CITY OF
CITY COUNCIL AGENDA
Regular City Council Meeting
December 11, 2007
City Council Chambers – Town Hall
No Closed Session
Scheduled
6:30 P.M. Council
Reception
7:00 P.M. Open Session
6:30
P.M. Council Reception
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7:00 P.M. OPEN SESSION
1.
CALL
TO ORDER & PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE TO THE FLAG
The Pledge of Allegiance
to the Flag will be led by Boy Scout Pack 406.
2. ROLL CALL: Acuna, Borelli,
Colvin, Hagen, Rivas
3. ANNOUNCEMENTS
TO THE PUBLIC
3.1
Highway 50 Operational Improvement
Report (Mr. Restaino)
Mic Restaino,
CalTrans Senior Resident Engineer, will update the Council on the various
aspects of the Highway 50 Operational Improvement Project.
4. CLOSED
SESSION REPORT – City Attorney Driscoll
5. ADOPTION
OF AGENDA
6. CEREMONIAL
MATTERS
6.1
Motion for the City Council to Adjourn
the Meeting Sine-Die, and Appoint the City Manager as Temporary Chairperson
Recommendation to adjourn the meeting Sine-Die and to appoint the City
Manager/Attorney as Temporary Chairperson.
The Mayor will then pass the gavel to the City Manager/Attorney. At this time, the City Manager/Attorney will
call the meeting to order and request nominations from the Council for the
election of Mayor. Any Councilmember may
make a nomination, and a second. A voice
vote will be taken. Following a majority
vote by the Council, the City Manager/Attorney will pass the gavel to the newly
elected Mayor who will call for nominations for Vice-Mayor.
6.2
The Mayor Calls for Nominations for
Vice-Mayor
The newly elected Mayor will call for a motion and a second to nominate
candidate(s) within the Council for the position of Vice-Mayor. Following a majority vote for the election of
Vice-Mayor, the regular order of business will resume.
7. PUBLIC
COMMENT – BRIEF – NON-AGENDA ITEMS
This portion of the meeting is reserved for persons
wishing to address the Council on any matter not on the Agenda that is
within the subject matter jurisdiction of the City Council. State law prohibits the Council from acting on items not listed on
the Agenda except by special action of the City Council under specified
circumstances. The Mayor reserves the right
to limit the speaker’s time to three minutes.
The Mayor will recognize you and when you come to the microphone, please
state your name for the record. You are
not allowed to make personal attacks on individuals or make comments which are
slanderous or which may invade an individual’s personal privacy.
7.1
Oral Communication
Speakers are limited to three minutes. State law prohibits the Council from acting on items not listed on the Agenda except by special action of the City Council under specified circumstances.
PLEASE GIVE ANY WRITTEN MATERIAL PRESENTED AT THE MEETING TO THE CITY CLERK FOR THE PUBLIC RECORD.
7.2 Written Communication
8. CONSENT
CALENDAR
NOTE:
All matters listed under the Consent Calendar are considered routine and
will be enacted by one motion by roll call vote unless any member of the
Council or audience wishes to remove an item for discussion. The reading of the full text of all
Resolutions will be waived unless a Councilmember requests otherwise.
8.1
Minutes
of the Regular City Council Meeting of November 27, 2007 (Ms. Zito)
Recommendation to approve the Minutes of the
regularly scheduled City Council meeting of November 27, 2007.
8.2
Warrant Register (Mr. Warren)
Recommendation by the Director of Finance to approve the Warrant Register.
8.3 Payroll Register (Mr. Warren)
Recommendation by the Director of Finance to approve the Payroll Register.
8.4 Measure
J Quarterly Financial Report (Mr. Warren)
Recommendation by the Director of Finance that the
City Council acknowledge and file the Measure J quarterly financial report for
the period ending September 30, 2007.
8.5 Ellis
& Associates Agreement (Mr. Youel)
Resolution No.
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Recommendation by the Director of Community Services
that the City Council adopt a Resolution authorizing the Director of Community
Services to execute an agreement between the City of Placerville and Jeff Ellis
& Associates, Inc., to participate in the Comprehensive Aquatic Risk
Management Program.
8.6 Resolution
Adopting a Continuing Budget Appropropriation for the Sewer Enterprise Fund
(Mr. Warren)
Resolution No.
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Recommendation by the Director of Finance that the
City Council adopt a Resolution authorizing interim operating expenditure
controls for the period of January 1 through March 21, 2008 for the Sewer
8.7 Award
of Contract – Benham Park Basketball Court Resurfacing (Mr. Youel)
Resolution No.
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Recommendation by the Director of Community Services
that the City Council adopt a Resolution awarding a contract to Van’s Paving
& Grading, Inc., in the amount of $7,147.80, to resurface the basketball
court play surface at Benham Park, and further, to authorize the Director of
Community Services to execute the proposal provided by Van’s Paving and
Grading, Inc.
8.8
Authorize
the Mayor to Request an Extension for the
Safe
Routes to School (Mr. Tippett)
Resolution No.
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Recommendation by the City Engineer for the City
Council to adopt a Resolution authorizing the Mayor to execute a request for an
extension of the project deadline to the Cooperative Work Agreement, (CWA)
funding the Safe Routes to School Grant (
8.9 City Manager/Attorney Contract
Resolution No.
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Pursuant to the Council’s direction, attorney Bill
Wright has prepared an Employment Agreement for City Manager/City Attorney
services. (No staff report attached)
Resolution No. ______ Resolution No. ______
Recommendation by the City Manager and Director of
Public Works that the City Council adopt Resolutions for the following action:
1.
Authorizing the submittal of a Transportation Enhancement
(TE) Application to the El Dorado County Transportation Commission (EDCTC) for
the purpose of obtaining a $185,000 grant for El Dorado Trail improvements,
Clay Street to Bedford Street; and
2.
Authorizing the filing of a TE application in the
amount of $10, 242.68 for streetlights as part of the Hwy. 50 Operation
Improvements (Hwy. 50 Ops) Project.
9. ITEMS PULLED FROM THE
CONSENT CALENDAR
10. ORDINANCES
10.1 First
Reading of an Ordinance Amending Municipal Code
Ordinance
No. ________ Resolution
No. _______
Recommendation by the
City Clerk that the City Council take the following action:
1. Adopt
a Resolution incorporating the City Council legislation established in
Resolution No. 5902 (Recreation & Parks Commission), and Resolution 5929
(Community Pride Committee), and adopting a Committee, Commission and Board Policy
Manual, outlining in one comprehensive document, the efficient operation and
legally required issues relating to the City’s committees, commissions and
boards; and
2. Introduce
an Ordinance amending City Municipal Code
2-2-4, relating to terms
of office for Planning Commissioners to confirm the Council’s action taken on
March 27, 2007; and
3. Waive the First
11. PUBLIC
HEARINGS
11.1
Stancil/Dover
Project – Findings for Denial (Mr. Calfee)
City Council directed
staff to prepare Findings for Denial of the project consistent with the City
Council’s deliberations on November 27, 2007.
11.2
General
Plan Amendment/Zone Change/Site Plan Review/ and Boundary Line Adjustment (Wagener) (Mr. Calfee)
Recommendation by the
Director of Community Development that the City Council, based on a unanimous
(5-0) vote by the Planning Commission, take the following action:
1. Find that it can be seen with certainty
that there is no possibility that the project may have an impact on the environment
and therefore the project is exempt from the
2. Approve the General Plan Amendment 06-01;
3. Approve Zone Change 06-01;
4. Approve Tentative Parcel Map 06-06 (Boundary Line
Adjustment)
5. Approve Site Plan Review 06-06 for the
construction of one two unit multi-family dwelling, parking, landscaping and
exterior lighting with the findings and Conditions of Approval stated herein;
and
6. Add conditions 29 through 32, listed on
page 15 of the staff report.
12. DISCUSSION/ACTION
ITEMS
12.1
Authorize
Staff to Proceed with Appraisals and Designate Universal Field Services to
Conduct the Appraisals and Act as Negotiating Agent for Purchase of
Right-of-Way at Blairs Lane Bridge at Hangtown Creek (CIP 40604) (Mr. Tippett)
Recommendation by the
City Engineer that the City Council authorize staff to proceed with appraisals
for the Blairs Lane Bridge Project at Hangtown Creek and to designate Universal
Field Services as the agent authorized conduct the appraisals and act as the
City’s negotiating agent.
13.
COUNCILMEMBERS REPORTS/ITEMS INITIATED
BY
COUNCILMEMBERS
14. STAFF
REPORTS
14.1
15. UPCOMING
ITEMS
16.
ADJOURNMENT
The
next Regular Council meeting will be held on January 8, 2008: 6:00 P.M. Closed
Session; 7:00 P.M. Regular Session.
City Clerk
I, Susan C.
Zito, CMC, City Clerk of the City of
Declare that
the foregoing Agenda for the December 11, 2007
Regular
Meeting of the
Was posted
and available for review on December 7, 2007
At the City
Hall of the City of
The Agenda is
also available on the City website at
Signed this seventh
day of December, 2007 at
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Susan C.
Zito, CMC, City Clerk