Mark A. Waronek, Mayor
Cindy Segawa, Mayor Pro Tem
James Gazeley Councilmember
Bill Uphoff, Councilmember
Barry Waite, Councilmember
LOMITA CITY HALL
COUNCIL CHAMBERS
24300 Narbonne Avenue
Lomita, CA 90717
Phone: (310) 325-7110
Fax: (310) 325-4024
Next Resolution No. 2025-05
Next Ordinance No. 869
AGENDA
REGULAR MEETING
LOMITA CITY COUNCIL
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 2025
6:00 PM
Welcome to a meeting of the Lomita City Council. Council meetings are held on the first and third Tuesday of every month at 6:00 p.m. in the Council Chambers located at Lomita City Hall, 24300 Narbonne, Avenue, Lomita, California. Meetings are conducted in person and streamed online at https://lomitacity.com/agendas-minutes/. Please note that in person attendance at this public meeting may result in the recording and broadcast of your image.
Comments, input, and interests from the public provide the City Council with valuable information regarding issues of the community. To address the Council, please fill out a speaker card indicating your desire to speak on either a specific agenda item or during oral communications. Speaker cards are located at the entrance of the Council Chambers. Once completed, please give it to the City Clerk and your name will be called when it is your turn to speak. All public comments are limited to a maximum of three (3) minutes unless an extension is granted. No action may be taken on items not on the agenda except as provided by law.
In compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) if you need special assistance to participate in this meeting, please contact the office of the City Clerk at (310) 325-7110.
Notification at least forty-eight (48) hours prior to the meeting will enable the City to make reasonable arrangements.
No meeting of the Lomita Public Financing Authority will be held on this date.
Lomita City Council Meeting Agenda February 4, 2025
1. OPENING CEREMONIES
a. Call Meeting to Order
b. Flag Salute
c. Invocation – Councilmember Waite
d. Roll Call
2. APPROVAL OF AGENDA
3. PRESENTATIONS
None scheduled.
4. ORAL COMMUNICATIONS
Persons wishing to speak on Consent Agenda items or subjects other than those scheduled are requested to do so at this time. In order to conduct a timely meeting, a three (3) minute time limit per person has been established. Government Code Section 54954.2 prohibits the Council from discussing or taking action on a specific item unless it appears on a posted agenda.
5. ORAL COMMUNICATIONS AND MEETING ATTENDANCE REPORTS FROM THE CITY
COUNCIL
The City Council may discuss and act upon items described under Council comments; however, items which are not on the agenda will be limited to Council reports, announcements, requests for clarification or factual information, or placement of matters on the agenda for a future meeting.
6. CITY MANAGER'S REPORT (information only)
7. CONSENT AGENDA
All items under the Consent Agenda are considered by the Council to be routine and will be enacted by one motion in the form listed below. There may be separate discussions of these items prior to the time the Council votes on the motion. Specific items may be removed from the Consent Agenda at the request of any Councilmember or staff.
RECOMMENDED ACTION: That Consent Agenda Items 7a-7d be approved. a. Motion to Waive Full Reading of Ordinances and That They be Read in Title Only.
RECOMMENDED ACTION: Approve motion.
b. Minutes of the Regular City Council Meetings of December 3, 2024, and December 17, 2024
RECOMMENDED ACTION: Approve minutes.
Lomita City Council Meeting Agenda February 4, 2025
c. Warrants/Payroll Register
RECOMMENDED ACTION: Approve and file Warrants/Payroll Register d. Agreement with Willdan Engineering Services for City Engineer Services RECOMMENDED ACTION: Authorize the City Manager to enter into an agreement with Willdan Engineering Services for City Engineer Services for a three-year term ending December 31, 2027, in an amount of $125,000 per year, plus an additional 10% contingency for unexpected work, for a total amount not to exceed $137,500 per year.
8. SCHEDULED ITEMS
a. SB1383 ORGANIC WASTE COLLECTION PRESENTATION BY ATHENS SERVICES RECOMMENDED ACTION: Information only.
9. PUBLIC HEARINGS
a. DISCUSSION AND CONSIDERATION OF INTRODUCING ON FIRST READING AN
ORDINANCE AMENDING TITLE III (PUBLIC SAFETY) OF THE LOMITA MUNICIPAL CODE TO ADD CHAPTER 17, ENTITLED “UNLAWFUL CAMPING,” ADDRESSING
UNLAWFUL CAMPING ON PUBLIC PROPERTY
Presented by Andrew Vialpando, City Manager
RECOMMENDED ACTION: Conduct a public hearing; and after the City Attorney reads the title, introduce on first reading Ordinance No. 869 and direct staff to schedule the second reading and adoption of the ordinance for the February 18, 2025, City Council meeting.
ORDINANCE NO. 869 – AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
LOMITA, CALIFORNIA, AMENDING TITLE III (PUBLIC SAFETY), OF THE LOMITA MUNICIPAL CODE TO ADD CHAPTER 17, ENTITLED “UNLAWFUL CAMPING”,
ADDRESSING UNLAWFUL CAMPING AND STORAGE OF PERSONAL PROPERTY ON
PUBLIC PROPERTY, AND DETERMINING ITS PROVISIONS TO BE EXEMPT FROM
THE CALIFORNIA ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY ACT
10. ADJOURNMENT
The next regular City Council meeting will be held on February 18, 2025, at 6:00 p.m. in the Council Chambers located at 24300 Narbonne Avenue, Lomita, California.
Written materials distributed to the City Council within 72 hours of the City Council meeting are available for public inspection via the City’s website and copies are available for public inspection in the City Clerk’s Office, 24300 Narbonne Avenue, Lomita.
I hereby certify under penalty of perjury under the laws of the State of California that the foregoing agenda was posted not less than 72 hours prior to the meeting at the following locations: Lomita City Hall, Lomita Park, and uploaded to the City of Lomita website https://lomitacity.com/agendas-minutes.
Lomita City Council Meeting Agenda February 4, 2025
Date Posted: January 30, 2025
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Kathleen Horn Gregory, MMC, City Clerk