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The following information is from the Tuesday, June 21 meeting of the
City Council.
LANDSLIDE
* The council voted 5-0 to ask state legislators to consider
requiring insurance companies doing business in California to offer
insurance for mudslides and landslides to residential customers,
similar to the earthquake insurance the companies are required to
offer.
* The council adopted a resolution proclaiming the need to
continue the declaration of a local emergency (Flamingo Road
landslide).
“We haven’t heard from the [Federal Emergency Management Agency]
so we need to extend it,” City Manager Ken Frank said. “This gives us
21 more days.”
GOAT HERDERS
Mary Dolphin said the larger-than-usual number of rattlesnakes in
the hills pose a hazard to Peruvian goat herders.
FINANCES
*The council approved checks issued from May 20 to June 3 in the
amount of $2,650,611.91 and payroll numbers 23, 24 and 25, in the
amount of $4,317,788.74.
*The monthly treasurer’s report showed a city portfolio with a
market value as of May 30 of $51,925,308.92 in cash and investments.
WATER MANAGEMENT
A resolution was adopted accepting the South Orange County
Integrated Regional Water Management Plan and staff authorized to
submit a Proposition 50 grant application in cooperation with other
south county agencies for priority improvement projects.
Priority projects include construction of a Heisler Park project
to protect the adjacent Marine Reserve. The improvement was ranked
third of 16 projects listed in the regional plan.
The city also submitted seven other projects, which are included
on the plan’s long-term list and may be funded in future Prop 50 or
other grants.
DISPATCH SYSTEM
*City Manager Ken Frank was directed to execute a contract, not to
exceed $50,000, with William Romesburg to manage the selection and
implementation of a new computer aided dispatch system, paid from
existing Asset Forfeiture Funds.
RESOLUTIONS AND CONTRACTS
The council:
* adopted Resolution 05.056 determining unpaid assessments and the
manner of payment of them and listing bonds issued on the security
for them for Undergrounding District 99-5 (Loma Terrace, Bent Street
and Y Place);
* appropriated $801,814 for construction of utility improvements
within District 99-5 and increase revenues by the same amount.
* approved an existing contract with J & S Sign Company for paint
and (street) striping services through June 2006 for a cost not to
exceed $54,955.
DIP HOUSE APPROVAL 3-2
The Council approved a resolution overturning the Design Review
Board denial of the design, the Coastal Development Permit and
Mitigated Negative Declaration for the property at 1530 Glenneyre
St., known as the “Dip House.” The resolution included city
indemnification in the conditions of approval suggested during the
May 17 council meeting at which the appeal of the denial was granted.
Council members Toni Iseman and Steven Dicterow were opposed.
WHAT IT MEANS
The city will allow construction to proceed. Opponents said they
will pursue the matter with the California Coastal Commission and the
Army Corps of Engineers.
MORE PARKING METERS 5-0
Parking meters will be installed by the Bark Park on Laguna Canyon
Road.
WHAT IT MEANS
The city code will be amended to include meters and the Shoppers
Permit Program will be modified to include those meters so residents
can park at no charge for a limited time.
CABLE FRANCHISE AGREEMENT 5-0
The council approved renewal of the agreement through Jan. 1, 2017
between the city and Cox Communications Inc., which provides cable
service to residents.
WHAT IT MEANS
Cox offered the city a grant of $60 per active subscriber within
60 days of the beginning of the new agreement -- estimated to be
about $588,000. An additional payment of about $60,000 will be made
by Cox to make up for deficiencies discovered in an audit of Cox’s
allocations of franchise fees during the past five years.
The money is already spent, much of it going toward winterization
of the Flamingo Road landslide. $21,000 of the grant was allocated to
fund the completion of the city’s on-line data base, long proposed by
the City Clerk’s Office.
CIVIC ARTS DISTRICT/ARTIST LIVE-WORK 5-0
A proposal to revise language in the Civic Arts District to allow
structures higher than two stories, but not to exceed 36 feet for
arts-related, as well as public purposes was remanded to the Planning
Commission.
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