City Council Meeting
Agenda
August 20, 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/
5:00 PM CALL TO ORDER STUDY SESSION AND CLOSED 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. Council: Further Council discussion about the Central Parking and Business Improvement District Advisory Board and proposed amendments to the Municipal Code regarding how the board is designated and responsibilities under the ordinance.
CLOSED SESSION FOR DISCUSSION OF THE FOLLOWING:
A. CONFERENCE WITH LEGAL COUNSEL-ANTICIPATED LITIGATION (54956.9 (d)(2))
1 Workers Comp Case.
CALL TO ORDER REGULAR SESSION:
ROLL CALL:
INVOCATION:
Pastor Thomas King
FLAG SALUTE:
RECOGNITION:
A. Badge Pinning Ceremony and Oath of Office for Officer's Armando Prieto, Fawz Akram, Frank Mendez, and Antonio Lopez.
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).
A. INFORMATION REPORT - WARRANT REGISTER
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: Approval of the Minutes of the June 11, 2024, Special Meeting.
C. City Clerk: Approval of the Minutes of the June 18, 2024, Meeting.
D. Community Development: Approval of Historic Resources Permit HRA0014-24 to place fencing at Salmon’s Furniture Galleries. The property is designated as a contributing building within the Historic Overlay Zone. The project is located at 112 E. Seventh Street (APN 012-041-007).
E. Community Development: Approval of the second reading and Adoption of Ordinance No. 24-07, approving Rezone No. 0001-23, a request to change the zoning on a five- acre parcel from C-N Neighborhood Commercial to MX-N Neighborhood Mixed Use. The project is located at the northwest intersection of Grangeville Boulevard and Centennial Drive (APN 009-030-142).
F. Utilities and Engineering: Adoption of Resolution No. 24-35-R, in support of the FY 2024 Federal Railroad Administration - Railroad Crossing Elimination Program (FRA-RCE) Grant and Approval to submit an application for the Project Development phase for a grade separation at Grangeville Boulevard and BN&SF Railway.
G. Police: Adoption of Resolution No. 24-35-R, authorizing the acceptance of an award of $ 35,878 in grant funding from the Department of Alcohol Beverage Control (ABC) for alcohol enforcement and authorizing the Police Chief to execute the Agreement.
H. Finance: Authorization and Appropriation in Fiscal Year 2024/2025 for eleven (11) police patrol vehicles from Enterprise Fleet Management based off the previously approved Master Agreement and Sourcewell cooperative pricing for $81,000 in the General Fund (10 vehicles) and $78,500 in the COPS Fund (1 vehicle)
PUBLIC HEARING:
A. Community Development: Public hearing regarding the 2023-24 CDBG Consolidated Annual Performance and Evaluation Report (CAPER) and Approval of the submittal of the Program Year 2023 Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) Consolidated Annual Performance and Evaluation Report.
GENERAL BUSINESS:
A. Utilities and Engineering: Approval of a contract with 4Creeks Inc., to provide Construction Management and Inspection Services for the Downtown Traffic and Pedestrian Improvement Project in an amount not exceed amount of $506,853.
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:
August 21: Revenue Measure Community Meeting #1 (Virtual) at 5:30 p.m. More Info and Registration
September 2: City offices closed in observance of Labor Day September 3: Canceled City Council Meeting
September 17: 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}