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REGULAR MEETING OF THE BELLFLOWER CITY COUNCIL
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 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:
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3 RECESS TO CLOSED SESSION
None
4 RECONVENE FOR OPEN SESSION
None
AGENDA
Bellflower City Council Agenda
November 24, 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: Council Member Dan Koops
8 PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE: P.J. Mellana, Director of Parks and Recreation
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.
11 PUBLIC HEARINGS
None
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.
Bellflower City Council Agenda
November 24, 2025
14 CONSENT CALENDAR – Continued
A Consideration and possible action to receive and file City Council Warrant Register No. 26-052, dated November 24, 2025.
Recommendation to City Council: 1) Receive and file Warrant Register No. 26-052; 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 October 2025.
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 November 10, 2025, Regular Meeting of the City Council.
Recommendation to City Council: 1) Approve the November 10, 2025, 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 an agreement, in a form approved by the City Attorney, with Bellflower Rotary Club, for funding support of the City’s Dog Park at Ruth R. Caruthers Park and a donation for a future Parks and Recreation Foundation; and approve a proposed plan for the development of a Parks and Recreation Foundation.
Recommendation to City Council: 1) Authorize the City Manager to execute an agreement, in a form approved by the City Attorney , with the Bellflower Rotary Club; and 2) Approve the proposed plan for development of a Parks and Recreation Foundation; or 3) Alternatively, discuss and take other action related to this item.
E Consideration and possible action to receive and file the City of Bellflower Successor Housing Agency Annual Report regarding the Low-and-Moderate Income Housing Asset Fund for Fiscal Year 2024-2025.
Recommendation to City Council: 1) Receive and file Successor Housing Agency Annual Report regarding Low-and-Moderate Income Housing Asset Fund for Fiscal Year 2024-2025; or 2) Alternatively, discuss and take other action related to this item.
F Consideration and possible action to award a contract (Agreement File No. 719.2) to Bear Communications, Inc. to upgrade and modernize the City’s existing two-way radio system; and authorize the City Manager to execute a contract with Bear Communications, Inc., in a form approved by the City Attorney.
Recommendation to City Council: 1) Award a contract (Agreement File No. 719.2) to Bear Communications, Inc. for the Project and authorize the City Manager to execute a contract in a form approved by the City Attorney; or 2) Alternatively, discuss and take other action related to this item.
Bellflower City Council Agenda
November 24, 2025
14 CONSENT CALENDAR – Continued
G Consideration and possible action to waive further reading and adopt Ordinance No. 1451 – An Ordinance approving Development Agreement File No. 1118, in a form approved by the City Attorney, by and between the City of Bellflower and Artesia and Palm Realty, LLC, to facilitate the development of a self-storage facility; to activate the Development Agreement Zone Layover (“DAZL”) in Bellflower Municipal Code Chapter 17.67; and to amend the zone map (ZC 25-03).
CEQA: The City reviewed the Project's environmental impacts under the California Environmental Quality Act (Pub. Res. Code §§ 21000, et seq., "CEQA") and the regulations promulgated thereunder (14 Cal. Code of Reg. §§ 15000 -15387; the “CEQA Guidelines”). The Project is categorically exempt from additional environmental review pursuant to CEQA Guidelines § 15332 as a Class 32 categorical exemption (In-Fill Development Projects). The Project consists of constructing a self-storage facility on a vacant 1.33-acre lot surrounded by existing development. After activating the DAZL, the project will conform with both the General Plan and applicable zoning. The Project site has no value as habitat for endangered, rare or threatened species. The technical studies prep ared for the Project demonstrate there will not be any significant environmental effects relating to traffic, noise, air quality, or water quality. Finally, the Project can be adequately served by all required utilities and public services.
Recommendation to City Council: 1) Waive further reading and adopt Ordinance No. 1451; 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, December 8, 2025.
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CITY OF BELLFLOWER
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, November 24, 2025, at 5:30 p.m., was posted Thursday, November 20, 2025, at the following locations in the City of Bellflower:
City Hall Lobby and Doors, 16600 Civic Center Drive
City Website at www.bellflower.orq
Clifton M. Brakensiek Library
Executed this 20th day of November 2025 at Bellflower, California.
Jenner Russell
Management Assistant