MINUTES OF A REGULAR MEETING
OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
LA VERNE
Monday, May 2, 2022
1. AregularmeetingoftheLaVerneCityCouncilwascalledtoorderbyMayorHepburnat6:30p.m.
2.. Council Members present: Mayor Tim Hepburn Mayor Pro Tem Muir Davis
Council Member Robin Carder
Council Member Wendy Lau
Council Member Rick Crosby
Absent: None.
Advisory personnel present: City ManagerRobertRussi
Assistantto the City ManagerJR Ranells
City AttorneyRobertL. Kress
AssistantCity Clerk LupeGaeta Estrella
CommunityDevelopmentDirectorEricScherer
Principal Planner Candice Bowcock
3. Pledge of Allegiance was led by Mayor Hepburn.
4. Presentations/ Damien High MayorHepburn, onbehalfof theCityCouncil, congratulatedandintroduced School Basketball 2022 Damien High School Basketball Team. The Damien High School Basketball teamfinishedtheregularseasonwitha recordof 26-2 andbecamethe BaselineLeaguechampions. Theteam qualifiedfor the prestigiousOpen Division playoffs, the highest honor in basketball playoffs. Following the Southern Section Open Division playoffs, the team qualified for the CIF State Division I playoffs where they went 4- 0, defeating Clovis North to bringhometheCIFStateDivisionIchampionship. TheteamwasledbyseniorcaptainRJSmith, whowasnamedBaselineLeagueMVPandSan GabrielValleyPlayeroftheYear. InadditiontoSmith, theSpartansgot extraordinarycontributionsfromseniors, KalebSmith, BradleyXie, and Spivey Word and Junior Jimmy Oladokun. Each was named All Baseline Leaguehonorees. TheteamwascoachedbyMikeLeDuc, who, inDecember, reached a career milestone winning his 1000th game and was recently named CaliforniaStateCoachof theYear. Theteamwasassistedby DarinZabel, EricJohnson, AndreMcLean, DavidNg, andAlexArredondo. Belowarethe team players: Eachof theTeamplayersreceiveda certificateandan In-n-out gift card.
Jacob Allen Lucas Arrieta Elijah Brown Caiden Brown
Xavier Clinton Aston Edwards Nathaniel Garcia Pierce Hagan Chris Obiekea Jimmy Oladokun Rolan Serna Jacob Regalado- McKinn Sam Slezak Kaleb Smith Spivey Word Randolph " RJ" Smith Jr.
Bradley Xie Malcolm Windross
San Gabriel Valley Mosquito & Levy Sun from the San Gabriel Valley Mosquito & Vector Control District gave Vector Control District an updatewitha powerpointpresentationon mosquitoand virus activity, along Presentation with tips to stay more bite- free this year.
CityCouncilMinutes, Monday, May2, 2022, Page2.
Presentation of Proclamation MayorHepburn, on behalfof theCityCouncil, presenteda ProclamationtoDr. proclaiming the Month of May of KimDieuproclaimingtheMonthofMayof2022asAsianAmericanandPacific 2022 as Asian American and IslanderHeritageMonthcelebratingthe manynotablecontributionsof Asian Pacific Islander Heritage Month and Pacific Islanders Americans who have enriched our nation's history.
5. Announcements of Upcoming SherryBest, LaVerneHistoricalSocietyPresident, updatedtheCityCouncil Community Events on the La Verne Historical Society events and activities.
Mayor Hepburn commended the La Verne Fire Department for their amazing job when they responded to a fire structure.
6. Consent Calendar ItwasmovedbyCarder, secondedbyCrosby, andunanimouslycarriedbyroll call to accept, approve, or act on the Consent Calendar items.
City Council Minutes Council Minutes of the Regular and Adjourned meetings of April 18, 2022, received and filed.
Staff recommended approval and passaqe of the followinq Resolutions:
Resolution No. 22- 18, Resolution No. 22- 18- A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF Declaring its Intention to THE CITY OF LA VERNE, COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES, STATE OF Approve the Annual Report of CALIFORNIA, DECLARING ITS INTENTION TO APPROVE THE ANNUAL the Old Town La Verne REPORT OF THE OLD TOWN LA VERNE BUSINESS IMPROVEMENT Business Improvement District DISTRICT WHICH INCLUDES A BUDGET AND REESTABLISHES THE and Setting a Public Hearing BOUNDARIES AND ASSESSMENT FORMULA FOR THE 2022- 2023 FISCAL YEAR AND SETS A PUBLIC HEARING ON THE MATTER- An annualpublichearingisrequiredtoconsidertheAnnualReportoftheOld Town La Verne Business Improvement District( OTLVBID) and has been scheduled for May 16, 2022. At said hearing, the City Council will be requested to 1) Receive and file a report of the OTLVBID prior year activities. 2) Approvethe proposedOTLVBID2022-2023AnnualBudgetandincorporate itintotheCityBudget. 3)Approvere-establishmentoftheDistrictboundaries and assessment formula. Approved.
CommunityDevelopmentDirectorSchererrecommendedthattheCity Council adoptthe ResolutionNo.22-18, declaringits intentionto approvethe OTLVBID Annual Report and sets a public hearing on the matter for May 16, 2022.
7. 2022- 23 Paramedic Service City Manager Russi reported on the 2022- 23 Paramedic Service Fee. He Fee statedthattheCity's voterapprovedParamedicServiceFeerequiresan annualhearinginordertoconsidera ratechange. Themonthlyfeeissubject to an annualadjustmentfor a ratechangebasedonthe ConsumerPrice Index.
Mayor opened the public and called for public comment on this matter.
There was one public comment at the meeting. ( To hear what was said during publiccomment, pleasevisitthe City's websiteto viewthearchivedCouncil meeting.)
ItwasmovedbyDavis, secondedbyLau, andunanimouslycarriedtoadjust the monthly paramedic service fee from $ 5. 58 to$ 5. 91 and to approve ResolutionNo. 22-19, adoptingthe ParamedicServiceFeefor FiscalYear 2022- 23.
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Resolution No. 22- 19, Resol tion No. 22- 19 - A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF Adopting the Paramedic THE CITY OF LA VERNE, COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES, STATE OF Service Fee for Fiscal Year CALIFORNIA, ADOPTING THE PARAMEDIC SERVICE FEE FOR FISCAL 2022- 23 YEAR 2022- 23.
8. Conflict of Interest/ Davis MayorProTemDavisdeclaredaconflictofinterestonthismatterbecausehe ownspropertywithin500feetof the proposedvacationof publicutility easementsat 1941NorthWhiteAvenueandhe leftthe CouncilChambers.
Vacation of Public Utility CommunityDevelopmentDirectorSchererreportedonthevacationofaCity Easement Located at 1941 N. PublicUtilityEasementlocatedat1941N.WhiteAvenueandonthepublic White Avenue hearing. Hestatedthaton April4, 2022, theCityCouncilsetthe Public HearingtoconsidervacationofaCity'sPublicUtilityEasementlocatedat 1941N. WhiteAvenuefor May2, 2022, anddirectedstaffto postthe appropriatenoticingpursuanttotheStreetsandHighwaysCode.
Mayor called for public comment on this matter.
There was none.
ItwasmovedbyCrosby, secondedbyLau, andcarriedbyavoteof4-0 (Davis Abstained) to approve Resolution No. 22-20, vacating the utility easement at 1941N. WhiteAvenueandauthorizedstafftorecordthequitclaimdeedand resolution with the Office of the County Recorder.
Resolution No. 22- 20, Resolution No. 22- 20- A RESOLUTIONOFTHECITYCOUNCIL, CITYOF Vacating the Easement for LAVERNE, COUNTYOFLOSANGELES, STATEOFCALIFORNIA, Public Utility at 1941 N. White VACATINGTHEEASEMENTFORPUBLICUTILITYANDSTORMDRAIN Avenue PURPOSESRESERVEDACROSSTHATPORTIONOF"G" STREETAS
VACATEDBYRESOLUTIONNo67-61 OFTHECITYOF LAVERNE,
WITHINTHECITYOFLAVERNEMOREPARTICULARLYDESCRIBEDIN
THIS RESOLUTION.
9. Continued to the May 16, 2022 022 Gomnrehensive Fee ch d l - The City's ComprehensiveFee Council meeting Scheduleisreviewedeachyearin conjunctionwiththeannualbudget process. Adjustmentsaremadeto reflectchangesinthecostofservicesin 2022 Comprehensive Fee accordance with State and local law.
Schedule
MayorHepburnopenedthepublichearingandcontinuedthehearingtoMay 16, 2022toallowstaffadditiontimetopreparetheCity'sComprehensiveFee Schedule.
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City Council Minutes, Monday, May 2, 2022, Page 4.
Rehabilitation Princi al Planner Bowcock reported on the Housing Rehabilitation Program10. Housing P Pro ram - American Rescue and on the American Rescue Plan Act ( ARPA). She stated that the City9 Plan Act ( ARPA) Council conceptually approved a Housing Rehabilitation Program using the Community Development Block Grant ( CDBG) in October of 2019. Due to the COVID- 19 pandemic, this program was never implemented. In March of 2021 , funding was received via the American Rescue Plan Act ( ARPA), which the City Council supported the recommendation to allocate $ 500,000 to a Housing Rehabilitation Program. She stated that staff is seeking direction from City Council to determine eligibility requirements and eligible repairs for the administering of the Housing Rehabilitation Program. In addition, she reported that they solicited proposals from five ( 5) qualified firms to help implement the Housing Rehabilitation Program. Two ( 2) proposals were returned. After review of both proposals by staff, they recommended that the contract be awarded to Willdan Engineering who had the most experience with administering this type of grant program.
Mayor called for public comment on this matter
There were public comments at the meeting. ( To hear what was said during public comment, pleasevisittheCity's websiteto viewthearchivedCouncil meeting.)
After discussion by City Council, they directed staff to add mobile homes, or anyotherhousingtothelistofeligibilityforthegrant-housingprogram.
It was moved by Davis, seconded by Carder, and unanimously carried for staff to move forward with the creation of the ARPA funded Housing Rehabilitation Program ($ 500, 000}, add mobile homes, or any other housingto the list of eligibility for the grant housing program; and approved Resolution No. 22- 21 , approvingacontractwithWilldanEngineeringtodesignandadministerthe program.
n No. 22- 21 olution No. 22- 21_ - A RESOLUTIDN OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF Resolutio
r ement with Willdan THE CITY OF LA VERNE, COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES, STATE OF An Ag e
En ineerin for Housin CALIFORNIA, AUTHORIZING AN AGREEMENT WITH WILLDAN g g g
FOR HOUSING REHABILITATION PROGRAM
Rehabilitation Program ENGINEERING
Consultant Services CONSULTING SERVICES.
11 . Publ c C omment This was the time set aside for anyone wishing to address the City Council on items not listed in any other place on the agenda.
Mayor Hepburn called for public comment.
There were public comments at the meeting. ( To hear what was said during p ublic comment, pleasevisittheCity's websitetoviewthearchivedCouncil meeting.)
12. Council Comments CouncilMemberCarderreportedon the progressof the Gold Line Constructionand she reportedthat WhiteAvenueat Arrow Highwayis now opened. She invited residents to attend " La Verne Day" at the Fair on Friday, May 6, 2022, and that Amazon Fresh is now open. She also stated that the schools were busy with school activities with students coming and going, and urged residents to drive safety around schools. She thanked everyone for attending tonight' s meeting.
City Council Minutes, Monday, May 2, 2022, Page 5.
Council Member Crosby aiso reminded everyone to attend " La Verne Day" at the Fair on Friday, May 6, 2022.
CouncilMemberLaureportedonthe Universityof LaVerneScholarshipGala, wished the moms a" Happy Mother' s Day, Asian American Month, Mental Health Awareness Month, reportedon the upcomingmeetingof theCultural Awareness and Social Inclusion ( CASI) Committee meeting on Wednesday, May 4, 2022, the Wine Walk on May 14, 2022, and congratulated Damien High School Basketball Team on their win.
Mayor Pro Tem Davis thanked everyone for attending. He said that the Damien High School Basketball Team presentation was awesome. He reportedon the LaVerne/SanDimasEducationalFoundationannualEdJones MemorialGolfTournamentwhichraisesfundsto supportmentalhealth wellness for students, he reported that he attended the University of La Verne Scholarship Gala, the opening of Amazon Fresh, and he reminded everyone of La Verne Day" at the Fair on Friday, May 6, 2022. In addition, he reported on the upcoming meeting of the Cultural Awareness and Social Inclusion ( CASI) Committee meeting on Wednesday, May 4, 2022, which he will not be able to attend since he will be attending his son' s graduation from college, and he re orted that Hillcrest would be holding a Candidate' s Forum for District 1. He p
wished all the moms a" Happy Mother' s Day".
Ma or Hepburn wished all the moms a" Happy Mother' s Day". He spoke about Y
SierraLaVerneGolfCourseandunderstoodresident'sfrustrationwiththe condition of the golf course, but the City is looking into it. He reported that on Thursda , May 12, 2021, at 6: 30 p. m. there will be a Candidate' s Forum at theY La Verne Community Center and that LVTV3 will be there to video. In addition, he re orted that the County of Los Angeles will start mailing election ballots on p
Ma 9, 2022, for the June 7, 2022 Election, he spoke about the upcoming Y
Wine Walk, thatheenjoyedthe DamienHighSchoolBasketballTeam presentation. He thanked everyone for attending.
13. Closed Session At 8: 02 p. m., the City Council recessed to meet in a closed session for the following:
Meet with legal counsel to determine whether or not to initiate litigation p ursuant to Government Code§ 54956. 9( d) ( 4). One potential case; and To discuss Arcadia, et al. v. So. Cal. Edison Corp., Santa Barbara Superior Court Case No. 20 CV 02026 for the following purpose: ( Mayor Pro Tem Davis did not articipate due to his emp/ oyment with Southern California p
Edison.)
14. Adjournment at 9:00 p.m.
Respectfully submitted,
Q,
Lupe Gaeta Estrella, CMC
Assistant City Clerk