City Council Meeting
Agenda
July 2, 2024
7:00 PM – Regular Meeting
Council Chambers
400 N. Douty St.
Council Members will meet in-person in the Council
Chambers. The meeting will also be lived streamed on the City’s website: http://livestream.hanford.city/
4:00 PM CALL TO ORDER STUDY SESSION:
ROLL CALL BY THE CITY CLERK:
PUBLIC COMMENT:
Study Sessions are considered Special Meetings under the Brown Act. Accordingly, comments from the public are limited to items listed on the agenda (GC 54954.3a). Public Comment will be accepted during each agenda item. A maximum of three minutes is allowed for each speaker. Please begin your comments by stating your name and providing your city of residence.
STUDY SESSION:
A. Presentation and Discussion Regarding Regulations for Mobile Vendors
B. Presentation to Council regarding a variety of Zoning Ordinance Clean-Up Items and direction on future amendments.
CALL TO ORDER REGULAR SESSION:
ROLL CALL:
INVOCATION:
Pastor Mark Curts
FLAG SALUTE:
COUNCIL REPORTS/GENERAL REPORTS:
Brief information-only reports from City Council and/or Staff, including committee reports and reports by City Council related to meetings attended at City expenses (AB1234).
PUBLIC COMMENT:
This is the time for citizens to comment on subject matters within the jurisdiction of the Hanford City Council. This is also the public’s opportunity to request an item from the Consent Calendar be pulled for discussion purposes or to comment on any item on the agenda. State law does not allow the Council to discuss or take action on issues not on the agenda, except that members of the Council or staff may briefly respond to statements made or questions posed by persons exercising their public testimony rights (Gov. Code sec. 54954.2). A maximum of three minutes is allowed for each speaker. Please begin your comments by stating your name and providing your city of residence.
CONSENT CALENDAR:
Consent Calendar items are considered routine and will be enacted in one motion. There will be no separate discussion of these matters unless a request is made and then the item will be removed from the Consent Calendar to be discussed and voted upon by a separate motion.
A. Procedural Waiver: Waive reading in full of resolutions and ordinances and approval and adoption of same by reading title the only.
B. City Clerk: Appointment of Jim Nelson to the Planning Commission seat with a term ending on 12/31/2024 and Appointment of Bernardo Marez to the Alternate seat with a term ending on 12/31/2026.
C. Administration: Authorization for the City to accept an FAA Grant Agreement, once the original is received, for the Hanford Municipal Airport, in the amount of $157,500 for the preparation of a Pavement Maintenance Management Plan and Authorization for the Airport Manager to execute the Grant Agreement and appropriation of $170,000 in the Airport Fund.
D. Parks and Community Services: Approval of a Change Order to increase the fiscal year 2023/2024 Purchase Order limit with CleanCut Landscape by $17,000.50 to provide landscaping services for Landscape Assessment Districts (LAD) for a total contract amount of $60,365.02.
E. Utilities and Engineering: Suggested Routes to School for Hanford Elementary School District, Pioneer Union Elementary School District, and Saint Rose-Thomas McCarthy Catholic School for the 2024-2025 school year.
F. Utilities and Engineering: Award of a construction contract to W.M. Lyles of Fresno, CA, in the amount of $264,800, and additional Appropriation of $300,000 from the Wastewater Fund (2073, CIP #824011) for the installation of a submersible stand-by pump for use at the Wastewater Treatment Facility.
G. Finance: Adoption of the City of Hanford fiscal year 2024-25 Investment Policy H. Council: Introduction of Ordinance No. 24-06 amending Chapter 3.28 of the Hanford Municipal Code to allow for the reestablishment of the Central Parking and Business Improvement Area Advisory Board as required by the Hanford Municipal Code with the addition of language regarding the board composition and how the members shall be appointed.
PUBLIC HEARING:
A. Parks and Community Services: A public hearing to consider the Adoption of Resolution 24-22-R Ordering the Levy and Collection of Assessments as outlined in the 2023/2024 Annual Engineer's Report, which has been prepared pursuant to Chapter 3 of the Landscape and Lighting Act of 1972. The proposed assessments outlined in the Engineer's Report are less than or equal to the authorized maximum assessment for each Landscape Assessment District.
GENERAL BUSINESS:
A. Administration: Authorization for the City Manager, with the concurrence of the City Attorney, to enter Into an Agreement with Badger Meters for the Citywide Purchase and Installation of Water Meters, in an Amount Not to Exceed $16.5 million, to be funded out of the Water Fund.
B. Community Development: Authorization to Execute an Agreement with Perkins & Will, for an Amount Not to Exceed $649,528, for the Kings-Tulare HSR Station TOD & Connectivity Plan & CVC Rail Service Planning, Funded via a Sustainable Communities Grant, which Council previously approved the application and acceptance of.
C. Finance: Approval of an additional Appropriation of $905,066 in the General Fund and $7,875,773 across all Other Funds for the Mid-Cycle Amendment to the 2024-25 Fiscal Year Budget
D. Council: Adoption of Resolution 2024-21-R calling for the holding of a general municipal election to be consolidated with the statewide general election to be held on Tuesday, November 5, 2024; Introducing an ordinance enacting a 1 cent transactions and use (sales) tax to be administered by the State Department of Tax and Fee Administration; and ordering the submittal of the ordinance to the voters at the general election.
ITEMS FOR FUTURE AGENDAS:
At this time, any Council Member may ask a question for clarification or may request a matter, which is not otherwise scheduled on a City Council agenda, to be placed on a future agenda. The Council Member referring the item shall provide sufficient information as to the nature of the item. The City Council, by concurrence of a majority, may direct the City Manager to put the item on a future agenda. (GOV. CODE SEC. 54954.2) A. Council Future Agenda Items
B. Upcoming Events and Important Dates:
July 4: City offices closed in observance of Independence Day.
July 15 - August 9: Candidate Filing Period for Districts B and C - Kings County Election Information
July 16: Regular City Council Meeting
ADJOURNMENT:
Materials related to an item on this Agenda submitted to the City Council after distribution of the agenda packet are available to public inspection in the City Clerk’s Office located at 319 N. Douty Street, Hanford, California 93230, during normal business hours. Such agendas are also available at the city’s website, www.cityofhanfordca.com subject to staff’s ability to post the agenda before the meeting. If you need a disability-related modification or accommodation, including auxiliary aids or services, to participate in this meeting, please contact the City Clerk’s office, 559-585-2515, 319 N. Douty Street, Hanford, California 93230, at least 2 days prior to the meeting {28 CFR 35.102.35.104 ADA Title II}