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. 870
AGENDA
REGULAR MEETING
LOMITA CITY COUNCIL
TUESDAY, MARCH 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 March 4, 2025
1. OPENING CEREMONIES
a. Call Meeting to Order
b. Flag Salute
c. Invocation
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 and Special City Council Meetings of February 4, 2025 RECOMMENDED ACTION: Approve minutes.
Lomita City Council Meeting Agenda March 4, 2025
c. Warrants/Payroll Register
RECOMMENDED ACTION: Approve and file Warrants/Payroll Register. d. Approve funds to install an Automatic Transfer Switch at Appian Way Pressure Reducing and Pump Station
RECOMMENDED ACTION: Approve a change order to the Agreement with AEPC Group for the installation of an Automatic Transfer Switch at Appian Way Pressure Reducing and Pump Station in the amount of $72,746.40, plus a 15% contingency of $10,912 for unexpected costs, for an amount not to exceed $83,658.40.
8. SCHEDULED ITEMS
a. DISCUSSION AND CONSIDERATION OF RESOLUTION 2025-05, A RESOLUTION
TO INITIATE THE PROCESS TO AMEND THE CONTRACT WITH CALPERS TO
REMOVE COST SHARING FOR THE UNREPRESENTED EXECUTIVE
MANAGEMENT GROUP
Presented by Marco OrnelasLopez, Assistant City Attorney RECOMMENDED ACTION: Adopt Resolution No. 2025-05 to initiate the process to amend the contract with CalPERS to remove cost sharing for the Unrepresented Executive Management Group.
RESOLUTION NO. 2025-05 – A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF LOMITA, CALIFORNIA, RELATING TO GOVERNMENT CODE 20516
COST SHARE
b. DISCUSSION AND CONSIDERATION OF APPOINTING A COMMISSIONER TO THE
PARKS AND RECREATION COMMISSION TO FILL CURRENT VACANCY Presented by Kathleen Gregory, City Clerk
RECOMMENDED ACTION: Discuss, take nominations, and by majority vote appoint a candidate to fill the vacancy on the Parks and Recreation Commission with a term that ends June 2028.
9. PUBLIC HEARINGS
None scheduled.
10. ADJOURNMENT
The next regular City Council meeting will be held on March 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.
Lomita City Council Meeting Agenda March 4, 2025
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.
Date Posted: February 27, 2025
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Kathleen Horn Gregory, MMC, City Clerk