No. 25-14; or 2) Alternatively, discuss and take other action related to this item.
Bellflower City Council Agenda
April 14, 2025
11 PUBLIC HEARINGS – Continued
B Consideration and possible action to conduct a public hearing to consider 1) Zoning Ordinance Text Amendment Case No. ZOTA 25-01; and 2) read by title only, waive first reading, and introduce Ordinance No. 1443 – An Ordinance approving Zoning Ordinance Text Amendment Case No. ZOTA 25- 01 amending various provisions of Title 17 (Zoning) of the Bellflower Municipal Code to implement the Housing Element.
CEQA: The City reviewed the environmental impacts of the proposed Ordinance pursuant to the California Environmental Quality Act (Public Resources Code §§ 21000, et seq. “CEQA”) and the regulations promulgated thereunder (14 Cal. Code of Regs. §§ 15000, et seq., the “CEQA Guidelines”). In accordance with CEQA and CEQA Guidelines § 15162, the City Council finds as follows: A) Resolution No. 22-04 was adopted by the City Council on January 20, 2022, approving Mitigated Negative Declaration No. MND 21-01; B) Changing the regulatory framework for future development and uses within the Bellflower Municipal Code is an activity contemplated by MND 21-01; C) This activity does not contemplate any changes which will require major revisions to MND 21-01 nor are there any substantial changes with respect to the circumstances under which MND 21 -01 was undertaken; and D) There is no new information of substantial importance, which was not known and could not have been known with the exercise of reasonable diligence at the time MND 21-01 was approved.
Recommendation to City Council: 1) Open the public hearing; take testimonial and documentary evidence; and after considering the evidence, read by title only, waive first reading, and introduce Ordinance No. 1443; or 2) Alternatively, discuss and take other action related to this item.
12 ORDINANCES AND RESOLUTIONS FOR CONSIDERATION
None
13 CONSIDERATION ITEMS
A Consideration and possible action to authorize the City Manager to execute Agreement File No. 1089, in a form approved by the City Attorney, with Kaizen Laboratories Inc., for the replacement of the City of Bellflower’s current Recreation Management System.
Recommendation to City Council: 1) Authorize the City Manager to execute Agreement File No. 1089, in a form approved by the City Attorney; or 2) Alternatively, discuss and take other action related to this item.
B Consideration and possible action to authorize the City Manager or Designee to issue an encroachment permit, as requested by the Los Angeles County Fire Museum and the Los Angeles County Fire Department, for Fire Service Day on May 10, 2025.
Recommendation to City Council: 1) Authorize the City Manager or Designee to issue an encroachment permit for Fire Service Day; or 2) Alternatively, discuss and take other action related to this item.
Bellflower City Council Agenda
April 14, 2025
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. 25-101, dated April 14, 2025.
Recommendation to City Council: 1) Receive and file Warrant Register No. 25- 101; or 2) Alternatively, discuss and take other action related to this item.
B Consideration and possible action to approve the Minutes of the March 24, 2025, Regular Meeting of the City Council.
Recommendation to City Council: 1) Approve the March 24, 2025, Regular Meeting Minutes; 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. 781.3, in a form approved by the City Attorney, with KTU&A for various grant writing and park concept design professional services, as determined by individual task order.
Recommendation to City Council: 1) Authorize the City Manager to execute Agreement File No. 781.3, in a form approved by the City Attorney; or 2) Alternatively, discuss and take other action related to this item.
D Consideration and possible action to receive and file Agreement No. 523.3, in a form approved by the City Attorney, with Gateway Region Integrated Regional Water Management Joint Powers Authority, to extend the term for and cost sharing for the installation of monitoring equipment and monitoring pursuant to the Harbor Toxic Pollutants total maximum daily loads.
Recommendation to City Council: 1) Receive and file Agreement File No. 523.3; 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, April 28, 2025.
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I, Jennifer Russell, 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 14, 2025, at 5:30 p.m., was posted Thursday, April 10, 2025, at the following locations in the City of Bellflower:
City Hall Lobby and Doors, 16600 Civic Center Drive
City Website at www_bellflower_ord
Clifton M. Brakensiek Library
Executed this 10th of April 2025 at Bellflower, California_ -fermi r Russ�e'H;
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