Agenda packet — Santa Monica City Council, January 28, 2025 (part 2 of 6)

Highlights & Qualifications
• A highly driven and experienced Senior Construction Project Manager. • Proven experience leading and managing multiple projects across the US and Canada. • Principal responsibility for portfolio of over 230 construction projects at different phases of completion.
• 13 years’ diversified experience in Engineering and Construction Management. • Proven experience on LEED/LBC projects and documentation. • Varied experience in multi-discipline project and construction management; heavy industrial & commercial construction; road construction; steel fabrication; oil & gas and maritime industries.
• Proven ability in delivering project deliverables within the triple constraints of scope, time and cost whilst, adhering to required quality standards and highest professional conduct • Able to develop excellent relationships with consultants, subcontractors, and suppliers by providing continuous feedback and communication.
• Ability to take initiative and work as a team player. • Creative thinking, adaptive to change and thrive in a fast-pace environment. • Effective at driving and pushing a project while maintaining healthy trade and professional relationships.
• Proven experience in conducting projects through the full life cycle of Project Management from initiation, planning, execution, monitoring & controlling up until close-out. • Excellent Contract Management skills
• Ability to apply basic engineering principles to construction challenges. • Thorough understanding of the Project Management processes, and systems. • Ability to read, understand and interpret technical drawings and specifications. • Identifier & influencer of factors that cause change on projects • Ability to proactively conduct financial health checks on projects through extensive use of analytical tools.

Professional Experience
Safeguard Industries 2017-Present
Operations Manager
Thermal Systems KWC Ltd.

Project Manager Commercial Construction
ENL Consortium Ltd.

Project Manager Commercial/Civil Construction
2015-2017
2005-2015
Education and Professional Qualifications
University of Lagos 2009-2011
MBA, Management Specialization
Obafemi Awolowo University 1999-2005
B.Sc Civil Engineering
Project Management Institute 2007-2020
Certified Project Management Professional (PMP)
Canadian Construction Association 2016
Gold Seal Certificate in Construction Management Finance & Accounting Association of Science and Engineering Technology Professionals of Alberta 2016 Certified Engineering Technologist (C.E.T.)
NEBOSH 2011
International General Certificate in Occupational Health & Safety DocuSign Envelope ID: 8748D3D6-7E2C-46DB-A5A6-8E2EAE44F66D

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Packet Pg. 305 Attachment: X - Safeguard Agreement (6793 : Fall Protection Phase 3 Safeguard) Darcy Vanderham
780-934-0122
1940 79 Street SW, Edmonton, AB
[email protected]
Skills & Abilities A vast amount of experience in all aspects of the Fall Protection and Safety Industry including managing staff, completing all parts of the installations, developing appropriate quotes for clients, working with the Engineers to develop and install various rigid rail/flexible lifelines/anchor points and creating an open dialogue with clients to ensure they are provided with the best service and products to meet their needs.

Extensive knowledge of the OHS manual and CSA standards as it pertains to fall protection and suspended platforms which ensures I am maintaining the safety rules and regulations for a variety of different worksites throughout Alberta and Canada.

My strengths include working effectively with all types of clients, managing staff, overseeing a job from beginning to end, maintaining an exceptional work ethic and providing the best experience for my internal and external customers.

Work History December 2019 – Present
Installation Manager, Safeguard Industries
• Provide management and supervision direction to Safeguard Installers in US and Canada
• Provide ongoing technical support on site challenges and escalate to Safeguard Lead Engineer technical issues beyond your competency. • Review all general contract and subcontract documents, drawings, and specifications and to develop the on-site plans and procedures for the implementation of the work.
• Prepare project specific safety documentation and ensure implementation across all projects with our field-based installers.
• Conduct site surveys and threat assessments to onsite installation implementing preventive/corrective action as necessary. • Inspect construction work to meet quality expectations and verify to drawing plans/spec. Constantly check for quality and correct installations. • Handle all job labor relations, obtaining help when necessary from the Project Manager, Operations Manager, or appropriate labor relations representative.
• Inspect all work completed, taking appropriate corrective standards, and calling for required inspections by proper authorities at the required stages.

September 2006 – December 2019
Lead Installer, Gravisys Inc.
 Working as the head of the Installation department on a variety of projects with clientele from multiple industries, including heavy industrial work, DocuSign Envelope ID: 8748D3D6-7E2C-46DB-A5A6-8E2EAE44F66D

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 Managing jobs from beginning to end, developing plans at the initial phase of the project with the Engineers to provide the most user friendly and best solution for clients and closing out the job at completion.  Managing an installation crew, completing inspection work, developing fall arrest solutions, review drawings/blueprints, working with a variety of tools
 Administrative duties including inspection reports, time sheets for staff, overseeing jobs of staff members and scheduling job timelines September 1998 – September 2006
Inside Sales Representative, Red-L Distributors
 Built relationships with buyers and utilized product knowledge to provide customer service and increase sales
 Processed and expedited orders with vendors and manufacturers  Ordered, compiled and shipped literature and samples to existing and potential buyers
Education NAIT – Edmonton, AB
2011 to 2013 – Ironworker Apprenticeship
- Completed my Third year of the 4th year Ironworker Generalist Apprenticeship Program
- In 2012, I was the recipient of the Alberta Ironworkers Apprenticeship and Training Plan Scholarship for Top Ironworker (Generalist 2nd Year) J. Percy Page High School – Edmonton, AB
1996 to 1998
- Obtained a High School Diploma
Certifications Latchways Certified Installer Certification Kee Safety Certified Installer certification
3M Certified Installer Certification
CSTS
Elevated Work Platform
Standard First Aid Level C
End User Fall Protection
High Angle Rescue
Hilti Adhesive Anchor Training
Swing stage Operation
Course Work:

OSHA 30
Principles of Health and Safety Management
Prime Contractor
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OSHA 30
Career Highlight I had the opportunity to install a 750 foot overhead horizontal lifeline extending between two mountain peaks situated above the Fernie Alpine Ski Resort. This Lifeline is used to keep Avalanche Control Personnel safe while setting explosive charges on dangerous cornices which are not accessible by helicopter. I saw this specific job through its entirety from the initial concept drawing through to full support tower construction. This project brought together many industry leaders from multiple disciplines due to its unique application and remote location of the job.

References Available upon request
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D A V I D O Y A K H I L O M E
Calgary, AB | (587) 583 – 0900 | [email protected]

WORK PROFILE
Highly competent professional with over thirteen (13) years of experience in Commercial, Industrial, Institutional Healthcare and Residential developments in various aspects of Design, Estimation, Supervision, Construction and Project Management.

Adapts well to change, able to handle multiple job responsibilities simultaneously while adhering to strict budget, deadlines and always demonstrates diplomacy and composure in an emotionally charged situation with thorough knowledge in the areas of contract, estimation, negotiations, design modifications, materials procurement, shop fabrications, installation and office/site management
Proficient with the use of On-Screen take off, Salesforce, Sharepoint, Procore, Microsoft Outlook, Adobe PDF, AutoCAD, Microsoft Office, Excel, Powerpoint, Bluebeam, Microsoft Project, Revit Architecture and CorelDraw

WORK EXPERIENCE
SAFEGUARD INDUSTRIES INC. OCTOBER 2017 to PRESENT

PROJECT COORDINATOR TO PROJECT MANAGER
Initiation to completion of all Safeguard's projects in Canada & US while ensuring the Specs & Contract scope are reviewed and updated where necessary. Assigning project team and start up meetings with all stakeholders while overseeing strategic planning, monitoring and adapting as needed with the project team & clients Creates project plans and schedules while maintains project objectives and follow up updates from project team. Monitors shipping of products to vendors for installation, testing & certification while ensuring quality control checks are in place during installation. Identifying & resolving project issues and risks while collating reports from project team on project progress, offers viable solutions and opportunities as they arise. Progress billing during project stages and closeout billing on completion UNITED GROUP AUGUST 2015 to SEPTEMBER 2017

PROJECT CO-ORDINATOR/ACCOUNT MANAGER
Estimating & Managing interior finishes on multiple Healthcare, commercial, industrial and residential projects from start to completion. Read, redefine and interpret construction and shop drawings and update Architect/Clients Perform site inspections, measurements, take-offs, estimation on projects to accommodate client RFQ, Create, Monitor and maintain project budget, clarify project scope & prepare project work packages for execution, LEED submissions, closeout documents and Operations & Maintenance manuals. Direct, manage and motivate employees to ensure productivity and quality of work
Process invoices on task payments/job completion and follow up with payment request to clients BRUNEL ENGINEERING AND CONSULTING LTD. NOVEMBER 2004 to JULY 2015

PROJECT ARCHITECT TO PROJECT COORDINATOR TO PROJECT MANAGER Through effective planning & construction, managed the timely completion to budget of multiple design/building approval responsibilities, site preparation, and construction ranging from $3,000 to $115 million Trained the Project staff/Community Service Manager on turnover procedures, quality standards, and project-specific systems orientation required on multiple project site for effective management Scheduling, Budgeting, creation of Work breakdown packages, monitoring projects from inception to completion while updating project task to Superintendents and Project crew as per work breakdown packages. Vetting/collation of qualified competitive subcontractor bids prior to execution of contracts Coordinated project management activities, resources, equipment and information while Liaising with clients to identify and define requirements, scope and objectives. Created and maintained comprehensive project documentation, plans and reports

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT, TRAINING, & EDUCATION
2016 TO PRESENT – PRESIDENT (NON-PROFIT – EAC Calgary, AB) 2017 - CERTIFICATE OF ACHIEVEMENT IN MICROSOFT EXCEL FOR CONSTRUCTION (ADVANCED) 2015 TO 2017 - CERTIFICATE OF APPRECIATION NCAC COMMUNITY VOLUNTEER 2012 - PRINCE 2 REGISTERED PRACTITIONER
2007 - ASSOCIATE MEMBER - NIA (Professional Architectural Association) 2004 - MASTER’S DEGREE IN ARCHITECTURE
2003 - BACHELOR’S DEGREE IN ARCHITECTURE
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20% Liguidity was approved by William
Clerk
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Packet Pg. 310 Attachment: X - Safeguard Agreement (6793 : Fall Protection Phase 3 Safeguard) 1 Siamak Goosheh
From: William Clerk <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, January 14, 2021 12:52 PM
To: Paul Betts
Cc: Siamak Goosheh
Subject: RE: IMPORTANT QUESTION FOR BID OF SP2643
Paul,
If the bid bond is an important item and per your email it is approved. Regarding the 20% net worth in lieu of 50%, mark/note it on the bid so that we are aware.

William Clerk
Architectural Associate

City of Santa Monica | Architecture Services Division
1685 Main Street, Mail Stop 15 | Santa Monica, CA 90401 (310) 458-2205 x 5288 O | (310) 429-6555 C | (310) 399-1541 F Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail. https://www.santamonica.gov/Media/Default/CMO/Recommended%20Best%20Practices%20for%20Construction%20(F INAL)%5b1%5d-1.pdf
From: Paul Betts <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, January 14, 2021 11:28 AM
To: William Clerk <[email protected]>
Cc: Siamak Goosheh <[email protected]>
Subject: IMPORTANT QUESTION FOR BID OF SP2643
Importance: High

EXTERNAL
Hi William,
Sorry to be so last minute with this, but I see we need to confirm a net worth of 50% of the bud value for SP2643. I can only sign to 20% for our 2020 accounts. The liquidity is not an issue, and Bd Bond is approved.

I have adjusted the Bid Form as so:

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Packet Pg. 311 Attachment: X - Safeguard Agreement (6793 : Fall Protection Phase 3 Safeguard) 2 Please confirm if this will be a problem or not.

Thanks,
Paul
Paul Betts
General Manager
[email protected]
C: (702) 553-9967
www.safeguard-industries.com
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Bid Bond
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ATTACHMENT B – CONSTRUCTION PROJECTS IN PROGRESS
Make copies of this attachment for each construction project in progress.

List 5 construction projects, currently in progress, by the General Contractor that best exemplify the firm’s ability to successfully complete this project.

Project Name and Location:

Description (type of construction, levels, etc.):

Owner (Entity and Location):
Prime Contractor to the Owner Subcontractor to the Owner Contact Person: Phone:

Designer (Firm): Location:

Contact Person: Phone:

Original Contract: $___________________ Approved Change Orders: $____________________ Original Schedule: _________________
(Calendar days)
Approved Time Extension:_________________
(Calendar days)
Total Contract Duration: ______________
(Calendar days)
Prevailing Wages: ____ YES _____NO
Public Bid: ____ YES _____NO Liquidated Damages Clause: $_______________ % of Contract Subcontracted: _______________ Name of CM on Project, if applicable:

Contract Completion Date:__________________
20220% -
24 months 36 month N/A 2,956,437.00 -
Laura Kellet (+352) 3063-6862 Robins AFB, GA Katerina Tuckova +(352) 3063-7258 NATO Fall Protection of Airplane Hangars
Supply of Aircraft Fall Protection for C-130 Shelter - Robins AFB, GA (NATO) Safeguard US Inc.

DocuSign Envelope ID: 8748D3D6-7E2C-46DB-A5A6-8E2EAE44F66D

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Packet Pg. 317 Attachment: X - Safeguard Agreement (6793 : Fall Protection Phase 3 Safeguard) Bidder’s Name: ________________________________ (enter on each bid form page) Public Works | Bid Form | August 2020 24 | P a g e
ATTACHMENT B – CONSTRUCTION PROJECTS IN PROGRESS
Make copies of this attachment for each construction project in progress.

List 5 construction projects, currently in progress, by the General Contractor that best exemplify the firm’s ability to successfully complete this project.

Project Name and Location:

Description (type of construction, levels, etc.):

Owner (Entity and Location):
Prime Contractor to the Owner Subcontractor to the Owner Contact Person: Phone:

Designer (Firm): Location:

Contact Person: Phone:

Contract Completion Date:__________________
20200% N/A -
200 -
610,965.67 77,689 Ross Maag Neumann Smith Architecture (951) 541-3530 Southfield, Michigan Lucas Sever (949) 430-2106 Jacobsen Construction Co. Inc Facade Access Equipment
Beverly Center Facade Access - Los Angeles, CA Safeguard US Inc.

DocuSign Envelope ID: 8748D3D6-7E2C-46DB-A5A6-8E2EAE44F66D

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ATTACHMENT B – CONSTRUCTION PROJECTS IN PROGRESS
Make copies of this attachment for each construction project in progress.

List 5 construction projects, currently in progress, by the General Contractor that best exemplify the firm’s ability to successfully complete this project.

Project Name and Location:

Description (type of construction, levels, etc.):

Owner (Entity and Location):
Prime Contractor to the Owner Subcontractor to the Owner Contact Person: Phone:

Designer (Firm): Location:

Contact Person: Phone:

Contract Completion Date:__________________
20190% N/A 1,825 (5 years) -
602,040.00 -
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Donnie Bussard, JR (240) 876-5978
NAVAC MidLant (5) Year annual inspection and maintenance of Fall Protection Roof Trolley Systems Pentagon Roof Trolley System - Washington, DC Safeguard US Inc.

DocuSign Envelope ID: 8748D3D6-7E2C-46DB-A5A6-8E2EAE44F66D

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ATTACHMENT B – CONSTRUCTION PROJECTS IN PROGRESS
Make copies of this attachment for each construction project in progress.

List 5 construction projects, currently in progress, by the General Contractor that best exemplify the firm’s ability to successfully complete this project.

Project Name and Location:

Description (type of construction, levels, etc.):

Owner (Entity and Location):
Prime Contractor to the Owner Subcontractor to the Owner Contact Person: Phone:

Designer (Firm): Location:

Contact Person: Phone:

Contract Completion Date:__________________
Waiward Steel Fabricators Ltd - Edmonton
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0% N/A -
$ 745,000 -
- -
Edmonton, AB Felecia Barton (780) 577-2113
Waiward Steel Fabricators Ltd - Edmonton
Waiward Fabricators - Edmonton, AB Safeguard US Inc.

DocuSign Envelope ID: 8748D3D6-7E2C-46DB-A5A6-8E2EAE44F66D

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ATTACHMENT C – COMPLETED CONSTRUCTION PROJECTS
Make copies of this attachment for each construction project completed.

List 5 construction projects completed by the General Contractor, within the past 5 years, that best exemplify the firm’s ability to successfully complete this project.

Project Name and Location:

Description (type of construction, levels, etc.):

Owner (Entity and Location):
Prime Contractor to the Owner Subcontractor to the Owner Contact Person: Phone:

Designer (Firm): Location:

Contact Person: Phone:

Original Contract: $___________________ Approved Change Orders: $____________________ Original Schedule: ________________
(Calendar days)
Approved Time Extension:_________________
(Calendar days)
Total Contract Duration: ______________
(Calendar days)
Prevailing Wages: ____ YES _____NO
Public Bid: ____ YES _____NO Liquidated Damages Clause: $_______________ % of Contract Subcontracted: _______________ Name of CM on Project, if applicable:

Pending Contract Completion Date:__________________
2020 N/A 0% -
6 month -
45,700 1,160 Loren Keith Aiton Taylor Teter Partnership 559-437-0887 Freso, CA Scott Tatman (559) 908-0131 Naval Facilities Engineering Systems Command (NAVFAC) Supply and Install 455 linear feet of guardrail with Ladder and self-closing gates Lemoore Naval Air Station Bldg 932 PV & Thermal Heating Fall Protection - Lemoore, CA Safeguard US Inc.

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ATTACHMENT C – COMPLETED CONSTRUCTION PROJECTS
Make copies of this attachment for each construction project completed.

List 5 construction projects completed by the General Contractor, within the past 5 years, that best exemplify the firm’s ability to successfully complete this project.

Project Name and Location:

Description (type of construction, levels, etc.):

Owner (Entity and Location):
Prime Contractor to the Owner Subcontractor to the Owner Contact Person: Phone:

Designer (Firm): Location:

Contact Person: Phone:

Pending Contract Completion Date:__________________
2020 N/A 0% -
90 days -
21,620.00 -
Brad Erwin PARAGON Architecture (417) 885-0002 Joplin, MO Adam Lilienkamp (417) 793-0024 Mid-Land Enterprises Supply and Installation of 174 linear feet of free standing guardrails Employer Advantage - Joplin, MO 2019Safeguard US Inc.

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ATTACHMENT C – COMPLETED CONSTRUCTION PROJECTS
Make copies of this attachment for each construction project completed.

List 5 construction projects completed by the General Contractor, within the past 5 years, that best exemplify the firm’s ability to successfully complete this project.

Project Name and Location:

Description (type of construction, levels, etc.):

Owner (Entity and Location):
Prime Contractor to the Owner Subcontractor to the Owner Contact Person: Phone:

Designer (Firm): Location:

Contact Person: Phone:

Pending Contract Completion Date:__________________
2018 N/A 0% -
6 month 180 days -
114,900 2,600 Safeguard Industries Kim Hicks (480) 282-3218 Abbott Supply and Install 602 linear feet of Guardrails Guardrail Systems - Scottsdale, AZ 2018 Safeguard US Inc.

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ATTACHMENT C – COMPLETED CONSTRUCTION PROJECTS
Make copies of this attachment for each construction project completed.

List 5 construction projects completed by the General Contractor, within the past 5 years, that best exemplify the firm’s ability to successfully complete this project.

Project Name and Location:

Description (type of construction, levels, etc.):

Owner (Entity and Location):
Prime Contractor to the Owner Subcontractor to the Owner Contact Person: Phone:

Designer (Firm): Location:

Contact Person: Phone:

Pending Contract Completion Date:__________________
2017 N/A 0% -
90 days -
117,070 17,500 TRS Roof Servises Inc. (925) 356-7770 Concord, CA Mark Bledsoe (415) 716-6410 Western Roofing Service Supply and Installation of Guardrail System Soda Hall CRP 14 and 17 Roof and Deck Replacement - Berkeley, CA Safeguard US Inc.

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ATTACHMENT C – COMPLETED CONSTRUCTION PROJECTS
Make copies of this attachment for each construction project completed.

List 5 construction projects completed by the General Contractor, within the past 5 years, that best exemplify the firm’s ability to successfully complete this project.

Project Name and Location:

Description (type of construction, levels, etc.):

Owner (Entity and Location):
Prime Contractor to the Owner Subcontractor to the Owner Contact Person: Phone:

Designer (Firm): Location:

Contact Person: Phone:

Pending Contract Completion Date:__________________
2015 N/A 0% -
120 -
143,600 12,535 Miguel Belardo Safeguard Industries (912) 573-3625 Rick Gonzales (912) 573-4195 Strategic Weapon Facility, Atlantic Kings Bay, GA Supply and Installation of 946 feet of Free Standing Guardrails N6470915T0103 - N-Procurement, delivery, and installation of Fall Protection Railing System - Kings Bay, GA Safeguard US Inc.

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ATTACHMENT J – SCOPE OF WORK

INTRODUCTION
The City of Santa Monica, (referred to hereafter as “the City”) is inviting bids from qualified persons or firms interested in “Fall Protection” design/build services.

SUMMARY OF BID
Provide design and installation of roof fall hazard protection per attached Attachment K, Roof Fall Hazard Risk Assessment. Fall protection equipment shall be installed with minimal penetration to existing structures. All building will be occupied and operational during the design and installation of the roof fall protection equipment.

All bidders must provide an action plan and design approach for providing proper fall protection at all locations noted on Roof Fall Hazard Risk Assessment.

Design and installation of roof fall protection equipment must comply with all applicable codes.

Scope of Work
The City of Santa Monica (referred to hereafter as “the City”) is seeking for a contractor/firm to provide design-built services for roof fall protection mitigation services in accordance with Attachment K, Roof Fall Hazard Risk Assessment.

The fall protection equipment and bid shall include but not limit to:

1. Design and engineer the fall protection equipment. All drawings and calculations, as applicable, shall be stamped by an engineer license in the State of California.

2. The design shall accommodate minimal penetrations to the existing structure. All penetrations to existing structure must be properly sealed to avoid water intrusion into the structure. Advice the City prior to any roof penetrations.

3. All fall protection equipment shall be design and engineer per all applicable codes.

4. It is the contractor/firm’s responsibility to verify all on-site measurements. All measurements shown on Exhibit C, Roof Fall Hazard Ris-k Assessment, are for reference only.

5. Special attention shall be taken in landmarked buildings to minimize the visibility of the fall protection equipment. Coordination with City’s staff is required prior to desing and installation.

6. All equipment must be design and engineer to sustain environmental conditions. The City is a costal city, therefore, special attention to salt saturation in the environment must be taken into consideration.

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7. Contractor/firm is responsible for all safety requirements during installation.

8. Staging areas will be provided and coordinated as needed.

9. It is the contractor responsibility for securing all construction/installation areas, material and equipment during and after on-site work.

10. Contractor’s staff parking is the responsibility of the contractor.

11. All buildings will be occupied during construction/installation of fall protection equipment. All on-site activities most be performed with minimal or no impact to the activities of City’s staff.

12. All on-site work shall be coordinated with the City a minimum of 72 hours in advance.

13. All work and equipment shall be warrantied for a minimum of 3 years after completion of installation.

14. Contractor/firm shall provide initial certification of fall protection equipment.

15. Contractor/firm shall provide initial training for City staff per OSHA standards.

16. Contractor/firm shall provide Action Plan and Schedule for the project. Action Plan and Schedule must be approved by City prior to implementation. Preliminary Action Plan and Schedule shall be part of bid.

17. The City is requesting proposer to include a $54,000 unforeseen conditions allowance. Please refer to chart below for description/distribution of the allowance.

18. Proposers shall include the chart below as part of their proposal documentation. Proposal shall include the lump sum amount per location described in the chart below.

19. The City holds the right to adjust and/or change the scope of work as necessary.

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Packet Pg. 337 Attachment: X - Safeguard Agreement (6793 : Fall Protection Phase 3 Safeguard) _____________________________________________________________________________________________ Safeguard Industries
10447 50th St. SE. Calgary, AB T2C 3E3 World Headquarters 10500 48th St. SE Suite 200, Calgary AB T2C 2B8 Safeguard Engineering 6335 North Hollywood Boulevard, Suite 140, Las Vegas, Nevada 89115 Toll free (888) 936-0752
[email protected] www.safeguard-industries.com Rate Sheet – June 2021
Field Installer (Iron Worker) = $85.62 p/h
Engineer = $130.00 p/h
Drafter = $80.00 p/h
Project Manager = $110.00 p/h
Additional Travel Cost is quoted on an as needed basis.

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Packet Pg. 339 Attachment: X - Safeguard Agreement (6793 : Fall Protection Phase 3 Safeguard) ATTACHMENT E – PUBLIC WORKS INSURANCE REQUIREMENTS
Minimum Insurance Requirements for Public Works Projects Insurance Requirements
Contractor shall procure and maintain insurance against claims for injuries to persons or damages to property that may arise from or in connection with the performance of the work hereunder by the Contractor, its agents, representatives, employees, or subcontractors.

I. Minimum Scope and Limits of Insurance
Coverage shall be at least as broad as:

1. Commercial General Liability (CGL): Insurance Services Office Form CG 00 01 covering CGL on an “occurrence” basis, including products and completed operations, property damage, bodily injury and personal and advertising injury, with limits of no less than $3,000,000 per occurrence. If a general aggregate limit applies, either the general aggregate limit shall apply separately to this project/location (Insurance Services Office Form CG 25 03 or 25 04) or the general aggregate limit shall be twice the required occurrence limit.

2. Automobile Liability: Insurance Services Office Form CA 00 01 covering Code 1 (any auto), or if Contractor has no owned autos, Code 8 (hired) and Code 9 (non-owned), with limits of no less than $1,000,000 per accident for bodily injury and property damage.

3. Workers’ Compensation: Workers’ Compensation insurance as required by the State of California, with Statutory Limits and Employers’ Liability Insurance with limits of no less than $1,000,000 per accident for bodily injury or disease.

4. Professional Liability: Insurance appropriate to the Consultant’s profession with limits of no less than $1,000,000 per occurrence or claim/$2,000,000 in the annual aggregate.

Contractors providing services such as excavation, grading, and/or drilling or that involve environmental hazards will also possess:

5. Contractors’ Pollution Legal Liability. Insurance covering pollution conditions arising out of the actions performed by or on behalf of the Contractor with limits of no less than $1,000,000 per occurrence or claims/$2,000,000 policy aggregate.

If the Contractor maintains broader coverage or higher limits than the minimums shown above, the City of Santa Monica requires and shall be entitled to any broader coverage or higher limits maintained by the Contractor. Any available insurance proceeds in excess of the specified minimum limits of insurance and coverage shall be available to the City of Santa Monica.

II. Other Insurance Provisions
The insurance policies are to contain, or be endorsed to contain, the following provisions:

1. Additional Insured Status: The City of Santa Monica, its officers, officials, employees and volunteers are to be covered as additional insureds on the CGL policy with respect to liability arising out of work or operations performed by or on behalf of Contractor including materials, parts, or equipment furnished in connection DocuSign Envelope ID: 8748D3D6-7E2C-46DB-A5A6-8E2EAE44F66D

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Packet Pg. 340 Attachment: X - Safeguard Agreement (6793 : Fall Protection Phase 3 Safeguard) with such work or operations. CGL coverage can be provided in the form of an endorsement to the Contractor’s insurance at least as broad as the combination of Insurance Services Office Forms: (1) CG 20 10, CG 20 26, CG 20 33, or CG 20 38 and (2) CG 20 37.

2. Primary Coverage: For any claims related to this Agreement, the Contractor’s insurance shall be primary coverage at least as broad as Insurance Services Office Form CG 20 01 04 13 as respects the City of Santa Monica, its officers, officials, employees and volunteers. Any insurance or self-insurance maintained by the City of Santa Monica, its officers, officials, employees or volunteers shall be in excess of the Contractor’s insurance and shall not contribute with it.

3. Notice of Cancellation: Each insurance policy required herein shall state that coverage shall not be cancelled except after notice has been given to the City of Santa Monica.

4. Waiver of Subrogation: Contractor hereby grants to the City of Santa Monica a waiver of any right of subrogation which any insurer of said Contractor may acquire against the City of Santa Monica by virtue of payment of any loss. Contractor agrees to obtain any endorsement that may be necessary to affect this waiver of subrogation, but this provision applies regardless of whether or not the City of Santa Monica has received a waiver of subrogation endorsement from the insurer.

The Workers’ Compensation policy shall be endorsed with a waiver of subrogation in favor of the City of Santa Monica for all work performed by the Contractor, its employees, agents and subcontractors.

III. Self-Insured Retentions
Self-insured retentions must be declared to and approved by the City of Santa Monica. The City of Santa Monica may require the Contractor to purchase coverage with a lower retention or provide satisfactory proof of ability to pay losses and related investigations, claim administration, and defense expenses within the retention. The policy language shall provide, or be endorsed to provide, that the self-insured retention may be satisfied by either the name insured or the City of Santa Monica.

IV. Acceptability of Insurers
Insurance is to be placed with insurers authorized to conduct business in California with a current A.M. Best rating of no less than A:VII, unless otherwise acceptable to the City of Santa Monica.

V. Claims Made Policies
If a policy provides “claims made” coverage:

1. The Retroactive Date must be shown and must be before the date of this Agreement or the start of work.

2. The insurance must be maintained, and evidence of insurance must be provided for at least 5 years after completion of work.

3. If the policy is cancelled or not renewed, and not replaced with another “claims made” policy form with a Retroactive Date prior to the effective Agreement date, the Contractor must purchase “extended reporting” coverage for a minimum of 5 years after completion of work.

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Contractor shall furnish the City of Santa Monica with original certificates and amendatory endorsements (or copies of the applicable policy language effecting coverage provided by this clause) and a copy of the Declarations and Endorsement Page of the CGL policy listing all policy endorsements. These documents must be received and approved by the City of Santa Monica before work commences. However, failure to obtain required documents prior to the work beginning shall not waive the Contractor’s obligation to provide them. The City of Santa Monica reserves the right to require complete, certified copies of all required insurance policies, including the endorsements required herein, at any time.

VII. Failure to Maintain Insurance Coverage
If Contractor, for any reason, fails to maintain insurance coverage which is required pursuant to this Agreement, the same shall be deemed a material breach of contract. The City of Santa Monica, at its sole option, may terminate this Agreement and obtain damages from the Contractor resulting from said breach.

VIII. Subcontractors
Contractor shall require and verify that all Subcontractors maintain insurance meeting the minimum requirements stated below:

1. All Subcontractors are required to possess insurance meeting the minimum scope and limits identified below:
a. Commercial General Liability (CGL): Insurance Services Office Form CG 00 01 covering CGL on an “occurrence” basis, including products and completed operations, property damage, bodily injury and personal and advertising injury, with limits of no less than $1,000,000 per occurrence. If a general aggregate limit applies, either the general aggregate limit shall apply separately to this project/location (Insurance Services Office Form CG 25 03 or 25 04) or the general aggregate limit shall be twice the required occurrence limit.
b. Automobile Liability: Insurance Services Office Form CA 00 01 covering Code 1 (any auto), or if the Subcontractor has no owned autos, Code 8 (hired) and Code 9 (non-owned), with limits of no less than $1,000,000 per accident for bodily injury and property damage. c. Workers’ Compensation: Workers’ Compensation insurance as required by the State of California, with Statutory Limits and Employers’ Liability Insurance with limits of no less than $1,000,000 per accident for bodily injury or disease.

Subcontractors providing services such as excavation, grading, and/or drilling or that involve environmental hazards will also possess:
d. Contractors’ Pollution Liability: Insurance covering pollution conditions arising out of actions performed by or on behalf of the Subcontractor, with limits no less than $1,000,000 each claim/$2,000,000 in the annual aggregate.

If the Subcontractor maintains broader coverage or higher limits than the minimums shown above, the City of Santa Monica requires and shall be entitled to any broader coverage or higher limits maintained by the Subcontractor. Any available insurance proceeds in excess of the specified minimum limits of insurance and coverage shall be available to the City of Santa Monica.

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2. All Subcontractors are required to comply with the insurance provisions established in Sections II through IV above.

Effective 4/20/18
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SHOULD ANY OF THE ABOVE DESCRIBED POLICIES BE CANCELLED BEFORE

THE EXPIRATION DATE THEREOF, NOTICE WILL BE DELIVERED IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE POLICY PROVISIONS.

INSURER(S) AFFORDING COVERAGE
INSURER F :

INSURER E :

INSURER D :

INSURER C :

INSURER B :

INSURER A : NAIC #
NAME: CONTACT
(A/C, No): FAX
E-MAIL ADDRESS:

PRODUCER
(A/C, No, Ext): PHONE

INSURED
COVERAGES CERTIFICATE NUMBER: REVISION NUMBER:

IMPORTANT: If the certificate holder is an ADDITIONAL INSURED, the policy(ies) must have ADDITIONAL INSURED provisions or be endorsed.

If SUBROGATION IS WAIVED, subject to the terms and conditions of the policy, certain policies may require an endorsement. A statement on this certificate does not confer rights to the certificate holder in lieu of such endorsement(s).

THIS CERTIFICATE IS ISSUED AS A MATTER OF INFORMATION ONLY AND CONFERS NO RIGHTS UPON THE CERTIFICATE HOLDER. THIS

CERTIFICATE DOES NOT AFFIRMATIVELY OR NEGATIVELY AMEND, EXTEND OR ALTER THE COVERAGE AFFORDED BY THE POLICIES BELOW. THIS CERTIFICATE OF INSURANCE DOES NOT CONSTITUTE A CONTRACT BETWEEN THE ISSUING INSURER(S), AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OR PRODUCER, AND THE CERTIFICATE HOLDER.

OTHER:
(Per accident)
(Ea accident)
$
$
N / A

SUBR WVDADDL
INSD

THIS IS TO CERTIFY THAT THE POLICIES OF INSURANCE LISTED BELOW HAVE BEEN ISSUED TO THE INSURED NAMED ABOVE FOR THE POLICY PERIOD INDICATED. NOTWITHSTANDING ANY REQUIREMENT, TERM OR CONDITION OF ANY CONTRACT OR OTHER DOCUMENT WITH RESPECT TO WHICH THIS

CERTIFICATE MAY BE ISSUED OR MAY PERTAIN, THE INSURANCE AFFORDED BY THE POLICIES DESCRIBED HEREIN IS SUBJECT TO ALL THE TERMS, EXCLUSIONS AND CONDITIONS OF SUCH POLICIES. LIMITS SHOWN MAY HAVE BEEN REDUCED BY PAID CLAIMS. $
$
$
$ PROPERTY DAMAGE
BODILY INJURY (Per accident)
BODILY INJURY (Per person) COMBINED SINGLE LIMIT

AUTOS ONLY

AUTOS ONLY AUTOS NON-OWNED OWNED SCHEDULED

ANY AUTO

AUTOMOBILE LIABILITY

Y / N WORKERS COMPENSATION
AND EMPLOYERS' LIABILITY OFFICER/MEMBER EXCLUDED?
(Mandatory in NH) DESCRIPTION OF OPERATIONS below
If yes, describe under

ANY PROPRIETOR/PARTNER/EXECUTIVE
$
$
$ E.L. DISEASE - POLICY LIMIT E.L. DISEASE - EA EMPLOYEEE.L. EACH ACCIDENT EROTH- STATUTE PER
(MM/DD/YYYY) LIMITS POLICY EXP(MM/DD/YYYY) POLICY EFFLTR TYPE OF INSURANCE POLICY NUMBER INSR
DESCRIPTION OF OPERATIONS / LOCATIONS / VEHICLES (ACORD 101, Additional Remarks Schedule, may be attached if more space is required)

EXCESS LIAB
UMBRELLA LIAB EACH OCCURRENCE $ AGGREGATE $
$
OCCUR
CLAIMS-MADE DED RETENTION $
PRODUCTS - COMP/OP AGG $ GENERAL AGGREGATE $ PERSONAL & ADV INJURY $ MED EXP (Any one person) $
EACH OCCURRENCE $ DAMAGE TO RENTED
PREMISES (Ea occurrence) $ COMMERCIAL GENERAL LIABILITY CLAIMS-MADE OCCUR GEN'L AGGREGATE LIMIT APPLIES PER: POLICY PRO- JECT LOC

CERTIFICATE OF LIABILITY INSURANCE DATE (MM/DD/YYYY)

CANCELLATION

AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE
ACORD 25 (2016/03)
© 1988-2016 ACORD CORPORATION. All rights reserved.

CERTIFICATE HOLDER
The ACORD name and logo are registered marks of ACORD
HIRED

AUTOS ONLY
Willis Towers Watson Insurance Services West, Inc.
c/o 26 Century Blvd
P.O. Box 305191
Nashville, TN 372305191 USA
Safeguard US Inc.
6335 North Hollywood Blvd., Suite 140
Las Vegas, NV 89115
City of Santa Monica
1685 Main St, Mail Stop 15
Santa Monica, CA 90401 04/28/2021 1-877-945-7378 1-888-467-2378 [email protected] Great Northern Insurance Company 20303 Everest National Insurance Company Federal Insurance Company 10120 20281 Argonaut Insurance Company 19801 Texas Mutual Insurance Company 22945 W20755233 A 2,000,000 1,000,000 XCU & Terrorism 10,000 Included 2,000,000 2,000,000 2,000,000 9950-60-07 GAB 07/01/2020 07/01/2021 Deductible 15,000 B 1,000,000 CF2CA00173-201 05/15/2020 07/01/2021 C
5,000,000 10,000 7818-96-14 07/01/2020 07/01/2021 5,000,000 WC92-861-849772-4 D 1,000,000 No 04/01/2021 04/01/2022 1,000,000 1,000,000 E Workers Compensation - TX and Employers Liability 0002031860 04/01/2021 04/01/2022 Each Accident Disease-Policy Limit Per Statute - TX Disease-Each Employee Umbrella follows form.

SR ID: 21030069 BATCH: 2074683 1,000,000 1,000,000 1,000,000 Willis Towers Watson Certificate Center DocuSign Envelope ID: 8748D3D6-7E2C-46DB-A5A6-8E2EAE44F66D

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TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN
Dear Sirs
As Insurance Brokers to Safety Topco Limited (DBA Kee Safety Group) and their subsidiary companies which includes the undernoted subsidiary companies domiciled in the United States of America:

Subsidiaries of Kee Safety;-
Easy Fit, Inc and Kee Safety Inc of 100 Stradtman Street, Buffalo, New York. 14206 Simplied Safety Inc 803 West Avenue, Rochester, New York, 14611 LNA Solutions Inc of 3924A Varsity Drive, Ann Arbor, MI, 48108 SESCO LLC 1215 S. 41st Street, Manitowoc, WIM 54220
Lighthouse Safety LLC of 3620 North 126th Street, Brookfield, WI, 53005 Lighthouse Safety LLC of 3540 North Street, Brookfield, WI, 68707 Flexible Lifeline Systems Inc of 2437 Peyton Road, Houston, Texas, 77032 Safeguard US Inc of 6335 N Hollywood Boulevard, Suite 140, Las Vegas, NV89115 We are writing to confirm that our clients hold the following policies:

Multinational Master Liability policy
Insurer Chubb European Group SE
Policy Number UKPKNC74454
Period 01 July 2020 to 30 June 2021 both days inclusive Limits of Indemnity
DIC/ DIL Coverage
Public & Products Liability
USD 17,500,000 any one occurrence in respect of Public Liability and in the aggregate for Products Liability
This policy acts as a Master Policy and provides Difference in Conditions and Difference in Limits cover for policies issued locally overseas under this programme including General Liability policy number 99506007 issued in the United States of America by Federal Insurance Company, Excess General Liability policy number 78189614 issued by Federal Insurance Company and Umbrella Liability policy number G46656647 issued by Chubb Insurance.

Difference in Conditions
Where a claim is made under a Local Policy as defined in Definition 8 of this Section and is rejected as not being within its policy terms and conditions then this Section will operate to provide an indemnity but only to the extent that the Company would have accepted the claim had it been made under this Section provided however that the Company shall not be liable to pay the amount of any deductible that would have applied under such Local Policy.

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Packet Pg. 349 Attachment: X - Safeguard Agreement (6793 : Fall Protection Phase 3 Safeguard) It is a condition precedent to any liability of the Company under this Policy that the Local Policies shall be maintained in full (other than in respect of the erosion of any aggregate Limits of Liability) and that any warranties contained therein shall be complied with.

Difference in Limits
In the event that a claim is payable under a Local Policy as defined in Definition 8 of this Section and the total amount of the claim exceeds the limit of liability thereunder this Section will provide an indemnity up to the difference between the limit of liability payable under such Local Policy and the corresponding limit for this Section stated in the Schedule under Limit of Liability.

It is hereby understood and agreed that the terms, definitions, exclusions and conditions contained in or endorsed onto this Section shall be those used to determine the Company’s liability under this Difference in Limits Multinational Condition.

Indemnity to Principals/ Additional
Insureds
Additional Insureds named under any local policy issued in conjunction with the Master Policy through an Indemnity to Principals clause as follows:-
Indemnity to Principals and Others
The Company will also indemnify in the terms of this Section a) in the event of the death of the
Insured his/her legal personal
representative in respect of liability
incurred by the insured
b) any principal with whom the Insured
has entered into an agreement to
the extent required by such
agreement but only in respect of
liability for which the Insured would
have been entitled to indemnity
under this Policy if the claim had
been made against the Insured
This letter is provided as a courtesy to our client as a matter of information only and confers no rights on the holder. Our duties in relation to this insurance are to our client and we accept no duty of care or responsibility to you or any other third party and any liability to you or any third party is excluded. This letter does not amend, extend or alter the coverage afforded by the policies, nor does it purport to set out all of the policies’ terms, conditions and exclusions. The policy terms, conditions, limits and exclusions may alter after the date of this document or the insurance may terminate or be cancelled, and the limits shown may be reduced by paid claims. We have no obligation to advise you of any changes which may be made to the policies or to advise you of their cancellation or termination.

Signed on behalf of WILLIS LIMITED
Andy Chapman ACII
Account Director
Authorised Signatory
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Building 1410
Arlington Business Park
Theale
Reading
RG7 4SA
D +44 (0) 118 949 8055
E [email protected]
W willistowerswatson.com
Willis Limited, Registered number: 181116 England and Wales. Registered address: 51 Lime Street, London, EC3M 7DQ. A Lloyd’s Broker. Authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority DocuSign Envelope ID: 8748D3D6-7E2C-46DB-A5A6-8E2EAE44F66D

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COMMERCIAL AUTO
ECA 02 505 04 14
THIS ENDORSEMENT CHANGES THE POLICY. PLEASE READ IT CAREFULLY.

ECA 02 505 04 14 Copyright, Everest Reinsurance Company, 2014 Includes copyrighted material of Insurance Services Office, Inc., used with its permission

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NOTICE OF CANCELLATION BY US TO THIRD PARTY –

BLANKET
This endorsement modifies insurance provided under the following:

BUSINESS AUTO COVERAGE PART
Schedule
___30____days before the effective date of cancellation by us we will mail or deliver notice to any additional insured or “certificate holder” under this Coverage Part:

The following Condition is added to the policy:

Notice of Cancellation By Us To Third Party

1. If we cancel this policy for any reason other
than non-payment of premium, notice of
cancellation of not less than the number of
days shown in the Schedule will be mailed or
delivered to any third party identified in the list
you have provided to us as described below.

2. We will mail or deliver our notice to the third
party at the address shown in the list you
have provided to us.

3. If notice is mailed, proof of mailing will be
sufficient proof of notice.

4. We will not notify the third party if cancellation
is at your request.

5. We will not notify the third party in the event
of non-renewal.

6. We will not notify the third party if cancellation
is due to non-payment of premium.

7. We will not notify any third party not contained
on the list you have provided to us.

8. Our failure to notify the third party does not
invalidate cancellation as respects you.

You agree that as a condition precedent for us
providing such notice, you will:
a. Provide us with a complete list of each
additional insured or “certificate” holder,
including appropriate designees and
complete mailing addresses;
b. Provide the list to us no less than 7 days from
the date we request it; and
c. Notify us of any changes to the list within 5
business days of such change.

For the purpose of this endorsement, “certificate”
shall mean a certificate of insurance issued as
evidence of this insurance.

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Fenner & Esler
467 Kinderkamack Road
P. O. Box 60
Oradell NJ 07649-0060
Kevin Esler
(201)262-1200 (201)262-7810
[email protected]
D.H. Charles Engineering, Inc.
4706 Hoen Avenue
Santa Rosa CA 95405-7879
Lexington Insurance Company 19437
Maaster 21-22
A PROFESSIONAL LIABILITY 027015060 6/1/2021 6/1/2022 PER CLAIM LIMIT $5,000,000 Retro Active Date: 12/01/1996 Per Claim Deductible $25k AGGREGATE LIMIT $5,000,000

EVIDENCE OF COVERAGE
Kevin Esler/JEAN
The ACORD name and logo are registered marks of ACORD

CERTIFICATE HOLDER
© 1988-2014 ACORD CORPORATION. All rights reserved.

ACORD 25 (2014/01)

AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE

CANCELLATION

DATE (MM/DD/YYYY) CERTIFICATE OF LIABILITY INSURANCE

JECT LOC PRO- POLICY
GEN'L AGGREGATE LIMIT APPLIES PER:

CLAIMS-MADE OCCUR

COMMERCIAL GENERAL LIABILITY
PREMISES (Ea occurrence) $ DAMAGE TO RENTED
EACH OCCURRENCE $
MED EXP (Any one person) $
PERSONAL & ADV INJURY $
GENERAL AGGREGATE $
PRODUCTS - COMP/OP AGG $
DED RETENTION $

CLAIMS-MADE
OCCUR
$
AGGREGATE $
EACH OCCURRENCE $ UMBRELLA LIAB

EXCESS LIAB
DESCRIPTION OF OPERATIONS / LOCATIONS / VEHICLES (ACORD 101, Additional Remarks Schedule, may be attached if more space is required) INSR

LTR TYPE OF INSURANCE POLICY NUMBER POLICY EFF
(MM/DD/YYYY) POLICY EXP(MM/DD/YYYY) LIMITS
PER
STATUTE OTHER
E.L. EACH ACCIDENT
E.L. DISEASE - EA EMPLOYEE
E.L. DISEASE - POLICY LIMIT
$
$
$

ANY PROPRIETOR/PARTNER/EXECUTIVE
If yes, describe under
DESCRIPTION OF OPERATIONS below
(Mandatory in NH)
OFFICER/MEMBER EXCLUDED?

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Report
City Council Meeting: April 13, 2021
Agenda Item: 3.A
1 of 4
To: Mayor and City Council
From: Rick Valte, Acting Public Works Director, Public Works, Architecture Services Subject: Award Bid #SP2643 to Safeguard US Inc. to provide design/build services for fall protection equipment at several City facilities
Recommended Action
Staff recommends that the City Council:

1. Award Bid #SP2643 to Safeguard US Inc. for the Fall Protection Project for the Risk Management Division;

2. Authorize the City Manager to negotiate and execute a contract with Safeguard US Inc., in an amount not to exceed $1,631,934 (including an 8% contingency);

3. Authorize the Director of Public Works to issue any necessary change orders to complete additional work within contract authority.

Summary
The City of Santa Monica strives to provide safe and inviting areas to visit, work and relax at the City. In 2018, a consultant for the City’s Risk Management Division completed a roof fall hazard risk assessment for 16 City-owned facilities (Attachment A).

Fall protection hazards, per Cal-OSHA standards, were identified at City Hall, Public Safety Facility, Montana Branch Library, Big Blue Bus facilities, Woodlawn Cemetery, Arcadia Water Treatment Plant, and City Yards. On November 24, 2020, staff issued Request for Bids (RFB) SP #2643 for a design/build contractor to address fall hazard locations at the facilities noted in the assessment. Staff recommends awarding SP #2643 to Safeguard US Inc. in the amount of $1,631,934, including $120,884 in contingency. The Fall Protection Project would remedy unsafe working conditions for City staff and prevent potential injuries related to trip and fall hazards.

Discussion
Facilities owned by the City of Santa Monica range from new construction to historic buildings. The California Division of Occupational Safety and Health (Cal-OSHA) fall protection requirements for new and existing structures is revised periodically. Some of DocuSign Envelope ID: 8748D3D6-7E2C-46DB-A5A6-8E2EAE44F66D

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the structures owned by the City do not meet current Cal-OSHA standards. In 2017, Risk Management noted that some City-owned facilities require safety improvements to align with Cal-OSHA regulations. Subsequently, Risk Management directed the City’s safety training consultant, Global Health Environment Inc., to perform a survey of several high-risk locations. The Interim Rooftop Fall Protection Policy was developed to identify areas that should not be traversed or serviced until appropriate fall protection safety measures are implemented. Multiple City-owned facilities need retrofits to meet Cal-OSHA fall protection standards, ensure safe work areas for City staff, and reduce the City’s legal exposure to potential fall incidents at the noted facilities.

The areas that do not meet current Cal-OSHA standards are used by the City’s maintenance staff and are not accessible to the public. Special precaution has been taken into consideration whenever working at or around these noncompliant areas. As a property owner, the City is responsible to update its facilities and meet building code requirements. The City Council approved the Fall Protection Project with the FY 2020- 22 Adopted Capital Improvement Program Biennial Budget to retrofit multiple Cityowned facilities and comply with Cal-OSHA fall protection standards.

Vendor Selection
Bidder Recommendation
Best Bidder Safeguard US Inc.

Evaluation Criteria Price; the quality of the product; the ability to deliver; capacity and skill of the bidder to perform or provide the materials or services; and compliance with City specifications.

Municipal Code SMMC 2.24.180
Bid Data
Date Posted Posted On
Advertise In
(City Charter & SMMC)
Vendors
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11/24/2020 City's Online
Bidding Site
Santa Monica Daily Press 29 01/14/2021
Best Bidder Justification
On January 26-28, 2021, the three bidders were invited to present their bid proposals Submittals Received
Ground Level Construction $1,798,674 Tractel Ltd. $964,411 Safeguard US Inc. $1,511,050
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and solutions for the current conditions of the locations listed in the fall protection assessment. The lowest bidder, Tractel, is a qualified company but lacks the proper contractor license that the City stated as a requirement in the RFB. Safeguard US Inc., a company based in Nevada with general contractor license in the State of California, was determined to be the best responsive bidder. Safeguard US Inc. meets all City’s requirements. They offer extensive experience, a successful track record, stability, similar references to the proposed scope of work, and reasonable pricing.

On February 16, 2021, Tractel Ltd. submitted a bid protest alleging, among other things, that Tractel is the lowest responsive and responsible bidder. However, Tractel does not possess the required contractor license for this project as noted in the RFB. In accordance with the appeals procedure set forth in the Notice Inviting Bids, the Acting Public Works Director evaluated the bid protest and issued a final determination recommending Safeguard US Inc. as the best bidder. Copies of the bid protest and the Acting Public Work Director’s Bid Protest Determination letter are available in Attachments B and C, respectively.

Financial Impacts and Budget Actions
Staff seeks authority to approve available CIP funds from the Cemetery Fund, General Fund, Water Resources Fund, and Big Blue Bus Fund to award a contract with Safeguard US Inc. for the design, procurement, and installation of fall protection safety equipment.

Contract Request
FY 2020-21Budget
Request Amount CIP Account # Total Contract Amount
$150,000 C5907940.689000 $150,000
$750,934 C0107940.689000 $750,934
$425,000 C5007940.689000 $425,000
$306,000 C6007940.689000 $306,000
TOTAL: $1,631,934
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Prepared By: William Clerk, Architectural Associate
Approved Forwarded to Council
Attachments:

A. Roof Assessment Phase 1
B. Tractel Bid Protest Letter
C. Bid Protest Determination
D. Safeguard-OaksForm
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Packet Pg. 365 Attachment: X - Safeguard Agreement (6793 : Fall Protection Phase 3 Safeguard) City of Santa Monica Levine Act Disclosure Form

CITY OF SANTA MONICA

CALIFORNIA LEVINE ACT DISCLOSURE
In 2022, California’s SB1439 extended requirements under Government Code Section 84308, also known as the "Levine Act", to prohibit City “Officers” from participating in any action related to a contract, license, permit, or entitlement if such Officer received campaign contributions totaling more than $250 within the previous twelve months, and for twelve months following the date of a final decision, from a party or participant to the proceeding, or their agent.

Section 84308(a)(4) of the Levine Act defines an "Officer" as follows: “Officer” means any elected or appointed officer of an agency, any alternate to an elected or appointed officer of an agency, and any candidate for elective office in an agency. The term “Officer” is further defined 2 Cal. Code Regs. Section 18438.1, which states:

An officer of an agency includes only those persons who make, participate in making, or in any way attempt to use their official position to influence a decision in the license, permit, or entitlement for use proceeding, or who exercise authority or budgetary control over the agency or officers who may do so, and:
(1) Serve in an elected position, including an official appointed to an elected position due to an interim vacancy or an election otherwise canceled because the official was the sole candidate for the position;
(2) Serve as a member of a board or commission;
(3) Serve as the chief executive of a state agency, or county, city or district of any kind; or
(4) Have decision making authority with respect to the proceeding involving a license, permit, or other entitlement for use and is also a candidate for elected office or has been a candidate for elective office in the 12 months prior to the proceeding.

Have you, your company, or any agent on behalf of you or your company, made any political contributions of more than $250 to any City Officer in the twelve months preceding the date of the submission of your application or proposal? ____YES ____ NO
Name of Councilmember or City Officer: _________________________________ N/A ✔

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Name of Contributor: _________________________________________________ Date(s) of Contribution(s): ____________________________________________ Amount(s) ________________________________________________________ Please specify below and/or add additional sheet(s) to identify additional Councilmembers or City Officers to whom you and/or your agents made campaign contributions.

Answering YES does not preclude the City of Santa Monica from awarding a contract, license, permit, or entitlement or taking any subsequent action related to the item. It does, however, preclude the identified City Officer from participating in any actions related to such item.

By signing below, you certify you also agree to disclose to the City any future contributions made to Councilmembers or other City Officers by you or your agent(s) after the date of signing this disclosure form, and within 12 months following the approval, renewal, or extension of the requested contract, license, permit, or entitlement.

I HEREBY CERTIFY UNDER PENALTY OF PERJURY UNDER THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA THAT THE FOREGOING IS TRUE AND CORRECT.

Signed: ____________________________ Date: ____________________ Print Name: _________________________ Title: _____________________ Company: __________________________
Additional Disclosures:

Please note this form is a public record and subject to a California Public Records Act request.

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PAUL BETTS VP Sales
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Paul Betts Digitally signed by Paul Betts
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CITY OF SANTA MONICA

OAKS INITIATIVE NOTICE

NOTICE TO APPLICANTS, BIDDERS, PROPOSERS

AND OTHERS SEEKING DISCRETIONARY PERMITS, CONTRACTS,

OR OTHER BENEFITS FROM THE CITY OF SANTA MONICA
Santa Monica’s voters adopted a City Charter amendment commonly known as the Oaks Initiative. The Oaks Initiative requires the City to provide this notice and information about the Initiative’s requirements. You may obtain a full copy of the Initiative’s text from the City Clerk.

This information is required by City Charter Article XXII—Taxpayer Protection. It prohibits a public official from receiving, and a person or entity from conferring, specified personal benefits or campaign advantages from a person or entity after the official votes, or otherwise takes official action, to award a “public benefit” to that person or entity. The prohibition applies within and outside of the geographical boundaries of Santa Monica.

All persons or entities applying or receiving public benefits from the City of Santa Monica shall provide the names of trustees, directors, partners, and officers, and names of persons with more than a 10% equity, participation or revenue interest. An exception exists for persons serving in those capacities as volunteers, without compensation, for organizations exempt from income taxes under Section 501(c)(3), (4), or (6), of the Internal Revenue Code. However, this exception does not apply if the organization is a political committee or controls political committees. Examples of a “public benefit” include public contracts to provide goods or services worth more than $25,000 or a land use approval worth more than $25,000 over a 12-month period.

In order to facilitate compliance with the requirements of the Oaks Initiative, the City compiles and maintains certain information. That information includes the name of any person or persons who is seeking a “public benefit.” If the “public benefit” is sought by an entity, rather than an individual person, the information includes the name of every person who is: (a) trustee, (b) director, (c) partner, (d) officer, or has (e) more than a ten percent interest in the entity. Therefore, if you are seeking a “public benefit” covered by the Oaks Initiative, you must supply that information on the Oaks Initiative Disclosure Form. This information must be updated and supplied every 12 months.

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CITY OF SANTA MONICA

OAKS INITIATIVE DISCLOSURE FORM
In order to facilitate compliance with the requirements of the Oaks Initiative, the City compiles and maintains certain information. That information includes the name of any person or persons who is seeking a “public benefit.” If the “public benefit” is sought by an entity, rather than an individual person, the information includes the name of every person who is: (a) trustee, (b) director, (c) partner, (d) officer, or has (e) more than a ten percent interest in the entity.

Public benefits include:

1. Personal services contracts in excess of $25,000 over any 12-month period;

2. Sale of material, equipment or supplies to the City in excess of $25,000 over a 12- month period;

3. Purchase, sale or lease of real property to or from the City in excess of $25,000 over a 12- month period;

4. Non-competitive franchise awards with gross revenue of $50,000 or more in any 12-month period;

5. Land use variance, special use permit, or other exception to an established land use plan, where the decision has a value in excess of $25,000;

6. Tax “abatement, exception, or benefit” of a value in excess of $5,000 in any 12- month period; or

7. Payment of “cash or specie” of a net value to the recipient of $10,000 in any 12- month period.

Name(s) of persons or entities receiving public benefit:

Name(s) of trustees, directors, partners, and officers:

Name(s) of persons with more than a 10% equity, participation, or revenue interest:

Prepared by: ____________________________Title: __________________________ Signature: ______________________________________ Date: ________________ Email: ____________________________________ Phone: ____________________ FOR CITY USE ONLY:

Bid/PO/Contract # ____________________________ Permit # ___________________________ PAUL BETTS VP Sales
11/25/2024
[email protected] 702-553-9967
Safeguard US Inc
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Report
City Council Meeting: January 28, 2025
Agenda Item: 5.G
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To: Mayor and City Council
From: Rick Valte, Public Works Director, Public Works, Architecture Services Subject: Approval of Seventh Modification with WSP USA Environment & Infrastructure, Inc. to Provide Additional Scope of Work to the Memorial Park Redevelopment and Expansion Project
Recommended Action
Staff recommends that City Council:

1. Adopt a finding that the modification to the agreement is not a “project” subject to the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA); and

2. Authorize the City Manager to negotiate and execute a seventh modification to agreement #9910 (CCS) in the amount not to exceed $53,700 (including a 10% contingency) with WSP USA Environment & Infrastructure, Inc. for additional environmental consulting services related to the Memorial Park Redevelopment and Expansion Project. This will result in an amended agreement with a new total amount not to exceed $202,700, with future year funding contingent on Council budget approval.

Summary
The City entered into Agreement #9910 (CCS) with WSP Environment & Infrastructure, Inc. (WSP) in May 2014 for environmental consulting services related to the Memorial Park Neighborhood Plan in compliance with the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA). The Council approved a fourth modification to the agreement in October 2019 to add services related to the Memorial Park Redevelopment and Expansion Project (Project). However, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Project was suspended and the agreement expired on June 30, 2023.

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10% contingency) for environmental consulting services related to the Memorial Park Redevelopment and Expansion Project. WSP began preparing the environmental impact analysis in April 2024, and a sixth modification in the amount of $6,700 (using the contract contingency) was executed in November 2024 to complete a Phase I Environmental Site Assessment (ESA) as required by CEQA. A seventh modification to the agreement in the amount of $53,700 (including a 10% contingency) for a new total amount not to exceed $202,700 is required for additional analysis of project design and material options and the preparation of an Environmental Impact Report (EIR).

Discussion
Council authorized a contract with WSP Environment & Infrastructure, Inc. (formerly Wood Environmental and Infrastructure Solutions Inc. and AMEC Environment & Infrastructure, Inc.) in May 2014 in the amount not to exceed $378,000 for environmental consulting services related to the Memorial Park Neighborhood Plan in compliance with CEQA. Services related to the Memorial Park Redevelopment and Expansion Project were not included in the original scope of work and were added by Council approval of a fourth modification to the agreement in the amount of $149,000 (including a 10% contingency) resulting in a total contract amount of $527,000 in October 2019. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic the Project was suspended and the agreement expired on June 30, 2023.

On August 22, 2023, Council directed staff to seek proposals for design services of phases 1 and 2 of the Project. Council also authorized:

1. The negotiation and execution of a payment agreement not to exceed $2,750,000 with SMC for preparation of the environmental impact analysis, geotechnical engineering, and design services of phase 1 only.

2. The negotiation and execution of a reinstatement of and fifth modification to agreement #9910 (CCS) with WSP for environmental consulting services related to the Memorial Park Redevelopment and Expansion Project.

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This resulted in an 11-year amended agreement with a total reduced amount not to exceed $149,000 (including a 10% contingency) to provide environmental impact analysis of the proposed Master Plan and prepare CEQA compliant documentation for the Project (CEQA document type to be determined). WSP began preparing the environmental impact analysis in April 2024. A sixth modification in the amount of $6,700 was executed in November 2024 to complete a Phase I Environmental Site Assessment (ESA) as required by CEQA. The sixth modification was exercised using contingency within the agreement amount of $149,000.

Following a preliminary review of Additional Items for Design Consideration (Attachment A) and potential subsequent design alterations to program elements, in consultation with WSP, it was determined the environmental impact analysis and CEQA compliant documentation warranted for the Project is an Environmental Impact Report (EIR). A seventh modification in the amount of $53,700 (including a 10% contingency) for a new total amount not to exceed $202,700 is required for this additional analysis of various project design and material options as well as additional public outreach/noticing under CEQA. The requested amount of $53,700 (including a 10% contingency) consists of $48,809 for the contract and $4,891 for the 10% contingency. The contract amount of $48,809 is derived from hourly rates for 413 hours of additional analysis.

This seventh modification would surpass the current contract authority not to exceed amount of $149,000 and requires Council approval. A breakdown of the new total amount not to exceed $202,700 is provided below.

Current Authorized Amount $149,000 (including a 10% contingency) Requested Amount $53,700 (including a 10% contingency)
New Total Amount $202,700 (not to exceed)
Environmental Review
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change in the environment, or a reasonably foreseeable indirect physical change in the environment”. Additionally, per Section 15378(b) of the CEQA Guidelines, a “project” does not include administrative activities of governments that will not result in direct or indirect physical changes in the environment. Therefore, the modification to the agreement for environmental consulting services is not subject to CEQA.

Past Council Actions
Meeting Date Description
05/27/14 (Attachment B) Award Contract for Environmental Consulting Services for the Memorial Park Neighborhood Plan
10/15/19 (Attachment C) Memorial Park Redevelopment and Expansion Master Plan Review – Fourth Modification to Agreement
08/22/23 (Attachment D) Enter into Agreement with SMC and Proceed with Solicitation for Design Services of Phases 1 and 2 of the Memorial Park Redevelopment and Expansion Project –
Reinstatement of and Fifth Modification to Agreement
08/27/24 (Attachment E) Award Design Agreement for the Memorial Park Redevelopment and Expansion Project
Financial Impacts and Budget Actions
Staff seeks authority to approve available funding from the General Fund to increase the amount of the agreement with WSP Environment & Infrastructure, Inc. for additional analysis and the preparation of an environmental impact report.

Agreement Modification Request
Agreement # Current
Authorized
Amount
FY 2024-25
Budget Modified
Request Amount
CIP Account # Total Revised
Contract
Amount
9910 (CCS) $149,000 $53,700 C0107060.689000 $202,700
Future year funding is contingent on Council budget approval.

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Prepared By: Linda Cogswell, CIP Project Manager
Approved Forwarded to Council
Attachments:

A. Memorial Park Additional Considerations
B. May 27, 2014 Staff Report
C. October 15, 2019 Staff Report (Web Link)
D. August 22, 2023 Staff Report (Web Link)
E. August 27, 2024 Staff Report (Web Link)
F. Oaks Initiative Form - WSP USA Environment & Infrastructure, Inc.

G. Levine Act Disclosure Form - WSP USA Environment & Infrastructure, Inc.

H. Written Comments

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CITY OF SANTA MONICA

ARCHITECTURE SERVICES
Additional Items for Design
Considerations.

The Memorial Park Expansion Project
SP 2509
The Following items represent additional program and dimensional considerations to be considered by the selected design-build team during project phase 1, as directed by the City Council during their October 15, 2019 meeting:

1. Incorporation of a premier California Interscholastic Federation (CIF) baseball field;

2. Incorporation of a NCAA tournament level softball field;

3. Inclusion of elements such as bullpens, warm up areas, dugouts, seating, public address systems, and score booths at all fields;

4. Incorporating of an off-leash dog run;

5. Clustering the proposed outdoor fitness equipment in groupings;

6. Incorporating shade for the playground;

7. Consider the possible access from the Expo station and whether rotating fields 3 and 4 might provide an opportunity for permeability and entry for Expo pedestrian traffic;

8. Consider making the entrance on 14th Street, where the drop-off is located to make more of a pedestrian experience;

9. Consider making area designated as field #5 (masterplan phase 2) more flexible to include passive recreational use prior to construction of masterplan phase 2;

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10. Consider the addition of more community amenities, including barbecue grills;

11. Study the possibility of closing all or additional portions of 16th Street and expanding the park into that space;

12. Analyze and document the parking loss impacts on 16th Street;

13. Analyzing the tree canopy, relocating existing trees, and planting new trees where possible;

14. Examining aspects of sun and shade affecting players’ vision in determining positioning of the fields;

15. Conducting further analysis of natural turf vs. synthetic turf;

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Agenda Item:

To: Mayor and City Council
From: David Martin, Director, Planning & Community Development Subject: Environmental Consulting Service Contract for the Memorial Park Neighborhood Plan
Recommended Action
Staff recommends that the City Council authorize the City Manager to negotiate and execute a contract with AMEC Environment & Infrastructure, Inc., a Washington D.C. based company, in an amount not to exceed $ 378, 000 for environmental consulting services related to the Memorial Park Neighborhood Plan with future year, funding contingent on Council approval and budget adoption.

Executive Summary
The process for preparing the Memorial Park Neighborhood Park Plan ( MPNP) was initiated in Fall 2013, and is being funded by State of California Prop 84 Sustainable Communities Planning Grant funds. The MPNP would implement the land use, urban design, and transportation vision of the City' s Land Use & Circulation Element ( LUCE) by developing standards and guidelines for an active and sustainable neighborhood surrounding the city' s future 17th Street Expo Light Rail Station.

A program level Environmental Impact Report ( PEIR) is required in order to consider adoption of the draft Memorial Park Neighborhood Plan that is currently being prepared.

Staff recommends contracting with AMEC to provide environmental consulting services for the Memorial Park Neighborhood Plan for a fee not to exceed $ 378, 000 to comply with the California Environmental Quality Act ( CEQA).

Background
The MPNP area includes the immediate area around Memorial Park and the 17th Street Expo Light Rail station ( bounded by 17th Street, Euclid Court, Colorado Avenue, and Interstate 10); an approximately 1 - mile stretch of the 17th Street right -of -way between Pico and Wilshire; and a % - mile stretch of the Colorado Avenue right -of -way and adjacent parcels from 20th Street to Lincoln. The area layout supports planning for quality connections to destinations within a 5 -10 minute walk of the station, including 1 5.G.b
Packet Pg. 378 Attachment: May 27, 2014 Staff Report (6795 : 7th Mod to Agreement #9910 w WSP) connections to Memorial Park, Santa Monica College, UCLA Medical Center and St.

John' s Hospital, communities directly across the freeway, and the industrial and creative industry areas to the east and west.

The Memorial Park Neighborhood Plan process was initiated in 2013 and is being informed by an ongoing robust outreach process and detailed existing conditions analysis. The MPNP is not scoped with redesigning Memorial Park. The MPNP is funded by a California Proposition 84 Sustainable Communities Grant.

Discussion
The objective of the MPNP is to implement the land use, urban design, and transportation vision of the City' s General Plan Land Use & Circulation Element ( LUCE), adopted on July 6, 2010, by developing standards and guidelines for an active and sustainable neighborhood surrounding the city' s future 17th Street Expo Light Rail Station. The LUCE identified the area around Memorial Park as a lower -scale neighborhood that would welcome a future Expo Light Rail station through greater emphases on multi -modal access, place- making, local uses, and housing needs; pedestrian- oriented development standards; infrastructure improvements; and open space investment.

The tool for implementing this neighborhood- focused vision is the Memorial Park Neighborhood Plan, which will provide a means of integrating the Expo Light Rail, articulating the community' s goals and values for an active and sustainable neighborhood, and phasing implementation. Once the station becomes operational in 2016, the Exposition Light Rail Line will connect Santa Monica with Culver City, USC, and Downtown Los Angeles.

The MPNP process was initiated in Fall 2013, and has included comprehensive planning discussions with property owners, area businesses, youth organizations, sports organizations, community facilities administrators, park users, City Boards and Commissions, neighborhood groups, local schools, SMMUSD representatives, staff from St. John' s Medical Center, and an interdepartmental team of City staff. Several 2 5.G.b
Packet Pg. 379 Attachment: May 27, 2014 Staff Report (6795 : 7th Mod to Agreement #9910 w WSP) community workshops have also been held to gather public input on the MPNP, including an outreach event focused on the MPNP area' s youth.

Adoption of the MPNP will require an environmental clearance process to comply with CEQA. Upon Council approval and in accordance with CEQA, AMEC will analyze the potential environmental effects associated with the MPNP. The scope of environmental consulting services as proposed by AMEC includes preparation of a Program EIR for a fee not to exceed $ 378, 000. It is anticipated that completion of the required CEQA documentation can be accomplished within one year.

Consultant Selection
In July 2011, the City released a Request for Qualifications ( RFQ) for environmental consulting services. The RFQ was posted on the City' s on -line bidding site and noticed in the Santa Monica Daily Press in accordance with City Charter and Municipal Code provisions. The RFQ sought qualifications from environmental consulting firms to prepare environmental documents pursuant to California Environmental Quality Act CEQA) and /or National Environmental Policy Act ( NEPA). Thirty responses were received and evaluated based on the criteria in SMMC 2. 24. 072, including past experience, adequacy of the response, records of past performance, and demonstrated thoroughness in work approach. The City selected 10 qualified firms to be placed on the Pre - Qualified List based on these criteria.

On March 28, 2014, a Request for Proposals for preparation of a Memorial Park Neighborhood Plan Program Environmental Impact Report (Program EIR) was issued to three qualified firms on the City' s Pre - Qualified list of environmental consultants. Two of the three firms responded to the RFP with proposals. The submitted proposals were reviewed by City staff. Evaluation of the submitted materials was based on the following selection criteria in SMMC 2. 24. 072, including:

Training, credentials and prior experience in preparing EIR' s for specific plans and area plans in the City of Santa Monica and other urban areas Competence and knowledge of CEQA/ NEPA regulations
Understanding of the Plan area - specific issues, project goals and approach 3 5.G.b
Packet Pg. 380 Attachment: May 27, 2014 Staff Report (6795 : 7th Mod to Agreement #9910 w WSP) A flexible and accurate approach and working style that would allow for preparation of a defensible Program EIR for the MPNP
Ability of the team to successfully complete the full scope of work on time and within budget
Evidence of a productive and skilled team structure and sufficient resources ( i. e., financial, staff, etc.)
The firm' s character and reputation in. preparing high quality EIR's in similar municipalities
A budget that reflects a fair, reasonable, and competitive price Based on the above criteria as well as the firm' s demonstrated knowledge and prior experience in working with the City, strong record of preparing legally defensible environmental documentation in the City and other jurisdictions in compliance with CEQA, comprehensive scope of work, and its competitive and fair budget, AMEC is recommended as the best bidder to provide environmental consulting services for the 11THZIN
Financial Impacts & Budget Actions
The contract to be awarded to AMEC Environment & Infrastructure, Inc., is for 378, 000. Funds in the amount of $ 318, 000 are included in the FY 2013 -14 Capital Improvement Program budget at account C017057. 589000. Funds in the amount of 60, 000 are included in the approved FY 2014 - 15 budget plan at account 01267. 555061. Future year funding is contingent on Council approval and budget adoption.

Prepared by: Rachel Kwok, Environmental Planner
Forwarded to Council:

Approved:

David Martin, Director Rod Gould
Planning & Community Development City Manager
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Contract No. 9910
CCS)

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CITY OF SANTA MONICA

Public benefits include:

1. Personal services contracts in excess of $25,000 over any 12-month period;

2. Sale of material, equipment or supplies to the City in excess of $25,000 over a 12- month period;

3. Purchase, sale or lease of real property to or from the City in excess of $25,000 over a 12- month period;

4. Non-competitive franchise awards with gross revenue of $50,000 or more in any 12-month period;

5. Land use variance, special use permit, or other exception to an established land use plan, where the decision has a value in excess of $25,000;

6. Tax “abatement, exception, or benefit” of a value in excess of $5,000 in any 12- month period; or

7. Payment of “cash or specie” of a net value to the recipient of $10,000 in any 12- month period.

Name(s) of persons or entities receiving public benefit:

Name(s) of trustees, directors, partners, and officers:

Name(s) of persons with more than a 10% equity, participation, or revenue interest:

Bid/PO/Contract # ____________________________ Permit # ___________________________

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Packet Pg. 383 Attachment: Oaks Initiative Form - WSP USA Environment & Infrastructure, Inc. (6795 : 7th Mod to Agreement #9910 w WSP) WSP USA Environment & Infrastructure Inc.
1075 Big Shanty Road NW Suite 100
Kennesaw, GA 30144
770-421-3400
Directors and Officers
Directors
Name Address
Stephen W. Dale One Penn Plaza, 4th Floor, New York,
NY 10119
Andrew C. Esposito 1100 Town and Country Road, Suite 200 Orange, CA 92868
Lytle C. Troutt, Jr. 1075 Big Shanty Road NW Suite 100
Kennesaw, GA 30144
Joseph J. Sczurko, Jr. 1075 Big Shanty Road NW Suite 100 Kennesaw, GA 30144
Officers
Name Address
Joseph J. Sczurko, Jr. 511 Congress Street
CEO Portland, ME 04101
Lytle C. Troutt, Jr. 1075 Big Shanty Road NW Suite 100
President Kennesaw, GA 30144
Bradley J. Knight 1075 Big Shanty Road NW Suite 100
VP & Secretary Kennesaw, GA 30144
Deborah J. Barrow 1075 Big Shanty Road NW Suite 100
VP & Asst. Secretary Kennesaw, GA 30144
Andrew C. Esposito 1100 Town and Country Road, Suite 200 Treasurer Orange, CA 92868

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Packet Pg. 384 Attachment: Oaks Initiative Form - WSP USA Environment & Infrastructure, Inc. (6795 : 7th Mod to Agreement #9910 w WSP) Mark C. Diblin 404 SW 140th Terrace
Vice President Gainesville, FL 32669
Christine Mehle 5411 Skycenter Drive, Suite 650
Vice President Tampa, FL 33607
Jennifer C. Lewis 550 North Lake Blvd
Vice President Suite 1000
Altamonte Springs, FL 37201
Charles B. Gardiner 550 North Lake Blvd
Asst. Vice President Suite 1000
Altamonte Springs, FL 37201
Charles K. Conner, Jr. 180 Grand Ave., 11th FL
Asst. Vice President Oakland, CA 94612
Nicholas P. Mitrakis One Penn Plaza, 4th Floor.

Controller New York, NY 10119
Jeffrey A. Barrett 2801 Yorkmont Road, Suite 100
Assistant Vice President Charlotte, NC 28208
Charles Finicum 2408 Perryland Drive
Asst. Secretary Arlington, TX 76013
Victor A. Fisher 10670 White Rock Road, Suite 100
Asst. Vice President Rancho Cordova
Sacramento, CA 95670-6032
Hillary F. Jassey One Penn Plaza, 4th Floor.

Asst. Secretary New York, NY 10119
Fred E. Lusk, III 1281 East Alluvia Avenue, Suite 101
Asst. Vice President Fresno, CA 93720-2659
Andrew J. Lynn One Penn Plaza, 4th Floor
Vice President New York, NY 10119
Jay W. Martin 216 Centerview Drive, Suite 300
Asst. Vice President Brentwood, TN 37027

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Packet Pg. 385 Attachment: Oaks Initiative Form - WSP USA Environment & Infrastructure, Inc. (6795 : 7th Mod to Agreement #9910 w WSP) Mark A. Murphy 6001 Rickenbacker Road
Asst. Vice President Los Angeles, CA 90040
Raymond M. Steege 15933 Clayton Road, Suite 215
Senior Vice President (Ballwin), St. Louis, MO 63011
Alex Volterano 751 Arbor Way, Suite 180, Hilcrest I
Asst. Secretary Blue Bell, PA 19422-1960
Francis P. Wiegand 9177 Sky Park Court
Asst. Vice President San Diego, CA 92123-4341
Jason Wits 4795 Meadow Wood Lane, Suite 310 East
Senior Vice President Chantilly, VA 20151

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Packet Pg. 386 Attachment: Oaks Initiative Form - WSP USA Environment & Infrastructure, Inc. (6795 : 7th Mod to Agreement #9910 w WSP) City of Santa Monica Levine Act Disclosure Form

CITY OF SANTA MONICA

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Name of Contributor: _________________________________________________ Date(s) of Contribution(s): ____________________________________________ Amount(s) ________________________________________________________ Please specify below and/or add additional sheet(s) to identify additional Councilmembers or City Officers to whom you and/or your agents made campaign contributions.

I HEREBY CERTIFY UNDER PENALTY OF PERJURY UNDER THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA THAT THE FOREGOING IS TRUE AND CORRECT.

Signed: ____________________________ Date: ____________________ Print Name: _________________________ Title: _____________________ Company: __________________________
Additional Disclosures:

Please note this form is a public record and subject to a California Public Records Act request.

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From: Elisabeth Green <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, January 27, 2025 5:22 PM
To: councilmtgitems
Cc: Kevin McKeown Fwd; [email protected]; Natalya Zernitskaya; wadekelley1959 @gmail.com; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]
Subject: oppose Agenda Item 5.G Memorial Park redevelopment plan

EXTERNAL
The proposed redevelopment plan is not acceptable. As a professional human factors engineer and certified forest steward, I have identified design alternatives to be considered and included in the Revised Plan to the City’s Recreation and Parks redevelopment of Memorial Park, as follows.

1. Maintain in place all of the trees at Memorial Park. Require any developer to file an environmental impact statement. Hold a public hearing pertaining for citizens to evaluate every EIS. The City's planned removal of the old growth pine trees will certainly be an issue. When does the City anticipate the publication of an environmental impact statement pertaining to redevelopment of Memorial Park?

2. Enlarge the existing fenced-in, leash-free dog area. Or, finish fencing in one of the existing baseball fields and leave a gate unlocked for unleashed pets.

3. Maintain all of the buildings where they are. Repurpose them. Every environmental impact statement should include greenhouse gas emissions. Construction alone emits tons of CO2. https://climate.mit.edu/ask-mit/how-much-co2-emitted-building-new-house Perform an embodied carbon analysis for the materials in in planned construction to calculate how much CO2 will be emitted during construction and during a fire or other demolition. https://www.istructe.org/IStructE/media/Public/TSE-Archive/2020/A-brief-guide-to-calculatingembodied-carbon.pdf Any development of Memorial Park should be zero emissions. At the very least, the City should hire only climate-positive individuals. We can afford to emit greenhouse gases. Eventually, the City might require us to use our carbon credit to offset the emissions produced by the development we steward.

4. Convert the lumber buildings into parking structures. Removing a row of parking spaces on 16th Street removes parent’s ability to watch their kids play from their cars.

5. Repair the existing electric vehicle charging station. The electric vehicle charging station at Memorial Park has malfunctioned since January 12, 2025, issue number D –00050170. Deliver dozens or hundreds more solar powered charging stations with solar panels. Make it a priority to enforce EV charging station parking signs every time any citizen calls in a violation. Accept as evidence videos of the displayed charging time and the actions of unplugging and replugging to reset the timer to evade the fine for exceeding the three hour time limit.

6. Memorial Park needs an outdoor strength training area for adults, perhaps like the one reserved for children where police officers chase away adults who work out there when children are not present.

Consider adding the kind of circuit training equipment that was installed at Reed Park.

7. The City of Santa Monica should either leave public restrooms unlocked at night or open them earlier in the morning. Or, leave plastic bags outside next to trash cans or next to the bathrooms with a sign saying please tie your excrement securely in the plastic bag so that flies don’t transfer bits of your excrement to food within a radius of a mile or however far the local flies travel.

Item 5-G
January 28, 2025
Item 5-G
January 28, 2025

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Packet Pg. 389 Attachment: Written Comments [Revision 1] (6795 : 7th Mod to Agreement #9910 w WSP) 2 8. No concession stand should be allowed to increase the risk of obesity or incidents of children buying or nagging their parents to buy food. Why do posted signs prohibit leaving food at parks? The City is not building a professional ballpark but only a field to practice professional ball.

9. Put only solar powered charging stations on top of any parking structure. Putting tennis courts on top of a parking structure will require players to breathe the exhaust fumes of parking cars and take the elevator or stairs to retrieve a lost ball.

On August 27, 2024, I made the bulk of these recommendations to the City Council and reported that the same EV charging station had not been working for weeks up until then.

Elisabeth Green
1223 WILSHIRE BLVD PMB 1656
SANTA MONICA CA 90403
On Tue, Aug 27, 2024, 11:58 AM councilmtgitems <[email protected]> wrote:

Thank you for your email. Please be advised that this email will: 1) become part of the public record, 2) be filed with the City’s official records, and 3) be posted online at smgov.net/council/agendas. Comments will not be redacted and appear online as they are submitted.

If you plan to speak at the meeting and have an electronic presentation to show, please submit it to [email protected] no later than 12 PM on the day of the meeting.

Levine Act Disclosure. Pursuant to the Levine Act (Govt Code Section 84308), any party to a permit, license, contract, or other entitlement before the Council is required to disclose on the record any contribution, including aggregated contributions, of more than $250 made by the party or the party's agents within the preceding 12 months to any City official. Participants and agents are requested to make this disclosure as well. The disclosure must include the name of the party, participant, or agent, and any other person making the contribution; the name of the recipient, the amount of the contribution, and the date the contribution was made.

Thank you,
The City Clerk’s Office
Item 5-G
January 28, 2025
Item 5-G
January 28, 2025

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Report
City Council Meeting: January 28, 2025
Agenda Item: 5.H
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To: Mayor and City Council
From: Anuj Gupta, Director of Transportation, Department of Transportation, Transit Maintenance
Subject: Award Contract to Western States Converters and Transmissions, Inc. for Transit Bus Allison Transmission Repairs
Recommended Action
Staff recommends that the City Council:

1. Adopt a finding of Categorical Exemption pursuant to Section 15301 (Existing Facilities) of the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) Guidelines;

2. Award Bid #4492 to Western States Converters & Transmissions, Inc. to provide parts and repairs for transit bus Allison transmission systems for the Department of Transportation; and

3. Authorize the City Manager to negotiate and execute an agreement with Western States Converters & Transmissions, Inc., in an amount not to exceed $902,500 over a five-year period, with future year funding contingent on Council budget approval.

Summary
Big Blue Bus, a division of the Santa Monica Department of Transportation (DOT), operates 194 transit buses that provide over 800,000 rides and travel 390,000 miles each month. Allison transmissions are on 117 of these buses, and form a critical piece of the buses’ drive train. In addition, the City of Santa Monica’s Fire Department (FD) has 19 heavy-duty apparatus with Allison transmissions that are maintained at DOT’s maintenance facility. During operation, these transmission systems experience normal wear and tear that may require the transmissions to be rebuilt or replaced. Staff recommends that Bid #4492 be awarded to Western States Converters and Transmissions, Inc., to provide transmission repairs and re-built transmissions for transit

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buses and FD heavy-duty apparatus in an amount not to exceed $902,500 over a fiveyear period.

Discussion
Normal wear occurs to transmission components over the 12-year useful life of transit buses and FD heavy-duty apparatus that may result in the need to replace transmission components or whole transmission systems. During operation, friction materials in clutch components wear and gearing components may become damaged, limiting the transmission’s ability to transmit engine power to the drive axle rendering the vehicle inoperable. To minimize service disruptions from inoperable transmissions, DOT maintains a stock of transmissions that may be used to replace transmissions that have failed, enabling the vehicle to be returned to service in a timely manner. DOT purchases rebuilt transmissions because the internal transmission components that commonly wear can be replaced and the transmission rebuilt at a lower cost than purchasing a new transmission without impacting DOT’s ability to provide reliable service.

The bid award would enable the City to purchase rebuilt transmission systems ensuring that any failed transmissions can be removed and replaced with rebuilt transmission in a timely manner, minimizing vehicle downtime and lowering DOT’s vehicle repair costs.

Staff recommends that Bid #4492 be awarded to Western States Converters and Transmissions, Inc. for transmission repairs and purchase of rebuilt transmissions.

Vendor Selection
Bidder Recommendation
Best Bidder Western States Converters and Transmissions, Inc.

Evaluation Criteria
Price; experience, the quality of the service and materials provided; ability and capacity of the bidder to provide the services and materials.

Municipal Code SMMC 2.24.180
Submittals Received
Western States Converters & Transmissions, Inc. $902,500 DARTCO Transmission Sales and Service, Inc. $1,162,289

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Bid Data
Date Posted Posted On Advertise In Vendors
Downloaded Date Publicly Opened
(City Charter & SMMC)
11/12/2024 City's Online
Bidding Site Santa Monica Daily Press 16 12/3/2024
Best Bidder Justification
Bid #4492 was evaluated by staff from the Department of Transportation, Transit Maintenance Division. Bids were evaluated based on the price, experience rebuilding transmissions, and ability to provide all repair and rebuild services requested. Western States Converters and Transmissions, Inc. was the lowest cost bidder. Additionally, they have a positive history providing transmission rebuild services to DOT with no complaints regarding their service.

Environmental Review
The contract for transit bus and FD apparatus transmission repairs and rebuild services is categorically exempt from the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) pursuant to Section 15301 (Existing Facilities) of the CEQA Guidelines. Section 15301 exempts Class 1 (Existing Facilities) projects from CEQA, which includes the operation, repair, maintenance, permitting, leasing, licensing, or minor alteration of existing public or private structures, facilities, mechanical equipment, or topographical features, involving negligible or no expansion of existing or former use. The repair and rebuilding of FD apparatus and transit bus transmission systems would not result in any modifications to existing maintenance facilities and would not expand or materially change existing maintenance operations or increase the fleet of vehicles or equipment using these parts. Therefore, this is categorically exempt as set forth in Section 15301 of the CEQA Guidelines.

Financial Impacts and Budget Actions
Staff seeks authority to approve available funding from the Big Blue Bus Fund and the General Fund to award a contract with Western States Converters and Transmissions,

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Inc. for repair and rebuild of transit bus and FD apparatus transmission systems. Future year funding is contingent on Council budget approval.

Contract Request
FY 2024-25
Department/CIP Account # Total Contract Amount
Request Amount
$5,000 01190001.529470 $25,000
$90,250 C6004750.689000 $877,500
Total $902,500
Prepared By: David Nanjo, Administrative Analyst
Approved Forwarded to Council
Attachments:

A. Western States Oaks
B. Western States Levine Act

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Packet Pg. 397 Attachment: Western States Levine Act (6822 : Award Contract for Transmission Repair) City Council
Report
City Council Meeting: January 28, 2025
Agenda Item: 5.I
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To: Mayor and City Council
From: Jing Yeo, Acting Director, Administration
Subject: Adoption of a Resolution Approving Final Tract Map No. 80306 for a 21-Unit Condominium Mixed-Use Project at 1448 7th Street
Recommended Action
Staff recommends that the City Council take following actions:

1. Adopt a finding of Statutory Exemption (Approval of Final Subdivision Map) pursuant to Section 15268 of the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA); and

2. Adopt the attached resolution approving Final Tract Map No. 80306.

Summary
This report transmits for City Council approval a Final Tract Map for the following condominium project. The Tentative Tract Map was approved by the Planning Commission on April 21, 2021. A timely filing of the Final Map was made to the County or City prior to the Map’s expiration date. According to Section 66452.6(d) of the Subdivision Map Act, once a timely filing is made to the County or City, subsequent actions of the local agency, including, but not limited to, processing, approving, and recording of a map, may lawfully occur after the map’s expiration date.

TRACT MAP ADDRESS SUBDIVIDER UNITS
No. 80306 1448 7th Street Homer Yen, Lee & Yen Property, LLC 21 The following table provides a brief summary of the project:

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Zoning District NV (Neighborhood Village) District
Parcel Area 7,500 Square Feet (SF)
Parcel Dimensions Approximately 50’W x 150’D
Existing On-Site Improvements
(Year Built)
2-story Multi-unit residential building (1952)
2-story Multi-unit residential building (1960)
Rent Control Status 8 units withdrawn (Exempt from rent control) Historic Resources Inventory Status Existing buildings are not listed on the HRI AHPP Compliance 25 percent of the units affordable on-site (5 units): 1 unit for 80% income households, 1 unit
for 50% income households, 1 unit for 30%
households, and 2 moderate-level units.

Discussion
The project consists of a 21-unit Tier 2 condominium housing project comprised of approximately 26,230 SF or 3.5 floor-area-ratio within a five-story, 60-foot tall mixed-use building. The airspace subdivision is comprised of two components: one (1) retail/commercial condominium unit comprised of approximately 2,743 square feet on the ground floor and 20 residential condominium units on the upper floors of a five-story building situated above an 18-space subterranean parking garage located in the Neighborhood Village (NV) District of the Downtown Community Plan. The project was granted Administrative Approval 21ENT-0027 on July 19, 2021, and Architectural Review Board approval on October 18, 2021.

A Vesting Tentative Tract Map application (21ENT-0028) was submitted to the City Planning Division on February 3, 2021, to create 20 residential condominium air space parcels and one (1) ground floor commercial condominium air space parcel on one land lot in the Neighborhood Village (NV) District. After a public hearing and careful review of the record and staff recommendations, the Planning Commission approved a Tentative Tract Map for the above project on April 21, 2021. The action of the Planning Commission was based on its findings that the proposed subdivision will have no significant environmental impact and is in conformance with all state and local laws and regulations, and applicable General Plan Elements. The Final Map conforms to the Tentative Map. As a vesting tentative tract map application, its associated approval

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confers a vested right to proceed with development in substantial compliance with the ordinances, policies, and standards in effect at the time the vesting map is deemed complete by the City.

The developer will be required to show proof of payment of the condominium tax of $20,000 prior to issuance of building permit. The Final Map has been approved by the Los Angeles County Engineer’s office and certified by the City Engineer for conformance with the Tentative Map and conditions thereon, the Subdivision Map Act and local ordinances. The City Engineer’s office indicates that there are no required offsite public improvements.

Environmental Review
The proposed project is statutorily exempt from CEQA pursuant to Section 15268(b)(3) of CEQA, which exempts ministerial projects including the approval of final subdivision maps.

Financial Impacts and Budget Actions
There is no immediate financial impact or budget action necessary as a result of the recommended action.

Prepared By: Steve Mizokami, Principal Planner
Approved Forwarded to Council
Attachments:

A. Final Map Resolution (1448 7th Street)

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1 City Council Meeting: January 28, 2025 Santa Monica, California RESOLUTION NUMBER _________ (CCS)
(City Council Series)

A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL

OF THE CITY OF SANTA MONICA ACCEPTING AND APPROVING
THE FINAL SUBDIVISION MAP FOR TRACT NO. 80306
TO SUBDIVIDE A PROPERTY AT 1448 7th STREET
WHEREAS, on April 21, 2021, the Santa Monica Planning Commission approved a vesting tentative tract map to create 20 residential condominium airspace parcels and one (1) ground floor commercial condominium airspace parcel on one land lot at 1448 7th Street; and
WHEREAS, a timely filing of a final tract map was made to the County of Los Angeles prior to expiration of the vesting tentative tract map; and WHEREAS, pursuant to Section 66452.6(d) of the Government Code, if a timely filing of a final map is made to the City or County, then the City may process, approve, and record a final map after the expiration of the vesting tentative map; and WHEREAS, the final tract map conforms to the vesting tentative tract map; and WHEREAS, the City Council finds that the proposed subdivision is consistent with the applicable general and specific plans.

NOW, THEREFORE, THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SANTA MONICA DOES RESOLVE AS FOLLOWS:

SECTION 1. That the Final Map for Tract No. 80306 in the City of Santa Monica is hereby accepted and approved.

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Packet Pg. 401 Attachment: Final Map Resolution (1448 7th Street) [Revision 2] (6824 : Adoption of a Final Map for 1448 7th Street) 2 SECTION 2. That the City Clerk hereby is authorized and directed to endorse upon the face of said Map this order authenticated by the Seal of the City of Santa Monica.

SECTION 3. That the City Clerk shall certify to the adoption of this Resolution, and thenceforth and thereafter the same shall be in full force and effect.

APPROVED AS TO FORM:
_________________________
Douglas Sloan, City Attorney

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Report
City Council Meeting: January 28, 2025
Agenda Item: 5.J
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To: Mayor and City Council
From: Rick Valte, Public Works Director, Public Works
Subject: Approval of purchase agreement to purchase thirty-five (35) cemetery plots back from the Independent Order of Odd Fellows
Recommended Action
Staff recommends that the City Council:

1. Adopt a finding of no possibility of significant effect pursuant to Section 15061(b)(3) (Common Sense Exemption) of the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) guidelines;

2. Authorize the City Manager to negotiate and execute a purchase and sale agreement with the Independent Order of Oddfellows, in an amount not to exceed $175,000 for the purchase of thirty-five (35) cemetery burial plots; and

3. Authorize budget amendment as outlined in the Financial Impacts & Budget Actions section of this report (requires 5 votes).

Summary
The Woodlawn Cemetery is owned and operated by the City of Santa Monica and provides cemetery and mortuary services to the community. Due to the City’s depleting inventory of burial plots at the Cemetery, staff recommends that the City Council authorize the City manager to negotiate and execute a purchase agreement with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows Seaside Lodge No. 369 (“Odd Fellows”) for thirtyfive (35) unused burial plots. The new plots would increase the City’s available inventory and would assist staff’s efforts in providing the community with cemetery and mortuary services. The parties have tentatively agreed for the City to purchase the plots at a cost of $5,000 per plot, for a total cost of $175,000. The purchase would be fully covered by the Cemetery Fund.

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Background
On June 28, 2022, Council authorized staff to purchase 25 unused burial plots from the Odd Fellows to increase the available inventory at Woodlawn Cemetery for the community’s use (Attachment A). The parties had initially reached an informal agreement for the purchase price for the 25 plots. However, due to a lengthy negotiation process and other factors such as changes in the leadership to the board of directors for Seaside Lodge No. 369, the parties could not finalize an agreement for the City to purchase the plots at the initial price. The parties’ negotiations would later resume in 2024 with a new tentative proposal that increases the number of plots to be acquired by the City to 35 and increases the purchase price paid to the Odd Fellows to $5,000 per plot.

Discussion
Woodlawn Cemetery has been providing cemetery services for 131 years. Plot sales constitute 45% of Woodlawn’s operating revenue. To maintain operations and to provide sufficient burial options, staff must continually evaluate methods for adding burial plots to the available inventory. Staff recommends that Council authorize the City Manager to finalize the City’s purchase of thirty-five (35) unused burial plots from the Odd Fellows, which would add approximately one and a half years’ worth of inventory to Woodlawn’s portfolio for community use.

In 1877, the Odd Fellows purchased 267 burial plots at Woodlawn for their membership, and in 1927 the organization purchased the perpetual care for the graves. 148 years later, approximately 88 of the 267 lots remain unused. Currently, the Odd Fellows use one plot every three years for an interment.

According to Municipal Code 7.20.070, no person may resell any plot, crypt, or niche to a third party. Only the City has the legal authority to buy back plots from a private entity.

As a result, staff and representatives from the Odd Fellows have engaged in negotiations for the sale of thirty-five (35) burial plots to the City. As part of the purchase transaction, the Odd Fellows will execute a quitclaim in favor of the City that will transfer any real property interest they may have in the Cemetery to the City. The

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result of this transaction will be the 35 plots being added to Woodlawn’s inventory for pre-need and at-need cemetery plot sales.

The purchase of the Odd Fellow cemetery plots for $175,000 is exempt from the competitive process because the items being purchased are “cemetery services or products” for resale to the public (SMMC 2.24.250 (d)).

Environmental Review
The purchase of burial plots is exempt from CEQA pursuant to Section 15061(b)(3) (Common Sense Exemption) of the CEQA Guidelines which states that CEQA does not apply “where it can be seen with certainty that there is no possibility that the activity in question may have a significant effect on the environment.” The purchase of existing burial plots would allow the Cemetery to increase its inventory and revenue. Therefore, the City entering into the proposed purchase agreement would not result in adverse physical impacts on the environment and, as such, is exempt from CEQA.

Past Council Actions
Meeting Date Description
06/28/22 (Attachment
A)
Approval of purchase agreement to purchase twenty-five
cemetery plots back from the Independent Order of
Oddfellows.

Financial Impacts and Budget Actions
Staff seeks authority to approve funding from the Cemetery Fund to purchase thirty-five (35) burial plots from the Independent Order of Oddfellows.

Approval of the recommended action requires the following budget amendment.

Appropriate Funds
Account Number(s) Amount
59500001.532300 $175,000
Total $175,000

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Purchase Agreement Request
FY 2024-25
Request Amount Department Account # Total Contract Amount $175,000 59500001.532300 $175,000
Any revenue budget changes from the resale of cemetery property would be included in subsequent year budgets, contingent on Council budget approval.

Prepared By: Adam Lopez, Cemetery Administrator
Approved Forwarded to Council
Attachments:

A. IOOF Seaside Oaks Initiative 12-16-24
B. IOOF Seaside Agreement
C. Staff Report 5124 - Woodlawn Plot Return Purchase IOOF D. Levine Form - Oddfellows

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Packet Pg. 407 Attachment: IOOF Seaside Oaks Initiative 12-16-24 (6825 : Purchaseof Cemetery Plots from Independent Order of Oddfellows) City of
Santa
Monica
November 21, 2024
Melinie Caines
President and Chief Executive Officer
Seaside Lodge No. 369
Independent Order of Odd Fellows
John Prosk, Jr.

Chief Financial Officer
Seaside Lodge No. 369
Independent Order of Odd Fellows
Roberta Prosk
Assistant Treasurer
Seaside Lodge No. 369
Independent Order of Odd Fellows
RE: Summary of Terms for the Sale of 35 Burial Plots by Seaside Lodge No. 369 of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows to the City of Santa Monica Summary:

This term sheet:
1) summarizes the terms proposed for the sale of 35 burial plots by Seaside Lodge No. 369 Independent Order of Odd Fellows to the City of Santa Monica with the understanding that only the City Council of the City of Santa Monica has the authority to accept this offer 2) memorializes a meeting on October 8, 2024 between the following representatives of City of Santa Monica Woodlawn Cemetery, Mausoleum & Mortuary and Seaside Lodge No. 369 Independent Order of Odd Fellows:
• Adam Lopez, Cemetery Administrator, City of Santa Monica Woodlawn Cemetery, Mausoleum & Mortuary
• Patrick Hayden, Administrative Analyst-Cemetery, City of Santa Monica Woodlawn Cemetery, Mausoleum & Mortuary
• Melinie Caines, President and Chief Executive Officer, Seaside Lodge No. 369, Independent Order of Odd Fellows
• John Prosk, Jr., Chief Financial Officer, Seaside Lodge No. 369, Independent Order of Odd Fellows
• Roberta Prosk, Assistant Treasurer, Seaside Lodge No. 369, Independent Order of Odd Fellows
• Phillip Caines, Lodge Member, Seaside Lodge No. 369, Independent Order of Odd Fellows
City of Santa Monica Woodlawn Cemetery, Mausoleum & Mortuary - FD # 2101 1847 14" Street, Santa Monica, CA 90404 • phone (310) 458-8717 » fax.(310\ 45&-8705 Emat: [email protected] Website: www.woodlawnsm.com Facebook: www.facebook.com/woodlawnsm

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Packet Pg. 408 Attachment: IOOF Seaside Agreement (6825 : Purchaseof Cemetery Plots from Independent Order of Oddfellows) 3) memorializes that both parties are in agreement on the recitals and the terms of the proposed sale as a result of the October 8, 2024 meeting:

Plots to be sold to the City:
- .. .. ...
.. Plots to be Acquired ...

Block Lot Space
4 26 C
4 26 E
4 26 F
4 26 I
4 27 D
4 32 B
4 32 E
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4 33 A
4 34 A
4 34 D
4 34 E
4 34 F
4 35 B
4 35 E
4 35 F
4 35 G
4 36 B
4 36 F
Ptots to be Acquired
Block Lot Space
4 39 C
4 39 D
4 40 A
4 40 F
4 41 D
4 41 F
4 22 E
4 23 I
4 23 F
4 24 D
4 24 F
4 24 L
4 42 A
4 42 B
4 43 B
4 43 D
4 44 A
City of Santa Monica Woodlawn Cemetery, Mausoleum & Mortuary - FD # 2101 1847 14 Strect, Santa Monica, CA 90404 • phone(310} 458 8717 • fax:{310 458 8705 Email: woodlawn [email protected] • Website: www.wooiawnsm.com Facebook: www.facebook.com/woodlawnsm

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Proposed terms and conditions

1. SALE AND PURCHASE OF BURIAL PLOTS
City of Santa Monica hereby agrees to buy and Seller Lodge No. 369 hereby agrees to sell 35 burial plots situated in Block 4 of the Woodlawn Cemetery located in the City of Santa Monica.

The Lodge acknowledges that the rights in the property to be sold and conveyed to the City include any and all interment and perpetual care rights. The Lodge further acknowledges, and warrants, that the Property to be sold and conveyed to Buyer represent empty graves that have not yet been used for interment purposes.

2. SELLER TO EXECUTE QUITCLAIM DEED
The Lodge agrees to execute the quitclaim deed to quitclaim and convey to City any and all real property interests it may have or may have acquired Parcels 1 and 2 of the Woodlawn Cemetery.

3. PURCHASE PRICE PAID TO SELLER
The purchase price paid to Lodge No. 369 by the City shall be One Hundred Seventy-Five Thousand ($175,000.00) which shall be paid to Lodge No. 369 within 30-days following the full execution of this Agreement.

4. RECORDATION OF DEED
City shall cause the executed quitclaim deed be recorded with the Los Angeles County Registrar only after Lodge No. 369 receives payment of the purchase price stated in Paragraph 3.

The City shall provide Lodge No. 369 with a conformed copy of the quitclaim deed.

As the City's authorized representative, please contact me at (310) 458-8717 if you have any questions about this letter or anything else related to the proposed sale.

Sincerely,
-1rd= 4 & 7 =
Adam G. Lopez
Cemetery Administrator
The City of Santa Monica Woodlawn Cemetery, Mausoleum & Mortuary 184714th Street
Santa Monica, CA 90404
City of Santa Monica Woodiawn Cemetery, Mausoleum & Mortuary - FD # 2101 13RA7 14' <troet, Santa Moria, CA o0A04 • phone {310} 452 $717 • fax: (310}4583 870% Email: woodlawn [email protected] • Website: www.woodlawnsm.com Facebook; www.facebook,com/wood#awnsm

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RECEIPT OF OFFER ACKNOWLEDGED:

My·linie Caines, President and Chief Executive Officer
Seaside Lodge No. 369, Independent Order of Odd Fellows RECEIPT OF OFFER ACKNOWLEDGED:
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4.44 sk, Jr., Chief Financial Officer
Seaside Lodge No. 369, Independent Order of Odd Fellows RECEIPT OF OFFER ACKNOWLEDGED:
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Roberta Prosk, Assist mt Treasurer
Seaside Lodge No. 369, Independent Order of Odd Fellows City of Santa Monica Woodlawn Cemetery, Mausoleum & Mortuary - FD # 2101 18R47 14" Street. Santa Monica. €A 0040A • phone·(210) 459.9717 + f-13210) Ac9.9705 Email: woodlawn.cemetery@santamonce gov • Website: www.woodlawnsm.com Facebook: wwwfacebook.com/woodlawnsr

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Report
City Council Meeting: June 28, 2022
Agenda Item:
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To: Mayor and City Council
From: Rick Valte, Public Works Director, Public Works, Cemetery Subject: Approval of purchase agreement to purchase twenty-five (25) cemetery plots back from The Independent Order of Odd Fellows.

Recommended Action
Staff recommends that the City Council:

1. Authorize the City Manager to negotiate and execute a purchase and sale agreement with The Independent Order of Odd Fellows, in an amount not to exceed $87,500 for the purchase of twenty-five cemetery burial plots;

2. Authorize budget changes as outlined in the Financial Impacts & Budget Actions section of this report.

Summary
The City-owned Woodlawn Cemetery provides cemetery and mortuary services to the Santa Monica community. As burial plot inventory is depleting, staff recommends purchasing 25 unused burial plots from The Independent Order of Odd Fellows to increase available inventory for the community’s use. Plots would be purchased at a cost of $3,500 per plot for a total cost of $87,500. The purchase would be fully covered by the Cemetery Fund.

Discussion
Woodlawn Cemetery (Woodlawn) has been providing cemetery services to the Santa Monica community for 125 years. Plot sales make up 45% of Woodlawn's operating revenue. In order to maintain operations and provide sufficient burial options, staff needs to continually evaluate methods for adding burial plots to the available inventory. Staff recommends the purchase of twenty-five (25) unused burial plots from

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The Independent Order of Odd Fellows, which would add approximately one year’s worth of inventory to Woodlawn’s portfolio for community use.

In 1877, the Odd Fellows purchased 267 burial plots at Woodlawn for their membership, and in 1927 the organization purchased the perpetual care for the graves. 145 years later, approximately 88 of the 267 lots remain unused. Currently, the Odd Fellows use one plot every three years for interment.

According to Municipal Code 7.20.070, no person may resell any plot, crypt, or niche to a third party. Only Woodlawn has the legal authority to buy back plots from a private entity. Thus, staff and Odd Fellows leadership have engaged in negotiations for the sale of the 25 burial plots back to Woodlawn. Woodlawn and City Attorney staff are ready to prepare a purchase and sale agreement for this acquisition. As part of the purchase transaction, a quitclaim deed will be executed in favor of the City and the property will be returned to Woodlawn’s inventory for pre-need and at-need cemetery plot sales.

Financial Impacts and Budget Actions
Staff seeks authority to approve funding from the Cemetery Fund to purchase twenty five burial plots from The Independent Order of Odd Fellows with the following one-time budget changes. Plot purchase price was mutually agreed upon by both parties based on the age, and the volume of plots that are subject to this report.

FY 2022-23 Budget Changes
Appropriate Funds
Account Number(s) Amount
59500001.532300 $87,500
Purchase and Sale Agreement Request
FY 2022-23
Budget
Request
Amount
Department Account # Total Contract
Amount
$87,500 59500001.532300 $87,500

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The revenue budget changes from the resale of property will be included in subsequent year budgets, contingent on Council budget approval.

Prepared By: Adam Lopez, Cemetery Administrator
Approved Forwarded to Council
Attachments:

A. IOOF Oaks initiative form2022-06-14-095030

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Report
City Council Meeting: January 28, 2025
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To: Mayor and City Council
From: Feroz Merchhiya, Chief Information Officer, Information Services Department Subject: Approval of Purchase Order to Lombiq Technologies Ltd. for Emergency Website Development Services
Recommended Action
Staff recommends that the City Council:

1. Adopt a finding of no possibility of significant effect pursuant to Section 15061(b)(3) (Common Sense Exemption) of the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) Guidelines;

2. Acknowledge the Procurement Manager’s authority to approve and issue a onetime emergency purchase order with Lombiq Technologies Ltd. for emergency website development services for the Information Services Department. This purchase order was approved as an exception to the competitive bidding process pursuant to Santa Monica Municipal Code Section 2.24.250(i) and was for a total amount not to exceed $6,625.

Summary
On January 7, 2025, the City issued emergency evacuation orders and warnings during the state of emergency declared as a result of the Palisades Fire, which caused a critical and unprecedented surge in traffic to the City’s website (www.santamonica.gov).

The City’s web development team required specialized vendor assistance to immediately scale-up and expand the resources to handle the increased number of users. Staff requested emergency purchase approval to utilize the services of Lombiq Technologies Ltd. (Lombiq), a vendor that had significant experience with and knowledge of the City’s website and is recognized as the industry leader in Orchard Core development – the platform that the City’s website is built on. Pursuant to Santa Monica Municipal Code Sections 2.24.250(i) and 2.24.240(a)(1), (b), (c), (d)(1), staff is seeking acknowledgement of the Purchasing Manager’s authority to shorten or waive all

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required notice periods and competitive solicitation procedures for this purchase order, issued during a declared state of emergency, as long as within thirty days after the purchase or contract is made, the City Manager submits in writing to the City Council a full explanation of the emergency circumstances under which the purchase or contract was made. This staff report serves as written explanation, open to public inspection, and presented as part of a regular meeting of the City Council.

Discussion
The City’s website (www.santamonica.gov) is built on an Orchard Core platform using the .NET programming language. Internal City staff, with support from Lombiq, developed the City’s website on this platform. The Orchard Core platform is a free, open source, community-focused content management platform. The platform is managed by community-driven development, and Lombiq is one of the biggest contributors to its enhancements.

Lombiq provides development and support for the Orchard Core platform, which is the underlying technology used for the www.santamonica.gov website. The City has used Lombiq’s services in the past, but the City’s contract with Lombiq expired June 30, 2024, and the full contract authority of $24,100 was spent. During the term of that contract, Lombiq provided insightful and quality Orchard Core platform website development services and accumulated detailed knowledge of the structure of the City’s website. Since the Lombiq spend had approached the $25,000 threshold, a competitive solicitation process was required to procure additional Orchard Core development services. The City was in the process of posting a Request for Bids (RFB) for Orchard Core Development Consulting Services when the Palisades Fire began. That RFB is scheduled to close on January 30, 2025, but the need for Orchard Core web development services to handle the emergency website traffic during the Palisades Fire state of emergency was immediate. Therefore, this one-time emergency purchase order was issued, and will not affect the ongoing RFB process and subsequent award.

Pursuant to Santa Monica Municipal Code Sections 2.24.250(i) and 2.24.240(a)(1), (b), (c), (d)(1), staff requested and received emergency purchase approval to procure

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Lombiq’s Orchard Core development services to immediately scale-up and expand the City’s website to handle the increased number of users. To address the immediate need, an emergency purchase order was issued for a one-time purchase for an amount not to exceed $6,625.

Vendor Selection
Exception to Competitive Bidding
Staff requested and received procurement approval for a one-time emergency purchase order issued to Lombiq Technologies Ltd. (Lombiq) to furnish and deliver emergency website development services as an exception to competitive bidding per Municipal Code 2.24.250(i). The simultaneously critical and unprecedented website traffic fueled by official evacuation orders and warnings during the state of emergency declared due to the Palisades Fire required vendor assistance to immediately scale-up and expand the City’s website to handle the increased number of users. Lombiq had previous experience and knowledge with the City’s website, which is built on an Orchard Core platform.
i. solicitation is made under the emergency procedures set forth in Section 2.24.240.

Environmental Review
The purchase order for Lombiq development services is exempt from CEQA pursuant to Section 15061(b)(3) of the CEQA Guidelines. The agreement is covered by the common sense exemption which states that CEQA does not apply, “where it can be seen with certainty that there is no possibility that the activity in question may have a significant effect on the environment. The purchase order provided for website development services which does not result in adverse physical impacts on the environment, and so therefore, is exempt from CEQA.

Financial Impacts and Budget Actions
Staff seeks acknowledgement that available funding from the General Fund was approved for a one-time emergency purchase order issued to Lombiq for emergency website development services. There is no future funding for this one-time emergency purchase order.

Purchase Order Request
FY 2024-25 Future Years CIP Account Number Total Contract

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Request Amount Amount Amount
$6,625 $0 C0107670.689000 $6,625
Prepared By: Prasanna Joshi, Enterprise Architect & Digital Development Manager
Approved Forwarded to Council
Attachments:

A. Lombiq Levine Act Disclosure Form 01.10.2025 signed
B. Lombiq Oaks Initiative form 01.10.2025 signed

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City of Santa Monica Levine Act Disclosure Form

CITY OF SANTA MONICA

A list of Santa Monica Elected Officials and members of boards and commissions can be found at the following links. The party making this certification is responsible for determining whether a recipient of a political contribution is a City Officer prior to completing this form.
https://www.smgov.net/departments/council/
https://www.santamonica.gov/departments/rent-control
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Have you, your company, or any agent on behalf of you or your company, made any political contributions of more than $250 to any City Officer in the twelve months preceding the date of the submission of your application or proposal? ____YES ____ NO
Name of Councilmember or City Officer: _________________________________ ____ ✔

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Name of Contributor: _________________________________________________ Date(s) of Contribution(s): ____________________________________________ Amount(s) ________________________________________________________ Please specify below and/or add additional sheet(s) to identify additional Councilmembers or City Officers to whom you and/or your agents made campaign contributions.

I HEREBY CERTIFY UNDER PENALTY OF PERJURY UNDER THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA THAT THE FOREGOING IS TRUE AND CORRECT.

Signed: ____________________________ Date: ____________________ Print Name: _________________________ Title: _____________________ Company: __________________________
Additional Disclosures:

Please note this form is a public record and subject to a California Public Records Act request.
10 January 2025
Zoltán István Lehóczky Managing Director
Lombiq Technologies Ltd.

Lehóczky Zoltán István
2025-01-10 16:26:14 +0100

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Packet Pg. 422 Attachment: Lombiq Levine Act Disclosure Form 01.10.2025 signed [Revision 1] (6838 : Approve Purchase Order to Lombiq for Emergency SANTA MONICA CITY ATTORNEY’S OFFICE
TO: Public
FROM: City Attorney’s Office
RE: Levine Act Disclosure Form
DATE: January 25, 2024
The Levine Act (Government Code 84308) is a California law aimed at preventing “pay to play” practices by prohibiting parties, participants, and their agents in a proceeding involving a license, permit, or other entitlement from contributing more than $250 to an officer of the City during a 12-month period. The prohibition applies to any 12-month period while the proceeding is pending and for 12 months following the date a final decision is rendered in the proceeding.

State law requires a party to a proceeding to disclose any contributions exceeding an aggregate $250 that the party and their agents have made to an officer of the City within the preceding 12 months. The Disclosure Form is intended to assist City officials with recognizing when they have an obligation to disclose and recuse themselves, and to aid parties with their disclosure obligations.

1. To what sort of proceedings is the disclosure form applicable? The Levine Act applies to all discretionary entitlements and contracts, with the exception of labor contracts, personal employment contracts, and contracts that must be awarded to the lowest responsive/responsible bidder. It does not apply to ministerial approvals.

For instance, the Levine Act applies to the following:
x Building and development permits
x Conditional use permits
x Contracts generally (unless an exception applies):
o Contracts for goods, services, professional services
o Real property contracts for purchase, sale, lease
o Contract amendments
o Settlement agreements
o Small contracts, including purchase orders, and zero dollar contracts (no de minimis exception)
x Public street abandonments
x Private development plans
x Professional license revocations
x Rezoning of specific real estate parcels
x Event permits
x Rulemaking procedures affecting a particular industry where only a small number of businesses are affected

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x Special district formation proceedings involving the creation of a special use or benefit to the person in the district
x Tentative subdivision and parcel maps
x Zoning variances
x Vacation of a public easement across private property x Pre-applications, such as for General Plan Amendment, considered by the legislative body prior to filing of formal application
x Contracts entered under the City Manager’s Authority
x Closed session items that may result in a contract/settlement agreement approved by Council (real estate or litigation)
It does not apply to:
x Purely ministerial decisions
x General policy decisions or rules where the interests affected are many and diverse
x Ordinances and resolutions (except items like development agreements adopted by ordinance)
x Ballot measures
x Departmental policies
x Council rules
x Contracts awarded to the lowest responsive/responsible bidder (not applicable in Santa Monica)
x Labor contracts and project labor agreements
x Personal employment contracts
x Allocation of resources in the City budget

2. Who is required to disclose?
A “party” to a proceeding is any person who files an application for, or is the subject of, a proceeding. In general, a person or company who applies for a permit, license, or right to use property in a particular way, which requires the City’s discretionary approval, will qualify as a party.

Parties are also required to disclose contributions by their agents. An “agent” is someone who (1) represents a party to a proceeding for compensation; and (2) appears before or otherwise communicates with the City for the purpose of influencing the pending proceeding. This can include law firms, architects, engineers, consultants, and similar entities. Both the individual and their employer or firm are considered “agents.” A party should also disclose contributions of other entities majority owned by the party, as well as contributions of any other entity whose contributions it directs or controls.

3. What must be disclosed?
A party must disclose campaign contributions over $250 made in the prior twelve months.

A “contribution” is anything of value for which the party has not received full consideration, including money, nonmonetary items, payments made for advertising or

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other expenses coordinated with a candidate or committee, loans, tickets to political fundraisers, etc.

4. Who is considered an officer of the City?
An “officer” is anyone who may make, participate in making, or attempt to influence a decision in the proceeding or who exercises authority over officers who may do so. This includes elected officials, members of appointed boards and commissions, the City Manager, and any individual who is a candidate for elected office or who has been a candidate in the twelve months prior to the decision. This definition is included on the Disclosure Form.

5. When should the disclosure occur?
The Disclosure Form must be completed (1) by a party to a contract with the City (or that party’s agent) at the time the party submits a response to a Request for Proposal or other competitive solicitation, enters into contract negotiations with the City, or executes a contract with the City, whichever is earliest; or (2) by a party to a license, permit, or other entitlement proceeding before the City at the time the party (or their agent) submits the license, permit, or entitlement application to the City. The party (or their agent) must submit a supplemental form if they make any new reportable contributions while the same contract, license, permit, or other entitlement is being considered. The party (or their agent) must also use the form if they need to correct any previously submitted form.

Parties are solely responsible for completing the form accurately, and could face penalties for failure to do so. The California Fair Political Practices Commission (FPPC) is the body who enforces violations of the Levine Act. If a party is uncertain about whether they are required to report or combine a contribution, they should consult with their attorney.

Nothing herein constitutes legal advice and individuals are urged to consult with their own attorney regarding the requirements of the law. To the extent there is any inconsistency, the language of the Levine Act and FPPC Regulations govern over this notice. Resources for officers, parties, participants, and agents, are available on the FPPC’s website at https://www.fppc.ca.gov/learn/pay-to-play-limits-and-prohibitions.html

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CITY OF SANTA MONICA

OAKS INITIATIVE NOTICE

NOTICE TO APPLICANTS, BIDDERS, PROPOSERS

AND OTHERS SEEKING DISCRETIONARY PERMITS, CONTRACTS,

This information is required by City Charter Article XXII—Taxpayer Protection.

It prohibits a public official from receiving, and a person or entity from conferring, specified personal benefits or campaign advantages from a person or entity after the official votes, or otherwise takes official action, to award a “public benefit” to that person or entity. The prohibition applies within and outside of the geographical boundaries of Santa Monica.

Examples of a “public benefit” include public contracts to provide goods or services worth more than $25,000 or a land use approval worth more than $25,000 over a 12- month period.

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CITY OF SANTA MONICA

Public benefits include:

1. Personal services contracts in excess of $25,000 over any 12-month period;

2. Sale of material, equipment or supplies to the City in excess of $25,000 over a 12- month period;

3. Purchase, sale or lease of real property to or from the City in excess of $25,000 over a 12- month period;

4. Non-competitive franchise awards with gross revenue of $50,000 or more inany 12-month period;

5. Land use variance, special use permit, or other exception to an established land use plan, where the decision has a value in excess of $25,000;

6. Tax “abatement, exception, or benefit” of a value in excess of $5,000 in any 12- month period; or

7. Payment of “cash or specie” of a net value to the recipient of $10,000 in any 12- month period.

Name(s) of persons or entities receiving public benefit:

Name(s) of trustees, directors, partners, and officers:

Name(s) of persons with more than a 10% equity, participation, or revenue interest:

Prepared by: Title:

Signature: Date:

Email: Phone:

Permit #
FOR CITY USE ONLY:

Bid/PO/Contract #
Zoltán István Lehóczky Managing Director
10 January 2025
[email protected] +3630 630 9690
Lombiq Technologies Ltd.

Zoltán István Lehóczky
Zsolt Benedek Farkas
Zoltán István Lehóczky
Zsolt Benedek Farkas
Lehóczky Zoltán István
2025-01-10 16:20:55 +0100

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Report
City Council Meeting: January 28, 2025
Agenda Item: 5.L
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To: Mayor and City Council
From: Douglas Sloan, City Attorney, City Attorney's Office, Administration Subject: Second Reading and Adoption of an Interim Zoning Ordinance Amending Interim Zoning Regulations Established by Interim Zoning Ordinance 2764 (CCS) and Extended by Interim Zoning Ordinance 2770 (CCS) to Extend the Operating Hours for the City’s Existing Cannabis Retailers Consistent with State Law
Recommended Action
Staff recommends that the City Council adopt the attached Ordinance.

Executive Summary
At its meeting on December 17, 2024, the City Council introduced for first reading an Interim Zoning Ordinance amending Interim Zoning Regulations established by Interim Zoning Ordinance 2764 (CCS) and extended by Interim Zoning Ordinance 2770 (CCS) to extend the operating hours for the City’s existing cannabis retailers consistent with State law. The ordinance is now presented to the City Council for adoption.

Prepared By: Bradley Michaud, Principal Legal Analyst
Approved Forwarded to Council

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A. ORD-Cannabis IZO Hour Extension 2d

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1 City Council Meeting: January 28, 2025 Santa Monica, California ORDINANCE NUMBER _____ (CCS)
(City Council Series)

AN INTERIM ZONING ORDINANCE AMENDING INTERIM ZONING REGULATIONS ESTABLISHED BY INTERIM ZONING ORDINANCE 2764 (CCS) AND EXTENDED BY INTERIM ZONING ORDINANCE 2770 (CCS) TO EXPAND THE OPERATING HOURS FOR THE CITY’S EXISTING CANNABIS RETAILERS CONSISTENT WITH STATE LAW

WHEREAS, the State of California has a long history of regulating cannabis uses within the State; and
WHEREAS, in 1996, California voters approved Proposition 215 (codified at Health and Safety Code section 11362.5 and titled the “Compassionate Use Act of 1996”), which provides criminal immunity for patients and primary caregivers for the cultivation and possession of cannabis if a doctor has recommended the cannabis for medical purposes; and
WHEREAS, in 2004, Senate Bill 420 was enacted (codified at Health and Safety Code section 11362.7 et seq. and titled the “Medical Marijuana Program Act”) to clarify the scope of the Compassionate Use Act of 1996; and
WHEREAS, the Medical Marijuana Program Act allows cities and other governing bodies to adopt and enforce laws consistent with its provisions; and WHEREAS, in 2015, Assembly Bills 243 and 266 and Senate Bill 643 were enacted (codified at Business and Professions Code section 19300 et seq. and titled the “Medical Marijuana Regulation and Safety Act”) and provided for enhanced statewide marijuana regulations; and

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Packet Pg. 430 Attachment: ORD-Cannabis IZO Hour Extension 2d (6829 : Cannabis IZO-Second Reading) 2 WHEREAS, in November 2016, voters approved Proposition 64, the Adult Use of Marijuana Act (“AUMA”), which allows adults 21 years of age or older to legally grow, possess, and use cannabis for nonmedicinal purposes, with certain restrictions; and WHEREAS, the AUMA authorizes the sale and distribution of cannabis for nonmedicinal purposes through a licensed business; and
WHEREAS, in 2017, the State legislature enacted Senate Bill 94 which created the Medicinal and Adult-Use Cannabis Regulation and Safety Act (“MAUCRSA”) and established regulations for the medicinal and adult-use cannabis markets, aligned all permit types, and authorized certain state agencies to establish rules governing cannabis operations and to implement the law; and
WHEREAS, MAUCRSA continues to preserve local control over cannabis-related uses by: (1) requiring medicinal cannabis businesses to obtain both a state license and a local license or permit, if required, to operate legally in California, (2) terminating the ability of a medicinal cannabis business to operate if its local license or permit is terminated, (3) continuing to authorize local governments to enforce local cannabis-related laws, (4) providing for penalties for unlicensed activities, and (5) expressly protecting local licensing practices, zoning and business regulation laws, and local actions taken under the constitutional police power; and
WHEREAS, consistent with State actions, City Council, when adopting its comprehensive update to its Zoning Ordinance in 2015, contemplated authorizing two medicinal cannabis retailers within the City to serve local needs; and WHEREAS, on October 24, 2017, the City Council adopted an Interim Zoning Ordinance (IZO) which replaced the term “medical marijuana dispensary” with “medicinal

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Packet Pg. 431 Attachment: ORD-Cannabis IZO Hour Extension 2d (6829 : Cannabis IZO-Second Reading) 3 cannabis retailer” throughout the Zoning Ordinance; created a definition for “medicinal cannabis retailer” to replace the definition for “medical marijuana dispensary” to conform with State law; removed certain requirements for medicinal cannabis retailers for consistency with State law and to allow for separate and more effective regulatory rulemaking; and modified the definition of “industry, limited” to allow for medicinal cannabis light manufacturing; and
WHEREAS, that IZO initially prohibited all adult-use commercial cannabis activities, including retail, cultivation, testing, distribution, and manufacturing; and WHEREAS, since then, the City has commenced a prolonged medicinal cannabis retailer selection process and issued two permits for the operation of medicinal cannabis retailers in the City; and
WHEREAS, on March 13, 2020, the City Manager, as the Director of Emergency Services (“Director of Emergency Services”), proclaimed the existence of a local emergency to ensure the availability of mutual aid and effectuate the City’s response to the novel coronavirus (“COVID-19”), and this local emergency was restated on March 14, 2020, through a revised declaration of local emergency; and WHEREAS, on March 16, 2020, the Director of Emergency Services issued a Third Supplement to the Executive Order, requiring the closure of a wide range of businesses including bars, nightclubs, on-premises restaurant service, movie theatres, live performance venues, gyms, fitness centers, spas, hair salons, massage parlors, and nail salons; and
WHEREAS, on March 19, 2020, California Governor Gavin Newsom issued Executive Order N-33-20 directing all residents of the State of California to heed directives

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Packet Pg. 432 Attachment: ORD-Cannabis IZO Hour Extension 2d (6829 : Cannabis IZO-Second Reading) 4 issued by the State Health Officer on the same date instructing all Californians to stay home except as needed to maintain continuity of operations of the federal critical infrastructure sectors; and
WHEREAS, on March 19, 2020, the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health issued an enhanced Health Officer Order, the Safer at Home Order for Control of COVID-19, amending and superseding its earlier March 16, 2020 Order, closing all nonessential businesses, and limiting gatherings; and
WHERAS, after March 19, 2020, the Los Angeles Department of Public Health, on multiple occasions, amended and modified its Health Officer Order, recognizing the issues posed by community transmission of COVID-19 in Los Angeles County, and, in response, maintaining public health measures that have, at differing times, included strict limitations on public gatherings, required closures of certain businesses, and strict limitations and protocols for the operations of businesses permitted to remain open; and WHEREAS, the local, state, and federal COVID-19 emergency declarations have since concluded, but the economic impacts of the COVID-19 closures of, and limitations on, businesses have been and continue to be devastating to the local Santa Monica economy; and
WHEREAS, as the commercial and economic landscape evolves, the City’s economic recovery and competitive advantage will depend on its ability to deliver on a diverse range of unique dining, retail, commercial, and entertainment uses; and WHEREAS, the City has an important governmental interest in maintaining a thriving business community and protecting the health, safety, and economic welfare of its citizens and businesses; and

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Packet Pg. 433 Attachment: ORD-Cannabis IZO Hour Extension 2d (6829 : Cannabis IZO-Second Reading) 5 WHEREAS, on May 10, 2022, City Council requested that the City Manager schedule a study session regarding whether to allow for the sale of nonmedicinal cannabis in the City of Santa Monica; and
WHEREAS, on July 26, 2022, in line with potential economic recovery efforts, the City Council voted to place a cannabis business license tax measure (Measure HMP) on the ballot, imposing a tax on all commercial cannabis activities; and WHEREAS, in the November 2022 election, the voters approved Measure HMP; and
WHEREAS, on June 13, 2023, City Council held a study session where it: (1) considered key policy considerations for allowing adult-use cannabis businesses and other non-retail cannabis business types within the City of Santa Moncia; (2) discussed options for allowing adult-use cannabis sales and associated regulatory restrictions as may be appropriate; and (3) provided direction to staff on bringing back changes to the Municipal Code to allow for adult-use cannabis retail businesses and non-retail cannabis business types within the City; and
WHEREAS, at the June 13, 2023, study session, City Council directed staff to return with an ordinance amendment allowing the previously approved medicinal cannabis retailers to also sell adult-use cannabis while the permanent adult-use cannabis updates are pending; and
WHEREAS, on November 14, 2023, City Council the adopted IZO No. 2764, which: (1) updated the interim regulations in order to allow the two approved medicinal cannabis retailers to also sell adult-use cannabis; and (2) made the same changes to the terminology, definitions, and use standards as the prior 2017 IZO to be consistent with

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Packet Pg. 434 Attachment: ORD-Cannabis IZO Hour Extension 2d (6829 : Cannabis IZO-Second Reading) 6 State law and the cannabis industry; and
WHEREAS, in that IZO, Council adopted operating hours of 10:00 a.m. and 8:00 p.m. Monday through Saturday and 12:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. on Sundays; and WHEREAS, on December 19, 2023, City Council adopted IZO 2770, which extended IZO No. 2764 for two years in accordance with SMMC 9.46.090(C), with a new expiration date of February 12, 2026, to allow adequate time for staff to further evaluate the results of the land use changes included in the IZO and to develop a permanent adultuse cannabis program; and WHEREAS, on November 11, 2024, in an effort to provide more flexibility to Cannabis retailers, Council directed staff to amend IZO 2770 to extend the operating hours for the City’s existing cannabis retailers consistent with State law; and WHEREAS, the proposed amendment to IZO 2770 would allow the existing cannabis retailers to operate between 6:00 a.m. to 10:00 p.m. daily, which is within current State cannabis regulations that allow cannabis retailers to operate between 6:00 a.m. to 10:00 p.m., and
WHEREAS, the proposed amendment does not preclude Council from revisiting the IZO prior to its expiration to potentially amend other provisions or duration thereof where necessary; and
WHEREAS, the proposed amendments set forth in this IZO continue to support local business retention and promote new business opportunities addressing the needs of the business community and residents by expanding opportunities within the City; and WHEREAS, the City Council finds and declares that there continues to exist a current and immediate threat to the public health, safety and general welfare that requires

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Packet Pg. 435 Attachment: ORD-Cannabis IZO Hour Extension 2d (6829 : Cannabis IZO-Second Reading) 7 the IZO to allow for economic recovery within the City by expanding permitted cannabis retailer hours.

NOW THEREFORE, THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SANTA MONICA DOES HEREBY ORDAIN AS FOLLOWS:

SECTION 1. Interim Zoning Regulations. Santa Monica Municipal Code Chapters

9.01 through 9.52 are hereby amended as follows:
(a) The term “Medical Marijuana Dispensary” shall be replaced with “Medicinal Cannabis Retailer” throughout.
(b) Santa Monica Municipal Code Section 9.31.185 is hereby amended as follows:

9.31.185 Medicinal Cannabis Retailers
A. Purpose. The purpose of this subsection is to ensure that the development of Medicinal Cannabis Retailers does not adversely impact adjacent parcels or the surrounding neighborhoods in which they are located and that they will be developed in a manner that protects the health, safety, and general welfare of nearby residents and businesses while providing for the needs of all segments of the community. Medicinal Cannabis Retailers shall be permitted, located, developed, and operated consistent with the following development standards:

B. Conditional Use Permit. Each Medicinal Cannabis Retailer shall be subject to the approval of a Conditional Use Permit by the Planning Commission, appealable to the City Council.

C. Number and Location. A maximum of 2 Medicinal Cannabis Retailers no larger than 2,500 square feet shall be permitted. Medicinal Cannabis Retailers are prohibited

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D. Hours of Operation. Medicinal Cannabis Retailers may be operated between the hours of 6:00 a.m. and 10:00 p.m. daily.

E. Recommendations. No recommendations for medicinal cannabis shall be issued on-site.

F. Delivery. Delivery of medicinal cannabis to patients or primary care givers as defined in Health and Safety Code Section 11362.5 et seq. is permitted.

G. Source Requirement. Only medicinal cannabis cultivated in California may be sold in a Medicinal Cannabis Retailer.

H. On-Site Cultivation. A maximum area of 15% of the total floor area may be used for on-site cultivation.

I. Litter. Outdoor trash receptacles shall be available near the entrances to and exits from the establishment. The premises shall be continuously maintained in a safe, clean, and orderly condition with twice daily litter pick-up within 500 feet of the Medicinal Cannabis Retailer.

J. Inspections. A Medicinal Cannabis Retailer owner shall authorize reasonable City inspection of the property by Santa Monica Code Enforcement and Police staff or other agents or employees of the City to ensure compliance with the conditions of approval imposed by the City in approving this project and will bear the reasonable cost of these inspections as established by Santa Monica Municipal Code Section 2.72.010 and Resolution No. 9905 (CCS) or any successor legislation thereto. These inspections

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K. Enforcement Cooperation. A Medicinal Cannabis Retailer, and all employees thereof, shall use best efforts to assist the police in investigating and prosecuting any violations of this Chapter consistent with constitutional provisions.

L. Sale of Adult-Use Cannabis or Adult-Use Cannabis Products. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Section or Municipal Code, Medicinal Cannabis Retailers that have been issued a Conditional Use Permit as of October 10, 2023 shall be permitted to deliver and sell adult-use cannabis or adult-use cannabis products, as licensed and regulated by Business and Professions Code Section 26000 et seq., to persons 21 years of age and over, only if a regulatory permit for adult-use cannabis has been obtained by June 1, 2024. Only cannabis cultivated within California may be sold in accordance with this subsection. Cannabis shall not be consumed or used at the subject property.

Conditions of a Conditional Use Permit issued to a Medicinal Cannabis Retailer eligible to sell adult-use cannabis or adult-use cannabis products under this subsection L that prohibit or otherwise interfere with the sale of adult-use cannabis or adult-use cannabis products shall not be enforced by the City in accordance with the permissions set forth in this subsection L. All remaining Conditional Use Permit conditions shall be subject to enforcement and will apply equally to adult-use cannabis. (c) SMMC Section 9.51.030 is hereby amended to read as follows:

9.51.030 Nonresidential Use Classifications
A. Public and Semi-Public Use Classifications.

1. Adult Day Care. Establishments providing non-medical care for persons

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2. Cemetery. Establishments primarily engaged in operating sites or structures reserved for the interment of human or animal remains, including mausoleums, burial places, and memorial gardens.

3. Child Care and Early Education Facility. Establishments providing nonmedical care for persons less than 18 years of age on a less than 24-hour basis other than family day care (small and large). This classification includes commercial and nonprofit nursery schools, preschools, day care facilities for children, and any other day care facility licensed by the State of California. See Division 3, Section 9.31.120, Child Care and Early Education Facilities, for further details.

4. College and Trade School. Institutions of higher education providing curricula of a general, religious or professional nature, typically granting recognized degrees, including conference centers and academic retreats associated with such institutions. This classification includes junior colleges, business and computer schools, management training, technical and trade schools, but excludes personal instructional services such as music lessons.

5. Community Assembly. A facility for public or private meetings including community centers, banquet centers, religious assembly facilities, civic auditoriums, union halls, meeting halls for clubs and other membership organizations. This classification includes functionally related facilities for the use of members and attendees such as kitchens, multi-purpose rooms, and storage. It does not include gymnasiums or other sports facilities, convention centers, or facilities, such as day care centers and schools that are separately classified and regulated. See Division 3, Section 9.31.100,

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6. Community Garden. An area of land managed and maintained by a public or nonprofit organization or a group of individuals to grow and harvest food crops and/or ornamental crops, such as flowers, for personal or group use, consumption, or donation.

Community gardens may be divided into separate plots for cultivation by one or more individuals or may be farmed collectively by members of the group and may include common areas maintained and used by group members. Community gardens may be accessory to public or institutional uses such as parks, schools, community centers, or religious assembly uses. This classification does not include gardens that are on a property in residential use when access is limited to those who reside on the property.

Community gardens do not include medical marijuana collectives.

7. Cultural Facility. Facilities engaged in activities to serve and promote aesthetic and educational interest in the community that are open to the public on a regular basis. This classification includes performing arts centers for theater, music, dance, and events; spaces for display or preservation of objects of interest in the arts or sciences; libraries; museums; historical sites; aquariums; art galleries; and zoos and botanical gardens. It does not include schools or institutions of higher education providing curricula of a general nature.

8. Hospitals and Clinics. State-licensed public, private, and nonprofit facilities providing medical, surgical, mental health, or emergency medical services. This classification includes facilities for inpatient or outpatient treatment, including substanceabuse programs, as well as training, research, and administrative services for patients and employees. This classification excludes veterinary services and animal hospitals (see

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a. Hospital. A facility providing medical, surgical, mental health, or services primarily on an in-patient basis, and including ancillary facilities for outpatient and emergency treatment, diagnostic services, training, research, administration, and services to patients, employees, or visitors. b. Clinic. A facility providing medical, mental health, or surgical services exclusively on an out-patient basis, including emergency treatment, diagnostic services, administration, and related services to patients who are not lodged overnight. Services may be available without a prior appointment. This classification includes licensed facilities offering substance abuse treatment, blood banks, plasma, dialysis centers, and emergency medical services offered exclusively on an out-patient basis. This classification does not include private medical and dental offices that typically require appointments and are usually smaller scale (see Offices, Medical and Dental).

9. Park and Recreation Facility. Parks, playgrounds, recreation facilities, trails, wildlife preserves, and related open spaces, which are open to the general public.

This classification also includes playing fields, courts, gymnasiums, swimming pools, picnic facilities, tennis courts, golf courses, and botanical gardens, as well as related food concessions or community centers within the facilities and restrooms within a primary structure or in an accessory structure on the same site.

10. Public Safety Facility. Facilities providing public-safety and emergency services, including police and fire protection and emergency medical services, with incidental storage, training and maintenance facilities.

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12. Social Service Center. Facilities providing a variety of supportive services for disabled and homeless individuals and other targeted groups on a less than 24-hour basis. Examples of services provided are counseling, meal programs, personal storage lockers, showers, instructional programs, television rooms, and meeting spaces. This classification is distinguished from licensed day care centers (see Adult Day Care and Child Care and Early Education Facility), clinics (see Clinic), and emergency shelters providing 24-hour or overnight care (see Emergency Shelter).

B. Commercial Use Classifications

1. Adult-Oriented Business. See Sexually-Oriented Businesses.

2. Animal Care, Sales and Services. Retail sales and services related to the boarding, grooming, and care of household pets, including:
a. Grooming and Pet Store. Retail sales of animals and/or services, including grooming, for animals on a commercial basis. Typical uses include dog bathing and clipping salons, pet grooming shops, and pet stores and shops. This classification excludes dog walking and similar pet care services not carried out at a fixed location, and excludes pet supply stores that do not sell animals or provide on-site animal services (see General Retail Sales).
b. Kennel. A commercial, nonprofit, or governmental facility for keeping, boarding, training, breeding or maintaining 4 or more dogs, cats, or other household pets not owned by the kennel owner or operator on a 24-hour basis.

This classification includes animal shelters and animal hospitals that provide

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c. Pet Day Care Service. A commercial, nonprofit, or governmental facility for keeping 4 or more dogs, cats, or other household pets not owned by the kennel owner or operator primarily for periods of less than 24 hours. d. Veterinary Service. Veterinary services for domesticated animals.

This classification allows 24-hour accommodation of animals receiving medical services but does not include kennels.

3. Automobile/Vehicle Sales and Services. Retail or wholesale businesses that sell, rent, and/or repair automobiles, boats, recreational vehicles, trucks, vans, trailers, and motorcycles, including the following:
a. Alternative Fuels and Recharging Facility. A facility offering motor vehicle fuels not customarily offered by commercial refueling stations (e.g., LPG) as well as equipment to recharge electric-powered vehicles. This classification does not include facilities within public garages or other stations that are accessory to a permitted use.
b. Automobile Rental. Rental of automobiles. Typical uses include car rental agencies. See Division 3, Section 9.31.050, Automobile Rental, for further details.

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9.31.080(C), (D), (M), (N), (P), and (Q). This classification does not include automobile brokerage and other establishments that solely provide services of arranging, negotiating, assisting, or effectuating the purchase of automobiles for others. See Division 3, Section 9.31.070, Automobile/Vehicle Sales, Leasing, and Storage, for further details.
e. Automobile/Vehicle Repair, Major. Repair of automobiles, trucks, motorcycles, motor homes, boats and recreational vehicles, including the incidental sale, installation, and servicing of related equipment and parts. This

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f. Automobile/Vehicle Service and Repair, Minor. The service and repair of automobiles, light-duty trucks, boats, and motorcycles, including the incidental sale, installation, and servicing of related equipment and parts. This classification includes the replacement of small automotive parts and liquids as an accessory use to a gasoline sales station or automotive accessories and supply store, as well as smog check quick-service oil, tune-up and brake and muffler shops where repairs are made or service provided in enclosed bays and no vehicles are stored overnight. This classification excludes disassembly, removal or replacement of major components such as engines, drive trains, transmissions or axles; automotive body and fender work, vehicle painting or other operations that generate excessive noise, objectionable odors or hazardous materials, and towing services. It also excludes repair of heavy trucks, limousines or construction vehicles. See Division 3, Section 9.31.060, Automobile/Vehicle Repair, Major and Minor, for further details.
g. Automobile/Vehicle Washing. Washing, waxing, or cleaning of automobiles or similar light vehicles, that are the principal use of a building, structure, or site, including self-serve washing facilities. See Division 3, Section

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4. Banks and Financial Institutions.
a. Bank and Credit Union. Financial institutions providing retail banking services. This classification includes only those institutions engaged in the on-site circulation of money, including credit unions, but excluding check-cashing businesses. For administration, headquarters, or other offices of banks and credit unions without retail banking services/on-site circulation of money (see Offices, Business and Professional).
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5. Bar. See Eating and Drinking Establishments.

6. Business Service. Establishments providing goods and services to other businesses on a fee or contract basis, including printing and copying, blueprint services, mailbox services, equipment rental and leasing, office security, custodial services, film processing, model building, and delivery services with 2 or fewer fleet vehicles on-site. (For 3 or more fleet vehicles, see Light Fleet-Based Services.)

7. Commercial Entertainment and Recreation. Provision of participant or spectator entertainment. This classification may include restaurants, snack bars, and other incidental food and beverage services to patrons. a. Cinema. Facilities for indoor display of films and motion pictures. b. Theater. Facilities designed and used for entertainment, including plays, comedy, and music, which typically contain a stage upon which movable scenery and theatrical appliances or musical instruments and equipment are used.

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Convention centers typically have at least one auditorium and may also contain concert halls, lecture halls, meeting rooms, and conference rooms, as well as accessory uses such as facilities for food preparation and serving and administrative offices. For conference facilities accessory to hotels, see Hotel and Motel.
d. Large-Scale Facility. This classification includes large outdoor facilities such as amusement and theme parks, sports stadiums and arenas, racetracks, amphitheaters, drive-in theaters, driving ranges, and golf courses. It also includes indoor facilities with 5,000 square feet or more in building area such as fitness centers, gymnasiums, handball, racquetball, or large tennis club facilities; ice or roller skating rinks; swimming or wave pools; miniature golf courses; bowling alleys; archery or indoor shooting ranges; and riding stables. e. Small-Scale Facility. This classification includes small, generally indoor facilities that occupy less than 5,000 square feet of building area, such as billiard parlors, card rooms, game arcades, dance halls, small tennis club facilities, poolrooms, and amusement arcades.
f. Fortunetelling. An establishment where a person or persons provide fortunetelling services and demand or receive, directly or indirectly, a fee or reward, or accept any donation for the exercise or exhibition of fortunetelling services, or give an exhibition of fortunetelling services at any place where a fee,

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8. Eating and Drinking Establishments. Businesses primarily engaged in selling and serving prepared food and/or beverages for consumption on or off the premises.
a. Bar/Night Club/Lounge. Businesses that are licensed by the State to serve alcoholic beverages, including beer, wine and mixed drinks for consumption on the premises from a liquor service facility that is physically separate from the dining area and may be operated during hours when food is not served. See Division 3, Section 9.31.040, Alcoholic Beverage Sales, for further details.
b. Restaurant, Full-Service. Restaurants providing food and beverage services to patrons who order and are served while seated and pay after eating.

Takeout service may also be provided. See Division 3, Section 9.31.040, Alcoholic Beverage Sales, where applicable, for further details.

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This classification includes cafes, cafeterias, coffee shops, delicatessens, fastfood restaurants, sandwich shops, limited-service pizza parlors, self-service restaurants, ice cream and frozen yogurt shops, and snack bars with indoor or outdoor seating for customers. This classification includes bakeries that have tables for on-site consumption of products. It excludes catering services that do not sell food or beverages for on-site consumption (see Commercial Kitchen). See Division 3, Sections 9.31.040, Alcoholic Beverage Sales, and 9.31.280, Restaurants, Limited Service and Take Out Only, where applicable, for further details.
d. Food Hall. Establishments consisting of three or more individually licensed businesses within an enclosed building where food and beverages may be consumed on the premises, taken out, or delivered, and may also include small retail venues. Patrons may be served while seated and pay after eating, or orders may be made at a walk-up window, counter, machine, or remotely, and payment made prior to food consumption. Characteristics of food halls include but are not limited to: shared entrance/lobby areas, compartmentalized spaces for individually licensed businesses, shared eating areas, shared restrooms, and shared “back of house” areas (e.g., storage, dishwashing, food preparation). Each compartmentalized space may have access to the exterior of the building, along with outdoor dining and seating areas, which may be shared with other businesses within the establishment.

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9. Equipment Rental. Establishments whose primary activity is the rental of equipment, such as medical and party equipment, to individuals and business, and whose activities may include storage and delivery of items to customers.

10. Food and Beverage Sales. Retail sales of food and beverages for off-site preparation and consumption. Typical uses include food markets, groceries, and liquor stores.
a. Convenience Market. Retail establishments that sell a limited line of groceries, prepackaged food items, tobacco, magazines, and other household goods, primarily for off-premises consumption. These establishments typically have long or late hours of operation and occupy a relatively small building. This classification includes small retail stores located on the same parcel as or operated in conjunction with a Service Station but does not include delicatessens or specialty food shops. It excludes establishments that offer a sizeable assortment of fresh fruits and vegetables or fresh-cut meat (see General Market). See Division 3, Section 9.31.040, Alcoholic Beverage Sales, for further details. b. Farmers Market. A location where the primary activity is the sale of agricultural products by producers and certified producers. Sales of ancillary products may occur at the location. An open air farmers market may only be

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c. General Market. Retail food markets of food and grocery items primarily for offsite preparation and consumption. Typical uses include supermarkets and specialty food stores such as retail bakeries; candy, nuts and confectionary stores; meat or produce markets; vitamin and health food stores; cheese stores; and delicatessens. This classification may include small-scale specialty food production with retail sales such as pasta shops. See Division 3, Sections 9.31.040, Alcoholic Beverage Sales, and 9.31.150, General Markets in Residential Districts, where applicable, for further details. d. Liquor Store. Establishments primarily engaged in selling packaged alcoholic beverages for off-site consumption. See Division 3, Section 9.31.040, Alcoholic Beverage Sales, for further details.

11. Funeral Parlor and Mortuary. An establishment primarily engaged in the provision of services involving the care, preparation, or disposition of human remains and conducting memorial services. Typical uses include a crematory, columbarium, mausoleum, or mortuary.

12. Home Occupation. A use that is incidental and secondary to the primary residential use of a dwelling and compatible with surrounding residential uses. These uses include business, professional, and creative offices, food production, limited personal services, and urban agriculture. See Division 3, Section 9.31.160, Home Occupations for further details.

13. Instructional Services. Establishments that offer specialized programs in personal growth and development, typically in a classroom setting. Typical uses include

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14. Live-Work. A unit that combines a work space and incidental residential space occupied and used by a single household in a structure that has been constructed for such use or converted from commercial or industrial use and structurally modified to accommodate residential occupancy and work activity in compliance with the Building Code. The working space is reserved for and regularly used by one or more occupants of the unit. See Division 3, Section 9.31.170, Live-Work Units, for further details.

15. Lodging. An establishment providing overnight accommodations to transient patrons who maintain a permanent place of residence elsewhere for payment for periods of 30 consecutive calendar days or less.
a. Bed and Breakfast. A residential structure that is in residential use in which the property owner or manager lives on site and within which up to 4 bedrooms are rented for overnight lodging and where meals may be provided. See Division 3, Section 9.31.090, Bed and Breakfasts, for further details. b. Hotel and Motel. An establishment providing temporary lodging to transient patrons. These establishments may provide additional services, such as conference and meeting rooms, restaurants, bars, or recreation facilities available to guests or to the general public. This use classification includes motor lodges,

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16. Maintenance and Repair Service. Establishments engaged in the maintenance or repair of office machines, household appliances, furniture, and similar items. This classification excludes maintenance and repair of motor vehicles or boats (see Automotive/Vehicle Sales and Services) and personal apparel (see Personal Services).

17. Mobile Food Truck Off-Street Venue. A location where the commercial vending of food occurs from parked vehicles.

18. Nursery and Garden Center. Establishments primarily engaged in retailing nursery and garden products—such as trees, shrubs, plants, seeds, bulbs, and sod—that are predominantly grown elsewhere. These establishments may sell a limited amount of a product they grow themselves. Fertilizer and soil products are stored and sold in packaged form only.

19. Offices. Offices of firms, organizations (for-profit and nonprofit), and public agencies providing professional, executive, management, administrative or design services, such as accounting, architectural, computer software design, engineering, graphic design, interior design, investment, insurance, and legal offices, excluding banks

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c. Medical and Dental. Offices providing consultation, diagnosis, therapeutic, preventive, or corrective personal treatment services by doctors and dentists; medical and dental laboratories that see patients; and similar practitioners of medical and healing arts for humans licensed for such practice by the State of California. Incidental medical and/or dental research within the office is considered part of the office use if it supports the on-site patient services.

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20. Parking, Public or Private. Structures and surface lots offering parking for a fee when such use is not incidental to another on-site activity.

21. Personal Service.
a. General Personal Services. Provision of recurrently needed services of a personal nature. This classification includes barber shops and beauty salons, seamstresses, tailors, dry cleaning agents (excluding large-scale bulk cleaning plants), shoe repair shops, self-service laundries, video rental stores, photocopying and photo finishing services, and travel agencies mainly intended for the consumer. This classification also includes massage establishments that are in full compliance with the applicable provisions of Chapter 6.104, Massage Regulations, of the Santa Monica Municipal Code, and in which all persons engaged in the practice of massage are certified pursuant to the California Business and Professions Code Section 4612. This classification does not include gyms, exercise clubs, or studios offering performing arts, martial arts, physical exercise, or yoga training and similar types of instruction. See Division 3, Section 9.31.230, Personal Service, for further details. b. Personal Services, Physical Training. Gyms, exercise clubs, or

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22. Retail Sales
(a) Building Materials and Services. Retail sales or rental of building supplies or equipment. This classification includes lumberyards, tool and equipment sales or rental establishments, and includes establishments devoted principally to taxable retail sales to individuals for their own use. This definition does not include Construction and Material Yards, hardware stores less than 10,000 square feet or establishments engaged in the business of selling, leasing, or otherwise transferring any firearm or ammunitions.
(b) General Retail Sales, Small-Scale. The retail sale or rental of merchandise not specifically listed under another use classification. This classification includes retail establishments with 25,000 square feet or less of sales

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9.31.220, Outdoor Retail Display and Sales, where applicable, for further details. (c) General Retail Sales, Medium-Scale. The retail sale or rental of merchandise not specifically listed under another use classification. This classification includes retail establishments with more than 25,000 square feet but not more than 80,000 square feet of sales area.
(d) General Retail Sales, Large-Scale. Retail establishments with over 80,000 square feet of sales area that sell merchandise and bulk goods for individual consumption, including membership warehouse clubs, where sales of grocery items do not occupy more than 25% of the floor area. (e) Medicinal Cannabis Retailer. A licensed premises which is a physical location from which retail medicinal cannabis or medicinal cannabis products are

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(f) Pawn Shop. Establishments engaged in the buying or selling of new or secondhand merchandise and offering loans in exchange for personal property. (g) Swap Meet. Any indoor or outdoor place, in an approved location, or for an approved activity where new or used goods or secondhand personal property is offered for sale or exchange to the general public by a multitude of individual licensed vendors, usually in compartmentalized spaces. The term swap meet is interchangeable with and applicable to: flea markets, auctions, open air markets, outdoor sales activities, or other similarly named or labeled activities; but does not include supermarket or department store retail operations. See Division 3, Sections 9.31.360, Swap Meets, and 9.31.220, Outdoor Retail Display and Sales, for further details.

SECTION 2. Any provision of the Santa Monica Municipal Code or any appendix thereto inconsistent with the provisions of this Interim Zoning Ordinance, to the extent of

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SECTION 3. If any section, subsection, sentence, clause, or phrase of this Interim Zoning Ordinance is for any reason held to be invalid or unconstitutional by a decision of any court of competent jurisdiction, such decision shall not affect the validity of the remaining portions of this Interim Zoning Ordinance. The City Council hereby declares that it would have passed this Interim Zoning Ordinance and each and every section, subsection, sentence, clause, or phrase not declared invalid or unconstitutional without regard to whether any portion of the Interim Zoning Ordinance would be subsequently declared invalid or unconstitutional.

SECTION 4. The Mayor shall sign and the City Clerk shall attest to the passage of this Interim Zoning Ordinance. The City Clerk shall cause the same to be published once in the official newspaper within 15 days after its adoption. This Interim Zoning Ordinance shall become effective thirty days after its adoption.

SECTION 5. This Interim Zoning Ordinance shall be of no further force or effect on or after February 12, 2026, unless it is otherwise extended pursuant to Santa Monica Municipal Code Section 9.46.090.

APPROVED AS TO FORM:
_________________________
Douglas Sloan, City Attorney

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CITY OF SANTA MONICA

CITY COUNCIL MINUTES
MAY 14, 2024
A regular meeting of the Santa Monica City Council was called to order by Mayor Brock at 5:50 p.m., on Tuesday, May 14, 2024, at City Council Chambers, 1685 Main Street, Santa Monica, CA and 2319 14th Street #7, Santa Monica, CA 90401
Roll Call: Present: Mayor Phil Brock
Mayor Pro Tem Lana Negrete (via teleconference)
Councilmember Gleam Davis
Councilmember Oscar de la Torre
Councilmember Christine Parra
Councilmember Caroline Torosis
Councilmember Jesse Zwick
Also Present: City Manager David White
City Attorney Douglas Sloan
Interim City Clerk Nikima S. Newsome
CONVENE/PLEDGE On order of the Mayor, the City Council convened at 5:50 p.m., with all members present. Councilmember Torosis led the assemblage in the Pledge of Allegiance.

LEVINE ACT

DISCLOSURE
Pursuant to the Levine Act (Govt Code Section 84308), any party to a permit, license, contract, or other entitlement before the Council is required to disclose on the record any contribution, including aggregated contributions, of more than $250 made by the party or the party's agents within the preceding 12 months to any City official.

Participants and agents are requested to make this disclosure as well.

The disclosure must include the name of the party, participant, or agent, and any other person making the contribution; the name of the recipient, the amount of the contribution, and the date the contribution was made.

GENERAL PUBLIC
INPUT:

Members of the public Johnathan Foster, Jerry Rubin, Jayson Gladstone, Denise Barton, Lydia Ponce, Alfred Cockrell, Chase Sherman, Alec Porter, Zoe Muntaner, and Templar Soto commented on various local issues.

PUBLIC INPUT FOR

CLOSED SESSION,
Members of the public Debbie Mulvaney, Natalya Zernitskaya, Chris Harding, Joe Pertel, Caro Vilain, Tom Larmore, and Zoe Muntaner

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SPECIAL AGENDA

ITEMS AND CONSENT
CALENDAR ONLY:
commented on closed session items.

Members of the public Carol Vilain and Alex Cardiel commented on consent calendar items.

CLOSED SESSIONS
(Councilmember de la Torre
recused himself at 6:34 p.m.
and returned at 6:54 p.m.)
On order of the Mayor, the City Council recessed at 6:34 p.m., to consider closed sessions and returned at 8:53 p.m., with all members present, to report the following:

4.A. Conference with legal counsel – anticipated litigation – Gov.

Code 54956.9(d)(2): 1 case (Initiative to Partially Exempt Multifamily Developments from Part of the Third Tier Transfer Tax)
This item was continued from the May 14, 2024 special Council meeting to be heard in conjunction with the closed session items on the May 14, 2024 regular Council meeting agenda.

The City Attorney advised this matter was heard with no reportable action taken.

4.A. Conference with legal counsel - existing litigation - Gov. Code §54956.9(d)(1): City of Santa Monica v. ICSOP, et al.; OCSC Case No. 30-2022-01261243
The City Attorney advised this matter was heard with no reportable action taken.

4.B. Conference with legal counsel - existing litigation - Gov. Code §54956.9(d)(1): Cheyenne Robinson, et al. v. City of Santa Monica, et al.; LASC Case No. 21STCV22392
The City Attorney advised this matter was heard with no reportable action taken.

4.C. Conference with legal counsel - potential litigation regarding public nuisance, Government Code 54956.9(d)(4), City of Santa Monica and People of the State of California v. Pavilions Motel, Inc., Saeed Farzam and Goharshad Farzam -
The City Attorney advised this matter was heard with no reportable action taken.

4.D. Conference with legal counsel - existing litigation - Gov. Code §54956.9(d)(1): Pico Neighborhood Association and Maria Loya v. City of Santa Monica, L.A.S.C. Case No. BC 616804; Second District Court of Appeal Case No. B295935

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The City Attorney advised this matter was not heard.

4.E. Conference with real estate negotiator, Gov. Code §54956.8:

Santa Monica Beach, 1550 Parking Lot (venue for L.A. Olympics 2028 beach volleyball); City Negotiators: Susan Cline, Assistant City Manager and Melissa Spagnuolo, Community Partnerships Manager; Venue Negotiators: Vic Nol, Director, Venue Cities Relations, Los Angeles Organizing Committee for the Olympic and Paralympic Games 2028; under negotiation: price and terms of payment
The City Attorney advised this matter was heard with no reportable action taken.

4.F. Conference with legal counsel - existing litigation - Gov. Code §54956.9(d)(1): John U.N.B. Doe, et al. v. City of Santa Monica, et al.; LASC Case No. 23STCV12746
The City Attorney advised this matter was heard with no reportable action taken.

4.G. Conference with legal counsel - existing litigation - Gov. Code §54956.9(d)(1): Hector Orozco v. John Doe: Does 1-2; LASC Case No. 23SMCV03120
The City Attorney advised this matter was heard with no reportable action taken.

4.H. Conference with legal counsel - existing litigation - Gov. Code §54956.9(d)(1): John Doe 1, et al. v. City of Santa Monica, et al.; LASC Case No. 23STCV15009
The City Attorney advised this matter was heard with no reportable action taken.

4.I. Conference with legal counsel - existing litigation - Gov. Code §54956.9(d)(1): John Doe (A.G.) v. Santa Monica Police Activities League, et al.; LASC Case No. 23SMCV0606
The City Attorney advised this matter was heard with no reportable action taken.

4.J. Conference with legal counsel - existing litigation - Gov. Code §54956.9(d)(1): John JPC Doe v. Doe City, et al.; LASC Case No. 23STCV22020

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The City Attorney advised this matter was heard with no reportable action taken.

4.K. Conference with legal counsel - existing litigation - Gov. Code §54956.9(d)(1): John AD Doe, et al. v. City of Santa Monica, et al.; LASC Case No. 23STCV26548
The City Attorney advised this matter was heard with no reportable action taken.

4.L. Conference with legal counsel - existing litigation - Gov. Code §54956.9(d)(1): John CW Doe, et al. v. City of Santa Monica, et al.; LASC Case No. 23STCV29623
The City Attorney advised this matter was heard with no reportable action taken.

4.M. Conference with legal counsel - existing litigation - Gov. Code §54956.9(d)(1): John Doe 15, et al. v. City of Santa Monica, et al.; LASC Case No. 24STCV07647
The City Attorney advised this matter was heard with no reportable action taken.

4.N. Conference with legal counsel - existing litigation - Gov. Code §54956.9(d)(1): Jane Doe 1, et al. v. City of Santa Monica, et al.; LASC Case No. 24STCV06207
The City Attorney advised this matter was heard with no reportable action taken.

REPORT ON COUNCIL
TRAVEL
Councilmember Davis reported that she traveled to Vienna, Austria, with the Global Policy Leadership Academy.

Councilmember de la Torre reported that he traveled to Arizona, participating with the National Association of Latino Elected Officials for a conference, where there was discussion on housing and homelessness.

Mayor Brock traveled to Washington, D.C. for the US Conference of Mayors, as a member of the Homelessness Task Force, focusing on strategies to address homelessness. Additionally, Mayor Brock attended the Southern California Association of Governments conference in Palm Desert, California.

CONSENT CALENDAR: Interim City Clerk Nikima S. Newsome stated into the record the following correction regarding Item 5.E., whereas Attachment B should have

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referenced the December 13th, 2022 Staff Report, and Attachment C should have referenced the May 23rd, 2023 Staff Report.

All items were considered and approved in one motion unless removed by a Councilmember for discussion.

At the request of Mayor Brock, Item 5.A. was removed from the Consent Calendar.

Motion by Councilmember Torosis, seconded by Councilmember Parra, to approve the Consent Calendar except for Item 5.A, reading resolutions by title only and waiving further reading thereof. The motion was approved by the following vote:

AYES: Councilmembers de la Torre, Torosis, Davis, Parra, Zwick, Mayor Pro Tem Negrete, Mayor Brock
NOES: None
ABSENT: None

ENGINEERING DESIGN

SERVICES

5.B. Award Agreement No. 11570 (CCS) to Woodard and Curran for Engineering Design Services for the Moss Avenue Pump Station and Santa Monica Urban Runoff Recycling Facility Rehabilitation Project, was approved.

Recommended Action
Staff recommends that the City Council:

1. Adopt a finding of Categorical Exemption pursuant to Section 15301 (Existing Facilities) and Section 15302
(Replacement/Reconstruction) of the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) guidelines;

2. Award RFP #388 to Woodard and Curran for design services for the Moss Avenue Pump Station and Santa Monica Urban Runoff
Recycling Facility Rehabilitation Project for the Public Works Department; and

3. Authorize the City Manager to negotiate and execute Agreement No. 11570 (CCS) with Woodard and Curran, in an amount not to exceed $1,525,401 over a 5-year period, with future year funding contingent on Council budget approval.

SANTA MONICA BLVD
SAFETY

ENHANCEMENT STUDY

5.C. Award of Agreement No. 11571 (CCS) to Michael Baker International to conduct the Santa Monica Blvd Safety Enhancement Study supported by a Caltrans Sustainable Transportation Planning Grant, was approved.

Recommended Action
Staff recommends that the City Council:

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1. Adopt a finding of categorical exemption pursuant to Section 15252 of the California Environmental Quality Act Guidelines.

2. Award RFP # 389 to Michael Baker International to provide transportation planning and traffic engineering services for the Santa Monica Boulevard Safety Enhancement Study for the Department of Transportation.

3. Authorize the City Manager to negotiate and execute Agreement No. 11571 (CCS) with Michael Baker International in an amount not to exceed $590,000 (including an 11.6% contingency) for two years, with an additional one-year no-cost renewal option on the same terms and conditions, for a total amount not to exceed $590,000 over a three-year period. Any additional future year funding would be contingent on Council budget approval.

DATA ANALYTICS

MANAGEMENT

SERVICES

5.D. Approval of Modification for Contract Extension and Additional Funding for Parking Data Analytics Management Services with ParkHub, was approved.

Recommended Action
Staff recommends that the City Council:

1. Adopt a finding of no possibility of significant effect pursuant to Section 15061(b)(3) of the California Environment Quality Act (CEQA) Guidelines;

2. Authorize the City Manager to negotiate and execute a first modification to Agreement No. 10806 (CCS) in the amount of $486,948 with ParkHub, for parking data analytics management services for the Department of Transportation. This will result in a seven-year agreement with a new total amount not to exceed $1,705,948, with future year funding contingent on Council budget approval.

WELL DRILLING AND

EQUIPMENT PROJECT

5.E. Award Construction Contract No. 11572 (CCS) for The Groundwater Recharge Well SM-11i and Monitoring Wells MWi-2 & MWi-3 Drilling and Equipping Project, was approved.

Recommended Action
Staff recommends that the City Council:

1. Adopt a finding that the groundwater recharge wells were analyzed in the adopted Olympic Arcadia Treatment Plant Initial
Study/Mitigated Negative Declaration (State Clearinghouse No. 2020070129), and a finding of categorical exemption pursuant to Section 15302,15303 and 15304 of the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) Guidelines;

2. Award Bid #2678-C to Environmental Construction, Inc.to provide construction services to the Groundwater Recharge Well SM-11i and

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Monitoring Wells MWi-2 & MWi-3 Drilling and Equipping Project for the Public Works Department;

3. Authorize the City Manager to negotiate and execute Contract No. 11572 (CCS) with Environmental Construction Inc., in an amount not to exceed $7,477,314 (including a 15% contingency);

4. Authorize the Director of Public Works to issue any necessary change orders to complete additional work within contract authority; and

5. Authorize budget amendment as outlined in the Financial Impacts and Budget Actions section of this report (requires 5 votes).

WATER/WASTEWATER

RATE STRUCUTURE

5.F. Award Professional Services Contract No. 11573 (CCS) to NBS Government Finance Group, dba NBS to Analyze the Existing Water/Wastewater Rate Structure and Establish a New Five-Year Rate Structure for Potable Water, Recycled Water, and Wastewater Commodity Charges; Fire Line Rates; and Capital Facility Fee for Calendar Years 2025 to 2029, was approved.

Recommended Action
Staff recommends that the City Council:

1. Adopt a finding of Categorical Exemption pursuant to Section 15262 (Feasibility and Planning Studies) of the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) Guidelines;

2. Award RFP #391 to NBS Government Finance Group, dba NBS to analyze the existing water/wastewater rate structure and establish a new five-year rate structure for potable water, recycled water, and wastewater commodity charges; fire line rates; and a capital facility fee for calendar years 2025 to 2029 for the Public Works Department; and

3. Authorize the City Manager to negotiate and execute Agreement No. 11573 (CCS) with NBS Government Finance Group, dba NBS in the amount not to exceed $420,000 over a 5-year period, with future year funding contingent on Council budget approval.

ANNUAL WATER

SHORTAGE

ASSESSMENT REPORT

5.G. Resolution No. 11584 (CCS) entitled “A RESOLUTION OF THE

CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SANTA MONICA ADOPTING THE
2024 ANNUAL WATER SHORTAGE ASSESSMENT REPORT,” was
adopted.

Recommended Action
Staff recommends that the City Council:

1. Adopt a finding of statutory exemption pursuant to Section 10652 of the California Water Code; and

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2. Receive public comment and approve attached Resolution No. 11584 (CCS) adopting the 2024 Annual Water Shortage Assessment Report.

BACKUP LANDFILL

FACILITY SERVICES

5.H. Award Contracts to Browning Ferris Industries, Inc., Waste Management of California, and County Sanitation Districts of Los Angeles County for Backup Landfill Facility Services, were approved.

Recommended Action
Staff recommends that the City Council:

1. Adopt a finding of Categorical Exemption pursuant to Section 15301 and 15308 of the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) Guidelines;

2. Authorize the City Manager to negotiate and execute Agreement No. 11574 (CCS) with Browning Ferris Industries, Inc., dba Sunshine Canyon Landfill to provide backup landfill services for the Public Works Department. This recommended award is made as an
exception to the competitive bidding process pursuant to Section

2.24.250 (g) and is for a total amount not to exceed $2,277,521 (including a 20% contingency) for 10 years, with future year funding contingent on Council budget approval;

3. Authorize the City Manager to negotiate and execute Agreement No. 11575 (CCS0 with Waste Management of California – Simi Valley Landfill to provide backup landfill services for the Public Works Department. This recommended award is made as an exception to the competitive bidding process pursuant to Section 2.24.250 (g) and is for a total amount not to exceed $1,824,264 (including a 20% contingency) for 10 years, with future year funding contingent on Council budget approval; and

4. Authorize the City Manager to negotiate and execute Agreement No. 11576 (CCS) with Los Angeles County Sanitation Districts – Puente Hills Material Recycling Facility to provide backup landfill services for the Public Works Department. This recommended award is made as an exception to the competitive bidding process pursuant to Section 2.24.250 (g) and is for a total amount not to exceed $1,175,856 (including a 20% contingency) for 1.5 years, with future year funding contingent on Council budget approval.

SIX SCHOOLS PROJECT 5.I. Award Construction Contract No. 11577 (CCS) to Environmental Construction, Inc. for Pedestrian Improvements at Six Schools Project, was approved.

Recommended Action
Staff recommends that the City Council:

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1. Adopt a finding of Categorical Exemption pursuant to Section 15301 and Section 15311 of the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) Guidelines and Section 21080.25 of CEQA;

2. Award Bid #SP2649 to Environmental Construction, Inc., for the construction of the Safe Routes to Schools: Pedestrian Improvements at Six Schools Project for the Public Works Department;

3. Authorize the City Manager to negotiate and execute Contract No. 11577 (CCS) with Environmental Construction, Inc., in an amount not to exceed $ 3,545,430 (including a 10% contingency);

4. Authorize the Director of Public Works to issue any necessary change orders to complete additional work within contract authority; and

5. Authorize budget amendment as outlined in the Financial Impacts & Budget Actions section of this report (requires 5 votes).

ANY LINE, ANY TIME

PROGRAM

5.J. Approval of Big Blue Bus Renewal of Any Line, Any Time Program for Santa Monica College, was approved.

Recommended Action
Staff recommends that the City Council:

1. Adopt a finding of no possibility of significant effect pursuant to Section 15061(b)(3) (Common Sense Exemption) of the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) Guidelines;

2. Authorize the City Manager to negotiate and execute Agreement No. 11578 (CCS) to renew the “Any Line, Any Time” unlimited ride transit program with Santa Monica College (SMC), effective July 1, 2024, for a two-year term through June 30, 2026. SMC will reimburse Big Blue Bus for transit services in the amount of $1,258,000 over the two-year term.

ELECTRICAL

CONTRACTOR

SERVICES

5.K. Award Contract to Reign Industries, Inc. as Primary and Leed Electric, Inc. as Secondary to Provide Electrical Contractor Services at Water & Wastewater Treatment Facilities, was approved.

Recommended Action
Staff recommends that City Council:

1. Adopt a finding of Categorical Exemption pursuant to Section 15301 (Existing Facilities) of the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) Guidelines;

2. Award Bid #4476 to Reign Industries Inc. as the primary vendor to provide electrical contractor services at water and wastewater treatment facilities; and to Leed Electric, Inc. as the secondary vendor to provide electrical contractor services at water and wastewater treatment facilities for the Public Works Department;

3. Authorize the City Manager to negotiate and execute Agreement No. 11579 (CCS) with Reign Industries, Inc. in an amount not to exceed

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$300,000 for one year, with four additional one-year renewal options in the amount of $1,200,000 on the same terms and conditions for a total amount not to exceed $1,500,000 over a five-year period with future funding contingent on Council budget approval; and

4. Authorize the City Manager to negotiate and execute Agreement No. 11580 (CCS) with Leed Electric, Inc. in an amount not to exceed $160,000 for one year, with four additional one-year renewal options in the amount of $640,000 for a total amount not to exceed $800,000 over a five-year period with future funding contingent on Council budget approval.

WATER &

WASTEWATER

FACILITIES

MAINTENANCE

5.L. Award Contract to Global Power Group, Inc. as Primary and Bay City Electric Works as Secondary to Provide Emergency Generator Maintenance & Repair at Water & Wastewater Facilities, was approved.

Recommended Action
Staff recommends that City Council:

1. Adopt a finding of Categorical Exemption pursuant to Section 15301 of the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) Guidelines;

2. Award Bid #4478 to Global Power Group, Inc. as the primary vendor to provide emergency generator maintenance and repair services at water and wastewater treatment facilities; and to Bay City Electric Works as the secondary vendor to provide emergency generator maintenance and repair services at water and wastewater treatment facilities for the Public Works Department;

3. Authorize the City Manager to negotiate and execute Agreement No. 11581 (CCS) with Global Power Group, Inc. in an amount not to exceed $350,000 over a five year period, with future funding contingent on Council budget approval; and

4. Authorize the City Manager to negotiate and execute Agreement No. 11582 (CCS) with Bay City Electric Works in an amount not to exceed $250,000 over a five year period, with the same price, terms and conditions in renewal years two through four, with future funding contingent on Council budget approval.

RECREATIONMANAGEMENT

SOFTWARE SYSTEM

5.M. Approval of Modification to Contract #10571 with Active Net to Extend the Contract Term and Price, was approved.

Recommended Action
Staff recommends that Council:

1. Adopt a finding of Categorical Exemptions pursuant to Section15061(b)(3) (Common Sense Exemption) of the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) Guidelines.

2. Authorize the City Manager to negotiate and execute a fifth modification to extend the term and contract price of Agreement No. 10517 (CCS) for one year in the amount of $54,366, with a one year

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option to renew for $52,388, with Active Network Inc. to provide a cloud-based hosted recreation-management software system for the Recreation and Arts Department, Housing and Human Services Department, and Department of Transportation. This will result in a 14-year amended agreement with a total not to exceed amount of $645,579 with future-year funding contingent on Council budget approval.

HOMELESS OUTREACH

SERVICES

5.N. Approval of Sixth Modification with West Coast Care Foundation for Homeless Outreach Services, was approved.

Recommended Action
Staff recommends that Council:

1. Adopt a finding of no possibility of significant effect pursuant to Section 15061(b)(3) (Common Sense Exemption) of the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) Guidelines; and

2. Authorize the City Manager to negotiate and execute a sixth modification to Contract No. 10684 (CCS) in the amount of $150,000 with West Coast Care Foundation for homeless outreach services.

This will result in a seven-year amended contract with a new total not to exceed $1,450,000.

CALIFORNIA GREEN

BUILDING STANDARDS
CODE

5.O. Second Reading and Adoption of Ordinance No. 2778 (CCS) Amending Article 8 of the Santa Monica Municipal Code to Adopt the 2022 California Green Building Standards Code, Repeal Outdated Local Amendments, and Adopt a 2022 Local Amendment Relating to Concrete Requirements for Newly Constructed Buildings, was adopted.

Recommended Action
Staff recommends that the City Council adopt the attached Ordinance.

STATE DENSITY BONUS
LAW

5.P. Second Reading and Adoption of Ordinance No. 2779 (CCS) Amending the Text of the City's Zoning Ordinance to Update Provisions Related to State Density Bonus Law for Consistency with Recent Amendments to State Law Adopted by AB 1287 and Making Other Minor Changes, Corrections, and Clarifications, was adopted.

Recommended Action
Staff recommends that the City Council adopt the attached Ordinance.

CITY COUNCIL

MEETING RULES OF
ORDER

5.Q. Resolution No. 11585 (CCS) entitled “A RESOLUTION OF THE

CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SANTA MONICA AMENDING THE

RULES OF ORDER AND PROCEDURE FOR THE CONDUCT OF CITY

COUNCIL MEETINGS AND REPEALING RESOLUTION NUMBER
11547 (CCS),” was adopted.

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Recommended Action
Staff recommends that the City Council:

1. Adopt a finding of no possibility of significant effect pursuant to Section 15061(b)(3) (Common Sense Exemption) of the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) Guidelines.

2. Pursuant to a Council approved 16 Item, consider amendments to the Council Rules to allow 16 items, with exceptions, to be treated like the Consent Calendar with one vote for all items. Additional changes are proposed to provide clarity and document procedures for Councilmembers requesting 16 items and closed session items.

OLYMPIC BLVD AND
26th STREET PROJECT

5.A. Award Construction Contract for Olympic Boulevard and 26th Street Project, was approved.

Recommended Action
Staff recommends that the City Council:

1. Adopt a finding of Categorical Exemption pursuant to Section 15301 and 15311 of the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) Guidelines and Section 21080.25 of CEQA;

2. Award Bid #SP2662 to Hardy & Harper, Inc., a California-based company, for the construction of the Olympic Boulevard and 26th Street Project for the Public Works Department;

3. Authorize the City Manager to negotiate and execute Contract No. 11569 (CCS) with Hardy & Harper, Inc. in an amount not to exceed $1,248,500 (including a 10% contingency); and

4. Authorize the Director of Public Works to issue any necessary change orders to complete additional work within contract authority.

Questions asked and answered of staff included: will the same type of barrier used on 17th street be used; what is the street’s width in comparison to 17th street; will barriers be placed on both sides of the street and have any alternatives been considered to limit the space needed.

Motion by Mayor Brock, seconded by Councilmemberde la Torre, to approve the staff recommendation. The motion was approved by the following vote:

AYES: Councilmembers Zwick, Parra, Davis, Torosis, de la Torre, Mayor Pro Tem Negrete, Mayor Brock
NOES: None
ABSENT: None
AGENDA

MANAGEMENT
Motion by Mayor Brock, seconded by Councilmember Torosis, to first hear public input on Items 10.A. and 11.A. and hear Items 10.A. and 11.A together, with remaining public input to be heard after and limit public comment to one minute per speaker. The motion was approved by the

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following vote:

AYES: Councilmembers Zwick, Parra, Davis, Torosis, de la Torre, Mayor Pro Tem Negrete, Mayor Brock
NOES: None
ABSENT: None

PUBLIC INPUT ON

REMAINING AGENDA
ITEMS:

Member of the public Caro Vilain commented on Item 10.A.

Members of the public Denise Barton and Johnathan Foster commented on Item 11.A.

Members of the public Jerry Rubin Johnathan Foster and Denise Barton commented on Item 16.C.

Members of the public Andrew Liberman, Charles Fredricks, Jerry Rubin, Sherna Berger Gluck (time donated by Cynthia Anderson Barker), David Clennon (time donated by Matthew Hom), Rosemarie Driscoll, Sarah Newell, Janet McKeithen, Suzanne Thompson, Randall Heyn-Lamb, Mimi Kennedy, Hadir Azab, John Mooney, Rima Abu-Isa Thierry, Jodie Evans, Baba Akili, Almas Sayeed, Will Alden, Dorothy Yungman, Igal Yungman, Adam Hirsch, Erika Verba, Lolo Movsessian, Denise Barton, John Alle, Jennifer Vaughan, Vivien, Mariah, Rabbi Eli Levitansky, Ignacio Fernandez, Metabrafar Agindotan, Dorothy Chapman, Robin Boerner, John Williams, Jamie Kelleher, Susan Adelman, Debbie Paperman, Lawson Adams, Kiran Randhawa, Rozima Tarr, Rebeca Kon, Dr. Ghassan Khoury, Peter Himmelman (time donated by Rabbi Chaim Teleshevsky), Johnathan Foster, Arnold Seid, Jennifer Roth Krieger, Rabbi Naomi Levy, Justin Baltz, Afroze Bari, Timothy Arnold, Zoe Muntaner, Aseya Jooma, Majed Harb, Nasiha Solakovic, Isaac Yerushalmi (time donated by David Noormand, Riyad Shauk, Valida Carroll, Craig Ali, Joanne Berlin, Joshua Martinez, Michele Prince Itai Klein (time donated by John Mcallister), Sharon Ben-Roohi, Suleman Adeyemi, Amelia Hall, John Seeley, Lee Garrum (time donated by Sophy Yurman), Maggie Lang, Nadia, Alexandra Anemone, Melanie Campbell, Christie Becu, Taylor Brophy, Alan Luna, Ladan M, Elly Levy, Anastasia Shakhidzhanova, Jesssica Pirrone, Dana Kotler, Yves Marton, Vicki Plaks, Miriam Alpern, Peter Birnstein, Robert Shiri, Hagai Feiner, Assaf and Ray Schwartz commented on 16.D.

Member of the public Michael Masucci, Jeff Gordon, Federico Galavis, Deepa Subramaniam, Janet Owen Driggs, Mona Kuhn and Robert Berman commented on Item 16.F.

Member of the Public Johnathan Foster, John Alle (time donated by Jessica Rogers) and Denise Barton commented n Item 16.I.

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ORDINANCES:

BICYCLIST

HARRASSMENT

10.A. Introduction and First Reading of an Ordinance Adding Section

3.75 to the Municipal Code to Prohibit Harassment of Bicyclists and Provide for a Private Right of Action for Violations, was presented.

Recommended Action
Staff recommends that the City Council:

1. Adopt a finding of categorical exemption pursuant to Section 15321 of the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) Guidelines;

2. Introduce for first reading the attached ordinance adding Section 3.75 of the Santa Monica Municipal Code to prohibit harassment of bicyclists and provide a private right of action for violations.

Questions asked and answered of staff included: could these protections be offered to pedestrians and what educational outreach would be provided to inform residents of these protections.

Motion by Councilmember Davis, seconded by Councilmember Zwick, to introduce and hold first reading of the ordinance reading by title only and waiving further reading thereof and providing direction to staff to include pedestrians to the ordinance. The motion was approved by the following vote:

AYES: Councilmembers Zwick, Parra, Davis, Torosis, de la Torre, Mayor Pro Tem Negrete, Mayor Brock
NOES: None
ABSENT: None
STAFF

ADMINISTRATIVE
ITEMS:

ANNUAL UPDATE ON

HOMELESSNESS

11.A. Annual Interdepartmental Update on Addressing Homelessness, was presented.

Recommended Action
Staff recommends that the City Council:

1. Receive the 2024 Annual Interdepartmental Update on Addressing Homelessness.

2. Adopt the attached Proclamation declaring a local emergency on Homelessness through 05/31/2025 (Attachment A), unless repealed or extended by Council, due to the ongoing crisis of homelessness as evidenced by the 2023 increase in the Point-In-Time Count.

3. Adopt a finding of no possibility of significant effect pursuant to Section 15061(b)(3) (Common Sense Exemption) of the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) Guidelines.

Questions asked and answered of staff included: why is the occupancy rate only at 50% at this time at SAMOSHEL; do people need to be referred to be provided a bed; how much money is spent towards homeless services and programs and how does it compare to other cities; has the Governor’s 2024-

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25 May budget revision been analyzed for implications to current funding sources; is there anything structurally the City can do to improve the prevention of homelessness; is staff aware of the Orange County homeless consent decree; what is the bed count for temporary shelters within the city; has staff evaluated the potential impacts of signing or not signing the consent decree; what are the implications of transferring from the city’s proprietary homeless management information system (HMIS) to the HMIS managed by the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority (LAHSA) and are there any immediate actions the city can do to make tangible differences to the behavioral health approach.

Motion by Mayor Pro Tem Negrete, seconded by Councilmember de la Torre, to adopt proclamation declaring a local emergency on Homelessness through 5/31/2025 was approved by the following vote:

AYES: Councilmembers Zwick, Parra, Davis, Torosis, de la Torre, Mayor Pro Tem Negrete, Mayor Brock
NOES: None
ABSENT: None

COUNCILMEMBER
DISCUSSION ITEMS:

COMMISSION ON

SUSTAINABILITY,

ENVIRONMENTAL

JUSTICE AND THE

ENVIRONMENT

16.A. Appointment to an unscheduled vacancy on the Commission on Sustainability, Environmental Justice and the Environment for a term ending on June 30, 2024, was heard.

On order of the Mayor, the floor was opened for nominations.

Councilmember Davis nominated Gerda Newold.

Councilmember Parra nominated Jeff Bush.

Jeff Bush was appointed to a term ending June 30, 2024, by the following vote:

Newbold: Councilmembers de la Torre, Parra, Mayor Pro Tem Negrete, and Mayor Brock
Bush: Councilmembers Torosis, Davis, and Zwick

TRANSIENT

OCCUPANCY TAX

ADVISORY COMMITTEE

16.B. Appointment to an unscheduled vacancy on the Transient Occupancy Tax Advisory Committee for a term ending on June 30, 2025, was continued to June 11, 2024 meeting.

CITY COUNCIL RULES

AMENDMENT

16.C. Request of Mayor Brock that the City Attorney, City Clerk, and City Manager return with an amendment to the City Council Rules to limit the time period for general public input (e.g., 20 minutes), and to continue any remaining general public input to the end of the meeting, was heard.

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Motion made by Mayor Brock with no second. Motion failed for lack of a second.

CEASEFIRE AND ANTIRACISM RESOLUTION16.D. Request of Councilmembers Zwick, Torosis, and Davis that the City Council adopt attached Resolution No. 11586 (CCS) supporting the resumption of a negotiated bilateral ceasefire in Gaza and reiterating the City’s condemnation of all antisemitism, anti-Arab racism, Islamophobia, and all forms of hate and incitement to violence, was heard.

Motion by Mayor Brock to propose Resolution No. 11587 (CCS) with the following language: “It is resolved that while tragic armed conflicts are occurring in the Middle East, we acknowledge that feelings of hate and despair within our community from these outside events are stirring Antisemitism and Islamophobia in Santa Monica. Be it known to all that tolerance of all faiths and beliefs are integral to life within Santa Monica and that all faiths and beliefs are welcome here without prejudgment. Further, verbal and/or physical attacks on any member of the Santa Monica community will not be tolerated, no matter their religion, faith, or creed.

Santa Monicans strive for peace in our community and throughout the world.

As the City Council, we are responsible for promoting the safety and security of all who live and come here. Tolerance, not intolerance, is the key to peace in our city. We urge all of Santa Monica’s residents to treat each other respectfully and not judge others based on external factors but as humans dedicated to peace and justice for all other humans.”
Friendly amendment proposed by Councilmember Zwick to change the following language to the first proposed Resolution from “WHEREAS, the horrific slaughter of Israeli civilians perpetrated by Hamas on October 7, 2023, was the largest mass murder of Jews since the Holocaust, and 240 Israeli civilians were taken as hostages” to “WHEREAS, the horrific slaughter of 1,000 Israeli civilians perpetrated by Hamas, a designated foreign terrorist organization, on October 7, 2023, was the largest mass murder of Jews since the Holocaust, and 240 Israeli civilians were taken as hostages.” The motion was considered friendly by the maker and seconded by Councilmember Davis.

Motion by Mayor Brock, seconded by Councilmember Davis, to adopt both resolutions. The motion was approved by the following vote:

AYES: Councilmembers de la Torre, Torosis, Davis, Zwick, Mayor Pro Tem Negrete, Mayor Brock
NOES: Councilmember Parra
ABSENT: None

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For the record, Councilmember Parra stated she voted against the motion because it would create division within the community and wished to be sensitive to all members.

MITIGATING VEHICLE

SPEEDING
(Councilmember Davis
recused herself at 1:32 a.m.)

16.E. Request of Councilmember Zwick, Councilmember Torosis, and Councilmember Davis that the City Council direct the City Manager to prioritize measures to reduce vehicle speeding and mitigate crashes on Neilson Way in order to enhance safety for pedestrians, cyclists, and drivers on the corridor; specifically, the City Manager is directed to prepare cost estimates and identify potential funding sources and tradeoffs for adding the installation of speed cushions along Neilson Way as a project for consideration as part of the upcoming biennial Capital Improvement Program budget process. This would result in Neilson Way being prioritized as the next phase of the ongoing partnership among the Department of Transportation, Santa Monica Fire Department, and Public Works Department to re-initiate deployment of speed humps/bumps and other speed calming measures that do not impact emergency response times, as resources and staff capacity allow, was heard.

Motion by Councilmember Zwick, seconded by Councilmember Torosis, to adopt the staff recommendation. The motion was approved by the following vote:

AYES: Councilmembers Zwick, Parra, Torosis, de la Torre, Mayor Pro Tem Negrete, Mayor Brock
NOES: None
ABSENT: Councilmember Davis

CONTRACT WORDING
(Councilmember Davis
returned at 1:40 a.m.)

16.F. Request of Vice Mayor Negrete, Councilmember Parra, and Councilmember de la Torre that the City Manager include language in contracts between the City of Santa Monica and Venice Family Clinic and CLARE|Matrix pursuant to the Fiscal Year 24/25 Human Services Grant Program (HSGP) that states: “Agency will not use HSGP funds provided under this contract or renewals of this contract for the purpose of syringe distribution/exchange at or around parks and public open spaces.” On April 9, 2024, the City Council adopted a resolution that was transmitted to Los Angeles County indicating that harm reduction is an important tool to connect individuals to healthcare, behavioral health, and substance abuse resources but objects to the County of Los Angeles Substance Abuse Prevention and Control Bureau’s (County) distribution of clean needles and other drug paraphernalia in parks or near schools. To this end, Vice Mayor Negrete, Councilmember Parra, and Councilmember de la Torre are requesting that the City Manager incorporate additional language into the City’s contracts with Venice Family Clinic and CLARE|Matrix to reflect City Council policy

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direction, was heard.

Motion by Councilmember de la Torre, seconded by Councilmember Parra, to approve the item. The motion was approved by the following vote:

AYES: Councilmembers Zwick, Parra, Davis, de la Torre,
Mayor Pro Tem Negrete, Mayor Brock
NOES: Councilmember Torosis
ABSENT: None
ADJOURNMENT On order of the Mayor, the City Council meeting adjourned at 1:50 a.m.

ATTEST: APPROVED:

Nikima S. Newsome Phil Brock
Interim City Clerk Mayor

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CITY OF SANTA MONICA

CITY COUNCIL MINUTES
DECEMBER 10, 2024
A regular meeting of the Santa Monica City Council was called to order by Mayor Brock at 5:37 p.m., on Tuesday, December 10, 2024 , at City Council Chambers, 1685 Main Street, Santa Monica, CA.

Roll Call: Present: Mayor Phil Brock
Mayor Pro Tem Lana Negrete
Councilmember Gleam Davis
Councilmember Oscar de la Torre
Councilmember Christine Parra
Councilmember Caroline Torosis
Councilmember Jesse Zwick (Arrived at 5:57 p.m.)
Also Present: City Manager David White
City Attorney Douglas Sloan
City Clerk Nikima S. Newsome
CONVENE/PLEDGE On order of the Mayor, the City Council convened at 5:37 p.m., with all members present except Councilmember Zwick. Mayor Pro Tem Negrete led the assemblage in the Pledge of Allegiance.

GENERAL PUBLIC

INPUT AND PUBLIC

INPUT FOR SPECIAL
AGENDA ITEMS ONLY:
(Councilmember Zwick
arrived at 5:57 p.m.)
Members of the public Assemblymember Rick Zbur, Mayor John Erickson, Vice Mayor Chelsea Byers, Nick Faires, Zac Gaidzik, Joey Apodaca, Councilmembers Bubba Fish and Yasmine-Imani McMorrin, Jerry Rubin, Judith Serlin, John Medlin, Kathryn Boole, David Whatley, Danielle Wilson, Joleigh Sherwood, Denise Barton, Wade Kelley, Janet McLaughlin, Julie Taren, John C. Smith, Jon Katz, Kaleigh Malloy, and Robert Hooks commented on various local issues and Special Agenda Items.

SPECIAL AGENDA
ITEMS:

OUTGOING

COUNCILMEMBERS

3.A. Recognition of Outgoing Councilmembers Brock, Davis, de la Torre, and Parra, was presented by Mayor Pro Tem Negrete.

OFFICIAL CANVASS 3.B. Adoption of Resolution No. 11636 (CCS) entitled “A

RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SANTA

MONICA ACCEPTING THE LOS ANGELES COUNTY REGISTRAR
RECORDER/COUNTY CLERK’S OFFICIAL CANVASS AND

OFFICIAL STATEMENT OF VOTES CAST FOR THE

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CONSOLIDATED MUNICIPAL ELECTION HELD ON NOVEMBER 5,
2024, AND DECLARING THE RESULTS THEREOF,” was presented.

Recommended Action
Staff recommends that the City Council adopt the resolution accepting the Official Canvass for the General Municipal Election held on November 5, 2024.

Motion by Councilmember Davis, seconded by Councilmember Torosis, to adopt Resolution No. 11636 (CCS ) accepting the Official Canvass and Official Statement of Votes Cast for the Consolidated General Municipal Election Held on November 5, 2024, and Declaring the Results Thereof.

The motion was approved by the following vote:

AYES: Councilmembers de la Torre, Torosis, Davis, Parra, Zwick Mayor Pro Tem Negrete, Mayor Brock
NOES: None
ABSENT: None

ADJOURNMENT OF THE

CURRENT COUNCIL
On order of the Mayor, the City Council, as presently constituted, was adjourned and the meeting was turned over to City Clerk Nikima S.

Newsome.

INSTALLATION OF NEW OFFICERS

SANTA MONICA

MALIBU UNIFIED

SCHOOL DISTRICT
BOARD

3.C. Administration of Oath of Office to New Santa Monica Malibu Unified School District Board Members, was presented.

City Clerk Newsome administered the oath of office to newly elected Santa Monica Malibu Unified School District Board Members Jennifer Smith, Jon Kean and Maria Leon-Vazquez.

RENT CONTROL BOARD 3.D. Administration of Oath of Office to New Santa Monica Rent Control Board Members, was presented.

City Clerk Newsome administered the oath of office to newly elected Santa Monica Rent Control Board Members Kay Ambriz and Phillis Dudick.

CITY COUNCIL 3.E. Administration of Oath of Office to New Santa Monica City Council Members, was presented.

City Clerk Newsome administered the oath of office to newly elected Councilmembers Dan Hall, Ellis Raskin, Barry Snell and Natalya Zernitskaya.

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CONVENING OF THE

NEW CITY COUNCIL

AND ELECTION OF

MAYOR AND MAYOR

PRO TEMPORE

3.F. Convening of new City Council, was presented.
• Roll Call
PRESENT: Councilmembers Hall, Negrete, Raskin, Snell, Torosis, Zernitskaya, and Zwick.
• Election of Mayor for the ensuing year, was presented.

The City Clerk opened the floor for nominations for election of Mayor for the ensuing year.

Motion by Councilmember Torosis, seconded by Councilmember Snell, to appoint Councilmember Negrete as Mayor for the ensuing year. The motion was approved by the following vote:

AYES: Councilmembers Hall, Negrete, Raskin, Snell, Torosis, Zernitskaya, Zwick
NOES: None
ABSENT: None

MAYOR ASSUMED THE
CHAIR
Mayor Negrete assumed the Chair.
• Election of Mayor Pro Tem for the ensuing two years, was presented.

Mayor Negrete opened the floor for nominations for election of Mayor Pro Tem for the ensuing two years.

Motion by Councilmember Hall, seconded by Councilmember Raskin, to split the term appointing Councilmember Torosis as Mayor Pro Tem for the first year and Councilmember Zwick for the second year. The motion was approved by the following vote:

AYES: Councilmembers Hall, Negrete, Raskin, Snell, Torosis, Zernitskaya, Zwick
NOES: None
ABSENT: None

END OF INSTALLATION OF NEW OFFICERS

SEATING ORDER OF

COUNCILMEMBERS
On order of the Mayor, Councilmembers draw lots for seat selection on the dais, in accordance to the Council Rules.

ADJOURNMENT On order of the Mayor, the City Council meeting adjourned at 8:02 p.m. in memory of Chris Purcell and Joyce Borinstein Steers.

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ATTEST: APPROVED:

Nikima S. Newsome Phil Brock
City Clerk Mayor
APPROVED:

Lana Negrete
Mayor

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CITY OF SANTA MONICA

CITY COUNCIL MINUTES
DECEMBER 23, 2024
A special meeting of the Santa Monica City Council was called to order by Mayor Negrete at 8:31 a.m., on Tuesday, December 23, 2024, at City Council Chambers, 1685 Main Street, Santa Monica, CA.

Roll Call: Present: Mayor Lana Negrete
Mayor Pro Tem Caroline Torosis
Councilmember Jesse Zwick (Arrived at 8:36 a.m.)
Councilmember Dan Hall
Councilmember Ellis Raskin
Councilmember Barry Snell
Councilmember Natalya Zernitskaya (Arrived at 8:40 a.m.) Also Present: City Manager David White
City Attorney Douglas Sloan
City Clerk Nikima S. Newsome
CONVENE/PLEDGE On order of the Mayor, the City Council convened at 8:31 a.m., with all members present except Councilmembers Zernitskaya and Zwick. Mayor Pro Tem Torosis led the assemblage in the Pledge of Allegiance.

PUBLIC INPUT FOR

CLOSED SESSION,
CALENDAR ONLY:

No members of the public commented on Closed Session items.

CLOSED SESSIONS
(Councilmember Zwick
arrived at 8:36 a.m.)
(Councilmember Zernitskaya
arrived at 8:40 a.m.)
On order of the Mayor, the City Council recessed at 8:34 a.m. to consider Closed Session items.

4.A. Closed Session: Public Employee Appointment - Gov. Code § 54957(b): Consider public employee appointment; title: City Manager/Interim City Manager; Gov. Code § 54957.6: Conference with labor negotiator; City negotiator: Mayor/Personnel Director; unrepresented employee: City Manager/Interim City Manager.

The City Attorney advised this matter was heard with no reportable action taken.

ADJOURNMENT On order of the Mayor, the City Council meeting adjourned at 11:15 a.m.

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CITY OF SANTA MONICA

CITY COUNCIL MINUTES
JANUARY 10, 2025
A special meeting of the Santa Monica City Council was called to order by Mayor Negrete at 2:34 p.m., on Friday, January 10, 2025, at City Council Chambers, 1685 Main Street, Santa Monica, CA.

Roll Call: Present: Mayor Lana Negrete
Mayor Pro Tem Caroline Torosis
Councilmember Jesse Zwick
Councilmember Dan Hall
Councilmember Ellis Raskin
Councilmember Barry Snell
Councilmember Natalya Zernitskaya
Also Present: City Manager David White
City Attorney Douglas Sloan
City Clerk Nikima S. Newsome
CONVENE/PLEDGE On order of the Mayor, the City Council convened at 2:34 p.m., with all members present. Mayor Pro Tem Torosis led the assemblage in the Pledge of Allegiance and recited the land acknowledgement.

PUBLIC INPUT ON

REMAINING AGENDA
ITEMS:

Members of the public Shannon Yoshikowa, Margarita Padia, Scott Martlette, Kay Ambriz, Kurt Gonska, Assemblymember Rick Chavez Zbur (time donated by Robert Oliver), Hank Koning, Adam Finkel, Bobby Shriver, Ericka Lesley, and John C. Smith commented on Item 14.A.

RESOLUTIONS:

LOCAL EMERGENCY

14.A. Confirm and Ratify Proclamation of Local Emergency Due to Palisades Fire, was approved.

Recommended Action
Staff Recommends that the City Council:

1. Adopt resolution ratifying Proclamation of Local Emergency Due to Palisades Fire; and

2. Adopt a finding of no possible significant effect on the environment under CEQA Guidelines.

Questions asked and answered of staff included what is the turnaround time for the waiving of Conditional Use Permits (CUPs) for schools in non-school zones and what is the definition of temporary in this regard; preferential

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parking suspension; how is anti-price gouging being enforced and who should be contacted if someone believes they are a victim; prioritizing of the below market housing wait list; does the Council need to reconvene to adopt any amendments going forward; effective term for the emergency order; extending building permits for projects that cannot be completed at this time as a result of the fires, ability to collect data from websites of current available rentals; are there processes in place to prohibit illegal home sharing; concerns with open burning including covered firepits during this time; suspension of leasing regulations; are non-profits considered businesses for the purpose of waiving CUPs; and what constitutes a primary residence.

Considerable discussion ensued on topics including, but not limited to creating a rental list; waiving building and permit requirements; prioritizing people who qualify for below market housing who have been displaced by any of the fires in Los Angeles County; flexibility of the Building Official to waive certain requirements to allow for schools; allowing the suspension of CUPs for displaced local businesses; and lengths of time established for the relaxation of home sharing regulations.

Motion by Mayor Pro Tem Torosis, seconded by Councilmember Snell, to adopt Resolution No. 11639 (CCS) ratifying Proclamation of Local Emergency Due to Palisades Fire. The motion was approved by the following vote:

AYES: Councilmembers Zernitskaya, Snell, Raskin, Hall, Zwick Mayor Pro Tem Torosis, Mayor Negrete
NOES: None
ABSENT: None
ADJOURNMENT On order of the Mayor, the City Council meeting adjourned at 3:58 p.m. in memory of all those who have lost family, friends, loved ones and property during the fires.

ATTEST: APPROVED:

Nikima S. Newsome Lana Negrete
City Clerk Mayor

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CITY OF SANTA MONICA

CITY COUNCIL MINUTES
TUESDAY, JANUARY 21, 2025
A special meeting of the Santa Monica City Council was called to order by Mayor Negrete at 5:32 p.m., on Tuesday, January 21, 2025, at City Council Chambers, 1685 Main Street, Santa Monica, CA.

Roll Call: Present: Mayor Lana Negrete
Mayor Pro Tem Caroline Torosis (Arrived at 5:41 p.m.)
Councilmember Jesse Zwick
Councilmember Dan Hall
Councilmember Ellis Raskin
Councilmember Barry Snell
Councilmember Natalya Zernitskaya
Also Present: City Manager David White
City Attorney Douglas Sloan
City Clerk Nikima S. Newsome
CONVENE/PLEDGE On order of the Mayor, the City Council convened at 5:32 p.m., with all members present except Mayor Pro Tem Torosis. Councilmember Snell led the assemblage in the Pledge of Allegiance.

STATEMENT OF

ACCOUNTABILITY
(LAND

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT)
The City of Santa Monica is located on the land of Tovangaar. With great respect, the City acknowledges the Gabrieleño/Tongva as the First People of this ancestral and unceded territory of Kuruvungna, a village that we know as Santa Monica. We honor their elders, past and present, and the Gabrieleño descendants who are part of the Gabrieleño /Tongva tribes.

We recognize that these peoples are still here, and as settlers and kuyam (guests), we recognize our responsibility and obligation to care for their land in partnership with them. The City of Santa Monica commits to work in partnership with the Gabrieleño/Tongva people to uplift their voices and visibility on their ancestral land.

The City of Santa Monica Statement of Accountability (Land Acknowledgement) was read into the record by Councilmember Hall.

LEVINE ACT Pursuant to the Levine Act (Govt Code Section 84308), any party to a

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DISCLOSURE permit, license, contract, or other entitlement before the Council is required to disclose on the record any contribution, including aggregated contributions, of more than $500 made by the party or the party's agents within the preceding 12 months to any City official.

Participants and agents are requested to make this disclosure as well.

No Councilmembers recused themselves from any items on the agenda pursuant to the Levine Act.

PUBLIC INPUT FOR
CLOSED SESSION:

Member of the public Zoe Muntaner commented on Closed Session items.

CLOSED SESSIONS
Mayor Pro Tem Torosis
arrived at 4:41 p.m.

On order of the Mayor, the City Council recessed at 5:39 p.m., to consider Closed Sessions and returned at 10:18 p.m., with all members present, to report the following:

4.A. Conference with legal counsel - existing litigation - Gov. Code § 54956.9(d)(1): John Doe 1, et al. v. City, et al; # 23STCV15009; John UNB Doe, et al. v. Doe 1, et al; # 23STCV12746; John Doe (A.G.) v. SM PAL, et al.; # 23SMCV06066; John JPC Doe v. Doe, City, et al., # 23STCV22020; John AD Doe, et al. v. City, et al; # 23STCV26548; John CW, Doe, et al. v. City, et al; # 23STCV29623; Hector Orozco v. John Doe, et al; # 23SMCV03120; John U.L.W. Doe v. City, et al; # 24STCV06768; John Doe 15, et al. v. City, et al; # 24STCV07647; John RR Doe, et al. v. City, et al; # 24STCV09398; John Doe 18, et al. v. City, et al; # 24STCV08239; John GA Doe, et al. v. City, et al; # 24STCV06484; John Doe 33, et al. v. City, et al; # 24STCV15580; John Doe 48 v. City, et al; # 24STCV15420; Joseph Garcia v. City, et al; # 24SMCV01368; John Doe 49 v. City, et al; # 24STCV19296; Jane EB Doe, et al. v. City, et al; # 24STCV24146; John DD, Doe v. City, et al; # 24SMCV04421; Jane Doe 13, et al. v. City, et al; # 24STCV27233; John AM Doe, et al. v. City, et al; # 24STCV28433; John Doe 52 v. City, et al; # 24STCV30678; John Doe 53 v. City, et al; # 24STCV31763 The City Attorney advised this matter was heard with no reportable action taken.

4.B. Conference with legal counsel - existing litigation - Gov. Code § 54956.9(d)(1): City v. ICSOP, et al; OCSC # 30-2022-01261243 The City Attorney advised this matter was heard with no reportable action taken.

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4.C. Conference with legal counsel - existing litigation - Gov. Code § 54956.9(d)(1): Jane Doe 1, et al. v. City, et al; LASC # 24STCV06207 The City Attorney advised this matter was heard with no reportable action taken.

4.D. Public Employee Appointment - Gov. Code § 54957(b): Consider public employee appointment; title: City Manager/Interim City Manager; Gov. Code § 54957.6: Conference with labor negotiator; City negotiator: Mayor/Personnel Director; unrepresented employee: City Manager/Interim City Manager
The City Attorney advised that Elaine Polachek has been appointed as Interim City Manager on a part time basis from February 3, 2025 to February 20, 2025 at a rate of $197.00/hour with no other benefits and on a full time basis beginning February 21, 2025 under the same terms on a month to month basis for approximately six months. The appointment was made unanimously with all Councilmembers present.

4.E. Conference with labor negotiator – Gov. Code §54957.6: agency designated representatives: City Manager David White, Human Resources Director Dana Brown, and Human Resources Manager Sarah Rebensdorf; bargaining units: Administrative Team Associates (ATA), AFSCME Local 4819- Management Team Association (MTA), California Teamsters Local 911 (IBT), Municipal Employees Association (MEA), Public Attorney’s Legal Support Staff Union (PALSSU), Public Attorney’s Union (PAU), Santa Monica Fire Executive Management Association (FEMA), Santa Monica Firefighters Local 1109 (LOCAL 1109), Police Officers Association (POA), Supervisory Team Association (STA) and SMART TD- International Association of Sheet Metal, Air, Rail, and Transportation WorkersTransportation Division, Local 1785 (SMART TD) The City Attorney advised this matter was heard with no reportable action taken.

ADJOURNMENT On order of the Mayor, the City Council meeting adjourned at 10:19 p.m.

ATTEST: APPROVED:

Nikima S. Newsome Lana Negrete
City Clerk Mayor

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CITY OF SANTA MONICA

CITY COUNCIL MINUTES
DECEMBER 17, 2024
A regular meeting of the Santa Monica City Council was called to order by Mayor Negrete at 5:38 p.m., on Tuesday, December 17, 2024, at City Council Chambers, 1685 Main Street, Santa Monica, CA, and 10 Sibonne RD, Grace Bay, Turks and Caicos TKCA 1ZZ.

Roll Call: Present: Mayor Lana Negrete
Mayor Pro Tem Caroline Torosis (Remote)
Councilmember Jesse Zwick
Councilmember Dan Hall
Councilmember Ellis Raskin
Councilmember Barry Snell (Absent)
Councilmember Natalya Zernitskaya
Also Present: City Manager David White
City Attorney Douglas Sloan
City Clerk Nikima S. Newsome
CONVENE/PLEDGE On order of the Mayor, the City Council convened at 5:38 p.m., with all members present except Councilmember Snell. Councilmember Zernitskaya led the assemblage in the Pledge of Allegiance.

STATEMENT OF

ACCOUNTABILITY
(LAND

The land acknowledgement was recited.

LEVINE ACT

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aggregated contributions, of more than $250 made by the party or the party's agents within the preceding 12 months to any City official.

Participants and agents are requested to make this disclosure as well.

No Councilmembers recused themselves pursuant to the Levine Act.

GENERAL PUBLIC
INPUT:

Members of the public Zoe Muntaner, Denise Barton, Johnathan Foster, David Whatley, Harvey Eder, Monica and Jerry Rubin commented on various local issues.

PUBLIC INPUT FOR

CLOSED SESSION,

SPECIAL AGENDA

ITEMS AND CONSENT
CALENDAR ONLY:

Members of the public Zoe Muntaner, Maria Loya, Oscar de la Torre (time donated by Gina de Baca), Eve Lopez (time donated by Amaya Lopez), Johnathan Foster, David Whatley, Harvey Ederand Jerry Rubin commented on Closed Session items.

No members of the public commented on Special Agenda items.

Member of the public Denise Barton commented on consent calendar items.

PROCLAMATIONS/

COMMENDATIONS/

SPECIAL AGENDA
ITEMS

3.A. City Manager Report, was presented.

CLOSED SESSIONS On order of the Mayor, the City Council recessed at 6:25 p.m., to consider Closed Sessions and returned at 9:04 p.m., with all members present except Councilmember Snell, to report the following:

4.A. Conference with legal counsel - existing litigation - Gov. Code § 54956.9(d)(1): Maria Gonzalez v. City of Santa Monica, et al.; LASC Case No. 23SMCV01759
The City Attorney advised this matter was heard with no reportable action taken.

4.B. Conference with legal counsel - existing litigation - Gov. Code § 54956.9(d)(1): Pico Neighborhood Association and Maria Loya v. City of Santa Monica; LASC Case No. BC616804
The City Attorney advised this matter was heard with no reportable action taken.

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4.C. Public Employee Appointment – Gov. Code § 54957(b): Consider public employee appointment; title: City Manager/Interim City Manager; Gov. Code § 54957.6: Conference with labor negotiator; City negotiator: Mayor/Personnel Director; unrepresented employee: City Manager/Interim City Manager
The City Attorney advised this matter was heard with no reportable action taken.

4.D. Conference with legal counsel - existing litigation - Gov. Code § 54956.9(d)(1): Lucinda Manera v. City of Santa Monica; LASC Case No. 21STCV43159 [report out only]
The City Attorney advised that this was a personal injury case settled for $550,000. Council approved Settlement Agreement No. 11685 (CCS) at the October 22, 2024, Council meeting with a vote of 7-0.

4.E. Conference with legal counsel - existing litigation - Gov. Code § 54956.9(d)(1): Elroy W. McCrary, Jr. v. City of Santa Monica; LASC Case No. 23SMCV03343 [report out only]
The City Attorney advised that this was a personal injury case settled for $500,000. Council approved Settlement Agreement No. 11686 (CCS) at the October 22, 2024, Council meeting with a vote of 7-0.

4.F. Conference with Real Estate Negotiator pursuant to Government Code § 54956.8: Property: 1855 Main Street, Santa Monica, California (Civic Auditorium) (APN 4290-013-901); City Negotiators: Jennifer Taylor, Economic Development Manager, and Nia Tang, Economic Development Administrator; Owner of Record: City of Santa Monica; Persons to be negotiated with: Tim Sexton, Revitalization Partner Group, LLC; Under negotiation: Price and Terms of Payment for Lease The City Attorney advised this matter was heard with no reportable action taken.

REPORT ON COUNCIL
TRAVEL
Mayor Negrete reported that she traveled to Tampa, Florida for the National League of Cities City Summit November 13th – 16th.

REPORT ON MEETING

COMPENSATION
Pursuant to State law, City Clerk Nikima S. Newsome announced that Council will receive no compensation for meeting as the Redevelopment Successor Agency.

CONSENT CALENDAR:

JOINT MEETING WITH
There being a Consent Calendar for the City Council and the Redevelopment Successor Agency, on order of the Mayor, with consensus of the

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THE REDEVELOPMENT

SUCCESSOR AGENCY
Councilmembers, the Council convened to a joint meeting with the Redevelopment Successor Agency at 9:15 p.m., and the two Consent Calendars were heard concurrently, with all members present except Councilmember Snell.

All items were considered and approved in one motion unless removed by a Councilmember for discussion.

At the request of Agency/Councilmember Raskin, Item 5.C. was removed from the Consent Calendar.

Motion by Chair Pro Tem/Mayor Pro Tem Torosis, seconded by Agency/Councilmember Hall, to approve the Consent Calendar except for Item 5.C, reading resolutions by title only and waiving further reading thereof. The motion was approved by the following vote:

AYES: Agency/Councilmembers Zernitskaya, Raskin, Hall, Zwick, Chair Pro Tem/Mayor Pro Tem Torosis, Chair/Mayor Negrete NOES: None
ABSENT: Agency/Councilmember Snell
MINUTES 5.A. Approval of Minutes of the City Council - Special Meeting - Apr 23, 2024, was approved.

MINUTES 5.B. Approval of Minutes of the City Council - Regular Meeting - Nov 11, 2024, was approved.

HEARING EXAMINER

SERVICES

5.D. Award Contract No. 11650 (CCS) to Nastich Law for Parking Citations Hearing Examiner Services, was approved.

Recommended Action
Staff recommends that the City Council:

1. Adopt a finding that the contract is not a project subject to the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA);

2. Award RFP# 426 to Nastich Law, a Professional Corporation (“Nastich Law”) for parking citation hearing examiner services for the Department of Transportation;

3. Authorize the City Manager to negotiate and execute an agreement with Nastich Law, in an amount not to exceed $240,000 for three years with two one-year renewal options in the amount of $176,000 on the same terms and conditions for a total amount not to exceed $416,000 over a five-year period, with future year funding contingent on Council budget approval.
3200 AIRPORT AVE 5.E. Approval of Lease with NEON Rated for 3200 Airport Ave and Associated Contract Modifications with Corporate Realty Group and

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Swinerton Builders, was approved.

Recommended Action
Staff recommends that the City Council:

1. Adopt a finding of Categorical Exemption pursuant to Sections 15301 (Existing Facilities) of the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) guidelines;

2. Authorize the City Manager to negotiate and execute Lease Agreement No. 11651 (CCS) with NEON Rated, LLC, dba
(“NEON”), a California-based company for general office and administrative uses located at 3200 Airport Avenue;

3. Authorize the City Manager to negotiate and execute a second modification to Professional Services Agreement No. 11419 (CCS) in the amount of $251,565 with Corporate Realty Group (“CRG”) for commercial real estate broker services associated with these negotiations. This would result in a 5-year amended agreement with a new total amount not to exceed $3,675,462 with future year funding contingent on Council budget approval;

4. Authorize the City Manager to negotiate and execute a second modification to Agreement No. 11365 (CCS) in an amount not to exceed $2,500,000 (including contingency) with Swinerton Builders (“Swinerton”) for costs associated with additional scope required for tenant improvements related to lease negotiations at 3200 Airport Avenue for the Public Works Department. This would result in an amended agreement with a new total amount not to exceed $12,084,792 with future year funding contingent on Council budget approval;

5. Authorize the Director of Public Works to issue any necessary change orders to complete additional work within contract authority; and

6. Authorize budget amendments as outlined in the Financial Impacts & Budget Actions section of this report (requires 5 votes).

CONSTRUCTION

SERVICES

5.F. Award Bids and Master Service Agreements for Construction Services, was approved.

Recommended Action
Staff recommends that the City Council:

1. Adopt a finding of categorical exemptions pursuant to Section 15301 and Section 15302 of the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) Guidelines;

2. Award Bid #SP2524-2024 to fifteen California-based general contractors as follows; CSI Electrical Contractors Inc, DECOMA Industries, Estate Design and Construction, Global Builders Inc, Jilk Heavy Construction, Metro Builders & Engineers, Olympos Construction, Inc., Omega Construction Company, Palp Inc. dba

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Excel Paving Company, RAMCO General Engineering, Sully Miller Contracting, Swinerton, Tiger Construction, Waisman Construction, W.A Rasic Construction; to provide as-needed construction, maintenance, or repair services on various projects for the Public Works Department; and

3. Authorize the City Manager to negotiate and execute as-needed services Agreement No. 11652 (CCS) through No. 11666 (CCS) with fifteen general contractors as follows; CSI Electrical Contractors Inc, DECOMA Industries, Estate Design and Construction, Global Builders Inc, Jilk Heavy Construction, Metro Builders & Engineers, Olympos Construction, Inc., Omega Construction Company, Palp Inc. dba Excel Paving Company, RAMCO General Engineering, Sully Miller Contracting, Swinerton, Tiger Construction, Waisman Construction, W.A Rasic Construction; in an amount not to exceed $5,000,000 for each agreement, over a five-year period, subject to Council budget approval projects and project funding.

BUILDING

AUTOMATION

SOFTWARE

5.G. Award Contract No. 11667 (CCS) to Siemens Industry, Inc. to Provide Building Automation System Software Maintenance, Repairs, and Upgrades, was approved.

Recommended Action
Staff recommends that the City Council:

1. Adopt a finding of no possibility of significant effect pursuant to Section 15061(b)(3) (Common Sense Exemption) of the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) guidelines.

2. Authorize the City Manager to negotiate and execute Agreement No. 11667 (CCS) with Siemens Industry, Inc. to provide building automation system software maintenance, repairs and upgrades, in an amount not to exceed $750,000 over a five-year period with future year funding contingent on Council budget approval.

TRAFFIC SIGNAL

CONTROLLER

SOFTWARE

5.H. Approval of contracts for operation and maintenance of traffic signal controller software, traffic signal central software, vendor cloud services, and support services for migration to current versions of software, was approved.

Recommended Action
Staff recommends that the City Council:

1. Adopt a finding that the contract is not a “project” subject to the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) Guidelines.

2. Authorize the City Manager to negotiate and execute Software Maintenance Agreement No. 11668 (CCS) including vendor cloud hosting with Q-Free America, Inc. and Contractual Services Agreement No. 11669 (CCS) with Control Tech West, Inc., for maintenance of the City’s traffic signal system for the Department

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of Transportation. This recommended award is made as an exception to the competitive bidding process pursuant to Section 2.24.250(b) and is for a total amount not to exceed $270,450 with future year funding contingent on Council budget approval.

BUILDING

MAINTENACE

5.I. Award Construction Contract for Department of Transportation Maintenance Building Resinous Flooring Replacement and Award Construction Management Contract for Maintenance Building Resinous Flooring Replacement, Propulsion Infrastructure, Facilities Greening, and Administration Building Tier 2 Seismic Retrofit Projects, was approved.

Recommended Action
Staff recommends that the City Council:

1. Adopt a finding of Categorical Exemptions pursuant to Sections 15301 (Existing Facilities) and 15302
(Replacement/Reconstruction), of the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) Guidelines;

2. Award Bid #SP2713 to Stonhard, Division of Stoncor Group, Inc., for the SMDOT Maintenance Building Resinous Flooring
Replacement Improvements Project for the Public Works
Department;

3. Award Request for Proposal (RFP) SP#2713, SP#2720, SP#2577 and SP#2575 to Wildan Engineering to provide construction
management and observation services for the SMDOT Maintenance Building Resinous Flooring Replacement Improvements Project, SMDOT Propulsion Infrastructure Project, SMDOT Facilities Greening Project and SMDOT Administration Building Tier 2 Seismic Retrofit Project for the Public Works Department;

4. Authorize the City Manager to negotiate and execute Contract No. 11670 (CCS) with Stonhard, Division of Stoncor Group, Inc., in an amount not to exceed $1,441,000 (including a 10% contingency);

5. Authorize the City Manager to negotiate and execute Construction Management Agreement No. 11671 (CCS) with Wildan Engineering in an amount not to exceed $1,026,148 for a term of five years; and

6. Authorize the Director of Public Works to issue any necessary change orders to complete additional work within contract authority.

FIRE DEPARTMENT

UNIFORMS

5.J. Award Bid No. 4486 to On Duty Uniforms, Inc. and Purchase Order to Galls, LLC for the Purchase and Delivery of Uniforms for the Fire Department, was approved.

Recommended Action
Staff recommends that the City Council:

1. Award Bid #4486 to vendor On Duty Uniforms, Inc. for the purchase and delivery of uniforms for the Santa Monica Fire Department;

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2. Authorize the Procurement Manager to issue a purchase order with On Duty Uniforms, Inc. for the purchase and delivery of uniforms in an amount not to exceed $300,000 over a term of five years, with future years funding contingent on Council budget approval;

3. Authorize the Procurement Manager to issue a purchase order with Galls, LLC for the purchase and delivery of uniforms in an amount not to exceed $115,000 over a term of five years, with future years funding contingent on Council budget approval; and

4. Adopt a finding that the purchase orders are not subject to the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA).

CCTV EQUIPMENT 5.K. Award Bid and Enter into Agreement No. 11672 (CCS) with Convergint Technologies LLC for Closed Circuit Television Camera (CCTV) Equipment for the Police Department, was approved.

Recommended Action
Staff recommends that the City Council:

1. Adopt a finding of no possibility of significant effect pursuant to Section 15061(b)(3)(Common Sense Exemption) of the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) Guidelines;

2. Award Bid # 4490 to Convergint Technologies LLC for the purchase, installation, repair, and maintenance of CCTV cameras for the Police Department; and

3. Authorize the City Manager to negotiate and execute Agreement No. 11672 (CCS) with Convergint Technologies LLC, in an amount not to exceed $2,000,000 over a five-year period, with future year funding contingent on Council budget approval.

VIDEO ANALYTICS

PLATOFRM

5.L. Award Proposal and Enter into Agreement No. 11673 (CCS) with SurveillanceGRID Integration Inc. for Investigative and Real-Time Video Analytics Platform, was approved.

Recommended Action
Staff recommends that the City Council:

1. Award the contract for RFP #418 to SurveillanceGRID Integration Inc. for services related to the development of an investigative and real-time video analytics platform for the Police Department.

2. Authorize the City Manager to negotiate and execute Agreement No. 11673 (CCS) with SurveillanceGRID Integration Inc. in an amount not to exceed $716,562 over a three-year period, with future year funding contingent on Council budget approval.

3. Adopt a finding that the agreement is not a “project” subject to the California Environmental Quality Act.

GRANT FUNDS 5.M. Accept 2023 State Homeland Security Program (SHSP) Grant Funds and Approve Second Modification to Agreement with Fire

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Resources, LLC, was approved.

Recommended Action
Staff recommends that the City Council:

1. Adopt a finding of no possibility of significant effect pursuant to Section 15061(b)(3) (Common Sense Exemption) of the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) Guidelines;

2. Authorize the City Manager to accept a grant awarded in the amount of $880,000 from the federal Department of Homeland Security for the 2023 State Homeland Security Program grant in the Fire Department and City Manager’s Office, and to accept all grant renewals;

3. Authorize the City Manager to execute all necessary documents to accept the grant, all grant renewals, and modifications;

4. Authorize the City Manager to negotiate and execute a second modification to Agreement No. 11339 (CCS) in the amount of $185,000 with Fire Resources, LLC to assist the Los Angeles Area Fire Chief’s Association Regional Training Group hosted by the Santa Monica Fire Department. This will result in a five-year amended agreement with a new total amount not to exceed $740,000, with future year funding contingent on the availability of grant funds and Council budget approval; and

5. Authorize a budget amendment as outlined in the Financial Impacts & Budget Actions section of this report (requires 5 votes).

PIER AQUIARIUM

EDUCATIONAL

CONSULTING SERVICES

5.N. Award Agreement No. 11674 (CCS) to Heal the Bay for Santa Monica Pier Aquarium Educational Consulting Services and Administering the Coastal Cleanup Day Activities, was approved.

Recommended Action
Staff recommends that the City Council:

1. Adopt a finding of no possibility of significant effect pursuant to Section 15061(b)(3) and a finding of Categorical Exemption pursuant to Section 15307 of the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) guidelines; and

2. Authorize the City Manager to negotiate and execute Agreement No. 11674 (CCS) with Heal the Bay, a California-based non-profit organization, for Santa Monica Pier Aquarium educational consulting and technical advisory services and programming, and to administer the annual Coastal Cleanup Education for the Public Works Department.

3. This recommended award is made as an exception to the competitive bidding process pursuant to Section 2.24.250 (b) and is for a fiveyear agreement, not to exceed $250,000, with future year funding contingent on Council budget approval.

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TENNIS INSTRUCTION 5.O. Approval of Modifications to Recreational Services Agreements To Provide Revenue Supported Tennis Instruction, was approved.

Recommended Action
Staff Recommends that the City Council

1. Adopt a finding of no possibility of significant effect pursuant to Section 15061(b)(3) (Common Sense Exemption) of the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) Guidelines.

2. Authorize the City Manager to negotiate and execute a second modification to Agreement No. 11675 (CCS), formerly agreement #4932, in the amount of $150,000 with Richard Goldenson, a California-based company, to provide revenue supported tennis instruction. This will result in a 3-year amended agreement with a new total amount not to exceed $399,000; and,

3. Authorize the City Manager to negotiate and execute a second modification to Agreement No. 11676 (CCS), formerly agreement #4938, in the amount of $125,000 with Damian Mooney, a
California-based company, to provide revenue supported tennis instruction. This will result in a 3-year amended agreement with a new total amount not to exceed $374,000; and,

4. Authorize the City Manager to negotiate and execute a second modification to Agreement No. 11677 (CCS), formerly agreement #4929, in the amount of $125,000 with Peter Fox, a California-based company, to provide revenue supported tennis instruction. This will result in a 3-year amended agreement with a new total amount not to exceed $374,000.

AGENDA

MANAGEMENT

SERVICES

5.P. Approval of Seventh Contract Modification with
Carahsoft/Granicus for Electronic Agenda Management Services, was approved.

Recommended Action
Staff recommends that the City Council:

1. Authorize the City Manager to negotiate and execute a seventh modification to Agreement No. 9784 (CCS) in the amount of $14,050 with Carahsoft/Granicus for an agenda management software system for the Records and Election Services Department. This will result in a 12.5-year amended agreement with a new total amount not to exceed $257,550, with future year funding contingent on Council budget approval; and

2. Adopt a finding of no possibility of significant effect pursuant to Section 15061(b)(3) (Common Sense Exemption) of the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) Guidelines.

MENTAL HEALTH AND

WELLNESS ACT GRANT

5.Q. Authorization to Accept the U.S. Department of Justice's FY2024 Law Enforcement Mental Health and Wellness Act Grant, was approved.

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Recommended Action
Staff recommends that the City Council:

1. Authorize the City Manager to accept a grant awarded in the amount of $200,000 from the U.S. Department of Justice’s Law Enforcement Mental Health and Wellness Act (LEMHWA) Grant Program for mental health support in the Police Department, and to accept all grant renewals.

2. Authorize the City Manager to execute all necessary documents to accept the grant and all grant renewals.

3. Adopt a finding that the award grant is not a project subject to the California Environmental Quality Act

4. Authorize budget amendment as outlined in the Financial Impacts & Budget Actions section of this report (requires 5 votes).

POLICE DEPARTMENT

EQUIPMENT

5.R. Award an Agreement with Axon Enterprises, Inc. for Taser Devices for the Police Department, was approved.

Recommended Action
Staff recommends that the City Council:

1. Adopt a finding of no possibility of significant effect pursuant to Section 15061(b)(3) (Common Sense Exemption) of the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) Guidelines.

2. Authorize the City Manager to negotiate and execute Agreement No. 11678 (CCS) with Axon Enterprises, Inc. for Taser 10 devices for the Police Department. This recommended award is made as an exemption to the competitive bidding process pursuant to Section

2.24.250 (c) and is for a total amount not to exceed $1,840,000 over a five-year period, with future year funding contingent on Council budget approval.

HARZARDOUS WASTE

SERVICES

5.S. Approval of Fourth Contract Modification with Clean Earth Environmental Solutions, Inc. for Hazardous Waste Services, was approved.

Recommended Action
Staff recommends that the City Council:

1. Adopt a finding of Categorical Exemptions pursuant to Section 15301 and Section 15308 of the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) guidelines; and

2. Authorize the City Manager to negotiate and execute a fourth modification to Agreement No. 11051 (CCS) in an amount not to exceed $1,118,000 with Clean Earth Environmental Solutions, Inc. for hazardous waste services for the Public Works Department. This will result in a five-year amended agreement with a new total amount

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not to exceed $2,198,000, with future year funding contingent on Council budget approval.

PROFESSIONAL

SERVICES

5.T. Approval of Fourth Modification to Contract with JAS Pacific, Inc. for Professional Services, was approved.

Recommended Action
Staff recommends that the City Council:

1. Adopt a finding of no possibility of significant effect pursuant to Section 15061(b)(3) (Common Sense Exemption) of the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) Guidelines;

2. Authorize the City Manager to negotiate and execute a fourth modification to Agreement No. 10637 (CCS) in the amount of $350,000 with JAS Pacific, Inc. for seismic plan review services for the Community Development Department. This will result in an eight-year amended agreement with a new total amount not to exceed $975,000, with future year funding contingent on Council budget approval.

LIVING WAGE

ORDINANCE

5.U. Second Reading and Adoption of Ordinance No. 2795 (CCS) entitled “AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF

SANTA MONICA AMENDING SANTA MONICA MUNICIPAL CODE
SECTION 4.65.030 TO PROVIDE A TEMPORARY EXEMPTION FOR
EMERGENCY AMBULANCE AND BILLING SERVICES,” was
adopted.

Recommended Action
Staff recommends that the City Council adopt the attached Ordinance.

CITY TIMEKEEPING

DEVICE MAINTENANCE

5.V. Approval of First Modification to Agreement No. 11411 (CCS) with UKG (Kronos, Inc.) for Hardware Maintenance Services, was approved.

Recommended Action
Staff recommends that the City Council:

1. Adopt a finding of no possibility of significant effect pursuant to Section 15061(b)(3) (Common Sense Exemption) of the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) Guidelines

2. Authorize the City Manager to negotiate and execute a first modification to Agreement No. 11411 (CCS) in the amount of $37,211 (including a $3,383 contingency) with UKG (Kronos Inc.) to provide hardware maintenance services for City timekeeping devices. This will result in a five-year amended agreement with a new total amount not to exceed $3,462,672, with future year funding contingent on Council budget approval.

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ONBOARD PLATFORM

SERVICES

5.W. Approval of Modification to Agreement Between the City of Santa Monica and NEOGOV To Add NEOGOV'S Onboard Platform Service
Recommended Action
Staff recommends that the City Council

1. Adopt a finding that the proposed modification to the existing agreement between the City and Governmentjobs.com (dba
NEOGOV) is not subject to CEQA because the proposed
modification is not a “project” pursuant to Section 21065 of the CEQA Guidelines.

2. Adopt a finding that the proposed modification is not subject to CEQA because it is not a “project” pursuant to Section 15378(b) of the CEQA Guidelines.

3. Authorize the City Manager to negotiate and execute a fourth modification of Agreement No. 10257 (CCS) with NEOGOV, to provide Human Resources access to NEOGOV’s onboarding
platform service, increase the contact price to pay for the additional service, and add provisions to the existing agreement pertaining to the protection of personal identifying information that is stored and maintained by NEGOV. This recommended award is made as an exception to the competitive bidding process pursuant to Santa Monica Municipal Code Section 2.24.250(b). This will result in an amended agreement with a new total amount not-to-exceed $459,655, with future year funding contingent on Council budget approval.

ANNUAL HOUSING
REPORT

5.X. Annual Report on Low-Mod Income Housing Asset Fund, was presented.

Recommended Action
Staff recommends that the Redevelopment Successor Agency:

1. Receive the Annual Report on the Low- and Moderate-Income Housing Asset Fund for Fiscal Year 2023-24 and authorize the City Manager to post the report on the City's website by December 31, 2024; and

2. Direct the City Manager to present the independent audit of the Lowand Moderate-Income Housing Asset Fund to the City Council upon completion of the independent audit of the City’s Annual Comprehensive Financial Report (ACFR) and authorize the City Manager to post the results of the audit on the City's website after presentation to City Council.

RECOGNIZED

OBLIGIATION

PAYMENT SCHEDULE

5.Y. Approval of Annual Recognized Obligation Payment Schedule (ROPS), was presented.

Recommended Action

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Staff recommends that the Redevelopment Successor Agency:

1. Adopt Resolution No. 45 (SA) and No. 46 (SA) approving the Agency’s recognized obligation payment schedule and
administrative budget for July 1, 2025 through June 30, 2026.

2. Adopt a finding that the recognized obligation payment schedule is not a “project” subject to the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA).

MINUTES 5.Z. Minutes for Redevelopment Successor Agency Meeting, were approved.

Recommended Action
Staff recommends that the Redevelopment Successor Agency approve the minutes of the February 13, 2024 meeting.

PURCHASE OF

ELECTRIC BUSES
(Councilmember Raskin left
the dais at 9:16 P.M.)

5.C. Approval of Agreement No. 11364 (CCS) Modification with Gillig LLC to Purchase Thirty 40-foot Battery Electric Buses, was presented.

Recommended Action
Staff recommends that the City Council:

1. Adopt a finding of Categorical Exemption pursuant to Section 15302 (Replacement or Reconstruction) of the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) Guidelines;

2. Authorize the City Manager to negotiate and execute a first modification to Agreement No. 11364 (CCS) in the amount of $46,800,876 with Gillig, LLC to furnish and deliver up to thirty 40- foot battery electric buses to the Santa Monica Department of Transportation and authorize a notice to proceed to Gillig, LLC in reference to the agreement. This will result in an amended agreement with a new total amount not to exceed $64,948,546, with future year funding contingent on Council budget approval.

Questions asked and answered of staff included: are these buses compatible with UCLA’s pilot inground charging on Westwood Blvd and if not, could they be in the future.

Motion by Councilmember Zwick, seconded by Councilmember Zernitskaya, to introduce and hold first reading of the ordinance reading by title only and waiving further reading thereof. The motion was approved by the following vote:

AYES: Councilmembers Zwick, Hall, Zernitskaya
Mayor Pro Tem Torosis, Mayor Negrete
NOES: None
ABSENT: Councilmembers Raskin and Snell

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ADJOURNMENT OF

JOINT MEETING
(Councilmember Raskin
returned at 9:19 P.M.)
On order of the Chair/Mayor, the joint meeting with the Redevelopment Successor Agency was adjourned at 9:19 p.m., and the regular meeting of the City Council was reconvened, with all members present except Councilmember Snell.

PUBLIC INPUT ON

REMAINING AGENDA
ITEMS:

Member of the public Denise Barton and Taylor Megdal commented on item

10.A.

Members of the public Denise Barton, Christine Parra, Dima Volovik (time donated by Lauralee Asch), Lisa Jimenez, Allison Schallert, Corin Kahn, Ralph Mechur, Steph and Michael Soloff commented on item 11.A.

Member of the public Cris Gutierrez commented on item 16.L.

Members of the public Jerry Rubin and Johnathan Foster commented on item

16.M.

Member of the public Denise Barton commented on item 16.N.

Members of the public Christine Parra and Brad Ewing commented on item

16.O.

ORDINANCES:

CANNABIS RETAILER

OPERATING HOURS

10.A. Introduction and First Reading of an Interim Zoning Ordinance Amending Interim Zoning Regulations Established by Interim Zoning Ordinance 2764 (CCS) and Extended by Interim Zoning Ordinance 2770 (CCS) to Extend the Operating Hours for the City’s Existing Cannabis Retailers Consistent with State Law, was presented.

Recommended Action
Staff recommends that the City Council:

1. Adopt a finding of no possibility of significant effect pursuant to Section 15061(b)(3) (Common Sense Exemption) of the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) Guidelines.

2. Introduce for first reading an Interim Zoning Ordinance amending interim zoning regulations established by Interim Zoning Ordinance No. 2764 (CCS) and extended by Interim Zoning Ordinance No. 2770 (CCS) to extend the operating hours for the City’s existing cannabis retailers consistent with State law.

Considerable discussion ensued on topics including, but not limited to the possibility of changing the opening time to 6:00 a.m. to match the state guidelines.

Motion by Councilmember Zernitskaya, seconded by Mayor Negrete, to

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introduce and hold first reading of the ordinance reading by title only and waiving further reading thereof. The motion was approved by the following vote:

AYES: Councilmembers Zwick, Hall, Raskin, Zernitskaya,
Mayor Pro Tem Torosis, Mayor Negrete
NOES: None
ABSENT: Councilmember Snell

SAMO BRIDGE

PROGRAM

10.B. Approval of Contracts for Implementation of SaMo Bridge Program And Introduce and Adopt Emergency Interim Zoning Ordinance to Exempt City Uses from Temporary Use Permit Requirements During a Declared Emergency, was presented.

Recommended Action
Staff recommends that the City Council:

Adopt a finding of no possibility of significant effect pursuant to Sections 15061(b)(3) (Common Sense Exemption) and 15303 (New Construction and Conversion of Small Structures) of the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) Guidelines.

1. Introduce and Adopt an Emergency Interim Zoning Ordinance to Exempt Uses on City-Owned Property and that Use City Funds From Temporary Use Permit Requirements During a Declared Local or State of Emergency

2. Authorize the City Manager to negotiate and execute Agreement No. 11679 (CCS) with Exodus Recovery, Inc. (Exodus) to operate SaMo Bridge. This recommended award is made as an exception to the competitive bidding process pursuant to Santa Monica Municipal Code Section 2.24.250(i) and 2.24.240(a) and is a total amount not to exceed $5,599,582 over a 3-year period, with future year funding contingent on Council budget approval.

3. Authorize the City Manager to negotiate and execute Agreement No. 11680 (CCS) with Willscot for mobile trailers. This recommended award is made as an exception to the competitive bidding process pursuant to Santa Monica Municipal Code Section 2.24.250(i) and

2.24.240(a) and is a total amount not to exceed $650,000 for three years with future funding contingent on Council budget approval.

4. Authorize the City Manager to negotiate and execute Agreement No. 11681 (CCS) with Moss Adams for SaMo Bridge program evaluation and fiscal audit services. This recommended award is made as an exception to the competitive bidding process pursuant to Santa Monica Municipal Code Section 2.24.250(i) and 2.24.240(a) and is a total amount not to exceed $350,000 for three years, with future year funding contingent on Council budget approval.

5. Authorize the City Manager to negotiate and execute Agreement No. 11682 (CCS) with Elizabeth Anderson Consulting (EAC) for grant

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consulting services. This recommended award is made as an exception to the competitive bidding process pursuant to Santa Monica Municipal Code Section 2.24.250(i) and 2.24.240(a) and is a total amount not to exceed $225,000 for three years, with future year funding contingent on Council budget approval.

6. Approve a limited term administrative position (Senior Legal Analyst) for legal data analysis, grant implementation, and ongoing grant management as described in the “Funding and Staffing Recommendations section of this report.

7. Authorize a budget amendment as outlined in the Financial Impacts & Budget Actions section of this report (requires 5 votes).

Questions asked and answered of staff included: is the funding coming from the general fund; how are clients referred to the program; who can be served; what is the lifecycle of the trailers; is there a line item for funding repairs if the grant funds are expended; does the grant funding cover the limited term staff position or will the City need to supplement; is the difference in the awarded amount versus the total amount of the contracts to account for any potential cost overruns; will the security guards be armed; and how will the seats for the Prop 47 Local Advisory Committee (LAC) be advertised.

Motion by Councilmember Zernitskaya, seconded by Councilmember Zwick, to introduce and hold first reading of the ordinance reading by title only and waiving further reading thereof. The motion was approved by the following vote:

AYES: Councilmembers Zernitskaya, Raskin, Hall, Zwick
Mayor Pro Tem Torosis, Mayor Negrete
NOES: None
ABSENT: Councilmember Snell
STAFF

ADMINISTRATIVE
ITEMS:

DEVELOPMENT AND

DISPOSITION

AGREEMENTS

11.A. Approve Deal Terms and Authorize Development and
Disposition Agreements (DDAs) and Ground Leases for 1217 Euclid Street, 1211-1217 Fourteenth Street, and 1402 Wilshire Boulevard, was presented.

Recommended Action
Staff recommends that the City Council:

1. Authorize the City Manager to negotiate and execute Ground Lease Agreement No. 11683 (CCS) with a fifty-five (55) year term, with two options to extend by twenty-two (22) years each, and Disposition and Development Agreement (DDA) No. 11684 (CCS) with Hollywood Community Housing Corporation (HCHC) for development and operation of affordable housing on City-owned property located at 1217 Euclid Street;

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2. Authorize the City Manager to negotiate and execute Ground Lease Agreement No. 11685 (CCS) with a fifty-five (55) year term, with two options to extend by twenty-two (22) years each, and a Disposition and Development Agreement (DDA) No. 11686 (CCS) with HCHC for development and operation of senior affordable and senior permanent supportive housing at 1211-1217 Fourteenth Street on property to be acquired by HCHC at 1402 Wilshire Boulevard and deeded to the City;

3. Declare 1402 Wilshire Boulevard “exempt surplus land” as defined in Government Code Section 54221(f) upon the City receiving fee title to the site at closing of construction financing;

4. Adopt Resolution No. 11637 (CCS) declaring 1402 Wilshire Boulevard as exempt surplus land, contingent upon HCHC acquiring the site and transferring fee title to the City at closing of construction financing, and authorize the City Manager to take actions necessary to comply with the Surplus Land Act (Government Code sections 54220 et seq.;

5. Authorize the City Manager to submit the report of declared exempt surplus land as part of the Annual Report to the California Department of Housing and Community Development (HCD), in conformance with state law;

6. Authorize the City Manager to negotiate and execute all necessary documents to make a Housing Trust Fund loan to HCHC in an amount consistent with the Housing Trust Fund Guidelines loan limits;

7. Provide direction to staff regarding public replacement parking including any City investment from the Housing Trust Fund;

8. Adopt a finding that the actions to approve the Ground Leases and DDAs for the Developments are exempt from CEQA pursuant to CEQA Guidelines Section 15182 and a finding that the
Developments have been previously analyzed in the 6th Cycle Housing Element Environmental Impact Report (SCH#
2020100575).

Questions asked and answered of staff included: will the Housing Trust get the difference back once the funding gap reduced and the loan is paid down; will the good neighbor agreement be incorporated into the DDA; will there be continual security plan after the one-year agreement ends with HCHC; what will the process be to ensure both the City and HCHC are responsive to the concerns of residents with this project when they arise; why is an Affordable Housing and Sustainable Communities (AHSC) Fund grant funding no longer being pursued as an option for this project; options for replacement parking, allowing parking available at night to residents to be made available during the day for short term parking; permitting perpendicular parking on the street; the ability to do back in angular parking; what is the cost of a study to evaluate perpendicular parking; what is the plan

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for lighting for the building; has outreach been conducted to the neighbors in the area concerning the lighting plan; when will the regulatory agreement be assigned; will the terms be approved as part of the DDA this evening; what is the current length of the affordable housing wait list; are any materials being modified or will any of the current renderings be changed; operational impacts concerning alley way usage; is the cost for parking a justifiable expenditure given the utilization in the area; is there any opportunity to lower any of the costs of the project; can GoSaMo Transportation Management Organization engage with residents to incentivize them to use more mass or micro transportation; angles to the curb for perpendicular parking; can the perimeter fence be created in a way that doesn’t appear unwelcoming while still providing security; concerns about the aesthetics of the building matching the surrounding area and the purpose of the screen; and how will the good neighbor agreement be solidified and will more outreach be conducted particularly to businesses; and comparable parking studies in other areas to determine parking needs for this project.

Considerable discussion ensued on topics including, but not limited to options to extend the security agreement; direction to staff to include language concerning the good neighbor agreement; evaluation of options for perpendicular parking and how much more parking it would yield; and bringing back safety concerns to Council within the nine months from the point at which the project is fully leased to determine if the security agreement needs to be extended.

Motion by Councilmember Zwick, seconded by Mayor Pro Tem Torosis, to adopt the staff recommendation. The motion was approved by the following vote:

AYES: Councilmembers Zwick, Hall, Raskin, Zernitskaya
Mayor Pro Tem Torosis, Mayor Negrete
NOES: None
ABSENT: Councilmember Snell
CONTINUE MEETING Motion by Councilmember Zwick, seconded by Councilmember Hall, to continue past 11:00 p.m. The motion was approved unanimously by roll call vote with all members present except Councilmember Snell.

PUBLIC HEARINGS:

BONDS ISSUANCE

12.A. Public Hearing and Adoption of Resolution No. 11638 (CCS) to issue Bonds for the Benefit of 710 Broadway Affordable, was heard and adopted.

Recommended Action
Staff recommends that the City Council:

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1. Hold a public hearing under the requirements of the Tax and Equity Fiscal Responsibility Act (“TEFRA”) and the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended;

2. Adopt a finding of no possibility of significant effect pursuant to Section 15061(b)(3) (Common Sense Exemption) of the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) Guidelines; and

3. Adopt Resolution No. 11638 (CCS) approving the issuance of California Municipal Finance Authority bonds in an amount not-toexceed $350,000,000 for the benefit of 710 Affordable LP or a related or successor entity for the purpose of financing or refinancing the acquisition, construction, improvement, and equipping of a multifamily rental housing project located at 710 Broadway, Santa Monica.

No members of the public spoke to the recommended action.

Motion by Mayor Pro Tem Torosis, seconded by Councilmember Hall, to adopt the staff recommendation. The motion was approved by the following vote:

AYES: Councilmembers Zernitskaya, Raskin, Hall, Zwick,
Mayor Pro Tem Torosis, Mayor Negrete
NOES: None
ABSENT: Councilmember Snell

COUNCILMEMBER
DISCUSSION ITEMS:

In accordance with Council Rule 6(x), all Councilmember Discussion items may be considered and approved in one motion unless removed by a Councilmember for discussion.

Items 16.G., 16.H., 16.I., 16.J., 16.K., 16.L., 16.M., 16.N., and 16.O. were removed and considered separately in accordance with Council Rule 6(x)

SANTA MONICA PIER

CORPORATION

16.A. Recommendation to accept Dan Hall's resignation from the Santa Monica Pier Corporation and authorize the City Clerk to publish the vacancy, was presented.

Motion by Mayor Negrete, seconded by Councilmember Zernitskaya, to accept the resignation with regret.

The motion was approved unanimously by roll call vote, with all members present except Councilmember Snell.

TRANSIENT

OCCUPANCY TAX

ADVISORY COMMITTEE

16.B. Recommendation to accept Natalya Zernitskaya's resignation from the Transient Occupancy Tax Advisory Committee and authorize the City Clerk to publish the vacancy, was presented.

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Motion by Mayor Negrete, seconded by Councilmember Zernitskaya, to accept the resignation with regret.

The motion was approved unanimously by roll call vote, with all members present except Councilmember Snell.

PERSONNEL BOARD 16.C. Recommendation to accept Jason Brown's resignation from the Personnel Board and authorize the City Clerk to publish the vacancy, was presented.

Motion by Mayor Negrete, seconded by Councilmember Zernitskaya, to accept the resignation with regret.

The motion was approved unanimously by roll call vote, with all members present except Councilmember Snell.

SANTA MONICA

TRAVEL AND TOURISM
BOARD

16.D. Recommendation to accept Kera Blades-Snell's resignation from the Santa Monica Travel and Tourism Board and authorize the City Clerk to publish the vacancy, was presented.

Motion by Mayor Negrete, seconded by Councilmember Zernitskaya, to accept the resignation with regret.

The motion was approved unanimously by roll call vote, with all members present except Councilmember Snell.

RECREATION AND

PARKS COMMISSION

16.E. Recommendation to accept Andrew Gomez's resignation from the Recreation and Parks Commission and authorize the City Clerk to publish the vacancy, was presented.

Motion by Mayor Negrete, seconded by Councilmember Zernitskaya, to accept the resignation with regret.

The motion was approved unanimously by roll call vote, with all members present except Councilmember Snell.

PUBLIC SAFETY

REFORM AND

OVERSIGHT

COMMISSION

16.F. Recommendation to accept Derek Devermont's resignation from the Public Safety Reform and Oversight Commission and authorize the City Clerk to publish the vacancy, was presented.

Motion by Mayor Negrete, seconded by Councilmember Zernitskaya, to accept the resignation with regret.

The motion was approved unanimously by roll call vote, with all members present except Councilmember Snell.

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AUDIT SUBCOMMITTEE 16.G. Appointments to Vacant Seats on the Audit Subcommittee, were continued to the January 28, 2025 meeting.

WESTSIDE CITIES

COUNCIL OF

GOVERNMENTS

16.H. Designate a Councilmember as a Governing Board
Representative to the Westside Cities Council of Governments (COG) and designate an Alternate Governing Board Representative. The Joint Powers Authority and By-laws require each City Council to designate one of its Councilmembers as a Governing Board Representative and one Councilmember as an Alternate Governing Board Representative, was continued to the January 28, 2025 meeting.

DESIGNATION OF

VOTING DELEGATE

16.I. Designation of City's voting delegate and alternate to Southern California Association of Governments (SCAG) 60th Annual Regional Conference and General Assembly Business Meeting from May 1-2, 2025 at the JW Marriott Desert Springs Resort & Spa in Palm Desert, CA, was continued to the January 28, 2025 meeting.

INDEPENDENT CITIES

ASSOCIATION

16.J. Designation of a Councilmember to the Independent Cities Association (ICA), was continued to the January 28, 2025 meeting.

DESIGNIATION OF

VOTING DELEGATE

16.K. Designation of voting delegate and alternate(s) for the CalCities Annual Conference and Expo, to be held October 8-10, 2025, in Long Beach, California, was continued to the January 28, 2025 meeting.

BOARD OF CLEAN

POWER ALLIANCE

16.L. Designation of a representative to serve as a director of the Board of Clean Power Alliance. The Joint Powers Authority requires the governing body of a member agency to appoint and designate, in writing, one Regular Director who shall be authorized to act for and on behalf of the Party on matters within the powers of the Authority and up to two Alternate Directors who may vote on matters when the Regular Director is absent. The person appointed and designated as the Director shall be an elected or appointed member of the governing body of the Party. The alternate directors may be a Councilmember, City staff member, member of an advisory body to the council, or member of the public with demonstrated knowledge in energy-related matters through significant industry, regulatory, academic, or non-profit experience, was presented.

Motion by Councilmember Zwick, seconded by Councilmember Zernitskaya, to appoint Mayor Pro Tem Torosis as the Regular Director and Gleam Davis and Pam O’Connor as the Alternate Directors.

The motion was approved unanimously by roll call vote, with all members present except Councilmember Snell.

RULES OF ORDER AND 16.M. Request of Councilmembers Hall and Raskin, and Mayor Pro

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PROCEDURES Tem Torosis that the City Attorney, City Clerk, and City Manager update the Rules of Order and Procedure for the Conduct of City Council Meetings and Councilmembers, was presented.

Motion by Councilmember Raskin, seconded by Councilmember Zwick, to approve the item.

The motion was approved unanimously by roll call vote, with all members present except Councilmember Snell.

PRESIDENTIAL

TRANSITION

16.N. Request of Mayor Pro Tem Torosis, Councilmember Zwick and Mayor Negrete that the City Attorney and City Manager prepare the City of Santa Monica for the Presidential Transition, was presented.

Motion by Mayor Negrete, seconded by Councilmember Zernitskaya, to approve the item.

The motion was approved unanimously by roll call vote, with all members present except Councilmember Snell.

ORDINANCE PROPOSAL 16.O. Request of Councilmembers Zwick, Zernitskaya, and Mayor Pro Tem Torosis that, in order to reduce the time and cost associated with developing new housing in the City, the City Council direct the City Manager and City Attorney to return with an ordinance by April 30, 2025 that allows all “housing projects” (as defined by California’s Housing Accountability Act) proposed in all non-residential zones except the Bergamot Area Plan to be processed through an Administrative Approval process regardless of the size of the parcel upon which the housing project is located, was presented.

Motion by Councilmember Zernitskaya, seconded by Councilmember Zwick, to approve the item.

The motion was approved unanimously by roll call vote, with all members present except Councilmember Snell.

ADJOURNMENT On order of the Mayor, the City Council meeting adjourned at 12:30 a.m. in memory of Marc Haefele and Nelly Gomez.

ATTEST: APPROVED:

Nikima S. Newsome Lana Negrete
City Clerk Mayor

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To: Mayor and City Council
From: Douglas Sloan, City Attorney, City Attorney's Office, Administration Subject: Adoption of a Resolution Adopting a Policy Regarding Acceptance of Gifts by Councilmembers
Recommended Action
Staff recommends the City Council adopt the Resolution adopting a policy regarding acceptance of gifts by Councilmembers.

Summary
In response to the request by Council, the City Attorney has prepared the attached Resolution placing limits on the acceptance of gifts by Councilmembers, with exceptions consistent with those found under State law.

Discussion
On December 17, 2024, Council asked the City Attorney to return with a rule prohibiting the acceptance of gifts greater than $100 per event or cumulative of the limit set by the Fair Political Practices Commission (FPPC) per year, with some exemptions.

The attached Resolution prohibits Councilmembers from accepting or soliciting gifts over $100 in a single instance, or $630 from a single source over 12 months (both numbers to be adjusted biennially in accordance with the FPPC limits). This Resolution contains the same exceptions to the definition of “gift” found in state law, including things such as inheritance, gifts from family members, campaign contributions reported under state or local law, and so forth. As under state law, if a Councilmember receives a gift they do not want, they can donate the gift to a nonprofit, or return the gift within 30 days.

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The Resolution also prohibits Councilmembers from accepting free meals over $20, except as would be provided to the public generally (such as a promotion or discount) or as part of an event at a conference where the Councilmember is representing the City in their official capacity and all participants receive similar treatment regardless of elected status or jurisdiction, such as free appetizers at a networking happy hour.

Financial Impacts and Budget Actions
There is no immediate financial impact or budget action necessary as a result of the recommended action.

Prepared By: Katie Doerr, Deputy City Attorney III
Approved Forwarded to Council
Attachments:

A. CAO-Gifts Reso

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1 City Council Meeting January 28, 2025 Santa Monica, California RESOLUTION NUMBER _________ (CCS)
(City Council Series)

A RESOLUTION OF THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF

SANTA MONICA ADOPTING A POLICY REGARDING ACCEPTANCE OF GIFTS BY

COUNCILMEMBERS
WHEREAS, in furtherance of its commitment to ethical government, the Council wishes to adopt a policy to reflect the modern legal landscape and maintain accountability in councilmember conduct, by establishing ethical standards and setting clear gift acceptance limits; and
WHEREAS, by adopting these reforms, the Council demonstrates its commitment to effective and ethical governance in service to the City and community.

NOW, THEREFORE, THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SANTA MONICA DOES RESOLVE AS FOLLOWS:

SECTION 1. Gifts.

A. No Councilmember shall accept or solicit, directly or indirectly, any gift with a value exceeding the cumulative gift limit established by the Fair Political Practices Commission (as amended by the FPPC from time to time - currently $630 through December 31, 2026) from a single source in a twelve month period, or a value exceeding $100 for a single instance (adjusted in the same proportion as the FPPC gift limit). These limits shall increase in accordance with the Fair Political Practices Commission’s CPI adjustment beginning January 1, 2027, and shall be published for public view by the City Clerk. This Section shall be in addition to the provisions of Charter Section XXII, the Taxpayer Protection Act.

B. For purpose of this Resolution, “gift” means any payment, property or

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C. The term “gift” does not include:
(1) Informational material such as books, reports, pamphlets, calendars or periodicals.
(2) Gifts from an individual’s spouse or former spouse, child or stepchild, parent, grandparent, grandchild, brother, sister, current or former parent-inlaw, brother-in-law, sister-in-law, nephew, niece, aunt, uncle, grand-nephew or niece, grand-aunt or uncle, or first cousin or first cousin once removed, or the spouse or former spouse of any such person; provided a gift from any such person shall be considered a gift if the donor is acting as the agent or intermediary for any person not covered by this paragraph.
(3) Campaign contributions required to be reported under state or local law.
(4) Any devise or inheritance.
(5) Commemorative items from City departments generally offered to attendees at City sponsored events.
(6) Meals, transportation, or lodging provided or paid for by the City in connection with attendance at City sponsored events.
(7) Free admission to a ticketed event for the official and one guest where the official performs a ceremonial role at the event (such as throwing out the first pitch), or free admission, food and nominal items (pens, note pad, or similar

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Packet Pg. 517 Attachment: CAO-Gifts Reso (6871 : Gifts Policy Resolution) 3 items) available to all attendees at an event where the official makes a speech, so long as the admission is provided by the person who organizes the event. (9) Personalized plaques or trophies valued at less than $250. (10) Anything excluded from the definition of “gift” under the Political Reform Act, as memorialized in 2 C.C.R. Sec. 18942.

D. If a Councilmember receives a gift in violation of this Section, the item may be returned to the donor, or the donor may be reimbursed for the value of the gift, within 30 days. Alternatively, the gift may be donated to a non-profit, tax-exempt (501(c)(3)) organization in which the Councilmember (or immediate family member) does not hold a position, within 30 days of receipt, without claiming a tax deduction.

E. In addition with complying with the terms of this Resolution, Councilmembers must comply with all gift reporting obligations under Political Reform Act.

SECTION 2. Free Food and Beverage. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in state or local law, no Councilmember may accept any meal, beverage, snacks or refreshments greater than $20 in value, except as would be provided to any member of the public (e.g., a promotion or discount), or as part of a program of events or conference where the Councilmember is representing the City in their official capacity and all participants receive similar treatment regardless of elected status or jurisdiction (e.g., hors d’oeuvres served at a conference networking cocktail hour).

SECTION 3. Violations of this Resolution may be reported to the City Attorney and/or the City Manager, who shall comply with the process concerning alleged violation of laws and policies by a Councilmember outlined in Resolution 11631 (CCS).

SECTION 4. The City Clerk shall certify to the adoption of this Resolution, and

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APPROVED AS TO FORM:
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Douglas Sloan, City Attorney

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To: Mayor and City Council
From: Dana Brown, Human Resources Director, Human Resources Department Subject: Approval of Agreement for Service as Interim City Manager – Elaine Polachek Recommended Action
Staff recommends that the City Council

1. Adopt a finding of no possibility of significant effect pursuant to Section 15601(b)(3) (Common Sense Exemption) of the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) Guidelines;

2. Approve the two agreements with Elaine Polachek for her services as Interim City Manager; and

3. Authorize the Mayor to sign the agreements on behalf of the City.

Summary
On January 21, 2025, Council appointed Elaine Polachek to serve as Interim City Manager. Ms. Polachek’s service will begin as providing extra help for a limited duration commencing on February 3, 2025, where she will work in a part-time capacity at the direction of City Manager David White to facilitate a smooth leadership transition to ensure a continuity of city business. Upon Mr. White’s departure on February 20, 2025, Ms. Polachek will assume the position of full-time Interim City Manager continuing until the completion of the pending recruitment for a permanent City Manager. As a retired annuitant, Ms. Polachek’s employment in this position is subject to the requirements of Government Code Section 21221(g) and (h). In accordance with these requirements, an agreement has been reached for Ms. Polachek’s employment in this position. There are two agreements to reflect the terms of these appointments. Under the terms of both agreements, Ms. Polachek’s hourly rate will be $197.41 (which equates to an annual salary of $410,604). As a retired annuitant, as required by California law, she will

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receive no additional benefits. Because she will be serving as a “local agency executive” as defined in Government Code Section 3511.1(d), California law requires that Ms. Polachek’s pay be approved at a regular meeting, with an oral summary provided before final action is taken. See Government Code Sections 54953(c)(3), 54956(b).

Environmental Review
The agreements for Ms. Polachek’s service as a retired annuitant are exempt from CEQA pursuant to Section 15061(b)(3) of the CEQA Guidelines, which states that CEQA does not apply, “where it can be seen with certainty that there is no possibility that the activity in question may have a significant effect on the environment.” The agreements are administrative in nature. Therefore, it can be seen with certainty that the agreements would not result in adverse physical impacts on the environment, and as such, is exempt from CEQA.

Financial Impacts and Budget Actions
There is no immediate financial impact or budget action necessary as a result of recommended action. Salary and benefits for the City Manager position and salary for the Interim City Manager position are included in the FY 2024-25 and FY 2025-26 budgets.

Prepared By: Sasha Sargent, Executive Administrative Assistant Approved Forwarded to Council
Attachments:

A. POLACHEK INTERIM FINAL
B. POLACHEK INTERIM REDACTED FINAL

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CITY OF SANTA MONICA

EMPLOYMENT AGREEMENT
This Employment Agreement (“Agreement”), entered into this ___day of January 2025, by and between the City of Santa Monica, a California municipal corporation (“City”), and Elaine Polachek (“Polachek”), is made with reference to the following:

RECITALS
A. David White is departing from his position as City Manager; his last day of City employment is February 20, 2025. The recruitment for a new permanent City Manager is underway, but this recruitment will not be completed by the time of Mr. White’s departure from City employment.

B. Pursuant to Government Code Section 21221(h), the City wishes to appoint Elaine Polachek, a retired annuitant, to serve as Interim City Manager pending the completion of the recruitment of a new permanent City Manager.

C. The City and Ms. Polachek wish to enter into an agreement setting forth the terms and conditions of Ms. Polachek’s appointment as Interim City Manager.

NOW, THEREFORE, the City and Ms. Polachek agree as follows:

TERMS AND CONDITIONS

1. Salary. Pursuant to Government Code Section 21221(h), the City agrees to pay Ms.

Polachek an hourly rate of $197.41, which equates to an annual base salary of $410,604.00, and will be payable in installments in the same manner and at the same time as other City employees are paid.

2. No Benefits. In accordance with the limitations on appointment of retired annuitants, Ms.

Polachek shall not receive from the City any benefits in addition to the above specified hourly rate.

3. Compliance with CalPERS Rules. This Agreement is intended to comply with CalPERS rules regarding employment of retired annuitants. To the extent that a reasonable modification of the terms of employment is determined necessary to comply with these rules, the City and Ms. Polachek will make good faith efforts to arrive at a mutually agreeable modification that will bring this Agreement into compliance with these rules. Notwithstanding the foregoing, in the event that CalPERS may otherwise determine in the future that Ms. Polachek’s appointment as Interim City Manager is not consistent with the limitations on post-retirement employment, the City will not be responsible for, and Ms. Polachek agrees to waive any and all claims against City for, any penalties imposed by CalPERS upon Ms. Polachek, or any other loss or damage occasioned by Ms. Polachek, as a result of CalPERS’ findings.

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4. Termination of Employment. Ms. Polachek understands and agrees that the Interim City Manager position is an at-will position of limited duration, and subject to termination by either party at any time with 30 days’ advance notice. In addition, Ms.

Polachek understands and agrees that her appointment as Interim City Manager will only be made once for this current vacancy and will terminate as of the date that a new permanent City Manager begins employment with the City, or when Ms. Polachek has reached the maximum 960 hours worked within a fiscal year, whichever is sooner.

5. Duration of Agreement. This Agreement shall be effective as of February 21, 2025, the anticipated first date of employment of Ms. Polachek as the Interim City Manager, and shall continue in full force and effect until modified by the City and Ms. Polachek in writing or until such time as Ms. Polachek’s employment with the City as Interim City Manager terminates.

6. Integrated Contract. This Agreement represents the full and complete understanding of every kind or nature whatsoever between the parties. Any preliminary negotiations and agreements of any kind or nature are merged into this Agreement. No oral agreement or implied covenant may be held to vary the provisions of this Agreement. This Agreement may be modified only by written agreement signed by the City and Ms. Polachek and approved as to form by the City Attorney.

7. Governing Law. The laws of the State of California, without regard to any choice of law provisions, will govern this Agreement.

8. Venue and Jurisdiction. Any litigation arising out of this Agreement may only be brought in either the United States District Court, Central District of California, or the Superior Court of California, County of Los Angeles, West District, as appropriate. The parties agree that venue exists in either court, and each party expressly waives any right to transfer to another venue. The parties further agree that either court will have personal jurisdiction over the parties to this Agreement.

9. Electronic Signatures. Each party agrees that the transaction consisting of this Agreement may be conducted by electronic means. Each party agrees and acknowledges that it is such party’s intent, that if such party signs this Agreement using an electronic signature, it is signing, adopting, and accepting this Agreement and that signing this Agreement using an electronic signature is the legal equivalent of having placed its handwritten signature on this Agreement on paper. Each party acknowledges that it is being provided with an electronic or paper copy of this Agreement in a usable format.

10. Counterparts. This Agreement may be executed simultaneously or in any number of counterparts, including both counterparts that are executed manually on paper and counterparts that are in the form of electronic records and are executed electronically, whether digital or encrypted, each of which shall be deemed an original and together shall constitute one and the same instrument.

In witness whereof, this Agreement was executed on the day and year first written above.

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CITY OF SANTA MONICA,
a municipal corporation
By: ________________________ __________________________ Lana Negrete, Mayor Elaine Polachek
APPROVED AS TO FORM: ATTEST:
___________________________ ___________________________ Doug Sloan, City Attorney Nikima Newsome, City Clerk

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Elaine Polachek
261 S. Reeves Drive, #105
Beverly Hills, CA 90212
Re: Offer of Temporary, Part-Time Employment – Limited Duration Dear Elaine:

It is my pleasure to extend this offer of temporary, part-time employment. The specific terms of your appointment are as follows:
 Your start date is Monday, February 3, 2025, and your end date is Thursday, February 20, 2025.
 Your rate of pay is $197.41 per hour.
 You will be scheduled to work approximately 20 hours a week.  You are not entitled to receive any additional benefits, incentives, compensation in lieu of benefits, or other forms of compensation.  Your appointment is “extra help” due to specialized skills that are needed to perform work of a limited duration and your appointment is not to be a vacant budgeted position.
 As a temporary, as-needed employee, your employment status is at will and may end with or without cause or advance notice at any time.  As a CalPERS retired annuitant, your hours of work may not exceed 960 hours in a fiscal year (July 1st through June 30th) for all combined CalPERS employers by whom you are employed.

This offer of employment is made with the City’s understanding and belief that it complies with State law governing employment of CalPERS retirees. However, the City cannot guarantee that CalPERS may otherwise determine in the future that your employment is not consistent with limitations on post-retirement employment. Therefore, your acceptance of this offer of employment is done so at your own risk. If CalPERS finds that your post-retirement employment with the City violates restrictions on employment of retirees, the City will not be responsible for, and you agree to waive any and all claims against the City for, any loss or damage occasioned by you because of any such findings. Please review A Guide to CalPERS Employment After Retirement (Pub 33) to ensure you understand the rules for working after retirement.

If you accept this offer of temporary, part-time employment, please sign below and return this letter to my attention.

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Sincerely,
Lana Negrete
Mayor
Acknowledgement and Waiver:
“I, _______________________ (print full name), acknowledge receipt of this Offer of Temporary, Part-Time Employment – Limited Duration. I understand this employment is to perform work of a limited duration and subject to CalPERs’ rules for working after retirement. I have reviewed A Guide to CalPERs Employment After Retirement (Pub 33) and am aware of the rules for postretirement employment and the consequences for failure to comply. I confirm that I meet the prerequisites for a retired annuitant appointment with the City of Santa Monica. I agree that if CalPERS finds my employment with the City violates CalPERS’ restrictions on employment after retirement, the City will not be responsible for, and I agree to waive any and all claims against the City for, any loss or damage I incur because of any such finding.
_______________________________________ ______________________ Signature Date
Note: Upon acceptance, please retain original and return a signed copy of this letter to the Human Resources Department, City of Santa Monica, 1685 Main Street, Room 101, Santa Monica, CA 90401.
cc: Human Resources
Hiring Department

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To: Mayor and City Council
From: Rick Valte, Public Works Director, Public Works, Architecture Services Subject: Santa Monica Airport Conversion Project (SMACP) Guiding Principles Recommended Action
Staff recommends that the City Council:

1. Adopt the finding that the recommended actions herein do not constitute a project subject to the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) and are exempt under CEQA Guidelines Sections 15262, and 15306, and file a notice of exemption pursuant to CEQA Guideline 15062;

2. Hold a study session to review and comment on the five Guiding Principles for vetting and evaluating the feasibility of features, amenities, programs, technical performance requirements, financial strategies, phasing, and planning scenarios related to the closure of the Airport and alternative land-use scenarios postclosure (collectively, “the Santa Monica Airport Conversion Project, or the Project”);

3. Consider the commencement of feasibility analysis for three planning scenarios for the Airport Conversion Project (“Phase 3”), based on the draft Guiding Principles; and

4. Provide direction to staff on how to proceed with respect to Phase 3.

Executive Summary
As a result of the Settlement/Consent Decree between the United States Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and the City (the “2017 Consent Decree”), the City has a legal obligation to continue operation of the Santa Monica Airport until December 31, 2028. After that, the city is released from any obligation to the FAA to operate the Airport. Based upon the authority to close the Airport in the Consent Decree, Council adopted Resolution 11026 (Attachment D) on February 28, 2017, authorizing the City Manager and staff “to take all actions necessary and proper” to close the Airport

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effective as of midnight on December 31, 2028. The closure of the Airport sets the stage for considering post-closure land-use scenarios (collectively, referenced herein as “The Santa Monica Airport Conversion Project”). This project would establish a preferred scenario for the conversion of the Santa Monica Airport, centered on a “Great Park” (consistent with Measure LC), after closure at midnight on December 31, 2028.

Ultimately, the closure of the Santa Monica Airport, presents a once-in-a-lifetime planning effort to return the Airport land into anticipated parkland supported by community amenities, services, and experiences. Following extensive community engagement (which includes residents, business owners, people who work in Santa Monica, enjoy our community resources, send their kids to school here, and more), City staff now seeks input to commence feasibility analysis for three land-use planning scenarios. This includes an inclusive public input process that amplifies the voices of Santa Monica’s many distinct communities and utilizes a broad range of feedback tools to find consensus and agreement on the difficult trade-offs that are inherent to a project of this scale and significance. At nearly 200 acres, the opportunity presented by the closure of the Airport ignites the imagination of many and rouses the passion of advocates across a spectrum of interests. A majority of participants that have engaged in the process thus far are largely from Santa Monica but not evenly across all demographics, advocating to convert the land to a “great park,” inclusive of active and passive recreational uses, and a variety of supporting uses. Nearly 20% of participants in engagement efforts to date have advocated for the site to involve land uses that could or would require another ballot measure as required in Measure LC, such as café/restaurant, amphitheaters, housing, markets, and other commercial activities. This report presents information on how these various ideas have garnered favor or criticism through the project’s first two phases of work over the past nine months, and it reports on the complexity of evaluating several clear community preferences through the lens of Measure LC.

At the cornerstone of the project’s aspirations to discover, design, and transform the Airport land into a reimagined community space are the goals established by City Council at the January 24, 2023, meeting (Attachment A) that serve as a framework for

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the elaboration and evaluation of ideas. These include elevated sustainability objectives to ensure thoughtful stewardship of ecological resources, promote environmental justice, and address resiliency against climate change, as well as goals for inclusivity and access, and equity and accountability in the process. Also included as a fundamental goal is the need for the preferred scenario to be economically selfsustaining and “live within its means” to support not only the initial capital investment in remediation, design, and construction, but also the ongoing operations, maintenance, and programming of the site in perpetuity. To this end, several financing approaches are outlined in this report that will become the focus of additional analysis as the project moves into its third phase of work in spring 2025 (Phase 3).

To aid staff in this endeavor, City Council awarded a multi-year contract to the interdisciplinary firm Sasaki Associates, Inc. (Sasaki) at the December 19, 2023 (Attachment C) City Council meeting. Sasaki brings to the table a depth of experience in assisting other municipalities around the globe with converting their airports into new community spaces and is complemented by a team of sub-consultants from a variety of disciplines handpicked to serve Santa Monica’s unique needs and requirements. With their support, the Airport Planning Team has been able to move efficiently to identify existing conditions, opportunities and challenges, and implement the project’s first two phases of community outreach, which has produced a wealth of data that has been analyzed and refined for use during the subsequent phases of concept design. Through community open houses, pop-up events, micro-grant sponsored “community conversations,” online surveys and more, thousands of individuals have contributed to the record, and have woven their voices into the tapestry of dreams for the future of the Airport land, which has resulted in the development of the five draft Guiding Principles that are presented to Council in this report.

The Guiding Principles provide the philosophical framework to analyze the feasibility of three alternative land use scenarios for the Airport site post-closure. Distilled and refined from the community feedback received through nine months of outreach, and drawing reference from the project’s established goals, they encapsulate the ethos of the moment in which Santa Monica advances towards one of the largest land use

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decisions it will face in the 21st century. Written broadly to allow for multiple potential outcomes and to retain adaptability to evolving regulatory realities, the draft Guiding Principles will serve as a framework for three potential scenarios, and ultimately the Council-adopted preferred scenario in the project’s final phase leading into the necessary CEQA analysis. The draft Guiding Principles are:
• Start with Nature - The project design should consider the impact of any future intervention on the natural environment, and the Airport land’s ability to regenerate species and build community resiliency against climate change. • Inspire Wonder - The project should connect individuals in powerful and farreaching ways uniting people of all backgrounds and ages in meaning, happiness, and heightened energy.
• Balance Economics - The project should achieve economic equilibrium by balancing revenue with construction, operations, maintenance, and programming costs.
• Amplify Versatility - The project should be vibrant in the ‘every day’ and the ‘big day, working for the Santa Monica community for large events and unprogrammed day-to-day activities with active and passive amenities. • Celebrate Place - The future project should embrace the layers of the site’s history, and share the stories of the place and region, from pre-colonial to the history of aviation on the site.

The feasibility analysis for identification, refinement, and presentation of the preferred scenario to become the basis of the CEQA analysis is anticipated in December 2025, at which time it is anticipated that City Council would direct staff to commence CEQA analysis for the preferred and alternative post-closure scenarios (collectively, “the Project” as defined for CEQA). The Project must be analyzed for environmental impact before City Council approves the Project for implementation.

Lastly, this report concludes with focused questions for City Council discussion that are relevant to the project’s next phase of work. City Council’s response to these questions will assist the project team in vetting and evaluating the feasibility of concept features,

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amenities, programs, technical performance requirements, financial strategies, phasing and implementation. These questions include:

The project is currently on schedule, and on budget. Timely completion of the Airport Conversion Project in December 2025 is critical if the City is to proceed with implementing authorized post-closure uses immediately or shortly after closure of the Airport effective midnight on December 31, 2028. Staff expects that the Environmental Impact Report (EIR) will have a two-year timeline before certification and approval of the Project to proceed.

Accomplished and Anticipated Project Timeline
The anticipated timeline for the Airport Conversion Project is noted below:

Item Date
City Council Contract Authorization December 19,
2023
Sasaki and Staff Project Kick-off March 2024
Phase 1: Charting the Course (3 months)
First Community Event May 19, 2024
Phase completed June 30, 2024
Phase 2: Discovering Place and Setting the Stage (5 months) Second Phase begins September 19,
2024
Second Community Event – Draft Guiding Principles
The team presents to City Council for comment January 28, 2025 Phase 3a: Defining the Future of Place (4 months)
Third Community Engagements – Three Scenarios (3a) Early 2025 Does City Council:

1. Have feedback on the draft Guiding Principles before finalization?

2. Authorize staff to begin exploring the feasibility of three alternative scenario concepts for Phase 3, based on the draft Guiding Principles?

3. Authorize staff to explore the feasibility of the spectrum of community preferred land uses including one scenario that is consistent with Measure LC without a vote?

4. Authorize staff to explore the feasibility of traditional and innovative financing structures and explore alternative organizational structures and/or partnerships to construct, operate, maintain, program, and manage the site?

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The team presents to City Council for comment Spring 2025 Phase 3b: Defining the Future of Place (4 months)
Fourth Community Engagements – Preferred Scenario
(3b)
Spring 2025
The team presents to City Council for comment Fall 2025 Phase 4: The Path Ahead (3 months)
The team presents final scenario to City Council to
commence CEQA analysis.

Winter 2025
Phase 5: Preferred Scenario Plan Vision Book (2 months) Kick-off for CEQA analysis (not part of current contract) Winter 2025 Background
The City of Santa Monica is closing the Santa Monica Airport at midnight on December 31, 2028, as authorized by the Consent Decree/Settlement Agreement with the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), which was entered as a Consent Decree in U.S. District Court, and resolved by City Council Resolution No. 11026. This closure will enable the city to repurpose the 192-acre site, originally purchased with a park bond, into a parkfocused project with supporting uses that will serve Santa Monicans for generations to come. The project scope involves extensive community engagement to determine how best this land can serve all of Santa Monica by balancing preferred uses with adopted city policies, and other immediate and long-term community needs in an economically supportable scenario.

Project Goals
As directed at the January 24, 2023, City Council meeting, and reaffirmed at the December 19, 2023, meeting, the following goals, values, and principles were approved by City Council to guide the initial planning process for the Airport Conversion Project.

1. City Council Values – Establish a standard for the planning process by adhering to the values of a reliable, effective, and efficient government as per the 2019 budget "Framework." This framework provides a strategic vision and identifies key outcomes for the city. They are:
• ACCOUNTABILITY: A city that transparently acts in the best interest of the community it serves.

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• EQUITY: A city that provides all community members with access to resources and opportunities, and where differences in life outcomes cannot be predicted by race, class, gender, disability, or other identities. • INCLUSION: A city where diversity of backgrounds, talents, and capabilities are welcomed and leveraged for learning and informing better business decisions.
• RESILIENCE: A city that builds sustainable capacities to withstand and recover from adversity.
• STEWARDSHIP: A city that thoughtfully plans for the long-term and effectively manages resources.
• SAFETY: A city that promotes and invests in the safety of all community members.
• INNOVATION: A city that seeks out and implements cutting edge, efficient, and effective new solutions to address challenges.

2. Park Goals – The Conversion of the Santa Monica Airport is a multi-faceted and complex process, with various pathways for implementation. City Council directed Staff to include the goals outlined in the Airport to Park Conversion Report and these goals set forth the guidelines for a great park and supporting land uses, ensuring a successful transition from airport to green space. They are:
• CONNECTED: Focus on strengthening connections to local transit and regional transportation systems to ensure seamless, multimodal access to the park.
• INCLUSIVE: Develop diverse programs and opportunities to meet the recreational needs of Santa Monica and the surrounding community.

Ensure inclusive play experiences that cater to all ages, abilities, and play styles.
• FLEXIBLE: Create a park with adaptable, multi-use infrastructure to accommodate evolving preferences and maximize programming flexibility.

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• SUSTAINABLE: Promote sustainability and climate resilience in Santa Monica by incorporating green infrastructure and urban greening initiatives into the park's design.
• CELEBRATORY: Honor the site's history through thoughtful design and interpretation while engaging existing cultural and educational facilities. • INCREMENTAL: Implement improvements gradually to support financial self-sustainability and adapt to changing recreational needs and user preferences.
• SELF-SUSTAINING: Ensure the post-closure Airport Park operates as a financially self-sustaining facility by incorporating revenue-generating opportunities to fund its development, operations, and maintenance. • COLLABORATIVE: Foster partnerships with public agencies and explore public-private collaborations to support park development, maintenance, community benefits, enhancements, and safety.

3. Sustainability and Resiliency – Santa Monica has leveraged community collaboration for over 30 years to enhance resources, protect the environment and human health, and support the social and economic well-being of the community. The city is recognized for its sustainable practices, exemplified by its Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) for Cities Platinum certification and the construction of the highly sustainable City Hall East Facility.

Staff are now considering the Living Community Challenge framework to further promote sustainability in future plans, including those for the Airport. This framework aims to create regenerative communities that foster a symbiotic relationship between people and their built environment, enhancing the health and resilience of economies, cultures, and people. They are:
• Healthy for all elements of life.
• Nurturing and generous places that promote healthy lifestyles for everyone.
• Net Positive with respect to water and energy.
• Regenerative spaces for people and natural ecosystems.

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• Places that are walkable, bike-able, and have affordable public transportation.

Guided by the above, Staff and Sasaki began the community engagement process to establish the Guiding Principles to establish a conceptual framework for a future park and supporting uses at the Airport once it closes.

Sasaki and Project Scope Overview
The city selected Sasaki, a global landscape, planning, and architecture firm, to lead Santa Monica's multi-year, five-phase, planning process for repurposing the Airport site.

Renowned for their expertise in Airport conversions, including the transformative Ellinikon project in Athens, Greece, Sasaki emphasizes community-driven design and strategic collaboration. Their approach builds consensus through methodical engagement utilizing a variety of activities to reach as many segments of the Santa Monica population as possible through in-person and online opportunities as well as in small groups and large to ensure as many voices as possible are heard. Sasaki's experience spans diverse, large-scale projects, successfully creating multi-generational park spaces through inclusive community outreach and expert project management.

The team assembled by Sasaki brings together the following disciplines, in alignment with the scope of the RFP to address the complexity of the project:
• Landscape architecture, planning, sustainability, ecology, project management, community engagement - Sasaki
• Supplemental Community & Stakeholder Engagement – The Robert Group (TRG)
• Historic and Cultural Resources – Environmental Services Associates (ESA)
• Transportation, Infrastructure, Utilities - Arup
• Cultural Planning – Community Arts Resources (CARS)
• Market and Economic Analysis - HR&A
• Soil Remediation - Group Delta

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• Sustainability - Atelier 10
The five-phases of the 21-month project are:
• Phase 1: Charting the Course – Project Kick-off, Alignment, Document Review, Future Needs & Desires (3 months) - Completed
• Phase 2: Discovering the Place and Setting the Stage – Existing Conditions Analysis, Guiding Principles (5 months) - Complete
• Phase 3: Defining the Future of Place - Scenario Testing and Plans (8 months) - Upcoming
• Phase 4: The Path Ahead – Potential Implementation Planning (3 months) - Future
• Phase 5: Preferred Scenario Plan Vision Book (2 months) - Future • Continuous Engagement & Community Outreach: utilizing Outreach Milestones throughout the Process as illustrated in the diagram below (21 months) Project Purpose
With the closure of the Santa Monica Airport by the end of 2028, the community has an exciting and unique opportunity to develop a vision for nearly 200 acres of public land to serve generations to come. In all its work, the city strives for a community that is vibrant, safe, sustainable, resilient, mobile, culturally rich, ethnically diverse, and equitable to serve the needs of the entire community and to foster a thriving local economy.

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Key deliverables, many of which can be found on the project website, www.smacproject.com, include comprehensive reports, educational materials, visual content, case studies, community workshops and interaction opportunities, economic feasibility studies for scenarios, mobility enhancements, incrementally phased plans, and refined hybridized scenarios leading to an actionable preferred scenario.

Phase 1: Charting the Course - Completed
This phase involved reviewing existing data to create a Site Inventory and engaging the community in a variety of meaningful ways. The Site Inventory outlines the initial findings about the Airport land and establishes a framework for future tasks by examining policy documents, historical and cultural resources, and the site's environmental, cultural, and planning attributes. The engagement activities focused on understanding community needs and desires through a series of community events, pop-up activities, Virtual Education Sessions (VESs), and an online survey about what future uses should be considered for the project. Staff presented the project publicly at 12 meetings including the Airport, Planning, Sustainability, Recreation and Parks Commissions; the Urban Forest Taskforce; and Santa Monica Travel & Tourism (SMTT). Staff also communicated with neighborhood councils, staff liaisons, libraries, recreation partners, and community groups to build awareness about the project, the community event, pop-up events, and the survey to engage with as many folks as possible in the places and spaces they already inhabit. Several commissions (e.g., Arts, Airport, Sustainability, and Recreation and Parks) created Ad Hoc sub-committees to engage with Staff and work on specific tasks around the Airport Conversion project.

Phase 1 Engagement highlights include:
• Kick-off Event at Clover Park 5/19/24: estimated attendance of more than 400 attendees.
• Pop-up Events: estimated attendance of more than 100 attendees, at each of the four events. These were held after the community kick-off to get community

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members engaged and excited about the project and this opportunity for Santa Monica.
o 5/29/24: Downtown Farmer’s Market
o 6/1/24: Virginia Ave. Park Farmer’s Market
o 6/9/24: Main Street Farmer’s Market
o 6/15/24: Juneteenth Celebration at Virginia Ave. Park • Comment Cards: Over 300 written comment cards received in-person or through the website.
• Website Traffic: 6,100 visitors and over 400 people signed up for updates in Phase 1.
• Survey Response: Nearly 2,000 responses were recorded and almost 60% were from respondents that self-reported a zip code in Santa Monica. • Virtual Education Sessions #1 & #2: over 2,000 views between both sessions.

Photos from Phase 1 Community Engagements
Themes from the Phase 1 Engagement Activities
• Many attendees and participants were enthusiastic about the Airport closing and appreciated the process to determine the site's future. • There was a desire for uses beyond those mentioned in Measure LC, including interest in housing, particularly affordable housing, as well as revenue-generating and commercial uses.

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• Organized support for continuing to use the site as an airport, with participation from numerous pro-Airport community members.
• Many attendees and participants viewed the size of the site as a unique opportunity to focus on passive recreation and landscape uses, which are currently lacking in Santa Monica according to the Los Angeles Countywide Comprehensive Parks & Recreation Needs Assessment.

Details for the Virtual Education Sessions (VESs)
The VESs provide another way for the community to learn about the project anytime and anywhere that they choose as these utilize an asynchronous delivery method via YouTube. Community members can share the content with friends and family, listen to them at faster or slower speeds and as many times as they like, as well as learn interesting and fun facts about the project.
• VES #1 has over 1,700 views at the time of this report and is titled “Project Launch and Existing Conditions” with an introduction to the Sasaki team, project structure, timeline, and targeted outcomes. It also covers the steps for Airport closure, project timeline and deliverables, the history of the land, features of the land both on-site and adjacent, and how the preliminary existing conditions findings will inform the project going forward.
• VES #2 has over 720 views at the time of this report and is titled “Understanding Scale & Airport Conversion 101” with an overview of the project goals and then a study putting the size of the site into context for viewers within Santa Monica and the region. It then focuses on Sasaki’s experience in converting Airports around the world giving a wide range of example outcomes including basic financial analysis for different types of park projects.

Details for the Kick-off Community Event
The idea for the community event was to encourage attendees to learn about the project, provide feedback to the project team, have fun together, and encourage others to engage in the project as well. All boards and activities were in English and Spanish, and two interpreters were present during the event.

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• There were nine stations, and each had the opportunity to interact with at least one member of the project team in an activity to familiarize community members with the site and explore what Santa Monica needs to thrive now and in the next 100+ years.
o #1: Welcome Station: (sign-in sheet, junior passport pick-up) o #2: Site Features & Context (project overview including Measure LC and mobility voting exercise)
o #3: Site History & Culture (focus on park and aviation history) o #4 Planning Process (overview of what is available in Phase 1) o #5: Understanding Community Needs (some basic site analysis and the push-pin activity about the needs of Santa Monica)
o #6: Community Priorities & Aspirations (Council Priority activity and the Storyboard activity)
o #7: What’s Possible Here (Scale Comparison activity)
o #8: Connections (written story cards and voice recordings of community members sharing memories of the Airport)
o #9: Kids Zone (coloring pages and refreshments)
• Many attendees expressed enthusiasm that the Airport was closing and appreciation for a public process to determine the future of the site. • Many attendees saw the size of the site as a unique opportunity to focus on passive recreation and landscape uses, which were discussed as lacking in Santa Monica today. At Stations #5 and #6 there was broad support for passive or active recreation uses.
• There was broad support from attendees prioritizing walking and biking to the site as well as Council Priorities of Sustainable & Connected Community and Clean & Safe Santa Monica for the future of Santa Monica.
• There were attendees that expressed a desire/need for uses that would/could require a vote pursuant to Measure LC and were curious as to why such potential future uses/opportunities were not featured/asked about at this event. While most of these individuals were interested in housing (and specifically affordable

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housing), many discussed the need for revenue-generating and/or commercial uses as well.
• The scale activity at Station #7 helped attendees contextualize the size of the Airport land in relation to other recreation spaces in Santa Monica and Los Angeles. Participants remarked on how large the space was and noted that this activity was a great vehicle to facilitate community collaboration on potential site uses, even when there were initial disagreements.
• The event attracted organized support for continuing to use the site as an Airport, including the participation of dozens of pro-Airport community members. This voice came through especially at Station #6.

Photos from the Phase 1 Community Event on 5/19/2023
Details for the Phase 1 Online Survey
The survey was created so that anyone that was not able to attend the in-person events were able to engage with the project on their own time and location as well as in their own language. The survey began with basic demographic information and then mimicked much of what was covered in the community event, albeit a self-guided experience, in 21 questions.
• 1,921 completed responses and 58.77% of respondents indicated that they were from Santa Monica zip codes.

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• Representation from all five of Santa Monica’s zip codes, 28% of all respondents self-identified as 90405 and all of the 10 top zip codes were Santa Monica or west Los Angeles.
• 68% of all respondents were over the age of 45 and only 2.7% were under the age of 24.
• Some of the favorite things to do in the park and recreation spaces were: Walk, Park, Play, Picnic, Beach, Soccer, Bike, etc.
• Items that Santa Monica needs more of today according to top votes include:
nature parks/landscapes, pickleball courts, aquatics center, community gardens,

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rectangular sports fields, entertainment facilities, common/flexible lawns, etc. and the results for the future needs were very similar.
• There were a significant number of respondents who wrote into several questions the need to keep the Airport and the need for affordable housing. • Addressing Homelessness and Clean & Safe Santa Monica ranked highest here of the Council priorities.
• Top concerns about the Airport Conversion Project are: development concerns, traffic & congestion, and homelessness & safety.
• The benefit community members are most excited about are: increased recreation space and amenities, enhanced offerings for community needs and reduced air pollution.
• Data on ethnicity was not asked in this survey.

The project is setup so that each phase builds on the next and the work of Phase 1 becomes the basis for Phase 2. The community event, pop-ups, and the survey created a lot of great feedback from the community and heard 147 different uses to be considered and prioritized in Phase 2. The community engagement summary of all of the activities in Phase 1 gives more specifics than are discussed in this Staff Report.

Phase 2: Discovering the Place and Setting the Stage - Complete Staff and Sasaki were pleased with the quantity of community feedback in Phase 1, however there were areas for improvement. Specifically, youth involvement was not representative of the current population and Santa Monica zip codes outside of 90405 participated at significantly lower numbers. Recognizing the importance of youth involvement, Staff and the Sasaki team crafted Phase 2 to target youth engagement, get the word out even more broadly, and refine and prioritize the 94 uses (consolidated from the 147 uses when they were similar) into the draft Guiding Principles to be presented to City Council as the Phase 2 culmination.

Phase 2 involved two elements: 1) The discernment phase (2a) and the creation of draft guiding principles (2b). 2a was designed to facilitate the prioritization of 94 preferred

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land uses requested by the community in Phase 1. Staff also took steps to prioritize youth participation and engaging with a diverse range of Santa Monicans. For Phase 2, Staff presented to community members at 24 meetings including to the Arts, Airport, Disabilities, Planning, Sustainability, and Recreation and Parks Commissions; the Urban Forest Taskforce; the Virginia Avenue Park Advisory Board; and continued to communicate with neighborhood councils, staff liaisons, libraries, recreation partners, and community groups. Further, Staff worked hard to increase community participation and project awareness with the youth of Santa Monica by reaching out and presenting to the Parent Teacher Association (PTA) Council and various Santa Monica Malibu Unified School District (SMMUSD) individual school communities, SaMo High, JAMS, Grant, Edison, and McKinley specifically. Staff also created a specifically designed voting game for younger community members to participate in five events to share in the vision of the project.

Photos of the youth-focused voting activity.

Phase 2 Engagement highlights include:
• Phase 2a survey: launched September 19, 2024, the city received almost 2,400 completed surveys, despite its length (20-25 minutes on average, asking very detailed questions) and another 3,800 completed it through Questions 8 - 10 (the top 15 and bottom 5 questions) for a total of 6,174 survey responses to these questions. It was open for a little over a month and closed October 20, 2024 and

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almost 70% of all respondents indicated that they were from Santa Monica zip codes.
• Pop-up Events: these were held before the large community event to raise awareness about the survey which was different from how Phase 1 was organized.
o 9/19/2024: Local’s Night at the Pier
o 9/21/2024: Pancakes in the Park at Ishihara Park
o 9/29/2024: Americana in the Park at Gandara Park
o 10/5/2024: Mini Fall Festival at Virginia Ave Park
• Community Conversations: 20 conversations were completed with over 400 participants from a wide variety of backgrounds and zip codes within Santa Monica including SaMo High and SMC students.
• Work with SMMUSD: Staff presented at the PTA Council and participated in five school events with a child-focused activity. Staff have begun forming relationships with JAMS and the High School and have a Project Based Learning (PBL) senior who is using the Airport Conversion project as her senior thesis to help engage the community’s youth in meaningful ways.
• Youth-focused outreach: In addition to the direct connection with SMMUSD, Staff developed a youth-focused voting activity that was used for five events and resulted in over 1,800 use votes cast or approximately 124 participants. o 10/5/2024: Mini Fall Festival at Virginia Ave Park
o 10/9/2024: Wednesday Farmer’s Market in downtown Santa Monica o 10/16/2024: Wednesday Farmer’s Market in downtown Santa Monica o 10/27/2024: Roosevelt Community Conversation at Marine Park o 10/29/2024: Teen Activity at the Main Library
• Website Traffic: 23,000+ unique visitors, 42,000 page views, and over 600 people signed up for updates
• Virtual Education Session #3: has over 1,700 views
• Community Event #2: was December 7, 2024, at Memorial Park Gym from 1 – 4 pm and had over 400 people sign-in, more than 500 comments on the draft

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Guiding Principles and 201 comment cards received. 73 people completed Balance Builder and 88 took a photo of their Park Puzzle at the event as well. • Online activities after the community event: Survey 2b was primarily about the draft Guiding Principles and a way to give community members a chance to participate if they were not able to make it in person. There were 1,618 responses to Survey 2b and just over 42% of respondents were from Santa Monica zip codes. The other online activity had 372 people complete the Balance Builder online, bringing the total responses to 445 including the inperson responses.

Details for the Phase 2a Survey
Sasaki and Staff designed this survey to help the team prioritize and refine the 94 uses from Phase 1 and better understand the community’s thinking so that the draft Guiding Principles would be reflective of the community feedback thus far at the Phase 2 Community Event and ultimately presented to City Council. This survey began with basic demographic information and then focused on understanding the priorities of the community for the project and refining the top 94 uses from the first phase. Each of the 94 uses were broken down into four categories to make it easier on respondents, those categories and number of uses within each were: 18 passive recreation, 29 active recreation, 31 community hubs, and 16 arts and culture uses. The survey had 33 questions in total, questions 8 – 10 asked participants to select their top 15 uses and their bottom 5 uses and then rank their top 15 so the team could understand which uses had the broadest support and which ones had the least so that the draft Guiding Principles could reflect the preferences shared, balanced with all engagement feedback.

Questions 11 – 24 asked a series of Agree vs. Disagree questions so Staff and Sasaki could understand what types of funding strategies and options should be considered for the Airport conversion. The remaining questions asked about sustainability, beloved places at the Airport that should be integrated into the project, integration strategies for the site into neighborhoods, and how the history of the Airport should be celebrated.

Survey respondents made clear that a balance of passive and active recreation uses were overwhelmingly supported with a strong preference for re-wilding, passive

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landscapes, and uses that connect community members with the natural world. Multiuse paths, pollinator/butterfly gardens, urban forests, and grassy knolls were all top selections. For active recreation, adventure playground, multi-use fields (lacrosse, rugby, field hockey, soccer, football, etc.), aquatics center, and dedicated bike trials and walking/running loops were also popular. There were also a few uses, that even though noted that they could/would require a vote pursuant to Measure LC such as a café, small outdoor amphitheater, markets, and a family friendly beer garden, that also ranked as top selections. The full report about the Phase 2a survey results can be found on the website under “Resources”.

This survey saw an increase in respondents that self-reported that they lived in Santa Monica (60% in Phase 1 Survey, and 70% in this Survey) and questions about age range and ethnicity were asked.

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Survey 2A shows overrepresentation of White residents (75.30%) compared to Santa Monica's general population (66.90%). Hispanic or Latino residents are notably underrepresented (7.8%) compared to their 16.40% presence in Santa Monica. Asian residents show accurate representation in survey 2A (10.32%) relative to Santa Monica's 9.80%. Black or African American residents are underrepresented in Survey 2A (2.91%) compared to the city's 4.90%. The remaining demographic groups (American Indian/Alaska Native, Middle Eastern/North African, and Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander) show relatively minor variations across all three populations.

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Staff and Sasaki analyzed the results of Questions 8 - 10 that asked what the top 15 uses were and then to rank them. The top 50 uses were distributed across the four categories where 38% were passive uses, 25% were active recreation, 25% were community hubs, and 12% were arts and culture destinations. It must be noted that just because uses were or were not in the top 15 or 50 does not mean they should not be considered. For example, not many of the arts and culture responses ranked very high, but this does not mean that arts and culture uses will not be located at the Airport as there are existing arts and culture uses there. Analysis also showed that 83% of the highest-ranked uses would not require a ballot measure in accordance with Measure LC.

Survey question #10 did not ask participants to rank the bottom five uses (or least favorite), so they are listed here with the first as least favorite: golf course, housing, homeless service center, commercial uses, and hospital/clinic. Of the bottom 25 uses 41% were active recreation, 39% were community hubs, 15% were passive recreation, and 5% were arts and culture destination.

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While the top 15 and bottom 5 use preferences were the main focus of the 2a survey, the other themes include:
• 69% of respondents think the youth input should be prioritized. • 76% of respondents said the city should explore Public Private Partnerships. • 73% of respondents believed the city should extend non-aviation leases beyond 2028 to ensure those revenue streams.
• 69% of respondents want to adaptively reuse the existing building and structures to start and grow local businesses.
• 68% of respondents think a balance of neighborhood amenities with destination activities is important for the Airport Conversion project. • 80% of respondents want to enhance police and fire safety personnel at the site and within the immediate neighborhoods.
• 50% of respondents support preservation of the history, specifically the Compass Rose, along with public art displays.
• Connection to nature, water self-sufficiency, biodiversity/restoration ecology, 100% rainfall capture, and carbon neutrality were the top five responses about sustainability practices.
• Write-in comments focused on a variety of arguments about housing and keeping the Airport open.

Detail for the Community Conversations
Staff also administered a micro-grant application process, based on the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) Team’s work for the Equity Plan earlier this year. It empowered community members to host a Community Conversation on their own time, in a location of their choosing, and with their own community in whatever language they felt most comfortable. The $500 grant had to be used to make the event inclusive and accessible by providing, for example, food, childcare, language interpretation services, paying a notetaker, and/or any other relevant accommodation. This opportunity was advertised in the Santa Monica Daily Press, La Opinión, and on the project website, it was open to all Santa Monicans. The application required that applicants lead a group

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of at least six participants through a list of questions supported by supplemental information provided by Staff and then send back the question responses and a few photos of the event.
25 applications were submitted, and 20 conversations were completed before October 31st, 2024, with over 370 community members participating from a wide variety of zip codes and representation in almost all groups from 90404.

Key themes included:
• Park and space for kids was paramount, real open space that create an immersive experience in nature with large trees, even a farm. • Spaces for cultures to celebrate their special events and share their traditions were mentioned in several responses.
• The need for large gathering spaces that could be free or very low cost as well as space for art and creativity were popular.
• Affordability was mentioned frequently as well, especially around housing, groceries, business opportunities, and space for seniors. • It was noted that the closure of the Airport is very important and that this process should be a priority for the city. The park is important to Santa Monica’s future and a diversity of funding strategies should be explored to realize the park. • A few mentioned the need for parking to support park functions as well as a needed upgrade for the current roads.

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Photos from some of the Community Conversations
Detail for Virtual Education Session #3
VES #3 has over 1,000 views at the time of this report and is titled “Site Opportunities & Sustainability” and explores the Santa Monica Airport site in depth, focusing on constraints and opportunities for potential future conversion. It emphasizes achieving a sustainable conversion to new public-serving uses. Sustainability is examined through various lenses, including environmental, energy, and water resilience, economic selfsufficiency, and social equity. The document explains sustainability strategies and reviews select case studies to illustrate how similar strategies can be leveraged at the Santa Monica Airport site.

Discussion
The work of Phase 1 and the first half of Phase 2 mark nine months of intense community outreach to understand the preferences of Santa Monicans. The efforts discussed above were distilled down into the draft Guiding Principles (dGP). Staff and Sasaki created the first round of dGPs and then went back to the community for feedback by holding a large community event, creating another survey to reach as many community members as possible where they are, meeting with boards, commissions, and taskforces to refine the dGP into what is being brought before City Council tonight for discussion and direction.

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Draft Guiding Principles
In the Santa Monica Airport Conversion Project context, Guiding Principles are value statements describing the aspirations and expectations for the conversion of Santa Monica’s future “Great Park” and supporting uses. The guiding principles are distilled from community engagement through online surveys, community member comments, in-person workshops, community conversations, and pop-up events, as well as from adopted City policy. These principles will be used to explore design proposals and serve as definitions of success. The design team will use these principles to vet and evaluate park features, amenities, programs, technical performance requirements, financial strategies, phasing, and implementation approaches. Each guiding principle is organized through a thesis, a description, and key goals. The thesis is the banner statement, providing the value declaration. The description expands on the thesis to explain the breadth and depth of the concept.

Draft Guiding Principles Mission Statement
The Santa Monica Airport Conversion Project is a once-in-a-lifetime planning effort for Santa Monica to create a preferred scenario centered on a great park, consistent with Measure LC. The future scenario will enhance connections to the rest of the city, create

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a quality public realm, and increase the quality of life for the residents, workers, and visitors of Santa Monica.

1. START WITH NATURE
Project design should consider the impact of any future intervention on the natural environment, and the airport land’s ability to regenerate species and build community resiliency against climate change. This project should include curated planting areas and restoration or ‘rewilding’ spaces, celebrating pollinator gardens, showcasing local biodiversity, and demonstrating ecosystem services. This project should exemplify Santa Monica’s climate goals, provide climate resilience, and be a model for sustainable stewardship. The creation and operations of the project should not deplete natural resources. The project should be designed to serve many generations and contribute to a regenerative urban ecology.
• The project should have spaces where visitors can be immersed in nature. • The project should celebrate local and regional plant and animal communities.

This includes areas dedicated to meaningful habitat creation through restoration planting, reforestation, rewilding, and planning for ecological succession. The project should support animal habitats, including gardens and species that feed and shelter insects, birds, amphibians, and mammals.
• The project should restore the land after 100 years of aviation operations and uphold the original intention to enhance park and public open spaces in Santa Monica.
• The project should support a wide variety of plants and plant communities by creating microclimates based on topographical and hydrological design. • The project's green infrastructure should showcase ecosystem services, such as stormwater management, and sustainable municipal facilities, and be used to support biodiversity.
• The project’s landscapes should only use reclaimed water for irrigation, and the designers will prioritize drought-resistant and adaptive, low-water use planting and indigenous planting strategies.

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Examples of uses from the survey: Urban Forests, Nature Reserves, Arboretums, Wildlife Habitats, Pollinator Gardens, Wildflower Meadows, Stormwater Gardens, etc.

2. INSPIRE WONDER
The project should connect individuals in powerful and far-reaching ways uniting people of all backgrounds and ages in meaning, happiness, and heightened energy. The project should support planned and unexpected wonder and connection. Spaces for events, athletics, and celebrations should be designed to complement and work with ecological programs, either for community gatherings or limited to a single visitor experience. The project should support, enable, and showcase creativity and art. The project should provide a diversity of play experiences for all age groups, and highlight inclusive play that engages nature, natural elements, and healthy activity. The project should feel safe and welcoming to all. The project should enable accessible mobility, provide spaces for rest and sport, and include supportive mobility infrastructure, so all visitors can enjoy the park experience when they arrive. • The project should be a place for visual art, supporting art in public space, and the creation of art.
• Play should integrate park design, with a diversity of inclusive play typologies including imagination, adventure, athletics, sports, interactions with nature, and exploration.
• Play should not be limited to playgrounds or certain age groups. Play could include curated nature experiences, interactive art and water features, exercise, signage and wayfinding, and even collaborative creation spaces. • The design should be culturally and generationally inclusive, and prioritize safety, belonging, and comfort for the diversity of our community’s population. • Wayfinding, interpretation, and storytelling should be multimodal to create an intuitive experience for all visitors, regardless of age, culture, or ability. • The project should include ‘active’ and ‘quiet’ spaces and programs, providing amenities and places that will feel inviting, exciting, and comfortable for the full spectrum of human physicality and neurodiversity.

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• Showcasing the site’s legacy of innovation and creativity of the physical environment, inspiring civic pride, and amplifying the safety and care of future generations are important.

Examples of uses from the survey: Murals, Sculpture Gardens/Walks, Art Galleries, Performance Centers, Local Artists’ Studios, Adventure Playgrounds, Interactive ArtThemed Playgrounds, etc.

3. BALANCE ECONOMICS
This project should achieve economic equilibrium by balancing revenue with construction, operations, maintenance, and programming costs. This principle suggests that capital investments be strategic and vetted, balancing the programmatic needs of the project with the financial plans, agreements, and strategies needed to fund those investments. Financial responsibility for the project to be defined as the composite of revenue-generating activities, capital strategies, and funding allocations required to avoid an unfunded liability for the city government, shall be adhered to. The project infrastructure should anticipate a fossil-free future, and a warmer, less stable climate.

The project economy should target circularity, with zero-waste goals for construction and operations plans, net-zero energy, and a high standard of water self-sufficiency.

The combined income from the site’s land uses and amenities should provide suitable income for the operations, maintenance, and programming expenses needed to keep the project in good condition.
• The project capital costs should be linked to a reliable funding source(s). • Project elements should balance more expensive amenities with lower-cost project uses. Higher revenue-generating uses should balance low or no revenuegenerating uses. • High-value investment programs should provide clear and defensible community benefits for the Santa Monica community.
• Project features should be brought online incrementally as funding allows.

Innovative financing structures, such as a ‘Friends of’ or ‘Creative Financing District,’ or athletic league sponsorships, may be explored.

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• Landscape and buildings within the Santa Monica Airport site should be net zero energy for future operations through on-site energy production, energy efficiency, and electrification of all systems.
• The project should mitigate local climate change impacts and provide a heat refuge for Santa Monica community members in the future to build resiliency for the environment, municipal operations, and regional economy. • The project should minimize demolition waste by prioritizing reusing and recycling existing materials and structures and should have a waste management plan for future project operations. This plan may include on-site green waste processing, such as compositing.
• Potable water uses should be limited to where necessary for drinking water or cooling stations. Any future water features should be water efficient and recirculating. Stormwater should be managed on-site, captured, infiltrated, detained, and treated through green infrastructure systems.

Examples of uses from the survey: Amphitheaters, Event Centers, Markets, Outdoor Movies, Cafe, Restaurants, Food Truck Space, Indoor Sports Venue, Family Friendly Beer Garden, etc.

4. AMPLIFY VERSATILITY
The project should be vibrant in the ‘every day’ and the ‘big day,’ working for the Santa Monica community for large events and unprogrammed day-to-day activities with active and passive amenities. Flexibility in public spaces and programs should allow for different uses to cohabitate, and for the site to adapt to changing needs over time. As an intergenerational space, the project should anticipate fluctuations in community interest for certain uses and activities and be able to reorganize accordingly. This project should prioritize versatility, so visitors of many backgrounds, needs, exercise goals, and recreational desires can use individual spaces or programs. At the same time, the project programs should be immediately useful to visitors, with programs that maximize utilization and active recreation. Partnered with project programs should be operations and maintenance facilities - and these facilities will need to be developed in a bespoke manner matching the versatility and requirements needed to support a high

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standard of care for the project and future recreation facilities. The project should contribute to physical, mental, and spiritual wellness, regardless of users' religion, ability, or age. Physical well-being should be enhanced and celebrated through group amenities, sports fields and courts, and individual fitness infrastructures. Mental and spiritual well-being should include spaces specifically dedicated to mindfulness and presence.
• The project should prioritize amenities that enable consistent and regular use. • The project should balance specific action-oriented high-use programs with flexible and passive spaces.
• The project should support performing arts, such as providing spaces for music, dance, theatrical productions, and more.
• The project should welcome large groups for big events, small groups, and individuals for personal recreation and wellness, and will choreograph many simultaneous experiences and uses in harmony.
• The project should invite visitors from all cultural backgrounds to share a sense of community and collective ownership and include spaces to host cultural celebrations.
• The project should limit single-use programs to those meeting specific recreational needs or providing a clear revenue opportunity to support the park’s operations. This should include both free programs and amenities and ticketed programs, event spaces, or recreational facilities.
• The project should support active recreation for groups such as flexible fields and courts. The project should include individual fitness infrastructure, such as outdoor equipment for strength/flexibility training.
• The project should support running, walking, and biking, providing many trail experiences that complement the city’s existing trail and bicycle networks. • The project should prioritize biking/walking/transit to the site. • The project should include spaces for meditation, with dedicated spaces for contemplative rest, like forest bathing, or active mindfulness, like yoga decks and sensory gardens.

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Examples of uses from the survey: Flexible Lawns & Plazas, Outdoor Fitness Areas, Active Recreation, Multi-use fields (lacrosse, rugby, field hockey, soccer, football, etc.), Sports Courts (Basketball, Tennis, Pickleball, etc.), Multi-use Paths, Aquatics Centers, Grassy enclaves, etc.

5. CELEBRATE PLACE
Santa Monica is an iconic city, with a unique history and culture, and the airport site has witnessed many eras of historic significance. The future project should embrace the layers of the site’s history, and share the stories of the place and region, from precolonial to the history of aviation on the site. The planting and materiality of the project should be contextual to the current airport and wider community architectural and horticultural expressions. The project should value and celebrate the wider connections to the sea, the mountains, and the city as well as the innovation and inspiration histories of this place. The project should invite visitors from all cultural backgrounds to share a sense of community and collective ownership and provide spaces for cultural celebrations. Celebrating place is both about honoring the past and empowering our future.
• The project should have a unique sense of place - or genius loci - where visitors must know they are here, within Santa Monica, and nowhere else in the world. • The project should acknowledge and celebrate the history of this place, both the pre-colonial regional history and the history of aviation on site. • The project should adaptively reuse buildings of cultural interest and structural viability and celebrate the history of the uses of those buildings in parallel with supporting new programs.
• The project should recognize and enhance the important roles of the current museums, art galleries, maker spaces, theater, and play in the project and continue those uses in the future design.
• The planting design should include local native species and plant communities, and reference existing City planting typologies.
• The materials should prioritize on-site material reuse, and regional and local materials and products.

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• The project should reinforce key viewsheds, strategic gateways with multi-modal connectivity, and activities that reflect and enhance the relationships to the sea, mountains, and urban community.
• The project should attempt to accommodate event spaces for small and large events, including anticipatory infrastructure, such as stages, media, power, and lighting.
• The approach to the project should celebrate the uniqueness of place, gateway experiences, and pedestrian and bicycle mobility, fitting the Santa Monica commitment and culture of prioritizing carbon-free mobility.

Examples of uses from the survey: Community / Cultural Centers, Senior Centers, Airport Historic Interpretive Walks, Community Gardens/Farms, Museums, Outdoor Classrooms, etc.

Vetting the dGPs at the in-person Phase 2 Community Event The dGPs above are the results of robust engagement with the community. A first draft was created from the Phase 2a work in the Fall of 2024 and then vetted through a series of engagement activities throughout December 2024 and January 2025 to test if dGPs were representational of the community priorities for this project. The major inperson event for Phase 2 was held on December 7, 2024, from 1 – 4 pm at the Memorial Park Gym and had over 400 sign-ins, doubling the attendance of the Phase 1 Community Event. It is anticipated that more than 800 individuals actually attended as many chose not to sign-in during the three-hour event. The event was organized so participants could orient themselves, engage with each of the draft Guiding Principles, participate in three activities, and connect with other attendees. There was also a Teen Area that the SaMo High PBL Senior activated as part of her senior thesis, so teens had an area to hang out and discuss the dGPs in their own forum. - Station 1: Welcome Desk for attendees to orient themselves and sign-in. - Station 2: Introduction to the draft Guiding Principles and Phase 2a engagement results, largely from the survey and community conversations. - Stations 3 - 7: each one discussed in detail one of the five draft Guiding Principles

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- Activity 1: Balance Builder, a card game that encouraged participants to select uses and balance sustainability, economics, and accessibility scores.

Participants selected cards with varying scores in each category and if their board did not reach zero or better they could use bonus cards to balance out their board.
- Activity 2: Park Puzzle, asked participants to create their project using the top 50 uses at an approximate scale to the site to see how their uses fit. - Activity 3: Range Finder, included five boards each with different, opposing words on them and participants could place a sticky dot to show which word(s) described how they wanted the park to feel, and which financial options were acceptable.
- Teen Activation Area: provided a forum for teens to discuss the dGPs, hang out, and engage with the activities around the room. They also had their own boards to write their comments on the dGPs.

Event layout from the 12/7/2024 Community Event

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Photos from the 12/7/2024 Community Event

Photos from the 12/7/2024 Community Event

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The Community Event was well attended, with over 500 comments on the dGPs and showed that there was broad support for each of them. Many comments expressed clarification of what community members would like to see (such as types of recreation, arts, community hub activities), as well as thoughts about housing. There was an almost even split between pro-housing at the airport comments and no housing at the airport comments. Additional themes that emerged were:
- Strong support for green spaces, trees, and wildlife with a focus on sustainability and biodiversity, and blending nature with urban life.
- Strong support for field space, walking trails, and recreational spaces. - Strong support on creating accessible space for all ages and abilities, including art and cultural activities and performance spaces.
- Preference for funding the project through existing leases and bonds, with strong support for exploring public-private partnerships. There were mixed results on the community’s preference for large events a few times a year versus daily fees.

The full engagement reports for Survey 2b and Community Event 2 can be found on the website under ‘Resources’.

Vetting the dGPs with Phase 2b Survey, online card game, and Boards / Cxs After the Community Event the team opened Survey 2b that focused on engaging community members that were not able to attend the in-person event. This survey asked specifically about the draft Guiding Principles and the Range Finder questions.

There were over 1,600 responses across all five of Santa Monica’s zip codes showing broad support for the draft Guiding Principles as written. There was an increase again in the percentage of respondents that reported that they were from Santa Monica (Phase 2a Survey had 70%, Phase 2b Survey had 76%) and the questions about age range and ethnicity were asked.

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The survey sample shows notably higher representation of White residents (79.39%) compared to Santa Monica's general population (66.90%). Conversely, Hispanic or Latino residents appear significantly underrepresented in the survey at 7.78% compared to their 16.40% presence in Santa Monica. Asian residents are also somewhat underrepresented (7.78% vs 9.80%), as are Black or African American residents (2.35%

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vs 4.90%). Other groups including American Indian/Alaska Native, Middle Eastern/North African, and Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander show relatively small variations between the survey and overall population figures.

Every goal in each dGP had more than 50% support as written as well. Specific feedback on each dGP includes:
- dGP1: Start with Nature had almost 80% support overall, with immersive nature being the most supported goal.
- dGP2: Inspire Wonder had more than 75% support, with play typologies including imagination, adventure, athletics, sports, nature and exploration was the most supported goal.
- dGP3: Balance Economics had more than 70% support, with appropriate potable water usage by way of green infrastructure being the most supported goal - dGP4: Amplify Versatility had almost 75% support, prioritizing consistent and regular use activities including running, walking, biking trails. - dGP5: Celebrate Place had the least support at 57%, but still, more than half of the community supported this dGP, with the most supported goal being that the planting design should include local, native species.

While there was broad support for the dGPs there were many comments about housing and if it should be incorporated into the project. There were also concerns about overdevelopment, safety, homelessness and revenue generating potential.

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The Range Finder portion of the survey asked about look and feel of the project, and respondents wanted spaces that are a mix of the words presented, with a small preference for muted, calm, exploratory spaces. Most respondents want the project to explore public-private partnerships and use city funds over private ownership.

The Balance Builder card game was also made available virtually so people could provide their feedback on that activity from the Community Event as well. Between the boards completed during the event (73) and the online boards (372), a total of 445 boards were completed, with roughly half of them reaching the goal of zero or better.

Top uses from all responses focus primarily on active and passive recreation uses as well as some uses that might require a ballot measure pursuant to Measure LC. The top bonus cards included substantial tree coverage, renewable power generation, maintain on-site buildings and revenue, corporate sponsorship and stormwater detention.

Staff and Sasaki also attended the following Boards, Commissions, and Taskforces to gather additional feedback from the public and commissioners specifically. The meetings attended were:
• December 9, 2024 – Airport Commission
• December 11, 2024 – Urban Forest Taskforce
• December 16, 2024 – Sustainability, Environmental Justice and the Environment Commission
• December 18, 2024 – Planning Commission
• December 19, 2024 – Recreation and Parks Commission
It is estimated that the draft Guiding Principles have been reviewed by more than 1,400 individuals over the course of the activities described above, as well as 1,100 page views online, and are now being presented to City Council for consideration. The outcome of this Study Session will be the basis that staff and Sasaki use to generate the three scenarios for public reaction in Phase 3a. These scenarios will evoke different emotions and sensibilities on purpose so that our community and City Council can then

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provide guidance on which parts or pieces feel most appropriate and what should continue to the preferred scenario in Phase 3b.

The question to City Council is: Do you have any feedback on the draft Guiding Principles before finalization AND should staff begin exploring the feasibility of three alternative scenario concepts for Phase 3, based on the draft Guiding Principles?
Legal and Regulatory Frameworks to Consider
The City Attorney’s Office has produced a memorandum identifying the legal framework that needs to be navigated as the project progresses. See Attachment E for additional information, a summary is provided below.

Measure LC
Measure LC was passed in 2014 by 60% of voters in Santa Monica and is a Charter amendment stating “If all or part of the Airport land is permanently closed to aviation use, no new development of that land shall be allowed until the voters have approved limits on the uses and development that may occur on the land. However, this section shall not prohibit the City Council from approving the following on Airport land that has been permanently closed to aviation use: the development of parks, public open spaces, and public recreational facilities; and the maintenance and replacement of existing cultural, arts and education uses”.

The final language for Measure LC was approved by the City Council on July 22, 2014.

Surplus Lands Act
The Surplus Land Act (Gov. Code, §§54220-54234) (SLA) aims to make local public land that is no longer needed for government purposes and entails a disposition of property (either long-term lease or sale) available for building affordable housing or open space. The SLA does this by requiring local agencies to provide notices about the availability of surplus property to the following entities:
• The California Department of Housing and Community Development (HCD).

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• Any local public entity with jurisdiction over open space where the surplus local land is located.
• Developers who have notified HCD of their interest in developing affordable housing on surplus local public land.

Recent amendments to the SLA clarify that “disposition” of surplus property includes leases for a term longer than 15 years, inclusive of any extension or renewal options included in the terms of the initial lease, entered into on or after January 1, 2024.

If the local agency receives notice of interest from an entity desiring to lease or purchase surplus land on terms that comply with the SLA, the local agency and entity are required to enter into good faith negotiations to determine a mutually satisfactory sales price or lease terms. If the local agency and entity cannot agree after a 90-day minimum good faith negotiation period, the local agency can dispose of the surplus land without further requirements; however, the documentation of good faith negotiations must be submitted to HCD for HCD’s confirmation that the local agency has complied with the SLA.

As a practical matter, this means that the City may not be able to limit residential use of the Airport land post-closure if it desires to sell or lease the land to a third party, regardless of the limitations imposed by Measure LC. If the City wanted to proceed with third party disposition of property post-Airport closure, it would be advisable for the City to consider whether housing should be considered as part of “the Project” for purposes of CEQA analysis as well as future voter approval.
7 th Cycle Housing Element & Regional Housing Needs Assessment (RHNA) The State’s Housing Element laws require that the Housing Element include an implementation program that demonstrates how the city plans to accommodate the RHNA allocation after the 7th Housing Element is certified by HCD, anticipated deadline

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is October 15, 2029. State Housing Element Laws require the City to upzone as necessary to ensure that there are sufficient suitable sites to accommodate the City’s next RHNA allocation or face decertification of whatever housing element is adopted, even if the City obtains certification. Failure to upzone could subject the City to all legal remedies under State Housing Laws, including monetary penalties, third-party lawsuits, and the Builder’s Remedy, citywide. Therefore, in addition to SLA conflicts, the city may need to consider whether any level of anticipatory new housing for the 7th Cycle is appropriate to be studied as part of the CEQA analysis for the post-closure uses at the Airport. Any restrictions under Measure LC that prevent housing will have no limiting impact if the city cannot sufficiently upzone areas citywide to accommodate the RHNA allocation.

The question to City Council is: Should Staff explore the feasibility of the spectrum of community preferred land uses including one scenario that is consistent with Measure LC without a vote?
Project Financial Discussion
One of the Council-adopted goals for the Airport Conversion Project is to be economically self-sustaining. This goal is particularly important for several reasons including:

1. The city’s General Fund remains in a precarious financial situation with unprecedented liabilities, a backlog of infrastructure maintenance and unfunded capital projects, and an extraordinarily competitive labor market combined with significantly reduced general fund reserve levels. The city has paid out over $230 million in settlements related to a former employee and is now facing more claims in the matter. Likewise, the California Voter Rights Act or CVRA case is back in the trial courts for additional judicial review. Further putting strain on the city’s finances is the city’s contract with the County of Los Angeles for lifeguard services, which will be expiring in 2025; the county is seeking an additional $3 million a year to continue providing services to Santa Monica. Lastly, the city will enter labor negotiations with all 11 bargaining units next spring.

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In addition to these liabilities, city programs and services in several areas remain below what they were prior to the COVID-driven restructuring of city services made in 2020. Given this financial situation, the city must be strategic in its investments, while seeking to restore city services, address deferred maintenance, identify funding for $450 million in unfunded capital projects and rebuild city reserves which today are at historically low levels, impacting the city’s credit ratings.

2. Parks are expensive to build, operate, and maintain and do not typically generate revenue unless complimented with uses that specifically generate income. At the scale of the Airport site, investments in converting the land into parkland could have enormous costs. This will be studied in far greater detail in Phase 3.

Knowing this, throughout the community engagement process in Phase 1 and 2, the project team brought forth different ideas on project financing strategies in VES 1 & 2 and asked about several of them specifically in the Phase 2a online survey, the community event, online through Balance Builder, and the Phase 2b online survey.

Themes include support for:
• Public private partnerships, but not for private ownership. • Innovative funding sources for construction costs to build more of the park and associated uses faster.
• Exploring local/regional/federal partnerships and funding sources to create and operate the project.
• Extending non-aviation leases beyond 2028 to lock in known revenue, but not a tax increase.
• Corporate sponsorship, but not an independent operator. • Maintaining and enhancing on-site buildings but not selling the 17 acres in Los Angeles to the city of Los Angeles.
• Creating a “Friends of” entity as a financial and organizing concept. • There was mixed support for creating an in-lieu fee to support the project and/or allowing a few large events to pay for on-going free programming.

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• Using innovative green infrastructure (renewable power generation, stormwater detention, etc.) as a funding mechanism
With this understanding as we move into Phase 3, the project financial consultant, HR&A, will be basing their cost estimating work on the community preferred uses, drawn by Sasaki with Staff input, with financing strategies to balance the project.

The question to City Council is: Should staff explore the feasibility of traditional and innovative financing structures and explore alternative organizational structures and/or partnerships to construct, operate, maintain, program, and manage the site?
Next Steps
Phase 3: Defining the Future of Place - Scenario Testing and Plans Once City Council provides direction on the draft Guiding Principles, the Airport Conversion Project team will begin Phase 3 where Sasaki will create and test the feasibility of three distinct high-level design concepts using the Guiding Principles, Project Goals, and community engagement feedback to show a range of possibilities for the Airport land. These scenarios will be the focus of the community engagement of Phase 3a and will come back to City Council before moving into Phase 3b, the preferred scenario. This process aims to highlight community ideas and ensure the successful implementation of the airport conversion project and will focus on:

1. Defining Experiential Typologies: Representing diverse potential experiences within the re-envisioned airport land, including cultural, recreational, ecological, infrastructural, or social elements.

2. Creating Alternative Land-Use Types: Generating multiple models of openspace land-use scenarios, exploring different park typologies, features, and layouts that align with the Guiding Principles.

3. Community Engagement: Engaging the community to refine broad, high-level ideas into three feasible alternatives (3a), which are then narrowed down to a single recommended scenario plan (3b) through feedback.

4. Feasibility: Ensuring the scenarios align with environmental, sustainable, financial, and programmatic feasibility.

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Key tasks in this phase include:
• Preliminary Opportunities & Kit of Parts
• Trade-off Analysis
• Planning Concept Alternative & Comparison Matrix
• Scenario Feasibility & Economic Impacts Assessment
• Rough Order of Magnitude (ROM) Opinion of Probable Cost • Developing a Finalized Concept Scenario Plan Sketch
• Community Engagement
Environmental Review
This study session and its recommendations for guiding principles do not meet the definition of a “project” subject to CEQA as it will not “cause either a direct physical change in the environment, or a reasonably foreseeable indirect physical change in the environment”. Additionally, per Section 15378(b) of the CEQA Guidelines, a “project” does not include administrative activities of governments that will not result in direct or indirect physical changes in the environment. Additionally, per Section 15262 of the CEQA Guidelines, the recommendations are exempt from CEQA, because City Council’s actions only involve planning studies for the airport and identification of potential land use scenarios for analysis under CEQA, and do not involve the approval of any scenarios, nor limit the scope of potential alternatives/mitigation measures. In addition, the recommendations provided herein are categorically exempt under Section 15306 of the CEQA Guidelines, because the project involves basic data collection, research, consultation, exploration of financing possibilities, and resource evaluation activities which do not result in a serious or major disturbance to environmental resources.

Furthermore, after further analysis, it was determined that Resolution No. 11026 constitutes a decision by the City Council to close the airport as of midnight on December 31, 2028. Therefore, no environmental review is required at this time for closure. However, environmental review is required for any future use of the site as determined through the Airport Conversion Project.

Past Council Actions

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Below are the previous dates that the Airport Conversion Project has been before City Council.

Meeting Date Description
02/28/2017 Staff Report from the meeting where Council adopted Resolution No. 11026 to close the Airport, effective midnight on December 31, 2028.
01/24/2023
(Attachment A)
Staff Report from the meeting where Council directed staff to begin working on the Future of the Santa Monica Airport 10/10/2023
(Attachment B)
Meeting Minutes showing Council direction to reject the Lottery Selected Panel
12/19/2023
(Attachment C)
Staff Report showing City Council awarding the SP2641 RFP to Sasaki by Sasaki to envision three scenarios without reducing the scope of the uses that the scenarios study.

Financial Impacts and Budget Actions
There is no immediate financial impact or budget action necessary as a result of recommended actions. Staff will return to Council if specific budget actions are required in the future. The project budget remains at $2,070,000 as per the Sasaki agreement in account C1008280.689000. For example, when the project is ready to commence the CEQA/EIR process, staff will request additional appropriation.

Prepared By: Amber Richane, Principal Design and Planning Manager Approved Forwarded to Council
Attachments:

A. January 24, 2023 Staff Report to City Council - Project Authorization (Web Link) B. December 10, 2023 Staff Report to City Council - Lottery Selected Panel (Web Link)
C. December 19, 2023 Staff Report to City Council - Sasaki Authorization (Web Link)

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D. February 28, 2017 -Staff Report to City Council - Resolution 11026 E. Memo re Airport Closure and Measure LC
F. Written Comment
G. PowerPoint Presentation

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NOT CONFIDENTIAL
TO: Councilmembers, City Manager, Assistant City Manager FROM: City Attorney’s Office
RE: Frequently Asked Questions Re Airport Closure and Measure LC DATE: January 28, 2025

1. Does Council need to take any additional formal action to authorize closure of the Airport?
No, Council does not need to take any formal action to authorize closure of the Airport.

On January 30, 2017, the U.S. Government, acting through the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and the City of Santa Monica (City) filed a Settlement Agreement/Consent Decree (the Consent Decree) with the Federal District Court for the Central District of California in City of Santa Monica v. United States of America, et al., Case No. 13-CV-8046-JFW (C.D. cal.).

On February 1, 2017, the Court approved the Consent Decree and entered it as the judgment in City of Santa Monica v. United States of America, et al., Case No. 13-CV8046-JFW (C.D. Cal. Feb. 1, 2017). Pursuant to the terms of the Consent Decree, the City may, in its sole discretion at any time after December 31, 2028, cease to operate the Airport.

On February 28, 2017, Council adopted Resolution 11026 (CCS). The caption of this resolution states:

IMPLEMENTING THE CONSENT DECREE AND AUTHORIZING ALL

ACTIONS NECESSARY TO ENSURE CLOSURE OF THE SANTA
MONICA AIRPORT EFFECTIVE AS OF MIDNIGHT ON DECEMBER 31, 2028, AND THE SHORTENING OF THE SANTA MONICA AIRPORT
RUNWAY PENDING CLOSURE.

Section 1 of Resolution 11026 states:

The City Manager, City Attorney and their staffs, consistent with the terms of the Consent Decree, shall take all actions necessary and proper to ensure that the Airport will cease to operate as an airport and shall be closed to all aeronautical use forever effective as of midnight on December 31, 2028.

Thus, the decision to close the Airport effective midnight on December 31, 2028, was already made, and no further Council action is required to authorize closure of the Airport.

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City staff published an information item on steps to closure on April 15, 2024. This information item will be updated shortly after the January 28, 2025, Council meeting.

3. What is Measure LC?
Measure LC is a ballot measure that was approved by the Council for placement on the ballot and passed by Santa Monica voters on November 6, 2014.

The ballot question for Measure LC stated:

MEASURE LC: Shall the City Charter be amended to: (1) prohibit new development on Airport land, except for parks, public open spaces and public recreational facilities, until the voters approve limits on the uses and development that may occur on the land; and (2) affirm the Council’s authority to manage the Airport and to close all or part of it? The legal effect of the passage of Measure LC was to add City Charter Section 640 (Section 640), which states:
640. Regulation, Management and Closure of Santa Monica Airport and Future Use of Airport Land.

Subject only to limitations imposed by law, the Council shall have full authority, without voter approval, to regulate use of the Santa Monica Airport, manage Airport leaseholds, condition leases, and permanently close all or part of the Airport to aviation use.

If all or part of the Airport land is permanently closed to aviation use, no new development of that land shall be allowed until the voters have approved limits on the uses and development that may occur on the land. However, this section shall not prohibit the Council from approving the following on Airport land that has been permanently closed to aviation use: the development of parks, public open spaces, and public recreational facilities; and the maintenance and replacement of existing cultural, arts and education uses. (Emphasis added.)
The final language for Measure LC was approved by the Council on July 22, 2014.

4. When do the Measure LC limitations on new development go into effect? The restrictions and voter approval requirements on new development would only apply once the Airport restrictions on land use development are no longer in effect due to permanent Airport closure. However, if the City were to sell the Airport land that is situated in the City of Los Angeles to a third-party post-closure, Measure LC would not apply to that land because that land would be subject to the land use and development restrictions of the City of Los Angeles once the City’s ownership passes to a private third party. (Gov’t Code § 53091; Lawler v. City of Redding (1992) 7 Cal.App.4th 778 (example of sovereign immunity from county general plan when city owned property within the county)). If land within Santa Monica is sold, Measure LC still applies, subject to any Surplus Land Act requirements (see Section 11, below).

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Packet Pg. 580 Attachment: Memo re Airport Closure and Measure LC (6630 : Santa Monica Airport Conversion Project (SMACP) Engagement and Guiding 3 5. Who determines what qualified uses do not require voter approval under Charter Section 640?
The City’s Planning staff, under the supervision of the City Manager and with support from the City Attorney’s Office and other City departments, will likely make recommendations to the Councilmembers as to what uses are consistent with the Measure LC voter requirement. But all final decisions will be made by the Council. Any development of Airport land that entails transfer of property to a private developer would require compliance with the California Surplus Land Act (See Section 11, below). (Cal. Gov’t Code §§ 54220-54234).

6. How are the uses in Measure LC determined? Who determines this? Does the Zoning Code need to be updated/revised/consulted?
Characterization of the uses specifically called out in Charter Section 640 should be determined in accordance with the City’s Zoning Code and established planning practices.

The term “use” is defined in the City’s Zoning Code (SMMC Chapter 9) as follows:

Use. The purpose for which land or the premises of a building, structure, or facility thereon is designed, arranged, or intended, or for which it is or may be occupied or maintained. (SMMC § 9.52.020.2480).

Use, accessory. A use that is customarily associated with, and is incidental and subordinate to, the primary use and located on the same parcel as the primary use. (SMMC § 9.52.020.2490).

Use, primary. A primary, principal or dominant use established, or proposed to be established, on a parcel. In a mixed-use building, there may be more than one primary use. (SMMC § 9.52.020.2500).

A “use classification” is defined in the Zoning Code as follows:

Use classification. A system of classifying uses into a limited number of use types on the basis of common functional, product, or compatibility characteristics. All use types are grouped into the following categories:
residential; public and semi-public; commercial; industrial; and transportation, communication, and utilities. See Chapter 9.51, Use Classifications. (SMMC § 9.52.020.2510).
“Educational, recreational, and cultural uses” are not specifically defined in the City’s Zoning Code, but could arguably fall under the following definitions for existing use classifications in the City’s Zoning Code, (SMMC § 9.52.020.2510), as follows:

Child Care and Early Education Facility. Establishments providing nonmedical care for persons less than 18 years of age on a less than 24-hour basis other than family day care (small and large). This classification includes commercial and nonprofit nursery schools, preschools, day care facilities for children, and any other day care facility licensed by the State of California. See Division 3, Section 9.31.120, Child Care and Early Education Facilities, for further details.

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Packet Pg. 581 Attachment: Memo re Airport Closure and Measure LC (6630 : Santa Monica Airport Conversion Project (SMACP) Engagement and Guiding 4 College and Trade School. Institutions of higher education providing curricula of a general, religious or professional nature, typically granting recognized degrees, including conference centers and academic retreats associated with such institutions. This classification includes junior colleges, business and computer schools, management training, technical and trade schools, but excludes personal instructional services such as music lessons.

School. Facilities for primary or secondary education, including public schools, charter schools, and private and parochial schools.

Community Garden. An area of land managed and maintained by a public or nonprofit organization or a group of individuals to grow and harvest food crops and/or ornamental crops, such as flowers, for personal or group use, consumption, or donation. Community gardens may be divided into separate plots for cultivation by one or more individuals or may be farmed collectively by members of the group and may include common areas maintained and used by group members. Community gardens may be accessory to public or institutional uses such as parks, schools, community centers, or religious assembly uses. This classification does not include gardens that are on a property in residential use when access is limited to those who reside on the property. Community gardens do not include medical marijuana collectives.

Cultural Facility. Facilities engaged in activities to serve and promote aesthetic and educational interest in the community that are open to the public on a regular basis. This classification includes performing arts centers for theater, music, dance, and events; spaces for display or preservation of objects of interest in the arts or sciences; libraries; museums; historical sites; aquariums; art galleries; and zoos and botanical gardens. It does not include schools or institutions of higher education providing curricula of a general nature.

Park and Recreation Facility. Parks, playgrounds, recreation facilities, trails, wildlife preserves, and related open spaces, which are open to the general public. This classification also includes playing fields, courts, gymnasiums, swimming pools, picnic facilities, tennis courts, golf courses, and botanical gardens, as well as related food concessions or community centers within the facilities and restrooms within a primary structure or in an accessory structure on substantially similar recreational use or uses. A "recreational building" is defined as an incidental park structure such as a restroom and maintenance facility, community room, locker room and shower servicing persons using the beaches or ocean, a playing court, playground, picnic area, or public swimming pool. (SMMC § 9.20.070).

The Council could enact zoning provisions that apply uniquely to the Airport land as a zoning district. For example, the City’s Zoning Code could be amended to define use classifications for parks, public open spaces, and public recreational facilities that apply uniquely to the Airport land. The Zoning Code could also be amended to clarify the

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7. When a public vote is needed? For example, if there is a proposal to build a park with a food concession, does the food concession in the park require voter approval?
“Uses” are classified in the SMMC Zoning Code (Chapter 9) as primary and accessory.

An accessory use is one which is dependent on or pertains to the principal or main use, and which may be considered an integral part of the primary use. The allowance of a primary use generally authorizes all uses normally accessory, auxiliary or incidental to it, and many examples may be found among the judicial decisions of uses deemed auxiliary, and of those considered not auxiliary to the primary use. (Greenfield v. Board of City Planning Com’rs of Los Angeles (1935) 6 Cal.App.2d 515 (1935).

For example, the proposal to build a park with a food concession stand would need to be evaluated by Planning staff with advice from the City Attorney’s Office to determine the primary “use” within the meaning of the City’s Zoning Code. If the park is considered the primary use and the food concession considered an accessory or ancillary use, the proposal would not likely trigger voter approval because the primary “use” would be a park. If, however, the food concession was considered the primary use and the park an ancillary use (e.g., a play area outside a Mc Donald’s), then the proposal would likely trigger voter approval because the “use” would be a retail food establishment. As further described, below, “use” is a technical planning term that hinges on facts and circumstances particular to the proposed development. The ultimate approval for any proposed new use would be subject to Council oversight and, ultimately, judicial review as to conformance with Measure LC, if Council’s determination is challenged.

8. Is a pay-to-play activity considered recreational? If SMC wants to build dorms, is that educational? Is an amphitheater considered cultural? As a general proposition, because use classifications are very broad and expansive, whether a proposed use fits a particular use classification is determined on a fact-specific basis and whether the primary use fits a use classification in the zoning code and whether other uses are in fact ancillary to the primary use. Established caselaw holds that a City’s legislative interpretation is entitled to deference. (San Francisco Tomorrow v. City and County of San Francisco, 228 Cal.App.4th 1239 (2014)).

Is a pay-to-play activity considered recreational?
There is nothing in the City’s Zoning Code and nothing in case law (that we are aware of) that comments on payment as a sole determinative factor as to whether a proposed recreational activity falls within the category “parks, public open spaces, and public recreational facilities”. By way of example, the City’s parks currently host recreational activities that entail fees for public participation. These activities can be viewed as customary to public park or open space activity, and do not negate the zoning designation as a park or open space. Conversely, allowing professional sports venues (primarily used for hosting games without public participation in the recreational activity) like arenas – which are privately operated but open to the public for a fee - could easily be viewed as

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Is an amphitheater allowed without a vote under Measure LC? Similarly, if the City desires to build an amphitheater post-Airport closure, which would constitute new development, the City would need to establish an evidentiary foundation as to how this proposed use constitutes “parks, public open spaces, or public recreational facilities” within the meaning of Measure LC. See, e.g., flow chart in Section 13, below.

9. How can buildings/structures be repurposed after partial or full closure? Can we re-purpose the building/structures after the airport closure? Or does LC restrict us from changing the buildings/structures in perpetuity? Post Airport-closure, Charter section 640 requires voter approval of limits on uses and development that may occur before new development is allowed, except for development of parks, public open spaces, and public recreational facilities. Development is defined in the Zoning Code as follows:
[A]ny manmade change to improved or unimproved real estate, including, but not limited to, the division of a parcel of land into 2 or more parcels; the construction, reconstruction, conversion, structural alteration, relocation, expansion, or enlargement of any structure; any mining, excavation, landfill or land disturbance; and any use or extension of the use of land.

Charter Section 640 also requires voter approval for redevelopment of the City’s existing buildings once all or part of the Santa Monica Airport permanently closes, except no voter approval is required for maintenance and replacement of existing cultural, arts and education uses.

According to the legislative history of Measure LC, which was extensively researched by George Cardona, a prior interim City Attorney, prior to the permanent closure of the Airport land to aviation use, it was assumed that land would remain subject to the development limitations imposed by continuing operation of the Airport and after closure, Measure LC would impose similar limitations, subject to a return to the voter for future guidance.

The comments of the Councilmembers during deliberations for Measure LC on July 22, 2014, evidence concern by the Councilmembers that thenexisting cultural, arts, and education uses not be unduly constrained by any size limitations on renovations of existing buildings to retain those uses.

Thus, we believe that there is sufficient evidence to support the proposition that voter approval is not required to repurpose building/structures after Airport closure, including expansion, assuming that the the same site.

There is precedent in the City’s established zoning districts to create definitions that apply uniquely to those districts. (SMMC Chapter 9.02). For example, in the Beach Overlay District, “recreational use” is defined as follows (The Beach Overlay District was created pursuant to Measure S, a voter initiative intended to limit development in the beach area generally west of Ocean Avenue.):

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Since “use” does not necessarily correlate with specific tenants, the City can still begin new tenancies post-closure without voter approval if they fall within existing use classifications.

Staff has also asked, for clarification purposes, whether it is possible to add new development pre-Airport closure – for example, 10 new restaurants on Airport property.

While the Airport remains open and Measure LC is not yet in effect, nothing prevents the City from building new development, subject to any existing development limits imposed by the FAA, the City’s general plan and zoning designation for Airport land, and the City’s leasing guidelines.

10. How does CEQA/EIR affect the alternatives we can or should study as related to Measure LC?
A. Is CEQA Analysis Required for Closure of the Airport? No. Council Resolution No. 11026 was adopted on February 28, 2017, and “authorizes all actions necessary to ensure the closure of Santa Monica airport effective as of midnight on December 31, 2028” and states that City Staff “shall take all actions necessary and proper to ensure that the Airport will cease to operate as an airport and shall be closed to all aeronautical use forever effective as of midnight on December 31, 2028.”
Under CEQA, “approval” does not require formal approval. (Save Tara v. City of West Hollywood (2008) 45 Cal.4th 116). “Approval” under CEQA occurs where “the agency has committed itself to the project as a whole or to any particular features, so as to effectively preclude any alternatives or mitigation measures that CEQA would otherwise require to be considered, including the alternative of not going forward with the project.” (Id.) The Council’s actions clearly directed staff to take all actions necessary to “ensure that the Airport will cease to operate as an airport…effective as of midnight on December 31, 2028.” Therefore, the City’s actions in 2017 would likely be considered “approval” of the airport closure and would likely trigger a 180 day statute of limitations, which expired on August 28, 2017. (Pub. Res. Code § 21167(a); Committee for Green Foothills v. Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors (2010) 48 Cal.4th 32, 44; Cummings v. City of San Bernardino Redevelopment Agency (2002) 101 Cal.App.4th 1229, 1234; Simi Valley Recreation & Park District v. LAFCO (1975) 51 Cal.App.3d 648, 666 [Rejecting argument that SOL did not begin to run until “decision was implemented by respondent…The cause of action clearly arose when the determination was [previously] made.).

The City will need to take additional subsequent implementing actions, including notification pursuant to 49 U.S.C. § 46319, 14 C.F.R. § 157.5(b)(2), and potentially notice under Pub. Res. Code § 21605. However, “[u]nder CEQA, ‘project’ ‘refers to the underlying activity which may be subject to approval by one or more governmental

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Therefore, the statute of limitations should start running from the 2017 approval, rather than the subsequent “implementing actions.” Consequently, the City may be able to rely upon the 2017 approvals to cover such subsequent actions.

B. Is CEQA analysis required before designing and building a park? Yes, the decision to design and construct a park would be considered a “project” under CEQA because this activity may cause either a direct physical change in the environment, or a reasonably foreseeable indirect physical change in the environment, and is an activity directly undertaken by the City, which is a public agency. (Pub. Res. Code §21065(a)).

C. Council Identification of a Land Use Scenario for the “Proposed Project” and Alternatives in the CEQA Environmental Review Process.

To initiate the CEQA Review process, the City will need to select a “Proposed Project” and Alternatives for review in the Draft EIR.

D. Avoid Appearance of Informal Approval and Minimize Preferences for Specific Land Use Plans.

During this planning and feasibility process, the City, and most importantly its decisionmakers (and any formal recommending bodies like the Planning Commission), should avoid any comments or suggestions indicating approval or support for any particular land use scheme. Any such statements are often used by opposition groups to assert (1) improper approval without CEQA review, and (2) improper bias.

E. Defining the CEQA Project Description (Reasonably Foreseeable Buildout).

Land Use Scheme Assumptions (total square footage). While Council will have selected a proposed land use scheme for analysis in the Draft EIR, City staff will need to translate those plans into a physical development proposal (i.e. reasonably foreseeable buildout of those plans). (CEQA Guidelines §§ 15378, 15146(b)). Some of this will require calculating the potential square footage of potential buildout. (High Sierra Rural Alliance v. County of Plumas (2018) 29 Cal.App.5th 102, 121-22 [General Plan buildout based on historic growth patterns]; Save Round Valley Alliance v. County of Inyo (2007) 157 Cal.App.4th 1437, 1450 [EIR did not need to assume second dwelling units would be constructed, even though allowed by zoning]; San Diego Citizenry Group v. County of San Diego (2013) 219 Cal.App.4th 1, 21 [analysis of development under proposed winery regulations based on questionnaire about likelihood of using regulations]; Aptos Council v. County of Santa Cruz (2017) 10 Cal.App.5th 266, 287 [buildout of regulations based on landowner responses to survey]).

F. Is NEPA Analysis Required for Closure of the Airport? Analysis under the National Environmental Protection Act (NEPA) is not required because no federal funds are involved in the Airport Conversion Project and the federal discretionary decision to close the Airport was authorized by the Consent Decree in 2017.

Additionally, federal ministerial implementing actions to effectuate the discretionary decision to close the Airport are not subject to NEPA analysis.

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Packet Pg. 586 Attachment: Memo re Airport Closure and Measure LC (6630 : Santa Monica Airport Conversion Project (SMACP) Engagement and Guiding 9 11. How does the Surplus Land Act affect the disposition of Airport land postclosure? The Surplus Land Act (Gov. Code, §§54220-54234)(SLA) aims to make local public land that is no longer needed for government purposes and entails a disposition of property (either long-term lease or sale) available for building affordable housing or open space.

The SLA does this by requiring local agencies to provide notices about the availability of surplus property to the following entities:
• The California Department of Housing and Community Development (HCD). • Any local public entity with jurisdiction over open space where the surplus local land is located.
• Developers who have notified HCD of their interest in developing affordable housing on surplus local public land.

Importantly, under the SLA, residential use is deemed an acceptable use for the surplus land for purposes of good faith negotiations, and the agency is prohibited from disallowing residential use of the site as a condition of the disposition of surplus land. (Gov’t Code §54223). As a practical matter, this means that the City may not be able to limit residential use of the Airport land post-closure if it desires to sell or lease the land to a third party, regardless of the limitations imposed by Measure LC. If the City wanted to proceed with third party disposition of property post-Airport closure, it would be advisable for the City to consider whether housing should be considered as part of “the Project” for purposes of CEQA analysis as well as future voter approval.

12. What impact could the 7th Cycle Housing Element have on the Airport land post closure?
Barring legislative changes to state Housing Element laws, the City should anticipate adoption of the City’s 7th Cycle (2030-2038) Housing Element by October 15, 2029, (subject to any statutory extensions) unless amended by State law, based upon the Regional Housing Needs Assessment (RHNA) allocated to the City no later than one year before the due date. The RHNA allocation process starts with HCD’s determination of housing needs throughout the state, followed by RHNA allocations issued by the various Council of Governments (COGs). The COG for Santa Monica is the Southern California Association of Governments (SCAG). The COG develops the methodology and submits this methodology for HCD to review. After the methodology is adopted by SCAG, SCAG

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Packet Pg. 587 Attachment: Memo re Airport Closure and Measure LC (6630 : Santa Monica Airport Conversion Project (SMACP) Engagement and Guiding 10 develops a RHNA Plan, which must be adopted one year before the next housing element due date. As a practical matter, this means that the City will get a new RHNA allocation for housing likely before the Airport closes, which may alter the assumptions for development of the Airport land post-closure, particularly if the City is unable to demonstrate adequate suitable sites for housing development that accommodates the City’s RHNA allocation for the 7th cycle, in the City’s land areas outside the Airport land.

The State’s Housing Element laws require that the Housing Element include an implementation program that demonstrates how the City plans to accommodate the RHNA allocation after the 7th Housing Element is certified by HCD. Any local land use restrictions, including Measure LC, that prevent housing will have no limiting impact if the City is unable to upzone as necessary Citywide to ensure that there are sufficient suitable sites to accommodate the City’s next RHNA allocation or face decertification of whatever housing element is adopted, even if the City obtains certification. Failure to upzone could subject the City to all legal remedies under State Housing Laws, including monetary penalties, third-party lawsuits, and the Builder’s Remedy, citywide. Therefore, in addition to SLA conflicts, it would be advisable for the City to consider realistic assumptions for development of new housing for the 7th Cycle as part of the CEQA analysis for the postclosure uses of the Airport.

13. Can you please provide a flowchart to show the decision process for when Measure LC applies?
[FLOW CHART ON NEXT PAGE]

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To: councilmtgitems; Lana Negrete; Caroline Torosis; Jesse Zwick; Ellis Raskin; Barry Snell; Natalya Zernitskaya; Dan Hall; David White; [email protected] Subject: City Council Meeting (01/28/25) - Item 7.A. - SMAC Project Guiding Principles

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Dear Council Members:

I am a Santa Monica resident, raising my family in Santa Monica. My kids play soccer in Santa Monica AYSO, the largest youth sports organization in Santa Monica, serving close to 1500 local kids.

I support restoring our City's original Great Park on the land currently occupied by the Santa Monica Airport. I also strongly support building many multi-use fields at the Great Park so our kids and families can stay active, healthy, and play soccer and other sports close to home.

Please support the proposed Guiding Principles and creation of a Great Park that is compliant with Measure LC, financially-feasible, publicly-owned, and can be opened for public use on Day One, January 1, 2029.

Sincerely,
Nick Manolelis
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Nicholas Manolelis
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Packet Pg. 633 Attachment: Written Comment [Revision 1] (6630 : Santa Monica Airport Conversion Project (SMACP) Engagement and Guiding Principles (120 2 David Yakobson
From: Laurie Yehia <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, January 28, 2025 4:44 PM
To: councilmtgitems; Lana Negrete; Caroline Torosis; Jesse Zwick; Ellis Raskin; Barry Snell; Natalya Zernitskaya; Dan Hall; David White
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: City Council Meeting (01/28/25) - Item 7.A. - SMAC Project Guiding Principles

EXTERNAL
Dear Mayor Negrete, Mayor Pro Tem Torosis, and Councilmembers:

I serve on the Santa Monica Arts Commission, previously as Vice Chair and as Chair of the Public Art Committee. The opportunity to develop a Great Park at the Santa Monica Airport is a truly rare, breathtaking opportunity to create positive history in the form of a much-needed sanctuary of nature, arts and culture, sport, environmental protection and community connection for our residents, larger community and visitors.

The data gathered so far from the City's SMAC Project process overwhelmingly supports the restoration of our City's original Great Park on the land currently occupied by the Santa Monica Airport.

Thank you!
Sincerely,
Laurie Yehia, Santa Monica Arts Commissioner
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Packet Pg. 634 Attachment: Written Comment [Revision 1] (6630 : Santa Monica Airport Conversion Project (SMACP) Engagement and Guiding Principles (120 3 David Yakobson
From: Greg Wellman <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, January 28, 2025 4:36 PM
To: councilmtgitems; Lana Negrete; Caroline Torosis; Jesse Zwick; Ellis Raskin; Barry Snell; Natalya Zernitskaya; Dan Hall; David White
Subject: A Practical and Sustainable Future for Santa Monica Airport

EXTERNAL
Dear City Council Members,
As discussions continue about the future of Santa Monica Airport, it’s crucial to recognize how much the landscape has changed since Measure LC was passed over a decade ago. The intent of that measure has often been mischaracterized—it did not mandate that the airport become a park, but rather that any significant development would require voter approval. The goal was to secure local control, not to dictate a single-use vision for the space. Yet the conversation around the airport’s future has remained narrow, despite dramatic shifts in our city’s financial health, technological advancements in aviation, and the increasing importance of emergency response capabilities.

The airport’s role in recent wildfire response efforts made its value unmistakably clear. Watching aircraft take off from Santa Monica to battle the fires reinforced how critical this space is in times of crisis.

Additionally, the landscape of aviation is evolving rapidly. Jet traffic has already declined by 81%, and electric aircraft—both for training and, soon, for passenger travel—are becoming a reality. These planes operate with zero emissions and significantly reduced noise, making them a viable and sustainable part of our city’s future.

Given these factors, a more balanced and forward-thinking approach is needed. The idea of turning the airport into a massive park may sound appealing, but it is neither practical nor financially responsible.

The city does not have the funds to construct or maintain a park of that scale. Raising property taxes to cover costs would face strong opposition, and no philanthropic source is stepping forward to fund such a project. If the airport is closed in 2028 without a viable economic plan in place, Santa Monica will be left with an enormous, underutilized space that presents more problems than solutions.

This lack of planning raises serious concerns. How will such a vast area be secured when law enforcement is already stretched thin trying to maintain safety in Downtown Santa Monica and existing parks? If the FAA redirects flight paths as a result of airport closure, how will that impact noise levels and air pollution for residents? And how will the city manage the enormous operational costs of a public space that, in reality, will serve not just Santa Monica, but millions of visitors from across LA County? These are fundamental questions that have yet to be adequately addressed.

A smarter approach exists—one that embraces a mix of ecological, social, and economic sustainability.

Instead of limiting the airport’s future to a single purpose, we have the opportunity to create a space that fosters recreation, education, cultural enrichment, and innovation while also generating revenue. The available 190 acres provide ample room to incorporate green space alongside other communitybenefiting developments. For perspective, the combined size of Luxembourg and Tuileries Gardens in Item 7-A
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Packet Pg. 635 Attachment: Written Comment [Revision 1] (6630 : Santa Monica Airport Conversion Project (SMACP) Engagement and Guiding Principles (120 4 Paris is only 110 acres—proving that a world-class park does not require all available land to be dedicated solely to open space.

As we move forward, I encourage you to keep an open mind and consider alternative proposals. Sasaki’s work has been valuable, but their mandate was to design a park—not to explore a variety of potential uses for this land. Let’s expand the conversation to ensure that Santa Monica makes a choice that is financially viable, environmentally responsible, and beneficial to residents for generations to come.

Thank you for your time, your leadership, and your commitment to our city.

Best,
Greg Wellman
c: (978)551-3292
[email protected]
linkedin.com/in/greg-wellman/
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Packet Pg. 636 Attachment: Written Comment [Revision 1] (6630 : Santa Monica Airport Conversion Project (SMACP) Engagement and Guiding Principles (120 5 David Yakobson
From: Bob Taylor <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, January 28, 2025 4:37 PM
To: councilmtgitems; Lana Negrete; Caroline Torosis; Jesse Zwick; Ellis Raskin; Barry Snell; Natalya Zernitskaya; Dan Hall; David White
Subject: Agenda Item 7-A. 1/28/25

EXTERNAL
Honorable Mayor Nagrete & Council Members
Agenda Item 7-A
Re: SMO - LC, FAA Consent Decree, and City Charter.

None of the above mandate the closure of SMO on December 31, 2028, or at any other time.

What is provided in those documents is that the power to close, or leave open, an operating, economically productive local airport, was given to essentially four people! Four of you on the council are given the power, by virtue of a required majority vote, on January 1, 2029,12:01am, to either do nothing, which leaves the airport operational, or take an actual vote amongst yourselves to support its continued operation, or vote to shut down aviation uses. Four of you have that power. None of the loud rhetoric of a vocal minority choose to inform the general public of that fact, leading some of the public to believe the false notion that closure is inevitable on December 31, 2028. Does that include this council too?
Peter James, lead staff planner, presented to you on January 24, 2023 that there are no funds on hand, or in the predictable future, to fund a change of the the last large open space in our city from airport to a park without selling off significant portions for major development. Or college expansion, i.e. ‘educational use’. LC does not protect those that think only a park can be approved without a vote of the public, as it had been demonstrated at the civic center that you can surplus the land, which would remove it from that provision.

So, no money to build a park, which is typically in the $3-4 million/acre cost range to develop, plus the annual maintenance projected by Peter in his presentation to you, as well as his pointing out to you that additional playing field improvements were approved about 7 years ago with projected costs of about $5 million and remain unimproved due to lack of funds. All that and yet, tonight, you are considering approving continuing down the road to closure.

Sadly, I expect you will no doubt approve continuing with a bias to closure, but one might hope that this effort would include the factual option of leaving the airport operational, that it show the economic impact, not just the predicted $20 mil to city coffers, but also include the greater economic impact of some $350 mil (corrected for inflation from a SMDP 2014 article).

Bob Taylor, AIA
Ocean Park Resident
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Packet Pg. 637 Attachment: Written Comment [Revision 1] (6630 : Santa Monica Airport Conversion Project (SMACP) Engagement and Guiding Principles (120 6 p.s.

From Oct. 2014 issue of Smithsonian Air & Space magazine (Please note the lead UCLA researcher quoted, Suzanne Paulson, is a Santa Monica resident and was/is a member of the Airport Commission)
“Community activists promote the impression of airport-adjacent neighborhoods blanketed by a potpourri of pollution. Actual research, however, reports mainly the presence of ultrafine particles (UFPs) limited to areas immediately to the east. Southern California Air Quality Management District and UCLA tests have failed to detect common combustion-related pollutants, such as carbon monoxide, particulate matter, volatile organic compounds, and carbonyl. Significant ultrafine particles were undetectable “anywhere other than the area directly downwind of the takeoff area,” says Suzanne Paulson of UCLA’s Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences Department, who headed the most recent survey. Analyzing air samples taken on the north, south, and west sides of SMO, Paulson tells me, “we could not see any indicators that an airport was there.”

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Packet Pg. 638 Attachment: Written Comment [Revision 1] (6630 : Santa Monica Airport Conversion Project (SMACP) Engagement and Guiding Principles (120 7 David Yakobson
From: [email protected]
Sent: Tuesday, January 28, 2025 4:36 PM
To: councilmtgitems; Lana Negrete; Caroline Torosis; Jesse Zwick; Ellis Raskin; Barry Snell; Natalya Zernitskaya; Dan Hall
Subject: City Council - 1/28/25 - Item 7-A - SMAC Project Guiding Principles - OPPOSE

EXTERNAL
Dear City Council –
I am writing to ask that you halt the Airport Conversion process until an outside legal opinion is obtained regarding the fate of the airport land when the airport closes. Please do not adopt the Guiding Principles and do not instruct staff to develop scenarios for developing the airport land.

While I would love to see a park, the staff report indicates that state law preempts local land use decisions and, based on the airport closing, Santa Monica will be assigned RHNA housing targets because the airport becomes “developable land.” This is an unacceptable result that will destroy Santa Monica. This risk and potential outcome was NOT presented in either the City process or in any of the supporting organizations’ materials.

Please instruct staff to immediately seek an outside legal opinion that definitively answers the following questions.

1. Is the airport “developable land” under state law (SB7) that will be assigned RHNA units?

2. Did the 2017 city council resolution count as a closure decision or is another vote of city council required to close the airport?

3. Does the staff report assertion that no further vote is needed mean that the airport land will be included in the next RHNA cycle?

4. If Santa Monica were to build a park on some or all of the airport land, would it have to increase density in the rest of the city to accommodate the RHNA allocation? Absent a clear answer to all of these questions that confirms local control, it is reckless and irresponsible for city council to continue to move forward with a conversion process that is likely to cause irreparable harm to Santa Monica and its residents.

Thank you for your consideration.

Gail Denney
Santa Monica Resident and Voter
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Packet Pg. 639 Attachment: Written Comment [Revision 1] (6630 : Santa Monica Airport Conversion Project (SMACP) Engagement and Guiding Principles (120 8 Gail Denney
Consultant - Retail/Strategic Sales
[email protected]
310 621 7486
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Packet Pg. 640 Attachment: Written Comment [Revision 1] (6630 : Santa Monica Airport Conversion Project (SMACP) Engagement and Guiding Principles (120 9 David Yakobson
From: John Given <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, January 28, 2025 4:16 PM
To: councilmtgitems; Lana Negrete; Caroline Torosis; Jesse Zwick; Dan Hall; Barry Snell; Natalya Zernitskaya
Subject: Re: Agenda Item 7A - Airport Reuse Planning

EXTERNAL
Correction typo below: 300 acres, not 3000.

JOHN GIVEN
[email protected]
310-430-1018
On Jan 27, 2025, at 6:19 PM, John Given <[email protected]> wrote:

Since the Airport Initiative was first debated the necessity of expanding the supply of housing across the region and in Santa Monica has become perhaps the number one public policy priority and is now broadly understood across all constituencies. As if we needed any further reminder, the horrific fires have brought the issue into even greater clarity. Any jurisdiction with capacity to plan for development of as much 3000 acres of public land (i.e. the City of Santa Monica and the VA), would be in dereliction of its responsibility to not proactively make plans accordingly.

This is ample basis for the City Council to ask that ongoing planning for reuse of the Airport include development of housing affordable to low income households and more broadly the Santa Monica workforce.

I support development of park and recreation uses. However, that is not incompatible with development of at least 3000 housing units on the same property. The planning studies and community surveys to date do not adequately assess and offer concepts of housing and park development and thus do not adequately assess public input on the same. At Council direction this work should part of all ongoing planning studies.

Below is my previous correspondence on this matter.

Thank you holding a hearing on the Airport Reuse process.

Sincerely,
John Given
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Packet Pg. 641 Attachment: Written Comment [Revision 1] (6630 : Santa Monica Airport Conversion Project (SMACP) Engagement and Guiding Principles (120 10 Begin forwarded message:

From: John Given <[email protected]>
Subject: Airport Reuse Planning
Date: January 2, 2025 at 5:33:20 PM PST
To: [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected],
[email protected], [email protected], [email protected]
Dear Council members, I chaired the Housing Commission when the City chose to use Earthquake Redevelopment (1994) funds to acquire the Rand property leading to the development of Tongva Park. Notably, it was the initiative of the Housing Commission to insist that there be a substantial setaside of land for housing development including the very successful affordable housing development, the Belmar Apartments.

I have participated in the community workshops and followed with great interest the visioning process for the re-use of the Santa Monica Airport as being led by City staff and the Sasaki consultant team. No doubt this is a tremendous opportunity to develop the land for public uses and parklands as endorsed by the voters. However, there are so many other considerations that do not compete with or limit that storyline. Among them:
...Meet the City’s needs for affordable and workforce housing, not to mention the same for the greater WLA region. How can the Citysponsored planning effort so casually make glancing reference to these needs? The “gaming” of the airport conversion plan should include development of at least 3000 housing units on the Airport property in addition to market rate and affordable housing redevelopment of portions of the adjacent business park is a proactive strategy to house our growing workforce and provide intergenerational housing mobility for Santa Monica residents. This can be done on as little as 1/3 of the site without compromising park and recreational land use potential. Ignoring this scenario does not make the housing demand go away. It only means Santa Monica becomes more out of reach for its own workforce and intergenerational mobility of its residents.
...Provide for modernization and expansion and relocation of the City’s transportation, utility, sanitation, and other operations centers.

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Packet Pg. 642 Attachment: Written Comment [Revision 1] (6630 : Santa Monica Airport Conversion Project (SMACP) Engagement and Guiding Principles (120 11 ...While the airport property is within the City of Santa Monica and is owned by the City, its long term use cannot ignore the overwhelming demand for park and recreation uses and housing of the larger surrounding community. Most of the examples of airport conversion projects from around the world occur under regional, even State, authorities created to finance and oversee the public and private capital and enterprises necessary to undertake large scale land development. It should be of great concern that the public is being led through a very Santa Monica-centric process with only passing reference to the necessity of regional and intergovernmental engagement in the visioning, planning, and ultimately the jurisdictional authorities that will be called upon for approvals, financing and governance.

This City Council is now asked to make its imprint on the airport conversion studies. The narrative should include how housing and public lands can be developed in a common vision. I urge the City Council to engage its neighboring jurisdictions in assessing regional park, recreational and housing priorities for this property. Santa Monica can and should lead but real vision is not a dream-like state where anything is possible. It must take on the great challenges of our time and place.

Respectfully,
John Given
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Packet Pg. 643 Attachment: Written Comment [Revision 1] (6630 : Santa Monica Airport Conversion Project (SMACP) Engagement and Guiding Principles (120 12 David Yakobson
From: Susan Sheu <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, January 28, 2025 4:15 PM
To: councilmtgitems; Lana Negrete; Caroline Torosis; Jesse Zwick; Dan Hall; Ellis Raskin; Barry Snell; Natalya Zernitskaya; David White
Cc: Brian Colker
Subject: Santa Monica City Council - January 28, 2025 - Item #7: Santa Monica Airport

EXTERNAL
January 28, 2025
TO: SM CITY COUNCIL
RE: SMO REUSE PLAN
Dear Santa Monica City Council Members:

We are writing to support a growing group of Santa Monica residents and workers who feel that the conversation about affordable and workforce housing (from very low to middle income) has been excluded from the community process for the airport reuse. Our family is joining with them in advocating for BOTH housing accessible to people who make our city run AND a great park covering at least half of the airport site.

To date, the guiding principles for consultants hired for the airport project cover five themes, each of which has linkage to housing that is inclusive and accessible, but whose linkage does not appear in the principles themselves. The lack of inclusion of affordable housing in the discussion is deeply concerning to us and makes the guiding principles themselves ring hollow.

As a family who have lived in Santa Monica for 25 years, had a small business in Santa Monica (now relocated to Marina Del Rey), and have sent our three children to Santa Monica public schools, we feel deeply invested in the city and its future and believe that any serious and ethical plan for our city in the 21st century must include realistic plans to both reduce our region’s carbon footprint and provide affordable housing for the many essential workers that help our city remain a high quality place to visit, live, do business, and raise a family.

We have over 80,000 formal jobs in the city and less than 10% of these workers live here. Nurses, teachers, firefighters, hotel workers, and first responders travel one-two hours each way to come to work and make our city run. Housing at the airport can go a long way to heal our environment and realize our city’s mission of economic justice
We can have a great park *and* housing for people who can’t compete in our housing marketplace.

That is versatility—one the consultants’ express guiding principles. With 100 acres, we can have all the active and passive park uses we desire. In addition, we can have many families enjoy their lives here while contributing to our economy and welfare.

As the consultants head into Phase 3 of the community engagement process (determining three reuse options), we are asking you to direct them to look at affordable and workforce housing Item 7-A
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Packet Pg. 644 Attachment: Written Comment [Revision 1] (6630 : Santa Monica Airport Conversion Project (SMACP) Engagement and Guiding Principles (120 13 options in an earnest way, engage with housing advocates in a serious way, and study the economic feasibility in a creative way.

Sincerely,
Susan Sheu and Brian Colker
Santa Monica, CA 90402
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Packet Pg. 645 Attachment: Written Comment [Revision 1] (6630 : Santa Monica Airport Conversion Project (SMACP) Engagement and Guiding Principles (120 14 David Yakobson
From: Ose Dalldorf <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, January 28, 2025 4:07 PM
To: councilmtgitems; Lana Negrete; Caroline Torosis; Jesse Zwick; Ellis Raskin; Barry Snell; Natalya Zernitskaya; Dan Hall; David White
Subject: City Council - 1/28/25 - Item 7-A - SMAC Project Guiding Principles

EXTERNAL
Dear council members,
I whole- heartedly support the developed guiding principles by SMAC and have participated in various surveys regarding this issue.

Please honor the resident's wishes and legal contract regarding the ' former' SM Airport Land.

I am absolutely dismayed that the city of SM has let it go this far to consider questioning the rights and legal votes/decisions of the SM residents' by special interests !
Thank you,
your long time resident
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Packet Pg. 646 Attachment: Written Comment [Revision 1] (6630 : Santa Monica Airport Conversion Project (SMACP) Engagement and Guiding Principles (120 15 David Yakobson
From: [email protected]
Sent: Tuesday, January 28, 2025 4:02 PM
To: councilmtgitems; Lana Negrete; Caroline Torosis; Jesse Zwick; Ellis Raskin; Barry Snell; Natalya Zernitskaya; Dan Hall; David White
Subject: re: Santa Monica Airport

EXTERNAL
Dear City Council Members,
I would urge you to use caution in adapting a strictly park vision for the Santa Monica Airport acreage. The property is in the least desirable corner of Santa Monica and is surrounded by Venice on both sides.

While most Santa Monican’s gravitate toward the beach, this means the airport will be mostly utilized by our neighbors in Venice and Culver City while their businesses will also see the majority of the benefit.

Santa Monica will be left with the development costs and the upkeep of this huge recreational area that we will find will not be used by our residents.

The city is currently under a mandate to increase affordable housing and allocating a piece of land for the development of new residential and commercial property will decrease the need to develop the downtown area with buildings so high they block the sun.

I would also consider the city council consider using part of the space for a Los Angeles Artist Series in the chance that I cannot acquire the property at 302 Colorado or another space in the downtown area.

The city has a number of needs and an ongoing expense from a park that is mostly used by non-residents should not be a priority.

I do agree a substantial amount should be used for green space and I think a portion should be kept for Helicopter and potential future Air Taxi use. A comprehensive plan that incorporates many of the cities current and future needs should be developed with a priority put on establishing the area as an entertainment destination and becoming compliant with the affordable housing requirements.

Sincerely,
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Joe DiRosa
Founder, CEO
Artist Series, Seedlings, Tartare, BrainPower
310-770-5171
[email protected]
www.seedlings.vc
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Packet Pg. 648 Attachment: Written Comment [Revision 1] (6630 : Santa Monica Airport Conversion Project (SMACP) Engagement and Guiding Principles (120 17 David Yakobson
From: Paul Rosenstein <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, January 28, 2025 3:04 PM
To: councilmtgitems; Council Mailbox; Council Mailbox
Subject: Agenda Item 7A - Airport

EXTERNAL
I support the proposal by Coverfield Commons for housing at the airport. We can have a Great Park, park related commercial and needed housing. The airport encompasses so much space that it can accommodate these uses. they can also help reduce the gigantic costs that it will take to make and maintain a park.

Paul Rosenstein
Mobile: 1-310-430-2475
[email protected]
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Packet Pg. 649 Attachment: Written Comment [Revision 1] (6630 : Santa Monica Airport Conversion Project (SMACP) Engagement and Guiding Principles (120 18 David Yakobson
From: Soloff, Michael <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, January 28, 2025 2:50 PM
To: councilmtgitems; Lana Negrete; Caroline Torosis; Jesse Zwick; Ellis Raskin; Barry Snell; Natalya Zernitskaya; Dan Hall; David White
Cc: [email protected]; JENNIFER K
Subject: 1.28.2025 SMRR letter to Council re Item 7.A (support for inclusion of affordable housing among uses of the Airport after closure).pdf
Attachments: 1.28.2025 SMRR letter to Council re Item 7.A (support for inclusion of affordable housing among uses of the Airport after closure).pdf

EXTERNAL
Please find attached a letter from SMRR regarding Council Item 7A (future of the Santa Monica Airport).

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Packet Pg. 650 Attachment: Written Comment [Revision 1] (6630 : Santa Monica Airport Conversion Project (SMACP) Engagement and Guiding Principles (120 1 January 28, 2025
RE: Support for Evaluating Inclusion of Affordable Housing Among the Uses at the Santa Monica Airport After Closure—Item 16.J on City Council’s January 28, 2025 Agenda Dear City Councilmembers,
We are writing to express the strong support of Santa Monicans for Renters’ Rights (“SMRR”) for including approximately 3,000 units of below market rate housing among the uses at the Santa Monica Airport that are to be evaluated in each of the two post-closure scenarios that are not purely LC compliant (i.e., that would require a vote of Santa Monicans before implementation) that Council tonight will direct Sasaki and Staff to study further. As explained below, SMRR believes the creation of approximately 3,000 units of below market rate housing at the Santa Monica Airport after closure is essential to ensure Santa Monica remains an economically diverse community, and does not become an economically gated community, a moral vision and moral goal that a majority of Santa Monicans have repeatedly endorsed by their votes over the last 45 years. SMRR also believes that the creation of these units need not preclude in any way any of the park-related and other uses that the community and SMRR also wish to see at the Santa Monica Airport after closure.

Of course, given Measure LC (which SMRR supported), the voters will have the ultimate say about whether in fact to create these units. But in order to fairly and intelligently present that choice to the voters, it is essential that these units be included in each of the two scenarios that are not purely LC complaint that Council tonight will direct Sasaki and Staff to study.

History Demonstrates That A Majority Of Santa Monica Voters Consistently Support Governmental Efforts To Maintain Santa Monica As An Economically Diverse City Santa Monicans for Renters’ Rights (“SMRR”) was founded more than 45 years ago to combat the ongoing displacement of lower income and middle class renters from our beach city due to rapidly rising housing costs. Over and over again, the majority of Santa Monica voters have embraced SMRR’s moral vision and moral goal of maintaining Santa Monica as an economically diverse city. For example, the majority of Santa Monica voters voted to add rent control to the City Charter (1979); voted to add to the Charter a mandate that the City Council ensure that at least 30% of all new multi-family housing constructed each year be deed-restricted housing affordable to and occupied by lower and moderate income households (1990); voted to add to the City Charter authorization to expend City funds for affordable housing (1998); voted to increase the local sales tax to generate new funds for affordable housing after the State eliminated redevelopment funding (2016); and voted to increase by ballot initiative the real estate transfer tax in order to expand the City’s rent subsidy and affordable housing production programs (2022).

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Packet Pg. 651 Attachment: Written Comment [Revision 1] (6630 : Santa Monica Airport Conversion Project (SMACP) Engagement and Guiding Principles (120 2 A majority of Santa Monica voters also repeatedly have elected SMRR endorsed City Council majorities that took action to implement the moral vision and moral goal of Santa Monica as an economically diverse city. For example, prior City Councils facilitated the creation of a community-based non-profit affordable housing developer and operator, Community Corporation of Santa Monica (1982); zoned for mixed-use developments on commercially zoned properties, commercial boulevards, and in the downtown (1990s through the present); imposed by ordinance inclusionary zoning affordable housing requirements on for-profit developers that provide increased height and density in exchange for increased inclusionary requirements (1992 through the present); dedicated public land and spent public funds to create deed-restricted affordable housing (1979 through the present); dedicated close to 40% of redevelopment funds to affordable housing—twice the state mandate of at least 20% (1990s through the State’s elimination of redevelopment during the Great Recession); dedicated to affordable housing all of the one-time redevelopment loan repayments from the State (2017 through the present); and created and expanded a local rent subsidy pilot program to keep extremely low and very low income seniors in their long time homes (2017 through the present).

Finally, the majority of voters in the 2024 City Council election voted for four new SMRRendorsed Councilmembers, all of whom stated during the campaign their support for the creation of more deed-restricted affordable housing.

Creating Approximately 3,000 Below Market Rate Housing Units At The Santa Monica Airport Post-Closure Is Essential Both To Maintaining Santa Monica As An Economically Diverse City And To The Council Complying With Its Charter Obligations Under Proposition R
Tonight’s discussion of the post-closure use of the Santa Monica Airport is about the long-term future of our City. If that long-term future is to include a place for lower and moderate income households, the use of some of the public land at the Santa Monica Airport for approximately 3,000 below market rate housing units is essential.1
As explained in the most-recent Santa Monica Rent Control Board Annual Report, in 1998, prior to State-mandated vacancy decontrol, 84 percent of all Santa Monica rent-controlled units were

1 SMRR believes that it is premature at the present time to take a position regarding the precise make up of these units in terms of bedroom size or maximum income level. Both State law and Santa Monica law seek in various ways to encourage the production of units that are deed-restricted as affordable to lower or moderate income households (as variously defined in those laws). SMRR recognizes that to date severe rent burden (paying more than 50% of household income for rent and utilities) is almost exclusively a problem for lower income households, and that rent burden (paying more than 30% but no more than 50% of household income for rent and utilities) is almost exclusively a problem for lower and moderate income households (with the incidence higher the lower the household income level). See Footnote 3 below. SMRR also recognizes that the consequence of rent burden is greater the lower a household’s income because at the exact same level of rent burden expressed as a percentage of household income, a household with less income necessarily has less after rent income to spend on the other necessities of life than a household with more income. However, SMRR further recognizes that the only Santa Monica housing affordable to households somewhat above moderate is a portion of the rent control stock that becomes available over time, and that the market will not create newly constructed units that are affordable to such households. See Footnote 4 below. SMRR finally recognizes that innovative financing models, including social housing, the potential to set aside units for specific types of workers (e.g., teachers), and potential continued increases in rents relative to increases in household incomes may call for including above moderate—but below market—housing among the approximately 3,000 deed-restricted units SMRR believes should be created at the Santa Monica Airport after closure.

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Packet Pg. 652 Attachment: Written Comment [Revision 1] (6630 : Santa Monica Airport Conversion Project (SMACP) Engagement and Guiding Principles (120 3 affordable to lower-income households. Today, virtually no rental units are affordable to lowerincome households, except for deed-restricted affordable units.2 As a result, HUD’s most recent
CHAS data estimates that 10,375 of the current 14,350 lower-income Santa Monica renter households (72.3%) are rent burdened (i.e., pay more than 30% and up to 50% of their limited incomes for rent and utilities), including 6500 such households (45.3% of the current total lowerincome Santa Monica renter households) that are severely rent burdened (i.e., pay more than 50% of their limited incomes for rent and utilities).3
Critically, current initial rent levels preclude any new lower-income households from moving into housing in our community, except deed-restricted affordable housing, including the many lower-income households headed by the hotel workers, restaurant workers, and retail workers whose labor each day is essential to our City obtaining the Transient Occupancy Tax and Sales Tax revenues that provide much of the funding for the City services enjoyed by Santa Monica residents. In particular, our rent-controlled units, which by definition are at least 45 years old, command a lower initial rent than newly constructed units. Yet, even a household earning the absolute maximum income that HCD classifies as lower income would have to spend between

35.6% of that income (for single person household renting a studio apartment) and 41.6% of that income (for a four person household renting a two bedroom apartment) in order to cover the median initial rent for the smallest possible Santa Monica rent-controlled unit that could accommodate a household of that size. And all of the lower-income households that do not make that absolute maximum income would have to pay an even higher percentage of their income to cover that median initial rent. Indeed, every household that HCD classifies as very low income would have to pay far more than half their limited incomes to cover that median initial rent.4

2 See 2023 Santa Monica Rent Control Board Annual Report (“2023 SMRCB Report”) at 26 (bottom paragraph), available at
https://www.santamonica.gov/media/Document%20Library/Detail/Rent%20Control%20Charter%20Amendment% 20&%20Regulations/SMRCB%202023%20Annual%20Report.pdf.
3 See 2017-2021 HUD Comprehensive Housing Affordability Strategy (“CHAS”) data, available at https://www.huduser.gov/portal/datasets/cp.html.

Income by Cost Burden (Renters only) Cost burden
> 30%
Cost burden >
50% Total
Household Income less-than or= 30% HAMFI 4,620 3,780 6,820 Household Income >30% to less-than or= 50%
HAMFI 3,190 1,860 3,690
Household Income >50% to less-than or= 80%
HAMFI 2,565 860 3,840
Household Income >80% to less-than or= 100%
HAMFI 1,560 325 2,880
Household Income >100% HAMFI 1,895 40 16,115
Total 13,830 6,865 33,345
4 See 2023 SMRCB Report at 26, at Figure 24 (median initial rent level in 2023, by unit size); 2023 California Department of Housing and Community Development State Income Limits for Los Angeles County, available at https://www.hcd.ca.gov/sites/default/files/docs/grants-and-funding/income-limits-2023.pdf. The calculation presented above assumes that a single person household rents a studio apartment, a two-person household rents Item 7-A
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Packet Pg. 653 Attachment: Written Comment [Revision 1] (6630 : Santa Monica Airport Conversion Project (SMACP) Engagement and Guiding Principles (120 4 These facts demonstrate that Santa Monica cannot remain an economically diverse City without creating deed-restrict affordable housing. While the City can (and in accordance with 2022 Measure GS must) address the rent-burden crisis faced by current lower-income Santa Monica households in part through expanded rent subsidy programs, new deed-restricted affordable housing also is a part of the solution. Moreover, over time life circumstances will lead long-term lower income households to leave existing long term (and therefore much more affordable) rent controlled units, and will be replaced by higher income tenants who can afford the then current initial rents for such units (thereby reducing the number of lower-income households in the City). Further, the City—in accordance with State mandates—necessarily will be significantly increasing its housing supply with very expensive market rate units, thereby reducing the share of Santa Monica households who are lower income if new deed-restricted housing for lower income households is not also created. Additional deed-restricted affordable units therefore are necessary to prevent Santa Monica from becoming an economically gated community.

The majority of Santa Monica voters long ago mandated that the City Council take action to assure the creation of newly constructed housing units affordable to lower and moderate income households. By 1990 Proposition R, Santa Monica voters added Section 630 to the City Charter.

Section 630 provides (bolding added):

The City Council by ordinance shall at all times require that not less than thirty percent (30%) of all multifamily-residential housing newly constructed in the City on an annual basis is permanently affordable to and occupied by low and moderate income households. For purposes of this Section, “low income household” means a household with an income not exceeding sixty percent (60%) of the Los Angeles County median income, adjusted by family size, as published from time to time by the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development, and “moderate income household” means a household with an income not exceeding one hundred percent (100%) of the Los Angeles County median income, adjusted by family size, as published from time to time by the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development. At least fifty percent (50%) of the newly constructed units required to be permanently affordable by this Section shall be affordable to and occupied by low income households.

State and local inclusionary housing requirements—which require for profit developers to deedrestrict a portion of their units for low and moderate income households, in exchange for the right to build taller and denser projects—cannot by themselves meet the requirements of City Charter Section 630. At the present time, given current State and local law, 15% or less of the units in new market-rate development projects in Santa Monica are deed-restricted affordable units. Meeting the requirements of City Charter Section 630 has always required—and in the future will continue to require—that public resources be devoted to creating new deed-restricted affordable housing units, including public land.

a one-bedroom apartment, and a four person household rents a two-bedroom apartment. (footnote continues on next page)

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Using the same approach demonstrates that the median initial rent is less than 30% of the income of a household earning maximum amount that HCD defines as moderate income.

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Packet Pg. 654 Attachment: Written Comment [Revision 1] (6630 : Santa Monica Airport Conversion Project (SMACP) Engagement and Guiding Principles (120 5 Creating Approximately 3,000 Below Market Rate Housing Units At The Santa Monica Airport Post-Closure Need Not Preclude In Any Way Any Of The Park-Related And Other Uses That The Community And SMRR Also Wish To See Created Section G of the SMRR platform has long provided that:

SMRR is committed to the restoration and expansion of our parks and our public open space and their recreational facilities and programs. Santa Monica parks should be the pride of our community.

SMRR sees no conflict between this position, and its position that approximately 3,000 below market rate housing units should be created at the Santa Monica Airport post-closure.

The Santa Monica Airport site is approximately 200 acres. If, for illustrative example only, you wanted to put 60 units per acre, which is far less dense that many current affordable housing projects in Santa Monica, 3,000 units could be accommodated on just 25% of that land.5 While
aesthetic values, financing opportunities, a desire to maximize parkland, and/or other values might ultimately lead the voters to embrace somewhat more or less density, which in turn would require somewhat more or somewhat less of the land be devoted to the creation of approximately 3,000 below market rate units, the point remains that the creation of those units at the Santa Monica Airport post-closure need not prevent in any way any of the park-related or other uses the community and SMRR also would like to see created.

Thank you for your consideration of SMRR’s views on this important matter.

Sincerely,
Denny Zane Mike Soloff
Co-Chair, Santa Monicans for Renters’ Rights Co-Chair, Santa Monicans for Renters’ Rights

5 See, e.g., 4/17/24 Application of Venice Housing Corporation to California Tax Credit Allocation Committee (“CTAC”) regarding 1624 20th Street in Santa Monica (78 one, two and three bedroom units in a seven story building on 0.46 acre site—project approved for financing by CTAC); 2/24 EAH Housing Presentation to Santa Monica Housing Commission regarding 1318 4th Street in Santa Monica (122 studio, one, two and three bedroom units in a six story building on 30,000 square foot (i.e., 0.69 acre) site—project approved by City Council on public land); 3/2/23 Staff Report to Santa Monica Architectural Review Board regarding 1834-1848 14th Street (73 one, two and three bedroom units in a four story building on 30,060 square foot (i.e., 0.69 acre) site—project completed).

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Packet Pg. 655 Attachment: Written Comment [Revision 1] (6630 : Santa Monica Airport Conversion Project (SMACP) Engagement and Guiding Principles (120 19 David Yakobson
From: Ravi <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, January 28, 2025 2:33 PM
To: councilmtgitems
Subject: Item 7a -Support for The Great Park

EXTERNAL
Hello,
Please support the proposed Guiding Principles and creation of a Great Park that is compliant with Measure LC, financially-feasible, publicly-owned, and can be opened for public use on Day One, January 1, 2029.

Thanks!
Ravi
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Packet Pg. 656 Attachment: Written Comment [Revision 1] (6630 : Santa Monica Airport Conversion Project (SMACP) Engagement and Guiding Principles (120 20 David Yakobson
From: Gregg Chadwick <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, January 28, 2025 2:14 PM
To: councilmtgitems; Lana Negrete; Caroline Torosis; Jesse Zwick; Ellis Raskin; Barry Snell; Natalya Zernitskaya; Dan Hall; david.white@santamonica
Subject: Re: January 28, 2025 City Council Meeting - Item 7.A. - SMAC Project Guiding Principles

EXTERNAL
Dear Santa Monica City Council Members,
As a resident Santa Monica homeowner and small business owner, I fervently support the creation of a Great Park at the site of the Santa Monica airport upon closure. My family is excited by the “Guiding Principles” as they clearly indicate the public’s enthusiasm for a Great Park that “Starts with Nature” and is Measure LC compliant. The "Guiding Principles" are inspiring and feasible : Start with Nature, Inspire Wonder, Balance Economics, Amplify Versatility, and Celebrate Place.

Thank you for your vision!
Gregg Chadwick
www.greggchadwick.com
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Packet Pg. 657 Attachment: Written Comment [Revision 1] (6630 : Santa Monica Airport Conversion Project (SMACP) Engagement and Guiding Principles (120 21 David Yakobson
From: Frances Anderton <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, January 28, 2025 2:07 PM
To: councilmtgitems; Lana Negrete; Caroline Torosis; Jesse Zwick; Ellis Raskin; Barry Snell; Natalya Zernitskaya; Dan Hall; David White
Subject: Item 7.A. - SMAC Phase 3 -- Let Santa Monica be its best self!

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Dear Santa Monica City Council,
My name is Frances Anderton and I am a longtime Santa Monica resident, as well as a writer/broadcaster on the topic of architecture and design, with a recent focus on housing. I am the author of the book, Common Ground: Multifamily Housing in Los Angeles. My husband Robin Bennett Stein, a guitar teacher, and I are renters in Ocean Park. Our 20 year-old daughter Summer studied at John Muir, JAMS and Samohi.

I am writing in connection with the commencement of feasibility analysis for three planning scenarios for the Airport Conversion Project (“Phase 3”), to be discussed at tonight's city council meeting. I hope that Phase 3 might include options that include housing, and here is why:

Passionate community members fought hard to deliver a Great Park to the citizens of Santa Monica by passing Measure LC 10 years ago. It was a great accomplishment. However, in the intervening decade, it has become evident to a good number of local residents and many planning and policy experts that there is a gaping need for housing at middle and low incomes for Santa Monica citizens and workers. In addition, many people displaced by the recent fires have intensified the region's housing needs.

At almost 200 acres (around 150 football fields!) the airport contains ample land. Conceivably a portion could be set aside for housing, carefully integrated with the park.

In doing so, the city could provide the much-desired "Great Park," and a visionary, 21st century solution to a larger economic and environmental issue: 20th century land use and development practices that have pushed more and more Santa Monicans, including many of the city's essential workers -- staffers at our schools, hospitals, and hotels and emergency service providers -- to live miles away where housing is cheaper. Not only can these be fire prone hinterlands, but these people have to spend hours on the freeways getting back and forth to work, adding to our climate crisis.

Yet, the public outreach process conducted so far has given limited opportunity to respondents to voice a desire to include housing.

I hope that as it proceeds, the talented team at Sasaki can be given the freedom to at least offer residents the option of an expanded vision for the airport site. As I understood it, Measure LC always left open the possibility for other uses, contingent on voter approval.

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Packet Pg. 658 Attachment: Written Comment [Revision 1] (6630 : Santa Monica Airport Conversion Project (SMACP) Engagement and Guiding Principles (120 22 Finally, the opening guiding principle for the Great Park is, “Start With Nature.” If we are to live up to that ideal in its fullest meaning, the Great Park can and should be a regional model of social, economic, and environmental sustainability -- and of course, a wonderful park! Sincerely,
Frances Anderton and Robin Bennett Stein
Frances Anderton
Web site: francesanderton.com
Mobile: 310-429-8158
Insta: dna_designandarchitecture / common_ground_mfh_in_la IN: Frances Anderton
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Packet Pg. 659 Attachment: Written Comment [Revision 1] (6630 : Santa Monica Airport Conversion Project (SMACP) Engagement and Guiding Principles (120 23 David Yakobson
From: Steven Wolkoff <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, January 28, 2025 2:00 PM
To: councilmtgitems; Lana Negrete; Caroline Torosis; Jesse Zwick; Ellis Raskin; Barry Snell; Natalya Zernitskaya; Dan Hall; David White
Subject: City Council - 1/28/25 - Item 7-A - Santa Monica Airport Conversion Project

EXTERNAL
Dear City Council Members,
I am a Santa Monica resident and voter.

I am deeply concerned about the Santa Monica Airport Conversion Project.

I have no interest in aviation (I don't own a plane, take flying lessons, or have aspirations to do these things), and I am not opposed to the concept of a Great Park. However, I am opposed to squandering this land and the opportunity it presents. I do not want to see this land turned into another Playa Vista development that happens to contain a park.

My main concern is that the City is moving forward with the Airport Conversion Project without a clear, viable plan for funding it.

Before it can even begin to fund a Great Park, Santa Monica has two massive financial hurdles to clear: the settlement from the Eric Uller child abuse case settlement and the unfunded pension liabilities.

Can you please provide answers for the following two questions?

1.What is your plan for paying off the Eric Uller child abuse case settlement?

2. What is your plan for funding the City's unfunded pension liabilities? Moving forward with the Airport Conversion Project without clear answers to these questions and a clear funding plan in place would be irresponsible, and could undermine the very goals that many of us have for a Great Park.

Additionally, the recent fires have demonstrated our vulnerability to climate change. Santa Monica Airport has the potential to play a critical role in the fight against future disasters. Any airport conversion plan should include a new study to assess the role and value of a functioning airport in the City’s emergency preparedness and disaster response strategies.

I urge you to carefully consider these issues before proceeding further with the project. The financial stability of the City and the future safety of our community must remain top priorities.

Thank you for your consideration. I look forward to your response.

Sincerely,
Steven Wolkoff
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From: Rebecca Cannara, Executive Director <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, January 28, 2025 1:58 PM
To: councilmtgitems
Subject: There's room for all! Support housing and open space at SM airport

EXTERNAL
Dear Santa Monica City Council members,

Thank you for your work to make Santa Monica a safe and inclusive city. Especially given the latest displacement of people in our region from wildfires, I hope that it is a "no brainer" for you to be planning for housing in addition to park space at the SM airport.

I've lived in Santa Monica for 20 years, raised my children here, volunteered here, participated in community events, and work from home. I have benefited from all of the businessnes, schools, parks and community connections and wish that for my own children.

However, it is hard to see how the children coming through our schols can live in Santa Monica without a thoughtful approach to addressing housing inequality in the city.

You have a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity with SM Airport closing to decide how best to use nearly 200 acres, that’s roughly the size of Will Rogers Historic Park. Santa Monica has 130 acres of park, so if you add 100 acres of park, you will increase SM park space by 75% and can have 100 acres to address the pressing need for housing in our community.

We know you are under pressure to deal with unhoused individuals, but we also know that housing is the solution to homelessness, not more funds to police. We will all benefit from a significant increase in housing in our community, and we will be addressing past wrongs of displacement of people from their homes to build the 10 freeway and develop the Civic Auditorium/Belmar triangle.

Given that we are under a state mandate to add about 9,000 new units of housing by 2029, and 70% must be affordable, you need to find a more scalable solution than the current 100 affordable units per year in the pipeline.

We would love for our teachers, medical workers, firefighters and police to live among us. Using a portion of the airport property for housing could help us meet the state mandate and ensure that these essential city workers continue to be able to live and work here.

Paris, France, does this, ensuring that 25% of all housing in the city is affordable! I support giving Santa Monica residents and full-time workers priority or preference to access these housing units as well as people displaced by government action.

Each day 70,000 workers commute into the city, creating rush-hour traffic jams and adding to local pollution. Using a portion of the airport property for housing could help us meet the state mandate and reduce traffic and pollution.

Parks are expensive to build and maintain. Siting housing at alongside an airport park could attract subsidies and community benefits that could reduce the cost of building a park and rec facilities. That sounds like a win-win to me. We need both! And of course, the park and housing should be built to be resilient to climate change and eliminate fossil fuel use via design and technology.

Thank you,

Rebecca Cannara (she, her)
Executive Director
Universal Human Rights Initiative (UHRI)
Calendly link
[email protected] / (415) 385-0462 / uhri.ngo

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From: Jeff McCarthy <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, January 28, 2025 1:46 PM
To: councilmtgitems
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: City Council Meeting (01/28/25) - Item 7.A. - SMAC Project Guiding Principles

EXTERNAL
Dear Mayor Negrete, Mayor Pro Tem Torosis, and Councilmembers:

I'm a member of the Santa Monica Pickleball Club, and I wanted to write to you urging my support for a Great Park.

Pickleball has become a hugely positive activity for so many people here in Los Angeles. But unfortunately, there aren't nearly enough places to play. A new park would be of great benefit to so many people of Los Angeles.

The data gathered so far from the City's SMAC Project process overwhelmingly supports the restoration of our City's original Great Park on the land currently occupied by the Santa Monica Airport.

Thank you!
Sincerely,
Jeff McCarthy

1.860.670.8738
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From: Brian Zipser <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, January 28, 2025 1:31 PM
To: councilmtgitems; Lana Negrete; Caroline Torosis; Jesse Zwick; Ellis Raskin; Barry Snell; Natalya Zernitskaya; Dan Hall; David White
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: City Council Meeting - Item 7.A. - SMAC Project Guiding Principles (01/28/25)

EXTERNAL
Dear Mayor Negrete, Mayor Pro Tem Torosis, and Councilmembers:

I am a resident of Santa Monica. I understand that there are efforts by development groups to solicit letters supporting housing on the property. I disagree with this goal and attempt to change from the original approved intent to change the land to a great park. I fully support a great park. This is a once in a lifetime opportunity to create a historic green space in our city, to restore the land to create a natural environment that can be used and appreciated by all Santa Monica residents. While Central Park in New York could certainly have been used as housing real estate, instead it is a defining feature of the city. Our land at Santa Monica Airport can be the same and must be used in a similar fashion, not for the benefit of a developer.

The data gathered so far from the City's SMAC Project process overwhelmingly supports the restoration of our City's original Great Park on the land currently occupied by the Santa Monica Airport.

Thank you!
Sincerely,
Brian Zipser
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From: Danny Bitar <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, January 28, 2025 1:30 PM
To: councilmtgitems; Lana Negrete; Caroline Torosis; Jesse Zwick; Ellis Raskin; Barry Snell; Natalya Zernitskaya; Dan Hall; David White; [email protected] Subject: Great Park

EXTERNAL
Dear Council Members:

I am a Santa Monica resident, raising my family in Santa Monica. My kids play soccer in Santa Monica AYSO, the largest youth sports organization in Santa Monica, serving close to 1500 local kids.

Please support the proposed Guiding Principles and creation of a Great Park that is compliant with Measure LC, financially-feasible and revenue generating, publicly-owned, and can be opened for public use on Day One, January 1, 2029.

Sincerely,
Daniel Bitar
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From: Simon Linn-Gerstein <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, January 28, 2025 1:26 PM
To: councilmtgitems
Subject: Item #7 - Provide affordable housing at SM Airport site

EXTERNAL
Dear Santa Monica City Council,
As someone who lives in the area around Santa Monica and has long enjoyed the public park areas at the Santa Monica Airport and attended the Santa Monica Friends Meeting, I strongly urge you to include affordable housing as part of the development plan for the site of the Santa Monica Airport.

Having enough housing, and having enough affordable housing has been a defining issue for Santa Monica (and all of Southern California). This has only been made more apparent with so many people displaced by the recent fires. Rents are too high on the West Side and people who work in Santa Monica rarely earn enough to live even nearby, commuting long distances to and from work. Perhaps most visibly and distressingly, high rents are also a key driver of homelessness in the area. By directing the city's consultant to investigate a development plan combining both park areas and affordable housing, Santa Monica can meaningfully expand its efforts to reduce homelessness and create a path towards a more vibrant and sustainable community.

Warmly,
Simon Linn-Gerstein
Simon Linn-Gerstein
he/him/his
[email protected]
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From: Kate Davies <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, January 28, 2025 1:03 PM
To: councilmtgitems; Lana Negrete; Caroline Torosis; Jesse Zwick; Ellis Raskin; Barry Snell; Natalya Zernitskaya; Dan Hall; David White
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: City Council Meeting (01/28/25) - Item 7.A. - SMAC Project Guiding Principles

EXTERNAL
Dear Mayor Negrete, Mayor Pro Tem Torosis, and Councilmembers:

My name is Kate Davies, I am a senior at Santa Monica High School. I’m one of the co-presidents of Team Marine (an environmental club at SAMOHI), a volunteer with Heal the Bay, and a member of the Santa Monica Great Parks Coalition. I have lived my whole life in Santa Monica and grew up playing at Clover Park. I would have loved to have a Great Park so close to me when I was little, and I would still love to have one in the future. To me a Great Park would provide a place I could go to be in nature without having to drive. Furthermore, with the recent fires there are even less spaces for me or people my age to get outside. A Great Park would also provide a perfect space to meet up with friends. In Santa Monica if you don’t want to spend money there aren’t many options for places to hang out with friends, especially not outside. While there is the beach, that is a very different experience than a place with trees and flowers.

The data gathered so far from the City's SMAC Project process overwhelmingly supports the restoration of our City's original Great Park on the land currently occupied by the Santa Monica Airport.

Thank you!
Sincerely,
Kate Davies
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From: Nathan Oshidari <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, January 28, 2025 1:03 PM
To: councilmtgitems; Lana Negrete; Caroline Torosis; Jesse Zwick; Ellis Raskin; Barry Snell; Natalya Zernitskaya; Dan Hall; David White
Subject: City Council - 1/28/25 - Item 7-A - SMAC Project Guiding Principles - OPPOSE

Please instruct staff to immediately seek an outside legal opinion, that definitively answers the following questions.

1. Is the airport “developable land” under state law (SB7) that will be assigned RHNA units?

2. Did the 2017 city council resolution count as a closure decision or is another vote of city council required to close the airport?

3. Does the staff report assertion that no further vote is needed mean that the airport land will be included in the next RHNA cycle?

4. If Santa Monica were to build a park on some or all of the airport land, would it have to increase density in the rest of the city to accommodate the RHNA allocation?
Absent a clear answer to all of these questions that confirms local control, it is reckless and irresponsible for city council to continue to move forward with a conversion process that is likely to cause irreparable harm to Santa Monica and its residents.

Thank you for your consideration.

Nathan Oshidari
Santa Monica Resident and Voter with students at SaMo and Lincoln 1617 Franklin St. Apt. 4
Santa Monica, CA 90404
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From: Teresa Fleming <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, January 28, 2025 1:00 PM
To: councilmtgitems
Subject: Item #7

EXTERNAL
Dear Santa Monica City Council,
We are a growing group of Santa Monicans and concerned neighbors who feel that the conversation about affordable housing (from very low to middle income) has been excluded from the community process for the airport reuse. We offer the attached vision statement that advocates for housing accessible to people who are priced out of the Santa Monica market AND a great park covering at least one-half of the airport site.

Please also see the list of endorsers to date for this vision statement.

We are all aware of the astronomically high rents on the Westside and how so many people who work in the area cannot afford to live anywhere near the Westside (Of the approx. 80,000 formal jobs in Santa Monica only about 10% of those who hold these jobs live in Santa Monica. The rest have to commute by bus, train, and car…hence the very busy freeway traffic coming into and leaving the city each morning and evening.)
The city needs to work with developers to build more housing, making sure that a portion of that housing is affordable to the range of workers (from hotel workers to city employees to teachers to police and fire fighters, etc) who make the city function. And this airport conversion presents an opportunity for the building of some of those new housing units.

With regarding to the community process to date, the consultants’ guiding principles cover five themes, each of which has linkage to housing that is inclusive and accessible but whose linkage does not appear in the principles:

Start with nature: With a severe job/housing imbalance, consider the amount of pollution generated by commuters that harms nature. We have over 80,000 formal jobs in the city and less than 10% of these workers live here. Nurses, teachers and first responders travel one-two hours each way to come to work. Housing at the airport can go a long way to heal our environment and nature.

Inspire wonder: Santa Monica has a grand legacy of affordable housing design, pulling together appealing visuals, right-sized homes and buildings that contribute to the conviviality of our public space, and maintaining the city’s economic and racial diversity.

This tradition belongs in the reuse of the airport, interlacing into a great park, with eyes on the open space and families to use it every day.

Balance economics: The airport offers the opportunity to develop a community, not affordable housing projects one at a time. This could allow for financing not available in Item 7-A
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Amplify Versatility: We believe in the concept of Both/And. We can have a great park and housing for people who can’t compete in our housing market place. That is versatility. With 100 acres, we can have all the active and passive park uses we desire.

In addition, we can have many families enjoy their lives here while contributing to our economy and welfare.

Celebrate Place: Santa Monica was the ancestral homes of the Tongvas. It was a place African-American came for opportunities. Latinos lived here during the rancho days and many worked here in factories when there was a manufacturing base. We can celebrate place by giving housing preference to people who were displaced or whose ancestors were displaced by discriminatory actions a chance to live here. Plants and inanimate objects do not celebrate; people do. Bring them home to celebrate the roots that we have lost.

As the consultants head into Phase 3 of the community engagement process (determining three reuse options), we ask you to direct them to look at affordable housing options in an earnest way, engage with housing advocates in a serious way, and study the economic feasibility in a creative way.

Sincerely,
Teresa Fleming
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Packet Pg. 669 Attachment: Written Comment [Revision 1] (6630 : Santa Monica Airport Conversion Project (SMACP) Engagement and Guiding Principles (120 33 David Yakobson
From: Ann Kelly <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, January 28, 2025 12:40 PM
To: councilmtgitems; Lana Negrete; Caroline Torosis; Jesse Zwick; Ellis Raskin; Barry Snell; Natalya Zernitskaya; Dan Hall; David White
Subject: City Council - 1/28/25 - Item 7-A - SMAC Project Guiding Principles - OPPOSE

Please instruct staff to immediately seek an outside legal opinion that definitively answers the following questions.

1. Is the airport “developable land” under state law (SB7) that will be assigned RHNA units?

2. Did the 2017 city council resolution count as a closure decision or is another vote of city council required to close the airport?

3. Does the staff report assertion that no further vote is needed mean that the airport land will be included in the next RHNA cycle?

Thank you for your consideration.

Ann Kelly
Santa Monica Resident and Voter
Grant Elementary parent of 3 and SM AYSO Soccer + SM Little League players --
Ann Kelly | [email protected] | cell 847.727.2538
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Packet Pg. 670 Attachment: Written Comment [Revision 1] (6630 : Santa Monica Airport Conversion Project (SMACP) Engagement and Guiding Principles (120 34 David Yakobson
From: Daklass1 <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, January 28, 2025 12:19 PM
To: councilmtgitems; Lana Negrete; Caroline Torosis; Jesse Zwick; Ellis Raskin; Barry Snell; Natalya Zernitskaya; Dan Hall; David White
Subject: City Council - 1/28/25 - Item 7-A - SMAC Project Guiding Principles

EXTERNAL
Dear Mayor Negrete and City Council members,
Santa Monica is grandly short of park space. Return the city (residents') land used all these years contrary to original purpose of acquisition and paid for through taxes paid by its residents.

The data gathered so far from the City's Santa Monica Airport Conversion Project process overwhelmingly supports the restoration of our City's original Great Park on the land currently occupied by the Santa Monica Airport.

David and Lucia Klass
Wellesley Dr. 90405
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Packet Pg. 671 Attachment: Written Comment [Revision 1] (6630 : Santa Monica Airport Conversion Project (SMACP) Engagement and Guiding Principles (120 35 David Yakobson
From: Nicole Faries <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, January 28, 2025 12:09 PM
To: councilmtgitems; Lana Negrete; Caroline Torosis; Jesse Zwick; Ellis Raskin; Barry Snell; Natalya Zernitskaya; Dan Hall; David White
Subject: City Council Meeting - Item 7.A. - SMAC Project Guiding Principles (01/28/25)

EXTERNAL
Dear Mayor Negrete, Mayor Pro Tem Torosis, and Councilmembers:

Santa Monica Malibu PTA Council endorsed Measure LC after a rigorous study process evaluating the pros and cons of closing the Santa Monica airport and creating and building a park for the use of the entire community including our neighbors in Mar Vista. Based on the prior support of Measure LC, PTA Council is now a supporting organization of the Great Parks Coalition.

The data gathered so far from the City's SMAC Project process overwhelmingly supports the restoration of our City's original Great Park on the land currently occupied by the Santa Monica Airport.

Thank you!
Sincerely,
Nicole Faries
President, Santa Monica Malibu Council of PTAs
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Packet Pg. 672 Attachment: Written Comment [Revision 1] (6630 : Santa Monica Airport Conversion Project (SMACP) Engagement and Guiding Principles (120 36 David Yakobson
From: phillis dudick <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, January 28, 2025 12:07 PM
To: Council Mailbox; councilmtgitems
Subject: COUNCIL ITEM #7-A JANUARY 28, 2025

EXTERNAL
Honorable Mayor Negrete and Councilmembers:

Firstly, I want to thank you for excellent communication management, outreach and watchful eye, on behalf of Santa Monica residents, regarding the horrific Palisades fire and our vulnerability.

I am writing today regarding Item # on today's City Council Agenda. As a strong supporter of Measure LV in
2014, I realize much has happened and changed during the ensuing years, which has changed my perspective today.

In 2014, we did not have massive lawsuits decimating our City budget, nor had we experienced a once in a 100 year pandemic -- and its aftermath running the gamut on multiple levels.

We had not seen the consequences of the Builder's Remedy; rent unaffordability and homelessness have only grown worse, and now live with fire safety concerns and emotional impacts of a catastrophic fire emergency.

In view of our many community needs at this point in time, from commerce to housing, and more, 200 acres could potentially accommodate these things if planned smartly -- and maybe even a helicopter strip for emergency operations.

My point is that I believe it is a time for us to consider sharing this land. There surely is enough to go around without usurping a great and beautiful park for all to enjoy.

Sincerely,
Phillis Dudick
San Vicente Resident
& Evacuee
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Packet Pg. 673 Attachment: Written Comment [Revision 1] (6630 : Santa Monica Airport Conversion Project (SMACP) Engagement and Guiding Principles (120 37 Item 7-A
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Packet Pg. 674 Attachment: Written Comment [Revision 1] (6630 : Santa Monica Airport Conversion Project (SMACP) Engagement and Guiding Principles (120 38 David Yakobson
From: Gail Gordon
Sent: Tuesday, January 28, 2025 12:01 PM
To: Deborah Lynch; councilmtgitems; Lana Negrete; Caroline Torosis; Jesse Zwick; Ellis Raskin; Barry Snell; Natalya Zernitskaya; Dan Hall; David White Cc: Ivette Gomez; [email protected]; [email protected] Subject: Re: Line item 7 on today's Meeting Agenda - The Great Park project Please be sure when you present to mention this is not representative of the HC but is of your personal beliefs.

Thank you!
Gail
From: Deborah Lynch <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, January 28, 2025 11:57:45 AM
To: councilmtgitems <[email protected]>; Lana Negrete <[email protected]>; Caroline Torosis <[email protected]>; Jesse Zwick <[email protected]>; Ellis Raskin <[email protected]>; Barry Snell <[email protected]>; Natalya Zernitskaya <[email protected]>; Dan Hall <[email protected]>; David White <[email protected]>
Cc: Ivette Gomez <[email protected]>; Gail Gordon <[email protected]>; [email protected] <[email protected]>; [email protected] <[email protected]>
Subject: Line item 7 on today's Meeting Agenda - The Great Park project

EXTERNAL
Council Members and Santa Monica Residents:

I write to you in hopes that Santa Monica decides against the Great Park to replace the Santa Monica Airport, and cannot think of a more wasteful use of approximately 227 acres of prime land . Santa Monica currently has over 130 acres of parks; I would think that spending a considerably smaller amount of money to update, upgrade and refurbish the assets we already have in parks would be immensely more cost effective than acquiring the land at the far southern climbs of Santa Monica! Why would we use acreage that is extremely difficult to duplicate anywhere else in Santa Monica, as we all know just how difficult it is to find lots large enough for any development project without demolition, for a park that will be so large that:

1. We could never support the cost to sustain it without instituting entertainment venues, which in themselves require investment and maintenance, not to mention parking and traffic considerations,

2. A park this size will require a massive increase in Parks and Recreations budget for additional maintenance and landscape personnel as well as equipment, Item 7-A
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Packet Pg. 675 Attachment: Written Comment [Revision 1] (6630 : Santa Monica Airport Conversion Project (SMACP) Engagement and Guiding Principles (120 39 3. Ongoing maintenance, janitorial, and plant replacement and care will be significant; trash collection alone will be the equivalent of a neighborhood, as we all know that strollers, children and other using the park will eventually no be quite so mindful of where they throw their trash,

4. We could never support the cost to sustain it without instituting entertainment venues, which in themselves require investment and maintenance, not to mention parking and traffic considerations,

5. A park this size will require a massive increase in Parks and Recreations budget for additional maintenance and landscape personnel as well as equipment,

6. Ongoing maintenance, janitorial, and plant replacement and care will be significant; trash collection alone will be the equivalent of a neighborhood, as we all know that strollers, children and other using the park will eventually no be quite so mindful of where they throw their trash,

7. Not mentioning that there will be a homeless presence would be a big mistake, that will attempt to take up residence as it will be the only area of Santa Monica with significant space to do so, without the onus of a charge of trespassing over their heads as it would be public property

8. The cost of security will be significant, particularly to patrol problems created by #7,

9. The fact that this project was pushed through be a very small contingent of people, namely those whom live very near the Airport area, is distressing to me in that we allowed it to continue without a significant number of Santa Monica citizens voting for it....this is a project that benefits a very small, but not disadvantaged group of people,

10. Finaly, the fact that we have already spent millions of dollars on planning for this park, without considering any other, and more pressing venues, such as housing which is imminently more important and legally required, is of major concern to me.

Please, reconsider all of the alternatives to this project before going thru with any more appropriations. The City of Santa Monica cannot afford any more financial setbacks. We need to approach our future aspirations of this Land Use with the same structures and limitations that we do with all other budsgetary considerations.

Thank you,
Deborah Lynch
Housing Commissioner

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Packet Pg. 676 Attachment: Written Comment [Revision 1] (6630 : Santa Monica Airport Conversion Project (SMACP) Engagement and Guiding Principles (120 40 David Yakobson
From: Shelley Hoffman <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, January 28, 2025 12:00 PM
To: councilmtgitems; Lana Negrete; Caroline Torosis; Jesse Zwick; Ellis Raskin; Barry Snell; Natalya Zernitskaya; Dan Hall; David White
Subject: City Council Meeting (01/28/25) - Item 7.A. - SMAC Project Guiding Principles

EXTERNAL
Dear Mayor Negrete, Mayor Pro Tem Torosis, and Councilmembers:

I am a 72 year old avid pickleball player and playing in Santa Monica is so important to me on many levels.

The data gathered so far from the City's SMAC Project process overwhelmingly supports the restoration of our City's original Great Park on the land currently occupied by the Santa Monica Airport.

Thank you!
Sincerely,
Shelley Hoffman
310.890.5096
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Packet Pg. 677 Attachment: Written Comment [Revision 1] (6630 : Santa Monica Airport Conversion Project (SMACP) Engagement and Guiding Principles (120 41 David Yakobson
From: Scott Morris <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, January 28, 2025 11:57 AM
To: councilmtgitems
Subject: Support of Agenda Item 7A

EXTERNAL
Dear Councilmembers,
A world-class Great Park in Santa Monica must promote job growth and new housing, blended with low-carbon construction. This balanced approach boosts our local economy, attracts businesses, and creates new housing opportunities for residents. Let us build a low-carbon, inclusive Great Park that enriches both our environment and our people.

Best regards,
Scott Morris
--
To help protect your privacy, Microsoft Office prevented automatic download of this picture from the Internet.

Scott Morris
Zero Can't Wait
lowcarboninitiative.org
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Packet Pg. 678 Attachment: Written Comment [Revision 1] (6630 : Santa Monica Airport Conversion Project (SMACP) Engagement and Guiding Principles (120 42 David Yakobson
From: Steven Johnson
Sent: Tuesday, January 28, 2025 11:59 AM
To: councilmtgitems; Lana Negrete; Caroline Torosis; Jesse Zwick; Ellis Raskin; Barry Snell; Natalya Zernitskaya; Dan Hall; David White
Cc: Ann Bowman; Maryanne LaGuardia; Lori Brown; John Smith; Jenny Rogers; Micah Akerson; Noe Mendoza
Subject: City Council Meeting (01/28/25) - Item 7.A. - SMAC Project Guiding Principles Mayor Negrete, Mayor Pro Temp Tsorosis, and esteemed Councilmembers My name is Steven Johnson, and I am writing to you as the current chair of the Recreation & Parks Commission.

Our January meeting, set for the 16th, was canceled and rescheduled due to the fires. As you may know, our Recreation and Arts Department director Jenny Rogers and her partner lost their home in the Palisades Fire. The Commission members are devastated for their loss, and for the losses of any and all City staƯ and their families impacted by the fires.

The Recreation & Parks Commission held its last regularly scheduled meeting on December 19, just before the holidays. Fortunately, we were given a preview and had the chance to oƯer feedback on the Guiding Principles you are reviewing tonight.

I'll start by saying that the Santa Monica Airport Conversion (SMAC) community feedback process has been a tremendous success, reaching a wide range of stakeholders through in-person events, online surveys and a highly engaging interactive website, all helping to shape the current direction. Amber Richane and City staƯ have kept the Recreation & Parks Commission, as well as the Airport Commission and the Sustainability Commission, extensively in the loop from the very beginning. It's been a real pleasure to see the care and diligence that the home team -- and their consulting partners Sasaki and the Robert Group -- have exercised throughout the process.

Tonight's focus on the "Guiding Principles" is the next step in that journey. Alongside the feedback from the community and your feedback tonight, our parks planning team is also preparing a condition and needs assessment, and a new Parks Master Plan (our first since 1997), which will also help inform the scenarios to be presented later this year.

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Packet Pg. 679 Attachment: Written Comment [Revision 1] (6630 : Santa Monica Airport Conversion Project (SMACP) Engagement and Guiding Principles (120 43 A Great Park is years in the
making, but impacts
generations.

I was just in New York City last
week and spent time in Central
Park. Construction of the park
began in 1858 and wasn't
oƯicially complete until 1876,
eighteen years later. The
population density of New York
City at the time of park
construction was roughly 65,000
per square mile. Today
Manhattan by itself is 72,000
people per square mile. In 160
years, no one has ever looked
back with regret on the decision
to create America's signature
park on those 843 acres, which
includes natural areas, sports
fields and cultural amenities.

The same can be said for classic
parks like Golden Gate Park in
San Francisco, Lincoln Park in
Chicago, and Stanley Park in
Vancouver, each evolving over
time in their own way.

Closer to home and more
analogous to our situation, El
Toro Marine Corps Air Station in
Orange County closed in 1999.

Today, the Irvine Great Park is
well along, but still very far from
complete. Progress continues
with a "next phase" -- parkifying
another 200 acres -- starting this
year. The Irvine Great Park is not expected to be complete until 2029, thirty years since the airstrip went out of service.

So a Great Park doesn't happen overnight, but your care and commitment to the process right now is appreciated.

These Guiding Principles will launch us into the next phase of planning, and closer to a Park we can all be proud of.

Our Recreation & Parks Commission has consistently voted its support for an Airport Conversion that is Measure LC-complian and resulting in a Great Park. We look forward to continuing our engagement with City staƯ and the Council as we all move towards closure at the end of 2028.

Thank you.
p.s., as this picture shows, you can always build a taller building, but you can’t build more land. Central Park is the same 843 acres as it started out with.

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Packet Pg. 680 Attachment: Written Comment [Revision 1] (6630 : Santa Monica Airport Conversion Project (SMACP) Engagement and Guiding Principles (120 44 Steven Johnson
Chair, Recreation & Parks Commission
City of Santa Monica
(310) 429-0475
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Packet Pg. 681 Attachment: Written Comment [Revision 1] (6630 : Santa Monica Airport Conversion Project (SMACP) Engagement and Guiding Principles (120 1 David Yakobson
From: Laura Kachergus <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, January 28, 2025 11:59 AM
To: councilmtgitems; Lana Negrete; Caroline Torosis; Jesse Zwick; Ellis Raskin; Barry Snell; Natalya Zernitskaya; Dan Hall; David White
Subject: City Council - 1/28/25 - Item 7-A - SMAC Project Guiding Principles - OPPOSE

Please instruct staff to immediately seek an outside legal opinion, that definitively answers the following questions.

1. Is the airport “developable land” under state law (SB7) that will be assigned RHNA units?

2. Did the 2017 city council resolution count as a closure decision or is another vote of city council required to close the airport?

3. Does the staff report assertion that no further vote is needed mean that the airport land will be included in the next RHNA cycle?

Thank you for your consideration.

Laura Kachergus
Santa Monica Resident and Voter
Grant Elementary Parent
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Packet Pg. 682 Attachment: Written Comment [Revision 1] (6630 : Santa Monica Airport Conversion Project (SMACP) Engagement and Guiding Principles (120 2 David Yakobson
From: Deborah Lynch <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, January 28, 2025 11:58 AM
To: councilmtgitems; Lana Negrete; Caroline Torosis; Jesse Zwick; Ellis Raskin; Barry Snell; Natalya Zernitskaya; Dan Hall; David White
Cc: Ivette Gomez; Gail Gordon; [email protected]; [email protected]
Subject: Line item 7 on today's Meeting Agenda - The Great Park project

EXTERNAL
Council Members and Santa Monica Residents:

1. We could never support the cost to sustain it without instituting entertainment venues, which in themselves require investment and maintenance, not to mention parking and traffic considerations,

2. A park this size will require a massive increase in Parks and Recreations budget for additional maintenance and landscape personnel as well as equipment,

3. Ongoing maintenance, janitorial, and plant replacement and care will be significant; trash collection alone will be the equivalent of a neighborhood, as we all know that strollers, children and other using the park will eventually no be quite so mindful of where they throw their trash,

4. We could never support the cost to sustain it without instituting entertainment venues, which in themselves require investment and maintenance, not to mention parking and traffic considerations,

5. A park this size will require a massive increase in Parks and Recreations budget for additional maintenance and landscape personnel as well as equipment,

8. The cost of security will be significant, particularly to patrol problems created by #7,

9. The fact that this project was pushed through be a very small contingent of people, namely those whom live very near the Airport area, is distressing to me in that we allowed it to continue without a Item 7-A
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Packet Pg. 683 Attachment: Written Comment [Revision 1] (6630 : Santa Monica Airport Conversion Project (SMACP) Engagement and Guiding Principles (120 3 significant number of Santa Monica citizens voting for it....this is a project that benefits a very small, but not disadvantaged group of people,

Thank you,
Deborah Lynch
Housing Commissioner

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Packet Pg. 684 Attachment: Written Comment [Revision 1] (6630 : Santa Monica Airport Conversion Project (SMACP) Engagement and Guiding Principles (120 4 David Yakobson
From: Hajar Muqtasid St. Claire <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, January 28, 2025 11:50 AM
To: councilmtgitems; Caroline Torosis; Jesse Zwick; Lana Negrete; Dan Hall; Ellis Raskin; Barry Snell; Natalya Zernitskaya
Subject: Item 7A

EXTERNAL
Dear Santa Monica City Council,
My heart goes out to the fire victims who have lost loved ones, homes, communities, schools, businesses, and places of worship. Thank you for doing your part to help all communities who were burnt out of their homes.

The Airport conversion is a great opportunity to finally include a serious conversation and research into affordable housing being built at the airport in conjunction with a Great Park. In your study session on the airport reuse guiding principles from which three reuse options will be proposed, housing has been left out.

Santa Monica City CouncilJanuary 28, 2025

Santa Monica City Council
January 28, 2025