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Meeting Name: City Council Agenda status: Final
Meeting date/time: 5/14/2015 8:30 AM Minutes status: Final  
Meeting location: Council Chambers
Regular Session
Published agenda: Agenda Agenda Published minutes: Minutes Minutes  
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ID#15-394 1  Ceremonial ItemPresentation of the SPCA Pet of the Monthpresented  Action details Not available
ID#15-366 1  Action ItemProclamation of “WOMEN’S LUNG HEALTH WEEK”read and presented  Action details Not available
ID#15-378 1  Ceremonial ItemProclamation of “LUPUS AWARENESS MONTH”read and presented  Action details Not available
ID#15-376 1  Ceremonial ItemProclamation of “TEEN PREGNANCY PREVENTION AND AWARENESS MONTH”presented  Action details Not available
ID#15-405 2  Ceremonial ItemHonoring the 2015 Edison High School Boys Basketball Division 1 Valley Championspresented  Action details Not available
ID#15-414 1  Ceremonial ItemProclamation of “WATER AWARENESS MONTH”presented  Action details Not available
ID#15-413 1  MinutesApproval of City Council minutes from April 30, 2015approvedPass Action details Not available
ID#15-295 11-A Action ItemApprove amendment to Consultant Contract with Highland Consulting for professional consulting services for ongoing and new railroad related Public Works projectsapprovedPass Action details Not available
ID#15-354 11-B Action ItemAuthorize the Public Works Director or his designee to enter a Fifth Amendment to a Reimbursement Agreement with the California High-Speed Rail Authority (CHSRA) for the purposes of extending the contract term to develop a series of cooperative agreements (Council Districts 1, 2 & 3)approvedPass Action details Not available
ID#15-355 11-C ResolutionAdopt Resolution of Intention No.1098-D to vacate portions of public street and pedestrian walkway rights-of-way at the northeast corner of N. Blackstone and E. Shields Avenues (Council District 7)approvedPass Action details Not available
ID#15-357 11-D ResolutionRESOLUTION - Of Intention to annex the territory associated with Conditional Use Permit No. 2008-157, 2012-032 and 2014-121 (commonly known as Fresno 40) as Annexation No. 8, to City of Fresno Community Facilities District No. 9, and setting the public hearing for June 11, 2015 at 10:00 a.m. (the area bounded by N. Fresno Street, N. Friant Road, E. Audubon and the Sugarpine Trail) (Council District 6)adoptedPass Action details Not available
ID#15-360 11-E Action ItemApprove the substitution of a listed subcontractor for the Tertiary Treatment and Disinfection Facility Project located at the Fresno/Clovis Regional Wastewater Treatment Facility (Council District 3)approvedPass Action details Not available
ID#15-375 11-F AppointmentApprove the appointments of Linda Solis and William Z. Simon to the Fresno Regional Workforce Investment BoardapprovedPass Action details Not available
ID#15-377 11-G AppointmentApprove the appointment of Jeffrey Bennett to the District 1 Plan Implementation CommitteeapprovedPass Action details Not available
ID#15-401 11-H AppointmentApprove the appointment of Susan Smith to the Bicycle and Pedestrian Advisory CommitteeapprovedPass Action details Not available
ID#15-383 11-I Ordinance***BILL NO. B-11 - (Intro. 4/30/2015) (For adoption) - Adopt the annual amendment to Subsection (a) of Sections 7-504 and 7-505 of the Fresno Municipal Code relating to local Sales and Use Taxes, pursuant to the Memorandum of Understanding with Fresno County (MOU)adoptedPass Action details Not available
ID#15-384 22-A Ordinance***BILL NO. B-14 - (Intro. 4/30/2015) (For adoption) - Repealing Section 10-617 and adding Section 10-617; amending Section 10-603; and repealing Sections 10-620, 11-335 and 11-422 of the Fresno Municipal Code (FMC) relating to standards for vacant buildingsadoptedPass Action details Not available
ID#15-221 12-B Action Item***RESOLUTION - 42nd amendment to the Annual Appropriation Resolution (AAR) No. 2014-95 to appropriate $2,223,500 for new capital projects in the Public Works Department (Citywide) (Requires 5 affirmative votes)adoptedPass Action details Not available
ID#15-362 1  Action ItemHEARING to consider Plan Amendment Application No. A-14-007, Rezone Application No. R-14-011, and related environmental assessment for the property located on the southwest corner of E. Mono Street and S. Adler Avenue (Council District 5) a. Adopt the environmental finding of Environmental Assessment No. A-14-007/R-14-011/S-14-060, a finding of a Mitigated Negative Declaration, dated April 3, 2015 b. RESOLUTION - Approving Plan Amendment Application No. A-14-007 amending the Fresno General Plan and Roosevelt Community Plan planned land use designation for ± 0.57 acres from the Medium Density Residential designation to the Office planned land use designation in the City of Fresno c. BILL - (For introduction and adoption) - Amending the Official Zone Map to reclassify ± 0.57 acres from the R-1 (Single Family Residential, Fresno City) to C-P (Administrative and Professional Offices, Fresno City) zone districtadoptedPass Action details Not available
ID#15-380 1  Action ItemCONTINUED HEARING to consider a resolution of public use and necessity for acquisition of permanent utility easements and/or temporary construction easements from the following APNs: 581-030-02s owned by Rodric H. and Kimberly K. Lichti; 580-040-07 owned by Earleen Lesher; and 580-040-08 owned by Earleen Lesher as to an undivided 72% and the estate of Velda D. Lesher as to an undivided 28%; and 581-020-05s owned by Lilli Herold and Linda E. Cheney, as trustees of the “Lilli Herold Living Trust” (Continued to May 21, 2015 at 1:30 p.m.)withdrawn  Action details Not available
ID#15-363 1  ResolutionActions pertaining to the City of Fresno 2015-2019 Program Year Consolidated Plan: 1. Conduct a public hearing to obtain public comments on the Draft 2015-2019 Consolidated Plan; and 2. Resolution Adopting the 2015-2019 Program Year Consolidated Plan; authorizing submission to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) for application of the Community Development Block Grant (CDBG), HOME Investment Partnerships Emergency Solutions Grant (ESG), and Housing Opportunities for Persons with Aids (HOPWA) Programs and authorizing the City Manager to sign all implementing documents required by HUD as approved to form by the City Attorneycontinued  Action details Not available
ID#15-317 12-C Action ItemActions pertaining to the Fresno/Clovis Regional Wastewater Reclamation Facility (RWRF) Headworks Building Coating Repair and Stop Plate Installation (BF 3201) (Council District 3) 1. ***RESOLUTION - 48th amendment to the Annual Appropriation Resolution (AAR) No. 2014-95 appropriating $375,000 for the Headworks Building Coating Repair and Stop Plate Installation project change orders (Requires 5 affirmative votes) 2. Approve a contract change order in the amount not to exceed $500,000 for change order work associated with the Headworks Building Coating Repair and Stop Plate InstallationadoptedPass Action details Not available
ID#15-320 12-D Action Item***RESOLUTION - Enacting changes to the Reserve Management ActadoptedPass Action details Not available
ID#15-334 13-A AppointmentCouncil Boards and Commissions Communications, Reports, Assignments and/or Appointments, Reappointments, Removals to/from City and non-City Boards and Commissions: 1. Council of Governments - Swearengin-Ex-Officio (Olivier-Alternate) 2. Financial Audit Committee - Brand - Chair, Olivier and Brandau 3. Fresno Area Workforce Investment Corporation - Baines 4. Fresno County Transportation Authority (FCTA) - Swearengin, Brandau 5. Fresno Regional Workforce Investment Board - Baines, Renena Smith 6. Fresno County Zoo Authority - Swearengin (Baines-Alternate) 7. Fresno Madera Area Agency on Aging Board - Olivier 8. Joint Powers Financing Authority - Baines, Vacant, Swearengin 9. San Joaquin River Conservancy Board - Swearengin (Brandau-Alternate) 10. Association for the Beautification of Highway 99 - Baines 11. Upper Kings Basin Integrated Regional Water Management JPA - Brandau, Alternates - Soria, Georgeanne White and Thomas Esqueda 12. Economic Development Corporation Serving Fresno County - Brandau-Ex-Officio (Baines-Alternate) 1presented  Action details Not available
ID#15-393 1  Discussion ItemPresentation of the Mayor’s Fiscal Year 2016 Budgetpresented  Action details Not available
ID#15-379 13-B ResolutionRESOLUTION - Of support for the Central Valley Coalition for Reliable EnergyadoptedPass Action details Not available
ID#15-325 1  Closed Session ItemCONFERENCE WITH LEGAL COUNSEL-EXISTING LITIGATION - Government Code Section 54956.9, subdivision (d)(1) 1. Idalia J. Morgutia-Johnson v. City of Fresno, et al. United States District Court Case No.: 14-CV-00127 LJO/SKOwithdrawn  Action details Not available
ID#15-368 1  Closed Session ItemCONFERENCE WITH LEGAL COUNSEL - DECIDING WHETHER TO INITIATE LITIGATION Government Code Section 54956.9, subdivision (d)(4) 1. City of Fresno v. Michael Occhionero, et al.withdrawn  Action details Not available
ID#15-371 1  Closed Session ItemCONFERENCE WITH LEGAL COUNSEL-EXISTING LITIGATION - Government Code Section 54956.9, subdivision (d)(1) 1. Citizens for the Restoration of L Street v. City of Fresno, Superior Court Case No. 11CECG04172presented  Action details Not available
ID#15-381 1  Discussion ItemWORKSHOP on Farmland Preservationpresented  Action details Not available
ID#15-365 1  Action ItemRESOLUTION - Approve the filing of a Sustainable Agricultural Lands Conservation Program grant application to develop a Farmland Preservation Program and authorize the Director of the Development and Resource Management or designee to accept a grant award up to $100,000 and conduct all negotiations and execute and submit all related documents, contracts, agreements, and amendments which may be necessary for the development of the programrejectedPass Action details Not available