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REGULAR MEETING OF THE BELLFLOWER CITY COUNCIL
TUESDAY, MAY 27, 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
2 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
AGENDA
Bellflower City Council Agenda
May 27, 2025
3 RECESS TO CLOSED SESSION
A CONFERENCE WITH REAL PROPERTY NEGOTIATOR
(Pursuant to Government Code § 54956.8)
Property: 9228 and 9236 Artesia Boulevard Agency Negotiator: Ryan Smoot, City Manager
Negotiating Party: Yash Desai
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 Ray Dunton
Mayor Pro Tem Sonny R. Santa Ines
Council Member Dan Koops
Council Member Wendi Morse
Council Member Victor A. Sanchez
7 INVOCATION: Council Member Wendi Morse
8 PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE: Brian McNerney, Director of Public Safety
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.
Bellflower City Council Agenda
May 27, 2025
11 PUBLIC HEARINGS
A Consideration and possible action to adopt Resolution No. 25-21 – A Resolution approving a Substantial Amendment to the Fiscal Year 2020-2021 Annual Action Plan to reprogram remaining Community Development Block Grant Coronavirus Relief funds (“CDBG-CV”) and authorizing the City Manager to reprogram unused CDBG-CV for the redesign of the public sidewalk area located at Friendship Square to encourage social distancing. (Continued from May 12, 2025) Recommendation to City Council: 1) Re-open the continued public hearing; take testimonial and documentary evidence; after considering the evidence, adopt Resolution No. 25-21; or 2) Alternatively, discuss and take other action related to this item.
B Consideration and possible action to adopt Resolution No. 25-18 – A Resolution to record a Notice of Special Assessment for Nuisance Abatement for the property located at 17046 Bellflower Boulevard, Bellflower, CA 90706 (APN 7109-025-002).
Recommendation to City Council: 1) Adopt Resolution No. 25-18 imposing a public nuisance abatement lien on the property located at 17046 Bellflower Boulevard to recover the City’s abatement costs; 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.
A Consideration and possible action to receive and file Warrant Register No. 25-112, dated May 27, 2025.
Recommendation to City Council: 1) Receive and file Warrant Register No. 25-112; or 2) Alternatively, discuss and take other action related to this item.
B Consideration and possible action to receive and file City Council Treasurer’s Report for the Month of April 2025.
Recommendation to City Council: 1) Receive and file Treasurer’s Report; or 2) Alternatively, discuss and take other action related to this item.
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May 27, 2025
14 CONSENT CALENDAR – Continued
C Consideration and possible action to receive and file Official Travel Report – California Contract Cities Association, 66th Annual Municipal Seminar, May 15-18, 2025 (Pursuant to AB 1234).
Recommendation to City Council: 1) Receive and file Official Travel Report for the California Contract Cities Association, 66th Annual Municipal Seminar; or 2) Alternatively, discuss and take other action related to this item.
D Consideration and possible action to adopt Resolution No. 25-19 – A Resolution establishing the Capital Improvement Projects Budget for Fiscal Year 2025-2026 funded by Senate Bill 1: Road Repair and Accountability Act of 2017.
Recommendation to City Council: 1) Adopt Resolution No. 25-19 establishing the Capital Improvement Projects Budget for Fiscal Year 2025-2026 funded by Senate Bill 1: Road Repair and Accountability Act of 2017 apportionment; or 2) Alternatively, discuss and take other action related to this item.
E Consideration and possible action to authorize the City Manager to execute an agreement, in a form approved by the City Attorney, with Tripepi Smith & Associates (TSA)amending and restating Agreement File No. 684.5, and approve the necessary budget amendment for General Communications Support.
Recommendation to City Council: 1) Authorize the City Manager to execute an agreement with TSA, in a form approved by the City Attorney, amending and restating Agreement File No. 684.5; and 2) Approve a budget amendment in the amount of an additional $60,000 for Account No. 010-41317-1012 for Fiscal Year 2024-2025; or 3) Alternatively, discuss and take other action related to this item.
F Consideration and possible action to adopt Resolution No. 25-20 – A Resolution declaring unclaimed monies as property of the City of Bellflower and transferring it to the City’s General Fund pursuant to Government Code § 50053.
Recommendation to City Council: 1) Adopt Resolution No. 25-20; or 2) Alternatively, discuss and take other action related to this item.
G Consideration and possible action to waive further reading and adopt Ordinance No. 1446 – An Ordinance amending Bellflower Municipal Code Chapter 17 (Accessory Dwelling Units) governing maximum allowable square footage.
Recommendation to City Council: 1) Waive further reading and adopt Ordinance No. 1446; or 2) Alternatively, discuss and take other action related to this item.
H Consideration and possible action to adopt Resolution No. 25 -17 – A Resolution adopting a Records Retention Schedule for City records and superseding Resolution No. 23-46.___________________________________ Recommendation to City Council: 1) Adopt Resolution No. 25-17; or 2) Alternatively, discuss and take other action related to this item.
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May 27, 2025
14 CONSENT CALENDAR – Continued
I Consideration and possible action to authorize the City Manager to execute Agreement File No. 464.4 with Good Soil Industries, Inc., dba Kingdom Causes, for On-Call Landscape Maintenance Services.
Recommendation to City Council: 1) Authorize the City Manager to execute Agreement File No. 464.4 with Good Soil Industries, Inc., dba Kingdom Causes, 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 adopt Resolution No. 25-22 - A Resolution fixing the tax levy for the maintenance of Vehicle Parking District No. 1 for fiscal year 2025-2026._______________________________________ Recommendation to City Council: 1) Adopt Resolution No. 25-22; or 2) Alternatively, discuss and take other action related to this item.
K Consideration and possible action to award a contract to Emergency Planning Consultants (“EPC”), for the development of an updated Local Hazard Mitigation Plan; and authorize the City Manager to execute Agreement File No. 381.2 with EPC, in a form approved by the City Attorney.
Recommendation to City Council: 1) Award a contract to EPC to update our Local Hazard Mitigation Plan and authorize the City Manager to execute Agreement File No. 381.2, in a form approved by the City Attorney; or 2) Alternatively, discuss and take other action related to this item.
L Consideration and possible action to read by title only, waive further reading, and introduce Ordinance No. 1448 – An Ordinance amending the Transit Oriented Development Specific Plan (“TODSP”) by making clerical changes .
CEQA: The City reviewed the environmental impacts of the proposed Resolution and 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 zoning designation for the properties identified in the Resolution and Ordinance 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; 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) Read by title only, waive further reading, and introduce Ordinance No. 1448; or 2) Alternatively, discuss and take other action related to this item.
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14 CONSENT CALENDAR – Continued
M Consideration and possible action to approve the Minutes of the April 28, 2025, Regular Meeting of the City Council.
Recommendation to City Council: 1) Approve the April 28, 2025, Regular Meeting Minutes; or 2) Alternatively, discuss and take other action related to this item.
N Consideration and possible action to approve the Minutes of the May 12, 2025, Special Meeting of the City Council.
Recommendation to City Council: 1) Approve the May 12, 2025, Special Meeting Minutes; or 2) Alternatively, discuss and take other action related to this item.
O Consideration and possible action to approve the Minutes of the May 12, 2025, Regular Meeting of the City Council.
Recommendation to City Council: 1) Approve the May 12, 2025, 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, June 9, 2025.