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CONSENT CALENDAR
TO: HONORABLE MAYOR AND CITY COUNCIL
FROM: VERA MENDOZA, CITY CLERK
DATE: OCTOBER 21, 2002
SUBJECT: RESOLUTIONS APPOINTING MEMBERS TO VARIOUS CITY BOARDS AND
COMMISSIONS.
RECOMMENDATION
It is recommended that City Council adopt Resolution Nos. 02-C109 through 02-C120, appointing
members of the community to various City Boards and Commissions.
BACKGROUND
On October 5, 2002, the City Council conducted interviews in order to appoint members to
various Boards and Commissions of the City of Azusa pursuant to the Azusa Municipal Code. This
is an annual process.
The adoption of the attached resolutions will result in the official appointment of board members
to City Boards and Commissions.
FISCAL IMPACT
There is no fiscal impact as stipend for the commissioners have already been budgeted.
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DATE: October 21, 2002
TO: HONORABLE MAYOR AND MEMBERS OF THE CITY COUNCIL
FROM: ROBERT K. PERSON
ASSISTANT CITY MANAGER
VIA: RICK COLE
CITY MANAGER
SUBJECT: STATUS OF HIGHWAY 39
I spoke to John Lee, the CalTrans Project Manager, who provided me with the following
information. The 1978 damage to Highway 39 that caused the closure of the highway
beyond Crystal Lake has been scheduled and funded for repair since 1998 following a
1997 CalTrans study. The repairs have been funded with State Highway Operation
Protection dollars.
The repairs have been programmed as two separate projects. The first project, funded at
$4.5 million is to provide retaining walls, striping and overlay to 2.6 miles of the highway
on both sides of where the actual landslide damage occurred. This project was submitted
with a categorical exemption for CEQA purposes. However, the State Department of
Fish and Game required that a Negative Declaration be submitted. The Negative
Declaration has been completed and CalTrans anticipated beginning the construction
work during the summer of 2003 with a completion date of Spring 2004.
The second project, which is to repair and reconstruct 1.8 miles of badly damaged
highway is undergoing an Environmental Impact Report/Statement and was funded in
December, 2002. This environmental process is estimated to be concluded during the
summer of 2004 with construction begun and completed in 2006.
What has become a fly in the ointment for CalTrans is that the State Department of Fish
and Game, who would issue the construction permits to CalTrans, has now taken the
position that both projects should be combined under the Environmental Impact Report
process currently underway and to reject the Negative Declaration already submitted for
the first project. CalTrans claims that they are downscoping the first project to exclude
any items that would fall under the purview of the Department of Fish and Game that
should allow them to move forward on this part of the project.
Mr. Lee feels it would be beneficial for the City to communicate with our state officials
in order to move past this current impasse. To that end, staff will be preparing letters for
the Mayor's signature on behalf of the full City Council to our state officials requesting
that the first project be allowed to proceed with the Negative Declaration.
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