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HomeMy WebLinkAboutCC Min 2012-04-11 3:00 p.m.REGULAR MEETING OF THE CITY COUNCIL AND THE CITY COUNCIL SERVING... r , 3:00 p.m.REGULAR MEETING OF THE CITY COUNCIL AND THE CITY COUNCIL SERVING AS THE SUCCESSOR AGENCY TO THE REDEVELOPMENT AGENCY BOARD (Copy) 68 -700 Avenida Lalo Guerrero Cathedral City, CA 92234 Wednesday, April 11, 2012 CLOSED SESSION Please Note: The Procedue is: The Agenda for the Closed Session Meeting is loaded as an { attachment to this Agenda. It is not taped in the Granicus Recording. It will be printed out at the end of the Minutes for future reference. Again CLOSED SESSION starts at 3:00 p.m. CLOSED SESSION PORTION OF MEETING - STARTS AT 3:00 p.m. Mayor DeRosa called the Closed Session Portion of the metting to order at 3:03 p.m. Roll Call was taken by City Clerk, with all Council Members England, Pettis, Toles and the Mayor Pro Tem Vasquez and Mayor DeRosa. Deputy City Attorney Van Tonglen Deemed a summary of the Closed Session Items read. Council went into Closed Session at 3:10 p.m. STUDY SESSION April 11, 2012, at approximately 5:00 p.m. or at such time as the City Council completes the Closed Session Agenda. STUDY SESSION CALL TO ORDER Mayor DeRosa called the Study Session Portion of the meeting to order at 5:18 p.m. ROLL CALL - City Clerk advised that we were calling the Roll for City Council and the City Council serving as the Successor Agency to the Redevelopment Agency Board. Council Members England, Pettis, Toles. Mayor Pro Tem Vasquez and Mayor DeRosa, all present. No absences. PRESENTATION OF COLORS 3:00 p.m.REGULAR MEETING OF THE CITY COUNCIL AND THE CITY COUNCIL SERVING... Cathedral City High School Air Force Junior ROTC Honor Guard PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE The Pledge of Allegiance was led by Mayor Pro Tem Vasquez. INVOCATION Invocation was offered by Council Member England. OATH OF OFFICE CEREMONY PRESENTATIONS AND PROCLAMATIONS It was noted that Carol Teitelbaum would be coming for the evening session. There was no one present for Item 2. 2.. Child Abuse Prevention Awareness Month - Kelly Thordsen, Barbara Sinatra Children's Center at Eisenhower 3. Special Presentation from Desert Ice Castle Mayor DeRosa welcomed the two representatives from the Desert Ice Castle. Anthony Liu who lives in Cathedral City and Michael Garren who lives in Palm Springs. The gentleman were here to present a check to the City Council in the amount of $105,350. which is the repayment of a loan the Desert Ice Castle received from the City RDA including interest and being payed earlier than then required. The two gentleman were very excited about the partnership they have made with Cathedral City. You may watch the presentation at www.cathedralcity.gov. At this time, members of the public may address the City Council on any matter not listed on the agenda or any item on the Study Session agenda. Please complete a ?Request to P q Speak? form and limit your comments to three minutes. When you are called to speak, please come forward and state your name and city of residence for the record. PUBLIC COMMENTS At this time, members of the public may address the City Council on any matter not listed F ' on the agenda or any item on the Study Session agenda. Please complete a "Request to Speak" form and limit your comments to three minutes. When you are called to speak, please come forward and state your name and city of residence for the record. In response to any public comment on an item or matter not on this agenda, pursuant to Government Code Section 54954.2, members of the City Council may only: 1) respond briefly to statements made or questions posed by the public; 2) ask a question for clarification; 3) make a brief report on his or her own activities; 4) provide a reference to staff or other resources for factual information; 5) request staff to report to the City Council at a subsequent meeting concerning any matter raised by the public; 6) direct staff to place a matter of business on a future agenda. (California Government Code Section 3:00 p.m.REGULAR MEETING OF THE CITY COUNCIL AND THE CITY COUNCIL SERVING... 54954). Unless additional time is authorized by the City Council, remarks shall be limited to three minutes. Warren Horton - Cathedral City - To correct an Item from last meeting, Chief Conner indicated that Indio City, going back to the alarm permit, Indio City does not have a Ordinance that states an exemption for 65 and over - apparently what Indio does, it has an Ordinance as well as a Policy. The Ordinance does not have an exemption in the Ordinance, however they do have it in their policy. Wanted to corrected this because it may have left the Council confused about whether Indio does or does not grant an exemption to those 65 and older. Andy Jessup Jr - Rancho Mirage - Please to report the #1 Auto Center for March with 1064 vehicles sales - last time this was done is May 2007. Additionally - sold 45% of all valley vehicles - January was 46% Year to date is 3500 vehicles. Mr. Jessup gave a very detailed report and you may watch this on www.cathedralcity.gov Mr. Jessup commented on the Golden Apple Awards for Teachers and staff for the combined school districts of Palm Springs Unified, Desert Sands Unified, and Coachella Unified school districts. We have record levels for sponsorship, for this program. The Cathedral City Guide is the most profitable undertaking we do annually. Declining membership is not uncommon. { Jens Mueller - Cathedral City - the Chamber of Commerce should not be funded. That should be self perpetuating. Before you fire one police officer or one fire fighter, the Chamber is done as far as funding from the city and so is, I believe, the iHub. CVAG is all done in my opinion. Does anyone play honest poker? Any of you play poker at all? Andy do you play honest poker? Mayor DeRosa asked Mr. Mueller to address the Chair, his response was "I have three minutes ". I went on a cruise and played poker with this one gal. Horrible, just took her money, but I am going to show you my hand tonight. Mr. Mueller further comments may be seen and heard on www.cathedralcity.gov Abraham Razick - La Quinta. I am the General Manager of Nissan I moved out here form Chicago, back in November 09.- thank you to Mayor Kathy DeRosa - I have never seen a much engaged Mayor in my life. I am from the Chicago suburbs and I have been around. Thank you Mayor for what you have done for us, since I came here. Cathedral City High School - she inspired me to find a way to raise money for the Senior class of the High School to go to New York - we raised $32,000. That $32,000 was raised, not by me, but us as a city together. Steve Morris from the Chamber was phenomenal, if it hadn't been for the Chamber those kids wouldn't have been out there. We were pushing all the businesses together to help those kids. Every body who is here in this room came together to raise that $32,000 in just two months. That is what this is about, I came today to show my support. by the way we moved to Cathedral City in 2009, we bought the dealership, and it has been a phenomenal success. Mayor DeRosa, hearing no one else wishing to speak closed Public Comments. STUDY SESSION AGENDA toy 3:00 p.m.REGULAR MEETING OF THE CITY COUNCIL AND THE CITY COUNCIL SERVING... Normally, no action is taken on Study Session items; however, the City Council reserves the right to give specific policy direction and take specific action as necessary. Presentations will be limited to 10 minutes unless other provisions are made in advance. 1. Interviews of youth applicants for appointment to serve as Ex- Officio members on Cathedral City's Commissions and Committees in order to increase youth input into the City's project and activities. (A. Howe) (Pg. 1 -3) 2. Receive presentation on Coachella Valley Economic Partnership (CVEP) by Thomas Flavin, CVEP President/CEO. (A. Hall) (Pg. 4 -6) Tom Flavin - Palm Springs. Coachella Valley Economic Partnership (CVEP) President and CEO. Mr. Flavin presented a very comprehensive presentation and Overview of CVEP, first explaining that Mr. Joe Wallace was here to present specific information for the CViHub. We thought it might be good to give everyone an "overview" and what we are all about. You may watch and listen to the entire presentation at www.cathedralcity.gov. Mayor DeRosa advised Council Member England has a question, do you want to hold it till Joe gives his presentation or ask it now? It was decided to hold the question for now 3. Receive presentation on the Coachella Valley iHub by Joe Wallace, CViHub Managing Director. (A. Hall) (Pg. 7 -8) 1 Joe Wallace - Rancho Mirage. Managing Director of the iHub. I have a presentation, and I want to make it clear, what distinction is between CVEP, SBDC, and the iHub. I want to 1 tell you what we are doing in the valley, but particularly the Cities who sponsor us, Cathedral City, Desert Hot Springs, and Palm Springs. History: sometime back in 2009 when I was living in middle America, the state came down and said "thou shall have an iHub. Three cities got together (those already mentioned), put in an application, and the application was granted in 2010. Last fall, those cities (Cathedral City, Desert Hot Springs, and Palm Springs) decided to make a financial support, a commitment to the iHub. iHub opened for business last fall, and I started my job here on the (11th of January 2012). Two days ago was my three month anniversary. My background is engineering, i Stanford graduate, Did all my course work at UC Santa Barbara, and I didn't do the dissertation because I started a business. I have done 12 start-ups, I have worked with 50 x different private clients. I treat the iHub client base as they are private clients. Our mission is to attract, inspire, and assist Renewable Energy, and more important, enabling Technology. business in the Coachella Valley. We have Solar, Wind, Geo- therman here. They are not what is keeping themselves from excelling, it is a fact that you don't have good energy management algorithms, don't have good circuitry to manager energy, and you don't have storage. s Mr. Wallace, after his introduction comments, ran a very comprehensive slide presentation. You may watch and hear the entire presentation on www.cathedralcity.gov . Council Member England has questions and lengthy comments, as did Mayor Pro Tem 1 Vasquez. Also Council Member Toles and Council Member Pettis had comments. You may watch this entire Council Member Comments on www.cathedralcity.gov. Mayor E f 4 3:00 p.m.REGULAR MEETING OF THE CITY COUNCIL AND THE CITY COUNCIL SERVING... a DeRosa thanked both Mr. Flavin and Mr. Wallace for being here, and giving these Iriv reports. She complimented Mr. Wallace for accomplishing so much in just 3 months. Mayor DeRosa stated that at CareFusion approximately 25 -30% of their employees are ' Cathedral City residents. 4. Receive Chamber of Commerce Quarterly report. (A. Hall) (Pg. 9 -16) Andy Hall advised that he knew the Council had a copy of the Chamber quarterly report j and given the time, he didn't want to take very much time because he knew that the Chamber wanted to address the City on several things. We also wanted to point out that a we are asking the City Council to contribute the next quarterly payment to the Chamber of Commerce, finding that they have satisfied the contract that we have with them. Mr. Pettis wanted to know when the Chamber would be prepared to meet with the Council sub- committee on the the new contract for the next fiscal year. Mr. Hall responded that they would probably like to meet before the next Council meeting. 5. Discussion of proposed Date Palm Interchange percentage allocation formula. (B. Simons) (Pg. 17 -22) 1 I Bill Simons gave the report on the Interchanges, four of which are in various stages of reconstruction on Interstate 10. Cathedral city is in close enough proximity to all four of them, that we get to participate in paying for all four of them. Mr. Simons gave a very f comprehensive report as to how we got to the current situation and what has transpired in the latest of activities, wherein the percentages of each city's obligation have been t (00 adjusted. Riverside County has been involved and in 2009 they advised CVAG, that based on recent annexations they felt the proportionate shares needed to be reanalyzed. CVAG e hired a consultant to undertake a study to reevaluate the local shares. The high percentage of costs for all four interchanges is paid for by Federal and State funds and grants. The local share is being paid (75 %) by CVAG. This leaves 25% being paid by the various cities who have been identified as benefiting from the Interchanges. Both Palm Desert and Desert Hot Springs were added as a result of the last study, the Cathedral City share increased by almost 5 %, the proportionate share for Rancho Mirage went down by 10 %. The reason we were give for the reduction of Rancho Mirage was that the city would benefit by the proposed DaVall interchange, their citizens would not be using Date Palm. Were the DaVall Interchange be constructed that may be true, however, CVAG requested the cities stop the studies, the preliminary studies for DaVall and withdrew the funding. Rancho Mirage is on record, several occasions in total opposition to construction of DaVall Interchange. By them taking advantage of a future construction by seeking a reduction of their share of the Date Palm Interchange, is perplexing at best. At the Transportation Technical Advisory Subcommittee meeting Cathedral City voted against the proportionate share, and again at the Transportation Committee meeting Cathedral City s voted against it. Cathedral City, in the past, has always supported CVAG. We will s continue to support the overall efforts of CVAG. The analysis appears to have some flaws that need to be addressed. There is a special meeting on Monday at 2:00 p.m. at CVAG to discuss in more detail, how this study was conducted and the firm that did the study will be } there. We will be at that meeting and our purpose tonight is to get any direction from 1 Council that you have. (10 t i k i Y I I I 3:00 p.m.REGULAR MEETING OF THE CITY COUNCIL AND THE CITY COUNCIL SERVING... ‘00' Mayor DeRosa was asking what the special meeting was and Mr. Simons advised it was a special meeting of Transportation Technical Advisory Subcommittee. Mr Bradley interjected that it was the CVAG Transportation Committee and the Transportation s Technical Advisory Subcommittee are invited. It is three committees invited to attend jointly. Mayor DeRosa invited Alam ( ?) from CVAG to come forward and defend the consultants report, he declined. Council Member Pettis - As you know I represent the city on the Transportation Committee and this particular study has come up at least twice and maybe three times over the last several months. I know that it has become very frustrating, with both the CVAG staff as well as all the elected officials around. We are not moving it out of committee. j There has been quite a bit of dissension, more so than I have seen in years. Mr. Simons has been very polite in his description of this problem, however, I have consistently voted against this "share" not only because - our share was increased by 5% of what our cost should be for Date Palm Interchange, I have been very clear with the consultant, Urban 1 Crossroads, I don't necessarily disagree with that, I probably agree that 50% of the people s who use Date Palm live or work in Cathedral City. That is not my issue, my issue is 1 Rancho Mirage went from 15% done to 4.3 %. This is right after they had a decrease in I their share of the expense in Bob Hope/Ramon Road Interchange. They had a much higher original cost share. It was reduced in both Cathedral City and Palm Springs had an increase in their proportional share of the Bob Hope/Ramon Road Interchange. Surprisingly Palm Springs didn't argue that too much. I swallowed it because of r Thousand Palms potential annexation. Rancho Mirage - Their representative, Councilman Hines told the reason they were being reduced was that Rancho Mirage residents don't use the free -way. They only use 111. There was no data to prove that. If we went to the Agua Caliente Casino tonight, probably there is a pretty good chance of representation that came in off the freeway. I am continuing to see what we have seen over a number of years, is the Cities that have benefited the most from years of the economy being good continue to benefit in the bad times. I have grown tired of it and what we did at Transportation this last meeting was to go ahead and pass it out of committee without no recommendation. It now goes to the Executive Committee. Because CVAG is beginning to have to pay the bills on the Interchange and it is not fair to CVAG to not have some kind of final determination this cost share will be We ask each of the individual cities, not only to attend the upcoming large study session, but also to bring it back to the individual jurisdictions. Our . representative, in this case, Mayor DeRosa should could have a sense of the entire Council feelings, when she has to vote at the Executive Committee at the end of the month. Once again, 5% increase in cost share on that Interchange, is not a whole lot of money in the I whole scheme of things, for me it is more of the shared sacrifice of all. . We asked each of the individual cities not only to attend the upcoming large study session but to also I bring it back to their individual jurisdictions so that our Mayor could have a sense of the entire councils feelings when she has to vote at the Executive Committee at the end of this 1 month. Urban Crossroads or CVAG have been unable to share with me, data, that Rancho [ Mirage doesn't use the Date Palm Interchange. Now, if Rancho Mirage wants to sign a [ MOU with Cathedral City by the end of this month that they will pay 55% of the DaVall coo Interchange. I'll shut up and go away and not say anything. I don't think they will do that I i t s i F i 3:00 p.m.REGULAR MEETING OF THE CITY COUNCIL AND THE CITY COUNCIL SERVING... Cr Mr. Simons responded that the estimated local share Date Palm Interchange is slightly over 8.9 million dollars, 25% of that will be 2.25 million, Cathedral City's share would be 1.2 million. Mayor DeRosa thanked Mr. Simons again. She responded I don't feel it is so much the dollars, but the letter from Randy Binder that says, no, no and hell no, we are not having a DaVall Interchange and then seeing that they want to annex thousands of acres and put in a big retail center at Bob Hope, and yet we have gotten more of an impact from Bob Hope fiscally. 3 Now they want more money from Date Palm and Rancho Mirage has less? I will move on j to Mr. England. Council Member England - Mr. England thanked Mr. Simons for the report. Alan, thank you for being here to support Bill, I hope that is why you are here. I am very perplexed at how this, this is not the very first time we have seen this, but the first time we are having an opportunity to comment on how the survey was done and I want to say probably the ineptness of the group that manufactured this survey, because I find it interesting that Palm Desert gets dinged for 3.7 %, Desert Hot Springs should participate in that, if you ever go t out Mountain View and turn on to Varner, in the morning or coming home late in the afternoon, a lot of people access Date Palm especially to get home in the East end of Desert Hot Springs. Palm Springs to go down a little bit, I am always perplexed when we i have a wind event in the Valley and Gene Autry is closed. There is a major failure of our Intersection of Date Palm and Vista Chino because we have a lot of residents coming t through. While I don't particularly mind that because I know on their way home, they are stopping off at the Starbucks and over at Stater Brothers getting their shopping done. It is kind of a trade off there, I just find it very interesting how the entity who wanted to put the survey in saw an almost 5% reduction in their fees and also a 10% reduction in Rancho Mirage. I am very displeased with how the numbers have eschewed, displeased that they are reconfiguring this as we are under construction, costs have gone down during this time and so we would expect our contributions to go down as well. I don't know what will take place over at CVAG, but I do know that gerrymandering taking place by other jurisdictions is in bad faith. I hope that you will be able to, please use my comments, don't I throw your name on them, say Council Member England says that you are operating in bad faith, and that is not what CVAG is all about. CVAG is Regional and equality, that we don't mind paying our fair share, but at no point in time are we going to be somebody's door -mat. I think this is one of those things that they can brush some of their dirt off on us s and we will just sit back and be nice, because we usually are, suck it up and that is unacceptable period. But in these economic times it is unacceptable and I hope that voting members will appreciate us pushing it back and the County will reevaluate how much they need to contribute to the equation, and like wise with Rancho Mirage. It needs to be fair and equitable for all Valley residents who use the Date Palm Interchange. I would love to jump up and down, and scream about all of the trash trucks that belong to Palm Springs, that get off on the Date Palm Interchange. They go down Vista Chino when they could do 1 "Gene Autry" just as easy. For what ever reason it happens every day an d it is not right. However on this one I will jump up and down and may have to go over - Mayor DeRosa interjected that what she needed done was Palm Springs, Cathedral City, Desert Hot r (iv Springs, Palm Desert voted to not support this allocation, that is only four out of 10, so we t need to get on the phone and begin calling Coachella, Indio, LaQuinta, Indian Wells, i : , 3:00 p.m.REGULAR MEETING OF THE CITY COUNCIL AND THE CITY COUNCIL SERVING... , Rancho Mirage will never support it, and I understand the County's position. Please pick up the phone and call these Mayors, and ask for their support and a reallocation. This will I come to the Executive Meeting on Monday April 30. , , 6. Discussion of City Council budget and year-to-date expenditures of each member. (T. Scott) I , 1 Tami Scott - Administrative Services Manager - started her report by advising that the report in front of you is the summary data which is current as we could get them. If you I have questions, I will be happy to answer as best I can 1 i Mayor DeRosa asked if there were any questions. The Mayor said she had no questions, I however she would like to take a look at a couple of things, we have heard mentioned many times "shared sacrifice". I would like to look at eliminating Council Dinners, I eliminate half of the Council Travel stipend, that line is for "local travel", I would like to I look at eliminating half of the Technology stipend, I wold like to eliminate Supplies except 1 Business Cards. I think those savings should bring us somewhere of $15,000 to $20,000, I maybe a little less, I would like to put that into the budget for discussion. I • 1 , Council Member England asked if this was going on the next Study Session? Mayor ; DeRosa responded that they could put that in with the budget information. Mayor i t , reiterated the items for Mr. England. i t 1 (ri, Mayor Pro Tem Vasquez added to that on the Council he would like to add, the largest I item we have on our Council budget is Training and Conferences which amount to I t $28,000 per year. I would like to have that reduced to at least 50%. Some of us don't use i any of it, myself and Council Member England, so I don't see a need at this time to be t' , spending almost $30,000 a year for Training and Conferences the other items and they ! i' are small in nature, and are reimbursements. My issue, it has been for 15 years here is t what we are spending on training and conferences, material and supplies. i ; t i Mayor Derosa we should look at Memberships. , it ; Mr. Wallace, after his introduction comments, ran a very comprehensive slide 1 presentation. You may watch and hear the entire presentation on www.cathedralcity.gov. . i f Council Member Vasquez wanted to clarify my issue is not at all with Mr. Pettis' travel, i - you do get reimbursed, I have asked before if I could not have money listed in this 1 category and I was told it was not possible. So I consciously do not spend it. I have no problem with the amount that we are actually spending continued on, my problem is , having this amount in the budget every year, that we don't wind up using, because people like myself, and Mr. England, for what ever reasons don't do the traveling. I also want clarification on the travel, I do not approve of travel for other things, it is great that our , , High School kids are doing some wonderful things but to spend $500-600 dollars to send a ‘ , Council Member there to be with the kids, I don't think is appropriate money at this time. , i So the money that is going to travel that is actually benefiting the city like you do and some other things that get done here I have no problem with. For years I have said the i (liPr configuration on how we do this is inappropriate and doesn't really tell the story. If we , i t I t i 1 3:00 p.m.REGULAR MEETING OF THE CITY COUNCIL AND THE CITY COUNCIL SERVING... (111, have a lump sum and we allocate for that as the events occur, that is great, but reserving this money when we should be putting every dime into other things doesn't work for me. Council Member Toles - I would also like to speak up for both for Mr. Pettis comments and travel and echo his comments, and I also agree with the Mayor Pro Tem as far as having a pool of money as to having individual accounts. As somebody who does an extensive amount of travel for my own work, my company spends roughly $40,000 - $50,000 on my personal travel. The reason they do so, and there are countless amounts of studies that talk about this, is that networking and meeting individuals and pitching your city and as Greg does, and I do, and others who have traveled for this city, lobbying in Sacramento, lobbying in Washington, D.c., meeting those representatives, that work and that sacrifice - and travel, believe me, is not a glamorous thing, staying in a hotel, being away from your family, being away from your loved ones is not fun. So I don't want a miss impression by the Community to think that we are just going on junkets to party, believe me as somebody who travels almost constantly, tow three times a month for my full time job, if I am traveling on behalf of the city I am doing it for the benefit of the city. I do think people need to understand that, and also unallocated dollars are not useful and we should look at perhaps a reallocation. See what the actual spend is and look at it as t a pool rather have it segmented. Mayor DeRosa - training and conferences are extremely important and the networking is invaluable. 7. City Council/Staff reports and inquiries of new or ongoing projects. RECESS I 1 REGULAR MEETING OF THE CITY COUNCIL AND THE CITY COUNCIL i SERVING AS THE SUCCESSOR AGENCY TO THE REDEVELOPMENT AGENCY BOARD Council Chamber -- Third Floor of City Hall, 68700 Avenida Lalo Guerrero Cathedral City, CA 92234 - WEDNESDAY, APRIL 11, 2012 6:30 p.m. i CALL TO ORDER t Mayor DeRosa called the Regular Portion of the City Council meeting to order at 7:10 p.m. CLOSED SESSION ANNOUNCEMENTS E Deputy City Attorney Heidi Von Tongan reported: Madame Mayor and Members of the E Council, there is one reportable action from this evening's Closed Session. The City Council i approved a settlement in the City of Cathedral City v. Sukut Construction, Inc., Case No. 1105593, which appeared as Item No. 5 on the City Council's Closed Session Agenda. The matter being settled arose out of a dispute between the City and a contractor retained by the City to construct and install sewer and water mains, storm drains and perform attendant work in the Cove area of the City. The contractor was originally seeking approximately $1.6 million in damages from the City, but the City recently received an offer to settle the matter in an amount equal to $375,000. (11100' Councilmember Pettis moved to approve the settlement and grant the City Manager authority to execute the Settlement Agreement on behalf of the City. The motion was seconded by f Councilmember England, and the motion was carried unanimously. 1 ' 3:00 p.m.REGULAR MEETING OF THE CITY COUNCIL AND THE CITY COUNCIL SERVING... PRESENTATIONS AND PROCLAMATIONS Child Abuse Prevention Awareness Month - Carol Teitelbaum, Riverside County Health Dept. Mayor DeRosa asked that Carol come forward. Mayor presented the Proclamation to Carol. Carol Teitelbaum responded to the Mayor by thanking the city for the Proclamation, and to let you know that we meet the second Tuesday of every month at the Regional Access Office at 11:30 -1:30 and we invite anyone who is interested to come and be part of our Council. We have a program "It Happens to Boys" with an annual conference here in Cathedral City at the Doral. €'€ We have an anti - bullying campaign and I brought one of our posters for that. PUBLIC COMMENTS At this time, members of the public may address the City Council on any matter not listed on the agenda or anv item on the Consent Agenda. Please complete a ?Request to Speak? form and limit your comments to three minutes. When von are called to speak, please come forward and state your name and city of residence for the record. In response to any public comment on an item or matter not on this agenda, pursuant to Government Code Section 54954.2, members of the City Council may only: 1) respond briefly to statements made or questions posed by the public; 2) ask a question for clarification; 3) make a brief report on his or her own activities; 4) provide a reference to staff or other resources for factual information; 5) request staff to report back to the City Council at a subsequent meeting concerning any matter raised by the public; or, 6) direct staff to place a matter of business on a future agenda. (California Government Code Section 54954). Unless additional time is authorized by the City Council, remarks shall be limited to three minutes. Mayor DeRosa opened and closed Public Comments without comments. AGENDA FINALIZATION Mayor DeRosa advise that we will be pulling Item 8 from this agenda. Mayor Pro Tem Vasquez wanted to pull item number 3 for discussion. Mr. Pettis wanted the Mayor to explain to the public why item 8 was pulled. Mayor DeRosa said Item 8 was a request from Palm Springs Cemetery District for a waiver of $23,000 dollars in fees. After ongoing discussion, the Cemetery District has decided to pull there request to waive fees and will be paying the $23,000. At this time, the City Council may announce any items being pulled from the agenda or continued to another date. URGENCY ITEMS Urgency Items ( "Added Starters "): The Brown Act, which governs public meetings., rriv permits the City Council to take action on any item that does not appear on the agenda only if 2/3 of the Council (if all are present) or all members of the Council (if fewer than all 3:00 p.m.REGULAR MEETING OF THE CITY COUNCIL AND THE CITY COUNCIL SERVING... ' G members are present) determine there is a need to take immediate action on the item, and the need to take immediate action came to the City Council ?s attention after the agenda is posted. COUNCIL COMMENTS Council Member Toles - given the lateness of the hour I will forgo Council Comments. Council Member England - I just wanted to say thank -you to Forest Lawn for a wonderful Easter Sun Rise Service. s Council Member Pettis - also Forest Lawn did a great Easter Egg HUnt. For the residents, check out my Face Book page and see me with the Easter Bunny. May 1st Tuesday night, PSUSD will be having the DigaCom Film Festival. PS High School Auditorium from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. A great opportunity to see the work that our kids are doing. And the digital arts of Cathedral City HS are doing. It is free. } i Mayor Pro Tem Vasquez - I attended the Senior Inspiration Awards - Judie and Harry t Stone were honored this year. Harry is with the Boys & Girls Club and Judi with our Senior Center. they are a great pair, they do so much for the Community. When they came here Judi wanted to get involved with the community so she volunteered here at City Hall as a Volunteer for Pat Hammers, in the City Clerks Office. She went from there to t the Senior Center across the street where she has been instrumental in their programs and Harry went over to the Boys & Girls Club and just fell in love in what was happening f there. Both of them have continued day in and day out giving back to this community. I Also wanted to recognize Jacques LeFebure who passed away recently, he got involved E here by first coming to a Neighborhood Watch meeting. He became one of the key people on Citizens on Patrol and I offer my thought and prayers to his family. Ii Mayor DeRosa - I wanted to congratulate Council Member Pettis who has been appointed to the advisory panel of the Southern California Edison. This is also Dispatcher Appreciation Week, the event is tomorrow evening at the Doral so I look forward to R supporting the Dispatchers. Thank you for remembering Jacques - his memorial service is this Friday and Mr. Bradley and I will be speaking at his funeral. COMMITTEE ASSIGNMENTS i MINUTES Minutes from City Council Meeting for the March 28, 2012 will be placed on the April 25, 2012 Council Meeting. CONSENT AGENDA All matters on the Consent A2enda are considered routine in nature and are expected to be enacted by one motion. Members of the public may comment on any item on the f consent agenda. However, Council Members will not discuss individual items among themselves unless those items are pulled off the Consent A2enda by a Council Member. 4 I s L E } i 3:00 p.m.REGULAR MEETING OF THE CITY COUNCIL AND THE CITY COUNCIL SERVING... CO A. COUNCIL /CITY COUNCIL AS SUCCESSOR AGENCY BOARD: 1. COUNCIL /CITY COUNCIL AS SUCCESSOR AGENCY BOARD. Received and Filed payment of Claims and Demands in the aggregate sum of $5,901,263 for the month of March 2012 by M.O. 4963 and M.O. SA -0004. by . (T. { Scott) (Pg. 1 -2) 2. COUNCIL /CITY COUNCIL AS SUCCESSOR AGENCY BOARD. Approval of mutual release of all claims by and between the City of Cathedral City as Successor Entity to the Redevelopment Agency of the City of Cathedral City, Burke, Williams & Sorensen, LL P and Bannan, Frank & Terzian, LLP as Successor to Bannan, Green, Frank & Terzian, LLP M.O 4964 and M.O. SA -0005. (C. Green) (Pg. 3 -14) A. CITY COUNCIL j 4. COUNCIL. Authorized the City Engineer to advertise for bids to construct the widening and pavement rehabilitation on Ramon Road from Date Palm to DaVall Drive by M.O.4965. (B. Simons) (Pg. 16 -17) 1 i 5. COUNCIL. Authorized the City Engineer to advertise for bids to construct signal synchronization projects on Date Palm, CIP 6506, B11 -144E and East Palm Canyon } Drive CP 8910, B11 -143E by M.o. 4967. (B. Simons) (Pg. 18 -19) Cy 6. COUNCIL. Authorized the City Engineer to issue Request for Proposals for annual as- needed contracts for traffic engineering, materials testing and survey services by M.O.4968. (B. Simons) (Pg. 20 -21) 1 7. COUNCIL. Approved Appointment of Brenda Garcia of Thousand Palms to the E Financial Advisory Committees to serve as Ex- Officio member by M.O. 4699. MOTION FOR CONSENT AGENDA I Mayor Pro Tem/Vice Chair Vasquez moved Mayor Pro Tem Vasquez moved to approve the Consent Agenda items 1 -2, and 4 -7, motion seconded by Council Member England, motion carried 5 -0. Motion seconded by Council/Board Member England, motion carried 5 - 0. PUBLIC HEARINGS I t NONE I LEGISLATIVE ACTION 1 8. COUNCIL. Consider request from the Palm Springs Cemetery District to waive approximately $23,000 in fees from the Planning, Building, Fire, and Engineering t Departments for Design Review No. 11 -002 which consists of a new Administration, multi- purpose, room, and chapel on a 57 acre parcel. . (R. Malacoff) (Pg. 22 -26) I Item 8 was pulled from the Agenda at the applicants request. 1 I 1 i I s 3:00 p.m.REGULAR MEETING OF THE CITY COUNCIL AND THE CITY COUNCIL SERVING... a. Report by Rich Malacoff, Senior Planner b. Public Comments c. Recommendation: Deny 3. COUNCIL. Approve request for funding of the Coachella Valley iHub for the 2011 -2012 Program Year in the amount of $25,000. (A. Hall) (Pg. 15) iHub andy Hall Andy Hall, Community Development Director was asked to give the report. Council/Board Member Toles moved 3. COUNCIL. Approve request for funding of the Coachella Valley iHub for the 2011 -2012 Program Year in the amount of $25,000. (A. Hall) (Pg. 15) Motion seconded by Council/Board Member Pettis, motion carried 3 - 2. Mr. Hall advsed the Council that this item addressed the current year funding for the iHub. That funding if approved by the City Council would be taken from the Community Development Budget and the Planning Professional Services Line item. Any questions? Mayor Pro Tem Vasquez didn't really have any questions, we had this on the Study Session, I wanted to separate it out put it before Council for a seperate vote. Council Member Tolles moved approval of the iHub funding in the amount of $25,000 for the 2011 -12 year, motion seconded by Council Member Pettis. Motion passes by 3 -2 vote, with Mayor Pro Tem Vasquez and Council Member England voted no. M.O. 4965 COUNCIL REPORTS ON CITIZEN INQUIRIES AND CONCERNS 1 ADJOURNMENT Mayor DeRosa adjourned the meeting at 7:43 p.m. NOTES TO THE PUBLIC The next regularly scheduled meeting of the City Council is scheduled for WEDNESDAY, APRIL 25, 2012 Please remember: City Hall is closed every Friday. Agendas for Council meetings are posted at City Hall at least 72 hours before the meeting and on the Cathedral City Web site at www.cathedralcity.gov. The agenda is available for public inspection in the City Hall lobby or the City Clerk ?s office the Monday preceding filre the meeting. Any document or writing that relates to an agenda item on the open session of a City Council meeting that is not distributed at least 72 hours prior to the meeting is also 3:00 p.m.REGULAR MEETING OF THE CITY COUNCIL AND THE CITY COUNCIL SERVING... available for public inspection in the City Hall lobby or the City Clerk ?s office. In compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act, if ou need special y p ial assistance to participate in a City meeting or other services offered by this City, please contact the City Clerk's Office at (760)770 -0385. Assisted - listening devices are available at this meeting. Ask the City Clerk if you desire to use this device. Notification at least 48 hours prior to the meeting or the time when services are needed will assist city staff in assuring reasonable arrangements can be made to provide accessibility to the meeting or service. Pat Hammers, MMC City Clerk 1 { } CLOSED SESSION AGENDA — APRIL 11, 2012 A. CITY COUNCIL AS SUCCESSOR AGENCY: 1. CONFERENCE WITH LEGAL COUNSEL REGARDING EXISTING LITIGATION pursuant to Government Code Section 54956.9 (A) (C. Green) Case name: Redevelopment Agency of the City of Cathedral City vs. Tri- Millennium Cathedral City, LLC, et. seq. Case No. BC382171 Court Los Angeles County Superior Court 2. CONFERENCE WITH REAL PROPERTY NEGOTIATOR pursuant to Government Code Section 54956.8 (T. Scott) Property Location Parcel Map 32932 Parcel 1, East of Van Fleet Avenue, south of East Palm Canyon Negotiating Parties Successor Agency of the Redevelopment Agency of the City of Cathedral City and City Urban Revitalization Corporation Property Owners Redevelopment Agency of the City of Cathedral City and City Urban Revitalization Corporation Under Negotiations Property Negotiations 3. CONFERENCE WITH REAL PROPERTY NEGOTIATOR pursuant to Government Code Section 54956.8 (T. Scott) C oo Property Location: APN's 687 - 475 -002 & 003; and 687 -472 -005 and -007 Negotiating Parties Successor Agency of the Redevelopment Agency of the City of Cathedral City, Cathedral City Downtown Foundation, Rolling Hills Silver Spur Pickford Theater, LLC, and Ultra Star Cinemas Property Owners Rolling Hills Silver Spur Pickford Theater, LLC Under Negotiation Property Negotiations B. CITY COUNCIL: 4. CONFERENCE WITH REAL PROPERTY NEGOTIATOR pursuant to Government Code Section 54956.8 (T. Scott) Property Location APN's : 675124001, 686 191020 670147001, 680350054, 687097002, and 686191020 Negotiating Parties City of Cathedral City and Crown Castle Property Owners City of Cathedral City Under Negotiations Use of Public Right -of -Way 5. CONFERENCE WITH LEGAL COUNSEL REGARDING EXISTING LITIGATION pursuant to Government Code Section 54956.9 (A) (C. Green) Case name: City of Cathedral City v. Sukut Construction, Inc. Case No. INC 1105593 Court Riverside Superior Court CI; 4 6. CONFERENCE WITH LABOR NEGOTIATIOR pursuant to Government Code ) P Section 54957.6 Agency Negotiator Donald Bradley, City Manager Represented Employees & 1) American Federation of State, County and Non- Represented Employees Municipal Employees. (AFSCME) 2) Cathedral City Professional Firefighters Association (CCPFA) 3) Cathedral City Police /Fire Management Association (CCPFMA) 4) Cathedral City Police Officers Association (CCPOA) 5) Non - Represented Employees 1 ) } 7