Special meeting
Santa Monica City Council
November 1, 2022
- Date
- November 1, 2022
- Time
- 6:00 PM
- Location
- City Hall Council Chambers 1685 Main Street, Room 250, Santa Monica, CA 90401
- Documents
- 20
Documents
- Agenda
- Agenda packet
- Annotated agenda
- Minutes
- agenda-report Conference with Legal Counsel – Existing Litigation – Litigation has been initiated formally pursuant to Gov. Code Section 54956.9(d)(1): John VMA Doe, et al. v. City of Santa Monica, et al., Case No. 22STCV30598; John TAU Doe, et al. v. Santa Monica PAL, et al., Case No. 22STCV19401; John Doe 1-4 v. Does 1-50, Case No. 21STCV34537; John Doe 5 and John Doe 6 v. Does 1-50, Case No. 22STCV08765; John JH Doe v. Police Activities League, et al., Case No. 21STCV24491; John Doe (D.C.) v. Santa Monica Police Activities League, et al., Case No. 21STCV47551; John Doe (MU) v. Santa Monica PAL, et al., Case No. 22STCV17022; John Doe #1, John Doe #2 and John Doe #3 v. Santa Monica PAL, et al., Case No. 22STCV03113; John Doe 142 v. Doe 1, Doe 2, and Doe 3, Case No. 22STCV01268; Jose Villaseñor v. City of Santa Monica, et al., Case No. 22STCV17835
- agenda-report Recommendation to accept Therese Kelly's resignation from the Architectural Review Board and authorize the City Clerk to publish the vacancy. (Continued from 10/25/2022)
- agenda-report Request of Councilmember Brock to direct the City Manager to evaluate the potential of programming the open space along Main Street adjacent to the City Hall North Parking Lot in partnership with the Santa Monica Sister City Association that would commemorate our five Sister Cities: Mazatlan, Mexico (1961), Hamm, Germany (1969), Fujinomiya, Japan (1974), Kizugawa, Japan (2017), and Brighton, England (2022). (Continued from 10/25/2022)
- agenda-report Request of Councilmember Negrete that the City Council direct the City Manager and City Attorney to come back with a proposed Ordinance to the City’s Smoking Ordinance, Section 4.44.020(a) of the Santa Monica Municipal Code (“SMMC”), to prohibit smoking in multi-unit residential common areas, and the public right-of-way areas around multi-unit residential buildings. (Continued from 10/25/2022)
- agenda-report Request of Councilmember Negrete to direct the City Manager to develop construction and annual maintenance cost estimates and evaluate the impacts of constructing courts dedicated to pickleball on the Interim Open Space at Santa Monica Airport adjacent to Airport Park as soon as possible while supporting other current and planned uses on the Interim Open Space. The City Manager is also being asked to produce a schedule of permitted and open recreational use of the tennis / pickleball courts at Memorial Park and evaluate the potential to expand the use of the courts at Memorial Park for pickleball. (Continued from 10/25/2022)
- agenda-report Request of Councilmembers Brock, Parra and de la Torre, in the wake of residents’ concerns about the “Builder’s remedy” permits just filed for 1,000s of new housing units, overwhelmingly market rate and up to 15 stories, that the Council ask the City Attorney to hire appropriate outside legal counsel to conduct a thorough review and write a report regarding the City’s legal options and remedies, including rejecting the applications under all applicable laws. The law firm hired to conduct this review shall be selected by the City Council and shall have the power to obtain documents it deems useful to its legal review and be given full cooperation by staff and elected and appointed officials. (Continued from 10/25/2022)
- agenda-report Request of Councilmembers Negrete and Brock that the City Manager evaluate options to enhance the maintenance and appearance of Lincoln Boulevard between Olympic Boulevard (north and south), inclusive of portions of Olympic Blvd east and west of Lincoln, as depicted roughly in the shaded area in the attached map. This is a highly trafficked and visible area of the City and serves as a gateway for visitors to Santa Monica and the City Manager is being asked to return to City Council with options to improve the area. (Continued from 10/25/2022)
- agenda-report Request of Mayor Himmelrich and Councilmember Davis that the City Council express its support for Los Angeles County Measure A. Measure A would amend the Charter of the County of Los Angeles to grant the Board of Supervisors authority to remove an elected Sheriff from office for cause by a supermajority (4 out of 5) of the Board. (Continued from 10/25/2022)
- agenda-report Request of Mayor Pro Tem McCowan that the City Council authorize use of her travel funds for costs incurred from her July 27-30, 2022 travel to Brighton, England for the official Friendship City signing ceremony in partnership with Santa Monica Travel and Tourism and the Santa Monica Sister City Association. (Continued from 10/25/2022)
- Draft CC-ord-smoking multiunit
- Email_ARB Resignation T.Kelly
- Lincoln btwn Olympic north and south
- Written Comments
- Written Comments
- Written Comments
- Written Comments
On the agenda
- 3.A.Conference with Legal Counsel – Existing Litigation –
- 3.B.Conference with Legal Counsel – Existing Litigation –
- 8.A.Recommendation to accept Therese Kelly's resignation from the