I'm calling the regular meeting of the laab height
City I'm hello we're calling to order the regular
meeting of the laab height city council August 12
2004 Mr PPA here Mr Bergman here Mr ly here Mr
coula here and anglehart is here C Howen would you lead us in the flag
salute
please Al to the flag of the United States of America to The Republic stands
one nation under God indivisible with liy and justice for all
at this point we're going to
advance two items items 15 and 16 these both deal with our trash
service which is very very important and affects every single person in the
Heights and before this I start I just want to um say that Brian Bergman and
Dennis lar spent a great deal of time on on this and uh we're residents we're
trying to do a good job they have really uh worked on this and so we'll go first
with item 15
Mr thank you FD thank you mayor I just want to introduce um our special City
Attorney Patrick Munos this grace is working thank you uh
can you hear that better there we can hear a little better now that's a little
better now all right thank you mayor and council members um we have been uh going
through a couple of items here related to the hauling of refuges um in the city
uh we have been working with our city attorney's office ran and Tucker um
we're very fortunate through their offices to have uh Patrick Munos with us
um who is an expert in the field and he'll be talking a little bit about the
items tonight thank you uh good evening Miss
mayor and members of the council uh the the first item on your uh uh Advanced
agenda item number 15 deals with um the balance of your uh Solid Waste agreement
with Republic Services uh the as set forth in the
staff report the uh agreement with Republic expired in May of
2022 uh we've been uh operating on a uh extension since that time the extensions
expired and we went to a month-to-month uh service with them
uh they have agreed to continue to provide services until October 1st uh
one of the conditions of their agreeing to do so was to have um what we refer to
as an extraordinary cost adjustment this year instead of the standard uh CPI
increase they asked for a 10% increase to cover uh some of the costs that
they're incurring that were not uh covered under the terms of the agreement
so in essence what we're asking for on item 15 is a motion to ratify by uh a
10% uh increase to the rates that Republic uh would be otherwise charging
between July 1 and October
1st are there any questions of Mr
Munoz is there any public
comment I return it to the council may I have a motion I'll make a motion to move
approval on item 15 for the 10% rate increase it'll just take them through
October 1st of this year second Mr Zula yes Mr PPA yes Mr lar yes
Mr Bergman yes and I'm a yes item
16 going forward thank you mayor and Council U
this item is dealing with moving forward with Trash Services uh in the har
Heights um we have been gone through an extensive process um with a subcommittee
from City Council made up of council members um larity and Bergman who worked
with staff and Mr Munoz to go through a very ex extensive and exhaustive process
related to um a new agreement with a new trash hauler that will come in and
provide Refuge services for the city and then I'll hand it over to Mr Munos and
he can give you kind of a quick summary as to where where we were and where
we've made it to thank you again
um uh as um Mr uh wridge indicated the uh Council subcommittee along with staff
and our office went through a process where we started Cons with consideration
of six companies narrowed that down to three companies that we received
proposals from um of the um three proposals uh where
disposal Incorporated uh ultimately was determined to to have not only
objectively the most competitive price uh proposal but the committee felt as
though it provided the best value uh an overall uh service propos that was being
proposed um the staff report provides a high level summary and I I won't just
repeat what's in there but I think it's important to bear in mind that the staff
report is just a summary and that we'll be bringing back a uh an extensive
franchise agreement um that will have all of the deal points uh spelled out
and nailed down I think residents should uh know that um this might be um a gross
generalization but if it's if there's a service that's currently being provided
by Republic it will also be provided um in the new franchise with wear disposal
so things like um Christmas tree recycling quarterly cleanups uh bulky
item service things along those lines that were not touched upon in the staff
report that currently exist will continue to exist the difference uh in
my view is going to be a much more um economical uh Service uh that's being
provided um there for instance will no longer be charges for burough Services
uh for streets that are difficult for standard-sized trash trucks to navigate
um uh there are some residents that are the top of steep driveways that need
what's referred to in the industry as Scout Service uh we're going to Pro
provide a provision that will allow for sharing of the cost for scout Services
uh for um residents that are clustered at the top of a of a steep driveway uh
as I was describing um there's a provision that was proposed that after
the first 90 days where we'll uh come back with a proposal to figure out how
to save residents more money if there are Services being provided that aren't
as efficient as they could be if there's other services that could be provided
that would result in cost savings that's something that we'll be re-evaluating
after the first 90 days um where we'll be providing uh all of the services that
the city needs under a new state law known as s SP 1383 it's a very
significant uh um benefit that the city will be receiving there are very um
specific and detailed reporting requirements um requirements for
monitoring uh waste that's disposed of in the very ious containers that will be
uh placed out for residents to use uh route auditing requirements a lot of
expense involved in all that that where will be taking on for the city and while
the city does have a waiver for SP sp1 1383 for the next couple of years that
waiver will expire and so we'll be well positioned to be in compliance with the
law at that time and understand that there's a $10,000 a day potential
penalty if the city's not in compliance so um I think the proposal you have uh
will have a a very significant benefit uh from from a legal compliance
standpoint um those are the highlights of the contract I'm and the proposal I'm
very happy to answer questions if anybody has
any are there any questions of Mr
Munoz I have a couple of questions sure all right so um I know this is in the
staff report but for the people so what will be the base cost for the typical
residents if the base cost will be $32 .98 a month um and as I mentioned in my
opening comments uh there's a lot of uh residents who receive something called
burrow service right now uh the burough service will be eliminated so anybody
that's paying both the base cost for Republic plus a burough service charge
going forward will only pay the base uh service charge which is the 32.98
correct and then if you have a long driveway or uh the trash is picked up at
at your house instead of at the street right how
is that so that's referred to as carry out service or sometimes as Scout
Service uh the charge for that is an additional $54 in change I apologize I
don't remember the exact number 5444 if I remember correctly um and as I
mentioned if there are a number of Neighbors at the end of that same
driveway they'll be able to share that $54 um on a prata
basis and the um where will be providing the same 96
gallon three containers that we have now that's
correct you'll have one container for refuse one for recyclables and one for
um organic waste or green waste the one exception is that wear has offered a 10%
discount uh to seniors or disabled customers uh who aren't generating as
much waste and can use smaller size containers and then you you did indicate
that you reached out several different haulers were contacted by I guess you or
the committee and one of those was Republic
and for the longtime residence one was hallay hallay and Republic both
indicated that they were not interested in um participating in this process and
then the ones you did speak with um they submitted competitive sealed bids or
whatever however that worked it it wasn't a super formal process um with
sealed bids and that sort of thing although we tried to keep them
confidential just to keep the process Fair um so we we received three
different proposals one from Edco disposal one from Valley Vista services
and one from we disposal Inc um they all had um strengths uh that we had to
compare with each other or against each other I should say to determine what
what the committee felt was the best value from a price standpoint as I
mentioned the wear proposal was clearly you know the the lower number and then
as we went through and talked about the type of equipment that would be used um
the customer service Provisions the transition services that would have to
occur the committee felt comfortable that we provided both the the lowest
price and the best
value that's all the questions I have at this point
I do have a card from Mr we so I guess I'll open it to public comment unless oh
does anybody else in the council have questions Mr P I'm sorry Mr where Mr
PPA so um on I was reading through staff notes and also the agreement
um and you mentioned the the Scout service which is kind of the service
where um if you want our I think you call maybe valet service which is where
if you don't want to bring your trash cans out they'll come up and get them
um we in here notice there's a senior disabled option for that so there's um
two different things we're talking about here valet service refers to if you keep
your trash cans in your backyard behind a gate right um then the huler will go
behind the gate get the trash cans and bring them out to the place where
they're disposed of and that would apply whether uh your residence is structured
or or situated to where you could put your your uh carts out on the curb or if
you're at the end of one of those long driveways so for those um residents in
need where has offered to provide that valet service at no charge Scout service
is unique to very very long driveways steep driveways unusual circumstances
where the curb is not being used as the as the I just want to confirm the valet
service will be at no charge that's correct and where will determine whether
or not I mean it'll an objective standard
got it people who
qualify thank you are there any other questions did the two members of the
committee wish to say anything at this point or we'll
invite Mr wear to come up I just I'll comment a little bit uh I
thought the process went extremely well and it was uh you know we worked as a
team and inter interviewed as a team and asked a lot of questions and it uh it
was uh really good to get all the information from the
haulers and I thought it worked uh very well we got a very good process with the
whole thing and we were able to uh really crunch the numbers and look at uh
what worked and what didn't work in the past and we're doing whatever we can to
make this transition this fall as seamless as Pro possible
Mr wear is here from the company and uh he he understands that uh we had some
issues with the transition in the past and that uh we're going to work real
hard to make this happen and so it's eliminate any pain supposedly for all
the residents uh when that occurs but Mr wear can speak to that when he comes up
but I thought it went very well and want to thank all the team members
yeah I understand that this was the first uh process of looking at trash
haulers with the assistance of uh an attorney who specializes in
trash this this aspect of trash and uh it really to me added an important
Dimension that uh would have been missing otherwise uh especially in
regards to customer service I think there was uh considerable time spent on
customer service uh not as an afterthought but as the
discussions went on with all three haulers uh really focusing on customer
service and the responses uh from where people uh really spoke to that in a very
favorable way in a way that uh it seemed that there was considerable sensitivity
to the needs of our community uh but also uh knowing that Mr Munoz is
available uh down the road uh to uh take any comments that we might have as a
council or needs in the community to uh speak to customer service if there's any
complications any difficulties uh that uh he he's there and uh available to us
and I I just think that that to me firms up any agreement uh firms up the offer
of customer service uh that it it certainly will come through and I guess
I certainly don't have any question about that happening on the basis of the
discussion on the basis of Mr munoz's involvement and just uh where we are
today with with where and I think it's a great
decision okay Mr
wear perhaps you could give us just a tiny bit of the background of your
company and then whatever you'd like to present
absolutely absolutely uh Madame mayor council
members my name is Jay wear I'm the general manager of we disposal I uh
stand in Fr you tonight thanking you for your consideration uh and thanking the
committee for its recommendation uh my company is uh
started by my parents in 1968 uh we are a full Solid Waste
Service Company we have uh over 250 trucks operating in the Southern
California area um across San Diego Los Angeles and Orange County um we are
looking forward to providing uh the services uh to the city and as you've
heard tonight the committee was very much focused on uh community service and
customer service and those are my biggest um uh focuses for your city one
transitioning out the city in a smooth and effortless uh and seamless
transition and secondly to make sure that your city is serviced my customer
service team along with my operations team who I have here tonight actually I
have Mr Manny Gonzalez and I have also miss Leah Ding and ranr all very much uh
prepared to uh involve and invest theirselves um fully to customer
services within this city um and with that said uh I believe that I can answer
any of your questions if you have any I guess it's a little unusual but
are there any questions Mr we by any of the council
members no I guess not fantastic thank you look forward to your consideration
thank Youk you and your team for coming well we'll close the hearing
then may I have a
motion is there any additional public comment I thought I asked I'm
sorry all right back back to the council then is May I have a
motion I'll make a motion to select uh where disposal to enter into a new
franchise agreement for collection and processing a solid waste including
compliance with the state mandated organic Recycling and related
services and direct the City attorney to prepare a franchise agreement for a
10-year period beginning October 1st 2024 with the option of two one-year
extensions and return to the council for its uh approval of such
franchise a second is there any
discussion um just briefly I just want to basically thank uh the uh uh Dennis
and Brian for their hard work on this they address a number of my concerns I
had with the uh current uh uh waste huler and I appreciate it especially
your concentration on the fact that we have responsibility to to do our best
for the for the uh residents not simply for the city as a whole but for the
residents individually thank you very
much okay U Mr Bergman yes Mr larity yes Mr PPA yes Mr
Zuli yes and Englehart is a yes thank you Mr Munoz and thank you Mr
wear okay back to our normal procedure public comment I have
one card from Rick
Brooks good
evening Brooks Skyline Drive um I want to start by thanking the volunteers that
came out a couple of weeks ago and helped pick up trash I really appreciate
that there are other people in the community that actually care about what
our city looks like I also want to thank Rafferty and Josh and Al and Grace uh
for doing traffic control and making it safe um it was pretty Harry up at the
top of skyline and they did a good job making it
safe um I was a little concerned because I someone said that they heard a comment
from mayor Englehart that said if we do this again we don't need City staff we
can just put out signs and that should be good enough unfortunately that just
kind of shows me how out of touch you are and you know when it comes to
employees safety should always come first and volunteers should be treated
like employees um Mr City attorney I think
you need to explain to the city council and to Mayor Englehart that she's not
the CEO of the city and that she can't just go into City Hall and bark orders
the chain of command is and should be that city council makes decisions that
Council decision gives direction to city manager and the staff works for city
manager not for any particular city council member and you know we're going
to end up having staff quit or file more lawsuits against the city because you
know the chain of command is broken it's been a year at least since
the last city manager left and I've seen the intern sign inim sign for Rafferty
that's just absolutely Ely horrible Management on the part of the city
council either hire a city manager or make him the city manager but to string
the poor guy out for a year really I mean he's afraid to make a decision
because maybe he won't get the promotion Step Up do your job okay it
it's just it's just so disturbing that takes a year and I don't want to hear
excuses oh we can't afford a city manager um
rapidy I you know would like you to please contact 672 Greenview and tell
them their time is up um that property has been on the hit list for code
enforcement for going on 15 years and the pre or the owners now have owned it
for 14 years and they're doing nothing with it that property is going nowhere
it's an isore and Mr ster is running for city council now so that he could get
rid of that iord living next to him because he couldn't do it for eight
years while he was on the Planning Commission so I think their time is up
they're behind on their taxes they're not going to do anything let's just move
on the city has two lawsuits that I know of because of mismanagement by city
council and the city previous city manager having a relationship with an
employee well I find the same thing disturbing that Brian you know Bergman
and Carol Englehart have this relationship and they've been dating for
a long time and I just think it's really bad for our city because we need five
independent thinking people and not somebody who's afraid to make a decision
because their girlfriend's going to get mad at them so I think one of you should
resign anyone watching this if people actually watch these meetings please
drive by Henda in West Road it's horrific that lot is a city-owned lot
and it's absolutely horrific I'm embarrassed weeds are 6 feet high and I
know the excuses about the dirt pil there but plant a row of Hedges FAS
nitas or something and hide the thing but no other property in the city could
look like that without getting code enforcements and it just you know the
city manager and you know can only do what city counil directs him so you know
take care of that and if you think that lot looks bad
why don't you drive by Mr zula's house and I'm just absolutely appalled that Mr
zoula sitting council member is now wasting City staff time and we finally
hire a code enforcement man and we're wasting city code enforcement because
you failed to live by the codes six years ago Norm I stood up here
and I asked you a question and I said do you live by the general plan and the
codes or are you just a hypocrite politician that wants to tell other
people how to live well actions speak louder than words so I'm done with you
I'm tired of being nice I'm going give you three weeks to hire a contractor and
pull a permit and replace that roof and clean up your your hedges in your front
yard after three weeks I'm going to sue you and I'm going to sue the city for
Selective enforcement and I'm going to go after damages for my avocado Crest
property that was undervalued because of lack of code enforcement for this city
I'm putting you on notice I've tried to be nice to all of you and I'm done I'm
done Norm lastly I just want to say that Norm
zoula and Carol Engelhart they don't represent me and they don't represent
98% of the city I worked hard I saved my money I've
made 20 30 40 years worth of mortgage payments to live here I didn't just wait
till my mom and dad died and then inherit the house you didn't earn it and
it shows by the respect you have for the city and by the respect that you give to
our codes so I wish City Council would start actually doing some things and so
that I don't have to play hard ball but one way or another I really like this
city there's some wonderful people here and I'm tired of things not getting done
thank you thank you are there any other public
comment committee
comments should we go back I can do the uh Hab habitat and vector control oh I'm
sorry yeah I'm sorry Kath sitting there patiently thank
you I back to 4 a Katherine Howen from the py hills habitat preservation
Authority technical advisory committee and vector control thank you for your
patience hey I want to thank you for the time it's been I know
it's can you hear me okay it's quite it's
how how's that better okay good evening mayor anglehart
members of the council staff and citizens of La Harbor Heights well thank
you very much for the time to be able to talk about these two things but I'm
Kathy Howen a resident of La Harbor Heights who is appointed by the city
council along with Roy Francis and Adam nazarov to sit on this the uh habitat
count Authority citizen tactical advisory committee and I'm here to
update you on what's going on in July the habitat Authority board
unanimously voted to form a legal entity called the community facilities district
and I put a map in front of all of you there or the cfd which allowed the
habitat authority to place measure pH on the November 2024 general election
ballot within the district's boundaries measure pH is a special tax
of 1 cent per building square foot and that's building not your whole property
so if you have let's say an 800 square foot 1,800 square foot house that would
be $118 a year that they're asking for from you the equivalence of maybe two to
three Starbucks right the key projects funded by this
special tax would include the first would be the preserved security and
maintenance of the natural habitats including powder Canyon Canda Hills
turble Canyon Sycamore Canyon Helman Park and Aurora pescadera for security
which includes law enforcement and Fire Prevention we have the Rangers from the
mrca and we do contract with the various agencies to do repairs like failing
Trails due to heavy rains the second would be preventing
wildfires our R our Rangers are extensively trained Wildland
firefighters they maintain Parkers Ranger patrols for fire safety and
emergency response for example on July the 4th weekend the park rangers along
with many volunteers patrolled the trail heads and some of the trails of the
habitat and the third would be clearing brush from homes and emergency access
road and the habitat Authority has finished its annual clearance of brush
and tree review a removal from homes and emergency access roads in La Harbor
Heights we actually had goats clear 11 acres of powder Canyon this year as
well and also the fourth would be protecting the
natural lands from threats like homeless encampments vandalism and illegal
dumping all the funds from measure PH will be locally controlled they will not
be taken away by the state or used for any other purpose so why is the habitat
Authority doing this the habitat Authority faces an on goinging
structural deficit and without an additional stable funding source they
will be forced to make additional cuts which could and right now it's quite a
um shoestring type of um amount of money that they have you know it's really the
funds are really limited and this what this could do is eliminate Rangers Park
man maintenance staff and limit access for individuals and families to the
trail and the the open
spaces so this is why they're wanting to do
this now if you want to get out and exercise and enjoy nature we have many
public hikes available led by our volunteer doents in powder Canyon we
have two hikes at 5:00 sharp on Sundays and Thursdays during and this is
starting at the black walnut Trail off of Fullerton Road so please visit our
website habitat author authority.org or meet
up.org and look under the poy Hills Preserve hikers to join and everyone is
welcome to these and as always please visit us at habitat authority.org at our
Facebook Instagram Twitter or meetup.com Pages for more up toate information
about happenings and events and links are found on our website habitat
authority.org I do encourage all residents to feel free to reach out to
Roy Adam or myself on any questions you may
have about the habitat and that is my one on the
habitat I also represent the harra heights On The Board of Trustees for the
Greater Los Angeles vector control district and I want just a reminder if
you wish to visit vector control or contact them for any reason you need to
contact the LA District not Orange County because we are La haror Heights
is in LA County so one animal on this earth that could affect your health for
the rest of your life or cause death is a
mosquito if you're being bothered by mosquitoes you need to find out why they
are around so this month there were 22 nonhuman cases of West Nile Virus versus
36 cases last year in California five of those were in Fresno and the rest are
scattered around the San Fernando Valley so it's not in this area and so far
we've had two human cases of westnile virus in California this year and in La
Harbor Heights vector control had four service requests for mosquito activity
and all were negative and treated our technician found mosquito activity in
areas of La Harbor Heights six in pools four in USD Lids one in gutter spots and
20 in other non-p poool locations mosquitoes don't fly far from
their water sources so if you don't have any standing water anywhere and have a
lot of mosquitoes maybe your F your neighbors do to help control the
mosquito population just do the simple Act of dumping out the water in the
various receptacles in your property at least once a week keep an eye on what
could be potential sources of mosquito growth our technician would be happy to
come out and show you what could be potential sources that you
have and here's something interesting the greater La vector control district
along with Orange County County are looking for ways to reduce the mosquito
population one stud one study that we are doing is called the sterile insect
technique or sit what we're doing is sterilizing male
aides egypti mosquitoes and releasing them weekly into a specific area to see
if the numbers of of the mosquito population drop and this is a pilot
study so far in the initial studies they are seeing some decrease in mosquito
population so it's very promising Ing and I hope the future shows even more
promise and the reason why we're picking the 80s egypti mosquito is because they
carry the zika virus dangi fever yellow fever and CH Ching Kong
Chung uh virus I can't say that right and in the meantime while we're
working on this we're looking for ways to control the is the a city's egyp ey
populations that are plaguing our residents and pose a risk for local
transmission of tropical diseases that are being brought into LA with
Travelers and there has been an unprecedented onslaught of imported
cases of dangi fever as a disease is going rampid throughout the world and
residents are returning with infections from travels near and far for each case
report that results in an extensive door-to-door inspection and treatment
campaign so if anyone ever has it in La Harbor Heights you may find vector
control knocking on your door please let them in and do the appropriate
treatments and uh La greater La um Vector District also bought a new
facility in pacomia and at this time they're setting up a lab for the
mosquito rearing for the sit program and so for more information go to the
website Glam mosquito. org we do have a lot of various educational program
programs and a lot of information to help you out and that's
that thank you very much
Kathy committee
comments city council
comments Mr PPA so a you I I have a few number one um I want to thank the uh the
laab heights uh Improvement Association uh they just W wrapped up this year's
music in the park uh I know I saw many of you there from many of the events um
it's always sad when the last one ends because it's kind of the end of summer
and we're moving into moving into fall but I think they did a pretty amazing
job of putting that together and you know if you're a resident of the city
you should really look into you're not a member of the Improvement
Association I would highly recommend um joining I think everyone gets their
monthly news uh monthly uh little magazine in
the mail regardless of whether you're a member uh but they produced that um also
on October 5th I believe it is is the uh Community uh yard sale uh uh they uh
Susan Brooks uh kind of did it herself last year and um this year here I think
the Improvement Association is taking it on I look forward to that I think that's
going to be a a wonderful Community event um I also o want to thank uh all
the volunteers that came out uh and also thank Susan and John Susan Brooks and
John Dominguez for organizing our quarterly cleanup um I remember when I
moved into the city back in 1998 that uh we used to do that and it
was always kind of neat to you know get out meet meet the uh meet your neighbors
that you normally don't get to see and uh and then go have a nice cup of coffee
afterwards uh which I know several several of the folks did so uh also want
to thank the staff for for keeping us safe I know um uh there were some not so
nice things said by people driving by in cars as we tried to to pick up the trash
on the side of the road and then lastly um just the shout out to the
EPC uh I think everyone kind of felt it today the the Pasadena earthquake um it
was a small one uh but we've had a couple now that have shook the
heights uh you know the EPC is producing a bunch of preparedness materials both
for Wildfire fire but also for earthquake preparedness I know firewatch
um which is our local um Community uh firewatch group has put out some
material Kathy soel has put it out uh around uh preparedness so not only do
you need to be prepared for your family up here but make sure that you're
thinking about your pets especially if you have large animals that have water
needs uh one of you know we're seeing this in palace veres with the land
movement issue is that water is usually the first thing to get impacted
especially during land movement events up in Pasadena the city hall even had an
issue even in a small earthquake with some water pipes breaking so make sure
you have sufficient water for your large animals and animals um you know to get
you through at least 72 hours I think is the
recommendation uh make sure you have sufficient food for your animals to get
through 72 hours and that you kind of keep that separate so you don't lose
track of what you're doing anyone
else I too would like to um thank John Dominguez who's here tonight is there a
way to train the camera on him if he doesn't speak or and and also Susan
Brooks they revived the trash pickup along Henda and it was well attended and
the street always looks so nice oh thank you for for a short period of time okay
administrative reports thank you mayor and Council
couple items for you tonight uh over the weekend there was a birthday party for
one of our longest term fire department volunteers Joan clenin Stein she was a
uh part of the dispatch component of our fire department all the way back in the
day when it was purely volunteers and residents that pitched in and helped out
um she recently turned 99 so they had a nice big celebration for her over the
weekend um and we were able to bring out engine 772 to wish her a happy birthday
so the the Chiefs uh Chief briser and chief Martin along with Captain Harris
and another another retired captain that happened to be here um in town for
another event that doesn't even live in in the area anymore was here and he
wanted to go over and wish Joan a happy birthday so it was a very nice event we
were able to go over and wish Joan a happy 99th and and many more um she's
always been an integral part of the volunteer part of the fire department
it's we dealing with dispatch and all the way in from when they used to be
everybody at home that would pick up the phone and answer the phone calls all the
way into our now professional um dispatch that goes through the county
system so she was an integral part of that fire department for a very long
time so we just wanted to thank her and it was a great event to to go out and
wish her a happy birthday for that one and also as mayor Pro pespisa touched on
the there is going to be a yard sale coming up October 5th um the price is
$15 and the spaces will be a little larger this time so it'll be 20 by 20 um
last time they were 10 by 10 um so this go around the the spaces will be bigger
um they're looking at having a little more spaces so it won't be as restricted
if you're very interested please reach out um to the Improvement Association is
taking that one over um they do have an email out there it's LHH yardale
gmail.com um reach out to that one and they will help you get connected to it
um and get going we do have some flyers that are sitting here at the C the
counter at City Hall um for that but also a couple of walk talks will be
heading out for that one but very good event very well attended last year and
we heard a lot of great things from the community related to to that yard sale
event so we're looking forward to another one um we do have two pretty
significant um traffic control things that'll be
going on tomorrow um along Henda Road there has been some copper theft from
the Telecommunications lines um so Frontier is going to be doing some
single lane closures along Hender road tomorrow um to replace a
large section of lines that was stolen off that was stolen um so they'll be out
doing single lane closures and things as they work to replace those lines along
Henda Road um and at the same time Southern California gadison will be
doing some road work on um Harbor um so you've seen if you've gone up and down
Harbor recently you see message boards there that say road closed um for the
most part it will be single Lane on both directions of Harbor there will be a
short period where they will fully close Harbor as they string a cable across the
roadway and make a replacement of a line so for a short period of time um Harbor
will be closed on August 13th otherwise it will just be single lane closures on
Harbor Boulevard that'll be tomorrow same thing on Hos andas Frontier Works
to make those repairs of um the lines from the copper theft that's happening
ever more often to it and also too I'd like to thank uh Mr Dominguez and Mrs
Brooks for the working to coordinate that cleanup of fana Road it was a it
was a great event we had a good time out there I me we kind of split into two
groups there was a group that worked here from City Hall all the way up to
East Road and a group that went from Skyline down to the north city limit I
was working with that group there we actually made it through that part
pretty quick so we said hey let's go from Skyline all the way down to canat
sombre then we cleaned down to to canat sombre so it was it was a nice event
very well attended it was great to see the the group of people out from that
have did it when we used to do it back in the day as as AER Pro was talking
about to new residents that are just doing it for the first time this around
so it was a very nice event it was a a great thing to do that's all I have
tonight thank you city attorney's report nothing other than we met on the items
listed in closed session and there's no reportable action that is all Community
Development report Mr wridge thank you mayor um so the
Community Development report for this month uh building department issued 15
building permits um and collected permit fees of a little bit over
$166,000 we took in two code enforcement complaints um we have 25 Active cases
and closed seven cases during the month of sorry it's July June it's July um we
issued four stop work orders during July um and closed six of those ille
unpermitted construction cases I'm bringing that to 65 we also took in
seven development applications and planning and approved nine projects if
you have any questions I'm happy to answer them for
you any questions fire chief's report
well good evening Fire Chiefs report we can go over that real quick um we had 60
calls this month which is seems to be pretty average it seems like we're
running about 58 to 62 calls monthly we did have one significant fire call it
was small but it was a brush fire on July 21st 20 24 about 2m we had a brush
fire breakout um in chaperel and uh and grass on Walnut
Street um we were able to respond quickly the volunteer fire department
got in there quickly a good size up report was made and uh resources from uh
the County of Los Angeles and the laab Heights Fire department were able to
subdue that fire keep it from getting any bigger but that's like our first
brush fire that we've had we're fortunate that there wasn't any wind
blowing um I was asked to U mention after hearing some of the talk tonight
about things that are somewhat negative let's talk a little bit about some
wonderful people in laaber Heights so uh I wanted to bring up the uh W the um
party that we had this weekend this recognition of uh the wings uh family
and our and our interaction as a fire department with that family Caitlyn and
Martin W Wings whose grandmother lives here in the Heights was having a party
for a birthday party on July 12th 20124 for uh Laura Li she was a 2y year
old and uh Charlotte her sister was three years old at the time Charlotte
drowned uh had a near drowning in the pool theab Heights Fire department
volunteers responded and they took over the
scene uh Charlotte was pulled out of the water she was uh she was unconscious not
breathing CPR was started uh the laab heights volunteers showed up applied
supplemental OT started an IV went code 3 to Whittier Presbyterian hospital and
she survived Charlotte was here this weekend with her parents and the
original crew that was on that incident we all had a celebration here in at the
in the council chambers uh to acknowledge those uh that event and
Charlotte was here she was 13 now she's uh she was at the the the uh party and
so were the old crew it was a very positive thing to happen also I wanted
to just mention uh Joan kapenstein um her 99th birthday uh for those of you
who don't know Joan she's kind of a legend around here here I didn't know
Joan it was the first time that I've I've heard of her heard heard rumor of
her heard that she was like one of our first dispatchers when the department
was volunteer but uh Janes spent 43 years as a volunteer dispatcher for the
laaber heights both as when it was the all Vol back in the all volunteer days
that some of you might remember and then during the transition to the more modern
Department that we know today Joan in 1968 Joan's oldest son Paul volunteered
to train as a firefighter with the laab heights volunteer fire department and he
persuaded his mother to join the department as a dispatcher so it was a
family business Mark and James uh Jon's other two sons also became volunteer
firefighters and uh Joan has said that all dispatching was done from their
homes there were five dispatchers they all had special phones installed and
when A call came in all five dispatchers were notified at one time each one had a
radio and a fire telephone for receiving the calls calls first came into an
answering service then they were transferred to the dispatchers on the
fire on the Fire phones in their homes then they would dispatch from there um
Joan thought the dispatchers ought to have volunteer fire department badges
but the chief at the time kind of scoffed at that and said where would you
wear them on your bathrobes so uh Joan created an
official red phone that she that she sewed onto five official bathrobes that
she issued to all five of the uh of the dispatchers in the city and I I gave you
the handout here that shows that she did that she's quite an an amazing woman um
we would uh they she created the official bathrobes for the dispatchers
uh when dispatching moved from the resident's homes into the fire stations
Joan moved in to become the first fire captain to accommodate and and
Communications chief for the Department she trained many fire service graduates
and students who worked in the department turning them into in her
words fine clear speaking dispatchers and I can't tell you how important it is
when you're on the radio and you're managing something to have clear and
concise communication I push it very hard with the volunteers that we push to
talk we don't push to think over the radio if you can kind of catch that
meaning uh anyway it was our 99th birthday uh a huge group of people
showed up and celebrated that we all went down there and acknowledged her so
there is one of your one of your key residents in laab Heights Joan K Klo
kapenstein kste John kapenstein your first dispatcher I'm proud to say um
also uh so I mentioned the fire and then um there were three um after July 21st
properties located at the high and very high fire SE severity zones requiring
documentation of compliant defensible space
inspections according to ab38 uh assembly 38 were uh were conducted and
to for real estate sales disclosures and documentation only so people that have
to go through these they don't need to worry about it we're going to go up
there and do a fire inspection but it's just for sales per purposes only um the
uh Chief alal they did three inspections in July in accordance to ab38 if there
are any other questions I can answer them that's end of
report any questions I would like to make a
followup comment on the wing matter and thank the chief um Caitlyn Wing kind of
decided on her own that she would honor the par Medics and staff that were
on duty back in was it 2014 when her her daughter almost
drowned and the chief and Don sterk I guess I've um did a wonderful job uh and
it was it was really nice seeing some of the guys that had actually been at that
event and one of the gentlemen I can't remember his name he had saved the call
sheet and actually he was I can't articulate it it
it was really down when he read the call sheet but they went out anyway and it
all turned out wonderful and I really um think we cannot thank our fire people
and our paramedics enough because they actually do save a lot of lives thank
you so much um Sheriff's Department report good afternoon we had one uh
reported burglary on uh excuse me Elka
Hita that took place on the 4th of July we also had one vehicle burglary that
occurred that occurred at powder Canyon Trail um the parking
area just a reminder that all valuables should be kept at home in the trunk or
uh or take them with you because this happens almost every month at uh
powdered Canyon Trail we had identity theft one vandalism that took place on
Fullerton Road but I drove there this morning and I didn't see any vandalism
so it might have been cleaned up and one petty
theft for the month of July any
questions Mr pispa uh Deputy Beltran um sir I I've
become aware of some copper theft along Henda uh I I didn't hear that in your
report has there been a the copper theft I reported it was reported today oh was
reported yeah it was just reported this morning I took a report okay cuz it it's
occurred now in three three separate places along Henda yeah they just told
me about it uh I did do one report this morning uh was uh according to the U
employees of uh Frontier yeah it was $220,000 worth of copper yeah it's hard
to believe that that that much copper is these these these copper wires are not
your usual what people imagine it they're pretty it's almost 2 in thick
and there's a lot of copper inside of it yeah now
I I believe it happened this weekend the time we can't no it's been a couple
weeks well there was one this morning yeah I'm I'm yeah I I actually talked to
the frontier folks and there was there was one that happened a couple weeks ago
it started a couple weeks ago um and and the only reason I bring it up and maybe
we can get some you know I I know it's hard at night to get Folks up here from
this sheriff's department but maybe you know they can just drive up and down
Henda and just look at it cuz while while it impacts Frontier what who it
really impacts are residents that for the last two weeks have not had phone or
Internet service because of the outage safy issue right so there's a safety
issue with it too they can't di on 911 or there's no reception and it comes a
serious uh yeah so safety issue I just you know if you have an opportunity to
you know at briefing at industry just to ask you know not a lot just if you got 5
minutes drive up and down Henda and just make sure there's no one cutting the the
phone cables on the poles
absolutely any other questions moving on to the consent
calendar items 9 through 13 does anyone wish to pull any
item may I have a motion I move to accept the consent
items second Mr zazula yes Mr PPA yes Mr larity yes
Mr Bergman yes and Englehart is a yes item 14 protest hearing on unpaid brush
clearance costs Mr wridge thank you mayor um this item before you tonight is
related to the clearance of properties related to brush clearance um there are
four four properties that have been cleared by the department um as part of
our blush brush clearance program um they went all the way through the
process were abated um and those are ready for the lean process to that um so
tonight uh the action would be for the the city council to overrule any
protests offered during the protest hearing and adopt resolution 20
24-24 confirming the report of costs incurred by the city and authorizing the
assessment of as leans to be placed on the tax rols effective August 12th 2024
or amend the charges to be assessed and place the leans as followed and adopt
the resolution if you have any questions I'm happy to answer
any questions should open the hearing are
there any protests or comments hearing none return it may I
have a
motion I make a motion that we adopt resolution number 20 24-24 confirming
um the reported costs incurred by the city and authorizing the assessment as
Lan to be placed on the tax rolls effective August 12 2024 second Mr
zazula yes Mr PPA yes Engle harsy yes Mr larity yes and Mr Bergman yes okay we've
already done 15 and 16 17 fiscal year 2223 Street Improvement project Zone 4
Henda Road did I do something here so for the record the recusal is because
of the location of your property correct yeah
oh okay Mr
wridge thank you mayor and Council um this item before you tonight is to award
contract for the fiscal year 2022 203 Street Improvement project uh zone four
Hina Road and East Road um this project uh before the
council a little while ago um we had opened bids for the project and the bids
came in um at about 1.7 million which was way above what the engineer's
estimate was and what we expected to to have related to the the project um so
staff and city engineer went back and met with the roads advisory committee's
design subcommittee they relooked at the projects revised the project the scope
of the project um and did a couple of things
they reduced the number of streets that we would be worked on and they also
created a few additional alternate bid items so typically we'll have one or two
alternate bid items one of those alterntive bid items generally is crack
seal there's Council usually has a think for us to be able to do $30,000 worth of
crack seal as part of the projects um and so that is typically one of the
alternate bids and there might be an additional Street or two that we would
look at as an alternate bid um but after opening that bid
um the design subcommittee did a lot of very good work in looking at the roads
um to work on the roads that needed the work the most up front um so the project
the base bid of the project was revised to include work on Skyline lucadia and
panoy um in those areas up up in that location as the the base bid and the
alternate bid item one is for crack sealing so we would crack seal the areas
that were as part of the 1718 project um which is a regular cycle and process of
of maintenance for that so that crack seal would be on Reposado
alocate half of Church Hill and papaya are the streets that we did in the 1718
project that would be done for alternate bid one is the crack seal component
alternate bid 2 um is a work on um reconstructing deep Canyon so deep
Canyon is over off of East Road close close to papaya um that street has had
some significant deterioration over the years um so alternate bid two would be
essentially that area needs to be all RNR so removed and replaced um and
reconstructed and Alternate bid three would be for repaving of green view the
public portion of green view about half of green View Road is public and the
other half is private so alternate B item three would be to do that would be
to pay from Reposado um all all the way to where it it changes to the private
side of Green view um if you we we rebid the project um and open those bids a
couple of weeks ago um we received uh five people pulled bid packets um we
received four bids from Onyx Paving Company RJ Noble Hardy and Harper Inc
and All-American asphalt um where the four companies that submitted bids uh
for that included the base and the alternate bids um if you include the
base and all the alternate bids together um the lowest responsive bidder would be
Onyx Paving for a total of 1, 369,000 um so that would be the option
to award the base plus the three alternates ultimately the way it was
broken up Council can award their contract based off any combination of
the base bid or base bid plus alternate or alternates um the only thing is that
has to be from one contractor so depending on if you look at wanting
to approve a base plus a certain alternate the contractor that is the
lowest bidder may change based on which bid item you're looking at um staff is
making the recommendation that we award based on the base bid and the three
alternates um so that would be awarding the contract to Onyx Paving Company in
the amount of 1 M 369,000 um as the second component of
these Street Improvement projects is the construction management and the
inspection portion of it and for that we reached out to our engineering firm nv5
to receive a proposal for doing the inspection Management Services
construction management services and the inspection of it including materials
testing and labor compliance component of it um so their their proposal for the
that component of it is
$2,364 um so cmn inspection is done as like time and material so they look at
the whole project to look at the amount of working days that are in there so
inspection is scheduled for they gave a bid for 80 working days as part of the
inspection the reality is generally our projects don't do 80 days worth of
inspections so they would only bill for the time that they're actually doing
inspections so for like the inspector it would be at the time for meetings that
we have and progressor meetings pre-construction meetings and their time
in the field doing in inspection um they would bill us for those hours that they
work same thing with the construction manager it would be the the time that
leads up going through the material submittals and preconstruction progress
through it and close out um so it's not that we would award an agreement to nv5
and they would collect $192,000 it's based on what they built
so typically our cmn inspection usually comes in less than that because they
don't typically work the entire time as far as like days of inspection in the
field which is the most costly component of it um theirs also includes labor
compliance since this is a prevailing wage there are certain requirements that
have to be done as part of the construction so there's interviews with
the workers from the construction companies we have to review their
payroll the s a certified payroll we have to do all of those and report all
of that to the state and also includes materials testing and and inspections um
as needed for the project so staff is recommending that
the city council W the fiscal year 2022 23 Street Improvement project um
Construction contract to onx Paving Company in the amount of
$1,369 th000 authorize a contingency for this project in the amount of 15% award
the construction management and inspection contract to nv5 in the amount
of $192,300 and authorize the finance
manager to amend the F the fiscal year 2024 25 bu budget to increase count
number 10450 PWD 6830 by7
725,000 is in addition to the 1.36 9 million correct how does this fit with
the original expectations of uh the assessment as we've gone along our costs
have definitely increased especially over the last few years um so our costs
have continue to increase for the projects as we've gone on from when that
the assessment was originally put in place so where would the
excess dollars come from it comes from the general fund from the which general
fund is that 192,000 do you feel that's realistic for what they're
doing I I would say it's going to be less than that on average construction
time for the street projects we usually don't see a go past 60 days um just on
average it's generally less than that we're usually in the 45 to to 50 60 at
the long end of a project um so you know they they write those proposals to
include sort of the worst case scenario of time so like 80 Days of construction
so inspector is generally not going to be out here for 80 days which would
represent a significant Savings in that amount of money okay thank
you Mr Bergman um this one if I look at nv5 you know the proposal this time
versus what they've done in the past this is considerably
more it's like almost double so the um I mean do you have to have somebody
on out here every single day during that uh when they start the
paving project yes well that that is the best recommendation to have our
inspector here while they're doing the
work and their proposal they you know they give the who's going to be doing
the work you know their their primary inspector would be Mike Elma he's done a
project here in the heights for us he did a project the one we did with RJ
Noble um which included like Cypress and nbal and dorothia and and those areas
over there so he's very familiar with the community and the train and and
getting people in and out so he's he's well experienced with the the heights
I guess I'm sort of based on they've almost doubled their price I have a real
concern with the um pricing struction
and I mean maybe we need to go out for a bid on this thing I'll
say Peter Sago who is the construction manager for it does an amazing job he is
I think you worked with him in other communities he does a lot of other work
for other communities even in their city that that City he represents he's very
thorough he tracks things well he keeps everybody on their toes he makes sure
all the submittals are in and reproved um their inspectors do an amazing job as
part of it they they do good work in this aspect of
it I guess if uh myself personally if I approve this tonight I want you to go
back to nv5 and they need to sharpen their pencil on this thing because it's
it's you look at what they charged is in the past and what it is now it's U it's
a huge increase on this prior Street
project it's I know we have a working relationship obviously with that guy
we've also split this Pro we've split this up in the past and that project
didn't go so well I understand that I understand that
that's they can also sharpen their pencil and then believe me like Peter
tracks his hours they track their hours very carefully to know that to watch
exactly where they are and let us know where they are in
their in their hour range of what they put it in the proposal I mean if they
have to be out here they have to be out here I understand that
but I don't want them out here if they don't have to necessarily be here type
thing and I guess that puts work on you to manage that
situation yeah definitely they are not any more than they need to be I mean if
if the contractor isn't working or doing something that needs to be inspected
generally aren't here in a situation like this as a city
ever hired a civil engineer with some background in working with streets and
Roads hire them
independently we have not done that aspect of it
if you had to use somebody else who would you reach out to we would have to
put it out to
bid mean I'm just concerned that there's such a vast increase on this thing over
the last one sure you notice that too
and I don't know if the Project's that much different or what they've done on
the whole thing but
uh I guess it's just my feelings I'd like to hear from the rest of the
Council I had a you said um the bid the whole package of the of the paving not
the engineering um was
restructured and what was it the alternates that were taken out of the
bid or was were there other streets that aren't on this proposal that were
deleted there were other streets that were deleted from the base bid aspect of
it so the Bas bid also you can look at alternate two and three were included in
that base bid previously um so and there were other streets that after the
subcommittee looked at they said okay these streets can wait the their PCI
their conditioned they went out they walked the areas again to look at what
could wait and what needed to move forward um for us to figure out what
would put us more into where we would need to be budget
wise okay could we could
we adop adopt the bid by Onyx Paving that hold off on the payment to nv5
until we've talked to them more about
that we could certainly now how whether how many um administrative hurdles that
creates I don't know but legally you certainly
can administratively it's just going to put
the project behind as we're going to have to wait to move forward with any
sort of submittal so typically out of the gate the first thing we do is we
work through agreements getting so basically kind of that first month is
going to be that it's agreements it's bonds insurance is put in place so we
look we review all those City attorney reviews those construction manager
reviews those and then it's the submittal from the contractor so their
AC mix designs and all of their their tack coats and slurry seals uh crack
seal all of those are submitted for review and approval um through that that
process of it so that part of it would probably be delayed if we if we go out
and circulate a bid to find another
option I've I've heard comments and well since I've been on the council which
isn't that long we saw that nv5 made a very high bid to design the
paving at the Helo hydrant and then there was
another I'm forgetting it now there was another project where where there oh it
was the park it was the diagonal ramp at the park and they submitted an extremely
high bid and when I got first on the council uh one of the members of the
roads committee pointed out that there was a
project I'm not sure which year it was but the cost of the paving increased
which was everybody understood that and then nv5
just upped their cost to 10 or 15% of whatever the increase was even though
the amount of streets that was covered
um hadn't changed so the little experience I have with this it it just
seems nv5 is is uh has not got a TR good track
record from what I've observed the other thing is if we could save any money I
mean at this point we're being asked to increase this project by 725,000 and
that that comes out of the general fund and as I recall our 25 2425 budget was
like $100,000 from balancing or over is very short so I I would think it would
be worth looking looking at someone else or
having them come back with a a more
accurate a lower
price I if you want us to not have the inspector out there every day we can we
can work that through and look at reduce the hours that they have in for
inspection I just want to work really smart on
this and um I think what we need to do tonight this might just one councilman
speaking is to approved the project with the the total aggregate cost on the
1369 and give you directions that you have to
go back to nv5 and really really tighten up these numbers and see where they can
pull things out and if uh if they can have the inspect I don't want any
inspector out here if they don't have to be out here type thing if it's on a need
type basis and they have to we're pulling all this money out of the
general fund to make this thing happen and
I understand if you need the inspector out here and you need the management
from that team out here fine but we need to really tighten this up because I look
back on the last proposal from nv5 and this is this is like almost double and
it's um maybe they have more work in it but they need to go back and relook at
the whole thing and that's where I'm coming from that if
you're going to use them you got to really tell them that you've got to
sharpen your pencil and not have any person out here when they don't need to
be type thing and reduce that cost at that
192 that's just one council
member Mr Zula I'm in substantial agreement with Brian if You' like to
make an motion I'd second it okay well I'm ready to make a motion
then I'll make a motion to award the fiscal year 20 2223 Street Improvement
project to onx Paving Company in the amount of 1,
369,000 authorize a contingency fee for the project of 50
15% and go back to nv5 for um to sharpen their pencil on their whole entire
contract amount and minimize any labor at all
that has to come out here and just use them uh only the
absolute absolute minimum amount and if uh if
they they can't do that or they can't reduce their costs in this thing we're
going to have to go out to bid on it I know that'll slow things down so I don't
really want to do that either and then authorize the finance manager to amend
fiscal year 2024 budget to increase the amount uh of the 725,000
city manager execute the contracts in a form approved by the City
attorney one second oh oh bar okay well do you have to author
authorize the budget amendment for that full amount if you're hoping well I did
because I I don't know what it's going to be or anything else so at least we
have some latitude in there I think we given clear instruction that this number
has to come
down was is that a second Mr zoua or I think Dennis beat me to it but oh fair
enough um let's see I guess I open for public
comment or I should have done that I hearing nothing um Mr zoua yes Engle
heartsy yes leery yes and Mr Bergman yes okay number 18 does somebody mind
letting Mr oh this pieza back in the room
okay number 18 financial assistance and recovery from the winter
storms thank you May and Council um this is continuing some of the information
that related to our storms from February um as we move for further through the
process um We are continuing through the process with um FEMA we have a dedicated
representative that we work with at FEMA um that we work to put all of our costs
that we've incurred so far in any future future work that may need to be done in
mitigation that we work with that um that individual to help us through that
process um have been working very very well with that aspect of it as moving
forward um so we we meet with them on a pretty much weekly basis from there we
last meeting we worked with um a member of their mitigation staff to look at
some of the areas that we may need to do future mitigation work um so that's
areas of Henda where we saw some failures area of East Road where we saw
some failures also some of the drainage areas that um we saw overrun with debris
from the debris flows that are coming off the Hillside and speaking with the
mitigation expert from FEMA they will come out um and actually walk us through
that and that proposal as well so we're finalizing that damage assessment form
with our representative and are working to schedule a time for the U mitigation
representative to come out um a couple of things that go along with mitigation
aspect of it is um we could you we receive about 100% of what we have in
costs that go out the door as far as emergency work that we have done that we
receive reimbursement for which right now is just a little under half a
million dollar and we receive that in there if we need to go above and beyond
that aspect of it if there is some damage that needs attention and
mitigation work to prevent this in the future um if it's above that half
million dollar Mark and we would have to go through a cost benefit analysis to
see if there is a benefit of doing that work to be able to get there um as part
of it so um we're in that phase with Fem right now um recently you've seen there
some work has happened out on uh some of the roads we made some repairs to East
Road where there was some SL failure in that area um so that stretch at 400
block of East Road was repaired and so at city engineer worked with um put
together a little bit of bid documents we put that project out to bid um so
that stretch of East Road was actually elevated on one side to help keep the
water to flow pitch to the other side of the road um some burm will be coming in
from there similar on LEF Flo where there was a section where that road
roadside had washed away and we did some repair work along lafl section of
Fullerton Road and East Road as well um with the company CTI um so that Paving
work was recently done the burm work should be happening very very soon um as
part of that so it's all reimbursable costs that go into um
our claim but our paperwork with FEMA as well so all of those things are are
moving through the process um as we speak we're actually meeting with our
representative tomorrow um we have a scheduled meeting with him from there
Tom is there anything else you wanted to add that I might have
missed I don't think he
heard Council has any options we're any questions we're happy to answer Mr bisa
so a couple things um I mayor Englehart and I have met with some of the
residents along hosand that were impacted by the debris flows um are we
going to be able to have some mitigations in place before next
winter we're working on larger mitigation with FEMA um at the same time
city engineer and myself are looking at some more specific things that we could
do now um that may not necessarily be as part of that mitigation work that FEMA
does but things that we can do to some of those drainage facilities at s
impacts um to help prevent this from the next rainy season which is coming up can
we is there a possibility of understanding what those might look like
by October yes okay because i' I'd like to
make sure that they have an opport you know if we can agendize it for October
that would be great and I'd like to invite them to come down to the October
meeting to voice their concerns because they have some pretty specific concerns
about you know what happened and I know the mayor and I have been um trying to
help them understand the process we go through to make changes to both drainage
and possibly even the road so i' like to agendize that if possible uh number
two is Mr Brooks brought up and I'll agree with him on this one thing Weston
Hender really is an isore um I I hope that part
of the the recovery plan is to remove the tons and tons and tons of storm
debris that have been dumped there and it's now I mean we're several months
from the event is there a plan to remove and and restore that lot back to the
condition it was in before the storm there is um as part of the fuma process
we have to remove those debris in a very specific fashion um we also have to bid
that process out so Grace has been in the process of bidding it we were just
waiting for the last bid to come in we need the three we need at least three
bids as part of our purchasing policy to be able to do that um and we're just the
last bid is coming in right now so once we have that then we can move forward
with it it's not going to be inexpensive to remove that from the property um but
it would remove all of that material that was staged or deposited on West
Nanda and we'll get recovery for those costs we have it already we already have
it as a line item in our recovery cost once we have the hard cost we'll be able
to add that dollar figure to it okay I had a question about Western Henda the
the the burms they're there to keep people off the property I mean it's not
like it's going to end up being a flat piece of land no I was talking about no
I agree the BMS need to stay it was specific to the the debris that was
placed there I BMS were there before the storm so yeah I don't know if it was Mr
Brooks or Mr Fernandez were complaining about I think it was Mr Fernandez was
complaining about the BMS but yeah well we can I mean as a council we can talk
about what we want to do with that piece of property I guess I mean I think
there's some ideas maybe we need to resurrect those in the near future about
what we should do with that property so maybe that's another thing
we agendize for later in the year thank you anyone else okay number
19 project updates thank you Council um looks like
we're still in the window for October for delivery the new type 1 engine um so
hopefully we should be getting that soon it's going through the production
process right now as we see we made some pretty significant uh progress on the
solid waste agreement tonight we'll continue to work city attorney's office
to finalize the agreement with we and bring that back to the council for you
to ratify um and put that into place as we roll that out to the October
changeover from Republic to now wear Disposal Services as part of that so
that's a very good thing there I assess accessibility improvements at the park
uh we are meeting this week with our representative from cdbg related to the
funding that we can utilize for the ramp to clarify and finalize if we can do a
design build aspect of it or if they need plans to be reviewed and approved
as part of their project before they can authorize us to spend money on it um so
uh this this coming Wednesday our representative from cdbg our community
development block block block grant program um will be coming out and
meeting with us in Walking the site of the park so we can finalize that so if
we can do a design build aspect of it we can move forward with design build um
instead of preparing plans and then going out to bid for for construction um
she she was looking at there is the potential for it um to go through that
design build process she just needed to finalize or gather some more information
from her side from her her uh fellow colleagues and then we'll meet and
discuss that on Wednesday we'll meet with her as that part of it
um h Road saf safety Improvement plan so avocado Crest signal um contractor has
the big things in as far as the polls traffic cabinets and the um controller
for the signal are in and ordered the roads committee reviewed the signage
that will go on the polls um as part of their their packet that they looked at
last month they made a recommendation to have those signs that hang that on the
pole let's say h Road and avocado Crest um to match our regular street signs
that we have so we'll include City seal and have a bit of orange around the
border of it so what our regular street signs look like our illuminated signs on
the signal will look similar and we'll use that as we move replace the other
signage along henda's Road at the other signals West Henda East in Henda there
isn't any signal any signage like that at uh Skyline so as we replace those in
the future we can make that all consistent and keep that moving forward
they have a tentative turn on date of March 2025 for the signal that will be
the completion of having the signal in tested and all of the striping and
signage being replaced on Henda by March of 2025 is is the
contractor's best schedule at the moment so for that one the measure W monies um
we've received monies related to that and we're in the process of scheduling
those Works to be done um we have been working with uh the contractor or the
company that had the project at the park for the regional component um Tom had
just met with him last week to review and discuss some some options related to
that um so we should hopefully be able to bring that back to the council here
relatively soon with some good explanations as to the cost for the
system ongoing maintenance and looking at transfer agreement and documentation
that we need to execute with the county as well so hopefully should have that
here for you um at our next meeting um and Gerald's in the process of revising
the guard rail RFP we worked with the rad advisory committee to look at he
went out and did an assessment of all the areas in town that have guard rail
some areas that need guard rail put that into a priority list we worked with the
roads advisory committee to look at that priority list to see if that was the
areas they felt we should focus on first um they they agreed um so that is being
revised so we can get it released here hopefully by the end of the month it's
kind of where we're at right now if you have any questions I'm happy to
answer Mr P pleas so two things um what's going on with our since you
brought up signage our city limit signs the one on the north end of town at
Henda has been gone for eight months now yes uh we were in the process of trying
to get those put into order I believe right when all our storm happened I mean
grace got tied up with everything so she's in the process of completing that
order now so we can order those signs and get them installed okay and then are
we not repairing guardrail in the city now because of the replacement
project we have I noticed that there's been quite a bit of damage to guardrail
that has not been repaired for many months yeah we need to move forward on
some Replacements of guard rails a couple of those are Insurance related so
we have to work with assessments from crashes that have happened and we
actually get claims from insurance to be able to go through the insurance process
and replace that c rail there is there is at least one stretch that we don't
have any identifiable claim or crash data to to go back to that we can look
at
okay when do you think the work on the avocado Crest T signal will start it's
still late October um they recently did some pot
holing out there so they looked at the locations where the polls would be going
to make sure there's no utility lines that would be in the area they didn't
find anything which is good so no changes needed to be done to Foundation
or pole design they are anticipated like late October to start doing some work um
out at those sites is kind of where we're at today with them um but that
might stretch into early November just depending on when they start receiving
equipment thank you anybody else
okay any individual council member information
items or attendance
reports public comments not on the agenda
anyone I guess we'll adjourn oh I'm sorry
Bruce Thomas panchoy first of all it's sort of my opinion the whole group of
you it's none of our business out here how you live as long as it's outside of
the city council who cares that's just my opinion secondly anybody that doesn't
know Joan she's the only one that been in
this department longer than I have anybody doesn't know her needs to
go meet her she's a classic lady she knows the Heights and knows the
history of the heights like hardly anybody else
around and she I've had the privilege of being her her chauffeur in the fire
equipment in several occasion she is just a kick to be around arry so and so
you get her mad there's nobody like her but she's about as sweet as they come
just for the sake of anybody that wants to know about the heights give her a
call she is a classic lady that's it thank you thank you it's a high note to
end on if you if you look on the one that Chief passed out there was an
article in the Heights life there's a picture there of the Jeep Joon and the
Jeep Mr Thomas is driving the jeep CH fer in the
Jeep and if I might please uh among your other accomplishment she was my Cub
Scout denm mother
do I need a motion to adjourn okay we're adjourned then thank
you Mr
Thomas well thank you for the pr