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. 2025-20
Next Ordinance No. 874
AGENDA
REGULAR MEETING
LOMITA CITY COUNCIL
TUESDAY, JUNE 17, 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 June 17, 2025
1. OPENING CEREMONIES
a. Call Meeting to Order
b. Flag Salute
c. Invocation – Mayor Waronek
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-7k 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 Meeting of April 15, 2025, and the Special City Council Meeting of June 3, 2025
RECOMMENDED ACTION: Approve minutes.
Lomita City Council Meeting Agenda June 17, 2025
c. Warrants/Payroll Register
RECOMMENDED ACTION: Approve and file Warrants/Payroll Register. d. All Departments Monthly Report
RECOMMENDED ACTION: Receive and file the monthly report for all City Departments.
e. May 2025 Treasury and Investment Report
RECOMMENDED ACTION: Receive and file the Treasury and Investment Report. f. Adoption of Resolution Adopting the Annual Appropriations Limit for Fiscal Year 2025- 2026
RECOMMENDED ACTION: Adopt Resolution No. 2025-20 adopting the Annual Appropriations limit for Fiscal Year 2025-2026.
RESOLUTION NO. 2025-20 – A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY
OF LOMITA, CALIFORNIA, CONFIRMING THE FACTORS USED FOR
CALCULATING THE ANNUAL APPROPRIATION LIMIT FOR FISCAL YEAR COMMENCING JULY 1, 2025, AND ENDING JUNE 30, 2026
g. Consideration of Water Rights Lease Agreements with the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Los Angeles and Hillside Memorial Park
RECOMMENDED ACTION: Approve two lease agreements: one with the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Los Angeles for 200 acre-feet of unused FY 2024-2025 groundwater pumping rights at $120.00 per acre-foot, totaling $24,000; and another with Hillside Memorial Park for 100 acre-feet of unused FY 2024-2025 groundwater pumping rights at $120.00 per acre-foot, totaling $12,000; and authorize the City Manager to execute the agreements.
h. Agreement with James Events Production Inc. for Services Related to Founders Day 2025
RECOMMENDED ACTION: Approve the agreement with James Events Production Inc. for the Founder’s Day 2025 equipment rental in the amount not to exceed $51,000; and authorize the City Manager to execute the agreement.
i. First Amendment for a Professional Service Agreement with All City Management Services for Crossing Guard Services
RECOMMENDED ACTION: Approve the First Amendment to the Professional Service Agreement with All City Management Services for crossing guard services. j. Resolution Rescinding Resolution No. 2013-05 and Amending the City's Records Management Policy and Updating the Records Retention Schedule for All City Departments
RECOMMENDED ACTION: Adopt Resolution No. 2025-21 rescinding Resolution No. 2013-05 and amending the City's records management policy and updating the records retention schedule for all city departments.
Lomita City Council Meeting Agenda June 17, 2025
RESOLUTION NO. 2025-21 – A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY
OF LOMITA, CALIFORNIA, AMENDING THE CITY-WIDE RECORDS MANAGEMENT
POLICY FOR THE PRESERVATION, PROTECTION, RETENTION, AND LEGAL
DISPOSITION OF RECORDS AND APPROVING A REVISED RECORDS
RETENTION SCHEDULE FOR ALL CITY DEPARTMENTS
k. Updated Social Media Policy including the Social Media Public Disclaimer/Terms of Use RECOMMENDED ACTION: Adopt Resolution updating the City’s Social Media Policy along with a Social Media Public Disclaimer/Terms of Use.
RESOLUTION NO. 2025-22 – A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY
OF LOMITA, CALIFORNIA, ADOPTING THE UPDATED SOCIAL MEDIA POLICY
AND THE SOCIAL MEDIA PUBLIC DISCLAIMER/TERMS OF USE
8. SCHEDULED ITEMS
a. CONSOLIDATED SEWER MAINTENANCE DISTRICT PROPOSED RATE INCREASE (No staff report)
Presented by Los Angeles County Public Works
RECOMMENDED ACTION: Information only.
9. PUBLIC HEARINGS
a. DEVELOPMENT IMPACT FEE NEXUS STUDY FOR PARKS AND SEWER
FACILITIES
Presented by Adrian Fernandez, Community and Economic Development Director RECOMMENDED ACTION: Adopt Resolution No. 2025-23 approving the Development Impact Fee Nexus Study for Parks and Sewer Facilities and finding the action to be categorically exempt from the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA).
RESOLUTION NO. 2025-23 – A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY
OF LOMITA, CALIFORNIA, ADOPTING THE DEVELOPMENT IMPACT FEE NEXUS
STUDY FOR PARKS AND SEWER FACILITIES
b. ORDINANCE UPDATING THE FIRE HAZARD SEVERITY ZONES MAP IN ACCORDANCE WITH GOVERNMENT CODE SECTION 51179 AND FINDING THE
ADOPTION OF THE ORDINANCE EXEMPT FROM CEQA
Presented by Adrian Fernandez, Community and Economic Development Director RECOMMENDED ACTION: After the City Attorney reads the ordinance by title only, introduce the first reading and schedule second reading of the Ordinance at the July 1, 2025, City Council meeting.
Lomita City Council Meeting Agenda June 17, 2025
ORDINANCE NO. 874 – AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
LOMITA, CALIFORNIA, ADOPTING UPDATED FIRE HAZARD SEVERITY ZONES AS
RECOMMENDED BY THE CALIFORNIA DEPARTMENT OF FORESTRY AND FIRE PROTECTION PURSUANT TO GOVERNMENT CODE SECTION 51178 AND FINDING
THE ORDINANCE TO BE EXEMPT FROM CEQA
10. ADJOURNMENT
The next regular City Council meeting will be held on July 1, 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/agendasminutes.
Date Posted: June 13, 2025
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Kathleen Horn Gregory, MMC, City Clerk