Agenda
City Council
May 27, 2025
Adjourned Meeting – Progress Park Plaza Auditorium - 5:00 PM 15500 Downey Avenue Paramount, CA 90723 (562) 220-2000 www.paramountcity.gov
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CALL TO ORDER: Mayor Peggy Lemons
PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE: Alicia Anderson, President
Paramount Unified School District Board of Education
ROLL CALL OF
COUNCILMEMBERS:
Councilmember Isabel Aguayo
Councilmember Annette C. Delgadillo
Councilmember Vilma Cuellar Stallings
Vice Mayor Brenda Olmos
Mayor Peggy Lemons
PRESENTATIONS
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1. PRESENTATION PARAMOUNT EDUCATION PARTNERSHIP
• PEP Board of Directors
• PEP Scholarship Selection Committee
• PEP Donors
• Recognition of PEP Scholarship Recipients
2. RECOGNITION EDUCATION MONTH
• Valedictorian, Paramount High School, Class of 2025
• Salutatorian, Paramount High School, Class of 2025
• Valedictorian, Odyssey STEM Academy, Class of 2025
• Salutatorian, Odyssey STEM Academy, Class of 2025
• The Gates Scholarship Recipients
• Dell Scholars Program Awardee
• Top 25 Paramount High School Academic Students, Class of 2025
• Top 5 Odyssey STEM Academy Students, Class of 2025
• Top 2 Buena Vista High School Academic Students, Class of 2025
• Top 5 Paramount High School Momentum Students, Class
of 2025
CITY COUNCIL PUBLIC COMMENT UPDATES
PUBLIC COMMENTS
CONSENT CALENDAR
All items under the Consent Calendar may be enacted by one motion. Any item may be removed from the Consent Calendar and acted upon separately by the City Council.
3. APPROVAL APPLICATIONS FOR FIREWORKS PERMITS – 2025
Recommended Action: Approve the applications to sell fireworks submitted by the eight eligible community groups.
4. APPROVAL APPROPRIATION FOR CAL FIRE GRANT AWARD AND
AMENDMENT NO. 1 TO THE AGREEMENT WITH TREE
PEOPLE FOR THE REVISED SCOPE OF WORK FOR
MANAGEMENT OF THE URBAN FOREST MANAGEMENT PLAN
PROGRAM
Recommended Action:
A) Approve an appropriation in the amount of $170,000 to the FY 2024-25 Public Works Landscape Division’s operating budget, based on the remainder of the CAL FIRE Urban and Community Forestry grant award; and
B) Approve Amendment No. 1 to the agreement with TreePeople for management of the Urban Forest Management Plan Program and authorize the Mayor or her designee to execute the
amendment.
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5. ORDINANCE
1199
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
PARAMOUNT, APPROVING ZONE CHANGE NO. 250,
CHANGING THE OFFICIAL ZONING MAP FROM R-1 (SINGLEFAMILY RESIDENTIAL) TO M-2 (HEAVY MANUFACTURING) ON VACANT LAND NORTH OF 13900 ORANGE AVENUE
IDENTIFIED AS APNS 6236-003-901 AND 6236-003-902
Recommended Action: Read by title only, waive further reading, and adopt Ordinance No. 1199.
NEW BUSINESS
6. PUBLIC HEARING
RESOLUTION
25:017
AUTHORIZING THE ISSUANCE OF LOCAL MEASURE M
TRANSPORTATION SALES TAX REVENUE BONDS (IN AN
AGGREGATE PRINCIPAL AMOUNT NOT TO EXCEED
$10,500,000) BY THE PARAMOUNT PUBLIC FINANCING
AUTHORITY TO FINANCE STREET AND ROADWAY
IMPROVEMENTS AT VARIOUS SITES IN THE CITY OF
PARAMOUNT
Recommended Action: Adopt Resolution No. 25:017, a
resolution of the City Council of the City of Paramount authorizing the execution and delivery by the City of Paramount of an installment sale agreement, a trust agreement, and a bond purchase agreement in connection with the issuance by the Paramount Public Financing Authority of its local Measure M transportation sales tax revenue bonds in one or more series or subseries, approving the issuance of such bonds in an aggregate principal amount of not to exceed $10,500,000, and authorizing the execution of final and necessary documents and certificates and related actions.
7. RECEIVE AND FILE PARAMOUNT PUBLIC ART MASTER PLAN
Recommended Action: Receive and file.
8. PUBLIC HEARING
ORDINANCE
1200
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
PARAMOUNT APPROVING ZONING ORDINANCE TEXT
AMENDMENT NO. 35, AMENDING SECTION 17.04.010
(DEFINITIONS) AND REPEALING AND REPLACING CHAPTER
17.112 OF TITLE 17 OF THE PARAMOUNT MUNICIPAL CODE
IN ITS ENTIRETY TO ESTABLISH REVISED REGULATIONS
FOR ART IN PUBLICLY ACCESSIBLE PLACES ON PRIVATE
PROPERTY AND IN PUBLIC PLACES IN THE CITY OF
PARAMOUNT
Recommended Action: Read by title only, waive further reading, introduce Ordinance No. 1200 and place it on the June 10, 2025 agenda for adoption.
ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY NEW BUSINESS
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9. ORDINANCE
1201
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
PARAMOUNT AMENDING SECTION 13.04.150 (PROTECTION
OF PUBLIC WATER SUPPLY) OF ARTICLE 3 (RULES AND
REGULATIONS) OF CHAPTER 13.04 (WATER WORKS
SYSTEM) OF THE CITY MUNICIPAL CODE REGARDING
WATER SUPPLY CROSS-CONNECTIONS, AND MAKING A
DETERMINATION THAT THE ORDINANCE IS EXEMPT UNDER
THE CALIFORNIA ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY ACT
Recommended Action: Read by title only, waive further reading, introduce Ordinance No. 1201, and place it on the June 10, 2025 agenda for adoption.
COMMENTS/COMMITTEE REPORTS
CLOSED SESSION
ADJOURNMENT
To a meeting on June 10 2025 at 6:00 PM in the Council Chamber at City Hall, 16400 Colorado Ave., Paramount, CA
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