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REGULAR MEETING OF THE BELLFLOWER CITY COUNCIL
MONDAY, AUGUST 24, 2026
5:30 P.M. CLOSED SESSION / 7:00 P.M. OPEN SESSION
BELLFLOWER CITY HALL – COUNCIL CHAMBERS
TELECONFERENCE – ZOOM WEBINAR
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AGENDA
Bellflower City Council Agenda
August 24, 2026
PUBLIC PARTICIPATION VIA TELECONFERENCE
The meetings of the Bellflower City Council will be conducted in accordance with the adopted Meeting Rules of Procedure (Resolution No. 26-20, adopted June 8, 2026) available on the City’s website at www.bellflower.ca.gov .
The public may participate in City Council meetings via teleconference by using the Zoom Meeting ID and/or phone number on the first page of this agenda. Participants are encouraged to join the meeting 15 minutes before the start of the meeting.
When meetings are conducted with remote public access, the meeting may be recorded, including public comment. Audience screen names or displayed telephone numbers may be visible as part of the recording. Unless a person is called to provide public comment, participant audio may be muted and video may be disabled. Closed sessions, if any, will not be recorded.
Anonymous attendance may be permitted for audience members. Participants who wish to provide public comment may be asked to identify themselves in a manner reasonably sufficient for meeting administration before being recognized to speak. Participants using names that violate community standards, attempting to rename themselves contrary to host controls, or attempting to bypass host controls may be denied entry to, removed from, or blocked from the meeting platform.
If you wish to provide public comment at either the beginning of the meeting under Public Comments or for a particular item, you may either (a) contact the City Clerk’s Office before the meeting and provide your name to be called; or (b) utilize the “raise hand” option if participating by Zoom Webinar or dial “*9” if participating by phone. Once you click on this option you will be in the rotation to make a public comment. Remote participants will receive the same time allotment for public comment as participants attending in person. To be removed from the rotation, click on “raise hand” or “*9” again.
Please note, if you do not have an audio feature on your device you will need to call in, should you want to make a public comment. Written public comments will be accepted via email to [email protected] before the close of public comment period, and read into the record during public comment, when feasible. We request that written communications be limited to not more than 50 words.
If telephonic or internet service is disrupted so that the public cannot observe or attend through the authorized two-way telephonic or audiovisual platform, the City Council will recess open session for at least one hour and make a good faith effort to restore service.
During the recess, the City Council may meet in closed session as permitted by law. The City Council will not reconvene open session until at least one hour has passed or service has been restored, whichever occurs first. If service has not been restored when open session reconvenes, the City Council may continue only after adopting, by roll call vote, findings that good faith efforts were made to restore service and that the public interest in continuing the meeting outweighs the public interest in remote access.
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Bellflower City Council Agenda
August 24, 2026
5:30 P.M. – CLOSED SESSION
1 CALL TO ORDER
2 ROLL CALL: Mayor Sonny R. Santa Ines
Mayor Pro Tem Victor A. Sanchez
Council Member Ray Dunton
Council Member Dan Koops
Council Member Wendi Morse
3 RECESS TO CLOSED SESSION
A CONFERENCE WITH REAL PROPERTY NEGOTIATOR
(Pursuant to Government Code § 54956.8)
Property: 9920 Flora Vista St, Bellflower, CA 90706 Agency Negotiator: Ryan Smoot, City Manager
Negotiating Party: AOF/Pacific Affordable Housing Corp., The Apex Collaborative, 9920 Flora Vista, L.P.
Under Negotiation: Price and terms of payment
B CONFERENCE WITH REAL PROPERTY NEGOTIATOR
(Pursuant to Government Code § 54956.8) [CITY]
Property: 9835 Flower St.
Agency Negotiator: Ryan Smoot, City Manager
Negotiating Party: United States Postal Service
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 Sonny R. Santa Ines
Mayor Pro Tem Victor A. Sanchez
Council Member Ray Dunton
Council Member Dan Koops
Council Member Wendi Morse
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7 INVOCATION: Council Member Ray Dunton
8 PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE: Brian McNerney, Director of Public Safety
9 REQUEST TO APPEAR REMOTELY
None
10 CITY COUNCIL ANNOUNCEMENTS / PRESENTATIONS
A City Council Announcements
B Presentation: Greater Los Angeles County Vector Control District
C Presentation: Civic Chorus
11 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, whether attending in person or remotely, should be recognized by the Mayor before speaking. Speakers may state their name for the record. If you wish to address the City Council on an Agenda Item, you may do so when the item is called and public comment is invited. In-person speakers should come to the podium, and remote participants may request to speak using the procedures described in this agenda.
Each speaker will be given three (3) minutes to address the City Council unless adjusted by the Mayor to facilitate the orderly conduct of the meeting.
12 PUBLIC HEARINGS
A Consideration and possible action to conduct a public hearing to consider adopting Resolution No. 26-33 – A Resolution authorizing the City of Bellflower to join the Statewide Community Infrastructure Program (“SCIP”); authorizing the California Statewide Communities Development Authority to accept applications from property owners, conduct special assessment and Mello-Roos proceedings, levy assessments and special taxes, form assessment districts and community facilities districts, and issue bonds within the territory of the City of Bellflower; approving form of acquisition agreement for use when applicable; and authorizing related actions. [Continued from August 10, 2026]
Recommendation to City Council: 1) Open the public hearing; take documentary and testimonial evidence; and after considering the evidence, adopt Resolution No. 26-33; or 2) Alternatively, discuss and take other action related to this item.
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12 PUBLIC HEARINGS – Continued
B Consideration and possible action to conduct a public hearing to consider 1) Zoning Ordinance Text Amendment Case No. ZOTA 26 01; and 2) read by title only, waive first reading, and introduce Ordinance No. 1152 – An Ordinance approving Zoning Ordinance Text Amendment Case No. ZOTA 26- 01 amending Chapter 17.66 (Housing Opportunity Overlay Zone “HOOZ”) of the Bellflower Municipal Code to address uses and development standards 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 the California Environmental Quality Act (California Public Resources Code §§ 21000, et seq., "CEQA") and CEQA regulations (14 California Code of Regulations §§ 15000, et seq.), this project has been determined to be exempt pursuant to 14 Cal. Code Regs. § 15061(b)(3) (General Rule Exemption) because it is for general policies and procedure-making, and it is anticipated to not have the potential to cause a significant effect on the environment. Resolution No. 22-04 was adopted by the City Council on January 20, 2022, approving Mitigated Negative Declaration No. MND 21-01. Changing the regulatory framework for future development and uses within the Bellflower Municipal Code is an activity contemplated by MND 21-01. 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. 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. 1152; or 2) Alternatively, discuss and take other action related to this item.
13 ORDINANCES AND RESOLUTIONS FOR CONSIDERATION
None
14 CONSIDERATION ITEMS
None
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15 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. 27-022, dated August 24, 2026.
Recommendation to City Council: 1) Receive and file Warrant Register No. 27-022; or 2) Alternatively, discuss and take other action related to this item.
B Consideration and possible action to receive and file the Investments Report for the Month of July 2026.
Recommendation to City Council: 1) Receive and file Investments 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 Amendment No. 1 to Agreement File No. 163.18, in a form approved by the City Attorney, with Willdan Engineering, to increase the contract amount for on-call planning consulting services.
Recommendation to City Council: 1) Authorize the City Manager to execute Amendment No. 1 to Agreement File No. 163.18, 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 authorize the Director of Public Works, or designee, to convert the existing 2-way ‘Stop’ controls on Beach Street at California Avenue and installation of red curb parking restrictions on Woodruff Avenue at Beach Street.
Recommendation to City Council: 1) Authorize the Director of Public Works, or designee, to convert the 2-way ‘Stop’ controls to 4-way ‘Stop’ controls on Beach Street at California Avenue; and 2) Approve the installation of red curb parking restrictions on the east side of Woodruff Avenue and Beach Street; or 3) Alternatively, discuss and take other action related to this item.
E Consideration and possible action to award a contract to Vector Resources, Inc. DBA VectorUSA (“VectorUSA”), for the installation of security equipment at various City facilities; and authorize the City Manager to execute Agreement File No. 1141.1, in a form approved by the City Attorney, with VectorUSA.
Recommendation to City Council: 1) Award a contract to VectorUSA to install security equipment at various City facilities and authorize the City Manager to execute Agreement File No. 1141.1, in a form approved by the City Attorney; and 2) Approve moving the funds budgeted for the currently unfilled No-Call Motorcycle Sheriff’s Position (Account No. 010-42173-2200) to the General Fund Capital Projects Fund to pay for Project Account No. 011-53601-9000 Park and Facility Security Camera Installation. The funds would be recorded as a transfer out of the General Fund and a corresponding transfer in to the General Fund Capital Projects Fund; or 3) Alternatively, discuss and take other action related to this item.
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15 CONSENT CALENDAR – Continued
F Consideration and possible action to ratify Mayor Pro Tem Victor Sanchez’s appointment of Marcos Garcia to the Public Safety Commission.
Recommendation to City Council: 1) Ratify Mayor Pro Tem Victor Sanchez’s appointment of Marcos Garcia to fill the unexpired term ending December 2028; or 2) Alternatively, discuss and take other action related to this item.
G Consideration and possible action to approve the Minutes of the June 22, 2026, Regular Meeting of the City Council.
Recommendation to City Council: 1) Approve the June 22, 2026, Regular Meeting Minutes; or 2) Alternatively, discuss and take other action related to this item.
H Consideration and possible action to approve the Minutes of the July 13, 2026, Regular Meeting of the City Council.
Recommendation to City Council: 1) Approve the July 13, 2026, Regular Meeting Minutes; or 2) Alternatively, discuss and take other action related to this item.
16 COUNCIL REPORTS
17 ADJOURNMENT
Adjourn to the next Regular Meeting of the Bellflower City Council at 5:30 p.m. on Monday, September 14, 2026.