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CITY OF SANTA CLARITA

JOINT CITY COUNCIL/BOARD OF LIBRARY
TRUSTEES
REGULAR MEETING

Tuesday, February 26, 2013

6:00 PM

City Council Chambers

23920 Valencia Blvd. 1 st Floor

Santa Clarita, CA 91355

AGENDA
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PUBLIC FINANCING AUTHORITY - No New
Business
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How to Address the City Council

You may address the Council during Public Participation
on any matter within the Council's jurisdiction that is not
listed on the agenda. Each person wishing to speak should prepare a
presentation of not more than three (3) minutes. Public
Participation speaker's cards must be submitted to the City Clerk
BEFORE this portion of the meeting begins. Public Participation
takes place before the consideration of the agenda items and
following the consideration of agenda items. However, each person
will be allowed to speak only one time during Public
Participation per meeting.

Anyone wishing to address an item on the agenda should
fill out a speaker's card and submit it to the City Clerk BEFORE the
Mayor announces the item. Each person addressing the Council is
given three (3) minutes to speak indicated by a colored light system
on the Council dais; a green light appears when the speaker begins;
a yellow light appears when 30 seconds remain and a red light
appears when time has expired. Comments should be complete at this
time. Each presentation may not exceed three (3) minutes.

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In compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act, if
you need special assistance to participate in this meeting, please
contact the City Clerk's Office, (661) 255-4391. Notification 48
hours prior to the meeting will enable the City to make reasonable
arrangements to ensure accessibility to this meeting. (28CFR
35.102-35.104 ADA Title II)
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INVOCATION - Kellar

CALL TO ORDER

ROLL CALL

FLAG SALUTE

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EXECUTIVE MEETING

This time has been set aside for Councilmembers to review the
agenda and obtain any further information that may be needed.
Council will also discuss each individual item during the course of
the meeting with the exception of the Consent Calendar, which may be
approved in its entirety by one motion, unless there is a request to
pull an item for discussion. No action will be taken on public
agenda items during the Executive Meeting.
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APPROVAL OF AGENDA - Mayor to inquire whether there
are any changes to the Agenda or if any member of the Council or the
public would like to pull for discussion, any item on the Consent
Calendar.
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AWARDS AND RECOGNITIONS

American Heart Association

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PRESENTATIONS

Canyon Country Optimist Club

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PUBLIC PARTICIPATION

This time has been set aside for the public to address the City
Council on items NOT listed on
the agenda. The City Council will
not act upon these items at this meeting other than to review and/or
provide direction to staff. ALL speakers must submit a speaker's
card to the City Clerk PRIOR to the beginning of this portion of the
meeting. Thirty minutes are allotted for public input at this time.
The FIRST TEN people to submit a speaker card prior to the beginning
of Public Participation will be heard. Speaker cards will be
accepted beginning at 5:45 p.m. Any speaker cards received once the
first speaker has begun will be heard at the end of the meeting
regardless if the ten person limit has been met. Speakers may not
exceed three (3) minutes and may only be heard once per meeting
under Public Participation.
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STAFF COMMENTS (Matters of Public Participation)

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COMMITTEE REPORTS/COUNCILMEMBER COMMENTS

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CONSENT CALENDAR

All matters listed under the Consent Calendar are
considered routine and will be enacted by one motion by the
City Council. The items are not individually discussed by the
City Council unless a request is made by a member of the
public or the Council, in which case, the item(s) will be
removed from the Consent Calendar and will be considered
separately.
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1.

APPROVAL OF MEETING MINUTES - The minutes of the
previous Joint City Council and City Council acting as the
Governing Board of the Successor Agency to the former Santa
Clarita Redevelopment Agency and the Joint City Council and
Board of Library Trustees meetings are submitted for approval.

RECOMMENDED ACTION: City Council and City Council
acting as the Governing Board of the Successor Agency to the
former Santa Clarita Redevelopment Agency: Approve the minutes
of the February 12, 2013, special meeting; and City Council
and Board of Library Trustees: Approve the minutes of the
February 12, 2013, regular meeting.

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2.

READING OF ORDINANCE TITLES - Government Code Section
36934 requires that all ordinances be read in full prior to
Council taking action on the ordinance. By listing the
ordinance title on the Council agenda, Council may determine
that the title has been read.
RECOMMENDED ACTION:
City Council determine that the titles to all ordinances which
appear on this public agenda have been read and waive further
reading.

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3.

AWARD PURCHASE OF JOHN DEERE 444K LOADER - City
Council authorized the replacement of a Dresser, 520B Wheel
Loader truck during the Fiscal Year 2012-2013 budget process.
The Dresser, 520B Wheel Loader is used by the Streets Division
to move large quantities of materials. The current Wheel
Loader, a Dresser 520B, is 22-years-old and meets the City’s
criteria for replacement of equipment older than 12 years.

RECOMMENDED ACTION: City Council approve the
purchase of a John Deere 444K Loader from Coastline Equipment
using California Multiple Awards Schedule (CMAS) contract
#4-08-23-0023A in an amount not to exceed $135,375.82; approve
increase to expenditure budget account 14504-5201.002 Street
Maintenance by $5,376, to account for the additional funding
needed to complete the purchase, and increase Gas Tax Sales of
Property & Equipment account 230-4621.006 by $13,500 to
account for the revenue generated from the sale of the
existing Dresser, 520B Wheel Loader.

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4.

COMMUNITY SERVICES AND ARTS GRANTS FOR FISCAL YEAR 2012-13 -

For approximately 22 years, the City of Santa
Clarita has provided funds for community organizations through
the Community Services and Arts Grant program. Each year, a
Grant Committee is assembled to determine funding categories,
review and rate applications, and make final funding
recommendations for community service projects and arts
projects throughout Santa Clarita.
RECOMMENDED ACTION:
City Council approve Community Services Grant Committee's
project recommendations for Fiscal Year 2012-13, in an amount
not to exceed $72,000 for Community Services Grants and
$40,500 for Arts Grants; in a separate vote, per
Council-adopted policy/process, City Council approve Canyon
Theatre Guild City of Santa Clarita Presents art grant in an
amount not to exceed $7,500; direct staff to execute
agreements approved for funding; and authorize City Manager,
or designee, to sign all documents pursuant to City Attorney
approval.

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5.

CHECK REGISTER NO. 3- Approval of the Check
Register.
RECOMMENDED ACTION: City Council approve
and ratify for payment the demands presented in Check Register
No 3.

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UNFINISHED BUSINESS
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6.

SIGN ORDINANCE - At the June 12, 2012 City Council
meeting, the City Council directed staff to return to the City
Council with a draft amendment to the City’s Municipal Code
that would provide that any signs removed from public property
be stored by the City until after the event to which they
relate occurs, after which the owner of the sign can retrieve
any such sign without paying any fine.
RECOMMENDED
ACTION: City Council conduct a first reading and pass to
a second reading "AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY
OF SANTA CLARITA, CALIFORNIA, AMENDING CHAPTER 11.12 OF THE
SANTA CLARITA MUNICIPAL CODE PERTAINING TO SIGNS PLACED ON
PUBLIC PROPERTY."

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NEW BUSINESS
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7.

MEMORANDUM OF UNDERSTANDING FOR BRIDGEPORT MARKETPLACE PARK
- The Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) is an attempt
to serve multiple needs while fulfilling the documented desire
to have an open public green space in this portion of the
Bridgeport Marketplace.
RECOMMENDED ACTION: City
Council approve the Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) for
Bridgeport Marketplace Park; authorize City Manager, or
designee, to sign all documents pursuant to City Attorney
approval.

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PUBLIC PARTICIPATION

This time has been set aside for any speakers that have turned in
speaker cards and were not heard in the
first thirty minutes allotted to address the City Council on items
that are NOT on the agenda. No further speaker cards will be
accepted once Public Participation begins. Speakers may not address
items that have been considered this evening. Speaker cards may not
be submitted relating to any items listed on the agenda.
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STAFF COMMENTS (Matters of Public
Participation)
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ADJOURNMENT
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FUTURE MEETINGS

The next regular meeting of
the City Council will be held Tuesday, March 12, 2013, at 6:00 p.m.
in the Council Chamber, 1st floor of City Hall, 23920 Valencia
Blvd., Santa Clarita, CA.
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CERTIFICATION

I, Arminé Chaparyan, Interim City Clerk, do hereby certify that I
am the duly appointed and qualified City Clerk for the City of Santa
Clarita and that on February 21, 2013, between the hours of 9:00
a.m. and 5:00 p.m., the foregoing agenda was posted at City Hall and
the Santa Clarita Sheriff's Station.

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Arminé Chaparyan
Interim City Clerk
Santa Clarita,
California

The official
agenda is posted at City Hall in accordance with state law.
This
copy is for general information only.
In the event of a
conflict between this copy and the posted agenda, the posted agenda
shall prevail. Questions regarding this agenda should be directed to
the City Agenda Coordinator at (661) 255-4391.