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CITY COUNCIL AGENDA
REGULAR MEETING
TUESDAY, MARCH 25, 2025, 6:00 PM
KENT HALL – CITY HALL CAMPUS – 111 W SANTA ANA ST, OJAI, CA Additional Teleconference Meeting Location Available to the Public to Accommodate Teleconferencing Council Member Leslie Rule, per California Government Code § 54953(b)(3):
901 Portal Ave, Oakland, CA 94610
ANDY GILMAN, MAYOR
COUNCIL MEMBERS:
DISTRICT 1 – LESLIE RULE DISTRICT 3 – ANDREW WHITMAN
DISTRICT 2 – RACHEL LANG, MAYOR PRO TEM DISTRICT 4 – KIM MANG
BEN HARVEY MATTHEW SUMMERS WESTON MONTGOMERY
CITY MANAGER CITY ATTORNEY CHIEF DEPUTY CITY CLERK
VIEWING & ACCESS
THIS MEETING WILL BE CONDUCTED IN A HYBRID MODEL WITH BOTH IN-PERSON ATTENDANCE AND VIRTUAL PARTICIPATION. TO PARTICIPATE IN THE LIVE VIRTUAL MEETING VIA ZOOM, CLICK THIS LINK:
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This meeting will also be available for viewing only on the City’s website through Granicus at ojai.ca.gov/525/2968/Public-Meetings, on YouTube at youtube.com/@ojaicity, or on Spectrum Channel 10.
In compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act, if you need special assistance to participate in this meeting, please call (805) 646-5581. Notification 48 hours prior to the meeting will enable the City to make reasonable arrangements to ensure accessibility to this meeting.
If you feel that a language interpreter is necessary for you to participate in this meeting, notification 48 hours prior to the meeting will enable the City to make reasonable arrangements for an interpreter to assure your participation/understanding of this meeting of the City Council.
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Tuesday, March 25, 2025 Ojai City Council Regular Meeting Agenda ojai.ca.gov
2 Para Español por favor llame al (805) 646-5581 ext. 101 o por correo electronico a [email protected]
PUBLIC COMMENT
In order for staff to provide the City Council with written public comments timely, written/emailed public comments must be submitted no later than 3:00 p.m. on the day before the meeting.
IMPORTANT NOTE:
As a government agency, the City of Ojai is subject to the California Public Records Act (Government Code § 6250 et seq.). Please be advised that all communications submitted to City officials and staff are subject to public disclosure under the California Public Records Act. There are limited exceptions that allow the City to redact personal information under the California Public Records Act. If you have concerns regarding privacy, please do not include your personal identifying information, such as your name, e-mail, phone number, and home address in your correspondence to the City, including, but not limited to, public comment.
Members of the public who wish to make public comments may do so in person at the meeting, comment live via telewebinar software, or submit written public comments in advance of the meeting. Written public comment emails should be sent to [email protected]
No pre-registration is required for public comment via telewebinar (Zoom). Instead, during the live meeting, telewebinar participants who wish to speak on an agenda item will be asked to use the Zoom software’s hand-raise function at the beginning of each item.
LEVINE ACT WARNING
Applicants and their agents before the City Council are subject to the campaign disclosure provisions detailed in Government Code Section 84308. No City Council Member may accept, solicit, or direct a contribution of more than $500 from any party or agent for 12 months subsequent to the date a final decision is rendered by the City. This prohibition commences when your application has been filed, or the proceeding is otherwise initiated.
A party to a City proceeding—which includes both applicants and agents--shall disclose on the record of the proceeding any contribution of more than $500 made to any Council Member by the applicant or agent, during the preceding 12 months. No party to a City proceeding, or agent, shall make a contribution to a Council Member during the proceeding and for 12 months following the date a final decision is rendered by the City.
Prior to rendering a decision on a City proceeding, any Council Member who received contribution of more than $500 within the preceding 12 months from any party, or agent, to a proceeding shall disclose that fact on the record of the proceeding and shall be disqualified from participating in the proceeding. However, if any Council Member receives a contribution that otherwise would require disqualification and returns the contribution within 30 days of knowing about the contribution and the relevant proceeding, the Council Member shall be permitted to participate in the proceeding.
If you believe that these provisions apply to you or a Council Member, please inform the City Clerk at the earlies possible opportunity. Failure to do so may affect the City’s ability to process your application.
IMPORTANT NOTES
Materials related to an item on this agenda submitted to the City Council after distribution of the agenda packet are available for public inspection in the City Clerk’s Office at City Hall during normal business hours (Monday through Friday from 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.). Such documents are also available on the City of Ojai’s website at ojai.ca.gov, subject to the staff’s ability to post the documents prior to the meeting.
If you challenge the actions of the City Council in court, you may be limited to raising only those issues you or someone else raised at the public hearing described in the public notices, or in written correspondence Tuesday, March 25, 2025 Ojai City Council Regular Meeting Agenda ojai.ca.gov
3 delivered to the City Council at, or prior to, the public hearing (Calif. Gov’t Code Sec. 65009).
Any legal action by an applicant seeking to obtain a judicial review of the City Council’s decision on a Hearing listed on this Agenda may be subject to the 90-day filing period of and governed by Code of Civil Procedure Section 1094.6.
ROLL CALL
ABSENCES
PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE
APPROVAL OF AGENDA
PRESENTATION
Outgoing Ojai Chief of Police Trina Newman to be honored for her term of service and promotion to Commander for West County Patrol.
COMMISSION REPORTS
PUBLIC COMMUNICATIONS
Public Communications is the time set aside during the meeting for members of the public to address the City Council on items of City business other than scheduled agenda items. Matters raised at this time may be briefly discussed by the Council and will generally be referred to staff and/or placed on a subsequent agenda. Under State law, other than for emergency items, no action can be taken.
CONSENT CALENDAR (Items 1.a – 1.i)
All matters listed on the Consent Calendar are to be considered routine by the governing bodies and will be enacted by one motion in the form listed. There will be no discussion of these items unless, before the governing body votes on the motion to adopt, specific items are removed from the Consent Calendar for separate motions.
1. a) Waiver of Reading in Full of Any and All Ordinances Listed on this Agenda and Provide that they be Read by Title Only and Directing the Clerk to Assign an Ordinance Number Upon Successful Introduction b) City of Ojai Warrants for February 17, 2025 – March 02, 2025 RECOMMENDATION: Receive and file.
c) February 2025 Treasurer’s Report of Cash and Investments for the City of Ojai
RECOMMENDATION: Receive and file.
Tuesday, March 25, 2025 Ojai City Council Regular Meeting Agenda ojai.ca.gov
4 d) Minutes of the Ojai City Council from the March 11, 2025 Special Meeting for Closed Session and the March 11, 2025 Regular Meeting RECOMMENDATION: Approve.
e) Citizen’s Option for Public Safety Funding FY 2024-25 RECOMMENDATION: Adopt a resolution allocating available Citizen’s Option for Public Safety funds for fiscal year 2024-2025 to address community safety concerns.
f) Receive and File the City’s 2024 General Plan Annual Progress Report RECOMMENDATION: Receive the General Plan Annual Progress Report and direct staff to file the General Plan Progress Report with the Office of Land Use and Climate Innovation, and the Department of Housing and Community Development (HCD).
g) Review of the City’s Housing Element Annual Progress Report and Authorization for the Submittal of the City of Ojai’s 2024 Housing Production to the State Office of Land Use and Climate Innovation and the Department of Housing and Community Development
RECOMMENDATION: That City Council authorizes the Community Development Director to submit the Housing Element Annual Progress Report for 2024 to the Governor’s Office of Land Use and Climate Innovation and to the California Department of Housing and Community Development.
h) Two Council Member Request: Reinstatement of Suzi Taylor as Chair of the Parks and Recreation Commission
RECOMMENDATION: Reinstate Suzi Taylor as Chair of the Parks and Recreation Commission.
i) Authorize Mayor Gilman to Sign a Letter of Support, on Behalf of the City of Ojai for the Ojai Valley Land Conservancy’s Proposed Education Space at Ojai Meadows Preserve, and Grant Application to T-Mobile’s “Hometown Grant”
RECOMMENDATION: Reinstate Suzi Taylor as Chair of the Parks and Recreation Commission.
PUBLIC HEARING
2. Design Review Permit (DRP 24-006) | Regarding a proposed permanent supportive housing project located at 408 South Signal Street [Current Use = Public Works Yard], consisting of approximately 30 single-story units, onsite parking and other onsite modifications; Assessor’s Parcel Number (APN): 023-0-120-020; Zoning Classification is Public/QuasiPublic (P-L); General Plan Land Use Designation is Public (P); Property Owner: City of Ojai; Applicants: City of Ojai and DignityMoves; Tuesday, March 25, 2025 Ojai City Council Regular Meeting Agenda ojai.ca.gov
5 Representatives: Joanne Price and Jeff Gaddess, President & Vice President of DignityMoves.
RECOMMENDATION: That the City Council:
1. Approve the proposed Lower Public Works Yard project site as the location for the Cabin Village Project contingent upon the City entering into a Development Management Agreement to develop the Cabin Village Project on that site and approval of the Design Review Permit;
2. Continue the hearing on the Design Review Permit until such time as the City Manager brings back the negotiated Development Management Agreement; and
3. Direct the City Manager to negotiate a Development Management Agreement with DignityMoves for the design and construction of the Cabin Village Project on the Proposed Project Site, present the negotiated Development Management Agreement, Design Review Permit, the associated CEQA environmental findings and determinations to the City Council for its consideration and possible final approval at a future meeting of the City Council, and any other necessary approvals.
COUNCIL MEMBER’S REPORTS
CITY MANAGER’S REPORT
FUTURE AGENDA ITEMS
ADJOURNMENT
AGENDA POSTED MARCH 21, 2025, 5:00 PM
Weston Montgomery
Chief Deputy City Clerk