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HomeMy WebLinkAboutMinutes - March 4, 2002 - CCCITY OF AZUSA MINUTES OF THE CITY COUNCIL REGULAR MEETING MONDAY, MARCH 4, 2002 - 6:30 P.M. The City Council of the City of Azusa met in regular session at the above date and time in the Azus: Auditorium. It was consensus of Council to recess to Closed Session in the Office of the City Manager, to discuss the following: PUBLIC EMPLOYEE PERFORMANCE EVALUATION (Gov. Code Sec. 54957). Titles: City Manager and City Attorney Annual Evaluation Process. PUBLIC EMPLOYEE GRIEVANCE (Gov. Code Sec. 54957) Title: Facilities Maintenance Worker III Councilmembers recessed to Closed Session at 6:30 p.m. Councilmember reconvened at 7:30 p.m. City Attorney Carvalho reported that there was no reportable action taken in Closed Session. Mayor Madrid called the meeting to order and led in the Salute to the Flag. INVOCATION was given by Father David Granadino of Saint Frances of Rome Church. ROLL CALL PRESENT: COUNCILMEMBERS: ABSENT: COUNCILMEMBERS: ALSO PRESENT: HARDISON, STANFORD, ROCHA, CHAGNON, MADRID NONE City Attorney Carvalho, City Manager Cole, Assistant City Manager Person, Chief of Police Davis, Director of Community Development Bruckner, Associate Director Recreation and Parks Noriega, Finance Director Medina, Transportation Manager MacKay, Community Improvement Manager Rudisel, City Treasurer Macias, Deputy City Clerk Toscano, City Clerk Mendoza. PUBLIC PARTICIPATION Chairman of the Golden Days,Committee Art Ramirez introduced/announced the Golden Days Committee for 2002 as follows: Parade Chairman Joe Guarrera, Recording Secretary Candace Toscano, Treasurer Burke Hamilton, Publicity Elaine Dominguez, City Representative Jeff Reed, Corresponding Secretary Sylvia Contreras, Hospitality Ida Garrett and Lorraine Somes, Chamber Representative Tom Marshall of Aldolino's Pizza, Special Events Peggy Martinez, Recreation Representatives: Joe Jacobs Parade, Randy Noriega Carnival, Past Parade Chairperson Linda Bean and Special Liaison Rosemary Salce and Photographer Lorraine Dominguez; APU and AUSD have not submitted names for their representatives yet. Golden Days Committee meetings are held on the last Wednesday of the month at 7 p.m. at Memorial Park meeting room; he invited all to attend and get involved. Theme for this year is Silver Spurs and Golden Memories. Closed Session Recess Reconvened City Attorney Call to Order Invocation Roll Call Also Present Pub Part A. Ramirez Golden Days Update JIM Mr. Alt West addressed Council urging all the voters of the City to vote yes on Measure[, of A. West the Azusa Unified School District to pass bonds in order to make improvements to schools. comments Ms. Stephanie Mills addressed Council expressing her opinion regarding the freedom in this S. Mills Country and referenced Councilmember Stanford in her comments. She then urged all to comments vote no on Measure 1, detailing her reasons. Ms. Dianne Graham of Azusa Head Start, addressed Council requesting that the teachers of D. Graham Head Start be recognized as a Union. Mayor Madrid advised that this was not an agendized comments item and that they cannot take action on this item tonight. City Manager Cole responded stating that there is a process for recognition of bargaining units City Mgr in the City and that due to the fact that there is no employee/employer policy between the City response and Head Start employees, and that the City will not be operating the program past June of this year, it's difficult to accomplish. He stated that the City Attorney currently making arrangements to meet with the Head Start employees Attorney to confer on the matter. He stated further that the City does not want to violate the rights of the people who don't want to be represented by a union. He advised that he would keep Council and community apprized of the process. Mr. Joe Guarrera addressed Council thanking them and staff for giving Head Start teachers and J. Guarrera parents the opportunity for mediation. He stated that although the meetings held were comments supposed to be kept confidential, Councilmember Stanford violated that confidentiality by placing an article in his paper regarding the issue. He alleged that the article depicts that the decision was made before any mediation was held, which has upset him very much. Ms. Lana Grizzell addressed Council with an update on the Miss Azusa Scholarship Pageant. L. Grizzell She stated that there are eight candidates for the Pageant and it will be held on March 23, comments 2002, at APU Munson Chapel, at 7:30 p.m. For additional information call the Azusa Chamber Miss Azusa of Commerce at 334-1507. She also noted that there are individual sponsorships of $50, Scholarship or more, that can be purchased. Further, she provided her telephone n1 imber as follows: Pageant 334-0041 and noted that other volunteers for the pageant are Joanne Trujillo, Cynthia Hartunian, Linda Sheehee, and Carol Acosta. Ms. Gladys Neustrom addressed Council providing her input with regard to the Citizens G. Neustrom Congress. She suggested that all pawn shops be relocated to the mall, the post office be comments relocated to Azusa Avenue and Foothill Blvd., a catalog store be place in the downtown area and that the canyon traffic be diverted from the 210 freeway through Todd Avenue through to Sierra Madre. REPORTS, UPDATES COUNCIL BUSINESS AND ANNOUNCEMENTS -STAFF Rpts/Updates Councilmember Stanford responded to comments made by Art West, Stephanie Mills and Joe Stanford Guarrera regarding his comments/actions. He urged all to vote in the March 5th election and comments also wished all Councilmembers a Happy Birthday. Mayor Pro -Tem Chagnon thanked all who attended recent Citizens Congress meetings. She Chagnon asked that everyone keep in prayer and positive thoughts the family of Mr. and Mrs. Hinky, comments a former teacher at Saint Frances School; she and her husband passed away recently within five hours of each other. Councilmember Rocha announced that the tree planting was postponed to Saturday, at 8 a.m. Rocha at Gaillard and Fairvale. He thanked Azusa High School for their depiction of the play the comments Diary of Anne Frank. He asked that the meeting be adjourned in memory of Carmen Acosta, and Ann Mnich. Mayor Madrid expressed her regrets to Azusa Head Start program's current situation, that it Madrid will no longer be continuing. She stated that often programs succeed because of one person; comments she thanked Joe Guarrera for his many years of dedication, and his part in the mediation process. She apologized to the staff and parents of the program, noting that children will continue to learn in Azusa. City Manager Cole provided an update on the Citizens Congress and the General Plan. He City Mgr reassured Joe Guarrera that the mediation regarding Head Start was genuine. He stated that comments the Federal, State and County mandates have changed in the past few, years. He shared his thoughts regarding education in the school system. He announced that with regard to home ownefship in Azusa, home sales have now reached $75 million dollars, he provided statistics and stated that the City now has a Housing Element and explained what that means to Azusa. 03/04/02 PAGE TWO Councilmember Rocha responded stating that test scores do not measure/guarantee success Rocha in life. He stated that Azusa Head Start has given the elementary schools great students. He response thanked Diane Chagnon, teachers and parents, for all the hours they were away from her family to participate in the mediation. SCHEDULED ITEMS Sched Items Community Development Director Bruckner addressed Council stating that the developer of Com Dev Dir Mountain Cove, Standard Pacific, is interested in establishing a Community Facilities District comments re which will assist him with some of the public capital improvements he has to install as part of Community the project and also to assist him with the payment for school district and parks fees. The Facilities Dist City will receive almost a million dollars worth of the park improvement fees. Once the CFD Mountain Co is established the future residents of Mountain Cove will be assessed for improvement costs. He remarked upon resolutions that will be considered tonight, which are: Resolution of Intention to establish the district (which also sets a public hearing for April 15, 2002), resolution declaring the necessity for the district to incur a bonded Indebtedness, resolution approving a funding and acquisition agreement with the property owner, and resolution approving a joint facilities agreement, approved by school district on February 19, 2002. Ms. Suzanne Harrell, Financial Advisor of Harrell and Company, provided detailed information S. Harrell on how the Community Facilities District will be formed, the annexation process and the bond Harrell & financing to pay for the infrastructure costs. She advised that there are approximately twenty Company additional lots that are outside of the City limits at this time and they need to be annexed into comments the City, and then annexed into the CFD. After the annexation is complete, the same process as this evening will be repeated along with the public hearings. She then answered questions posed by Councilmembers regarding assigned special taxes for properties and backup special tax, proportions of the bonds, amount of bonds, home sales, and disclosure to proposed home owners. Councilmember Stanford offered a Resolution entitled: A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF AZUSA, CALIFORNIA, DECLARING Res. 02-26 INTENTION TO ESTABLISH PROPOSED COMMUNITY FACILITIES DISTRICT NO. 2002-1 Declaring (MOUNTAIN COVE) OF THE CITY OF AZUSA. Intention to reading and adopt. Resolution passed and adopted by the following vote of the Council: Establish Moved by Councilmember Stanford, seconded by Mayor Pro -Tem Chagnon to waive further Community reading and adopt. Resolution passed and adopted by the following vote of the Council: Facilities MADRID District No. AYES: COUNCILMEMBERS: HARDISON, STANFORD, CHAGNON, ROCHA, 2002-I. MADRID Mountain NOES: COUNCILMEMBERS: NONE Cove ABSENT: COUNCILMEMBERS: NONE Councilmember Stanford offered a Resolution entitled: A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF AZUSA DECLARING NECESSITY FOR Res. 02-C27 PROPOSED COMMUNITY FACILITIES DISTRICT NO. 2002-1 (MOUNTAIN COVE) OF THE CITY Declaring OF A2USA TO INCUR A BONDED INDEBTEDNESS. Necessity for CFD to incur Moved by Councilmember Stanford, seconded by Mayor Pro -Tem Chagnon to waive further a bonded reading and adopt. Resolution passed and adopted by the following vote of the Council: indebtedness Mountain AYES: COUNCILMEMBERS: HARDISON, STANFORD, CHAGNON, ROCHA, Cove MADRID NOES: COUNCILMEMBERS: NONE ABSENT: COUNCILMEMBERS: NONE Councilmember Stanford offered a Resolution entitled: A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF AZUSA APPROVING AND Res. 02-C28 AUTHORIZING EXECUTION OF A COMMUNITY FACILITIES DISTRICT NO. 2002-1 approving an (MOUNTAIN COVE). Authorizing a CFD Moved by Councilmember Stanford, seconded by Mayor Pro -Tem Chagnon to waive further Mountain reading and adopt. Resolution passed and adopted by the following vote of the Council: Cove 03/04/02 PAGE THREE AYES: COUNCILMEMBERS: HARDISON, STANFORD, CHAGNON, ROCHA, MADRID NOES: COUNCILMEMBERS: NONE ABSENT: COUNCILMEMBERS: NONE Councilmember Stanford offered a Resolution entitled: A RESOLUTION OF THE CITYCOUNCIL OF THE CITY OF AZUSAAPPROVING THE EXECUTION AND DELIVERY OF A JOINT FACILITIES FINANCING AGREEMENT AMONG THE CITY, THE PROPERTY OWNER AND THE AZUSA UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT. ' Moved by Councilmember Stanford, seconded by Mayor Pro -Tem Chagnon to waive further reading and adopt. Resolution passed and adopted by the following vote of the Council: AYES: COUNCILMEMBERS: HARDISON, STANFORD, CHAGNON, ROCHA, MADRID NOES: COUNCILMEMBERS: NONE ABSENT: COUNCILMEMBERS: NONE Res. 02-C29 Joint Facilitie Financing Agm AUSD Mountain Co The CONSENT CALENDAR consisting of Items V-A through V -G, was approved by motion of Consent Cal Councilmember Rocha, seconded by Mayor Pro -Tem Chagnon and unanimously carried with Spec Call the exception of items V -E, which was, considered under the Special Call portion of the V -E Agenda. A. The Minutes of the regular meeting of February 19, 2002, were approved as written. Min approve B. A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF CITY OF AZUSA AUTHORIZING THE Res. 02-C30 SUBMITTAL OF A RE-APPLICATION PROPOSAL AND THE SIGNING OF A CONTRACT Application FOR PROVIDING SERVICES FOR ELDERLY PERSONS AND AUTHORIZING EXECUTION Senior Nutrit OF ALL DOCUMENTS. Program C. Approval was given to purchase two minivans for the Transportation Division from Pur two mini Creative Bus Sales at a total cost of $69,1 10.00. The vehicles are being purchased vans Creative ' through CMAS Contract # 1-00-23-15-01. Bus Sales D. Amendment to the Human Resources Department Budget was approved. The Amend HR amendment is for training costs for the Bi -tech system in the amount of $2,000. budget E. SPECIAL CALL ITEM. Spec Call 1 F. Human Resources Action Items were approved as follows: Human Res Merit Increase and/or regular appointments: F. Wong, and E. Gutierrez. Action Items New Appointments: R. McMinn, Community Improvement Inspector, pending physical. F. Miller, Youth Services Librarian, effective March 5, 2002. E. Ceccia, Police Administrative Technician, effective March 5, 2002. M. Taylor, Police Dispatcher, pending physical. W. Mandigo, Meter Reader, pending physical. S. Cabral, Meter Reader, pending physical. G. The following Resolution was adopted and entitled: A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF AZUSA ALLOWING CERTAIN Res. 02-C31 CLAIMS AND DEMANDS AND SPECIFYING THE FUNDS OUT OF WHICH THE SAME ARE Warrants TO BE PAID. SPECIAL CALL ITEM Special Call Councilmember Rocha address item regarding audit services contract questioning the date of Rocha expiration which was June 30, 2001. Finance Director Medina responded stating that the Svs Contract contract did expire on June 30, 2001 and the audit was completed by December of 2001; they question have been providing advice as a courtesy. She added that there is a need to secure auditors prior to the year end. Moved by Councilmember Rocha, seconded by Mayor Madrid and unanimously carried to Contract w/ approve the contract for audit services with Lance, Sol] & Lunghard for a period of three- Lance, Soil & years with a one-year option for renewal. Lunghard audit sys 03/04/02 PAGE FOUR THE CITY COUNCIL RECESSED AND THE REDEVELOPMENT AGENCY CONVENED AT 8:37 Convene CRA P.M. THE CITY COUNCIL RECONVENED AT 838 P.M. Reconvene C ORDINANCES/SPECIAL RESOLUTIONS Ord/Spec Re Councilmember Hardison offered an ordinance entitled: AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF AZUSA, CALIFORNIA, APPROVING Ord 02-04 'ZONING MAP AMENDMENT NO. Z-2001-01 TO CHANGE THE ZONING DESIGNATION OF Zone Change 633 NORTH ANGELENO AVENUE FROM C-2 (RESTRICTED COMMERCIAL) TO R3-1600 633 N. (MULTI -FAMILY RESIDENTIAL). Angeleno Moved by Councilmember Hardison, seconded by Councilmember Rocha to waive further reading and adopt. Ordinance passed and adopted by the following vote of the Council: AYES: COUNCILMEMBERS: HARDISON, STANFORD, CHAGNON, ROCHA, MADRID NOES: COUNCILMEMBERS: NONE ABSENT: COUNCILMEMBERS: NONE It was consensus of Councilmembers to keep in prayer the families of Mr. and Mrs. Hinky, former teacher at Saint Frances School; she and her husband passed away recently within five hours of each other and the families of Carmen Acosta, and Ann Mnich and adjourn in their memory. TIME OF ADJOURNMENT: 8:43 P.M. CITY CLERK NEXT RESOLUTION NO. 2002-C32. NEXT ORDINANCE NO. 2002-05. 03/04/02 PAGE FIVE Adjourn in Memory of Mr. & Mrs Hinky, Carme Acosta and A Mnich