Oh yeah, perfect.
So quiet. It is.
I use a computer
I
ll just use the computer.
Excuse me.
Ok, we
re gonna go ahead and
reconvene the regular meeting
if everybody will please stand
and join me in the Pledge of
Allegiance.
I pledge allegiance to the flag
of the United States of America
and to the republic for which
it republic republic for which
it republic stands, one nation,
under GOD, indivisible with
liberty and justice for all.
And I
d just like to note Mayor
Hansen has an excused absence
tonight.
Uh, can I get the closed
session report, please. Yes,
thank you, Vice Mayor. There
s
no action to report this
evening from closed session.
All right. Is there any public
business from the floor on any,
any item not on the agenda
tonight.
Seeing none, do we have anybody
on the phone?
No, there are no members
present on Zoom.
Right, thank you, MADAM City
Clerk, what
s on our agenda
tonight? Tonight we have one
presentation, one city manager
report, and 4 items on our
consent calendar.
Very good. All right, I guess
we
ll start with our
presentation. The, the mayor
s
minute.
Signal Hill, Mayor Tina Hanson
here to bring you another
segment of the mayor
s minute
where I share quick updates on
all the wonderful things going
on in our city. I
m here today
at the beautiful Hilltop Park,
and if you haven
t come, you
need to come see it.
Signal Hill under the stars
continues with reggae night.
Join us on Friday, AUGUST 28th
at the Signal Hill Public
Libraries, Zenas Courtyard from
6 P.M. To 8:30 P.M.
Enjoy mocktails, snacks, and
live music under the stars and
our beautiful art project we
have out there. This program is
for adults ages 18 and over.
Tickets will be available on
the city
s website for a small
cost and registration is
required.
For more information, as always,
call Parks recreation and
library Services.
Our small businesses are the
heart of Signal Hill. If you
haven
t already downloaded the
Open rewards app, please do so
and create a free account.
Earn rewards as you shop
locally and get 20% back simply
upload your receipts to redeem
rewards at more than 40
participating locations.
There are all kinds of places
in Signal Hill you can enjoy
unique gifts, services,
eateries, and products again
offered by our independent
small businesses. This program
helps keep dollars circulating
in our community. It
strengthens local businesses
and it rewards residents for
shopping locally. Women
s
Equality Day is this Wednesday,
AUGUST twenty-sixth.
The signal Hill Public Library
will be hosting a Women
s
Equality Day movie on Wednesday,
AUGUST 26th from 2 P.M. To 4
P.M. At the library Learning
Center. Come watch Fly with Me
and learn about the women who
changed the workplace landscape
As as flight attendants during
the 50s and 60s. This movie is
rated tv 14 and youth ages 13
and younger must be accompanied
by a guardian or an adult.
Registration is required again
through the.
Library until the next mayor
s
minute. Have a great day and
joy all that there is to
enjoy here in Signal Hill.
Very nice. Ok, we
ll move on to
city manager, city manager
s
reports, the 2nd Amendment to
the agreement for design
services with wg Zimmerman
Engineering Incorporated for
the East Burnett Street
Historical District pedestrian
and bike enhancement project.
Can I get the staff report,
please? Yes, good evening, uh,
Vice Mayor, members of the city
council, uh, we
re going to
invite our public works
director Gabino Luna up to the
uh the dais to provide the city
council with an overview
presentation.
Of this project and the
recommended agreement amendment.
Thank you, Carlo.
Good evening, uh, honorable
Mayor, members of the city
council. Tonight staff is
requesting approval of
Amendment number 2 with wg
Zimmerman Engineering for the
East Burnett Street Historical
District pedestrian and bike
enhancement project.
The amendment covers design
revisions required after a
detailed survey and roadway
analysis identified cross slope
conditions that must be
corrected.
It also extends the agreement
so the engineer record could
support, uh, bidding and
construction.
To begin, I
d like to provide
some background. The project
extends along East Burnett
Street from Walnut Avenue to
Cherry Avenue where it
transitions to Skyline Drive
and continues to Dawson Avenue.
This corridor located within
the Crescent Heights Historic
District is an important
pedestrian and bicycle
connection, and it
s in its
current state, it lacks
continuous sidewalks.
Adequate pedestrian lighting.
And designated bicycle lanes.
West of Cherry Avenue,
pedestrians encounter sidewalk
gaps and must travel along
uneven dirt shoulders
containing debris, and utility
poles. These conditions can
push pedestrians closer to
vehicle traffic until the
sidewalk resumes near Gaviota
Avenue.
Limited lighting also reduces
nighttime visibility and the
absence of bicycle lane
markings makes bicycle travel
less defined for both
bicyclists and motor motorists.
The city
s general plan
identified this corridor as a
priority for pedestrian and
bicycle improvements.
The project will address these
conditions by constructing
approximately 1560 linear feet
of sidewalk between Gaviota and
Cherry Avenues.
New ada compliant curb ramps
and pedestrian lights as well.
The project also includes full
deaf roadway reconstruction on
Burnett Street between Wanted
and Cherry Avenues. Pavement
resurfacing along Skyline Drive
between Cherry and Dawson
Avenues and approximately 2830
linear feet of class 2 bike
lanes.
Additional safety improvements
include a rectangular rapid
flashing beacon at Burnett
Street and Gaviota Avenue,
painted crosswalks, and traffic
calming striping.
The goal of these improvements
is to provide safer and more
accessible connections to
neighborhood parks.
The hilltop trail system.
Signal Hill Elementary School,
transit stops.
The Civic Center and the
Planned Heritage Square
development.
As for timeline in JUNE 2023,
the city secured $2.8 million
through the Active
Transportation Program or atp.
The city subsequently executed
a master agreement with
Caltrans in MAY of 2024 to
receive and administer the
project funding.
The city began procuring
environmental services in
AUGUST of 2024, and the city
council awarded the
environmental agreement that
OCTOBER.
Environmental clearance was
completed in MAY of 2025 under
a class one categorical
exemption.
We then advertise the psne
design phase in JULY of 2025,
and the city council awarded
the design agreement to
Zimmerman Engineering in
SEPTEMBER of 2025. Since then,
staff and the design team have
advanced the construction
documents, refine the roadway
grading and drainage and
developed a design that
supports the corridor
s
long-term use and future
development.
As the design advanced, field
survey and roadway analysis
confirmed that portions of the
existing street have cross
slopes that exceed the
applicable criteria for
accessible pedestrian and
bicycle facilities correcting
these conditions requires
raising the proposed roadway
center line.
This change affects the road
rate profile and cross sections
and requires corresponding
revisions to grading.
Drainage, driveway and street,
uh, connections payment and
retaining walls.
As a result, the additional
scope includes 3 primary
components.
First, Zimmerman Engineering
will revise a roadway, grading,
drainage, and retaining wall
design.
Second, the consultant will
incorporate temporary
construction and permanent
drainage easements that the
city is coordinating with the
affected property owner, and
third, the agreement will be
extended through JUNE 30, 20207.
Allowing Zimmerman to support
bidding and construction as the
engineer of record maintaining
the same design team avoids
duplicated work.
Supports consistent
interpretation of the plans and
reduces the risk of delays
during construction.
The total project budget is 2.8
million. This includes $2.78
million in active
transportation program funding
and $109,000 in cip reserves of
that amount, $318,000 is
allocated to the psne phase,
including $306,000 in grant
funding and $12,000 from cap
reserves.
The current agreement with
Zimmerman Engineering is 200,
about $245,000. Amendment
number 2 would add an
additional $55,000 increasing
the agreement to a revised not
to exceed amount of $300,691.
The revised agreement remains
$17,000 below the approved psne
budget.
Therefore, no additional
appropriation is requested.
Funding is available within the
existing project budget and any
remaining phase funds will
remain available to support
construction consistent with
applicable grant grant
requirements.
Before bringing this amendment
forward, the design team also
evaluated the potential
construction cost impacts
associated with the revised
roadway grades.
Zimmermann Engineering
completed an updated updated
engineer
s estimate that city
staff reviewed that
incorporates the grading
changes and related revisions
to the roadway, the drainage,
and the retaining walls.
The current estimated
construction remains within the
$2.376 million available for
the construction phase.
Based on this estimate, staff
confirmed that the proposed
design changes can be
accommodated within the
existing construction budget.
Staff has one recommendation
tonight.
Staff recommends that the city
council authorize the city
manager to execute amendment
number 2 with Zimmerman
Engineering.
That concludes my presentation.
I
m available to answer any
questions. Thank you.
Any questions? I do have some.
You mentioned some additional
safety features at the
intersection of Gaviota, um,
can you explain that a little
bit more and then.
Are there any additional safety
features for pedestrians or
bike on Cherry, as in lighted
walkway or just explain why,
why Gaviota and not the other
intersections.
Throughout the entire area that
we
re improving, uh, we
re
adding additional parkway we
re
making extended sidewalks, um,
we
re adding, uh, pedestrian
lighting as well, so there
s
about 15 poles that we
ll be
adding on top of the poles that
exist closer to Cherry.
As far as traffic calming, um,
we are adding the bike to the
the class 2 bike lanes that
helps with reducing speed.
That
s a, that
s an added
benefit of adding class 2 bike
lanes, um, at Gaviota we
re
adding a continental crosswalk,
um, we have something similar
to that in in school areas, um.
It
s, it, it almost looks like
slotted, slotted, uh, uh, paint
markings, um, and we
re also
adding what
s known as rrfb or
a rapid rectangular flashing
beacon, um, that allows for
pedestrians to with the push of
a button.
Have lights flash so that they
can safely cross the street, ok?
So why Gaviota and not the
other, not the other
intersections along that whole
pathway.
Um, there
s a couple of cross,
uh, there
s a couple of
crosswalks throughout that
intersection we chose that we,
we figured that that section
there, that would be good mid
mid-block midblock crossing, um,
between Walnut and Jerry. I can
see it
s more populated with
businesses and things there too.
And then the sidewalk
improvement, will it be on both
sides of Skyline Drive or just
the improvement on the south
side or the.
The improvements will be on the
north side.
Yeah, so we have improvements
uh for the sidewalk on the
north side. Ok north side.
The
Where the existing sidewalk is
now, so it
s, it
s not gonna be
additional sidewalks on both
sides going up the hill.
There
s, there
s current
sidewalk right now, but there
s
some sidewalk gaps on the north
side that we
ll be addressing
ok on the south side we are
doing some ac berm replacement.
We are, there is some guard
rail that will also be
replacing as well, uh, closer
to rows, um, and if memory
serves me right, there
s a
couple, a couple areas that
we
ll be addressing closer to
Cherry as well. Ok, so if I
m
walking from Home Depot up the
hill so.
On my left, there
ll be now a
completed sidewalk all the way
to Dawson.
Will there be a completed
sidewalk at the end of this on
both sides of the, of the
roadway from, from Cherry to
Dawson.
As you walk on, no, no, not as
you walk up to, to Dawson, yeah,
it
ll be improvements in any
gaps or anything, only on the
right only on the ocean side so
to speak, ok.
Those were my questions, thank
you.
Any other questions?
Um,
So how, how are we addressing
the safety of the bike lane on
this, this hill part, right?
It
s, so people are going to be
now coming down skyline in a
dedicated bike lane.
To cherry.
Where, you know, we
ve had
previous incidents of people
having accidents, so, um, and.
So how are we addressing the
speed of bikes coming down the
hill and then people using the
bike lane for alternative
vehicles and creating other
safety hazards.
Yeah.
That
s a, that
s a good
question. Um um.
Between cherry and walnut,
we
re doing uh grading changes.
So we
re doing some fill
sections to address the slope
there, um, that
s the main
emphasis area for bike lanes,
um, that
s gonna allow us to be
consistent with the circulation
element so that we can connect
Walnut, um, going towards
Dawson. As for that area going
up towards uh on Skyline going
up to Dawson, there is some
slope challenges that
We
Anticipate
Specifically with curb ramps,
um, as well as with, with bike
lanes, um, that
s something
that we
re.
We
re working with the design
team on so that we can address
as well. Um, but we do
understand that
s a challenge,
uh, the slope, uh, along, along
Skyline all the way up to
Dawson.
So I, I guess.
My concern is that by creating
the bike lanes, we
re kind of
creating a, a problem, right,
that doesn
t exist today. So
people really do not ride their
bikes down skyline today or
Hill Street, right? There
s not
space for bikes.
And so by creating dedicated
bike lanes.
We
re creating an attractive
place for people to do things
that are unsafe.
And how are we going to
mitigate that?
Um, that
s something that we
can, uh, we
re still working on
the design, so that
s something
that we
ll we
ll bring back to
the team so that we can.
We can discuss, but I
understand that concern, uh,
council member Jones, um, and
we
ll address it with our
design team.
Are the bike lanes, uh, were
they required on Skyline in
order to qualify for the grant.
Is that, yeah, it
s, it
s
a requirement. So multimodal
travel is.
Is a is a requirement of the
atp grant.
But, um,
Given that the, the main
emphasis is on cherry, between
cherry and walnut. I think
there
s something that we can,
we can work on with our design
teams so so that we can you
know find a.
A good compromiser.
And the bike lanes are on both
sides of the street.
Yeah
Uh
Does it, will it connect? Is
there an existing bike lane on
Walnut that this will connect
to?
Not at the moment, um, it is
identified in the circulation
element that walnut is, is an
area that.
I mean, yeah, the walnut
s an
area that we could add bike
lanes too so it
s a relatively
short.
Section of bike lane that
doesn
t really connect to
another existing dedicated bike
lane.
But, you know, I
ve seen bikes
going up and down that street
and so all this is doing is, is
providing a.
Safe
I mean, it
s not perfect
skyline. I usually see them
coming up temple. They
ll go,
they
ll come down or, or up.
I
ve ridden up that street.
Like once and then I never did
it again, I think, um, but,
yeah, I mean, it
You know, maybe we
re gonna
keep talking about this at a
subsequent meeting to make sure
it
s safe, but I mean, I think
it
s, to me it seems
appropriate.
Because you
re giving the
bicyclists, a safe place to go
up and down, so.
That
s just my comment. Ok. Any
other questions? No. Just
remind me again, the additional
safety features that are going
to go on Cherry as the bike
lane and as a pedestrian.
Pathways cross, Cherry. Will
there be flashing in ground.
Um,
You know, crosswalks or
anything special.
Yeah, at, at the continental
Crosswalk, normally you would
add race ceramic markers that
flash, so that
s something that,
um, um, with our rfp system
that we can, we can incorporate
or add.
I, I see that being more
valuable, more on.
Cherry Valent Gaviota, but I
m
not that familiar with the
daytime business traffic or
residential traffic on the
coming off Gaviota.
Making a left from Cherry on
the skyline.
Is hazardous when I
m in my suv.
People just come up that hill.
It
s like a blind ridge and.
You know, they
re not even
speeding and they don
t realize
people are turning there. So to
add bikes to the mix that are
frequently on a bike lane is
gonna be a challenge.
Yeah, I, I personally would
love to see whatever flashing
when they, when a pedestrian
pushes a button, right, that
there
s also active, something
active.
On the roadway that that, um,
vehicles have a greater
awareness that this is also a
pedestrian crossing and, and
just to add, just, uh, vice
mayor and council, we would
want to point out this kind of
feedback to the designer and to
the, the traffic engineering
team because there MAY be
elements of the project that
due to acute and specific
conditions, it MAY not be
appropriate to have a bike lane
there. We
re not sure.
But we
d want to point that out
because we certainly wouldn
t
want to create an environment
where there
s a potential
conflict between vehicles and
pedestrians or vehicles and
cyclists, so the project isn
t
fully designed yet. It will
come back and we
ll bring it
back to the council. We
ll have
a full analysis to, to better
understand those field
conditions and make sure that
um we
re not, you know,
creating unintentionally any
issues that would, would raise
an issue at that location in a
dream.
Several years ago I imagined
coming from the trail system.
That there
d be an overpass.
A pedestrian overpass, um,
right at, well, I forget the
name of that street anyway,
that would go over Cherry and
dropped down into the View Park.
Um, but.
That
s a dream.
All right, are there any, uh,
comments or questions from the
public?
Yeah.
There is one user on Zoom. Give
me one second.
Call in user number one, you
now have 3 minutes to speak on
item 11a.
A training so I hate training
so much. My name is Gord
Orbison. Trainings are ruining
signal Hill. They
re ruining
our community. They
re beating
our women in sport. They
re
feeding our women in county
jail, and I think they should
be locked up in the
institutions. GOD bless America.
GOD bless Donald Trump, and GOD
bless Israel and GOD bless our
governor Tex Dougherty.
There are no additional
speakers on Zoom. All right,
with that, I
ll bring it back
to the city council for further
comment or a motion.
I
ll move the item as presented
2nd, got a motion by Council
member Woods, seconded by
Council member Copeland, uh,
all in favor? Aye.
And he opposed, abstained.
All right, thank you. Um,
Consent Keller, anybody wish to
pull anything from the consent
calendar?
See not anybody from the public
like to pull anything from the
consent calendar.
All right, uh, nobody wishes to
do that. I
ll seek a motion to
approve the consent calendar.
I move the consent calendar.
Got a motion in a 2nd. All in
favor. Aye, aye.
And he opposed abstained.
Thank you.
All right, uh, moving on to
council, new business. Council
member Woods? No, no new
business, but just a reminder
to stay safe. Schools starting
and, and all areas and
different parts of the city and
different school districts. So
just a, a good heads up. It
s
that time of year and be
especially careful of our
students and their routes to
school.
Ok. Council Member Jones. Um, I
just wanted to remind everyone
of the Signal Hill, uh, Chamber
of Commerce mixer, this
Thursday at Encore, and you can
register at the Signal Hill
Chamber.Org website. It
s from
5 to 8 at Encore here in Signal
Hill.
Ok.
Councillor Mem Copeland.
And I have known you business,
uh, with that, I seek a motion
to adjourn.
Yeah
All right.