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HomeMy WebLinkAbout1980/01/16 - Minutes January 16, 1980 CITY OF RANCHO CUCAMONGA CITY COUNCIL MINUTES Resular Meetin~ 1. CALL TO ORDER. The regular meeting of the City Council was held in the Lion's Park Community Center, 9161 Baseline Road, Rancho Cucamonga, on Wednesday, January 16, 1980. The meeting was called to order at 7:05 p.m. by Mayor James C. Frost who led in the pledge to the flag. Present: Councilmen Jon Mikels, Michael Palombo, Arthur Bridge, and Mayor James C. Frost. Also present were staff members: City Manager, Lauren Wasserman; Interim Assistant Attorney, Robert Dougherty; Assistant City Manager, Jim Robinson; Senior Planner, Barry Hogan; City Engineer, Lloyd Hubbs. Absent: Councilman Phillip Schlosser; Finance Director, Harry Empey; Community Services Director, Bill Holley; Community Development Director, Jack Lam. Approval of Minutes: Motion: Moved by Palombo, seconded by Mikels to approve the January 2, 1980 minutes. Motion carried by following vote: AYES: Mikels, Palombo, Bridge, Frost. NOES: None. ABSENT: Schlosser. 2. ANNOUNCEMENTS. a. Palombo gave a report that the League Safety Committee will have its first meeting on January 17. He briefly went over the agenda. b. The Flood Control Zone 1 will be holding a public hearing on January 17 in Chino. Mayor Frost and Councilman Bridge will be attending. c. The Foothill Freeway issue had been removed from the agenda of the California Transportation Commission meeting that was to be held in San Diego on January 25 and 26. d. City staff and council representatives will be attending the Employee Relations Institute on Wednesday and Thursday, January 23 and 24 in Los Angeles. e. Saturday, February 2 from 9:00 a.m. to 12:00 N there will be a candidate's orientation to be held in the Lion's Park Community Building. f. There will be a joint Planning Commission and City Council Energy Conservation Workshop on Tuesday, February 19 to be held in the Neighborhood Facility. g. Mikets gave a report from the General Plan Advisory Committee meeting which had met on Tuesday, January 15. h. Staff requested the following additions to the agenda: * Discussion of the revised ballot argument, '~Measure A", on whether the positions of City Clerk and City Treasurer shall be appointive, to be included under item 6D. Council concurred this was okay. * Ordinance No. 39-A. Mayor said this would be heard as item 5C on the agenda. 3. COMMISSION REPORTS. a. Advisory Commission - none. b. Historical Commission - none. City Council Minutes January 16, 1980 Page 2 4. CONSENT CALENDAR. Councilman Bridge requested that item "g", approval of alcoholic beverage license for Glenn T. Ford, The Image Bar, be removed for further discussion. a. Approval of Warrants: Registrar No. 80-1-19 in the amount of $297,002.09. (1) b. Tract 9582-2: Release of bonds to Deer Creek Company. Located north side of Wilson Avenue at Beechwood Drive. Performance Bond (water) $ 63,000 c. Tract 9602: Accept roads and release bond to Maytreyek Homes, Inc. Located on the northside of San Bernardino Road east of Carnelian. Performance Bond (road) $132,000 (2) d. Approval and execution of the chemical weed control agreement. This agreement covers chemical weed control which was previously approved as a part of the parkway maintenance program. Ten thousand dollars were budgeted for this work and have been requested from the County. (3) e. Parcel Map 5269: Approval of map and security offered by the developer, (4) H & S Properties. Located on 4.81 acres on the north side of Hillside east of Carnelian. Letter of Credit Performance $40,500 Letter of Credit Labor & Material $40,500 RESOLUTION NO. 80-5 A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF RANCHO CUCAMONGA, CALIFORNIA, APPROVING PARCEL MAP NO. 5269, (TENTATIVE PARCEL MAP NO. 77-0590), IMPROVEMENT AGREEMENT, AND IM!~ROVEMENT SECURIT~ (5) f. Approval and execution of agreement with Sedway/Cooke for the preparation of th~ Industrial Specific Plan. (6) g. Item removed for further discussion. Alcoholic Beverage License for the Image Bar. Motion: Moved by Mikels, seconded by Palombo to approve the Consent Calendar with the exception of item "g". Motion carried by the following vote: AYES: Mikels, Palombo, Bridge, and Frost. NOES: None. ABSENT: Schlosser. Discussion of Consent Calendar item "g+'. Bridge ~a%d he felt the Council should discuss the issuance of the alcohol beverage license for Glenn T. Ford, the Image Bar. He said he has discussed this with people and read material about this particular place. Mayor asked if anyone in the audience was present representing the Image Bar. There was no response. Motion: Moved by Palombo, seconded by Bridge that a denial of the alcohol beverage license permit be made to the Alcohol Beverage Control. Wasserman said that staff had sent a letter to the ABC regarding this matter. Capt. Tom Wickum of the Sheriff's Department sent the letter. Council asked Capt. Wickum if he had had any response to this letter. Capt. Wickum said that just today he had received a phone call from Mr. Peterson who stated that we were too late with our protest. Capt. Wickum said that he felt the Council should go on record not to recommend this and to send a recommendation for denial to the ABC. Motion carried by the following vote to deny the alcohol beverage license permit: AYES: Mikels, Palombo, Bridge, and Frost. NOES: None. ABSENT; Schlosser. City Council Minutes January 16, 1980 Page 3 5. PUBLIC HEARINGS. 5A. Zoning Ordinance Amendment No. 79-05 - City of Rancho Cucamon8a. Staff report (7) by Barry Hogan. On December 19 the City Council referred the Planned Community Ordinance back to the Planning Commission for their approval of a change in language. Changes have been accomplished, and it is now before Council again for approval. Meeting opened for public hearing. There being no public response, the hearing was closed. Motion: Moved by Mikels, seconded by Palombo to approve the first reading of Ordinance No. 94, set February 6 for second reading, and waive entire reading. Motion carried by the following vote: AYES: Mikels, Palombo, Bridge, and Frost. NOES: None. ABSENT: Schlosser. Number and title read by Wasserman. ORDINANCE NO. 94 AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF RANCHO CUCAMONGA, CALIFORNIA, APPROVING ZONING ORDINANCE AMENDMENT NO. 79-05 ESTABLISHING STANDARDS AND REVIEW PROCEDURES FOR PLANNED COMMUNITY DEVELOP- MENT$. 5B. An Ordinance to extend the moratorium date on adult businesses. Staff report (8) by Lauren Wasserman. Staff had not had sufficient time to draft an ordinance regulating adult businesses, therefore, it was necessary to extend the moratorium date. The present moratorium would expire February 1. The City Attorney said he needed some direction on how Council wished to handle this matter. He said you could not stop adult businesses. Council could have them concentrated in a single area or scatter them. He needed to know what the Council wished. Mr. Hogan said this would be included in the zoning ordinance which the Planning Commission would be discussing over the next eight months. Mayor asked if August 1 would give them sufficient time. He suggested that perhaps this should be extended to December 31, 1980 and have this finalized once and for all. Council concurred. The meeting was opened for public hearing. There being no response, the hearing was closed. Motion: Moved by Palombo, seconded by Mikels to approve Ordinance No. 45-B as an urgency ordinance with the extension date of December 31, 1980 and to waive the entire reading. Motion carried by the following vote: AYES: Mikels, Palombo, Bridge, and Frost. NOES: None. ABSENT: Schlosser. Number and title read by Wasserman. ORDINANCE NO. 45-B (urgency) AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF RANCHO CUCAMONGA, CALIFORNIA, EXTENDING ORDINANCE NO. 45 PERTAINING TO INTERIM ZONING FOR ADULT BUSINESSES AND DECLARING THE URGENCY THEREOF. City Council Minutes January 16, 1980 Page 4 (9) 5C. Added item: Ordinance No. 39-A. Staff report by Paul Rougeau. Mr. Rougeau presented the need to amend Ordinance No. 39 as it related to storage of vehicles and the use of vehicles on private property. Since the passage of Ordinance No. 39, the city's traffic ordinance, calls re- garding the storage of vehicles on streets for long periods of time have been handled under County Code Section 52.0119. However, the Sheriff felt this was illegal to try to enforce this with the County Code since Ordinance No. 39 declared this section void. It was also felt that controlling the use of "dirt" bikes on private property could also be better controlled through a city ordinance than the County Code. Motion: Moved by Palombo, seconded by Bridge to approve first reading of Ordinance No. 39-A, set February 6 for second reading, and to waive entire reading. The meeting was opened for public hearing. There being no response, the hearing was closed. Motion carried by the following vote: AYES: Mikels, Palombo, Bridge, and Frost. NOES: None. ABSENT: Schlosser. Number and title read by Wasserman. ORDINANCE NO. 39-A AN ORDINANCE OF THE CI%Y COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF RANCHO CUCAMONGA, CALIFORNIA, AMENDING ORDINANCE NUMBER 39 PERTAINING TO TRAFFIC CONTROL REGULATIONS. 6. CITY MANAGER'S STAFF REPORTS. (10) 6A. Discontinuation of County Road Maintenance contract. Staff report by Lloyd Hubbs. (11) At the-time of execution of the 1979-80 County contract for road maintenance, staff indicated that we were not in a position to fully evaluate the cost effective- ness of the County operation in relation to other contract options. It was recommended at that time that the Council approve the contract and direct staff to make an analysis of maintenance options. Council also authorized RJA Maintenance Contractor, Inc. to conduct a Contract Management Analysis at no cost to the City. Both RJA and staff have completed their analysis and concurred in a recommendation to discontinue the County Maintenance Contract and replace these services with a combination of City crews and private contract services. Bridge asked what plans had been made for disasters such as flood damage. How could the City cope with this if we had our own services? Hubbs said they were exploring ways to obtain additional equipment and items of maintenance that would be utilized in storm clean up with backup from local contracts. Motion: Moved by Mikels, seconded by Palombo to discontinue the County Contract for road maintenance services. Also, direct staff to notify the San Bernardino County Road Department of its intention to discontinue maintenance services as of July 30, 1980 and to make all arrangements necessary to assume those responsi- bilities through a combination of City staff and contract services. Authorize staff to solicit and receive bids for the acquisition of patching equipment for Council review and acquisition prior to July 1, 1980. Motion carried by the following vote: AYES: Mikels, Palombo, Bridge, and Frost. NOES: None. ABSENT: Schlosser. City Council Minutes January 16, 1980 Page 5 6B. Block Grant Funds - North Town Street Improvements. Staff report by Lloyd (12) Hubbs. The City Council previously had adopted the Community Development Program for the expenditure of $15,600 in Cormnunity Development block grant funds. These funds were programmed to include street improvements and park acquisition for the develop- ment in the "North Town" area. The Citizens' Participation Advisory Committee had adopted the following priority list: Phase 1: Humbolt, 24th, 25th, 26th Streets $354,334 (est) Phase 2: Feron, Reid, Main (south side E/o Reid) $145,000 (est) Phase 3: Center and Main Streets $105,482 (est) The meeting was opened for public input. Nacho Gracia, C-Pac representative, encouraged Council to approve this priority list. Meeting was closed to further public input. Motion: Moved by Mikels, seconded by Palombo to approve staff's recommendations as listed in Phase 1 through Phase 3 and to notify the County Community. Development Department of this action to adjust the current program. Also, to authorize the amendment to the design contract to be executed by. the l~ayor and City. Clerk for the increased design scope which wtll increase the contract by $12,900. Motion carried by the following vote: AYES: Mikelm, Palombo, Bridge, and Frost. NOES: None. ABSENT: Schlosser. 6C. Report re. Lesney Development Compa~y]~s request for approval of Section 8 (13) pro~ect of 130 family apartment units. Staff report bM Barry Hogan. Lesney Development was requesting that the City Council: 1. Exempt this project from the current moratorium, and 2. Modify the growth management plan to provide priority processing for this project. Mr. Hogan recommended that this be referred to the Planning Co~ission for their recommendation. Meeting was opened for public input. Allan Lowy, Vice President of Lesney Development, requested that Council concur with the reco~ndation that was made by his company. Bridge asked that Mr. Hogan's reco~mnendation be repeated. Mr. Hogan said that if the City Council wishes to consider this item that it should be referred to the Planning Comission as an ordinance amendment. If the Council does not desire to have any changes made to the growth management plan or desire to hear such a change, then the Council could deal with the issue tonight. Or the Council could simply receive and file the request. Mr. Hogan stated that if this were sent to the Planning Commission with a recommenda- tion to consider an amendment to the Growth Management Plan. the earliest the Plannin~ Co~nission could consider the item would be February 13, and the earliest it would be back to the Council would be March 12. Palombo said he felt the Council was not ready to review this. Mikels said he felt the Council should receive and file the request. Ken Willis, Building Industry Association, said this was a Federally funded project and would be of benefit to a certain class of people. City Council Minutes January 16, 1980 Page 6 Motion: Moved by Mikels, seconded by Palombo to receive and file the request from Lesney Development Corporation. Bridge felt this should go to the Planning Commission first; however, even with priorities it could not be completed by the end of the year. Ken Willis encouraged Council to refer this back to the Planning Co~mmission for consideration. Motion carried to receive and file the request by the following vote: AYES: Mikels, Palombo, Bridge, and Frost. NOES: None. ABSENT: Schlosser. (14) 6D. Discussion of ballot argument and adoption of Resolution. Staff report by Lauren Wasserman. Mr. Wasserman presented a revised argument for Measure "A" which was to be put before the voters in the April 8, 1980 municipal election. The Measure was regarding whether the offices of City Cl~rk and City Treasurer should be appointive. He also stated that the City Council needed to designate those by Resolution that would be authorized to submit the argument for the Measure which would be the entire Council. Motion: Moved by Bridge, seconded by Palombo to approve the adoption of Resolu- tion No. 80-6 and to waive the entire reading. Motion carried by the following vote: AYES: M2[kels, Palombo, Bridge, and Frost. NOES: None. ABSENT: Schlosser. Number and title read by Wasserman. RESOLUTION NO. 80-6 A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF RANCHO CUCAMONGA, CALIFORNIA, AUTHORIZING CERTAIN OF ITS MEMBERS TO FILE A WRITTEN ARGUMENT FOR A CITY MEASURE. The fo.llowing argument was presented for consideration: Argument in Favor of Measure "A" The passage of Measure "A" will provide for the appointment of the Clerk and Treasurer by your elected City Council. At present, the offices of City Clerk and City Treasurer are elective. The Clerk and Treasurer perform specific technical functions re- quired by State law. They are not policy makers for the residents, and if elected, would represent an additional bureaucratic level of government. Direct appointment by the City Council will: (1) Promote efficiency and further reduce government cost by allowing the functions of Clerk and Treasurer to be performed by existing trained City personnel. (2) Encourage the timely administration of the Clerk and Treasurer responsibilities. (3) Eliminate election expenses to the City for these offices. (4)Assure that the offices will be filled by the appointment of technically competent persons. A YES VOTE ON MEASURE "A" CONTINUES THE EFFICIENT GOVERNMENT OF RANCHO CUCAMONGA. City Council Minutes January 16, 1980 Page 7 Motion: Moved by Mikels, seconded by Palombo to approve Measure "A" which had been submitted. Motion carried by the following vote: AYES: Mikels, Palombo, Bridge, and Frost. NOES: None. ABSENT: Schlosser. 6E. A Resolution namin8 officers~ polling places~ and measures for the municipal (15) election. Staff report by Lauren Wasserman. Motion: Moved by Palombo, seconded by Mikels to approve Resolution No. 80-7 and to waive entire reading. Motion carried by the following vote: AYES: Mikels, P~lombo, Bridge, and Frost. NOES: None. ABSENT: Schlosser. Number and title read by Wasserman. RESOLUTION NO. 80-7 A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF RANCHO CUCAMONGA, CALIFORNIA, REGARDING THE ELECTION OF CERTAIN OFFICERS OF SAID CITY AS REQUIRED BY THE PROVISIONS OF THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA RELATING TO THE GENERAL LAW CITIES AND FOR THE SUB- MISSION TO THE QUALIFIED ELECTORS OF SAID CITY OF A CERTAIN QUESTION, MEASURE "A", RELATING TO WHETHER THE OFFICES OF CITY CLERK AND CITY TREASURER SHALL BE APPOINTIVE, AT THE MUNICIPAL ELECTION TO BE HELD ON THE 8TH DAY OF APRIL, 1980, IN THE CITY OF RANCHO CUCAMONGA. 6F. School Fee Report. (16) Mr. Wasserman said there were still two things that needed to be worked on, and we were not ready to make a full report. This should come back at the next City Council meeting on February 6. Mr. Willis, Building Industry Association, asked if the developers could be identi- fied. He would be willing to contact these people to ask them to sign contractural letters for the release of funds. 7. CITY ATTORNEY'S REPORTS, None 8. NEW BUSINESS. a. Mayor read a letter from Mrs. Bridge regarding SB-547, the Parklands and Renewable Resources Investment Bond Issue, which was before the California State Assembly. She recommended that Council endorse SB-547. Council concurred that a letter should be sent to our legislators in support of SB-547. 9. ADJOURNMENT. Motion: Moved by Palombo, seconded by Mikels to adjourn. The motion carried by the following vote: AYES: Mikels, Palombo, Bridge, and Frost. NOES: None. ABSENT: Schlosser. The meeting adjourned at 9:00 p.m. ,R~~ly~ Beverly Authelet Deputy City Clerk