[0:01] I'm calling the regular meeting of the
laab height
[0:07] City I'm
hello we're calling to order the regular
[0:13] meeting of the laab height city council
August 12
[0:19] 2004 Mr
PPA here Mr Bergman here Mr ly here Mr
[0:26] coula here and anglehart is here
C Howen would you lead us in the flag
[0:32] salute
[0:39] please Al to the flag of the United
States of America to The Republic stands
[0:47] one nation under God indivisible with
liy and justice for all
[1:00] at this point we're going to
[1:06] advance two items items 15 and
16 these both deal with our trash
[1:14] service which is very very important and
affects every single person in the
[1:20] Heights and before this I start I just
want to um say that Brian Bergman and
[1:27] Dennis lar spent a great deal of time on
on this and uh we're residents we're
[1:33] trying to do a good job they have really
uh worked on this and so we'll go first
[1:40] with item
15
[1:43] Mr thank you FD thank you mayor I just
want to introduce um our special City
[1:50] Attorney Patrick Munos this grace is
working thank you uh
[2:29] can you hear that better there we can
hear a little better now that's a little
[2:32] better now all right thank you mayor and
council members um we have been uh going
[2:36] through a couple of items here related
to the hauling of refuges um in the city
[2:42] uh we have been working with our city
attorney's office ran and Tucker um
[2:45] we're very fortunate through their
offices to have uh Patrick Munos with us
[2:50] um who is an expert in the field and
he'll be talking a little bit about the
[2:53] items
tonight thank you uh good evening Miss
[2:57] mayor and members of the council uh the
the first item on your uh uh Advanced
[3:02] agenda item number 15 deals with um the
balance of your uh Solid Waste agreement
[3:09] with Republic
Services uh the as set forth in the
[3:13] staff report the uh agreement with
Republic expired in May of
[3:19] 2022 uh we've been uh operating on a uh
extension since that time the extensions
[3:26] expired and we went to a month-to-month
uh service with them
[3:30] uh they have agreed to continue to
provide services until October 1st uh
[3:36] one of the conditions of their agreeing
to do so was to have um what we refer to
[3:41] as an extraordinary cost adjustment this
year instead of the standard uh CPI
[3:46] increase they asked for a 10% increase
to cover uh some of the costs that
[3:51] they're incurring that were not uh
covered under the terms of the agreement
[3:55] so in essence what we're asking for on
item 15 is a motion to ratify by uh a
[4:01] 10% uh increase to the rates that
Republic uh would be otherwise charging
[4:08] between July 1 and October
[4:14] 1st are there any questions of Mr
[4:20] Munoz is there any public
[4:25] comment I return it to the council may I
have a motion I'll make a motion to move
[4:30] approval on item 15 for the 10% rate
increase it'll just take them through
[4:36] October 1st of this year
second Mr Zula yes Mr PPA yes Mr lar yes
[4:45] Mr Bergman yes and I'm a yes item
[4:51] 16 going
forward thank you mayor and Council U
[4:56] this item is dealing with moving forward
with Trash Services uh in the har
[5:00] Heights um we have been gone through an
extensive process um with a subcommittee
[5:05] from City Council made up of council
members um larity and Bergman who worked
[5:10] with staff and Mr Munoz to go through a
very ex extensive and exhaustive process
[5:16] related to um a new agreement with a new
trash hauler that will come in and
[5:21] provide Refuge services for the city and
then I'll hand it over to Mr Munos and
[5:24] he can give you kind of a quick summary
as to where where we were and where
[5:29] we've made it to
thank you again
[5:33] um uh as um Mr uh wridge indicated the
uh Council subcommittee along with staff
[5:40] and our office went through a process
where we started Cons with consideration
[5:44] of six companies narrowed that down to
three companies that we received
[5:48] proposals from
um of the um three proposals uh where
[5:55] disposal Incorporated uh ultimately was
determined to to have not only
[6:00] objectively the most competitive price
uh proposal but the committee felt as
[6:05] though it provided the best value uh an
overall uh service propos that was being
[6:11] proposed um the staff report provides a
high level summary and I I won't just
[6:16] repeat what's in there but I think it's
important to bear in mind that the staff
[6:20] report is just a summary and that we'll
be bringing back a uh an extensive
[6:25] franchise agreement um that will have
all of the deal points uh spelled out
[6:30] and nailed down I think residents should
uh know that um this might be um a gross
[6:37] generalization but if it's if there's a
service that's currently being provided
[6:41] by Republic it will also be provided um
in the new franchise with wear disposal
[6:48] so things like um Christmas tree
recycling quarterly cleanups uh bulky
[6:52] item service things along those lines
that were not touched upon in the staff
[6:57] report that currently exist will
continue to exist the difference uh in
[7:02] my view is going to be a much more um
economical uh Service uh that's being
[7:08] provided um there for instance will no
longer be charges for burough Services
[7:14] uh for streets that are difficult for
standard-sized trash trucks to navigate
[7:20] um uh there are some residents that are
the top of steep driveways that need
[7:25] what's referred to in the industry as
Scout Service uh we're going to Pro
[7:29] provide a provision that will allow for
sharing of the cost for scout Services
[7:34] uh for um residents that are clustered
at the top of a of a steep driveway uh
[7:40] as I was describing um there's a
provision that was proposed that after
[7:44] the first 90 days where we'll uh come
back with a proposal to figure out how
[7:50] to save residents more money if there
are Services being provided that aren't
[7:55] as efficient as they could be if there's
other services that could be provided
[7:58] that would result in cost savings that's
something that we'll be re-evaluating
[8:02] after the first 90 days um where we'll
be providing uh all of the services that
[8:09] the city needs under a new state law
known as s SP 1383 it's a very
[8:14] significant uh um benefit that the city
will be receiving there are very um
[8:21] specific and detailed reporting
requirements um requirements for
[8:26] monitoring uh waste that's disposed of
in the very ious containers that will be
[8:31] uh placed out for residents to use uh
route auditing requirements a lot of
[8:35] expense involved in all that that where
will be taking on for the city and while
[8:40] the city does have a waiver for SP sp1
1383 for the next couple of years that
[8:44] waiver will expire and so we'll be well
positioned to be in compliance with the
[8:48] law at that time and understand that
there's a $10,000 a day potential
[8:52] penalty if the city's not in compliance
so um I think the proposal you have uh
[8:57] will have a a very significant benefit
uh from from a legal compliance
[9:01] standpoint um those are the highlights
of the contract I'm and the proposal I'm
[9:05] very happy to answer questions if
anybody has
[9:08] any are there any questions of Mr
[9:14] Munoz I have a couple of questions sure
all right so um I know this is in the
[9:19] staff report but for the people so what
will be the base cost for the typical
[9:26] residents if the base cost will be $32
.98 a month um and as I mentioned in my
[9:34] opening comments uh there's a lot of uh
residents who receive something called
[9:38] burrow service right now uh the burough
service will be eliminated so anybody
[9:42] that's paying both the base cost for
Republic plus a burough service charge
[9:46] going forward will only pay the base uh
service charge which is the 32.98
[9:52] correct and then if you have a long
driveway or uh the trash is picked up at
[9:59] at your
house instead of at the street right how
[10:04] is that so that's referred to as carry
out service or sometimes as Scout
[10:08] Service uh the charge for that is an
additional $54 in change I apologize I
[10:13] don't remember the exact number 5444 if
I remember correctly um and as I
[10:17] mentioned if there are a number of
Neighbors at the end of that same
[10:20] driveway they'll be able to share that
$54 um on a prata
[10:26] basis and the um
where will be providing the same 96
[10:33] gallon three
containers that we have now that's
[10:37] correct you'll have one container for
refuse one for recyclables and one for
[10:42] um organic waste or green waste the one
exception is that wear has offered a 10%
[10:48] discount uh to seniors or disabled
customers uh who aren't generating as
[10:54] much waste and can use smaller size
containers and then you you did indicate
[10:59] that you reached out several different
haulers were contacted by I guess you or
[11:06] the
committee and one of those was Republic
[11:10] and for the longtime residence one was
hallay hallay and Republic both
[11:14] indicated that they were not interested
in um participating in this process and
[11:20] then the ones you did speak with um they
submitted competitive sealed bids or
[11:27] whatever however that worked it it
wasn't a super formal process um with
[11:32] sealed bids and that sort of thing
although we tried to keep them
[11:35] confidential just to keep the process
Fair um so we we received three
[11:39] different proposals one from Edco
disposal one from Valley Vista services
[11:44] and one from we disposal Inc um they all
had um strengths uh that we had to
[11:52] compare with each other or against each
other I should say to determine what
[11:56] what the committee felt was the best
value from a price standpoint as I
[12:00] mentioned the wear proposal was clearly
you know the the lower number and then
[12:04] as we went through and talked about the
type of equipment that would be used um
[12:09] the customer service Provisions the
transition services that would have to
[12:13] occur the committee felt comfortable
that we provided both the the lowest
[12:17] price and the best
[12:24] value that's all the questions I have at
this point
[12:31] I do have a card from Mr we so I guess
I'll open it to public comment unless oh
[12:37] does anybody else in the council have
questions Mr P I'm sorry Mr where Mr
[12:43] PPA so um on I was reading through staff
notes and also the agreement
[12:51] um and you mentioned the the Scout
service which is kind of the service
[12:55] where um if you want our I think you
call maybe valet service which is where
[13:00] if you don't want to bring your trash
cans out they'll come up and get them
[13:04] um we in here notice there's a senior
disabled option for that so there's um
[13:11] two different things we're talking about
here valet service refers to if you keep
[13:15] your trash cans in your backyard behind
a gate right um then the huler will go
[13:21] behind the gate get the trash cans and
bring them out to the place where
[13:24] they're disposed of and that would apply
whether uh your residence is structured
[13:28] or or situated to where you could put
your your uh carts out on the curb or if
[13:33] you're at the end of one of those long
driveways so for those um residents in
[13:37] need where has offered to provide that
valet service at no charge Scout service
[13:42] is unique to very very long driveways
steep driveways unusual circumstances
[13:48] where the curb is not being used as the
as the I just want to confirm the valet
[13:52] service will be at no charge that's
correct and where will determine whether
[13:56] or
not I mean it'll an objective standard
[14:00] got it people who
[14:05] qualify thank you are there any other
questions did the two members of the
[14:11] committee wish
to say anything at this point or we'll
[14:15] invite Mr wear to come
up I just I'll comment a little bit uh I
[14:21] thought the process went extremely well
and it was uh you know we worked as a
[14:28] team and inter interviewed as a team and
asked a lot of questions and it uh it
[14:33] was uh really good to get all the
information from the
[14:37] haulers and I thought it worked uh very
well we got a very good process with the
[14:43] whole thing and we were able to uh
really crunch the numbers and look at uh
[14:47] what worked and what didn't work in the
past and we're doing whatever we can to
[14:54] make this transition this fall as
seamless as Pro possible
[15:00] Mr wear is here from the company and uh
he he understands that uh we had some
[15:07] issues with the transition in the past
and that uh we're going to work real
[15:12] hard to make this happen and so it's
eliminate any pain supposedly for all
[15:18] the residents uh when that occurs but Mr
wear can speak to that when he comes up
[15:23] but I thought it went very well and want
to thank all the team members
[15:29] yeah I understand that this was the
first uh process of looking at trash
[15:34] haulers with the assistance of uh an
attorney who specializes in
[15:40] trash this this aspect of trash and uh
it really to me added an important
[15:49] Dimension that uh would have been
missing otherwise uh especially in
[15:54] regards to customer service I think
there was uh considerable time spent on
[15:58] customer service
uh not as an afterthought but as the
[16:02] discussions went on with all three
haulers uh really focusing on customer
[16:08] service and the responses uh from where
people uh really spoke to that in a very
[16:15] favorable way in a way that uh it seemed
that there was considerable sensitivity
[16:21] to the needs of our community uh but
also uh knowing that Mr Munoz is
[16:27] available uh down the road uh to uh take
any comments that we might have as a
[16:34] council or needs in the community to uh
speak to customer service if there's any
[16:41] complications any difficulties uh that
uh he he's there and uh available to us
[16:47] and I I just think that that to me firms
up any agreement uh firms up the offer
[16:53] of customer service uh that it it
certainly will come through and I guess
[16:59] I certainly don't have any question
about that happening on the basis of the
[17:03] discussion on the basis of Mr munoz's
involvement and just uh where we are
[17:09] today with with where and I think it's a
great
[17:15] decision okay Mr
[17:19] wear perhaps you could give us just a
tiny bit of the background of your
[17:23] company and then
whatever you'd like to present
[17:29] absolutely
absolutely uh Madame mayor council
[17:32] members my name is Jay wear I'm the
general manager of we disposal I uh
[17:36] stand in Fr you tonight thanking you for
your consideration uh and thanking the
[17:41] committee for its
recommendation uh my company is uh
[17:45] started by my parents in
1968 uh we are a full Solid Waste
[17:50] Service Company we have uh over 250
trucks operating in the Southern
[17:56] California area um across San Diego Los
Angeles and Orange County um we are
[18:02] looking forward to providing uh the
services uh to the city and as you've
[18:08] heard tonight the committee was very
much focused on uh community service and
[18:12] customer service and those are my
biggest um uh focuses for your city one
[18:19] transitioning out the city in a smooth
and effortless uh and seamless
[18:24] transition and secondly to make sure
that your city is serviced my customer
[18:29] service team along with my operations
team who I have here tonight actually I
[18:34] have Mr Manny Gonzalez and I have also
miss Leah Ding and ranr all very much uh
[18:39] prepared to uh involve and invest
theirselves um fully to customer
[18:44] services within this city um and with
that said uh I believe that I can answer
[18:51] any of your questions if you have
any I guess it's a little unusual but
[18:56] are there any questions Mr we by any of
the council
[19:02] members no I guess not fantastic thank
you look forward to your consideration
[19:07] thank Youk you and your team for
coming well we'll close the hearing
[19:13] then may I have a
[19:19] motion is there any additional public
comment I thought I asked I'm
[19:26] sorry all right back back to the council
then is May I have a
[19:32] motion I'll make a motion to select uh
where disposal to enter into a new
[19:38] franchise agreement for collection and
processing a solid waste including
[19:41] compliance with the state mandated
organic Recycling and related
[19:45] services and direct the City attorney to
prepare a franchise agreement for a
[19:49] 10-year period beginning October 1st
2024 with the option of two one-year
[19:54] extensions and return to the council for
its uh approval of such
[20:00] franchise a
second is there any
[20:06] discussion um just briefly I just want
to basically thank uh the uh uh Dennis
[20:13] and Brian for their hard work on this
they address a number of my concerns I
[20:17] had with the uh current uh uh waste
huler and I appreciate it especially
[20:23] your concentration on the fact that we
have responsibility to to do our best
[20:29] for the for the uh residents not simply
for the city as a whole but for the
[20:33] residents individually thank you very
[20:38] much okay U Mr
Bergman yes Mr larity yes Mr PPA yes Mr
[20:47] Zuli yes and Englehart is a yes thank
you Mr Munoz and thank you Mr
[20:56] wear okay back to our
normal procedure public comment I have
[21:03] one card from Rick
[21:11] Brooks good
[21:19] evening Brooks Skyline Drive um I want
to start by thanking the volunteers that
[21:26] came out a couple of weeks ago and
helped pick up trash I really appreciate
[21:31] that there are other people in the
community that actually care about what
[21:34] our city looks like I also want to thank
Rafferty and Josh and Al and Grace uh
[21:40] for doing traffic control and making it
safe um it was pretty Harry up at the
[21:45] top of skyline and they did a good job
making it
[21:49] safe um I was a little concerned because
I someone said that they heard a comment
[21:55] from mayor Englehart that said if we do
this again we don't need City staff we
[21:59] can just put out signs and that should
be good enough unfortunately that just
[22:03] kind of shows me how out of touch you
are and you know when it comes to
[22:08] employees safety should always come
first and volunteers should be treated
[22:11] like
employees um Mr City attorney I think
[22:15] you need to explain to the city council
and to Mayor Englehart that she's not
[22:19] the CEO of the city and that she can't
just go into City Hall and bark orders
[22:24] the chain of command is and should be
that city council makes decisions that
[22:29] Council decision gives direction to city
manager and the staff works for city
[22:35] manager not for any particular city
council member and you know we're going
[22:40] to end up having staff quit or file more
lawsuits against the city because you
[22:45] know the chain of command is
broken it's been a year at least since
[22:51] the last city manager left and I've seen
the intern sign inim sign for Rafferty
[22:57] that's just absolutely Ely horrible
Management on the part of the city
[23:01] council either hire a city manager or
make him the city manager but to string
[23:07] the poor guy out for a year really I
mean he's afraid to make a decision
[23:12] because maybe he won't get the
promotion Step Up do your job okay it
[23:19] it's just it's just so disturbing that
takes a year and I don't want to hear
[23:24] excuses oh we can't afford a city
manager um
[23:29] rapidy I you know would like you to
please contact 672 Greenview and tell
[23:35] them their time is up um that property
has been on the hit list for code
[23:41] enforcement for going on 15 years and
the pre or the owners now have owned it
[23:45] for 14 years and they're doing nothing
with it that property is going nowhere
[23:50] it's an isore and Mr ster is running for
city council now so that he could get
[23:56] rid of that iord living next to him
because he couldn't do it for eight
[23:59] years while he was on the Planning
Commission so I think their time is up
[24:03] they're behind on their taxes they're
not going to do anything let's just move
[24:07] on the city has two lawsuits that I know
of because of mismanagement by city
[24:13] council and the city previous city
manager having a relationship with an
[24:18] employee well I find the same thing
disturbing that Brian you know Bergman
[24:23] and Carol Englehart have this
relationship and they've been dating for
[24:26] a long time and I just think it's really
bad for our city because we need five
[24:31] independent thinking people and not
somebody who's afraid to make a decision
[24:36] because their girlfriend's going to get
mad at them so I think one of you should
[24:40] resign anyone watching this if people
actually watch these meetings please
[24:45] drive by Henda in West Road it's
horrific that lot is a city-owned lot
[24:51] and it's absolutely horrific I'm
embarrassed weeds are 6 feet high and I
[24:57] know the excuses about the dirt pil
there but plant a row of Hedges FAS
[25:01] nitas or something and hide the thing
but no other property in the city could
[25:06] look like that without getting code
enforcements and it just you know the
[25:10] city manager and you know can only do
what city counil directs him so you know
[25:17] take care of
that and if you think that lot looks bad
[25:21] why don't you drive by Mr zula's house
and I'm just absolutely appalled that Mr
[25:27] zoula sitting council member is now
wasting City staff time and we finally
[25:32] hire a code enforcement man and we're
wasting city code enforcement because
[25:37] you failed to live by the
codes six years ago Norm I stood up here
[25:43] and I asked you a question and I said do
you live by the general plan and the
[25:47] codes or are you just a hypocrite
politician that wants to tell other
[25:51] people how to live well actions speak
louder than words so I'm done with you
[25:56] I'm tired of being nice I'm going give
you three weeks to hire a contractor and
[26:02] pull a permit and replace that roof and
clean up your your hedges in your front
[26:06] yard after three weeks I'm going to sue
you and I'm going to sue the city for
[26:11] Selective enforcement and I'm going to
go after damages for my avocado Crest
[26:16] property that was undervalued because of
lack of code enforcement for this city
[26:21] I'm putting you on notice I've tried to
be nice to all of you and I'm done I'm
[26:27] done Norm
lastly I just want to say that Norm
[26:31] zoula and Carol Engelhart they don't
represent me and they don't represent
[26:35] 98% of the
city I worked hard I saved my money I've
[26:41] made 20 30 40 years worth of mortgage
payments to live here I didn't just wait
[26:45] till my mom and dad died and then
inherit the house you didn't earn it and
[26:50] it shows by the respect you have for the
city and by the respect that you give to
[26:55] our codes so I wish City Council would
start actually doing some things and so
[27:01] that I don't have to play hard ball but
one way or another I really like this
[27:05] city there's some wonderful people here
and I'm tired of things not getting done
[27:10] thank
you thank you are there any other public
[27:21] comment committee
[27:26] comments should we go back I can do the
uh Hab habitat and vector control oh I'm
[27:33] sorry yeah I'm sorry Kath sitting there
patiently thank
[27:38] you I back to 4 a Katherine Howen from
the py hills habitat preservation
[27:44] Authority technical advisory committee
and vector control thank you for your
[27:49] patience hey I want to thank you for the
time it's been I know
[27:54] it's can you hear me okay it's quite
it's
[28:01] how how's that
better okay good evening mayor anglehart
[28:07] members of the council staff and
citizens of La Harbor Heights well thank
[28:12] you very much for the time to be able to
talk about these two things but I'm
[28:17] Kathy Howen a resident of La Harbor
Heights who is appointed by the city
[28:20] council along with Roy Francis and Adam
nazarov to sit on this the uh habitat
[28:27] count Authority citizen tactical
advisory committee and I'm here to
[28:31] update you on what's going
on in July the habitat Authority board
[28:37] unanimously voted to form a legal entity
called the community facilities district
[28:42] and I put a map in front of all of you
there or the cfd which allowed the
[28:47] habitat authority to place measure pH on
the November 2024 general election
[28:53] ballot within the district's
boundaries measure pH is a special tax
[28:59] of 1 cent per building square foot and
that's building not your whole property
[29:04] so if you have let's say an 800 square
foot 1,800 square foot house that would
[29:10] be $118 a year that they're asking for
from you the equivalence of maybe two to
[29:15] three Starbucks
right the key projects funded by this
[29:20] special tax would include the first
would be the preserved security and
[29:24] maintenance of the natural habitats
including powder Canyon Canda Hills
[29:29] turble Canyon Sycamore Canyon Helman
Park and Aurora pescadera for security
[29:35] which includes law enforcement and Fire
Prevention we have the Rangers from the
[29:39] mrca and we do contract with the various
agencies to do repairs like failing
[29:45] Trails due to heavy
rains the second would be preventing
[29:50] wildfires our R our Rangers are
extensively trained Wildland
[29:55] firefighters they maintain Parkers
Ranger patrols for fire safety and
[30:00] emergency response for example on July
the 4th weekend the park rangers along
[30:06] with many volunteers patrolled the trail
heads and some of the trails of the
[30:11] habitat and the third would be clearing
brush from homes and emergency access
[30:16] road and the habitat Authority has
finished its annual clearance of brush
[30:21] and tree review a removal from homes and
emergency access roads in La Harbor
[30:25] Heights we actually had goats clear 11
acres of powder Canyon this year as
[30:32] well and also the fourth would be
protecting the
[30:36] natural lands from threats like homeless
encampments vandalism and illegal
[30:41] dumping all the funds from measure PH
will be locally controlled they will not
[30:48] be taken away by the state or used for
any other purpose so why is the habitat
[30:54] Authority doing this the habitat
Authority faces an on goinging
[30:58] structural deficit and without an
additional stable funding source they
[31:02] will be forced to make additional cuts
which could and right now it's quite a
[31:09] um shoestring type of um amount of money
that they have you know it's really the
[31:16] funds are really limited and this what
this could do is eliminate Rangers Park
[31:22] man maintenance staff and limit access
for individuals and families to the
[31:27] trail
and the the open
[31:30] spaces so this is why they're wanting to
do
[31:34] this now if you want to get out and
exercise and enjoy nature we have many
[31:38] public hikes available led by our
volunteer doents in powder Canyon we
[31:43] have two hikes at 5:00 sharp on Sundays
and Thursdays during and this is
[31:49] starting at the black walnut Trail off
of Fullerton Road so please visit our
[31:54] website habitat author authority.org or
meet
[31:58] up.org and look under the poy Hills
Preserve hikers to join and everyone is
[32:04] welcome to these and as always please
visit us at habitat authority.org at our
[32:11] Facebook Instagram Twitter or meetup.com
Pages for more up toate information
[32:17] about happenings and events and links
are found on our website habitat
[32:22] authority.org I do encourage all
residents to feel free to reach out to
[32:27] Roy
Adam or myself on any questions you may
[32:30] have about the
habitat and that is my one on the
[32:37] habitat I also represent the harra
heights On The Board of Trustees for the
[32:42] Greater Los Angeles vector control
district and I want just a reminder if
[32:47] you wish to visit vector control or
contact them for any reason you need to
[32:52] contact the LA District not Orange
County because we are La haror Heights
[32:57] is in LA County so one animal on this
earth that could affect your health for
[33:01] the rest of your life or cause death is
a
[33:05] mosquito if you're being bothered by
mosquitoes you need to find out why they
[33:08] are around so this month there were 22
nonhuman cases of West Nile Virus versus
[33:16] 36 cases last year in California five of
those were in Fresno and the rest are
[33:22] scattered around the San Fernando Valley
so it's not in this area and so far
[33:27] we've had two human cases of westnile
virus in California this year and in La
[33:33] Harbor Heights vector control had four
service requests for mosquito activity
[33:38] and all were negative and treated our
technician found mosquito activity in
[33:43] areas of La Harbor Heights six in pools
four in USD Lids one in gutter spots and
[33:49] 20 in other non-p poool
locations mosquitoes don't fly far from
[33:54] their water sources so if you don't have
any standing water anywhere and have a
[33:59] lot of mosquitoes maybe your F your
neighbors do to help control the
[34:04] mosquito population just do the simple
Act of dumping out the water in the
[34:08] various receptacles in your property at
least once a week keep an eye on what
[34:13] could be potential sources of mosquito
growth our technician would be happy to
[34:18] come out and show you what could be
potential sources that you
[34:22] have and here's something interesting
the greater La vector control district
[34:26] along with Orange County County are
looking for ways to reduce the mosquito
[34:31] population one stud one study that we
are doing is called the sterile insect
[34:35] technique or
sit what we're doing is sterilizing male
[34:40] aides egypti mosquitoes and releasing
them weekly into a specific area to see
[34:46] if the numbers of of the mosquito
population drop and this is a pilot
[34:51] study so far in the initial studies they
are seeing some decrease in mosquito
[34:55] population so it's very promising Ing
and I hope the future shows even more
[35:00] promise and the reason why we're picking
the 80s egypti mosquito is because they
[35:05] carry the zika virus dangi fever yellow
fever and CH Ching Kong
[35:12] Chung uh virus I can't say that
right and in the meantime while we're
[35:18] working on this we're looking for ways
to control the is the a city's egyp ey
[35:23] populations that are plaguing our
residents and pose a risk for local
[35:27] transmission of tropical diseases that
are being brought into LA with
[35:33] Travelers and there has been an
unprecedented onslaught of imported
[35:37] cases of dangi fever as a disease is
going rampid throughout the world and
[35:41] residents are returning with infections
from travels near and far for each case
[35:48] report that results in an extensive
door-to-door inspection and treatment
[35:53] campaign so if anyone ever has it in La
Harbor Heights you may find vector
[35:58] control knocking on your door please let
them in and do the appropriate
[36:04] treatments and uh La greater La um
Vector District also bought a new
[36:11] facility in pacomia and at this time
they're setting up a lab for the
[36:16] mosquito rearing for the sit program and
so for more information go to the
[36:21] website Glam mosquito. org we do have a
lot of various educational program
[36:27] programs and a lot of information to
help you out and that's
[36:33] that thank you very much
[36:39] Kathy committee
[36:43] comments city council
[36:49] comments Mr PPA so a you I I have a few
number one um I want to thank the uh the
[36:56] laab heights uh Improvement Association
uh they just W wrapped up this year's
[37:01] music in the park uh I know I saw many
of you there from many of the events um
[37:06] it's always sad when the last one ends
because it's kind of the end of summer
[37:09] and we're moving into moving into fall
but I think they did a pretty amazing
[37:14] job of putting that together and you
know if you're a resident of the city
[37:17] you should really look into you're not a
member of the Improvement
[37:22] Association I would highly recommend um
joining I think everyone gets their
[37:27] monthly
news uh monthly uh little magazine in
[37:32] the mail regardless of whether you're a
member uh but they produced that um also
[37:37] on October 5th I believe it is is the uh
Community uh yard sale uh uh they uh
[37:45] Susan Brooks uh kind of did it herself
last year and um this year here I think
[37:50] the Improvement Association is taking it
on I look forward to that I think that's
[37:53] going to be a a wonderful Community
event um I also o want to thank uh all
[37:58] the volunteers that came out uh and also
thank Susan and John Susan Brooks and
[38:03] John Dominguez for organizing our
quarterly cleanup um I remember when I
[38:08] moved into the city back in
1998 that uh we used to do that and it
[38:12] was always kind of neat to you know get
out meet meet the uh meet your neighbors
[38:17] that you normally don't get to see and
uh and then go have a nice cup of coffee
[38:20] afterwards uh which I know several
several of the folks did so uh also want
[38:25] to thank the staff for for keeping us
safe I know um uh there were some not so
[38:30] nice things said by people driving by in
cars as we tried to to pick up the trash
[38:34] on the side of the road and then lastly
um just the shout out to the
[38:39] EPC uh I think everyone kind of felt it
today the the Pasadena earthquake um it
[38:45] was a small one uh but we've had a
couple now that have shook the
[38:50] heights uh you know the EPC is producing
a bunch of preparedness materials both
[38:56] for Wildfire fire but also for
earthquake preparedness I know firewatch
[39:01] um which is our local um Community uh
firewatch group has put out some
[39:06] material Kathy soel has put it out uh
around uh preparedness so not only do
[39:12] you need to be prepared for your family
up here but make sure that you're
[39:15] thinking about your pets especially if
you have large animals that have water
[39:19] needs uh one of you know we're seeing
this in palace veres with the land
[39:23] movement issue is that water is usually
the first thing to get impacted
[39:26] especially during land movement events
up in Pasadena the city hall even had an
[39:30] issue even in a small earthquake with
some water pipes breaking so make sure
[39:35] you have sufficient water for your large
animals and animals um you know to get
[39:39] you through at least 72 hours I think is
the
[39:41] recommendation uh make sure you have
sufficient food for your animals to get
[39:45] through 72 hours and that you kind of
keep that separate so you don't lose
[39:49] track of what you're
doing anyone
[39:54] else I too would like to um thank John
Dominguez who's here tonight is there a
[40:00] way to train the camera on him if he
doesn't speak or and and also Susan
[40:05] Brooks they revived the trash pickup
along Henda and it was well attended and
[40:11] the street always looks so nice oh thank
you for for a short period of time okay
[40:19] administrative
reports thank you mayor and Council
[40:23] couple items for you tonight uh over the
weekend there was a birthday party for
[40:29] one of our longest term fire department
volunteers Joan clenin Stein she was a
[40:35] uh part of the dispatch component of our
fire department all the way back in the
[40:39] day when it was purely volunteers and
residents that pitched in and helped out
[40:44] um she recently turned 99 so they had a
nice big celebration for her over the
[40:47] weekend um and we were able to bring out
engine 772 to wish her a happy birthday
[40:53] so the the Chiefs uh Chief briser and
chief Martin along with Captain Harris
[40:58] and another another retired captain that
happened to be here um in town for
[41:02] another event that doesn't even live in
in the area anymore was here and he
[41:05] wanted to go over and wish Joan a happy
birthday so it was a very nice event we
[41:10] were able to go over and wish Joan a
happy 99th and and many more um she's
[41:14] always been an integral part of the
volunteer part of the fire department
[41:19] it's we dealing with dispatch and all
the way in from when they used to be
[41:22] everybody at home that would pick up the
phone and answer the phone calls all the
[41:26] way into our now professional um
dispatch that goes through the county
[41:30] system so she was an integral part of
that fire department for a very long
[41:33] time so we just wanted to thank her and
it was a great event to to go out and
[41:37] wish her a happy birthday for that one
and also as mayor Pro pespisa touched on
[41:43] the there is going to be a yard sale
coming up October 5th um the price is
[41:48] $15 and the spaces will be a little
larger this time so it'll be 20 by 20 um
[41:53] last time they were 10 by 10 um so this
go around the the spaces will be bigger
[41:59] um they're looking at having a little
more spaces so it won't be as restricted
[42:04] if you're very interested please reach
out um to the Improvement Association is
[42:08] taking that one over um they do have an
email out there it's LHH yardale
[42:13] gmail.com um reach out to that one and
they will help you get connected to it
[42:18] um and get going we do have some flyers
that are sitting here at the C the
[42:21] counter at City Hall um for that but
also a couple of walk talks will be
[42:25] heading out for that one but very good
event very well attended last year and
[42:28] we heard a lot of great things from the
community related to to that yard sale
[42:32] event so we're looking forward to
another one um we do have two pretty
[42:36] significant
um traffic control things that'll be
[42:40] going on tomorrow um along Henda Road
there has been some copper theft from
[42:44] the Telecommunications lines um so
Frontier is going to be doing some
[42:49] single lane closures along Hender road
tomorrow um to replace a
[42:55] large section of lines that was stolen
off that was stolen um so they'll be out
[43:00] doing single lane closures and things as
they work to replace those lines along
[43:04] Henda Road um and at the same time
Southern California gadison will be
[43:07] doing some road work on um Harbor um so
you've seen if you've gone up and down
[43:12] Harbor recently you see message boards
there that say road closed um for the
[43:16] most part it will be single Lane on both
directions of Harbor there will be a
[43:21] short period where they will fully close
Harbor as they string a cable across the
[43:25] roadway and make a replacement of a line
so for a short period of time um Harbor
[43:29] will be closed on August 13th otherwise
it will just be single lane closures on
[43:33] Harbor Boulevard that'll be tomorrow
same thing on Hos andas Frontier Works
[43:37] to make those repairs of um the lines
from the copper theft that's happening
[43:42] ever more often to it and also too I'd
like to thank uh Mr Dominguez and Mrs
[43:47] Brooks for the working to coordinate
that cleanup of fana Road it was a it
[43:53] was a great event we had a good time out
there I me we kind of split into two
[43:56] groups there was a group that worked
here from City Hall all the way up to
[43:59] East Road and a group that went from
Skyline down to the north city limit I
[44:03] was working with that group there we
actually made it through that part
[44:06] pretty quick so we said hey let's go
from Skyline all the way down to canat
[44:10] sombre then we cleaned down to to canat
sombre so it was it was a nice event
[44:14] very well attended it was great to see
the the group of people out from that
[44:19] have did it when we used to do it back
in the day as as AER Pro was talking
[44:23] about to new residents that are just
doing it for the first time this around
[44:27] so it was a very nice event it was a a
great thing to do that's all I have
[44:31] tonight thank you city attorney's report
nothing other than we met on the items
[44:36] listed in closed session and there's no
reportable action that is all Community
[44:42] Development report Mr
wridge thank you mayor um so the
[44:47] Community Development report for this
month uh building department issued 15
[44:50] building permits um and collected permit
fees of a little bit over
[44:54] $166,000 we took in two code enforcement
complaints um we have 25 Active cases
[44:59] and closed seven cases during the month
of sorry it's July June it's July um we
[45:05] issued four stop work orders during July
um and closed six of those ille
[45:10] unpermitted construction cases I'm
bringing that to 65 we also took in
[45:15] seven development applications and
planning and approved nine projects if
[45:19] you have any questions I'm happy to
answer them for
[45:21] you any
questions fire chief's report
[45:27] well good evening Fire Chiefs report we
can go over that real quick um we had 60
[45:32] calls this month which is seems to be
pretty average it seems like we're
[45:36] running about 58 to 62 calls monthly we
did have one significant fire call it
[45:42] was small but it was a brush fire on
July 21st 20 24 about 2m we had a brush
[45:49] fire breakout um
in chaperel and uh and grass on Walnut
[45:56] Street um we were able to respond
quickly the volunteer fire department
[45:59] got in there quickly a good size up
report was made and uh resources from uh
[46:06] the County of Los Angeles and the laab
Heights Fire department were able to
[46:10] subdue that fire keep it from getting
any bigger but that's like our first
[46:14] brush fire that we've had we're
fortunate that there wasn't any wind
[46:17] blowing um I was asked to U mention
after hearing some of the talk tonight
[46:24] about things that are somewhat negative
let's talk a little bit about some
[46:27] wonderful people in laaber Heights so uh
I wanted to bring up the uh W the um
[46:35] party that we had this weekend this
recognition of uh the wings uh family
[46:40] and our and our interaction as a fire
department with that family Caitlyn and
[46:44] Martin W Wings whose grandmother lives
here in the Heights was having a party
[46:50] for a birthday party on July 12th
20124 for uh Laura Li she was a 2y year
[46:57] old and uh Charlotte her sister was
three years old at the time Charlotte
[47:01] drowned uh had a near drowning in the
pool theab Heights Fire department
[47:05] volunteers responded and they took over
the
[47:09] scene uh Charlotte was pulled out of the
water she was uh she was unconscious not
[47:14] breathing CPR was started uh the laab
heights volunteers showed up applied
[47:18] supplemental OT started an IV went code
3 to Whittier Presbyterian hospital and
[47:24] she survived Charlotte was here this
weekend with her parents and the
[47:28] original crew that was on that incident
we all had a celebration here in at the
[47:33] in the council chambers uh to
acknowledge those uh that event and
[47:38] Charlotte was here she was 13 now she's
uh she was at the the the uh party and
[47:44] so were the old crew it was a very
positive thing to happen also I wanted
[47:48] to just mention uh Joan kapenstein um
her 99th birthday uh for those of you
[47:54] who don't know Joan she's kind of a
legend around here here I didn't know
[47:57] Joan it was the first time that I've
I've heard of her heard heard rumor of
[48:01] her heard that she was like one of our
first dispatchers when the department
[48:04] was volunteer but uh Janes spent 43
years as a volunteer dispatcher for the
[48:09] laaber heights both as when it was the
all Vol back in the all volunteer days
[48:13] that some of you might remember and then
during the transition to the more modern
[48:17] Department that we know today Joan in
1968 Joan's oldest son Paul volunteered
[48:22] to train as a firefighter with the laab
heights volunteer fire department and he
[48:25] persuaded his mother to join the
department as a dispatcher so it was a
[48:29] family business Mark and James uh Jon's
other two sons also became volunteer
[48:35] firefighters and uh Joan has said that
all dispatching was done from their
[48:39] homes there were five dispatchers they
all had special phones installed and
[48:43] when A call came in all five dispatchers
were notified at one time each one had a
[48:48] radio and a fire telephone for receiving
the calls calls first came into an
[48:52] answering service then they were
transferred to the dispatchers on the
[48:55] fire on the Fire phones in their homes
then they would dispatch from there um
[49:00] Joan thought the dispatchers ought to
have volunteer fire department badges
[49:05] but the chief at the time kind of
scoffed at that and said where would you
[49:08] wear them on your
bathrobes so uh Joan created an
[49:13] official red phone that she that she
sewed onto five official bathrobes that
[49:19] she issued to all five of the uh of the
dispatchers in the city and I I gave you
[49:24] the handout here that shows that she did
that she's quite an an amazing woman um
[49:29] we would uh they she created the
official bathrobes for the dispatchers
[49:34] uh when dispatching moved from the
resident's homes into the fire stations
[49:37] Joan moved in to become the first fire
captain to accommodate and and
[49:41] Communications chief for the Department
she trained many fire service graduates
[49:45] and students who worked in the
department turning them into in her
[49:48] words fine clear speaking dispatchers
and I can't tell you how important it is
[49:52] when you're on the radio and you're
managing something to have clear and
[49:56] concise communication I push it very
hard with the volunteers that we push to
[50:00] talk we don't push to think over the
radio if you can kind of catch that
[50:05] meaning uh anyway it was our 99th
birthday uh a huge group of people
[50:10] showed up and celebrated that we all
went down there and acknowledged her so
[50:14] there is one of your one of your key
residents in laab Heights Joan K Klo
[50:21] kapenstein kste John kapenstein your
first dispatcher I'm proud to say um
[50:27] also uh so I mentioned the fire and then
um there were three um after July 21st
[50:34] properties located at the high and very
high fire SE severity zones requiring
[50:38] documentation of compliant defensible
space
[50:41] inspections according to ab38 uh
assembly 38 were uh were conducted and
[50:48] to for real estate sales disclosures and
documentation only so people that have
[50:52] to go through these they don't need to
worry about it we're going to go up
[50:54] there and do a fire inspection but it's
just for sales per purposes only um the
[50:59] uh Chief alal they did three inspections
in July in accordance to ab38 if there
[51:04] are any other questions I can answer
them that's end of
[51:09] report any
questions I would like to make a
[51:13] followup comment on the wing matter and
thank the chief um Caitlyn Wing kind of
[51:22] decided on her own that she would
honor the par Medics and staff that were
[51:28] on duty back in was it
2014 when her her daughter almost
[51:35] drowned and the chief and Don sterk I
guess I've um did a wonderful job uh and
[51:43] it was it was really nice seeing some of
the guys that had actually been at that
[51:49] event and one of the gentlemen I can't
remember his name he had saved the call
[51:55] sheet and
actually he was I can't articulate it it
[52:00] it was really down when he read the call
sheet but they went out anyway and it
[52:04] all turned out wonderful and I really um
think we cannot thank our fire people
[52:09] and our paramedics enough because they
actually do save a lot of lives thank
[52:15] you so much um Sheriff's Department
report good afternoon we had one uh
[52:23] reported burglary on uh excuse me
Elka
[52:28] Hita that took place on the 4th of July
we also had one vehicle burglary that
[52:35] occurred that occurred at powder Canyon
Trail um the parking
[52:41] area just a reminder that all valuables
should be kept at home in the trunk or
[52:48] uh or take them with you because this
happens almost every month at uh
[52:54] powdered Canyon Trail we had identity
theft one vandalism that took place on
[52:59] Fullerton Road but I drove there this
morning and I didn't see any vandalism
[53:02] so it might have been cleaned up and one
petty
[53:05] theft for the month of
July any
[53:10] questions Mr
pispa uh Deputy Beltran um sir I I've
[53:15] become aware of some copper theft along
Henda uh I I didn't hear that in your
[53:19] report has there been a the copper theft
I reported it was reported today oh was
[53:26] reported yeah it was just reported this
morning I took a report okay cuz it it's
[53:30] occurred now in three three separate
places along Henda yeah they just told
[53:34] me about it uh I did do one report this
morning uh was uh according to the U
[53:40] employees of uh Frontier yeah it was
$220,000 worth of copper yeah it's hard
[53:46] to believe that that that much copper is
these these these copper wires are not
[53:52] your usual what people imagine it
they're pretty it's almost 2 in thick
[53:57] and there's a lot of copper inside of it
yeah now
[54:01] I I believe it happened this weekend the
time we can't no it's been a couple
[54:06] weeks well there was one this morning
yeah I'm I'm yeah I I actually talked to
[54:11] the frontier folks and there was there
was one that happened a couple weeks ago
[54:14] it started a couple weeks ago um and and
the only reason I bring it up and maybe
[54:18] we can get some you know I I know it's
hard at night to get Folks up here from
[54:24] this sheriff's department but maybe you
know they can just drive up and down
[54:28] Henda and just look at it cuz while
while it impacts Frontier what who it
[54:32] really impacts are residents that for
the last two weeks have not had phone or
[54:38] Internet service because of the outage
safy issue right so there's a safety
[54:43] issue with it too they can't di on 911
or there's no reception and it comes a
[54:48] serious uh yeah so safety issue I just
you know if you have an opportunity to
[54:53] you know at briefing at industry just to
ask you know not a lot just if you got 5
[54:59] minutes drive up and down Henda and just
make sure there's no one cutting the the
[55:02] phone cables on the poles
[55:07] absolutely any other
questions moving on to the consent
[55:11] calendar items 9 through 13 does anyone
wish to pull any
[55:17] item may I have a
motion I move to accept the consent
[55:23] items second
Mr zazula yes Mr PPA yes Mr larity yes
[55:31] Mr Bergman yes and Englehart is a yes
item 14 protest hearing on unpaid brush
[55:38] clearance costs Mr wridge thank you
mayor um this item before you tonight is
[55:44] related to the clearance of properties
related to brush clearance um there are
[55:48] four four properties that have been
cleared by the department um as part of
[55:52] our blush brush clearance program um
they went all the way through the
[55:55] process were abated um and those are
ready for the lean process to that um so
[56:02] tonight uh the action would be for the
the city council to overrule any
[56:06] protests offered during the protest
hearing and adopt resolution 20
[56:11] 24-24 confirming the report of costs
incurred by the city and authorizing the
[56:15] assessment of as leans to be placed on
the tax rols effective August 12th 2024
[56:20] or amend the charges to be assessed and
place the leans as followed and adopt
[56:23] the resolution if you have any questions
I'm happy to answer
[56:27] any
questions should open the hearing are
[56:31] there any protests or
comments hearing none return it may I
[56:37] have a
[56:50] motion I make a motion that we adopt
resolution number 20 24-24 confirming
[56:56] um the reported costs incurred by the
city and authorizing the assessment as
[57:01] Lan to be placed on the tax rolls
effective August 12 2024 second Mr
[57:07] zazula yes Mr PPA yes Engle harsy yes Mr
larity yes and Mr Bergman yes okay we've
[57:15] already done 15 and 16 17 fiscal year
2223 Street Improvement project Zone 4
[57:23] Henda Road did I do something here
so for the record the recusal is because
[57:29] of the location of your property correct
yeah
[57:37] oh
okay Mr
[57:41] wridge thank you mayor and Council um
this item before you tonight is to award
[57:46] contract for the fiscal year 2022 203
Street Improvement project uh zone four
[57:52] Hina Road and East Road um this project
uh before the
[57:57] council a little while ago um we had
opened bids for the project and the bids
[58:01] came in um at about 1.7 million which
was way above what the engineer's
[58:08] estimate was and what we expected to to
have related to the the project um so
[58:14] staff and city engineer went back and
met with the roads advisory committee's
[58:19] design subcommittee they relooked at the
projects revised the project the scope
[58:24] of the project um and did a couple of
things
[58:27] they reduced the number of streets that
we would be worked on and they also
[58:30] created a few additional alternate bid
items so typically we'll have one or two
[58:36] alternate bid items one of those
alterntive bid items generally is crack
[58:40] seal there's Council usually has a think
for us to be able to do $30,000 worth of
[58:45] crack seal as part of the projects um
and so that is typically one of the
[58:49] alternate bids and there might be an
additional Street or two that we would
[58:52] look at as an alternate bid um but after
opening that bid
[58:56] um the design subcommittee did a lot of
very good work in looking at the roads
[59:01] um to work on the roads that needed the
work the most up front um so the project
[59:07] the base bid of the project was revised
to include work on Skyline lucadia and
[59:14] panoy um in those areas up up in that
location as the the base bid and the
[59:20] alternate bid item one is for crack
sealing so we would crack seal the areas
[59:25] that were as part of the 1718 project um
which is a regular cycle and process of
[59:31] of maintenance for that so that crack
seal would be on Reposado
[59:36] alocate half of Church Hill and papaya
are the streets that we did in the 1718
[59:42] project that would be done for alternate
bid one is the crack seal component
[59:46] alternate bid 2 um is a work on um
reconstructing deep Canyon so deep
[59:54] Canyon is over off of East Road close
close to papaya um that street has had
[59:58] some significant deterioration over the
years um so alternate bid two would be
[1:00:05] essentially that area needs to be all
RNR so removed and replaced um and
[1:00:09] reconstructed and Alternate bid three
would be for repaving of green view the
[1:00:15] public portion of green view about half
of green View Road is public and the
[1:00:19] other half is private so alternate B
item three would be to do that would be
[1:00:23] to pay from Reposado um all all the way
to where it it changes to the private
[1:00:28] side of Green view um if you we we rebid
the project um and open those bids a
[1:00:35] couple of weeks ago um we received uh
five people pulled bid packets um we
[1:00:42] received four bids from Onyx Paving
Company RJ Noble Hardy and Harper Inc
[1:00:47] and All-American asphalt um where the
four companies that submitted bids uh
[1:00:51] for that included the base and the
alternate bids um if you include the
[1:00:56] base and all the alternate bids together
um the lowest responsive bidder would be
[1:01:01] Onyx Paving for a total of 1,
369,000 um so that would be the option
[1:01:09] to award the base plus the three
alternates ultimately the way it was
[1:01:13] broken up Council can award their
contract based off any combination of
[1:01:17] the base bid or base bid plus alternate
or alternates um the only thing is that
[1:01:24] has to be from one contractor
so depending on if you look at wanting
[1:01:28] to approve a base plus a certain
alternate the contractor that is the
[1:01:33] lowest bidder may change based on which
bid item you're looking at um staff is
[1:01:39] making the recommendation that we award
based on the base bid and the three
[1:01:44] alternates um so that would be awarding
the contract to Onyx Paving Company in
[1:01:48] the amount of 1 M
369,000 um as the second component of
[1:01:54] these Street Improvement projects is the
construction management and the
[1:01:57] inspection portion of it and for that we
reached out to our engineering firm nv5
[1:02:02] to receive a proposal for doing the
inspection Management Services
[1:02:07] construction management services and the
inspection of it including materials
[1:02:11] testing and labor compliance component
of it um so their their proposal for the
[1:02:16] that component of it is
[1:02:20] $2,364 um so cmn inspection is done as
like time and material so they look at
[1:02:27] the whole project to look at the amount
of working days that are in there so
[1:02:33] inspection is scheduled for they gave a
bid for 80 working days as part of the
[1:02:39] inspection the reality is generally our
projects don't do 80 days worth of
[1:02:43] inspections so they would only bill for
the time that they're actually doing
[1:02:46] inspections so for like the inspector it
would be at the time for meetings that
[1:02:51] we have and progressor meetings
pre-construction meetings and their time
[1:02:54] in the field doing in inspection um they
would bill us for those hours that they
[1:02:58] work same thing with the construction
manager it would be the the time that
[1:03:03] leads up going through the material
submittals and preconstruction progress
[1:03:09] through it and close out um so it's not
that we would award an agreement to nv5
[1:03:14] and they would collect
$192,000 it's based on what they built
[1:03:18] so typically our cmn inspection usually
comes in less than that because they
[1:03:23] don't typically work the entire time as
far as like days of inspection in the
[1:03:27] field which is the most costly component
of it um theirs also includes labor
[1:03:33] compliance since this is a prevailing
wage there are certain requirements that
[1:03:36] have to be done as part of the
construction so there's interviews with
[1:03:40] the workers from the construction
companies we have to review their
[1:03:43] payroll the s a certified payroll we
have to do all of those and report all
[1:03:47] of that to the state and also includes
materials testing and and inspections um
[1:03:52] as needed for the project so staff is
recommending that
[1:03:56] the city council W the fiscal year 2022
23 Street Improvement project um
[1:04:02] Construction contract to onx Paving
Company in the amount of
[1:04:06] $1,369 th000 authorize a contingency for
this project in the amount of 15% award
[1:04:12] the construction management and
inspection contract to nv5 in the amount
[1:04:16] of
$192,300 and authorize the finance
[1:04:22] manager to amend the F the fiscal year
2024 25 bu budget to increase count
[1:04:27] number 10450 PWD 6830 by7
[1:04:52] 725,000 is in addition to the 1.36 9
million correct how does this fit with
[1:04:59] the original expectations of uh the
assessment as we've gone along our costs
[1:05:07] have definitely increased especially
over the last few years um so our costs
[1:05:11] have continue to increase for the
projects as we've gone on from when that
[1:05:15] the assessment was originally put in
place so where would the
[1:05:20] excess dollars come from it comes from
the general fund from the which general
[1:05:31] fund is that 192,000 do you feel that's
realistic for what they're
[1:05:37] doing I I would say it's going to be
less than that on average construction
[1:05:42] time for the street projects we usually
don't see a go past 60 days um just on
[1:05:48] average it's generally less than that
we're usually in the 45 to to 50 60 at
[1:05:53] the long end of a project um so you know
they they write those proposals to
[1:05:58] include sort of the worst case scenario
of time so like 80 Days of construction
[1:06:04] so inspector is generally not going to
be out here for 80 days which would
[1:06:08] represent a significant Savings in that
amount of money okay thank
[1:06:16] you Mr Bergman um this one if I look at
nv5 you know the proposal this time
[1:06:23] versus what they've done in the past
this is considerably
[1:06:27] more it's like almost double so the
um I mean do you have to have somebody
[1:06:36] on out here every single
day during that uh when they start the
[1:06:42] paving project yes well that that is the
best recommendation to have our
[1:06:46] inspector here while they're doing the
[1:06:53] work and their proposal they you know
they give the who's going to be doing
[1:06:58] the work you know their their primary
inspector would be Mike Elma he's done a
[1:07:02] project here in the heights for us he
did a project the one we did with RJ
[1:07:05] Noble um which included like Cypress and
nbal and dorothia and and those areas
[1:07:11] over there so he's very familiar with
the community and the train and and
[1:07:15] getting people in and out so he's he's
well experienced with the the heights
[1:07:26] I guess I'm sort of based on they've
almost doubled their price I have a real
[1:07:29] concern with the
um pricing struction
[1:07:35] and I mean maybe we need
to go out for a bid on this thing I'll
[1:07:41] say Peter Sago who is the construction
manager for it does an amazing job he is
[1:07:48] I think you worked with him in other
communities he does a lot of other work
[1:07:51] for other communities even in their city
that that City he represents he's very
[1:07:56] thorough he tracks things well he keeps
everybody on their toes he makes sure
[1:08:00] all the submittals are in and reproved
um their inspectors do an amazing job as
[1:08:06] part of it they they do good work in
this aspect of
[1:08:11] it I guess if uh myself personally if I
approve this tonight I want you to go
[1:08:17] back to nv5 and they need to sharpen
their pencil on this thing because it's
[1:08:22] it's you look at what they charged is in
the past and what it is now it's U it's
[1:08:27] a huge
increase on this prior Street
[1:08:33] project it's I know we have a working
relationship obviously with that guy
[1:08:39] we've also split this Pro we've split
this up in the past and that project
[1:08:44] didn't go so well I understand that I
understand that
[1:08:49] that's they can also sharpen their
pencil and then believe me like Peter
[1:08:54] tracks his hours they track their hours
very carefully to know that to watch
[1:08:59] exactly where they are and let us know
where they are in
[1:09:03] their in their hour range of what they
put it in the proposal I mean if they
[1:09:08] have to be out here they have to be out
here I understand that
[1:09:13] but I don't want them out here if they
don't have to necessarily be here type
[1:09:17] thing and I guess that puts work on you
to manage that
[1:09:20] situation yeah definitely they are not
any more than they need to be I mean if
[1:09:25] if the contractor isn't working or doing
something that needs to be inspected
[1:09:30] generally aren't
here in a situation like this as a city
[1:09:34] ever hired a civil engineer with some
background in working with streets and
[1:09:39] Roads hire them
[1:09:43] independently we have not done that
aspect of it
[1:10:03] if you had to use somebody else who
would you reach out to we would have to
[1:10:07] put it out to
[1:10:16] bid mean I'm just concerned that there's
such a vast increase on this thing over
[1:10:20] the last
one sure you notice that too
[1:10:27] and I don't know if the Project's that
much different or what they've done on
[1:10:31] the whole thing but
[1:10:51] uh I guess it's just my feelings I'd
like to hear from the rest of the
[1:10:57] Council I had a you said um the bid the
whole package of the of the paving not
[1:11:04] the
engineering um was
[1:11:07] restructured and what was it the
alternates that were taken out of the
[1:11:13] bid or was were there other streets that
aren't on this proposal that were
[1:11:18] deleted there were other streets that
were deleted from the base bid aspect of
[1:11:23] it so the Bas bid also you can look at
alternate two and three were included in
[1:11:28] that base bid previously um so and there
were other streets that after the
[1:11:33] subcommittee looked at they said okay
these streets can wait the their PCI
[1:11:38] their conditioned they went out they
walked the areas again to look at what
[1:11:41] could wait and what needed to move
forward um for us to figure out what
[1:11:45] would put us more into where we would
need to be budget
[1:11:49] wise
okay could we could
[1:11:53] we adop adopt the bid by Onyx Paving
that hold off on the payment to nv5
[1:12:01] until we've talked to them more about
[1:12:06] that we could certainly now how whether
how many um administrative hurdles that
[1:12:13] creates I don't know but legally you
certainly
[1:12:17] can
administratively it's just going to put
[1:12:20] the project behind as we're going to
have to wait to move forward with any
[1:12:24] sort of submittal so typically out of
the gate the first thing we do is we
[1:12:28] work through agreements getting so
basically kind of that first month is
[1:12:32] going to be that it's agreements it's
bonds insurance is put in place so we
[1:12:36] look we review all those City attorney
reviews those construction manager
[1:12:39] reviews those and then it's the
submittal from the contractor so their
[1:12:43] AC mix designs and all of their their
tack coats and slurry seals uh crack
[1:12:49] seal all of those are submitted for
review and approval um through that that
[1:12:54] process of it so that part of it would
probably be delayed if we if we go out
[1:12:58] and circulate a bid to find another
[1:13:05] option I've I've heard comments and well
since I've been on the council which
[1:13:11] isn't that long we saw that
nv5 made a very high bid to design the
[1:13:19] paving at the Helo hydrant and then
there was
[1:13:23] another I'm forgetting it now there was
another project where where there oh it
[1:13:28] was the park it was the diagonal ramp at
the park and they submitted an extremely
[1:13:35] high bid and when I got first on the
council uh one of the members of the
[1:13:40] roads committee pointed out that there
was a
[1:13:44] project I'm not sure which year it was
but the cost of the paving increased
[1:13:52] which was everybody understood that and
then nv5
[1:13:57] just upped their cost to 10 or 15% of
whatever the increase was even though
[1:14:03] the amount of streets that was
covered
[1:14:08] um hadn't changed so the little
experience I have with this it it just
[1:14:14] seems nv5
is is uh has not got a TR good track
[1:14:20] record from what I've observed the other
thing is if we could save any money I
[1:14:24] mean at this point we're being asked to
increase this project by 725,000 and
[1:14:31] that that comes out of the general fund
and as I recall our 25 2425 budget was
[1:14:39] like $100,000 from balancing or over is
very short so I I would think it would
[1:14:47] be worth
looking looking at someone else or
[1:14:52] having them come back with
a a more
[1:14:56] accurate a lower
[1:15:01] price I if you want us to not have the
inspector out there every day we can we
[1:15:06] can work that through and look at reduce
the hours that they have in for
[1:15:13] inspection I just want to work really
smart on
[1:15:16] this and um I think what we need to do
tonight this might just one councilman
[1:15:23] speaking is to approved the project with
the the total aggregate cost on the
[1:15:30] 1369
and give you directions that you have to
[1:15:34] go back to nv5 and really really tighten
up these numbers and see where they can
[1:15:40] pull things out and if uh if they can
have the inspect I don't want any
[1:15:44] inspector out here if they don't have to
be out here type thing if it's on a need
[1:15:48] type basis and they have to we're
pulling all this money out of the
[1:15:52] general fund to make this thing happen
and
[1:15:55] I understand if you need the inspector
out here and you need the management
[1:15:59] from that team out here fine but we need
to really tighten this up because I look
[1:16:06] back on the last proposal from nv5 and
this is this is like almost double and
[1:16:12] it's um maybe they have more work in it
but they need to go back and relook at
[1:16:17] the whole thing
and that's where I'm coming from that if
[1:16:21] you're going to use them you got to
really tell them that you've got to
[1:16:25] sharpen your pencil and not have any
person out here when they don't need to
[1:16:28] be type thing and reduce that cost at
that
[1:16:34] 192 that's just one council
[1:16:43] member Mr Zula I'm in substantial
agreement with Brian if You' like to
[1:16:48] make an motion I'd second
it okay well I'm ready to make a motion
[1:16:53] then I'll make a motion to award the
fiscal year 20 2223 Street Improvement
[1:16:59] project to onx Paving Company in the
amount of 1,
[1:17:02] 369,000 authorize a contingency fee for
the project of 50
[1:17:08] 15% and go back to nv5 for um to sharpen
their pencil on their whole entire
[1:17:15] contract
amount and minimize any labor at all
[1:17:20] that has to come out here and just use
them uh only the
[1:17:25] absolute absolute minimum
amount and if uh if
[1:17:31] they they can't do that or they can't
reduce their costs in this thing we're
[1:17:35] going to have to go out to bid on it I
know that'll slow things down so I don't
[1:17:39] really want to do that either and then
authorize the finance manager to amend
[1:17:43] fiscal year 2024 budget to increase the
amount uh of the 725,000
[1:17:55] city manager execute the contracts in a
form approved by the City
[1:18:00] attorney one second oh oh
bar okay well do you have to author
[1:18:07] authorize the budget amendment for that
full amount if you're hoping well I did
[1:18:12] because I I don't know what it's going
to be or anything else so at least we
[1:18:16] have some latitude in there I think we
given clear instruction that this number
[1:18:20] has to come
[1:18:23] down was is that a second Mr zoua or I
think Dennis beat me to it but oh fair
[1:18:29] enough um let's see I guess I open for
public
[1:18:33] comment or I should have done that I
hearing nothing um Mr zoua yes Engle
[1:18:40] heartsy yes leery yes and Mr Bergman yes
okay number 18 does somebody mind
[1:18:47] letting Mr oh this pieza back in the
room
[1:19:17] okay number 18 financial assistance and
recovery from the winter
[1:19:23] storms thank you May and Council um this
is continuing some of the information
[1:19:29] that related to our storms from February
um as we move for further through the
[1:19:34] process um We are continuing through the
process with um FEMA we have a dedicated
[1:19:40] representative that we work with at FEMA
um that we work to put all of our costs
[1:19:46] that we've incurred so far in any future
future work that may need to be done in
[1:19:50] mitigation that we work with that um
that individual to help us through that
[1:19:54] process um have been working very very
well with that aspect of it as moving
[1:19:59] forward um so we we meet with them on a
pretty much weekly basis from there we
[1:20:04] last meeting we worked with um a member
of their mitigation staff to look at
[1:20:09] some of the areas that we may need to do
future mitigation work um so that's
[1:20:13] areas of Henda where we saw some
failures area of East Road where we saw
[1:20:17] some failures also some of the drainage
areas that um we saw overrun with debris
[1:20:23] from the debris flows that are coming
off the Hillside and speaking with the
[1:20:27] mitigation expert from FEMA they will
come out um and actually walk us through
[1:20:32] that and that proposal as well so we're
finalizing that damage assessment form
[1:20:38] with our representative and are working
to schedule a time for the U mitigation
[1:20:44] representative to come out um a couple
of things that go along with mitigation
[1:20:48] aspect of it is um we could you we
receive about 100% of what we have in
[1:20:53] costs that go out the door as far as
emergency work that we have done that we
[1:20:58] receive reimbursement for which right
now is just a little under half a
[1:21:02] million dollar and we receive that in
there if we need to go above and beyond
[1:21:06] that aspect of it if there is some
damage that needs attention and
[1:21:10] mitigation work to prevent this in the
future um if it's above that half
[1:21:14] million dollar Mark and we would have to
go through a cost benefit analysis to
[1:21:18] see if there is a benefit of doing that
work to be able to get there um as part
[1:21:22] of it so um we're in that phase with Fem
right now um recently you've seen there
[1:21:27] some work has happened out on uh some of
the roads we made some repairs to East
[1:21:32] Road where there was some SL failure in
that area um so that stretch at 400
[1:21:36] block of East Road was repaired and so
at city engineer worked with um put
[1:21:43] together a little bit of bid documents
we put that project out to bid um so
[1:21:46] that stretch of East Road was actually
elevated on one side to help keep the
[1:21:51] water to flow pitch to the other side of
the road um some burm will be coming in
[1:21:55] from there similar on LEF Flo where
there was a section where that road
[1:22:00] roadside had washed away and we did some
repair work along lafl section of
[1:22:05] Fullerton Road and East Road as well um
with the company CTI um so that Paving
[1:22:10] work was recently done the burm work
should be happening very very soon um as
[1:22:14] part of that so it's all reimbursable
costs that go into um
[1:22:19] our claim but our paperwork with FEMA as
well so all of those things are are
[1:22:24] moving through the process um as we
speak we're actually meeting with our
[1:22:28] representative tomorrow um we have a
scheduled meeting with him from there
[1:22:32] Tom is there anything else you wanted to
add that I might have
[1:22:37] missed I don't think he
[1:22:42] heard Council has any options we're any
questions we're happy to answer Mr bisa
[1:22:47] so a couple things um I mayor Englehart
and I have met with some of the
[1:22:53] residents along hosand that were
impacted by the debris flows um are we
[1:22:58] going to be able to have some
mitigations in place before next
[1:23:03] winter we're working on larger
mitigation with FEMA um at the same time
[1:23:09] city engineer and myself are looking at
some more specific things that we could
[1:23:13] do now um that may not necessarily be as
part of that mitigation work that FEMA
[1:23:19] does but things that we can do to some
of those drainage facilities at s
[1:23:22] impacts um to help prevent this from the
next rainy season which is coming up can
[1:23:27] we is there a possibility of
understanding what those might look like
[1:23:31] by
October yes okay because i' I'd like to
[1:23:35] make sure that they have an opport you
know if we can agendize it for October
[1:23:39] that would be great and I'd like to
invite them to come down to the October
[1:23:42] meeting to voice their concerns because
they have some pretty specific concerns
[1:23:46] about you know what happened and I know
the mayor and I have been um trying to
[1:23:52] help them understand the process we go
through to make changes to both drainage
[1:23:56] and possibly even the road so i' like
to agendize that if possible uh number
[1:24:05] two is Mr Brooks brought up and I'll
agree with him on this one thing Weston
[1:24:11] Hender really is an isore um I I hope
that part
[1:24:16] of the the recovery plan is to remove
the tons and tons and tons of storm
[1:24:23] debris that have been dumped there and
it's now I mean we're several months
[1:24:27] from the event is there a plan to remove
and and restore that lot back to the
[1:24:32] condition it was in before the storm
there is um as part of the fuma process
[1:24:37] we have to remove those debris in a very
specific fashion um we also have to bid
[1:24:42] that process out so Grace has been in
the process of bidding it we were just
[1:24:46] waiting for the last bid to come in we
need the three we need at least three
[1:24:50] bids as part of our purchasing policy to
be able to do that um and we're just the
[1:24:55] last bid is coming in right now so once
we have that then we can move forward
[1:24:59] with it it's not going to be inexpensive
to remove that from the property um but
[1:25:04] it would remove all of that material
that was staged or deposited on West
[1:25:09] Nanda and we'll get recovery for those
costs we have it already we already have
[1:25:14] it as a line item in our recovery cost
once we have the hard cost we'll be able
[1:25:17] to add that dollar figure to it okay I
had a question about Western Henda the
[1:25:24] the the burms they're there to keep
people off the property I mean it's not
[1:25:30] like it's going to end up being a flat
piece of land no I was talking about no
[1:25:34] I agree the BMS need to stay it was
specific to the the debris that was
[1:25:39] placed there I BMS were there before the
storm so yeah I don't know if it was Mr
[1:25:44] Brooks or Mr Fernandez were complaining
about I think it was Mr Fernandez was
[1:25:48] complaining about the BMS but yeah well
we can I mean as a council we can talk
[1:25:55] about what we want to do with that piece
of property I guess I mean I think
[1:25:58] there's some ideas maybe we need to
resurrect those in the near future about
[1:26:03] what we should do with that
property so maybe that's another thing
[1:26:07] we agendize for later in the
year thank you anyone else okay number
[1:26:14] 19 project
updates thank you Council um looks like
[1:26:20] we're still in the window for October
for delivery the new type 1 engine um so
[1:26:27] hopefully we should be getting that soon
it's going through the production
[1:26:29] process right now as we see we made some
pretty significant uh progress on the
[1:26:33] solid waste agreement tonight we'll
continue to work city attorney's office
[1:26:37] to finalize the agreement with we and
bring that back to the council for you
[1:26:41] to ratify um and put that into place as
we roll that out to the October
[1:26:46] changeover from Republic to now wear
Disposal Services as part of that so
[1:26:51] that's a very good thing there I assess
accessibility improvements at the park
[1:26:57] uh we are meeting this week with our
representative from cdbg related to the
[1:27:01] funding that we can utilize for the ramp
to clarify and finalize if we can do a
[1:27:07] design build aspect of it or if they
need plans to be reviewed and approved
[1:27:11] as part of their project before they can
authorize us to spend money on it um so
[1:27:17] uh this this coming Wednesday our
representative from cdbg our community
[1:27:21] development block block block grant
program um will be coming out and
[1:27:25] meeting with us in Walking the site of
the park so we can finalize that so if
[1:27:29] we can do a design build aspect of it we
can move forward with design build um
[1:27:33] instead of preparing plans and then
going out to bid for for construction um
[1:27:38] she she was looking at there is the
potential for it um to go through that
[1:27:42] design build process she just needed to
finalize or gather some more information
[1:27:46] from her side from her her uh fellow
colleagues and then we'll meet and
[1:27:51] discuss that on Wednesday we'll meet
with her as that part of it
[1:27:54] um h Road saf safety Improvement plan so
avocado Crest signal um contractor has
[1:28:01] the big things in as far as the polls
traffic cabinets and the um controller
[1:28:08] for the signal are in and ordered the
roads committee reviewed the signage
[1:28:13] that will go on the polls um as part of
their their packet that they looked at
[1:28:17] last month they made a recommendation to
have those signs that hang that on the
[1:28:22] pole let's say h Road and avocado Crest
um to match our regular street signs
[1:28:26] that we have so we'll include City seal
and have a bit of orange around the
[1:28:31] border of it so what our regular street
signs look like our illuminated signs on
[1:28:36] the signal will look similar and we'll
use that as we move replace the other
[1:28:41] signage along henda's Road at the other
signals West Henda East in Henda there
[1:28:46] isn't any signal any signage like that
at uh Skyline so as we replace those in
[1:28:51] the future we can make that all
consistent and keep that moving forward
[1:28:54] they have a tentative turn on date of
March 2025 for the signal that will be
[1:29:01] the completion of having the signal in
tested and all of the striping and
[1:29:05] signage being replaced on Henda by March
of 2025 is is the
[1:29:11] contractor's best schedule at the moment
so for that one the measure W monies um
[1:29:19] we've received monies related to that
and we're in the process of scheduling
[1:29:23] those Works to be done um we have been
working with uh the contractor or the
[1:29:29] company that had the project at the park
for the regional component um Tom had
[1:29:33] just met with him last week to review
and discuss some some options related to
[1:29:37] that um so we should hopefully be able
to bring that back to the council here
[1:29:41] relatively soon with some good
explanations as to the cost for the
[1:29:46] system ongoing maintenance and looking
at transfer agreement and documentation
[1:29:51] that we need to execute with the county
as well so hopefully should have that
[1:29:54] here for you um at our next meeting um
and Gerald's in the process of revising
[1:29:59] the guard rail RFP we worked with the
rad advisory committee to look at he
[1:30:04] went out and did an assessment of all
the areas in town that have guard rail
[1:30:07] some areas that need guard rail put that
into a priority list we worked with the
[1:30:11] roads advisory committee to look at that
priority list to see if that was the
[1:30:14] areas they felt we should focus on first
um they they agreed um so that is being
[1:30:19] revised so we can get it released here
hopefully by the end of the month it's
[1:30:23] kind of where we're at right now if you
have any questions I'm happy to
[1:30:26] answer Mr P pleas so two things
um what's going on with our since you
[1:30:32] brought up signage our city limit signs
the one on the north end of town at
[1:30:38] Henda has been gone for eight months now
yes uh we were in the process of trying
[1:30:44] to get those put into order I believe
right when all our storm happened I mean
[1:30:50] grace got tied up with everything so
she's in the process of completing that
[1:30:54] order now so we can order those signs
and get them installed okay and then are
[1:30:59] we not repairing guardrail in the city
now because of the replacement
[1:31:04] project we have I noticed that there's
been quite a bit of damage to guardrail
[1:31:09] that has not been repaired for many
months yeah we need to move forward on
[1:31:13] some Replacements of guard rails a
couple of those are Insurance related so
[1:31:18] we have to work with assessments from
crashes that have happened and we
[1:31:22] actually get claims from insurance to be
able to go through the insurance process
[1:31:26] and replace that c rail there is there
is at least one stretch that we don't
[1:31:31] have any identifiable claim or crash
data to to go back to that we can look
[1:31:37] at
[1:31:41] okay when do you think the work on the
avocado Crest T signal will start it's
[1:31:47] still late
October um they recently did some pot
[1:31:51] holing out there so they looked at the
locations where the polls would be going
[1:31:55] to make sure there's no utility lines
that would be in the area they didn't
[1:31:58] find anything which is good so no
changes needed to be done to Foundation
[1:32:03] or pole design they are anticipated like
late October to start doing some work um
[1:32:09] out at those sites is kind of where
we're at today with them um but that
[1:32:13] might stretch into early November just
depending on when they start receiving
[1:32:19] equipment thank you anybody else
[1:32:28] okay any individual council member
information
[1:32:32] items or attendance
[1:32:36] reports public comments not on the
agenda
[1:32:41] anyone I guess we'll
adjourn oh I'm sorry
[1:32:56] Bruce Thomas panchoy first of all it's
sort of my opinion the whole group of
[1:33:02] you it's none of our business out here
how you live as long as it's outside of
[1:33:07] the city council who cares that's just
my opinion secondly anybody that doesn't
[1:33:12] know
Joan she's the only one that been in
[1:33:15] this department longer than I
have anybody doesn't know her needs to
[1:33:20] go meet her she's a classic
lady she knows the Heights and knows the
[1:33:27] history of the heights like hardly
anybody else
[1:33:31] around and she I've had the privilege of
being her her chauffeur in the fire
[1:33:37] equipment in several occasion she is
just a kick to be around arry so and so
[1:33:45] you get her mad there's nobody like her
but she's about as sweet as they come
[1:33:51] just for the sake of anybody that wants
to know about the heights give her a
[1:33:56] call she is a classic lady that's it
thank you thank you it's a high note to
[1:34:02] end on if you if you look on the one
that Chief passed out there was an
[1:34:05] article in the Heights life there's a
picture there of the Jeep Joon and the
[1:34:09] Jeep Mr Thomas is driving the jeep CH
fer in the
[1:34:13] Jeep and if I might please uh among your
other accomplishment she was my Cub
[1:34:18] Scout denm mother
[1:34:29] do I need a motion to
adjourn okay we're adjourned then thank
[1:34:34] you Mr
[1:34:39] Thomas well thank you for the pr