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3:00 p.m. SPECIAL MEETING OF THE CITY COUNCIL AND THE CITY COUNCIL
SERVING AS THE SUCCESSOR AGENCY TO THE REDEVELOPMENT AGENCY
BOARD AND AS THE LOCAL BOARD OF SPECIAL DISTRICT CATHEDRAL CITY
CS ZONE B (Copy)
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68 -700 Avenida Lalo Guerrero
Cathedral City, CA 92234
Wednesday, March 7, 2012
Council Chamber -- Third Floor of City Hall, 68700 Avenida Lalo Guerrero Cathedral
City, CA 92234
y Please Note: The New Procedure: The Agenda for the Closed Session Meeting is loaded as
an attachment to this Agenda. It is not taped at all in Granicus Recording. It will be
printed out at the end of the Minutes for future reference. Again CLOSED SESSION
Starts at 3:OOp.m
CLOSED SESSION PORTION OF MEETING - Starts at 3:00 p.m.
Report of Closed Session Meeting - Mayor DeRosa called the Closed Session meeting
to order at 3:07 p.m. Roll was taken with all present except Mr. England who was going to
be late and probably not get to the meeting till the evening session. Motion to excuse Mr.
England was made by Council Member Toles, and seconded by Mayor Pro Tem Vasquez,
there was not objection. Motion passed 4 -0. Mayor DeRosa opened and closed Public
Comments without comment. City Attorney Green deem a summary read of the Closed
Session item. City Council went into Closed Session at 3:10 p.m.
STUDY SESSION PORTION OF MEETING - Starts at approximately 5:00 p.m. or at
such time as the City Council completes the Closed Session Agenda.
STUDY SESSION
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CALL TO ORDER
Mayor DeRosa called the Study Session portion of the meeting to order at 5:35 p.m.
ROLL CALL
City Clerk Hammers advised that we were calling the Roll Call for the following
agencies. "This is the Roll Call for the Special Meeting of the City Council, and the
City Council serving as the Successor Agency to the Redevelopment Agency Board
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and as the Local Board of Special District Cathedral City CS Zone B. Council
Members/Board Members England, Pettis Toles, Mayor Pro Tem/ Boards Vice Chair
Vasquez, Mayor/ Boards Chair DeRosa
Mayor DeRosa, before starting the Presentation of Colors, we have had three losses in our
community, I would like for you to keep in mind the the following: one is the father of Lt.
Laura Hanlon of our Police Department., one is the Husband of Patricia Saleh. Patricia is
a community Leader of Thousand Palms with a significant impact on Cathedral City who
has worked with us very closely. And the last is the Grandmother of Council Member
Toles. So as we begin the meeting this evening, if you would please keep those three
families in your thoughts and prayers and remember them as they go thru this difficult
time.
PRESENTATION OF COLORS
Cathedral City High School Air Force Junior Air force Junior ROTC Honor Guard.
PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE
Mayor Pro Tem Vasquez led the audience in the Pledge of Allegiance.
INVOCATION
C if The Invocation was offered by Council Member Toles.
OATH OF OFFICE CEREMONY
NONE
PRESENTATIONS AND PROCLAMATIONS
NONE
CATHEDRAL CITY HIGH SCHOOL STUDENT REPORTS
No Report
PUBLIC COMMENTS
Mayor DeRosa closed Public Comments
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
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.
Cie 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, Successor Agency Board,
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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
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report 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.
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Dennis Boden - Cathedral City - Mr. Boden was here about the Sewer /Septic tank issue for the
2nd Council Meeting in a row. He advised he had not received a letter from the Mayor as she
had promised, and he pleaded for a 3 -5 year extension on the mandate for all homes being
connected to available sewers by January 1, 2012. Says he cannot believe a city who created the
Ordinance has no way to enforce this item. Mayor advised that he needed to wait for her report
to see why he had not yet received a letter.
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STUDY SESSION AGENDA
Normally, no action is taken on Study Session items; however, the City Council reserves
I 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
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A. CITY COUNCIL:
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1. Receive report regarding recent community survey. (A. Howe) (Pg. 1 -5)
Allen Howe gave the report of the survey results. The survey was conducted between Feb
11 and Feb 13 and contact four Hundred citizens. This results in a statistical accuracy of
96 %. The survey tested a number of features but also tested the receptiveness of the
community to revenue increases. An increase in the UUT was tested and a parcel based
increase were tested. What it found was that 6 of 10 respondents knew of the State
Government has taken millions of dollars of funding from Cathedral City, including
1 Economic Development Dollars. 7 in 10 respondents responded there is a need for
additional funds to provide a level of services to provide to Cathedral City Residents. I
Approximately 2/3 or more, are strongly concerned about cuts to Public Safety. The
public is not ready at this time for a revenue measure. When the survey was conducted,
the surveyor, right off the bat would ask people their support for a revenue type
measure. Then the respondents received information about the budget situation, about why
the revenues were needed. Approximately 2/3 were struggling with cuts to public safety
services. However, despite that, four other kinds of budget remedies where brought
forward, and none of them were enough to be viable. The public was not ready at this time
for an additional revenue measure. The public was asked at the beginning of their support
of a revenue measure, then respondents received information about the budget situation,
why the revenues were needed and what they would go for. The Revenue measure is
tested again, to see how that influenced them and how they responded. The third step is to I
C O provide them with negative information, even with that, there was a feeling that we needed
to balance our budget and live within our existing means. The survey tested a 7% and a
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5% utility tax increase. There was no interest in a Utility measure. This is the time to
reach out to our public about our financial situation and how we can get their input and
resolve this issue. I would imagine that in April we will be having some Community
Outreach forums, or some workshops, in some format. I think what we can do from now to
then is to begin to put information on our web -site that addresses the problem. We have
developed community lists so that we can provide information out there, I know that
Finance Staff is working on Clear straightforward information that can get out and forward
of this problem. The begin to move to Public Workshops, Public Forums during the April
time frame. The issue is that the Public is aware of our needs and we just need to let them
get a stronger understanding of what the situation really is.
Council Member England - read the report and agree with Lew Edwards on how to do the
outreach.. Good time to talk about the budget and upwards of 7 Million dollars. Thankful
we are going to ask the community to be involved.
Council Member Toles - survey asked specific questions - Public Safety is now over 80%
of the budget. While the people understand that the State has taken the money away, while
they would like to see more support and wants to maintain the Public Safety, correct me if
I am wrong, the strong impression I am receiving, is they feel it paramount or of most
importance most, regardless of the number of Public Safety employees that would have to
be laid off in order to balance the budget, while they had high concerns did not motivate
them, as a community, they are telling us as a council, that we must balance our budget
without additional revenues and I think that at least myself and I am sure of my fellow
Council Members received this information loud and clear, and the the task at had is going
to be How do we do that? There is another important component, which is input from
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Applied Story Telling, In addition to cuts we must make sure that the business community
and the community at large understand, we are in business for business. Despite the
Challenges we must go forward, must engage, and continue our business development
because it is not just a matter of cuts, it is the matter of working with the business
community to grow, and get revenues without additional tax measures. Mr. Howe
} responded, that the respondents thought the city should be doing more to attract
businesses, and we should move ahead in our economic development. If you only
message is cuts, that is a difficult thing to do, attacking more businesses here in the city.
i We need to balance our message, this is reality of things we have to do. At the same time
we are trying to move forward and attack businesses.
Mayor DeRosa - I appreciate the opportunity to hear the voices from the people, input
from the public, and the opportunity to share making these decisions.
Mayor DeRosa added a few more comments. I appreciate the opportunity to hear from the
public, for often they feel we are not transparent enough. I also believe we need to have a
shared vision with the Public, they need to be part of - this is there community, this is their
building, this is their city, the government is the people that make up it up, to have their
voices hear at the beginning is very important, while it will be the five of us who will
make the ultimate decision, having their input on what they want. The Primary purpose
for the public outreach is to communicate to the public what the urgency is, and to hear
back from them as to what their need are, and bring us all together. I see that you have put
in here a couple of different locations that you would like to recommend. My concern
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with the two particular locations is that they are neighborhood specific rather than globally
specific. I don't want to get into neighborhood issues, this is a global community
situations. Rather to see us do James Workman, the Library or high school, something
more centralized. While we have done Cathedral City Elementary, turnout there has not
been good in part experiences. Allen is recommending the Aqua Calliente School and the
Cathedral City Elementary School, due to the large Hispanic community. My
recommendation would be St. Louis Church with it being more centralized and having a
very large Hispanic community. I recommend two public workshops and then a
workshop for the results. Mr. England wants to have three area meetings. Mayor DeRosa
wants to be more universal than site specific.
The City Manager interjected that what they were proposing to you, would to bring
forward a proposal of what the various cuts would look like. That package would address
all the different issues that we need to be taking into account. We understand the
discussion we had earlier about freezing on promotions or anything else, we would
certainly honor that. We would like to discuss that and many other things with you but
feel the next Council Meeting is the time to do that. We need to empathize that when we
talk about something in the order of 7 million dollars of cuts, that is a very, very
significant and drastic cut that would have to be maid, at the same time we are trying to
figure out to keep all the balls in the air, for reaching Council Goals, trying to be a
business friendly as possible, trying to have a "welcome" mat out for the business
community so that in particular not only cut our way out of this, but grow our way out.
Also how do we function internally with reduced limited resources that we have so we can
provide the most effective services to the community with the resources that we have. I
think it is fair to say, that whatever we are doing today and whatever your expectations are,
you and the community, we will not be able to meet them if we do go forward and make
these cuts. There is going to have to be a "reduced appetite" for things to be done, while at
the same time we try to figure out how to move the community forward in a positive way
with the resources that we have. We will try and bring this forward to you at the next
meeting, and address this in many different ways so that we will have an idea, a sense of
direction. This will not be a final budget proposal, it will be an idea of how we will
address this. That will lead to the public process that you are talking about now. To
including of the public participation. If all things do not come together as we may like, the
next year may put us in a deficit situation, having used all reserves.
Council Member Toles asked, if after this item, I would ask for ermission to leave, and be
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with my family.
Council Member England moved to move forward with public Participation meetings,
motion seconded by Council Member Pettis, motion carried with no objections.
2. Receive report on the current activities and accomplishments of the Coachella Valley
Economic Partnership and the Coachella Valley iHub and discussion about
financial support of the iHub program. (A. Hall) (Pg. 6 -8)
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Andy Hall gave a comprehensive report on this item (Which you may watch the entire
(.0 discussion on the Internet at WWW.Cathedralcitv.gov). After a long and detailed
discussion, and due to the situation that this item is on the Consent Agenda tonight, it was
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determined that the item be pulled from the Consent Calendar and be deferred to a future
Agenda, for further discussion, asking that the leaders of CV iHub President Tom Flavin,
and Joe Wallace, Managing of iHub, be available for an update on this subject.
3. Discussion of potential amendments to Special Use Permit process. (A. Hall) (Pg. 9 -20)
The Report was given by Andy Hall. Special Use Permits are a little like the pendulum on
a clock, we get into a mode where we are regulating them, then we decide that we are
over - regulating them, then we go back the other way. What we are trying to do is see if
there is some way to see if they can get a more predictable and efficient process of
reviewing and approving Special Use Permits. Mr. Hall followed with a long and
comprehensive report of Special Use Permits on Public Property, and on Private Property.
You may read the report and watch the report on line at www.cathedralcitv.gov . Mayor
DeRosa advised that Mr. Hall had hit on a number of things, and one of the things she
doesn't see is a fee schedule, so she doesn't know what that looks like. This is a long time
coming, we needed to update it, which is great. You spoke about a conflict in the writing
here of 14 days vs. 60 days, you went on to explain it a little bit, you don't quantify what
advance planning is, so what is enough? Are there any exceptions? How hard and fast are
these time lines, because right now we have a time line, these are things that just have
come up, you talk about private security companies, will there be a list of them, or will it
be anybody that they choose, to whom are they acceptable? Who sets the standard, I
would rather see us either provide a list of 1/2 dozen, or a dozen, where our police
department authorized companies that they can work with, or they just have to use
Cathedral City police. It is too ambiguous. The deposit will be returned makes perfect
sense, but there again, who will determine whether the property is put back in condition
that we expect it? There are a lot of ambiguities in here, I guess is my concern, between
the different time lines and these others. Fees to be determined by Resolution of City
Council. Is this a case by case basis, is this just going to be a fee schedule attached? Mr.
Hall responded that they would go thru each of the nine usages that have been allowed on
private property, then we would seek an amendment of the actual fee schedule. The
reduced fee schedule for ongoing events. If Organization A continues to do events and
does them well, I get a reduced fee schedule, but if Organization A has somebody come in
who is organizing it, you are not working with the same body of people so you don't know
what the organization is going to be doing, that statement seems to not offer any criteria, if
there is a new director or staff, or if there are new people, you may have them dealing with
things in a new way. I look forward to this coming back, I look forward for a fee schedule,
some additional information. Mr. Hall said that this all effects the Police, Fire, and Lynn
with her work as the events coordinator, he had not yet asked for any input from these
three groups. Lynn Mallotto advised that with regard to your time line, many instances if
it is a large event, that may involve ABC, State Board of Equalization, or the County
Health Department which enforces the State Health Code, they are requesting 30 days,
because they to have had significant reductions in staffing, and have little time to process.
That is the reason for the 60 days. We can generally work within 30 days but we really are
pumping it out. And we need to be able to submit not only enough notice to those
agencies, but request our Special Use Permit to review the documentation, so it has to be a
complete permit. Mayor responded that she did not care what the time line was, my
concern is, if we set a time line, will we live withing it? There are always exceptions to
�r the rule. Lt. Moss do you have anything you wanted to ad? Lt. Moss responded that it had
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Co been covered and that this was a Study Session and we could talk about it with Andy as we
do our due process. Council Member Vasquez said as far as the security goes, I don't
think it is appropriate to list preferred security companies, I don't feel this is our business
to list business this way, second, we have reoccurring events that there are two at Town
Square and one at Patriot Park. Those events don't use either a recognized security
company, or our city police department. They have all successfully used volunteer
security. Council Member Pettis advised that a couple comments and again for the
audience. Mayor Pro Tem Vasquez and I have been a sub - committee working on this
issue with staff. And I think what staff has come up with is a huge improvement over
what we have had. But keep the over reaching goal of this is to cut the regulations. We
have over regulated our special events here so that the public and
community organizations here choose not to have events in Cathedral City because as it is
just too difficult. Two of the three events that we have are produced by church groups
who have large bases of volunteers, and the other is put on by Rotary, that again, can pull
large numbers of volunteers from around the valley to do the events. Our smaller groups
just can't do it. Then we are charging them $600 for the privilege of finding out they can't
do it. We need to encourage, especially when we are beginning to cut back on our
donations to groups so that the boxing club can have events when they want them, the
Boys & Girls club can have events outside of their own four walls, and encourage that.
Our Town Square needs to be open to these events. In the goal of cutting back on
regulations, we have to give that leeway to the City Manager, so that he can make some of
those determinations so he has some leeway, and not have so much in black and white so
there is no wiggle room for staff to make these judgment calls. Things will come up and
Co something will happen like it is 31 days or 29 days and "you didn't make it" when we all
know that we could probably make the thing happen. We need to empower some of the
staff to do these things. We have been doing the Rotary event six years, and we are still
charging Rotary $600 even though that the staff just now knows everything that has to go
on. Is that a good use of money, or should they be able to buy more flags with that? With
regard to the security, you can probably say, if the Police Department finds a need for
private security, that it should be a license security company. We should try not to
straight-jacket ourselves when making these regulations. I am really glad to have 2 weeks
or even a month to go thru this with a fine tooth comb to make sure that we have done the
kinds of things, that when we put this in place, it is something we can all live with.
4. City Council /Staff reports and inquiries of new or ongoing projects.
One is, Bill are you or Andy going to give an update on Ramon road? Andy Hall returned
to the podium to give the update, advising that we were one step closer to getting Ramon
Road constructed. It has left the state and has moved up to Federal High -ways, Federal
High -ways does want us to make one more modification top our plans before we go out to
RFP's and that is that, in the past you could include the local pouring of the water valves,
finish the rest of the project, and bring the valves up to the surface and then put on the
concrete collars and finish the surface. Current Federal Regulations do not allow that, and
so we have to inform the, in this project, the Coachella Water Project that will be their
responsibility and we are in the process of doing that, but we are moving forward, and
usually is faster than the CalTrans.
Mayor DeRosa had one more queswtion about the ICSC materials, asking if we are
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updating those items? Mr. Hall responded that both Lisa and Allen were working on that.
RECESS
Mayor DeRosa hearing no one else wishing to speak, recessed the Study Session portion
of the meeting at 6:46 p.m. and advised that we would go immediately to the Evening
portion of the Meeting immediately.
SPECIAL MEETING OF THE CITY COUNCIL AND THE CITY COUNCIL SERVING
AS THE SUCCESSOR AGENCY TO THE REDEVELOPMENT AGENCY BOARD AND
AS THE LOCAL BOARD OF SPECIAL DISTRICT CATHEDRAL CITY CS ZONE B
Council Chamber -- Third Floor of City Hall, 68700 Avenida Lalo Guerrero, Cathedral
City, CA 92234
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WEDNESDAY, MARCH 7, 2012 - 6:30 p.m.
CALL TO ORDER
Mayor DeRosa called the evening portion of the Special Meetin to Order at 6:47 p.m.
PRESENTATIONS AND PROCLAMATIONS
CLOSED SESSION ANNOUNCEMENTS
City Attorney Green advised there was one reportable actions from the Closed Session this
afternoon. On Closed Session Item 6, (an existing litigation matter entitled City of
Cathedral City v. Rio Vista Land payment to the City of Cathedral City, Council
previously approved a settlement with the main defendant, Traveler's Insurance, for a
payment to the City of $350,000. Tonight, the Council approved, as a follow -up action,
the dismissal of the City's cross - complaint against two individual cross - defendants whose
financial situations, in one case an existing bankruptcy and in the other a likely bankruptcy
filing, make further recovery highly problematic and not worth the future expenditure of
attorney's fees. The Action approving the dismissal of the cross - complaint was made by
Council Member Pettis, motion was seconded by Council Member Toles. Motion carried
4 -0 with Council Member England being absent.
PUBLIC COMMENTS
Paul Marchand - Cathedral City - Those of us that are in - part of family - condolence to
Council Member toles (2 at 7 days) I hope you will convey to him. I do feel his pain.
Lt. Hanlon - I worked closely with the Lt and so has my mother who is here this evening
and on their loss.
Jens Mueller - Cathedral City - good new abut CVWD - make cler that the city is not
going to foreclose on our neighbors, I urge the council to pass 5 year ext.
Mayor DeRosa closed Public Comments and advised there was only one change to the
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C o Agenda, Council will Pull Consent Item 1 and it will be brought back at a later meeting.
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 Consent 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, Successor Agency Board,
and /or CS Zone B Local Board 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; 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.
AGENDA FINALIZATION
At this time, the City Council may announce any items being pulled from the agenda or
continued to another date.
C O URGENCY ITEMS
Urgency Items ( "Added Starters "): The Brown Act, which governs public meetings,
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 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 Pettis - I joined staff with the Bank of America - community event to talk
about Bank of America - funds for homeowners for sewer. More information coming with
a solution. Also met with representative of the square mile. They want to get on the
sewers. Last Saturday town home meeting at TramView mobile home park close to 200
people . Council Member Toles and Chamber of Commerce. Potential dog park in the
cove. Scheduling that for a commission meeting.
Upcoming Date Palm CC Saturday March 17 pancake breakfast for Public Safety
March 24th CCHS West Side Story. 60 kids participating.
Vasquez and England declined.
Mayor DeRosa - AYSO Championship games will be taking place at the Dennis Keat
Soccer Park. Saturday is Relay for Life at Cathedral City High School. Last evening I
attended the Elks Lodge, they had a youth appreciation night, a number of scholarships
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were issued. Hoop shoot contest winners, Essay contest winners as well as scholarship
program winners. The Elks and Boys and Girls clubs have partnered to give the youth of
our community an opportunity to partake in some of these activities. They couldn't take
part otherwise because we have no Parks & Recreation department. Mayor read the kids
names into the record (see /hear on www.cathedralcitv.gov). We are all proud of these kids
and wish to congratulate them all The Cathedral City Choir under the direction of Mae
LeRoy,and you know they are on their way to perform at Lincoln Center at the end of the ¢¢
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month, they have also made the cut at the audition for the McCallum open call this year. @ @@
That is something that we are all so proud of. Three Cathedral City High School Students
are recipients this year of awards Through Earth, a photo lens project. They will be
recognized and celebrated on Earth Day which is April 21st. This will be at the Rancho
Mirage Library. Also, with Council Member Pettis I attended the Boys & Girls Club
Youth event. the Youth of the Year, I would like to congratulate Angelica Cardona, as well
as all who were recognized that evening. Also had opportunity to b at Agua Caliente the
other day, with Principal Median as they were celebrating their $100,000 grant from
Target, they have done a video for Ellen DeGeneres. Our staff has been working with one
of our consultants and we forwarded that video on to Ellen DeGeneres Show, thanking her
in appreciation for those funds. Hopefully we will be able to leverage that in some
fashion. Also had the opportunity to be at the Cathedral City Elementary School. It was
Dr. Seuss Birthday and I got to read to a first grade class, it was more fun than an y six
people should have, they were absolutely hysterical. I would encourage everybody to
participate in an elementary school reading program, it is a lot of fun. To our Jewish
Community, today is the beginning of Purim, I wish them a Happy Holiday. (Purim is a
festive Jewish holiday that celebrates the deliverance of the Jews from their enemies in the
biblical Book of Esther).
COMMITTEE ASSIGNMENTS
MINUTES 1
Approval of minutes from City Council Meeting for Wednesday, February 22, 2012.
As submittrd
CONSENT AGENDA
All matters on the Consent Agenda 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 consent
agenda. However, Council Members will not discuss individual items among themselves
unless those items are pulled off the Consent Agenda by a Council Member.
A. CITY COUNCIL:
1. COUNCIL. Approve payment in the amount of $25,000 to the Coachella Valley
Economic Partnership for Cathedral City ?s share of iHub funding. (A. Hall) Item 1 was
pulled from the Consent Agenda to be heard at a later date.
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COUNCIL. Adopted Resolution No. 2012 -158, accepting the offer of dedication of Lot
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Clo "I" in Sunair Tract No. 3 as a public right of way and declaring the accepted lot to be a
public alley, located in the block on the south side of East Palm Canyon Drive,
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between Bankside Drive and Melrose Drive (A. Hall) (Pg. 1 -5)
3. COUNCIL. Authorized the City Engineer to issue request for proposals for the design
of street improvements to widen East Palm Canyon Drive between Perez Road
and Canyon Plaza Drive, by M.O. 4954. (B. Simons) (Pg. 6 -7)
4. COUNCIL. a). Adopted Resolution No. 2012 -157 approving Program Supplemental
Agreement No. 014 -N to administering Agency -State Agreement for Federal Aid
Project No. 08 -543R between the City of Cathedral City and the State of California,
acting through the Department of Transportation (Caltrans), for the purpose of
administering and disbursement of federal funds for the construction of street
improvements including roadway widening on East Palm Canyon Dr., east of Canyon
Plaza Dr., to west of Perez Rd.; and b). Authorized the City Engineer to sign Program
Supplemental Agreement No. 014 -N on behalf of the Cathedral City City Council by
M.O. # 4955. (B. Simons) (Pg. 8 -16)
5. COUNCIL. Second Reading and adoption of Ordinance No. 708 of the City Council of 1
the City of Cathedral City establishing Designated Level 1 Police Reserve Officers.
(K. Conner) (Pg. 17 -20)
6. COUNCIL. Second Reading and adoption of Ordinance 709 of the City Council of the
City of Cathedral City to amend Municipal Code Title 13, "Code Enforcement
and Remedies" to remove the time limit on Hearings for Administrative Appeals. (C.
Green) (Pg. 21 -24)
7. COUNCIL. Second Reading and adoption of Ordinance 710 of the City Council of the
City of Cathedral City to amend Municipal Code Title 13, "Code Enforcement
and Remedies" to declare all municipal code violations to be public nuisances. (C.
Green) (Pg. 25 -27)
8. COUNCIL. Receive report of intended travel from Mayor DeRosa for a) 2012
ICSC Global RECon, May 20 -23, 2012, Las Vegas, NV; and b) LOCC Housing,
Community & Economic Development Policy Committee, Friday, June 15, 2012,
Sacramento, CA.
9. COUNCIL. Receive report of intended travel from Council Member Pettis for a). 2012
ICSC Global RECon, May 20 -23, 2012, Las Vegas, NV b) Cities Counties School
(CCS) Partnership Board Meeting, March 22, 2012, Sacramento, CA (trip funded by
SCAG & LOCC); and c). 2012 LOCC Legislative Action Days, Wednesday, April 25 -27,
2012 (trip funded by LOCC).
A. CITY COUNCIL SERVING AS THE LOCAL BOARD OF SPECIAL DISTRICT
CATHEDRAL CITY CS ZONE B
10.
COUNCIL. Appoint Board Member Bud England to serve as an Alternate for Board
Member Greg Pettis, as a representative of the Local Board of Special District Cathedral
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City CS Zone B, on the Oversight Board related to the dissolution of the Redevelopment
Agency of Cathedral City Pursuant to ABX1 26 by M.O. 4956. (D. Bradley)
Council/Board Member England moved MOTION FOR CONSENT AGENDA - Council
Member England Moved approval of Consent Items 2-9 and also Item 10, (Which is on the
Agenda as City Council serving as the local Board of Special District Cathedral City CS Zone
B) motion seconded by Council Member Pettis, motion carried 4-0-1, with Mr. Toles
having departed the meeting early. Motion seconded by Council/Board Member Pettis,
motion carried 4 - 0.
PUBLIC HEARINGS
NONE
LEGISLATIVE ACTION
NONE
COUNCIL REPORTS ON CITIZEN INQUIRIES AND CONCERNS
Council Member Pettis asked the Police Chief at the last meeting for a report on the New
Alarm Ordinance, he had doped that we would have that tonight, but if Lt. Moss could find
out when that will be coming back to the Council, please.
ADJOURNMENT
Seeing no further business to come before the City Council Mayor DeRosa adjourned the
meeting at 7:05 p.m.
NOTES TO THE PUBLIC
Due to Special Meeting of the City Council, Wednesday, March 7, 2012, the regularly
scheduled meeting of the City Council scheduled for Wednesday, March 14, 2012 is hereby
canceled.
The next regularly scheduled meeting of the City Council is scheduled for WEDNESDAY,
MARCH 28, 2012
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City Clerk
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