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. 2025-38
Next Ordinance No. 877
AGENDA
REGULAR MEETING
LOMITA CITY COUNCIL
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 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 November 18, 2025
1. OPENING CEREMONIES
a. Call Meeting to Order
b. Flag Salute
c. Invocation – Mayor Pro Tem Segawa
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-7f 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 October 7, 2025, and October 21, 2025
RECOMMENDED ACTION: Approve minutes.
Lomita City Council Meeting Agenda November 18, 2025
c. Warrants/Payroll Register
RECOMMENDED ACTION: Approve and file Warrants/Payroll Register. d. October 2025 Treasury and Investment Report
RECOMMENDED ACTION: Receive and file the Treasury and Investment Report. e. Agreement with the South Bay Cities Council of Governments for Community Engagement Services for the Local Travel Network Project RECOMMENDED ACTION: Approve a Professional Services Agreement with the South Bay Cities Council of Governments (SBCCOG) for community engagement services for the City of Lomita’s Local Travel Network Project, in the amount of $40,000, plus a 15% contingency amount of $6,000, for a total not to exceed amount of $46,000; and authorize the City Manager to execute the agreement. f. Amendment No. 1 to Agreement No. 2022-53 with Clinical Laboratory of San Bernardino, Inc. for Laboratory Testing for Water Quality RECOMMENDED ACTION: Approve the First Amendment to Agreement No. 2022-53 with Clinical Laboratory of San Bernardino, Inc. for laboratory testing for water quality.
8. SCHEDULED ITEMS
None scheduled.
9. PUBLIC HEARINGS
a. DISCUSSION AND CONSIDERATION TO ADOPT AN ORDINANCE ESTABLISHING
A PROGRAM TO ADDRESS VACANT AND ABANDONED NUISANCE
PROPERTIES
Presented by Adrian Fernandez, Community and Economic Development Director RECOMMENDED ACTION: Conduct public hearing and after the City Attorney reads the title, introduce on first reading an ordinance to add Lomita Municipal Code (LMC) Title III (Public Safety) Chapter 18 Vacant Building and Abandoned Property and Chapter 19 Fencing Abandoned Property and find the action to be categorically exempt from the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA); and, schedule the second reading and adoption of the ordinance for the December 2, 2025, City Council meeting.
ORDINANCE NO. 877 – AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
LOMITA, CALIFORNIA, ADDING LOMITA MUNICIPAL CODE (LMC) TITLE III (PUBLIC SAFETY) CHAPTER 18 (VACANT BUILDING AND ABANDONED PROPERTY) AND CHAPTER 19 (FENCING ABANDONED PROPERTY) AND
FINDING THE ACTION TO BE CATEGORICALLY EXEMPT FROM THE
CALIFORNIA ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY ACT
Lomita City Council Meeting Agenda November 18, 2025
b. DISCUSSION AND CONSIDERATION OF AN ORDINANCE RENEWING FRANCHISE TO CONSTRUCT AND USE AN OIL PIPELINE TO PHILLIPS 66 PIPELINE, LLC AND PHILLIPS 66 COMPANY
Presented by Lina Hernandez, Assistant City Manager
RECOMMENDED ACTION: After conducting a public hearing, and after the City Attorney reads the title, introduce on first reading an ordinance renewing a franchise to Phillips 66 Pipeline, LLC and Phillips 66 Company to access and maintain underground petroleum pipelines within the City of Lomita.
ORDINANCE NO. 878 – AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
LOMITA, CALIFORNIA, GRANTING RENEWAL OF AN EXISTING FRANCHISE TO CONSTRUCT AND USE AN OIL PIPELINE TO PHILLIPS 66 PIPELINE, LLC AND PHILLIPS 66 COMPANY
10. ADJOURNMENT
The next regular City Council meeting will be held on December 2, 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.
Date Posted: November 14, 2025
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Linda Abbott, Deputy City Clerk